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06/09/2019 DAB Transcript

1 Kings 5:1-6:38, Acts 7:1-29, Psalms 127:1-5, Proverbs 16:28-30

Today is the 9th day of June. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is awesome to be here with you today as we collectively stand here and reach out our hand and turn the knob and open the threshold and walk into this brand-new week together. And it's all shiny and it's all sparkly and it's all waiting for us. We haven't done anything good or bad. We haven't messed anything up. It's all waiting for us and we walk into it together using the counsel of the Scriptures and the guidance of the Holy Spirit to navigate. And, so, it’s exciting that we can start fresh and move into this new week. And this week we’ll be reading from the English Standard Version. Of course, we’ll be picking up where we left off. So, in the Old Testament we’re working our way into and through first Kings and at this point we are learning of King Solomon's reign. And in the New Testament we’re working our way through the book of Acts, and we just met this person named Stephen. He was appointed to the diaconate. So, he was made a deacon to help serve the community, but basically one sentence later…a couple sentences later, he was arrested and we’re gonna see what becomes of him, but he will have to testify. This is slightly spoiler alert, but it helps focus our attention. He will have to testify before the high Council, the Jewish high Council and in his testimony, he is gonna need to prove that he is a true Hebrew and that he understands the Hebrew culture. So, in doing that we’re going to find that we’ll be reviewing…and this is really great…to come to this point in the year…his testimony will review for us most of the territory we've covered so much this year. So, having said all of that let's dive in. First Kings chapters 5 and 6 today.

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Father, we thank You for bringing us into this brand-new week. We thank You for bringing us all the way from the beginning of the year until this point in the year. We are grateful. We say it all the time, but it will not get old. We are grateful for Your Word. We are grateful for the opportunity to get together every day and allow Your word to speak into our lives. It is such a gift that You have allowed us to be here on this planet in this time when this kind of technology is even available. So, thank You. Thank You for Your presence in and among us all over the world. Thank You for Your word to guide us and lead us into all truth, and thank You for each other, unite us together as one, as one body, as You Yourself pray in Jesus, may we be Your hands and feet in this world as we move into this new, shiny, sparkly week. Come Holy Spirit we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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Hey everyone, this is Bridget from New York City. The year…last year around this time…this is right before my son-in-law passed away…before he was killed. You know, I’m just kind of reliving the moments up to that week and my daughter at that time last year had lost a couple of other friends, one was to gun violence the other one was to a drug overdose and she had decided to do like a Lantern letting event at night in the park. And, you know, I prayed about attending because, you know, what adult wants to be around their young adult children. And, you know, who want their parent around? And I felt God tell me, you know, “go, be there for her, and pray for the young people. May the spirit of suicide of death among them. Pray for them.” And I did. I was obedient, and I didn’t say anything, I just helped them light these lanterns and it was a beautiful event just in remembrance of those they lost. And she’s gonna do another one this year and I’m just asking you guys to just pleas cover her and cover this event because it’s a bigger event than what it originally was. The sister of a kid Jr. that was murdered is going to be there. It’s just gonna be a big event. So, if you guys could just please cover this event in prayer. I’m gonna share a Word and, you know, I’m gonna invite people to the lord and I’m just asking you all, please, please, please cover. Okay. Thank you. Love you guys.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible, this is Loralee from Boynton Beach and it is the 6th day of June. This is a great week for me and for the Daily Audio Bible. And I’m a long-time listener. So, today is my birthday and I’m 59. So, that would give me the water birthday of 6/6/60, which immediately starts conversation about Alpha, Omega, beginning, and end. My spiritual rebirth birthday is in one week on the 13th. Now, that happened in 2005. So, this year will be the second Jubilee year. So, the first Jubilee year was many roots going deep down into the ground. The second Jubilee year producing fruit and I thank the Lord for this family, for Brian, Jill, for being obedient to the call to read the Bible, because one of the first lies that the Lord dispelled from my life many years of this lie that I could not…was not a good reader, which I’m still not a good reader, but I’m a great audio learner. And when He said to me almost in an audible voice, “this is the way I made you, put that air but in and I will give you the Bible”. And Brian started to read six months after the salvation of my soul. Thank you. I will call back. I want to get reconnected. I will see you in that a family reunion with my newest baby girl Olina. We booked our trip and we’re coming to…

