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$1000000000.00 for twitter in october, he told employees in march, the company is now worth half step, but in just a decade space sex has proven that rockets once thought disposable can be safely reused. getting starship to the launch pad has not been cheap in 2020 and 21. early versions performed spectacular flips and plunges over the swamps of southern texas . but exploded on landing. the other way of viewing this is that this is just an experiment, like we're going to do this and then see if this is a possibility of a market. but if you can treat a $100000000.00 rocket as an experiment, there's a lot of things that you can consider experiments. the bigger question is, how or why such a craft would ever be used. we don't have any of the systems in place on how to handle that sort of volume of people. what that social organization would look like . i would say that when it comes to thinking about, you know, starship and what the future might bring for it. just because we can build a rock,
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it doesn't mean that we can build the civilization, mind. musk who has celebrated previous failures said the 1st test was always a 5050 bet, a safe prediction colon baker alger. ah, look at the main stories around the united nations appealing for a 3 day cease fire and sudan, so that trapped residents can flee the fighting that's been raging across the capital, hartman for 6 days now. at least 330 people have been killed. thousands more injured for cease fires, a fail to stop line. it's between saddam's army and the powerful parliamentary power military group. the rapid support forces were battling for control of the country. thousands are also trying to flee as an immediate priority. i appealed for the ceasefire to take place what i please city, those marking the eve our feed through celebrations,
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i am funny. okay, thanks for watching the stream today. the story of the u. s. combat veteran struggling with p t. s. d. you made a plan to bomb a mosque, you will not believe what happened next. he stories told in a short documentary stranger at the gate when i 1st saw him emotional dis, so in that way with this guy was little i assumed a he was walking kind of fast, his hair was kind of down, pacing back and forth. and i was hoping for at least 2 out of the dead injured you know, he thought he was doing the right thing or with muscles in his mind
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when i tell people the story, they tell me that they don't believe me. my dad called my mom, the mother theresa of the muscle community, and it's definitely true. i invited him over for them. i couldn't help it except that you feel for my heart is welcome. i could never in a 1000000 years pay this can be what they've given me. so we're going on a journey from hate to acceptance via kindness. joining us to talk about the film b, b bar army, president of these lumnick center of new muncie in indiana. also in muncie, indiana, richard mac mckinney, he's a life coach, anti hate actress, the public speaker, which had wrapped mckinney calico emac. absolutely. all right, welcome back. and in new york dot u. s. f. tell who directed the documentary says
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the baby matt joshua, so great to have him here. we have a you tube audience who are standing by with their comments ready to ask you questions. so there you go. youtube audience. you can jump in any time we start mac with a situation where you are planning to bomb a mosque that's nearby to you. why? ah, over the years i developed a hatred for islam, muslims. ah, it had it basically just built and built over time to where i the only way that i saw making any kind of concession on this was to eliminate as many of them as i could. that's the thing. vocabulary of somebody who sees other people was something different when you say, then that was people not anything to do with you in the military. the way you could
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make sense of procuring was told to by a high up official like mac, this is how you have to think about it. and i want to share that moment in the documentary because it helps us understand what was mat, even thinking as have a look. i was in the military for around 25 years. towards the end of my military career, i was a totally different person. the fact of being involved in so many deaths over years of crazies are man, i don't even know i probably would have been committed if they would actually known the way i was acting one time i had a discussion di, ranking person about coping to be strictly on his mac,
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non the range sheet of paper target as long as you can look at them as anything but human. have any problems and long term exams. that's what i did this the v vi. do you remember the 1st time you met mac? what are your 1st impressions? thank you. oh and that was matt, matt. i mean, as they say, he look scary and concern, but in spite of that, i respectfully welcome him and with kindness and respect and well understood as he was a human. ah. and we would have that's how my memory is. i know it's been a lie and that's the basic number that i must get a scary thing. but welcome to kindness. let me do this again using scary the back. what are you doing in the mosque? i mean, this was part of the pan, right?
