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Acts chapter 12 describes Peter's imprisonment by Herod and his literal freedom

Acts chapter 12 is where we are this week. Acts, chapter 12. One of the accounts, here is of Peter and his imprisonment, his imprisonment by Herod and his literal freedom, his literal chain breaking, where Peter is freed here. So I'm going to read a couple verses in Acts chapter 12, looking at verses 5 through 7. Peter was therefore kept in prison. But constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church. And when Herod was about to bring him out that night, Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers. And the guards before the door were keeping the prison. Now, behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him and a light Shone around the prison or in the prison, and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, arise quickly. And his chains fell off his hands. So That's Acts, chapter 12, verse verses five through seven, where Peter, is freed. not just spiritually, but also physically as well. And so, That's Acts, chapter 12, verses five through seven.

Bobby's wife Denise catered in cookies this morning for the show

Well, Bobby, this is five years and one day at the core. Is that right?

>> Bobby Roza: Bam. Just like that.

>> Bobby Roza: You would be correct, sir.

>> Walker Wildmon: Five years and one day of at the core. So July 12th was our day one, right? 2021. 2021. So five years of at the core and hundreds and hundreds over a couple thousand episodes. Oh yeah, usually of at the The Core. So how time flies when you're having fun. Yes, exactly. So congratulations to the audience for five years of the The Core. And Bobby's wife Denise catered in cookies this morning. And I'm at least on, on cookie number three, but who's counting? And my wife just came in and got a couple for her and Elizabeth. Don't tell my boys that we got cookies and they didn't because they're not here right now. So, shout out to Denise. We'll have to export some today. Yeah, I mean, we're like running, I mean we're running a, like a multi pronged business up here because we've got, we've got people's, we got employees, spouses that do all kinds of businesses. So pretty much whatever we need done around here, we can get it done by somebody's spouse. So in this instance, your wife Denise, Bobby, called, Brent Alston's wife. So Brent's producer or bored op for exploring the word. and maybe one other show that I'm not thinking about. but Brent's wife Stephanie is a baker.

>> Walker Wildmon: So Joyful Sweets is the company. And I think they're out of New Albany now because they just moved. Yeah. Okay, good. So she, she baked our cookies. So whatever you need done, just holler at somebody from AFR and we'll get you fixed up. There you go. So thanks to Stephanie and Denise for the cookies. Quite the treat. And we do have Steve Tabor with us, to talk about some of the deployments and the projects they've been working on in the last few months.

Steve Tybor is founder, president of Eight Days of Hope

for this segment, Steve Tabor is founder, president of Eight Days of Hope and he is with us now. Hey Steve, welcome back to afr.

>> Steve Tybor: Yeah, welcome or thank you for having me. And please give them my address for Cookie delivery. I could use a couple today, I promise you.

>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, come on by the studio, brother. Send the rapid response trucks over here and we'll get you your cookies. Hey, hey, Steve. our audience here is very familiar with the work of Eight Days of Hope. We've been partners with you from day one, literally going back to Hurricane Katrina. but you guys have expanded so much. You're doing so many different things. You've got, three or four different divisions that are doing different things. So bring us up to speed on some of the projects and the deployments you've worked on in the last few months.

