RICKY SCHRODER ｜ Correcting the Degeneracy in Hollywood
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Summary
Ricky Schroeder has been a man of action since he was a boy. He s made it his mission to bring moral, heroic stories to the silver screen, and also to fight against the rampant pornography industry. Today, we talk about how Hollywood is nothing more than a reflection of society, what he refers to as counter-programming, whether or not the First Amendment rights actually do cover pornography, how pedophilia is being pushed as a sexual orientation, and how to course correct the degeneracy in Hollywood.
Transcript
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Hollywood is at the forefront of the sexualization of society.
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Unfortunately, many in the entertainment industry just aren't willing to speak up and against
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what is taking place and working to combat that sexualization and the increasing pornography
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But it's not only that, much of the way we see culture is shaped through the lens of
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Hollywood and what they want us to see, not necessarily what we want to see.
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My guest today has been inside since he was just a boy.
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His name is Ricky Schroeder, and he's made it his life's mission to bring moral, heroic
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stories to the silver screen and also to fight against the rampant pornography industry.
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Today, we talk about how Hollywood is nothing more than a reflection of society, what he
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refers to as counter-programming, whether or not the First Amendment rights actually do
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cover pornography with regards to freedom of expression, how pedophilia is being pushed
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as a sexual orientation, and how to course-correct the degeneracy in Hollywood.
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and preside for your families, businesses, communities, and your people in general.
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Today, I've got a great guest, Ricky Schroeder.
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I used to watch him as a young boy on the silver screen in different shows, different movies.
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He was in Silver Spoons, Lonesome Dove, Scrubs.
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A lot of you guys know who Ricky Schroeder is, and I'm going to make an introduction here
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As I said, he's an actor, he's a producer, he's a director, he's a writer.
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He's also the founder of the Real American Heroes Foundation.
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He began his acting career at age nine in The Champ.
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He kicked off a multifaceted career and very well known for his roles in Silver Spoons,
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Lonesome Dove, Scrubs, and of course, other shows as well.
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Since then, he founded the Real American Heroes Foundation, which is a nonprofit organization
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that provides content that celebrates America's true heroes.
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That foundation has also created the Council on Pornography Reform, which exists to promote
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a safer, more responsible digital landscape in the adult film industry that creeps onto
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the screens of our children at, unfortunately, an increasingly early age.
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So, gentlemen, please enjoy my conversation with Ricky.
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Man, I'm really excited to be talking with you.
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I actually grew up watching you on the screen, and to be able to chat with you and have a
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And my kids, you know, the biggest one, and I'm sure you hear this all the time for us,
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and my kids have seen this now, is Lonesome Dove, man.
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A lot of people love that Western, and it's probably one of the finest Westerns made.
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You know, the characters, everything came together perfectly when we made Lonesome Dove.
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I mean, is this something that when you grew up, you always wanted to do?
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Because you're a childhood actor, so this is something that doesn't always go well, you know,
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I guess it began, you know, having a lot of memories about the childhood when they brought
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In November of 2020, a guy came to my house and he wanted to talk.
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And so we sat down for like four hours and he went through the voting fraud data on the
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And it showed that there was six million votes that had been changed predominantly from Iran,
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And he had a whole bunch of Hunter Biden files and he left me with a bunch of the contracts of
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And, you know, I started posting some of those CEFC contracts that Hunter had a couple of years ago.
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And, you know, at first I wondered why they brought me this.
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Why did they bring me Hunter Biden's info and share this all with me?
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But I started sort of having some memories from childhood, younger childhood.
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He would put headphones on me and he and I would be in a room together, just the two of us.
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And it was it was somebody my father played tennis with.
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And I remembered, you know, my dad, because I grew up on the tennis courts in Staten Island,
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And then at some point I'd be taken to a classroom at the high school, a Catholic high school next
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door and and have headphones put on me and a tape recorder put in front of me.
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And so I went to my folks and I said, folks, I have a memory of somebody dad played tennis
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And I said, Mom, Dad, I have this memory of somebody dad plays tennis with and he's putting
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And so I went to my sister and she said that the same thing had happened to her with the
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And so I went back to my folks and I said, Don remembers, you know, the same situation.
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And my dad's like, well, John's a NYPD detective.
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So there was no way for me to reach out to him directly.
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But they didn't have any idea why there would be headphones and tape recorders and things
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And I remember there was other kids in the program.
