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- Charles: Welcome everybody. I'm Charles Barfield. I'm your host of Kingdom Revelations. Good to have you listening in tonight. Surely I'm gonna be joined by ⁓ producer Greg Fink and talk about ⁓ what's going on in the world today. ⁓ but first I want to do my traditional commentary. Where have we where have we gone, America? And where are we going? Character still matters, integrity still matters, and we're in deed. We are instructed by scripture of God. to be our best and to do things and be our brothers keepers and do things from the heart and from the spirit. The Bible tells us in Proverbs chapter four, verse twenty-three, and it's clearly expressly states, above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flow from it. God wants to have a pure heart, pure pure intentions, godly intentions, good intentions, to do things. Because everything in our heart Every actions and reactions, every perception, every intentions, every passive way, every act of be it passive, be intentional, it all flows from our heart and our and our attitude. And so man looks at the outer appearance of a person, but God looks at the heart. And in our heart, it God expects a holy moral fiber of character. And goodness. An example and example is Jesus Christ. Now, we see when we have a defective character, it plays out in everything we do. When we try to lead our families, if we are if we don't have a consistent character, it will translate to bad character with our seed in our household. It's very difficult to run your household as a leader, as a man of your household if you don't have. uprightness and character. It's very difficult to tell your children to do things a certain kind of way if they're watching you at home not having moral character and making good judgment decisions. And so apples don't fall too far from a tree. We have to be the example that we tell our kids we want to be. We can't be acting up and not being lovely to our spouses in our relationship. And when our children see that they go to school. ⁓ we can't expect them to act a certain kind of way when we're not acting a godly manner. So that's very important. Character does matter. Also, character matters when it comes to newsworthiness and news direction, news covering of the news. Journalists have got to be professionals in what they do and how they spread information. W there's a new report that came out ⁓ recently about a week ago talking about the positive nature of the COVID vaccine. The COVID vaccine was linked to broad protection against heart conditions. You'll never know that if you listen to the miseducation, the the the spinning, the the line, the deception of the COVID virus, people who study medicine tend to know better than someone that's uneducated, have no medical training. have no medical experience. The problem with us as a society is that every Joe public think he or she can Google something and become an expert o on it in a matter of minutes, as if like that can alleviate or be a greater resource than people who have actually gone to medical school and had medical training. That doesn't mean that a medical person is 100% right. I I do medical malpractice as attorney. My p my brother died on the hands of medical malpractice. How I got into perfection. But the fact of the matter is that more times than not, a medical profession is gonna have a superior education and a know how than Joe Public who think they can Google and know everything. It's just like you may know have a good ⁓ skill set in terms of being a ma ⁓ a mechanic. by Googling, but sometimes you need to go to school, get some education. You can't Google and rely on that as the first last resource. You have to get revelation and understanding and education. Education cannot be a bad thing. And that's where we're going in society where we think that all things educational we're gonna also talk about Urban Africa. Well Bill Gates and ⁓ the Bill Gates Foundation is being kicked out of ⁓ ⁓ shut down in many continents and countries in Africa because they have these genetic modified mosquitoes. ⁓ and Bill Gates foundation is is is putting out about thirty mosquitoes a week. And some of these mosquitoes are genetically modified mosquitoes. The design of these mosquitoes is to create genetic and modified mosquitoes called oxytac mosquitoes to go after the wild natural mosquitoes to eventually stop them from birthing and basically to disintegrate them from a in a genetic medical standpoint so that they won't grow. The ultimate design that this is supposed to decrease malaria in sub Saharan Africa. There's about ninety five percent of malaria cases is in of the continent of Africa. But the dispute now is is that ⁓ economically a good thing because ⁓ some of these ⁓ mosquitoes, ⁓ the genetic modified mosquitoes, the Waobacuna ⁓ type of mosquitoes, ⁓ this genetic alter alteration of these ⁓ mosquitoes, is it environmental home to the citizens and the elderly and the vulnerable citizens of the of the continent of Africa? And so some ⁓ of the leaders of African countries have shut down the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ⁓ for this very reason. We'll we'll talk about that. potentially pros and cons of that. Is this a altruistic kind of situation or whether this is just ⁓ another way a test to for Africa again to go further with human ⁓ testing against human beings for some ⁓ reasons that are not altruistic. We don't know that. That remains to be seen. So we're gonna be talking about those issues and we're gonna be talking about the so called Iran peace deal. Is it really a peace deal? Or rather is it a really a memorand of understanding? And is it a good deal or a bad deal or harper deal? And so we're gonna now bring in Greg Fink so we can talk about some of these issues. The first issue, Greg, we want to deal with is the new report which the COVID vaccine study showed that the coronavir the coronavirus vaccine reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events. linked to COVID nineteen like strokes, heart attacks, and hospitalization from heart disease by by forty percent. Forty percent before brand new study. And so these these findings, Greg, is the latest of a growing volume of research about the vaccine benefits for heart health. you know, and and and this has been kind of persistent in earlier studies, but you wouldn't know that or believe that based upon the machinery ⁓ the political factions that's trying to say that to put the voodoo voodoo kind of pers perspective on the covet vi vaccine and it is it is of the devil is it's gonna kill you and Greg: All the things we heard about that. I mean Yeah, I I I get what you're saying and and I do agree. I mean it's great that if the ⁓ the vaccine has really good results for this test study group and that's really good. I do think ⁓ a lot of the ⁓ hostility about the COVID vaccine especially was that they're mandating it and basically saying that you're did this or else and basically, you know, i i it is people don't like mandates and if we haven't noticed that in the last two hundred years of our country. We should have noticed that pretty quick, that people don't like being told exactly how to handle their own health. I mean, we have that issue here with, you know, almost every single level. I mean, right now I'm I'm a ⁓ user or a past user of GLP one shots and people kept on saying that, you know, there's studies out there that are saying that this is gonna hurt you or this is gonna hurt you. And I'm like, you know, being four hundred pounds isn't gonna help me either. I lost two hundred and thirty pounds doing it in one year and ⁓ that's not usual, that's actually ⁓ an anomaly on how much I lost, but whenever you take that and you look at, you know, people having a choice to do it and then the vaccine and yeah, I mean, granted, the media, the people who are against the vaccine, there's always gonna be noise that they're against something. There's always gonna be noise that they're for something. And ⁓ and so, I mean, the the people who are saying it's gonna kill you and it's the devil, I mean, they're wrong. I mean It might not be what they wanted and it might not be it w might not work with them. I don't think it should have been mandated though. I don't think the hysteria of like either you take this or else you're gonna die and you're killing your whole family if you don't take it, which I heard a lot of if you know, 'cause I couldn't take the vaccine. I'm allergic to vaccines. And so I mean, the last vaccine I had was a flu shot back in the mid nineties and put me in the hospital for ninety days. And my dad had a same issue with vaccines. So I mean, we we we have ⁓ historical hereditary issue with vaccines, but when I told that to people and they're like, ⁓ you're hurting everybody around you by not getting it I'm like, Yes, I'm not you know, 'cause I mean if I don't get it, then I'm not hurting anybody around me by not getting it. She's I just gotta be overly careful and not to get it. And to be careful not to get it. And ⁓ and that's that's just me anecdotally, you know, I understand that not everybody is as responsible or careful or healthy as me and My family was, but ⁓ but I think, you know, it's I think it's great if the the shot helps people and the vaccine's helping people, that they they choose to take it and it's helping their heart and helping their conditions, that's great. