The Charlie Kirk Show - March 31, 2023


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Lee Wamsgons of Patriot Mobile Action joins us to talk about her organization's efforts to elect conservative school board majorities in Texas and around the country. She tells us about how her organization is changing the landscape of education in America.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, a very special episode.
00:00:01.000 We talk about school boards with Lee from Patriot Mobile Action.
00:00:04.000 We love Patriot Mobile.
00:00:06.000 We do a lot of different things with them.
00:00:07.000 And when I say the profits go to good causes, you'll see what I mean this hour.
00:00:11.000 And then Ed Wrights, 97-year-old World War II veteran, talks about what he has seen and how we can win America back.
00:00:18.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:21.000 Get involved with TurningPointUSA Today at tpusa.com.
00:00:24.000 That is tpusa.com.
00:00:27.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:28.000 Here we go.
00:00:29.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:30.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:33.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:36.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:39.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:40.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:41.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:00:43.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
00:00:48.000 Turning point USA. 0.65
00:00:50.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:00:58.000 That's why we are here.
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00:01:10.000 Joining us now is Lee Wamsgons.
00:01:12.000 I hope I said that right.
00:01:14.000 Lee, welcome to the program.
00:01:16.000 Very close.
00:01:16.000 That's my husband's fault.
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00:01:18.000 Thanks, Charlie.
00:01:19.000 Good to be here.
00:01:19.000 I tried my best.
00:01:20.000 You're the executive director of Patriot Mobile Action.
00:01:22.000 Tell us about the great work you're doing on the ground.
00:01:24.000 So Patriot Mobile Action was formed by four executives, actually, who are at Patriot Mobile.
00:01:30.000 We did this last year, and it was our first launch year in 2022.
00:01:33.000 And we took on four independent school districts in Tarrant County, Texas.
00:01:37.000 As you know, Tarrant County is the largest red county left in the nation and in the bullseye of the turn Texas blue.
00:01:45.000 So we took on four school districts.
00:01:47.000 It was 11 seats.
00:01:49.000 We won all 11.
00:01:50.000 They weren't slam ducks.
00:01:51.000 One of them went into a runoff.
00:01:53.000 We had to work very hard.
00:01:54.000 But ultimately, what that means is over 100,000 North Texas students who before May 2022 had liberal leadership on their school boards.
00:02:04.000 After May 2022, had conservative majorities on their school boards.
00:02:09.000 Well, that's amazing.
00:02:10.000 So talk about some of the active work that you're doing from candidate recruitment.
00:02:14.000 How can this scale to other places?
00:02:16.000 So, you know, there's just no easy answer.
00:02:18.000 It's hard work.
00:02:19.000 We don't publish a blueprint because, you know, just like any football coach doesn't give the other team his playbook.
00:02:25.000 We work hundreds and hundreds of hours and we spend hundreds of hours on the phone coaching local communities on how to run campaigns, how to recruit candidates and how to win their school boards back.
00:02:37.000 And Charlie, you and I go back before the Patriot Mobile Action in South Lake, Texas, which is the city that's making education news in Texas this week.
00:02:47.000 You came in when we formed South Lake Families and South Lake Carol ISD was one of the first communities to fight back against the critical race theory.
00:02:58.000 And we made national news.
00:03:00.000 What we were doing wonderfully is organizing adults.
00:03:04.000 And in our organizational meeting, a high school senior stood up and said, what can we do?
00:03:09.000 We need something for the kids.
00:03:11.000 And it just, we were gobsmacked.
00:03:13.000 We hadn't even thought about creating anything for the kids.
00:03:16.000 And so we created a committee and you came to town and over 200 showed up to hear you talk.
00:03:23.000 And you could see those kids looking around at each other going, wow, I'm not alone.
00:03:28.000 I'm not alone.
00:03:29.000 We can stand together.
00:03:31.000 And I'm telling you, you changed the culture of that high school.
00:03:35.000 The next week, kids that had been muzzled and their free speech had been squashed, they were wearing their flag shirts. 0.53
00:03:43.000 They were wearing their Trump socks.
00:03:45.000 It was a completely different culture when you came to town.
00:03:48.000 I just want to thank you again for that.
00:03:49.000 Praise God.