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well actually me being in the mosque was not part of the plan. ah, in order to i wanted tangible evidence. i knew what i believed to be true to be facts. the thing was that i wanted to be able to show my daughter, even though she was going to lose her father. i wanted to show my daughter that see these people really are evil. and i went to the source, georgia. you were trying to play the story together and tell this story for documentary foam that moment way. we seen mac, we, he that mack is casing the mosque that is terrifying and for a young part of the document, i think it's going to end in an awful way to get to that deliberately. well, we, we wanted to tell
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a story with within new kinds of heroes, heroes like, like baby and like her, her husband sobber. and we wanted to make a film i didn't just preach to the choir. and you know, so many films so many documentaries, even ones that i've made, i think end up preaching to the choir and we wanted to try to be different. we wanted to, we want this film to, we want people to watch this film who maybe need to watch this film. need this message, need to understand, have a better understanding of, of muslims have a better understanding. ready of their own biases and we, so we told the story in a way that was very gripping and draws you in and hasn't almost a true crime. how totally i'm. this is not going to end. well, joshua for a long time. yeah, i mean we joke around that, it's a, it's
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a true crime story with it without a crime. i guy so happy in being, you know, it's, it's, it's a story about the breast point that you've been nodding all the way for this a little bit. well, why you nodding? well, i mean, i totally agree with josh. no, he did him and his team did such a wonderful job, piecing this together and a lot of people have come up to me after they watch that. they says, oh my gosh, i was shot. yeah, i thought it was going in totally different place. you know? and they told me when they saw me being interviewed, they thought i was being interviewed. i was actually impressed, and i thought you were in town. i was like, oh, i don't know how to get access to prison. to mac. i was, i was like, confused. i'm like, wow. i yeah, i think i thought you were in
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a lot of trouble just the people. you're also noting as, until she was saying, how are you wanting to tell the story? yeah, i think i think we were extremely kind to him, we did not put him in jail. that's why he's not in debt. we were totally lost of him in his law. i mean, the members lie. i think the job done well done by joshua, how would you send that documentary to me to watch it? and i know when i did interview, i'll give you a little bit of background why i did it. but then when i truly was, i said this is the interview and said the story. and i was like, chalk, this is a real thing. this is so professionally well done and how you put these pieces together. and the student had happened in 2009. it was and this was the was working on in 2021 is you know why?
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but very impressed how he did intentionally did it was amazing message. and i think that's what i it's very dear to my heart because of the message how we shared this through documentary and how we organized it in a short 30 minutes. i was a my pass into that 30 minutes. you feel like you've watched an entire feature film by the time you get to the end of it, there's a lot of tension in the don't commentary. and there's a part where i'm not finding anything for you because you have to watch it. and it takes 30 minutes to what you as a part where matt goes to the most because he is planning to do something awful. and he needs to tell his step daughter, he needs proof to tell her that bill to like, it's right, these awful people are living amongst us. and i need to do something about a, have a listen. have a look at this part of the film. i need to be able to show proof and i need to be
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able to show the rest of the world i want to do as long center to get the proof. i wanna i want to be with these people because if i walk inside his building, i might not come back. so i walk into building and all of a sudden it's like i felt my stomach tighten chest. i know i tried to keep my senses about me. i have very anxious i didn't trust them. i considered myself somebody as a future news story on al jazeera. by the end of the night, i figured they would have been in the basement with a sword to my throat. let me got you out here and i meant that thankfully, it was it. is the girl on her face? yes. walking into the master walking into the mosque, that was the moment that changed your life and property a lot of people's life in the most because that was the beginning of how kindness
