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Speaker 1 (02:27):
But what's the greatest Christmas movie of all time? Well,
some people would say it's diehard you are you are
so there? Yes, yes, yes, outstanding. That's how you know
a true tex and true American right there, It's not
it's not it's not Christmas till Hans has fallen off
(02:49):
in Knoko Tomi Tower. Hans Bruger's falling off the Knakatomy Tower.
And then you can have christ yep. Yeah, once they
say you pie kay, then you can. Yeah. Then that's
the way. It's the introduction to Christmas. Arguably one of
the greatest Christmas movies of all times.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It is.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And here's here's a dark horse Christmas movie. Not a
lot of people appreciate the first lethal weapon.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Oh yeah, with me.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Give the crashes through and the Christmas trees there the
final scene. Oh yeah, yeah. I mean it's just it's
a it's a dark horse one, but it's it was
still great. You know, I remember when movies were good.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, Hugh Jackman.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
So I was on Instagram last night, Hugh Jackman. I
guess in Kate Hudson have done a movie on Neil Diamond.
I think it's song Sun Blue or something is the
name of it hasn't been released yet anyways, but he's
doing their impais or whatever, doing their whatever, and he says,
why does Hollywood not make movies like they used to? Well,
(03:55):
good freaking question. That's what the rest I want.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
To know you Well, that's that's it's just a major shift.
It's a shift against everything. It's a shift against family,
it's a shift against values. And movies have become just
part of the information spectrum and they push what they want.
And you know, I mean, if I see another guy
kiss a guy or girl kiss a girl for no reason,
(04:20):
it's not in the storyline, it's just, hey, Eric, and
I try to watch something the other day. In it
for five minutes, a guy's kissing a guy, and I'm like,
I don't care, but I don't want to see it
on a movie. Bye, I don't want to watch it.
I don't I don't want gratuitous male female sex. I
just want a good movie. I don't think that's asking
too much. Although I did see Sissu two, which was
(04:40):
gratuitous violence, which I appreciate in the of course, in
the Konan style, and it was it was a great movie.
And Sisu won was great, you know, and the guy
didn't talk the whole movie. That's the brilliance of the movie.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Wasn't that like First Blood with.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It's it's just about it. It's just a it's just
a finish guy who had gone through all the bad things.
But if the CITs, who means you just indominal? Will
you never quit? And this kind never quits? And if
you just want to go and enjoy a great movie
that's going to be very violent, but you're not going
to hear a cussword. You're not going to see any nudity,
but it's you might see heads popping off, you know,
(05:17):
but it's almost cartoonish. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Okay, Tom, buddy, you're good? Anything else to say?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Did you fell off? Great? Usually he's also because he
already knows the greatest Christmas movie of all times?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Yeah, well, he usually says, have blessed Jeesville Day. I
love That's how he ends. That's why I always like
great man. Great man, let him say goodbye? Yes and
giving us your two cents on whether you think Thanksgiving
should be its own standalone holiday without Christmas trees.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Or with Christmas.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Trees without I mean questioning that I don't even stand Look.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Because people put them up in October. Now have you
not been in a store Christmas starts in October. It
is crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You know, we're getting away from good traditions in this country.
And it's really sad to say. This is not a
conspiracy theory. This is just the identification of what's going
on in a conspiracy being it, we've we've commercialized holidays
(06:31):
to the point they don't mean anything anymore. Yeah, it's
you're you're you're taking what I would call the the
magic of Christmas away because we never that. The Christmas
tree always went up after Thanksgiving. It went up that Friday,
after that Thursday. And growing up in my home and
(06:53):
I'm thinking a lot about my father now since he's passed.
My dad always made it special. You know. We we
got my mom got everything out. There was a way
we did it. Dad did the lights and then relaxed.
Mom decorated with the kids. The kids decorated and Mom
told them what to do, and Dad sat there and
(07:15):
we talked as a family. And we did that every
year until I left for college, and we would still
come back and do that because they were building My
parents were building into us events that were family oriented
events that where the father was there, the mother was there.
