The King's Hall - Total Luxury Boomer Communism

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00:00:56.600 as helen andrews recently pointed out america's workforce is turning into a pink collar economy

00:01:08.220 part of the reason for this is that our population is aging out younger people aren't reproducing

00:01:13.520 so the fastest growing jobs are in health care more specifically the top growing field is among

00:01:19.300 home health care aides as she pointed out this shows that america is increasingly geriatric in

00:01:25.440 many ways that America is quite literally dying. Dying a slow, lingering death, not unlike the

00:01:31.500 bearers of those sad, empty faces at the nursing home with no one to visit. But it's also symptomatic

00:01:37.300 of a much larger problem that Russ Green recently expounded upon in The American Mind in his article

00:01:43.120 What is Total Boomer Luxury Communism? Simply put, total boomer luxury communism means the way our

00:01:50.480 current government siphons money from the younger working class and funnels it to seniors who are

00:01:55.860 on average much wealthier. Our system works to keep old people in their homes with comfortable

00:02:01.000 wages from social security, which can rise as high as $60,000 per year for an individual,

00:02:06.580 or just shy of $120,000 for a couple. Most people don't know this, but Medicare programs

00:02:12.960 also pay for golf balls, greens fees, social club memberships, horseback riding lessons,

00:02:19.000 and even pet food. This means that as younger working families are struggling to get by,

00:02:24.840 they're also being burdened with taxes to ensure that their parents' and grandparents' generation

00:02:29.820 can golf in the morning, horseback ride in the afternoon, have cocktails in the evening at the

00:02:35.060 country club, and return home to sleep quietly in a million-dollar home that they paid $37 and

00:02:41.280 three sticks of string cheese for back in 1975. A little bit of an overstatement, but not much.

00:02:48.540 Now, sure, wages haven't kept pace with inflation or the housing market,

00:02:52.080 but at least young people should take solace that their taxes make it possible

00:02:56.000 for older generations to take that luxury cruise, right?

00:03:00.140 Now, ironically, as Green points out,

00:03:02.520 America actually spends significantly more than communist China on social welfare programs,

00:03:08.100 the majority of which go towards senior care and comfort.

00:03:11.800 Consider, for example, what Dan Wang wrote for Breakneck.

00:03:15.420 Quote,

00:03:15.640 Nearly three-quarters of China's population are spared from paying income tax.

00:03:20.720 Low taxes make China stingy on welfare.

00:03:23.720 Around 10% of its GDP goes towards social spending,

00:03:27.320 compared to 20% of the United States and 30% among the more generous European states.

00:03:33.720 China's pension and healthcare spending are much lower than that of other rich countries.

00:03:39.440 Based on Wang's data, the U.S. spends at least six times as much per person on social programs

00:03:45.520 as China, and again, mostly aimed at seniors. Green was right when he called this reality

00:03:51.280 perverse. Retired millionaires, he said, have become the greatest recipients of government aid.

00:03:57.640 Max Social Security benefits in the U.S. are three to four times what seniors can ever hope to

00:04:02.880 achieve in other developed nations, such as Britain, Canada, and New Zealand. These are

00:04:08.380 allocated by lifetime income, so the greatest Social Security benefits go to wealthy individuals

00:04:14.160 who need them the least, end quote.

00:04:16.520 You might wonder where all this spending originates from,

00:04:19.740 and you might think it was the Democrat Party.

00:04:21.860 You would be wrong.

00:04:23.340 It came from self-proclaimed fiscal conservatives

00:04:26.000 during the Reagan administration.

00:04:28.080 As Dan Green notes in the article,

00:04:29.940 the last major social security reform occurred

00:04:33.320 when President Ronald Reagan

00:04:34.900 signed the Social Security Amendments of 1983.

00:04:38.860 This legislation saved social security

00:04:41.000 from imminent insolvency

00:04:42.660 by raising the retirement age, slowing benefit growth, and increasing taxes, end quote.

00:04:48.300 It was their aim to keep the peace both with blacks in the ghetto who received massive welfare payouts as a community

00:04:53.760 and with boomers, a hugely influential voting bloc.

00:04:58.160 It was a manufactured cultural peace that would be paid for by the younger generations.

00:05:03.740 The truth is, since Reagan, neither political party even fights about the budget except maybe 15% of spending.

00:05:10.340 The other much larger portion?

00:05:12.740 Well, that barely makes any congressman bat an eye.

00:05:16.040 As Green said, quote,

00:05:17.460 In other words, Democrats and Republicans agree on at least 85% of federal spending,

00:05:23.080 mostly because they both support a massive wealth transfer from young workers to seniors.

00:05:28.440 There's no political debate in Congress or even online until recently about total boomer luxury communism, end quote.

00:05:36.640 What this amounts to, according to Green, is a fourfold generational injustice.

00:05:41.700 First, it's an injustice because government taxation afflicts the young

00:05:45.780 and allows for seniors to live posh lives.

00:05:48.880 Second, the government continues to borrow even more money from future generations

00:05:53.580 to provide luxury for seniors today.

00:05:56.340 Third, government spending and money printing is driving inflation,

00:06:00.240 which halts economic growth, erodes young families' wealth-generating potential,

00:06:04.880 and sets them back financially for life.

00:06:07.600 And fourth, the government will tax young people again

00:06:10.600 to pay for the debt incurred to pay for senior entitlements.

00:06:14.900 This is, of course, insane.

00:06:16.620 But perhaps more insane is that most seniors simply don't care what's happening to the kids.

00:06:21.940 They live like King Hezekiah in the Old Testament,

00:06:24.700 who, when warned about the destruction and judgment coming on his kids,

00:06:28.580 said, quote,

00:06:29.740 The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good.

00:06:32.180 For he thought, why not if there will be peace and security in my days?

00:06:35.980 2 Kings 20.19

00:06:37.420 As long as he could die in luxury, he didn't care much what happened to the future generations.

00:06:42.820 When he was on his sickbed, he cried out to God for more years.

00:06:46.280 But when his kids were in danger, he couldn't even be bothered to offer a single prayer for them.

00:06:51.340 Even the homosexual tech-sultan Peter Thiel found this to be highly problematic.

00:06:56.320 Commenting on the rising popularity of self-described socialist and Muslim politician Zoran Mamdani, he said,

00:07:02.860 quote, boomers are strangely uncurious about how this is not really working for their kids.

00:07:08.740 If all you can say is that Mamdani is a jihadist, communist, ridiculously young person,

00:07:13.500 what that sounds like to me is that you still don't have any idea what to do about housing or student debt.

00:07:19.260 If that's the best you can do, you're going to keep losing, end quote.

00:07:22.860 What is to be done about this generational problem, boomers living in luxury while their

00:07:28.080 kids pay for their excess? Much could be said, and we'll talk more about it in the episode.

00:07:33.160 But we should start with the words of the prophet Malachi, who foretold a day when the Lord would

00:07:37.920 quote, turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their

00:07:42.120 fathers, end quote. What we need is a deep conviction arising from the gospel that fathers

00:07:47.840 ought to love their generations, make sacrifices for them, and plant trees whose shades and fruit

00:07:53.040 they will never enjoy, but which their great-grandchildren will. The King's Hall Podcast

00:07:57.420 exists to make self-ruled men rule well and win the world.

00:08:12.320 Welcome to this episode of the King's Hall Podcast.

00:08:17.840 Wow.

00:08:18.640 Join today, Brian Sauvé.

00:08:20.660 Wow, I am joined today.

00:08:21.580 This is a serious show, Brian.

00:08:23.260 It is.

00:08:23.920 It is.

00:08:24.340 And I want that to reflect.

00:08:25.500 We take things very seriously.

00:08:26.640 I want that to reflect in the tone of our voices right now.

00:08:30.160 Yes.

00:08:30.640 You know, I just need to, what was the word that you kept saying?

00:08:33.320 I just need to process.

00:08:35.820 I am processing.

00:08:37.040 How serious we are right now.

00:08:38.740 This is also, I don't know if people know this.

00:08:40.500 This is a show that is mainly, I would say, geared towards boomers.

00:08:45.580 Our biggest fan base.

00:08:47.380 Yes.