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overcomes height. white house. so i, you know, when it was, when i went in there, i was very, you know, i feel very uneasy job. and i was met with open arms, smiles. hello. so you know, i'm glad you could be here. and then, you know, one of the brothers gave me e come up to me and he handed me a koran. and he says, read this, come back when you have questions. and i was like, man, they give me the all the evidence. and they're going to explain it to me like this is great. yeah. but, but as i was piecing the 2 together between how i was being treated and what was in the koran. my impression of islam was the people who had been shooting at me again
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. and but when i came here and i started reading the scripture and knowing how religion works the where you're supposed to live your life according to the scriptures as closely as you can. well, i saw that in muncie. i didn't see that overseas. so that tells me that obviously the people in muncie are actually a true representation of what is what i'm really is. and it changed my whole perspective, you know, and that's when i started understanding that more, more about human beings and they, they make the decisions they make in the ways that they act simply driven by greed . josh, are you looking very thoughtful, articulate those thoughts? go ahead. well, i think that when mac went to the mosque, he had just had a big argument with his 8 year old daughter. and you know,
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she had yelled at him because he said something. as on the phone, but he said something negative about muslims, and his 8 year old daughter confronted him. and like what are you thinking like, what's wrong? what's wrong with you, dad? and that's when he went to the mosque was in the wake of that argument. because, you know, he wanted to make sure he was right that he, that his plan to bomb them off with the right thing to do. and this little 8 year old had raised him question his plans. and i think that when he went in there is, i think his guard was down a little bit. i think, i think there was a tiny crack in his armor. there was a tiny opening for love to come in. and when he met b, b, and sobber, and joe and the other members of the mosque and they were so nice to him and so kind and welcoming that it kind of blew his mind. i think he didn't know what to
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think, but he started to think like maybe i maybe i am wrong. maybe maybe i've got this whole thing wrong and it was just amazing moment where, you know, be, be through her kindness. i think started to change his mind and melt away the hatred that he had in his heart. and she didn't even know like baby, you didn't know anything about what his plans well and i did not. you know, i mean, i would do this to you on the, i was less than the family that we always to get a strained. my father also took care of people and the homeless. and when i came across anybody, because i had built up easier toys and taking care of a out up you do and, and my husband being a medical doctor, what can his office experiencing, treating his, their body. now we have done it without walks of life and we have comforted all kinds of people and throughout our life and we have give them place in their home.
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they have stayed with us for months and weeks or 2 before we let them go and the same thing that so when i did this with my mom, i quoted me to invite him over nothing. i'm sitting on the table to where he was sitting with us having a dinner. and i think that also was part of the way of life for me, but it was a huge impact on mac and not just having welcomed him in the sense that and respectfully and then inviting him over to our house and share them. you know with him and sit down and listen to his story. i don't think he had this come about his spot and attention and being bought in listen to me that something it impacted him a lot. and then obviously continuously that was not only that thing, and we also give him a part of the leadership. when i asked him to be the president of best law muslim student association. and he's, there were all these to serve you better know what i'm doing. and i worry, i will help you with that event out as a guy in the ship. yes,
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that we've out has got what, how can he be had of the muncie mosque? how is that possible? because what happened to you, mac? there's, there's a little gap there between you going into the must be very unhappy with feel muslim neighbors, and then you became walked. well, 1st of all, i became the president of the muslim students association at both ball state university here in, muncie, mac. if you forgot to say that you became muslim. well yeah, i was getting into i don't go, well, yeah, i became a movement weeks he comes in and he's asking my husband and the other people i want to become littler. and my husband said, no, what are you talking about, mac, you know, you need to study, want to get ready. now i can let my talk about that. all right, go ahead, right?