>> Steve Tybor: Yeah, thank you, Walker. In the last 30 days, we had seven deployments to four different states. We've never been more than three places at one time, but thankful, for the support of American Family Radio AFA the last 20 years. So many of our volunteers are everyday listeners of all that you produce at afr. We're so thankful. But yeah, it's been pretty intense. You know, we have four arms of the ministry, Rapid Response, a rebuilding arm, a mass feeding arm, and then we build safe places for women and children rescued from trafficking. So I'll start with the last one, the trafficking part. It's the fastest growing crime in the world. We started about six weeks ago, finishing a facility in Houston. They're rescuing women right now during the World cup and they've rescued, I believe, about a dozen women so far. we remodeled, renovated an eight bedroom house as temporary housing before these women will be transferred to a long term care facility. So, that was our first safe house project. Just not too long ago. We just finished one in Naples, Florida with a ministry called Eden house. Renovated a 3200 square foot beautiful ranch. And then we finished another project for Way Out Ministries in Memphis, Tennessee. So three of our deployments had to do with safe houses. Houston, Naples, Florida, Tennessee. Our Rapid response division deployed to Salina, Kansas. And Walker. I just want you know, when I went to Salina, Kansas, everyone asked me if I knew Walker and Tim Wildmon. And when I, when I told them that I used to coach Walker in basketball, they're like, wow, you're old. I'm like, I'm not that old. But, I did tell them that you were our best player for multiple years and that that got them all excited as well. But they just couldn't believe that I knew you and Tim and JJ and Jon and they, you know, they wanted my autograph just because I know you guys, which was pretty interesting. But there was A De Rocho. A de Rocho is a straight line windstorm of 100 miles or more. So we deployed a rapid response and mass feeding team to Salina, and then we were in Maryville, Indiana. EF2 tornado ripped through that town, caused so much damage, our mass feeding teams and a rapid response team was there as. So it's been a very, very, very busy 30 days. But by the grace of God, we've been able to love people and serve the brokenhearted. We've seen many come to know Jesus for the first time. And again, going to markets where AFR has long been known, like Salon of Kansas always brings on some, interesting conversations.

>> Walker Wildmon: Steve, you guys have grown so much over the years. you've mentioned a couple of the divisions that you're operating now. the mass feeding, is something that just fits very well with what you're doing because you guys show up at these, especially the natural disasters, whether it's rapid response or a full rebuilding trip. And food, obviously, is just a core element of human life. I mean, without food and shelter and water, you just, you can't sustain life. And so from day one of your ministry and deployments, even going back to Katrina, food had to be a part of the plan. And so you launching a mass feeding arm makes perfect sense. Not just on, for, for, not just for your own sustainment, but for also serving, communities.

Eight Days of Hope launches mass feeding arm during power outages

So talk about how that's grown, the level of, of meals you can output and how that's how that's come along.

>> Steve Tybor: You know, Walker, we've, we've added so much equipment to our mass feeding arm. That's the arm that I think the next three years not only will double, but will probably triple in size whenever there's a power outage. So like with Winter Storm Fern in Mississipp, Mississippi, where you live, where I used to live. You know, earlier this year, we saw a power outage that affected some families for 14 to 21 days. And people, you know, once, I don't know about you, but when I lose power for an hour, I get grumpy. But, you know, food goes bad, stores can't stay open. If you don't own a generator, you're out of luck. You know, we delivered tens of thousands of meals in Mississippi. And that's what we've been doing since we've launched this arm. Our mask feeding team shows up. We always do our best to work through a local church because we're going to go home. But like in Maryville, Indiana, and in Salina, Kansas, you work with the church, you let them hand out the food so they can invite those families to church. And we just make thousands of meals per every cycle. And so the goal all along was to make 8,000 meals per cycle. As you know, we're expanding our ministry. in January, excuse me, in the first quarter of 2027, our new mass feeding kitchen in Tupelo, Mississippi, will have been built and that be able to produce 10,000 meals per cycle. Which means if we see a hurricane coming and it's headed to Georgia or Florida, we can go ahead and make 20, 30, 40,000 meals, freeze them and go down, be ready to warm them up, to hand them out, through the local church. So that arm continues to grow. If you're listening today and you love working in the kitchen, maybe you owned a restaurant, maybe you've never owned a restaurant, but everyone comes to you because you just love getting your hands, messy with food. Come join us. You can do one of two things. You can email us at info infoightdaysofhope.com or you can text the word HOPE to the number 86373. Text the word HOPE 86373. And whenever we go anywhere, we'll m invite you to come. Remember, it's free. We provide food and lodging. All you have to do is say yes. So, yeah, that mass vegan arm continues to take off. Walker.

>> Walker Wildmon: Amen. Steve. Hey, Steve. there's a couple things. Well, you need primarily the Lord's blessing on the ministry to help sustain it and make it to be effective. but also there's some very tangible practical needs that you have from a volunteer standpoint, from a donation standpoint. So for those listening that are spurred on and really encouraged by what you're doing, tell, them a couple ways that they can be a part of eight days of hope.

