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This is Theology Applied.

Hi, this is Pastor Joel with Right Response Ministries.

This is another episode of our podcast slash show called Theology Applied.

Today I'm privileged to have as a special guest, Rod Martin.

I first met Rod Martin last fall at the Fight, Laugh East Conference in Franklin,

near Nashville, Tennessee.

And I've just been impressed by his work.

He's done a lot with the SBC.

He does a lot of partnering with founders ministries

with Tom Askell and Jared Longshore, who we greatly appreciate. Jared Longshore has been a guest on

our show as well. So without further ado, Rod Martin, would you take a moment and introduce yourself

and tell our guest a little bit about who you are and what you do? Well, sure. Thank you.

I'm kind of prone to saying I'm just a poor kid from Arkansas, which is appropriate for what we're going to be talking about here in a minute.

We have, you know, a background in our family of immigrants and, you know, poverty and farming and, you know, school teachers and things like that.

But my first job out of law school was his policy director for Governor Mike Huckabee,

and then I was part of starting PayPal, and we do a bunch of things in biotech and Internet spaces,

and we have a hedge fund that we're looking increasingly in the direction of an aerospace

play.

And all of those things are possible because God has given us freedom in this country.

This is an amazing place.

It is not a perfect place, of course.

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