00:03:50.000 Thank you for saying that.
00:03:51.000 And that's exactly what we need.
00:03:53.000 We need to start a movement of courage and of conviction.
00:03:57.000 And so then talk about what happens once you win, because sometimes people say, well, it's one thing to win the school boards.
00:04:02.000 It's another thing to actually implement change.
00:04:05.000 Talk about what Patriot Mobile Action is doing to actually fight for virtue and parents' rights once you're able to win these school boards.
00:04:14.000 Absolutely.
00:04:15.000 One of the first important points is this is never a one and done.
00:04:18.000 This is every year, every election, it will never end.
00:04:22.000 The second we take our eye off the ball, the liberals will control the majorities again.
00:04:27.000 And this, there are several examples in the state of Texas.
00:04:30.000 And the biggest one this week is the South Lake Carroll Independent School Board trustees voted Monday night to leave the Texas Association of School Boards, the woke TASB.
00:04:43.000 TASB was one of the late levers of the national where the moms and dads are targeted.
00:04:50.000 Yeah, sure.
00:04:51.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:04:53.000 Where they wrote a letter to Biden calling moms and dads who were simply exercising their First Amendment rights to speak out at the public comments section of school board meetings, literally calling parents domestic terrorists and saying that they were committing hate crimes for speaking out against the racist critical race theory.
00:05:14.000 So the fact that it took TASB a little over eight months, almost a year to leave the National School Board Association after this, that was one of the reasons the Carol ISD trustees cited in their resolution to non-renew their membership with the Texas Association of School Boards.
00:05:32.000 But that's just that's just one thing.
00:05:34.000 It is ironic, Charlie, last May 2022, when there was a rash of conservative victories in school boards across Texas, that two weeks later, TASB left the National Association.
00:05:46.000 I don't think that would have happened had we not had all of those victories.
00:05:50.000 But they still kept their political, their liberal ideologies.
00:05:54.000 For example, September 22, 2022, in one of their conferences where thousands of school board trustees and independent school district superintendents and their high-level administrators come to get educated and they get their continuing ed points and the breakout classes and learning sessions.
00:06:15.000 They were holding all kinds of LGBTQ and really woke classes.
00:06:21.000 They even brought in an LGBTQ student to talk in over half of one of the classes.
00:06:28.000 One of them was run by the Texas ACLU, and it was just still woke training.
00:06:35.000 In addition to that, one of the reasons that Carol cited as leaving TASB in their meeting is their lobbying efforts at the state of Texas down in Austin.
00:06:47.000 Texas's education funding system is pretty wacky.
00:06:52.000 And one of the things Texas implemented is Robin Hood, and that takes away from wealthy districts and gives to poor districts to help equalize the opportunity for public education.
00:07:04.000 And while that sounds good, last year, $4 billion was paid into this Robin Hood fund, and only $2 billion could be accounted for.
00:07:12.000 Several years ago, one of the poor districts in South Texas was outed for building a $20 million water park with those education funds.
00:07:22.000 So we're asking for accountability for the Robin Hood funds.
00:07:25.000 But additionally, we're just really congratulating South Lake Carroll for their courage.
00:07:33.000 They're one of the first major districts to leave TASB.
00:07:36.000 And this is already starting a big buzz and a ripple effect across Texas.
00:07:41.000 You know, all of those services that TASB says that they're really providing to school districts, the workers' comp insurance and those kind of things, those are all available on the free market.
00:07:55.000 And I think we're going to in Southlake be trailblazers and show the rest of Texas and the rest of America that you do not have to stay under the chains of these woke organizations who do not have your school district, do not hold your teachers or your students' best interests at heart.
00:08:14.000 Can you just comment on how the national media came in and they did a series of podcasts and big exposures called Southlake.
00:08:22.000 Talk about that.
00:08:23.000 So it was it was a hit piece full of lie after lie after lie.
00:08:27.000 You know, in the beginning, a few parents did try to talk to them and try to get, you know, the conservative side out and they just wouldn't have it.
00:08:34.000 It was to the point to where even some folks in some gated communities had NBC cars with cameras parked outside.
00:08:42.000 You know, one of the liberal neighbors let them in.
00:08:45.000 It was really, I mean, honestly, there's no other word to call it than stalking.