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not gonna I'm not against anything helping anybody. Charles: Well don't you think though that the government has some substantial interest in making sure the mass population Greg: Well yeah, they got interests, yeah. Well yeah, they have ⁓ interest in that. I mean and and they use that w for law enforcement, they use that for border control, they use that for health care, they use that for education, they have an interest in making sure everybody's educated. And so I think by the same by the same measure to make sure everybody is healthy, yeah, but I mean mandating it is I mean, we all know this, and especially in the abortion movement or in any other type of cultural movement, you don't tell people exactly how to handle their own bodies. And then you don't mandate it. And or or if you can, or if you do, you expect a reaction. Because I mean, this country is ba based on freedoms and everybody came here to be free and do what they wanted and not have the royal chair or the people from the throne dictate how they live. And that that's carrying through until today. Charles: Well, this is the thing that if you work for certain employers or employers that some did some did make it mandatory. But for the most part it was it was discretionary. But the the the the thing is is that if if the government subsidized through healthcare plans and benefits stuff like that, shouldn't they have a right to kind of say, you know, that's true, you have to get this to protect yourself? Greg: Yeah. Yeah. Well that's different. Yeah, I I agree with that. I mean, ⁓ if the government is subsidizing you and you're taking the funding, you're taking the dollars and taking the benefits from the government, then yes, you're you probably are gonna have to follow those rules. It's like the private employers. I mean, whatever private employers were telling people they had to get shots or mandates or whatever, that's totally different than the government mandating anything. I mean, you work for the guy or the girl and you are earning their money and if they would like you to do what you have to do to make their area safe and their workspace safe, then you either do that or you find another job for somebody who doesn't enforce that. I mean, as much as you have a freedom of speech as a coworker, the boss has a freedom of speech as a boss to make sure that his people are, you know, fitting his purview of a of a healthy environment and an affordable environment, because people don't realize, I know they they should, but they don't realize the healthcare costs if you get sick, that the employer is going to have to pay. And ⁓ same thing with the Medicaid or Medicare or any kind of government subsidy healthcare. The healthcare costs go up extremely high once these people get i sick or ill. And so if you're gonna be taking the money from the government or your employer or whatever it is, then you you know, you follow the rules of the people who ⁓ are doing the cards. What do you know? Charles: Let me push back on that because if in fact that the right is constitutional right, should it even matter whether it's the government funded or if it's a constitutional right, should a private employer have the right to tell you you cannot definitely take a take the vaccine if it's in your privacy right? Greg: No, no, no. They shouldn't have that. I mean, ⁓ the the employer should have the rights to make sure you're on the side of the of being healthy. I mean, first of all, I mean i if you want to take the vaccine and the I don't think the employer should be able to tell you no you can't take it. And ⁓ if you don't want to take the vaccine, I don't think the employer well actually I do think they should be able to tell you to take it if you want to emb work in their workspace. 'Cause I mean the whole idea here is whatever it comes to employers, they're trying to create a healthy environment for their workspace and for their employees and for their bottom line. They are not supposed to be, and maybe they are, but most employers I know or I've been in contact with are not trying to encourage a ill or a sick workforce. They're not trying to encourage their workforce to be non working. They're trying to make sure that they're healthy, able bodied and and able to do their job. And so yeah, I mean Yeah, I I I don't think that I don't know of any situation where if a person got the vaccine they got in trouble if they did voluntarily. Charles: Well, I think the issue really statistically rise up when people say that I got a privacy right, e whether I'm on a government job or private ⁓ employer, that I don't wanna take the ⁓ the the vaccine ⁓ the professionally COVID. So is that should ⁓ if if if if you feel like y you know, for religious reason or whatever kind of reason, a logical reason, delusional reason or just any reason, my question is that Greg: Yes or no? Charles: If you strongly believe that you don't wanna take the the the the the vaccine, should an employer force you to say you take the vaccine or you get fired? What's your your what's your take on that? I know I'm not asking from a lawyer. Greg: It's it's reality. I mean it it's ⁓ it's a reality. I mean it I mean it might not be nice and that might me be ethical, it might not be anything I agree with. I mean if I had an employer tell me I had to get the vaccine or get fired, I'd I'd quit. You know, but ⁓ 'cause I I know my medical issues and I know my medical history and he doesn't and she doesn't. Now that being said, ⁓ should an employer do that? If they feel like it's in their purview to do it and it's gonna and it's beneficial for for their company to do it and they can work with that that employee and replace them with somebody else who will, then that's great. But ⁓ I mean, you know, it's a anecdotal situation. It's not a oversimplified one f one si ⁓ size fits all situation. I mean it is a case by case ⁓ scenario. And ⁓ but as far as the privacy rights go, I think your medical privacy goes really good whenever you're only affecting yourself. if your medical privacy is affecting others around you by getting them sick or not sick or or behavior is affecting other people around you, then you lose that. I mean, you're you're then affecting their workforce and work the workplace. And and at the time with COVID, nobody really knew what was going on. We had a lot of ignorance, we had a lot of misinformation, we had a lot of confusion about what was causing it, how it was being spread, how easy it was to be spread. And also we had different types of the virus at the time. We had different ⁓ stages of the virus which are more dangerous than other stages. And so I mean, at this stage of the game, five, six years later, ⁓ it's ⁓ a lot more contained, a lot more controlled, a lot more ha handled now compared to how it was then. But, you know, and so playing armchair quarterback about how everybody did everything back in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one is an interesting interesting outlook because, you know, i it really does draw a lot of comparisons on on how much we let the employers mandate to the employees and how little rights the employees really have compared to you know the the the behavior of their people around them and their medical behavior of everybody around them. So it's a I mean it's a I don't think there's any one easy answer. Me, myself and I I don't like mandates of any kind. And ⁓ anybody who says that, you know, you have to do this or else I'm gonna take the else route. And so but that's just me though. Charles: issue is really is is it is a privacy ⁓ issue. If you have a constitutional privacy right, should anyone be allowed to tell you that you have to take the vaccine or you shouldn't take the vaccine. Greg: Well, it all depends. You gotta remember back in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, when it was very rampant and very contagious at the time, and we're a few strains later it's not as bad. But at that time, because of how how it was, you know, you kinda wanna go along with the employer and making sure his his work f his workforce is healthy and everything and there's not a problem at all. And so It's more of a your privacy is important but your privacy is affecting the health and welfare of everybody around you. So I mean, how selfish how selfish are you really gonna be or how much of a team player are you gonna be? If you don't wanna be a team player then don't you know then leave the team, you know? I mean I'm not saying that I I was never pushing vaccines at all. I never did that one time and I still don't. But at the same time, bosses have a right to to ask you to do things and if you don't like what the boss says you can get a different job. Charles: Well, let me ask you this. how would you squ ⁓ square that up with ⁓ which is a typical case does not have to do with medicine, but an employee has a religious based thinking. And so they Well, let me ask you a question. Let me ask you question now. Finish the question. So just say in these these have been real world cases where an employee employee works for an employer that ⁓ does bakery, right? Greg: Well that's different. Well that's different. Charles: So you have a same a same sex marriage couple who are legally marriage. I don't agree with that, but just factually, just say that this scenario happens. So you have a same sex marriage person that is gonna be getting married or whatever, and they go to this bakery and they say, We won't we won't this cake made for a wedding to come ⁓ have a wedding. And so then the employees say, Well, I don't believe in that. So therefore I'm not going to make your cake. I'm not even gonna do the order. Now, what was the difference between that situation and a medical situation where employee says, I don't wanna take the vaccine? And then now you had employees saying, Well, people come in there from from the public causing the employer economic dollars, so to speak, because they they believe they don't have to, because of their religion, make ⁓ a a cake for people Greg: You know? Charles: of the same sex marriage, so to speak. Greg: Yeah. I gu yeah, I guess the scenario goes to the point too, ⁓ is the baker of the cake at the bakery a the employee or the