00:08:47.840 and we definitely oh 100 and it's better if they're boomer women boomer women who

00:08:53.600 actively engage in political public commentary that is our core audience yes so sound off if

00:09:00.840 that's you you know how if you probably don't but if you're like watching a sports game sports ball

00:09:06.340 i i don't but yeah it's what the cool kids do okay i got it but when in the old days when i

00:09:12.400 used to watch those yeah back in the day before i was uncultured when they would transition to

00:09:16.540 the new game. And they were like, if you're joining us from this other game, we should do

00:09:21.320 that. But it's like, if you're now joining us after listening to Allie Beth, then welcome to

00:09:25.580 the show. Because it's a smooth transition. It is. It is. Yeah. I, the main emotion that I'm

00:09:30.740 feeling right now though, is not calm or dignity. It is really frustration. Why? Because I remember

00:09:38.860 the first time I read that article, the total boomer luxury art, communism article. And it's

00:09:46.280 one of those things where you you knew a lot of like the broad outlines but when somebody puts

00:09:52.600 numbers to it and they show you that man for all of our talk of being like we're small government

00:09:58.960 conservatism not like those commies in china and then you're like you mean like the people who are

00:10:05.000 less communist than us when it comes to these things that was actually shocking that statistic

00:10:09.680 right that we spend six times yeah it was six times as much as china on welfare programs

00:10:15.380 per person and we're three times wealthier so we it would make some kind of sense at least if we

00:10:22.660 spent just proportionally more to how wealthy we are but we spend double that again yes like that's

00:10:28.900 just wild and we and we think like there's this narrative that yeah conservatives are way in a

00:10:35.520 small government and you know they're just they're really they were very careful fiscally careful

00:10:42.580 They're not like those commies over in China,

00:10:44.680 but then you're like,

00:10:45.280 actually we are basically just communists.

00:10:49.660 Yes.

00:10:50.640 It's also this idea.

00:10:51.880 I think that it's coming off the backs of young people.

00:10:54.500 Yeah.

00:10:55.360 And it's supporting the boomers.

00:10:58.160 As we get into that,

00:10:59.440 before we get into that,

00:11:00.660 somebody who doesn't believe in total boomer communism,

00:11:06.260 Joe Garracy.

00:11:06.920 Joe Garracy doesn't.

00:11:07.660 That's true.

00:11:08.360 And that's why we like him.

00:11:09.500 Backwards planning financial.

00:11:10.720 We do.

00:11:10.820 big thanks to uh joe for being a sponsor of this episode and of a lot i mean just been a great

00:11:17.020 sponsor of what we do here at new christendom and is big into trying to talk people out of

00:11:24.020 living that life of yeah i mean like how many times how many cruises can i fit in in a year

00:11:30.140 and and try to time it so that i die spending my last dollar here's the cool thing about the

00:11:35.720 don't give anything to my kids here's the cool thing about the cruises though if you put them

00:11:39.040 on your credit card uh-huh okay listen up boomers if you put them on your credit card

00:11:43.020 and then you get let's say you get some points yeah then you can use that point money okay to

00:11:48.860 send a special gift to your kids on their birthday this is a terrible idea you could use it no you

00:11:57.320 could use it to actually fly your dog with you on your next okay i mean fly your small dog with you

00:12:03.600 on your next. No, no, no. You check them into the pet hotel. That's part of the,

00:12:07.400 that's like five-star pet hotel. Yeah. It's full circle. Okay. I I'm so I'm following now.

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00:14:35.440 It's interesting because a lot of this article, which we'll get into,

00:14:41.100 for me, it really comes back to some of the basic biblical principles.

00:14:44.200 so the first one that that i wanted to talk about proverbs 13 22 i'm gonna read this brian

00:14:50.360 yeah let's hear it says a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children

00:14:54.480 but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous i don't have an mdiv i have like

00:15:02.540 part of one yeah do they give but i'm following i feel like i'm following you have like an md

00:15:07.520 md or you have a div md you definitely don't have an md this is not medical advice eric is not a

00:15:16.560 doctor actually there is a man in the church who refers to me as dr con so is there really yeah for

00:15:22.940 what possible reason i have no idea it makes me feel special though i mean yeah i could see so

00:15:28.460 brian you you've studied some theology here here and there uh this is one where you do have to

00:15:33.620 actually know the hebrew yeah you really have excuse me the septuagint dial you gotta you

00:15:39.180 gotta dial this in yeah yeah but just walk me through this like based on what we're talking

00:15:43.340 about what should if you're an older generation you've been working hard you've been yeah saving

00:15:48.780 money how should you be leveraging your wealth yeah i mean think about the core duties that

00:15:54.380 fulfill the law what is it that actually fulfills the law well love fulfills the law what actually

00:16:00.220 is love well love is is the the giving of your strength and of yourself and of your resources

00:16:06.580 for the highest earthly and heavenly good of the object of your love that's what actually love is

00:16:12.600 and it involves affections it involves a disposition of benevolence towards somebody

00:16:18.860 like i actually have a a feeling of love for somebody and it's love actually is it involves

00:16:24.840 a feeling i'm not saying it's just an action but out of that action and disposition it then

00:16:30.020 gives itself for the sake of some object. So just apply that to the duties, the natural,

00:16:35.120 normal duties that God built into the world of a father to his children and to his children's

00:16:40.120 children. And really on down, because in blessing one generation and teaching them to bless their

00:16:44.480 generations, you bless all the generations. Of course, you wouldn't just want to serve yourself,

00:16:49.300 but you would want to look to the absolute perfect model of the head of a home, which is Christ,

00:16:55.760 according to Ephesians 5, 22 to 33, this mystery that's now revealed in Christ, that marriage is

00:17:01.760 actually a picture of the gospel. What did Christ do? He gave himself for his bride. And what comes

00:17:08.680 from the bride? Everything. Like the union of the husband and wife, that is where fruitfulness

00:17:13.420 comes from. That's where the children come from. So he gives his strength and his very self, his

00:17:17.900 blood for his people. So just take that and apply it to literally every part of your life and you'll

00:17:24.540 never run out of things to do as a father. And one of those things is certainly that you should

00:17:30.080 want to economically bless your children. You should want to bless them with the financial

00:17:34.860 resources and the wisdom to leverage those financial resources so that they too can be

00:17:40.000 not a black hole of self-centeredness and how much, you know, small pleasures can I wring out

00:17:46.660 of this world, but how many great pleasures can I pursue? The pleasures of loving my people,

00:17:51.320 the pleasures of leaving an inheritance, the satisfaction of a job well done, the satisfaction

00:17:55.660 of hearing the Lord say, well done, good and faithful servant. You've loved the Lord. You've

00:17:59.500 loved your people. You've left an inheritance of faith and wisdom and finances. So it's like

00:18:03.360 we could go on forever, but really fundamentally the frame that everyone needs to think in is

00:18:08.540 what are the demands of love in my life, in the office that I have? And as a father, you certainly

00:18:15.460 have large demands in the economic world for the for the object of your love your children your

00:18:22.460 wife your generations yeah we've often talked about this leaving uh an inheritance in kind of

00:18:27.960 three ways uh i think it's faith wealth and culture um so faith obviously we want to pass on

00:18:34.240 um and love for christ the greatest church and all of this and a robust faith that is touching

00:18:41.680 all things in life that sort of thing uh culture so you know i'm just thinking of ogden some of

00:18:47.380 the things that make you know survey culture in your home yeah right like yeah there's joy we we

00:18:53.680 love a certain kind of people we're trying to make people yeah uh in that image and then this is kind

00:19:00.500 of the missing piece i think for a lot of people but also wealth yeah absolutely and a lot of it

00:19:05.400 can be it doesn't necessarily mean that you die i don't even think it should mean this that you die

00:19:09.740 and you just give like a lump sum no that's not the main goal we're thinking more like especially

00:19:15.860 what we we think of our boys you know we're thinking of well i want to start businesses

00:19:20.960 and i want to have productive places for them to work because it's one thing to receive you know

00:19:26.180 let's say you could give a kid a hundred thousand dollars yeah but what if you could give him a job

00:19:30.060 that paid that every year exactly and a company that produced yeah a lot more things and it kept

00:19:35.880 rooted in a place. Yes. Do you think, uh, going back to the, the boomer side of this equation,

00:19:41.100 I've actually been encouraged. I've seen a lot of older generations say, no, we're not going to do

00:19:45.180 that. Yes. And they've been convicted on this. It seems like one of the things that you have to

00:19:49.940 overcome the luxury thing is fundamentally, you know, Colossians would refer to it just as the

00:19:57.620 things of the world. That's right. Um, and, and so there's a whole list of kind of sins there.

00:20:02.140 maybe it's selfishness maybe it's a love of comfort and ease yeah what sort of things do

00:20:06.940 they have to address like if we're preaching and we're saying to the older generations what do you

00:20:12.000 got to address yeah you're looking at putting to death what is earthly in you and and that doesn't

00:20:18.620 mean tangible created that the created world god made is bad but it's talking about the created

00:20:24.680 world in its fallen estate and our fallen flesh and the desires that it has not to love god and

00:20:31.280 love our neighbor, but to love itself. And so it's covetousness. It is a love of comfort and ease.

00:20:38.360 It is the hoarding of strength and resources for self. And I do, I agree. I see many, many

00:20:45.340 older generations who are awake to these things. And to be fair, I don't want them to hear us say

00:20:50.780 like, all of you chose for this to be the state of affairs. You're right. You guys had a vote.

00:20:56.060 And it was like, you decided that I want FDR to do the new deal.

00:21:00.080 And then I want everything.