00:08:49.000 I don't know if you're aware, but CNN walked into my living room and during an event and I escorted them out.
00:08:55.000 I used that security cam footage screenshot on my Christmas card.
00:09:00.000 It was crazy.
00:09:02.000 That podcast was like number one in the nation.
00:09:05.000 They did this intentionally, though.
00:09:06.000 And whenever there's anything meaningful happened in a conservative way, for example, this is happening at the North Idaho College right now.
00:09:12.000 The New York Times is dispatched there.
00:09:14.000 They try to stop this movement by trying to make it seem as if it's radical.
00:09:19.000 It's something that it's not.
00:09:20.000 And just so you understand, there were millions of dollars spent by NBC News.
00:09:25.000 And they came in, they came into South Lake, Texas, and they did a series of these podcasts to try to stop this from happening in other communities.
00:09:36.000 Absolutely.
00:09:38.000 It was a tactic to scare us and we didn't back down.
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00:10:22.000 So Lee, I want to just take our five minutes here and build this out because this is a playbook they're doing right now, the New York Times, the North Idaho College, where anything that is good and anything that is positive happening on the local level, the national media comes in with really, let's just say, like intimidating tactics, hyper aggressive with people that are not trained in public relations, people that do not want to be labeled as radical, people that are afraid of the national spotlight, understandably.
00:10:51.000 And they almost preempt this from spreading.
00:10:54.000 So just kind of walk our audience through again.
00:10:57.000 You guys helped take over the school board in South Lake.
00:10:59.000 Parents are there, but this drew the attention of CNN, NBC News.
00:11:05.000 Tell us more about it.
00:11:06.000 Well, interestingly, the NBC News reporter who, listen, I used to be a journalist, and I don't know what changed, but when I was a journalist and I got my broadcast journalism degree, we were taught to never become the story.
00:11:20.000 The reporter who repeatedly attacked us from NBC is now out there doing his own interviews about his awards that he won lying about South Lake, Texas.
00:11:31.000 What parents need to know is that they're going to lie about you.
00:11:36.000 They're going to attack you.
00:11:39.000 And when you stand, the next person stands up behind you.
00:11:43.000 When you show courage, it gives the masses people courage to stand with you.
00:11:49.000 And that is what happened to us.
00:11:51.000 The lies were rampant.
00:11:52.000 They're still rampant.
00:11:54.000 And people said, How do you do it?
00:11:56.000 You know, thanks.
00:11:57.000 Well, it's because, you know, it does to take, you know, a term we probably don't like to use, but it does take a village.
00:12:05.000 There is strength in numbers, and we need to stand together.
00:12:08.000 No person can be an island.
00:12:10.000 And I'll give you an example: the woke mob in Southlake attacked an airline pilot.
00:12:16.000 He was a parent and had kids in the district, and he went to the public forum and he gave them his opinion.
00:12:23.000 Never once did he identify his employer.
00:12:26.000 Never once did he say what he did.
00:12:28.000 But the local BLM woke mob started posting on Twitter and tagging his employer and calling and, you know, launched an attack against it. 0.50
00:12:40.000 What they didn't realize, what we had, is in the city of Southlake, we have a high population of pilots, but being a American airline.
00:12:49.000 Sure.
00:12:50.000 Yeah.
00:12:50.000 Yeah.
00:12:51.000 And being an elite community, we had a lot of Puncier Key, American Executive Platinum, American Platinum.
00:12:58.000 And I also had a 3,000-person email database.
00:13:01.000 And so we launched a counterattack and we fought back.
00:13:04.000 We flooded their phone lines.
00:13:06.000 We flooded their social media.
00:13:08.000 We flooded their emails.
00:13:10.000 And that airline had put that pilot, had grounded that pilot pending an investigation.
00:13:16.000 And we knew it was all bunk.
00:13:18.000 We knew it wasn't true.
00:13:19.000 And because we fought back, we won.
00:13:21.000 So my message is: parents, when you are attacked by the media, if you don't fight back, you will make it to where your children can't.
00:13:30.000 So you have to fight back and stand up for truth, regardless of what they throw at you.
00:13:35.000 And despite all the media attention, the school board didn't waiver.
00:13:39.000 Is that correct?
