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00:02:13.000next month, and last time we only had a few hours, but we did see the Lincoln Memorial, looked through the fence of the White House, and visited the National Archives.
00:02:22.000But we are wondering, what are your favorite places to visit in D.C.
00:02:41.000Yeah, I had a few friends who promised and then they would always like flay and it would be difficult.
00:02:45.000I don't want to say it's no problem, but last time it was no problem.
00:02:49.000So who knows what's gonna happen this way, but I imagine this time it wouldn't be.
00:02:53.000I will say first, just like one of the most amazing moments ever is like being After like the 15th time it does, you do kind of get used to it, but like you walk in and by the Oval and you're like, that's the coolest thing ever.
00:03:06.000I'm sorry, it's just like the most amazing thing and like the Situation Room and I gotta look at the map.
00:03:11.000Caleb and Michelle, I will answer and then Blake, because Blake is more of a Washingtonian than I am.
00:03:35.000So that is my favorite thing to visit in Washington, D.C.
00:03:38.000And then, I'm trying to think, the National Archives are okay, but Blake, you are the history man, so navigate us through D.C.
00:03:46.000There is such a glut of things to see there.
00:03:49.000It's so tragic, it's kind of all wasted on this great font of evil, but there's so many cool things.
00:03:57.000I would say a lot of people know that Air and Space is good, although I think it's been getting renovated for half a decade now.
00:04:02.000I'm not sure if they've finished that, but not as many people get out to... There's Udvar-Hazy, I think is the name of the... It's the bonus annex hangar out by Dulles International Airport that has a lot of the bigger planes you can't really fit on the mall.
00:04:16.000So you can go see the Enola Gay, which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.
00:04:19.000Um, I think they have the space, one of the space shuttles there.
00:05:44.000They had a, so this is controversial, they had a Confederate monument there and they took it down and they're moving it to, I think they're moving it to Newmarket where there's a Civil War battlefield there.
00:05:55.000But it's a real shame because it, you know, objectively was a beautiful monument and it
00:06:00.000was a testament to the kind of reunification of America, which is not appreciated enough
00:06:35.000Some of my favorite memories ever were either late at night or early mornings or just if I had free time, just to kind of keep my phone in my hotel room and just walk the National Mall, walk the monuments.
00:06:47.000I think when it's clean, we objectively have a beautiful capital in our country.
00:08:10.000It's good to see you, not physically, but virtually.
00:08:15.000So yes, my name is Abigail, and my question, well, first and foremost, I am one of 12 kids.
00:08:23.000So I have 12 other siblings, 11 of us are adopted.
00:08:27.000And thanks to your influence and Christ being your cornerstone, I am three weeks into doing courses with Hillsdale College.
00:08:36.000But my question is, with the election fast approaching and time running out, what can conservative Christians do to ensure North Carolina, a critical swing, turns in our favor?
00:09:09.000My parents are my role models, especially my mother is a homemaker, and she's such a good example to me and helping me with my entrepreneurship and also learning to be a homemaker at home.
00:11:03.000So I was just wondering some ways that you feel closer to God.
00:11:08.000I recently started going to church again, and some Issues, like, slash backlash in my classes at school have brought me closer, but I still struggle with, like, feeling closer to God.
00:13:11.000Usually it's what is pious, what is reverent, what is reflective, and then also what makes you repent.
00:13:18.000I mean, being close to God, I think that Catholics have this right in many ways.
00:13:23.000I say this with a resident Catholic here, Blake, Which is that if you want to get close to God, you have to first repent of your sins because you have to be in some sort of a holy state to get closer to God.
00:13:37.000Not to say that God can't come into contact with you if you aren't in that holy state, but I believe that trying to elevate yourself closer to the divine through some sort of practice of reflection and reconciliation is very important.
00:13:55.000I do like the emphasis on you should be trying to live in a righteous way.
00:14:00.000I think these days, especially, you will find people who, for lack of a better term, like they're getting involved with religion just for like a cultural aspect to it.
00:14:10.000Yeah, like an aesthetic one, or they want community, and those are benefits that come from it, but if you're just there for that, you're kind of wasting your time, I think, and you're hurting other people's time, because you damage a community when you're there for false reasons and dishonest reasons.
