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00:01:07.000This episode was a conversation I had in Murieta, California with a great man, Pastor Tim Thompson from 412 Church.
00:01:48.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:54.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:41.000Yeah, I mean, the most important thing in my life is my relationship with Jesus Christ and my relationship with God, which we need to remind ourselves of that every single day and say it out loud and say it clearly because that's really what's going on here, isn't it?
00:03:55.000All of this material side of it is just the manifestation of unclean spirits and pure spirits that are going at it.
00:04:03.000And that's what the scriptures tell us.
00:04:05.000But when it comes to what I care about in the political domain, I believe the scriptures tell us that we need to care about things that are beautiful and good and that are true.
00:04:16.000This is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:04:20.000And I am 27 years old, and I say that, I want you to think tonight as we go through this how much we've seen our country change just in the last nine months, and especially how much we've seen our country change in the last nine years or 10 years.
00:04:37.000When I was in high school, 10 years ago, the things that we've now seen implemented would be completely unthinkable now that we just take as just kind of common sense, it's anything but common sense, but they say it's just kind of normal things, the new normal.
00:04:54.000And I'm frustrated in a lot of different ways, and it compels me to action because I will not sit idly by while this gift that we have been given, the greatest country ever to exist,
00:05:06.000a constitutional republic of and by and for the people that so many people have sacrificed for, that I just have to sit idly by while a very sinister and malevolent and clever and crafty minority takes over this country while they do not control a majority of the people.
00:05:28.000And by every single measure, they are only doing it because we've allowed them to do it.
00:05:35.000And now maybe not you, but that we have allowed them to get way too far as far as cultural control, way too far for way too long.
00:05:44.000And they've also been willing, which is a word I want to talk about tonight, to get into the institutions to push against conservatives and Christians.
00:05:54.000And look, as a 27-year-old, I know this, and this is hard for some people to hear.
00:05:59.000And I'm going to be very honest with you because I don't do hopium.
00:06:03.000I don't tell you hope, opium, put together things that sound good.
00:06:06.000Like, this is not going to get fixed for probably another 20 years.
00:06:11.000Just so you guys know, this is a 20 or 30 year project.
00:06:15.000We can hopefully get Fauci to go to prison and like all these things that can happen, right?
00:06:21.000But if you really think we're going to reform the FBI, the CIA, Congress, which is a waste of rations, Sacramento, which makes Congress look like, you know, a darling child of American government, we have to think how the left thought in the 1960s, which is an intergenerational project of 27-year-olds that are going to say, you know what?
00:06:58.000But if you're 50 plus, you're not handing a better country to your kids.
00:07:01.000It's not necessarily your fault, but it's just true.
00:07:04.000And I know for me, my life's mission is to hand something better to the 27-year-old that's going to be sitting in this chair in 25 years from now.
00:07:15.000A friend of mine, former California State Senator Mike Morrell, just a good, godly man, very few of them on the California State Senate.
00:07:24.000But Senator Morell, he had said, you know, Tim, you know, the Bible does say that we leave an inheritance to our children's children.
00:07:32.000And he said, it's far more than money.
00:07:33.000We need to leave an America to our children's children, the America that we got to grow up in.
00:07:38.000And I heard you speak to the kids next door, and I'd love you to just tell the parents here, because I want you to tell the parents what you told their kids, because they need to hear it too.
00:07:50.000And I think, and this is serious, like if you were a parent and your kids were over there, I think Charlie gave them some of the best advice they could have gotten this year, hands down.
00:08:12.000No person should have a phone until they're 18, if at that.
00:08:16.000And I'm not trying to make you feel bad, but I grew up without one.
00:08:20.000And it was one of the greatest gifts from God that I grew up without a smartphone, like this weird, creepy window into TikTok controlling your children.
00:08:29.000It's easy to give your child a phone because it keeps them entertained and you don't actually have to worry about what they're doing half the time.
00:08:37.000I asked them, I said, how long do you guys spend on your phones?
00:08:39.000They're like, oh, six hours, seven hours.
00:08:41.000I said, you guys should smash your phones.
00:08:57.000I mean, I'm anti-what it's made us become, of course.
00:09:00.000And we know so little about the neuroscience of what this does to our interpersonal relationships, to spiritual development, to mental health.
00:09:09.000And so I challenge them provocatively because it gets young people's attention because we're competing for attention with students, right?
00:09:16.000Because they're on TikTok all the time, which is a disastrous Chinese spy operation that has mined, it's true, that has mined all your children's data.
00:10:14.000But if you have to, go buy him a jitterbug, okay?
00:10:16.000Which is like that big phone where they have like three buttons and like it's not, it's like 911, the hospital, and your grandparents and your parents.
00:10:40.000And it's creating a generation that doesn't know how to lead, that doesn't know how to communicate, that is more likely to be socially controlled.
