00:02:04.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:02:11.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:50.000Yeah, Charlie, this list was created by our founder in his passing, unfortunately.
00:02:55.000Stanley Herzog had a deep, deep commitment to developing and growing Christian education.
00:03:01.000And when he passed, he left a substantial amount of resources to building the Herzog Foundation, which is ostensibly to spread Christian education K through 12 nationwide.
00:03:22.000Yeah, I know that a lot of folks that are probably homeschoolers or Christian school educators, administrators listen to your show.
00:03:31.000The Herzog Foundation has very specifically something called the school box.
00:03:35.000And for those that are listening that might think to themselves, I'd like to start my own Christian school, or maybe I'd like to homeschool or do a micro school or a pod school.
00:03:43.000The school box is sort of an eight-point plan.
00:03:45.000You can go onto the Herzog website and download that eight-point plan.
00:03:49.000It guides you step by step with what you need to develop and begin your own Christian education.
00:03:54.000That's one of the most important resources it offers.
00:03:56.000Of course, the foundation broadly offers training for people that already have existing Christian schools, administrators, best practices, fundraising to keep the school operational, teacher trainings, both here at the headquarters and nationwide.
00:04:09.000So it's really the first of its kind in the country, networking Christian schools, administrators, and prospective Christian school educators together.
00:04:17.000It's one of the only in the country that does it.
00:04:21.000And it's really been spectacular in just the last couple of years.
00:04:23.000And I'm so passionate about this, and that's why I love working with Herzog: is that if we are not serious about education, the whole country is going to be in jeopardy.
00:04:32.000So the Christian education space in particular, I know, is personal for you.
00:05:07.000We learned really what it meant to be fully engaged parents for the first time.
00:05:11.000We learned what a Christian-backed education in true partnership with parents, what that means.
00:05:19.000And, you know, I really must say that while in theory, we should always be in partnership with schools and teachers and parents to train up our kids.
00:06:03.000It's a little academic, but there's a debate at times of what does the best Christian education look like in practice?
00:06:13.000I would, I don't mean to punt and sound as though I'm avoiding your question.
00:06:16.000I will say that Herzog Foundation, in terms of which particular Christian education you feel fits best for your child, we do sort of stay on the sidelines on that because we do work with so many different folks from private Catholic schools to homeschoolers to classical Christian, as you said.
00:06:32.000We interview all these folks on the podcast that my wife and I do.
00:06:36.000We'll talk about in a minute, but we have had the pleasure of learning about so many of these different formulas.
00:06:41.000And the one consistent thing, Charlie, is of course a Christ-centered education is paramount to all of them.
00:06:48.000Now, how that's implemented, I have seen hybrids where kids are in class two or three days a week and they're at home the rest of the time.
00:06:55.000Sometimes they're at home all the time.
00:06:57.000Sometimes the schooling is almost exclusively at home with just very limited time in a classroom.
00:07:04.000All of it, though, Christ-centered, which, of course, is the primary focus they all.
00:07:10.000There's millions of parents across the country who might want to take their kids out of public school and send them to a private Christian school, but they have some serious and real fears.
00:07:19.000What are some of those common worries that parents have and how do you help overcome them?
00:07:24.000Our podcast was started under the auspices of talking to parents like us who had never done it before.
00:07:30.000And we were really looking at a school first for our daughter that had just started, was literally founded brand new and had 10 students.
00:07:39.000That's daunting when you come from a school that's maybe 500 students, 1,000 students or more in a class.
00:07:45.000Kind of the traditional things like, will the activities and the socialization factor, that seems to be Charlie the thing that most parents kind of obsess over.
00:08:34.000I mean, every statistic shows homeschoolers, Christian schoolers, Catholic school folks in the Catholic tradition, all of their test scores show overwhelmingly it produces better academic results and Christ-centered debut.
00:09:16.000My wife is a former public school teacher.
00:09:19.000You know, I've been a colleague of yours in the talk radio space for quite a long time.
00:09:23.000So when the Herzog Foundation reached out to us to tell our story, she is a former school teacher.
00:09:30.000Both of us taking, of course, our daughter out of public school, putting her in a private school.
00:09:33.000They thought it was an interesting story to tell from Christine, my wife's perspective as a former public school teacher.
00:09:39.000And the whole reason we started it was to talk to parents like us for all the reasons I just said.
