In this episode of the Joe Rooz Show, Joe discusses the importance of listener feedback and encourages audience interaction through the show's website. He also highlights the various support tiers available for listeners who wish to contribute to the show's continuation.
In first hour, Joe introduces his guest, Mr. Whiskey, a US Navy veteran and podcaster, who shares his journey from military service to becoming a modern-day preacher. Mr. Whiskey discusses his experiences with trauma, addiction, and recovery, and emphasizes the importance of faith in overcoming life's challenges.
Joe and Mr. Whiskey engage in a deep conversation about faith, the military, and mental health. They explore the misconceptions about military life and the impact of moral injury on veterans' mental health. The discussion also touches on the role of faith-based support in addressing mental health issues among service members. Joe shares his personal journey of faith and conversion, highlighting the transformative power of a relationship with Jesus Christ. The segment concludes with Joe expressing admiration for Mr. Whiskey's wisdom and dedication to helping others through his podcast and outreach efforts.
The second hour turns to a discussion of the aftermath the ceasefire between Israel and Iran, the Left's failed attempt to impeach President Trump, and the unhinged Representative Jasmin Crockett of Dallas, Tx.
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(00:01:02) Introduction and Technical Issues
(00:08:37) Interview with Mr. Whiskey
(00:31:08) Joe's Personal Faith Journey
(00:45:50) Discussion on Faith and Religion
(01:06:28) Military Mental Health and Leadership Issues
(01:36:37) Trump's Foreign Policy and Ceasefire
(01:57:36) Impeachment Talks and Political Reactions
(02:07:03) Jasmine Crockett's Congressional Meltdown
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- Carolina Jimenez
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Alright. With that said, I hope you guys are ready for tonight's show. Today, we have a very special guest. We have a man who goes by the name of mister Whiskey. Now what what caught my attention about mister Whiskey is that whiskey is one of my favorite drinks. So, and then after reading the profile and the bio and stuff, I didn't see anything in there about whiskey, but we'll ask him about that when he comes on. He's a US Navy veteran, a speaker, a podcaster, a modern day preacher who's, turning trauma into transformation.
He's also the host of Couple of Nukes, where raw conversations about suicide, addiction, faith, and recovery help listeners rebuild their lives. From the military to ministry to mentoring Gen z, he brings gritty wisdom gritty wisdom, real life experience, and a message of hope that doesn't hold back. So folks, let's welcome mister Whiskey. Are you out there, buddy? He's connected. Alright. Well, we'll give him a second. There he is. Green background and cowboy hat and all. Welcome aboard, sir.
[00:09:48] Unknown:
I didn't. Can you hear me? Got got you loud and clear. Loud and clear. Yeah. I'm here, and I'm ready to have a conversation. Yeah. I normally have a a background for every episode, and,
[00:10:00] Unknown:
this is my first time in the studio, and it's just the raw background, green screen. So that's alright. That's alright. It's great. It's great. Well, first of all, welcome aboard. I'm really glad that, we were able to connect this way. And I again, I'm sorry about I don't know what happened with the, with the studio platform here. It just, it it kinda crapped out on me. It's been kinda buggy the last, last couple of weeks. I don't know what's going on with it.
[00:10:23] Unknown:
As a, fellow podcast host, I understand completely. I've had my fair shares of crashed Zoom calls, faulty links, the technology. The other day, I had to cancel three podcasts yesterday because Xfinity decided to show up and shut down the Wi Fi for about nine hours. So Oh, that's weird. Fun. I just
[00:10:44] Unknown:
canceled all my plans. Oh, that's that's that's horrible, dude. I'm sorry. But I know how you feel because I I had a little last week, about, thirty minutes before the show, had a power outage. Completely lost all power at the place. And, I was like, oh, damn. And I do it live. It's not like I'm not recording it. So it's, that was kind of a sticky moment. But, but welcome aboard. Glad to have you here. So, just gonna kinda jump right into it right away here, because I got a I got a bunch of questions for you. So For sure. So what's something that most people don't know about you but really should?
[00:11:20] Unknown:
You had me in the first half with don't know about you, but the really should. You know, I think a lot of people if if we're talking about just in general so a lot of people who meet me through the virtual world, through podcasting, through writing, you know, it's kinda written there by faith. I think a lot of people in the real world just don't expect me to have the level of biblical knowledge and and the passion for it that I do just because a lot of people, they firstly associate youth with, no interest in in religion or faith. And secondly, it's just, I do, quote from the bible daily, and I do preach on the spot. And I'm trying to get a a a shirt that says, like, pastor warning. You know, anything you say will be used in one of my sermons. You know? That's great. That kinda stuff. But, I think a lot of people don't realize that until we we have that conversation, but upfront, they don't realize that or until I say something later on. I always say that is something that I try to to have into my words pretty visible, but I think a lot of people don't guess that right off the bat. Or, really, most people in the real world when they first meet me because I do look a lot younger and because of, you know, just their expectations based on my generation alone, just being associated with so many people who are lazy, who are entitled, who have no attention span. When we get into the conversation of theology, of suicide prevention, of addiction recovery, of having served in the military, it really blows their mind. You know? I'll never forget. I, had a guest come on my show, and they said, you're mister Whiskey? You know? Because they had been listening, had never seen me. And they said, we thought you had a beard, and you were, ten years older. And I've gotten that a couple times on a couple of different guests. So it's it's interesting how purse you know, how, like, you set your own expectations just from seeing me. I think, like, you know, the TV show The Voice, you know, is focused on just hearing the singing because we tend to project so many stereotypes and expectations based on looking and podcasting is another platform where you could be hearing it and have a totally different perception. Then you see the person, you're like, that's that's the host? That's that's Joe Russo? That's Mr. Whiskey?
[00:13:33] Unknown:
Yeah. No. For sure. Now now you do look very young. So how old are you? I'm 23, sir. Okay. So you're a you're a baby baby. My gosh. Alright. And and you you served in military? You were serving in the navy, from what I understand? And, so, what was your MOS?
[00:13:50] Unknown:
Yeah. So in the Navy, we call it a rate, which confuses a lot of people because they hear rate and they hear rank. Yeah. Exactly. But in the Navy, for some reason, we call it rate. And I was a E. M. N, which is Electrician's Main Nuclear Operator. Oh, wow.
[00:14:04] Unknown:
For for a young guy like that, that's a pretty heavy responsibility, you know? Yes, sir. Now, when did you come to know Jesus Christ as your savior?
[00:14:12] Unknown:
So my, religious origin story is a bit of a long one. I have my, book, God versus Indomitable Human Spirit coming out, and, part of that is my kind of biography as far as my journey of faith. And then the rest of it is the three ways in which God is so more perfect than us and why we should and can pursue those three traits daily. And it's kind of like a a self improvement theology book. But I will say to get the short version, I grew up in a home that was my father was a a Catholic man, a very pious, kind of insane Catholic man. Okay. And, I went to a private Catholic school that was corrupt, and I I grew to hate religion because it was always weaponized. It was always, twisted, and I had no foundation in the actual word. And there was a lot of practice that was not taught but told. And there's such a big difference in everything, especially the faith being told and being taught. And so later in life around freshman year, one of the times that I it's it's a big moment in my life. I had told God that I was done, you know, that he either had to prove himself or I was gonna make my own book of religion philosophy because I just couldn't handle life anymore between the traumatic childhood and the high school experiences in middle school and a lot of the religious weaponization, addiction, domestic violence, sexual abuse, all that stuff combined. You know? Sure. It was like and and I was in a spot that a lot of people have been in, which is, you know, how can there be a God, a a good, loving, purely good God when there's so much evil in the world? And, obviously, I understand that question in far different ways than when I was a child. But, yeah, I, had my right arm split open, and, so that was proof that guy was real. But the relationship with him didn't form like it should have, and and that took more time.
And when I got to boot camp, that was a pivotal moment for me because I met other guys who were Catholic, and I said, I don't know anything about Catholicism. I just believe in God because my I have a scar on my arm. You You know, what can you tell me about the faith? And and and they told me stuff that the school never had, that my father never had. And so I kinda just dove into that deeper, and then throughout the military, I was forming that relationship with God. And it was really when my father's addiction and and mental illness had gotten so bad that we were having drastic biblical arguments, and he was saying that I was the antichrist and that he was best friends with Satan and I you know, all this stuff. And I had a dream where, you know, I was shirtless wearing some denim jeans out in the woods by river thunderstorming, and I remember crying out, you know, lord Jesus Christ, would you not even the antichrist called out to you. Would you not save him also?
And and the clouds turned golden, and and Jesus came down and said, he too, even him, I would save. And he gave me a belt buckle with a tractor on a farm on it, you know, the kinda cowboy style. Oh, shit. And after that dream, I said, I need to know more about the antichrist. I said, I've heard the word a lot. Don't know anything about it or who or what. So I decided to read Revelation to find answers. Revelation is a book of the Bible that left me with a lot of questions as it does for many people. And so I decided from there, I need to read the Bible from front to end to really understand.
And that was the moment that really changed my life more than anything. Reading it from front to end and getting all the historical context, all the cross references, that was so eye opening and just reading the Bible alone because so many people who even people of faith who are these, quote, passionate believers have never read the Bible. True. And so from that point onward, I got into that relationship. And this past year has really blossomed where I study scripture for about six to eight hours a day every day through podcasts or reading, through writing, through both the Bible, through sermons. And so it has really become my life and my passion. Well, that's really impressive.
[00:18:13] Unknown:
I'll tell you. To study scripture six to seven hours a day, eight hours a day, that's a lot of time to spend on the word, and that's a that's a blessing. I'll give you my quick story really, really fast. I I, very I smiled when you were talking about, you know, starting your own thing and reading it, making your own book of prophecy because, there was a point in my life where I kind of walked away from my faith. And, that was, started when I was very young. My, my uncle was a, he well, my uncle was the first person in our family to step away from the Catholic church, and he, he, went to a bible school, bible college, and became the and became a pastor in a denomination that, I came to learn later on was more cult than actual Christian dom denomination.
But I idolized my uncle. I wanted to be my uncle. You know, I was so impressed with him. And, when he would come home from school on his breaks, he would bring his books, and and he would leave them behind because he didn't need them for the next semester, and I would read them. And I was young. I was maybe 10, 12 in that range. And, you know, I was in Catholics Catholic catechism, not Catholic school, but Catholic catechism. And, I would go to class, and I would open up my books, and, my uncle would have had taken a red marker and, like, x ed out passages of the whole thing and write on top. This is not what happened, and he would staple an attachment to it, and, you know, and write out, you know, this is what really happened, and so on and so forth. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Very much so. And then, and that may, of course, made me question a lot of things that I was being taught.
And, I think the straw to make this long story short, I think the straw that broke the camel's back was when I refused, to go to confession. And, the the priest got very angry because he'd been dealing with me, you know, all this time now. And, he physically grabbed me by the arm and physically dragged me outside to my mother and told my mother, and this isn't I will never forget it. I'm not gonna say the guy's name, you know, but I will never forget it. But he said to my mother, we don't need his kind here.
[00:20:29] Unknown:
Wow.
[00:20:30] Unknown:
Yeah. So Wow. So I I stepped away at that point. My mom, she was like, hey, they don't want no problem. We don't we're we're done. We're out of it. You know, they they held on to some of their Catholic beliefs and and whatnot, and, you know, they they were they became, you know, holiday Catholics. They would only go on special occasions. But I kinda grew up on my own at that point. And, you know, I I had talked to my uncle, and I I had told him that, you know, I, you know, his name is Joe also. I said, hey, uncle Joe, I wanna I wanna I wanna be what you are. I wanna I wanna join your your religion, I called it. And, I'll never forget it. He he looked me straight in the face. He goes, no, you don't. It's not for you.
And I was like, what? I was not ex I wasn't expecting that. I wasn't expecting that kind of an answer, but that's what he said. And, I I I was I felt kind of dejected at that point. And I went about my life, and much like you, I I would tell people when they would ask me, you know, what my background is. Well, I'm I'm I'm the pope of the Worldwide Church of Joe. You know, I I believe what I believe, and I do what I wanna do, and, you know, I'll deal with the consequences of that later on. And then, fast forward many years into, July, actually, my my born again birthday is coming up February.
I don't know. That was I got I got reassigned, because I worked in law enforcement up in New York, and, I got reassigned to a new command, and I knew the commanding officer and, he was actually one of my instructors in the academy when I was going through. And, he he was like, because Joe, I'm really glad to have you here, and this is, you know, I'm I'm great. I need guys like you. I said, but, you know, I gotta put you on the overnights because I need people on the overnights. I need good people on the overnight. I said, okay. No problem. That's fine. Gotta make more money on the overnights. That's good. And then he goes, and it's gonna be your turn. My turn for what? Oh, you're gonna you're gonna ride with Gail. Well, who the hell is Gail? Oh, Gail's one of those born again Christian types. She's gonna talk your ear off all night long, but it's your turn. I'm like, alright. Fine. I felt confident enough in what I knew already, you know, just from remembering what my uncle had taught me, that I can I can hold my own, you know, and, that's what happened? So I I drove with her five nights a week, eight, ten hour shifts, you know, whatever it was.
And all we would do is argue. Not like yelling and shouting each other, but like debating, you know. Debating. Putting that argument out there. And then, one day one night she said to me, hey, you know, there's this Christian radio station. It's on the AM stations up here, and, you know, you'll like it. You should check it out and all that stuff. It's like, alright, so I'll do that. So I listened to it. I I would hear, like, like, guys like J. Vernon McGee, and, you know, guys like that. And and, man, I just the more I heard, the more I listened, the more I wanted to get to know, you know, what they believed. And I just I would drive home slower purposely just so I can hear the whole program, you know, by the time I got there. Not knowing, of course, that that this guy, particularly Jay Vernon McGee, was long dead. Like, you know, he had passed away a long time ago, but everything he was talking about in these lessons felt like they were pointed directly at me. You know, like, this was for you.
Fast forward now to, February, I was getting ready to go to work. It was a Sunday night. And, you know, I always, like, said, yeah. I always listen to the traffic reports. It's always the same stupid thing and, you know, traffic here, traffic there, whatever. Let me see what's on that Christian station and listen to that for a change on the way to work. And I heard this this, radio preacher, and, he, it was a live call in show. And, he was preaching him, and what he would do is he would preach a little bit, then he would stop, he would take phone calls, answer questions, you know, and then go back to preaching again. I was like, oh, that's pretty neat.
So listening to him, and then it just seemed like it it it the message he was preaching was a message called hell and who's going there. And, I remember I was sitting in traffic just on my way to work, and just it just seemed like at every pause I heard, I'm talking to you, Joe. This is for you. I'm talking to you. Are you hearing this, Joe? This is about you. You're going to hell, Joe. And when I say literally scared the hell out of me, it literally scared the hell out of me. Right. Got to work. I was like, I wrote the phone number down to the church, didn't have cell phones yet. Wrote the phone number down to the church, was gonna call, but I didn't make it. It ended before I got there, and, I waited a few days. I kinda looked him up, did some research on it. I was kinda going over his, doctrinal statements. I was like, yeah. No. I can agree with this. I agree with that. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Picked up the phone. Must have sound like an idiot. Hi. I heard you on the radio, you know. I'm a big fan, whatever. And, dude, man, he called me back, like, five minutes later. We were on the phone for an hour and invited me to church. I was like, oh, no. I'm not going to church, dude. I I walk into church, building's gonna fall fall down. You know, I'll meet you at your office though. We could we could talk there. I guess, well, you know, we rent a building and we don't have our own space. We rent a community school in in Lower Manhattan. Oh, really? Where in Lower Manhattan? They told me the address and I was like, you gotta be kidding me. That's right across the street from my my command. And, so he was like, well, I see it's divine providence, you know? You're supposed to be. Yeah. Yeah. So, we agreed to meet though for like a dinner and we did and went down there, and I took every book that I had. Every every scrap of paper I had, I stuffed it into this big backpack, and took it with me, and went to this I met him, sat down the restaurant talking, and he was like, well, you know, I'm sure the other Lord has something better for us to be talking about right now than than the Mets. So let's talk about something else. So I was like, alright fine. So I grabbed my bag and I just dumped it all on the table.
I said, this is what I've been studying. And he just casually did, he's like, he just casually looked at it. He was like, okay. And just pushed it all off the table onto the bench, and he was like, you don't need any of that. And he took out his bible, he put it down on the table, he goes, this is all you need. And I was hooked right there. And, we sat there, he was talking scripture, he was giving me a lot of verses, man. He was just like, I couldn't even tell you at that point, like, what he was saying to me. Realized I had to get to work. We left, went to the we, as we're walking back, he was like, do you have like ten more minutes? I just I just wanna I just really need to talk to you about this. I was like, yeah, sure. So we went out onto this pier, Pier 34 off the Canal Street and West Street in Lower Manhattan.
Sat down on the bench. He opened up the bible again. He started starts taking me down the Romans Road. And, all kinds of crazy stuff was happening as he was doing that. I had people riding by on bikes, spitting at us, yelling at us, cursing at us, throwing things at us, you know, all while he's trying to do this. And that just made it even more real to me. And then, the guy this one particular guy that was riding around us must have circled us about, I don't know, eight or 10 times. And, the last time he went around us, I don't know what he hit, but he hit something on the deck of the of the pier that flipped him over the handlebars, you know, and literally busted his head open.
And, so me being a law enforcement, I'm reacting to this, you know. So I ran over there trying to help him. I'm flagging people down. Hey, we need to get an ambulance and all that stuff. And my colleagues came, and, while they were working with this guy, the pastor, he just took me by the army goes. Hey. What we're doing is more important. They're trying to save his physical life. We're trying to save your soul. Okay. You know? And he let me back and, in the middle of all that mess, man, I got down on my knees. I asked the Lord Jesus Christ to be my savior. And when I got up, that was a different person altogether. I felt it. I felt clean. I felt just every burden that was on my shoulders was gone. Couldn't, you know, I I couldn't even explain it. And something that you said also earlier, triggered that thought in me too. It's like, you know, you didn't have that relationship with Jesus Christ. Well, when I went down on my knees, I didn't know who Jesus Christ was in in a spiritual sense. I knew he was, you know, I had the head knowledge, not the heart knowledge.
But when I got when I got up off that pier, I still didn't know him. You know, I still have I still have to build that relationship, but I knew he was my savior. And then I was saved, and I wasn't gonna spend eternity with him. I knew I was forgiven. Went to work, I walked into the command, and, Gail comes walking out of the locker room. And I never told her a thing, never said a word that I was meeting up with this guy or anything like that. She comes walking out of the locker room, she looks at me, she goes, you got saved. And I was like, I was like, what are you talking about? She goes, oh, don't don't let the devil lie already.
And I was like, what? And she goes, you got saved. Don't you lie to me. Don't you lie. Don't start off lying. I was like, I was like, yeah, I did. And then, you know, that was great. It was an incredible experience. How she knew? I don't know. She said, what's all over your face? You're glowing. You're this, you're that. I'm like, oh, praise the Lord. Amen. You know? And then, yeah. So I've been saved now for be twenty five years. I've I've I've, I've taught bible studies. I've, I've served as an associate pastor of a church up in New York, a small independent Baptist church. Prior to this podcast, I did, I did another podcast, did a bible study podcast for, about three years.
So, mostly self taught. You know, did did you go to bible school? No. Okay. Yeah. Neither did I. And you don't really need to, to be honest. As as the local church's job is to train men to pastor churches and to and to become disciples. You know? So, most of my learning was done on my own. I had I sat under some great pastors that that took a lot of time and investment in me over the years. And, you know, here I am today. Here I am today. So, you know, it's it's it's I'm not gonna say that that every day of your life is gonna be, you know, peaches and cream. You're gonna have your ups and downs and your failures and your faults, but the beautiful thing is that you know Jesus Christ as your savior.