We have driven the roles of father and mother out
(07:38):
of society to where it's become a cheap, commercialized. Hey,
everything's up, and you know, people just were all busy,
so you just throw the tree up when you get
a chance. I kept the traditions that my father had,
My wife, Erica and I we did it with all
of our kids, all eight of them. We blended a
family and we would have that and some of the
(08:00):
sweetest pictures we have every year of our doing the
tree together and the kids all knew this is what
it was. Erica would cook, you know, we would when
they were young. We would put food out for Rudolph,
you know, because he did come and eat Santa which
was me and I wanted sugar cookies.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And spry cook Yeah, I was like milk.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
No, we had we had, I mean, but you know,
my dad would even carve a little place for Rudolph's
nose in the cone and the carrot that he would
left for Rudolph.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And I still remember seeing Santa Claus, waking up one
night seeing him out there. So you know, we But
the thing is, we've gotten away from that because we've
dumbed down what are important traditions And it all starts
back in the education system because we've we've taken away
(08:53):
the traditions that made this nation great. There's nothing wrong
with traditions. There's nothing wrong with family. If you we
talked about movies, talk about TV. When we were growing up,
Father Knows Best, Happy Days. The father was always the
stable character Tom Bosley, My Three Sons, Tom Bosley and
(09:16):
Happy Days. He was like the surrogate father for the fawns. Yeah,
and Mariene Dowd was a mom. I guess she was,
and these were all great family shows. Then fast forward
and the dad's adult. He's like, what am I going
to do?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Man?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Everyone's making fun of dad getting on. It's an intentional
You have to understand what you're looking at. It's intentionally
trying to drive the father out of the home. Now,
if you don't have a dad for whatever reason, or
you don't have a mom for whatever reason, you know,
God takes that into account. He'll bring you that person
to step in the gap, for you to stand in
(09:52):
the gap. But there's nothing wrong with the traditional family.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to raise kids and women saying,
you know, I need a career, I need I need that. Well, great,
that's where God's calling you. But there's nothing more satisfying
than having a family. I mean, my wife, I could
not say enough nice things about her. She's the greatest
mother and wife to me on the planet. She loves
(10:14):
our kids. I mean, we're having Thanksgiving here and she's like,
we're gonna have a few extra people. And I'm like,
of course, because there's kids here that don't have parents, yeah,
or the parents aren't in their lives. They're gonna come
to our house for Thanksgiving. My wife potentially we had
a table that could fit ten people, which is our
(10:34):
eight kids in US two. When our kids went off
to college, my wife said, we got to get a
bigger table. She got one twice sets. I can put
twenty people around our table. Now it's just massive in
our dining room because and it's just an old wooden table,
it's nothing fancy. But she's like, I want to cook
and I want to have the family around. And my
(10:56):
wife will build into young girls' lives, you know, whose
moms may not be talking to them or just you know,
what does the Bible say, no prophets respected in their village.
I mean, sometimes you have to have another couple come
and encourage the kids when they're having trouble. And we've
lost that sense of community, and I believe we could
get it back, especially here in Corpus, because Corpus is Look,
(11:20):
whether you like it or not, we're we're closed off deal.
Corpus is on the way to nowhere. I mean, you know,
Corpus is not on the way to Austin. It's not
on the way to San Antonio. It's not on the
way that the valletal. No, Corpus is a sole destination.
Corpus has survived being that kid that just didn't quite
(11:40):
fit in. But as Corpus Christians, you know, my prayer
is this Holidays, we'll go back to what made this
nation great, what made the state great, and it all
started with community. I am. I'm a voracious reader. I
love to read, and I found a book on written
It's a It's a It was written by the daughter
(12:02):
of the man that lived it, and it was her
father had come here from Louisiana, stowed away at twelve
years old and come to Texas on a ship. This
is before Texas was even a state. Came to Texas
and he talks about coming in down south south of
here and coming up walking through Texas and it's basically history.
(12:22):
And this twelve year old kid was talking and I mean,
at twelve, lived with family, They took him in, they
fed him. I mean, there was so much community. It's
neat seen. Texans have always been this way. Yeah, they've
always been this way. Yet we're being divided by race,
We're being divided by ethnicity, We're being divided by gender.