00:14:29.000If you want to get closer to God, you have to want to get closer to God, not just hang out in a cool building.
00:14:36.000I completely agree, and again, the key, in my opinion, is knowing how broken you are, and repenting for your shortcomings and your sins, and then being lifted up of a God that loves you.
00:14:50.000But you have to then, in my opinion, have the humility and the honesty that you fall short of the glory of God.
00:16:17.000Blake has come with me this weekend, by the way, a Sunday night to Montana.
00:16:21.000We have a big, big, big day in Montana on Monday.
00:16:23.000I encourage all of you guys to attend Missoula with one targeted focus.
00:16:28.000It is the only really non-Trump specific stop we're doing, which is all about Tim Sheehy winning the Senate, trying to run up the score in Missoula.
00:16:35.000Well, not actually lose by less in Missoula.
00:16:51.000Should we apply like a Singapore model?
00:16:53.000And I don't know if you know about it where prices are shown and you get accounts and they actually get better results or a Nordic model, which is different.
00:17:02.000They used to be more socialist, but they changed or something else.
00:17:35.000In my personal opinion, dealing with output on health care costs, we need to deal with the input of root causes.
00:17:41.000Blake, educate me and the audience on the Singaporean Nordic muscle.
00:17:44.000So I'm picking up a lot of, I don't know it all off the top of my head.
00:17:48.000I know it is a public-private hybrid, actually, a lot like the United States.
00:17:54.000I think a lot of that, their system involves basically private actor... I actually don't want to run my mouth because I don't know too much about Singapore is off the top of my head.
00:18:04.000I do know they have a public-private hybrid.
00:18:06.000From what I know is that primary care at government hospitals is heavily subsidized and sometimes even free, but there also is a deluxe care in private rooms.
00:18:19.000It's very funny because I know more about the U.S.
00:18:23.000system, of course, and I think with the U.S.
00:18:25.000you'll see a lot of people look enviously to Canada and look to the United Kingdom, probably because they're both English-speaking countries.
00:18:32.000And as far as more socialized healthcare systems go, neither of them is particularly great.
00:18:38.000Angst about the decline of their healthcare systems is widespread, especially in Britain.
00:18:43.000Britain, the NHS has gotten very dysfunctional over the years in terms of
00:18:48.000overcrowding, shortage of doctors, cost overruns, all of those things.
00:18:54.000With the US, I feel like the prospects of change in the US, the biggest problem we
00:18:59.000have is it's just such a behemoth with so many entrenched interests. It's like
00:19:08.000And, you know, we're very allergic to any big change because we sort of want everyone to be a winner, and you cannot break a system as large as the United States without there being some big losers.
00:19:20.000In a lot of other countries, doctors get paid a lot less.
00:19:23.000Well, okay, so any system that lowers costs is probably going to mean doctors here get paid a lot less, but a lot of them were in a ton of debt.
00:19:29.000They went to school for an extremely long time.
00:19:32.000So how do you really ever fix all of that?
00:19:36.000I feel like I could easily imagine, you know, maybe Kamala wins or some Sanders disciple wins later and we get Medicare for all as they aspire to.
00:19:45.000And I think if we got that, people would be very disappointed in the outcome.
00:19:49.000America has a tremendous ability to spend a lot of money on problems and Not really get much for it, and healthcare is a symptom of that as much as anything.
00:20:02.000I think the single most important thing is the reason US healthcare is so flawed is there is a big disconnect between obtaining a service and actually paying for it.
00:20:13.000There's not a lot of legibility about what the price of things is.
00:20:16.000And I mean the entire concept of health insurance as we do it is pretty bizarre.
00:20:21.000Like you basically pay a flat fee for almost all health care you would ever receive.
00:20:26.000And after that point you have an incentive to really get as much health care as you possibly can.
00:20:31.000And it would just make a lot more sense, frankly, for most people to just be
00:20:36.000paying for these services that they're actually going to get.
00:20:40.000And it's kind of no surprise that the one part of American healthcare that works pretty much great is plastic surgery.