And you know that, like the Bible says, you have an advocate with the father. An advocate's what? It's a lawyer. Someone who represents you. You know, so when the devil's up there accusing you, because that's what he does. That's what Job chapter one tells us. When the devil's up there accusing you, you have the advocate sitting right there defending you. You have your lawyer, you have Jesus Christ, you know. So don't let it wear you down, don't let it beat you down, don't let it, you know, everybody falls, everybody everybody stumbles, But you gotta get back up again. You gotta keep on going.
And, that's my sermon for the day. So
[00:31:09] Unknown:
Right. Yeah. I just I just took up so much of your time, dude. I'm sorry, man. No. No. You're good. I it reminds me of a lot of things. And and when you talked about, I'll I'll teach a word I learned on my podcast, which was. Those who go to, church on Christmas and Easter, we we label them. So Nice. I had a faith based, account and tell me that. And I was like, that's a that's a good one. That's a that's a lot of people. But I think it's, yeah. So I'm no longer I I guess I consider myself nondenominational. What I believe is, that the Bible doesn't call us to a religion. It calls us to a relationship with God. And I had a powerful episode on my podcast, about how Jesus didn't come to establish Christianity or to make a new religion. He came to restore the relationship with the father because of how legalistic and how much religion had taken over faith. Absolutely. And so, ironically, enough people did what they do. They, took the word and did what they could with it. So, unfortunately, you know, there's a stigma around being nondenominational.
You know, it's kind of like, oh, so so, you know, you're only partially of the faith or this or that. They believe that you're not fully of the faith if you're not going to church or if you're not specifically Catholic or Protestant or Baptist. You're like, at least choose one, but there shouldn't have to be a minimum. And then the whole scene with with that man in in the restaurant pushing all the books aside, it brings me to one of my favorite books in the Bible, one of the most powerful in my opinion. The first time I ever read it, I mean, it left me lifeless for three days at least. The book of Ecclesiastes Oh, yeah. You believe King Solomon wrote it. And in near the end of it, he writes and this is paraphrase. It's not verbatim, but he says, of the writing and reading of many books, there will come no end. And he basically says not to be led astray by that. The Bible is there for a reason. Right? And he ends the whole book with, you know, to serve God, and and that's the number one purpose of life is to live and serve for God. That's right. And I think that's so important because whether religion or not, there are so many I mean, millions nowadays of books out there that they could be aligned with the Bible. They could be not entirely aligned with the Bible, but people are being pulled left and right away from the Bible by these books.
Even books, like I said, that are faith based but are not entirely accurate or rooted in scripture as it should be. A lot of these, churches have their own bibles or focus on certain parts. You know? I and I there are churches out there that go and and, you know, do the Bible, and there are other ones that only do certain parts of the Bible. There are certain world religions that have removed parts of the Bible. So I think it's so important to, you know, have your own relationship and have your own reading and studying and not rely on on the church, but also not be led astray by reading too many books because there are like I said, there are millions of books out there. And if you were to read every faith based book, you would be left with conflicting and contradicting information.
[00:34:16] Unknown:
But when you read the Bible, there is no contradiction. Absolutely. So I think it's important to stay rooted in the word that God gave us. Absolutely agree with you. The, the the one of the things that was always a pet peeve with me is when you would, like I I like to visit different churches from time to time just to kinda see what's out there. Yeah. I have a great local church that I'm a member of. Great pastor. Love him. He's a great friend. But I like to check other things out, and I've done it over the years. You know, it's, I've done it I did it more in my earlier walk, but, you know, now it's not so much. But, the one thing that always turned me off about a church is when you went into the quote unquote Bible study time, you know, whether it was Sunday morning, Wednesday night, whatever night they chose to do it.
And they were studying a a novel as opposed to the Bible study. Studying the Bible. You know what I mean? Yeah. I chose the word novel because I think more people understand that than, you know, like I said, like a commentary or something like that. But, you know, Bible study is to study the Bible, not to study, you know, 50 Shades of whatever. Right. You know, and and you'd be surprised how many churches actually do that. I think the furthest I've ever gotten away from from actual an actual Bible study was I I took, I I used to watch, well, I still do, but, Ancient Aliens. Right? Mhmm. And I laugh at it because a lot of this a lot of the stuff that they talk about, you can find in your bible.
You know, it's there. So I did that as a bible study. Like a a one night bible study. I took an episode of ancient aliens and I'd be put it up on the screen in the church. And then I I would I would let it play for a little bit, then I would stop it. I said, okay, take your bibles, turn to Genesis chapter six, you know, and and see, okay, see what they're talking about here, the giants and so on and so forth, and and this is probably, excuse me, the, the Anunnaki and the Nephilim, all that stuff. And that's right here. That's Genesis chapter six, and then I would go into a lesson about that, and then, you know, go on. Okay. Let it play again, find something else. Okay. I'll stop that, and this is where you find that in your Bible. Here's Ezekiel, you know, the you know, the wheels within wheels. So, you know, it's you could you could have fun with it, you know.
And it was. It was a great study. I loved it. It was a lot of fun. And then, I might actually do it on the on the show here one night. Well, I think one of the things that, comes to my mind that you've remind me of is speaking to people being led astray by
[00:36:49] Unknown:
faith based content, two two conversation pieces. The first, now the modern television shows, like House of David, The Chosen, all that stuff. Now I haven't watched any of it personally, but will I say it's accurate? I'm not gonna make that statement either, you know. I know a lot of people are loving it, but, again, with a lot of the faith based content that we see in television shows and movies, there's a lot of creative freedoms taken with it because So it is. Oftentimes, there's not enough to make full content. I know in in in the same kind of boat, but, sailing a different route, I've seen a lot of false Bible quotes generated by AI, Bible scenes generated by AI that mimic, you know, ancient Hebrew, that mimic New Testament writing.
It's it's insane. And I know a lot of people say, well, who would believe that? And I was going through the comment section on an AI generated bible scene. And the amount of people who thought it was true, it was just shocking. Mhmm. And I'll even paraphrase what it said because people believe it was true. It was a fake bible scene of Satan appearing before Jesus on the cross as he's dying. He says, look at you here dying for you know what the future generations will be, prisoners and rafts rappers and gangsters and and hungry politicians and and and illegal immigrants. Like, it named all these modern terms and stuff and did this whole victory speech of Satan, like, toward Jesus on the cross, and so many people thought it was true. Yeah. And it just blows my mind. So I think there's a lot that leads us astray nowadays. I think the same thing I've done some episodes of my show and other shows about faith based music and some of the creative freedoms taken with that. And I I admire people because they're trying to integrate, you know, faith into ways to get more people.
And, unfortunately, we shouldn't have to entertain. I know a lot of a lot of pastors will say if it doesn't if you wouldn't do at the foot of the cross, don't do it in your church. You know? I've heard that saying a lot because we've seen a lot of people and a lot of especially televangelists as as as I call them. Another word I learned on my show, televangelists, a lot of them really wear down the word, or they get almost blasphemous sacrilegious. I saw a scene where someone punted the, bible as if doing a football kick. Yeah. You know, stuff like that. I've seen people compare Jesus to a stripper. I've seen a lot of just the way they present it can be so misleading or or just wrong.
And, again, I'm someone who wants to make faith based content that is humorous or educational and connecting, but I always try to do with a spirit of discernment and make sure it's as accurate as it can be and not at all misleading. And it redirects people back to the Bible. You know? So I think that's so important. And then in fact, my book, God Verses and Endowment for Human Spirit, I started with the end of Ecclesiastes to talk about why I'm writing it, and this is not a replacement for the bible. Mhmm. And most of this is actually almost every page has a bible quote on it because that is what we are analyzing here. Not my work, not my written work, but the God breathed scripture. So
[00:40:12] Unknown:
not everyone does that. It's definitely important, though. No. I agree with you. I totally agree with you. I I have a very, a very high regard for the word of God. Alright. And, I'm full disclosure here. I'm not gonna hit you out of left field with this. I am a King James Bible believing Christian. Alright. I believe that the King James Bible is the word of God for us today in the English language. And I have plenty of reasons for it. It's another show, another time. But For sure. Yeah. But, I I will I I cannot. It just it just bothers my spirit when I read another version.
Or I look I see a scripture verse of another version because I I because it's
[00:40:56] Unknown:
I've read some, and and some of them are just so when I was working on my book, I read, Genesis thirty two twenty nine to 32 in a 116 different translations. And some of them just, like, were so childish or so the meaning was so lacking. It's just it does shock me how some of the translations are written. And and I I I understand. I know it sounds extreme to some people that saying, like, we're sickened by it. But Mhmm. When you have a a god led spirit, like, it you will feel repulsed by the the the sins of the world and by that kind of stuff. Oh, yeah. You could you could you def it's just
[00:41:36] Unknown:
it just like you said, it just irks your irks your spirit. You just can't it's one of those things. It's like I have a lot of I have I don't have a lot of convictions. I have a lot of preferences, but the one thing, and and I and I say this as as the honest truth, the one thing that I will never compromise is my belief in the word of God, ever. I may not live a 100% according to it at times, I may stray here or there, I may, you know, slip and fall, but Bible does say that a righteous man falls seven times and gets up. So I will always defend my King James Bible, and I will not relent on that either. I'm not gonna beat you over the head with it and tell you that, you know, you're going to hell because you're not reading it because that's not true. You know?
Yeah. You know, if, you know, God can use an NIV, he could use, you know, a living word, whatever it is that the JW's use nowadays. He can use anything to save somebody. You know, to get through to somebody. And then the Holy Spirit's job is to convince that person that like, for example, for myself, like, you know, I I the the first church I went to after I got saved, you know, the guy, he led me to Christ through a King James Bible. He preached and he taught from a King James Bible. And I didn't realize it until I got more educated about it. And I hate using that word educated when it comes to this stuff, but, but that's really what it is. When I learned more about the King James Bible, the history of the King James Bible, how it was preserved, and I started listening to him preach, I would all of a sudden, I started to notice the corrections.
Well, the King James says this, but. Well, no. There's no but. That's what the book says. You know? Don't don't don't fix it. Don't change it. Because what happens is when you as a pastor, when when a pastor starts correcting the word of God and saying, well, a better way to say it would have been this or or, you know, this is an unfortunate translation of this passage. It really should say that. Well, who becomes the final authority? Alright. The pastor, not the book. So how am I supposed to live my life as a Christian if I don't have a sure final authority.
You know what I'm saying? You follow me? Yeah. So don't take the book from me. Don't try to take the book from me because you're not gonna succeed at this point. And I came to that crossroad where I actually had to leave that church because of that. I I sat there because I sat there and I just started to to tick off in my notes. I wasn't even taking notes anymore on the message. I was I was counting how many times he was correcting the book, or how many times he was going back to the original language. You know, in the original, okay, great. In the original, but God didn't I don't speak Greek. I don't speak Aramaic. I don't speak Hebrew. I speak English, and God gave me a book in English.
So why are you going back to the Greek? Why are you going back to the Hebrew or the Aramaic? He gave us a book in English. Alright. I'm preaching.
[00:45:03] Unknown:
So sorry. You're good. You're good. And I know you said you had a couple questions. I will, I will close the book, pun intended on on all of that.
[00:45:14] Unknown:
Well, we kinda got off on a unscheduled detour there, but, I will do this though. I on Sundays, what I do is on on this show, I do a Sunday bible study. It's a live show just like this, you know, but I'm just I'm just teaching and preaching. So, last Sunday, I I I did a, study on, biblical political science, which was a lot of fun. I enjoyed that. That was a lot of fun. Before that, I did a Father's Day one, and then I did one on, on being saved. And, you know, I'm working on one for this this coming Sunday, so I would invite you to come check it out, you know, when you can. You have the links and all that stuff. It's a lot of fun. We I try to keep it as light as possible. But, so I wanna ask you a little bit about some of these the the stuff you've been doing, with depression, with mental health with with mental, mental health, and and so on and so forth. And, what's something that, that you would say that civilians consistently would misunderstand about mental health battles that veterans face?
[00:46:20] Unknown:
You know, the biggest thing I would say is just that the civilian world's perspective and expectation of what the military life is like is just completely different. You know? And I can say that from personal experience from what I thought the military was like prior to joining to serving and afterward. And a lot of that is all the propaganda, all the advertisements on TV, all the movies, all the stories you hear. A lot of the times, unless you're listening to podcasts like mine or other veteran hosted podcasts, you're seeing all this action, this fighting, and and and so much of the focus is on combat. And when you see the military in the news, when is it? It's always conflict in The Middle East or somewhere else. You're not seeing what are the men and women in in in the red, white, and blue doing in Newport News on a Sunday afternoon, you know, in Virginia? Right? So you see a fraction of the military lifestyle and a fraction of the people in the military.
And so many people think that they just associate all all the mental health issues on suicidal ideation to combat PTSD. It's always combat, combat, combat. The lifestyle itself takes a heavy toll. The isolation, the social climate, the leadership, the work conditions, the physical demand, everything contributes to that. Actively combat deployed, members of the military, And I and I don't say this in any way to devalue them. They are a small fraction of the population in the military. Right? They're they're probably the most important. They're very important. But you gotta think of everyone stateside. You gotta think of everyone in other countries in port who aren't fighting right now, who are maintaining nuclear, you know, operations on aircraft carriers and submarines. The people who are maintaining all the buildings and their missiles and the weapons and keeping everyone ready stateside. Right? So I think the biggest misconception is just what the military is and how it works. Mhmm. We have this we think of Vietnam. We think of World War. We think of desert shit. We think of anti terrorism with nine eleven. We think of all the movies, commercials you see, Top Gun and all that stuff.
Again, that is such a small fraction of the military. And so we put so much focus on combat PTSD that we forget to look at all the other aspects that I've gone over my show in great detail from the sleep hygiene of the military to the leadership and how everything plays such a pivotal role in affecting those members' mental health and well-being and things we can do from the enlisted junior sailors level to the higher ups in Washington DC. You know, there is just so much reform and change that needs to happen. And what I'll say is the thing that always truly upsets me to this day, every day when I wake up, I think about this. Every veteran and active duty person I've had on my show, from special forces in Australia to men and women here in our military, in marines, in the navy, in the air force, coast guard, doesn't matter, overlapping complaints. If I made an Excel spreadsheet from my show alone, you would see clearly what needs to be changed. All these things are in plain black and white. They're straightforward. They are the same issues across the branches, across the world, across time. Vietnam veterans have had the same complaints as me and my friends, to people during nine eleven, before and after, to, again, to other countries, marines, army, air force.
It's not a coincidence that all these military members are reporting the same exact issues Right. And requesting the same exact changes. And that is what frustrates me more than anything. Now,
[00:50:05] Unknown:
what do you think are some topics that are really untouchable in that circles?
[00:50:13] Unknown:
So I would say that the biggest thing, the biggest contributing factor, honestly, is is the leadership in the command climate. You know? And that is just a vicious cycle that has been going on from what I've heard from before Vietnam. You know? And it's the rank up system in the military. A majority of it is kissing up and screwing over other people, being a fast mover in a Blue Falcon, you know, and being like the awful leadership that's already there. They want people that are just like them to replace them, and it creates this cycle. All the new people in the military get treated awfully. When they get to the point of seniority, they treat the new people awful if they stay in. But in a recent episode with Christopher Brewer, we both said the same exact thing he shared, and it's very sad. Most people in the military get out before they had a chance to do anything or to become something great because they don't want to deal with all of the BS from politics down to their individual base, and so they get out because there's more for them in the civilian world. There's more freedom. There's more potential.
There's more lifestyle. The military can set up in a way where every one of its members is happy, where people are doing what they wanna do, and they they'll do the twenty years because what they want as far as a lifestyle, whether that's family, whether that's income, whether that's job type, is being met. There are enough billlets. There are enough people. Right? But we've been combating retention and recruitment with lowering the standards, creating a worse and worse military environment. So it's it's it's very tragic, and I I think third party intervention is is needed, you know, political intervention. We've seen I've had guests on my show who are trying to make changes that would greatly benefit. One of the biggest benefits that's been pushed forward on my show that gets denied every year by universities is instead of having college education benefits as the only thing available to veterans, if veterans rather start their own business, instead of using the money to go to college, they could use the money to fund their small business and get, business school training from the military.
And every year, the universities who are the top recipients of the money used by veterans to go to college blocked that bill from being passed in accordance to the guest I had on my show. And so a lot of the military is just selfish thinking, economically and politically driven, like everything in the civilian world as well. And, unfortunately, it's never putting the service members first. I understand the concept of mission first, but most of the time, it's not the mission. It's money and politics first. Wow.
[00:53:09] Unknown:
And that's interesting. Like, I I wouldn't think that they would I would think that they would have programs available for, military for vets to do things like start a business, entrepreneurship.
[00:53:23] Unknown:
And You can find third party versions of those. You can find stuff with the VA. But the the amount of funding in in schooling program that would be equivalent to the GI bill to post nine eleven bill is not available. Wow. I'd excited to know that. That's interesting, though.
[00:53:39] Unknown:
You know, I we mentioned, you know, a few things about mental health, military service, you talk a lot about PTSD. You know, it it that's that's something that's more widely experienced than I think a lot of people realize. Yeah. And, it can lead to things like drug abuse, alcoholism, suicide, God forbid. How how does the military handle that, you know, in house when it's when it becomes obvious that there's a there's an active member of service in the ranks right there at that moment that's going through something like this? What is the military's response to that? How do how do they generally handle that?
[00:54:27] Unknown:
So there are a lot of different people affected by noncombat PTSD because there's different forms. There's complex. There's, you know, certain triggers, and it's different for everyone. And I think it's important to recognize that. And, unfortunately, the military is set up as a checkbox system. You don't get individualized treatment or care. You don't get personal care. You get, alright. Is this member saying they're suicidal? Yes or no? Okay. Yes. We're gonna, you know, remove them from can they do their job still? Yes or no kind of thing. It becomes a very checkbox. You go through this series of questions. You fill you fill out paperwork, literally yes or no. On a scale of one to 10, how are you feeling? This and that. It'll take weeks or months to get an appointment. Unless you are directly suicidal and actively suicidal, it'll take weeks, sometimes months to get seen.
In fact, I'll share a story that highlights this. There was an individual who was getting kicked out of the military. He was on captain's mask when I met him, and he said that he had waited one whole year for a single therapy appointment and got told, you're in control of your feelings. Don't worry about it. Everything's fine. And so he started doing drugs to handle his emotions because he said he could not go to work without the drugs because of how bad it was. And so when they caught him with drugs and kicked him out, he didn't care. One whole year, he waited for a single therapy appointment, thirty minutes, maybe an hour, and it's just this black and white paperwork, you're a checkbox.
So, unfortunately, part of the issue is because so many military members now, will fake suicidal or other mental health symptoms to get out, that the military has to just assume everyone is telling the truth and doing bad, and that kinda takes away from the ability to do individualized treatment and care when you have mass wave of mental health problems popping up. At the same time, you can't try to individualize it and determine whether someone is or isn't because if you make the wrong determination, then the military is responsible. So it's a very tricky situation. They do provide.
They've been partnering up more and more with third parties like the MFLAC or other civilian options on board the ships and bases as therapists or counselors, and it is always the option of the chaplains. But, unfortunately, it is very difficult to give proper treatment considering the way everything is set up. Now how does faith play into,
[00:57:00] Unknown:
into, into treating and handling active duty members
[00:57:06] Unknown:
that have I'm glad you brought that up. So I believe according to a guest that I had on my show, about seventy five percent of all military suicides are due to moral injury, meaning a loss of faith or spirituality after joining the service. Wow. Yet that gets zero attention. What gets most of the attention is gender affirming care and suicides in the LGBTQ community and military members. Over the past several years under the Biden administration, they got more funding. I can't remember the number, but big numbers with a lot of zeros on them into researching that kind of suicide prevention for about I think he believe I believe he said maybe six percent of all military suicides.
