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00:01:34.000We have Mr. Kane from citizenfreepress.com.
00:01:38.000Now, Kane, a lot of politics to talk about, but more importantly, college football weekend, one of the best college ball weekends that I've seen in quite some time.
00:01:45.000Now, I'm a huge duck fan, producer Andrew, UW, all respect.
00:01:50.000To be perfectly fair, I saw I was very worried on thought crimes.
00:01:55.000I was like, Washington is a team that can win.
00:04:30.000He should have called for some political.
00:04:31.000As soon as they won the game, Kane, he should have, on that camera interview, he should have looked right into the camera and say, we are watching you, committee, and don't even think about not having us in.
00:04:42.000And then, as soon as they were snubbed, I know this sounds crazy.
00:04:45.000Norvell should have called for his own playoff.
00:04:49.000There's four great teams that didn't make the playoff, Florida State, Georgia, Oregon, and Ohio State.
00:04:54.000They could have had their own playoff.
00:04:55.000They could have done at their own stadiums in total defiance to the bull system and be like, let's go play Georgia.
00:05:00.000He literally could have been like, we're going to go.
00:05:02.000And they are playing Georgia now in a bowl game, but they could have said, let's do our own playoff.
00:05:07.000Anyway, Kane, final thoughts, and we'll get back to politics.
00:05:10.000Yeah, I don't mind talking about this stuff at all.
00:05:12.000In fact, there was a great tweet yesterday that said that the college football committee decision hasn't been fully implemented that Mike Pence could still stand up for freedom and democracy and prevent it.
00:05:27.000You know, other people said Florida State should boycott the bowl game and then just show up with pads, sort of, you know, boycott officially, but then show up to play.
00:05:41.000Liberty went undefeated, but Liberty is the, you know, everyone knows about Liberty.
00:05:45.000They're in Lynchburg, Virginia, but I don't think they're going to, I think, you know, Oregon's going to put up 55 on Liberty in that game.
00:05:53.000Ohio State, they sort of get forgotten because they didn't play this weekend, right?
00:06:22.000I don't know how much time we have, but I'm looking forward to next year when we finally have, I don't know if it's eight teams or 16 teams.
00:06:31.000Honestly, what the committee should have done and Norvell, a couple weeks ago, we should have actually just told the committee, you put in 12 this.
00:06:38.000They could have, by the way, they absolutely could have.
00:06:40.000There's no logistical reason why it couldn't have been 12 this year because all the games are played as road games at you trying to tell me that Florida State wouldn't host a game right now?
00:08:37.000It seemed like this was pushed by three or four New York Republicans who had a personal slide against Santos, who made it a vendetta, and they were able to convince whatever, 100 or so Republicans to go along and obviously the Democrats.
00:08:50.000But it really makes no sense for them to do this.
00:08:53.000You know, I'm not a big fan of George Santos, but that doesn't matter.
00:08:56.000You know, that is really, that really has nothing to do with the issue.
00:09:00.000So I'm pissed off that, to be honest, that he was, that he's been expelled.
00:09:42.000And there's a lack of an opposition party within our own party.
00:09:45.000I think, you know, you talked about that, the leaders running away from the base.
00:09:49.000And Trump is the perfect example of that, right?
00:09:53.000Almost all of the Republican leaders in the Senate want nothing to do with Trump.
00:09:57.000And they're all going to be proven wrong.
00:09:59.000And we're going to see if they rally around Trump next year because Trump is going to win the nomination and he's going to need the support of Republicans in the Senate.
00:10:12.000The chaos in the markets, oil and stocks, just when you thought it was safe and interest rates were rising, new threats come out of nowhere.
00:10:18.000Tensions are boiling from Asia to Europe.
00:10:20.000Adaption is the key here to safeguarding your wealth.
00:10:23.000You may not have considered gold before.
00:11:38.000Yeah, I've been posting these videos for three or four months now.
00:11:42.000There have been, we don't know the numbers right now, but I would say probably close to 100,000 Chinese males have crossed, let's say in the last six to nine months.
00:11:51.000They've been one of the biggest groups or the fastest growing foreign groups showing up at our border.
00:11:56.000They're coming through the Darien Gap.
00:11:59.000Ben Berquam and others have done really good, a really good reporting job talking to these people.
00:12:09.000There's different theories out there whether this is a CP thing, whether they want to get them in this country.
00:12:16.000So for when they can do the dirty work of the CCP, when China decides to invade Taiwan and they want to throw a crimp into communications, let's say.
00:12:25.000And on the other spectrum, I saw a really good video about two weeks ago that I posted on CFP that it was just a freedom-loving guy from China.
00:12:33.000And he said that what's happening is brokers are advertising all over China in every source possible, trying essentially to let people know that they can get amnesty in the United States.
00:12:47.000And so I think it's probably a combination of both.
00:12:50.000I mean, I imagine the CCP is sending in thousands and thousands of agents.