owner? Charles: Well what did okay, well say if the owner. Say if the owner tells Greg: if the owner the the the the the owner the owner has a right to in my opinion ⁓ being a a very pro employer and pro ⁓ business owner, if they don't wanna serve something or serve somebody anywhere, they they shouldn't have to by any type of mandate at all like that. Now if the employee, you know, is I mean it's say and th that's the same way I'm saying with the ⁓ with the vaccines that you know, ⁓ you you have to allow the the the employers to to run their shop. and and to run their businesses. And and and and if they wanted to be discriminatory against somebody for their sex or their gender or their lifestyle, then they can do that. They can also get the repercussions and what will happen is probably the people will probably most likely complain about it and sue them. And I don't think that there's a constitutionality thing there that says you have to make bake a cake for some person based on on ⁓ your religious views compared to theirs. But at the same time you know, y you're probably gonna lose business or you might get more business. You y you might get a lot more business from the churches, you might a lot lose a lot more business from secular people. I mean, whenever you make that choice, you're making that choice with knowing the repercussions or the benefits that are gonna result as a part of that choice. And ⁓ but it's also their right to make that choice and and you know, I mean whether you agree with it or not, I mean there's other there's other shops that make cakes, there's other shops that I mean they they can get a cake bake somewhere else or go to a different location or that person can go ahead and bake their cake and and not worry about it. You know, but if it's against his religious beliefs or against her religious beliefs, then they should have the right to enforce their own beliefs and find their own company. That's an employee doing it saying yay or nay and and the boss has no idea what's going on, then employees shouldn't be making that decision. That's not a that's not a a clerk decision. That's a decision I think that should be made by the people who are writing the checks on the back of the check, endorsing the checks through the payroll. And they're the they're the ones who be should be making that decision. And also they're the ones who should be getting the headache or the phrases based on their decision. Charles: Well, I I think that ⁓ I would ⁓ I personally don't agree with that lifestyle, but I don't believe that a business owner has the right to discriminate t to that but that's illegal. If it's a legally recognized unit. Greg: But smoking a cake, it's not but smoking a cake, ⁓ it's i it's it's there's no constitutional right that says he had to bake for somebody. Charles: Well, it but there's a constitutional right says you can't in in interfere with commerce or or business. Business have to get a license, they have to pay taxes, they have to do all these state, local, city and federal things they have to comply with as a business to operate that ⁓ business. And one of those things when you open up a public business that you don't have the right to discriminate because that's protected under the, you know, sip Civil Rights Amendment and color of title if you are or state employee doing that for the government. So you you you don't you don't leave your constitutional rights because some owner or employer decides I don't wanna do this in their own discretion. Because by that logic, black people would have never been able to go into public accommodation or nothing and we wouldn't need it the Civil Rights Act that everybody come after us. Greg: Right. If you're at a point you have to say, yeah. Charles: from that. But but I don't believe that an employer, even though I I I spiritually my faith, I I think there's a there's a aggregate reasonable understanding in terms of if you get in the public sector, there's certain public things you gotta swallow. Good, bad Greg: Well yeah, but being a but being a baker is not a is not a publicly funded thing. Well Charles: Well, a business is. It's not that ju it doesn't matter what type of business it is, is that if you engage in commerce, it's just business. And so you shouldn't be able to say public accommodations, that's codified in law. So you can't discriminate. If if ⁓ for example, like if you're a truck driver and you go in state to state and you wanna come in and get something to eat or whatever, that's part of how the civil rights the the civil rights amendments was all started by public commendation. They never really had direct discrimination straight up. And that's one of the more frustrating things that I disliked in law school. And after about a couple of years of law school, I was like, this is how this society is that there was never a direct racial discriminatory case. It always was always about the c the ⁓ the the commerce clause. Basically the the the businesses were saying, hey, I can't get the the the maximum profit if ⁓ my truckers or driving or people using the highway if certain people are locked out. It it never was about the morality or discrimination. It's always about economic benjamins as you like to say. It's all about the business. It's all about the Greg: Yeah. The thing is, I mean i i i if a if a bakery wants to go ahead and lose money and not make money, I mean I mean, don't they have a right to not make money? I mean don't I mean I guess that's my my ignorance here because you're the lawyer, I'm not. And so this is where my logical question here is if if a guy wants to turn away business, doesn't he have a right to turn away business? 'Cause I mean, me as a business owner myself, if somebody comes to me, wants me to do something and I don't agree with them or I don't like them, I'm not gonna work with them either. You know, I mean, you know, as a small business owner, I mean, you should be able to have the right to to not to not work if if it's something that you don't believe in. I mean, I mean where's that right at? I mean, what I mean does is basically do do the business owners not have a right of the the they they don't have their rights at all? What I mean, is it is it is the rights only belong to the customers only? The customers only have the rights and the people who are Charles: Well it's something but Greg: paying for the plumbing, they pay for the utilities, they pay for the the the easement, they pay for the small business taxes, they they pay for all the extremely high costs of everything. They har hardly make any kind of profit in the food industry at all. So basically those people have no rights. Well Charles: They do, they do, but this is a d you you you balance the greater public accommodation laws versus your individuality because you can have delusional, nonsensical ways of thinking and what we're what we're saying but this exactly. So this is this is the easy way to understand, Greg. No one puts a gun to a entrepreneur head and say, Bill entrepreneur, be this now. No, it's a discretionary thing. Greg: Well yeah, there's a lot of crazy people, yeah. Charles: That you individually decide to do. That's step number one. Step number two is that that when you become an entrepreneur, there are legal rules, regulations, laws, and guidelines that say if you want to participate in this business in order to get a license and to maintain that license, these are certain things you need to follow as a business owner. Okay. And minimal things or civil rights and individual liberties that everybody is granted as citizens of the United States. So in order for you to participate in an entrepreneurial game, for lack of a better word, you gotta play accordingly. And if you don't play accordingly, you are you don't have the right to have that license because you're not doing things that you need to do. And we can pull your license. The license is a privilege, not a mandate. Greg: Good, yeah. It is. If the license or is a privilege on a mandate, the rate should be a lot lower for the licenses then. And so because the licenses or or have a mandate or a or a refusal to mandate on a vaccine based off their meta based off their religion issues, but somebody can't ⁓ have a right to bake a cake or not bake a cake based off their religious points of view. Charles: Well, indeed it it is it it Greg: I mean, w how how does it equate? Charles: Well, one the one is a medical right of privacy that the Supreme Court has for tradition said is it is a constitutional right. So that is an express right in the Constitution. Now the other yeah, i it's not in the Constitution. Making a case. Right. You know what I'm trying to say? Greg: Right. And baking a cake is not. Yeah yeah, baking a cake, but baking a cake's not constitutional, but somebody willing to buy a cake that is different than the person's lifestyle that they don't agree with is constitutional. And so so basically the perse the the the the person willing to pay for the cake and give them money and give them benjamin's for the cake, that is constitutional. But the person who owns the ⁓ bakery who doesn't want to make it because of his religious point of views, then hi hi his religious views don't matter at all. Because he has to fall in compliance with the state. Charles: Do matter, but the greater public good is they have codified that as a legal now, I don't agree with it, but it is legal though. So I I'm speaking from a I'm spin I'm not s yeah on this issue I'm playing more legally technical versus what I spiritually believe. Greg: That is religious. I agree. Somebody needs to take a yeah, maybe the Supreme Court can take a look at us or Supreme Court taking a look at everything else here real quick before they go to twelve or fifteen judges. Charles: Yeah. So that that Yeah, I I I think Well they're kind of saying well they