This is the first of many more Public Square Town Halls to come in the future, and we are so excited to have Congressman Jim Banks (D-VA) join us! In this episode, we talk about the current state of the economy, the economy as a whole, and what's going on in Washington, D. We also talk about some of the things we should be focusing on when it comes to the future of the country, and why we should all be concerned about what's happening in the world and what it means for us to live in a world where we don't have access to basic things like food, energy, housing, transportation, and the basic things we need to live a good life. We also get into the Ukraine situation, and Mitch McConnell's recent trip to Ukraine, and how important it is for the country to have a strong ally in the Senate, not only in Congress, but in the House of Representatives. Thank you to everyone who came out to support Public Square, and thank you for all the support we've gotten so far. We can't wait to do more of these! Tweet me and let us know what you thought of this episode! Timestamps: 5:00 - What do you think of it? 6:30 - What does it mean to you? 7:15 - How do you feel about the economy? 8:20 - What's your favorite piece of food? 9:40 - What are your favorite fast food restaurants? 10:00 11: What's the worst thing you've ever eaten? 13: What are you thankful for? 15:00 | What's going to be your favorite meal? 16:30 | What are the most important to you in your life? 17:15 | What is your biggest takeaway from this episode? 18:00 -- What's a good day in your day? 19:30 -- Is it a problem you're working on? 21:30 22:40 -- What would you like to see me do in the next five years? 25:00 Is there something you're worried about? 26: What s going to happen next? 27:15 -- what do you want me to do in 2020? 28:00-- What s your top priority for the future? 29:10 -- what s your biggest fear? 30:00 What s the biggest thing you're looking forward to?
00:15:48.000We've been working with Public Square for a while now, and this is the first of many small business town halls, a Public Square town hall to hear from the people.
00:16:28.000Having a venue to hear from people, to hear from small business owners, people who are out there understanding what's going on right now.
00:16:36.000We hear mostly from people in the media, no one that's actually run a business, about how Bidenomics is wonderful.
00:16:44.000It's wonderful. It's so great for everyone.
00:16:47.000No one can actually figure it out, right?
00:16:49.000Because I understand who I am and where I'm from.
00:16:52.000I'm the son of a billionaire from Manhattan.
00:16:55.000And if I'm really upset when I go to the grocery store, like, you know, I'm not pretending it's going to change my habit, but if I get it, imagine what that's doing to the rest of the country.
00:17:08.000If I get it, but the people who we've sent to Washington, D.C. don't, isn't something off?
00:17:15.000You know, I took my kids, I took my boys, we were on a fishing trip in Alaska, a couple of weeks ago, I guess, end of summer, right before they started school.
00:17:26.000And I came back, and in the Anchorage airport, I bought myself and two young boys McDonald's.
00:17:32.000And it was $37 and change for a quick, you know, it was $10, right?
00:17:38.000And I'm saying, man, that feels like a lot.
00:17:41.000And it feels like everyone in America feels that about just about every transaction they do.
00:17:46.000But again, we're led to believe and we're told we must believe that things are great.
00:17:55.000Someone who won a Nobel Prize in Economics from the New York Times, Paul Krugman, lecturing us last week, inflation is wonderful, but then there's a little asterisk.
00:18:06.000You know, they put, things are going in the right direction, I'm like, wait, wait, wait, they put the chart there, and there's an asterisk in the chart.
00:18:16.000It said, specifically, does not include the cost of food, Energy, housing, and, wait for it, transportation.
00:18:36.000And I'm sitting there as a, you know, I'm not a Nobel laureate economist, but I have a degree in economics, and I was like, What else is there to sustain basic life in America?
00:18:47.000They've probably cut down on the cost of transgender surgeries.
00:18:50.000That's something I'm sure they were able to get the cost of that down.
00:18:53.000But basically anything that matters to American people is up significantly.
00:18:58.000So it's a wonderful picture if you take out all of the basic necessities of life.
00:19:06.000And they do that with a straight face.
00:19:09.000And think about that. Imagine, like, honestly, I didn't know whether to be upset or impressed that someone with a Nobel laureate could go there and on a world stage tell you that, no, everything's great if you take out everything that you need to live.
00:20:10.000When there's not a glitch, which is more often these days, I will watch him tell us with a straight face that funding yet another never-ending war with no actual objective goals in Ukraine is the number one priority for Republicans across America.
00:20:27.000And so I have done this now in 15 to 20 venues, usually 200 to 5,000 people.
00:20:36.000I'm a survey. Is it a top three issue for any of you guys?
00:21:01.000So I asked him, why do you think about that?
00:21:03.000And he said in a Russian accent, well, because I'm from Ukraine.
00:21:06.000I go, okay, that's fair. So I want to be honest because there is news here and I don't want to get, you know, I will be fact-checked and therefore deplatformed, demonetized, thrown off of, you know, out of polite society for not telling you that one of 25,000 people once said it was a top ten issue.
00:21:37.000But we didn't have three to build our wall.
00:21:40.000Which even some of the rhinos and even some of the Democrats, like the people in New York who all of a sudden don't want so much of the traffic That they were very happy telling us that, you know, everyone's a sanctuary city.
00:21:59.000Until it actually shows up on your door and then all of a sudden the tune changes, right?
00:22:04.000That's where we're living. And so, you know, I wanted to do part of this to hear from actual people, but I also wanted to do it on the show because I want to make sure that people understand just where their constituency is.
00:22:17.000So much of this is holding our politicians to task because they seem to do very well about going to a nice little group like this, And they tell you what you want to hear.
00:22:26.000Then they go to D.C. and they do the opposite.
00:22:31.000Right? There's an easy existence in D.C. as a conservative, as a Republican, if you fold when it actually matters, if you give up.
00:22:39.000You know, I think you see some of that perhaps playing out right now.
00:22:41.000I hope the new speaker is as good as you see on paper.
00:22:44.000I'm just worried that, you know, as the saying goes, the swamp always wins.
00:22:48.000And so, you know, I have a feeling, you know, someone who's newer to that role, who doesn't perhaps have the political experience of that, is going to make decisions based on, you know, intelligence reports that are carefully crafted to tell him exactly what they need to hear to get the result that they want, as opposed to what's actually happening, right?
00:24:09.000Because it went against the narrative.
00:24:10.000If the person who had done that was wearing a MAGA hat, it would have been out in three seconds.
00:24:18.000They'll protect, what I would say per capita, must be at this point, the most radical, violent, growing faction of, you know, what's the term, 0.02% of the world, you know, doing all these things and they'll protect them at all costs.
00:24:31.000But you know who's a domestic terrorist?
00:24:47.000I was at a room in India, just north of here I guess, last week.
00:24:53.000There was a man who was concerned about what was going on and he actually got arrested by the FBI. But it's not just you domestic terrorist parents, it's practicing Catholics.
00:25:08.000By the way, just so we're clear, if you're in this room right now, you're already on a list.
00:25:27.000So again, as we start to realize that these are not serious people, I think it's making people wake up.
00:25:34.000When you look at the polling, when you look at what's going on across the country, when you see the disaster, they get it.
00:25:40.000You know, the adults were supposed to be back in charge.
00:25:42.000Turns out the adults are getting us into World War III and are tanking our economy.
00:25:46.000The people who were going to do it right got up on a world stage after our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, killing 13 innocent Americans, and told us with a straight face, Our Secretary of State, who was given the job because he signed off on documents that pretended that the Hunter Biden laptop wasn't real.
00:26:04.000I take that one personally because I have a feeling I would not have been given the same benefit of the doubt.
00:26:10.000What do you guys think? If that was the Don Jr.
00:26:12.000laptop from hell... By the way, did you guys see the Hunter op-ed this week, by the way?
00:26:20.000How dare they make fun of my addiction?
00:26:22.000Like, listen, if you really cared about your addiction, give back all the money.
00:26:27.000But I have a feeling that ain't happening.
00:26:29.000I have a feeling it ain't happening, right?
00:26:33.000You know, addiction's a terrible thing.
00:26:34.000We all know people who have been afflicted with it.
00:26:37.000It doesn't allow you to sell out your country.
00:26:38.000It doesn't allow you to, you know, outsell Picasso as a journeyman artist.
00:26:44.000It doesn't give you the credibility to write an op-ed when everyone knows.
00:26:48.000Like, it doesn't absolve you from being a POS in literally every other aspect of your life, right?
00:26:52.000That's just not the case. Because I know that if it was me and I had written that op-ed, literally anyone In the left and most on the right would laugh it off for the joke that it is, right?
00:27:03.000But Anthony Blinken, our Secretary of State, gets awarded that position because he got 52 people from the intelligence community to tell the American people with a straight face that there was Russian disinformation.
00:27:13.000You know how he knew it wasn't Russian disinformation?
00:27:15.000Because Hunter himself didn't deny it.
00:27:16.000You know, if it was my laptop and I didn't do those things, I'd be like, I didn't do those things!
