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Welcome to Financial Issues, where we help you steward faithfully
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by honoring God with your investments. Now listen in as
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we give you the practical tools and advice you need
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to become a biblically responsible investor.
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This is Financial Issues, where we help you defund darkness
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and fund the light by investing with biblical integrity. Folks,
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welcome to our Wednesday show. It is a very special day.
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It's Winning Wednesday. We've got a lot to discuss today.
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It is also Veterans Day, so a very happy Veterans
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Day to all of you out there. We'll say more
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about that in just a moment, but I want to
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welcome my brothers, Samuel Case, our co-host, Mark Manilla, our
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main host, ready to be here with you guys today.
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Excited, boys. It's going to be fun.
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Absolutely, and right off the bat, thanks, Dad. Thanks, Mark, son,
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for your service. Really appreciate it. And both being veterans,
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I really do appreciate that.
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Amen.
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You know, a lot of people don't understand what it's
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like to be in the military, to serve in a
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foreign war, or to give up years and years of
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your life to make sure that we can continue to
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have freedom in this country, freedom to worship God. freedom
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of speech, just all the freedoms that the rest of
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the world seem to lack.
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Amen, Mark.
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And I want to say for our ministry as well,
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happy Veterans Day to Elijah Kelly. Elijah, our faithful broadcast expert,
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our IT guy. He, of course, served as well for
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several years.
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We love you, buddy. Thanks for serving.
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Now he's a soldier keeping the website going good and strong, right?
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He's a soldier for financial issues.
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That's awesome.
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Hey, listen, veterans, we want to offer a special gift
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to you today. If you call into our show at
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Just call into the show, 610-363-1110. Give us a call, 610-363-1110.
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Love on the veterans. That's right.
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Yeah. And Mark, thank you for mentioning your father and
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son as well.
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That's so cool, brother, that you've got kind of that
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sandwich your father served, your son, your namesake served as well.
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Yeah.
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What a what a amazing blessing.
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And then Mark's just a bum. He didn't want to
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do it. He's a draft dodger.
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I think God knew to keep me out of the
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service because I've been like that guy in apocalypse now
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swimming upstream.
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That's scary, dude.
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I love it, Mark.
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Well, we are so thankful for all of our faithful followers. uh,
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servicemen out there.
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We love you guys. We appreciate it.
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Hey, on today's show, busy one today, Walker Wildman's joining us, uh,
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in about a half hour to give his election postmortem.
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We've also got winning Wednesday and interesting question here, which,
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you know what guys, why don't we get to it now?
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Are you sore about your credit score? I didn't come
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up with that, by the way. That was Sam.
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I think you did.
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I let him have it.
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It's okay. Let me have it. That's good.
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Just so you know, my birthday is coming up, and
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here I'm giving gifts to someone else. This is ridiculous.
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Right.
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Yeah, it's crazy, man.
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It is.
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But, Mark, it is an interesting question.
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So credit score, is it a good thing, a bad thing,
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somewhere in between? Should we even care? Yeah, should we
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even care? I mean, I've heard some pundits say– you know,
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credit scores are worthless. If you just pay for everything
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in cash, you're not going to go into debt. So
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you're not going to be able to build up the
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credit score. Mark, how important do you think a good
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credit score is in today's world?
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You know, that's an excellent question in the sense that
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people confuse the idea with a good credit score with
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being something that that we should strive to achieve and
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that we should hang on to. I do believe there's
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some reflection of your personality and your, the way you
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handle money in there, you know, and it can help
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you borrow on better terms, but it doesn't make credit
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your friend or measure your financial health in any way.
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Well, in just a little bit of a way, but.
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It, you know, and that's the thing I want everybody
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to realize credit can be a tool. but more like
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a chainsaw than a hammer. And, uh, in my book that,
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that I haven't released yet on debt slayer, it, it,
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it tells you that you need to respect it.
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Yeah.
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The concept of debt and in credit, but not let
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it rule your life or not make that your goal.
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It's just
credit scores matters because lenders use it to
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determine the terms of your loans.
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That's about it. Uh, And you have to be careful.
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That's the bottom line on it.
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And Mark, you know, the next question we had lined
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up was, what are some common myths or misconceptions about
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credit scores? It sounds like that's the big one there,
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that if you have a good credit score, that automatically
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means you're financially healthy.
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Sounds like that's not always true.
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Well, no, it doesn't.
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Because just because you maintain your debt, that's just one
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slice of the pie of financial health for Christians, for anybody, actually.
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So you could pay your your bills on time, but
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still be over over your head in debt and still
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be have spending elsewhere going on to the point that
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it hasn't caught up with you yet. But it is
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like a snowball rolling down the hill, catching up with you.