Meanwhile, over seventy five percent of suicides, are spirit based, faith based Mhmm. And losing that through the military service. But that gets no funding, and it can't be discussed. The VA is not allowed to have faith based care because of the state, church separation. Right? Most programs won't. Most nonprofits won't. And as this guest shared on my show, the only nonprofit he has found who has a has had a 100% suicide prevention rate is a faith based faith integrated one. Every other nonprofit that he's worked with that has been suicide prevention for veterans that is not faith based has had suicides.
But you can't have that. Unfortunately fortunately and unfortunately, America has that separation of church and state, And it's been beneficial in plenty of ways, but it's been very detrimental in a lot of ways as well. And the fact that a lot of medical places, including the VA, can't practice the integration of faith to a whole lot, is very sad, especially when you're looking at statistics and most people I mean, that's that's you know, three fourths of suicides are because of moral injury. You know? And it's the least talked about cause of suicide. It's always combat PTSD or, you know, social isolation, whatever it may be, but moral injury is overlooked.
And it's true, though. A lot of people join the military. They lose their faith. But what do you see in the movies? See guys kissing their crosses? Lord, you know, protect us in Israel and Iran and Iraq. That's what you see in the movies. Right? But I met more people who became atheists while in the service than people who turned to God. Wow. So it's very unfortunate that faith has a limited part. There is a chaplain on board. Almost every base has a chaplain, and you can talk to them. And they're meant to serve whatever denomination you are, but that's very limited.
You know? That's that's about it. And, again, I can't really speak about what the VA does with faith. I know maybe they can recommend you to a civilian who integrates faith, if you request that, but a lot of times, it's separated.
[00:59:54] Unknown:
Now you you mentioned, moral, I forgot the term you used. Moral injury? Moral injury. Now can you define what a moral injury is?
[01:00:04] Unknown:
Yeah. So the way again, this is information that I got from a guest on my show with this whole conversation. And it's kind of like that losing your faith in in not getting it back, especially because of the events in your life. So in the military, I think, while a lot of people in the military, their life isn't what they expected, and it's like, god, how could you let this happen? It goes back to what I said in the very beginning. If god isn't all good, loving god, why do bad things happen? And then people go into the military, A lot of bad things happen. And so their their faith is damaged to the point that they say, you know what? There can't be a god. Not not with the way things are being run right now. Not with me here in Newport News, Virginia or wherever it is at your station. Not with the way my leader treats me. Right? And people say there there is no guy. And what I will say is that what what does it say? There's a quote in the bible, like, when when you when you walk with sinners, you'll end up sitting with sinners and end up talking with sinners, or I don't walk with them. In the military, a lot of people end up becoming atheist because there's already half half of the military is already atheist or whatever it is, and then they, as they spend time with one another and things get worse and more people turn over, guess what they do? It spreads. It spreads. It's like a disease. It's like a cancer. Wow. And it grows and grows, and then people just reaffirm each other's, you know, disbelief more and more. So it's hard to maintain your faith in the military. You will be honestly and, again, this isn't the military itself, but people in the military.
Sometimes they will mock you for your faith. Right? Just as the as the world does, they will mock you for your faith. Even more so than civilians because they're in a more desperate and bitter situation. A lot of them who have moral injury, once they have that, they're more resentful towards those who still do have the faith. You know? Right. I gotcha.
[01:02:02] Unknown:
I actually was gonna ask you. So the I guess the whole image, like you said, in the movies that people see of, you know, God and country is not not always a 100% accurate.
[01:02:12] Unknown:
For sure. I mean, even if you look at, you know, we still say God bless America. How many Americans believe in God and and want God in America and and and protecting and blessing America? Yeah. I do. I want that more than anything. Trust me. And God is here. But there's so many people who who hate god, who hate America, who are who are here. You know? So it's the same thing with the military. You know? We see a lot again in Moose in in the, and, of course, it's advertised as accepting of the faith because you want everyone to join who who who can. At the same time, it's advertised, like, you don't have to be religious. And you know what? I I will say I did like my ship. The chaplain did do a prayer once a week over the ship, and I enjoy that. And I'm sure there are other commands where people may have, you know, changed things to not allow that, to say it's, forcing beliefs onto people and stuff like that. We've seen that at plenty of places. You can no longer pray in public or do a blessing over an event and stuff like that. And, in other countries, it's even worse. Wow.
[01:03:19] Unknown:
You you wouldn't think that with with, with the heritage of our country. I I I I taught a series on America's Christian heritage, not too long ago. Yeah. And, you know, just going back over the get rid of that. Yeah. And and just going just going back over the the the founding of the country, you know, from from that pastor who led the first eight farmers out to meet the 5,000 British that was marching across towards Lexington, you know, which was the very beginning of the of the American Revolution, you know, up until up up until where we are today. You know, just just to watch that spiritual decline over time is is just it's it's really disheartening.
But, you know, it's it's and it's unfortunate too because, you know, I do believe that God established this country for a specific purpose, and I think that he blessed this I think that he blessed this country immensely, particularly when our focus was on God first and country second. The the the way that that society is just so completely degraded, and we the further away we got from God, the more and this is something we talked about on on on my Sunday show. You know, the the further you get away from God's word, the further you get away from obedience to God, the less God is going to protect and defend and provide.
And, you know, there are plenty of examples in scripture. You could like I said, you could check out the show from Sunday. I got listed so many Yeah. All of Chronicles, all of Kings. You look at the leaders who follow God, and and and that's the thing. A lot of politicians
[01:05:03] Unknown:
aren't godly men and women. A lot of them claim to be sometimes and aren't. And, yeah, you can look at how the not just the leaders in Chronicles, how much did they prosper or suffer based on their faith, but when they led the country and made those reformations, got rid of the false idolatry, got rid of the evil one back to God, you know, how the country prospered as a result. And, yeah, I mean, I if there are a lot of good men and women who are god fearing, god loving in America. And, you know, I definitely do fear the day where if all of that was to decline, well, you know what God says? I will turn you over to the hands of your enemies. In another country, we'll take over it. Get rid of America. And it it it it it There is a revitalization that we do see, luckily, in the youth through social media, through podcasting. There are a lot of young people who are believing, and a lot of people are getting over church or a lot of because that's a new word that that people have really thrown out to summarize how a lot of people felt. And I think a lot of people are getting rid of churches and organized religion and getting a individual relationship.
And, eventually, once that generation grows up, they're gonna make faith based communities that teach instead of tell, that heal instead of hurt, and we'll see a revitalization.
[01:06:29] Unknown:
And I agree with you. And, and it's it's really as refreshing to see that, you know, this generation coming up is definitely more conservative, and leaning conservative, and there's more interest, I think, that I'm starting to see anyway, in in getting back to faith, in getting back to church, and and being involved in a local church. I think local churches are important. I don't I don't I don't I don't necessarily agree that, we we should step away from those things. Church is important because, you know, there's the there's the admonition in Hebrews, you know, to to not forsake the assembling yourselves one with another. Iron sharpeneth iron. You need you need to have some kind of a fellowship. You need to have some kind of Christian fellowship because, again, going back to what you said, you know, if you're gonna rub shoulders with the world, get the filth and the stink of the world all over you, eventually, you're gonna start being the world, being part of that world.
You need that time where you can fellowship with other like minded people. Only place you're gonna get that is really church. And you need to be under the teaching and the preaching of the word of God. That's the only way you're gonna keep yourself clean and pure. So brother, I I man, we can we can go on. We can talk about this stuff, you know, for for hours and hours and hours, but our our our hour is just about up. I gotta move on to the second hour of the show. But, you know, one thing you did say though about the, you know, non denominational stuff, you know, how people kinda look at it kinda weird. Yeah. I agree with you. People do look at folks that say, I'm non denominational. It's kind of like just kinda off in the fringe someplace. But here's the thing with me. If if you and I can agree that and I don't mean you specifically, but I'm saying in general. Right. If you if you if you and I can agree that the only way you get saved is through the blood of Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven, and you trusted him with your eternal soul, we we we can that we don't have to break fellowship, you know, we could work with that, You know? And, you know, that's I think the most important thing. Is Jesus Christ the son of God?
Yes. Alright. And you believe in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ? Yes. You believe that was all sufficient to pay every sin that you've ever done, ever will do, and ever could do? Yes. Then we have fellowship. I mean, there there that's the most important thing. Doesn't make a difference if you think that, if if you think that baptism has to be either dunked or sprinkled. You know, like I I've told people, I'm a Denominationally, if I was gonna put a denominational tag on myself, I'm a Baptist. Alright? But I will be the first one to tell you that, you know, all baptism does is get you wet. That's really that's really all it is. It's an outward display of what took place spiritually.
That's all it is. It's there there's no saving benefit to baptism. There's no saving benefit in taking a little piece of cookie. You know? All that is is is done as a remembrance of the sacrifice that was made of the body that was broken on the tree forest. Excuse me. That's all that that is. There's no saving like I I know Roman Catholics believe that, you know that's the way you receive Jesus Christ. No, that's not. You receive Jesus Christ by putting your full faith, trust, and confidence in his shed blood. In his death, burial, and resurrection, first Corinthians fifteen one through three. You know, that's the gospel, that's And if we can fellowship, if we could agree that that's the gospel and that's the truth, then we have fellowship.
The gospel is three parts, the death, burial, resurrection, that's the whole gospel right there. You take out any one of those parts, and you don't have the gospel anymore. And, unfortunately, that's what you see a lot with a lot of these new denominations that are out there. And even some of the older ones, they they they add stuff to it, take stuff out of it, doesn't work. It doesn't work. Alright. So one more question for you. Yes, sir. Who is someone that you deeply respect right now? And what are they doing that we should be paying attention to?
[01:10:31] Unknown:
There's there's a lot of people. And by a lot, I mean, not really because I put God in the Bible first and foremost. Perfect. But I do have a few, you know, hero role models, and they're also men of God who who put forward the word and all of that. And, you know, just just in the context of our conversation, because I I wanna perform my favorite singer, but I will say, I'm gonna perform my favorite pastor, which is Skip Hedzig. He did the Bible from 30,000 feet. He does the Bible from three feet in a different, series, and he has been preaching for years. Okay. He does chapter to chapter, book to book. He's done a whole sermon on just a single comma in the Bible. He gets into the word, and you will learn so much from him.
And my goal is to go on a trip to Israel with him because he does host those to tour the biblical sites. He's been there. He's seen some of the remnants of stuff from Solomon's time, from the Exodus time, from Sodom and Gomorrah. And so I listen to him every single day, his sermons, along with others, Joseph Prince and and other, you know, preachers, Joe Bruce. You know? So it's important, you know, to get a variety and to always study and, again, to read the Bible myself every day as well. But in the context of our conversation, I would put him forward Skip, s k I p, Heidzik. His last name is, like, there's an h, there's a z, there's a t, there's a g.
I usually just put Skip and then h, and then I'll see it. Okay. But he's a great guy. From what I know, I don't know him personally, but, I love his work. I got you. And, he puts forward a lot of great information in a lot of different ways for people. Oh, praise the Lord. That's great. That is great. And one more. If you could speak to the minds of,
[01:12:18] Unknown:
just one sentence into the minds of anyone listening right now, and it and you think it would stick, what would that be?
[01:12:27] Unknown:
Well, this is gonna be one very long sentence. You're ready. You know? But I think the most important thing that I I wanna put forward, just in beginning, you mentioned my age. You said 23. That's a baby baby, which to me is old. You know, I've been, studying Chronicles and Jeremiah, and I I do feel old because a lot of people in the bible, prophets, kings, preachers, were all younger than me. We've seen people on the throne in Bible at 16 That's right. 25, start preaching 18, 19, 20. So the biggest thing is in both Timothy and Jeremiah says, you know, don't let people look down on you for your age. And I think it's so important what I would say in one sense is is, you know, age was made by humans. You know? God just made people to do great things, and I think that's so important.
You're not too old to have children. You're not too young to preach the word of God. Amen. You are here to be used and be his servant
[01:13:23] Unknown:
at his timing, not yours. So young, old, doesn't matter. His timing defies all of that. That's perfect. That's perfect. And let me say this. You may be a baby in physical age, but you have, you have a very mature wisdom about you. And it was it was really a pleasure talking to you tonight, and I look forward to getting together with you again soon. When we, when we finish up everything, I'll I'll message you, all my contact information. And, let's let's keep in contact. If there's anything I can do to help you along your way with your walk, you just let me know. Reach out. I have a lot of lot of information I could pass on to you that I think you find really interesting and, some ideas and some some suggestions. I think the work you're doing is fantastic. I I I I really appreciate it, And, I wish you all the best, and God bless you. Folks, we are talking to mister Whiskey, which we didn't get into why where that comes from, but, we'll, we'll do that another time. Alright, folks. Mister Whiskey, so why don't you let us know where we could find you, your social medias, and all that information, all that good stuff.
[01:14:23] Unknown:
For sure. Couple0nukes.com. Couple0nukes. That comes from I was a nuclear operator, and we're called nukes. So couple0nukes.com, that has my podcast, my books, my writing. I have, every episode organized into different categories from suicide prevention to fitness and health, whatever you may need to improve your life. And it's not just those, but the guests, their resources, it is just a treasure trove of of great information. And, one thing I will put forward just in the context of faith, I also have an abortion alternatives guide set up to help mothers contemplating abortion know all their other options for choosing life and how they can be fully supported while doing so. So coupleofnukes.com that has my podcast, my social medias, how to reach me, whether you want me as a guest, a speaker, or to come on my show, and, whatever I can do to help you. That's great. And we will make sure we have all that stuff. Well, I already have it in the audio,
[01:15:21] Unknown:
version show notes, but since we had to reset the studio here, I I lost it. For sure. So I'll make sure that's all added in there, when we, when I when I publish it out a little bit later on. Alright. Mister Whiskey, thank you, brother. I appreciate you. God bless you. And, we will talk to you soon.
[01:15:37] Unknown:
Same for you. Praise the Lord in Pastor Anderson.
[01:15:39] Unknown:
Amen. Amen. Keep a steady stride, bro. Amen. Alright. Alright, folks. So mister Whiskey is, to make sure you check out his his stuff, man. I I was looking at his website earlier today, really good stuff and, bright young man, wisdom beyond his years, and, really am thankful for you. You could definitely see the Lord touching him, and I'm I'm greatly appreciative that we were able to sit down with him today. It's always good to see, a younger generation coming up, with a love for the word of God. And, I really am that just this young man blew me away tonight. That was great. Alright, folks. So we're gonna take a break here. I'm gonna reset everything and, grab some more coffee. I need some more coffee. And, we'll come back with, just some, some news of the day. And, yeah. And, we'll see how the rest of the night goes. It was interesting day today. A lot of interesting clips to play for you. Alright, folks. So this is the Joe Ruse show. We are a live show weeknights 7PM, Sundays at 6PM.
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[01:22:15] Unknown:
Up and down, counting out, smiling through the taste of blood in my own mouth. I got bruises and broken bones, but they don't know I ain't in this ring alone. I'm a fighter. No one can say back up. That's what I do. I didn't soldier on this far. Just a huge. Alright.
[01:25:07] Unknown:
Hey, folks. Welcome back to the Joe Russo. Second hour. First hour is in the books, and it is right now just us here on Rumble. Wow. I needed some coffee. I needed to use the restroom. And, it wasn't a great a great segment with a really intelligent young man, really, like I said before, wise beyond his years. I mean, just really outstanding. And, I I still I I didn't get to ask the question about the name, mister Whiskey. Where'd that come from? But we'll get it. We'll get it for sure. Alright, folks. So I hope you guys enjoyed that. I really do. I I keep on going back to it. It was, I'm really impressed. I I, you know, don't often get that way, but I was really impressed.
So, just head over to the website, joeroos.com. Use the web form. Send me a message. Let me know what you think. Drop a comment down below if you would, or you can always email me directly at [email protected]. That's [email protected]. Alright. So lots of interesting things took place, today. And, you know, I just wanna touch base on on something that, that, took place, the conversation that we've had in the past. Because I did get a message. And, and I was going to I was gonna screenshot it and and put it up here, but I'm I'm not gonna do that. But basically, the the person that that sent me an email, said that I flip flopped on my position on Donald Trump.
I want to unequivocally clarify my position on on president Trump. Alright? And it it's very it's a very, very simple, very easy position to understand. Okay? And it's basically this. I support my president. I think my president is amazing at everything he's done. Everything he's done has been I give him an a plus. It's okay to disagree. Alright? It's okay to disagree. We we we are not liberal Democrats. We don't walk in in goose step. I mean, lock step. Freudian slip maybe. I don't know. We can have differing opinions. It doesn't mean that I'm not supportive of my president.
Alright. I voted for Donald Trump. I'm getting what I voted for. Although, I wish it didn't have to come down to, striking, overseas. I'm glad, thankful, relieved, and very, very happy that it is not a boots on the ground, long term occupation of a foreign country. I am very thankful. I am very appreciative that it is it was a one time strike, provided, of course, I'm sure that if they keep the, the ceasefire. But this is a one time strike, and I'm happy with that. I'm satisfied with that, and I'm not, you know, I I it's it's done, and there's nothing that I can do about it or anybody else can do about it. But I support my president.
100% back my president. I am not you cannot say that I do not love my president. I, you know, I think, again, just doing a fantastic job all around. His foreign policy, domestic policy, his just everything he's doing with the economy. I am so pleased, But I'm even more happy that, of course, we are not going to be involved in a never ending war in The Middle East again. Now, you wanna talk about things like regime change and all that stuff, and we're gonna get into some of that in just a couple of minutes. Really gonna try to get everything that I have put aside here done within thirty minutes because, well, twenty eight minutes, actually.
Because, I do wanna finish in two hours. I don't wanna go over two hours again. But when you talk about things like regime change, you talk about things like, overthrowing another government, I am very happy that president Trump is not looking for that. From a military standpoint, if there is gonna be regime change, it's gonna have to be the the people of Iran to take care of that regime change. Just like it's gonna take the people in Israel, Because I I don't care if you if you are are are are a fan of Benjamin Netanyahu, but he has been on about this stuff with Iran getting a nuclear weapon for thirty almost forty years.
And it looks like all of his, all of his, crying and complaining quite possibly is a big fat nothing. Well, having said that, God bless America. God bless president Trump. God bless this administration and protect them and preserve them. Alright. So we have a ceasefire. We had a ceasefire, yesterday, but, apparently, at some point yesterday, there was a, a missile launch that came from Iran, that sent the Israelis into a tizzy and, and attempted a retaliatory strike. And, today, president Trump is on his way out to and I know this is, you know, to open up this whole segment of the show on, you know, this is gonna be kinda harsh, but, president Trump was a bit perturbed, I will say. And, as he was heading out to, the NATO meeting in The Netherlands, he stopped for some questions from the media, before he boarded Marine one to take him to Air Force one. So let's let's take a look at, how president Trump felt about this, little mishap that took place today.
[01:32:35] Unknown:
Yeah. I do. They violated it, but Israel violated it too. Are you questioning if Israel is committed? Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when when I say, okay. Now you have twelve hours, you don't go out in the first hour. Just drop everything you have on them. So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with Iran either. But I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out this morning because the one rocket that didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land. I'm not happy about that. You know what? We have we basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that? Do you have do you have to respond in the line with
[01:33:26] Unknown:
me?
[01:33:28] Unknown:
And, yeah, he's right. He's absolutely right. As a matter of fact, I saw, this was sent to me by by one of our listeners, and, I think this is this is really just totally summarizes this whole thing with with the with The US, with us, Israel, and Iran. I don't know who created this, but this is perfect, if it plays.
[01:33:57] Unknown:
You're at you're
[01:34:00] Unknown:
at you're at quinces. Any quilts. You're at quilts. No any quilts. No starches. You can't do that. Can't do. Cannot triple stamp it nor raise his toes. Just make it through. You can't triple stamp a double stamp.
[01:34:12] Unknown:
You guys, enough.
[01:34:15] Unknown:
Hey. Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?
