The NXR Podcast - The Next Crusade - Britain Was The Greatest Nation On Earth w Fr. Calvin Robinson

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to another episode of The Next Crusade, exclusively here on New Christian 0.76

00:00:25.400 right. That's NXR Studios. This, of course, is the show where we address current events from

00:00:30.820 a Christian perspective and address the topics the rest of the mainstream media doesn't want 0.58

00:00:35.220 to touch with a 10-foot barge pole. I am your host, Father Calvin Robinson. We've got a great

00:00:40.140 show coming up today, and I want to start out by talking about my homeland, Great Britain.

00:00:45.640 I don't know about you, but I am fatigued by all the negativity coming out of Britain.

00:00:50.900 Every bit of news is emotionally draining.

00:00:54.100 Crime, illegal immigration, murder of innocents, political prisoners, lack of free speech,

00:01:00.700 thought crime, bad politicians, complicit legacy media, etc, etc, etc.

00:01:07.540 I get tired of talking about my homeland because there's very little good news to talk about lately.

00:01:13.280 But this is wrong, because until 100 years ago, Great Britain was the greatest nation in the world.

00:01:19.920 And to this day, the British Empire is the greatest force for good in the history of the world.

00:01:25.840 So it's high time we reminded ourselves of this fact and regained our confidence.

00:01:31.080 America picked up that mantle when, after fighting communism and defeating fascism in the name of liberalism,

00:01:37.360 our empire imploded.

00:01:39.000 And for their efforts, we should be thankful.

00:01:41.060 But Britain still has a lot to be patriotic about.

00:01:44.620 regardless there is always good news to talk about as a christian in a christian nation

00:01:50.700 british values are rooted in a foundation of christian values take for example our common law

00:01:57.720 based on the ten commandments laws against murder adultery theft and bearing false witness we no

00:02:04.700 longer have blasphemy laws but it could be argued certain demographics are trying to bring them

00:02:09.200 back. The first commandment sets out the nature of our state. Thou shalt have no other God before

00:02:16.200 me. Well, we are a Christian nation with a monarch who acts as head of state, head of the military,

00:02:23.180 head of the judiciary, and head of the legislative, who must be a Christian by law. 0.62

00:02:29.620 Our moral compass, our sense of right and wrong, comes from the Christian definitions of what is 0.98

00:02:34.960 good and evil. Christ summarised the greatest commandments as love God and love your neighbour

00:02:41.420 as yourself. British law is centred around the idea of private property, thou shalt not steal,

00:02:48.620 thou shalt not covet. That is where the majority of our liberties come from. The entire premise of

00:02:54.980 freedom comes from the scriptures. In the biblical context, freedom is the freedom to worship God

00:03:00.580 with our free will. In the secular world of the 21st century, we tend to think of freedom in terms

00:03:06.840 of freedom from restraints of everyday life, but that is not freedom, that is oppressive. Our rights

00:03:13.000 come with responsibilities. God gives us freedom in the same way a parent gives their child freedom.

00:03:19.620 It is the constraints that make us free. Boundaries are important. You let your child out by themselves

00:03:26.500 to play in the street, but you tell them not to cross over the road by themselves, or you let

00:03:32.000 them play with certain toys only when they've reached a certain age. Whilst the child might

00:03:37.140 push back against those boundaries occasionally, they know they keep them safe, and they're a

00:03:42.320 comfort because they know they can operate within those parameters and be relatively risk-free.

00:03:48.600 However, children who don't have any boundaries end up as adults who are not able to function as

00:03:54.080 well in the real world. Not setting boundaries is a form of neglect. It's not liberating. Real

00:04:00.640 freedom is freedom to, not freedom from. Freedom to explore within boundaries, not freedom from

00:04:06.940 boundaries. No boundaries means a dangerous and lonely existence. And the same goes for nation

00:04:13.700 states. Boundaries are God-ordained. The Bible tells us that God decreed the nations and tribes

00:04:19.400 for our inheritance. Quote, when the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,

00:04:25.800 when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number

00:04:32.100 of the children of Israel. End quote. This is why a government's number one job is to protect those 0.61

00:04:38.420 borders, because without borders we have no nation. Globalism is the greatest threat to

00:04:44.380 national sovereignty at the moment, with projects like the WEF, WHO, UN pushing for one world

00:04:50.700 government. The Bible strongly advises against such an idea. Quote, and it was given unto him

00:04:57.720 to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and power was given him over all kindreds and

00:05:03.700 tongues and nations. End quote. So our national sovereignty is our freedom and our liberties,

00:05:11.480 and they are via private property.

00:05:13.660 They're all biblically ordained.

00:05:16.120 It could be argued that the Bible gives us protection

00:05:18.600 against greedy kings and governments too.

00:05:22.120 Numbers says, speak to the Levites and say to them,

00:05:25.740 when you receive from the Israelites

00:05:27.520 the tithe I give you as your inheritance,

00:05:30.120 you must present a tenth of that tithe

00:05:32.100 as the Lord's offering.

00:05:34.920 If God asks for no more than 10%,

00:05:37.100 no government or ruler should ask for more than that either.

00:05:40.580 taxation over 10% is unjust. What else did we inherit as Brits from Christianity? Freedom from 0.74

00:05:48.260 slavery. Christian abolitionists initiated and organized the abolition movement. It's Christians

00:05:54.880 who perpetrated the end of the transatlantic slave trade. William Wilberforce was motivated 0.98

00:06:01.380 by a desire to put Christian principles into action and to serve God in public life.

00:06:06.540 In his diary, Wilberforce wrote

00:06:09.200 God Almighty has set before me two great objects

00:06:12.640 The suppression of the slave trade and reformation of morals

00:06:16.520 Paul instructs Philemon to receive Onesimus

00:06:21.160 No longer as a slave, but as a dear brother

00:06:24.560 And he appeals to Philemon

00:06:28.180 To receive him as you would receive me 0.99

00:06:30.800 Galatians, there is neither Jew nor Greek 0.90

00:06:34.600 There is neither bond nor free

00:06:35.980 there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. This is why the British

00:06:41.820 Empire employed the West Africa Squadron to patrol the seas and suppress the transatlantic slave

00:06:48.180 trade. We broke international laws to do so at great cost to the GDP and in terms of human lives 0.75

00:06:54.440 too. But the Christian British Empire saw it as their duty to end an abhorrent evil. 0.97

00:07:01.980 And this is what we need to hear more of. 0.99

00:07:04.640 There are too many snakes whispering in Eve's ear,

00:07:07.380 too many demonic presences talking down our good works.

00:07:11.380 We shouldn't be prideful, of course.

00:07:13.120 We should speak with humility, but we should speak truthfully.

00:07:17.680 Our history, as with the history of all nations,

00:07:21.180 is checkered because people are fallen.

00:07:24.280 We are all the result of original sin.

00:07:26.740 However, this nation has produced more good for the world than any other.

00:07:30.960 The British Empire spread health and wealth around the globe,

00:07:34.720 civilising nations by introducing the English language,

00:07:38.180 the Christian religion, and along with it,

00:07:40.340 charity, hospitals, railways, schools, parliamentary democracy.

00:07:45.140 Which brings me to the topic of forgiveness,

00:07:48.100 a core Christian value.

00:07:50.200 Forgive and you will be forgiven.

00:07:52.420 The British government has apologised for its role

00:07:54.980 in the transatlantic slave trade.

00:07:57.000 The British monarchy has expressed regret and sorrow.

00:08:00.240 After an apology, the Christian thing to do is to forgive. 0.95

00:08:03.680 Otherwise, we live in a state of victimhood, bitterness and resentment.

00:08:07.540 We get stuck in the past.

00:08:09.580 The only way to move forward is to follow Christ and to offer forgiveness.

00:08:13.960 Those who campaign for reparations, those who join BLM,

00:08:18.120 those who riot and ask white people to kiss their boots,

00:08:21.680 they're not coming from a Christian place. 0.97

00:08:25.040 That is our role to set a better example.

00:08:27.920 We are not responsible for the sins of our forebears.

00:08:30.240 whether they were slaves or slave owners. Our business is in becoming slaves to Christ.

00:08:36.900 He is our master. Christ is master. Christ is the truth, the way and the life and he taught us that

00:08:43.960 if we wanted to gain eternal life in him we are to follow him. He is our best example,

00:08:50.420 the perfect human life, fully man yet fully God. It is an important reminder in these times when

00:08:57.500 our culture is at threat and our way of life is quickly becoming forgotten. 0.68

00:09:02.400 Masculinity is perceived as toxic by the feminist movement, and the liberal progressives have

00:09:07.400 convinced a generation of young men that they must emasculate themselves and feminise themselves

00:09:12.240 in the name of equality or equity, which is a con. Society needs strongmen. Strongmen are

00:09:19.460 providers and protectors, fishermen and carpenters. Without them we are lost.

00:09:25.020 They do say good times produce weak men and we are living in relatively good times or have been

00:09:31.880 for too long. Our young men now are addicted to video games and pornography. We must remind them

00:09:37.560 of their duties and obligations to their community. Likewise, we have a generation of young women who

00:09:43.380 believe they must act like men. People are confused about equality. Men and women are equal but

00:09:49.780 different. Generally speaking, men are faster and stronger and women are more nurturing and caring

00:09:55.520 and this is why children need a mother and a father, a strong male role model and a strong

00:10:01.080 female role model. Fathers in particular are needed now more than ever. Young girls need a

00:10:08.180 father to know what to look for in a man. Young boys need a father to figure out how to act and 0.79

00:10:14.720 how to treat women with respect. Yet fatherlessness is increasing and as a result of that family

00:10:20.940 breakdown is increasing. Children from a family that's broken down are twice as likely to end up

00:10:26.540 failing in school, twice as likely to end up in prison and on the streets. And as Christians it's

00:10:33.060 our duty to remind our society of the importance of family. Go forth and multiply, God tells us,

00:10:39.540 over and over in the Bible. He repeats this message. It is our duty to populate the nation

00:10:46.020 with good Christian families, to get married, to have children for the greater glory of God.

00:10:53.060 We've touched on quite a few topics here, but to summarize, Britain is a great country. It is the

00:10:58.280 fruit of the greatest empire on earth. That is because it is the fruit of Christendom.

00:11:03.840 Christian values are universally good. We need to remind ourselves of those values as often as

00:11:09.240 possible and demonstrate them to our fellow Brits. We have to shine as a guiding light in the ever

00:11:15.500 darkening world around us. In doing so we lead people to Christ. He is our salvation and if we

00:11:22.400 truly love our British brothers and sisters we will lead them to him so that they may have a

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00:13:04.100 description below. I'm now joined by my guest, Corey DeAngelis. Corey, thank you for joining

00:13:09.300 us today. How are you? Hey, doing great. Thanks so much for having me. Absolute pleasure. You've

00:13:14.040 been battling this fight for a long time now. You've become one of the major faces of the school

00:13:18.380 choice activism. And I think there's an important reason for that. But I'll let you

00:13:22.360 lay it all out there. Why do you do what you do? And why is it important, Corey?