00:20:46.000Because most plastic surgery is not covered by insurance.
00:21:57.000So interest rates and things like that have been really tough on us, but we do have our MAGA hats out on our desk.
00:22:06.000I've got my TPUSA MAGA hat on my desk.
00:22:10.000Uh, we do our best to be as courteous as we can be to everybody.
00:22:16.000We don't, we don't want to argue and this and that, but as I think as small business owners, we do have to let people know where we stand, and on the other part of it is, I think that we do, on the Christian side of it, we send up too many prayer flares.
00:22:55.000We have to be more, you know, more concise in what we're praying for.
00:23:02.000And do you have any suggestions on maybe how to help convince our customers of what we know is the right thing to do in November?
00:23:14.000The first thing is this, when it comes to prayer flares—I love that, I'm going to use it—this is my view of prayer, which is that God listens to us, God heals us, God comforts us.
00:23:27.000And I learned this from Dennis Prager, who is a religious Jew, but to his credit, he's correct.
00:23:32.000You should not look at God as a celestial butler who is there just to give you what you want when you want it.
00:23:38.000And I think that's exactly the right way.
00:23:40.000If you just look at God and you're like, hey God, I need a promotion at work and I need my car to be fixed, I think that is very, very minimizing of God and it's insulting to God, to be perfectly honest.
00:23:49.000Instead, I think that our prayer and our action should be much more about what God wants from us versus what we want from God.
00:23:59.000And I think that's very, very important.
00:24:01.000Okay, as far as, Blake, do you have any wisdom to share about how he could share to his customers of how they should make the right decision in November?
00:25:56.000No one really likes being lectured to.
00:25:58.000We've seen some major companies learn that to their dismay, and I don't know that if someone's on the fence that they'll really appreciate being lectured, but maybe they do.
00:26:09.000I guess I'm not a small business owner, so I'm not an expert on that relationship.
00:26:43.000I've lived in Milwaukee County most of my life except for when I was in basic training.
00:26:49.000in the Air Force and Wisconsin Air National Guard, but I noticed that since the VA's taken over after Biden got elected, it's everything text you.
00:26:59.000My regular doctor retired in May of this year, and now they have medical assistance or whatever, and you don't even see a doctor anymore.
00:27:12.000So when I get my drugs and that, they text me, if you want a refill and they say yes or whatever, but it's really gone downhill since Biden's administration's taken over.
00:27:27.000It just seems like the VA is pretty woke now.
00:27:31.000It is, and I'll tell you, the VA is a tragedy.
00:27:36.000I'm not for Medicare for All, but I will say, this is one of my more radical views, I think you should close the VA and give every veteran a Medicare card.
00:28:24.000The VA is like a hundred billion dollars a year now.
00:28:27.000And it's this monstrosity of government health care, and it's slow, and it's bureaucratic, and it's outdated, and it's a disservice to our heroes and our veterans.
00:28:38.000So I think you just give every VA, a veteran a VA card, a vet card, just like Medicare for All, and they can go anywhere.
00:28:46.000If your approach to everyday aches and pains is to mask them, you know, feel better for a few hours only to have the pain return and then repeat the cycle all over again.
00:29:55.000I've been watching your videos and I've been a huge fan of your work for Turning Point USA.
00:30:01.000I read your book recently, The Right-Wing Revolution.
00:30:05.000I really am inspired by you and want to really make a difference in politics.
00:30:10.000So when I talk politics with my friends, it's kind of hard to convince them about why they should vote for Trump and they kind of just have their own way of saying that they support their own candidate by kind of talking about Trump in a negative light.
00:30:26.000So I was wondering what do you suggest is the best way to like argue for Trump, like show them the truth about him and How can I help them realize that the media is lying and very biased?
00:30:44.000You're voting for the roster of 5,000 people that are going to run your government over the next four years.
00:30:50.000And do you want those people more with a worldview that believe in borders, that believe in parental rights, that believe in the Constitution, that believe in sane foreign policy, or in the Kamala Harris direction, which is the exact opposite?
00:31:01.000You're voting for a vision of what America should be.
00:32:11.000And that goes from everything, from the Department of Defense, to the border, to all these issues.