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Another myth is that you need to carry a balance
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to have a good score.
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That's not true. You can use your credit card, pay
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the statement off every month.
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You know, my dad does that. I do it too.
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We pay our credit cards off every month.
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And all we do is get all these points and
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we use them to do travel and things like that.
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Sometimes we just use them to pay down the credit
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card because they can convert to cash.
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It's funny.
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I've heard that so many times that if you pay
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off your credit card, you're going to lose your credit
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score is going to go down. I kind of believed it,
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but I just didn't care. I just kept paying it off.
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No, that's a myth.
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And also another myth is more credit's always better. An
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offer of more credit may be convenient, but it can
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also make it easier to spend tomorrow's money today, which
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you don't want to do because eventually that can catch
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up with you. Also, a lender's friendly offer means the
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lender is looking out for you.
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No, it doesn't. Just because somebody offers you a lower rate, That.
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Doesn't mean anything. All it means is they want to
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get you hooked. They want you to become addicted to
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spending on your credit card.
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They want you to do this.
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And then when you can't credit pay it off that month,
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they make 29% on it, you know, and then it,
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then it starts cascading. And pretty soon you're using other
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credit cards to do purchases. Cause this one's ran up
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and now you're it's, it's getting crazy.
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A good score.
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Just, It's nice to have, but it's not the end
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of the world.
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In fact, if you're having.
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Debt problems, a bad score may be one of the
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saviors for you because you won't be able to get
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more debt and you'll have to start making it work.
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It's like the big question is, would you rather have
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a credit score of 780 and $ 10, 000 in debt or
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a credit score of 650 and no debt? You take
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the no debt.
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Take the no debt.
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Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
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You know, Mark, it's interesting.
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Adrian in our chat here from Wisconsin is saying, I
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have an excellent credit score, but my credit card company
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says that one detractor from my credit score is that
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I do not have a recent installment loan. So apparently,
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since I've been responsible with my finances and have paid
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off all my loans, that reduces my credit score.
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How ridiculous is that? He's exactly right.
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Who did he say said that?
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Adrian in our chat. No, who? Oh, it was his
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credit card company. So there you go.
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Don't trust the credit card company.
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The credit score companies are different than the credit cards companies.
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If a credit card company is trying to entice you
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in any way whatsoever to take out more credit, to
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get a loan, to do that kind of stuff, it's
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not necessarily.
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To raise your credit score. My dad hasn't taken out
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a loan that I know of in probably 15, 20 years,
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and his credit score is like 849 or something.
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So that just proves it's wrong that they're trying to
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entice you to get addicted to debt. That's what they're
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trying to do any way possible because you make their
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lives richer. Every time you use a credit card, anytime
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you take out a consumer loan, even if it's zero down,
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zero payments, zero interest for a year, they're still making
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money on that. And behind the scenes in one way
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or another. The merchant either is paying them for that
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interest or somebody else's, but eventually they're all making money
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from it and you're getting used to making it normalized
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to use credit to go into debt.
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One way or another.
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And by the way, those no payment for one year,
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if you don't make that payment by the end of
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the year, if you don't pay it off.
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Look at the terms, there's all sorts of gotchas in there.
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All the interest that had accrued but not been charged
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to you is then charged to you. So you got
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to be really careful with these sharks. They're like drug dealers. Hey,
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here's a little bit for you.
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You need to party. It's on me. Go ahead, do it.
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And once you start doing it, then it's like, okay,
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now you got to start paying for it. And then
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when you get addicted, now it's like, hey, we're raising
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the price. And then it's like, hey, you can't pay it.
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We're going to break your legs. You know, they'll break
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your financial legs. It is not a good industry. Debt is,
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Bible warns us against it. The debt Mongols, they don't,
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have second, third homes all around the world.
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They have all.
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Sorts of, their kids go to the best schools around
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the world. They live like kings and it's all off
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of your money. Do not buy into the credit scheme.
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Mark well said, 610-363-1110. A reminder, we want anyone to
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call in, but particularly our veterans. So we can thank you.
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And we'll make sure to give you a gift if
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you come on the air again, 610-363-1110.
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Mark, thank you for sharing that.
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You know, it brings to mind for me, the solution
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for this is having a solid moat around your castle.
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Pretty simple.
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That's exactly it.
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And that's what nobody teaches in school or anywhere else
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except here on Financial Issues, which is going to be
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really cool at the beginning of the year when we
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go through the foundations of investing, which includes a moat
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around your castle.
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why don't we go to the phones right now and
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talk to Sherry? Sherry is calling from Texas.
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Let's do that. Good morning, Sherry. What's on your mind
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this morning?