Hi Daily Audio Bible family, this is your sister Julie. I haven’t called for a while. I love you all and I pray with you daily and so grateful. You’re my church family, you’re my family and I need your help. I have to confess that I’ve been struggling with alcohol abuse. I’m just ashamed…I’ve got a lot of shame and I feel my prayers for you aren’t being effective because of my sin. And I know that I’m forgiven and saved, and I know that the enemy is working hard to condemn me, but I need that help. I need help. I’m praying out for help please. I love you all very much. Please pray for me as I will continue praying for you. And I can’t thank you again Brian and Jill for this. There’s so many of you that I want to thank for praying for all of us every day that are faithful saints. I love you all and there’s too many of you to name and some of those that don’t even leave there names that I just want you to know that you’re just as important as those who call all the time and I love you and I pray that we will feel that we are worthy of being not lonely but together and worthy of being in this family of misfits that are fitting ourselves for heaven. I love you all very much and have a great day. Bye-bye.

Good morning Daily Audio…well it’s good afternoon Daily Audio Bible community. This is Diane Olive Brown from Newburgh Indiana calling at 2:27 PM and I’m calling on June 6th, which is Thursday, and this is actual June 6ths reading now and I’m calling for two reasons. And one is for the lady that is 48 years old and she is pregnant and her…for one reason or another she’s concerned that she won’t carry that baby to full term. And I want to say that I have my faith with yours, that you will carry that baby to full term and that baby will give you great joy and great happiness. And I’m asking the Father to give you perfect knowledge in every situation that you come up with and give you wisdom and you have the mind of Christ and you hold His thoughts and His feelings and His purposes. And Father God I just pray for this woman, that her body will give every hormone and everything that she needs and that You will come along side of her and provide, everything, That there is shalom, shalom, nothing is missing and nothing is broken and I just add my faith to her faith and that she has a wonderful pregnancy and a great delivery and this child gives her joy for her whole life, her and her family…

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Life As An American Punk Band in China

1970s punk rock was all about stickin’ it to the man. Rules were made to be broken, and guitars were made to be played badly. China came late to the punk game, in part because the culture puts great reverence on traditional music, and in perhaps greater part because the government does all it can to take the counter out of counterculture. But punks in China have now at last begun to rock, even if they have to tell blatant lies to the government to do it.

American punk band Shore Leave are cruise ship musicians by day, and when they’re done crooning for tourists, they don bandanas and fake names to rock out at Chinese venues, often dodging government censors in the process …

Every Show Is A Battle Between The Performers And The Censors

China started cracking down extra hard on concerts in 2013, and it was all Elton John’s fault.

Elton John had dedicated a recent concert to Ai Weiwei, a sculptor, architect, photographer, and strong critic of the Chinese government. Police were brought in, asking Elton to release a statement saying he was only inspired by Weiwei’s art, not his political activism. Elton refused. So officials responded by calling for new rules for foreign performers, including one that would surely silence all kinds of underdogs: No one would be allowed to perform unless they held a college degree.

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Officially, the restriction was never put into place, but unofficially, organizers scrambled to find university certificates for their acts, and a bunch of new applications for performance licenses got turned down. And this is just one part of the infernal regulatory machine in China, where every individual music performance and even every lyric sung at concerts needs to be approved in advance by the Ministry of Culture. If the lyrics are approved, the show goes on. If they are not, either the song is pulled from rotation or the band is banned from playing completely.

“No lyrics that criticize the ruling party,” says The Captain, who does bass and vocals for Shore Leave. “No lyrics about ghosts/supernatural stuff.” One anti-capitalist rule insists artists refrain from romanticizing the luxury life — so no songs about tigers on leashes and Crystal-filled hot tubs, please.

