TODD: Coming up in this next hour we have a really powerful EIB High Note about a man who changes life through rehabilitating birds of prey. And in this current climate, it\u2019s a remarkable story. You\u2019re not gonna want to miss this.<\/p>\n
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RODNEY STOTTS: You see the bird, you instantly fall in love. You feel a connection. And it really saved me because I would have had too much time on my hands to do nothing. And having these birds and having to train them and having something else that you have to care about and do for keeps you grounded.<\/p>\n
TODD: Another aspect of conservatism that I hope that our side of things will explore. And that is the redemptive nature of work beyond prison. And I mean this, that one of the things that we should show is the power of respect for human life and dignity and work and how it transforms lives as there Biden was handing out universal basic income, UBI, and just freeing, you know, dangerous felons under the cover of the covid. Conservatives can own and should own redemption of that nature.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
TODD: Thanks to Team EIB, everybody back there, so much for what you do. I wish you knew the love that goes into the show. Someday, I\u2019m gonna find a way to really make that clear to you. Here\u2019s an example. The EIB High Note. Right? We need things like this. Republicans\/conservatives should own things like this. It\u2019s redemption. It\u2019s rebirth.<\/p>\n
In this case, it involves a raptor that changed a young man\u2019s life. There\u2019s a young man, his name is Rodney Stotts, and he\u2019s a former drug dealer-turned-falconer. So he was pretty hard-core criminal, went to 33 funerals in a year until he said, “No, I\u2019m out. I don\u2019t want to live this way,” and he took a job at Earth Conservation Corps in D.C. “Corps.” Who was it..? Was Obama that couldn\u2019t say that? Yeah.<\/p>\n
He met a falconer named Bob Nixon, and Mr. Nixon taught him about rehabilitating injured birds of prey. I didn\u2019t know this, but most rappers don\u2019t make it to adulthood. Rodney Stotts learned how intervention could help them survive and he noticed something that was a paramount to his life. And he made an immediate connection with these birds, and Stotts said, “The first time I held the bird, it took me somewhere else.” In that moment, he instantly knew there was way more to life than he had been living. In three decades since, Mr. Stotts has earned his falconry license, worked with thousands of youth in underserved communities, and has founded his own nonprofit called Rodney\u2019s Raptors.<\/p>\n