>> Steve Tybor: Yeah, you know, I say it all starts with prayer. I mean, everything we do, we pray. We start with prayer, we end with prayer, we pray with the families we serve, we invite them back to dinner, and that's where they hear the gospel after seeing the gospel being lived out by volunteers. So pray. Pray for the ministry of eight days of hope. Secondly, volunteer, come hang out with us. our rapid response division, you have to be 16 years of age or older. Our rebuilding trips, any age can come. Our mass feeding, our safe house. There's, you know, all that information is on the website at 8daysof.com. So volunteer. Lastly, give, you know, we have 20 partners, including American Family Radio. They're on Our website, they give yearly to eight Days of Hope. In essence, they cover our fixed cost. So when you say here's a hundred dollars for Salina, Kansas, all hundred dollars is going to go to Salina, Kansas. It doesn't go to our laptop or salary or a truck or fuel. It's, it's providing food or tarps or chainsaw work, for those in need. So pray, volunteer, donate. You can donate online at 8daysofhope.com or very simply text the word give to that same number I gave you before. Text the word give to 86373. But please continue to pray for the ministry of Eight Days of Hope.

>> Walker Wildmon: Amen. Amen. Hey Steve. God bless you brother. And may the Lord continue to expand your territory.

>> Steve Tybor: Thank you so much friend. Appreciate your support, the support of the staff of AFR and the AFR listeners. Love you, brother.

>> Walker Wildmon: Amen. Love you too, brother Steve. That's Steve Tiber with Eight Days of Hope. And, they are celebrating over 20 years of ministry, over two decades of ministry, starting with what was thought to be a spontaneous trip to the Mississippi coast, for Hurricane Katrina. And Steve and his dad, he tells the story better than I, but he and his dad were hoping to just take some men from church and go down to the Gulf coast, take a dozen guys and help somebody in need. And that vision that God gave Steve and his dad turned into what is now a multi million dollar, multi division Kingdomnomics impact ministry. That is eight Days of Hope. It's amazing the work that they're doing to be the hands and feet of Jesus. That's 8days of hope.com 8daysofhope.com they have tons of opportunities for volunteering, donating, all kinds of ways to get involved.

American Family Radio celebrates America's 250th birthday with some great tours

All right folks, well, that's one segment, down. We've got two left for the hour. Stick around. You're listening to American Family Radio at the core. I'm Walker Wildmon,

>>  : America's 250th birthday. It's a great excuse to have some extra cake and ice cream, but we

>> Walker Wildmon: can help your celebration go well beyond that.

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>> Walker Wildmon: that will become a memento of this special year.

>>  : We also have special episodes on AFA Stream to help underscore that America is a Christian nation and help you find God in the Constitution.

>> Walker Wildmon: Find all of this and more in one place. Afa.net topics250 hello everyone.

>> Tim Wildmon: I'm Tim Wildmon m President of American Family association and American Family Radio. Hey, We've got some great tours lined up for March of 2027. We've got one tour we call the Footsteps of Paul tour that's mainly in Greece or, only in Greece, including Athens and Corinth and Thessalonica. And then we've got a separate tour to Italy, where we're going to Venice and Florence and, Pisa and Rome and all the sites of Italy. So you can do both of these tours if you want to. We've arranged that as well. Also, this tour of Italy, it's not like the Olive Garden tour of Italy. You know, this is. We're really going there to Italy to see Italy and to eat Italian food, too, as well. So for information on any of the tours I've mentioned here, go to tours afa.net tours.afa.net tours.afa.net at the The Core podcast

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American Family Radio has live video streaming on several platforms

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Stephen McDowell's book examines evidence of Christian foundation of America

Well, the month of July, I've been going through this book, examining the evidence of the Christian foundation of America by our Good friend Steven McDowell, as we celebrate America's 250th this year and this month specifically. I've been reading a little bit of history on the Christian, influence, the biblical influence on America's founding Fathers. And I wanted to read a quote from a court case in 1846. This was a case having to do with the city of Charleston versus Benjamin. And the ruling was in 1846. Listen to this quote from the. The actual opinion by the court. Christianity is a part of the common law of the land. What constitutes the standard of good morals? Is it not Christianity? There certainly is none other. The day of moral virtue in which we live would, in an instant, if that standard were abolished, lapse into the dark and murky night of pagan immorality. So this is a court ruling, in the state of Christ, in this instance, probably the state of South Carolina, Charleston. And they, rule that, hey, if the Christianity, if Christianity and the Christian influence were to all of a sudden vanish in a moment, then this country would lapse into dark and murky nights of pagan immorality. that's from Steven McDowell's book here examining the evidence of the Christian foundation of America.