00:12:54.000And I imagine there are some freedom-loving Chinese that are trying to get here.
00:12:58.000But I'll say this, even if they're freedom-loving Chinese and they're going to do some great things here, I want them to come legally.
00:13:07.000There are people spending thousands and thousands of dollars and waiting years to get legal green cards.
00:13:13.000And I would, you know, I would rather these freedom-loving Chinese and from everywhere else, I would rather they get in line and follow the system.
00:13:22.000Yeah, it's just, it's incredible that, I mean, you see this video here.
00:13:27.000This is not just Nicaraguans and El Salvadorians.
00:13:30.000And they know Biden has opened up the border big time.
00:13:34.000And there's almost no accountability whatsoever from House Republicans.
00:13:38.000Kane, kind of riff on that as we close here.
00:13:41.000CFP nations vibe on the leadership of the Republican Party and the Republican Party in general.
00:13:48.000Oh, well, they've given up completely.
00:13:51.000In fact, I get 10 posts a day for people proposing the Patriot Party, the MAGA party, without completely understanding that that would handicap Republicans in the short term until we built that party.
00:14:02.000But yeah, it's look, the people who read CFP and who comment are the hardcore MAGA base.
00:14:09.000And they are long since done with Ronald Romney.
00:14:13.000They're done with all the establishment Republicans, all globalists.
00:14:16.000They view the Republican Party as the uniparty.
00:14:19.000And so that's why, you know, that's why Trump has been such a breath of fresh air, because they feel that he speaks, you know, that, well, we know why Trump is a breath of fresh air.
00:14:31.000But so the base, you know, the bases, they're anxious, right?
00:15:36.000But regarding the others, they take votes from Biden.
00:15:40.000And so the Democrats are doing everything to keep those, you know, those candidates off the ballot.
00:15:45.000We're seeing in Florida that there's nothing.
00:15:47.000I put a story up this week and there won't be a primary in Florida.
00:15:50.000They decided not to put any other Democratic candidate on the ballot.
00:15:54.000And when there's only one candidate, they don't even list him and they give the win automatically to Biden.
00:16:00.000So it's going to be this tussle, this battle between the Democrat establishment that will attempt to protect Biden versus these other candidates.
00:16:11.000Well, there's an alternative, there's a way for the DNC.
00:16:14.000If Biden resigns after the DNC convention next July or August, the DNC has the full right to appoint whoever they want to replace him with no voting.
00:16:23.000So that's the way that Gavin Newsom took it in.
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00:18:17.000And I want our audience to know you are outspoken about your faith and your values while being a superstar National Basketball Association player.
00:18:28.000And for me, Unitas is more than just the sneaker line.
00:18:32.000The big, broad vision of it is an alternative sports and apparel place for people who stand for the same values that I hold to, faith, family, freedom, who understand the necessity of faith in God and faith and trust in our founding principles.
00:18:46.000And I wanted to make that cool in a sense.
00:18:50.000And so I think for so long, people who hold to these types of values have been maligned as not cool or on the fringe, but being able to give people a high quality alternative to some of the sports and apparel companies that you see out there, I think was worthwhile.
00:19:24.000You can head to weareunitis.com to check them out.
00:19:27.000They each have a different Bible verse on them.
00:19:29.000The one you're showing there is called Triumph, and it has 2 Corinthians 4, 9 on it that says persecuted, not abandoned, struck down, but not destroyed.
00:19:55.000And, you know, by the way, a lot of people that are here, you know, buying basketball shoes for Christmas gifts for your kids or your grandkids, check it out.
00:20:39.000And it was just, it was amazing how fast everything just swept the country.
00:20:45.000You know, obviously you have this tragic moment with George Floyd in that situation.
00:20:49.000And, you know, everybody's trying to figure out how to feel about it, what to do about it.
00:20:52.000And you have this ascension of the Black Lives Matter organization and movement kind of sweep the country.
00:20:59.000You have corporations, everybody's making commercials.
00:21:02.000Everybody's doing the Instagram and the Twitter, the Black Squares, everything is going on.
00:21:06.000And I'm sitting there trying to rationalize how do I feel about the situation and what best way to garner my voice, even if I have to say anything at all.
00:21:17.000And my perspective came from, I was in church one day and my pastor was preaching on Jesus being captured by the Roman Guard.
00:21:24.000And this was at the height of all the riots and everything.
00:21:26.000And Jesus, you know, Peter lunges forward and cuts off the guy's ear.
00:21:31.000And Jesus says, if you live by the sword, you'll die by the sword.
00:21:33.000And one of the things that my pastor was saying was, if we treat this moment like we've always treated this moment with anger and hatred back, if you believe that that was the situation, then we'll always get the same result that we've always gotten.
00:21:50.000But if we can step into this moment with love and with leading with Jesus Christ being the ultimate answer for the problems that we see and understanding that we all fall short of God's glory, then we could have true change between the white and the black community.
