Jack Hibbs is the President of Turning Point USA, a Christian organization that fights for freedom on college and high school campuses across the country. In this episode, Jack talks about what it means to be a Christian on the college campus, and why it's so important to have a Christian presence on campus.
00:00:51.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:59.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:37.000The scriptures tell us in 1 Peter that we are to be ready to always give an answer to those who ask of us a reason for the hope that we have, and we're to respond to them with respect and with courtesy.
00:02:53.000And God has anointed you to not only be a keen intellect, but to be a...
00:03:03.000A warrior of faith that, Charlie, we've not seen in the American landscape in a long time.
00:03:10.000And this is a very special thing that God has given you.
00:03:13.000And so what I'd like to ask you to get things going first is to explain to us what you're seeing and maybe why you're seeing.
00:03:25.000Why are you seeing and what are you seeing?
00:03:27.000On the university campuses where you show up and tens of thousands of people gather.
00:04:42.000And for years, people thought that we were wasting our time, that it was not a good use of our energy or resources.
00:04:48.000And as you know, I visited hundreds of college campuses.
00:04:52.000Turning Point USA was doing the difficult work every single day, starting high school chapters, starting college chapters.
00:04:58.000I think we have some of our Turning Point leaders here tonight.
00:05:01.000And as we continue to do that work, we started to realize a trend in late 2022.
00:05:07.000And early 2023, we saw the crowds get a little bit bigger, and we saw an attitude especially of young men that wanted nothing to do with the Democrat Party and were increasingly open towards President Trump, conservatism, Republican Party, and yes, even Christianity.
00:05:27.000And so we said, wait a second, the conventional wisdom when you run a political campaign...
00:05:43.000Or you can create more voters and find more voters that are already people that are in your criteria because one out of three Americans don't vote at all.
00:05:52.000And what if we find those people and register in the vote and bring them into our ecosystem and bring them into our ranks?
00:05:57.000And so we went about the most ambitious youth outreach program in the history of conservative politics, in the history of Republican politics.
00:06:05.000And I personally visited well over 100 campuses over a course of a year.
00:06:10.000Many of you saw these videos that I would do online where I would try to enlighten the next generation about certain topics, ideas, whatever was on their mind.
00:07:31.000What's amazing about what you just said, if people don't understand this, the scripture says in Proverbs 29 that when the wicked are in power, the people groan.
00:08:29.000And so, just to summarize it, we saw the results come in, and all of a sudden the exit poll showed that younger voters moved substantially to the right.
00:08:39.000So much so, That all Kamala Harris had to do was perform the same with younger voters as Joe Biden did in 2020.
00:08:48.000And I'm going to say some things here that are very hopeful, but also should give some people in this audience a little bit of a dose of generational humility.
00:08:57.000Do you know that your 20-year-old grandson is far more conservative than your average 75-year-old?
00:09:33.000These young people here in front of you...
00:09:35.000Are one of the most abused generations, if not the most abused generation history.
00:09:40.000We masked them unnecessarily, told them to get an experimental mRNA shot that they did not need.
00:09:46.000We canceled prom and graduation, locked them into their homes away from all of their peers.
00:09:51.000We printed trillions of dollars we did not need and flooded the housing market with it, nearly doubling housing prices.
00:09:58.000We told them to go into debt to study things that don't matter, to find jobs that don't exist, to only flood them further into our cities, filled with homelessness, vagrancy, arson, crime, all to say, hey, it's okay that you will not...
00:10:10.000You will rent for the rest of your life and you will be happy doing substances, staying drunk, ordering DoorDash, and keep on voting for the Democrat party because that's all there is in life.
00:10:40.000This generation here is the first generation in history that is not keeping on pace with their parents.
00:10:47.000Not even the Great Depression generation, the greatest generation, can say that.
00:10:52.000Every number shows that this generation is more suicidal, they're more drug addicted, they're more anxious, they're more addicted to pharmacological substances.
00:11:19.000You might say, well, inflation is crushing me.
00:11:22.000It might be hurting you if you're 60 or 70, but if you own a home, you have something that most young people will never have.
00:11:28.000If you own stocks, And you're not $50,000, $60,000, $70,000 in debt.
00:11:33.000You have something that the next generation is not going to have.