(12:45):
I mean, these things that have existed since the beginning
of time. How about we just unite around common principles.
How will we unite around common holidays? How we unite
around common geography. I mean, it's it's just so important
that and most importantly around God. I mean, this is
(13:05):
we have gotten so far away from understanding that the
community is what makes the state. You know, I hate
to tell people this, but we weren't founded by a
bunch of illegal immigrants. We were founded by people that
came here for freedom and for that idea black, white,
purple whatever, and the thing that made this nation great
(13:29):
and gave us so much grace is what allowed a
lot of these French groups the tolerance they needed to grow,
build and become a you know, a loud voice. But
just because you're allowed to have that loud voice doesn't
mean you divide the nation again. I mean, we just
need to stop. Remember Nancy Reagan in the eighties to drugs,
(13:49):
Just say no. Just say no to the division, Just
say no to the gender studies. Just say no to
the oppressive colonialist bs that you're being fed. You know,
it says history is written by the victors. But the
unfortunate thing is the victors that built this nation aren't
writing the history anymore. The true history. You have the
(14:11):
radicals that are just coming up and wanting to write
the revision is history.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
It was that guy that you had to study Mandolitz.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Oh late Howard zen Is, the Howard zenn Is, the
Walt Disney of history.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
He was my That was my history book for my
for my American history classic boarding school. And so I
bought there's like a point for point counter book called
so the Howards in books called A People's History of
the United States. I bought A Patriots History of the
United States, and I did double the reading the whole year,
(14:43):
and I read the Howards Enn and I read the
Patriots History, and I went in and I sat around
our little Harkness table, that's what it's called, our little
circle table.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
And I was like, this is all wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Well, Howards's photograph, but again, look at the pop culture.
Remember Matt Damon in Goodwill Honeying. He talks about Howard
Zinn like it was with gospel or something, and you're like, yeah, no,
Howardson was a chucklehead.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
But that's so.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
So what's interesting about that is I'm in, I'm up
at the DMZ with Blake and we run into the
DMZ de militarize between the Okay, that's.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
What I was thinking, not that, not the Department of
Motor Vehicle, the DMV. The DMZ.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
We're up in South Korea.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I'm familiar and uh.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
This kid comes up to me and ask me, do
do you do you know Amanda Farenthald.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
You have a daughter named Amanda?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And I said, yeah, she's my daughter.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
He had gone to school with her, and I asked her, I, well, anyway,
we start talking and he goes yes. She was very
very outspoken when it came to American history.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
But you know what I say that good parents? Yeah good.
Let me. Let me just tell folks. You know, sometimes
kids they grow and they go their own way, and
it's not the parents. Okay, I mean sometimes it is,
but most of the time they just kids grow up.
They get free will. But good kids aren't an accident. Yeah,
good kids come from someone that took the time to
(16:11):
speak truth into their life. And here's the thing. When
you're young, Amanda, you probably know this more than anyone.
When you're young, you want truth. You're looking for truth,
and the problem is the university's writ large feed you
what they want you to know, and then they stir
your passion behind that truth and it comes out to
(16:31):
something called amanthia. Do you know what amanthea is? Listen
to this, This will blow your mind. Amanthia is an
ancient Greek word. Socrates talked about it a lot. He
thought it was the epitome of evil. Amanthia. If you
had to translate it, it's called intelligent stupidity. Yeah, intelligent stupidity.
