00:01:09.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:38.000I have not missed a Super Bowl since, boy, the first Super Bowl I remember, which was Kurt Warner, the greatest show on turf versus Tom Brady's first Super Bowl, the 2001, 2002 Super Bowl.
00:01:49.000And a single Super Bowl advertisement will run you anywhere between six to seven million dollars.
00:01:57.000Well, an organization that is running ads called He Gets Us is going to spend $20 million for a Super Bowl advertisement this Sunday.
00:03:57.000Jesus and his family when he was a child fled from a part of the Roman Empire to another part of the Roman Empire in Egypt to a safe Jewish community.
00:04:21.000What you just saw was emotional manipulation.
00:04:24.000They're trying to make it seem as if we should allow more foreigners and border jumpers and criminals into our country because Jesus was also a border jumper and a criminal.
00:04:52.000And as a bunch of Christians, when you see something like the display at the Grammys and you just see the open Satan worship there, it can be really refreshing to see something in the mainstream that seems to be reflecting Jesus, the opposite values of what we saw at the Grammys.
00:05:08.000However, I am equally uncomfortable with this, equally as you are, because it is the projection of modern political and cultural narratives onto the narrative and the gospel story of Jesus.
00:05:22.000And so what it does, rather than attracting people to Jesus, it actually distracts people from the gospel.
00:05:28.000Because you already mentioned Jesus wasn't a refugee, but even beyond that, that is peripheral to the story of Jesus.
00:05:35.000So rather than spending all of this money, maybe sharing the gospel of salvation of who Jesus really is, instead, they are watering down who Jesus is.
00:05:47.000So while I want to be excited about any campaign that is promoting Jesus to the masses, yes and amen, I cannot celebrate promoting a Jesus that isn't even real and is not going to draw people into the truth of what the gospel is.
00:06:06.000And you go to their website, it is, first of all, I know this sounds a little silly, but their color scheme is the BLM color scheme, right?
00:07:08.000And this is just a narrative that the world repeats a lot that it's, you'll hear people who are not Christians say, oh, it's not Jesus that I have a problem with.
00:07:17.000And so basically, this apparently Christian campaign is just kind of reaffirming the negative stereotypes or the negative perspectives that a lot of people who are not Christians think about Christians.
00:07:28.000That's not to say that people haven't done horrible things in the name of Jesus, but it's kind of saying, okay, worldly people actually have better access and a better understanding to who Jesus is than all of these Christians that have been giving Jesus a bad reputation.
00:07:43.000And so you're also, in a sense, almost maligning the church and the history of what Christianity has been, not just for Western civilization, but also for the world.
00:07:52.000And again, I think that is counterproductive.
00:07:54.000At the end of this ad, someone who doesn't know Jesus is going to say, wow, great.
00:08:01.000He's just a relatable guy, maybe a good teacher, maybe kind of, I don't know, an activist or a symbol of the oppressed, but certainly not a savior.
00:08:14.000Yeah, he's kind of like a Marxist counterrevolutionary.
00:09:01.000All of these different names that people give Jesus so they don't have to face the uncomfortable fact that Jesus actually died for our sins, because then you have to face the uncomfortable fact that you are a sinner in need of a savior.
00:09:11.000And to me, this kind of placates the masses of people who do not want to face that reality.
00:09:17.000There's so much good news in Jesus, but first we have to be met with the bad news that we actually need a savior.
00:09:22.000And to me, this campaign spends millions of dollars, so much time, so much production, creativity, and energy to not share the gospel, but to simply affirm a humanistic version of Jesus that is not the real Jesus.
00:09:35.000This is the largest ad spend in my life on anything around the gospel.
00:09:41.000And instead of seizing the opportunity of sharing the word of God and allowing it to go to work in people's hearts, instead of having uncompromising truth, we have a PR crafted, poll-tested, wokey firm.
00:10:01.000And, you know, we just got an email here.
00:10:03.000They say, how on earth did these donors, why on earth are these donors giving this money to this garbage?
00:10:09.000And we'll talk about this after the break.