00:21:01.180 And I want Reagan.

00:21:02.180 And I, a lot of my parents, for example, they're like, oh yeah, if we could hit the button,

00:21:07.020 they're like, if you hit this button, it's going to destroy social security.

00:21:10.620 And they'd be like, you know, they'd be hitting that button.

00:21:13.860 Even though my dad, as a godly Christian man, he's had to factor in social security into

00:21:20.000 planning to take care of my mom, his wife, and his inheritance plan.

00:21:25.720 none of it was his call necessarily and there are lots of boomers in that world but they certainly

00:21:33.080 do have to change their mindset from how can i get the most ease and like well i've worked hard

00:21:39.380 and now it's me time and they actually need to understand that the goal of of love including

00:21:46.460 self-denial is actually much greater pleasures for them than the cheap and thin pleasures of

00:21:54.260 how many vacations can I fit in and just to use my parents as a good example of this

00:22:00.600 um my my mom and dad are aware of a lot of these dynamics you know they're they're thinking about

00:22:06.160 them my dad and I talk regularly about inheritance and how he would like to of course in the right

00:22:13.120 order fulfill his obligations like his number one really is to take care of my mom and to make sure

00:22:18.940 that she makes it to her last day, not destitute. But then I can step in and say, dad, even if

00:22:25.060 something happens, mom is taken care of. I'm taking care of mom. My brother and I, and we're

00:22:30.260 taking care of mom. But then how can I bless? And he's thinking not just of his children, my brother,

00:22:35.160 my sister, and I, but of his grandchildren, like the proverb says, his children's children.

00:22:41.200 And so he's, because he's an engineer, he has a spreadsheet. He's like, this is how I'm thinking

00:22:45.980 about it and we've talked about it a lot and it's great but also and much more importantly to me

00:22:50.040 and he knows this we're not so much like how much money can you leave the children my children and

00:22:57.020 your children's children when you die that's great but how can we maximize you giving them

00:23:03.160 the greater gifts now of your presence of your wisdom of involvement in their life of yeah and

00:23:11.380 he's financially helped us even in ways through the years to make sure that we can get established

00:23:17.120 and love his children's children now. Um, but one thing he does constantly now, and they've,

00:23:22.880 they've done, especially since my dad, like second retired, he's, he's retired several times at this

00:23:29.020 point because he's a hard worker. And, uh, but he's constantly, I mean, at least once a week,

00:23:34.200 like, Hey, can I, can I pick up these two boys this week and they can help me build this cabinet

00:23:41.020 I'm working on or something like that. Or can we go to the dump, which is basically like Disneyland

00:23:45.940 for a 40 year old, you know? And those are my best memories as a kid. I would, if I had to choose

00:23:52.500 between a million dollars and that, I would choose that. Yeah. No question. And so the good man is,

00:23:58.000 he's thinking through all these things. And what's, what's wild is that there's a way in which

00:24:02.140 my dad is denying himself to do that because he's, he's not like, how many cruises can I go on? How

00:24:07.640 many times can I go do whatever? And he has hobbies and whatnot, but what he's getting is like,

00:24:14.720 it's such a gift. It's such a joy. He gets to see his children's children. Do you know how many

00:24:18.600 people die of cancer and never see their grandchildren? Do you know how many people,

00:24:22.200 their children don't have children? Like it's such a mutual blessing when you do it right.

00:24:27.760 When love binds every, like this, Paul says, love binds everything together in perfect harmony

00:24:32.520 is how he puts it in scripture that's what it's talking about from heaven to earth or vertically

00:24:39.560 horizontally amongst the generations and peoples there's such harmony and that's really what i

00:24:45.220 want to win people to is not even like here's the strategy that's going to work for every single

00:24:49.100 person to leave the perfect threading of the needle on inheritance i actually just want to

00:24:52.920 enculturate people to love the right things and then i think they will figure it out how to thread

00:25:00.880 the needle in a lot of ways in their actual circumstance and situation. I want them to love

00:25:05.420 their grandchildren, love their children, want to bless them, want to help establish them,

00:25:09.900 put to death this very stupid idea of like, well, if I help them, then they won't develop on their

00:25:14.940 own. Stupid. God made the generations to work together. I think a lot of this, you know, I've

00:25:22.100 talked with Adam Madden and we'll have a book coming out on the productive household. He started

00:25:27.960 businesses. My oldest is a part of that, married into the family there. But it's also really cool

00:25:34.980 because if you work alongside your children, you're also giving them that work ethic.

00:25:41.200 Yeah. So that actually solves that question of, well, what if they're lazy? Well, but you should

00:25:47.200 be involved in that too. Did you make lazy kids? And teaching them work ethic. The other thing I

00:25:53.000 think is cool i've seen older people who've listened to this show and they've done some

00:25:57.960 creative things like they're they're already at the point where they were on social security yeah

00:26:01.920 and they had planned their whole life for that so i don't fault them for and they paid a bunch of

00:26:06.400 money like they they paid into the system we know what it's like for you know many many years of

00:26:11.200 working career but they did creative things like one gentleman was telling me he said yeah we

00:26:16.200 actually we moved into sort of like a mother-in-law suite he's like we're two old retired

00:26:21.340 people and my wife helps with the care of the children for one of our kids and we're around

00:26:27.060 them all the time and we pay them rent and it's really supplementing their household and and we're

00:26:33.020 helping with all these things so we're taking that money yeah and we're reinvesting it so cool in our

00:26:37.840 people and i thought well that's a really creative way actually uh to do that sort of thing um it's

00:26:43.040 also interesting as you think about um a lot of these principles take a lot of planning and

00:26:48.680 preparation like so a lot of people i think when we've received feedback and q a and stuff like

00:26:54.140 that where it's cool to just see people start thinking about it and so just to encourage people

00:27:00.400 what would happen if you just started praying about it yeah and saying what are some ways that

00:27:04.740 i could leverage whatever wealth i have whatever time i have yep one thing that's interesting too

00:27:10.120 because this article was kind of about golf and some of the places we golf are like um retirement

00:27:18.220 villas until you see a lot of old people. But I went one time to a local course and I saw a

00:27:24.480 grandpa playing with, I think they were like his three grandsons. And I was like, even something

00:27:29.620 like that, it doesn't mean that you can't enjoy golf. Exactly. But there is a way to do that.

00:27:35.400 That is like, no, I'm going to teach my grandsons how to golf. Yep. And man, what a memory to create

00:27:40.700 with grandpa. Yeah. There's a policy side of this that is a mess. Yes. And we need to fix that. We

00:27:47.900 need younger generations are seeing this and they need to demand of their politicians and their

00:27:52.200 political leadership accountability on some of these things and real fixes be and that's why

00:27:57.740 it is important for us to see the things that really should make us angry in this article for

00:28:01.280 example about the government policy where fiscal conservatives are actual communists like they're

00:28:07.420 they're actual communists and they're doing luxury and they're doing it very straightforwardly

00:28:15.400 because the boomer voting bloc is so powerful

00:28:18.180 and it will continue to dominate politics

00:28:20.480 for at least the next five, 10 years.

00:28:22.600 It's gonna, I mean, it's like gonna be the 2030s

00:28:24.880 before the boomer generation becomes insignificant enough

00:28:30.060 that maybe other political concerns,

00:28:32.460 but that's why this is happening.

00:28:33.960 It's the bribery of what the founders warned about

00:28:37.880 that as soon as the people realize

00:28:39.640 that as soon as the politicians realize

00:28:42.700 that they can bribe the people with their own money,

00:28:44.580 then it's it's the death of the system in principle that's what's been happening so

00:28:49.860 there's the political side where we really need to figure this out and say let's stop being

00:28:53.660 communists let's stop subsidizing the extravagant luxury boomer communism of the elderly generation

00:29:02.140 in these governmental policies and doing so by taxing the young in in in ways where they are

00:29:10.500 so unlikely to ever be able to receive the same level of government benefit when it's their turn

00:29:15.880 that's what's so deeply unjust about it right and so there's that side of it

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00:30:00.480 Yeah, and just to speak to that, I think a lot of the frustrations between younger generations

00:30:06.080 and the boomers they actually are downstream from those institutional policies yes so it's not just

00:30:12.580 that like some young kids just look at grandpa and say wow he has a lot and i don't and there's envy

00:30:17.740 it's actually again downstream from the legal system and and while we can have these individual

00:30:23.960 solutions you have to change policy you actually have to change policy even the the way that this

00:30:30.960 is paid for is via taxation not just direct taxation but the hidden taxation of inflation

00:30:35.700 Yeah. So when you have a Trump administration that's expanding our national debt by two or three trillion dollars in the first year, that is stealing from especially the younger generations, especially when they say that one of the reasons they're not going to address inflation and housing prices and make policy changes that might affect the value, for example, the inflated value of homes is because that would harm boomers who are such a powerful voting.