00:13:26.320 Well, the radical left has figured out that they don't even have to have their own kids anymore,

00:13:30.200 and they can still shape the direction of this country. They basically figured out that they

00:13:35.740 can infiltrate the government school system and mold the minds of millions of other people's kids

00:13:40.820 into their socialist worldview. Why do you think the teachers union endorsed Zoran Mamdani in New

00:13:47.360 York City, an outright socialist? It's because they see the school system as an institution

00:13:52.920 to churn out more Democrat foot soldiers. 0.79

00:13:56.900 And they've been pretty successful until recently.

00:13:59.760 They stepped on a rake during COVID

00:14:01.940 when they fought to close the schools.

00:14:03.680 They woke conservatives up like we've never seen before

00:14:06.800 because families got to see in real time

00:14:10.080 the far left indoctrination happening in the schools, 0.98

00:14:13.400 whether that was transgender insanity, 0.85

00:14:16.540 whether that was critical race theory 0.71

00:14:18.160 and other Marxist concepts.

00:14:20.280 Families said, you know what?

00:14:21.280 you're focused more on the LGBTs than the ABCs. No wonder our schools are failing so 1.00

00:14:26.900 drastically. We have only a fifth of kids that are proficient in math, despite our country

00:14:33.080 spending $21,000 per student in the government schools every single year. That number, Calvin,

00:14:41.320 has increased 170% in real terms since 1970.

00:14:48.680 Have the outcomes gotten 170% better?

00:14:51.640 No, they've gotten worse.

00:14:52.800 I was going to say, the more money they throw at it,

00:14:54.560 the worse the results seem to get.

00:14:57.400 And this is because the Marxists have a stranglehold on education.

00:15:01.280 When Trump got into office last year,

00:15:03.560 we heard that he was going to wind down the Department of Education.

00:15:07.060 How's that coming along, do you know?

00:15:09.140 Yes, and by the way,

00:15:10.140 a lot of people don't remember this. They remember he won the popular vote nationwide by a few

00:15:15.020 points, but he won the popular vote among parents by nine points. The GOP has basically emerged as

00:15:22.320 the parents party, whereas the far left liberals have basically turned into a communist organization

00:15:29.360 that think that your kids belong to the government. Well, President Trump won the education

00:15:34.980 vote, too, against Kamala Harris, according to the latest poll that I saw before Election Day

00:15:40.840 was by Atlas Intel. And the Democrats had had a decades-long double-digit advantage on education 0.90

00:15:48.340 for such a long time that it was a surprise for a Republican to be winning on education.

00:15:54.880 And how did Donald Trump do that? He didn't do that by saying, oh, we're going to do what the

00:16:00.320 Democrats do and throw more money at the problem, which, as we've seen, has just been the definition

00:16:05.580 of insanity. It hasn't improved a single darn thing in the education system. He took a different

00:16:10.900 approach and said, I'm going to empower parents. They are the primary decision makers for their

00:16:15.940 kids. These communists are not in control of your children or they shouldn't be. And he called to

00:16:22.780 get transgender insanity out of the schools. He called to wind down the department. He called it 0.77

00:16:27.340 returning education to the states, which is a great idea because the word education isn't found

00:16:33.000 in our U.S. Constitution. It's a states rights issue. And there's more local control at the

00:16:38.920 state level. It's unconstitutional. It violates the Ninth Amendment. It's not in there. And so

00:16:45.060 he wants to have that funding go back to the states. The thing is, you need Congress to

00:16:50.520 totally rip off the band-aid you need 60 votes or more in the in the senate if you want to if you

00:16:57.140 get rid of the unless you get rid of the filibuster which they haven't been willing to do and while

00:17:01.880 we have a majority of republicans in congress we don't have a super majority and but i will say

00:17:07.400 the trump administration has taken every step that they can legally do so what he first started out

00:17:12.720 with was he did an executive order basically saying we should do this and then his department

00:17:18.800 which is being controlled or run by Linda McMahon, has basically fired at least half of the staff,

00:17:26.360 thousands of people already. And they've also nixed a lot of these DEI grants and stuff out 1.00

00:17:33.600 of the department. And that right now what they're currently doing is moving existing functions under

00:17:39.420 the department to other departments. And the logic there is if you can ship out as many things

00:17:46.280 away from the department of education that band-aid rip that i'm talking about with congress

00:17:51.480 it should be easier to do if if at one point we say well what are they even doing anymore anyway

00:17:57.720 it'll be easier to totally abolish the department now the teachers union doesn't want this to happen

00:18:03.080 that's their that's their baby the reason this the department of education was even created

00:18:08.520 in 1979 was because jimmy carter a democrat wanted the endorsement from the national education

00:18:15.000 Association. And basically, since then, the NEA has been able to lobby one centralized power

00:18:22.800 in order to get their tentacles into the 50 states, even though you have red states and blue

00:18:28.140 states. The NEA figures out, well, as a teacher's union, they don't want to have to lobby Republicans

00:18:33.460 in all these red states. They want to instead use their control from Washington, D.C. to push their

00:18:39.780 far-left agenda to all 50 states. Now, that's not as big of a problem when we have someone like

00:18:45.180 President Trump in office. But at the end of the day, when we can totally get rid of this department,

00:18:51.120 he's already saved a bunch of money already. That money doesn't just vanish in thin air,

00:18:54.980 which is what happens right now. It goes to useless bureaucrats pushing paper 0.95

00:18:58.940 thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C. That money goes back to the states. You'll have more 0.74

00:19:04.520 local control. They'll spend it more wisely. You'll actually have more money in the classroom

00:19:08.920 And teachers could actually make more money if we didn't have the Department of Education.

00:19:13.680 And last thing I'll say, Calvin, is the last thing he ran on and the major thing for education was universal school choice.

00:19:21.020 And Congress did pass in the reconciliation package in the budget deal a nationwide school choice program.

00:19:30.340 And 31 states have already opted in.

00:19:32.600 The governors get to pick whether they opt in or not.

00:19:35.200 And 31 states have already said, yes, we're doing this.

00:19:38.300 This is additional funding for scholarships for kids to attend private schools, to schools that align with their values.

00:19:44.720 They can get away from the Marxist indoctrination in the public schools.

00:19:48.020 And I will say, the Republicans were the first ones to jump on, right?

00:19:52.840 They already supported school choice.

00:19:55.200 Two Democrat governors have also said in Colorado and New York that they're going to opt in as well.

00:20:01.280 I'll get to school choice because that's the major topic.

00:20:03.860 But while we're on Trump, I've been very critical of Trump in recent months.

00:20:08.300 But I do like to give credit where it's due.

00:20:10.120 And I've met with a woman at the White House who is the faith office liaison for the Department of Education.

00:20:16.260 And she has been ensuring that Christianity is no longer oppressed or suppressed in education.

00:20:23.040 And we've had a few wins that the Ten Commandments can go back in the classroom.

00:20:27.300 The Bible can go back in the classroom.

00:20:28.740 There was obviously a win in Texas very recently on this. 0.58

00:20:30.860 So we're seeing the faith, the Christian faith of this Christian nation returning to the classroom when the Marxists have tried so long to drive it out.

00:20:36.700 Yeah, that's a huge step in the right direction

00:20:40.160 But I will say, when someone else gets into office

00:20:42.360 That's a Democrat, they're going to try to reverse

00:20:44.100 All this progress under the Trump administration

00:20:46.420 And I think it's inherent in the problem

00:20:48.880 Of the government school system

00:20:50.260 When you have these radicals controlling it

00:20:52.660 That's part of the problem as well

00:20:54.480 But, you know, they'll try to use this whole argument

00:20:57.240 Of the separation of church and state

00:20:58.960 But teaching Bible-based curriculum

00:21:01.080 Does not infringe upon the establishment clause

00:21:04.660 You're not creating a state-sponsored religion just by teaching kids about the Bible.

00:21:10.320 And I would say that – I would go further and say that the schools in general, whether they're private or public, it is impossible for them to be totally neutral.

00:21:21.080 Someone's values are going to be in there.

00:21:22.800 And if you don't have God, if you don't have Christianity, if you don't have religion, they're going to replace it with something else.

00:21:28.740 And we've seen them doing that already.

00:21:30.460 They now worship the altar of woke ideology, even in Texas public schools.

00:21:38.060 The State Board of Education can take steps in the right direction.

00:21:41.420 But at the end of the day, if you have a radical activist at the front of that classroom, when they close the doors, they basically have a captive audience, your children, and they can subvert everything you're trying to do at home.

00:21:55.120 One, that's why school choice is so important.

00:21:57.120 Two, that's why school board meetings are so important.

00:21:59.740 And three, that's why state level legislation and enforcement is so important to eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

00:22:07.400 You can't just say, oh, I live in a red state. Everything's going to be fine and dandy.

00:22:11.240 Oh, we are state board of education past this or that policy. Everything's going to be fine.

00:22:15.440 You have to watch out what's happening. You have to get to know the person who's teaching your kid.

00:22:21.160 And at the end of the day, you're at an impasse and you can't hold that person accountable for whatever reason.

00:22:26.400 Maybe it's going through the legal system. Maybe that takes too long. And meanwhile, your kid's stuck there. You need to try to homeschool your kid. You need to try to get them into a private school if that's possible. And then even then, you can't just say, oh, they're in a private school. Everything's fine either because you have radicals in every type of system.

00:22:43.060 I will just say that the private sector is more conducive to responding to these competitive pressures where if you say, hey, I'm going to take my money somewhere else, maybe they'll start to listen to you instead of trying to hide things behind your back.

00:22:59.020 And one last thing I'll say on this topic, Calvin, is that I would say the government school system, they try to throw these arguments against school choice, and they try to say that, oh, we can't have the Bible in public schools. 0.77

00:23:10.720 And they'll try to use the Constitution to try to justify that, which there's no legitimate argument for doing so.

00:23:16.820 Why don't we turn that argument around on them and say, I would argue it's more likely that the government school system today, if you don't have school choice, it's a violation of your First Amendment rights.

00:23:30.120 Why? Because we have compulsory education laws. 0.82

00:23:32.420 You're stuck there.

00:23:33.120 You've got to pay for it through compulsory taxes, and your kids have to go there from K-12 education.

00:23:40.320 If you can't afford to escape this madness, you're basically – your child is subject to state-sponsored indoctrination.

00:23:49.260 It's compelled government speech.

00:23:51.120 If you want to get a good grade, you have to regurgitate all the far-left talking points or at least pretend that you support these ideas,

00:23:58.200 or at least you feel like you're you're you have the fingers on your thumbs on the scale to get

00:24:03.180 you to do so and i'd argue this the only way out of this to make it constitutional is to at least

00:24:10.140 give the parents to take their money somewhere else so that they're not stuck somewhere where

00:24:14.740 they're being compelled under the thumb of government uh to support one particular ideology

00:24:20.420 which happens to mostly be a left-wing ideology absolutely you made a very important point there

00:24:26.380 when he talked about the fact that you can't be complacent just because you live in a red state

00:24:31.380 and we fight for freedom but when we win we have to fight to preserve our freedoms because they

00:24:36.880 will rapidly be taken away from us by the left. So which brings us to the topic of school choice

00:24:41.740 and why it is so important. Betsy DeVos is from here in Michigan and I believe when she was

00:24:46.440 Secretary of State for Education was pushing for the idea of an education account that follows

00:24:50.840 students and I know you've said similar things as have some of the other activists in your area.