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Good morning, guys. Happy Veterans Day to all those out
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there that served our country.
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Amen.
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Thank you for that, Sherry.
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Did you serve, Sherry?
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I did not.
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Oh, okay.
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Yeah, but I'm very thankful.
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For those that did.
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Great, Sherry. Thank you.
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I'm a partner.
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I've been a partner since about nine years. And I
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have a $ 20, 000 cash balance in my IRA, my traditional
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IRA rollover. But I'm also trying to figure out how
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to add my principal account, which is what they're calling
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a 2035 hybrid CIT account. with my work and I
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don't know how to add that without messing up my
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asset allocation to my portfolio tracker.
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Okay.
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So on, on your, on the partner sub, you're wondering
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how to add your, uh, that to the portfolio tracker.
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Correct.
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The, the principal, um, 2035 hybrid CIT is what it's called.
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Well, the way you can do that is you can
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go in and set up another portfolio on there, or
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you can make it part of the one you have,
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but you just add in whatever investments you have. And
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then you can use the tagging system to tag it
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as that tag each of the assets in there for
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the different types of accounts you have them in. That
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way you can sort of buy the tags and see
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which ones, what assets are in which accounts.
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And Sherry, I'll just jump in here and say as well,
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if you need help with actually doing that, like, you know,
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if you need someone to walk through that with you,
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you can stay on the line after this and just
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give Darlene your phone number. And I'd be glad to
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give you a call later today and walk through that
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with you if you'd like.
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Oh, that would be awesome. Sure.
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Isn't he wonderful?
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Yes.
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Stop. That's just wonderful, yes. The other thing I was,
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the $ 22, 000 I have in cash in my rollover IRA,
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I'm low about 3% in fixed income preferreds and REITs.
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And I haven't done anything with that. And I'm wondering,
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because I don't really want to grow this account. Because
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I want to eventually start
moving some of it out
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into my Roth IRA and wondering if I should just
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bite the dust each year, like take the maximum out
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where I don't go out of my tax limit. Mm-hmm.
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How old are you?
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I'm 60.
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Soon to be 61.
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Yeah, you could just... You have.
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Yeah, you could do that, I guess. Let's see. Seth,
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on the rules, where can you just do unlimited conversions?
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What age? Is that 72?
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Unlimited conversions? I need to look into that one, Mark.
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I thought it might have been at that 59 and
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a half part, but I could be wrong.
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Sherry, let me look into that for you there.
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Okay. Yeah, because I'm just thinking maybe it wouldn't be
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a bad idea to just pay the taxes if I...
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you know, didn't go over my tax threshold. I believe
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it was around 50,000 where I'm still staying in the
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12% tax bracket and just pay the taxes on it.
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That would make sense. I think you're thinking straight on that. Yeah, absolutely.
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It's good, Sherry.
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So God bless you.
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When Seth calls this afternoon, he'll give you all the
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guidelines that you need to make sure you match so
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that there are no penalties or you don't have to
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pay any taxes, any additional taxes. You know, obviously, when
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you convert an IRA, any of an IRA to a Roth,
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you have to pay taxes on it because the traditional
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IRA is pre-tax.
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And Uncle Sam really likes his money.
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Yeah.
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He needs help too, Sherry. We got to help him out.
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Thanks for your call, Sherry.
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Thank you. Y'all have a great day.
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Why don't you stay on the line with Dara and
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get your phone number and we can talk later today.
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God bless you.
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Great. Thank you, Seth.
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Bye-bye.
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Yeah, Mark, that's good. I'm glad that
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I'm also glad, Mark, that you brought up the option
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on the portfolio tracker. Again, this is for partners only,
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but it's a really, really great thing for you to
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be able to do that tagging feature.
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So helpful if you've got multiple portfolios. I mean, it
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is so helpful.
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Personally, I like to have everything in one pot. So
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I see that that number at the top is all
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of my money and I don't have to go back
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and forth. So it's really nice.
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And we didn't bring up the concept that if you're, well,
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she's over 59 and a half. So, but the idea
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that once you convert, if you're under 59 and a
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half and you convert, you got to wait five years
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so you don't get the 10% penalty. But outside of that,
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I don't believe there's any limits to conversions, age limits
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to that. Unless something changed this year that I don't
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know about. So anyway, and there's no age limit on
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how old you can be to do it either. Just
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remember the RMDs have to be satisfied. After you satisfy
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your RMDs, once you reach that age, you can convert more.
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Of it as well. So I think she'll be fine.
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As long as, like she said, she minimizes the taxes
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by not going over the bracket limit that she has
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set or understands for herself.
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There you go. Good stuff, Mark.
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Folks, again, love to hear from any of you, but
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especially our veterans. We'd love for you to call in.