[01:34:26] Unknown:
That was great. That that's actually, I don't know who I don't know who put that together. That, but, that was that was really funny. And, I appreciate it, for sending it over to us. That was great. So, president Trump sent out a couple of truths, today, quite a few of them. And, this was, shortly after I believe it was right after he he said that Israel doesn't know what the afternoon. So, Israel, do not drop those bombs. If you do, it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home now, Donald J. Trump, president of The United States. You know, it's I I I noticed this trend with him with this, you know, signing off things like this, and thank you for your attention to this matter. It's like it's a it's a business memo, which is great. I I love it. You know, you know, and look folks, you've gotta get on Truth Social. If you're not on Truth Social, you're missing out on this stuff because he's not posting it anywhere else. He's only posting it on Truth. So and and like I've said many many times, if you wanna know what's going on with this this administration, you've gotta you've gotta get on Truth Social. I'm sorry. And if you do, make sure you follow us at Joe Ruse. Alright?
So, so yeah. So the the the this whole thing has just been one big confusing mess. I'll I'll I'll be very, very honest with you. Alright. So, again, you have president Trump unleashing fire in a statement on his way to the the, The Netherlands. And, he's frustrated. I I I I wouldn't deny him that. And then, of course, you know, he walked away, and then, and then he also, you know, set off that statement that I just read to you, Israel did not drop those bombs. And this came just a few hours after Israel accused Iran of a severe violation of the overnight ceasefire. Israel's military said that it it had intercepted a missile launched by Iran, while Tehran denied this attack.
And, earlier, Israel and Iran agreed to a truce after both countries exchanged missiles and bombs. An Israeli reporter named, Barak Ravid, said, senior senior Israeli official Trump called Netanyahu and asked him not to attack Iran at all. Netanyahu told Trump that he could not cancel the attack and that some response was needed to Iran's violation of the ceasefire. Ultimately, it was decided to significantly reduce the attack and cancel the strike on a large number of targets. So the one thing that I appreciate greatly is that president Trump is his eyes are open to what the deep state and what these these globalists are trying to do.
They're trying to keep the flame of of conflict going. Alright? Israel, for whatever reason, will not stop. They will not stop, and it needs to stop. You know, according to intelligence, in court according to even what's with some of the mainstream media says, Iran cannot their their their missile system is is is wrecked. They're in complete disarray. These strikes hurt them badly. Plus, all of the all of the bombs that that Israel dropped within the first hour of announcing a coming ceasefire, just it it has to stop. It has to stop.
Now, the but the problem is is that they don't want it to stop. Alright? The globalists, the deep state, they want this perpetual state. They want the instability. They want The United States to be drawn into this, and president Trump isn't having it. He's he is sticking to his word. It was gonna be a short term thing, and I don't think he can get any shorter term than a one strike. Today over on, on, Real America's Voice,
[01:38:53] Unknown:
Jack Posobiec was talking about how the Mossad wanted to keep this whole thing going. About I wanna break down now a little bit more of this exclusive report that we have with, the some of the behind the scenes negotiations. I've got this from two individuals who are familiar with the negotiations that led up to this ceasefire, and our reporters on live stream last night with Charlie Kirk talking about this. And the the issue is is that in discussions between US intelligence, so the director of CIA, as well as US intelligence, so the director of CIA, as well as Mossad leadership, there was a question of Mossad saying they wanted to go further.
CIA director said, no, because this is the president's word, and the president's order has been ceasefire. The ceasefire has come down no further and put in as leverage if Assad or the IDF, continue to go further that the that The United States would pull intelligence cooperation. Remember this was done in Ukraine to try to also help with brokering a ceasefire there. So after that, Mossad backed down. This is huge information only reported here on human events daily, real America's voice with Jack Posobiec. Folks, this is where you come because we've been ahead of the news for the entire game. The lamestream media can't keep up. So
[01:40:17] Unknown:
So the he went on to also say that I have I have some more clips on this too that we're gonna look at. But, in another clip here, he says, Jack Posobiec talking about Mossad wanting wanting to, prolong this conflict.
[01:40:36] Unknown:
Folks, we have exclusive news that I wanna break here on Human Events Daily. I'll break down some more of that later in the next segment. We're coming up to a break. CIA director was on a phone call with Mossad leadership earlier today and told them to back down after president Trump brokered this ceasefire. This is according to two sources who are familiar with the call to individuals. Folks, Mossad wanted to keep going. Israel wanted to keep going. And we know Iran wanted to keep going. President Trump and his team, including the director of CIA Ratcliffe, were also telling them, stop it right now.
[01:41:15] Unknown:
Yeah. And again, they wanna keep this thing going. They don't want peace. Now I know that that they want the, they want regime change. Is that's what they really want. That's that's the that's the goal here. But you gotta remember too that Mossad and the CIA actually installed the Ayatollahs back in the nineteen sixties, seventies rather. Alright? When they overthrew the the, the ruling family in in in Iran. And and you don't quote me on all that because I'm, you know, I'm a little shaky on a couple of the dates and whatnot. And now they're trying to force regime change again. But again, if regime change is gonna take place, it has to take place by the people of Iran.
The United States is not gonna be involved in it. And, the fact that the CIA is saying that they're gonna pull back on, sharing intelligence with Israel is that's important. That's very important. Because without the intelligence that we can provide to them, and without the cover and support that The United States can provide as you saw with the bunker busters, I don't think they can do it. But President Trump today on Air Force One on his way to, to the NATO meeting, which I really hope he's gonna pull us out of NATO. We don't need to be part of this anymore. He had this to say.
[01:42:50] Unknown:
Do you want to see regime change in Iran? No. If there was
[01:43:00] Unknown:
I think the clip got stuck. Let me refresh that.
[01:43:05] Unknown:
Do you want to see regime change in Iran? No. If there was, there was. But, no, I don't want it. I'd like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible. Regime change takes chaos, and, ideally, we don't wanna see so much chaos. So we'll see how it does. You know, the Iranians are very good traders, very good business people, and they got a lot of oil. They they should be fine. They they should be able to rebuild and do a good job. They're never gonna have nuclear, but other than that, they should do a great job.
[01:43:35] Unknown:
So you you see the president's heart. He wants peace. He's not looking for additional conflict. He's not looking for more, he's not looking to put to further escalate. That's that's the phrase. He's not looking to further further escalate this. We have the ceasefire. There's peace right now. And, you know what? If if Donald Trump doesn't win the Nobel Peace Prize for this, then nobody should ever get a Nobel Peace Prize. This was the fastest turnaround between hostilities and ceasefire that I could ever point to in history that I know of. You realize how fast the ceasefire came about?
Our bombers weren't even on the ground yet back here in The United States before the ceasefire came about. This is Trump's foreign policy. And, here's, Posobiec again talking just about that, Donald Trump's foreign policy.
[01:44:50] Unknown:
Kids, walk us through how president Trump was able to pull this off and how these these neocon warmongers are just frothing because they didn't get their war.
[01:45:01] Unknown:
Yeah. This was a masterpiece in foreign policy, in surgical strikes, in using peace through strength. This is the Trump foreign policy doctrine in action. We've actually seen this before. Right? Congress in that case called this Soleimani two point o. But I would take it even further. This could be ISIS two point o. This could be the Houthis two point o. Right? Trump engages in negotiations. He gives people a chance. If they don't wanna come to the table or they aren't being reasonable, he drops some bombs on senior leadership heads or, calls them out and says, I know where you live. He's done this to the Afghanistan leadership, and now he's done this. He's threatened publicly the Iranian leadership, and he says, listen. We can make a deal, and you can be happy, and you can live with your regime and your oil money, or you can FAFO.
And, you know, maybe that's the new name for it, the FAFO Trump, foreign policy doctrine. But, just absolutely masterful. You know, there were some, you know, people with egg on their face after this. I would say the Warhawks look pretty foolish right now. They wanted World War three. I would say the Panikins look a little less foolish, for not necessarily knowing how Trump does this stuff. He's the same guy we've known for the last five years. And and and the ostriches, the the pure isolationist, they look a little silly too because you can't just hide from the biggest state sponsor of terror and hope they just suddenly turn nice. The people that look, the best out of this are obviously president Trump, his administration, our US military. God bless him. They did a great job. And the people that were pretty calm and rational about this, you know. You can call them Trump loyalists. You can call them people that have just seen the show before and we knew kind of what the outcome was gonna be Kim Jong Un, right with North Korea, we knew what it was a lot of mean tweets, some threats, maybe some airstrikes, and then a really good peace deal. And then in pure Trump fashion, he congratulates both sides and hopes they make a lot of money.
[01:47:13] Unknown:
Alright. I don't know if this is frozen or if you can see me or not, but there we go. Okay. You know, I'm telling you, man, that this this this, this this studio that that we're using here is just has it's just so buggy. I don't know if it's I don't know if it's the computer, the the the studio, if it's Internet. I don't know. But I gotta figure it out because it's driving me crazy. Crazy. Alright. So, yes. Well, you saw Donald Trump's reaction. He he desperately wants peace. He does not want to escalate this any further than than it already has been. And, that that guy, by the way, was DC Draino.
I didn't catch the I didn't catch his his real name. They had it up there, but it was Rogan something. But, the, you know, he he he said something very true. He said Donald Trump in Donald Trump's way, congratulated both sides and wished them happiness and wealth to make a lot of money. And that's the whole thing. You know, we we don't we don't need any more conflict. I don't know why people like Mark Levin and Hannity and, you know, all of these, you know, the main excuse me, the mainstream conservatives that you have out there. You know, they want war. They want conflict constantly.
You know, I don't I don't think that that America ought to be, A, the world's policeman. I think we need to take care of our own business unless it directly affects us. But yet they call me people like me, people that think like me, because I'm not the only one. But yet they call people like me isolationists, you know, neo Confederates, it was one I heard today. When that that's nowhere near the truth. Nowhere near the truth. If it doesn't directly affect The United States, we shouldn't be involved. And that's I've said that from the very beginning of this whole thing, and I've been consistent with it throughout. And that's my opinion, and I'm entitled to my opinion.
I don't have to tow the line. I can disagree. You can disagree. That's the beautiful thing about being a conservative. That's the beautiful thing about being a free thinking human being, is that you don't have to be like the like the Democrats, the socialists, where you have to repeat the party line everywhere you go. We can think for ourselves. And just because I disagree, it doesn't mean that I'm not loyal to my country or my president. Is if we march off to a war, is it Mark Levin's family that's gonna be fighting and dying on the battlefield? Is it Hannity's family, kids, whatever? I don't even know if he has kids.
Fighting and dying on the on the on the battlefield? Or the members of congress that are that that that push those those those the deep state members of congress, the the the globalist members of congress that push push push for war, war, war, is it their kids? Are they gonna go out there on the battlefield themselves? Of course not. Of course not. But your kids can. My kids can. Thank God. Thank God that this is not escalating. Now I hope that the ceasefire remains. I hope I mean, you never know what can happen with these things. You know, the the use like the the clip I play for you, they don't know when to stop. And like president Trump said, they they have been fighting so long That they don't even know what they're doing anymore.
But thank God it's over, at least for now. At least for now. And then, of course, I mentioned earlier the, he should be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and guess what? Georgia GOP representative Buddy Carter nominated president Trump on Tuesday, that would be today, for the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in in in, in in, brokering this ceasefire. He wrote in a letter to the Nobel Prize Committee, I write to formally nominate Donald j Trump, the forty seventh president of The United States, for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his extraordinary and historic role in brokering an end to the armed conflict between Israel and Iran and preventing the world's largest sponsor state sponsor of terrorism from obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet.
He added in a statement that has since reverberated around the globe, debatable, not the statement, globe, president Trump announced the terms of a complete and total ceasefire agreement, commending both Israel and Iran for their courage to end the war. His message of mutual respect and peace will now result in full cessation of military activity, no further escalation, and the preservation of thousands, if not millions of lives throughout The Middle East and around the globe. And he's absolutely right. Absolutely right in that.
Because if this would have escalated, if this if this war would have continued, it would have grown into World War three, some people say World War four, And it would have ended in thermonuclear war, which would have totally wiped out nations, Millions of people. So thank God that it didn't escalate to that point. Thank God. And then, with at least that much weight off his shoulders, president Trump, arrives at the NATO
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summit in The Netherlands. And we now see president Trump stepping out of Air Force One as he's arriving in The Netherlands for the NATO summit. Let's continue to listen in here to see if we get any comments from the president.
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And then, let's see. So that was him getting that was him depart or disembarking Air Force One and, on his way to, to meet King Wilhelm, The Netherlands, and this is, the president arriving. That's a president. And then we'll just go right into the clip of him meeting, King Wilhelm for sake of time. Not sure why there's no audio, but that's okay. I think all you need to see right there is the smile. Alright. So, of course, the studio has given me a problem here. Now despite all of the good stuff that's taking place and despite everything that's, you know, that you have the ceasefire, you have all this great stuff, and now he's over at NATO. What do you think is taking place back here at home?
Well, you have Alexandria Ocasio Cortez talking about, talking about impeaching the president again. And then you had the lunatic, Al Green. Well, let let let me back it up. So you have Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. And let's let's go let's go over here to this. Threatening the president with, impeachment. And President Trump responded with a truth social post that says, well, I can't see it. It's too small. But it basically says, stupid AOC Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, one of the dumbest people in Congress, is now calling for my impeachment despite the fact that the crooked and corrupt Democrats have already done that twice before. The reason for her rantings is all of the victories that The USA has had under the Trump administration.
The Democrats aren't used to winning, and she can't stand the concept of our country being successful again. When we examine her test scores, we will find she is not qualified for office, but nevertheless, far more qualified than Crockett, who is seriously low IQ individual, or Ilhan Omar, who does nothing but complain about our country, yet the failed country that she comes from doesn't have a government, is drenched in crime and poverty, and is rated one of the worst in the world, if it's even rated at all. How dare the mouse tell us how to run The United States Of America?
We're just now coming back from that radical left experiment with sleepy Joe, Kamala, and the auto pen in charge. What a disaster it was. AOC should be forced to take the cognitive test that I just completed at Walter Reed Medical Center as part of my physical. As the doctor in charge said, president Trump aced it, meaning I got every answer right. Instead of her constant complaining, Alexandria should go back home to Queens, where I was also brought up, and straighten out her filthy disgusting crime ridden streets in the district she, quote unquote, represents, and which she never goes to anymore. She better start worrying about her own primary before she thinks about beating our great Palestinian senator, crying Chuck Schumer, whose career is definitely on very thin ice.
She and her Democrat friends have just hit the lowest poll numbers in congressional history. So go ahead and try impeaching me again. Make my day. Which of which, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, AOC, she immediately backed down from her threats. However, however, that did not stop. Well, even before I get to that, I keep on forgetting about this one. Of all people to call out this idea of impeaching the president again is the future Republican senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman. And I say that tongue in cheek, but John Fetterman has all of a sudden become the voice of reason. Check it out. If it plays, which it's not.
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Ulcev.
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What do you think of that? No. I mean, of of of course, no. She knows it. I know it. We all know it. That's not going anywhere. And, you know, he's been impeached twice, and now he's still our president as well now too. So it's not going anywhere, and I don't think that's helpful. And I think if you throw that term around, that actually diminishes what the severity of what impeachment is really reserved for.
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And he's absolutely right. John Fetterman. John Fetterman, the voice of reason, all of a sudden. I'm telling you, this guy's gonna switch parties soon. He's gonna become a Republican. Gonna switch parties soon. I'm I'm I guarantee it. So I guess having that stroke really helped him out. Right? Straighten him out a little bit. Well, that doesn't stop and here I go with this again. It but it doesn't stop crazy Al Green from Texas trying to impeach the president. Okay. Well, there we go. Be nice if I saw it. We are having some technical issues here as usual. Let's see if we can stop Al Green.
Now he's still talking. Alright. Well, then the house voted and, there you go. Let's see.
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On this vote, the yays are three forty four, the nays are 79. The motion is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. Pursuant to clause eight of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on ordering the previous question on house resolution five thirty on which the yays and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the resolution.
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House calendar number 34. House
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Alright. So it wasn't a clip. I thought it was. But they did vote on it, and, a 128 Democrats sided with Republicans to, not impeach President Trump. Now, gonna wrap this up really, really quickly, but I I didn't wanna pass up an opportunity to talk about, ghetto trash Jasmine Crockett from Dallas. Take a look at this. This took place on the floor, okay, in a committee. Jasmine Crockett had a meltdown, because she did not receive the votes for a prominent seat on the house oversight committee. And I want you to look, and I hope there's people watching from Dallas. This is your representative. I I have I have let me see. One, two, three. I have four clips of your representative acting completely like an uncivilized piece of ghetto trash.
Here's the first one. No decorum.
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First. So you would have thought about it. Order order. I was trying to get clarification. Look at calm down. Calm down. No. No. No. Because this is what I'll do. Proceeded. I'm trying to get rid of this. You're not recognized, miss Cronk here. You with your yelling. Don't want me to calm down. No. Can you please calm down? Me to calm down. Calm down. Because y'all talk noise, and then you can set that up. Because if I cut if I cut him and talk to you about her, y'all don't have a problem.
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Chair. Okay. Here. You're here. Now recognizes Not cute. The screen for for four minutes and twenty one seconds. Four minutes. Let miss Green talk, and then you all can I'll recognize I I move to strike her words for a second time based on her second set of personal remarks attacking another member.
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Who? Chairman Comer. Because you all cannot see an amendment at the desk to decide to do not. To the committee. We have to do this every time. I I'm recognized.
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I'm recognized. I'm gonna go ahead and start talking. Look. I I know. I know. Look.
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I don't know if you noticed it. I have two hearing aids. I'm very deaf. I'm not understanding. Everybody's yelling. I'm doing the best I can. Can we not recognize miss Green and let her get because of the rules of the committee, mister chair. That is, that is what I'm trying to communicate in the present moment. We have a mo okay. What's the most what's the The motion
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So that's your representative, Dallas. Jasmine Jasmine ghetto trash Crockett. This is what you sent to represent you in congress. And yet and the Democrats think that that she's a rising star. Interesting. Very interesting. Let's see what else miss Crockett had to say. Let's see. Let's go to, 12.
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And to understand enough about the constitution to the extent that I'm the one that's supposed to make the fucking decision or at least get a vote. Right. That's
[02:06:29] Unknown:
right. And what she's talking about is president Trump using his presidential authority. Is telling me. Yeah. Right. So literally, like, I I And what you're talking about is president Trump, ordering the strike on Iran. Alright? That's your representative, Dallas, Texas. Or how about this one, where, she, took to TikTok to complain about the president exercising his authority.
[02:07:04] Unknown:
Go back. I go back in on Monday. You coulda hollered at us on Monday. If you truly felt like there was something, like, there is nothing that they will say that will make me believe that this action needed to take place, and it needed to take place without the consultation of the congress. Alright. Give me one more.
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How can the senate be involved to make them accountable for what they're doing?
[02:07:33] Unknown:
I mean, listen. Y'all y'all was talking about accountability. The systems have broken down. The systems have broken down because people have legitimately decided that they would rather serve him than serve the people that put them into office. Like, I don't really have any, like, good answers for you except for the fact that, legitimately, everything that he does is, like, against the law. Like, he just breaks the law. And and I know that there are some people that think that I just say this stuff because I'm a Democrat. And I I could tell you, I have my own issues with my own party. I'm not saying these things because I'm a Democrat. I'm saying these things because I am a black woman in America who just happens to be educated disparage my credibility and act as if I don't know what I'm talking about, I can absolutely guarantee to you that if you Google war guarantee to you that if you Google war and authority and constitution, you're gonna see congress. And this thing that's, like, on my chest tells you that I am a member of congress.
I I don't I don't really know, like and the biggest problem that we face Make sure she showed you that. Right? That does not care about making sure that they abide by rules or abide by the law.