00:13:41.000 That's completely correct.
00:13:42.000 Yes.
00:13:43.000 Back at that time, it was still a woke school board. 0.99
00:13:45.000 Now, I'll tell you that that next victory, that the organization that we did was in the fall of 2020.
00:13:50.000 And that's when you came to South Lake.
00:13:52.000 It was the May of 2021 when we won our first election.
00:13:55.000 We still didn't have a majority.
00:13:57.000 So we still had so much work to do.
00:13:59.000 And then a school board member left in November 2021.
00:14:03.000 We got another one in.
00:14:04.000 And in 2022, another one into where we had a majority.
00:14:08.000 And the good news is this May, less than two months away, we're going to have seven out of seven conservative school board members.
00:14:16.000 And so, you know, I think that the lesson for parents is you have to act boldly and courageously.
00:14:16.000 Yeah.
00:14:23.000 So just in closing here, a parent might be on the edge.
00:14:26.000 They might say, oh, is it really worth running for the school board?
00:14:29.000 What's your final word of encouragement?
00:14:31.000 My encouragement is your kids are worth it.
00:14:33.000 Our kids are worth it.
00:14:34.000 And I also want to tell private school parents, homeschool parents, that you have a voice and you have a responsibility because 85% of students in America are still in public schools.
00:14:45.000 And if you think you're safe because you've protected your kids, your kids are going to be in that 15% minority. 1.00
00:14:51.000 It is the responsibility of conservatives to engage in all aspects.
00:14:55.000 And if you just don't think you can run for school board, we need more courageous, patriotic conservatives to run.
00:15:01.000 You can do so many things.
00:15:02.000 You can work on campaigns.
00:15:04.000 You can serve on committees in your school district that you can help with the budget.
00:15:09.000 You can have a conservative voice in all of those woke committees that right now, a lot of liberals are completely dominating.
00:15:16.000 We need everyone in every aspect of every school district across the nation.
00:15:21.000 Very good.
00:15:21.000 Lee from Patriot Mobile Action.
00:15:23.000 Thank you so much.
00:15:24.000 Thank you so much, Charlie.
00:15:28.000 Are you feeling burned out and a little tired?
00:15:30.000 Look, I want to tell you about something that I've become a big believer in.
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00:15:38.000 NAD is a precursor for your body to be able to create ATP, which is basically the life force of everything that you do.
00:15:45.000 And look, there's a lot of people out there that are promising energy and doing all this, but go do some research on NAD and go see actually how incredibly important it is for high performance to be able to provide, to go actually get it to the next level.
00:15:59.000 And so, what does NAD stand for?
00:16:01.000 Well, try to take a note here.
00:16:02.000 It is nicotinamide adenonide dinucleotide.
00:16:07.000 I did that pretty well, don't you think?
00:16:09.000 NAD.
00:16:10.000 It's a coenzyme that is central to metabolism.
00:16:13.000 Again, don't take my word for it.
00:16:14.000 Go watch a YouTube video or two or three or four and go fact-check me on it.
00:16:18.000 I've been taking NAD for quite some time.
00:16:20.000 And people say, Charlie, how do you travel 2,700 days in a decade?
00:16:24.000 How do you do the 300 days a year?
00:16:26.000 How do you do that?
00:16:27.000 Look, it's not only because of this.
00:16:28.000 I eat well and do other things as well.
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00:17:24.000 It's an additive, an amplifier on people that want to get better.
00:17:28.000 But I could tell you, it makes a big difference.
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00:18:20.000 Very special guest with us, Ed Wrights, World War II veteran, and has seen a lot.
00:18:27.000 Ed, welcome to the program.
00:18:29.000 Thank you.
00:18:30.000 So, Ed, tell us your story.
00:18:33.000 Well, I began my life in Seattle, Washington.
00:18:39.000 And the World War II came when I was very young.
00:18:47.000 And at 18, three days before 18, I joined the Navy.
00:18:54.000 The reason for that is my brother had already been drafted.
00:18:58.000 And if you waited until you were 18, it was too late to do anything else.
00:19:02.000 And you were whatever they wanted you to do, you did it.
00:19:05.000 So I went and joined the Navy instead.
00:19:08.000 So my time was in the Navy.