00:24:55.960 this idea that the money should follow the pupil so that when the pupil chooses or the parent

00:25:01.260 chooses where the pupil is educated but the state funds the pupil rather than the area school so

00:25:06.460 it's no longer a postcode lottery it doesn't matter where you are born that doesn't dictate

00:25:10.800 what kind of education you get it's where your parents choose to send you how far along are we

00:25:15.000 progressing with the school choice debate oh we're winning so much i'm almost getting tired of winning

00:25:20.340 i will say i already mentioned the the 31 states that opted into trump's program but you know it's

00:25:25.860 a few thousand bucks here or there. That's not the biggest win. I'd say most of the momentum

00:25:29.540 has been at the state level, mostly in red states. 18 Republican-led states have now passed what I

00:25:35.860 call universal school choice, meaning there's no picking winners and losers. For decades,

00:25:40.940 we kind of tinkered around the edges. It was like maybe scholarships for low-income kids,

00:25:45.700 maybe scholarships for some special needs kids. And it was very small. It was progress. It was

00:25:51.280 a step in the right direction, but it wasn't what Milton Friedman was really fighting for and what

00:25:57.200 the real school choice movement was hoping for. But now we basically went from zero to 100 on

00:26:03.440 that issue. We went from zero states to now 18 states with universal school choice starting in

00:26:09.580 2021. That's more momentum for school choice in the past five years than in the preceding

00:26:16.020 five decades. I mean, it's hard to overstate how much momentum's, you know, we're not done yet,

00:26:22.520 right? We're not tired of winning yet. We need 50 states, not just 18, but at least we live in

00:26:27.480 these laboratories of democracy. You have states like Arizona, they have over 100,000 kids using

00:26:32.940 private school choice scholarships, including using this kind of education savings account

00:26:37.840 thing that Betsy DeVos mentioned as well. It's, you know, the voucher idea is kind of the old

00:26:43.420 school form where you could only use it for private school tuition and fees. The education

00:26:47.680 savings account is kind of like a health savings account. You can only use health savings accounts

00:26:52.240 for health expenses, but for education savings accounts, it's only for education expenses.

00:26:58.580 And the funding can roll over from year to year. It gives you an incentive to economize,

00:27:03.120 to find the lowest price at the best quality outcome. It's the best economic, if you're an

00:27:10.120 economists, this is the best way to do it and how you would envision a functioning school choice

00:27:15.860 program. You look at Florida, they have this as well. They have over 600,000 kids on school choice

00:27:20.920 scholarships. And I will say it's the right thing to do. We knew that. We're already spending the

00:27:25.540 money. And it's actually, it goes beyond that because the scholarships happen to be about half

00:27:32.200 of what they spend in the government schools. So in Texas, we now have education savings accounts

00:27:36.760 that just passed last year and the government schools here even in texas spend about 19 000

00:27:43.880 a kid the scholarships are about half that about 10 000 a kid and so you save taxpayer money you

00:27:49.960 create competition for the public schools to do a better job because now you can vote with your feet

00:27:54.440 and take your money somewhere else and then the kids they're not stuck in an institution being

00:27:59.080 brainwashed and so the families can find the school that best meets their kids needs they have the

00:28:05.480 information on the ground that they know their kids educational needs certainly more than

00:28:10.280 bureaucrats sitting in offices twiddling their thumbs hundreds of miles away they didn't they

00:28:15.320 didn't know your kid's name but your the parents are in the position to be in the driver's seat

00:28:20.120 to make the best choices for their kids and so that's that's kind of where we're at with the

00:28:24.680 momentum we need some more blue states to come along that would be great but again you know

00:28:30.440 If you look at the states and the predictions for which states are going to get more Congress members and Electoral College votes in the future, all six of the states that are projected to gain seats in Congress have universal school choice, except for Georgia.

00:28:54.880 They have an ESA program, but it's not universal, but it's a pretty good one.

00:29:00.440 Whereas the six or so states that are projected to lose electors, like in California, New York,

00:29:07.360 they all, none of them have universal school choice policies. And so people are voting with

00:29:13.640 their feet to places that make it easier to raise a family. And school choice is a part of that.

00:29:19.440 And I will say Florida. Florida in 2018 was a purple state. And Florida in 2018,

00:29:25.480 DeSantis barely won by like 0.3 points for governor.

00:29:30.820 2022, he won by 20 points.

00:29:33.320 The Florida GOP now has two-thirds of each chamber, a supermajority in both the House and the Senate.

00:29:40.320 And the headline in the Wall Street Journal in 2018 was that Governor DeSantis owed his victory in part to school choice moms.

00:29:50.140 They looked at exit polling from CNN, of all places, which found that black moms in particular came out much higher than expected for DeSantis after his opponent, Andrew Gillum, called to get rid of the scholarship program that was at the time serving about 100,000 kids.

00:30:09.120 It's about six times the size as it was even relative to 2018, which goes to show you how much growth there's been in the school choice movement.

00:30:17.980 But parents, when they get school choice, they fight really hard to keep it. These parents who

00:30:23.580 voted for DeSantis, they might have disagreed with a bunch of other policies, but they wanted

00:30:28.860 their kids to get a better education than they had. So I think it's basically untouchable in

00:30:34.620 Florida now. If the governor's race kind of turned Florida deeper red because of school choice with

00:30:41.340 100,000 kids on scholarships, you now have six times that amount using private school choice 0.99

00:30:46.220 scholarships while savings taxpayer money at the same time, getting into more Christian schools,

00:30:51.700 getting into schools that are aligned with families' values. I think Florida is well on

00:30:56.180 its way. And this is why the teachers unions, whenever they hear any whiff of school choice,

00:31:00.660 this is the number one thing they fight against. And with Trump's program, Randy Weingarten and

00:31:07.000 Becky Pringle, who make over half a million dollars a year each, the head of the two major

00:31:11.420 teachers unions. They put out a letter to all the Democrat governors begging them not to opt in 0.93

00:31:17.280 because, you know, two Democrats already said yes. The political winds are shifting. And I think if

00:31:23.120 more Democrats can band together, the teachers unions won't be able to control them anymore.

00:31:27.380 The problem is the teachers unions give over 99 percent of their political contributions to

00:31:32.040 Democrats every single election cycle. It's a money laundering operation in their letter.

00:31:37.020 They reminded the Democrat governors that it's in their Democrat Party platform not to support school choice policies.

00:31:47.540 So it was basically a veiled threat.

00:31:49.740 If you opt into school choice with Trump's program, we're going to try to primary you and use our political muscle to unseat you and get you out of office with a radical left progressive.

00:32:01.380 And last thing I'll say is the National Education Association on this topic is they're having their annual convention. 0.94

00:32:10.020 I think today's the last day in Denver, Colorado, of all places, where they're going all in with transgender insanity in schools. 0.98

00:32:16.560 Of course, they picked Denver, Colorado. 1.00

00:32:19.460 But I just found their resolutions, their business items.

00:32:22.860 They were crazy last year, but there were some more crazy ones this year.

00:32:25.820 And one of the most eye-popping was that they're dedicating – they have a business item to dedicate over $5.2 million from teachers' paychecks to call to impeach President Trump and to remove him from office before the midterm elections in 2026, this November.

00:32:47.900 They're calling for a march on Washington to do so.

00:32:52.360 They want to spend teachers' paychecks to do so, millions of dollars.

00:32:56.540 They're calling for universal health care.

00:32:59.660 And they're also calling to spend over $300,000 in dues money towards creating a culturally responsive curriculum, which includes gender equity matters.

00:33:12.880 I mean, the list goes on and on.

00:33:14.360 I looked through all of these, Calvin.

00:33:15.820 None of them had anything to do with education. No wonder our education rankings are in the gutter.

00:33:21.960 They're focused on everything else. They're focused on creating more Democrat activists. 0.90

00:33:28.340 They don't give a crap. Why do you think during the May Day protests, why do you think there was all these anti-ice protests this year? 0.98

00:33:35.980 Well, they had a resolution to double down on the anti-ice extremism to call for this open borders lunacy.

00:33:43.660 they want to dedicate over $200,000 towards that. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

00:33:49.100 There's so many other things I can go over, but it's just, they call for educational reparations.

00:33:54.260 I mean, this is just off the top of my head. What the hell are educational reparations? I mean,

00:33:59.160 they're calling to infuse anti-racism, so-called anti-racism and critical race theory

00:34:05.420 into the school system. They want to divide people based on immutable characteristics and

00:34:11.300 they want to spend more money just based on your skin color it's crazy i thought we it's it's just

00:34:17.600 it's just nuts and this is why we need to defund the teachers unions get them out of politics

00:34:21.680 take away their federal charter they have the backing of congress right now the only union that

00:34:26.780 has a federal charter it's it's it's they get this false sense of legitimacy they they are not an

00:34:34.760 education organization. They're a bunch of activists masquerading as educators, and they

00:34:41.700 push their politics not just on your kids, but they're trying to push it throughout the entire

00:34:46.220 country. Absolutely. They're not educators. They are indoctrinators. It's fascinating to hear you

00:34:51.240 say this, Corey, because the parallels between here and Britain are almost identical. I've

00:34:56.160 debated both the heads of the big teachers unions in Britain. They're both openly Marxist, yet they

00:35:01.960 both get paid more than the Prime Minister. It's like the corruption is all there to be seen,

00:35:07.020 and it's all about controlling the curriculum to indoctrinate a new generation of Marxist.

00:35:12.300 However, over here in the States, you have much, I mean, school choice is better, but also you have

00:35:17.240 much more control over the curriculum because you have your school boards. And I think school

00:35:21.140 boards are absolutely fantastic. But every time I see a school board on social media,

00:35:25.640 I see a conservative parent standing up or speaking out against a Marxist teacher or

00:35:30.540 indoctrinator that's pushing queer theory, gender theory, critical race theory, or some kind of

00:35:35.540 Marxist ideology onto children through the books, through the curriculum. Is there a program or

00:35:42.100 scheme to encourage more ordinary, good, conservative individuals to join these school

00:35:47.900 boards and take them over, take them away from the Marxists? Yeah, I know Monster Liberty has

00:35:52.500 created a grassroots army. So basically, the teachers' unions were the only special interest

00:35:56.880 for a while, but now we've got the kids' union. We have parents locking arms, and I think that's

00:36:01.920 the only reason we've had this big surge in school choice. Politicians had to scratch their head and

00:36:07.700 say, you know, the parents are voting for pro-school choice, pro-education reform candidates,

00:36:17.660 so now you even have some Democrats at least pretending that they support school choice.

00:36:22.020 In Pennsylvania, there's a guy, Josh Shapiro, and he included in his education platform in 2022

00:36:29.220 a private school choice scholarship program called Lifeline Scholarships. It was a bill that

00:36:35.260 was run by a Republican the year before. And, you know, he ultimately caved to the teachers union.