00:10:47.000And so I know for my wife and I, one of the things I think we as Christians need to do a better job of is honoring the Sabbath.
00:10:55.000And so for one day a week, we just turn off our phone completely, put it away.
00:11:00.000And I try to only use my phone for, I got rid of all my social media apps, my Instagram, my Twitter, my Facebook, YouTube, everything.
00:11:07.000I just have text message and email, and I try to limit my screen time to an hour and a half or less.
00:11:13.000And it could be good if you're reading the Bible app, which, by the way, I can't stand, you know, when people say take out your Bibles and I speak at churches.
00:12:48.000Instead, I told every student there, I said, you now have to ask yourself, what kind of country do you want to live in?
00:12:53.000Do you want to live in a country where it's easier to have a large family and church attendance is going up and there's a spiritual revival and our constitutional rights are protected?
00:13:00.000Or a country where you are micromanaged by some sort of weird five-foot-eight tech billionaire that controls TikTok in Silicon Valley and that you're a slave to the mask tyrants and the vaccine pharmaceutical companies.
00:13:36.000You know why we drink out of the hose?
00:13:37.000Because if we went inside to get a drink, our mom made us stay in.
00:13:40.000So we just stayed outside so she couldn't find us.
00:13:42.000But I grew up in this time, you know, Southern California was like this area, especially Orange County where I grew up, was a big punk rock area.
00:13:51.000And we always see, I was never a punk rocker, but I always watched the punk rockers at school.
00:13:56.000And I always thought, man, there's something so cool about these guys.
00:13:59.000Like, they do not do what the culture tells them to do.
00:14:02.000And I thought, that's kind of awesome that they're that way.
00:14:05.000And the way I look at it now is today, to be a conservative, to be a Christian, to go counter culture, you are punk rock.
00:14:49.000It's kind of like the new rebel is to be a Christian conservative.
00:14:52.000But that whole kind of punk rock thing was always somewhat a lie because deep down, it was all kind of a character trope that was being played by Hollywood, as it was like the fake rebel.
00:15:03.000Like, yeah, like, oh, yeah, I reject the society, even though every song that I like agrees with me.
00:15:08.000And, you know, every movie, because I mean, you kind of strike me as someone who, you know, grew up in the late 80s and 90s and early 2000s, kind of that era.
00:15:16.000A lot of those movies were kind of all about kind of the punk rock thing.
00:15:21.000None of our movies today are about Christians conservatives.
00:15:25.000I mean, this is what I always laugh about, like the hippies always being called like the rebels.
00:15:30.000It's like, yeah, I guess they were rebels, but they controlled every major cultural institution, right?
00:15:35.000It's like that hippies were glorified in every song and every movie as being like the cool people.
00:15:43.000And so I'll tell you, a legit rebel is someone who like gets fired from your job and gets called a racist and a bigot because you believe Jesus Christ is the king of the world.
00:17:26.000All the things I say, like, you know, the things I say about Islamic fundamentalism and like immigration and abortion, the thing that gets audiences so fired up is when I tell them that their kids shouldn't go to college.
00:17:46.000And your religion is driving around with the Stanford mom bumper sticker on your Lexus on the way to SoulCycle, being like, yeah, my kid is like, my kid's such a good person.
00:18:15.000If I told you that if we all go to McDonald's after this and 41% of you are going to get food poisoning, that's going to dramatically alter your life and you're going to leave with $30,000 in debt, you'd be like, man, that restaurant sounds horrible.
00:18:27.000Yet we keep on sending our kids to those colleges.
00:18:30.000Why do we have a generation of kids that hate the country, don't know the Lord, and don't know their own identity?
00:18:35.000We send them to factories where they masterclass that.
00:18:38.000And then we're like, you know what's a good idea?
00:18:41.000Let's have you borrow money you don't have to study things that don't matter to go find jobs that don't exist where 90% of the college graduates end up finding jobs if they find a job at all in something that has no relevance to their degree or major at all whatsoever.
00:18:53.000And they're like, you know what's even a better idea?
00:18:55.000Let's go surround them with college professors who hate themselves and hate America and have super like long words to try to overly complicate things.
00:19:04.000Like, oh yeah, I believe in like international nihilism or I'm going to tell you why America is colonialistic, heteronormatively oppressive.
00:21:48.000That's considered like you didn't do your job.
00:21:50.000You would rather send your kid to a soulless and godless institution where they don't know the Lord and they come back, you know, for Thanksgiving, like, hey, honey, how was your first semester?
00:22:01.000I don't believe this is Indigenous People's Day, not Thanksgiving, okay?
00:22:05.000I am non-binary and I totally reject the heteronormative type.