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yeah, yeah, so, yeah, so that's an interesting story. so. so to even go back that just a little bit, no one knew about this plan. about my everybody that knew me knew i hated most. but nobody knew the extent of my hatred and nobody knew that i was planning to do anything. my wife didn't even know until after the fact she knew when the f b i showed up at the house. i know that opened up a door and we'll get back to that. but when i went there, and finally, after all my study and, and my, my conversations and all the, all the acquaintances i, i was touched. i was touched by the koran and, and i, i had to be mostly i just had to and i,
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it was funny because i went into the mos going to on a friday. and for juma and i went up to her and there was another brother, right? i know you're showing up, but you went in surprise, right? yes, yeah. okay. yeah. so, so i was a, so i, i went up to sapir and another brother shop and, and says, hey, i want to take shot. and they both. it was funny because they both looked at me, they both looked at each other. they looked back at me and they said, no, i said, you're not ready. you need to learn more, right, right. i. and so i looked at them and said, well, we all have a lot or and they look both, both of them look back at each other and both them look back at me. and i said, i am not sure a mac system, even if this was a movie, it will be on believable. the fact that it's real life is extraordinary area we
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spoke to muster for bob, he's from the african american foundation. and there's a big message to this film if they needed to be one, i don't think that needs to be one, but there is a big method and must a flat line, diesel not big a method kits. have a listen, it's have a look kind. this does change, i think it kind of does change hatred to, to love to community the connection and, and specifically stranger at the gate shows up in a really beautiful way. and i think it also, it also goes and challenges a lot of assumptions pam that many americans may have about islam and muslims, i, i think many americans, quote, unquote knows about islam and knows about muslims. but they have never, i spend time and really get to know muslim close up. and joshua, this is why you are drawn to make this documentary because where we are not just in
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america, but in the world right now. how divided people are and you experienced it as a young boy as well? not a is a phobia, is life is i'm a phobia, but human you experienced being i hated because of your jewish heritage of jewish background. so that's why you came to the field, that's what drew you to the phil. what do you make of the reaction? i mean, the reason we wanted to tell this story is because we felt like the story is needed right now. we felt that, you know, as you mentioned, that this is a moment of great division in our country. and that's, you know, it's not often that we come across a story about a would be hate crime that turns into a happy ending that turns into love that shows the power of kindness, that kindness love conquers hate. and i was so drawn to this
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story and to the actions of the, the congregants that the bombing center a month, the b, b, and sobber, and joe and everybody and what they did that the way they welcomed mac into their congregation and the way that they treated him with kindness and it literally saved a lives and i can't think of a better way to convey. ready the, the power of kindness than with this story and it's something, it's something we, i think we can all learn from. but it's something we need to remember that being kind to others, especially people, we don't know, are people that we might have preconceived notions about that that can be incredibly powerful. and i think it's less than we all need to remember. right now, as we sort of live in this time where we don't really talk to,
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we don't always talk to people that have different opinions than we do. we sometimes don't talk to people who vote for different political candidate, then we did like it. that's very troubling. to me and i think what b b has shown and through her actions is the power of talking to she didn't need to talk to mack, you know, like, she knew he was different than her. she was even scared of him. but she also saw him as a human being and i think that's just something we need to remember and to be to be like, be, be found about. yeah. and treat others, treat others as humans and try to find that common ground. and that's what, that's what struck me so much about the story and what b b and, and the congregations did in muncie. so so i have been nominated for an oscar and i just wanted to show the moment where joshua and he's production team were waiting
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for the oscar nominations to come through and they were quite excited. let me just show you what it looks like. and they're just waiting, and then you can tell them when they find out that they were nominated. oh yes. oh . so one of the executive producers of stranger at the gate is mila. you soft sigh . and she says, have a look here to believe that people can change and to be willing to change ourselves is our best hope for a better world. i have spoken so much about this film, it's only 30 minutes and it's available right now. so i'm just going to click so you can see where you can see it w w, w dot stranger at the gate dot com. and just below the title, watch the film here and you can watch it, and i guarantee you won't be disappointed. now if you know anything about islam, you know that we are coming to the end of the holy month of ramadan. and then there's an amazing body and festivities,
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and it's amazing at extraordinary. i want to find out what you would wish your fellow muslims around the world in a sentence is to be, be in, in a sentence. max is to be b. first one sentence. i would like, i would like all my hello of friends, a human being families, muslim brothers and sisters. thank you or wish then we're happy and peaceful holidays. okay. and need some time for matt. lack your aid message. yes. all through all the little brothers and sisters around the world as well as rusty humanity. peace blessings and know that tomorrow is the chance to be better than he rack. thank. he says to v v. thank you joshua. i see you next time. take everybody ah ah
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