Michael Medved: God’s Hand on America
Socrates in the City
Socrates in the City
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🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
From the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776, to the California Gold Rush, to the Guano Islands Act of 1856, Socrates in the City guest Michael Medved and host Eric Metaxas discuss the idea that America’s existence and expansion has been divinely devised. Medved begins the conversation with a story about the miraculous life of his grandmother after finding a tumor at age fifty…and the conversation only gets more interesting from there! The two discuss Medved’s THE AMERICAN MIRACLE and GOD’S HAND ON AMERICA, two extraordinary books that display the highest level of scholarship while simultaneously being tremendously, gloriously readable. This event took place at Seattle’s Arctic Club in April 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Socrates in the city in Seattle. |
| 0:15.0 | Yes, listen, you're wondering how this happened, all right? |
| 0:22.3 | The question is, what am I doing in Seattle besides this? |
| 0:27.6 | Well, here's the bottom line. |
| 0:29.5 | I was invited to speak in Alaska. |
| 0:31.1 | I've never been to Alaska before. |
| 0:33.7 | And, you know, for a New Yorker, Alaska is very exotic. |
| 0:36.8 | And so when I was invited to speak in Alaska, my daughter, who pretended not to be my daughter just a moment ago, |
| 0:43.9 | she and I thought we're going to go to Alaska. |
| 0:46.5 | And I've got to tell you, I said, are there any direct flights from, you know, New York to Alaska? And there aren't. And so I said, well, can you get me a flight through, you know, like West Palm Beach? And, you know, these travel agents, let's be honest, they don't want to work, okay? I don't think she tried. I don't think she tried. She made it sound like the only way you could get to Alaska is to Seattle. |
| 1:11.3 | And I was tired of arguing because people just don't want to work these days. Okay. |
| 1:15.3 | So I found out that in order to get to Alaska to speak there this Sunday, I would be |
| 1:23.1 | passing through Seattle today. And I got this crazy idea. |
| 1:28.1 | I said, hey, hey, maybe that would be a good time to have a Socrates event. |
| 1:33.3 | Turns out I was very wrong. |
| 1:35.7 | I thought, wait, who can we get? |
| 1:38.4 | This is extraordinary. |
| 1:39.6 | And I have to tell you, for quite some time now, I've wanted Michael Medved to be my guest at Socrates in the city. |
| 1:50.6 | The problem is we would have to do the event on a Friday night. |
| 1:55.0 | Turns out Medved is a Jew. |
| 1:57.7 | Not just a Jew, but an observant Jew observes this thing they call the Sabbath. |
| 2:02.7 | I don't know what that means. |
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