The rise of Islam in Europe and the US is taking a toll

All right, let's jump into a couple topics I want to get to today. The, Muslim, takeover, if you will, or the Muslim, invasion that has been going on in Europe and the US Is taking a toll. And this is a five alarm fire that if the west in general doesn't wake up to this, we're going to face some serious problems down the road that are going to be near irreversible barring God's intervention. And this, this takeover of Islam, this Islam takeover of the west is part of their strategy, as part of the Jihadi strategy to take down what they believe is the Christian infidels. And this is, this is part of Jihad. This is part of the Quran. And the Muslim ideology is to eventually rule the earth, if you will, with their tyranny. And this ties well into what's going on in Iran, what's going on in the Middle east, what's going on in Gaza and Lebanon. And so, to take a little trip down history lane, let's refresh our memory on how Lebanon was, how Lebanon fell to the Muslims. this is going back several decades ago, but nonetheless I wanted you to listen to this clip, bringing us a little bit of a history lesson. This was a guest, on the Joe Rogan program that was talking about the fall of Lebanon. From being a Christian majority nation with lots of freedom, lots of liberty, relatively speaking, to the rest of the world to now being a Muslim majority nation with Hezbollah running the show. Just listen to this clip.

>> Announcer: When Lebanon got its, got its independence in, in 1948, they were a Christian country and they were a very confident country that they were, you know, they had the best universities, they had a very open society. I never went to Beirut. I don't know if you, you went to Beirut, but Beirut in the 60s was meant to be the best place on earth to be. Great wine, freedom, very, very enlightened. it was a great, lots of people were there. The minute that the Muslim population went over about 15%, you started to get a problem with a civil war. You've got the Druze and Maronite Christians in a civil war with the Muslims. and now Lebanon is a Muslim country. and Hezbollah, backed up by Iran, is effectively running the show.

>> Walker Wildmon: So there you have it. this is the reality right before our very eyes where we can see this, what has happened. And so Lebanon fell to, and some of this goes back, to the days of Reagan and Iran beginning to exert their influence surrounding Israel. but Islam brings about death and destruction. I mean, they are there to conquer. There's no doubt about it. And so this is what Israel understands soberly, this is what they understand clearly, is the threat of Islam. And, this is the fundamental problem with the religion of peace. The, coexist, you know, this notion that we can out nice our way into Muslims liking us is just a falsehood. It's just not going to happen. And to suggest that it can is to deny history. All right, and we can take this history lesson as far back as we want to go hundreds of years. Okay? We can take this history lesson which I know 250 years seems like crazy how long ago that was. But the grand scheme of the world and the grand scheme of God's story, not that long ago. But the US, the west has been dealing with Islam going back to the founding of our nation and even before that, Europe dealing with Islam. You know, we got the Barbary pirates. Well, what are those? Well, those were Islamic pirates. Those were jihadis at the time, charging tolls, extorting people, stealing stuff. so this isn't a new phenomenon. This isn't something that we can act like, oh, this is a new development. We're just not sure how to handle this. Look, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years of history of Islam destroying civilizations. And this is this weird relationship between cultural, Marxism, even this, socialism and communism, and all these different godless paganistic ideologies that are based on humanism. They have this weird, kind of stick for Islam where they criticize everything, especially Christianity and Judaism, but we don't criticize Islam. even though Islam is the most oppressive of them all, it is the chief oppressive false religion that is in existence today. That is Islam. And the cultural left and the modern left in America, they claim to be about civil rights and liberation and, democracy. These are all their buzzwords that they use. And so they claim that we're, that Christianity is somehow against that, even though it's fundamentally not true. Christianity has brought about things like individual liberty, democracy, representative government, economic prosperity, human flourishing. These are Christian ideals that Christianity and the Bible are responsible for. We could go through hours of history on this, but Islam is all of the sudden exempt from this left wing Marxist critique. Why? The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The common enemy amongst humanism and paganism today is Christianity. And this isn't new, this is going back to Biblical times. Whether it's Judaism or Christianity, that is the common enemy of all the humanist, pagan, idol worshipping false religions on the planet to include cultural Marxism which is really in and of itself a religion. But Islam has brought about endless amounts of suffering and ravaging and death on the world since Islam and its false ideology took root in the East. And let's ah, play another clip here. this is a clip about girls, Welsh girls that were. Europe by the way, has been overtaken by Islam. I mean it's a serious problem there. You've got these stories of rape, gangs and Pakistani men that are just, I mean bringing about all kinds of human destruction in the UK and in Europe more broadly. but specifically this is in Welsh. The, there was a Welsh politician that was you know, playing the whole politically correct game. And if we just be nice to Muslims then they'll be nice to us and if we adopt their culture then they'll befriend us. And so listen to this naive approach of if we just like dress like Muslims then all of a sudden they'll be nice to us, specifically in Europe. So let's listen to clip six.