00:36:42.140 He vetoed his own campaign promise of school choice, even line item vetoed a school choice

00:36:47.540 provision. And, you know, he was trying to have his cake and eat it too, basically. He still

00:36:52.540 hasn't opted into Trump's program. He's been kicking the can down the road saying, oh, I got

00:36:56.840 to wait for more information. I need to, you know, but the decision is solely in the hands of the

00:37:03.080 governor. He basically just said, you know, before said, oh, I support it, but the house is controlled

00:37:07.980 by Democrats. I can't do it. You know, it's their fault, not my fault. He can't point the finger

00:37:13.180 anymore. But so now he's just trying to kick the can down the road. But all that to say is that

00:37:17.360 that you have high-profile Democrats at least pretending that they support school choice,

00:37:23.120 that they're signaling that they support school choice. You got to do your due diligence and

00:37:27.480 research these people because they lie all the time. But at least, you know, instead of them,

00:37:33.500 they are reading the tea leaves. They are making political calculations in real time.

00:37:38.460 And they're starting to see like, you know, I'm not going to be able to do this forever. I can't

00:37:42.740 play both sides forever. And that they are breaking with the teachers unions, at least in

00:37:47.920 spirit, at least publicly. That's a sign of good things to come. Now you have Jared Polis in

00:37:53.740 Colorado, Kathy Hochul in New York opting into Trump's school choice program. That is a big

00:38:00.700 step in the right direction too. And I think the more that the parents push back, the more the

00:38:06.420 politicians are going to have to say, you know what, maybe we should listen to some of these

00:38:10.580 parents, because you even have the head of Democrats for education reform. His name's

00:38:14.800 Jorge Alorza. He's even saying, you know what? We dropped the ball on education Democrats.

00:38:19.940 We need to support school choice, too, or else the Republicans are going to take a lot of votes

00:38:23.780 from us. And so it's unfortunate that politicians make these kinds of calculations. It's not about

00:38:30.080 what's right. It's about them trying to stay in power. But it's a sign of good things to come.

00:38:35.420 Once we have bipartisan support, a nonpartisan support, we'll have school choice in all 50 states.

00:38:42.000 And I will say the teachers who are not radical leftists, there are some conservative teachers.

00:38:47.380 They need to opt out of the teachers' union.

00:38:50.660 In the U.S., they used to be able to force teachers to pay union dues.

00:38:54.920 We won at the Supreme Court.

00:38:56.660 It's called the Janus decision.

00:38:58.420 You can no longer be compelled to pay union dues as a public school teacher.

00:39:01.620 it would violate your First Amendment rights because they're spending money on political

00:39:05.340 causes that you disagree with. So conservatives can now go to optouttoday.com. Whether you're in

00:39:10.940 a red state, blue state, whatever, you can opt out, join the Teacher Freedom Alliance instead.

00:39:16.600 They'll give you free liability insurance so that you don't have to worry about getting sued by

00:39:20.640 students or whatever it may be. And that is the way to defund the teacher's genes,

00:39:27.140 to starve the beast, get people like Randy Weingarten to change their tune because that's,

00:39:33.620 you got to hit them where it hurts at their pocketbooks. They have so much money because

00:39:37.420 they're just taking money from teachers. The teachers felt like they needed to give their

00:39:41.940 money to these people, even if they disagree with them. Now you're seeing a groundswell of teachers

00:39:47.380 say, oh, I don't have to pay you anymore. Oh, I can just keep that money in my pocket. I can still

00:39:51.920 get protected. And so that's called the Teacher Freedom Alliance. I think it can't just be

00:39:57.020 parents. We need to get the teachers on board as well. I love that. Back when I was a teacher,

00:40:01.720 I didn't join a union either. I joined something called EDAPT. If you're in Britain, guys,

00:40:05.340 look it up. It's an alternative where you get that liability insurance in case anything goes

00:40:09.220 wrong in your career. You still need support, legal support most often. But the unions are

00:40:14.260 political activists. They are Marxists and the money goes to political parties, which you may

00:40:18.100 or may not support but this isn't just a political problem this is a cultural problem isn't it you

00:40:23.240 started the conversation by saying something along the lines of parents are realizing that

00:40:27.940 they are responsible for their children not the state but the state has tried to for the last few

00:40:32.880 decades take responsibility away from parents and now the shift is coming back and part of this is

00:40:38.640 parental choice which is a good thing school choice fantastic but also part of it over here in america

00:40:43.440 where you're winning which we don't yet have in britain is the home education system you can take

00:40:47.640 your children out if they can't find a good school you can take them out and you can educate them

00:40:51.140 yourself and that's thriving over here isn't it that's right and um i mean we we got we got to

00:40:56.780 look back at history too in 1938 the nazi regime outlawed homeschooling in germany they wanted

00:41:02.200 everybody in the government school system so that you can't think for yourself so you just repeat 0.56

00:41:06.780 the government state sanctioned propaganda and they still have those laws on the books in germany

00:41:12.660 with criminal punishments attached. But since 2019, in America at least, homeschooling has

00:41:19.360 doubled or in some cases tripled, depending on who you're asking. But the Census Bureau says

00:41:24.660 that they've at least doubled in size in America in a short amount of time since 2019. Why? Because

00:41:31.000 while the COVID kind of mania, the far left curriculum was exposed in the government schools,

00:41:37.380 parents got a little bit of a test drive of homeschooling because the government schools

00:41:40.720 were closed. And a lot of families said, you know what? My kid's not anxious anymore. They're

00:41:44.360 not getting beat up at school. They're not doing drugs. There's so many negative forms of

00:41:49.140 socialization in the government schools. When you talk about culture, I mean, the main argument

00:41:53.740 we've heard here against homeschooling is that, oh, they need socialization. There's a lot of

00:41:58.320 negative forms of socialization that you would be best to avoid that happens in the government

00:42:03.900 school. I went to government schools myself. People were trying to tell me to walk a certain

00:42:08.120 way because I wasn't walking with a limp. I needed to act like a gang member to be cool.

00:42:13.280 That was your social status in the government school system. I had peers doing drugs in the

00:42:19.580 government schools. It was cool to get into a fight in the government school system. That is

00:42:23.640 not how you create a citizenry that gets a job and is cohesive. That rips people apart in the

00:42:34.820 government schools. You can capitalize on positive forms of socialization if you homeschool. You can

00:42:41.500 join club sports. You can have homeschool co-ops that you go attend. They even have hybrid

00:42:48.160 homeschools now where you go to school two days a week, and then the rest of the time, you're at

00:42:53.000 home and you work on stuff with parental guidance. They even have micro schools in the U.S. now.

00:42:58.860 It's basically the one room schoolhouse, 10 students or so. You can do it in a household.

00:43:04.980 You can do this in a miniature private school. I actually went and visited one in Sebring,

00:43:09.960 Florida, out in the middle of nature, basically in the woods. And they had a Waldorf style

00:43:16.380 curriculum where they learned pencil and paper and they did all that normal stuff at desks.

00:43:22.000 But then if let's say they were learning physics, for example, and doing math problems,

00:43:26.040 they'd go outside and build a bow and arrow to learn about the physics lesson hands-on and i

00:43:33.120 think that's how people kind of digest information you have to learn through doing and um you know

00:43:38.920 this is there's a thriving private school and and micro school market right now in florida and it's

00:43:44.620 because of education savings accounts it's because of school choice and so uh yeah i'm i'm thrilled

00:43:51.160 with how the homeschool movement is doing.

00:43:53.200 I will say there was one loss this year,

00:43:55.460 the first time in the past half century, actually,

00:43:58.520 there was the first time a state went backwards

00:44:00.600 on homeschooling.

00:44:01.560 Connecticut Democrats forced through a bill

00:44:05.160 to basically make it so that parents

00:44:08.500 have to prove their innocence

00:44:10.480 in order to raise their own kids at home.

00:44:13.160 You have to prove that you are a legitimate educator,

00:44:17.380 whereas the government schools,

00:44:18.940 they have some of them where they have no kids proficient

00:44:20.820 in math or reading in some places, and they spend tons of money. And what do they get? They get more

00:44:27.080 money for failure. Whereas the homeschoolers, this turns the legal system on its head. We're

00:44:32.280 supposed to be innocent until proven guilty in America. And so I think it's going to get

00:44:38.700 overturned in the courts. We have over 100 years of case law at the Supreme Court precedent

00:44:43.780 showing that parents are the primary decision makers. And in 1925, there was a case out of

00:44:49.280 Oregon at the Supreme Court called Pierce v. Society of Sisters, where the court famously

00:44:53.960 ruled that the child is not the mere creature of the state. Hopefully people will remember that

00:44:59.640 today. I think this Connecticut law is going to go all the way to the top, and we're going to get

00:45:03.900 it overturned. That's shocking to me, because schools should supplement parents, not take over

00:45:08.380 from parents. But, Chloe, to wrap up on, give us some positives. What would you recommend parents

00:45:14.580 and teachers do? How could they actively get involved in this fight? And also,

00:45:19.280 Let people know where they can find you and support you.

00:45:22.080 Hey, follow me on X.

00:45:23.080 It's at DeAngelis Corey.

00:45:24.600 I'm at the Heritage Foundation.

00:45:25.640 If you were just to Google the Heritage Foundation, Corey, you'll find my work.

00:45:30.940 And then teachers, you need to leave your union.

00:45:32.720 That's the number one ask I have of teachers.

00:45:35.060 It's optouttoday.com.

00:45:36.740 You can join us in this fight.

00:45:38.700 Get your liability insurance for free.

00:45:41.180 You can join a group of conservative teachers so that you're not the only one doing it.

00:45:45.740 And you can keep more of your money in your pocket.

00:45:47.920 I mean, that's a pretty easy ask. Optouttoday.com. And then also for parents, they need to fight back, go contact their state lawmakers because that's where most of the magic happens in education policy. I mean, it's a state level issue, even though in Congress they have some stuff going on too. But most of the money that's spent on K-12 education is at the state and local level. So run for school board, tell your lawmakers you want school choice to be passed. And if you have a school choice program, tell them to expand it.

00:46:15.240 In Texas, for example, we have everybody's eligible for the program, but only 90,000 slots.

00:46:21.300 They did it like a pilot program where it's capped in the budget.

00:46:24.460 There should be no arbitrary caps.

00:46:26.800 And then, yeah, lastly, you can get my book.

00:46:30.420 It's called The Parent Revolution.

00:46:31.840 Donald Trump endorsed it.

00:46:33.100 Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, endorsed it, and many others as well.

00:46:36.980 It's on Amazon, basically everywhere else.

00:46:38.720 It's on sale right now, The Parent Revolution.

00:46:41.580 Wonderful.

00:46:41.980 Corey D'Angelis, thank you very much, and God bless you.

00:46:44.620 Hey, thank you so much, Calvin.

00:46:45.700 It's great talking to you.

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00:47:56.220 I'm now joined by David Curtin,

00:47:58.300 the leader of the Heritage Party.

