00:00:05.000Lots of travel and lots of things happening.
00:00:07.000But I did do an event at Dream City Church with Sean Foyt, where I took questions from the audience.
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00:01:37.000And so our team and I were meeting the other day and we said, oh boy, we don't know how attendance is going to be this month because it's the same night at the State of the Union.
00:01:48.000I said, I think we're going to be just fine.
00:02:10.000We have an amazing friend tonight, and we're going to dive into it quicker than usual.
00:02:14.000I just want to thank all of you that have been so engaged and so involved in what's going on in the Arizona House.
00:02:19.000There's some very important voter integrity bills that are passing through the Arizona House and Arizona Senate right now.
00:02:25.000And just yesterday, the Arizona House just passed a bill that we want to make sure this church gets behind that says churches can never be shut down again in emergencies like COVID-19.
00:02:39.000We're never going to let it happen again.
00:02:41.000We want to make sure that gets to the governor's desk and we're tracking that bill and many others.
00:02:47.000But when you guys contact your local representatives and you track what's going on, I know there's a lot of confusion happening with these bills, but the local politics, the local level matters so much.
00:02:58.000And, you know, tonight, I know, for those of you who could watch the re-I'm just going to watch the recap of whatever happens tonight in the State of the Union.
00:03:05.000And honestly, that matters less to me than ever before.
00:03:08.000And I think you feel the same way because I feel that there is this revival of grassroots citizenship.
00:03:14.000And, you know, when we first talked about this, you know, Angel and the entire Dream City team, I said, you know, I really want this community to become one of the most active communities in the country, to understand what it means to be a citizen again, not a serf, not a subject, but what it really means to be a citizen.
00:03:30.000And sometimes that means you have to stop watching the propaganda on TV and actually getting into the getting into the weeds and worrying about what's happening around you and the education of your children.
00:03:40.000And you're starting to see that happen in a very profound and serious way.
00:03:44.000And so thanks to the success of what we've been doing here at Freedom Night in America, we are now seeing churches from all across the country do biblical citizenship classes.
00:03:54.000In fact, TPUSA Faith, we now have over 50 churches that are doing biblical citizenship classes and growing across the country, inspired by what we're doing here.
00:04:06.000And so what I just want to say, and you guys can look into all the different bills and things that are happening, is that, you know, we could talk about the public approval rating.
00:04:15.000We could talk about the popularity, which is, you know, all record low.
00:04:18.000And I understand there's a lot of doom and gloom on the news right now.
00:04:21.000But the American person, the citizen, whether it be the truckers that are on their way to DC right now, which is very, very exciting.
00:04:31.000That the people in charge realize that the ground that they have been standing on is a lot shakier and fragile than ever.
00:04:39.000That regular, normal, everyday people are starting to rise up.
00:04:42.000And I want to talk a little bit about, you know, what was some of the remarks earlier on the Russian-Ukraine situation.
00:04:48.000I'm by no means going to say that I'm an expert on this, but what I find to be so stunning and one thing that could unite the entire country, regardless of your opinion of should we send U.S. troops or not, I'm probably not there, to be perfectly honest, that we should send U.S. troops there.
00:05:01.000However, that doesn't mean we should do nothing.
00:05:02.000And I think the first thing that we should do, and it's kind of not that complicated, why are we still buying oil from Russia?
00:05:27.000It would give the European Union leverage in a bargaining chip to no longer have to export or import oil from a totalitarian dictatorship that is invading sovereign countries.
00:05:36.000It would also give us the opportunity to be energy independent, which we were just a couple years ago until the radical environmentalists decided that we shouldn't do that.
00:05:45.000This right there is going to prevent future wars as they come.
00:05:50.000And so it's a very complicated situation.
00:05:52.000I think it's important that we all look a level deeper, but it shouldn't actually be that complicated to say, wait a second, we have more LNG, we have more liquefied natural gas, we have more assets at our disposal than any other country on the planet.
00:06:22.000You have to have either one or the other.
00:06:23.000And quite honestly, we look at this situation right now.