00:27:23.000Because you knew it was right. But he got on a stage...
00:27:26.000In front of the world, I think it was in front of Congress, and with a straight face said he is shocked and dismayed, and I quote, verbatim, there's press in the room, they'll fact check me for this one also, that the Taliban did not install a more diverse and inclusive government in Afghanistan.
00:27:43.000These are the adults that are back, no, no, serious.
00:27:46.000Like, hey, if you're dismayed, that's great.
00:27:50.000If you're shocked, you're an imbecile.
00:27:54.000No, no, no. Well, in all fairness, I mean, these were the people that would take a homosexual and throw him off of a building for the last 20 years.
00:28:00.000I mean, we've been at war for them, and we're going to pretend that they're, what, they're going to have Leah Thomas come over and head up a trans coalition in the Taliban government, and all of a sudden they were going to have a seat at the table, the same people that would enslave women and girls into sexual slavery, and have for decades, and are continuing to do it now, they're going to give women a seat at the table?
00:28:20.000Not serious people. So, you know, this is where we are, and it's why it's so important what we're doing right now.
00:28:32.000They understand that they're sick of using their hard-earned dollars only to have it thrown back in their face, weaponized by people that would literally put them in the gulags.
00:28:43.000And at this point, that's not hyperbole.
00:28:46.000I started saying this a while ago, and, you know, maybe some thought that was the case.
00:28:53.000You know, I've seen a lot of protests in the last two or three weeks.
00:28:57.000I mean, the racism I've seen in the last week shouldn't be shocking to anyone who actually understands the left, right?
00:29:04.000Because everything they do is projection.
00:29:05.000But the people who were really concerned about racism for the last seven or eight years seem to be awfully racist, awfully anti-Semitic.
00:29:13.000The people coming from the great thought institutions, including my formerly esteemed alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, seem to be awfully anti-Semitic.
00:29:24.000They're not just supporting the existence of Palestinian people, they're literally supporting the terrorist regime that thought it'd be fun to fly paragliders and fully automatic weapons into a concert, killing women, children, raping them in the streets and babies.
00:30:12.000And if you think that corporate America is going to help you out in this, it's not.
00:30:15.000That's why promoting the nature of small business is such a big part of the show.
00:30:20.000Obviously triggered the whole, you know, half the thesis is about that.
00:30:23.000What we're doing with Michael and other people like Jim Banks who are able to do this and who are funding this and creating an avenue, right?
00:30:30.000Because that's what it is. Remember? Build your own.
00:30:32.000You can build your own, but then they'll do everything they can to sabotage that, right?
00:30:35.000Amazon Web Services will throw you off their servers.
00:30:37.000So between Rumble and Between public square, between these things, people are actually now growing and understanding that there's probably more than half the country That is sick of everything that we once held near and dear and all of our values being thrown in our face, being literally spit on in many cases, both figuratively and actually literally, and they're willing to fight back.
00:31:00.000And I think that's what this is all about.
00:31:02.000So we want to actually make sure we hear from the people that are doing that.
00:31:06.000You'll hear from Michael Seifert again, the CEO of Public Square, a guy that I met that basically saw what was going on during the COVID lockdowns.
00:31:14.000When he was forced to go to his local coffee shop and certain places made him do things that he wouldn't want to do to buy a cup of coffee.
00:31:20.000And he found others that were actually for choice.
00:31:29.000And he said, you know what? We've got to start a list.
00:31:31.000And that's what we've done. Now that list is over 70,000 businesses.
00:31:36.000One of the fastest growing businesses.
00:31:38.000They hit a million customers on the platform before companies like Twitter ever did in terms of time frame.
00:31:47.000So, you know, there's something very real going on in this movement, and I'm just happy to, you know, be a leader in that and just excited to see people like yourselves actually get that.
00:31:56.000Because you've got to understand what's at stake.
00:31:57.000You know, again, none of what we've said has been hyperbole.
00:32:00.000Just like, you know, everyone owes their conspiracy theorist uncle a serious apology over the last few years.
00:32:06.000Like, because they've been batting 1,000, right?
00:32:09.000The FBI will no longer allow the videos to be released because all of the agents involved that were actually there on the ground, why didn't they do something to stop?
00:32:17.000January, you know, the first unarmed insurrection in the history of insurrections.
00:32:30.000We saw a lot of insurrections over the last week or two, and no one's going to jail, and certainly they're not going to jail for 17 to 25 years, you know, for peacefully protesting.
00:33:41.000Obviously, you know, you grow up watching someone who's just a winner and a leader and, you know, had a temper, but, you know, sort of like the attitude when they're like, Trump's attitude's gonna get us into World War III. No, no, Trump's attitude stopped us from getting into World War III. Like, there's a big difference.
00:33:57.000These guys can't make that distinction, but, you know, Bobby Knight was an incredible guy.
00:34:01.000I carried umbrellas for Bobby Knight in this very city one time, right?
00:34:05.000And so I was with a friend, and it's 2015, and we know nothing about politics.
00:34:08.000We're figuring this out, right? That's why the whole problem with Russia collusion was I'm sitting there being like, how could we collude with, like, we can't collude to order a cheeseburger.
00:34:15.000We don't, like, we don't even, like, we're figuring it out as we go.
00:34:18.000So I'm in Indiana with a friend, and I'm doing some stuff with, you know, outdoorsmen in the country and all that stuff, and he goes...
00:34:25.000This was, you know, when it was going to be the firewall, right?
00:34:27.000That Ted Cruz was going to come, the word Kasich was, you know, he was going to come in and win in Indiana, and that was going to change the momentum of the whole race.
00:34:33.000And my buddy who's from Indiana, rural Indiana, and he says, oh, it's over.
00:34:38.000I go, well, no, primary's not for like, what was it, like four or five days before, whatever it is.
00:34:42.000He goes, no, no, no, it doesn't matter.
00:37:16.000And like Don said, when I think of Hoosiers, I think of Bobby Knight.
00:37:19.000One of the reasons I went to Indiana University was to go to IU basketball games and watch him on the sidelines.
00:37:26.000And you know, Don, I remember the first time I was in the Oval Office with the greatest
00:37:32.000president of my lifetime, Donald Trump.
00:37:37.000It was early in the administration, and he invited a group of us to come and talk about
00:37:44.000the big — I think it was the big health care bill, maybe it was the tax cuts bill,
00:37:47.000one of the big bills that was moving its way through Congress at that time.
00:37:51.000And I'll never forget, it was one of those pinch me moments of my political life to go into the White House, into the Oval Office, And the president knew I was from Indiana, so he brought me up next to the big resolute desk.
00:38:05.000And not far away was the vice president, Mike Pence, who happens to be from Indiana.
00:38:09.000And President Trump looked at me and he said, I want to know, before he took the obligatory photo with me next to the flags and the desk, President Trump looks at me and says, I want to know one thing.
00:38:24.000Was it Bobby Knight or Mike Pence who won Indiana for me?
00:38:29.000And I saw the Vice President sort of grimace a little bit, or kind of gave me a funny look, and I said, there's no question about it, Bobby Knight is the reason that Donald Trump won Indiana.
00:38:42.000And President Trump said, I knew it, I knew it.
00:38:45.000Bobby Knight, a great man, great American.
00:38:47.000And we honor him and remember him as we lay him to rest this week.
00:38:52.000I think it's great that the first public square town hall is in the state of Indiana because how many of you knew that public square businesses representing the state of Indiana, there are almost 900 of them on the app.
00:39:11.000Almost 50,000 Hoosier users have downloaded the app and regularly use the Public Square app.
00:39:19.000And I think that's a great thing because Public Square is the ground zero of supporting pro-American businesses and where better to find pro-American businesses and employers than right here in the Hoosier State, right?
00:39:33.000That's why we're here today to talk about a movement that's very important to me.
00:39:37.000We are in a location that is represented on the app here at Nevermore.
00:39:42.000But I want to talk about Throughout the state of Indiana, those hundreds of businesses don't just make up bars and restaurants, they make up photographers or hardware stores.
00:39:55.000Or, in my hometown, Columbia City, EB Bikes, a bicycle repair store.
00:40:01.000Or in Fort Wayne, my friend Chris Parker, a local realtor, is on the app.
00:40:08.000Freedom Firearms, a great company in the Fort Wayne area that you might choose to use.
00:40:14.000You see, the reason that we are drawn to the app It's because wokeism is anti-Americanism.
00:40:22.000And I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of giving my money to businesses who support causes that want to destroy America and that support woke, anti-American political causes.
00:40:33.000That's why I really like this app, like all of you, right?
00:40:38.000That Public Square chose Indiana to be the first location of this town hall series.
00:40:44.000I've been in Congress for going on eight years.
00:40:48.000I was elected in 2016 when President Trump was elected as well.
00:40:52.000And I've had a lot of wake-up calls in my public life and serving in Congress.