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There was other, other, other, this is before The Champ, before I was given that movie The
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So this is when I was five years old, six years old.
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But there was other kids involved in whatever this program was.
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And there was a whole bunch of young families that all were pushing their children to, into
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the entertainment industry, and they, John, what's his name, Kelly, Greg Kelly on Newsmax.
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He and I actually modeled together in New York back when we were children.
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His father was the police commissioner of New York City, and a really good one.
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And so there was a whole group of adults that were pushing their children into the entertainment
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fields to become, become movie, movie stars, I guess, and TV stars.
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And, and none of that sort of came back to me until after they brought me Hunter Biden's
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And so once they brought me that, I started having these memories from my childhood.
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And then they gave me the movie The Champ when I was seven years old.
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And so I see myself, you know, I never really fit into Hollywood.
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But there was elements within Hollywood that were pushing me and giving me jobs and, and
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trying to, you know, to create, I think, counter-programming.
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You know, I met Ronald Reagan when I was, I think, about 10 or 11 years old the first time.
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And, you know, from what I understand, you know, it was probably his program.
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It was sort of a counter-programming effort because he saw the way that propaganda was
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And I think there was a law changed back then that actually allowed for propaganda to be
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pushed into America underneath his stewardship.
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And so this seems to me like it was a counter-programming effort to build assets and put them in Hollywood
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And I was just a seed that they kind of planted there.
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And then when they brought me the Hunter Biden stuff, it sort of triggered what, what it really
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What, what do you think that when you say counter-programming, what exactly do you mean?
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What, what was it that they were trying to program or counter-program as, as you say it?
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Well, I mean, look at the disastrous effects of propaganda in our nation.
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You know, and so, you know, the roles that they would give me, they would give me, you
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know, the Lost Battalion where I played Major Charles Whittlesley, a World War I Medal of
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Honor recipient, Too Young the Hero when I was 16, about, about the youngest, youngest
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Um, and so they brought me sort of content that was pro-American, that was pro, um, our
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Uh, and so those are the opportunities they gave me in, in the entertainment field.
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Um, so that was, that was the programming that they wanted to push with me.
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That's the, the programming that was designed for me to carry.
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Others have, or others are different kinds of assets that carry, um, different kinds of
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Um, and so, yeah, it's, I've never saw myself as an actor.
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Cause the way you're saying it makes me, makes me think that you believe it was inspired
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by government actors, agencies to, you know, elicit maybe a fighting force for the military?
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Or do you think that was just what consumers wanted to, to view, to watch, to see, and the
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prevailing virtues or, you know, values was something different than I think what we've
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seen today, which tends to migrate and deviate from that.
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So what was it, I guess what I'm asking, was it a product of what the market wanted or was
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it something on a deeper level, like the government involvement in it?
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No, I, I definitely believe it was, um, government involved programs.
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Um, you know, when you, when you see the news cycle, they control the news cycle, CIA, you
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know, they control what comes out and what they push in many ways.
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And so I believe this was, um, some three letter agency kind of, uh, program.
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Um, you know, it's the last words I spoke with my mother, I, I can't speak with my mother
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Uh, I'm not sure why, but the last words I spoke with her, she said to me, there's other
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Um, and that was the last words I got to hear from my mom.
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And so, uh, when she told me that it started to even click more and more.
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This wasn't a just market force kind of content, um, issue.
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You know, I feel like they plant seeds in Hollywood and then they call on them when
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And when they brought me Hunter Biden's laptop and gave me this information, um, it's what,
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Well, when you say they, who do you mean, who is they that brought you this laptop that
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gave you the information that, that was on that laptop?
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Cause it's obviously infamous now, but at the time it, it, it wasn't.
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And it was, uh, it was presented as a hoax, as a scam is, as something that, uh, shouldn't
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So it was brought to me from a man who said that he worked with the three letter agencies
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and when he came into the house, you know, he, he said he does, he did work with them
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And so we sat for four hours and went through Hunter's, Hunter's info and the smartmatic
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And so, uh, he, he said that, that he worked for them.
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And so I believed him when he said he worked for them.
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Um, what's interesting is that I'd met that, that this man one time before, about 10 years
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earlier, he came to my home with a horse trailer and I had five miniature Sicilian donkeys.
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I lived on a farm in Topanga, California, and he came to my home and, uh, he collected
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those donkeys cause the kids weren't playing with them anymore.