00:06:26.000He only feels as emboldened as he is right now is because he's actually incentivized to invade because the price of oil goes up even more.
00:06:33.000So he actually, in some ways, the petrodollar gets strengthened and increased.
00:06:38.000This is a very important point and very important takeaway as we look at public policy from a Christian perspective, which is if you view the earth as a God itself and not as something that we should use for the betterment of humanity, then you have completely inverted actually what is your God.
00:06:56.000Now, we are called to be fruitful and multiply.
00:06:58.000The earth we should preserve and conserve, but first and foremost, we should use it for the betterment of humanity.
00:07:05.000We are never called to worship earth at all.
00:07:07.000We're supposed to worship God Almighty.
00:07:09.000However, the other side, they almost have an earth-worshiping kind of inclination to them, where they believe that we should never touch anything happening in the planet all whatsoever.
00:07:19.000Then all of a sudden, someone that is filled with, I believe, an unclean spirit, a satanic type spirit, is going to capitalize on that and invade a sovereign country and bomb citizen centers all around there.
00:07:31.000So I think that's a very agreeable thing that 90% of the country is like, yeah, wait a second, we're putting all these sanctions on, but why are we still buying oil from the very same person?
00:07:39.000And I think a very simple thing is before we send U.S. troops, we should say, no more oil at all.
00:07:45.000We should extract our own oil and gas here at home.
00:09:07.000Politics actually started to involve himself in his ministry because you had secular politicians that say, hey, you can go protest in a BLM rally, but if you're coming to go glorify God, you're not allowed to do that.
00:09:18.000And he was the tour that he put on in the last year and a half.
00:09:23.000You should, it's unbelievable, one of the most ambitious.
00:09:26.000And one of the, and I'll say this: I will put him up against anybody.
00:09:30.000And I'm by no means know everybody in this space, but I don't think anybody worked as hard and did more effective open-air revivals in as many cities as Sean Foyt did in the last two years.
00:09:42.000And it's a great honor to have him here tonight.
00:12:19.000I circulated it online, really sent it for all my friends in New York, California, states that were really locked down.
00:12:25.000Said, sign this pledge, let's take a stand.
00:12:27.000And then I was sitting at home and I was getting these direct messages from my underground church pastor friends in Iraq, in India, in Afghanistan.
00:12:37.000And they were saying, you're not going to let the governor do that to you, right, Sean?
00:12:44.000Come on, you spent enough time with us.
00:14:41.000We had blood poured on us from Satanists.
00:14:44.000I mean, we went into, and, you know, because I had gone into some of these gnarly places around the world, I felt like we can't just look at Seattle and Portland and think, like, that's just like in North Korea.
00:14:57.000Like, we're called to bring light to darkness.
00:15:00.000So we didn't go to the suburbs of Seattle.
00:17:05.000So this movement, in some ways, you started with a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of response.
00:17:11.000But then, Sean, you started to see some of the fault lines that already existed in the church.
00:17:16.000So first came the controversy of whether or not the church should be open.
00:17:20.000Talk a little bit about kind of what you learned in that process of churches that were seemingly pretty bold previously and then they just shut their doors and they wanted nothing to do with you.
00:17:29.000In fact, they might have attacked you.
00:17:32.000Yeah, I mean, that was really sobering.
00:17:33.000You know, I think, you know, I'm a worship leader too.
00:17:35.000And so, you know, we write songs about, you know, we're slaying the giants in the land and we use all this language.
00:17:42.000You know, I'm no longer a slave to fear, but I'm afraid to go to church.
00:17:46.000And it just, our theology was not lining up.
00:17:50.000Like our songs weren't lining up with our actions, you know?
00:17:53.000It was like it would like we sing about the sick being healed, the dead being raised, people getting touched, like the light invading darkness and the moment where we can actually prove our songs, many of us didn't show up.
00:18:06.000And so, you know, and I'll say this too, and I love the worship movement and I love the creatives and I am one, but they were probably hit the hardest, you know, whereas they felt like they had to kind of form to a certain agenda, shall I say.
00:18:23.000And that compassion looked like putting a mask on and watching the live screen at home in your room.