>> Welsh Activist: So in one school they had a white girl wearing a hijab. First Minister, on Friday I was with the Ethnic Youth Support Team in Swansea and they were saying that they would like to have much more support, support going into schools and education venues in regards to trying to get communities to work together. And so in one school they had a white girl wearing a hijab and she walked down the street and then she came back and she said how different you felt you'd been treated because she was just wearing one piece of headway that was different to how she would usually dress. And I think these types of things would help children who've never been introduced to a, communities or other ethnicities in their lives to try and understand how it is to live in those everyday experiences. So I was wondering if you were able to speak to them. I know they work closely with the Welsh government in providing them with additional resource to go and do this in other schools across Wales to make sure that when we start at a young age those potential problems may be alleviated.

Welsh politicians talking about how to make Muslims and Europeans get along

>> Walker Wildmon: So this is In Wales, and that's the Welsh government and politicians talking about, like, how do we assimilate here? How do we make the Muslims and the Europeans get along, specifically in Great Britain? but here's the problem that lack of wisdom brings about, and that's what this is. What this boils down to is there is a false notion that all belief systems are the same. So let's debunk that on the front end, okay? Let's debunk that on the front end. If you operate from a mentality of inclusivity, or all ideologies are the same, or all religions are the same, or the coexist bumper sticker, which makes me want to vomit, then you get this approach of, well, we can just be nice to them. If we just be nice to them, then they'll be nice to us. No, no, no, no, no. That's not how this works, okay? And so Europe has been overrun by Islam, part of their own making, by the way, because they have no borders. I mean, they've allowed the failed states of the east to migrate west and absolutely, take over Europe. And so this politician's talking about this example, this anecdotal example of, well, you know, we were having trouble with assimilation. And so what we did is we had our European schoolgirls wear hijabs over their head and then walk through these Muslims communities. And all of a sudden, that's just going to magically make everything better. And so she was kind of trying to convince the parliament or the politicians to expand this, reverse assimilation onto the Europeans. But the problem with that is that there's no, number one, there's no straddling the fence with a false religion like Islam. You're either all in or you're not. But more importantly, back to this notion that all things are equal. That's a fundamental falsehood, and it's really contradictory in and of itself. From an apologetic standpoint, there is no all things are equal when it comes to belief and worldviews. There is truth and there is falsehood. And Islam is fundamentally, not only is it just outright oppressive, but it is fundamentally built on a false religion. And, where the west has gone wrong is by not forcing the pagan false religions to assimilate to our ideology. If you're going to come to our land, you should be assimilating to our ideology, to our belief system, to our worldview. And that's not. That's not haughty, that's not prideful. That is reality. That is how things work. And so we don't go to we don't go to Afghanistan and all of a sudden expect everybody there to act like us. No, I mean you should have seen the links that our troops were going to, to kowtow to Islam over there because we were trying to quote, be respectful. But Muslims migrate here mostly in the US legally actually, which is a tragedy. Tragedy that we allow this to go on legally. But they don't assimilate largely. And I'm not talking about secular Muslims that don't really believe in Islam. They just, maybe they're from a Muslim family. I'm talking about true Muslims. They don't assimilate folks. But they should be. And that should be a requirement because at the end of the day, the west was built on Christianity and it was built on the Bible. And it's the only thing that works. Obviously it's the only thing that works from an eternal life standpoint, but just from a daily living standpoint for all humanity. It's also the only thing that works from the construction of civilizations to the operation of government, to communities, to culture. This is the only way to do it right is the biblical way. And so the west needs to get a little bit of pride, to get a little bit of true knowledge and understand that we can't hijab our way out of this. We can't dress like Muslims, talk like Muslims and all of a sudden expect them to be nice. We are going to have to stand firm that Christianity and Western culture are predominant. They are supreme. They are the best means of operating for a civilization and that's been proven for hundreds and hundreds of years. We'll be back. We would like to take a moment to thank our sponsor, preborn. When a mother meets her baby on ultrasound and hears their heartbeat, it's a divine connection and the majority of the time she will choose life. But they can't do it without your help. Preborn needs us, the prolife community, to come alongside them. One ultrasound is just $28. To donate, dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby or visit preborn.com afr this is at the The Core on American