00:19:11.000 So you've seen a lot over the last many decades.
00:19:15.000 I sure have.
00:19:19.000 The country used to be freer.
00:19:22.000 I'm sure you could agree with that.
00:19:23.000 Absolutely.
00:19:25.000 Tell us about it.
00:19:26.000 Tell us about what the America used to exist.
00:19:30.000 Well, it's so totally different in many, many ways.
00:19:41.000 And much of this has come on in the last 15 years.
00:19:49.000 I'll give you one example.
00:19:51.000 I graduated from William Cullen Bryant Grade School in Seattle in 1939.
00:20:00.000 And we had a school of about 900 people.
00:20:04.000 And it was just absolutely common to have the nativity scene.
00:20:11.000 We acted out the nativity scene of Jesus.
00:20:14.000 And one of my classmates sang, Oh Holy Nights.
00:20:18.000 Evolution was not taught.
00:20:21.000 No evolution was taught in that school.
00:20:24.000 I graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1943.
00:20:30.000 That was a school of about 2,500.
00:20:34.000 And again, evolution was not taught.
00:20:38.000 That began somewhere during the World War II, sort of toward the end of the World War II, we started teaching evolution.
00:20:48.000 And that's the beginning of our problem with America, is that was the easiest way to leave God out.
00:21:00.000 So as God was removed, I suppose this is an interesting question that only you can answer.
00:21:07.000 Why did the greatest generation allow that to happen?
00:21:13.000 Well, one of the things is that you folks have noted this very, very well.
00:21:21.000 And that is that Christian folk often had nothing to do with politics.
00:21:27.000 My father did not even believe in voting.
00:21:30.000 What?
00:21:33.000 You know, no connection with the government.
00:21:36.000 Wow.
00:21:37.000 Just believing in your own faith in your own church.
00:21:42.000 That was it.
00:21:42.000 And you did not.
00:21:44.000 And although that was unusual for one man, he was born in 1886, kind of a long time ago.
00:21:58.000 But that idea of not having the church involved in any politics, that's still pretty popular too many places.
00:22:08.000 It's way too popular today.
00:22:10.000 But what you're saying is when you were young, that also was a dominant viewpoint.
00:22:17.000 Yeah.
00:22:18.000 So we removed God from our schools.
00:22:20.000 We have 60s liberalism come in, this postmodern ideas, the kind of sexual revolution.
00:22:29.000 But America still seemed to resist a lot of these forces that were trying to take it over.
00:22:37.000 And if you had to kind of point a period of time where you think things really went in a wrong direction, would it be the removal of prayer in schools, the war in court, the burger court?
00:22:51.000 Or was it a separate, was it a more recent time, maybe after 9-11?
00:22:57.000 Well, the whole thing began about 100 years ago.
00:23:04.000 Actually, it began with Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel.
00:23:08.000 But it actually demonstrably came when John Dewey.
00:23:16.000 Yeah, the father of public education.
00:23:19.000 And the one who designed the Dewey decimal system, that's part of the beginning, and that's about 100 years ago.
00:23:28.000 And his idea was that if we change education, we will change our nation.
00:23:35.000 And now we've got people that that's been advanced so badly in the last number of years that you have people like Bill Gates and some of these others.
00:23:49.000 They don't want to change the nation.
00:23:50.000 They want to change the world.
00:23:52.000 Yes, they do.
00:23:52.000 Globalization is the way it's being handled is totally anti-God, anti-Christ, anti-everything.
00:24:02.000 So in the last hundred years, the country is, as we say, has changed.
00:24:11.000 Even not just 15 years ago, just 40 or 50 years ago, would it have been even comprehensible to say the Marines would have a belief that men can give birth?
00:24:25.000 Absolutely not.
00:24:27.000 That's quite extremely recent.
00:24:30.000 That's how it is now.
00:24:30.000 That's extremely recent.
00:24:34.000 It's recent and it's pathologically insane.
00:24:38.000 I mean, you must be looking at elements that you must have seen.
00:24:42.000 There's no way this could actually be happening.
00:24:46.000 Of course not.
00:24:49.000 And I suppose it's been a sequence of good people allowing it to happen and these evil satanic ideas spreading.
00:25:02.000 And it's spread through everything now.
00:25:06.000 Everything.