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Mark, the markets yesterday fell. We saw a hotter than
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expected CPI report yesterday. So the tech heavy Nasdaq down
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a full percent by late afternoon actually didn't end quite
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so bad, though. The Dow Jones was down about a third.
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The S & P down same. The Nasdaq and the
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Russell 2000 each down around three quarters of a percent. However,
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the pre markets this morning are really looking good with,
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I guess, the exception of crude oil, which is up a.
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Little bit, but it's way down from where it was.
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But pre-markets this morning priced in, I mean, the NASDAQ
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is up almost 2%.
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So love to see that.
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Crude oil is like at about $ 86 a barrel, which WTI,
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but that's still up about 50% over a year ago,
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which a lot of people stop talking about because, you know,
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now they can't harm the Trump administration with it because-
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Everything that happens, of course, will be put on the
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Democrat's shoulder, I guess.
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I don't know. You know, there is some good news.
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I've been looking at the... Believe it or not, you
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know what, Seth? I watch the markets a little bit.
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Do you, Mark?
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Really?
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That's what you do in your free time?
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Think about this. The Russell 2000 is up 13.7% year-to-date.
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The Nasdaq's only up 7.9%. Who would have thought?
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Half, almost.
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the Russell's up almost twice as much as a NASDAQ
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year to date. Most people don't even think about that.
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Yeah.
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You know, it's interesting. Somebody said that earlier this year.
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I can't remember who it was.
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It was you.
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Some financial genius. Some guy.
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Some guy who just watches the markets from time to time.
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Exactly. That's good stuff, Mark.
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Yeah, I'm grateful that we've got those those allocations in
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there that provides for some small cap exposure. And of course,
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not to forget the Timothy Plan small cap ETF. Definitely
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an option there as well. You know, Mark, speaking of
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good news, it is winning Wednesday, gentlemen, and we've got
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a good one here. Sam, why don't you give us
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the details on the word of God getting out throughout
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the world?
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What's going on?
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Yeah, updates coming from Nigeria, a very dark part of
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the world when it comes to Christian persecution. But I
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did find this story very encouraging as thousands of believers
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in Nigeria received Bibles last week. They were distributed by
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a group called Global Christian Relief. The Bibles were handed
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out to pastors, church leaders, and others in the region's
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Affected by Islamic attacks, Global Christian Relief reported, quote, We've
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already seen a positive impact with pastors preaching with renewed confidence,
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believers growing in their faith, and families gathering around Scripture.
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We heard from many that these Bibles have given them
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strength and comfort. They spoke to one gentleman over there,
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and he said this. I absolutely love this quote. He said,
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When this organization came to our village one day and
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placed a new Bible in my hands— I felt as
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though Jesus himself had visited and comforted me personally. I
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just absolutely love that. Of course, this also comes as
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renewed tension is coming. Attention, I should say, is coming
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from the United States towards Nigeria with the Trump administration
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recently placing that country as a country of particular concern,
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allowing the U.S. to take action against them over their
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treatment of Christians. In fact, the Congress is holding a
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meeting later this week to review what is going on
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in Nigeria and to see what the U.S. can do
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to help.
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Wow.
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Praise God.
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You know, that's really interesting to me. My first thought
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when I heard this is I love the idea of
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getting the Bible to as many people as possible. But
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I was thinking, you know, Nigerian Christians probably already had Bibles.
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What they need is help to keep from being slaughtered,
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to keep from being persecuted, to keep from being injured.
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And oppressed.
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And then it's like, wait a minute, you know, the Bible,
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maybe the psychological aspect of God coming to them with
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his word just will increase not only their boldness, but
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their faith in a way that it spreads even more quickly.
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And what's the best way to stop the oppression is
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for everybody to become Christian.
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Exactly.
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I just love that. It felt as though Jesus himself
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came and visited me personally. I absolutely love that. And
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it's convicting to me because sometimes I'm like, God, why
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aren't you speaking to me? And he's like, well, why
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aren't you reading the Bible? Because that way I can
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speak to you.
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That's right.
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You guys, one of my favorite quotes is, if you
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want to hear God speak, open your Bible. And if
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you want to hear him speak audibly, read it out loud.
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That's how you hear him speak. He speaks to us
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through his word. It's supernatural.
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It's amazing.
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You know, guys, it reminds me so many, you know,
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Christian heroes throughout church history. And honestly, some folks that
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I even know as well, they were saved by reading
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the Bible. They found the message of salvation in the Bible.
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The famous Augustine, take up the book and read, right?
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Take it up and read. That's what you got to do.
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Well, in times past, there was prophets and there was miracles.
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But today we have his word.
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We have his word.
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Very clear, very clean.