00:11:37.000It is a breakdown of the social compact.
00:11:39.000And so what President Trump embodied was a full-throated cultural rebellion against all the institutions of power that robbed their future.
00:11:51.000That robbed their future and lied to them in every corner.
00:11:56.000What we were able to do alongside the Trump campaign at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action is make the case that the next generation deserves the same country that your parents had.
00:12:07.000And that these institutions that Kamala Harris largely embodied are not worthy of your trust.
00:12:14.000That it is not worthy of your trust the very same people that want to go spend $300 billion on a war in Ukraine while we're being invaded on our southern border should not be taken seriously.
00:12:25.000When they want to continue to ask for more of our tax money, they should not be taken seriously.
00:12:29.000And so, politically, we are living through this realignment where the younger you are, especially a younger male, the more conservative you are.
00:12:39.000And the Democrat Party has said this, Ezra Klein and David Shore, two very sophisticated lefties, this is potentially, everybody, an extinction event for the Democrat Party.
00:13:03.000If you think about it, we have done pretty well in elections the last 20 or 30 years under the idea that the younger you are, the more liberal you are, and the older you are, the more conservative you are.
00:13:16.000Imagine if that all of a sudden gets inverted.
00:13:19.000That if they start pretty conservative when they're 19, How conservative will they be when they're 30 when they own a home and they have kids?
00:13:28.000They will become even more conservative and resisting of whatever left-wing lie or promise of the Democrat Party.
00:13:36.000And so to play this out even further, when we now are visiting these college campuses, we are noticing that especially young men are gravitating towards this broader cultural realignment.
00:18:27.000And this 20-year-old Amazon truck driver Scrolls through his TikTok feed and sees a Matt Walsh video or a Charlie Kirk video and is talking about how men need to be men and restore order to society.
00:18:40.000And it doesn't matter that that guy's last name is Sanchez or that he's black driving the truck.
00:20:55.000Our founding fathers said, yes, you do.
00:20:58.000And so it's always volatile, and it's designed this way for every culture in every moment, just like tonight, to go and hit the issues face on, head on, because this is exactly what's happened in our culture today, where our kids are no longer learning.
00:21:18.000The things that they need or they should be learning in universities and in high schools.
00:21:22.000Instead, they're being indoctrinated with political ideologies that you're paying the professor, instead of teaching your kid medicine, they're telling your kid about Trump or about this or about the other or conservatives.
00:21:39.000And people, if we don't speak up, this is going to continue.
00:21:43.000Thank God that people are speaking up.
00:21:49.000The battle between good and evil seems to be escalating.
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00:22:55.000Young people have a voice now, and this voice I'd love for you to tell us the, I don't know how else to say it, the TikTok generation.
00:23:07.000How the vote, the recent vote was affected so much by this?
00:23:11.000Yeah, and so this is a great example of something that the enemy was going to use for evil and we used for good.
00:23:46.000And the Democrat Party unintentionally misread how people are consuming information.
00:23:52.000Now understand, what is the other difference between a 20-year-old man who ends up being more conservative than his 75-year-old grandfather?
00:23:59.000Well, the 75-year-old grandfather is probably getting news from either the newspaper.
00:24:03.000Or from ABC or NBC or cable news or the white noise machine, which is, I call cable news.
00:24:27.000Now, because when we had our back against the wall...
00:24:31.000When Joe Biden became president and it looked as if our country was dead and over, a new generation of truth-tellers rose up, we built platforms, we got creative, we built an audience, we dug in, we understood what people wanted, and we pursued truth no matter the cost.
00:24:49.000And not all of us were Christians, but some were like Joe Rogan.
00:24:53.000Joe Rogan was big, but remember during COVID, he stood up for ivermectin and CNN changed the color of his skin and slandered him.
00:25:28.000The way people are consuming information is completely different.
00:25:32.000And I also tell this for churches, and Jack is on the cutting edge of this with real life and with what he's doing with Jack Kipp's podcast, is that it's not enough just to buy radio time for your ministry anymore to reach the next generation.
00:27:26.000So 75 +, over 80% of people over 75 think there's nothing wrong with this COVID shot, okay?
00:27:32.000If you go down to, like, 40-year-olds, like, 70% think there's something wrong with the COVID shot.