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Alright. I I know this is painful to watch this woman. I know it is. But I do have one more. Okay? And this one is where she's complaining that she still hasn't been briefed on the actions. Okay? Here.
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But I wanted to jump on because, obviously, it's been bombs. Bombs. Misses. All kinds of stuff. All kinds of stuff. And, to be clear, I've still not gotten any type of briefing. So just so y'all know, nobody's tried to call us in for a top secret briefing at all as whole sitting members of congress. But, you know, whatever that little necklace. Right? So, so I wanted to make sure that y'all knew that. So, unfortunately, my information is not any more advanced than the information that you're getting, whether you're watching TV or if you're on social media.
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Alright, folks. Well, that's, that's that's gonna do it for us for tonight. Our last read, our last promo for the evening. We've covered just about all of our video clips. Didn't get to all the, other clips that we had, but, the like the, overlays and graphics and such. But, that's okay. That's fine. I think I kept you long enough. And, just wanna say thank you to everybody that tuned in tonight. Thank you also to our guest this afternoon this evening, mister Whiskey. Thank you so much for joining with us tonight. And, listen, folks, if you have any questions, comments, cares, concerns, make sure you head over to our website, joeroos.com.
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night. Bye bye.
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Alright. With that said, I hope you guys are ready for tonight's show. Today, we have a very special guest. We have a man who goes by the name of mister Whiskey. Now what what caught my attention about mister Whiskey is that whiskey is one of my favorite drinks. So, and then after reading the profile and the bio and stuff, I didn't see anything in there about whiskey, but we'll ask him about that when he comes on. He's a US Navy veteran, a speaker, a podcaster, a modern day preacher who's, turning trauma into transformation.
He's also the host of Couple of Nukes, where raw conversations about suicide, addiction, faith, and recovery help listeners rebuild their lives. From the military to ministry to mentoring Gen z, he brings gritty wisdom gritty wisdom, real life experience, and a message of hope that doesn't hold back. So folks, let's welcome mister Whiskey. Are you out there, buddy? He's connected. Alright. Well, we'll give him a second. There he is. Green background and cowboy hat and all. Welcome aboard, sir.
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I didn't. Can you hear me? Got got you loud and clear. Loud and clear. Yeah. I'm here, and I'm ready to have a conversation. Yeah. I normally have a a background for every episode, and,
[00:10:00] Unknown:
this is my first time in the studio, and it's just the raw background, green screen. So that's alright. That's alright. It's great. It's great. Well, first of all, welcome aboard. I'm really glad that, we were able to connect this way. And I again, I'm sorry about I don't know what happened with the, with the studio platform here. It just, it it kinda crapped out on me. It's been kinda buggy the last, last couple of weeks. I don't know what's going on with it.
[00:10:23] Unknown:
As a, fellow podcast host, I understand completely. I've had my fair shares of crashed Zoom calls, faulty links, the technology. The other day, I had to cancel three podcasts yesterday because Xfinity decided to show up and shut down the Wi Fi for about nine hours. So Oh, that's weird. Fun. I just
[00:10:44] Unknown:
canceled all my plans. Oh, that's that's that's horrible, dude. I'm sorry. But I know how you feel because I I had a little last week, about, thirty minutes before the show, had a power outage. Completely lost all power at the place. And, I was like, oh, damn. And I do it live. It's not like I'm not recording it. So it's, that was kind of a sticky moment. But, but welcome aboard. Glad to have you here. So, just gonna kinda jump right into it right away here, because I got a I got a bunch of questions for you. So For sure. So what's something that most people don't know about you but really should?
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You had me in the first half with don't know about you, but the really should. You know, I think a lot of people if if we're talking about just in general so a lot of people who meet me through the virtual world, through podcasting, through writing, you know, it's kinda written there by faith. I think a lot of people in the real world just don't expect me to have the level of biblical knowledge and and the passion for it that I do just because a lot of people, they firstly associate youth with, no interest in in religion or faith. And secondly, it's just, I do, quote from the bible daily, and I do preach on the spot. And I'm trying to get a a a shirt that says, like, pastor warning. You know, anything you say will be used in one of my sermons. You know? That's great. That kinda stuff. But, I think a lot of people don't realize that until we we have that conversation, but upfront, they don't realize that or until I say something later on. I always say that is something that I try to to have into my words pretty visible, but I think a lot of people don't guess that right off the bat. Or, really, most people in the real world when they first meet me because I do look a lot younger and because of, you know, just their expectations based on my generation alone, just being associated with so many people who are lazy, who are entitled, who have no attention span. When we get into the conversation of theology, of suicide prevention, of addiction recovery, of having served in the military, it really blows their mind. You know? I'll never forget. I, had a guest come on my show, and they said, you're mister Whiskey? You know? Because they had been listening, had never seen me. And they said, we thought you had a beard, and you were, ten years older. And I've gotten that a couple times on a couple of different guests. So it's it's interesting how purse you know, how, like, you set your own expectations just from seeing me. I think, like, you know, the TV show The Voice, you know, is focused on just hearing the singing because we tend to project so many stereotypes and expectations based on looking and podcasting is another platform where you could be hearing it and have a totally different perception. Then you see the person, you're like, that's that's the host? That's that's Joe Russo? That's Mr. Whiskey?
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Yeah. No. For sure. Now now you do look very young. So how old are you? I'm 23, sir. Okay. So you're a you're a baby baby. My gosh. Alright. And and you you served in military? You were serving in the navy, from what I understand? And, so, what was your MOS?
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Yeah. So in the Navy, we call it a rate, which confuses a lot of people because they hear rate and they hear rank. Yeah. Exactly. But in the Navy, for some reason, we call it rate. And I was a E. M. N, which is Electrician's Main Nuclear Operator. Oh, wow.
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For for a young guy like that, that's a pretty heavy responsibility, you know? Yes, sir. Now, when did you come to know Jesus Christ as your savior?
[00:14:12] Unknown:
So my, religious origin story is a bit of a long one. I have my, book, God versus Indomitable Human Spirit coming out, and, part of that is my kind of biography as far as my journey of faith. And then the rest of it is the three ways in which God is so more perfect than us and why we should and can pursue those three traits daily. And it's kind of like a a self improvement theology book. But I will say to get the short version, I grew up in a home that was my father was a a Catholic man, a very pious, kind of insane Catholic man. Okay. And, I went to a private Catholic school that was corrupt, and I I grew to hate religion because it was always weaponized. It was always, twisted, and I had no foundation in the actual word. And there was a lot of practice that was not taught but told. And there's such a big difference in everything, especially the faith being told and being taught. And so later in life around freshman year, one of the times that I it's it's a big moment in my life. I had told God that I was done, you know, that he either had to prove himself or I was gonna make my own book of religion philosophy because I just couldn't handle life anymore between the traumatic childhood and the high school experiences in middle school and a lot of the religious weaponization, addiction, domestic violence, sexual abuse, all that stuff combined. You know? Sure. It was like and and I was in a spot that a lot of people have been in, which is, you know, how can there be a God, a a good, loving, purely good God when there's so much evil in the world? And, obviously, I understand that question in far different ways than when I was a child. But, yeah, I, had my right arm split open, and, so that was proof that guy was real. But the relationship with him didn't form like it should have, and and that took more time.
And when I got to boot camp, that was a pivotal moment for me because I met other guys who were Catholic, and I said, I don't know anything about Catholicism. I just believe in God because my I have a scar on my arm. You You know, what can you tell me about the faith? And and and they told me stuff that the school never had, that my father never had. And so I kinda just dove into that deeper, and then throughout the military, I was forming that relationship with God. And it was really when my father's addiction and and mental illness had gotten so bad that we were having drastic biblical arguments, and he was saying that I was the antichrist and that he was best friends with Satan and I you know, all this stuff. And I had a dream where, you know, I was shirtless wearing some denim jeans out in the woods by river thunderstorming, and I remember crying out, you know, lord Jesus Christ, would you not even the antichrist called out to you. Would you not save him also?
And and the clouds turned golden, and and Jesus came down and said, he too, even him, I would save. And he gave me a belt buckle with a tractor on a farm on it, you know, the kinda cowboy style. Oh, shit. And after that dream, I said, I need to know more about the antichrist. I said, I've heard the word a lot. Don't know anything about it or who or what. So I decided to read Revelation to find answers. Revelation is a book of the Bible that left me with a lot of questions as it does for many people. And so I decided from there, I need to read the Bible from front to end to really understand.
And that was the moment that really changed my life more than anything. Reading it from front to end and getting all the historical context, all the cross references, that was so eye opening and just reading the Bible alone because so many people who even people of faith who are these, quote, passionate believers have never read the Bible. True. And so from that point onward, I got into that relationship. And this past year has really blossomed where I study scripture for about six to eight hours a day every day through podcasts or reading, through writing, through both the Bible, through sermons. And so it has really become my life and my passion. Well, that's really impressive.
[00:18:13] Unknown:
I'll tell you. To study scripture six to seven hours a day, eight hours a day, that's a lot of time to spend on the word, and that's a that's a blessing. I'll give you my quick story really, really fast. I I, very I smiled when you were talking about, you know, starting your own thing and reading it, making your own book of prophecy because, there was a point in my life where I kind of walked away from my faith. And, that was, started when I was very young. My, my uncle was a, he well, my uncle was the first person in our family to step away from the Catholic church, and he, he, went to a bible school, bible college, and became the and became a pastor in a denomination that, I came to learn later on was more cult than actual Christian dom denomination.
But I idolized my uncle. I wanted to be my uncle. You know, I was so impressed with him. And, when he would come home from school on his breaks, he would bring his books, and and he would leave them behind because he didn't need them for the next semester, and I would read them. And I was young. I was maybe 10, 12 in that range. And, you know, I was in Catholics Catholic catechism, not Catholic school, but Catholic catechism. And, I would go to class, and I would open up my books, and, my uncle would have had taken a red marker and, like, x ed out passages of the whole thing and write on top. This is not what happened, and he would staple an attachment to it, and, you know, and write out, you know, this is what really happened, and so on and so forth. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Very much so. And then, and that may, of course, made me question a lot of things that I was being taught.
And, I think the straw to make this long story short, I think the straw that broke the camel's back was when I refused, to go to confession. And, the the priest got very angry because he'd been dealing with me, you know, all this time now. And, he physically grabbed me by the arm and physically dragged me outside to my mother and told my mother, and this isn't I will never forget it. I'm not gonna say the guy's name, you know, but I will never forget it. But he said to my mother, we don't need his kind here.
[00:20:29] Unknown:
Wow.
[00:20:30] Unknown:
Yeah. So Wow. So I I stepped away at that point. My mom, she was like, hey, they don't want no problem. We don't we're we're done. We're out of it. You know, they they held on to some of their Catholic beliefs and and whatnot, and, you know, they they were they became, you know, holiday Catholics. They would only go on special occasions. But I kinda grew up on my own at that point. And, you know, I I had talked to my uncle, and I I had told him that, you know, I, you know, his name is Joe also. I said, hey, uncle Joe, I wanna I wanna I wanna be what you are. I wanna I wanna join your your religion, I called it. And, I'll never forget it. He he looked me straight in the face. He goes, no, you don't. It's not for you.
And I was like, what? I was not ex I wasn't expecting that. I wasn't expecting that kind of an answer, but that's what he said. And, I I I was I felt kind of dejected at that point. And I went about my life, and much like you, I I would tell people when they would ask me, you know, what my background is. Well, I'm I'm I'm the pope of the Worldwide Church of Joe. You know, I I believe what I believe, and I do what I wanna do, and, you know, I'll deal with the consequences of that later on. And then, fast forward many years into, July, actually, my my born again birthday is coming up February.
I don't know. That was I got I got reassigned, because I worked in law enforcement up in New York, and, I got reassigned to a new command, and I knew the commanding officer and, he was actually one of my instructors in the academy when I was going through. And, he he was like, because Joe, I'm really glad to have you here, and this is, you know, I'm I'm great. I need guys like you. I said, but, you know, I gotta put you on the overnights because I need people on the overnights. I need good people on the overnight. I said, okay. No problem. That's fine. Gotta make more money on the overnights. That's good. And then he goes, and it's gonna be your turn. My turn for what? Oh, you're gonna you're gonna ride with Gail. Well, who the hell is Gail? Oh, Gail's one of those born again Christian types. She's gonna talk your ear off all night long, but it's your turn. I'm like, alright. Fine. I felt confident enough in what I knew already, you know, just from remembering what my uncle had taught me, that I can I can hold my own, you know, and, that's what happened? So I I drove with her five nights a week, eight, ten hour shifts, you know, whatever it was.
And all we would do is argue. Not like yelling and shouting each other, but like debating, you know. Debating. Putting that argument out there. And then, one day one night she said to me, hey, you know, there's this Christian radio station. It's on the AM stations up here, and, you know, you'll like it. You should check it out and all that stuff. It's like, alright, so I'll do that. So I listened to it. I I would hear, like, like, guys like J. Vernon McGee, and, you know, guys like that. And and, man, I just the more I heard, the more I listened, the more I wanted to get to know, you know, what they believed. And I just I would drive home slower purposely just so I can hear the whole program, you know, by the time I got there. Not knowing, of course, that that this guy, particularly Jay Vernon McGee, was long dead. Like, you know, he had passed away a long time ago, but everything he was talking about in these lessons felt like they were pointed directly at me. You know, like, this was for you.
Fast forward now to, February, I was getting ready to go to work. It was a Sunday night. And, you know, I always, like, said, yeah. I always listen to the traffic reports. It's always the same stupid thing and, you know, traffic here, traffic there, whatever. Let me see what's on that Christian station and listen to that for a change on the way to work. And I heard this this, radio preacher, and, he, it was a live call in show. And, he was preaching him, and what he would do is he would preach a little bit, then he would stop, he would take phone calls, answer questions, you know, and then go back to preaching again. I was like, oh, that's pretty neat.
So listening to him, and then it just seemed like it it it the message he was preaching was a message called hell and who's going there. And, I remember I was sitting in traffic just on my way to work, and just it just seemed like at every pause I heard, I'm talking to you, Joe. This is for you. I'm talking to you. Are you hearing this, Joe? This is about you. You're going to hell, Joe. And when I say literally scared the hell out of me, it literally scared the hell out of me. Right. Got to work. I was like, I wrote the phone number down to the church, didn't have cell phones yet. Wrote the phone number down to the church, was gonna call, but I didn't make it. It ended before I got there, and, I waited a few days. I kinda looked him up, did some research on it. I was kinda going over his, doctrinal statements. I was like, yeah. No. I can agree with this. I agree with that. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Picked up the phone. Must have sound like an idiot. Hi. I heard you on the radio, you know. I'm a big fan, whatever. And, dude, man, he called me back, like, five minutes later. We were on the phone for an hour and invited me to church. I was like, oh, no. I'm not going to church, dude. I I walk into church, building's gonna fall fall down. You know, I'll meet you at your office though. We could we could talk there. I guess, well, you know, we rent a building and we don't have our own space. We rent a community school in in Lower Manhattan. Oh, really? Where in Lower Manhattan? They told me the address and I was like, you gotta be kidding me. That's right across the street from my my command. And, so he was like, well, I see it's divine providence, you know? You're supposed to be. Yeah. Yeah. So, we agreed to meet though for like a dinner and we did and went down there, and I took every book that I had. Every every scrap of paper I had, I stuffed it into this big backpack, and took it with me, and went to this I met him, sat down the restaurant talking, and he was like, well, you know, I'm sure the other Lord has something better for us to be talking about right now than than the Mets. So let's talk about something else. So I was like, alright fine. So I grabbed my bag and I just dumped it all on the table.
I said, this is what I've been studying. And he just casually did, he's like, he just casually looked at it. He was like, okay. And just pushed it all off the table onto the bench, and he was like, you don't need any of that. And he took out his bible, he put it down on the table, he goes, this is all you need. And I was hooked right there. And, we sat there, he was talking scripture, he was giving me a lot of verses, man. He was just like, I couldn't even tell you at that point, like, what he was saying to me. Realized I had to get to work. We left, went to the we, as we're walking back, he was like, do you have like ten more minutes? I just I just wanna I just really need to talk to you about this. I was like, yeah, sure. So we went out onto this pier, Pier 34 off the Canal Street and West Street in Lower Manhattan.
Sat down on the bench. He opened up the bible again. He started starts taking me down the Romans Road. And, all kinds of crazy stuff was happening as he was doing that. I had people riding by on bikes, spitting at us, yelling at us, cursing at us, throwing things at us, you know, all while he's trying to do this. And that just made it even more real to me. And then, the guy this one particular guy that was riding around us must have circled us about, I don't know, eight or 10 times. And, the last time he went around us, I don't know what he hit, but he hit something on the deck of the of the pier that flipped him over the handlebars, you know, and literally busted his head open.
And, so me being a law enforcement, I'm reacting to this, you know. So I ran over there trying to help him. I'm flagging people down. Hey, we need to get an ambulance and all that stuff. And my colleagues came, and, while they were working with this guy, the pastor, he just took me by the army goes. Hey. What we're doing is more important. They're trying to save his physical life. We're trying to save your soul. Okay. You know? And he let me back and, in the middle of all that mess, man, I got down on my knees. I asked the Lord Jesus Christ to be my savior. And when I got up, that was a different person altogether. I felt it. I felt clean. I felt just every burden that was on my shoulders was gone. Couldn't, you know, I I couldn't even explain it. And something that you said also earlier, triggered that thought in me too. It's like, you know, you didn't have that relationship with Jesus Christ. Well, when I went down on my knees, I didn't know who Jesus Christ was in in a spiritual sense. I knew he was, you know, I had the head knowledge, not the heart knowledge.
But when I got when I got up off that pier, I still didn't know him. You know, I still have I still have to build that relationship, but I knew he was my savior. And then I was saved, and I wasn't gonna spend eternity with him. I knew I was forgiven. Went to work, I walked into the command, and, Gail comes walking out of the locker room. And I never told her a thing, never said a word that I was meeting up with this guy or anything like that. She comes walking out of the locker room, she looks at me, she goes, you got saved. And I was like, I was like, what are you talking about? She goes, oh, don't don't let the devil lie already.
And I was like, what? And she goes, you got saved. Don't you lie to me. Don't you lie. Don't start off lying. I was like, I was like, yeah, I did. And then, you know, that was great. It was an incredible experience. How she knew? I don't know. She said, what's all over your face? You're glowing. You're this, you're that. I'm like, oh, praise the Lord. Amen. You know? And then, yeah. So I've been saved now for be twenty five years. I've I've I've, I've taught bible studies. I've, I've served as an associate pastor of a church up in New York, a small independent Baptist church. Prior to this podcast, I did, I did another podcast, did a bible study podcast for, about three years.
So, mostly self taught. You know, did did you go to bible school? No. Okay. Yeah. Neither did I. And you don't really need to, to be honest. As as the local church's job is to train men to pastor churches and to and to become disciples. You know? So, most of my learning was done on my own. I had I sat under some great pastors that that took a lot of time and investment in me over the years. And, you know, here I am today. Here I am today. So, you know, it's it's it's I'm not gonna say that that every day of your life is gonna be, you know, peaches and cream. You're gonna have your ups and downs and your failures and your faults, but the beautiful thing is that you know Jesus Christ as your savior.
And you know that, like the Bible says, you have an advocate with the father. An advocate's what? It's a lawyer. Someone who represents you. You know, so when the devil's up there accusing you, because that's what he does. That's what Job chapter one tells us. When the devil's up there accusing you, you have the advocate sitting right there defending you. You have your lawyer, you have Jesus Christ, you know. So don't let it wear you down, don't let it beat you down, don't let it, you know, everybody falls, everybody everybody stumbles, But you gotta get back up again. You gotta keep on going.