(16:53):
It's where, you know, it's not like average stupidity where
you're just ignorant. It's intelligent stupidity. And when you have
intelligent stupidity. It's the most dangerous I mean it truly
is the most dangerous thing you can you can be
around because if you if you call good bad and
(17:18):
bad good, that's intelligent stupidity. Yeah right. But in the
reason Socrates talked about it, he said, these are people
that were smart enough to know they were wrong, but
refused to accept it. They would rather live in their
ignorance because it threatened listen to this their identity, and
when it threatened their identity, they didn't want they didn't
(17:42):
want that identity threatened. So that's why they give you
an identity, and you.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Know, they just that they can validate. Right.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
So what I give a man a credit for might
be your unique talent, because today is celebrate your unique
Talent Day, is that you you. Not a lot of
kids would go look for the for the antidote to
(18:14):
what they're being taught, right, And not a lot of
kids are going to go challenge their professor because, like
this kid said in the you know her Korean.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
I also think though it's it was a little bit
of a different time because to his credit, my teacher
was very.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Open to me challenging him.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah right, he was like Okay, let's be I'll say
what I believe, you say what you believe. Let's see
what we got.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
And I think that's more and more rare. I think
by the time I got out of college, that was
not something that was really happening.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Is because it's a mathia. I mean, think about this.
It's like, again, best translation, willful ignorance. It refers to
the ignorance that's not a lack of knowledge, but rather
an unwillingness to learn right, an unwillingness or active choice
to remain ignorant despite having the capacity to know better.
(19:09):
Because simple ignorance, I mean, if you think about it
stems from a lack of exposure or understanding, whereas amanthia
involves a conscious decision to ignore evidence or refuse to learn.
And I mean, think about it today. It's so relevant
because it highlights the issues we call cognitive dissonance, her mentality,
or ideological rigidity. It serves as a reminder that individuals
(19:33):
can become trapped in their beliefs. This is what we're
seeing with these kids coming out of school, and that
leads to societal harm because people refuse to engage with
conflicting information of perspectives. That's why you see all these
people just screaming at you. You start speaking to them
and you start trying to engage them in conversation, and
they just yell and start cussing you out, and they say,
(19:54):
understanding Amanthia is so important because you'll recognize the roots
of wilful ignorance in contemporary discussions about morality, ethics, and
social responsibility. And if you have a mathea, you won't
discuss morality, ethics, social responsibility. You'll just discuss what you've
been taught.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
In your and anything else is a threat, and everything else.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Shut down. It's funny because Socrates was the stoic philosopher
back in ancient Greece, and he described this guy Alcebates
al Sibates, was this popular general and politician. He was admired,
super eloquent. Who does that sound like a lot of
people right, had a lot of ambition, But Socrates wrote
he saw something fatal in him. It was the illusion
(20:40):
of wisdom, the illusion that he's right. He mistook cleverness
for actual understanding. And that's what we see in a
lot of arguments, is you know, he would argue any
position to win any debate, yet he never questioned himself
and his position. Right. I love I missed my friend
Charlie Kirk so much. But if you watch Charlie when
(21:00):
he was in Europe, and he was at the two
biggest institutions in England, and he was there and he
was talking to these students and he was arguing, but
at the same time he would listen to them, he
would try to find common ground, and he was intellectually honest.
Where they wouldn't, they weren't. They would just they would
(21:22):
just mocking. If they were losing their argument, they would mocking.
And you know, but that's what they do.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
That's what people do who cannot defend their own position,
who aren't the.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Intellect as a weapon of deception. And so that's where
you get this quote elite, the smart people, you know,
the people that are the intellectual they call them intellectual elites.
They're not intellectual leaks. They're intellectual deception artists, and they're
really smart at deceiving people. You know, how we hear disinformation.
Socrates called it disnowledge, this knowledge wrong knowledge. He called
(22:01):
it a sickness of a soul caused by false beliefs.
And listen to this bad education. So the liberals know this,
that people, the communists, socialists know this. They had to
get in and create disinformation by bad education. You want
wrong information given bad education, because it doesn't begin in
(22:24):
the brain. Listen to this, It begins in the character, right,
and the character. So what they have to do is
they have to get in And the Bible talks about
corrupting the conscience, they have to get in there and
corrupt the character. And so you know, if people are wrong.
You saw this, Morgan when you were in school, they
risk of losing who they think they are. And when
(22:45):
they risk losing who you know, if I've been fed
this stuff and my daughter, my oldest daughter, went to
Brandeice and she was fed so much stuff she really
believed that I'll never forget. When she graduated, we took
her up to our house in Montana, flew her up
there and I brought her it's like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen.