00:27:36.000You go down to like 25-year-olds, like 80% are like, this thing is actively giving us myocarditis and pericarditis and kids are dropping dead and we got blood clots.
00:27:45.000However, the older you are, you almost create a veil.
00:27:51.000It sounds mean, but it really is a veil of blindness where it's like they grew up in a country, baby boomers, that was a great country.
00:28:02.000And they almost look at our institutions as an extension of the greatness that they were raised in.
00:28:08.000And when you start listing off, our military is broken and woke, and we can't land airplanes anymore, and we have DEI throughout air traffic control, and our border is wide open.
00:28:19.000It's almost like institutional sensory overload.
00:28:23.000And then they turn on CNN because, like, okay, it makes me feel better.
00:28:25.000Because they actually, maybe the world is not falling apart, and it's okay.
00:28:29.000Whereas a 20-year-old says, no, it's even worse than that.
00:28:33.000I can't own anything, I'm in debt, and we need a revolution.
00:28:38.000Older voters are actually very reluctant to revolutionary talk.
00:28:43.000Charlie, one thing, and I think you mentioned it without saying this word.
00:28:47.000The older you get, now I believe this is without Jesus.
00:28:52.000This should not be happening to an older person if you have Jesus.
00:28:57.000When you get older, the book of Proverbs warns us that we, as we get older, we tremble and we're fearful, the Proverbs tell us about, and Ecclesiastes as well, that we hear the cricket at night, and we're wondering what that was.
00:29:15.000When you get older, you don't want any changes.
00:29:23.000It's almost like, wait a minute, you're telling me that I paid into these institutions for all of these decades of my life, and you're telling me they're broken?
00:29:31.000That scares me, and I can't handle that.
00:29:34.000Look, you guys, we never, whatever you think about Donald Trump, you think about Donald Trump, but there's one thing we all have to agree on.
00:29:40.000We didn't even know that there was a swamp.
00:29:43.000We didn't even know that there was a deep state.
00:29:47.000None of us knew this until this guy comes along.
00:29:57.000And all of this stuff, you know, it's bizarre, isn't it?
00:30:01.000That if you were God, and you're going to pick somebody to restore or return, watch this, to return a nation back to its origin or its roots.
00:30:31.000Jehu, the crazy chariot driver with the wild hair.
00:30:35.000Jehu. But do you know what's amazing, you guys?
00:30:39.000If you know your scripture, and it's so great to know your scripture, because you get to live every day viewing news, viewing everything through the lens of scripture.
00:30:48.000You don't have to be ruffled about anything.
00:30:50.000Here's what's fun about being a believer who knows their Bible at a time like this.
00:30:53.000When you look around, I'm immediately reminded as we're all reading through the Old Testament right now at this time of the year through the Scriptures, I'm reminded that how God used King Josiah is how God's using Donald Trump in this cabinet.
00:33:40.000That's all you hear, but that's not what we live in.
00:33:42.000We live in a constitutional republic, which means, for the first time in human history, for these last 250 years, it's we the people will decide what we will do with this nation.
00:33:53.000And when the Constitution is being upheld, as it is right now, and then you've got the other team saying, we've got to stop this.
00:34:13.000It's purely, in fact, they dug back, they found, not only is this constitutional, but a law was made back in 2001, and we're going to do it, and people are going to freak out.
00:34:23.000They're going to freak out and say, you can't do that!
00:34:25.000Oh, that was made law in 2001 after 9-11, and it is very constitutional as well.
00:34:32.000But if you don't know what you have, Then you don't know how to defend what you have in your hand.
00:34:38.000And you can easily lose it if you don't know it.
00:36:27.000And so if you look at the leading indicator, Gen Z keeps going this way, Gen X keeps on going this way, very, very exciting things are coming ahead.
00:36:44.000So this cabinet that is in power right now, this cabinet that is being formed and still being assembled, by the way, in some degree, where, for me, it's not going to be settled until Mike Huckabee is passed through his confirmation hearings.
00:39:27.000Go a little bit further on the Mike Huckabee thing.
00:39:29.000And something that I think the church has to become far more wise and outspoken about.
00:39:34.000And I feel about a decade ago more people used to talk about this and it's gone away and it's bothering me.