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And, um, he took those donkeys away and I, you know, had a nice conversation with him.
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And then 10 years later, he shows up at my house with Hunter's info.
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And so I realized then that, that, that wasn't that, that perhaps that there, that wasn't
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just a coincidence that the 10 years earlier, he'd come to my house and taken those donkeys
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Is that what, and he bought those or how did that, like, how did that come to be?
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And, um, the kids were getting older and they weren't giving them the attention they needed
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And so I, I went, uh, to the local coffee shop in Topanga and I asked the lady that worked
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there, do you know anybody wants these miniature donkeys?
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And so this, this fella came over with a horse trailer and we visited for an hour and he took
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And, uh, and then I never saw him again until he came to my house with Hunter Biden's laptop
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Was there, was there some sort of request or, or where did it go from there?
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It was, um, I'm going to give you this information and you can share it or not, but I thought you
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I spent a long time in prayer deciding what I was going to do about this information that
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I had, you know, I, I, I, I knew my life would change when I started posting Hunter's
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contracts, but I decided that I couldn't validate the data or information and it wasn't necessarily
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my job to validate it, but it was, I felt the responsibility to push it along and to push
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And how, and how have things changed for you now since, since, since that day and since
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you have shared and become more vocal about some of this stuff?
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I'm back here on my, my farm and you know, Hollywood is, has rejected me.
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Most of mainstream Hollywood, I'm sure because of what I've been doing and saying.
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So that, uh, that, that didn't make me too upset, but I did want to start a, I still want
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I got into real American heroes, um, foundation.
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And so its mission is to, you know, to counteract the programming coming out of Hollywood.
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And so we're going to tell long form stories and documentaries and big, what I want to
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build for America is kind of a Patriot PBS, an alternative where you can get your money
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out of Hollywood and we can aggregate great stories and bring them to the, to the world
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And, uh, you know, I'm not sure you're aware of this, but the Academy of Motion Pictures,
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Arts and Sciences, who's responsible for the Oscars, they had a DEI requirements a few
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That doesn't, I'm not aware of that, but that doesn't surprise me.
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And so their requirements now say for best picture category.
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You have to have lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender storylines and themes and characters and
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even crew to work on the films to be eligible for the best picture category.
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I'm insulted by my Academy that, you know, people, gold star families.
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Whose kids go out there and put on a uniform, uh, and, and sacrifice their lives.
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You know, their stories aren't eligible for the highest award in our land, the Oscar for
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Saving Private Ryan wouldn't be eligible for best picture today because of the DEI requirements
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You know, they have, they have false idols, American idol.
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You know, it's, it tells us in the Bible to say, you know, not to chase idols.
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And then you look at the biggest shows on TV and they use those words or survivor.
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And so the idol, the Bible warns us all multiple times, stay away from idols.
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And so it's, it's, uh, hence real American heroes foundation.
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We have a great story to tell about the battle of Wannat, uh, in Afghanistan.
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We have a great story about a Navy SEAL who, um, swam, swam 2,400 miles down the Mississippi
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river in six months, one mile for every KIA in Afghanistan.
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And so our mission is to counteract that programming that Hollywood's pushing out.
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I, you know, I'm, I just wrote a couple of movie titles down.
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Cause I, I think there is a, uh, I hate to say it this way when you're talking about
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military and so I have a familiarity with this, but so I, I hate to say that there's
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That's not the right way to say it, but it'll do for now.
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But you think about movies like American sniper or lone survivor, which are obviously mainstream,
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And I think there is really a craving for, uh, American values, American virtues, good heroic
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stories of, of people doing heroic and difficult and challenging things.
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Do you think that's changed over the past, you know, 30, 40 years?
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And if so, what has instigated that change in Hollywood?
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People want to hear and see good stories with characters that have morals and values and do
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Um, Hollywood got into the, telling the stories of the, the antiheroes, uh, and, and flawed characters.
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I mean, we're, we're losing our, our principles and values in my opinion, as, as, uh, as a nation.
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I mean, we see it happening sort of in front of us in real time.
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I mean, I, money, greed, chasing idols, you know, putting self before country.
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And it starts, in my opinion, with 40 years of internet pornography being pushed into our
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society and into our minds, into our souls and to our homes.
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So the council on porn, pornography reform, we started producing a series called erotic
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When they moved pornography out of the .xxx URL, they shut it down and they put it into
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Um, it became almost impossible for, for families to, to stop it from coming into their
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Uh, you couldn't block when it was in .xxx, which is one of our goals is to move it all
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You could put a blocker at your house and block anything from that URL .xxx.