00:48:00.240 David, how are you doing?

00:48:01.640 I'm doing well, thanks, Calvin.

00:48:03.040 It's good to join you on the show.

00:48:04.400 it's good to see you it's been quite some time uh last time we met i think we were both supporting

00:48:09.820 uh the christian legal foundation uh christian concern i think that was a good evening and i

00:48:18.460 saw you on the march for life as well at around a similar time which goes on every year which is

00:48:23.660 yeah good good people fighting out there too few of them but good people um which brings me to

00:48:30.540 the opposite of good people. Nigel Farage has said that he's going to step down as an MP in

00:48:36.040 order to run as an MP in Clacton. Looking at this from the outside, that doesn't make much sense

00:48:42.120 unless you consider the other things that are going on with him right now. What conclusions

00:48:46.220 have you drawn from this? I listened to the announcement yesterday and I just thought this

00:48:50.580 is absolutely ridiculous that he's resigning as an MP, but he's going to stand in the by-election

00:48:56.520 to be re-elected as an MP. And it's not going to do anything and it's not going to make any 0.62

00:49:01.500 difference to the investigation that's going on into his financial affairs and whatever you think

00:49:07.500 of them. I think in politics, you have to be whiter than white. And the fact that he had this 0.64

00:49:13.440 huge donation, but he didn't declare it and he tried to keep it secret. And then it came out

00:49:19.100 means that, you know, a lot of people are asking questions. It's like, why would you just not

00:49:24.920 declare this because you know even just to to show that you've got nothing to hide and this

00:49:32.180 and many other things coming out about his finances you know it's just um the whiff of

00:49:39.460 you know a taint around him at the moment you know whether there is anything there or not

00:49:44.360 so i i think he he's done this probably thinking that it's going to make the investigation by the

00:49:51.520 parliamentary standards commission into him go away but it's not so uh you know we're just about

00:49:58.780 24 hours after his announcement uh he's now not an mp anymore there's going to be this election

00:50:04.660 but it's the worst time of year for an election it's the middle of summer people don't want to be

00:50:10.160 engaged in heavy politics in the summer they want to go on holiday so the whole thing is just going

00:50:16.540 to be an utter farce as far as I can see. Yeah it's interesting so you've drawn a conclusion

00:50:22.380 that this has something to do with the inquiry that's going on and the money that he didn't

00:50:26.040 disclose I would draw a similar conclusion it's a weird one though because as you said it won't go

00:50:30.820 away the matter will still be there but I think perhaps he thought he'd have a mandate to say

00:50:34.880 well my people support me anyway or something along those lines doesn't make much sense but

00:50:39.240 you're also right to point out that this is summer and people don't necessarily care about politics

00:50:43.540 during the summer, most people are away during the summer, but also the people of Clacton are

00:50:48.320 what should matter most in all this, surely. As the Member of Parliament for Clacton, as the

00:50:52.540 elected representative for Clacton, this all seems to be about Nigel Farage. Which part of this seems

00:50:57.700 to be helpful for the people of Clacton? None of it does. There's nothing at all that's helpful

00:51:03.060 to the people of Clacton. They're going to have to go to the polls and elect an MP in the middle

00:51:09.340 of their summer holiday when there is absolutely no need for that to happen. And from what I

00:51:14.060 understand, he isn't in the constituency a lot. I'm saying it doesn't go there at all. But he

00:51:21.360 seems to be spending a lot more time gallivanting off around the world, doing things with other

00:51:27.820 people that are nice, rather than spending an awful lot of time in Clacton. And you can see

00:51:32.780 actually his record in parliament in the number of votes that he's turned up for is quite low

00:51:39.860 it's a lot lower than the average so you know there was something that was voted on in parliament

00:51:47.020 a few days ago that I thought was very very important which was the trial of puberty blockers

00:51:55.420 on children as young as 11, which has been approved by the MHRA, which is the Medical

00:52:02.640 and Healthcare Regulatory Authority. So they're going to experiment on children in London with

00:52:09.340 puberty blockers, and he didn't turn up to vote. And no one from reform turned up to vote for that.

00:52:15.280 It's like, if you're an MP, you should at least make the effort to spend five minutes to walk

00:52:20.660 through the lobby on something which is as important as this which is going to protect

00:52:25.460 our children but he didn't so you know i i i wouldn't say that if i were living in clacton

00:52:32.480 i wouldn't be happy with his performance as an mp that's all that's the way i'll put it

00:52:37.480 yeah well he also didn't want to support the rape gang inquiry and i think the rape gang inquiry

00:52:42.360 report is the most important thing to come out of our country in a long time it's a battle we will 0.94

00:52:45.920 all fight or we must all fight if we want to improve our country the fact that these young 0.99

00:52:50.160 white English girls being raped by Pakistani Mohammedan men. I know as a London Assembly 0.99

00:52:55.100 member, you fought this fight yourself. And you've tried to raise this question to

00:52:58.600 another terrible politician, Sadiq Khan, who still refuses to acknowledge the presence of 0.70

00:53:04.160 these rape gangs, these grooming gangs in London. How's that going? 0.90

00:53:08.100 Yeah, I'm not on the London Assembly anymore, which is a real shame. But I did bring that up

00:53:11.960 in 2021, I think is my last year. And I did ask Sadiq Khan about what he was doing to investigate

00:53:19.820 grooming gangs in London, because if they've been found in all of these smaller towns all around

00:53:25.780 England, surely it's happening in London. That's just common sense. London is the largest city in

00:53:31.440 the country. It's the largest city in Europe. So, of course, it's going on in London. But his

00:53:36.220 response is, you know, you've seen the video and a lot of people have seen the video was,

00:53:41.420 he said, are you asking me because of my ethnicity and my religion? And I said, no,

00:53:47.280 I'm asking you because you're in charge of crime and the police in London.

00:53:51.080 But he tried to deflect from any engagement in answering the question

00:53:56.640 about whether he was looking into something which is a heinous crime

00:54:00.720 is obviously going on, and he didn't want to talk about it.

00:54:04.420 And that was years ago.

00:54:06.540 And I don't think he's been asked by other people in the interim,

00:54:10.840 and he still hasn't given a good answer.

00:54:13.260 I think it's gross.

00:54:14.260 I remember you challenging him when you were on the Assembly,

00:54:16.300 And I know Susan Hall has been challenging him since, and he will continue to deny the fact that he doesn't even know what a grooming gang is, never mind that they're happening in London, which seems like a massive deflection.

00:54:25.620 Because we're talking about the lives of these young girls, for goodness sake. But this is where London is right now. Since your time on the Assembly, has things gotten better or worse?

00:54:33.900 Well, I was an Assembly member from 2016 to 2021. Sadly, I wasn't re-elected as a London Assembly member then, so I haven't been on the Assembly for five years. But it's got worse.

00:54:46.300 Because of the massive amount of immigration we've had after Brexit, after COVID from 2022 to now, it's called the Boris wave, but it's happened under Rishi Sunak mostly, and it's continued under Keir Starmer. 0.52

00:55:03.300 Over four million people have been given visas to come to the UK legally to work in care homes, to work in the NHS, to do menial jobs, unskilled work, which is completely unnecessary because there's enough British people to do those jobs. 0.92

00:55:21.520 But the Conservatives and Labour together, the whole Uniparty, have brought in masses of migrants, unskilled or low-skilled migrants, over the last four years. 0.95

00:55:32.480 Of course, many of them have gone into London. So London was rapidly changing demographically. 0.97

00:55:39.140 The feel of London has rapidly changed over the last 20 years, certainly the five years I was in the London Assembly.

00:55:46.020 But even more so now, the acceleration has changed and we see migrant crime going through the roof with stabbings and rapings. 0.97

00:55:56.040 I don't want to say that word, but this is going on. It's not just in London. 0.83

00:55:59.260 And it's all over the country and it's all over other countries as well, where the program of replacement migration is happening.

00:56:06.460 It's very obvious. But you have the whole uniparty will deny this is happening and smear me or anybody who mentions this as a racist or an Islamophobe or something or an anti-Semite.

00:56:21.260 if you look at some of the organizations that are actually facilitating and pushing

00:56:27.240 migration to come in. But this is obviously happening. It's on the website of the United

00:56:34.220 Nations. Replacement migration is a document dated from the year 2000 that has been up online

00:56:41.100 for 26 years. It's a plan. It's happening. And the changes that we see in Western countries,

00:56:48.700 only exclusively western countries are obvious and very detrimental i mean you make some important 0.96

00:56:56.520 points there um i've just raised a book called the silent jihad on how islam is taking over the west

00:57:02.280 the islamification of the west uh how it's taken over europe and how it's a warning to america not

00:57:07.540 fall down the same path and we end with a conclusion that this is being pushed upon us

00:57:11.980 by a certain demographic and as far as i know david you're one of the very few people in british

00:57:16.640 politics, who's aware of both problems, the problem of Islam, and how it's contradictory

00:57:22.100 to our own way of life, our own values, and it's taking over, but also the problem of Zionism, 0.54

00:57:27.400 of Israel, of the liberal Jews who are pushing this displacement of the Mohammedan people upon 0.81

00:57:32.240 us. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I just love my country. I want my country to be what it was when 1.00

00:57:39.700 I grew up you know it's a lovely peaceful uh prosperous place you could relax you could feel 1.00

00:57:47.540 well but with massive migration and it's not just you know people from Pakistan they are a big 0.98

00:57:53.640 problem the grooming gangs are mainly Pakistani men uh we know that um but you have problems with 0.75

00:58:01.020 um Indians coming in as well and the attitudes of some of those people are bringing and like you 0.80

00:58:07.260 said the attitude of Zionists, who are in many, many positions of power, both in the UK, even more 0.78

00:58:16.260 so in the USA. I mean, it's tracked. You can look at AIPAC, and you can see how many congressmen they 0.71

00:58:24.420 funded. And they are expected to toe the line of what AIPAC wants, of what Israel wants, of what

00:58:33.820 Netanyahu wants, of what Zionists want, support wars in the Middle East, and support mass migration,

00:58:41.380 support the H1N1 visas, I think they're called in America, support legal and illegal immigration

00:58:49.420 into the UK. So all of these things are working together to the detriment of native people.

00:58:57.180 And all I would say is, look, we need a period of very, very low immigration, very, very low numbers of visas given out so that we actually have a period of net emigration.

00:59:10.680 So the 4 million people who've come over in this Boris wave, as it's called in the UK, can all go back legally and then we can start to get back to normal in our countries and have our nations work for the native people. 0.96

00:59:29.360 and it's both islamists and zionists who are actively acting together to change our countries 0.96

00:59:38.760 in a way that is not good yeah it's the h1b visas and i looked into the statistics the vast majority 0.58

00:59:46.440 of people applying for them are indian and so it's not even we're getting an influx of people

00:59:51.600 that are needed with great skills it's just indians doing menial jobs and you're writing

00:59:56.100 that the people pushing this are people from the Middle East who in fact don't have diversity 0.81

01:00:01.300 themselves and have an ethnostate which is why is that something that's okay for Israel but not for

01:00:05.380 Britain and not for America we at NXR have some merch to this to this effect we want diversity

01:00:10.960 for Israel David that's very based I like that I don't know if I could walk around with that t-shirt

01:00:19.360 being the leader of a political party but I'll see if we can send you one anyway it's a funny shirt

01:00:24.940 Yeah. Look, I mean, it comes to the religion, and I'm looking into this, actually. And you know,

01:00:30.640 the thing is, in America, especially, you've got Christian Zionism. You've got tens of millions 0.82

01:00:37.160 of evangelical Christians who are Christian Zionists. There's many, many in the UK as well.