00:39:39.000I don't think the church is properly equipped to understand the issue of cultural Islam and how Islam is slowly slitting the throat of the West.
00:39:51.000And the fact that almost nobody is applauding shows we have to do more teaching on this, Jack.
00:40:23.000I think that probably, and Jack is really good on this, I think probably less than 1% of churches are equipping the congregation to understand it is slow motion suicide to import millions of people who are taught to hate you, conquer you, and if necessary, kill you.
00:40:46.000And I know that might sound extreme, but go read the Quran and the Hadith.
00:41:34.000If you've ever landed at Reagan National Airport and you get in your Uber or rental car and you're heading out of the airport, there is a park just at the north end of the airport and there will be...
00:41:50.000At various times of the day, there will be anywhere from 100 to 200 Muslims with their prayer carpets out praying.
00:42:59.000And their jingle is, we'll destroy the Saturday people first, and then we'll destroy the Sunday people.
00:43:06.000The Saturday people are Jews, and the Sunday people are you.
00:43:10.000And you say, well, I know a lot of nice Muslims.
00:43:13.000Listen, push comes to shove, the radicals will force the ones that you know that are nice.
00:43:20.000Happens in every country all over the world.
00:43:22.000By the way, as we sit here tonight right now, in the last several months, and it's escalating, Genocidal acts of Islam in North Africa killing Christians wholesale is at an all-time high.
00:43:36.000It's at one of the highest levels in the last 50 years.
00:43:40.000But you don't even know, and so because you don't know, you don't care.
00:43:44.000But they're being slaughtered by Islam.
00:43:59.000Why for these last four years in the deserts of Arizona and California and Texas were there letters and notes in Arabic and in Russian and other Chinese instructions in the desert for them to pick up and go to various places?
00:44:58.000And the previous administration allowed it and even encouraged it.
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00:49:00.000So they feel sad and sorry all the time.
00:49:02.000So you have that awful person, Angela Merkel, who's secular, non-Christian, filled with guilt, and the mechanism of how they make themselves feel better is we're going to go import tens of millions of Mohammedans that are going to go rape our women and take over our land because at least I won't be a Nazi.
00:49:22.000And that is the strange death of Europe.
00:51:01.000And if you dare question it, you're going to be called the worst thing that you could be called.
00:51:05.000This is all a byproduct of secularism.
00:51:09.000When you are no longer Christian, you have no mechanism to be able to deal with guilt, with shame.
00:51:16.000And you start doing really goofy, weird stuff to your country.
00:51:20.000And so now we're living in this kind of post-Christian phase where all of a sudden now we can look at things through a scriptural lens saying, oh wait, in the end of Deuteronomy, Moses wrote extensively saying that be careful who you invite into your nation because those people will then become your masters if you are not careful.
00:53:09.000Five days before Barack Obama took office, I believe it was five days, or maybe it was five days before the election, he said, we are only five days away from fundamentally changing America, transforming America.
00:53:28.000If you love a country, you might run for office to make it better, and you might understand that you're running for an office in this country to help Create a more perfect union.
00:53:40.000Isn't that supposed to be what our politicians are to strive for?
00:53:43.000That's what our founding fathers told us.
00:54:48.000Islam. He spoke in Harvard and behind him in the area that he was speaking, you can go look it up, it's still online, he demanded that they drape the back end of where he was speaking because he was actually speaking from a pulpit and behind was all of this incredible woodwork giving glory to God and the Lord Jesus Christ in Scripture.
00:55:10.000Barack Obama demanded that it be covered up.
00:55:45.000But then as soon as he won, we were called racist.
00:55:48.000But if we were racist, then watch, I'm going to shock you.
00:55:52.000If he was elected and you couldn't get elected without white votes, and then he and his party turn on us and call us racist, here's the funny, ironic thing about it.
00:56:06.000If you voted for Barack Obama or Kamala Harris because they're black or half black, You're a racist.
00:56:35.000Shame. Yes, and understand, this is where it all becomes spiritual, the enemy, Satan, He wants you to live in that state of shame and guilt.
00:57:06.000And then all of a sudden, you don't have to say, you don't have to talk about slavery all the time.
00:57:12.000Because you're a forgiven nation and you're a forgiven people.