00:31:05.700 block you're actually just telling the young generations we literally don't care about you

00:31:10.860 well i don't know if you saw any of the clips from the it was like the steve bannon jeffrey epstein

00:31:15.180 they're old obviously but um steve was asking him do you think that most americans should own homes

00:31:21.900 and he was like no and then you create all this policy where it makes it very hard to

00:31:27.860 to uh you know buy a home yeah well the reality is if it's really hard to buy a home you have a

00:31:33.580 pink collar economy where it's very hard for men to get jobs they've i've looked at a lot of

00:31:38.420 research on this then it's like by by and large men are the number one determinant for whether

00:31:44.180 families get started so if the wife has a job doesn't matter families aren't getting started

00:31:48.520 if the man has a quality job and he he can buy a home families get started so if if you actually

00:31:55.720 and of course our elites don't want this but if you actually wanted to grow the country have

00:32:02.380 healthy families those are the sorts of things you would have to do make it more affordable to

00:32:07.340 buy a home provide better blue collar you know in manufacturing those sorts of jobs unfortunately

00:32:15.060 as you said the ruling elites don't want this no they actually want you to be a serf you own

00:32:21.560 nothing you have no privacy yeah nothing and the nanny state takes care of you this is also part

00:32:27.560 of the problem these voting blocks another one of the biggest ones is single woke females yes

00:32:32.900 i think they're like second only to like blacks as an individual voting block and guess what

00:32:39.180 they've they're single women so they vote for the state as daddy like take care of me more handouts

00:32:45.640 more welfare that sort of thing um one thing that could happen is that people hear this especially

00:32:52.820 a lot of young men and they get really frustrated. And we've seen this in real time where they start

00:32:59.800 taking that out in conversations with their parents every single time they see them. And so

00:33:07.120 pastorally, I'm just, there's been a lot of conversations, but what do we typically tell

00:33:13.300 people? Yeah. You, you have to think of the fifth commandment, honoring your father and mother,

00:33:19.000 recognizing the the weakness of the human frame like recognizing the the extent to which they

00:33:27.280 participated in maybe but also didn't actively participate in the creation of this system

00:33:31.600 extent to which they're unwitting recipients of this government largesse just recognizing

00:33:39.020 what would you have done differently in their situation and would you really and would you

00:33:44.840 have had the power to do that. Understanding the right enemy is important in this conversation,

00:33:49.740 but also recognizing that whenever God commands us to honor somebody, a human being, he is

00:33:58.400 commanding us to honor somebody who fundamentally does not deserve perfect honor. Right. Like

00:34:06.460 whenever, when God instructs a woman to receive that you respect your husband, obey him, honor

00:34:13.120 him, submit to him in everything. It's a tall order. He is commanding her to do that knowing

00:34:20.500 that the husband is imperfect and knowing that the husband's going to sin, he's going to fall

00:34:23.980 short, his leadership's not going to be perfect, he's going to make mistakes. Her submission to

00:34:29.080 that command is fundamentally and ultimately a submission and honor to God who appointed that

00:34:34.280 authority. So when we think about honoring our parents, and maybe I'm very thankful that my

00:34:39.500 parents are very honorable in, in these, in, even in these particular things, they are aware and

00:34:45.240 they're thinking through it and they're aiming to bless. Maybe your parents aren't, maybe your

00:34:49.600 parents are like all of the boomeriest boomerisms are just booming out of their, their mouth.

00:34:55.840 They're booming constantly. I really do think that there is an aspect that for the good of your soul

00:35:02.380 that it is good to recognize God appointed this exact trial for my life. He custom fitted it for

00:35:11.500 me, that I would have parents who are booming at me, these very stupid boomerisms, and yet I'm

00:35:18.320 called to honor them. And so I'm going to self-consciously choose that I am not going to

00:35:24.480 try to make it my life's ambition to invert the hierarchy and be the parent and try to convert my

00:35:34.000 parent to every single talking point that I believe about this and why they're wrong about

00:35:38.220 everything. But instead to find ways to honor them and yes, to call them up and give them

00:35:43.420 as red of a carpet you can roll out to honor God themselves. And absolutely, there can be

00:35:50.440 opportunities for conversation where you do discuss these things but man you have to attempt

00:35:57.820 to do your best to honor them and not to be belittling or you don't want to be bitter

00:36:05.080 you don't want to be bitter and and the reality is it won't be it's not likely to be effective

00:36:10.300 that's the other thing i was going to say is if you just look at the the very practical aspect

00:36:14.900 i've almost never seen this work but the thing some things that i do think work are as you're

00:36:22.040 raising your family choosing different being principled but also being gracious about that

00:36:27.980 not using it as a bludgeon yeah for your own parents and a lot of us look there's a lot of

00:36:33.800 people in our generation who are just in the position where you're probably not going to get

00:36:37.720 the help yeah and fixating on that won't make it better yeah but what you can do is set out and say

00:36:43.820 like okay we're going to do things different we still honor where honor is due yeah and we're

00:36:49.020 still going to do that but we're also going to make intentional decisions that are actually

00:36:53.620 productive for our children yeah and hopefully set a different course but yeah i've seen it so

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00:38:58.920 boomer parents a better tactic really like where you you do believe that like if you love your

00:39:05.580 parents, there actually might be a situation where you're like, for your soul, I'm actually

00:39:09.800 concerned about your good. So I want to honor you by even bringing an opportunity for you to hear

00:39:14.800 wisdom that maybe you've never heard before. So do it in the right way. Meaning a son should talk

00:39:20.820 to his father privately and honorably and respectfully and directly and give him the

00:39:26.040 courtesy of direct speech. Dad, here's, here's, you know, I've been rolling the red carpet out.

00:39:31.140 I've been really looking for ways to involve you in your grandchildren's lives.

00:39:35.000 I'm trying to give you opportunities to win the glory of Proverbs 13, to leave an inheritance

00:39:39.760 to your children's children.

00:39:41.060 And I want you to know that the door is wide open and that it doesn't have to be exactly

00:39:44.400 what I think, but I really do believe that it would be good for your soul, good for your

00:39:49.740 generations for you to do these things.

00:39:52.440 And it's been frustrating because my experience has been, you seem resistant to it.

00:39:58.680 Let's talk about that.

00:39:59.800 i would really like to have this conversation with you not i'm now going to go on facebook

00:40:05.480 and rant about my parents how bad boomers are what yeah i'm not going to go and vaguely subtweet

00:40:11.980 them or even quite overtly like my parents are idiots they're the luxury boomer communist

00:40:16.920 idiots they're this and that um you might feel good doing that but and especially if you haven't

00:40:23.520 had that conversation with your dad directly what are you doing yeah what are you doing

00:40:29.180 you're out of order you're not you're not obeying the general patterns of bringing admonition to

00:40:34.580 somebody especially when you're you're giving admonition up the chain yeah of hierarchy that

00:40:40.120 and god established the hierarchy not you so i don't want people to hear me say never tell your

00:40:46.000 parents anything hard never have a conversation never invite them in never even attempt to correct

00:40:50.840 their thinking on something i don't mean that but do it in a way that it is so obvious that you're

00:40:56.000 trying to go out of your way to honor the fifth commandment obey the fifth commandment that it's

00:40:59.400 like you couldn't be mistaken unless somebody willfully miss miss decided to mistake you

00:41:04.820 yeah one of the other areas i think that is uh pivotal is actually the pastoral office

00:41:09.520 um i think the lay of the land is there's a lot of boomer churches yeah meaning that maybe the

00:41:17.720 pastor is a boomer maybe not but the congregation is and so i think there's a lot of pastoral

00:41:23.240 cowardice on this issue yes um luke 12 is a good example of this where if you were just even

00:41:29.280 preaching through the gospels uh we don't necessarily have to read the whole thing but

00:41:33.160 luke 12 you can look this up yeah um an old man who's sitting on a pile of money yeah thinking

00:41:38.580 about inheritance well if he says i'm gonna basically he says soul you have ample goods

00:41:43.120 laid out for many years relax eat drink be merry this is like luxury boomer communism kind of

00:41:48.520 but God said to him fool this night your soul is required of you in the things you have prepared

00:41:54.220 whose will they be so he's actually asking him a question like do you have an inheritance plan

00:41:58.880 it's interesting because Jesus addresses this to I think two men who are fighting over who gets

00:42:04.640 the inheritance yeah and he says so the one who lays up treasure for him so is the one who lays

00:42:10.040 up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God right how are you rich towards God well yeah

00:42:16.840 Sure. By being generous and supporting the ministry of the church. Absolutely.

00:42:20.440 But also by obeying what God says to do with your wealth.

00:42:23.780 Yeah. I've always wondered if like maybe the two men in the passage are like the sons of like a guy like this.

00:42:29.740 It's kind of interesting. Yeah. But I think when you look at that and you say, OK, so Jesus's answer wasn't OK,

00:42:37.940 hey, go support 37 orphanages and 15 compassion children in another place.