00:25:07.000 Politics, our judicial system, our Navy, Army, all the, it's just amazing where it has gone.
00:25:21.000 What do you have to say to students who tell me that they are oppressed because they live in America?
00:25:30.000 I would first say I would like to introduce them to someone who really loves you.
00:25:40.000 His name is God.
00:25:42.000 He has a son.
00:25:43.000 His name is Jesus.
00:25:45.000 And he loves you so much, just the way you are, but too much to leave you that way.
00:25:52.000 So he has a plan for your life.
00:25:55.000 And in Psalm 139, there's one translation that says, he scheduled every day of your life.
00:26:03.000 Ephesians 2, 8, and 9 says, for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves.
00:26:10.000 It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast, for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before planned that you should walk in them.
00:26:25.000 He knew you would be born.
00:26:26.000 He knew who you are.
00:26:28.000 He knows you every step of your way, but he loves you and wants you to know him.
00:26:34.000 And he has designed ways to know him.
00:26:39.000 The first place you want to know him is acknowledge that he's the creator.
00:26:47.000 The second thing you want to look at the book he left here for us.
00:26:52.000 And it's got 66 books in it.
00:26:54.000 And people a thousand years apart said the same thing.
00:27:02.000 God is the creator of this universe.
00:27:09.000 And the truth about evolution is I got a whole video that I've done on that on YouTube.
00:27:17.000 But even Darwin, Charles Darwin, when he ended his life, renounced the theory.
00:27:27.000 And even on his deathbed, he had the window open and invited a church group to come and sing for him.
00:27:34.000 But by that time, by this time, the evolution has surrounded the globe because it was a convenient way to move God out.
00:27:48.000 When you were in school in 1938 or 1939, what percentage of your classmates would have said they are atheists?
00:27:59.000 Five.
00:28:00.000 Out of five percent.
00:28:02.000 Yeah.
00:28:03.000 What percentage of your classmates in 1938 or 1939 would have said they're a different gender than that they were assigned at birth?
00:28:12.000 Zero.
00:28:14.000 It's now 20%, one in five.
00:28:18.000 What changed?
00:28:20.000 His name is Satan.
00:28:24.000 He's been working very hard.
00:28:28.000 And so we're so glad that we have Turning Point USA turning us back to God.
00:28:35.000 Well, thank you.
00:28:38.000 That's our mission in so many different ways.
00:28:43.000 So then how do we win?
00:28:45.000 You've seen a lot.
00:28:46.000 You've seen a lot of battles and fought them.
00:28:48.000 And how do we defeat these people and these ideas and this ideology and this spiritual darkness?
00:28:56.000 I don't know any other way than what you're doing.
00:29:02.000 That's why I'm sitting here because I was attracted to what was happening at Turning Point USA.
00:29:10.000 But we need about 10 more Turning Point USA.
00:29:14.000 I agree.
00:29:15.000 It's huge.
00:29:16.000 It's huge.
00:29:18.000 Because you've seen these kind of student movements the last 60 or 70 years, right?
00:29:23.000 Sexual Revolution.
00:29:25.000 It always seems to come with the students. 0.65
00:29:27.000 We're trying to use that template for virtue and goodness and righteousness.
00:29:31.000 Absolutely.
00:29:33.000 What do you have to say to Christians?
00:29:35.000 Because we have a very Christian audience that say, I don't care about politics.
00:29:39.000 Well, the problem is that we live in America and we have freedoms.
00:29:46.000 And God has blessed us in America almost the way he planned to bless Israel.
00:29:54.000 Israel disappointed him, and now the church has disappointed him.
00:29:59.000 But America has disappointed him.
00:30:02.000 And the only way to get back is to recognize who God is.
00:30:13.000 And if you only understood how much he loves you and what he did with his son to pay the price for your sin, it's just a totally different road.
00:30:26.000 And we need to spread the word in churches.
00:30:30.000 We need to spend the word everywhere we go.
00:30:35.000 And the one thing we want not to do is, God, don't say, God, bless my dream.
00:30:44.000 Say, God, what is your dream for my life?
00:30:50.000 Ed, I'm curious, just how much do you blame the technology and these phones for some of the mess that we're in?
00:31:00.000 I think that has quite a lot to do with it.