00:10:10.000I've not heard a single positive thing from anybody about this campaign.
00:10:13.000Not a single Christian is moved by it, proud of it, or happy that it's happening.
00:10:18.000So I got to wonder what exactly is the goal here?
00:10:20.000Over $1 billion is being spent on these advertisements.
00:11:41.000He doesn't say anything about Jesus caring about the most vulnerable babies inside the womb.
00:11:47.000It's always the people who say we're not trying to be political who tend to actually lean to the left.
00:11:53.000That's just an interesting thing to note.
00:11:56.000But one thing that I will say to their counterargument is that they're bringing people to Jesus because they do have this, they have technology on their website that basically, if people go to their website, they're interested in this campaign, they will link them to a local church.
00:12:12.000But as far as I see, there are no doctrinal standards whatsoever for the churches that are included in this like connection technology.
00:12:21.000And so I have no idea what kind of churches a non-believer may be connected to.
00:12:25.000It could be a church that does believe that there is really no sin and that Jesus was just an activist and that Jesus is not the way, the truth, and the life.
00:12:35.000And so I'm not really taken by that argument that they are leading people to Christ.
00:12:40.000Honestly, I just don't see a whole lot of evidence for that yet.
00:12:45.000Yeah, in fact, I see evidence that they're going to what they call seeker-sensitive churches.
00:14:01.000And one wonderful thing about him is that he can empathize with our weaknesses.
00:14:05.000Scripture says that he was tempted in every way, but he was without sin.
00:14:11.000So, my concern with this is that we never actually see the distinction of who Jesus is.
00:14:16.000Jesus is important not because he gets you, not because he's relatable, not because he did some of the same things that you did or had some of the same feelings you did, but because he is God and he died for your sin so that you could be reconciled to God because you are a sinner bound for hell without his cleansing and without his reconciliation.
00:14:34.000Like, if we are going to have all of these rich Christians, all of these billion-dollar organizations pour millions and millions of dollars into sharing a message about Jesus to the masses at the Super Bowl, let's get it right.
00:14:46.000This campaign does not get it right, and my fear is that it will do more harm than good.
00:14:52.000They say we look at the biography of Jesus through a modern lens to find new relevance and often overlooked moments and things from his life.
00:15:24.000And I just think they're being taken by a PR firm and a marketing firm that has swindled them, quite honestly, and has lied to them and has deceived them.
00:15:32.000And it's really too bad because Hobby Lobby and the Green family, they've been phenomenal.
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00:18:25.000There's some breaking news that some big donors from Project Veritas are threatening the board with legal action.
00:18:32.000One of the contentions against James O'Keefe is that they're really upset that James O'Keefe brought staff to go in a performance of Oklahoma.
00:18:40.000If you ask me, James O'Keefe could have brought his whole staff to go alongside of him in Fan of the Opera.
00:19:04.000Because James O'Keefe and Project Veritas have done a lot of great work.
00:19:07.000I remember when I was working with Andrew Breitbart, gosh, over a decade ago, and James O'Keefe burst onto the scene and just did really and has continued to do some really great work.
00:19:20.000So, I, you know, when I'm litigating things involving conservative entities, which I do, I like to try and take it offline where I can.
00:20:37.000So the board has some legal obligations to make sure things are going according to regular accounting principles, sound business practice, avoiding fraud.
00:20:49.000And I'm not saying James O'Keefe has done any of those things.
00:20:52.000I'm just telling you what the board's obligation in general is.
00:21:35.000And if it ends up being nothing more than kind of a personal love of the opera and taking your staff alongside of you and maybe being mean to staff, and I'm not, maybe there's more and I don't know if I've asked, I'm not getting any answers, right?
00:21:51.000Or being cruel or calling people names.
00:21:56.000The reason why I'm focused and interested on the story, and you and I were texting about it, I'm not going to share what we texted about it, but like the more broad essence of what I was saying is we can't lose him, right?
00:22:05.000That I think that absent something that is, you know, so out of bounds.
00:22:44.000It's like, why do you even have to admit, it's just pathological.