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Once they go into the .com world, you, you couldn't, it was like whack-a-mole for parents.
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Uh, so I think internet pornography being pushed into our society for 40 years has had disastrous
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And so we, we believe we have some ideas on how to change it.
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We want an off switch, Ryan, if you pay the bill for Verizon or AT&T, um, adult content
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If you want it off to your phone and sub accounts to your kids and you should have that right.
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You and I both know there's no pornography, like you went to Afghanistan, I'm sure.
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Um, was there pornography on the internet in Iraq?
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I mean, I had very limited access to the internet, but, uh, not that I know of.
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Well, in Afghanistan, when I was there, there was no internet pornography available.
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You know, everybody had flash drives and they would pass them around the soldiers, but there
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And so they have the capability, even Montana right now, you can, they've turned off Pornhub,
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turned off their site to all zip codes in Montana.
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So they have the ability to turn off pornography per zip code, per state, per nation.
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And so we're not, we're not advocating for them to ban pornography at this time, but we
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You know, if we pay the bill to AT&T or Verizon, there's no reason we should have that stuff
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I think the argument, and, and you and I talked about this briefly before we hit record,
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but the argument you often hear is pornography is protected by the first amendment.
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And you had sent me an article and I admittedly, I have not had the chance to read it, but
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you had sent me an article before we started, um, that, that illustrates or communicates
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that, uh, pornography is not, uh, protected by the first amendment, according to the, the
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So freedom of speech and freedom of press, the first amendment were created by our forefathers
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before electricity was created, before the camera was invented.
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And if you think about this perversion and pornography, it all came with the invention of the camera
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before the camera, you couldn't, um, capture an image.
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You could engage in perversion or you could witness perversion, but you couldn't distribute
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But 150 years ago, they took the first pictures of the porn.
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And for 150 years now, they've been disseminating it and distributing it in, into our culture.
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The first amendment protected speech, but the court, the Supreme court redefined freedom of
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And, and photographs were covered then under freedom of expression, freedom of speech only
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had to do with fighting back against the powers of the government.
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You could say what you wanted without being in fear of being thrown in the gulag or whatever.
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But freedom of expression is how the courts have redefined the first amendment.
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And they, they include, I was talking to, you know, a lawyer today in DC and the absurdity
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of the debate we had was they were talking about how, um, child erotica content is different
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And that there is a, a difference between child erotica and child pornography.
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That's the absurdity of, you know, all of that is bad.
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There should be no child erotica kind of content or child pornography content, but that's what
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They, they, they, they look for the gray areas and they, they, they try to, you know,
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So many of them are destroying our standards and values because there should be no definition
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I mean, what is the, I don't even, what is, what, what is their claim that is the distinction?
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If somebody posts a picture of a new child online, but it's not in a sexual contents context,
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it's them, um, playing, swimming in a Creek and it's, their family is a bunch of nudists
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and they should be able to post that because it's not pornography.
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And so they want to define literally the difference between erotica and pornography.
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I mean, it's, it's things like even, even that, you know, that I hear that, but there's
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also things like, and you see this popping up more and more, which is, uh, you know,
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pedophilia is a, uh, a sexual orientation is the big push now.
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So we're not going to discriminate against those who are, are quote unquote predisposed
00:29:19.980
or engage in pedophilia because it's simply a sexual orientation, uh, not something perverted
00:29:27.580
And, and I've also heard the argument that they may never act out on it.
00:29:30.680
It's just their, it's just what, what they masturbate to, you know, it's just what they
00:29:38.180
And it's not a victimless crime because these people then walk in society amongst us, amongst
00:29:43.960
my children and yours and our girlfriends or wives.
00:29:46.760
And, you know, we're, we're dealing with all this perversion that they never had the
00:29:51.180
right to push into us using the first amendment.
00:29:54.360
And so we, we need to go back to English common law and decency.
00:30:06.640
Well, English common law, you know, new dancing was, was illegal in England.
00:30:12.940
Um, you know, there's, there's just basic norms of behavior that are defined as English
00:30:19.920
It's, we all know that it's what normal, healthy humans behave like and anything outside of
00:30:28.080
And we have strayed so far from the foundation.
00:30:31.260
All the colonies were, uh, had English common law prior to, uh, declaration of independence.