(23:06):
I brought her a cup of coffee that morning to
her bedroom and I said, you know, we're so proud
of you for graduating. And she was crying, and I go,
what's wrong? And she goes, you wouldn't understand. You don't
know what it's like to be a woman of color.
And I'm sitting here like I'm this is me right,
(23:26):
And I looked at her and I said, sweetheart, you
don't know what it's like to be a woman of
color in your definition, I said, you just flew up
here in a private jet. You're in a beautiful home
overlooking the mountains, and I'm bringing your coffee. You just
got a you just got a four year semi ivy
league education that's paid for. You know, you're not in
debt debt, and you're crying. And she believed it. I
(23:50):
mean she really believed it. It's such a distortion of reason.
It's a corruption of the intellect by ideology, ego in
the fear well, it's.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
A control mechanism too, right, If everyone's.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Said ing control if you're a victim, here's the thing.
The Bible explains, if you're a victim, you have a
right to rebel. Yeah. And if you have a right
to rebel, then I don't. I have your identity in
my hand. I don't let you figure out who you are.
I make you who I want you to be. And
(24:22):
I do that by going to gender studies do oppressed colonialization.
You know, studies do whatever I need to do to
make you feel like a victim. And here's the thing.
When you become a victim, you have the right to rebel.
It's the same thing in the Bible. So what it
started with Adham and Eve and they had Satan had
(24:43):
to create a victim with Eve, he had to threaten
her identity. So what did he do? First thing, he said, Hey,
if he made her think God wasn't good. He said,
if God was a good God, why wouldn't he want
you to eat that fruit from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil? And he goes and then
he goes and you know, so he created one God's
not good. Two he made her envious. He said, God
(25:06):
doesn't want you to be like him because he knows
once you eat from that tree, you will have this knowledge.
So he may or think God wasn't good and was
try holding out on her when God was great and
giving her everything that she would ever need. Well, the
same thing that I mean it was such. I mean,
she's living in the garden of Eden. She has everything
(25:26):
she could ever need. There's trees, abundant food, abundant fruit, abundant,
and he goes, but is this this one. It's the
same thing. Satan's successful because he uses the same tricks
because they work. It's same thing. When you get to college,
they tell you, well, you know, your college is paid
for her, your parents love you. But you're a victim.
You don't know you were oppressed. You're you're micro oppressed,
(25:49):
you're subconsciously oppressed. And so what they do is when
they feel like a victim, then they lose their morals
because they feel like they have the right for rebellion.
I'm gonna go drink, I'm gonna go act out and behavior,
I'm gonna do what I want. The thing is this,
when you lose your morals, you lose your mind.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
I took a conflict resolution class at Vanderbilt and I
will never forget. At the time, I don't remember what
it was, maybe a Black Lives Matter purchase. There's some
big protests in Nashville that made a bunch of people
late to class and all the streets around campus were closed,
and we were talking about it and I just went off.
I was like, it's just really annoying, like my whole
you know, protests, fine, but don't close the express like
(26:30):
I think they close the expressway, like, don't close the expressway?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Like how am I supposed to live my life?
Speaker 6 (26:34):
And one of the other little fits well, one of
the other students was like, well, I think that's great.
Now you know what it's like. Now you're feeling some
of the discomfort of a that a black person feels.
And I'll never forget my professor, it's from South Africa.
He goes, you need to be careful with that line
of reasoning because that's how you get you know, suicide
bombers or like domestic terrorism.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
It's like, okay, you want someone.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
To feel the oppression or to feel uncomfortable like black
people say, okay, by that logic, you can go in
and you know, bomb a post office because you know
you're a victim. You're getting you know, black people are
getting killed in the street. Might as well, you know,
not everyone in the post office get killed.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
But again, what do you mean oppression that black people feel?
Number one, any black person living in today hasn't felt depression.