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Amazing.
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Praise God.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. And I think that's a lesson for all of us.
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Two things I think every Christian needs to do. Every Christian.
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Read the Bible more and give thanks more. Be grateful more.
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List our blessings.
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If we did those two things every morning, imagine the
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impact it would have.
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I would say, and I would add to that,
talk
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to God like he's actually there. Like, not you're just
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saying your prayers, but you're actually talking to him like
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a person and a person who's interested in you, in you,
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in your life, and a person who will act in
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your life. Have that faith for today and eternity.
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There's a movie, I can't remember what it was, but Duvall,
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is that his name, the actor?
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Robert Duvall, yeah.
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It might have been called The Apostle, but he's like
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a a preacher, and he walks around yelling at God.
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You know, just that's how he prays. He walks back
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and forth for hours yelling at God.
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It's like a psalmist.
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Yeah. 610-363-1110. You can talk to us.
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We're not God, but hey, we can give you the
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crumbs he's given us. 610-363-1110.
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Welcome back, everyone.
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We have a.
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Very special guest today, someone who we really were excited
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to get on, especially after the blue tasami that we
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just saw. Why don't you help me welcoming our guest,
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Walker Wildman, CEO of AFA Action. And we're so glad
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to have you on, Walker. I mean, I've been waiting
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on this just to ask you some very important questions
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and to see how Well, to see how you're doing
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with what happened in the midterm election.
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So welcome to the show. Hey, Mark.
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Glad to be back on the program with you.
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So let's just dig in here, Walker.
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What was your reaction to the election, the midterm?
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Yeah, it was worse than I expected. Matter of fact,
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exponentially worse than I expected. But now that I've had
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about a week thereabouts to digest it, A couple of
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thoughts come to mind. The first is that, and your
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listeners will completely understand this, but the economy was the
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number one issue and is the number one issue with voters.
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And so I think that I don't want to overcomplicate
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the results. There's a lot of analysts and pollsters that
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are trying to make this rocket science, but it's really not.
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I mean, President Trump went into office with a promise
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that he would fix the Biden economy. And he was
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on a trajectory to do just that. I mean, the
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day before the war in Iran started, all the economic
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indicators were looking very positive.
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Even debt had come down. All of it.
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Mortgage rates trending down. So ultimately, I think this was
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a frustration vote with the economy. There are some other
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factors as well. But largely, I think that was the
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frustration is that voters thought, hey, we're two years into this.
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We ought to be feeling some relief. And they weren't.
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And so That explains a lot of the results that
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we saw last week.
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I have a good friend, and we have him on
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the show, and we had him yesterday, Craig Haugard. We
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had a conversation about, do you think there was any
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illegal things that went on in the elections?
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And he's saying, nah.
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He doesn't think that there was any, but every day
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I'm seeing more and more facts come out, like how
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many voters are there in Virginia and how many people...
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actually voted, you know, and there's more people voted than
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there are registered voters.
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You know, it just didn't make any sense.
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And in certain counties, there were things like, oh, gee,
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we found some Republican votes that didn't get uploaded in
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in the election count and things like that. And then
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all of a sudden they found the little memory sticks.
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And the moment that the FBI got involved in it
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or whatever, You know, there's all these things coming up.
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Do you think that that this election was affected by
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non-citizens voting, by illegal voting, by stuffing the ballots, by
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all the ugliness that had gone on? And people are
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just afraid to say that anymore
because they're afraid of
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being persecuted as as Trump was.
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And other people.
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Yeah, I think there there are some. instances of voter
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fraud or illegal voting, etc. But I don't think that
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was done at scale here. Now, during the 2020 cycle,
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it was definitively proven that cheating was done at scale
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and multiple states completely threw out their state statutes just
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because they didn't want to enforce the law. And they
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threw the rule book in the trash in 2020 and
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just did whatever they wanted, and they called it because
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of COVID, and that was the excuse. But this cycle,
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I just don't see evidence of widespread cheating or irregularities. Now,
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you're going to have your pockets of heavily blue Democrat areas, Detroit, Michigan, Chicago,
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Los Angeles, and of course, who knows what they're doing.
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They've been dominated by Democrats for decades. But I'm hesitant
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to make this a broader issue For a couple reasons.
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Number one, the evidence just isn't there. And President Trump
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won in a landslide in 2024, just less than two
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years ago. He won the popular vote and the electoral
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college by a wide margin, which I would have said
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is just statistically impossible with these major metropolitan areas for
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a Republican to win the popular vote. And he did.
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So I guess that proves that crazy things can happen.