00:30:37.740
They were, they were all built upon English common law for decency and, and the way people
00:30:44.960
And, um, and we have strayed from English common law, you know, so we're in trouble.
00:30:50.260
I mean, with this perversion, unless we get a handle on it and, you know, it's getting
00:30:54.900
You look at the transgender confusion and the rise of the sexual confusion in our nation
00:31:03.340
I believe that's all a result of 40 years of internet pornography being really pushed into
00:31:09.380
our minds and our, our souls and the way we see ourselves and the confusion that comes
00:31:14.240
And so what, here's an interesting thing you might find interesting.
00:31:17.680
Um, you know, about dry counties in the South where they serve no alcohol.
00:31:23.360
So I'm talking to a County here in the West that's interested in becoming a porn free dry
00:31:30.180
And so we're, we're going to actually be heading over to speak with their County commissioners
00:31:34.320
and, uh, they're possibly going to put the vote, um, before the members of their County,
00:31:40.040
which is a tiny County, um, less than 5,000 people and, um, devout, um, love the America,
00:31:51.360
And there's a good chance that this will pass in this County, that they will become the
00:31:56.000
first porn free County dry County in our nation.
00:32:00.000
And obviously a lot of, uh, issues will come with that.
00:32:02.980
The, the porn producers and pushers will fight it in the law and the courts, but, but we,
00:32:10.240
the people, I mean, what about what we want if that County doesn't want pornography in their
00:32:15.800
zip codes and they vote on it and a majority decide that, um, it's an interesting question.
00:32:23.480
Shouldn't they have the right to like a dry County be porn free?
00:32:26.900
Yeah. I mean, sure. And, and, you know, the opportunity to leave or find another place if
00:32:32.240
you so desire is, is yours, you know? And, and I, I think that's even a more viable opportunity
00:32:38.540
than it's ever been, you know, for us to move in the, and this is why we see, you know, people
00:32:42.660
moving, for example, out of California to, uh, Florida or Texas, you know, because they're not
00:32:48.680
interested in the politics and the, in the laws and the rules and the regulations that allow this,
00:32:54.900
Yeah. And I think the County is where we have to fight it. And if we can, if we can get this one
00:32:59.560
County to vote and pass it, imagine if there's thousands of counties that they wanted to be
00:33:05.520
porn free and they had a vote and, um, you know, they, they can't defeat us all. They can't stop us
00:33:12.400
all. Yeah. I think the biggest issue is, you know, what, what two consenting adults do inside the walls
00:33:18.040
of their home or their bedroom is, you know, entirely up to them by all means, whatever, whatever you
00:33:22.240
think, uh, it's when you involve other people, especially minors, right? Because they don't
00:33:26.280
have a say, they don't have any authority over their own lives in a lot of ways. Uh, and then
00:33:30.460
to your point earlier about the distribution, you know, now you're distributing it, you know,
00:33:34.700
we, we don't allow people to, well, we do allow, but there is laws that says we can't, uh, uh,
00:33:39.780
distribute drugs, for example, because we know of the harmful effects on those individuals who even
00:33:44.800
decide voluntarily to engage in drug use and we still, still criminal activity. So I think there
00:33:51.660
is a case to be made for making certain distribution of certain materials illegal on those
00:33:58.520
basis. That that's not a precedent that hasn't been set already. Well, porn is a drug. I mean,
00:34:03.320
we, in erotic erosion, we talked with, uh, a counselor, Clint Davis, who's explained to us and
00:34:09.760
Dr. Amen from the brain clinic, we're going to be speaking with him that cocaine has the same
00:34:14.460
effects as masturbating to pornography on the young boy's brain. It's that large of a dopamine hit
00:34:21.880
and that serotonin dump. And so it becomes like a habit, um, pornography. And so, you know,
00:34:31.480
if you had a drug habit, you wouldn't, if every day a drug dealer put drugs at your front door
00:34:36.940
and you had to choose whether or not to go get them as, as the addict, it's the same thing they're
00:34:43.040
doing with pornography. Cause it is a drug and they're pushing it to our phones and to our houses
00:34:47.300
and putting the choice on us, whether or not we pick it up. Well, how about we just don't have the
00:34:54.500
choice for the ones that don't want the choice, the ones that don't want it delivered to their
00:34:59.240
house or their phone just off. And that's, that's what we're advocating for, um, is an off switch.