He's he's transporting the oppression that he's told about people
at slavery and look slavery was terrible. One of the
largest slave owners in the world was black. The people
are sold into slavery were sold by black people.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I will never forget being in Ghana, being at the
place where the slaves saw Africa for the last time, right, yeah,
and going through hearing all the sob stories, hearing all
the blah blah blah. And I raised my hand in
the back of the of the of the prison, whatever
it was called, and I said, so correct me.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
White people came over here and did all this.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
No, and he goes, who oh, I go no, seriously,
what how did these guys get here?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Oh, the tribal wars.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
They would sell their people, the captured prisoners to into slavery.
Their own people sold them into slavery.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, hello, look.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
That means black people sold their own black people.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Again again, I'm not giving a pass on slavery, but
let's be honest about that history, honest about it again.
So you lose your morals, you lose your mind. The
thing is the way God designed this nation, Morgan is
on a moral fiber optics. And here's the thing. If
you want to believe, if you don't believe that, think
about this. He designed it to live in virtue. So
(28:44):
what does socialists and communists do. They use the counterfeit
of virtue or virtue signaling. It's where they don't have
real virtue, but they signal it. And they say, well,
you don't understand just what you said. It was such
a brilliant example. You don't now you want understand the
oppression of a black person. No, I understand that I
have to go feed a family of four and I
need to drive down this highway to get to work,
(29:07):
and people don't understand that. So it's everything is done
on a moral fiber optic. That's how you communicate. And
so that's why the Bible says, seek ye first, the
kingdom of God. Kingdom is what everyone should be seeking,
and his righteousness. And so like I was the worst
person on the planet, so I'm not a righteous person.
(29:28):
But when I accepted Jesus, he came into me and
gave me his righteousness. That's what I should be seeking,
not my own. And then so when you do that,
you get baptized and you tell on yourself, You tell
what a pos you were, and I did, you know,
I blurted it out every bad thing I did. And
then once you expose yourself. You get to step into reality.
(29:49):
You're forgiven, and you expose yourself so that no one
has anything to hold on you. Someone could go, I
remember when you did this, and I go, yeah, I did.
That was terrible. That's before I got saved. And so
once you do that, you step into light. But when
you don't confess and don't understand what you did, you
live in what we call twilight. And I think the
(30:09):
American Church right now is in twilight. They're not in light.
I agree that they substituted truth for tolerance, which is evil,
and they quit calling sin by the first name. And
the biggest problem in my per my estimation is they
lost the fear of God, because if you fear God,
you fear nothing else. But if you don't fear God,
(30:31):
you fear everything else. So they're afraid that this group
will talk bad about me and then I won't have
enough attendance to pay the bill on my big building.
And that's just that's not kingdom, that's not the way
God designed it. And so you know, no one wants
to be exposed. But once you expose yourself, then you
get to step into reality. And I think that's where
(30:53):
the church is kind of suffered, I think, and that's
why we're Look where where we are right now, not
because the socialists and the communists. Where where we are
right now in a nation, It is because the church
decided to be tolerant and quit calling truth truth. Do
you remember? You and I are old enough, de have
you remember the moral majority? Right?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And back in the eighties nineties, politicians would not push
even Hillary wouldn't push against the moral majority bill, wouldn't
you know? They had to They were scared of the
moral majority. Yeah, but we've lost the moral majority and
we've come into the it's not my truth, my morals,
it is your truth, White what I think the microphones off.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
It's been co opted. The moral majority has been co opted.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
That what was once moral is now they claim, is
you know, oppressive or is social rue?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Social?
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Yeah, you know, the whole idea has been totally co opted.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
And then good people who want to be nice.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Think they're doing the right thing by cow towing, you know,
instead of standing in truth, because they're being tolerant and
they're not hurting people's feelings.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You know how many times nicest mention't in the Bible?
Zero zero? But truth is light is you know, I don't.
I guess I didn't get that gene where I worried
about what other people thought.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I never did.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I know you did. And that's why we've always got
along since the beginning of time. You know, I never.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
But that's not to say that you know I don't care. Yeah,
I heard somebody these feelings last week. I still feel
bad about her.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And that's your conscience, and you go and apologize to it.