And, that's my sermon for the day. So
[00:31:09] Unknown:
Right. Yeah. I just I just took up so much of your time, dude. I'm sorry, man. No. No. You're good. I it reminds me of a lot of things. And and when you talked about, I'll I'll teach a word I learned on my podcast, which was. Those who go to, church on Christmas and Easter, we we label them. So Nice. I had a faith based, account and tell me that. And I was like, that's a that's a good one. That's a that's a lot of people. But I think it's, yeah. So I'm no longer I I guess I consider myself nondenominational. What I believe is, that the Bible doesn't call us to a religion. It calls us to a relationship with God. And I had a powerful episode on my podcast, about how Jesus didn't come to establish Christianity or to make a new religion. He came to restore the relationship with the father because of how legalistic and how much religion had taken over faith. Absolutely. And so, ironically, enough people did what they do. They, took the word and did what they could with it. So, unfortunately, you know, there's a stigma around being nondenominational.
You know, it's kind of like, oh, so so, you know, you're only partially of the faith or this or that. They believe that you're not fully of the faith if you're not going to church or if you're not specifically Catholic or Protestant or Baptist. You're like, at least choose one, but there shouldn't have to be a minimum. And then the whole scene with with that man in in the restaurant pushing all the books aside, it brings me to one of my favorite books in the Bible, one of the most powerful in my opinion. The first time I ever read it, I mean, it left me lifeless for three days at least. The book of Ecclesiastes Oh, yeah. You believe King Solomon wrote it. And in near the end of it, he writes and this is paraphrase. It's not verbatim, but he says, of the writing and reading of many books, there will come no end. And he basically says not to be led astray by that. The Bible is there for a reason. Right? And he ends the whole book with, you know, to serve God, and and that's the number one purpose of life is to live and serve for God. That's right. And I think that's so important because whether religion or not, there are so many I mean, millions nowadays of books out there that they could be aligned with the Bible. They could be not entirely aligned with the Bible, but people are being pulled left and right away from the Bible by these books.
Even books, like I said, that are faith based but are not entirely accurate or rooted in scripture as it should be. A lot of these, churches have their own bibles or focus on certain parts. You know? I and I there are churches out there that go and and, you know, do the Bible, and there are other ones that only do certain parts of the Bible. There are certain world religions that have removed parts of the Bible. So I think it's so important to, you know, have your own relationship and have your own reading and studying and not rely on on the church, but also not be led astray by reading too many books because there are like I said, there are millions of books out there. And if you were to read every faith based book, you would be left with conflicting and contradicting information.
[00:34:16] Unknown:
But when you read the Bible, there is no contradiction. Absolutely. So I think it's important to stay rooted in the word that God gave us. Absolutely agree with you. The, the the one of the things that was always a pet peeve with me is when you would, like I I like to visit different churches from time to time just to kinda see what's out there. Yeah. I have a great local church that I'm a member of. Great pastor. Love him. He's a great friend. But I like to check other things out, and I've done it over the years. You know, it's, I've done it I did it more in my earlier walk, but, you know, now it's not so much. But, the one thing that always turned me off about a church is when you went into the quote unquote Bible study time, you know, whether it was Sunday morning, Wednesday night, whatever night they chose to do it.
And they were studying a a novel as opposed to the Bible study. Studying the Bible. You know what I mean? Yeah. I chose the word novel because I think more people understand that than, you know, like I said, like a commentary or something like that. But, you know, Bible study is to study the Bible, not to study, you know, 50 Shades of whatever. Right. You know, and and you'd be surprised how many churches actually do that. I think the furthest I've ever gotten away from from actual an actual Bible study was I I took, I I used to watch, well, I still do, but, Ancient Aliens. Right? Mhmm. And I laugh at it because a lot of this a lot of the stuff that they talk about, you can find in your bible.
You know, it's there. So I did that as a bible study. Like a a one night bible study. I took an episode of ancient aliens and I'd be put it up on the screen in the church. And then I I would I would let it play for a little bit, then I would stop it. I said, okay, take your bibles, turn to Genesis chapter six, you know, and and see, okay, see what they're talking about here, the giants and so on and so forth, and and this is probably, excuse me, the, the Anunnaki and the Nephilim, all that stuff. And that's right here. That's Genesis chapter six, and then I would go into a lesson about that, and then, you know, go on. Okay. Let it play again, find something else. Okay. I'll stop that, and this is where you find that in your Bible. Here's Ezekiel, you know, the you know, the wheels within wheels. So, you know, it's you could you could have fun with it, you know.
And it was. It was a great study. I loved it. It was a lot of fun. And then, I might actually do it on the on the show here one night. Well, I think one of the things that, comes to my mind that you've remind me of is speaking to people being led astray by
[00:36:49] Unknown:
faith based content, two two conversation pieces. The first, now the modern television shows, like House of David, The Chosen, all that stuff. Now I haven't watched any of it personally, but will I say it's accurate? I'm not gonna make that statement either, you know. I know a lot of people are loving it, but, again, with a lot of the faith based content that we see in television shows and movies, there's a lot of creative freedoms taken with it because So it is. Oftentimes, there's not enough to make full content. I know in in in the same kind of boat, but, sailing a different route, I've seen a lot of false Bible quotes generated by AI, Bible scenes generated by AI that mimic, you know, ancient Hebrew, that mimic New Testament writing.
It's it's insane. And I know a lot of people say, well, who would believe that? And I was going through the comment section on an AI generated bible scene. And the amount of people who thought it was true, it was just shocking. Mhmm. And I'll even paraphrase what it said because people believe it was true. It was a fake bible scene of Satan appearing before Jesus on the cross as he's dying. He says, look at you here dying for you know what the future generations will be, prisoners and rafts rappers and gangsters and and hungry politicians and and and illegal immigrants. Like, it named all these modern terms and stuff and did this whole victory speech of Satan, like, toward Jesus on the cross, and so many people thought it was true. Yeah. And it just blows my mind. So I think there's a lot that leads us astray nowadays. I think the same thing I've done some episodes of my show and other shows about faith based music and some of the creative freedoms taken with that. And I I admire people because they're trying to integrate, you know, faith into ways to get more people.
And, unfortunately, we shouldn't have to entertain. I know a lot of a lot of pastors will say if it doesn't if you wouldn't do at the foot of the cross, don't do it in your church. You know? I've heard that saying a lot because we've seen a lot of people and a lot of especially televangelists as as as I call them. Another word I learned on my show, televangelists, a lot of them really wear down the word, or they get almost blasphemous sacrilegious. I saw a scene where someone punted the, bible as if doing a football kick. Yeah. You know, stuff like that. I've seen people compare Jesus to a stripper. I've seen a lot of just the way they present it can be so misleading or or just wrong.
And, again, I'm someone who wants to make faith based content that is humorous or educational and connecting, but I always try to do with a spirit of discernment and make sure it's as accurate as it can be and not at all misleading. And it redirects people back to the Bible. You know? So I think that's so important. And then in fact, my book, God Verses and Endowment for Human Spirit, I started with the end of Ecclesiastes to talk about why I'm writing it, and this is not a replacement for the bible. Mhmm. And most of this is actually almost every page has a bible quote on it because that is what we are analyzing here. Not my work, not my written work, but the God breathed scripture. So
[00:40:12] Unknown:
not everyone does that. It's definitely important, though. No. I agree with you. I totally agree with you. I I have a very, a very high regard for the word of God. Alright. And, I'm full disclosure here. I'm not gonna hit you out of left field with this. I am a King James Bible believing Christian. Alright. I believe that the King James Bible is the word of God for us today in the English language. And I have plenty of reasons for it. It's another show, another time. But For sure. Yeah. But, I I will I I cannot. It just it just bothers my spirit when I read another version.
Or I look I see a scripture verse of another version because I I because it's
[00:40:56] Unknown:
I've read some, and and some of them are just so when I was working on my book, I read, Genesis thirty two twenty nine to 32 in a 116 different translations. And some of them just, like, were so childish or so the meaning was so lacking. It's just it does shock me how some of the translations are written. And and I I I understand. I know it sounds extreme to some people that saying, like, we're sickened by it. But Mhmm. When you have a a god led spirit, like, it you will feel repulsed by the the the sins of the world and by that kind of stuff. Oh, yeah. You could you could you def it's just
[00:41:36] Unknown:
it just like you said, it just irks your irks your spirit. You just can't it's one of those things. It's like I have a lot of I have I don't have a lot of convictions. I have a lot of preferences, but the one thing, and and I and I say this as as the honest truth, the one thing that I will never compromise is my belief in the word of God, ever. I may not live a 100% according to it at times, I may stray here or there, I may, you know, slip and fall, but Bible does say that a righteous man falls seven times and gets up. So I will always defend my King James Bible, and I will not relent on that either. I'm not gonna beat you over the head with it and tell you that, you know, you're going to hell because you're not reading it because that's not true. You know?
Yeah. You know, if, you know, God can use an NIV, he could use, you know, a living word, whatever it is that the JW's use nowadays. He can use anything to save somebody. You know, to get through to somebody. And then the Holy Spirit's job is to convince that person that like, for example, for myself, like, you know, I I the the first church I went to after I got saved, you know, the guy, he led me to Christ through a King James Bible. He preached and he taught from a King James Bible. And I didn't realize it until I got more educated about it. And I hate using that word educated when it comes to this stuff, but, but that's really what it is. When I learned more about the King James Bible, the history of the King James Bible, how it was preserved, and I started listening to him preach, I would all of a sudden, I started to notice the corrections.
Well, the King James says this, but. Well, no. There's no but. That's what the book says. You know? Don't don't don't fix it. Don't change it. Because what happens is when you as a pastor, when when a pastor starts correcting the word of God and saying, well, a better way to say it would have been this or or, you know, this is an unfortunate translation of this passage. It really should say that. Well, who becomes the final authority? Alright. The pastor, not the book. So how am I supposed to live my life as a Christian if I don't have a sure final authority.
You know what I'm saying? You follow me? Yeah. So don't take the book from me. Don't try to take the book from me because you're not gonna succeed at this point. And I came to that crossroad where I actually had to leave that church because of that. I I sat there because I sat there and I just started to to tick off in my notes. I wasn't even taking notes anymore on the message. I was I was counting how many times he was correcting the book, or how many times he was going back to the original language. You know, in the original, okay, great. In the original, but God didn't I don't speak Greek. I don't speak Aramaic. I don't speak Hebrew. I speak English, and God gave me a book in English.
So why are you going back to the Greek? Why are you going back to the Hebrew or the Aramaic? He gave us a book in English. Alright. I'm preaching.
[00:45:03] Unknown:
So sorry. You're good. You're good. And I know you said you had a couple questions. I will, I will close the book, pun intended on on all of that.
[00:45:14] Unknown:
Well, we kinda got off on a unscheduled detour there, but, I will do this though. I on Sundays, what I do is on on this show, I do a Sunday bible study. It's a live show just like this, you know, but I'm just I'm just teaching and preaching. So, last Sunday, I I I did a, study on, biblical political science, which was a lot of fun. I enjoyed that. That was a lot of fun. Before that, I did a Father's Day one, and then I did one on, on being saved. And, you know, I'm working on one for this this coming Sunday, so I would invite you to come check it out, you know, when you can. You have the links and all that stuff. It's a lot of fun. We I try to keep it as light as possible. But, so I wanna ask you a little bit about some of these the the stuff you've been doing, with depression, with mental health with with mental, mental health, and and so on and so forth. And, what's something that, that you would say that civilians consistently would misunderstand about mental health battles that veterans face?
[00:46:20] Unknown:
You know, the biggest thing I would say is just that the civilian world's perspective and expectation of what the military life is like is just completely different. You know? And I can say that from personal experience from what I thought the military was like prior to joining to serving and afterward. And a lot of that is all the propaganda, all the advertisements on TV, all the movies, all the stories you hear. A lot of the times, unless you're listening to podcasts like mine or other veteran hosted podcasts, you're seeing all this action, this fighting, and and and so much of the focus is on combat. And when you see the military in the news, when is it? It's always conflict in The Middle East or somewhere else. You're not seeing what are the men and women in in in the red, white, and blue doing in Newport News on a Sunday afternoon, you know, in Virginia? Right? So you see a fraction of the military lifestyle and a fraction of the people in the military.
And so many people think that they just associate all all the mental health issues on suicidal ideation to combat PTSD. It's always combat, combat, combat. The lifestyle itself takes a heavy toll. The isolation, the social climate, the leadership, the work conditions, the physical demand, everything contributes to that. Actively combat deployed, members of the military, And I and I don't say this in any way to devalue them. They are a small fraction of the population in the military. Right? They're they're probably the most important. They're very important. But you gotta think of everyone stateside. You gotta think of everyone in other countries in port who aren't fighting right now, who are maintaining nuclear, you know, operations on aircraft carriers and submarines. The people who are maintaining all the buildings and their missiles and the weapons and keeping everyone ready stateside. Right? So I think the biggest misconception is just what the military is and how it works. Mhmm. We have this we think of Vietnam. We think of World War. We think of desert shit. We think of anti terrorism with nine eleven. We think of all the movies, commercials you see, Top Gun and all that stuff.
Again, that is such a small fraction of the military. And so we put so much focus on combat PTSD that we forget to look at all the other aspects that I've gone over my show in great detail from the sleep hygiene of the military to the leadership and how everything plays such a pivotal role in affecting those members' mental health and well-being and things we can do from the enlisted junior sailors level to the higher ups in Washington DC. You know, there is just so much reform and change that needs to happen. And what I'll say is the thing that always truly upsets me to this day, every day when I wake up, I think about this. Every veteran and active duty person I've had on my show, from special forces in Australia to men and women here in our military, in marines, in the navy, in the air force, coast guard, doesn't matter, overlapping complaints. If I made an Excel spreadsheet from my show alone, you would see clearly what needs to be changed. All these things are in plain black and white. They're straightforward. They are the same issues across the branches, across the world, across time. Vietnam veterans have had the same complaints as me and my friends, to people during nine eleven, before and after, to, again, to other countries, marines, army, air force.
It's not a coincidence that all these military members are reporting the same exact issues Right. And requesting the same exact changes. And that is what frustrates me more than anything. Now,
[00:50:05] Unknown:
what do you think are some topics that are really untouchable in that circles?
[00:50:13] Unknown:
So I would say that the biggest thing, the biggest contributing factor, honestly, is is the leadership in the command climate. You know? And that is just a vicious cycle that has been going on from what I've heard from before Vietnam. You know? And it's the rank up system in the military. A majority of it is kissing up and screwing over other people, being a fast mover in a Blue Falcon, you know, and being like the awful leadership that's already there. They want people that are just like them to replace them, and it creates this cycle. All the new people in the military get treated awfully. When they get to the point of seniority, they treat the new people awful if they stay in. But in a recent episode with Christopher Brewer, we both said the same exact thing he shared, and it's very sad. Most people in the military get out before they had a chance to do anything or to become something great because they don't want to deal with all of the BS from politics down to their individual base, and so they get out because there's more for them in the civilian world. There's more freedom. There's more potential.
There's more lifestyle. The military can set up in a way where every one of its members is happy, where people are doing what they wanna do, and they they'll do the twenty years because what they want as far as a lifestyle, whether that's family, whether that's income, whether that's job type, is being met. There are enough billlets. There are enough people. Right? But we've been combating retention and recruitment with lowering the standards, creating a worse and worse military environment. So it's it's it's very tragic, and I I think third party intervention is is needed, you know, political intervention. We've seen I've had guests on my show who are trying to make changes that would greatly benefit. One of the biggest benefits that's been pushed forward on my show that gets denied every year by universities is instead of having college education benefits as the only thing available to veterans, if veterans rather start their own business, instead of using the money to go to college, they could use the money to fund their small business and get, business school training from the military.
And every year, the universities who are the top recipients of the money used by veterans to go to college blocked that bill from being passed in accordance to the guest I had on my show. And so a lot of the military is just selfish thinking, economically and politically driven, like everything in the civilian world as well. And, unfortunately, it's never putting the service members first. I understand the concept of mission first, but most of the time, it's not the mission. It's money and politics first. Wow.
[00:53:09] Unknown:
And that's interesting. Like, I I wouldn't think that they would I would think that they would have programs available for, military for vets to do things like start a business, entrepreneurship.
[00:53:23] Unknown:
And You can find third party versions of those. You can find stuff with the VA. But the the amount of funding in in schooling program that would be equivalent to the GI bill to post nine eleven bill is not available. Wow. I'd excited to know that. That's interesting, though.
[00:53:39] Unknown:
You know, I we mentioned, you know, a few things about mental health, military service, you talk a lot about PTSD. You know, it it that's that's something that's more widely experienced than I think a lot of people realize. Yeah. And, it can lead to things like drug abuse, alcoholism, suicide, God forbid. How how does the military handle that, you know, in house when it's when it becomes obvious that there's a there's an active member of service in the ranks right there at that moment that's going through something like this? What is the military's response to that? How do how do they generally handle that?
[00:54:27] Unknown:
So there are a lot of different people affected by noncombat PTSD because there's different forms. There's complex. There's, you know, certain triggers, and it's different for everyone. And I think it's important to recognize that. And, unfortunately, the military is set up as a checkbox system. You don't get individualized treatment or care. You don't get personal care. You get, alright. Is this member saying they're suicidal? Yes or no? Okay. Yes. We're gonna, you know, remove them from can they do their job still? Yes or no kind of thing. It becomes a very checkbox. You go through this series of questions. You fill you fill out paperwork, literally yes or no. On a scale of one to 10, how are you feeling? This and that. It'll take weeks or months to get an appointment. Unless you are directly suicidal and actively suicidal, it'll take weeks, sometimes months to get seen.
In fact, I'll share a story that highlights this. There was an individual who was getting kicked out of the military. He was on captain's mask when I met him, and he said that he had waited one whole year for a single therapy appointment and got told, you're in control of your feelings. Don't worry about it. Everything's fine. And so he started doing drugs to handle his emotions because he said he could not go to work without the drugs because of how bad it was. And so when they caught him with drugs and kicked him out, he didn't care. One whole year, he waited for a single therapy appointment, thirty minutes, maybe an hour, and it's just this black and white paperwork, you're a checkbox.
So, unfortunately, part of the issue is because so many military members now, will fake suicidal or other mental health symptoms to get out, that the military has to just assume everyone is telling the truth and doing bad, and that kinda takes away from the ability to do individualized treatment and care when you have mass wave of mental health problems popping up. At the same time, you can't try to individualize it and determine whether someone is or isn't because if you make the wrong determination, then the military is responsible. So it's a very tricky situation. They do provide.
They've been partnering up more and more with third parties like the MFLAC or other civilian options on board the ships and bases as therapists or counselors, and it is always the option of the chaplains. But, unfortunately, it is very difficult to give proper treatment considering the way everything is set up. Now how does faith play into,
[00:57:00] Unknown:
into, into treating and handling active duty members
[00:57:06] Unknown:
that have I'm glad you brought that up. So I believe according to a guest that I had on my show, about seventy five percent of all military suicides are due to moral injury, meaning a loss of faith or spirituality after joining the service. Wow. Yet that gets zero attention. What gets most of the attention is gender affirming care and suicides in the LGBTQ community and military members. Over the past several years under the Biden administration, they got more funding. I can't remember the number, but big numbers with a lot of zeros on them into researching that kind of suicide prevention for about I think he believe I believe he said maybe six percent of all military suicides.
Meanwhile, over seventy five percent of suicides, are spirit based, faith based Mhmm. And losing that through the military service. But that gets no funding, and it can't be discussed. The VA is not allowed to have faith based care because of the state, church separation. Right? Most programs won't. Most nonprofits won't. And as this guest shared on my show, the only nonprofit he has found who has a has had a 100% suicide prevention rate is a faith based faith integrated one. Every other nonprofit that he's worked with that has been suicide prevention for veterans that is not faith based has had suicides.