00:22:27.000One of the reasons people don't want to talk about it is they've either gone through the system and they have some sort of like weird guilt about it.
00:22:41.000God bless them for that because where I came from, like the drug addicts were treated way better than the kids that didn't go to college, right?
00:22:48.000You guys all know those types of neighborhoods, right?
00:22:50.000Where it's like, okay, you could be the total social isolate, but if you don't go to college, you get to talk from the elders in the community, right?
00:23:04.000You know, being kind of the higher level of my class and, you know, being involved in sports and Eagle Scout, like not going to college was considered to be an act of like unheard of rebellion.
00:23:13.000And so, yeah, look, we're going to save the country if we can reduce college enrollment by half.
00:23:18.000These are broken institutions that rip you off if you're paying tuition, that scam your kids, that scam the taxpayers where these professors are making out like wild bandits and they create voters like AOC.
00:23:30.000Time to stop sending your kids to college and to say, okay, if they want to go to college, they can become a dentist.
00:23:38.000Specialized skills are one thing, okay?
00:23:42.000Most kids don't go to college for that.
00:23:43.000Most 70% of kids go to college to go study communications or psychology.
00:23:47.000And I say this as we run a college organization with many of our turning point kids here tonight, and they will tell you that, like, look, most of the classes that they're forced to take, they don't want to take.
00:23:58.000They don't have any relevancy to their degree or major.
00:24:00.000So, like, okay, we're going to go make you take all this kind of social justice core so we can indoctrinate you and go get you further into debt, which makes you more reliable voters, by the way.
00:24:11.000The higher your debt level, the more likely you are to go vote for the person that might alleviate that debt burden, right?
00:24:17.000If you're free and you don't have any debt, then you're not going to be a Democrat voter, obviously, right?
00:24:21.000So, you go send people into the system where they're filled with these ideas and they're shackled with this financial burden.
00:24:27.000And so, yeah, just think for yourself.
00:24:29.000Ask high school kids, hey, what do you want to do with your life?
00:24:34.000Not where do you want to go to college.
00:24:36.000What kind of person do you want to be?
00:24:38.000Let's develop people of character, right?
00:24:40.000Let's talk about a properly souled individual that knows the meaning of courage and justice and love and mercy and contemplation and friendship and assembly.
00:24:50.000Not someone who can recite to you how racist and misogynistic and colonialistic America is.
00:25:19.000Kiara Mapp, she goes to church at 412 Church in Marietta.
00:25:24.000She's a fourth-year political science major at San Diego State University, where she is the president of the Turning Point USA chapter there.
00:25:32.000And she went before the city council meeting here in Temecula, just one city south of us.
00:25:41.000And I just want to show you a quick clip, and then I want to talk about this for a minute.
00:25:46.000So much that we can do, but I will leave you with a quote from Frederick Douglass.
00:25:50.000Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an unorganized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
00:26:02.000Please stop telling underrepresented groups that they are victims and let us all be victors.
00:28:14.000That's why we started Turning Point, to try to rise up new leaders to try to stand up against what we've been seeing in our country.
00:28:21.000I'm happy to talk about kind of the missing, there's two missing ingredients right now.
00:28:26.000And I'm happy to say that it used to be we had many missing ingredients.
00:28:30.000So when I first started Turning Point, we wouldn't have filled this room up if we said we were going to talk about what we're talking about tonight.
00:28:39.000Because there was not awareness and there really was not agreement amongst conservatives and Christians at how bad things were.
00:28:59.000Like, oh yeah, we need to go lower taxes for the biggest companies because that's really going to get America back to where we need it to go, right?
00:29:06.000And look, I'm a free market guy, but it's definitely not the most important thing on the list right now.
00:29:11.000I mean, free markets are a means to an end so human beings can flourish.
00:29:16.000And if you do not have a decent or civil society, let alone a political project that's working with fair and free elections, what are we even talking about here, right?
00:29:24.000I mean, and so, but now we do have that awareness and that agreement.
00:29:29.000So now there's two things we're missing.
00:29:33.000And again, I don't mean this as an insult.
00:29:35.000Please just accept this as a general kind of thing.
00:29:39.000We need more courage and we need the willingness, right?
00:29:44.000And so courage is a very interesting thing.
00:29:47.000George S. Patton, who's one of my favorite all-time people, who was probably murdered by our own government, but that's a different question for a different time.
00:30:59.000We are willing to create a secularized religion.
00:31:02.000We're willing to stay at these meetings till 3.30 because when you're conserving something, you don't operate with the same sense of urgency if you don't think it's immediately under threat.
00:31:15.000But if you're trying to revolutionize something, you will continue to work at it.
00:31:20.000Like, look at the people with the gate with the whole homosexual marriage thing.
00:31:24.000I mean, I'm thinking of writing an article about it because I lived through the whole homosexual marriage thing.