00:22:47.000But, you know, the threshold of what we're putting up with is probably too high.
00:22:52.000The point is that if really James O'Keefe is going to get run out because he was a little mean and took a sandwich from somebody and wanted to go see cats, I don't think that's a good bar.
00:24:37.000So we had the State of the Union this week.
00:24:39.000I tweeted out that Biden's superpower is because he slurs his speech and because you can't really understand him, is that it actually makes people more inherently sympathetic for the old elderly man that's randomly meandering than actually hate him.
00:24:55.000I have some very strong feelings about Biden.
00:25:07.000Well, look, I'm going to say something that's rather unpopular, and I've gotten some pushback on it.
00:25:13.000I think the first 25 minutes of his speech was the best thing I've seen Biden ever do.
00:25:18.000I thought he delivered it well despite his age.
00:25:21.000Now, after that, after the social security thing where he conceded Republicans, we're going to take your social security, which I hope is in every ad we see in the Toy Toy 4 cycle.
00:25:32.000He went off on his weird tangents and verbal ticks and stuff.
00:25:35.000I thought the first 25 minutes where he was doing old school New Deal working man Democrat stuff was incredibly powerful because as you know, Charlie, the Republicans left those guys.
00:25:47.000The Democrats abandoned them and Trump came along and picked them up.
00:25:51.000And this was a powerful play to get them back, talking about kitchen table economic stuff.
00:26:49.000In some ways, he was appropriating MAGA messaging, which I found to be very interesting, is that there was an effort to try to take the populist nationalist, launder it through kind of left-wing social liberalism, but then regurgitate it in a way that could be digestible to certain white voters.
00:27:09.000Well, yeah, remember, MAGA includes a bunch of people who are not Republicans.
00:27:15.000You know, the so-called Reagan Democrats.
00:27:18.000You got a guy who's a hard hat and he wants to get a fair break from the corporations, but he also stormed ashore at Tarola.
00:27:33.000But They look at a guy like look at the Republican Party and see a guy like Mitt Romney who looks like he's about to outsource your job to set on.
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00:31:14.000Oh, I think there's a lot of truth to that.
00:31:18.000Right now, election, look, you can either have a mechanical election where you're trying to generate ballots, or you can have an influence election where you're trying to influence people to vote for your side.
00:31:30.000I think we're past the influence part, Charlie.
00:31:34.000I think now it's about generating the actual votes, putting actual ballots in the ballot box.
00:31:40.000And I think we need to do that in a more systematic way than we have done it.
00:31:44.000And we have to support that effort with a legal initiative designed to fight back and push back against laws and decrees and regulations and decisions that limit the ability to ensure that the election is honest and that there's integrity.
00:32:19.000So, but, Kurt, let me ask you, this is a provocative question, but do you think in the current imbalance of machinery, somebody like John Fetterman could be elected as president of the United States?
00:32:31.000I use that example provocatively to show the candidate quality argument actually is less important than the actual plumbing, the infrastructure of elections.
00:32:42.000Well, someone like Fetterman was elected.
00:32:45.000I mean, that's Joe Biden's exactly right.
00:32:49.000No, look, it's not an influence-elect because if we're trying to influence people, if we're trying to convince them, they're not going to vote for a Fetterman.
00:34:38.000New York Times yesterday trying to circle the wagons for censorship.
00:34:41.000The whole Project Veritas thing, very suspicious, how the New York magazine was able to get that.
00:34:45.000The NBC piece, Washington Post right now with a big piece on Ana Paulina.
00:34:50.000This is all kind of happening simultaneously.
00:34:53.000And also, just to kind of get your spidey senses up for all of you that look at this, if your favorite conservatives are not kind of being attacked in this season right now, then maybe they're not as conservative as you think they are.
00:35:05.000Because right now, the media is trying to go after the people in the populist nationalist, conservative, people-centered parents' party movement from Veritas to James O'Keefe to Ana Paulina to this program that are actually moving the dial substantially and significantly.
00:35:23.000And we're living through that right now.
00:35:24.000And so we're going to keep our eyes on all these different dynamics.