00:57:15.000Do you understand how the left wants the same way that Satan would?
00:57:19.000To hold you captive of something that you might not have done or been connected to and they keep you in that state of perpetual guilt and shame.
00:57:27.000Why? You are easier to control that way.
00:57:30.000You are easier as a society to make you do other things that you would not do.
00:57:35.000Because you are filled with that guilt.
00:57:37.000All of you have been in that place where you feel so bad that you did something.
00:59:02.000Answer that question in four years with no hocus-pocus Fauci science, and you will be a triumph, the likes of which we will thank you for 100 years.
00:59:36.000Ozempic to the Medicaid schedule for 12 and 13-year-olds.
00:59:40.000Harvard scientists are saying that obesity is not a lifestyle choice, it is a genetic condition, and there's no use in trying to change diet or improve lifestyle, just do an injection once a week.
00:59:53.000It'll make everyone's lives better to have teenagers addicted to an insulin shot at the age of 12 or 13. We have more kids with neurodivergence.
01:00:03.000Half of our kids, half of our kids by the age of 21 will have contemplated suicide, said that they are very depressed, hyper-anxious, or in need of significant counseling or a daily regimen of antidepressants.
01:00:18.000We are seeing a crisis the likes of which a wealthy developed nation should never actually see.
01:00:25.000So praise the Lord that the one guy who prayed, Bobby Kennedy, who used to pray to God, this is his own story.
01:00:32.000He said that his own story is an answer to prayer.
01:00:36.000Bobby Kennedy used to get on his hands and knees and say, God, put me in a place where I can get to the bottom of why our kids are so sick.
01:00:43.000He literally said, I will do anything.
01:03:52.000One of the things that was mentioned recently in news is that this is not only the most competent cabinet in American history, but that they are profoundly unified in the vision.
01:04:06.000And I think that's a testimony to Trump's leadership.
01:04:48.000He was able to set records, and at the same time, he's fighting off all these impeachments and two FBI forensic investigations.
01:04:56.000He had to deal with half the Rhino Republican Party, all the Democrat Party, and all of the hatred and people spewing stuff.
01:05:07.000And America did great, and you made a lot of money during those four years.
01:05:11.000And then the Biden thing happens, and we're like, what's going on?
01:05:18.000I know my Bible, so I'm starting to get a little nervous thinking, okay, God, you're God, because you give, in the Bible, you say you give a nation the leaders that they deserve.
01:05:30.000So I looked around at the landscape, and I was hoping Trump was going to win the second time, but I had to ask myself, what do we deserve?
01:05:40.000As a nation, we deserved Kamala Harris.
01:08:27.000We have to just remember, Romans 8, 28, that God will use all things for good for those who love him.
01:08:34.000And it's just such an important lesson for me because it looked as if it was the end of America four years ago when in reality it was God's love for America to say, no, it's actually a new birth of freedom if you stay faithful and you keep fighting.
01:08:53.000If you want to make sense of the change and the chaos happening around us, you're going to need God's help.
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01:10:57.000In fact, if you listen to some of these guys, you listen to J.P. Morgan and Stanley, and you listen to these other guys, and they're saying, Trump's doing exactly the right thing, but boy, hang on, because it's going to be amazing in about 10 months.
01:11:10.000This thing should really, really, we should get through it.
01:11:13.000Just know this, but Charlie, so that's good news, and the border's shut down, and now there's no new wars starting, like during Biden, there was a war every other day.
01:13:33.000Because I think if the pastors don't get up and wake up and speak up, God may give us a midterm election result that Trump is powerless in his last two years.
01:13:51.000Because if you think God is going to spare America just for political reasons, you don't know the God of the Bible, nor do you know American history.
01:14:22.000There are millions of young men starving for the truth that are asking their local pastor to start to be a pastor, not just someone who gives a TED Talk with a rock concert wearing skinny jeans.
01:15:31.000So what does this look like in practice?
01:15:33.000Well, very simply, it's when you are presenting the scripture, You need to be actively trying to provoke the people in the audience, your congregation, to understand that, yes, you need a Savior.
01:15:49.000But you can't grasp what a Savior is if you don't know what sin is.
01:15:53.000And so when a church does not preach about sin, then how on earth do you even say you need a Savior?