00:18:31.000And people actually tried to build theology around that.
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00:20:40.000And kind of, because you took a pretty hard stance against kind of this whole woke, CRT, you know, anti-family belief of BLM.
00:20:49.000Yeah, I mean, to me, I think, you know, the woke agenda was really a cop-out because it's like people pretending that they're virtuous and they have compassion and they're trying to guilt people.
00:21:20.000And, you know, it's not like I have the personal history of being in the nation's personal history.
00:21:25.000I mean, I have a team right now of 32 doctors on the ground in Iraq in a refugee camp, you know?
00:21:31.000And it's like none of that mattered because I was white and I was this white supremacist and I was trying to capitalize on the pain of whatever.
00:21:42.000Thank God that we had such a diverse, beautiful group of people.
00:21:45.000I mean, every gathering we had was incredibly diverse.
00:21:48.000And I think that alone shattered that, you know, the media and the woke powers that be want you to buy into the narrative that we're disunified according to our race.
00:22:00.000I've been to 160 cities across America to testify something different.
00:22:05.000You know, one of my favorite things, one of my favorite moments, this happened a bunch, but we were in Chicago and, you know, these BLM protesters came out.
00:22:15.000They probably said they were Christians.
00:22:39.000And that white, angry protester came down to the altar, gave his life to Jesus.
00:22:43.000We baptized him in the back of a truck bed.
00:22:46.000And so what I found is that people were sucked into this narrative because I think genuinely, Charlie, like I think our generation is born with a call for justice, right?
00:24:37.000You know, I think there's definitely a polarization.
00:24:42.000I don't think we have to, you know, talk about certain movements that once had galvanized the church because even the press is annihilating them as being frauds, right?
00:24:52.000I think right now the biggest issue is people feel bad, but they don't want to repent or change because of their pride from what they believed in before.
00:25:01.000They're just trying to carry on like nothing happened.
00:25:03.000And I'm kind of like, well, hey, listen, remember we warned you about that?
00:25:09.000So there is a polarization, I think, in the church.
00:25:13.000And, you know, to be honest, I think if you look at revival history or if you look at moves of God in the past, I think polarization has always preceded revival.
00:26:16.000But the thing that Charlie, it says in Matthew 24, then Jesus says a couple verses later, he says, and the increase of wickedness will cause the love of many to grow cold.
00:26:27.000Because of the increase, because of the chaos, because of the confusion, because of the agendas, many people are going to get caught up in it.
00:26:35.000And the love of many is going to grow cold.
00:26:36.000I mean, how many people do we know in lockdowns or in the civil unrest?
00:28:29.000You talk about the virtues of this country and you're able to weave that into the teachings of the gospel.
00:28:34.000You know, a lot of people in this audience probably have people in their life that, you know, other Christians that say, I'm not into that.
00:29:41.000So you look at that and you think, how, how, like, how can we as believers, how can anybody as a believer vote on that platform when every single person on that platform comes into agreement with the shedding of innocent blood?
00:29:59.000This is not the blue dog dems of the, you know, this is a season of incredible polarity.
00:30:07.000And so I think, you know, and Charlie, I'm saying this as somebody that, dude, I organized prayer meetings across America for years.
00:30:14.000You know, we did 24-hour prayer meetings.
00:30:16.000We gathered in 2000 with five, you know, almost 500,000 people on the mall in D.C.
00:30:20.000We prayed for the ending of Roe v. Wade.
00:30:23.000And at some point, I felt the Lord say, hey, it's great to pray about it.
00:32:27.000Everything that we believe comes from those three ideals.
00:32:30.000Show me any Christian doctrine that is widely accepted that, you know, in mainstream Christianity that would not say we believe in those three things.
00:32:38.000And show me another country where those three things are said.
00:33:19.000You bring us back to Egypt because at least we ate meat when we were in Egypt.
00:33:24.000They basically said, we want to go back to slavery because we had better food.
00:33:28.000And so there is this tension in the human heart to want to be free and want to be taken care of.
00:33:32.000And it would be easy, Sean, you've traveled 70 countries to just have someone want to take care of us, to give us stuff, to be able to blame people for our problems.
