H2 - Heidi Harris guest hosts The Charlie James Show, discussing 9/11 memories, stay-at-home tax relief, and free speech.

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Transcript Heidi Harris: Good afternoon, always a privilege hanging out with you guys here. 800-905-0989, that's the Common Sense Retirement Planning text line. Wondering where you were on 9/11. I'll tell you kind of a crazy story, and this is kind of weird, but it's a little personal, but I think it's pertinent. At the time of 9/11—make a long story short—I had known my husband for 14 years, but we weren't dating at that time. In fact, I was dating somebody else. And when 9/11 happened, and I got a phone call to turn the TV on because once again I was on the West Coast, so it was 6:00 in the morning. Back then I slept until 6:00 in the morning, but I did mornings for so many years after that that I don't anymore. But I was sleeping at, and I got a call at 6:45 or whatever, "Turn the TV on." And I hung up the phone with the person who called me, and the only person I wanted to talk to about it was my husband—who's now my husband. He's the only person I wanted to share it with, because I knew that he would understand from a spiritual perspective what had happened to our nation. And I mean, that sounds silly, I guess, but when there's a major, major event in the world and you want to share it with somebody, that's the person you probably should be married to, right? Yeah. Get back to the texts here. "Heidi, my wife and I were in Virginia Beach in Norfolk. Storm was supposed to come, so we stayed day by day, each morning renewing our reservation. On the TV in the lobby, out of the corner of my eye, I saw smoke at the World Trade Center tower. Grabbed my wife to show her. At that moment, the second plane hit." "Went back to the room to get news, seeing obvious military men throwing their luggage and families into their cars and speeding off." In other words, people who were staying in the hotel called back to duty. Wow. "All day long on the beach, fighter planes were blowing out to sea and destroyers and a carrier headed out. People watched, angry, cried, stunned, but we cheered our little hearts out." Yeah. I mean, I think anybody who was an adult at that point remembers where they were that day. It's one of those moments you should never, ever forget. And we can never forget what happened, and we can never forget the people who hate us. And it's not all Muslims, and I've never said that, and I will never say that. But we do understand that there are people who want to take our freedom—I was just thinking about this last night. When you think about a religion that wants to take away what we believe in, which is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—that's what they want to take away from us. They want to take away our lives, right? They want to take away our liberty where nobody has any options. What you don't understand about Islam is that it's not just a religion. See, and I'm a very tolerant person. When I was a kid, I grew up, you know, in a family where we didn't—we really didn't go to church that much. We heard about Jesus, but I really didn't get the gospel till I was much older. But when we'd drive down the street, my mom would point out, "This is so-and-so's church," you know, "That's so-and-so's church," neighbors, friends, whatever. There was never a comment made about, "We don't like those people," or none of that. No racism, none of the nonsense about not liking other people who go to other places in church, none of that. So, you know, you want to go somewhere Friday, Saturday, Sunday, that's your business. That's the country we live in in America. We have religious freedom here. But what you don't understand about Islam is that Islam is the government. I mean, maybe many people at the sound of my voice here know that, but a lot of people don't get that. They think, "Oh, well, that's okay if so-and-so is whatever." Okay, fine, but as long as you're not trying to take over my government. But Islamic countries, the religion is the government. That's what you need to understand. That's not who w ...

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