00:35:06.560
If you want to keep it out there on, on the rest of the America, go ahead. But why should,
00:35:13.620
why should we be forced to have it pushed to our homes? Yeah. And I imagine there'll be providers
00:35:17.920
if this picks up traction and steam the way I think it can, I imagine there will be alternative
00:35:22.760
providers who have these types of options, um, you know, where it won't be viable or accessible.
00:35:29.020
And I think that'd be a good thing. What's the biggest, what's the biggest hurdle that you run
00:35:34.120
up against, whether it's from the, the porn industry or, you know, other industries and
00:35:39.720
agencies to the consumer themselves, what is the biggest hangup in the types of legislation
00:35:46.180
and regulation that you're talking about? Well, Washington's cumbersome and broken. And
00:35:54.420
there are five bills right now that, you know, Congress and senators are working on that, that
00:35:59.760
do help, but they don't go far enough. They deal with, you know, the consequences of, of the sickness
00:36:05.920
and perversion and the disease of pornography. They don't go at the root problem. Um, and so I,
00:36:12.440
you know, we're trying to circumnavigate that as best we can. I have a law firm that's writing
00:36:17.660
legislation on the two key issues that we really are pushing, which is, um, putting dot XXX
00:36:24.400
back into the, um, the adult content back into the dot XXX URL and an off switch for people
00:36:31.980
to pay the bill. So we're, we're going to develop a legislation in house and we'll get it, you
00:36:36.700
know, about 80% written and then it'll be taken to the legislative council office. Um, I spoke
00:36:44.440
with a Senator's office today. Um, and so, you know, I'll have to get co-sponsors. Um, so that's
00:36:53.820
what we're trying to do is just circumnavigate their slow, tedious process in DC and get our
00:36:58.860
own legislation written and then bring that to the people and share it with America. Like
00:37:03.660
this is the two things we want. Um, and, and I think people just haven't thought that it's
00:37:11.300
possible. They've been conditioned so long to believe that pornography is covered by the
00:37:15.360
first amendment that they don't even think it's possible, but it is possible. And we can
00:37:20.440
change this and we must change this. And so, um, it's just getting people to believe we can change
00:37:27.300
this. Um, it has been sort of an educating people that it's possible, um, is, is sort of where we're
00:37:34.280
at right now. Yeah. I mean, on an intuitive level, if you just spend any time and thinking about it,
00:37:39.800
which admittedly I haven't from a, from a first amendment perspective, uh, but there's a lot of
00:37:45.880
expression that is illegal, you know, it, not everything is protected. Even if you choose to
00:37:53.640
look at it from the freedom of expression, you know, you can't, you can't go murder somebody.
00:37:58.480
You can't sell an individual illegal drugs. Like these are all, these could all be argued that
00:38:03.840
they're a freedom of expression. Well, I don't like that guy. So I'm going to go kill him.
00:38:07.420
Is that a freedom of expression? You could make the case it is, but yet we as a society don't allow
00:38:12.400
that for obvious reasons, it's not far fetched to assume that this would fall into that same camp.
00:38:17.740
Completely agree. Um, freedom of expression is nowhere in the constitution. It's not written
00:38:23.600
those words, but, but, but, uh, and, and that's what the courts have, have determined, um, pornography
00:38:29.920
is that it's freedom of expression. Um, it was never covered by the first amendment. Um, and we need
00:38:39.120
to unwind, you know, their, their, their disastrous effects. Um, you know, young, young men growing up
00:38:48.000
watching pornography, they see the world differently. They see women differently. They interact with the
00:38:53.500
world differently. They're, they're have much more sort of, it seems like serious, emotional, uh, antisocial,
00:39:01.240
uh, aggressive tendencies. Um, this has, you know, regardless of the, the implications on your soul,
00:39:08.700
it has a biological, it has a biological impact, uh, on, on how young men behave, uh, how they treat
00:39:16.120
women. Um, you know, I saw my first pornography when I was nine years old, the first video.