00:42:44.480 This is actually about inheritance in your generations and your people.

00:42:48.320 Scripture is quite clear.

00:42:49.360 Yes.

00:42:49.720 So my point with all of that is that I think pastors can do a much better job and be courageous.

00:42:54.480 Absolutely.

00:42:55.200 And say to the older generations, I want to give an example.

00:42:58.340 Yeah.

00:42:58.500 I was recently at a conference, Pastor Scott Brown, who's, I'm guessing he's in his 70s.

00:43:04.440 Yeah.

00:43:04.540 faithful minister for many years pours into his grandchildren has 30 of them wow and he was

00:43:10.540 talking about the economy and he said you know i i know we got a lot of older guys in here

00:43:14.160 he said you're watching your son suffer and struggle to make it and you're not helping

00:43:19.160 what are you doing and and here's a man who's like started businesses used to even being like

00:43:25.580 manufacturing so that his kids could have jobs yeah and he's provided those things for his people

00:43:31.640 so i i think also just to put a ball on that just pastorally pastorally you can just literally

00:43:39.560 preach luke 12 and apply that to the older generations oh man absolutely how and there's a

00:43:46.280 there's like a how dare you moment how dare you export your manufacturing business to mexico to

00:43:52.120 save 17 on your at the cost of your brothers your neighbors not being able to work yeah how dare you

00:44:00.320 seek. Like there's just a million examples that apply to men in general, fathers in particular,

00:44:06.780 businessmen in particular, the way that we think about every aspect of our lives, it really should

00:44:11.380 be. I'm not just trying to maximize profit for me and my shareholder. What am I trying to do?

00:44:19.820 I'm actually trying to maximize the service that I can bring to my people. Yeah. And I think a lot

00:44:26.200 of it for grandparents um that biblically like you solve obligations to your people yeah um this is

00:44:32.420 something that i've appreciated you know even your parents uh your in-laws like when when i see them

00:44:39.140 in the pew helping with the kids yeah and they're involved in in things in the church and like how

00:44:44.640 can we alleviate burdens for these younger people yeah not just fussing not but saying how do we

00:44:50.300 actually serve we actually have time yep yep yep we have time and money to give and so how do we do

00:44:54.960 that is such an encouragement. Oh man. I know that my mother-in-law, if anybody, you know,

00:44:59.780 if she hears someone like, wow, that's, you know, that foyer at the church needs to be really

00:45:04.100 cleaned up. She's the first one to be like, yeah, what time do you want to come over this week?

00:45:08.000 Let's tell the deacons that we're available. We'll go clean it. And not only did the complaints

00:45:12.440 die down, but then it gets cleaned up. I'm like, let's go. Yeah. It's, it's like, what an

00:45:18.640 encouragement to, and for, for all of us to think that is the attitude and spirit that we need to

00:45:25.440 take copy and paste to everything that we do. As we get older, as we think about our generations,

00:45:29.880 it's not just about your literal family. It's also about the family of your church,

00:45:33.720 your community, the way that you interact with work and your legacy there. And as we do this,

00:45:40.780 the blessings multiply and they grow richer around you. And you end up so much more blessed

00:45:48.340 than you otherwise would have yeah you know i think about your your um your son's father-in-law

00:45:54.000 um what what would that be to you i guess there's not an official title for that office

00:45:59.300 i've sometimes mistakenly referred to him as my father-in-law but i know what you mean yeah

00:46:04.400 adam he's adam madden he's writing a book for us it's going to be such a it's going to be a good

00:46:10.380 book not just because of the contents but because of the man because this is the reason even we're

00:46:14.980 like, Hey, will you write a book for us about this? Because he has done such a good job of it

00:46:19.020 in his family of starting businesses locally that he can train up his own children. And,

00:46:27.040 you know, even like in the case of his daughter, the man who marries his daughter, your son

00:46:33.160 to take over and learn and run these businesses and have ownership in them. And then here's a

00:46:39.020 job. Like it seems so benevolent and it really is like, I don't want to detract from that,

00:46:45.080 but it's also Trixie because you're like, you're like, Hmm, I want all of my children to be able

00:46:52.560 to have lots of grandchildren so that I can play with them and like hang out with them and like

00:46:56.620 see chubby toddlers that are my grandchildren and get them Christmas presents that make too

00:47:00.440 much noise. And so, and I want them to be close. So how do I do this? And then you scheme and

00:47:06.600 you're like i could start businesses and it's beautiful because you're like wait a minute if i

00:47:11.760 totally bless my generations i could be a part of their lives if the lord lets me live long enough

00:47:17.240 like i could i could be surrounded by chubby toddler grandchildren yeah this could work this

00:47:23.540 this nefarious plot could work and then it does like when it's great i've asked adam like because

00:47:29.500 you know he's got a his son and my son you got different guys running businesses but he'll still

00:47:35.760 participate in them and i was asking him because his son you know they've had paternity leave and

00:47:42.000 so dad's filling in i said how is that you know working uh you know you got to go into the

00:47:47.420 workplace and he said man i just love my kids i want to work with them yeah i want to see him

00:47:53.840 i want to check in with them i want to i want to see what's going on in their life yeah and i was

00:47:57.740 like wow that it's just such a great picture yeah and so here's this crazy deal

00:48:01.840 obviously love your people yeah but i'm gonna say this like your people yes enjoy them yeah

00:48:10.400 enjoy being around them um and that's crazy to say but a lot of people don't it's wild when you

00:48:17.140 like people you want to be around like even think about in a business context because the father's

00:48:23.560 the office of father can apply to multiple things you see paul even apply it to the office of pastor

00:48:28.040 when he says that you have, you know, lots of this,

00:48:30.440 but you don't have any fathers, okay?

00:48:32.660 So a father can be a business owner

00:48:36.020 that sincerely cultivates a love.

00:48:38.640 Yeah, it tries to employ his family and children

00:48:40.320 and whatnot, but there's gonna be,

00:48:41.380 if you're successful business,

00:48:42.600 you probably employ more than just your immediate family

00:48:44.420 at some point.

00:48:45.600 And if you cultivate an affection

00:48:46.860 for the people that work for you

00:48:48.060 and you really seek their good,

00:48:49.560 then when it comes time and you're thinking about like,

00:48:52.320 what was the top line profit of our business this year?

00:48:55.180 And how are we gonna, what are we gonna,

00:48:56.660 we're gonna reinvest here?

00:48:57.560 Are we going to hire somebody? Are we going to do raises? Are we going to cash a check as a

00:49:01.920 business owner and, you know, go on a cruise? What's it going to be? When you have an affection

00:49:06.700 for the people that work for you, it changes the way you think about that calculus because you

00:49:12.560 suddenly go, ah, you know what? I really want that family to do well. I want them to be able

00:49:18.860 to have, you know, to buy that house and yeah, have that. They're in that two bedroom apartment

00:49:24.340 right now and they got two kids and like three you know three on the way they want to have more

00:49:28.700 what could I do to bless them because I really like them I like I like being around them I want

00:49:34.120 them to do well and you there's a way in which you can think like we're going to be so much more

00:49:39.960 profitable if we could just be really lean and bonuses or whatnot and the stupid thing is you

00:49:46.520 end up making your own life miserable and destroying everything when you do that yeah you're

00:49:51.040 cutting off your own feet like red robin is a great example of the food chain the restaurant

00:49:55.820 i don't know if they're everywhere but there's there's one here it's i think it's still here

00:49:59.060 they've been through like some 17 ceos or something since the founding ceo or like the

00:50:04.520 really long tenured ceo left and they kept doing stupid stuff to try to please the shareholders

00:50:09.780 and it's a publicly traded company so they're like we're gonna fire all of the bus boys all

00:50:16.760 of the staff that would like clean tables and whatnot we're gonna like optimize so the waiters

00:50:20.480 do that and this and the other thing and all of a sudden like wait times went up and then you know

00:50:26.140 basically the company tanked and i think it went from like a hundred plus dollars a share to like

00:50:30.900 two dollars and 87 cents meanwhile chilies is like absolutely killing it how did this get back

00:50:38.360 to chilies it's coming back and it was because what's funny is they made like opposite type of

00:50:43.440 decisions where they spent more money on some of the people and both of them probably had hugely

00:50:48.400 problematic globalist capitalist issues and they're full of seed wells and there's a million

00:50:52.420 things wrong with them but the the thing that the red robin people thought they were going to do

00:50:58.000 spend less we're going to be this much x percent more efficient it's like really good on the

00:51:02.820 shareholder news this quarter and then they promptly destroyed everything but the companies

00:51:09.880 that consistently companies that take care of their people they care about the local aspect

00:51:14.980 of the business. They want to, like, I want my countrymen. I want my neighbors in this city. I

00:51:19.860 want this manufacturing plant to be here. I want there to be good wages for the people. And yeah,

00:51:24.800 like the top line profitability, the company this quarter and next quarter and the next five

00:51:29.160 quarters, it's going to look maybe a little thinner and, and, and maybe less attractive

00:51:33.640 to a takeover proposition from some, you know, huge hostile buyout or whatever. But those

00:51:40.440 companies just tend to actually do well when they care about the small things and the actual people

00:51:47.060 and then the funny thing is they're way more profitable a lot of the time i think this works

00:51:52.340 in families too yeah absolutely i mean i was thinking about new christian press we had this

00:51:56.640 decision early on are we going to use you know amazon yeah this is it to fulfill our books and

00:52:03.120 we were looking at it and we're like it's like what is it like seven or eight bucks a book yeah

00:52:07.000 And we, we really labored over this decision.