00:31:30.000And it was so amazing to see how America was so in agreement that a marriage was one man, one woman, like 60 to 70 percent at every poll.
00:31:40.000And in like 10 years or less, the courts, culture, and public opinion also changed.
00:31:48.000In like 10 years, and it shows that sometimes social change does not happen in a linear fashion.
00:31:56.000So, for example, you could be working super hard on getting homosexual marriage passed from 1980 to 2005 and move the dial like half of a percent every year.
00:32:06.000But maybe once 2006 hits, for whatever reason, it goes by 10% every single year, right?
00:32:13.000And so, we're at a moment right now where things can change very quickly, right?
00:32:18.000People are seeing the injustice and they're seeing the immorality of what the current regime is doing.
00:32:24.000And so, yeah, then it comes down to the willingness.
00:32:27.000And here's something that you don't want to hear, but you need to hear, right?
00:32:31.000Which is that all of you are going to have to sacrifice something to get your country back.
00:34:27.000If you, as a Christian, find that most of the people in society just love you, then you are not being the Christian Christ has called you to be.
00:34:35.000And that's okay if you don't want to be a real Christian.
00:34:40.000But the second you say, you know what, I really want to embrace my Christianity.
00:34:43.000I really want to be what God has called me to be.
00:34:45.000I don't want to be one of those couch potatoes.
00:34:48.000I want to actually get up and do something.
00:34:50.000Just be prepared for it and embrace it.
00:34:53.000People are going to talk bad about you.
00:34:54.000You're going to be a misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, bigoted racist.
00:35:09.000The Bible says, Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and say all manner of wickedness against you falsely for his name's sake.
00:35:55.000But the third type of friendship, Aristotle said, which is the highest form that a human being can exist, and the Bible tells us this as well, is when the two friends are not looking at each other very much because they're looking at the same ultimate purpose.
00:36:10.000And that's what all of you in this room have in common.
00:36:12.000You're all experiencing the highest level of friendship right now because all of you are looking at, man, how do I save this country?
00:36:18.000You're not worried about what people are wearing here tonight.
00:36:20.000You're not worried about social currency.
00:36:58.000But you should speak truth at every chance you possibly can.
00:37:03.000And you know it's going to come with a cost, obviously.
00:37:05.000You know that people are going to call you those names.
00:37:08.000And, you know, I hope that what we do at Turning Point, what we're doing on our kind of, you know, our kind of messaging tour and everything that we're doing here to try to inspire all of you that it's actually the greatest way to live.
00:37:32.000You know, did I say something that was true or not?
00:37:34.000And that's what I encourage all of you to do.
00:37:36.000And you will find new friends, better friends, real friends that aren't looking side to side, but you're all looking at that ultimate purpose together.
00:37:44.000That's one of the things I've talked to my family about.
00:37:46.000I've talked to my congregation about is, as we do what we're doing, and we have that goal to be the two things Jesus said we are, salt and light.
00:37:55.000You know, salt preserves, light reveals and we're gonna do that.
00:37:58.000We're gonna be the things Jesus called us to be.
00:38:00.000And the world has gone nuts, like you said.
00:38:06.000The world has gone completely delusional.
00:38:08.000Now, as we seek to be what God's called us to be, I've got two areas of my life that I know are going to be solid, and that is my home and my church.
00:38:18.000We're going to come together, we're going to love one another and encourage one another and build each other up and and we're going to have this camaraderie that the world wish it had.
00:38:27.000And same thing within my home we're going to have.
00:38:29.000It's going to be peaceful, we're going to have laughter, we're going to enjoy one another, and we can we can control those two environments.
00:38:35.000We can't control what the rest of the world's doing, but we can control.
00:38:38.000Control those two environments, and we're going to have peace within them.
00:38:43.000I want to tell you, you said earlier that there are professors that are just miserable.
00:38:47.000You said they hate themselves, hate this country.
00:38:54.000We talked about one earlier, and I want to just show just a quick, not a clip, but a slide of this professor out of Portland State University.
00:39:10.000This is out of an article from the Epoch Times just this afternoon, but this is what this professor said.
00:39:14.000I never once believed, nor do I now, that the purpose of instruction was to lead my students to a particular conclusion.
00:39:21.000Rather, I sought to create the conditions for rigorous thought to help them gain the tools to hunt and furrow for their own conclusions.
00:39:28.000This is why I became a teacher and why I love teaching.
00:39:31.000But over time, he argued, Portland State University, a publicly funded college, made, quote, intellectual exploration impossible and has transformed itself into a social justice factory with a primary focus on race, victimhood, and gender.
00:39:49.000So what would you say to public school teachers and professors?
00:39:54.000Because a lot of people say, Tim, you hate teachers.