The vague nature of these laws lets the government censor whatever they like for basically any reason, and a scary number of those reasons come down to bigotry. “You used to be able to sing pro-LGBT songs,” says The Captain, “but that’s changed,” which keeps Shore Leave from performing this album opener:

This is the case despite the fact that China decriminalized homosexuality in 1997 and removed it from the official list of mental disorders in 2001, but maybe it’s not too surprising. After all, the country still has forced electroshock conversion therapy.

Many bands dodge fallout by changing their most controversial lyrics before they submit them for review. Take Shore Leave’s not-at-all-political ode to Parks And Recreation‘s alien cult leader, Zorp. “The promoter told us the ‘revolution’ lyrics in ‘Armagedon-A-Go-Go’ might be problematic,” says The Captain. “So we wrote ‘Revolution / They gonna burn city hall’ as ‘Evolution / They’re gone, Arsenio Hall.'” Hey, nobody said the new tunes had to make any sense.

There’s A Secret Language That Lets You Badmouth The Government

When bands in China reference “Zhongnanhai” in a negative or mocking way, they’ll insist they’re not referring to the residential compound for China’s top leaders, but rather the popular cigarette brand.

Whether they’re hiding their anger in their lyrics or merely airing their grievances to their mail delivery person, the Chinese have implemented a sort of code that allows them to speak freely without drawing scrutiny from the powers that be. Guitarist Lt. Bugs recalls one of their first experiences with this special language: “Someone told us about a venue owner in Beijing who was ‘lost in a game of hide and seek.'” That, it turns out, is local slang for someone who died suddenly while in police custody.

Other fun examples include phrases like “the square of hopelessness.” That’s not a description of soul-crushingly dull cubicle life, but a thinly veiled reference to Tiananmen Square, which is a mostly off-limits topic in the arts.

Sometimes the code isn’t code at all. Musicians simply sing in English, as many Chinese officials do not speak or understand it. This plays to Shore Leave’s advantage. Regardless of whatever was officially submitted beforehand, they sometimes simply sing their original lyrics onstage — the odds are no one will be able to tell the difference.

Some Bands Are Completely Manufactured

A Chinese performance venue might mix bands to create new acts on the spot, dumping yet another challenge on artists trying to keep it real. Punk bands are subjected to this as much as anyone else is, despite that going against the very nature of everything the genre stands for. You may be thinking, “But NSYNC and the Spice Girls were manufactured. Were they not the greatest groups in the history of music?” Yes, they were. But those group members auditioned, got to know each other, practiced their craft. They became friends and co-workers before they ever set foot on stage. Manufactured bands in China are not afforded that luxury.

Lt. Bugs says these bands are often thrown together by agents at such a last minute that many of them “probably didn’t even meet before the show.” But it doesn’t matter if the band members can play their instruments with any real chemistry. Hell, it doesn’t matter if they can play their instruments at all. “Sometimes they’ll even be playing instruments to backing tracks,” says Shore Leave drummer First Mate, “making the singer essentially perform karaoke.”

The venue well may not be hiring these musicians for their creative abilities anyway. Lt. Bugs tells of the time she saw a promoter switch a band’s singer and bassist right before a show. “The bassist was a pretty-looking white girl,” she says, “and the singer was a darker-skinned Hispanic man. They wanted the pretty white girl up front.” Shore Leave has even seen fliers for their own concerts using stock photo models instead of their actual faces. That’s what happens when none of the band members are pretty enough for promoters.

By now, you might be wondering how watered-down lyrics and plastic supermodels equal punk. To put it simply, the very act of listening to anything that isn’t traditional music is an act of defiance in China. The genre of punk and the identities of the singers often boil down to “This is not Chinese.” If it’s not Chinese, it’s “Western.” If it’s Western, it’s not traditional, and it’s therefore subversive. Even the iconic punk style has received a makeover thanks to this amalgamation of all things Western. Fans will wear denim jeans and clothing with English phrases emblazoned across them as a roundabout way to show their love for the American lifestyle.