00:32:15.000And they want to try to personalize this election in the media.
00:32:19.000They want to try to make you feel emotional about something Trump said or did not say.
00:32:23.000But we will win if we can rise above that and say, hey, you have Bobby Kennedy involved in a presidential transition team of who's going to be at the FDA, the CDC, the NIH.
00:32:51.000And I think it's really something for those of us that can see what's really going on in the country.
00:32:55.000Beyond just the media news cycle and the chatter on cable TV, we know that we are at risk of losing our country because there's an unelected oligarchy that is making decisions for health, for border, for war, and this is our opportunity.
00:33:10.000Our framers gave us this, especially here in Arizona, because these electoral votes are going to matter a lot.
00:33:15.000They're going to say, hey, you could take back those 5,000 positions.
00:33:20.000You can all of a sudden say, no, Anthony Fauci, all of your minions are gone in the FDA.
00:33:36.000I had a question about actually something you and Blake talked about earlier this week here in Alabama.
00:33:42.000We have a massive Haitian invasion, as I call it, going on all across the state.
00:33:48.000I'm in the Madison-Huntsville area, and we don't have it right here, but we have it everywhere else.
00:33:54.000And I, I don't know what we do about it because these people are federally protected, but we're hearing stories about 13 year old girls being raped and ending up pregnant by their rapist.
00:34:04.000A story came out today about a 16 year old that was at a car wash and she was being basically stopped by 1 of these people.
00:34:13.000Somebody filed a police report about a man lurking between houses at night.
00:34:17.000Filed a police report, went to the police department the next day to kind of follow up, and they're told all of these things are not tracked locally.
00:34:25.000We're having to send them to a federal agency.
00:34:38.000I'm going to play a piece of tape here in a second, but this is by design.
00:34:41.000The Harris-Biden regime, they are stuffing foreigners in the reddest communities across the country, in small-town red America, I think partially as revenge.
00:34:53.000Blake might not agree with this, but I think that they get, like, off on this sinister, like, we're going to go send the Haitians into red America.
00:35:03.000I have no evidence of that, but it's just gut instinct.
00:35:05.000I'm not going to get into what states can do to resist this yet, because I want to win the election and do this properly to the federal government.
00:35:14.000If we lose in November, it's going to get very, very messy.
00:35:30.000And I don't want to get there yet, Emily.
00:35:32.000But Emily, just so you were clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night, it's only going to get worse unless Donald Trump wins.
00:35:41.000A new report from Fox News shows that across the border, 13,000 people convicted of murder, 15,000 people convicted of rape on the non-detained list, meaning they're currently roaming free around our country.
00:35:55.000So right now, roaming free on the interior of the United States are 13,000 convicted murderers.
00:36:08.000According to a letter that the acting director of ICE just sent to Texas Congressman Tony Gonzalez, on ICE's non-detained docket, they're currently tracking 425,000 non-citizens who have been convicted of a crime.
00:36:53.000The ICE director also says there are currently just under 1,900 non-citizens on the non-detained docket who have pending homicide charges who are roaming the country, and another 4,250 non-citizens who have pending sexual assault charges who are roaming the country on the non-detained docket.
00:37:28.000And then we just release them into the interior and say... It just shocks me, like, the level of control you can have over media narrative that, like, you know, the New York Times or whoever can blow this off.
00:37:38.00013,000 homicide convictions just roaming the U.S.
00:37:51.000And there was a poll that just showed up here.
00:37:53.000Arizona women voters favor Kamala Harris 52%, 43%.
00:37:56.000And that does not include the 2 million gotaways.
00:38:00.000And since those are the border jumpers who avoid border encounters, it's safe to conclude the proportion of convicted criminals is even higher than that, 2 million plus of them.
00:38:08.000Thank you for being a member and stay safe in Alabama and pray Trump wins or else things are going to get really bad.
00:38:27.000I've had two things that made me think of this as you guys were talking.
00:38:30.000So one of the things that has really helped me in the last couple of years is I've started I struggle with just making time to read the Bible on a daily basis.
00:38:39.000I would just get busy and didn't get to it.