00:40:21.000I've had him on my podcast before, which I'll tell you guys how to subscribe to, which would help us out a lot.
00:40:28.000And if you guys want to listen, you guys can listen to our conversation with Peter Bogogian, which is really, really insightful and fun.
00:40:35.000And he says that as someone who is not kind of as a conservative.
00:40:38.000So yeah, look, we need to ask ourselves, what does the word education mean?
00:40:41.000So the word education is a Latin word that comes from the word to lead forth.
00:40:47.000Many of you know Socrates and his allegory of the cave, and it's hard to illustrate without actually putting it up on the screen.
00:40:54.000But he argued that most people were living in a simulation where they're staring at a wall and looking at nothing more than a projection of what the fire would cast on the wall and the shadows and the puppeteers of what people want you to watch.
00:41:09.000And that a true person is able to be liberated from outside the cave, led forth out of into the true world and see things actually as they are.
00:41:19.000So that word education literally means to lead forth out of the cave.
00:41:23.000And so the question should be, what is the goal then?
00:41:28.000And so this is my big, you know, my big complaint against critical race theory and also about kind of how we as conservatives have lost the entire conversation.
00:41:40.000How we as constitutionalists, how we as fair and decent people have kind of lost that entire conversation is that sometimes people are like, oh yeah, you know, it's all about giving students free speech and exposure to all ideas.
00:41:56.000I'm like, where did you get that stupid idea that that's what education is all about?
00:42:00.000It's about developing character and leading them towards things that are true.
00:42:06.000It's not about getting them exposed to every awful idea that has ever been discovered.
00:42:12.000You think that we should give a fourth grader an equal hearing to eugenics as to the idea of natural rights-based philosophy?
00:42:24.000You think that we should give a fourth grader, you know what, we're going to teach you that white people are better than black people because we need to tell you that every single, every single sort of viewpoint needs to be represented here.
00:42:35.000Instead, what teachers need to realize, and the left realized this a long time ago, that all teaching at some point is not going to be viewpoint neutral.
00:42:49.000That, like, oh yeah, we can like present all sides of the story and all this.
00:42:53.000Now, what Peter Boghosian is talking about is giving people the tools and getting them closer, but people's bias is always going to seep through at some point, right?
00:43:01.000What we really need to ask ourselves, the question is, are we properly exposing students to things that are consistent with the natural law and the lawgiver, or as the founding fathers would say, the laws of nature and nature's God, as it says in the Declaration of Independence.
00:43:19.000And we know this as just what we would call this is a Greek word, prudentia, prudence, common sense, but so many students are being deprived of this.
00:43:28.000And so, here's a really easy way that you could teach a third grader.
00:43:30.000The most important thing a third grader can know besides knowing how to read and write.
00:43:34.000This is the most important thing, and every parent needs to teach your kid this.
00:43:44.000Most college students would say naturally good.
00:43:47.000When polled, they'll say naturally good.
00:43:49.000What's the significance of that question?
00:43:51.000If you think that human beings are naturally good, then all of a sudden you have to explain why things aren't working the way they should be.
00:44:00.000And they all of a sudden say it's because government isn't big enough, or it's because it's all the racism.
00:44:07.000When in reality, we know it's a soul problem.
00:44:09.000We know that it's within our genetic code.
00:44:12.000It's within our programming since original sin that we are broken and we are nasty and we are brutish and short to each other, as Thomas Hobbes said in the book Leviathan in the 1500s.
00:44:23.000Now, this is the most important question that's going on in our entire civilization right now.
00:44:28.000What's the raw material you're dealing with here?
00:45:20.000You're going to lose all your friends, and people are going to call you names, but tenure laws were written to protect the radicals in the 1970s and 80s.
00:45:47.000By the way, if I have 20 minutes with a student, I can deprogram 20 years of lies.
00:45:54.000It takes them 20 years to build up the garbage that like you should focus on race and sex and color and all this.
00:46:02.000It takes so long to build up that garbage.
00:46:05.000When in reality, for us, it could take one sentence of truth to totally bring people closer to things that are eternal.
00:46:12.000And so we need, so one of the reasons why our school system, and I'll just end this part of the comment on this, our school system is so screwed up is that we don't talk about the two different types of knowledge.
00:46:24.000So there is practical knowledge, which is useful, sort of, I guess, but it changes.
00:46:46.000Eternal knowledge is wisdom, things that don't change.
00:46:51.000And students today are deprived of the knowledge of the things that don't change.
00:46:55.000And the Bible, the 66 books, one author, is an entire book of things that do not change, that can become part of your own living experience of who you are as a person.
00:47:07.000For example, what does power show you when a man has it?
00:47:12.000What's the right way to organize society?
00:51:19.000Yeah, we've got to get that through our minds.