00:39:23.300
And, uh, it's, it's something that I'll never forget, uh, the image and it, and it opened up a
00:39:29.540
curiosity, which only, um, which only hurt my development and hurt my, my soul. It did nothing
00:39:38.080
ever to help me. And, um, you know, and there's too many kids right now that are playing video games
00:39:43.860
and watching porn for hours a day. You know, the parents, 87% of parents, according to, uh, Clint,
00:39:49.920
my, one of the interviewees on erotic erosion, 87% of parents have no guidelines for their children's
00:39:56.400
social media use. 87%. And so it's wide open for them out there, these kids and what they're
00:40:05.120
seeing, what they're experiencing, um, the hardcore nature, the perversion escalates, doesn't stay at
00:40:13.440
level two, goes to level 10. Um, it turns into bestiality and furries, you know, it turns into
00:40:23.080
that whole, you know, perverted kind of, that's where, that's where furries go. In my opinion,
00:40:29.480
it's, you know, there's an animal component to it, um, the pretending to be animals, um, pretending to
00:40:36.440
be cats, going to the bathroom and litter boxes. And, you know, there's a whole, uh, perverse,
00:40:42.860
perverse side to the, to the furry movement. People think it's cute, but Disney put out the first
00:40:47.980
furries, Minnie Mouse, Mickey Mouse, they were the goofy Donald Duck. Disney created that whole
00:40:54.800
furry culture in my opinion. Well, and it only gets worse. I mean, not, not, not to mention what
00:41:00.420
you're talking about, but you think about the advent of AI and, and what that's going to do.
00:41:06.160
Cause I mean, obviously that's going to infiltrate and it already has the, um, pornography industry,
00:41:11.180
uh, and then robotics. And you start coupling these things together. I mean, talk about a society
00:41:16.240
that doesn't want to engage with anybody else. Why, why would you, you know, you can have a
00:41:19.940
quote unquote woman to your specifications, uh, anytime you want, uh, you don't need to go out
00:41:26.140
there and engage with society. And, um, it just becomes this, you know, crazy dystopian
00:41:30.660
society where we're just boxed in, you know, uh, succumbing to every wish and desire that,
00:41:37.680
that we've ever imagined and plenty that we haven't yet. Well, they're trying to break the family
00:41:42.720
and the, and the bond between man and woman, the biblical bond between man and woman. I mean,
00:41:47.600
let's talk about women for a sec and vibrators, you know, that is a barrier between intimacy and
00:41:56.020
bonding between a man and a woman. If you plug it into the outlet, you, you put that alien device
00:42:02.480
at 10,000 RPMs on your groin, and then you fantasize perhaps if you're alone about who knows
00:42:09.020
what, you know, some other relationships you had previous relationships, maybe you're fantasizing
00:42:15.680
about your current partner, maybe not, but you're, you're sort of self gratifying yourself in this
00:42:21.080
men watching pornography, watching women, other women masturbating to them. So when they do hook
00:42:27.700
up with their, their partner in earth and on the world, in the world, you know, where are their minds?
00:42:33.020
You've just looked at 25 hours of porn the previous week or whatever the hell it was.
00:42:38.980
And now you're with your significant other trying to get her to perform like 25 hours of porn you
00:42:46.900
watched. It's like, it's breaking the bond. And so it's, it's really a matter of clearing. You got to
00:42:53.320
clear yourself in a sense, like your soul and get these intrusive thoughts out of your mind. You know,
00:43:00.500
if, if, if you've, if you've got intrusive thoughts for men and women and anything that breaks that
00:43:06.300
bond, including the vibrator, including pornography has got to be thrown in the trash so that, you know,
00:43:13.000
you and your, your wife or me and my wife can have that bond that's so special and sacred and only
00:43:21.320
belongs to the two of you. And that's what makes marriage special. That's what makes your relationship
00:43:26.580
special. It belongs to you. You're not out there thinking and fantasizing about other women and
00:43:32.860
she's not fantasizing about other guys. Um, but that's what conditions, that's what's conditioned
00:43:39.120
to us. They, the society, the programming, you know, is conditioned so much, you know, don't have kids,
00:43:46.320
don't get married, don't have a biblical kind of marriage. The conditioning is anti that.
00:43:52.740
And what, why did this become such an issue for you with what you're doing it with, with regards
00:43:57.840
to addressing pornography? And then also with a real American heroes foundation, why did you feel
00:44:03.520
like you wanted to become the champion of these two causes in particular? Well, the perversion that I,
00:44:09.240
you know, that I've seen and I was around, I was around it as a kid, you know, I was, I was, um,
00:44:15.120
I was around pedophiles as a child. I mean, I, they, they worked around me. They, they, they had jobs
00:44:22.400
around my career. They were involved. And so I, I saw like, I saw it, I saw it a lot. Um,
00:44:32.460
those magazines that we were, I was in when I was a teenager, um, team beat, remember that magazine?