01:16:00.000The modern gospel, as embodied by those just nauseating, he gets us advertisements, which are just...
01:16:07.000Ridiculously awful and a waste of money and doing such damage to the kingdom right now.
01:16:12.000Which basically those ads are saying he gets you.
01:17:11.000Why? Because they are so searching for truth.
01:17:15.000Finally, if a pastor is giving a sermon to affirm the sins of those that attend, that person should stop being a pastor.
01:17:26.000And the affirmation trend is a very disturbing one, where they'll say, well, I'm not one to tell you that if you're in a homosexual marriage, there's nothing wrong with that.
01:17:38.000Or I'm not one to say that if you're transing your kid, there's nothing wrong with that.
01:17:42.000In fact, I'm going to meet you where you are and Jesus loves you as you are.
01:17:47.000Forget all the theological sloppiness there.
01:17:51.000How has that worked for the church the last 30 years?
01:17:59.000And watering it down through a modern lens has turned into a generation that says, why would I get up at 9 a.m. to hear this when it's no different than just a self-help seminar at the local library?
01:18:39.000You have a generation that wants that kind of truth-telling preaching, not the watered-down garbage that they're getting time and time again when they go to their local church.
01:18:50.000It's for that reason That for those of us who are old enough, there are many indicators right now with what Charlie just said that is very reminiscent of what we saw in the late 60s and early 70s when the Jesus revolution, the Jesus movement broke open upon America.
01:19:10.000The kids were disillusioned by the Timothy Leary LSD scene.
01:19:17.000Free sex, free drugs, live for whatever feels good.
01:19:23.000And remember, parents in those days were so caught up with just giving their kid money because they were out building fortunes that the kids went out into this land of lust.
01:20:11.000And then that, in my opinion, eventually over the decades died out.
01:20:17.000We're starting, we see now, what Charlie just described, we see the indicators of the, we're on the cusp of what I call a revival in the church.
01:20:27.000When the church is revived, then there's an awakening.
01:20:31.000Listen, a believer has to be revived, revival.
01:23:16.000You guys are young people, you don't know who that is.
01:23:17.000But this kid was young, he was rich, and he had power.
01:23:21.000And he said, Jesus, what do I need to do to enter the kingdom of heaven?
01:23:25.000And Jesus, it was so amazing, because what Jesus said was quite remarkable, because Jesus answered him in a way that wasn't exactly the answer to heaven, but it was the answer for that young man this way.
01:23:39.000So Jesus, what do I need to do to enter the kingdom of heaven?
01:23:41.000And Jesus says, go sell everything that you have and come and follow me.
01:23:46.000He goes down the list of things and I've kept all these laws and Jesus didn't contend that.
01:25:29.000You would never go to a doctor and appreciate that doctor who would say to you, I just, you know what, you have cancer on your skin and it's looking pretty deep probably into other areas of your body, but I affirm your condition.
01:26:59.000Listen. Religion, people, abusing authority, have taken advantage of us.
01:27:09.000And I think there's a special place in hell for people who have clothed themselves in religion and manipulated and took advantage of people.
01:27:54.000Religion will muck it all up and get you all bound up in legalism.
01:27:59.000You do this, you pay this, you tithe this much, and you do the other thing, and then you get baptized, and then we'll put this, and we'll put that, and then we'll give you, and then we'll tell you later if you've made it or not.
01:28:45.000And this is the one whom, when in 1620, our pilgrim fathers left Europe because of a brutal organized church, the Church of England, our pilgrim fathers came, and before they stepped off in Plymouth, they crafted the Mayflower Compact.
01:29:51.000Father, we thank you, Lord, for light, for clarity.
01:29:57.000And Father, there's no way that truth can be spoken without a lie getting hit.
01:30:05.000And so, Lord, tonight, test our hearts.
01:30:09.000If in any way, shape, or form tonight we felt some sort of repulse or pushback of truth that was spoken, may you, Lord, in the midst of us, convict and show us that was me speaking to you tonight.
01:30:25.000That's why the reaction was that you had.
01:33:40.000All kidding aside, we're under constant censorship stuff.
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01:33:52.000And I just want to close by saying you guys are blessed to have Jack Hibbs leading your church, everybody.