00:51:21.000And I'll be talking about that more as time goes on.
00:51:25.000We don't have much time left, so I want to switch gears a tiny bit and talk about your involvement at a local school board meeting local to you.
00:51:34.000I'm going to show a real quick clip and then I want to talk about it.
00:51:39.000It kind of feels like I'm living in San Francisco because of all of you and your self-righteous measures that you're putting to abuse the children of this wonderful state.
00:51:50.000I'm going to have children here one day, and I sure hope people like you aren't in charge.
00:51:56.000You are defying Arizona law and measures to mask children, even though there is zero evidence to show that children are at a significant risk of catching or dying from the Chinese coronavirus.
00:52:11.000By the way, I hope the Attorney General of this state acts with criminal intent against this school district for breaking the law and passing a curriculum without allowing parent input.
00:53:08.000But we the people need to voice our opinions and use the role of private citizen that we have and be shrewd and make sure that we have our way, that we're the parent, we get to do what we want.
00:53:20.000So how would you encourage everybody here to get maybe some people don't feel comfortable doing what you did?
00:53:27.000And that's okay, but there's other things that people can do.
00:53:30.000How can we as a community be shrewd and start to have an effect here locally?
00:53:36.000Yeah, and I mean, by the way, that was a fruit of the spirit of self-control.
00:54:18.000But I never want to be the guy that just kind of sits behind a desk and does a radio show and kind of just like tells other people what to do.
00:54:28.000I was the one that went right into the Kavanaugh protests and had a lot of fun doing that.
00:54:32.000You know, I got my start getting screamed at out of restaurants, out of Antifa coming and hunting me down in the streets.
00:54:39.000That's kind of just kind of who I am, right?
00:54:41.000And so when I found out that these tyrants in my local neighborhood of Scottsdale, where we're headquartered, were masking children against the will of the voters and state law, I was like, you know what?
00:56:19.000She spoke and she was like, we're going to do a moment of silence for every kid that's going to commit suicide because of all of you forcibly masking children.
00:56:27.000And then one of the guys is what really upset me, is one of the school board members wearing a mask started checking his computer during the moment of silence.
00:56:35.000My wife called him out and was like, sir, this is a moment of silence for the people that are about to commit suicide because of you.
00:56:41.000And it was like total mic drop moment.
00:56:43.000And yeah, and then at the 47th parent that we mobilized to the school board, and it wasn't just me, I'm not trying to take credit for it, but we have a deal where we do in Arizona.
00:56:53.000We had it last night called Freedom Night in America, where we bring about 2,500 people in the local area of Arizona together once a month.
00:57:03.000We talk about the meetings we're going to show up at and the things we're going to do.
00:57:06.000And it's all at a local church that we host this meeting at, which is kind of very similar to what you do here, which is just so awesome to know that you guys are doing this.
00:57:33.000I said, they've never been confronted and they're going to break.
00:57:37.000And so all of a sudden, front page of the Arizona Republic the next morning, one of them was caught on a hot mic after the 47th parent who said something no person should ever say, an awful swear word involving our Lord and Savior, right?
00:57:58.000Evil hates when it's confronted with light.
00:58:02.000And it says in Romans to love what is good and to hate what is evil, right?
00:58:06.000And it's, and so we're basically, we're in the midst of a recall of those four out of five of those clowns that voted for the mask mandate.
00:58:15.000And they have not ever experienced anything about what we're cooking up against them because they have been allowed like serpents in the grass, undetected, to go after our children.
00:58:25.000But I feel called, and we're doing this across the country, and we're helping in Harris County with some other pastors that are doing this.
00:58:33.000But this is the one thing I want you guys to care about.
00:58:36.000And if I could just kind of elaborate on this.
00:58:38.000The trend is going to continue this way, where we're caring less about the international and we're caring less about the national and we're caring more about the local.
00:59:03.000So I, for one, I'm like, you know what?
00:59:04.000No, I'm not going to do what we do at Turning Point and just sit idly by while the local school district that I pay taxes to is going to act like these tyrants.
00:59:14.000And so I want to know that while you guys are doing what you're doing here in your local area, in Arizona, we're leading a huge counteroffensive.
00:59:21.000And those people, their time soon's up, I'm telling you.
00:59:24.000And what you've just said was biblical.
00:59:28.000I don't know if you guys caught it, but what Charlie just said is actually a part of the Great Commission.
00:59:34.000When we look at what Jesus called us to do, he called us to deal with Jerusalem first, then Judea and Samaria, and then the uttermost parts of the earth, right?
00:59:45.000And that is, when we look at our own mission individually and what we do, like for us here at 412 Church in Marietta, for those of you that, because not everybody goes here, you know, a lot of people come here Wednesday nights for our watch, but I pastor the church that meets in this building, 412 Church in Marietta, and we look at what are we going to do in our Jerusalem, which is right here in Marietta.