01:00:43.040 We've seen nowhere near as another number there are in America. I would describe myself as an

01:00:48.000 evangelical in terms of doctrine, in terms of, you know, Luther and the Oxford martyrs,

01:00:54.960 Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley, John Knox, you know, they're very good doctrinally on trying to get

01:01:00.600 back to the basics of what the Bible was in the Reformation. You know, you might disagree with me,

01:01:07.140 being more on the Roman Catholic side, but, you know, I think we can agree that our countries

01:01:12.280 are Christian and that's how they should be but most Christians have no idea what Judaism is

01:01:21.940 for people who take it seriously and follow it because a lot of Christians just think oh well

01:01:27.840 Judaism is just a little bit like Christianity it's the Old Testament but not the New Testament

01:01:33.820 so we're very very similar and if they just accept the New Testament then we'll all be nice and 0.87

01:01:38.440 judeo-christian together but that's completely uh so far from the truth because the main book

01:01:46.400 of judaism is the talmud but i'd never heard of the talmud until i was 50 years old no one had

01:01:52.240 ever told me about it and in the talmud there are the noahide laws for the goyim um so the jews

01:01:59.760 expect the goyim to keep the noahide laws which are they sound nice but they're seen through the

01:02:08.020 prism of the Talmud, and it basically is a prohibition on Christianity. So if they're 0.98

01:02:13.860 enforced properly, you would be decapitated for idolatry, for worshipping Christ. And that's 0.93

01:02:19.760 what's in the Talmud. That's the religion of Judaism, if you take it seriously and you follow 0.99

01:02:25.080 the Talmud and you follow the Kabbalah. But most Christians have no idea about that because there's

01:02:31.540 this propaganda word, which only really emerged in the 1930s of Judeo-Christian, which blinds

01:02:40.860 people to the massive gulf and difference between the two religions and really the incompatibility.

01:02:47.440 I mean, you know, I'm no fan of Islamism and Sharia law and the idea of a global caliphate, 0.97

01:02:54.320 But at least in Islam, Jesus is revered as a prophet. They deny his divinity. But in the 0.97

01:03:01.800 Talmud, Jesus is in, you know, excrement in hell. It's disgusting what that says about Jesus. And I 0.99

01:03:11.120 think Christians need to understand this, that what you've been taught that Judaism is, is

01:03:17.520 completely different to what's written in the Talmud and what's written in the Kabbalah. And

01:03:22.980 And if you understood that, you might have a completely different opinion of it.

01:03:27.860 That's such an important point, because a lot of people do think that Judaism is just

01:03:33.100 Christianity minus Christ, or the Bible minus the New Testament, and it's not.

01:03:37.960 It is actually anti-Christ. 0.89

01:03:39.980 Modern day Judaism is a reaction to the Messiah, to the Christ, who came for the Jewish people 0.76

01:03:45.100 and the Gentile people. 0.78

01:03:46.920 And so it's actually turning away from him, rather than just being without him.

01:03:52.340 a distinct difference there and i think i thank you for explaining that because i think it made

01:03:55.780 it very clear to people who are not necessarily awake to the problem yet but the world wants us

01:04:00.420 to take a side the world wants us to choose either islam or israel which side do you choose david

01:04:06.020 i choose christianity i choose my nation i choose western civilization you can't choose one or the

01:04:12.900 other i would like all the muslims and all the jews to be saved in christ because the invitation

01:04:18.820 of Christ, to come to him, to be forgiven for your sins, to be atoned for your sins and to get

01:04:24.980 back into a right relationship with God is for everybody in the whole world. So ultimately the

01:04:30.680 only solution ever that there's ever going to be to all of these problems all over the world

01:04:36.240 is for everyone to come to Jesus because he's already done the work to save mankind, to bring

01:04:44.380 us to a place where we are all one if we all come into the body of Christ. But people staying

01:04:49.820 outside the body of Christ and then fighting for something different, whether it's people

01:04:54.920 adamantly saying, I'm Muslim, or I'm Jewish, or you must follow the Noahide laws, or you must

01:05:00.680 follow Sharia law. You know, there's always going to be death and destruction from those things. 1.00

01:05:06.780 And so I don't choose either of them. I choose my own civilization, which is based on Christ, which is based on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the only way to ever get out of the mess that we're in.

01:05:22.980 and you've been very explicit about this stuff and this is why you have a lot of support at

01:05:27.640 heritage which is your party what are your plans for heritage are you going to stand in the second

01:05:33.220 by-election in clacton once uh presumably farage is found innocent or guilty of this inquiry and

01:05:39.240 then may have to re-stand again uh and do you have plans to stand in the national election in

01:05:44.180 the general election in 2029 as well well for for the clacton by-election if there is a second one

01:05:49.980 I'll cross that bridge when we come to it, you know, because I don't know if there will be a

01:05:53.560 second one or not. But certainly, we stand in the scheduled local elections every year. We stood

01:05:59.960 this year in the Welsh Senate elections in every single seat. And that was widely well received

01:06:07.680 in Wales. You know, it wasn't reported on much in England, but we did very well there. And

01:06:13.740 obviously there's lots and lots of seats up for election next May in local elections in England,

01:06:20.380 Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. When the general election comes around, we will stand

01:06:25.320 candidates in as many places as we can. I'll look to work with other parties if they are interested

01:06:33.320 in doing so. Behind the scenes, there's one other party that we have an arrangement with. I'm not

01:06:41.740 going to say which party it is, but we've worked with one other party already and will continue to

01:06:47.680 do so. And if other parties would like to work with us behind the scenes so that we don't stand

01:06:54.420 against each other, if we have similar principles and policies, I'm open to doing so. But that

01:07:01.400 notwithstanding, we will stand in as many places as we possibly can, because I think we have the

01:07:06.800 right principles and policies for the nation which you can see and you know they're all in

01:07:12.120 our heritage party manifesto which is up online and it's a full manifesto covering every everything

01:07:19.400 you could possibly want to know about in terms of policy from from grooming gangs to two-tier

01:07:25.620 justice to inheritance tax to brexit to um defending our culture and heritage to speed

01:07:33.680 limits to net zero, abolishing net zero, to not getting involved in foreign wars, all of these

01:07:40.880 things that are, you know, the multitude of issues that we need to get right are all there in our

01:07:48.080 manifesto. And it's a great manifesto, it's a great party, it's a great platform, and you're a great

01:07:53.860 politician or political figure. I've supported you and your party for a long time. However, people

01:07:59.360 always say why don't you join heritage and the answer is always similar in that it is such a

01:08:04.340 small party and i don't mean that in a demeaning way it's just the fact of the matter the momentum

01:08:08.320 hasn't been there and momentum is so difficult to gain in politics which is why these collaborations

01:08:13.360 are important and it's good to hear you're working with another party and you're open to working with

01:08:17.180 other parties but people often ask will there ever be unity on the right so heritage ukip

01:08:22.960 reform reclaim restore and all the other ones that i've forgotten to mention um the other

01:08:31.760 patriotic parties do you ever see any real unity on the right in the same way that the left seem

01:08:38.460 to manage it not just in britain but across europe well some of those parties you've mentioned

01:08:43.020 i've approached when they're not interested you know reform being the one that gets the most

01:08:47.860 attention that at the moment has got the most members and the most money they're not interested

01:08:53.400 in working with anyone else so their attitude is we are the dominant brand and everyone else needs

01:08:59.460 to fall and just come in with us but they weren't interested in working with me they weren't even

01:09:03.960 interested in you know having me join their team at all so um that that's a non-starter and now

01:09:10.800 reform are so full of ex-tories from the last government you've got you know literally got

01:09:17.140 four or five government ministers from the failed fake conservative party that have joined

01:09:21.840 reform it is essentially the uniparty it is the establishment rebranded so i think really they you

01:09:29.500 you have to let them go and say well they're they're not going to give the country what we

01:09:33.820 need they're not going to be able to um do the right thing and you've seen that over the last

01:09:39.320 four years i said that in my video this morning they were wrong on lockdowns they supported

01:09:44.620 lockdowns, they supported injections, they supported war with Ukraine, they supported

01:09:50.020 war with Iran, they support Israel no matter what. They also want to do this devolution, 0.52

01:09:58.440 which is bringing in county mayors everywhere, which will be a nightmare for local government,

01:10:03.380 which will help to bring in more net zero, more Agenda 2030. So they're really wrong

01:10:09.360 on so many issues so you know that that's the biggest one that you mentioned dealt with

01:10:15.240 if you like and you know you you could talk about the others individually if you want but

01:10:19.800 um you know as i said if if people are interested in in talking to me i'm open to talk to people but

01:10:26.460 uh i've had very little interest at the moment apart from you know there's one party i'm not

01:10:32.060 going to mention who it is it isn't one of the ones that you mentioned there it's a different

01:10:36.260 one but um you know i'm very happy to be be collaborating with somebody else at the moment

01:10:41.940 which is great um but where do you see british politics going do you think there even is a

01:10:48.020 political solution and if so what is it how do we gain our country back david it's a numbers game

01:10:53.860 and if everyone gets involved actively in politics and stands we can get our country back there are

01:11:02.260 Probably tens or hundreds of thousands of activists on the dark side, if you like, cultural Marxists, Fabians, Bolsheviks, communists, whatever, who want to destroy our country.

01:11:14.880 You can see that they're in positions of power now, not just in Parliament, but also all over the civil service, too, which is infested with common purpose trained people who are just obfuscating anything good that people want to do as much as they can.

01:11:31.600 But it's a numbers game and we just need to get involved and learn about the system, learn about law, learn about politics and get in there, get elected and start changing things.

01:11:45.700 And, you know, one thing that we do as the Heritage Party that doesn't get much attention, that doesn't get much publicity, is we are doing a lot of work behind the scenes to challenge this local government reorganization plan, Agenda 2030 issues, massive developments, disposal of land and assets, which local governments are doing, implementing digital ID on a local level.

01:12:13.920 We're quietly acting on this, challenging local councils and local councillors and MPs as well, and having a lot of success in stopping things from being implemented on a very local level, which is where things are implemented.

01:12:31.720 Because whenever there's a wind farm or wherever there's a solar panel array or a data centre or a 20 mile an hour limit or a digital ID camera going up, it's a local council that puts it in.

01:12:43.920 And so we're challenging things on a local level, and we're having a lot of success. And we do have a growing team of activists who are acting, but that doesn't get any publicity. And so, you know, I would sort of maybe disagree with one of the things you said, that we're small, and we don't have a lot of momentum.