The Most Legit Punk Shows Go Underground

If you’re still worried these concerts sound fatally not-punk, take comfort in knowing that some shows ignore every regulation. Rather than going through the proper official channels, artists slap shows together and hope to high heaven that they don’t get caught.

Of course, advertising an illegal concert is super risky, so promoters take a very DIY approach to generating buzz. Flyers passed at shows drum up excitement for the next gig. Super secretive magazines provide info. “No names are included on zines,” says Lt. Bugs, “because, again, you have to get gov permission to distribute any sort of media. So nobody wants their name attached to an unofficial print.” The band shared an example of an underground magazine promoting local shows.

That’s all very cute and 1980s, but this is 2018, so of course online advertising is a thing. For Chinese punk acts, ads are usually images, because JPEGs are a lot harder than text for censors to read and flag. And because illegal promoters can’t advertise via normal channels, things get pretty creative. Shore Leave once got a whole audience together through Tantan, China’s Tinder. “We spent a couple weeks before our ship landed talking to girls and guys online on the app,” says The Captain. “Told them to meet us for a drink at the bar we were playing at.” 50 lonely Chinese singles showed up at the bar that night and were converted to punk fans.

Despite all the measures to avoid government attention, illegal shows still feel the wrath of censors from time to time. Usually it’s when a rival venue sees an opportunity to take out some of the competition. “That happened to an expat bar where they didn’t file for an entertainment license for an open mic comedy show,” says Lt. Bugs. “The place got raided. Some bartenders got fired for not having work visas. The bar got fined.” This put the fear of the law into them, and the place never hosted a show again.

Small Towns Are Hearing Punk (And Seeing Foreigners) For The First Time

Like we said, there’s a heavy focus on traditional music in China. Rebellious youth have also grown fond of rap and hip-hop, but these genres aren’t always gateways to the wider world. For starters, there are those pesky bans on seditious lyrics. And then some of China’s most popular rap songs are so damn patriotic that they go all the way to the other side and become inflammatory toward all outsiders. Take this lovely gem, which starts out with the phrases “stupid foreigners” and “fuck your mothers.”

You’d think the government would clamp down on that sort of thing, but it’s possible that Chinese censors aren’t 100 percent consistent with their standards.

Rock is new to many Chinese audiences, and so are foreigners. It’s not unusual for a punk band to perform for an audience that has literally never heard rock music before … or seen a white person up close and personal. “There’s almost a freak show element, in that some people just come to see foreigners, regardless of the music,” says The Captain. When people approach band members after shows, they often don’t talk about the music. “They just run through some conversational cues to practice their English.”

Because of this novelty, punk bands often find themselves sandwiched between bigger acts, like those aforementioned traditional Chinese performers. This means any hip youngsters looking to stick it to the man are forced to share space with chess-playing grandpas who want to hear the bamboo flute music they grew up with. “The promoter,” says The Captain, recalling one such show, “told us that the old men at the bar were complaining about the punk bands: ‘The singers can’t sing!’ The age gap between the two audiences present was obvious.”

But hiding in the sea of grumpy old men and wide-eyed punk rock virgins is a handful of rebellious youth who absolutely understand the point of the genre, even if they don’t understand the lyrics. “This one girl,” says Lt. Bugs, “who knew a little bit of English, kept buying us rounds of Tsingtao and baijiu shots and saying ‘revolution revolution’ over and over to us.” She never quite figured out the group’s actual name, so she called them the “revolution band.” And really, there was no reason to correct her.

Shore Leave appeared in a documentary on this subject alongside Bill Stevenson (Black Flag, The Descendents) and Steve Terreberry. Watch it online for free. Listen to their music and buy their album to support them here. Fight the power with Carolyn on Twitter and Instagram.

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Life As An American Punk Band in China

Every Show Is A Battle Between The Performers And The Censors

China started cracking down extra hard on concerts in 2013, and it was all Elton John’s fault.