But you can't have that. Unfortunately fortunately and unfortunately, America has that separation of church and state, And it's been beneficial in plenty of ways, but it's been very detrimental in a lot of ways as well. And the fact that a lot of medical places, including the VA, can't practice the integration of faith to a whole lot, is very sad, especially when you're looking at statistics and most people I mean, that's that's you know, three fourths of suicides are because of moral injury. You know? And it's the least talked about cause of suicide. It's always combat PTSD or, you know, social isolation, whatever it may be, but moral injury is overlooked.
And it's true, though. A lot of people join the military. They lose their faith. But what do you see in the movies? See guys kissing their crosses? Lord, you know, protect us in Israel and Iran and Iraq. That's what you see in the movies. Right? But I met more people who became atheists while in the service than people who turned to God. Wow. So it's very unfortunate that faith has a limited part. There is a chaplain on board. Almost every base has a chaplain, and you can talk to them. And they're meant to serve whatever denomination you are, but that's very limited.
You know? That's that's about it. And, again, I can't really speak about what the VA does with faith. I know maybe they can recommend you to a civilian who integrates faith, if you request that, but a lot of times, it's separated.
[00:59:54] Unknown:
Now you you mentioned, moral, I forgot the term you used. Moral injury? Moral injury. Now can you define what a moral injury is?
[01:00:04] Unknown:
Yeah. So the way again, this is information that I got from a guest on my show with this whole conversation. And it's kind of like that losing your faith in in not getting it back, especially because of the events in your life. So in the military, I think, while a lot of people in the military, their life isn't what they expected, and it's like, god, how could you let this happen? It goes back to what I said in the very beginning. If god isn't all good, loving god, why do bad things happen? And then people go into the military, A lot of bad things happen. And so their their faith is damaged to the point that they say, you know what? There can't be a god. Not not with the way things are being run right now. Not with me here in Newport News, Virginia or wherever it is at your station. Not with the way my leader treats me. Right? And people say there there is no guy. And what I will say is that what what does it say? There's a quote in the bible, like, when when you when you walk with sinners, you'll end up sitting with sinners and end up talking with sinners, or I don't walk with them. In the military, a lot of people end up becoming atheist because there's already half half of the military is already atheist or whatever it is, and then they, as they spend time with one another and things get worse and more people turn over, guess what they do? It spreads. It spreads. It's like a disease. It's like a cancer. Wow. And it grows and grows, and then people just reaffirm each other's, you know, disbelief more and more. So it's hard to maintain your faith in the military. You will be honestly and, again, this isn't the military itself, but people in the military.
Sometimes they will mock you for your faith. Right? Just as the as the world does, they will mock you for your faith. Even more so than civilians because they're in a more desperate and bitter situation. A lot of them who have moral injury, once they have that, they're more resentful towards those who still do have the faith. You know? Right. I gotcha.
[01:02:02] Unknown:
I actually was gonna ask you. So the I guess the whole image, like you said, in the movies that people see of, you know, God and country is not not always a 100% accurate.
[01:02:12] Unknown:
For sure. I mean, even if you look at, you know, we still say God bless America. How many Americans believe in God and and want God in America and and and protecting and blessing America? Yeah. I do. I want that more than anything. Trust me. And God is here. But there's so many people who who hate god, who hate America, who are who are here. You know? So it's the same thing with the military. You know? We see a lot again in Moose in in the, and, of course, it's advertised as accepting of the faith because you want everyone to join who who who can. At the same time, it's advertised, like, you don't have to be religious. And you know what? I I will say I did like my ship. The chaplain did do a prayer once a week over the ship, and I enjoy that. And I'm sure there are other commands where people may have, you know, changed things to not allow that, to say it's, forcing beliefs onto people and stuff like that. We've seen that at plenty of places. You can no longer pray in public or do a blessing over an event and stuff like that. And, in other countries, it's even worse. Wow.
[01:03:19] Unknown:
You you wouldn't think that with with, with the heritage of our country. I I I I taught a series on America's Christian heritage, not too long ago. Yeah. And, you know, just going back over the get rid of that. Yeah. And and just going just going back over the the the founding of the country, you know, from from that pastor who led the first eight farmers out to meet the 5,000 British that was marching across towards Lexington, you know, which was the very beginning of the of the American Revolution, you know, up until up up until where we are today. You know, just just to watch that spiritual decline over time is is just it's it's really disheartening.
But, you know, it's it's and it's unfortunate too because, you know, I do believe that God established this country for a specific purpose, and I think that he blessed this I think that he blessed this country immensely, particularly when our focus was on God first and country second. The the the way that that society is just so completely degraded, and we the further away we got from God, the more and this is something we talked about on on on my Sunday show. You know, the the further you get away from God's word, the further you get away from obedience to God, the less God is going to protect and defend and provide.
And, you know, there are plenty of examples in scripture. You could like I said, you could check out the show from Sunday. I got listed so many Yeah. All of Chronicles, all of Kings. You look at the leaders who follow God, and and and that's the thing. A lot of politicians
[01:05:03] Unknown:
aren't godly men and women. A lot of them claim to be sometimes and aren't. And, yeah, you can look at how the not just the leaders in Chronicles, how much did they prosper or suffer based on their faith, but when they led the country and made those reformations, got rid of the false idolatry, got rid of the evil one back to God, you know, how the country prospered as a result. And, yeah, I mean, I if there are a lot of good men and women who are god fearing, god loving in America. And, you know, I definitely do fear the day where if all of that was to decline, well, you know what God says? I will turn you over to the hands of your enemies. In another country, we'll take over it. Get rid of America. And it it it it it There is a revitalization that we do see, luckily, in the youth through social media, through podcasting. There are a lot of young people who are believing, and a lot of people are getting over church or a lot of because that's a new word that that people have really thrown out to summarize how a lot of people felt. And I think a lot of people are getting rid of churches and organized religion and getting a individual relationship.
And, eventually, once that generation grows up, they're gonna make faith based communities that teach instead of tell, that heal instead of hurt, and we'll see a revitalization.
[01:06:29] Unknown:
And I agree with you. And, and it's it's really as refreshing to see that, you know, this generation coming up is definitely more conservative, and leaning conservative, and there's more interest, I think, that I'm starting to see anyway, in in getting back to faith, in getting back to church, and and being involved in a local church. I think local churches are important. I don't I don't I don't I don't necessarily agree that, we we should step away from those things. Church is important because, you know, there's the there's the admonition in Hebrews, you know, to to not forsake the assembling yourselves one with another. Iron sharpeneth iron. You need you need to have some kind of a fellowship. You need to have some kind of Christian fellowship because, again, going back to what you said, you know, if you're gonna rub shoulders with the world, get the filth and the stink of the world all over you, eventually, you're gonna start being the world, being part of that world.
You need that time where you can fellowship with other like minded people. Only place you're gonna get that is really church. And you need to be under the teaching and the preaching of the word of God. That's the only way you're gonna keep yourself clean and pure. So brother, I I man, we can we can go on. We can talk about this stuff, you know, for for hours and hours and hours, but our our our hour is just about up. I gotta move on to the second hour of the show. But, you know, one thing you did say though about the, you know, non denominational stuff, you know, how people kinda look at it kinda weird. Yeah. I agree with you. People do look at folks that say, I'm non denominational. It's kind of like just kinda off in the fringe someplace. But here's the thing with me. If if you and I can agree that and I don't mean you specifically, but I'm saying in general. Right. If you if you if you and I can agree that the only way you get saved is through the blood of Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven, and you trusted him with your eternal soul, we we we can that we don't have to break fellowship, you know, we could work with that, You know? And, you know, that's I think the most important thing. Is Jesus Christ the son of God?
Yes. Alright. And you believe in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ? Yes. You believe that was all sufficient to pay every sin that you've ever done, ever will do, and ever could do? Yes. Then we have fellowship. I mean, there there that's the most important thing. Doesn't make a difference if you think that, if if you think that baptism has to be either dunked or sprinkled. You know, like I I've told people, I'm a Denominationally, if I was gonna put a denominational tag on myself, I'm a Baptist. Alright? But I will be the first one to tell you that, you know, all baptism does is get you wet. That's really that's really all it is. It's an outward display of what took place spiritually.
That's all it is. It's there there's no saving benefit to baptism. There's no saving benefit in taking a little piece of cookie. You know? All that is is is done as a remembrance of the sacrifice that was made of the body that was broken on the tree forest. Excuse me. That's all that that is. There's no saving like I I know Roman Catholics believe that, you know that's the way you receive Jesus Christ. No, that's not. You receive Jesus Christ by putting your full faith, trust, and confidence in his shed blood. In his death, burial, and resurrection, first Corinthians fifteen one through three. You know, that's the gospel, that's And if we can fellowship, if we could agree that that's the gospel and that's the truth, then we have fellowship.
The gospel is three parts, the death, burial, resurrection, that's the whole gospel right there. You take out any one of those parts, and you don't have the gospel anymore. And, unfortunately, that's what you see a lot with a lot of these new denominations that are out there. And even some of the older ones, they they they add stuff to it, take stuff out of it, doesn't work. It doesn't work. Alright. So one more question for you. Yes, sir. Who is someone that you deeply respect right now? And what are they doing that we should be paying attention to?
[01:10:31] Unknown:
There's there's a lot of people. And by a lot, I mean, not really because I put God in the Bible first and foremost. Perfect. But I do have a few, you know, hero role models, and they're also men of God who who put forward the word and all of that. And, you know, just just in the context of our conversation, because I I wanna perform my favorite singer, but I will say, I'm gonna perform my favorite pastor, which is Skip Hedzig. He did the Bible from 30,000 feet. He does the Bible from three feet in a different, series, and he has been preaching for years. Okay. He does chapter to chapter, book to book. He's done a whole sermon on just a single comma in the Bible. He gets into the word, and you will learn so much from him.
And my goal is to go on a trip to Israel with him because he does host those to tour the biblical sites. He's been there. He's seen some of the remnants of stuff from Solomon's time, from the Exodus time, from Sodom and Gomorrah. And so I listen to him every single day, his sermons, along with others, Joseph Prince and and other, you know, preachers, Joe Bruce. You know? So it's important, you know, to get a variety and to always study and, again, to read the Bible myself every day as well. But in the context of our conversation, I would put him forward Skip, s k I p, Heidzik. His last name is, like, there's an h, there's a z, there's a t, there's a g.
I usually just put Skip and then h, and then I'll see it. Okay. But he's a great guy. From what I know, I don't know him personally, but, I love his work. I got you. And, he puts forward a lot of great information in a lot of different ways for people. Oh, praise the Lord. That's great. That is great. And one more. If you could speak to the minds of,
[01:12:18] Unknown:
just one sentence into the minds of anyone listening right now, and it and you think it would stick, what would that be?
[01:12:27] Unknown:
Well, this is gonna be one very long sentence. You're ready. You know? But I think the most important thing that I I wanna put forward, just in beginning, you mentioned my age. You said 23. That's a baby baby, which to me is old. You know, I've been, studying Chronicles and Jeremiah, and I I do feel old because a lot of people in the bible, prophets, kings, preachers, were all younger than me. We've seen people on the throne in Bible at 16 That's right. 25, start preaching 18, 19, 20. So the biggest thing is in both Timothy and Jeremiah says, you know, don't let people look down on you for your age. And I think it's so important what I would say in one sense is is, you know, age was made by humans. You know? God just made people to do great things, and I think that's so important.
You're not too old to have children. You're not too young to preach the word of God. Amen. You are here to be used and be his servant
[01:13:23] Unknown:
at his timing, not yours. So young, old, doesn't matter. His timing defies all of that. That's perfect. That's perfect. And let me say this. You may be a baby in physical age, but you have, you have a very mature wisdom about you. And it was it was really a pleasure talking to you tonight, and I look forward to getting together with you again soon. When we, when we finish up everything, I'll I'll message you, all my contact information. And, let's let's keep in contact. If there's anything I can do to help you along your way with your walk, you just let me know. Reach out. I have a lot of lot of information I could pass on to you that I think you find really interesting and, some ideas and some some suggestions. I think the work you're doing is fantastic. I I I I really appreciate it, And, I wish you all the best, and God bless you. Folks, we are talking to mister Whiskey, which we didn't get into why where that comes from, but, we'll, we'll do that another time. Alright, folks. Mister Whiskey, so why don't you let us know where we could find you, your social medias, and all that information, all that good stuff.
[01:14:23] Unknown:
For sure. Couple0nukes.com. Couple0nukes. That comes from I was a nuclear operator, and we're called nukes. So couple0nukes.com, that has my podcast, my books, my writing. I have, every episode organized into different categories from suicide prevention to fitness and health, whatever you may need to improve your life. And it's not just those, but the guests, their resources, it is just a treasure trove of of great information. And, one thing I will put forward just in the context of faith, I also have an abortion alternatives guide set up to help mothers contemplating abortion know all their other options for choosing life and how they can be fully supported while doing so. So coupleofnukes.com that has my podcast, my social medias, how to reach me, whether you want me as a guest, a speaker, or to come on my show, and, whatever I can do to help you. That's great. And we will make sure we have all that stuff. Well, I already have it in the audio,
[01:15:21] Unknown:
version show notes, but since we had to reset the studio here, I I lost it. For sure. So I'll make sure that's all added in there, when we, when I when I publish it out a little bit later on. Alright. Mister Whiskey, thank you, brother. I appreciate you. God bless you. And, we will talk to you soon.
[01:15:37] Unknown:
Same for you. Praise the Lord in Pastor Anderson.
[01:15:39] Unknown:
Amen. Amen. Keep a steady stride, bro. Amen. Alright. Alright, folks. So mister Whiskey is, to make sure you check out his his stuff, man. I I was looking at his website earlier today, really good stuff and, bright young man, wisdom beyond his years, and, really am thankful for you. You could definitely see the Lord touching him, and I'm I'm greatly appreciative that we were able to sit down with him today. It's always good to see, a younger generation coming up, with a love for the word of God. And, I really am that just this young man blew me away tonight. That was great. Alright, folks. So we're gonna take a break here. I'm gonna reset everything and, grab some more coffee. I need some more coffee. And, we'll come back with, just some, some news of the day. And, yeah. And, we'll see how the rest of the night goes. It was interesting day today. A lot of interesting clips to play for you. Alright, folks. So this is the Joe Ruse show. We are a live show weeknights 7PM, Sundays at 6PM.
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[01:22:15] Unknown:
Up and down, counting out, smiling through the taste of blood in my own mouth. I got bruises and broken bones, but they don't know I ain't in this ring alone. I'm a fighter. No one can say back up. That's what I do. I didn't soldier on this far. Just a huge. Alright.
[01:25:07] Unknown:
Hey, folks. Welcome back to the Joe Russo. Second hour. First hour is in the books, and it is right now just us here on Rumble. Wow. I needed some coffee. I needed to use the restroom. And, it wasn't a great a great segment with a really intelligent young man, really, like I said before, wise beyond his years. I mean, just really outstanding. And, I I still I I didn't get to ask the question about the name, mister Whiskey. Where'd that come from? But we'll get it. We'll get it for sure. Alright, folks. So I hope you guys enjoyed that. I really do. I I keep on going back to it. It was, I'm really impressed. I I, you know, don't often get that way, but I was really impressed.
So, just head over to the website, joeroos.com. Use the web form. Send me a message. Let me know what you think. Drop a comment down below if you would, or you can always email me directly at [email protected]. That's [email protected]. Alright. So lots of interesting things took place, today. And, you know, I just wanna touch base on on something that, that, took place, the conversation that we've had in the past. Because I did get a message. And, and I was going to I was gonna screenshot it and and put it up here, but I'm I'm not gonna do that. But basically, the the person that that sent me an email, said that I flip flopped on my position on Donald Trump.
I want to unequivocally clarify my position on on president Trump. Alright? And it it's very it's a very, very simple, very easy position to understand. Okay? And it's basically this. I support my president. I think my president is amazing at everything he's done. Everything he's done has been I give him an a plus. It's okay to disagree. Alright? It's okay to disagree. We we we are not liberal Democrats. We don't walk in in goose step. I mean, lock step. Freudian slip maybe. I don't know. We can have differing opinions. It doesn't mean that I'm not supportive of my president.
Alright. I voted for Donald Trump. I'm getting what I voted for. Although, I wish it didn't have to come down to, striking, overseas. I'm glad, thankful, relieved, and very, very happy that it is not a boots on the ground, long term occupation of a foreign country. I am very thankful. I am very appreciative that it is it was a one time strike, provided, of course, I'm sure that if they keep the, the ceasefire. But this is a one time strike, and I'm happy with that. I'm satisfied with that, and I'm not, you know, I I it's it's done, and there's nothing that I can do about it or anybody else can do about it. But I support my president.
100% back my president. I am not you cannot say that I do not love my president. I, you know, I think, again, just doing a fantastic job all around. His foreign policy, domestic policy, his just everything he's doing with the economy. I am so pleased, But I'm even more happy that, of course, we are not going to be involved in a never ending war in The Middle East again. Now, you wanna talk about things like regime change and all that stuff, and we're gonna get into some of that in just a couple of minutes. Really gonna try to get everything that I have put aside here done within thirty minutes because, well, twenty eight minutes, actually.
Because, I do wanna finish in two hours. I don't wanna go over two hours again. But when you talk about things like regime change, you talk about things like, overthrowing another government, I am very happy that president Trump is not looking for that. From a military standpoint, if there is gonna be regime change, it's gonna have to be the the people of Iran to take care of that regime change. Just like it's gonna take the people in Israel, Because I I don't care if you if you are are are are a fan of Benjamin Netanyahu, but he has been on about this stuff with Iran getting a nuclear weapon for thirty almost forty years.
And it looks like all of his, all of his, crying and complaining quite possibly is a big fat nothing. Well, having said that, God bless America. God bless president Trump. God bless this administration and protect them and preserve them. Alright. So we have a ceasefire. We had a ceasefire, yesterday, but, apparently, at some point yesterday, there was a, a missile launch that came from Iran, that sent the Israelis into a tizzy and, and attempted a retaliatory strike. And, today, president Trump is on his way out to and I know this is, you know, to open up this whole segment of the show on, you know, this is gonna be kinda harsh, but, president Trump was a bit perturbed, I will say. And, as he was heading out to, the NATO meeting in The Netherlands, he stopped for some questions from the media, before he boarded Marine one to take him to Air Force one. So let's let's take a look at, how president Trump felt about this, little mishap that took place today.
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Yeah. I do. They violated it, but Israel violated it too. Are you questioning if Israel is committed? Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when when I say, okay. Now you have twelve hours, you don't go out in the first hour. Just drop everything you have on them. So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with Iran either. But I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out this morning because the one rocket that didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land. I'm not happy about that. You know what? We have we basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that? Do you have do you have to respond in the line with
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me?
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And, yeah, he's right. He's absolutely right. As a matter of fact, I saw, this was sent to me by by one of our listeners, and, I think this is this is really just totally summarizes this whole thing with with the with The US, with us, Israel, and Iran. I don't know who created this, but this is perfect, if it plays.
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at you're at quinces. Any quilts. You're at quilts. No any quilts. No starches. You can't do that. Can't do. Cannot triple stamp it nor raise his toes. Just make it through. You can't triple stamp a double stamp.
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You guys, enough.
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Hey. Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?
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That was great. That that's actually, I don't know who I don't know who put that together. That, but, that was that was really funny. And, I appreciate it, for sending it over to us. That was great. So, president Trump sent out a couple of truths, today, quite a few of them. And, this was, shortly after I believe it was right after he he said that Israel doesn't know what the afternoon. So, Israel, do not drop those bombs. If you do, it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home now, Donald J. Trump, president of The United States. You know, it's I I I noticed this trend with him with this, you know, signing off things like this, and thank you for your attention to this matter. It's like it's a it's a business memo, which is great. I I love it. You know, you know, and look folks, you've gotta get on Truth Social. If you're not on Truth Social, you're missing out on this stuff because he's not posting it anywhere else. He's only posting it on Truth. So and and like I've said many many times, if you wanna know what's going on with this this administration, you've gotta you've gotta get on Truth Social. I'm sorry. And if you do, make sure you follow us at Joe Ruse. Alright?