00:33:42.000And so, Sean, help us through that from a biblical theological perspective.
00:33:46.000Give us some more support kind of that informs your, you know, your not political, but philosophical approach to these ideas and issues.
00:34:09.000And then he gives this speech about how much he loves God, and he has this amazing story about how him and his wife do Bible studies, and he's a good guy, right?
00:34:17.000We get pumped when Kanye West does an album, Jesus Christ King, or whatever, with Jesus King, or whatever.
00:34:23.000We get pumped when, you know, a billionaire professes their faith, and we're like, that's our God.
00:35:38.000Where you can go, when you can have church, what you can do.
00:35:41.000And if we don't have Christians represented, if we're not salt and light in the one sphere that controls all other spheres, how are we faithfully responding to the Great Commission?
00:35:57.000So growing up as a missions kid, I just thought, well, I'm going to be a missionary in Congress.
00:37:22.000You know, I mean, this is our call as Christians.
00:37:24.000And so, you know, my pushback against that is when you see like what happened last night in that Senate vote, it's impossible to be a believer and not like absolutely rise up and go, hold on a minute.
00:37:54.000Turn to someone and say, hold the line.
00:37:58.000So, Sean, before we open it up for questions, kind of just give a charge to the regular everyday people, people that are homeschooling, people that are on the front lines.
00:38:06.000You know, you've seen and heard a lot.
00:38:08.000You know, give a word of encouragement what you're seeing happening across the country right now in the fight for liberty.
00:43:15.000You can throw them up if you have them.
00:43:17.000But you can follow us on social media.
00:43:21.000On your way outside, you can grab some of our let us worship merch and gear and hoodies.
00:43:26.000These are the cities we're going to throw them up there.
00:43:28.000These are the cities we're going to be going to, 12 cities across America that kicks off in Lafayette and the Cajun Dome, and it ends in on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
00:43:40.000We just secured the permit for the National Mall a week and a half before the midterm.
00:43:45.000So I expect all you sunny Arizona people to join us for a wild party.
00:43:52.000Of course, we're going to New York, Philly.
00:43:53.000We got the square, the Independent Square where the Liberty Bell hangs.
00:45:19.000The states created the federal government, the federal government did not create the states.
00:45:23.000But we'd be fooling ourselves if we did not take a step back and ask ourselves, what are the ties that bind us together to our fellow countrymen in Manhattan and San Francisco right now?
00:46:15.000The point that I'm getting at is we're on a much more fragile cultural footing than I think people actually want to say out loud.
00:46:21.000When I go to Los Angeles, I have to go with armed guards and the whole thing for death threats and all that.
00:46:26.000I don't feel as if I'm visiting a country where I share values with in any way, shape, or form.
00:46:33.000I see more schools that are protesting in favor of BLM, this kind of woke LGBT agenda.
00:46:40.000And I asked myself, you know, half the country looks at that completely different.
00:46:44.000Now, the way we avoid a national divorce, and I'll get to the Civil War question in a second, which would be a tragedy, is actually if the other side just decided that they don't want to impose their viewpoint on us.
00:46:57.000A lot of this would simmer down, right?
00:46:59.000A lot of this would simmer down if you have difference of opinions, like, okay, the people in Alabama, they see the world a one way.
00:47:05.000We in Malibu, we see the world one way.
00:47:08.000Whatever, we're not going to go anywhere.
00:47:10.000The problem is they are relentlessly trying to push this stuff outwardly in places that don't share their values.
00:47:18.000And they're almost trying to provoke a response.
00:47:20.000So they're going to Birmingham or they go to Scottsdale, and the next thing you know is they're having your children in Scottsdale fill out forms that could potentially tattle on their parents on whether or not they're being compliant with CRT-type guidelines or woke agenda, which was something they mistakenly said, you know, sent into parents.
00:47:38.000So there's almost this imperialist mindset by the American left.
00:47:43.000And so the way we must respond, and we must respond by saying that we want to keep the country together.
00:47:49.000There's more that unites us than what divides us.
