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This week's special guest on the Phil Vischer Podcast is Os Guinness! Os Guinness is an author, a social critic, and Senior Fellow of the EastWest Institute in New York. Great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War Two where his parents were medical missionaries. A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford. Os has written or edited more than twenty five books, including The American Hour, Time for Truth, The Call, Invitation to the Classics, Long Journey Home, and Unspeakable: Facing up to the challenge of evil. His latest book The Case for Civility – and why our future depends on it was published by Harper One in January 2008. Previously, Os was a freelance reporter with the BBC. Since coming to the United States in 1984, he has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies and a Guest Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 1986 to 1989, Os served as Executive Director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation, a bicentennial celebration of the First Amendment. In this position he helped to draft the Williamsburg Charter and co-authored the public school curriculum Living With Our Deepest Differences. From 1991 to 2004 he was a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, and a frequent speaker and seminar leader at political and business conferences in both the United States and Europe. As a European visitor to this country and a great admirer but detached observer of American culture today, he stands in the long tradition of outside voices who have contributed so much to America’s ongoing discussion about the state of the union. He lives with his wife Jenny in McLean, Virginia.

0:00.0	Hey there, this is Phil Visher. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with Skye Dutani
0:09.2	and Christian Taylor. Christian, again, is giving up her mic to a very special guest that
0:13.6	will be with us the whole time. Our special guest today is Mr. Oz Guinness, Dr. Oz Guinness.
0:18.5	Should we call you Dr? Or just call me Oz. Okay, that works. So we have to start with
0:24.4	theme song, of course, and it goes something like this. Hey, it's a podcast. What do you know?
0:31.2	Hey, it's a podcast. So there's no video. Hey, it's a podcast. So lend an ear. The Phil Visher
0:37.3	podcast starts right here. We'll talk to Skye and Christian too and maybe Oz Guinness here
0:44.4	just for you. Hey, it's a podcast. So lend an ear. The Phil Visher podcast starts right here.
0:51.1	Okay, that's our theme song. I'm here with Skye and with a very special guest. If you don't know who
1:05.1	Oz Guinness is, first of all, shame on you. Where have you been? Or you're young and you don't know yet
1:11.2	because, okay, so now you do. We hope we have a younger audience. That's the home. Then say
1:16.0	Pat Robertson, say, we hope. Anyway, Oz Guinness, he was born in China. He's the great, great, great,
1:24.4	great grandson of Arthur Guinness. Is that true? Absolutely. Do you get free beer for life?
1:30.7	Not sadly not. That's too bad. Now, Americans, American Christians, you know, we, especially,
1:37.7	I was raised in Iowa, a small town, Iowa, very, very small, very conservative evangelical free
1:43.6	church. So even the mention, we couldn't even say the word beer. But Americans are loosening up.
1:48.5	We are. We're loosening up. Yeah, my grandparents did not loosen up. They held to their standards
1:55.6	to the very end. He was a witness to the climax of the Chinese Revolution in 1949 and returned
2:02.4	to England in 1951 where he went to school in college, received a BD from University of London and
2:10.3	Divinity? No. No. Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford in 1842.
2:18.8	1981. What'd you do between the 16th and 18th? Oh, okay, that's when you were a little bit of fun.
2:26.3	Why don't they mention that on Wikipedia? They don't like Libering. Well, as you probably know,
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