have certain kind of decisions with the ⁓ what's that place? Hogidas ⁓ not Hagidas, what's that place ⁓ that Greg: Well we still only got nine of them. Yeah, I yeah, yeah, ⁓ Ben to Jerry's. Charles: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So not being a juris, but ⁓ I I can't forget the name of it. But there's some cases that they're kind go going going in that that that the direction. But anyway, I think l let's let's transition to our next ⁓ topic. And let me lay the foundation for this. Now the ⁓ Bill Gates, one of the world's billionaires and Yeah, yeah. Well well, yeah, he he he's in the Epstein Files and no no doubt about it. Greg: The other ice cream plate. Every Charles: in in a not so in a not so positive manner. But that that's yeah, exactly. Well his wife has said that publicly, so we're not making stuff up. I mean his wife his ex wife Melinda has said that that was the reason why he ⁓ why she divorced him and she said that Greg: That's what led to his alleged divorce. is creepy enough that he wanted two months a year with his mistress and and that's part of his ⁓ marriage is that, you know, I live with you ten months and by two months a year I'm with my mistress. I thought you would think that would be a red sign, you know, or a red flag. Well the Epstein thing. Charles: It it's not only that, but I mean I I don't get wanna get too salacious, but he did some things on the island with with El Elp Epstein and the people Epstein was with that gave her a a certain type of diseases and she wanted to and he wanted to do some type of medical procedure and not inform her. So that's how outrageous it was. So she had to and she said when she met Jeffrey U Epstein that she she felt like he was evil in a few seconds. So and I believe her. But That that aside, Gates runs the Gates Foundation. And one of the things that Bill Gates has been doing is through his foundation, peace funding pretty much exclusively did this comp this company, Oxitech. And what they basically do is they they got this technology, and and and and and what this technology is is done, the wild mosquitoes called anophiles mosquitoes. or the wild mosquitoes that transmit malaria and all type of d diseases in Africa in some parts of Brazil. So what Bill Gates Foundation is funding this country so they can put out a thirty ⁓ they at one point it was putting out thirty thousand mosquitoes and what e what these generically modified mosquitoes does they ⁓ they they they ⁓ they they infect and mate with the the males that create these males to make with the females and it stops them from growing over time. Now, and the and the design of this again is to compact diseases like malaria, donji, zyto, and other diseases, but particular malaria is like ninety-five percent in sub-Saharan Africa. So it is it is couched as Bill Gates doing and his foundation doing a benevolent thing and Stopping these malaria and different diseases like that. But the locals like Bakana Fossi and and other ⁓ nations are saying, first of all, we don't wanna be testing ground for this. We don't know the ecological data. We don't know, we don't know the science behind this. And why are you always coming to Africa to to test these things that's not really scientific? I mean, known yet. So that's really ⁓ the thing. Greg: They're not. Where racism? Charles: Yeah. What it go ahead on. Greg: I mean, I mean, this is just like Tuskegee all Tuskegee all over again where they're just testing African American young men and everything else for all these wonderful diseases and everything out back in the fifties and sixties and probably before that and the forties. I'm sure they've been doing dummy tests on the black community here for decades and centuries and and it's just sick, you know, and it's irritating that I mean it's disgusting that they just keep on using, you know, the the the poor community or the black community or any community that they're not familiar with, period. That doesn't have the means to come up and fight them or had the means to go to to get lawyers to go after them or and and basically it's it's just sad and evil that they're using individuals like that as testomies. Charles: Yeah, I think I think I agree with your character. I think it's evil. I think it's arrogant. I think it's the there's a there's a term in law we call African, but the vestiges of slavery were quite rich billions always thinking they can come and steal, explore, and experiment with lives in Africa. The most fundamental flavor thing I have my concern. Problem with it, Greg, is that when they'll put any thirty thousand mosquitoes out there a week. Greg: Ear against undersayment. Charles: They don't even tell the African people they do it. So who is Bill Gates and and his organization that think that they can just put that kind of ⁓ genetic modified mosquitoes that they groom, put it out there in the public, don't know the health concern, don't know the ecological effect with other animals, ⁓ how it and then some of those animals are attacking the the the children and the elderly. And of course they deny this, but you know, who's gonna tell the truth about stuff like that. But the more deeper concern the the more deeper problem I have with this is that kinda like y you you were saying now, the record of evil of using from the Tuskegee Institute or using black people as the guinea pigs and and e even there is a case now recent case I forget the case number where the the the black lady that they they they they was testing all using some her or her her medical Greg: I mean Charles: parts to do some good long term science benefit, but guess what? Her family were deprived of that. And but but that's that's the kind of story that's been going on and on and on. Greg: Exactly. I mean there's I mean, yeah, people start reading some history which ⁓ we ask everybody to start reading history on both sides and whether you agree with it or not, just start reading everything you can find about the past. I mean you've seen ⁓ basically the the as I would say, the warlords or the chiefs or whoever you want to call ⁓ It basically use, you know, Native Americans, Africans, you know, people from Australia, the Aborigines. I mean, ba basically anybody who doesn't have the ability to come up and stand up against a man. Or or or the government or anybody, you know, this goes back to the surf days and everything else with the surfs and all the fiefdoms and everything back in the medieval times. I mean, we have a historical track record of people using poor, unabled individuals who are actually very strong people and very good people as guinea pigs and test dummies and basically say, you know, let's see if the sickness works on them. If it doesn't then, you know You know, we'll we'll try a different shot or we'll try a different thing or we'll we'll just experiment this way or experiment that way. I mean, we have so much record of it happening over the last several centuries of all the and and the fact that they're still doing it today and they can't find other ways to test things with all the modern science that we have and modern technology that we have, you have to s keep using, you know, humans as a and as tests. Test tubes basically in this very dangerous way is just ridiculous. I mean, we're not talking about the cold here, we're talking about malaria. We're talking about, you know, things that kill people. Right. I mean it it's disgusting. Charles: The the the ethical slippery slope, Greg, is is about this idea of gene editing. I believe we talked about transhuman last week we talked about transhumanism, the idea that they were ⁓ to genetically alter God's creative strength and and you know and and and and and start a procreation. They want to ⁓ merge AI eventually with flesh and to make Greg: Right. Charles: A a a robot like human, half robot him. That that's really the ultimate goal is trying to go. Genetic error edited it should be illegal. Say genetic Greg: Exactly. That's our ultimate goal. But why is it? We shouldn't have to scratch our heads too hard about this whenever we Yeah, I mean, whenever these guys are hanging out at Epstein Island, they're hanging out with pedophiles, they're hanging out with all that kind of stuff. I mean, we shouldn't really s have to scratch our heads too hard on seeing like, you know, why is it like this? Because it it's like this because they're sick. Charles: Right. And then and like I said, the the Wawbacca bacteria is usually found, Greg, like sixty percent of the insect and species, like butterflies and bees. And so you you don't know how that genetic and altering that kind of stuff. You really don't know if you're a local African. You you don't know what what the mosquitoes are, what the effect is long term. But again, there's a bad record of using black people as guinea pig. to advance science. And I I think ultimately what these Elmstein's kind of island trying to get all these remote island for his homo homo homophilia kind of pedophilia kind of non-cause they do. They they want a a a a weird pedophilia kind of world. And they using science to advance that. Evil. Yeah, that that's ultimately what I think they're trying to do. And so I I think Greg: It is, it's very good. Charles: Once again, they need to get out of Africa and g and and I I think I agree with them shutting this Gates Foundation down because I don't trust that their their intention. I'm a straight shooter, American public and internationally. The bottom line is that I thought that the the right wing was very in Lunaville land as related to Mr. Bill Gates. Greg: Yeah, definitely. Charles: And the things that he's doing. Sad to say that, I think there's some long term I'm I'm I'm starting to I thought Bill Gates was okay kind of fella, but his record now I'm very suspect with every move he makes now, because character. When you have a