00:09:44.000If you have misgivings, if you think Christian school is weird, if you've heard all of these sort of biased sentiments toward Christian school, that it's women in denim dresses to their ankles and girls in buns and, you know, all of that silliness that I think a lot of people associate with homeschool or Christian school.
00:10:09.000It's becoming more and more mainstream.
00:10:11.000So that's why we decided to do Making the Leap was to introduce folks who were new to it like we were to show you all the options that are available.
00:10:18.000And there are tons and all the very normal, very happy, healthy people that are involved.
00:10:23.000So the website is HerzogFoundation.com.
00:10:38.000You'll love this website if you are looking for a news site that you can depend on, sort of an aggregate news site of stories from all over the country and culture, lifestyle, politics, what's going on in state capitals all over the country as it relates to education, both public and private.
00:10:54.000This is sort of a catch-all website, readlion.com.
00:10:57.000We have a team of journalists that do outstanding work, editorial work, undercover work.
00:11:02.000They partner with other media outlets, and we give you a lot of the headlines that maybe won't always make mainstream news, but cultural news that doesn't always get the full attention of the mainstream press.
00:11:14.000You can make sure that you're regularly updated from readlion.com and get all the latest news there.
00:11:18.000I should mention, by the way, Charlie, that some of our ambassadors here at the Herzog Foundation were just with you at Amfest.
00:11:24.000So we send our ambassadors all over the country on different tours, and some of them were just with you at your great conference.
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00:13:31.000Now, the argument in favor of Santa, I would imagine, would be that it's somebody kind of like God who sees what you are doing and that your reward on Christmas Day is related to kind of a moral bank account.
00:15:22.000Or did the FBI just blackmail members of Congress with sex crimes that they don't want to be made public?
00:15:28.000So, Representative Tim Burchett confirms that there are members of Congress who are currently being blackmailed to not release the information on Jeffrey Epstein.
00:15:51.000You're visiting, you're out of the country or out of town or you're in a motel or bar in DC, and some, whatever you're into, women or men or whatever, comes up and they're very attractive and they're laughing at your jokes and you're buying them a drink.
00:16:08.000Next thing you know, you're in the motel room with them naked.
00:16:12.000And next thing you know, you know, you're about to make a key vote.
00:17:06.000I mean, I have said this for a while: that obviously the Intel agencies and lobbyists get blackmail on the members of Congress and then they whisper in the ear.
00:17:17.000And it might be stuff that they honey trap them with.
00:17:21.000By the way, Intel agencies do this stuff all the time.
00:17:23.000Epstein, of course, was an agent of the Intel agencies.
00:17:29.000How much of our politics, our spending decisions, our country is a result of blackmail?
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00:19:34.000So Tim Burchett goes on Benny Johnson's program.
00:19:37.000Credit to Benny Johnson, if you're watching out there, dear friend, and we work together on a lot of different things.
00:19:44.000He said what we've all been thinking: how many members of Congress are actively being blackmailed by the intel agencies?
00:19:49.000And if you know anything about the legacy of J. Edgar Hoover, this is exactly what he would do.
00:19:55.000He would find blackmail on people and wiretap them and potentially get them to act in a different way because of the honey trap that they might lay.
00:20:07.000And Tim Burchett could not have been clear.
00:20:11.000Tim Burchett says, Yeah, I mean, they get you naked in a hotel room and then they get you compromised and they say there's tapes or that there's photos or there's videos.
00:20:18.000Very similar to House of Cards, by the way.
00:20:20.000Very similar to the Netflix series House of Cards.
00:20:24.000Ana Paulina Luna seconds this, by the way.
00:20:27.000She says, quote, I travel with my husband at all times.
00:20:30.000If he cannot come with me, I have a female staffer as an alibi.
00:20:33.000I don't even touch alcohol in D.C. D.C. can be such a nasty place.
00:20:37.000Keep your circle tight and just anticipate you're always being watched.
00:22:05.00070 Republicans, this is back from November, but it's super important.
00:22:09.00070 Republicans voted to give the FBI $300 million to build a new headquarters larger than the Pentagon.
00:22:16.000On the same day, the Department of Justice announces it is prosecuting three men for running DC area brothels frequented by politicians, and they haven't sent out the names yet.
00:22:27.000Or did the FBI just blackmail members of Congress with sex crimes they don't want to be made public?