00:38:41.000And so I listen to podcasts a lot while I take a shower, while I'm doing stuff.
00:38:44.000I'm like, you know, I'm going to devote my shower time to listening to God's Word.
00:38:49.000So I've just got the Bible app that probably everybody has, the Holy Bible with the brown.
00:38:54.000And it's got an audio version on there.
00:38:56.000And so I just put on my Bluetooth speaker.
00:38:58.000And so every morning I get 15 to 20 minutes just kind of while I'm getting ready and doing stuff.
00:39:12.000And the other thing, related to what you were saying about struggling with prayer time, and what has really helped me is to pull up a Word document.
00:39:22.000Sometimes you tell people you'll pray for them, you'll pray about this, and then you forget and you don't do it.
00:39:27.000But I got to where it's like, okay, I'm going to open a Word document, And I just put those requests on there.
00:40:16.000How has that deepened your walk with Christ?
00:40:19.000I think it creates, well, one, just hearing the Word on a daily basis.
00:40:23.000It's just that there are those reminders, those things that challenge you, sometimes those things that make you uncomfortable because they push you, that turning the other cheek, those hard things that are hard to do.
00:40:32.000But just hearing God's Word, there's power in that.
00:40:35.000And the more I've listened to it, the more I've come to realize that.
00:40:38.000And then the prayer time, it's just, you know, it's you develop a relationship by talking to someone and so and kind of listening.
00:40:48.000And so that's, I've gotten to where it's like, it brings peace into my day.
00:40:53.000And it's like, there's an old gospel song, Sweet Hour of Prayer.
00:40:58.000And I don't have a sweet hour, I have a sweet 15 minutes.
00:40:59.000But, but I mean, I've kind of, I've gotten to where I just, I look forward to it with joy.
00:41:05.000It's like, I'm going to carve out some time, I'm just going to talk to my father.
00:41:10.000I'm going to, and just to be able to kind of, yeah, there's these things that we're dealing with in this world are so discouraging, but, uh, just to be able to, it's like, it's just him and me and we're just talking and there's a piece that comes with that.
00:41:43.000And I just thought, can you guys, I'm wondering what metrics you guys have that you can see.
00:41:49.000Oh, wow, this is really striking a chord.
00:41:52.000I mean, you can see when social posts go viral, are you able to see, you know, which of your podcasts seem to kind of resonate, get traction, get spread?
00:41:59.000So I just kind of, kind of a nerd question, but I was wondering if you guys... Yeah, that one did very well.
00:42:13.000The entire health, wellness, Cali means, Make America Healthy Again, is incredibly powerful.
00:42:19.000And the young lady we had on yesterday, Alex Clark, who works with us at Turning Point USA, her show is right now number two in all health podcasts.
00:42:27.000And she's just blowing up to the moon.
00:42:33.000And so, this whole kind of genre that we're seeing about restoration of self-sovereignty, eating healthy, eating clean, getting your life in order, no longer being a subservient serf to big pharma or big food, increasingly popular.
00:43:05.000I am pretty active in my community as far as getting out the vote, and I have found I've actually made little cards with websites that Like-minded people can go to and be able to fill out their ballot.
00:43:23.000And I found that a lot of conservatives, they'll vote for Trump or Republican, but they don't know how to vote for a judge or vote for a school board member.
00:43:31.000And down ballot, they just have no clue.
00:43:37.000So everywhere I go, grocery store, gym, wherever, if I hear people talking that are like-minded, like myself, I will give them a little But a little card that has some suggested websites, I hand them out to my people in my Bible study wherever I can.
00:43:56.000And I just spread the word as much as I can.
00:43:58.000And I even take a picture of it, send it through text, whatever I can do.
00:44:04.000And they're so thankful because they have no clue.
00:44:07.000how to vote down ballot. They just haven't done the study.
00:44:11.000So here's my question. I have friends and relatives out of state, and I would love to
00:44:17.000point them in the right direction to help them vote for the right school board members or judges, DAs,
00:45:13.000So I will connect you with some grassroots activists at the Lincoln Club in Orange County that do exhaustive voter guides and they can send them to you about every downed ballot recommendation.