00:47:52.000But I have called for quite some time.
00:47:54.000We must realize that the center of power on the American left is actually not a majority of people.
00:48:00.000I really don't believe a majority of people believe men can become pregnant.
00:48:21.000Obviously, one of the most important things Apple could be worrying about, right?
00:48:25.000Now, that could only go on for so long.
00:48:28.000I have called for a while that we need a political extinction event of the woke left.
00:48:34.000We need to make it unacceptable to believe, for example, that we should judge people based on the color of their skin, that men could become pregnant, that we should have segregated classrooms.
00:48:44.000Like in Colorado, they have playtime at playgrounds only for black families, and white families are not allowed.
00:48:52.000And I believe most Americans are looking for an outlet or a vehicle to repudiate that and want a return to team reality.
00:49:00.000The Civil War thing, here's what I do believe.
00:49:02.000Most Americans don't want a civil war.
00:49:03.000I don't think we will get to a civil war unless, for whatever reason, the other side tries to provoke people and the people on the right aren't disciplined enough to realize that they're trying to tempt you into something fake to justify a security responsive return.
00:49:20.000I've said this openly before: don't take the bait.
00:49:24.000Satan would love nothing more than to try to have you get into a conversation or political dialogue that would then all of a sudden say, hey, we have to get more power at the FBI or DOJ to take care of these people that want to tear the country apart.
00:50:01.000And do you have a method for getting alone with the Lord and getting in a creative space, whether it's lyric writing or on guitar or just that in general?
00:50:12.000Yeah, I never wanted to be a worship leader, or like all my family are doctors, like besides me.
00:50:42.000And I think that for me, I think especially in COVID and even the lettuce movement, if you guys have ever been, that's a big part of what we do.
00:53:26.000But also, you know, you have to know what you believe and why you believe it.
00:53:30.000And to spend a lot of time learning and diving deep into those ideas, Sean.
00:53:34.000Yeah, I would just say I think a lot of the gifts and, you know, that you want to excel at or you want to become better at, I think it comes down to stewardship, you know, and it's like, what do you have in front of you?
00:54:21.000You know, and so, but yet, but yet the Lord actually takes from the one that does nothing with and it gives the one that is a good steward.
00:54:29.000And so that's my encouragement to you, man, is like wherever that sphere of influence is, you know, do everything that you can do to steward that well and watch God bring an increase to it.
00:54:39.000And I'll just say this is that, you know, this is just more general advice to young people is that some people get resentful because they say, I don't have the skills that other people have.
00:54:47.000You know, I grew up with some superstars that were so unbelievably talented and they made some decisions and they're not superstars anymore.
00:54:55.000They had the raw talent where they could have been CEOs and they could have been unbelievable.
00:54:59.000But the people that, you know, I grew up with some of them that were always worked hard, but they would have just been, you know, I don't know if I have all the skills.
00:55:07.000And they're like rock stars 10 years later.
00:55:22.000Oh, so my question revolves around something that was mentioned earlier: the idea that the political sphere is the only sphere that Christians really aren't trying to dive into, or I should say, kind of fear.
00:55:34.000But as we've seen with life, we see that the music industry, the entertainment, sports, even like with all the criticism against Tentebo, all these industries and spheres that are so influential on our lives are being attacked constantly.
00:55:47.000And so, for I'm in speaking for everybody in here, we don't necessarily have the influence that you guys do.
00:55:52.000So, kind of bouncing off the previous question as well: how do we as individuals with lesser influence attack these spheres that are so secular and start bringing Jesus into the hearts and minds of the people around us?
00:57:03.000I'll come back and preach my Mother's Day sermon.
00:57:05.000No, but going back to it, I think, you know, we underestimate the power of boldness and what it does.
00:57:14.000It just takes one person to take a stand.
00:57:16.000And that's what we saw in Virginia to flip the whole state.
00:57:18.000So I think this is the year we're going to see that more.
00:57:20.000Yeah, and I'll just expand on that: is that don't look at influence as numbers, as many people as you can.
00:57:27.000And I know a lot of people that have big social media followings, but they really don't influence that many people.