defect in your character, I can't trust nothing that you're trying to do. And I can't put it all, I can't say, well, you're doing this good thing, but you did a bad thing. Yes, that's usually. inconsistent our our human nature, but at the same time, these are foundational things. And my mom always told me, You are who you hang around. And his company that he's been hanging around with is very bad. Yeah. Greg: Highly suspect. It is. I mean, granted, he can't he came up he he came up with Microsoft and that's great. Yeah. That's a great product he came up with and we all enjoy it. We all use Word and Excel and Access and so on and so forth and that's great. I mean, you know, ⁓ very proud that he did that. But that being said, you know, the the the other behavior that he is, you know, proven to have throws a lot of other things that he's doing, the all the altruistic ⁓ humanitarian things that he's doing all suspect on you know exactly on on what his motives are and what the what the altern you know, what what what the end goal is. And and his alternative way of looking at everything. I mean, is it really for the best interest of ⁓ people out there like he says it is, or is it for the best interest for a bottom line for some perverted back end donor? We don't really know. Charles: Yeah, I I agree. But it is almost like Janet Jackson, you know, said, What have you done for me lately? And I think that's really ⁓ Exactly. That's what it's up for now too. So I I mean, so yeah, he he he he gave us Microsoft and and the ridiculous DMs tried to s sue Microsoft at the time for for being a monopoly and they made all the programs high for everybody. Now I think Republicans are right on that. I'm calling like it is, because I was like Greg: Nothing. Nothing. Charles: How leave it to the devil to mess some stuff up. And so, but that being said, Greg: Well that's the thing though. Bill Gates has been a friend of the liberal side and he's been a longtime Democrat supporter here for years. So I mean that's the whole thing. If you want to look the political aspect of it, is it right wing Republicans ⁓ responsible for Bill Gates or the left wing Democrats or is it just both? Well, I think it's both. I think it's all about the Benjamins. I think it's all the Benjamins. It's all about the money. Yeah. It's all about bottom line. I mean, ⁓ we all know I'm a Mac user myself. We all know that most of the So that he got from Microsoft and everything was stolen from Mac anyway. So I mean, you know, you know, it's it's weird. And how he got there is not ethical and and whenever you talk about the ethics and the demeanor and the of a person in charge, you have to really think really hard about all that. Charles: Well, kudos to Barquino Faso and their leadership. Well, ⁓ Brother Abraham, Ibrahim, and ⁓ also Kenya. They lead in the African nation rejecting ⁓ of the Gates Foundation. Literally they kicked him out of Africa. So kudos to them for that. Now let's let's transition to the topic that, you know, the whole world is kind of talking about. Yeah, yeah. Gas are dropping. Why is that? Greg: Gas is dropping. Charles: Now, from what we this this this this Iran warfare or this ⁓ the legal ⁓ dropping of billion dollar bombs on Iran, how are we gonna classify Greg: Yeah, freedom in Iran. It was not a war. Yeah. It was a battle. Charles: Let's say it ⁓ a war that he said wasn't award, then he said it was a war. I don't know how many times flip flopped on that, but but l let's say it l this kinda the the memorandum of understanding was leaked out ⁓ late last night, I believe, and Greg: Is that a war? Yeah. No flip on the fly. Yeah. Pretty good. Charles: was talking about it. So this is all boiled down to I want to deal with this in the context of once again, I wish Tony was on here tonight to talk about I I three hundred this three hundred billion dollar is reparations. This is all what it is because because you you you you you use billions to bomb Iran, then you say, okay, we're gonna give you three hundred billion dollars to r to repair what we broke up. But Greg: Twenty twenty two. You dropped Charles: You know, blacks still the only group ever ha have never got reparation. So now you get three hundred billion dollars. You also get that twenty five billion dollars, a twenty five billion dollars, half of that up Greg: Not well. Forty percent, not half, forty. Forty? Forty percent up front. Yeah, forty percent up front. Charles: Okay, forty percent of that up front and and you still get the rest. And remember, this is not the full agreement, this is the minimum remote understanding. So you get four percent of that up front. Greg: But but they have to promise not to fund terrorism. Yeah. They gotta keep their word. They gotta keep their word. Charles: What what what criminal have you ever known to make that they done criminal activity? No one does admissions. No no no I mean Greg: They are promising that they will I mean, first of all, they can't get to the uranium, so they can't do anything with uranium or nuclear weapons, so that's a big condition. And I think, you know, physically I don't think they're able to get to the uranium anyway, 'cause I think only America can and China are actually able to get to it. So they're gonna be able to keep that condition pretty good, I think, 'cause they don't have the manpower to do it. I don't think they have the resources at this moment to be funding Hamas and Hezbollah. And hopefully, you know, actually I after we give them the money, they probably will have the money and Charles: Yeah. Greg: Not maybe maybe they can maybe they can not use that money for maybe it'd be a cool thing if for Iran and the IRGC if they worried about their people first. You know? Maybe if they just act like a country instead of a terrorist nation and just worry about their people first, they would, you know, they'd have the resources and they'd have the benefits of working in a free state in America and so on and so forth if they just actually quit funding the murdering of people. That's really All we're asking them to do is just quit killing people. And that's, you know it's a good idea. Charles: I if you if you if but ⁓ if you are Iran citizen or whatever, you would say, Well, America you know, you took Obamacare that you know can save people's lives and so you you're not taking care of your people. I mean and and so Greg: Well, okay, well th there's a big difference on on that. Okay. First of all in America we have three hundred and eighty million people. It's a little bit our healthcare system is a little bit a little bit different here and and that's really one one thing I talked about a lot of people with health care when it comes to national health care. When it's a small little I mean, how many people are in Iran? What, thirty million people? Charles: Think a lot more than that. I I don't know the exact number but Greg: I mean, I mean i i it's about the average size of probably Texas or California. And so and so w w whenever you have like states like that, states can control their own health care a lot differently than and I think the biggest problem that America has on their national health care issues that we have so many people, we have so many different ⁓ plan plans in place already. It's such a chaotic mess in all fifty states, and all several thousand counties and everything else. And so we don't have a way to uniformly do it. And also ⁓ we don't have the manpower to manage it properly. I mean you can manage it, I think, ⁓ safe I that's the reason why a lot of these countries have really good national health care, because a lot of these countries are about the size of Georgia or they're about the size of California or New York. They're manageable. They are not three hundred and thirty million people. And in fact a lot of the people we don't even know are here because you know nobody wants to give them IDs and nobody everybody's crying about deportations and this and that. And we have no idea who the heck they are. We got probably twenty or thirty million people here with no IDs or no identification whatsoever. So we gotta figure out a way to you know, if you do national health care, cover that. And how do you cover somebody that doesn't exist? I don't know, you figure that one out. Somebody can figure out how it does cover non existent people who don't want to be re recorded. And somebody lets know how well that works out for you and that'd be great. But the reality is that the the the the the size of our our population is one reason why I don't think we can have the national health care management at this moment in time that ⁓ we should have, or they do in other s other nations. Well, Charles: The the thing is is that ⁓ you know, all these billions of dollars that ⁓ that that that Iran is gonna get, the Iran got one hundred percent grab. What it it what it Greg: ⁓ it's ridiculous. Well a lot of it was theirs already. Yeah. We're just unfreezing it. Well Well, three hundred billion is American jobs. Charles: three hundred B one days. Well well I I well I don't know what kind of job that's gonna be over in Iran. I mean I don't know how kind of working job Greg: We're gonna have construction I I'm sure Halliburton's gonna do a great job and I'm sure probably Davis construction or floor construction or some other big ⁓ international construction companies are gonna do a great job taking a lot of ⁓ American citizens over there and T D Y Pay and stuff like that to to to to rebuild and they ⁓ ever seen the movie Charlie Wilson's War? Yeah. They're talking about all the ⁓ That was great book and they kept on talking about bombing Afghanistan and ⁓ Afghanistan ⁓ going after Russia and so on and so forth and at the end of the war, what do we do? Do we do we do nation building or do we just like leave it up to the terrorists to go ahead and take care of it and then