01:13:06.500 We do have a lot of momentum, but it's just not seen because the mainstream media doesn't want

01:13:12.840 to talk about us. They don't even want to acknowledge that we exist, but they know that

01:13:17.500 we are active and we are successful on pushing back against the agendas that the globalists have

01:13:24.560 and are imposing through the politicians on every single level. Well, that's a fair challenge. I

01:13:31.260 accept that. And, you know, my platform is always open to you, David. If you have any wins and

01:13:35.780 successes send them our way we'll happily get you on or your team to talk about it uh let's we want

01:13:40.560 wins we want things to celebrate as much as you know the news is mostly losses at the moment so

01:13:45.420 any good news you can send us is much appreciated yeah sure we'll do i'll i'll get some of my people

01:13:51.060 to come and talk to you and uh you you can maybe interview madeline who's our general secretary

01:13:56.020 is fantastic and she's doing a lot of good work in this area wonderful one last question uh because

01:14:01.540 I know you also stood for the London Mayor previously.

01:14:05.960 Are you going to stand again?

01:14:07.800 No, I've done that once.

01:14:09.000 I did that in 2021.

01:14:12.820 Again, it's a difficult contest

01:14:14.820 because it costs a huge amount of money

01:14:17.940 for someone who doesn't have lots of backing.

01:14:21.160 It's £20,000 just as a minimum to enter the contest

01:14:25.020 and to get your page in the booklet that goes around.

01:14:29.080 There were about 20 candidates

01:14:31.120 And it's so annoying and frustrating when you stand and then the media does this trick and they say, well, these people are major parties and major candidates and they report on them all the time.

01:14:44.240 But those over there, they're minor candidates and they completely ignore everything that we do and say.

01:14:50.160 And so because they designated me as a minor candidate, I didn't get any attention at all in the media, apart from, you know, my name was in the list when they wrote down the names of the people, which I think is very, very unfair in a democracy when we all pay £20,000 to enter the contest and then the mainstream media just don't give you the attention because they are the gatekeepers of information to a lot of people.

01:15:18.780 And, you know, we're on social media, but there are still a lot of people that get their news from the BBC or from the Daily Mail or other, you know, legacy outlets is still the case.

01:15:30.920 It's changing, but they still gatekeep information for a lot of those people.

01:15:36.440 So I did it. I'm glad I did it in 2021.

01:15:39.500 I tried, but it wasn't successful.

01:15:42.460 And I think I'm focused on other things now.

01:15:46.000 I'll be standing for Parliament in the general election.

01:15:49.900 I'll be standing in Bognor, Regis and Littlehampton,

01:15:52.600 like I've done the last two general elections.

01:15:54.880 So that's where my focus is now, on getting into Parliament

01:15:58.140 rather than standing for the London Assembly or London Mayor again.

01:16:03.120 Very good.

01:16:03.880 And some good news from that is that legacy media is dying.

01:16:07.400 So that stranglehold they have, that monopoly they have, is going away.

01:16:10.960 It may take another few years, but they won't have much time left in them.

01:16:14.320 Thank God.

01:16:14.920 David thank you for all the work you do

01:16:17.560 thank you for fighting the good fight

01:16:19.000 and being bold and Christian about it

01:16:21.600 David Curtin where can people find you

01:16:23.620 to subscribe to you to follow you

01:16:25.020 yeah so our website for the Heritage Party

01:16:28.080 is heritageparty.org

01:16:30.060 so please look there

01:16:31.640 you can read our manifesto

01:16:33.500 subscribe to our newsletter

01:16:34.860 join us as a member there

01:16:37.160 I'm on most social media platforms

01:16:40.200 just at David Curtin

01:16:41.520 on X

01:16:43.240 on Facebook

01:16:43.980 on Gab, on Telegram, and Substack.

01:16:46.760 So you can find me on all those platforms.

01:16:49.720 Wonderful.

01:16:50.160 David, thank you very much, and God bless.

01:16:51.840 God bless.

01:16:52.420 Thank you.

01:16:55.140 Thank you for watching another episode of The Next Crusade.

01:16:58.000 Before we go, let's take a look at the comments.

01:17:00.020 These are the comments from the episode with Brian Kemper and Jeremy Ryan Slate,

01:17:04.540 where we address the fall of modern-day Rome,

01:17:07.440 and we address the abolitionist movement.

01:17:10.100 But before we do, let's take a moment to pray.

01:17:12.800 the grace of our lord jesus christ and the love of god and the fellowship of the holy ghost be with

01:17:17.440 us all evermore amen now top comments here uh god the father is the ultimate father yeah amen the

01:17:25.160 supreme father god i like it thank you agape tia forado and magnuson said crusade is the answer

01:17:32.560 the sooner you all accept it the better agreed i've been saying this for years hence my shows

01:17:36.920 have always been called the crusade uh olive said call no man father upon the earth for one father

01:17:42.880 is uh for you you have one father which is in heaven matthew 23 i literally just did a whole

01:17:49.460 monologue on this did you not listen taking that one line out of context makes no sense it proves 0.96

01:17:53.760 you are ignorant what do you call your parent who isn't your mother are you breaking that line 1.00

01:17:58.820 by calling him your father of course you're not it's stupid to suggest otherwise we have to take 1.00

01:18:04.060 we have to read the whole paragraph we have to take the whole context of the scriptures this is 0.90

01:18:08.380 the same chapter where christ has cut off your hand or pull out pluck out your eye he's not

01:18:12.800 meaning that literally like there's a there's a teaching to be learned from this but we can't do

01:18:17.020 that if we take one sentence out of context doesn't work uh and also he in the same sentence as

01:18:22.240 calling a man father he's telling you to not call a doctor doctor not call a teacher a teacher

01:18:26.640 uh do you call your children's educators teacher or do you call them something like it's just

01:18:32.800 ludicrous we have to be better than this as christians uh collette said thank you dearest

01:18:37.180 calvin for yet another excellent show fantastic guests and your relentless and important efforts

01:18:42.400 to help unite the different members of the body of christ through the power of the holy spirit

01:18:47.020 amen collette thank you for that and we all must do that we all must unite around christ around the

01:18:52.260 truth and stop this sectarian tittle tattle um tit for tat rather mk4 said thank you father calvin

01:19:00.440 A blessing to have you in the States with us now.

01:19:02.340 It's a blessing to be here.

01:19:03.420 Thank you.

01:19:05.480 Wes Bess said, the show is fire.

01:19:08.160 Powerful from the start to finish, Father Calvin Robinson.

01:19:10.680 You are loved and appreciated by many,

01:19:12.400 and our thoughts and prayers remain with you.

01:19:14.420 I appreciate that too, and I'll be praying for you guys.

01:19:16.720 Please do continue to pray for me.

01:19:19.160 The Roman Patton said, thanks for having me, Father Robinson.

01:19:23.180 Thanks for coming on.

01:19:24.140 It was a really good perspective.

01:19:25.660 We appreciated it.

01:19:26.440 joseph clark said is that a photo of archbishop falton sheen behind father calvin

01:19:31.500 yes it is the the patron saint of social media commentary and uh podcasts for sure

01:19:39.640 has to be when he's finally canonized very very soon uh so look by biden's taint said

01:19:47.840 are priests called father like the church fathers i.e an earthly father pre i think i addressed this

01:19:53.620 obviously my monologue was rubbish because people aren't getting from it what I thought they would

01:19:56.680 get from it but uh we call church fathers father because they're a spiritual father it's actually

01:20:02.160 the fruit of the reformation it came from the reformation prior to that we didn't uh in England

01:20:06.880 we'd call a priest mister or sir they were mostly you know part of the establishment uh and post

01:20:14.180 reformation the the clerics around were the monastics at this at this time so they were

01:20:22.140 brothers there and there were fratres and we took that title father from the religious priests and

01:20:27.660 we inherited it as secular priests what i am is called a secular priest not because

01:20:31.560 secular in terms of non-religious but secular in terms of working within the world a parish

01:20:37.220 priest is a secular priest whereas a religious priest is uh like a monastic when we use the word

01:20:42.080 religious we mean someone who is living outside of the world usually in a monastery that kind of

01:20:47.000 thing and so the using the term father for a parish priest came from the fruits of the

01:20:53.480 reformation it's a tradition we've had for 500 years in the church but yes it is to say that

01:20:58.780 you are a spiritual father of a community i think people um are reading way way way way

01:21:06.300 too much into it it's a pastor it's a priest it's a presbyter the shepherd of the local flock

01:21:13.360 uh king patriarch said get an american flag please you know the land of the free and home

01:21:18.920 of the brave so many people have said this to me lately no i am not american i'm not going to fly

01:21:23.160 a foreign flag this is my show and i'm a brit so i will fly the british flag if i ever acquire 1.00

01:21:28.260 american citizenship i will fly an american flag i don't think it's appropriate for foreigners to 0.84

01:21:32.260 fly foreign flags i think it's treacherous actually uh and this is part of the problem

01:21:36.800 like if someone comes to america becomes an american citizen and they are american then

01:21:40.400 they need to fly the American flag you can't go around flying your Mexican flag or whatever

01:21:44.000 especially if you have American children but I am not a citizen I am a British citizen and I will

01:21:51.000 fly my British flag and if people don't like it so what um and the other flag I have there is from

01:21:57.220 the other side of my ethnicity which is that that's the Jamaican flag under British rule

01:22:00.800 which I'll show you I'll close the zoom in one day uh Nathan said my spiritual father is God

01:22:08.560 good as he should be god is the ultimate father he is the patriarch the ultimate patriarch but

01:22:12.500 not the only patriarch we have other patriarchs too um i think if you want to call your pastor

01:22:19.120 father that's your choice i choose personally not to call rector pastor or reverend's father

01:22:26.080 mainly because of the verse in matthew 23 but i do not give people a hard time for

01:22:30.540 they acknowledge other men in my personal opinion father is reserved for the father

01:22:35.480 biological and spiritual i feel calling someone that isn't their father father disrespectful just

01:22:43.540 like calling a stepfather your father not step even though you have loving merciful supportive

01:22:48.520 father in your life um okay i can kind of understand where you're coming from but it's

01:22:55.200 really not that deep um if you have a stepfather who has raised you i don't think it's disrespectful

01:23:00.600 to call them father i think it's probably proper actually if someone raises you to to call them

01:23:05.340 father and to suggest that someone is your father doesn't replace like you still have a biological

01:23:12.320 father and to call your priest father doesn't replace god the father you still have a god the

01:23:16.260 father like we can have multiple of these things and we can have one higher than the others like

01:23:20.880 people have got to be able to think more lateral than this honestly it's like it's not that one

01:23:24.460 dimensional um like i have many teachers i have a priest who is my spiritual director he's a teacher

01:23:31.120 of mine i have my university lecturers they were teachers of mine my school teachers like having

01:23:35.100 one doesn't replace the others i have many teachers in my life and people who are informally teachers

01:23:39.240 like it's um i think i just think it's the protestant mindset of not being able to break