00:52:09.480 Like we debated, we had, cause everybody does Amazon.

00:52:13.500 It's the whole, but what it is doing to every business it touches, what Amazon is doing

00:52:20.340 is atrocious.

00:52:21.800 Yeah.

00:52:22.480 It is terrible.

00:52:23.800 They are trying to drive everybody to the lowest common denominator of profit or of quality.

00:52:30.240 And they are absolutely screwing over their own.

00:52:33.820 like amazon will bring in companies these small businesses that sell on amazon they make a product

00:52:40.680 for amazon they see which ones do the best and then amazon copies it everything because almost

00:52:45.860 nothing's proprietary about a normal business or a product or whatever they copy it they slash the

00:52:50.760 prices sometimes they sell it at a loss even until all those other businesses go out of sale

00:52:54.640 go out of business it's awful it's horrible and i mean like customer service in india low quality

00:53:01.220 print like all this stuff yeah and we looked at that and we're like well we could actually

00:53:05.720 work with the printer to make high quality books we could ship them from here and we could put

00:53:11.020 that money back into our people and then you know those people so you're like well it's my son i

00:53:17.100 know our warehouse guy so you're like yeah i i want to see them flourish yeah so you start making

00:53:23.160 decisions that are made in love not just on yeah and even can you imagine by the way just like

00:53:28.460 saying to one of your kids hey i could have employed you but what i didn't said i saved like

00:53:33.840 i saved 13 on on books think about that though we you know even this year we've been we've been

00:53:40.720 the thing about a business too is that you're constantly finding things that you could do

00:53:44.580 better where you're like i don't like that we did that um i made some album covers and used ai to

00:53:51.140 help make album covers like for the last two albums because like literally it's really expensive

00:53:55.140 to make music. It's not, the album cover is not the main thing. And I'm just looking like,

00:53:58.760 and I've made them all to date. Like all the album covers, I just made them. And I'm not

00:54:02.300 a graphic designer. I'm just like, I use PicMonkey. Evan's laughing because it's true.

00:54:06.920 It's like that it's a toddler version. I'm like, I can't even use Photoshop and, but I do what I

00:54:13.360 can. And then you go, I don't like that. We did that. Let's not do that anymore. Let's make the

00:54:18.740 next decision. Okay. We're printing books here. Can we print them in America? Yeah. Yes, we can

00:54:24.220 do that so let's talk to this company oh let's actually you know we had the head of a printing

00:54:28.740 company that we are partnering with even in here in the usa in our office recently and meeting with

00:54:34.440 martin and so it's just it's a lot of the time what people do and this sounds like we're not

00:54:40.260 talking about this the same thing as we started but we are people let the perfect be the enemy

00:54:45.900 of the good they start looking at a problem and they do this they go well i can't fix social

00:54:51.140 security. So I can't do anything. Make a small, make the next change. Do the next thing. If you're

00:55:00.160 a business owner, you're like, oh man, my whole business model is reliant on this foreign labor

00:55:05.260 and this thing and that whatever. And my subcontractors are all, you know, Venezuelans

00:55:09.640 and whatnot. Okay. Do the next thing, make the next improvement, make the next investment in

00:55:16.880 the right area and then see if the Lord doesn't bless it. Do the next hard thing. I can't buy

00:55:23.580 all my children houses the first day of their marriage. Okay, maybe you can't do that. What

00:55:29.200 can you do though? Yes. And the reality is God didn't make a world where he gave us a bunch of

00:55:36.060 commands that are totally impossible for us to do. So do the next thing. And this isn't just an

00:55:41.840 input output thing. The Lord is at work in this. Yeah. It's an aspect of faith where we take the

00:55:47.000 next step that looks like maybe this won't work that well. It won't do much, but it's something

00:55:50.340 small I can do to obey the Lord. See if the Lord won't bless it. Yeah. See if the Lord won't

00:55:54.880 actually. Oh, I thought that that decision of my business that was like hiring people that are my

00:56:01.140 actual neighbors instead of illegal immigrants was going to make my business 12% less profitable

00:56:05.000 this year and it was going to be like, put me on the margins. We grew 19% this year. What?

00:56:12.600 See if that won't happen. Yeah. I'm not guaranteeing, I'm not a prophet,

00:56:16.760 but I am saying this is how God made the world to work. Yeah. And so, so often he does not bless

00:56:23.180 until we step and do the hard thing that looks like it shouldn't work. And then you do it. And

00:56:28.440 then he's like, and now I'm going to bless it. And it will make no sense. Like the math won't

00:56:32.220 work. So the math will not make sense according to your projections a lot of the time. Yeah. I

00:56:37.240 think about this, um, kind of with book writing, you've been doing music, uh, but I've been writing

00:56:42.480 a book. And so I'm thinking this is so much harder than I know. There's a lot of people

00:56:47.960 across different spaces in media where they're turning out multiple books a year. Cause they're

00:56:52.720 mostly using, using like AI, they're writing books. First of all, can I just take, if you're,

00:56:58.740 if you're doing that where's the why is why are you gay meme we lost the soundboard it's got to

00:57:05.140 come back play it mr should i call you mr why are you gay that's my question to you anyway why are

00:57:12.880 you gay yeah so i and then and then we look at something and we say no we're actually going to

00:57:18.080 invest the hard work and the research and the time where you're you're writing your own songs

00:57:24.260 for years for years before anybody hears them and like for me like the book writing process

00:57:30.020 has been like oh my goodness painstaking arduous hours and hours and hours yeah but the end of the

00:57:36.860 day i always remember it was a line from ann lamott but she said when you write a book make

00:57:40.920 it a love letter to your people and so what if you did that with your business what if you what

00:57:46.000 if you did that with your social security check yeah and you said this is going to be for my

00:57:50.440 people what if you what if you pitch to your kids like can mom and i move in can we like to our shame

00:57:56.740 my dad worked with a guy as an engineer in the military and this guy's they were first generation

00:58:05.860 immigrants from cambodia and immigration question aside all that just listen to the story don't

00:58:10.500 tune out they're from cambodia and they had his father had basically almost been killed under the

00:58:17.160 Pol Pot genocide. All right. And so he was imprisoned for a while and this guy come,

00:58:24.280 they, they get to America. He ends up having to like re-earn an engineering degree that he had

00:58:30.320 already gotten in Cambodia or something like that, or like Southeast Asia somewhere. And, um, he,

00:58:37.320 they get here and they're not Christians. These are like, I think Buddhists. Really? Interesting.

00:58:43.100 i'm pretty sure my dad befriended him and um had been over their house many times they would

00:58:49.200 and it was like a typical asian family like oh you you get good grades you you lay he would say

00:58:55.700 like he had one daughter he had a couple daughters and he would say like oh you know this one was

00:59:00.300 really good the other one she lazy she no work hard she know she don't like math homework i tell

00:59:06.460 are you lazy? And this is how he sounded. His name is Zune. And, uh, he, he, um, they would,

00:59:14.300 his wife would garden and she'd like give us, I remember the big old like zucchinis and stuff

00:59:18.280 from their garden that my dad would bring home. Cause my dad was his boss and he would bring him

00:59:22.320 gifts and things like that, that they grew in their garden. But his parents moved in with them.

00:59:26.120 So his dad who had been imprisoned in Cambodia, like almost died, came out of prison, probably

00:59:30.040 75 pounds, like starving. And he said like, Oh, he get out of prison. He eat a lot. He eat a lot.