it ends up becoming a self-fulfilling, you know, prophecy that it's gonna happen again. And I've always been a fan of nation building and I know a lot of my Republican friends all think, ⁓ my god, why do you say that? I'm like, seriously, I mean, if you're gonna bomb the crap out of a country and try to set people free and everything, you're just gonna leave it like that, then you're basically asking the the people who are gonna exploit the weaknesses of all the downchot all the people who are lost all their places, you're gonna expect them to go ahead and raise them and and guide them to to hate everybody who bombed them and and to hate America more or hate anybody or whoever the person is who bombed that country more. So I think that if you destroy a country, you should not destroy a country unless you're thinking about rebuilding it because you cannot leave them in that state. It's like Israel and Palestine, the whole issue issue over there and the Palestinians they're like He's gonna rebuild this. I'm like there's no way in the world you can just leave it like that in the Stone Age for the regular citizens who had nothing to do with the war in Palestine or nothing to do with it in Israel or Beirut or Lebanon or any of those places. I mean, I'm not, you know, y nation building is not a good thing to to do, but it's also not a good thing to do nation destruction. If you're gonna destroy a nation, you need to make sure that, you know, ⁓ you have some sort of infrastructure left for the people because i i what's gonna happen is that whenever they get up, they start doing it on their own. They're gonna go after you again. Well, what they're They're gonna hate you even more. They they're gonna they're gonna target more terrorist attacks on the country that came after them. And and people don't realize terrorism is not like the old school war. It's all suitcase bombs, it's it's hijackings, it's it's random, you know, a la carte weaponry and terrorism. It it's it it's doesn't have to be a army marching across the sea like it was in the past. Charles: But this is the thing, okay. Why would this president go and have he go have this this this this ⁓ memorandum understanding signed and executed? The very place where Germany surrendered. Why? Greg: I don't know why he does anything. No idea. I have no idea why he does half the things he does. I nor do I really care. You know, I all I care is about is that the war is ending and and basically ⁓ hopefully it ends. Hopefully, I mean we we have done we we achieved two things in this war. Everybody says we didn't get anything out of it. We did we achieved two things. A, we made America a lot more energy sufficient, energy independent. We opened up a lot of other pipelines all across the world that we make us a lot less dependable dependents on the ⁓ Middle East oil. We also ⁓ got a lot a few of the countries out of OPEC to be more independent and working with America for energy independence. And then we also did di debilitate their resources ⁓ to a degree to where they don't they are not able to instantly fund Has Hamas and Hezbollah at the moment. And technically, according to the agreement, which I think they're gonna keep, but In order for them to keep their funding and to get funding, they are not gonna be funding terrorism and now Rainy, that's neither here nor there. We have no idea if that's gonna really happen or not. I you know, betting it's probably not gonna happen, but ideally we got them to ⁓ to agree to that. And that's a good thing. I mean th that that's not bad. It's not a g it's not a bad thing to say that they wanna kill people. I mean that's a good thing. If they keep Which I don't think they will. Charles: Greg the the thing before this so-called war, Greg, it was it was informally understood by international warriors that Iran did not have exclusive control over the Strait of Hamoose. They just asserted that, and now we've basically codified that. So if you got ⁓ of a Strait of Hamous, you don't need a nuclear weapon. You don't need that now. Because Greg: They do now. No, they don't. And they've they've proven that. Charles: before this Greg, now this administration has gave to take control of the the street anytime they feel like it. Greg: Yeah, we messed that up. But a part of the agreement also, part of the MOU is also that they cannot charge tolls and they cannot restrict or control anything. So I mean a lot of there's a lot of conditions that hopefully they'll be enforced. Now I don't know if Obama, whenever he has a deal, had any these conditions that were enforceable or not, or you know, Obama just did a lot of drone attacks and started killing people randomly. Whenever he is a president and everything. So I mean, you know, he had his own way of enforcing it by just doing a a manned drone and blowing up a guy while he's having dinner or something like that. I mean that's the way he enforced it, but I don't know I don't know if Trump is gonna enforce anything here or not, or if it's enforceable or not. Hopefully it is. And ⁓ I mean, 'cause the conditions are there to where you know the street has to be open. There are no gonna not gonna be any tools on the street to restrict any kind of commerce or any kind of trade. ⁓ Charles: Well to clarify I so called the ⁓ deal involved seven or eight of our allies. So it was it was a joint multilateral deal. Greg: Yeah, but our alli our allies liked Obama. Our allies right now do not like Trump. So that's a whole different we're in a different world. Charles: Right, right. Because I mean, listen. Greg: Our allies don't like Trump because Trump's Obama was paying the them to do stuff and Trump was asking them to kick in money to NATO. So Trump is asking them for money when Obama and ⁓ the Republicans and the Democrats way back then was was was paying the Allies to do stuff. They're they're funding and subsidizing the Allies, where now Trump is asking the Allies to subsidize us back. So they don't like us as much. Charles: Well, I I disagree with that, but th th th that that's for another day. I mean Greg: They don't. They don't like why would they I mean they don't like tr they don't like Trump because Trump is Trump. They like Obama because Obama's Obama. Charles: that it was in their strategic and actual interest to do that, Greg. I mean they knew that. Greg: Well it is. I mean they worked with Obama a lot better. Charles: Well, I read knew that they did not have exclusive control of that straight. And so therefore the Obama regime presidency didn't know they couldn't do that. And the Allies did have ⁓ have you know monitor that whole area. So it was like a rotating kind of thing. So it w it wasn't unilateral on one nation. It was spread around. Greg: Maybe next thing they do. Can't you believe that was fourteen years ago? Charles: Wow, it's been a long time. Yeah. Greg: Yeah, I mean we just think about I mean I think about the ⁓ we're talking about the Obama presidency here. I mean we're talking about like two thousand twelve and thirteen to fourteen. We're in twenty twenty six now. We're still in this big mess. But but the Allies and also you gotta realize the Allies back in tw those guys are different than the Allies now. I mean, the governments are different than they were now. I mean the leadership is different than it's not the you know, it's not the same leadership. Charles: Right. Yeah. Greg: for the same countries now. I mean, i these guys don't like Trump and, you know, the same level the degree as they did like Obama. I mean, they also like What W's doing. And he screwed up a lot of military stuff. Well, we talked about you know, I mean he had a lot of mistakes. Charles: Well, this is the thing, Greg. You can't you can't bully respect and you can't buy respect and you can't disrespect respect. Can't do either. So when you go around here, words matter, what I'm saying. Character matters, like we begin the program with. So when you go around here insulted, dropping Greg: Okay. ⁓ A name calling us a name. Charles: ⁓ these nations and then when you need these nations, you think they're gonna come and help you out? No, that's that that's not a that's an insult against comedy. Greg: No. I mean well, I mean it's all gets common sense. I mean Trump has his own way of negotiating. I mean Trump has done ⁓ hi his way this way for I guess fifty some odd years and and and it doesn't always work. And sometimes it does work and sometimes it doesn't. But you're correct. I agree with you a hundred percent. You cannot, you know, be bullying people and calling ⁓ names and slandering ⁓ But at the same time, whene whenever the the people love Trump, he loves them. A Putin or the Pakistani president or anybody anybody likes Trump. He likes him back. He said, I can work with this guy. He likes me. No guy who doesn't like Trump, you know, Trump doesn't like anybody who doesn't like him. Well he likes to be liked. He likes to be liked. I mean he he Trump is Trump is a definition of a human. Humans like to be liked. Charles: Listen, great. citizen. That changes like a twenty times in a day, Greg. What people it does. I think Putin and all those real they don't like him. They just using it. And he know he the only one Greg: ⁓ It does change a lot. There's that possibility, yeah. That's the thing. I think he does know it. I think yeah I think he's actually ahead of the game. I think he knows it and he's using them back. I think I don't think he's ⁓ dumb to the fact that people are using him and they're they're they're that he's just like sitting around looking around like what's going on. I mean, I I think he he's trying to use them back. I think there's a there's a method to his chess game. I don't think I don't agree with all of it, but I'm not surprised by it. I think it's Charles: I think he does. Greg: nego i is it's private sector negotiation. I mean, it's not