00:22:32.000And if you were the FBI, of course you would do this.
00:22:35.000If you were the FBI and you wanted more power and you didn't want your funding to be cut, and you know that the country is against the FBI, of course you would do this because you got a bunch of degenerates running around in a five square mile block in D.C., tons of liquor, tons of hookers, and tons of cameras.
00:23:11.000We were busy at AmericaFest, but a week ago, a week ago to this day, many people were shocked that a staffer for Senator Cardin went into the Senate hearing room and filmed himself having gay sex in the Senate hearing room.
00:23:30.000Now, the obvious spiritual theological takeaways aside, that this is legitimately Sodom and Gomorrah, that the people running your government are doing some of the nastiest, most disgusting things on camera.
00:23:41.000And it's not like they were just having gay sex in a side office and filming it.
00:23:44.000Was so brazen that they were doing it in the Senate hearing room.
00:23:49.000It sounds very similar to the fall of a great empire, that you go into the hearing room and then not just in the hearing room, that you must film it.
00:23:59.000And then the best part is the guy's reaction, that it's our fault.
00:24:02.000He says, people are coming after my act of love.
00:24:30.000Is he going to be charged with insurrection?
00:24:33.000Is he going to be charged with felonies?
00:24:36.000Now, a second, let's just say, tape issue, this time involving a Republican gay staffer.
00:24:44.000And, you know, I always laugh when people, you know, if you think, if you think that the people staffing, like Republican politicians, are in alignment with your values, go to DC and just go pick a random Republican staffer.
00:25:03.000Republican staffers and Democrat staffers are most times indistinguishable ideologically from a personal perspective and a behavioral standpoint.
00:25:24.000So how much of our politics is being steered by people that are afraid that a video of them having gay sex is going to be released?
00:25:33.000And the FBI or a handler for the FBI, by the way, there's tens of billions of dollars that we don't know where that money goes from the intel agencies.
00:25:45.000And no one knows where this money goes.
00:25:46.000It's just kind of like, oh, we need it for national security.
00:25:49.000I mean, if I was the CIA, if I was the FBI and I was super evil, I would use that money to hire very sophisticated, quasi-hit men and set up men that don't look like you work for the FBI, but it's just kind of this abstract, hard to define, hard to pinpoint lobbying firm.
00:26:15.000And you basically create mini Epsteins.
00:26:18.000Again, we know Epstein was a creation of the Intel agencies.
00:26:23.000Epstein lived a life that was multiple exponents bigger than his stated net worth.
00:26:30.000The properties that he owned, the planes that he flew, the trades that he didn't have, the relationships that were inflated, the pieces of art that he allegedly assumed.
00:26:39.000Jeffrey Epstein was almost certainly a creation of the Israeli intelligence agencies alongside of the American intelligence agencies or a mixture of both.
00:27:09.000How on earth could, why would Jeffrey Epstein have a, or how could he have a $30 million home in Palm Beach and own hundreds of acres in New Mexico and an island in the Caribbean and one of the most expensive pieces of property in New York, one of the most expensive pieces of property in London, one of the most expensive pieces of property in Paris.
00:27:27.000And like, don't give me that, oh, it's because he was managing money for Wexner, who himself has plenty of issues.
00:27:35.000Just so happens that the Victoria Secret guy from Ohio gets to be really close with Epstein, a former math teacher.
00:27:40.000No, I mean, Epstein was a creation of the security state, the Intel state.
00:27:44.000And he, by the way, what was Epstein best known for now that this has all come out?
00:27:50.000Putting people in compromising positions on Lolita Express, Lolita being a French novel about an older man falling in love with a 14-year-old girl.
00:27:59.000I'm not sure if that name was intentional, Blake, but I'm guessing it was, that they named Lolita Express for that specific reason, which was literally a book that was about pedophilia.
00:28:44.000Apparently, some of the names are extremely well known and will shock us all.
00:28:48.000But we know that one of the names is, of course, Prince Andrew, and it's going to ruin his Christmas and maybe the whole royal family is.
00:28:56.000It's quite interesting because if you look at the amount of money that he spent, absolutely saying he didn't know her and not saying he was guilty in any way, these things don't work necessarily.
00:29:07.000They bounce back and back again and again and again.
00:29:12.000And that would be more investigations.
00:29:14.000So it'll go on and on and on and on, I think.
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