00:59:36.460 but uh because he was almost dead their parents moved in with them and this was just the norman

00:59:41.920 asian culture the parents moved in with them but it was this the mutually beneficial the the the

00:59:50.520 parents were like working hard around the house helping with kids and the expectation is like

00:59:56.740 they didn't have a retirement plan that was their retirement plan and they live forever asians

01:00:01.700 They're tiny. They live for like 200 years. So Zun's dad is like 90s, probably in his 90s or

01:00:09.680 something. And he's still there like gardening, helping with kids, like cooking. But it was just

01:00:15.700 so pitiful to me that in our culture, this like great Christian culture that used to understand

01:00:26.280 these things. And that would have been a totally normal situation in our culture, our Anglo

01:00:32.340 Protestant culture. Yeah. For a parent to be like retirement 401k, do you mean moving in with your

01:00:37.200 kids and helping? And then they take care of you until you, and then they bury you. Like it has

01:00:42.380 become so abnormal for that to happen that I would just challenge people. If you're the older parent

01:00:48.200 or the grandparent, or if you're the child, make the offer. If it works in your situation,

01:00:54.840 if there's any way to make it work maybe it's like we've got this house that's paid off and

01:00:58.240 and like could we figure out a way to to move in and be of service and help and integrate into the

01:01:05.540 family do you know what a blessing that would be to everybody like you would be blessed they would

01:01:09.980 be blessed this was how human beings lived and did it it's it's funny to me because we used to do

01:01:15.820 like ministry sbc ministry to nursing homes right so you'd go and preach and sing some hymns and

01:01:20.720 stuff like this um and they said make sure to bring kids and i said why and they said well one

01:01:25.780 of the best things for the health of old people is to be around kids and it's funny because i've

01:01:30.300 seen this with like my grandparents they come they visit and like the life that is infused from like

01:01:36.720 little people yeah yeah and they just think it's hilarious and the little people are like why you

01:01:41.480 so old you look weird why is your face all covered in red spots those are liver spots son

01:01:48.620 grandma you look like you're gonna fall down you're gonna break a hip you're like

01:01:52.500 but it's just funny like when you get them together and it's like

01:01:56.580 it gives the older generations hope in the future yeah and they get to participate in life it's just

01:02:03.700 really cool so i think just encouraging people on that front these things are possible yeah some

01:02:08.060 some conversations have to take place and it's like i know we're painting a picture and people

01:02:12.040 like i would love to do that but they're not willing or it just wouldn't work or i get it

01:02:15.780 if nothing else try to start that now try to start your generations the right way talk to

01:02:22.420 your children about this when they are young like mom and dad we're gonna help you guys out get

01:02:27.100 started and you're gonna expect for mom and dad to live with you if if that's what the i mean

01:02:32.200 there's other situations that can work there's not a one-size-fits-all but you know son you you

01:02:37.000 know you'd have mom and dad live with you right yeah of course i would you you move in with us

01:02:40.880 you. And if you're those kids who've grown up with, you know, dad is helping you get started

01:02:45.560 in business and you work together and you're discipling and you're continuing in an appropriate

01:02:51.320 way for adult children, you're pouring into them. Then when you get older, it's like, well, I have

01:02:58.020 this whole body of love. Yeah. This history where I can look back and say, wow, look how they loved

01:03:03.600 us. Yeah. How do we defeat total luxury boomer communism or total total boomer luxury? I can

01:03:08.540 never remember tbl total boomer luxury communism how do we how do we defeat it there's a government

01:03:14.080 policy side that we need to address and but here's the reality guys my confidence level that it's

01:03:19.980 going to be addressed on a level of policy apart from the wheels just coming off the bus is low

01:03:23.900 like i just think it's probably going to be insolvency you see what happens with fiat

01:03:28.280 currencies given enough time at some point the system breaks the wheels are going to come off

01:03:33.440 the bus and it's probably going to be super painful and i don't want that i am not an

01:03:37.700 accelerationist in this front like i don't want all of the things that happen when the wheels

01:03:44.260 really come off the bus in an acceleration they're bad i don't want that however we may not be able

01:03:51.400 to fix that i have low confidence pretty low confidence overall but what we can do is we can

01:03:59.700 get our houses in order and it's going to be much harder because we're getting our houses in order

01:04:04.260 in while being robbed in both pockets like we've got the government in both their hands are in both

01:04:09.520 of our pockets and they're trying to rob you at every turn and like they're teaching you to hate

01:04:15.860 yourself just because you're white and they're like you're they are flooding the world with

01:04:19.780 immigrants and they're like hey let's import a you know what the birth rate's not supporting

01:04:24.360 total boomer luxury communism anymore let's import a class of slaves that's what their

01:04:28.840 immigration policy is. That's what they're doing to keep the inflation machine going. Okay. They're

01:04:34.080 doing all of that. I know it sucks. We experience it every time we pay taxes. We live in this world.

01:04:39.820 We're trying to make it too with lots of kids and all this stuff. But what can we do to get our

01:04:45.080 house in order? How can we work together with our parents, with our children, with our brothers and

01:04:51.620 sisters in the church and how can we relentlessly insist that love be the thing that drives us

01:04:59.600 yeah if we do that and we do it in faith the i have a wild degree of confidence that the lord

01:05:06.680 will bless i just do i have a wild degree of confidence this may be why we are the way that

01:05:12.240 we are because i just think in ogden we have a wild degree of confidence that that god will do

01:05:18.260 stuff. If we just try just be bold. And a lot of the times we figure out we were doing it kind of

01:05:23.900 wrong, like some of the time for a while and God was still blessing it. And you're like, but we

01:05:28.860 were doing it wrong. And then he's like, I know you're kind of an idiot. You're my silliest

01:05:34.320 soldier, but, but we were doing it genuinely before God, because we wanted to do something

01:05:39.960 good. We wanted to obey the Lord. We wanted to love our people. And so even when we didn't do

01:05:44.100 it right. And we're probably still not doing it right in 10, 15 different ways. I just have this

01:05:48.920 wild degree of confidence that God will bless it, even if it's hard and there will be setbacks and

01:05:52.700 you know, blah, blah, blah. But it's, that to me is kind of what faith looks like in a nutshell.

01:05:58.220 It is a wild degree of confidence that God is your father. He is love and he's completely for

01:06:06.000 you. And so even though he's going to discipline you because he loves you and it might be hard and

01:06:11.280 things might suck neither famine nor nakedness nor debt nor sword nor any such thing can separate

01:06:16.380 us from the love of god and so why not just try it's a great word uh one of the things i want to

01:06:23.720 ask you about as we close and then you can kind of you know do the whole speaking to the camera

01:06:28.700 look at him look at him and say he's kind of smoldering have you thought about my cut enough

01:06:33.280 lately i definitely i'm gonna leave you with the way not not because you chose to not be not my

01:06:40.380 choice. Not my choice at all. Uh, but I want to ask you about the conference. One of the things

01:06:44.900 that we're trying to do this year, uh, the war for normal. Yes. Uh, we are recovering the Christian

01:06:51.980 household. We are, you know, we're worshiping as a community. We're doing these everyday normal

01:06:56.920 things. Uh, again, I was just inspired recently that Scott Brown, he said something really,

01:07:03.260 I mean, pivotal, you know, radical. That was the thing that was the whole radical. He was like,

01:07:07.960 you know, one of the dumbest things we told Christians forever was like, be radical,

01:07:11.940 like go start an orphanage, go be a missionary. And he was like, and the thing that we missed

01:07:15.620 was what Christians did for centuries, which was love your families. It is the cradle of the nation.

01:07:21.160 It is the seminary of the nation. It's a small commonwealth, love your people well. And so right

01:07:27.020 now in this current political cultural moment, I know people are going in a million different

01:07:31.480 directions. I keep coming back to this. And Scott said this, he said, trust me as someone who has

01:07:38.460 been walking and fighting in this race for a long time, build your house on the rock. And it is the

01:07:43.800 word of God. Yeah. So that's what we're trying to do at the conference. I think it's going to be

01:07:47.200 really encouraging for people. Yeah. Yes. We are aiming to, and like, this is kind of, we've been

01:07:52.540 thinking about this for the last, literally the last year since the last conference actually is

01:07:57.380 where a lot of these things started to we were just talking about it we've talked about how

01:08:01.540 steven wolf and some of the conversations with him at the conference shaped the seeds of this

01:08:06.200 conference um the war for normal you just look out and you see a lot of difficult difficult thorny

01:08:14.200 complex bitter divisive horrible no good dirty rotten like there's just a bunch of bad stuff out

01:08:22.300 there and it's easy to bet to black bill it's also easy to get into a race to the bottom like

01:08:29.580 to get into a race to um what it there's a lot of there's a lot of edgy and controversial political

01:08:35.520 stuff that's pressing and important and actually i think the political theory conversation is very

01:08:40.900 very important but in the whole thing we've just come back to over and over all of it is worthless

01:08:48.620 if we don't get the foundations right

01:08:51.300 of our churches and our families

01:08:53.180 and ourselves before God,

01:08:55.420 if we don't actually figure out positively,

01:08:59.000 what does a human being look like?

01:09:01.400 What does a good man look like?

01:09:03.260 What does a good woman look like?

01:09:04.320 What does a good marriage look like?

01:09:05.320 What does it mean to parent your children?

01:09:06.820 If we don't just get these foundations set correctly

01:09:10.460 in faith, then we are all absolutely screwed.

01:09:15.300 And like the Lord will work,

01:09:16.700 but it will be not through us.

01:09:20.100 So we've been thinking just how can we do that?

01:09:22.740 What are the leadership principles?

01:09:24.560 What are the pastoring principles?

