The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report with Ed Martin.
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Alright. Today’s WYNK. What you need to know this is this is gonna be what we call an evergreen. We’re gonna use this. I’m gonna use this over and over again over the coming weeks because I am placing a little bet. I’m placing a bet with myself and not not. It’s not a real gentlemen’s wager. As they say, it’s not a real bet, but the bet is this.
I think. We’re going to be rewarded in this country and we’re going to be rewarded with Ben Carson, Dr. Ben Carson as the vice presidential nominee. On on the Republican side, Donald Trump is going to pick him.
And if it’s true, if it turns out that way, and I’ve been talking about it for months, it would be extraordinary because I have gone and looked closer at not just at his life, which I already had known about and read his books. He’s got a book, Gifted Hands, which is extraordinary. Think Big is really cool. I bought the Think Big version for teenagers and gave it to my sons to have them read it this summer.
So I I’m aware of his writings, especially over the period when he Sort of retired from being a world famous pediatric neurosurgeon and became a political figure with a small P someone whose politics I don’t know. I think people assumed he was a Republican, but he’d never been partisan. He’d been always somebody who was active in on issues, mostly focused on education and kids. But.
Now I’ve gone and looked and he obviously ran for President, and I’ve looked closer and in the last few days I have had to travel and I’ve had to sit in meetings and I had to sit and wait for meetings a couple of times and I I, you know, one point I was looked like I was going to be stuck for an hour waiting for a meeting that was delayed. Sorry, I I was about 20 minutes early For a meeting, then I, the meeting was coming close and the person came out and said the the the main person was going to be 30 minutes late, could I still stay? And I said yes and so I ended up sitting for about an hour waiting for a meeting. But I had my air pods and I threw them in and I listened to Ben Carson give speeches and Ben Carson do a Facebook live where he he signs copies of his book about a year or two ago with his wife Candy.
And I have to tell you, if the Lord blesses America with this man as our nominee for Vice President, it will be an extraordinary moment, because he’s such an utterly nice man. He’s such an utterly impressive human. He’s such a funny guy. He’s witty. And the speech I want to encourage you. I’m going to put this link everywhere.
He gives a speech at the Reagan Library a couple of years ago, actually, more than a couple of years ago. It’s it’s about nine years ago. It’s before the 2016 election. And before he’s running, because the introducer says, you know, there’s a website Run, Ben Run encouraging him and and so, but he’s so witty and and witty. Witty is one thing, some politicians are witty. You see good politicians, they, they, they make you laugh.
This guy has a sense of humor. That’s phenomenal and a sense of confidence that’s extraordinary. And I just have to tell you, if you watch this man in action. You hear his words, see his interactions with people, watch his relationship with his wife. Candy it. It’s unbelievable and. The way it’s unbelievable is this.
There are examples, exemplars is the word used when you’re a kid growing up, they will use that word. But examples or the epitome is another word they like of something, right? You say so and so is an epitome of hustle.
Like, if you see a player. I was thinking about my, my kids, and they’re playing sports. And one of my kids, the epitome of hustle, always hustling. And you, no matter what you say, looks, looks, sweaty. Looks, you know dirty all the time because it’s the epitome of hustle. Or an exemplar. You know so and so is an exemplar of of kindness. There was a woman who lived across the street from us, and we lived in Saint Louis, and she just was a a kind person. She just carried herself in a way. She didn’t do anything dramatic. She didn’t look for attention. Just was an example anyway, those are the terms you use.
Ben Carson. Is the American dream. And Ben Carson is proof, is is, is, is the exemplar. He’s the he’s he. He shows that America works as a place and a space for goodness and quality and energy and love. Because he came from all of the backgrounds that have been characterized by the the media and the left as the, you know, epitome of victim. The only one he’s missing is if he was a woman, then they’d say that too. But you know, everything that the left is supposed to say hold you down, you’re a victim, you’re African American. You’re poor. You come. You’re you’re not a good student. You come from a broken family. Your parents are divorced. All these things are supposed to be things that hold you back. And they, by the way, they do, they do a Lot of times they do to be clear. There because they do, because the the reality is. That you are held back In part because the systems of the Democrats want to hold you down the the, the, the welfare system, and he mentions that he talks about how his mom knew that anybody who got on welfare never got off. So she desperately didn’t want to be on welfare. He said she did take food stamps at some point, but that was it.
But the point here is that she, that that, Ben Carson and his mother, just when You read about him, hear about him, understand it. And after all of these things he’s been through. What does he have? Immense success, not, he says, because he was an unbelievable natural student, but because he picked up the things that would put him in place to be able to do well.
He had a dream to be a doctor, and then he actually talks about how he had natural skill as a, as an athlete and I don’t think he ever characterized himself as a phenomenal basketball player, liked to play basketball and and sports. But when he got a bit bit older, he realized he had an incredible ability to see. And he talks about 3D, seeing, spatially seeing which you needed to have as a surgeon. And he had steady hands. He did have the physical ability to take to, to handle to the the kinds of, so anyway. So. So he had. And he and when he assessed those gifts, he used them. He said that. Now, what? What do I have those gifts for? So.
And also extraordinary man of faith. To hear him talk about it, not to hit you over the head, you know I’m better than you faith, but the opposite. Real humility.
When you when you Read about it. He was 33 years old when he was made the head of the pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, so Johns Hopkins is is like, is like the New York Yankees of medical centers and medical schools of medical centers. It’s at least like the the, you know, the Dodgers, Yankees. I don’t know, pick the other teams that are perennial successes, they’re they’re the biggest of the big. He becomes a 33. The head of the the head of the department. Unheard of age, but because it happens then he experiences it’s like from the age of about 32 as he was in his residency, but then certainly 33 until he retires 25 years later about he’s like the greatest ballplayer ever. He’s like Michael Jordan and he never got hurt. He never got sick. Just like Jordan. Never really. You know, a couple years off to play baseball, I suppose that was a a drag on his numbers, but he never got hurt. Never blew out his knee, never, you know, had a back injury.
And Ben Carson had this success of longevity and when he Finished Being a major surgeon, he wasn’t done. He then started writing books and giving speeches and started this entrepreneurial thing. The Carson Scholars and he had a vision for all that with his wife, extraordinary.
And so my point here is when you see what this guy has done, when you understand How Incredibly He he epitomizes the American dream, it will give you hope.
It will give you heroic hope for the future because it feels to a lot of people like we’re really stuck and what we need is people who can say, hey, you can, we can do it. We can make things better and we can make them better precisely because America is a place that allows that precisely because America is the land of the free, the home of the brave. He talks about that quite a bit, and also because of the Judeo-Christian values. And he talks about that.
I have to tell you, it’s an extraordinary thing to, to realize, to go listen to him in his own words. And I just want to encourage you. I want to encourage you so much to go and to listen to him. And I’ll put one link up to the speech he gave at at the Reagan Library. But there’s many others. Do a search. Ben Carson. Then just to hit videos. There’s hundreds and hundreds of speeches, hundreds and hundreds of talks. I recommend that you do the ones where he’s talking either about a book, ’cause he’s good on that, or he’s being interviewed because you can get and you can hear him kind of in his own voice, not a prepared speech. He gave a bunch of speeches as the HUD secretary too, and there’s some of that that are out there, but it’s an extraordinary thing. It would be a great blessing and just the fact that America produces Ben Carson, even if he’s not the VP nominee, is a great blessing on our nation. So check it out.
God Bless America, and we’ll talk again soon. It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report proamericareport.com be right back.