government work. It's not government he's not acting like a regular president. This is once again, the first time we've had a president from the private sector come directly from the private sector to the presidency. We've never had that in the last century. We've always had people who are who've been brought up and molded in the political sector and the and you're they're a mayor or they're a governor or they're a congressman or a senator or Or CIA director or something like that. They've always been brought up and molded by protocol and political protocol and the political pedigrees and so on and so forth. We have never had somebody just jump in the deep end like this. And this is what it looks like. It's messy, it's ugly, it's it's irritating to a lot of people. It's a communications nightmare. And will it work? We don't know. Will it not work? We don't know. I mean A lot of people think it's failing, a lot of people think it's succeeding. Like people who benefit think it's great, people who don't benefit think it's horrible. You know, people who are invested in the stock market are extremely happy when it's up and extremely d down when it's down. Charles: Yeah, 'cause great. I mean if you if I mean Greg: It's a mess. It's a total mess right now. I will say that. ⁓ Charles: Listen, the the being there buddies of his that's in the stocks and high stock and in startup companies that usually his kids are ⁓ a a major vessel or major owner involved with, he controls he controls and manipulates the stock market every day for the benefit of this you know. Greg: Wrong. And I agree, and that's wrong. Anybody who manipulates the stock market is wrong. Yeah. Charles: Yeah. Well, let's go to our final Yeah. Exactly. Because yeah, I mean th the laws obviously with this Supreme Court, the laws don't apply to him. Greg: Who's gonna who's gonna enforce it though? Well well the the laws didn't apply to any of that except for ⁓ that senator from New Jersey. He got in trouble for it. ⁓ Senator Menendez. But I mean but almost everybody else has been getting away from it. I mean AOC gets away, I mean Ted Cruz, I mean Rampaugh, I mean any any senator up there I I I I don't know anybody who's benefiting directly, so I'm not accusing any of them of doing that, but any congressperson, they all have their own ways of of Finding out information and getting a buddy or a relative to to invest something and and they're they're doing it. I mean, every single congress person out there, I mean, ⁓ allegedly, and this is me probably oversimplifying it, their net worth has increased three to four hundred percent, all of them. It's not because the government pay is that much more. It's not. It's because it it's their the ⁓ tricks and trades that they learn about They're benefiting off of it and that's just a fact. And it doesn't matter what party they're in, it's all parties, all five hundred and thirty five of them, and the president and their staff and everybody around ⁓ So you probably got several thousand people in the beltway here making a killing off information that nobody else is privy to. And they're all getting away with it, not just the guy in charge. Everybody below ⁓ too. Charles: Yeah. Well, let's transition to our fun topic and I the night what we call this Yeah, yeah. The power of God is this is our pocket section. And what we're gonna talk about, Greg, is Dion Sanders, prime time Dion Sanders, the head coach other co cavalo above that guy. Football team in Colorado on a collegiate level. Now Greg: We're having fun already. Prime T. Charles: Recently it came out ⁓ not too long ago that Dion Sanders is now cancer free. He is cancer free. Really? Many, many surgeries he's had. He's had a rough few years. But in this context, the power of God is. I don't see an athlete or entertainer like a public figure, however you want to call it, on his level that I believe genuinely pushes the the the the faith of God in Jesus Christ in an authentic way. I think there's a lot of celebrities and athletes. I would say besides Denzel Washington. Denzel Washington is is is is one is one of my favorite actors of all he's the real deal. When I talk ⁓ when I talk ⁓ about devil wood, there's some exception to that. Denzel Washington is the top of that list. So there's you know, but but again, but Deion Sanders is another Greg: Tim Tebow too. So Tim Tebow as well. Charles: guy that I really like, not not because he went to ⁓ Florida State. I went to Florida State. ⁓ Greg: That's one reason I have a knock on ⁓ but yeah. Charles: But the thing is, is because the passion and the fire that he has as a promoter, definitely an ambassador for Christ, ⁓ the word ⁓ the kingdom of God instructs us to be an ambassador for the the the the the the Lord Jesus. And he carries that mantle really well. And it and it and it's not as easy as people may think, Greg, when you when you're on that level with all the cameras on you all the time. you know, trying to nitpick every little move you make, every everything you tweet, everything you interview, the different shows, the podcast he's on. So to Dion Sanders, ⁓ I I I probably pray for a lot of those celebrity people, ⁓ particularly those ones in Devil Wood and Entertainment Arena, but I I'm I'm very excited for him and his family and I wish him God speed i in his in his endeavor because it just shows you Greg: Exactly. Charles: And I want everybody to listen to me that God is real. Faith is real. And Jesus Christ is real. And ⁓ and and and all you gotta do is invite him in your life, invite him, invite him in your circumstances, and then you have to surrender. You you can't ask God to fix things and you wanna take it back from God and and and do it yourself. Because God and the Holy Spirit is a it will allow you to wreck yourself if you wanna drive. Greg: Exactly. Charles: He'll let you drive, but you need to ride and let God drive you. Let God lead your life in spirit and in spirit. You know, and so Dion Sanders is an example of most of the time people don't understand that we people of faith, and in particular the faith of Jesus, and I like to say Jesus disciples of Jesus, because disciples mean you try to live and follow and do what Jesus did. These days you got the money, people call themselves Christians. So but I I rather So, and I'm just I'm just telling you that listen, things don't always go the way you want to go in the time you want to go. But you need to always realize that God is the owner of time. So he's never late. He's never late. He's the owner of time. So God's time is not our time. But because he's the owner of time, he's he's never late. And you just gotta endure. Greg: I mean, exactly. I I can't agree more. It's like a lot of people say God never answered my prayer and I'm like, No, God's not answering is his answering. I mean it God answers everything on his schedule, on his time and just I mean, believe me, I myself, me, myself and I, my family and we've been through a lot this last couple of years here with a lot of sick families and members and I lost my father and everything and lost my mom a f a few years ago. But whenever I look at ⁓ something I've been through it's pales in comparison to what other people are going through. I mean Everybody thinks that their situation's worse in the world a and it is to them. But it's nothing compared to what God can handle. And i i if you give everything to God and and trust in him and the things will work out and the way and it might they might not work out the way you want. They you might not be able to keep the the lifestyle you want or or the choices you want. You might not be able to get the the food you want or the car you want or something. I mean, there's a lot of disappointment that comes with what we want. But the biggest disappointment that doesn't have to happen if you do what God wants. If you do what God is pushing and what God is providing for you, then there shouldn't be any disappointments. If you have a little bit less of what you had a f a few years ago, whenever you were more financially resilient, then that's great. But you have less and then you're still happy because you're happy because God puts that situation and you're you know, as my dad would always say, you woke up six feet over instead of six feet under. And so You know, I mean w w whenever you start looking at life as, you know, how you're handling it for what God provides for you instead of what you're trying to handle it for what you provided for you. Anybody who says that they're the provider of the household or the man's a provider of the household, nobody provides anything without the Lord allowing you to do it to do it. And with Dion Sand and with Dion and with Dion Sanders, I mean, I've been following him for years and ⁓ I was ⁓ I I hated him for years for being a Florida State player and not a Florida Gator. And ⁓ Charles: Amen. Greg: But that being said, he was an incredible player, gr incredible athlete. I mean, I I know he lost two or three toes on one foot. I it was from diabetes. ⁓ he had diabetes ⁓ also. And and so I mean he is he's fought, you know, hard with ⁓ diabetic issues and cancer issues and and ⁓ you know, the the way he handles his teams and the way he handles his players. It's a little bit of showmanship, it's a little bit of cavalier behavior, but that's just who he is. I mean he he he's a person who I I think I think I I'd actually compare Dion to Trump. ⁓ Dion ⁓ is coaching and taking on the coaching world the very same way how Trump is taking on the presidency. It's a very nonchalant, non professional and non traditional way of doing it. And like it or not, he's handling his teams the way he handles his teams. And ⁓ and like I said before with ⁓ Trump and The presidency. I mean, a lot of people already think that he's failed in several d areas. A lot of people who support him think he's