You know, You're like, if I'm mean to someone, then
I need to go and I need to make it
right right and I and I'm all about that, but
I'll never forget. I heard this one theologian, older guy talking,
and he said, oh no, And I heard Vody Bachmann
talk about him. Vote's with God now and body. Vody said,
(32:48):
why don't we speak truth? He says, you're not helping
someone if they're living a life that's going to condemn
them to hell. He goes, What's that's not love? That's tolerance.
And when they stand before God someday and they go, well,
no one told me. But the thing is, you can
speak truth in love like I may not agree with
(33:09):
your lifestyle because I think it's not it's it's wrong.
But at the same time, I can still love you
while I tell you. And it doesn't mean I'm going
to treat you different or bad, but it means I'm
gonna at least be truthful to you. You may not
agree with what I do, but I'm going to stand
by what I understand and know, and I know that's truth.
(33:29):
And the thing is that people go, well, how do
you know Christianity's truth? Well, you know it's truth because
that's how we got here as a nation.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
And that's really to me, honestly, kind of what Thanksgiving
is all about.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Amen. I mean, it's it's the it's it's what.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
It's why I love Thanksgiving more than Christmas.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Does anyone actually know the truth Thanksgiving story?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I want to do a thing on this.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Okay, Well I I can tell you because I did
it on Jim Show a long time ago. I want
to do the Thanksgiving story is keep talking and I'll
pull up my notes for my truth things.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Okay, Well, the bottom line is this, when the when
the Pilgrims came over, they did something where they said,
we're going to have a community Okay, we're going to
share everything. It's going to be a commune. The main
Flower Compact was a community compact which said everyone works
and we put all our stuff together and we share
(34:34):
it because it's so it'll work. That was their idea.
That was. So they come to this, they come to
this nation, they do this compact, and what they found
out after several months is that the old guys couldn't
work as hard as the young guys, and the young
guys were getting mad because they had to do more work.
And then you had the young women that were doing
(34:55):
a lot of the work because they were younger, that
were work than the older women. And everyone was getting
angry because not everyone physically could do what everyone needed
exactly we got baby microphone. So he agrees with me.
But the thing is, in this compact, what they did
is they realized and I believe it was John uh
(35:17):
blaken know his name, I'll think of it John Smith
or I think it was John Smith, but whatever, the
guy maybe not John Smith. But the bottom line is
the leader of the group decided, you know what, we're
gonna die because they were they were failing, miserably and starving.
So he said he broke out and he gave everyone
their own land and everyone started from the same place.
(35:40):
So everyone got an equal amount of land, equal opportunity,
and then they celebrated Thanksgiving because there was an abundance
of food they could share with the others. And it's
so that showed that that mayfire commune compact didn't work.
What worked was rugged individuality, trusting God and mayorgtocracy. This
(36:01):
nation was built on not shared wealth. But you have
the opportunity to start at the same place. When I
mean start, you have the freedom to grow. You can't
do that in India, there's a cast system. You'll never rise
above that cast system. Here you can start out dirt
poor and you can go anywhere you want because you
have the same opportunity. You may not have the same funds,
(36:23):
but yeah you do because you can get your collegue
paid for it. You can get your food samps, you
can get you have everything to start and use your mind,
use your merit. And this nation was built on meritocracy,
Kingdom of God. Meritocracy. It's not you know, salvation is great,
that's a free gift, but after that, it's meritocracy. And
(36:45):
it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
And that's why I love Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yeah, that's why I love But the true story of
Thanksgiving where the whole communism thing didn't work because they
had a commune and they had communism and they shared
everything and they were it was miserable, no one got along.
But after that, when you were responsible for what you had. Look,
if you didn't want to work, then you didn't have
as much as the guy that decided to bust his
tail and work.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
And I feel like you you fast forward one hundred
years to the seventeen hundred, the mid seventeen hundreds, late
seventeen hundreds were were really founding the country and writing
the Declaration of Independence and writing the Bill of Rights.
It's all kind of they learned lessons. I don't know
that this country learns lessons anymore.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Well they don't. I mean we went to school, I
mean every day in grade school. I went to public school.