00:44:39.860
Sure. Yeah. And it was all, it was all pedophiles that produced it, shot the pictures and team beat
00:44:45.720
meant this, you know, that that's what it was. And, um, I saw people die. I saw people overdose
00:44:53.660
from their, from their trauma of being molested and being, you know, used as a sexual gratification
00:45:01.280
for perverted men. And I saw people, you know, take their lives over that stuff. So, you know,
00:45:08.320
I just don't want this, I want this world to get a little better. I want these little ones to have
00:45:12.280
a better chance. And, you know, um, perversion is, is, it's, it's like a fire, a fire and the more
00:45:19.180
fuel you put on it, the bigger it grows. And so, you know, pornography is one of the biggest, I think,
00:45:25.800
uh, fuels for the abuse. Um, I've seen it happen in, in many families destroyed, marriages destroyed,
00:45:37.140
um, relationships destroyed because of it. And, uh, it doesn't have to stay this way.
00:45:45.680
It can't stay this way. We've got to put it back in the dot XXX pipe. Whoever wants it can find it
00:45:53.160
there. And we have to give the choice to people to turn it off. They have no rights to push it to us.
00:46:01.160
It's like, it is a drug. Hmm. Well, you're doing powerful work. I'd love for you to share, uh, with
00:46:08.100
the guys where to go to connect more on, on both these fronts and learn more about what you're
00:46:12.120
doing, including supporting your work. Where, where can I send them? Yeah. So, uh, real
00:46:17.180
American heroes, foundation.org. You can see the projects we have in development. Uh, we got some
00:46:22.920
great war stories, uh, we're going to tell. Um, and then the council on porn reform.org. You can learn
00:46:31.400
about our mission there and our goals. Um, we have some papers there about the first amendment,
00:46:36.900
how it never covered pornography. Uh, we also have a pledge. If you want to join, uh, CPR
00:46:42.880
pledge.org council on porn reform, pledge.org. Um, you can sign up and do a porn free pledge and
00:46:53.740
you can sign it and put it on your fridge and you can get resources there about, uh, how to overcome
00:46:59.720
this, uh, this, this, this problem. It's overcomable. You know, I've been porn free now, uh, several years.
00:47:07.240
Um, feels great. Uh, I haven't always struggled with porn. There's been periods of my life where
00:47:12.860
it came and went. Um, but I know the darkest periods of my life is when it was present.
00:47:19.300
And, um, and so, um, real American heroes foundation. That's our, that's our mission.
00:47:27.180
Excellent. Well, Ricky, we'll sync everything up. Keep up the great work. It's such an honor to talk
00:47:31.000
with you. And I love when, you know, we, we, we, as men, a lot of the times can recognize some of the
00:47:35.380
problems, you know, we see it, we see what's going on. We get frustrated with it. Um, but very,
00:47:40.120
very, I'll say it this way, too few of us do anything about it. And I'm glad that you are
00:47:45.760
doing something about it. I'm excited to support you and to be able to share this message because
00:47:49.740
it is one that needs to be heard. So thanks for joining me today and sharing a little bit about
00:47:53.020
what you're doing. Thanks Ryan, man. God bless. Thank you, brother.
00:47:59.400
Gentlemen, there you go. My conversation with Ricky Schroeder. A lot of you guys know, uh, maybe not
00:48:04.300
know who Ricky is, but you know, of Ricky because we watched him as we were growing up, of course.
00:48:09.240
And, and, uh, like I said earlier, Lonesome Doves, Silver Spoons, and others. Uh, so he's got some
00:48:14.720
great initiatives that I think are worthy of looking into and celebrating and supporting if we can. So
00:48:20.900
please, uh, make sure to connect with Ricky on social media, uh, take a screenshot right now and
00:48:26.560
tag me tag Ricky tag, the real American heroes foundation. Uh, so we can start sharing these
00:48:31.360
messages of, of hope and optimism and growth. And again, celebrating men who are actually doing
00:48:36.780
something about the issues they see. That's the goal is not just to identify it or complain about
00:48:42.780
it or be upset about it, but actually do something about it. And Ricky is one of those men who, who
00:48:46.680
is, so I was honored to be able to have this conversation with him. And of course, honored
00:48:50.360
to bring it to you guys. Remember, as we close things out, uh, Montana knife company use the code
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00:49:00.260
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00:49:10.760
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