So, so yeah. So the the the this whole thing has just been one big confusing mess. I'll I'll I'll be very, very honest with you. Alright. So, again, you have president Trump unleashing fire in a statement on his way to the the, The Netherlands. And, he's frustrated. I I I I wouldn't deny him that. And then, of course, you know, he walked away, and then, and then he also, you know, set off that statement that I just read to you, Israel did not drop those bombs. And this came just a few hours after Israel accused Iran of a severe violation of the overnight ceasefire. Israel's military said that it it had intercepted a missile launched by Iran, while Tehran denied this attack.
And, earlier, Israel and Iran agreed to a truce after both countries exchanged missiles and bombs. An Israeli reporter named, Barak Ravid, said, senior senior Israeli official Trump called Netanyahu and asked him not to attack Iran at all. Netanyahu told Trump that he could not cancel the attack and that some response was needed to Iran's violation of the ceasefire. Ultimately, it was decided to significantly reduce the attack and cancel the strike on a large number of targets. So the one thing that I appreciate greatly is that president Trump is his eyes are open to what the deep state and what these these globalists are trying to do.
They're trying to keep the flame of of conflict going. Alright? Israel, for whatever reason, will not stop. They will not stop, and it needs to stop. You know, according to intelligence, in court according to even what's with some of the mainstream media says, Iran cannot their their their missile system is is is wrecked. They're in complete disarray. These strikes hurt them badly. Plus, all of the all of the bombs that that Israel dropped within the first hour of announcing a coming ceasefire, just it it has to stop. It has to stop.
Now, the but the problem is is that they don't want it to stop. Alright? The globalists, the deep state, they want this perpetual state. They want the instability. They want The United States to be drawn into this, and president Trump isn't having it. He's he is sticking to his word. It was gonna be a short term thing, and I don't think he can get any shorter term than a one strike. Today over on, on, Real America's Voice,
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Jack Posobiec was talking about how the Mossad wanted to keep this whole thing going. About I wanna break down now a little bit more of this exclusive report that we have with, the some of the behind the scenes negotiations. I've got this from two individuals who are familiar with the negotiations that led up to this ceasefire, and our reporters on live stream last night with Charlie Kirk talking about this. And the the issue is is that in discussions between US intelligence, so the director of CIA, as well as US intelligence, so the director of CIA, as well as Mossad leadership, there was a question of Mossad saying they wanted to go further.
CIA director said, no, because this is the president's word, and the president's order has been ceasefire. The ceasefire has come down no further and put in as leverage if Assad or the IDF, continue to go further that the that The United States would pull intelligence cooperation. Remember this was done in Ukraine to try to also help with brokering a ceasefire there. So after that, Mossad backed down. This is huge information only reported here on human events daily, real America's voice with Jack Posobiec. Folks, this is where you come because we've been ahead of the news for the entire game. The lamestream media can't keep up. So
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So the he went on to also say that I have I have some more clips on this too that we're gonna look at. But, in another clip here, he says, Jack Posobiec talking about Mossad wanting wanting to, prolong this conflict.
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Folks, we have exclusive news that I wanna break here on Human Events Daily. I'll break down some more of that later in the next segment. We're coming up to a break. CIA director was on a phone call with Mossad leadership earlier today and told them to back down after president Trump brokered this ceasefire. This is according to two sources who are familiar with the call to individuals. Folks, Mossad wanted to keep going. Israel wanted to keep going. And we know Iran wanted to keep going. President Trump and his team, including the director of CIA Ratcliffe, were also telling them, stop it right now.
[01:41:15] Unknown:
Yeah. And again, they wanna keep this thing going. They don't want peace. Now I know that that they want the, they want regime change. Is that's what they really want. That's that's the that's the goal here. But you gotta remember too that Mossad and the CIA actually installed the Ayatollahs back in the nineteen sixties, seventies rather. Alright? When they overthrew the the, the ruling family in in in Iran. And and you don't quote me on all that because I'm, you know, I'm a little shaky on a couple of the dates and whatnot. And now they're trying to force regime change again. But again, if regime change is gonna take place, it has to take place by the people of Iran.
The United States is not gonna be involved in it. And, the fact that the CIA is saying that they're gonna pull back on, sharing intelligence with Israel is that's important. That's very important. Because without the intelligence that we can provide to them, and without the cover and support that The United States can provide as you saw with the bunker busters, I don't think they can do it. But President Trump today on Air Force One on his way to, to the NATO meeting, which I really hope he's gonna pull us out of NATO. We don't need to be part of this anymore. He had this to say.
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Do you want to see regime change in Iran? No. If there was
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I think the clip got stuck. Let me refresh that.
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Do you want to see regime change in Iran? No. If there was, there was. But, no, I don't want it. I'd like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible. Regime change takes chaos, and, ideally, we don't wanna see so much chaos. So we'll see how it does. You know, the Iranians are very good traders, very good business people, and they got a lot of oil. They they should be fine. They they should be able to rebuild and do a good job. They're never gonna have nuclear, but other than that, they should do a great job.
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So you you see the president's heart. He wants peace. He's not looking for additional conflict. He's not looking for more, he's not looking to put to further escalate. That's that's the phrase. He's not looking to further further escalate this. We have the ceasefire. There's peace right now. And, you know what? If if Donald Trump doesn't win the Nobel Peace Prize for this, then nobody should ever get a Nobel Peace Prize. This was the fastest turnaround between hostilities and ceasefire that I could ever point to in history that I know of. You realize how fast the ceasefire came about?
Our bombers weren't even on the ground yet back here in The United States before the ceasefire came about. This is Trump's foreign policy. And, here's, Posobiec again talking just about that, Donald Trump's foreign policy.
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Kids, walk us through how president Trump was able to pull this off and how these these neocon warmongers are just frothing because they didn't get their war.
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Yeah. This was a masterpiece in foreign policy, in surgical strikes, in using peace through strength. This is the Trump foreign policy doctrine in action. We've actually seen this before. Right? Congress in that case called this Soleimani two point o. But I would take it even further. This could be ISIS two point o. This could be the Houthis two point o. Right? Trump engages in negotiations. He gives people a chance. If they don't wanna come to the table or they aren't being reasonable, he drops some bombs on senior leadership heads or, calls them out and says, I know where you live. He's done this to the Afghanistan leadership, and now he's done this. He's threatened publicly the Iranian leadership, and he says, listen. We can make a deal, and you can be happy, and you can live with your regime and your oil money, or you can FAFO.
And, you know, maybe that's the new name for it, the FAFO Trump, foreign policy doctrine. But, just absolutely masterful. You know, there were some, you know, people with egg on their face after this. I would say the Warhawks look pretty foolish right now. They wanted World War three. I would say the Panikins look a little less foolish, for not necessarily knowing how Trump does this stuff. He's the same guy we've known for the last five years. And and and the ostriches, the the pure isolationist, they look a little silly too because you can't just hide from the biggest state sponsor of terror and hope they just suddenly turn nice. The people that look, the best out of this are obviously president Trump, his administration, our US military. God bless him. They did a great job. And the people that were pretty calm and rational about this, you know. You can call them Trump loyalists. You can call them people that have just seen the show before and we knew kind of what the outcome was gonna be Kim Jong Un, right with North Korea, we knew what it was a lot of mean tweets, some threats, maybe some airstrikes, and then a really good peace deal. And then in pure Trump fashion, he congratulates both sides and hopes they make a lot of money.
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Alright. I don't know if this is frozen or if you can see me or not, but there we go. Okay. You know, I'm telling you, man, that this this this, this this studio that that we're using here is just has it's just so buggy. I don't know if it's I don't know if it's the computer, the the the studio, if it's Internet. I don't know. But I gotta figure it out because it's driving me crazy. Crazy. Alright. So, yes. Well, you saw Donald Trump's reaction. He he desperately wants peace. He does not want to escalate this any further than than it already has been. And, that that guy, by the way, was DC Draino.
I didn't catch the I didn't catch his his real name. They had it up there, but it was Rogan something. But, the, you know, he he he said something very true. He said Donald Trump in Donald Trump's way, congratulated both sides and wished them happiness and wealth to make a lot of money. And that's the whole thing. You know, we we don't we don't need any more conflict. I don't know why people like Mark Levin and Hannity and, you know, all of these, you know, the main excuse me, the mainstream conservatives that you have out there. You know, they want war. They want conflict constantly.
You know, I don't I don't think that that America ought to be, A, the world's policeman. I think we need to take care of our own business unless it directly affects us. But yet they call me people like me, people that think like me, because I'm not the only one. But yet they call people like me isolationists, you know, neo Confederates, it was one I heard today. When that that's nowhere near the truth. Nowhere near the truth. If it doesn't directly affect The United States, we shouldn't be involved. And that's I've said that from the very beginning of this whole thing, and I've been consistent with it throughout. And that's my opinion, and I'm entitled to my opinion.
I don't have to tow the line. I can disagree. You can disagree. That's the beautiful thing about being a conservative. That's the beautiful thing about being a free thinking human being, is that you don't have to be like the like the Democrats, the socialists, where you have to repeat the party line everywhere you go. We can think for ourselves. And just because I disagree, it doesn't mean that I'm not loyal to my country or my president. Is if we march off to a war, is it Mark Levin's family that's gonna be fighting and dying on the battlefield? Is it Hannity's family, kids, whatever? I don't even know if he has kids.
Fighting and dying on the on the on the battlefield? Or the members of congress that are that that that push those those those the deep state members of congress, the the the globalist members of congress that push push push for war, war, war, is it their kids? Are they gonna go out there on the battlefield themselves? Of course not. Of course not. But your kids can. My kids can. Thank God. Thank God that this is not escalating. Now I hope that the ceasefire remains. I hope I mean, you never know what can happen with these things. You know, the the use like the the clip I play for you, they don't know when to stop. And like president Trump said, they they have been fighting so long That they don't even know what they're doing anymore.
But thank God it's over, at least for now. At least for now. And then, of course, I mentioned earlier the, he should be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and guess what? Georgia GOP representative Buddy Carter nominated president Trump on Tuesday, that would be today, for the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in in in, in in, brokering this ceasefire. He wrote in a letter to the Nobel Prize Committee, I write to formally nominate Donald j Trump, the forty seventh president of The United States, for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his extraordinary and historic role in brokering an end to the armed conflict between Israel and Iran and preventing the world's largest sponsor state sponsor of terrorism from obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet.
He added in a statement that has since reverberated around the globe, debatable, not the statement, globe, president Trump announced the terms of a complete and total ceasefire agreement, commending both Israel and Iran for their courage to end the war. His message of mutual respect and peace will now result in full cessation of military activity, no further escalation, and the preservation of thousands, if not millions of lives throughout The Middle East and around the globe. And he's absolutely right. Absolutely right in that.
Because if this would have escalated, if this if this war would have continued, it would have grown into World War three, some people say World War four, And it would have ended in thermonuclear war, which would have totally wiped out nations, Millions of people. So thank God that it didn't escalate to that point. Thank God. And then, with at least that much weight off his shoulders, president Trump, arrives at the NATO
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summit in The Netherlands. And we now see president Trump stepping out of Air Force One as he's arriving in The Netherlands for the NATO summit. Let's continue to listen in here to see if we get any comments from the president.
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And then, let's see. So that was him getting that was him depart or disembarking Air Force One and, on his way to, to meet King Wilhelm, The Netherlands, and this is, the president arriving. That's a president. And then we'll just go right into the clip of him meeting, King Wilhelm for sake of time. Not sure why there's no audio, but that's okay. I think all you need to see right there is the smile. Alright. So, of course, the studio has given me a problem here. Now despite all of the good stuff that's taking place and despite everything that's, you know, that you have the ceasefire, you have all this great stuff, and now he's over at NATO. What do you think is taking place back here at home?
Well, you have Alexandria Ocasio Cortez talking about, talking about impeaching the president again. And then you had the lunatic, Al Green. Well, let let let me back it up. So you have Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. And let's let's go let's go over here to this. Threatening the president with, impeachment. And President Trump responded with a truth social post that says, well, I can't see it. It's too small. But it basically says, stupid AOC Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, one of the dumbest people in Congress, is now calling for my impeachment despite the fact that the crooked and corrupt Democrats have already done that twice before. The reason for her rantings is all of the victories that The USA has had under the Trump administration.
The Democrats aren't used to winning, and she can't stand the concept of our country being successful again. When we examine her test scores, we will find she is not qualified for office, but nevertheless, far more qualified than Crockett, who is seriously low IQ individual, or Ilhan Omar, who does nothing but complain about our country, yet the failed country that she comes from doesn't have a government, is drenched in crime and poverty, and is rated one of the worst in the world, if it's even rated at all. How dare the mouse tell us how to run The United States Of America?
We're just now coming back from that radical left experiment with sleepy Joe, Kamala, and the auto pen in charge. What a disaster it was. AOC should be forced to take the cognitive test that I just completed at Walter Reed Medical Center as part of my physical. As the doctor in charge said, president Trump aced it, meaning I got every answer right. Instead of her constant complaining, Alexandria should go back home to Queens, where I was also brought up, and straighten out her filthy disgusting crime ridden streets in the district she, quote unquote, represents, and which she never goes to anymore. She better start worrying about her own primary before she thinks about beating our great Palestinian senator, crying Chuck Schumer, whose career is definitely on very thin ice.
She and her Democrat friends have just hit the lowest poll numbers in congressional history. So go ahead and try impeaching me again. Make my day. Which of which, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, AOC, she immediately backed down from her threats. However, however, that did not stop. Well, even before I get to that, I keep on forgetting about this one. Of all people to call out this idea of impeaching the president again is the future Republican senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman. And I say that tongue in cheek, but John Fetterman has all of a sudden become the voice of reason. Check it out. If it plays, which it's not.
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Ulcev.
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What do you think of that? No. I mean, of of of course, no. She knows it. I know it. We all know it. That's not going anywhere. And, you know, he's been impeached twice, and now he's still our president as well now too. So it's not going anywhere, and I don't think that's helpful. And I think if you throw that term around, that actually diminishes what the severity of what impeachment is really reserved for.
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And he's absolutely right. John Fetterman. John Fetterman, the voice of reason, all of a sudden. I'm telling you, this guy's gonna switch parties soon. He's gonna become a Republican. Gonna switch parties soon. I'm I'm I guarantee it. So I guess having that stroke really helped him out. Right? Straighten him out a little bit. Well, that doesn't stop and here I go with this again. It but it doesn't stop crazy Al Green from Texas trying to impeach the president. Okay. Well, there we go. Be nice if I saw it. We are having some technical issues here as usual. Let's see if we can stop Al Green.
Now he's still talking. Alright. Well, then the house voted and, there you go. Let's see.
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On this vote, the yays are three forty four, the nays are 79. The motion is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. Pursuant to clause eight of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on ordering the previous question on house resolution five thirty on which the yays and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the resolution.
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House calendar number 34. House
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Alright. So it wasn't a clip. I thought it was. But they did vote on it, and, a 128 Democrats sided with Republicans to, not impeach President Trump. Now, gonna wrap this up really, really quickly, but I I didn't wanna pass up an opportunity to talk about, ghetto trash Jasmine Crockett from Dallas. Take a look at this. This took place on the floor, okay, in a committee. Jasmine Crockett had a meltdown, because she did not receive the votes for a prominent seat on the house oversight committee. And I want you to look, and I hope there's people watching from Dallas. This is your representative. I I have I have let me see. One, two, three. I have four clips of your representative acting completely like an uncivilized piece of ghetto trash.
Here's the first one. No decorum.
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First. So you would have thought about it. Order order. I was trying to get clarification. Look at calm down. Calm down. No. No. No. Because this is what I'll do. Proceeded. I'm trying to get rid of this. You're not recognized, miss Cronk here. You with your yelling. Don't want me to calm down. No. Can you please calm down? Me to calm down. Calm down. Because y'all talk noise, and then you can set that up. Because if I cut if I cut him and talk to you about her, y'all don't have a problem.
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Chair. Okay. Here. You're here. Now recognizes Not cute. The screen for for four minutes and twenty one seconds. Four minutes. Let miss Green talk, and then you all can I'll recognize I I move to strike her words for a second time based on her second set of personal remarks attacking another member.
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Who? Chairman Comer. Because you all cannot see an amendment at the desk to decide to do not. To the committee. We have to do this every time. I I'm recognized.
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I'm recognized. I'm gonna go ahead and start talking. Look. I I know. I know. Look.
[02:05:31] Unknown:
I don't know if you noticed it. I have two hearing aids. I'm very deaf. I'm not understanding. Everybody's yelling. I'm doing the best I can. Can we not recognize miss Green and let her get because of the rules of the committee, mister chair. That is, that is what I'm trying to communicate in the present moment. We have a mo okay. What's the most what's the The motion
[02:05:51] Unknown:
So that's your representative, Dallas. Jasmine Jasmine ghetto trash Crockett. This is what you sent to represent you in congress. And yet and the Democrats think that that she's a rising star. Interesting. Very interesting. Let's see what else miss Crockett had to say. Let's see. Let's go to, 12.
[02:06:20] Unknown:
And to understand enough about the constitution to the extent that I'm the one that's supposed to make the fucking decision or at least get a vote. Right. That's
[02:06:29] Unknown:
right. And what she's talking about is president Trump using his presidential authority. Is telling me. Yeah. Right. So literally, like, I I And what you're talking about is president Trump, ordering the strike on Iran. Alright? That's your representative, Dallas, Texas. Or how about this one, where, she, took to TikTok to complain about the president exercising his authority.
[02:07:04] Unknown:
Go back. I go back in on Monday. You coulda hollered at us on Monday. If you truly felt like there was something, like, there is nothing that they will say that will make me believe that this action needed to take place, and it needed to take place without the consultation of the congress. Alright. Give me one more.
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How can the senate be involved to make them accountable for what they're doing?
[02:07:33] Unknown:
I mean, listen. Y'all y'all was talking about accountability. The systems have broken down. The systems have broken down because people have legitimately decided that they would rather serve him than serve the people that put them into office. Like, I don't really have any, like, good answers for you except for the fact that, legitimately, everything that he does is, like, against the law. Like, he just breaks the law. And and I know that there are some people that think that I just say this stuff because I'm a Democrat. And I I could tell you, I have my own issues with my own party. I'm not saying these things because I'm a Democrat. I'm saying these things because I am a black woman in America who just happens to be educated disparage my credibility and act as if I don't know what I'm talking about, I can absolutely guarantee to you that if you Google war guarantee to you that if you Google war and authority and constitution, you're gonna see congress. And this thing that's, like, on my chest tells you that I am a member of congress.
I I don't I don't really know, like and the biggest problem that we face Make sure she showed you that. Right? That does not care about making sure that they abide by rules or abide by the law.
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Alright. I I know this is painful to watch this woman. I know it is. But I do have one more. Okay? And this one is where she's complaining that she still hasn't been briefed on the actions. Okay? Here.
[02:09:22] Unknown:
But I wanted to jump on because, obviously, it's been bombs. Bombs. Misses. All kinds of stuff. All kinds of stuff. And, to be clear, I've still not gotten any type of briefing. So just so y'all know, nobody's tried to call us in for a top secret briefing at all as whole sitting members of congress. But, you know, whatever that little necklace. Right? So, so I wanted to make sure that y'all knew that. So, unfortunately, my information is not any more advanced than the information that you're getting, whether you're watching TV or if you're on social media.
[02:10:07] Unknown:
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[02:13:45] Unknown:
night. Bye bye.
Introduction and Technical Issues
Interview with Mr. Whiskey
Joe's Personal Faith Journey
Discussion on Faith and Religion
Military Mental Health and Leadership Issues
Trump's Foreign Policy and Ceasefire
Impeachment Talks and Political Reactions
Jasmine Crockett's Congressional Meltdown