00:57:32.000It's just they have people that they follow because they're clowns or whatever.
00:57:35.000You know, it's better to have five or six people that you influence on a very quality way.
00:57:40.000And God will bless that and honor them.
00:57:42.000And if you are trying to look for the numbers, like I want to influence millions and millions of people, first you have to understand that comes with a tremendous cost.
00:57:49.000I just have to just say it takes a lot of work and you'll come under a lot of attack.
00:57:54.000Maybe that's something you want, but it really is not something that is impossible for the everyday person if you apply in that way.
00:58:02.000Become a master at one or two things, a topic that really interests you, right?
00:58:06.000It could be immigration, it could be abortion, it could be whatever it is.
00:58:09.000You're like, no matter what, like I might not be able to know everything about every topic, but I'm going to try to win influence in this one thing.
00:58:15.000And anytime this thing comes up, I'm going to be the mover and the shaker in that category or that topic or that issue.
00:58:23.000And I think that's really important because if you look at to kind of piggyback off Sean's example, it was all around education in Virginia, right?
00:58:31.000It was all about parents getting involved in education and kind of all the involvement in that.
00:58:36.000So thank you so much for your question.
00:59:24.000No, I think honestly, what shocked me the most was the sheer demonic violence that I witnessed in Seattle and Portland.
00:59:34.000I've never seen that in America before.
00:59:37.000And, you know, the fact that that was actually a spirit, right?
00:59:45.000People, like, I mean, they're crazy, right?
00:59:48.000They were macing and pepper spraying babies that showed up at our events.
00:59:53.000They were throwing spikes in the road so that car tires would explode as people left gathering to worship, you know.
01:00:00.000Surrounded my wife and kids at one point with knives in their back.
01:00:04.000You know, we have a documentary coming out, not to plug that, but sharing the whole story.
01:00:09.000You know, it's going to be wild for Americans to really see what happened.
01:00:13.000And yeah, a lot of intensity, but you know, we persevered and we stood up and we worshiped God and breakthrough came and people got saved and people got healed and people got delivered.
01:02:30.000And we just keep getting them in the atmosphere where they can get filled up by God, where they can encounter God, where they can get marked by God.
01:02:38.000I believe that's the difference maker.
01:02:40.000And then, of course, don't let them learn any of that crap, you know, and secular and public education.
01:03:23.000Well, I could just, I mean, I'm not a father yet, but I could say that from the turning point perspective of helping parents all across the country, you know, with the educational piece, which is so incredibly important.
01:03:36.000You know, parents, I say, if you spend one hour a week, this has been a challenge we've said before, spend one hour a week with all the devices off and teach your children something about American history or philosophy.
01:03:47.000And you might say, well, that's awfully intimidating.
01:03:49.000I'm just going to keep unplugging this.
01:03:51.000And we've talked about some amazing educational options together, but one that we've partnered with, Charlie4Hillsdale.com.
01:04:24.000That one hour a week is 52 hours a year that will be all about things of instilling those values that really matter that will really make a tremendous impact.
01:06:11.000And I think the distance and the desertion of friends, the relational component, I think was, I think it was really hard for Jesus, you know, in the garden where he's like, man, you guys couldn't just stay up one hour and have my back.
01:06:30.000You know, and I think that he, you know, he walked, he hasn't walked through anything that we don't walk through, right?
01:06:36.000That's why he can meet us in our place of need, you know, and I think that that for me in that season, for me and my wife, that was the most difficult thing.
01:06:45.000But on the flip side, the most incredible thing about that was that God opened new doors and new relationships and new connections.
01:06:52.000And, you know, here I am with Charlie talking about the amazing thing God's done.
01:06:56.000And I don't know if I would be there if we had not have taken that stand.
01:07:00.000So sometimes the relational disconnect is hurtful, but it's necessary.
01:07:06.000I don't know if that's helpful to some of you guys.
01:07:09.000I mean, I'm like, I'm an 8-7 on the Enneagram.
01:07:13.000Like, I'm an eight challenger, but the seven is like, let's party.