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Muslim immigration poses imminent threat to Western civilization

>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to the The Core here on American Family Radio. Glad to have you with us. Well, what I just talked about in the last segment about this failed assimilation, this non existent really assimilation of Muslims into the west, it's an immediate threat, it's an imminent threat to the homeland, to our way of life, to our very means of operating as a country and Europe is paying the price. And so, as the US With a large body of water separating us in Europe, we should look over there and see the major, major crisis that is in existence. And we should turn the complete other direction and we should pause all Muslim immigration 100%, full stop moratorium on Muslim migration, because we are importing an ideology that is fundamentally at odds with the very existence of the United States as a country. You cannot import people who believe in a false religion that runs exactly counter to Western civilization writ large and expect that to work out good. That is not smart. M. That is extremely unwise, and it is deadly. And Europe is paying the cost. And the UK is paying the price as well, because they're actually cutting down on their immigration numbers now. they're doing stricter measures because they are being overrun by foreigners that don't like Europe, they hate Europe, and they want Europe to become like the Middle East. And this is, by the way, this is the same threat that has been persistent against Israel for a long, long time. And that is Islam and Israel. They know there's no room to play here. There's no room to straddle the fence or try to play nice. Israel has been fighting for a long time for their very existence as a country, as a nation. And, that's why they are some of the most sober minded when it comes to this matter.

Family of Charlie Kirk petitioned judge for full evidence to be made public

Well, the, Charlie Kirk assassination preliminary, hearing was last week, throughout most of the week last week, and a lot of the high level evidence was actually presented before the court. Erica Kirk and Charlie Kirk's parents were present there at this preliminary hearing. And, there was some back and forth on whether the full evidence would be able to be viewed by the family, by those in the courtroom. for various reasons, there's, ah, a lot going on here. And I don't know exactly all of the reasonings as to why the judge would prevent some of the evidence from being viewed publicly, by those in the courtroom. But nonetheless, the, family of Charlie Kirk, including the wife, Erica Kirk, they petitioned the judge. Hey, we need to see all this. All this needs to be transparent. There's no reason for certain things to not be made public. All of the evidence needs to be made public. And so this is clip two. This is the family representative petitioning the judge for all of the evidence to be made public. Clip 2.

>> Prosecuting Atty for the Kirk's: Good Morning, you, Honor. Jeffrey Nyman, on behalf of the Kirk family. And, we appreciate the court is trying to balance here, but the Kirk family's waited 10 months for this hearing. And they have a right to be here and they have a right to hear the evidence. They have a right to see and feel what's going on in this courtroom. Just like. And they want to understand, Judge, what you are, what you were viewing. They want to see the evidence. And we understand you have to balance. But at a minimum, this courtroom needs to be open for the, for the evidence to be discussed, displayed openly in this courtroom for them to see it. The Utah Constitution gives them the right to be here and to be here and not to see the evidence. What's the point of being here? We ask you to let the evidence be seen in the courtroom, please. Thank you for your time.