00:40:57.000I was the first member of Congress to be kicked off Twitter for calling a biological man a man.
00:41:05.000Thank you. A big wake-up call, though, after January 6th, when I was boycotted by many so-called American corporations because I objected to how the election in 2020 was carried out.
00:41:26.000I stood with President Trump, and I stood up for election integrity, and I was boycotted for it.
00:41:36.000I'll never forget some of these companies, companies like Amazon.
00:41:41.000MasterCard, Nike, Walt Disney, and Zillow all said that they would never support me again because I stood up for election integrity.
00:41:52.000So after that, I chaired something called the Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in Congress.
00:42:46.000But I'm sick and tired of some of the generals, like General Milley, who...
00:42:52.000Pushed a woke movement on our men and women in uniform.
00:42:56.000At the same time, we have kids being taught in school that America is inherently evil and racist and is not worth fighting and dying for.
00:43:04.000Ladies and gentlemen, it is not sustainable for a great country like ours to teach our kids that.
00:43:10.000And then expect them to raise their right hand and take an oath of office, knowing that when they do so, like so many of you, that they might be paying the ultimate sacrifice when they wear that uniform.
00:43:21.000That's not sustainable. We can't expect our country to survive if we're pushing wokeism in schools, pushing it on our troops, and allowing some businesses to continue to support causes that will ultimately Undo our country, meaning that this country won't survive any longer.
00:43:39.000So to me, that's what Public Square stands for.
00:43:43.000They're the ground zero. There are other apps as well.
00:43:46.000There are others who are a part of this anti-woke movement to create a parallel economy and show us, give us options to choose companies that are pro-America, Companies that won't discriminate against you and me because of our conservative political beliefs.
00:45:02.000So we have an exciting rest of the evening together.
00:45:11.000You're actually going to get to hear from Congressman Jim Banks again, as well as Donald Trump Jr.
00:45:15.000You're also going to hear from a dear friend of mine, Alex Brucewitz, here in a moment.
00:45:18.000But before we do that, I just want to thank you so much for coming and being a part of this.
00:45:22.000This is, as Congressman mentioned, the first of many Public Square Town Hall series.
00:45:27.000So, we are talking to incredible government leaders who are standing up for the principles core to Public Square.
00:45:33.000A love for country, constitution, the values that that wonderful document protects.
00:45:38.000We're bringing the economy back to the basics.
00:45:41.000Excellence, meritocracy, a value for your community, a departure from equity, and an embrace of actual equality.
00:45:48.000That's what we're doing at Public Square.
00:45:50.000And it only works because of millions of patriots, like yourselves, around this great country That are recognizing that your vote is not limited to every two or four years.
00:46:04.000Anytime you pull out your wallet to purchase a cup of coffee, or transact with a certain apparel entity, or house your finance with a certain financial institution, you are empowering something with those dollars.
00:46:19.000And I don't know about you, but I want to actively be a part of empowering the type of future that I can be really proud of.
00:46:26.000Actually, I was about to say I gave birth to my daughter.
00:46:29.000That didn't happen. Although it is 2023, so you can infer from that what you like.
00:46:34.000My wife and I, my beautiful wife, Sarah Gable, she gave birth to our first daughter a year ago.
00:46:42.000It was like I had this newfound perspective of why we're doing what we're doing.
00:46:47.000If you would have asked me, over a year ago, why'd you start Public Square?
00:46:50.000I would have said, to save the country, and to bring the power back to the hands of the people, and to shift the power structures of society back toward patriots, because small businesses are being eroded, and they need protection, and the consumers that value them are the ones that I want to continue empowering.
00:47:06.000I would have given you all of these reasons, and all of those are true, but at the end of the day, since the birth of my daughter, the reason I'm doing what I'm doing is so that my daughter can have a better future.
00:47:17.000It so far eclipses the rest of the reasons.
00:47:20.000That's the one. And I'm learning over this past year that our legacy and the future that we create will actually far extend beyond when I'm here any longer.
00:47:28.000One day, when I'm dead and gone, I want to be able to know with blessed assurance that
00:47:32.000I actively contributed to the type of country that will actually lead to the prospering
00:47:36.000and success of my sweet girl, of your children, of your grandchildren.
00:47:48.000So I could keep talking for a little while, but I want you to hear from one more voice.
00:47:51.000I want you to hear it from a dear friend of mine, Alex Bruce Witts, who actually, credit where credit is due, had the original idea for the Public Square Town Hall series.
00:48:57.000I miss having a president that cut taxes, that unleashed American energy, that brought jobs back to America and put America first every single day.
00:49:12.000And now, under geriatric Joe, we have an administration that does the exact opposite.
00:49:19.000We have an administration that has created record high inflation, that has skyrocketed our gas prices, that has offshored our jobs, and, quite frankly, is destroying our country.
00:49:35.000But fortunately, a year from today, Donald J. Trump will be president-elect once again.
00:49:42.000Anyway, for those who don't know me, which is probably most of you, my name is Alex Bruzowitz
00:49:54.000and I am the CEO of a political consulting company called X-Strategies.
00:49:58.000And I have the luxury, well, I don't know if it's a luxury, you guys can decide, but I know all of the Republican lawmakers, okay?
00:50:06.000And I can promise you that you have a fantastic one right here in Indiana in Representative Jim Banks.
00:50:13.000And you guys should be very grateful for that.
00:50:19.000And it's fitting that the very first public square town hall is here in Indiana because Jim Banks has been a leader against wokeism since the very beginning, and he's been a strong ally to President Trump since day one.
00:50:33.000Wokeism is a cancer that destroys everything it touches, including Rachel Maddow, by the way.
00:50:39.000No, seriously, look up Rachel Maddow in college and look at her today.
00:50:48.000So if you think wokeism is bad, you're going to think it's really bad when you look at the side-by-side pictures.
00:50:54.000But wokeism needs to be rooted out of our government, and Jim Banks is leading the fight.
00:50:59.000It also needs to be rooted out of the private sector and Michael Seifert and Public Square and every single person in this room is leading that fight.
00:51:16.000Applause Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, CEO and
00:51:26.000founder of Public Square, Michael Seifert.
00:51:28.000Applause All right, crew. I've got an exciting surprise for you.
00:51:38.000If you've followed along with the email chains that we sent out to Public Square members heading up into this event, you might have caught an email last week where we announced that we would be giving a $1,000 business grant to one participant in the audience this evening.
00:51:52.000And I kind of made an offhanded joke that, gosh, wouldn't it be great to have one of those big checks?
00:51:56.000And I didn't realize how seriously my team took me.
00:52:01.000It's very exciting. And I'll say this.
00:52:06.000We'll make a few more remarks at the end, but I just want to highlight each and every one of you that are business owners that have worked so hard and valiantly, especially over the past few years in a very tough economy, to continue your business prospering for the betterment of your community.
00:52:21.000We're excited to initiate this grant program at each of these town halls.
00:52:25.000Anytime we go to a new region, we actually want to pick a lucky audience member who we could actually back and say that we want to help you with capital to grow your business.
00:52:34.000Because we know, we know, from our interactions with each and every one of you, that an investment in your business, that capital in your hands, will be put to good use.
00:52:43.000It won't be put to ESG and DEI and all these ideologies that lead to the detriment of our society and our marketplace, but instead, it will lead to the prospering of your community because we have the right priorities in the proper alignment.
00:52:56.000We're really proud tonight to give $1,000 of a business grant to one of your Indiana businesses.
00:53:01.000You want to hear who it is? Yeah, awesome.
00:53:04.000All right, I'm going to introduce this gentleman.
00:53:06.000He's here in the audience with us tonight, dressed to the nines, okay?
00:53:09.000This man is a name named Matthew Mollman.
00:53:27.000Hey team, Matthew Molman leads a company called Monument Ventures.
00:53:32.000Okay, so if you are interested in the world of finance, financial stewardship, excellence at the forefront of your business or your personal financial goals, this is your guy.
00:53:45.000And we're really proud to back you because you're a business on Public Square.
00:53:48.000You stand for the principles that have made this great flag behind you so special.
00:53:52.000And we hope and pray that That this small but hopefully impactful gift will continue to lead your business prospering for the years and decades to come.
00:54:40.000We're going to do our best to give you some answers that we hope provides value to you in your own journey as a business owner or a conscious consumer.
00:55:08.000I'm going to moderate this time, so as you ask your question, I'll be able to provide some context, kick it to one of the gentlemen on my right or left, and we'll go from there.
00:55:17.000So, without further ado, we'd love for you to introduce yourself, your name, if you're a business owner, if you could share your business as well, and then we'd love to hear your question.
00:56:29.000And when they originally heard from us that we were interested in purchasing this domain so we could kind of own the rights to Public Square fully on the internet, They gave us an exorbitantly high price.
00:56:39.000They said that this domain is one of our most valuable commodities.