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Drastic political swings can happen. And so I think that's
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what we saw last week. And when you look at
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the exit polling and the polling going into Election Day,
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it all lines up perfectly, nearly. I mean, the pollsters,
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to their credit, actually got this election right in that,
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for example, young men swung 48% for Democrats. They were
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plus 14% for President Trump in 24. They were like
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33 or 30-something percent in favor of Democrats this cycle,
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according to exit polling and polling before the election. So
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all the numbers are lining up to make sense of
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a blue wave or a blue tsunami.
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I'd like to see those numbers because I'm reading different
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numbers then because I saw this article by another organization
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that was showing that the.
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Exit polls were just totally different.
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People were saying they voted conservative and, you know, the
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difference was like 25 to 30 percent different. And that's
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huge for an exit poll. So, I definitely need to
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see what you've compiled there.
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And I also saw. Go ahead.
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Yeah.
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Sorry to interrupt. The numbers I'm citing were specifically from
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the Fox News, what Fox calls their Fox News voter
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survey poll. And this was done the two weeks leading
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up to the election. And it actually polled about 100000 people.
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So that's the numbers I'm looking at as far as
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where young men went and how young men went in
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favor of the Democrats this cycle.
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Yeah, I know I love conspiracies, but I also know
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that I saw so much lie and so much persecution,
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so much craziness that I cannot let it go yet.
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But I can respect what you're saying, and I'd love
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to see anything that you have on that, because I
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think more and more is going to come out on this.
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Especially since one of the things that we saw was
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that when it came to the different issues on the
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ballots across the nation, the majority voted in a conservative way.
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On all aspects of things. So I thought that was
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very interesting. But then they voted liberal on the House
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and the Senate. That has never made sense where those
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two go together. And that's one of the big flags
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that I'm seeing. Maybe the voters are more complex these days,
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but there's just something wrong with it. And if there isn't,
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that's okay. But either way, actually, it's okay because God
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is in control. And maybe this will make people wise
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up against the elections. Maybe we can get the Congress
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off from sitting on their hands in these last few
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months they have and pass a voting act that would
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stop that kind of stuff. So we don't have illegal
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aliens voting. When we have 10 million registered voters in
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a state and 14 million people vote, we know something's
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wrong there.
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Yeah, to your point, when you look at a state,
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for example, South Carolina, the Democrats won the U.S. Senate
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race there against Lindsey Graham's sister, the late Lindsey Graham's sister.
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Democrats won that Senate seat, but yet they elected a
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Republican governor by a pretty wide margin. So there's some
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states where that happened, and some of the states you
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mentioned had conservative ballot initiatives pass, but then Democrats won
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statewide office on that same ballot. So I do agree
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that is odd that you would have voters kind of
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be that bipolar, but it's happened before. For example, in Texas,
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Ken Paxton for attorney general last election cycle He barely
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won attorney general, but President Trump and Governor Greg Abbott
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won by like 15 points. So it seems like voters
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do kind of pick and choose who they want to
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vote for and what they want to vote for and
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just leave other portions of the ballot blank, which to
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me is inconsistent and doesn't make sense logically.
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Right.
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There is a history of this kind of picking and
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choosing this a la carte ballot filling out.
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Yeah.
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Now, like you said, many people I've talked to said
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that they believe it was the economy and those kind
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of things. I think most informed voters got tired of
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Republicans sitting on their hands in both the House and
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the Senate. The lazy Republicans would be a kind way
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to say it. In my last op-ed, I called it
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that we have patriots, pigs, and traitors.
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That was the name of.
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The article. And the pigs make up the most of it.
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And those are people that are there for themselves and
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they'll do whatever it takes to stay elected. And I
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think that's what, what a lot of voters were tired
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of is not having people move on things. And I
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don't know, there's too many reasons why they could have
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vote negative, not intelligent reasons though. I mean, if you're
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pro-life and you vote for Democrats, you just voted for
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a platform that endorses killing babies and, If you're pro-family
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and you voted Democrat, you just voted for an organization
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that its platform says that sexual morality should be brought
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to the forefront and should be the norm. So it
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makes no sense that you would vote opposite of your beliefs,
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even if the people you're voting for were lazy.
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Yeah. What I think, yeah, to your point, I guess
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to help us make sense of this, because that's really
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what we're doing. We're like trying to talk through this.
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And figure out, like, how on earth does this make sense?
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Because a lot of it doesn't on paper. Number one,
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to your point, electing Democrats, if you're a Republican that
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voted for Democrats to, quote, fix your problems, they're not
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going to fix a thing. They have no record of
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fixing problems. But secondly, Republicans are going to have to
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govern conservatively and aggressively. And I think Governor DeSantis has
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given the country a blueprint.
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On what this looks like.
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And he's done a phenomenal job down there. And I
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think the Republican Party should take note.