>> Judge: Thank you, counsel.

A judge has granted the family of Charlie Kirk access to key evidence

>> Walker Wildmon: Well, there you have it. That's, the representative for basically the attorney representing the family of Charlie Kirk there about making all the evidence public. And not only is it important to make the evidence public from a, countering these conspiratorial narrative standpoint, which is very, very challenging because the Internet has created this vacuum of zero information. People that just come up with crazy theories and then they act like they've got all the evidence and they don't. But people unfortunately fall prey to that. So that's part of it. But secondly, look, if the family's going to show up and sit through these hours of hearings, they ought to be able to see the evidence. If they don't want to see the evidence, they can step out of the room and they will if they can't handle it. But, Charlie Kirk was assassinated publicly for his political beliefs and for his religious beliefs. And it was done very publicly, live streamed on social media, multiple camera angles. obviously that was purposefully done to stroke fear, to put fear in the hearts of people that are speaking the truth. It's very demonic, by the way. Strategy of the enemy, fear and intimidation. But at the end of the day, the point is that he was assassinated on the public stage, literally. And this notion that the public hasn't seen this stuff or it's too graphic is just not true. All right? And so that's the angle that the family was taking is that, look, we understand this kind of decency perspective of there's just no reason to show all the gory details. But from the family's vantage point, this has all taken place and been litigated basically in a non legal sense on, the Internet for the last 10 months. And so that cat's already out of the bag, the video's out there. So this notion that we can, you know, we can have a sense of modesty and decorum here when we're talking about a public assassination. I just. The family's case is. That's just not realistic. That's. That ship has sailed, just because of the sheer nature of the crime that's been committed here. so nonetheless, that's, the. The latest on that. one more clip from. This is Jack Posobiec He's a representative that. That works in association with Turning Point usa. and this is his. His kind of assessment of the evidence and as far as how. How damning the evidence is for the suspect, Tyler Robinson.

>> Walker Wildmon: let's listen.

>>  : Trace. I'll tell you right now, I'm livid about this decision. this is something that we have wanted transparency and full evidence for the public, for everyone to be able to see for 10 months now. To be able to see this evidence, to hear from those who knew Tyler Robinson, to be able to get this out not just in court, but also in the court. Court of public opinion that's so important for the integrity of this process and also for the perception of integrity in the judicial system. And then to hear that we're getting denied that and there's going to be redactions. We're also hearing the video might not even be played. It might be audio only. And look, I was with Erica and the family at that moment, and my. I, will just say that I. I felt very emotional, and it's extremely frustrating to have sat there for three days and yet still be told that we're not going to be able to get access to this key evidence.

>> Walker Wildmon: So that was Jack Posobiec before the judge actually ruled in the favor of the family of Charlie Kirk and granted the evidence to be made public. And so, thankfully, that is moving in the right direction. At least that was the latest on the preliminary hearing that ended late last week, that the evidence, as of now, will be made public. And, I know there's been mixed reviews on whether there should be a public trial or not, whether the trial should be on television or not. I think more transparency is better at this juncture, especially with very evil and wicked people, spreading lies and conspiracies about Charlie Kirk and his death. I think, the more light, the more transparency is the way to go for the future of this trial.

I've talked at length about artificial intelligence on the program

another topic I want to get to before we wrap up the program. I've talked at length about artificial intelligence on the program, and, the AI is obviously Got a lot of momentum. It's driving a lot of the market investment, volume with the S&P 500, all these major technology companies. I mean, AI is the talk, and it has been for a couple of years now. And President Trump and the Trump administration have leaned heavily into investing in AI. You've got the data centers, how this integrates into the daily workplace. There's talk of job replacement, and how quickly and how many jobs will AI replace? And it's just all very interesting, and I'm not sure anybody really knows where this is going to land. But, one thing that has been kind of a talking point of those pushing AI is that, well, we can get, we can get an AI bot to do said task much cheaper than we can a human, right? This has been the narrative, right? We can get, we can get a bot, a computer to do XYZ for us and carry out all these tasks, and it's much more efficient. They work 24 7, and it cost a whole lot less than getting a human to do it. And I don't doubt that that is the case in some instances. But my point in playing this clip here that I'm going to play is that this narrative that AI is more affordable for every task, for every, area of productivity in the American economy, that's just not proven out. That's just not true. And these companies, these AI companies are beginning to realize that, now that, they're really beginning to deploy artificial intelligence and these different chatbots, et cetera.