01:09:26.080 What are the marriage and family principles?

01:09:28.020 What are the business principles?

01:09:29.480 What are the intergenerational inheritance principles?

01:09:32.000 What are the things that we need to take hold of

01:09:33.540 with that wild confidence

01:09:35.120 that the father loves to bless his people?

01:09:38.620 What are those things?

01:09:40.320 And that's what this conference is aimed at.

01:09:42.040 And so, yeah, I mean, look,

01:09:44.020 we've been known to, to get, get down and dirty in the, in the whole political debate. We've been

01:09:49.740 known to do that. And I stand by it. I stand by, I stand by it all. Someone's going to clip me in

01:09:55.720 this you and be like, that was me. And that was a banger. You know, absolutely. We've been known

01:10:01.540 to, I don't know, get ourselves protested by Antifa for certain things said at this table

01:10:07.380 recently. Yes. We stand by them. Those are all important issues. Yeah. You say them,

01:10:12.860 might get blamed for them. Yeah, exactly. It's just

01:10:14.720 as nature intentless.

01:10:16.980 It's the circle.

01:10:19.960 The circle

01:10:20.840 of life. The circle of

01:10:22.300 I don't know. Derangements

01:10:25.020 and normal ideas. I don't know.

01:10:26.540 Of Eric's problems.

01:10:28.460 They all start with me.

01:10:32.440 You know what? Someone with their own

01:10:34.840 AI portrait of themselves, Stonewall Jackson

01:10:37.060 has very little room to talk.

01:10:39.820 We're thinking about

01:10:40.820 these things. I'm completely lost my train of

01:10:42.740 thought, but you know, we're just saying, how can we, the conference is, is going to maybe a letdown

01:10:49.200 for, for someone who's like, let's, you know, figure out how to solve our, all of the problems

01:10:53.620 of immigration. We're probably not going to do that. But what we are going to try to do is say

01:10:59.140 everybody in this room right now, you're like our people. We're thinking the same thoughts. We're

01:11:03.960 looking at the same problems. What can we do? What can we do right now to make our war the war

01:11:13.220 for normal, the war for a world that is normed by God's norms? And yes, that has political

01:11:19.260 implication, has all sorts of implication, but it has massive implication for the way that we live

01:11:23.940 our lives as men and women before God in community and in families with one another. So let's figure

01:11:29.340 that out. And the reality is, I think we have a lot of work to do there. I think there's, I think

01:11:34.740 there's enough work right now to be going on with, with that. So let's, you know, let's get busy

01:11:39.760 working there. Yeah. And I think even on the political, think about this, if you're going to

01:11:44.440 be involved in the political biblically, what is the requirement that your family's in order?

01:11:49.320 That's right. So you got to do that anyway. So we want to help people do that. There's a website

01:11:55.520 for the war for normal.com yeah the war for normal.com visit visit check it out and um we

01:12:02.460 would love to to just not only hopefully put on great talks and we have some good you know really

01:12:07.540 great speakers lined up that we're excited about but also um really just be friends make friends

01:12:13.500 make new we we've seen everything from new businesses to new marriages start from the

01:12:18.400 conference and that's not a testimony to our scheming greatness like that's just the lord's

01:12:23.380 Providence. That's how he does it. You put your sales up, you go meet people, you put yourself

01:12:27.380 out there, you aim to love other people and be of service. And then the Lord blesses you and gives

01:12:31.580 you new friendships that last for life. They happen in these kinds of contexts. So come Thursday

01:12:36.320 and sign up for one of the things happening there. We'll have a family day that morning,

01:12:41.840 like at the park where especially moms and kids can go hang out and play. And that's too, of

01:12:47.040 course, at the same time, there'll be a golf tournament, which is, we love playing golf,

01:12:51.120 But the main reason we do is because it's one of the best ways to just hang out and

01:12:54.100 be friends.

01:12:54.960 That's one of the reasons it's a four man scramble.

01:12:57.460 So it's not like who's the best golfer.

01:12:59.260 It's it's teams of four players.

01:13:02.020 Put your team together.

01:13:02.840 If you don't have enough people, we'll pair people and you'll probably make some lifelong

01:13:06.240 friendships that way.

01:13:07.720 Come play the golf tournament and New Christendom games Thursday afternoon to the evening.

01:13:13.320 We'll have like an Olympic sport competition of new of our people, crown victors.

01:13:18.500 Ben and I will be commentating.

01:13:19.640 so you know it'll be highly professional commentary very few your mom jokes like

01:13:23.680 completely polished i'll be commissioning eric will be commissioning he'll be there in his big

01:13:29.360 suit he'll be walking around just like smoking a cigar or something oh cigar oh yeah looking

01:13:35.960 important and being important quite frankly um what else do we we've got um you mentioned the

01:13:42.780 singles mixer you have a concert mixer i'm putting on a concert uh this year when is this episode

01:13:47.040 coming out roughly okay perfect may a so you guys already know about this but right now i'm in the

01:13:52.740 process as we record this to finalize details on a fundraiser for my album that i've been working

01:13:59.440 on it is not made by ai it is clanker free certified made by humans when you hear a fiddle

01:14:06.360 this is the crazy thing it's a fiddle it's a person who played a fiddle it's wild it's a huge

01:14:12.660 crazy idea i had what if we made music with instruments and just recorded them and then

01:14:20.040 played them for people so that's what it is it's kind of complicated it's way complicated one of

01:14:24.660 the reasons one of the things that that means is that i literally will have spent like 25 000

01:14:28.820 by the time the album comes out paying real people that i think are worth paying um to produce and

01:14:33.720 play and help make the album great sing and i've been writing these songs in some cases for years

01:14:38.360 and I believe they are good and true and beautiful

01:14:42.840 and will help hide those things in your heart

01:14:45.600 and we become what we consume and what we behold.

01:14:48.340 I think that's true musically.

01:14:49.560 So I hope that they're a blessing to you.

01:14:51.300 You can chip in if you want, you don't have to.

01:14:53.080 You can just go stream it for free by the time it's out.

01:14:55.740 But my goal is that it will be launched

01:14:57.640 the week of the conference.

01:14:59.180 That's my aim, publicly everywhere.

01:15:02.760 But also there'll be a vinyl,

01:15:04.500 there'll be a bunch of ways that you can participate.

01:15:06.060 the if it's not already claimed there is a like for our real patrons out there if you're like i

01:15:12.460 don't know one of those barons of like if you're a coal magnate or something a coal magnate i don't

01:15:19.800 know uh there is a tier uh on the fundraiser where you can just fund the whole album and i literally

01:15:25.360 give you the guitar that i wrote the album on my taylor 517e which is like a three thousand dollar

01:15:30.400 guitar so it's actually kind of real that's a real that's real yeah that's the that's the fun

01:15:34.240 the album tier i mean like it's probably not going to happen i'll sign the guitar eric will

01:15:38.460 not sign the guitar as my guarantee unless you want him to it will come with a certificate of

01:15:43.800 authenticity that it's that guitar so if you care about that i don't think i'm actually important

01:15:47.800 enough for that to be it we're just larping here but larp your way into reality that's what we

01:15:53.380 always say that's what we say um that it will be at my website brian sauvet.com slash um short

01:16:01.480 years. Short years. Yeah. So you can go chip in a couple of bucks or fund the whole album and get

01:16:07.080 a guitar, whatever. That's my whole life. The short years. Yeah. Long day is short years is

01:16:11.680 the name of the album. I'll be putting on a concert. Um, and then stick around if you can

01:16:16.300 through Sunday, the conference is all day, Friday, all day, Saturday, we've got the Thursday devoted

01:16:20.600 to being friends and hanging out. And then Sunday we, if you can make it and hang out, stay for

01:16:25.220 church, we'll do it at the venue so that everybody can fit our church and all the visitors. And then

01:16:29.840 we have a barbecue like a potluck in the park on sunday afternoon and then lord bless you and you

01:16:35.120 can head on home the next day hopefully or whenever is convenient but uh it's just a great time like

01:16:40.720 these conferences i am not a big conference guy i don't think either of us are no like i don't

01:16:46.440 speak at a lot of them i say no to most invitations and we don't go to just don't get invited

01:16:50.860 if you can imagine that i just have a lot of kids and i like being with them and i like my wife so

01:16:57.020 i usually say no and uh also i'm not saying i get invited to a lot of conferences right but um

01:17:05.920 i have been amazed at how much fun and how the fruit that comes from oh it's amazing friendship

01:17:11.840 like genuine genuinely like they're genuine friendships they're fun for all the stuff that

01:17:16.540 happens that's what they are but um it's they have been so much more than that in ways that's

01:17:23.960 hard to explain yeah come if you want you don't have to we'll still keep putting out the king's

01:17:28.600 hall here on the youtube and the wherever else this plays but yes awesome love to have you there

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The King's Hall - June 05, 2026

Total Luxury Boomer Communism

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