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Amen to that, Walker. Thank you so much for coming
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on today. And if somebody wanted to catch your show
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and see your work, how do they do that?
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Yeah, American Family Radio, AFR.net, 1 to 2 p.m. Central,
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Monday through Friday.
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Thank you for joining us. We really appreciate it, Walker.
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I appreciate your insights. And we'd like your insights. 610-363-1110
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Very interesting conversation there, Mark. So appreciate Walker and what
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he does on the front lines and the voter front
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and that sort of thing.
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Folks, we still got time. 610-363-1110. Give us a call.
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You know, Mark, an interesting follow up here. from that conversation.
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I saw an interesting article in the Washington stand that
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came out in the days after last week's election. The
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title of the article was basically this half of evangelical
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voters stayed home in the GOP route.
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So again, this is courting.
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This is according to an author at the Washington stand that,
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But he said some things like this.
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Here was some of what he laid out. The data
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is interesting. But then when he goes into the rationale,
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it's like there's some questions.
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It is.
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Yeah. So here was kind of his rationale.
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So instead of the victory against Roe in 2022, bringing
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down abortions, Biden era policies allowed chemical abortion. to legally
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enter every state, subverting state laws, resulting in an increase
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in abortion. The Trump administration claimed to have the policy
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under review, but the evident lack of energy, in contrast
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to every issue the administration prioritized, led many evangelicals to
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conclude that the administration was stringing them along.
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Congress was doing nothing to restrict abortion.
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The Trump administration was doing nothing to restrict abortion as well.
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In this economy, they just couldn't get excited about tariffs
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or immigration raids or triumphal arches or prosecuting Trump's enemies.
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They have family, social calendars, bills to pay.
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And so on Tuesday last week, Voting for nothing in
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particular did not make it to their to-do list.
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I'd love to hear your guys' thoughts on this.
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I agree about the arches.
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The arches are silly.
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What do you think, Mark?
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Well, I think the numbers are misleading. First of all,
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he didn't compare them to general voter numbers in general.
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There's a lot less.
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Turnout during the midterm elections than there are in a
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presidential election.
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But he did compare them to other demographics, though, and
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he said that compared to other groups, evangelicals came out
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a lot less.
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Yeah, maybe, maybe not, though.
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I mean, I'm going to have to take that apart
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a little bit more. But second, disappointment does not eliminate
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the responsibility. And what I mean by that is very simple.
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This president did more for pro-life than than. saving babies
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than any other president I can remember. He got it
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to the Supreme Court.
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He overturned Roe versus Wade.
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And are you telling me that evangelicals didn't come out
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because he did nothing in the last 10 weeks?
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I just don't believe that. I think that's a fallacy.
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I don't think that's why they didn't come out.
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I think that that any pro-lifer that would have voted
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any way different or not voted at all, realizing not
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voting actually votes for the enemy, would have been foolish.
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And most evangelicals who are strong pro-life are bigger, smarter,
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I guess even just better than that. So I think
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that Yeah, Christians don't vote as our evangelicals. There's a
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in general don't vote as.
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Do not do not embrace voting like another piece of
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this piece of the pie of stewardship, which they should.
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No doubt about that.
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But this just leads to a conclusion that this is why.
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And I think that was pulled out of thin air,
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that it was the abortion.
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It feels a little bit like the author's own opinion
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about why he was upset with Trump.
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Guys, let me share with you.
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And again, Mark, this feels like this is the week
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of having interesting spars between brothers.
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I agree with you guys in practice.
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I don't think the solution was for Christians not to vote.
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But I understand the sentiment behind this too.
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I do too.
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We saw the victory in Roe versus Wade, which was amazing.
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We say praise God for that. But- Has it really
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stopped abortions from happening? I would love to see abortion
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just be treated as murder in this country and be
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treated as such across the board.
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And so then it's actually abolished.
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It's great to do that, Seth. But when you look
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at what President Trump has done, he is not God.
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He is not king.
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He's the president. He appointed three Supreme Court justices who
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overturned Roe versus Wade. He reinstated the Mexico City policy,
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which took money away from funding foreign assistance. He expanded
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the policy substantially in January, 2026, uh, covering additional funding
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and organization. There are significant verifiable accomplishments. He did more
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than any other president. And to say that that's why
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evangelicals didn't show up. I think it would be foolish
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because he's done more than anybody else. And there are,
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I mean, yeah, like you're saying, there are reasons to
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be disappointed because babies are still dying. Yeah. But, um,
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You can't blame Trump for that. Just like you can't
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blame Trump to say, well, there's still some crime in
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some cities.
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Well, guess what?
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He's not the governor of those cities or those states.