00:56:42.000We're not giving it up. Well, over the course of the last year, there's been enough folks that thought that they were actually us, so they went to their site, they put in support requests or inquiries in their web form and said things like, we love what you're doing, down with Biden.
00:56:57.000There may have been a few FJBs in there, just so we're clear.
00:57:02.000So this town in New York is like, we did not sign up for this.
00:57:05.000Do you want the domain? So it was a pretty wild set of circumstances.
00:57:10.000Let's just say it went from usury to very reasonable.
00:57:15.000It is. We got a steep discount on publicsquare.com.
00:57:18.000If you sent in an inquiry into Watertown, New York's business portal, thank you.
00:57:23.000Appreciate it. To answer your question, another piece of this release is we actually introduced e-commerce functionality into the platform, where you can actually sell your products directly through the platform, which hopefully, more than anything else, will increase conversions to your business.
00:57:37.000The reality is for the first year and a half of forming this company, because remember, Public Square, I didn't even have the idea for the platform three years ago.
00:57:45.000This is a very nascent business, but because of God's grace and because of incredible consumers and businesses like each and every one of you, this thing has escalated and elevated far faster than we ever could have imagined.
00:57:54.000In the early days, we started as a directory.
00:57:56.000You could see businesses or products, services in your area that aligned with your values, and you could purchase, but the purchase took place on the business's site, which is an extra step for consumers.
00:58:07.000None of us love the extra step, but we functioned kind of like a Yelp.
00:58:10.000This release, though, that went out Wednesday, you can find it at publicsquare.com or on your app, actually allows you to purchase directly from the app experience itself without ever having to leave the site, which is a massive development.
00:58:35.000So to see the new level of functionality to the platform gets us ready for a business like yours to launch, link your products to the platform, and we're going to help you sell some apparel.
00:58:48.000By the way, for the small businesses out there, why don't you give a quick update, Michael, just how easy it is to actually do that linking, right?
00:59:00.000I don't confuse being able to talk smack well online with being a tech guy, but it's actually really simple to sort of just upload your whole sort of set of SKUs.
00:59:08.000Yeah, in fact, if you're linked with another portal, for example, let's say you host your business on Shopify or Wix or WooCommerce or wherever it might be, we can actually integrate your existing storefront into our user interface.
00:59:20.000So it's not like you have to go to the hurdle of creating a whole new hosted site.
00:59:24.000If you just want to try it out, you want to take 10 minutes, you want to link your products, you want to see how it converts, you can do that.
00:59:30.000We're starting there so we can make it super simple for you to link your business and your products.
00:59:34.000That way, you can test the public square experience, see some sales start rolling in.
00:59:39.000And what's also neat about this experience is not only is it easy and quick to do, but the businesses that are linking their products right now, we're really trying to elevate and put into collections.
00:59:49.000And these are especially prominent businesses heading into the Christmas shopping season.
00:59:53.000People are loving that ability to transact very simply.
00:59:56.000So if you have not linked your products yet, please come talk to us after.
00:59:58.000We'd love to teach you how to do that.
01:00:00.000It's real quick and easy. And for you and your business that's launching soon, we hope that you'll take a few minutes and join us.
01:00:17.000I'm the founder and the president of Agathos Law, which is a non-woke law firm here in Indiana.
01:00:22.000And we specialize in representing parallel economy companies.
01:00:26.000So my question for you, since everyone in the room knows how hard it is to start a new business even in the best of times, what plans does Public Square have to help entrepreneurs launch new businesses to help grow the parallel economy?
01:00:39.000By the way, if you're a parallel economy business, you have to have a high level of intentionality on law.
01:00:46.000Because we, as Don mentioned earlier, we have a target on our back.
01:00:49.000And we know that there are folks that are looking for this to fail.
01:00:52.000They're looking for Public Square to fail.
01:00:53.000They're looking for your business to fail because they want to invalidate the idea that the parallel economy would ever need to exist.
01:01:00.000They want the anti-woke caucus to fail because it would invalidate the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans that actually are believing for A future that is not captured by woke ideology.
01:01:12.000Thank you for what you're doing first and foremost.
01:01:14.000You're on the front lines defending the cause and I really appreciate that.
01:01:17.000To answer your question, we have some exciting things in the works as we head into 2024, helping small business owners actually get their feet on the ground and begin really running as a new entrepreneur.
01:01:29.000Some of them, these are tools we've already released.
01:01:32.000For example, we launched a business tool that we are using as a company, so we thought, well, we might as well open it up for our community to use as well, called PSQLink, which is a compilation of a few different white-labeled tools with a few custom tools of our own included that helps small businesses increase their sales, because if you learned like we did, Salesforce has no regard for your business.
01:01:51.000They don't care about you. In fact, Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, called himself The most anti-conservative CEO in the country.
01:02:02.000This man owns Time Magazine, so he's got his mouthpiece through media, and this is Salesforce that's supposed to be the engine helping you and your business grow?
01:02:09.000I don't think so. So we've got tools that we're launching over the course of the coming 12 months especially, but we've also got some cool content in the mix from famous entrepreneurs that have been in our movement that are going to help small business owners learn kind of the Rules of the road, tips of the trade.
01:02:28.000You know, it's a famous saying that I shouldn't have to eat dirt to know it doesn't taste good.
01:02:32.000You guys ever heard that before? One of the challenges that we face as a business owner, golly, I know I have, is that I've made so many errors that I hope the entrepreneurs after me won't have to make.
01:02:41.000And so our goal is getting good content, good tools, and good solutions in front of business owners in packages that are condensed so that folks don't have to make the same mistakes that many of us did as hiccups along the way, and instead, Can propel and expedite their journey?
01:02:57.000Because the country needs your entrepreneurship right now.
01:02:59.000One of the things, actually, and one of the companies we work with, because a big part of that is your hiring process, right?
01:03:07.000You know, if you go work for a company that doesn't share your values, your work experience is miserable, you're not going to be a productive employee.
01:03:14.000If you're a small business owner, okay, and I use the example of, you know, these days, you're a small business owner and you say Merry Christmas to someone with, you know, rainbow hair, you know, you're going to be Sued.
01:03:27.000We work with a company called Red Balloon.
01:03:32.000And they do a lot of that sort of HR vetting as well so that you can find people who are working in your company that have aligned values with you.
01:03:40.000When you show up and you feel welcomed at work, you're going to be more productive and vice versa from a business perspective.
01:03:46.000So much of that and so many of the biggest mistakes that I see as a business guy is actually in that bad hire.
01:03:53.000That bad hire for a small business can be debilitating.
01:04:02.000Lawfare probably more than any human being in the world.
01:04:04.000If you've been watching TV, you've probably seen some of that.
01:04:07.000But for a small business, it's no different.
01:04:09.000And the other side has shown that they'd be 100% willing to weaponize that against a small business.
01:04:15.000And a small business doesn't have the wherewithal to spend, in our case, hundreds of millions of dollars fighting on that onslaught of nonsense.
01:04:32.000Perils that we face that perhaps we don't throw back at the other side the same way.
01:04:38.000Yeah, I'm really glad he brought up Red Balloon.
01:04:40.000Highly recommend you check it out if you're hiring or if you're looking for a job.
01:04:44.000We've heard incredible success stories of people coming out of that platform.
01:04:48.000That's kind of our preferred vendor in the world of jobs.
01:04:51.000One quick story. There was a physical therapist clinic that was looking for a new nurse slash kind of aid on site.
01:04:59.000And they had been looking for a while because their values were really important to them and they felt like it was a hard time finding talent.
01:05:05.000Well, Simultaneously, there was a nurse that was getting fired from her hospital system because she refused the vaccine.
01:05:11.000For 10 years, this hospital trusted her with her patient's health, but then when it came time to trust her with her own health, they denied her future employment.
01:05:22.000Rest assured, she found this physical therapist clinic in the first interview, was hired on the spot, and the clinic actually prayed for her and said, our values align.
01:05:33.000It's only the first day. And we've touched base.
01:05:36.000That was about a year ago. And their employment is going swimmingly because of that sort of values alignment that you're not going to find anywhere else.
01:05:42.000So it's a long answer, but it's a really important question.
01:06:03.000So the question I have is, how do we deal with multiple generations that have been taught through education and culture to hate America?
01:06:13.000So my friend Jeff Cardwell, owner of Cardwell Do It Best and I were just talking about this earlier today.
01:06:20.000Wall Street Journal published a poll A couple of months ago, in 1998, 70% of Americans said that they were very patriotic.
01:06:33.000Today, 38%, only 38% of Americans say that they are very patriotic, that they love their country, that they believe, like you and I do, that this is the greatest country in the history of the world.
01:06:48.000So somewhere along the way, we stopped teaching our kids that America is great, right?
01:06:53.000But I think there's also another layer to this.
01:06:58.000We have never seen a period of time like we have over the last three years with a There's a greater growing divide between the haves and the have-nots in this country because of the radical left-wing policies of this administration.