01:00:06.000And then we go, okay, what about the rest of the state, Judea and Samaria?
01:00:10.000And then what about the rest of the world?
01:00:12.000And that's the problem with a lot of the churches is they've been focusing on, oh, we got to send missions.
01:00:52.000And in Jeremiah 29, 7, the Lord speaks and he says, demand the welfare of the city that I have sent you in because your welfare is tied to the city's welfare.
01:01:07.000And so I just want to encourage all of you, the trend is actually, and this is a really interesting thing.
01:01:12.000The globalists have actually participated, in my opinion, in one of the most epic failures of a modern project.
01:01:21.000There are more countries in the world than ever before.
01:02:28.000It's a law that was put in place right here in California where they start teaching our kids not sex ed but sexuality training, how to be involved in sexual experiences, all these things.
01:02:37.000The people said, not in Marietta, not in this great, but it's a great conservative, and it is.
01:02:42.000It's a great conservative place to live.
01:02:54.000The Marietta School District, we actually got together with attorney Bob Tyler from Advocates for Faith and Freedom, put together a parental rights policy.
01:03:02.000We told the school district, we will advise you pro bono on how to install this policy.
01:03:08.000If anybody brings a lawsuit to the school district, we will defend you pro bono.
01:03:14.000I mean, they had no reason to not put this in.
01:03:16.000And do you know what the school board did unanimously?
01:03:20.000They voted down the parental rights policy and then instead put in policies that were the pro-LGBT policies that would reinforce these things to be taught to your kids and make sure that you, the parent, wouldn't have those rights.
01:04:14.000But let's say some good news outside of the eternal and the divine, but are related to this.
01:04:22.000About two years ago, where you and I first met, I said that we need to double our homeschooling population in America as one of the things that we need to do to try and save America.
01:04:37.000So two years ago, if I sat here, there would be 5 million families homeschooling.
01:04:42.000There are now 10.2 million families that are homeschooling across America.
01:04:49.000Now, this is not, I want to say a couple things.
01:04:53.000Number one, if you are retired, I want to ask you to pray about becoming a mentor or becoming an assistant adjunct to a homeschooling family that maybe you're like, man, I can't teach anything.
01:05:44.000But the homeschooling thing is awesome.
01:05:46.000So I just want to say, for the parents out there that are homeschooling, we are here to help you, and I want to encourage you.
01:05:51.000So we've just launched a new program with Hillsdale College, which is terrific.
01:05:56.000That's charlie4hillsdale.com, Charlie F-O-R-Hillsdale.com, where you guys can get the entire curriculum on American history, Aristotle, Winston, Churchill, Euclidean geometry.
01:06:07.000It's a great kind of auxiliary tool to what you guys probably already have, but it's terrific.
01:06:11.000But if you're out there like, man, homeschooling is not for me.
01:06:19.000If you're a grandparent or a parent, this is the most important thing that I'm going to ask you to do here besides getting your kids to love the Lord.
01:06:26.000Take one hour a week where you turn off all the screens and you teach your kids what you learned that week from one of these Hillsdale courses or something you read.
01:06:36.000If you're not doing that, then you have given your child over to other people.
01:06:41.000One hour a week will change your child's life.
01:10:28.000And it's already been, it's going to come sooner.
01:10:30.000I'm telling you right now, because they're going to look a year from now, if we all of a sudden get 12 to 15 million families homeschooling, they're going to do the math.
01:10:38.000They're going to be like, man, we can't bring in enough Afghan refugees to offset this.
01:10:45.000Like, we can't bring in enough Elon Omars that hate the country, right?
01:10:50.000Where you're looking at all of a sudden in 2035, a voting age, the most conservative generation in American history.
01:10:57.000And so I want to empower you and encourage you.
01:10:59.000You might be like, man, what can I do?
01:11:01.000If you're homeschooling or helping a homeschooling family, you are playing a role in developing a generation that will help save the country.
01:11:26.000Okay, what would you say are, as you look at the public school system, what would you say are the top three issues and how do we get involved in helping to correct it?
01:12:11.000And history can be a wonderful guide for all of us.
01:12:15.000The way that we teach American history in our public schools is evil.
01:12:20.000And I could go toe-to-toe with any one of the scholars on the other side on the 1619 project and the actual founding.
01:12:27.000You know, the great, the late Harry Jaffa, who actually taught right at the Claremont Institute not far from here at Claremont McKenna College, he said that people can know three things really, really well.
01:12:37.000I want in 20 years from now to know the American founding really, really well.
01:12:42.000I spend hours a day learning about Jonathan Mayhew and George Whitfield and Chaucy and the American founders and Hamilton and Madison and Jay and Adams and Monroe.