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He's not the mayor of those cities. He's the president
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of the United States, which he has offered all the
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help in the world to those cities, but they refused him.
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As I like to say, he's just the president.
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Are you telling me evangelicals are just too stupid to
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understand that?
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I don't believe that.
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I believe this guy, like you said, this is more
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of his opinion of evangelicals than it is anything else.
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And we shouldn't even be spending another moment on it.
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Well, Mark, you know what?
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We should because it's time to go to some calls,
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a couple calls.
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Let's squeeze it at the end of the show here.
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Let's go to Dorothy and Thomas. Dorothy is a veteran. Dorothy,
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thank you for your service. Good morning.
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Thomas, Dorothy, good to talk to you. Glad you're calling
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in our good friends from Florida. Oh, yes.
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Hi.
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It's a pleasure and an honor to have served this
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country and even more so now because of where we
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are in the political realm after the election last week.
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And just to kind of piggyback on what Mark said
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earlier about the voting when he had on his other guests,
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My husband and I, for the last two, three, actually,
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elections for the midterm, when we first got here to Florida,
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we've been serving in the poll area ever since then,
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during Ron DeSantis, getting him re-elected in Florida for President
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Trump last, in 2024. And this year, one of the
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interesting things about serving in the poll watching and in
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the poll registration areas that for those last two, we
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always had Republicans and Democrats in the same area there
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during the early voting and during the actual day of
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this year, we had a few Republicans and hardly any
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Democrats at all that came to watch the polls. So
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that kind of, led me to think because a lot
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of the states,
the blue states that had, and I
859
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just have to say this, some shenanigans going on there
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is that they had the Democrat people to actually, they
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were told who to vote for and they were shown
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how to fill out the ballots. We had a couple
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of those incidents that tried to occur here in Florida
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during our term was we had an individual who came
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in with like, 12 or 14 ballots. She was stopped
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immediately because her comment was, oh, I'm bringing these in
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for my neighbors. And no, you can't bring these in
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for your neighbors, you know. They have to come in themselves.
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And they were all ballots that had been mailed in.
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So we got to stop on that. My husband, during
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his service, we always check IDs, has to be checked.
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He had an individual who come in for his voting
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that had a driver's license that only had a date
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on it, not a signature, but a date for his
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driver's license. So that was a challenge on that, too,
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because how can you prove that this is who you
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are without an actual signature?
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Yeah. You know, Dorothy, what they say about this is
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it's so small, the example you're getting, it couldn't affect
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the election.
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Guess what?
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You have that happen a million times, you've affected the election.
883
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You have all these little small things happening millions of times.
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You have, you know, oh, there was only 27 illegals
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voting in this county or 36 over here, but you
886
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add them all up together and you have millions of
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illegals voting and changing the election. I agree with you.
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I think that it's time for the voters act. It's
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time to get serious about our elections. And if our
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Republican leadership, um, won't do it, we need to get
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better leadership in there.
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It's time.
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It's like the debt in our country. We can't continue
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on down this road.
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Mark and Dorothy is, I agree with you completely.
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If this voter fraud issue ends up being something that
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is more serious than maybe we thought, um, I still
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blame the Republicans for that because they couldn't, they have
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passed the saved act, Mark.
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I mean, it's not a matter of who we blame.
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It's a matter of getting things done.
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Yeah.
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You got to get things.
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I mean, Mark, you gave the example yesterday, sitting on
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my hands for two years. That seems like it's the
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Republican way to go.
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It's crazy. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
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Oh, I was just going to go to a different call,
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but it looks like they dropped. Oh, well, that's all right.
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We got a minute and 57. Dorothy, I really appreciate
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you and your husband calling in. I know you both
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served and you retired from the Air Force. We're going
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to get you out a couple of mugs. So I
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hope Dar has your information and you left that with her.
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God bless you so much for all the work you
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do down there in Florida and for all you've done
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in the past.
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To serve our country. You are appreciated.
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God bless you too.
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All right.
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God bless.
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And I want to say God bless everybody who tuned
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in today. It was a little bit of a rough
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show in that the topics were tough, but sometimes we
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just got to have to sit and deal with these
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tough topics and come to good conclusions.
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And the main conclusion is we are to act as stewards.
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We are to be the godly representatives in this country
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that God put us here for a reason, and that
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reason is to shine the light so that he is
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reflected more come to Christ before his return so that
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he is glorified.
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Thank you for loving the Lord.
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Thank you for investing with biblical integrity, and thank you
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for being here in financial issues with us this day.
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I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
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As we continue these conversations and many more to help
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you be the best steward possible for the rest of
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your life.
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God bless everyone. We'll see you tomorrow.
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If we ever forget that we're one nation under God,