00:22:02.000And so I had that as my own personal framework in my mind.
00:22:07.000I wasn't necessarily upset at an entire race of people.
00:22:11.000I understood that there was one answer and that was going to be Christ.
00:22:55.000The Black Lives Matter Organization is not an answer to the problems that we see, not just with racism, but everything that plagues our country.
00:23:01.000And so, yep, we were going to do it the next day.
00:23:05.000And I remember being on the phone with my pastor the night before.
00:23:08.000And I told him, like, I don't think you understand how big this is going to be.
00:24:47.000And it was my, it was like my life story of how I got to this moment of finding faith in the first place, how I came to stand and the backstory and behind the scenes of everything.
00:24:58.000And out of that as well, out of standing in the bubble, I actually injured myself the next game.
00:25:03.000And so after I stood in the bubble, I got injured and had to leave the bubble.
00:25:07.000And because of that, I had the downtime to be able to write the book.
00:25:11.000And so it was just little small ways that God was still standing with me.
00:25:15.000And one of the other ones was that one of the things that I told my pastor was that night was that I hadn't signed my contract yet.
00:25:21.000So my contract extension was still going to be up for negotiation that upcoming summer.
00:25:25.000And so there was a part of that was like, if I, if I don't kneel, there's a, there's a possibility that, you know, I'm out of the league next year.
00:26:24.000Your book is also, I want people to check out Why I Stand.
00:26:27.000We're honored you're going to be joining us at America Fest, which is just awesome, Jonathan, in the midst of a season and all this.
00:26:33.000And you really are an example of courage where your contract was on the line, all this stuff.
00:26:40.000And you stood, as it says in Joshua 1.9, be strong and courageous.
00:26:44.000And so, Jonathan, you're a great role model to so many people.
00:26:46.000And thank you for running back from practice to make time for us.
00:26:49.000The website, again, is weareunitus.com.
00:26:54.000Purchase your Christmas gifts with Jonathan Isaac.
00:26:57.000He is one of the good ones and really honored to have him.
00:27:02.000For years, we've been talking about how our nation's public schools have been captured by progressive ideologues.
00:27:08.000They teach things that directly contradict the values of millions of Americans.
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00:28:24.000So Jonathan, the kind of prevailing narrative is that America is a racist country.
00:28:31.000What is your response or your thought when you hear that?
00:28:35.000My thought is that, you know, a lot of people talk about that issue and how it is the most prevalent and the biggest kind of obstacle to black Americans in our country today.
00:28:49.000I'm not one to say that racism doesn't exist, but to act like racism is the number one obstacle to black people in America today or that America is so systemically racist that black people can't succeed, I think is false.
00:29:03.000So talk more about your story and your faith and how your worldview has been, let's say, strengthened by your love of the Lord and your testimony in Jesus Christ.
00:29:16.000I think it's really important because there aren't that many people in the National Basketball Association alone or others that are willing to speak out about your faith.
00:29:23.000Tell us about how you got to know the Lord and your walk with Jesus.
00:29:57.000And I definitely, I could feel that everything that I thought that I wanted and I thought that I needed to be complete, that it wasn't all that it was chucked up to be.
00:30:05.000The money, the fame, the fun, the girls, all that type of stuff.
00:30:09.000It wasn't actually, it wasn't satisfying.
00:30:12.000And one day I'm on an elevator and I meet this man and he's coming off the elevator.
00:30:16.000I'm going on and he says to me, I can tell you how to be great.
00:30:41.000And he would try to invite me to lunch.
00:30:43.000And I'm like, I don't want to go to lunch with you in the back of my head.
00:30:46.000But I end up going to lunch with this guy.
00:30:48.000And I won't tell the whole thing, but yada, yada, yada, the story continues.
00:30:52.000And that guy ends up becoming my pastor and leading me to teaching me about the love of God.
00:30:58.000And it was something that I actually really struggled with growing up because I grew up in Bronx, New York.
00:31:02.000I went from a black community to a white community when my parents split up.
00:31:06.000I went from Bronx, New York to Naples, Florida.
00:31:09.000And I really struggled with fitting in, making friends.
00:31:13.000And I started to develop anxiety and self-insecurity, all these different things.
00:31:18.000And I was so used to working for love through basketball to the point where I would have so much anxiety before games, after games, to the point where I'm the number one player in the state of Florida at Florida State University.
00:31:30.000And I'm taking anxiety medication to play.
00:31:36.000Just one trainer and one coach know about what I was struggling with behind the scenes.
00:31:40.000But it was coming into contact with the unconditional love of God that says I don't have to score, I don't have to do anything to be loved.
00:32:14.000No, Jonathan, we're so excited to have you at America Fest.
00:32:18.000You are a great leader and a great example in a league that at times seems a little focused on the glitz and the glam and the new coolest thing.
00:32:27.000You are going against the grain and you're standing for truth and for righteousness.