01:12:52.000These were brilliant, spirit-filled people, everybody, that gave us a gift of a self-governing, natural law, natural rights-based constitutional republic that is so unique that taking it for granted is something that I believe goes against the biblical commandment to appreciate what has been given to you that is good and noble and true.
01:13:16.000And then number three is something that, you know, you've had the courage to speak out on here, but it's the sexual degeneracy stuff that's being taught in the school.
01:13:23.000I mean, you know, I spoke at a church group, and I won't tell you where, of young kids, they were teenagers, and at a church, and I told them, I said, you know, you got to save yourself for marriage.
01:14:46.000Let's say, like, this is what we want young people to strive for, right?
01:14:50.000And to have a bunch of kids and to want to flourish in your community.
01:14:57.000And so that's really where a lot of the sexual degeneracy stuff comes from, just so you know, is that a lot of kids fall into it because they're not given the ideal to strive for.
01:15:07.000And that comes with the transgenderism.
01:15:09.000That comes with the outward hedonism that comes into our schools.
01:15:13.000And look, I've just become more socially conservative in local years.
01:15:16.000I've always been socially conservative, but I've just become more so because, honestly, it's just the way God wants you to live, which is, you know, one man, one woman marriage, obviously pro-life through and through, but also just the way we talk about these things from a social norm standpoint.
01:15:31.000And like, this is one of the other reasons why parents shouldn't give your kids phones.
01:15:58.000I'm just so proud of my wife for what she puts on social media as an incredibly beautiful person and has been so careful about that.
01:16:06.000And so that's why kids should just get off of social media because you're training your mind to look at people in a way that is so sinful and lustful and terrible.
01:16:16.000And so you don't have to live in that kind of environment.
01:16:19.000And so, anyway, I know I'm kind of going over my time on this, but those are the three things I would say: the lack of God, which is obvious.
01:16:24.000The way we teach American history, which is terrible, and then kind of the sexual degeneracy stuff.
01:18:14.000And you know, I got you know, one of them's in prison, and like, you know, one of them's got a baby mama here, one of them's got here, and like, you know, all this all over here.
01:18:53.000Like, that used to be America in the 1960s and 1970s, which is a country that had lots of children and valued things that were eternal and that mattered.
01:20:14.000I see the God, God, God wants you to live that way.
01:20:17.000And I see something that is beautiful.
01:20:19.000And I don't feel that way when I see like a 38-year-old that's like some like pharmaceutical executive that works for Pfizer that pulls up with like a big car.
01:20:46.000Like, how can people subscribe to that and hear more from you every day?
01:20:51.000So for those of you that have heard me speak before, you kind of know that I do one shameless plug every single speech.
01:20:58.000So look, big tech censorship is a major issue.
01:21:01.000As you well know, Google just came out today, by the way, with their new anti-racist equity guidelines of what they're teaching all their employees, that white people are the worst thing ever.
01:21:11.000And these companies have way too much power, right?
01:21:14.000So they have slated me and our show, not just Google, but many others, for potential cancellation.
01:21:21.000But the way that that could be pushed back against is when people independently, especially at gatherings like this, subscribe to our program.
01:22:01.000I know you're on YouTube, so I got to be careful, but like, we talk, I'm not getting vaccinated, and I will not get vaccinated at gunpoint.
01:22:12.000And we're one of the few podcasts to talk about that.
01:22:14.000We talk about what's going on with school choice and with school boards.
01:22:18.000We talk about what's going on in Afghanistan.
01:22:19.000So, if you guys, that piques your interest.
01:23:37.000So this is how tyrannical the California Franchise Tax Board is.
01:23:40.000They come and send us a letter, and they're like, okay, we're going to tax you as a percentage of what your podcast listenership is.
01:23:46.000And so, since we're, so popular in California, I have to pay 25% of all of our net proceeds because 25% of our listeners are Californians that they send us a bill based on our that's.
01:23:59.000So, as a California resident, I pay a lot in California taxes.
01:24:02.000So please don't give up on California.
01:24:04.000You guys have probably already voted, and you voted correctly, obviously yes on all the ballots right, but more importantly than that, let's double that homeschooling population again.
01:24:13.000Do reject this idea of nihilism and cynicism.
01:24:18.000I'm telling you everybody, we're about to turn a spiritual corner.
01:24:21.000We are turning a corner in our country right now and you are all leaders in that, and I am so blessed to fight alongside of you every single day to show up to school board meetings.
01:24:31.000I'm going on a college campus tour ready for this.
01:24:49.000We're going to Alabama, not to mention, I am doing, from now to the end of the year, 125 other speeches in addition to all of our podcasts and our radio shows.
01:24:58.000We are not slowing down everybody, because we have a country to save and i'm honored to be fighting alongside all of you.