00:31:04.000 It's like a gun. 0.99
00:31:05.000 You can use it to shoot a deer and get your meal, or you can kill someone. 0.94
00:31:12.000 And I think the enemy has taken over much of the media, much of the iPhone and the TV.
00:31:21.000 And it's a wonderful thing in that we have been able to use it to share the gospel around the world.
00:31:31.000 But at the same time, the enemy is there, and so it's a struggle.
00:31:36.000 It absolutely is.
00:31:38.000 So for parents out there, they're wondering how to raise good kids.
00:31:44.000 You have 19 great-grandkids?
00:31:46.000 Yes.
00:31:46.000 So how many grandkids do you have then?
00:31:49.000 Let's see.
00:31:51.000 Probably eight.
00:31:52.000 Yeah.
00:31:52.000 Yeah, okay.
00:31:53.000 So it just kind of multiplies further.
00:31:56.000 So 19.
00:31:56.000 So do you have any great-great-grandkids coming?
00:31:59.000 Not yet.
00:31:59.000 Not quite yet.
00:32:00.000 Not yet.
00:32:02.000 So that is the question that we get asked: how do you raise good people?
00:32:07.000 What is your answer to that?
00:32:09.000 I think the important thing is to realize that the parent must have direction and lead in a particular direction.
00:32:24.000 Don't say you can choose whatever religion you want.
00:32:27.000 That's the worst thing you can do.
00:32:30.000 They want to follow someone who knows where they're going.
00:32:34.000 That's so different than modern parenting.
00:32:36.000 Modern parenting is the kid's going to tell me what to do.
00:32:39.000 But that's not the way it ought to be.
00:32:42.000 Do you think that some of the issues.
00:32:44.000 So you were raised probably with the parent directing.
00:32:48.000 Very much so.
00:32:50.000 And you raised your children directing them.
00:32:55.000 Yet the generations that have followed, it has been, I want to be my child's friend, not my child's parent.
00:33:03.000 Where did that come from?
00:33:06.000 I'm not sure where it came from, but I know that's the opposite of what we need.
00:33:14.000 They need to understand just as one of our big weaknesses is the fathers in the role of the family.
00:33:24.000 That's a big weakness.
00:33:26.000 And the fathers should be following the concept of a father, and that should lead them to asking their heavenly father to be their guide for the rest of their lives.
00:33:44.000 Men have changed in America.
00:33:47.000 They used to be a lot different.
00:33:50.000 Why do you think that it's been such a difference over the last 60, 70, 80 years?
00:33:58.000 I don't know why we have left the office that God has given us and taken a lesser place.
00:34:07.000 But there's a lot of movements that have been encouraging that.
00:34:14.000 Yes. 1.00
00:34:14.000 The feminist movement in itself was not a healthy thing for the nation. 1.00
00:34:20.000 It was not. 0.99
00:34:22.000 And then that's followed by so many other things that have to do with sex that isn't even funny.
00:34:32.000 And now they're going after children.
00:34:35.000 That's just the most despicable possible thing that could ever happen.
00:34:41.000 When God made man, he said, let us make man in our own image, and in the image of God made he him.
00:34:49.000 Male and female made he them. 0.96
00:34:52.000 A woman is a woman not because she has certain sex organs.
00:34:58.000 She's a woman because God has made her a woman, body, soul, and spirit.
00:35:05.000 Every fingernail, every eyelash, every hair on the head is either male or female. 0.51
00:35:13.000 And there's nothing you can ever, ever do to change that.
00:35:17.000 You can alter a number of things, and you can call it trans and you can call it a different sex.
00:35:25.000 And now they call it sex and gender.
00:35:27.000 Sex is one thing and gender is another. 1.00
00:35:31.000 But the truth is that God is the one who made us a certain way, and that's the way we are.
00:35:40.000 Amen.
00:35:41.000 Ed writes, everybody, World War II veteran, 97 years old.
00:35:46.000 Thank you for coming on the program, and we have much to learn from you.
00:35:50.000 And we're going to keep fighting.
00:35:53.000 That's what we do here.
00:35:55.000 Thank you for the opportunity.
00:35:56.000 God bless you.
00:35:57.000 Thank you so much.
00:36:00.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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