01:23:44.840 this down and putting it on putting it onto a pedestal where it really doesn't need to be

01:23:48.920 uh the only problem i have this is matt with the catholic church is the jew corrupted roman papacy 0.74

01:23:54.520 and the cultural marxist global communism they push i think everyone has that problem 0.99

01:23:59.060 uh the jews did corrupt and infiltrate the catholic church and the lavender mafia are gay 0.89

01:24:05.140 and pushing global marxism and that needs to be addressed absolutely i think every catholic should 0.92

01:24:09.860 agree with that mac and this is part of what the sspx split has been about but more on that in

01:24:15.340 another episode macduff 16 said you may consider the eastern church to have valid apostolic

01:24:19.860 succession but does the eastern consider you to have valid apostolic succession it's a good question

01:24:24.160 i don't see that how that matters like i had this conversation with someone this week like i said

01:24:31.060 we should be praying for the sspx they said the sspx doesn't recognize me therefore why should i'm

01:24:35.340 like doesn't matter like it doesn't have to be mutual if you recognize someone as a priest then

01:24:39.700 you should pray for them as a priest as simple as that um the eastern i the eastern catholic church

01:24:45.580 does recognize my orders as valid uh but i just because i recognize theirs doesn't mean they have

01:24:52.000 to recognize mine, that is part of your theology, or it's not, right? Because I'm an old Catholic,

01:24:57.500 I'm recognized by Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, in fact, all denominations

01:25:03.100 as far as I know, but Anglican priests who are ordained in Anglican lines aren't necessarily

01:25:10.220 recognized by all. They're not recognized as valid by Roman Catholics, but they were

01:25:14.160 recognized as valid by Eastern Orthodox for quite a while until, I think it was about 1.00

01:25:18.620 the 70s when that stopped, and that's obviously because of, not the gayness, but the effeminence 0.68

01:25:24.260 for the pushing of women's orders. But, I mean, most, if not all, Anglicans would recognize 0.78

01:25:32.100 Eastern Orthodox priests as priests and valid, and they would recognize the apostolic succession

01:25:36.760 even if it's not returned. That mutual acceptance is not necessary.

01:25:41.100 Solidio Musical said, now we have Catholic exegeting scripture for us. I mean, where

01:25:47.240 do you think the scriptures came from the catholic church um very strange perspective solidio musical

01:25:55.460 um someone replied to him or her saying we have been doing faithfully for 2000 years

01:26:00.400 and someone else replied if he's right he's right and someone else replied robinson is not roman

01:26:06.860 catholic uh he's anglican therefore protestant uh not quite i've never been protestant and even when

01:26:13.340 was anglican i wasn't protestant but i am an old catholic um which again this is a bit of nuance

01:26:19.740 that we don't need to go into right now uh dnks says who well who else they compile the bible and

01:26:25.060 they know it best someone replied to that same base and true oh that was me uh peter martin said

01:26:32.680 i have heard some crap in my time but this is more go on peter laid on me and in my eight five

01:26:39.300 years and this is in capital letters bless him i have never met one cleric bishop whom i would 0.82

01:26:44.220 call father and have as a father and even then only a few i would have as true brothers this

01:26:49.660 explanation is loaded right i mean the explanation is is orthodox and properly christian but you

01:26:54.660 don't have to agree with it if you want to be heterodox that's on you um but this is pride

01:27:00.420 when i read this i read pride like i've not met one cleric bishop who i would call father or have

01:27:05.060 as a father like this is the whole this is the Protestant vibe of wanting to make make a pope of

01:27:11.300 every man you know the Martin Luther um idea that we are all our own authorities and we can all do 0.62

01:27:16.980 what we want and like what we want and believe what we want that's just not Christian like

01:27:20.300 to be Catholic means to subscribe to the Catholic creeds and councils it means that when we say

01:27:25.360 those creeds this is what we believe um I say it you say it therefore we know we're both believing

01:27:29.660 in the same thing we both share the same faith we submit to a faith we don't choose what we like

01:27:34.300 and what we don't like that's just not how christianity works um and so you don't have to

01:27:39.900 again the word father is not it's not dogma you don't have to call anyone father but it's a title

01:27:44.800 that means that you're submitting to their spiritual authority and so when you go to church

01:27:49.140 you're like your minister your pastor your elder your whatever it doesn't matter but you're

01:27:54.240 submitting to their authority because they are there to teach you they are there to shepherd you

01:27:57.560 and so by saying i would never do that what you're saying is you won't submit to that that teacher

01:28:01.340 that elder that pastor that minister that father that's a problem of pride we all have to do it

01:28:06.860 my laity have to do it to me i have to do it to my bishop that's how the church structures it has

01:28:11.680 a hierarchy because god instituted a hierarchy and hierarchies are important and good and we

01:28:16.400 are not marxists or communists goodness me get of yourselves um paul mcgee said where in scripture

01:28:22.380 do you find the right oh my gosh people are really hung up on this word father where in

01:28:26.720 scripture do you find the right to call yourself okay so let me break this down people who say

01:28:31.800 where in scripture do you find x y and z not everything in life is in scripture so the church

01:28:36.520 is made up of sacred tradition and sacred scripture and there are many things christ says

01:28:41.840 this in himself like the scriptures teach us this that there are many things that christ did in his

01:28:47.560 ministry they're not written down there are many parts of the faith that are not written down and

01:28:52.260 there's much to be learned that was not written down right so even if you're sola scriptura you

01:28:58.460 must believe that because this is what the scriptures teach us therefore where's the rest

01:29:03.120 of it it was handed down this is what the deposit of faith is this is why apostolic succession is

01:29:07.260 important because the faith is passed down from generation to generation even before the scriptures

01:29:11.020 were compiled the new testament was before it was compiled we had the faith unless people are

01:29:16.880 suggesting for the first 350 years there was no truth which will be again heretical like and so

01:29:23.500 it's the scriptures aren't we don't go okay so where does it say okay so i have to uh you know

01:29:29.400 wear this kind of hats or i have to you know walk this way or use this accent or whatever like

01:29:36.000 whatever we do in our lives not everything is written down in these in this book or this

01:29:40.200 collection of books it's not an encyclopedia in that way it's a good book that reveals revelation

01:29:45.760 it reveals the truth of god but taken on board with the sacred tradition which is passed down

01:29:51.620 through the church which is guided and guarded by the holy spirit through collectively through

01:29:56.520 the scriptures and the tradition we learn what it means to be christian how to be christian

01:29:59.980 and so as i explained already several times the word father is not important

01:30:05.280 only in that it's about the position that the priest holds within your church and that in a

01:30:13.000 church there is no non-hierarchical structure of everyone doing the same thing and everyone

01:30:17.660 teaching and everyone um celebrating mass everyone prescribing the administering the

01:30:22.400 sacraments everyone reading from the gospel like that's just not how the church works

01:30:27.040 and so it's not that the book says you must call yourself this you must but it's it's like

01:30:32.320 an admission of that hierarchy it's a submission into the hierarchy

01:30:35.620 uh let's see what the replies were to that one um

01:30:39.120 someone said he's named multiple of them you just don't have the attention span hence the reason why

01:30:44.880 you're probably a heretic a bit harsh but um and someone replied no i'm not a catholic that person

01:30:50.080 replied no i'm not a catholic so yeah probably is um lloyd braun said musk hasn't taken risks with

01:30:57.680 his own money he's being funded by both usa and china um i don't know if he's being funded by

01:31:03.080 america and china but when people are that rich they don't take risks with their own money absolutely

01:31:06.800 right there they tend to get loans and use the bank's money and use uh capital venture funds and

01:31:14.420 yeah when when you're at that level it's not like your pocket money it's not like

01:31:19.000 the money is in his bank he probably doesn't have that much money in his own bank account like

01:31:22.360 it's so he's right technically uh austin oh my gosh call no man father every high church well

01:31:31.740 actually that's one must wonder who are these men who are these men are we shouldn't call father

01:31:45.500 it doesn't make sense it's also says honor thy father and mother exactly right so thank you I

01:31:52.980 think you corrected yourself by mistake but yes we must honor our mother and our father and what's

01:31:57.320 that mean does it mean only honor god no it means honor our parents as well and be good sons and

01:32:03.200 daughters and that couldn't be the case if there's only one person to be called father and that's our

01:32:07.880 father in heaven so that's a good argument um the last the least says so rich to see a man who calls

01:32:15.020 himself father spending an hour and a half explaining why oh my goodness jesus didn't mean

01:32:20.000 what he said when he said not to call any man father because god is our father is is the title

01:32:25.060 important to you as i said the title is not important and actually i didn't say jesus didn't

01:32:29.200 say what he said i said jesus said all of this so to say jesus said this out of context makes you

01:32:34.460 fraudulent it makes you a hypocrite like to to read one bit of a sentence and pretend it backs 0.98

01:32:41.580 up your argument makes you a liar it makes you a bearer of false witness which is why you have to 0.98

01:32:46.080 read the whole chapter read the whole paragraph like read the context of what you're saying

01:32:50.360 understand exegetes don't eisegete like take the context of the bible and learn from it

01:32:55.420 don't try and push your views onto the bible that's the message that i'm trying to get across

01:32:58.980 here obviously not well mixed success and there's one more comment but it's a long one

01:33:06.280 so i'll skip that one for now but i do appreciate the comments even the ones that are strongly

01:33:11.780 confused and the ones that disagree but it's it's telling that the top comments are the ones that

01:33:17.380 understood and the bottom comments are the ones that didn't understand because obviously i don't

01:33:21.300 rate these comments in an order the youtube algorithm does and the number of likes and all

01:33:25.920 that kind of stuff so most people i believe got it most people understood uh those that didn't

01:33:32.240 probably didn't want to and that's the sin of pride and so we will pray for them all let us

01:33:37.380 end with our closing prayer of the day in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit

01:33:41.520 Amen. Grant, O Lord, we beseech thee, that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered

01:33:48.280 by thy governance, that thy church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness. Through Jesus

01:33:54.900 Christ, thy Son, our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever

01:33:59.700 one God, world without end. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

01:34:05.000 Amen. There are lots of different traditions in the church today. That is unfortunate,

01:34:09.780 but we all share the same route let's try to look back through that route and try to find where our

01:34:16.360 unity is and not taking so much offense to jump on the attack at every opportunity i have probably

01:34:23.080 been quite harsh in my replies so i apologize if you've taken any offense to that but also the

01:34:27.720 comments seem to a lot of them seem to be people finding offense with the word and so let's reflect

01:34:34.580 on why you find that particular word offensive read the scripture yourself not just that line

01:34:39.100 but read the whole passage yourself

01:34:40.360 and then speak to your father, your elder,

01:34:42.960 your priest, your presbyter, your minister,

01:34:46.880 your whatever you want to call him

01:34:48.580 and find out what the church teaches.

01:34:51.340 Don't just believe what you believe.

01:34:53.500 Find out what the church has always believed

01:34:54.980 and that's the best thing we can do.

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The NXR Podcast - July 09, 2026

The Next Crusade - Britain Was The Greatest Nation On Earth w Fr. Calvin Robinson

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