01:07:16.000First-time homebuyers can't buy a house because interest rates are so high.
01:07:21.000It's inflation and everything that you buy costs more to buy it.
01:07:51.000There is not a community that I've been to over the last year in Indiana that hasn't been impacted by the drug crisis or a family that hasn't been impacted by it, too.
01:08:01.000So all of that Has led to, I believe, a disastrous point where far less than 50% of Americans say that they are very patriotic.
01:08:12.000That's a dangerous place for any great country to get to.
01:08:17.000And the values being pushed on us by Wall Street and woke corporations that don't believe that America is great, they don't see themselves or view themselves as American corporations, They're selling us out to our biggest adversary, China. By the way, Donald Trump was the first president of my lifetime, of either party, to say that China is a threat to America.
01:08:44.000Now we have a president who's literally in bed with the Chinese Communist Party.
01:08:48.000Maybe not him, but with Hunter, you never know.
01:08:50.000Right? When I think about the China threat, I think about the nearly 100,000 manufacturing jobs that have been killed in our state, in Indiana alone, when Republicans and Democrats granted China most favored nation status.
01:09:10.000Wall Street, corporate America, political values that sold out our country to our biggest enemy and killed our jobs in the process.
01:09:22.000The only solution is the people in this room.
01:09:24.000Those of you who understand that this country is worth fighting and dying for, we have to stand up for a great country if we want to pass it on to our kids.
01:09:32.000I have three daughters, 14, 12, and 10, so please pray for us.
01:09:38.000But I want them to know that every day I want them to wake up and know that this country is great and it's worth fighting for.
01:09:44.000And we've got to build movements like this one to continue to push that sentiment onto the next generation and we're going to lose this great country in the process.
01:09:56.000Jim, I mean, expand on it a little bit further because, you know, we're talking obviously about corporate, but it's not just corporate, right?
01:10:01.000I mean, you served our country in the military.
01:10:04.000You see the recruitment numbers right now, and it seems reflective, I mean, that they can't make basic recruitment numbers because, you know, what patriotic American is going to go fight for Plenty of things that don't seem all that patriotic, certainly within the military.
01:10:19.000Talk about that, because as someone who has served that way, continues to serve, is going further in terms of now going, in my opinion, you'll be the next senator from the great state of Indiana.
01:10:52.000But it's really dangerous, Don, when we're talking about the military.
01:10:55.000You're right. This year is the 50th anniversary of an all-volunteer force in our military, and yet is the biggest recruitment crisis in American history.
01:11:05.000I mean, the Army is, I think, 15,000 soldiers off of their recruitment goals this year.
01:11:10.000And you wonder why, with generals like General Milley, This guy is the most political general that we've ever had in American history.
01:11:20.000Jim, are you saying the drag queen influencers?
01:11:25.000They haven't moved the needle to get other good red-blooded patriotic Americans.
01:11:29.000You had Bud Light and the whole Dylan Mulvaney situation happen, and then you had the Navy say, hey, Bud Light, hold my beer.
01:11:37.000Watch this. The Navy hires a transgender, the same thing, a trans social media influencer to try to recruit for the Navy, and now my beloved United States Navy is 10,000 sailors short of their recruitment goals.
01:11:52.000So here's what we did, Don. We created the Anti-Woke Caucus.
01:11:55.000And the whole point of the Anti-Woke Caucus was to get members of Congress together in the same room and strategize.
01:12:01.000How can we use our power, especially in this new Republican majority?
01:12:06.000It's a small majority, but we have a majority.
01:12:09.000How can we cut the head off the snake of wokeism?
01:12:13.000When Biden came to office on his very first day, one of the very first things that he did was he instructed every federal agency to create chief diversity officers.
01:12:22.000Why does the VA need a chief diversity officer?
01:12:27.000Because they want to do away with the very American principles of merit.
01:12:32.000Right? And they want to choose political values to hire people in the federal government instead of America being built on a meritocracy.
01:12:42.000So here's what we did with the Anti-Woke Caucus, and I'll finish with this.
01:12:45.000We got in a room, we strategized, and we passed the most anti-woke defense bill in history.
01:12:50.000We banned drag shows on military bases first.
01:12:54.000We killed the job for this drag show Navy recruiter.
01:13:06.000We said the Navy shouldn't be investing money in somebody that does social media influencing to try to recruit if that's how they're going to recruit.
01:13:15.000But we also made it very clear in the defense bill that no one can be promoted, assigned, or even accepted into the military Because of the color of their skin, their political views, their sexuality, they should be chosen because of their merit, that they are the best person to serve our country.
01:13:38.000Right now, for the first time in a lifetime, the Congress, with our new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, we're working through the regular appropriations process, and we're axing line items in every appropriation bill that funds DEI in the federal government.
01:13:55.000Taxpayers shouldn't be paying for that.
01:13:57.000Your hard-earned tax dollars shouldn't go to that.
01:14:03.000Hey, I want to give one more piece of feedback in answer to your question.
01:14:08.000What I really think is important for the next generation to embrace, especially in this age of kind of competing information, it's truly an information war for the lives of the next generation.
01:14:19.000They've got to embrace content Material online that is actually encouraging patriotism, encouraging their development as a young American, rather than detracting away from it.
01:14:31.000So what I would recommend doing, and we've tried to push this at Public Square heavily, is find educational resources, content through media that is actually standing against the Disney's of the world that are trying to teach you that Cinderella's now a man and And Snow White should be all about race.
01:14:47.000I mean, all this nonsense is taking place, but there are alternatives on the Public Square platform.
01:14:52.000Daily Wire is doing a great job of building educational alternatives.
01:14:56.000Yeah, they're doing an awesome job in content.
01:14:59.000There's something out there, and you can find it.
01:15:01.000I mean, again, because it's such a key tenant of the show that we're streaming live as part of it.
01:15:06.000Patriot Mobile. Right? You're going to have a cell phone in your pocket anyway.
01:15:09.000But you saw, you know, AT&T, literally the parent company of which tried to cancel OAN and Newsmax.
01:15:14.000Like literally just cancel conservative programming.
01:15:17.000You can use your hard earned money to fund that.
01:15:21.000Or you can take two seconds and go to like a Patriot Mobile.
01:15:25.000I always say go to patriotmobile.com slash triggered like the show.
01:15:45.000You can find the vast majority of them on Public Square.
01:15:47.000Like I said, it's growing like you can't believe it's going to get better.
01:15:50.000It's going to get easier. But we also have to get used to actually just taking Soon you won't even have to take the extra step because it'll all be right there.
01:15:59.000But to actually like bother to look, to actually change, to actually do that because they would do it to us in a second.
01:16:06.000With the other side, we're playing two different games.
01:16:10.000We've been playing t-ball for 50 years while the other side's been playing fast pitch hardball.
01:16:15.000It's allowed them to take over every institution in America.
01:16:19.000We can't do that anymore if we want to actually leave our country, you know, to our children and our grandchildren in a way that they could actually recognize.
01:16:25.000You know, so there are things like that.
01:16:27.000Like I said, the sponsor of the show, Patriot Mobile.
01:16:29.000You know, there are guys out there doing this.
01:16:32.000You just have to take the time to actually find them.
01:16:34.000Public Square is a great place to do that.
01:16:47.000Today, it's an investment fund for those who would agree what was said on this stage this evening.
01:16:53.000Tomorrow, we're going to be a large business, not a small business.
01:16:57.000We have a vision to build the Berkshire Hathaway for our side.
01:17:01.000My question, how do we overcome the giant obstacle of complacency?
01:17:08.000Specifically, How do we get like-minded people to move their investments in banking away from the woke companies and toward better aligned solutions?
01:17:23.000Your cause is noble because just like we talk a lot about a desire for consumers to shift their dollars to businesses that share their values and employees to match with employers that share their values, there's also a desire for investors to invest their capital with businesses that share their values.
01:17:39.000I'll never forget the day, it was probably about eight years ago, that my father, who had I've been building up a Disney investment for his son, me, for years, finally said, hey, I sold it all.
01:17:52.000We're not going to fund your future with a company who actually aggressively wants to pervert your future.
01:17:59.000We're not going to do it. As for this family and this house, not a chance.
01:18:04.000So what's so important for us to recognize as conscious consumers but also conscious investors is there are other options out there.
01:18:12.000We just have to look and actually unsubscribe from the corrupt system and embrace these other companies that have an ESG score of zero because they don't even pay attention to it.
01:18:21.000We need to actually reinvest in the industries that have been long forgotten or criticized by the woke tyrants in our society.
01:18:33.000Invest in local businesses when you have the chance.
01:18:36.000I really encourage folks often to pay attention to entities like Strive Asset Management.
01:18:42.000What you're doing in this space sounds really exciting and I'd encourage folks to reach out to you.