01:07:21.000But this was a season where the eight came out and it was like, no, we need to challenge this spirit, you know, and I'm going to lose some friends in the meantime.
01:08:22.000First, I just want to encourage you that being 13 years old and going through this, you're going to be a formidable force for Jesus when you're 18, 20, or 30.
01:10:04.000So you could hide your values when you're like on vacation.
01:10:07.000Well, vacations are really stressful, but like, you know what I mean?
01:10:10.000Like you could hide your values when it's not tough.
01:10:13.000But when you get under pressure and there's a due date and you got to get your homework done and your friend doesn't have the homework done or you don't, it's like, hey, let's just cheat and get the answers in.
01:10:24.000That's going to be pressure to find out whether or not you actually believe it or not.
01:10:29.000And that's going to be an opportunity for you as a leader to be like, hey, we're going to take the bad grade because it'd be worse to lie than to get a good grade with, you know, it would be worse to lie with a good grade than to not.
01:12:25.000I mean, I think there's a lot of hypocrisy around the people that don't like that phrase, but I'll leave it there because they were freely saying a whole lot of other stuff in church, by the way.
01:12:42.000You know, a lot of people could say, well, why would you say dang it?
01:12:46.000That means, or why would you say shoot?
01:12:49.000Because that means, really means this.
01:12:52.000You know, I don't, I think a lot of that is, I don't mandate that with people.
01:12:57.000You know, I'm not, we're not here to be religious people that, you know, and I agree with Charlie.
01:13:03.000I don't, I don't think church is the place for that.
01:13:06.000You know, I don't, I don't think it is.
01:13:08.000But I think that we should not shy away at the same time from speaking the truth about that guy.
01:13:18.000And let me say one other thing that, and anyone on my team will tell you, I used to swear a lot like five or six years ago, and I just prayed a lot.
01:13:29.000And I realized that the reason I was swearing is that makes you feel really powerful in a minute as you're as like that second you say it.
01:13:36.000And it's actually, it's a sin of the flesh.
01:13:38.000It's not the worst sin of the flesh, but it is.
01:13:41.000And we've really cleaned it up on my internal team.
01:13:43.000I have no tolerance for it at all whatsoever.
01:16:26.000You know what's really good to do sometimes, especially when the trolls are bad, just for me, is like lay down social media for a little bit and just free yourself because I think we're a whole generation's walking around like this.
01:16:37.000They don't know how to function with each other, with normal people.
01:16:41.000So you could be countercultural and actually know how to hang out with real people.
01:16:46.000And there's a great paradox of social media that is really unhealthy.
01:16:49.000Here's what it is, is that extroverts actually don't like using social media because they're too busy doing things.
01:16:54.000They're hanging out with people and they're doing, and introverts are always on social media.
01:16:59.000So we're platforming a lot of people that are actually not well versed in social skills because they're staying at home, but they're on social media all the time.
01:17:07.000And the people that actually should be on social media that are more magnanimous and are actually people that, you know, would actually have good communication, not that they don't have bad communication skills.
01:17:16.000You meet people that are really, really good on social media.
01:17:20.000And we deal with this at Turning Point USA.
01:17:21.00090% of them are like super introverts.
01:17:24.000And you meet them and they like, don't, they can't have a conversation.
01:17:28.000And they're making videos and they're screaming and they're yelling and they're doing, you know, you know, backward flops and the whole things, but you meet them, they can't say more than they like.
01:17:38.000And it's because that was actually what they did because they weren't comfortable going to be extroverts, right?
01:17:43.000So I actually think social media, the paradox is it creates a generation of kind of, it subsidizes introversion, which is okay to an extent, but there's a lot of antisocial tendencies that come with forced introversion.
01:17:58.000And not everyone actually does well as an introvert.
01:18:02.000In fact, some people need gathering and they need communication and they need connection and they need to be, you know, outside of just looking at the prison.
01:21:20.000My suburb of Chicago that I grew up in, Prospect Heights, Wheeling, they have marijuana dispensaries in every corner right across the street from Hersey High School, Wheeling High School.
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01:23:57.000And everybody, give it up one last time for Sean Floyd.