Tokenization measures energy or cost associated with AI computers producing work product

And so I'm going to play a clip here. This is of a major AI tech CEO, that is talking about the cost of tokenization. So let me just put this in layman's terms, okay? Tokens are basically an amount of energy or an amount of work done by these computers, okay? So when a human, queries, if you will, an AI bot or an AI computer and says, for example, tell me the best restaurants to eat in Memphis, Tennessee. Well, that's obviously a group of words. It's a sentence, it's a question that you're inquiring about. And so those get broken down into, measurable tokens. All right? So that, for example, that one question takes up X amount of tokens, and that's how these AI companies are measuring how much work that their computers are having to do to then output a knowledgeable answer to the question of a query that is being put forth by the end user. All right? And so when they're talking about tokens, they're basically just talking about energy or cost associated with these artificial intelligence computers producing, work product.

Right now our token costs are doubling every 45 days, says CTO

All right, so this is a, technology CEO talking about, the, tokens needed to output and then what the return on investment are for. Said tokens. Let's listen.

>> Tech CEO: I sat down with my CTO today and I said, how are we doing on token spend? And he said the most incredible thing. He said, right now our token costs are doubling every 45 days.

>> Walker Wildmon: Okay.

>> Tech CEO: And I was like, ugh. and he said, yeah. And I said, well, what is the downstream productivity? And he said, maybe 5% max.

>> Walker Wildmon: Okay.

>> Tech CEO: And I said, okay, so my costs are doubling every 45 days. My upside is essentially flat. And he said, basically. And I said, well, explain why that is. And he said, honestly, what we're finding out is that, ah, you need to use a lot more tokens to get to this next iteration of improvement because we've effectively already asymptoted. And I said, so what should we do? And he said, honestly, we have to figure this out. And so, so we're going to take a step back and try to figure out what to do. I don't know how many other companies will actually go through this reckoning now, but the point is everybody in the next three or four years will for sure go through it. So I suspect that if you can get out now, you should get out now before, all of that starts to seep into the water table. Because I think that's probably what allows you to get out at a huge price and raise a huge amount of money.

People are starting to see how much money companies are putting into artificial intelligence

>> Walker Wildmon: All right, so, so to translate this, for our audience, some of you are tracking with me here, but it's a lot of tech talk, these, these, artificial intelligence companies, in that case, that was actual CEO. they're starting to see how much money they're pumping into AI and how little they're getting back. All right, let's just put it simple. They're pumping a lot of money into AI just to keep it up and running with the data centers, with the power plants, everything, all in all the, all the software engineers that are needed. And then they're getting like a, so they're doubling their cost every 45 days. They're doubling their cost, their tokens used, and they're getting 5% of return or 5%, increase in productivity over that same time period. And so it's an unsustainable trajectory. I mean, unless you have the government printing money, it's an unsustainable trajectory. So the point here I'm thinking is that artificial intelligence is actually taking longer than some might have thought to really be productive and contribute to human workers in a way that doesn't take this constant babysitting. And so with that being the case, when he's talking about getting out, he's talking about people that have gone all in on these tech stocks. And I'm not suggesting this is a bubble or this is going to be a crash. I don't think it will. I think AI actually has a place in the future, a pretty important place. But, this notion that we can just rapidly deploy AI in a matter of a couple years and then boom, all of a sudden we don't need to work anymore, that's just not the case. It's not realistic. And so, some of these AI backed companies, that are up to their eyeballs in debt and only getting 5, 5% increase in productivity, they're just not going to make it. And so there's going to be some serious losers, towards the middle of this AI race. We'll see you next time.

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