01:18:46.000Find a financial advisor who's willing to partner with you and your family's values.
01:18:51.000My father was a financial advisor for 30 years and what he would do with clients is he'd sit down and the first question he'd ask, he'd say, what are your goals as a family?
01:19:01.000And do they know your goals as a family?
01:19:03.000Do they genuinely know that it hurts inside to be funding your opposition?
01:19:08.000If they don't know, you should call them tomorrow.
01:19:10.000You should say, hey, I want to make sure that for our family and our portfolio, we're not funding companies that are acting aggressively toward our family's values.
01:19:20.000And then, over time, as you build positions in these companies and you're aware of what's happening in society, you'll notice it has a massive impact.
01:19:27.000What do I mean? Y'all, in the spring we saw Anheuser-Busch, Disney, and Target see a $50 billion dollar decrease.
01:19:36.000$50 billion dollars and here's the reality.
01:19:44.000That money doesn't just eviscerate, it changes hands.
01:19:47.000That money's got to go somewhere because it's reflective of consumer spending.
01:19:51.000So look at the power in your investments.
01:19:53.000J.P. Morgan had to downgrade Target's stock twice.
01:19:56.000They had their first quarterly earnings miss in six years.
01:19:59.000Do you know the last time they missed their quarterly earnings?
01:20:01.000Do you remember what was happening six years ago?
01:20:29.000The reality is for businesses like yours, the thing that will matter more than anything else is word of mouth referrals.
01:20:34.000When people say, I trust Matthew because he has my family's goals in mind, that will mean more than any amount of SEO. That will matter more than any amount of digital ads that you could run.
01:20:45.000So it really happens through the grassroots.
01:20:48.000That's my encouragement. Spread the word and all of a sudden, You're going to witness companies like Vanguard, say what they said three months ago.
01:20:55.000BlackRock, say what they said two months ago.
01:22:03.000The unfunded pension liability is going to be a disaster.
01:22:05.000It's going to be made worse with some of the decisions that are being made by corporate America because in their little circles, In New York City, or in D.C., or wherever they vacation where most can't afford to vacation, it's seen as wonderful.
01:22:51.000He's the only guy that assumed that office that actually came out We have less money.
01:22:56.000You know, I'm still trying to figure out how some of these people, you know, Dianne Feinstein, you know, $100 million fortune, I'm saying, that's pretty impressive.
01:23:03.000Pretty impressive on a, you know, $200,000 a year salary.
01:23:06.000You know, Joe Biden can't form a complete sentence, but he's worth millions.
01:23:11.000You know, I don't think China, when they invested in Hunter Biden, had ESG in mind, where they said, they are underrepresented in crackhead money managers.
01:23:21.000We need more. We need to be diversified.
01:23:23.000You know, they don't make that decision.
01:23:25.000They do that if they're trying to buy someone.
01:23:27.000Still trying to figure out how the grandchildren and the ex-girlfriend also were getting checks from these...
01:23:31.000You know, it seems sort of odd. I don't think the grandchildren are...
01:23:34.000They're not even business people, let alone international business people.
01:23:37.000But, you know, that doesn't seem to matter.
01:23:39.000You know, but trust me, if you listen to the mainstream media, we're still waiting for all of the evidence.
01:23:44.000I'm like, I mean, the wire transfers, the admissions, the phone calls, the photos, the...
01:24:04.000I don't think I've sent 87,000 emails in my own name, let alone in an alias name.
01:24:11.000And if you're sending that many, you know, We're laughing because it sounds funny because I'm waiting for the cameras to fall out of the sky like I'm a star of the Truman Show.
01:24:22.000It's got to be a joke, but it's actually happening.
01:24:26.000No one's asking in our media, hey, do you think maybe, I don't know, Ukraine has a couple more laptops or videos or wire transfers that they're saying, you know what, Joe Biden's going to make these decisions that could get our children, won't be Joe or his children, your children, To send them to die off in a war against an enemy that they're losing too badly, but you know, it doesn't matter.
01:24:50.000Because maybe they have some more information.
01:24:52.000I know if it was Trump in office, they'd be asking these questions because of course it could be possible, right?
01:24:58.000Of course it's likely the most plausible answer for why we're putting America last on everything as it relates to China, on Ukraine, basically all of our enemies.
01:25:08.000Of course it's the most plausible answer, just like, you know, The Wuhan lab leak theory was always the most...
01:25:15.000Of course it came from the Wuhan lab that studies the exact virus in question.
01:25:21.000It came from, like, right there, like three feet outside of the lab, magically.
01:25:25.000It's magic, right? It came from there.
01:25:28.000But if you were a scientist, you were defunded.
01:25:31.000You lost your research grant because Fauci was signing off on them.
01:25:33.000He knew exactly where it was coming, and you knew that because that's what he was telling his colleagues in his email, which was the exact opposite of what he was telling the people on a world stage.
01:25:42.000That's where we are. That's why, you know, I guess we sort of alluded to the apathy of, well, I've just sort of left it alone.
01:25:51.000You know, I'm not going to switch my phone carrier.
01:25:54.000You know, it's just easy. You know, I saw it with me.
01:25:58.000You know, I had a little just new startup That I started just to literally aggregate news from everywhere, right?
01:26:05.000So that people could actually see, not just the Google algorithm, which shows you, you know, the first 400 pages of a search topic is, you know, the CNN take, you know, and I will say, you know, is that true or did you see it on CNN? Because they're two very different things.
01:26:18.000And so I did this, I think you were there, Jim, because it was at CPAC, and we spoke about it the day it happened.
01:26:24.000I'm literally about to go on the stage at CPAC. And my partner in this app, it's called MXM News, like minute by minute.
01:26:30.000It was just like, we take the New York Times and we'll show you Breitbart.
01:26:32.000We'll show you both and you make your own decision.
01:27:32.000And that in and of itself, being able to show you perhaps both sides of a story, not just the narrative given to you by the regime propagandists, that was enough.
01:27:41.000We just don't want to do business with you.
01:27:43.000Now, of course, so I'm sitting there at CPAC, you know, Mentioned it to Kevin McCarthy, who was the Speaker of the House at the time.
01:27:49.000I mean, he put out a tweet about it, actually.
01:27:52.000Sort of like, this is ridiculous, but this is what's happening every day.
01:27:57.000You know, you saw what they did in the UK to Nigel Farage.
01:27:59.000I mean, you know, he was in the European Parliament.
01:28:04.000Similar. These are not guys that are fringe radicals.
01:28:11.000It's not like, oh, it's not going to happen to me.
01:28:13.000No, no, it's exactly going to happen to you.
01:28:15.000If they can do it to me, I have a big platform.
01:28:18.000I had dinner that night with Carrie Lake and Matt Gaetz and Nigel, and they're all hitting it on their socials, so all of a sudden we get a call from the bank the next day.
01:28:43.000And you got called out on a very large platform, but that's the point, right?
01:28:47.000When we talk about the apathy, I don't want to go through the effort.
01:28:50.000Hey guys, if they can do it to me, yeah, I got some means, I got a pretty solid platform, I have a lot of people that follow me, and I can call you out.
01:29:01.000And I will, because I'm not afraid of that shit.
01:29:06.000And if they're still like, doesn't matter, send it.
01:29:12.000You don't think they'll do it to you because you're nice?
01:29:15.000No, they'll do it to you because they think of you as weak and incapable of actually fighting back.
01:29:20.000In many cases, they're right. That's what's going on on a daily basis.
01:29:24.000So that's why, I mean, we need that call to action.
01:29:27.000It's not just enough to sort of, well, we'll leave well enough alone and maybe they'll, you know, Rename, just like the statistics, right?
01:29:33.000The unemployment statistics. Well, we've done it this way for 50 years, but to make it seem really good to the people, we're going to break all of the norms of 50 years and tell you it's great by changing the methodology.
01:29:45.000That's what they're doing on a daily basis.
01:29:47.000Whether it's the job numbers or the this, they're creating artificial confidence.
01:29:59.000Like, if you get people to do it, that's what I saw with this.
01:30:01.000Even now, you know, flew here, commercial going through the airports, and I think, you know, you see it.
01:30:07.000Like, the people are like, you know, now, even in places like New York, they're like, They don't want to get hit in the head with a brick by BLM or Hamas.
01:32:21.000We have to stand up against the regime.
01:32:24.000So I've been shopping with a parallel economy for about two years.
01:32:32.000This evening was a catalyst for me to pick up the app and start using that, so thank you.
01:32:37.000My question is, I'm very concerned about our food source with the mRNA in our food, so will you be working with farmers and beef producers and the like so we can have a clean food supply chain?
01:32:54.000Great question. First of all, yeah, let's hear it for her.
01:33:02.000I'd actually love for you to address this here in a moment, given that Indiana is obviously heavy into agriculture, but I would encourage you to check out some of the amazing food producers on Public Square.