succeeding, but history's gonna tell us in the end how it's gonna be. And we only have a year and a half, two years left. But with Dion is a coach, we probably have another a few decades left of him being a coach. And we're gonna see how his teams flourish or don't flourish, but rather not the teams, but we're gonna see how the players that he's influenced, the players that he's ⁓ taught, ⁓ the pla the players that he's ⁓ brought up and cultured and and and and you know, mentored how they're gonna benefit from his relationship with God or not. And so I I think I think we're gonna see a lot of very pi positive benefits with it. I think his son gets a bad deal. Sheridan gets a horrible deal from the media and from everybody just going after him, looking at him every single which way, not realizing this is just a kid who just graduated college here. I mean he I mean all these young athletes get so much pressure and so much media attention and negative way because they're all expecting them to be exactly who they're not. And just let them be players and just let them grow up and and quit putting all the media pressure on them. Quit putting all the spotlight pressure on them and just let them grow into their own. I mean, you know, not everybody's a perfect Christian every day. Not everybody's a perfect person every day. I mean, part of being human is that we are extremely flawed people. I mean, we are extremely flawed in every way. But in order to overcome that you have to keep your relationship with God and your eye on the right dire in the right direction. Sometimes people fall short of that. I fall short of that every day. I mean I have extremely a lot of failures and everything else. But I at the end of the day and how throughout the day, I'm always asking God, you know, to help correct why I just screwed up. But see Charles: We know that, you know, Jesus is the only one that's perfect and we all we all have ⁓ Greg: That's the reason why we go to him. Charles: See, and the thing is is that what what what I want everybody that's listening to us to understand is that we God loves us with all our defects, with all our deficiencies, with all our imperfections. It's covered under the blood when you have that personal relationship with him a and and and letting him be your Lord and Savior. When when he's your Lord and Savior, he erases the mistakes and the defects you do when you sincerely repent. Greg: Exactly. Charles: And he's a God of another chance, not a second chance. God is a God of another chance. And his grace you can't even articulate the power of God's grace. And so but Dion Sanders and his family represent endurance. You know, they represents, you know, they do they do a lot of stuff and a lot of stuff they shouldn't have to do. But it coming from a lot of people attack them from a position of jealousy and hate and silly. But but when when God is for you Greg: Yes. They do. Charles: know words say when God is for you, who could be against you? It's just you have you have to understand. And so I do want to say this, Greg, because you mentioned something about fathers. I know that I too have lost my father. And today, this weekend is it is Father's Day. And I wanna say that we are praying for all you fathers out there, ⁓ the ones who put on your books and go to work and work hard or wherever you wear a suit, what whatever you do. Greg: Right. Charles: You do it to the best to serve your family, you know, as serving leaders and for the all those in the military protecting us all over all over the world, protecting us so we can have the freedoms to to run our big mouths on a platform like this because y you know, you men and and women it is a freedom that we enjoy. And I know many people, you know, will be really reflective and the sad part about it, Greg, is that Greg: Exactly. Charles: Men don't really get and foggles don't really get the full recognition that they deserved. After they died. And you know, I'm gonna say this. Steve Harvey, the the comedian, entertainer, he said something about a couple of months ago that was so profound. And I used to say this to myself, but he said this publicly and and I'm summarizing but i in essence what he was saying was that when he had ⁓ Greg: No, we don't. If you Charles: Year or two after losing his father, and when Father's Day and his birthdays come up, he he he realized as a man that your father is the only true man that will want you to be greater than him. And that was such a profound revelation. And I talked about not so positive, like, but I want to, when they say something that's profound a a a revelatory revelation in exactly is and it's good. I'm gonna I I I'll say it and I I want to acknowledge Steve Hogan saying it because it was so true. And when I heard it, I was aware of it, but he made it so crystal clear. And it started making me reflect. When he said that, Greg, I started looking and to reflect on my father from from a infant to all the way to now. There was no greater, you know, male cheerleader, how you recall that, that wanted me to exceed and spoke, you know, college and what I'm doing now in law school. He spoke that over me. It was my mother, but but but I knew he meant it. You know what I mean? And Greg: Exactly. So Yeah, I r I remember whenever C Harvey said that, my we were actually watching that and my my dad was watching that. Wow. My dad looked at me, he said, That's exactly the way I am. I want you to make sure that whatever you're doing, that I'm teaching you how to be to do everything better than me. And and I just I cried everything at the time. I mean my my my father was my best friend and so we were very close. I mean, I was caretaker the last two years of his life, but Not just being a caretaker. As a mentor, as a as a person who basically shuffled me all over the place playing banjo and Dobro as musician. He was our ⁓ he was our ⁓ driver for the band back when I was a high school, all the way from when I was fifteen years old. And and you know, I was blessed, I was spoiled, and I was lucky that my dad would ever never tell me no. And he I was always there for me. And I was ⁓ I was one of those kids who got extremely lucky. Dad, one the most spiritual driven fathers I I'd ever met in in the world. But at the same time being pragmatic also, he wasn't just a lot of fathers would be just to be overly spiritual or just be overly this or overly that. And my dad had a equal balance on every single level. And he was an incredible father. And and so I got blessed with that. I got lucky with that. And I know a lot of other people do not have that feeling. But, you know, I you know, it's like you said. Well Steve Harvey said, I mean the biggest thing I I mean I have eight stepchildren and ⁓ I got two children of my own then six stepdaughters. And I want them all to just be the better person than I am and and and my partner. She she just says the same thing. We want them to to not make the mistakes that we did and teach them that. I mean 'cause I made a lot of mistakes. And teaching them how not to repeat those and be better. Charles: Yeah. And I'm important. Yeah. And I think that again, before we we just want to close out, but I just want to say happy Father's Day to all the fathers that that you you don't get seen and noticed. And sometimes in your own household you feel like you're you're all alone, but you're not alone. And sometimes you don't always get, you know, your your reward until it's too late, but you do it because Greg: Definitely. Charles: God requires you to be a good steward and a good father. And but somebody will notice. And sometimes people are noticing you, but they're not saying anything. And but you do it because you want your kids to be greater than you. Because ultimately that's your ultra responsibility to send your sons and daughters off in this world as seeds of you, a repo ⁓ a a part of you in the earth and and give them the the the the the discretion to be who God designed them to be to be, but with your influence and impact on their life. And that's what it's all about. But ⁓ anything else you wanna go before we close out, correct? Anything you wanna Greg: say no I think we I think we could talk about dads for like two or three hours. So I think we'll we'll go ahead and leave it at that for right now. We'll we'll bring that up a little later. But no I I think this is a great show. I think it's been a great show and I think everybody needs to s follow us and subscribe your channel. I mean you're also gonna have your own ⁓ right now the Kingdom Revelations is on the PowerPox Media Network ⁓ YouTube channel and also on all of all the other platforms for the network, but you're we're gonna be having his own individual channel here starting next week. So You can follow us in both places. You can follow Kingdom Revelation on its own individual channel as well as the PowerPox Media Network channel. So there's gonna be plenty of time for anybody to follow every single thing you're doing. Charles: Yeah, and and and and and and again, brothers and sisters, this is a God movement where we're unapologetically about we feel that God voice it is needs to be heard in the kingdom. There are powers that be that don't like what we're saying, but we don't care. We we have first amendment right to say what we want to say and we believe that this is divine time. We want you to get revelation, won't you to look within that man a or woman in the mirror and be greater. We we really want you to be the best version of you that God creates you to be. And so again, follow us everywhere because this is a people power move. Greg: Yeah, 'cause we're in a we're in a apple pod yeah, we're in the Apple Podcast, we're on Facebook. Charles: Exactly, exactly. So again, till next week, may God be with you and always rock on. Good night everybody. Good night, Greg. Greg: Good night, Charles.