01:33:12.000In fact, many of them have taken very adamant stances against injections into the meat and some of the tampering with the food sources and some of the Chemical ingenuity taking place that's spawned by a lot of folks like Bill Gates and the like.
01:33:26.000I would encourage you to check out some of those.
01:33:29.000I think of brands like Simpsons Meats or I think of companies like Good Ranchers that are really vocal about this issue.
01:33:34.000The other piece that's really neat, especially with the local functionality on the platform, so if you go to the local or to the near me on the platform, whether you're on the website or the app, You'll see a lot of, depending on where you're located, food resources in your local community.
01:33:47.000We actually heard that there was a pretty neat farmer's market, one of the largest in the country, I believe it was in Georgia, that just signed up last week and is driving people there because they're embracing this natural, free humanity in a way that's obviously exemplified through their politics and through their interactions with each other and their consumer spending habits.
01:34:06.000But also what they're eating and what they're intaking into their body.
01:34:10.000So I think over the last few years, a lot of people have awakened to start to ask the question of like, what am I eating?
01:34:14.000And what am I drinking? And what are really in those things that I'm hearing so much about?
01:34:19.000I think that's wonderful anytime we're asking questions of things that we've sort of taken carte blanche.
01:34:24.000What I will say is that the more that you can produce and partake in resources from your local community, more often than not, those things are going to be far better for you.
01:34:35.000That's what we've found, that as you engage in your local community with your local farmers, your local producers.
01:34:40.000My grandparents are all corn and soybean farmers, and so if you go and you talk to them about corn production and how they're selling corn, They'll tell you all about it.
01:34:52.000Go to your farmer's markets, talk to these people, find them on Public Square, reach out to these owners.
01:34:57.000You're going to get a response that you would never get when you're trying to reach out to just one of the big multinational conglomerates.
01:35:03.000I'd love you to address this because it feels like Congress could probably actually simplify some of this stuff because you hear free range.
01:35:11.000Oh, that must be great. No, no, no. It means a chicken can have six square inches, you know, and it's like free range because it can almost...
01:35:48.000I had to prove to her it's not really...it's not any different...
01:35:51.000It doesn't even mean anything. It's like nothing's changed.
01:35:53.000It's just... There probably is a role done for Congress or state legislatures to play in making sure that made in America means made in America.
01:36:03.000Grown in Indiana means raised and grown in Indiana.
01:36:07.000And our state legislature in Indiana has done that.
01:36:11.000Indiana Grown initiative is something that you can find more about.
01:36:15.000You know what, and I love, by the way, Ali's, I love Ali's Hoosier accent.
01:36:19.000I don't know if you picked up on that.
01:36:21.000Very Hoosier. But Ali in Northeast Indiana, we have a number of niche farms.
01:36:27.000I think Gunthrop up in LaGrange, or Seven Sons in Huntington, Roanoke, or Joseph Ducuy, and we have big farmers markets in my small town, Columbia City, and all over Northeast Indiana.
01:36:40.000But what I want to know, every now and then some of the proprietors are very left-wing and they beat up on me.
01:36:46.000I noticed one in particular, I won't say who he is, but he's an avowed socialist and he beats up on me on Twitter, but he also has one of these farms.
01:36:55.000So what I'm going to encourage a lot of these, because I know most of them are conservative, I want them to get on the app because this is what I love about Public Square is they make a pro-America commitment, as I said earlier, and also that they will never discriminate against any of their customers for being conservative.
01:37:15.000So these local niche farms that do incredible unique things, Indiana grown in our state, we want to promote them because it's supporting local families and local employers.
01:37:28.000With our rich agriculture heritage in this great state.
01:37:32.000But I want to know a little bit about them oftentimes before I support them too.
01:37:38.000And when you guys find them, and I'm sure you will, let them know that there's a resource for them to find other people.
01:37:44.000Again, it's all part of that sort of organic nature of things.
01:37:54.000Why don't you go check it out over here?
01:37:57.000I think it makes a lot of sense, and then people can figure it out, and then you're helping other people find the same things that you're looking for.
01:38:02.000It's about that growth, and it's going to be very organic because people are underserved in all of those things.
01:38:07.000That's great. Thank you for your question.
01:38:10.000We got another one here? Then we'll come up here.
01:39:44.000I'm getting, let's call it old as dirt, but I'm sure it was happening before that, and no one actually did it.
01:39:49.000Trump did it. People made their promises they're gonna stand up to China.
01:39:53.000One of these days, they're gonna do it.
01:39:54.000You see that a lot in the Republican primary.
01:39:56.000A lot of promises being made based on the things that Trump actually did, but I don't know that any of those people actually have the ability to deliver on those things.
01:40:04.000Like Trump did, because he's actually done it.
01:40:06.000You know, talk is cheap, as we've said.
01:40:09.000I mean, they literally created the first sub-brand of Public Square, a company called Every Life, a diaper company, because it's the first diaper company that isn't an active donor.
01:40:23.000I mean, think about this. There are diaper companies...
01:40:26.000That are active donors to Planned Parenthood.
01:40:29.000And it's almost all of them that I can think of.
01:40:32.000So we saw that as an inherent conflict and a problem Michael has run with that.
01:40:38.000And I mean literally one of just the offshoot businesses that we were allowed to sort of focus on once we took it public and had the capital to actually be able to grow and do these things is literally a diaper brand that is avowedly pro-life.
01:40:54.000Yeah, it's actually, we heard from our manufacturers this past week, it's the fastest growing diaper brand in modern history.
01:41:41.000Well, what we learned is that every single one of the major nine diaper brands in the United States today, every single one of them, are either vocally or financially pro-abortion.
01:41:50.000Everyone. Huggies, Pampers, funding abortion for their employees.
01:41:55.000Hello Bello, who actually just went bankrupt last week.
01:41:58.000They're funding $4,500 for every one of their employees that wants an abortion.
01:42:02.000Coterie, which is one of the nicest diapers money can buy.
01:42:05.000It's sort of a luxury brand. In fact, they call themselves the Rolls Royce of diapers.
01:42:09.000Coterie came out this past year and I quote said, our team feels lost without abortion access.
01:42:15.000This is a diaper company. This would be like me saying, hey Don, you're a great business partner, I got this idea.
01:42:20.000We're gonna build a men's shoe line and we're gonna utilize a portion of the profits to fund the termination of men.
01:42:28.000Regardless of your feelings on the issue morally, you have to be able to acknowledge that that makes zero economic sense also.
01:42:33.000So we saw a need from a moral and an economic perspective to create a family brand that was pro-life and pro-family because there was this massive underserved market out there of which my wife and I are a part.
01:42:56.000My point in saying this to answer your question is that we as a company have had many times where people have asked us to back down on our commitment to protecting the freedoms and liberties, like Congressman Banks described, for all people.
01:43:07.000We do not discriminate. We don't limit those freedoms and liberties to certain types of people.
01:43:58.000But the question that you ask is really interesting as we head into the big election cycle of 2024.
01:44:03.000At the beginning of this Congress, in the new Republican majority, one of the very first bills that we passed out of the House was the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
01:44:18.000The Senate hasn't done anything with it.
01:44:23.000Every single Democrat in the House voted against it.
01:44:27.000Okay, now, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act saves babies who are born after a botched abortion, meaning that they have breathed their first breath.
01:44:37.000Now, they want to call me radical for my pro-life views, but every single Democrat has voted in favor of abortion and the killing of babies who are born after a botched abortion.
01:44:53.000If we continue to tell that to the American people, the Democrats are the radicals on abortion, they believe in abortion all the way up to the moment of birth, and then compare that to our pro-life views supporting life, I think we're going to win big in 2024 on that issue and a lot more.
01:45:19.000Donald Trump is the most pro-life president in American history, and I'll praise him each and every day for what he did to strike down Roe v.
01:45:27.000Wade and give us the Dobbs decision and a lot of other pro-life wins.
01:45:35.000Hi, so my name is Jacob, and I'm a freshman at Purdue University, so boiler up.
01:45:45.000And a big thing, being a conservative on a college campus, even though I've only been in college for about 10 weeks now, is I had to put pronouns with my emails during registration, not because I wanted to, but because they forced it.
01:45:58.000And we get emails every single week advertising us to go out to the LGBTQ plus call-out meetings.
01:46:34.000Listen, I think the first and natural...
01:46:35.000You're right. That's a tough place to be a young conservative.
01:46:39.000I see that. But I also see that changing.
01:46:41.000Because, again, as the other side has gotten so ridiculous, so extreme, you know, normal people...
01:46:46.000I see it with my kids, especially since we moved down to Florida.
01:46:49.000Like, you know, they're talking about some of the issues that we would talk about.
01:46:53.000And they, too, are rolling their eyes, whether it's pronouns and this.
01:46:56.000And I see, you know, even, you know...
01:46:58.000Young and teenage girls that are there.
01:47:00.000They're friends of my daughter's or whatever.
01:47:02.000And they're literally laughing about how ridiculous it is.
01:47:04.000And these are the people that I would think would be sort of the key people that the other side's pushing that indoctrination on.
01:47:11.000They're getting it. If you're young and new on college campus, you know, go find, like, honestly, your nearest Turning Point chapter.
01:47:18.000You know, Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA. They do a great job.
01:47:23.000You know, you'll find people that align with you.
01:47:25.000And again, for me, with college, I mean, you know, I went to one of the places that has sort of been out there in the last two weeks with the insanity of, you know, pushing Hamas.
01:47:35.000I discussed it a little bit, I guess, in my opener earlier at the University of Pennsylvania.
01:47:39.000You know, Ivy League University, home of whatever.
01:47:42.000There's, you know, the elite, yada, yada, yada.
01:47:45.000I don't know that... Some of this elite even means anything anymore because of the way and the methodology, the insanity that's coming out of them.
01:47:53.000But what I've seen is, and what was very cathartic to me in life, I learned it a lot during politics, right?
01:47:58.000I was the son of a billionaire from Manhattan.
01:48:00.000I had plenty of friends that were Democrats.
01:48:02.000There was a time I could have a conversation with many of them.
01:48:06.000When I found the guys who were actual friends, even those who perhaps disagreed with me on politics, but were willing to have that conversation, it was a lot different than people who tell me what I wanted to hear perhaps from them, but then go do the opposite publicly or on Facebook, and then, why don't you pick up the phone anymore?
01:48:24.000It's like, because you're lying. You're telling me what I'm doing is awesome.
01:48:27.000You love it, you love it, you love it, but then on Facebook you'll say the opposite because...
01:50:04.000You'll find a lot of people that are like that.
01:50:06.000And then you'll start, once you get in that group, other people will sort of get in there and You know, you can open them up to it a lot.
01:50:12.000I think it'll be a more important learning curve, but stick to your guns.
01:50:16.000You know what I mean? Like, you know, have those conversations.
01:50:19.000You can have that uncomfortable conversation respectfully, but I promise you, like, being able to take that stand rather than just regurgitating someone else's sound bites will actually do so much more for you in life and your educational process than anything you will learn in any class at any university for the next however long you stay in academia.
01:50:40.000That was a little long, but, like, it's not so simple.
01:50:43.000It was solid, and that last sentence was, I believe, the most crucial.
01:50:48.000If you stand firm in your convictions, you're going to find ten other people that come to you after class and say, hey, dude, I'm with you.
01:50:55.000Don wasn't kidding. Today, when we walk through the airport, every single flight attendant, pilot, desk worker, the person at the counter that honestly didn't really look like a Trump supporter, he walks in the room.
01:51:07.000Yeah, there were a couple that I'm like...
01:51:10.000You think you're going to get punched or like a drink thrown on you.
01:51:13.000And they just want to shake his hand, but he's like thinking they're coming out.
01:51:16.000Yeah. And so, you know, you'd be amazed at how many people are actually with us.
01:51:22.000All they're waiting for is one person to stand up and say it.
01:51:26.000Yeah. If you're the one man, you're going to find ten others, and you're going to have people flock.
01:51:33.000Even if you just say, hey teacher, I'm not actually sure I agree with that.
01:51:36.000Dude, you'll have five people that come to you after the class.
01:51:39.000If you're willing to go to a turning point rally, and you meet with kids, and you meet a few friends, and you guys decide to set up a booth at campus, you're going to find that there are hundreds of students that flock to you and say, I've been waiting for you.
01:51:50.000That's my encouragement. You have anything?
01:51:52.000So we've got to call crazy crazy, right?
01:51:59.000The governor appoints the board of trustees of Indiana University, Purdue, Ball State, University of Southern Indiana, all of the public universities.
01:52:08.000As conservatives, we don't do this very well, but these are people who are appointed to be on the board of trustees who are very prominent people, and they care about their reputations.
01:52:18.000So when you see crazy, call it crazy, And reach out to those board members, those trustees that have been appointed by the governor and say, let me tell you a story about a crazy thing that I'm dealing with on the campus that you're on the board of.
01:52:33.000And then reach out to me, and I'll help highlight it too, right?
01:54:11.000Any closing thoughts? Sure. Well, listen, again, I just want to thank you guys for being here.
01:54:14.000You know, it's you guys that are going to make the difference in this.
01:54:17.000You know, I promise you for us, As we're experiencing, it would have been a lot easier just to shut up and be a real estate developer from New York.
01:54:24.000I used to be invited to the cool person parties with open arms.
01:54:30.000But, you know, I have five young kids and I wish we had every life diapers then because I've bought more diapers than probably any human being in the history of diapers.
01:54:39.000Didn't have that as an option now, but we're all in this together.
01:54:42.000I appreciate that, but take the time to find it out.
01:54:47.000Even this show that we're doing right now, our sponsors, if they have the guts to sponsor a show like this, Gold Co., Patriot Mobile, these guys...
01:54:57.000That's a business you want to figure out how to support if that's part of what you're doing.
01:55:03.000You find the other ones on Public Square.
01:55:06.000We're just going to be doing more of this, but take that time.
01:55:09.000Each one of you can make a difference.
01:55:10.000Each time you're making one of the transactions with one of the companies who's willing to put themselves out there that way, you're putting that kid One of their kids, perhaps, through hockey or ballet or whatever it is, rather than funding woke corporate America who's literally giving your hard-earned dollars back to people who hate your guts.
01:55:33.000I understand the biblical roots of turning the other cheek, but it's been a strategy that the left has loved that we have taken because it's allowed them to amass The power that they've weaponized against us for so long.
01:55:45.000And it's time to say enough is enough.
01:55:46.000So it's because of people like yourselves that we're able to do that.
01:55:49.000It's not just us. It's not just us talking.
01:55:51.000We actually have to live this lifestyle.
01:56:04.000It's an honor to have Public Square choose Indiana as your first Thank you.
01:56:27.000Make sure to make him your next senator, by the way.
01:56:32.000We have a shortage of senators with guts, a shortage of senators with conviction.
01:56:38.000You know, we've got a couple, you know, a Tommy Tuberville right now, a J.D. Vance, then the list starts going pretty rapidly downhill.
01:56:47.000Jim would be an incredible addition to that, and we need more people like it.
01:56:50.000So make sure to do your part with that as well.
01:56:53.000Speak to your neighbors, your friends, and do that because you know the left is going to probably spend 10 to 1, maybe more, with California, New York, Soros money to make sure that that doesn't happen and we've seen the results.
01:57:06.000So be involved in the political process too, not just in the economic process.
01:57:11.000With that, folks, it's been a blast to be here with you this evening.
01:58:02.000It's that simple. And the way now that we've been able to build this movement, this parallel economy, to be a true force to be reckoned with, is by hearing the feedback of our consumers and businesses day in and day out.
01:58:19.000We've been honest with folks from the beginning.
01:58:20.000We've said, we're building this plane in flight, and we need your help.
01:58:23.000So, we're building this Public Square Town Hall series in flight, and we would love your help.
01:58:28.000Let us know what you enjoyed and what you'd love to see more of.
01:58:31.000We at Public Square are creating an alternative to Amazon.
01:58:34.000A true one-stop shopping experience over the coming years so that you can actually know with blessed assurance you're not funding your opposition.
01:58:41.000If you're tired of the fact that Starbucks is giving your money to match employee contributions to Planned Parenthood.
01:58:46.000If you're tired of PayPal threatening to fine you for $2,500 for misinformation violations.
01:58:52.000It happens to be correct. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
01:58:55.000Misinformation and correct is just six months.
01:58:57.000So like PayPal's, you know, that's the story we always hear.
01:59:00.000The difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth, give it six months.
01:59:21.000The businesses you find on the platform, these aren't ones that are going to require you to donate to conservative causes.
01:59:26.000They're not ones that are going to Make sure your money is politically charged just the other direction.
01:59:31.000Some of them do, and you have the choice to partake with those, but many of the businesses on this platform just want to go back to the basics.
01:59:37.000They say, I love these conservative principles.
01:59:39.000Among these are a value for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all people.
01:59:43.000There's a love for the country and the Constitution, and they're not going to use my money against me.
01:59:49.000We're finding every day that there are numerous businesses from industries you couldn't even imagine that are joining the Public Square platform.
01:59:57.000We're finding the niche products for all of life's daily needs.
02:00:00.000And when we're missing a product, you know what we do?
02:00:02.000We build it. We're missing diapers, we build it.
02:00:05.000We're missing a sales platform, we build it.
02:00:07.000We know some other products we're missing in the future.
02:00:10.000We're going to build those too, so stay tuned.
02:00:12.000We're grateful for each and every one of you.
02:00:14.000Thank you for being active, engaged, not only voters, but consumers and business owners.
02:00:19.000We pray you've enjoyed tonight as much as we have.
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