I'm a product of public school. I never went to
private school except to Baylor University. And that was you
question that. But we we always said the Pledge of Allegiance,
the Texas Pledge. When I was in Texas and we prayed,
(37:51):
and when we kicked prayer out of school. You know
what we got the first year we kicked pray out
of school Columbine.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm telling you I went on.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
So there's a listener that took me to task about
prayer in school the other day. I want you to
come back and talk about prayer in school one time, because.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I think that was the beginning of the end.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Well, here's the thing. I'll tell you this. You have
communities in the United States that are majority Muslim communities
where they enaccored Sharia law. Dearborn, And don't get me started,
because I can go into Islam as a political force,
but it was designed that way. But you have, like Dearborn,
you have okay. Yet you have Christian communities that are like,
(38:37):
oh we're tolerant. We don't want prayer in school. We
don't want we don't want our kids. Look, I pray
for my children. I know you do, Debbie, every single day.
You pray for your children. You pray for your grandchildren
if you have them, because you realize one thing. You
realize that I can't be there all the time to
protect them and they need the grace of God covering them.
(38:59):
I'm sorry. The older you get, you're gonna realize one
of the two things you're gonna realize your life sucks,
You're going to realize you're not God. Those are the
things you're gonna realize. And once you realize you're not
God and you meet Him, then your life gets joy.
Doesn't mean it's easy, but you realize there's something more,
there's something more fulfilling. And so what you have in
(39:20):
the schools right now, like a man I was talking
about it is you have people they're trying to put
something in that God hole to make you feel feel fulfilled.
But there it's a man made thing. It's man made
created and if you know anything living in Corpus CHRISTI,
everything man made eventually rusts, breaks, down, falls apart, crumbles.
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Speaker 1 (02:27):
But what's the greatest Christmas movie of all time? Well,
some people would say it's diehard you are you are
so there? Yes, yes, yes, outstanding. That's how you know
a true tex and true American right there, It's not
it's not it's not Christmas till Hans has fallen off
(02:49):
in Knoko Tomi Tower. Hans Bruger's falling off the Knakatomy Tower.
And then you can have christ yep. Yeah, once they
say you pie kay, then you can. Yeah. Then that's
the way. It's the introduction to Christmas. Arguably one of
the greatest Christmas movies of all times.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It is.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And here's here's a dark horse Christmas movie. Not a
lot of people appreciate the first lethal weapon.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Oh yeah, with me.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Give the crashes through and the Christmas trees there the
final scene. Oh yeah, yeah. I mean it's just it's
a it's a dark horse one, but it's it was
still great. You know, I remember when movies were good.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, Hugh Jackman.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
So I was on Instagram last night, Hugh Jackman. I
guess in Kate Hudson have done a movie on Neil Diamond.
I think it's song Sun Blue or something is the
name of it hasn't been released yet anyways, but he's
doing their impais or whatever, doing their whatever, and he says,
why does Hollywood not make movies like they used to? Well,
(03:55):
good freaking question. That's what the rest I want.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
To know you Well, that's that's it's just a major shift.
It's a shift against everything. It's a shift against family,
it's a shift against values. And movies have become just
part of the information spectrum and they push what they want.
And you know, I mean, if I see another guy
kiss a guy or girl kiss a girl for no reason,
(04:20):
it's not in the storyline, it's just, hey, Eric, and
I try to watch something the other day. In it
for five minutes, a guy's kissing a guy, and I'm like,
I don't care, but I don't want to see it
on a movie. Bye, I don't want to watch it.
I don't I don't want gratuitous male female sex. I
just want a good movie. I don't think that's asking
too much. Although I did see Sissu two, which was
(04:40):
gratuitous violence, which I appreciate in the of course, in
the Konan style, and it was it was a great movie.
And Sisu won was great, you know, and the guy
didn't talk the whole movie. That's the brilliance of the movie.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Wasn't that like First Blood with.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It's it's just about it. It's just a it's just
a finish guy who had gone through all the bad things.
But if the CITs, who means you just indominal? Will
you never quit? And this kind never quits? And if
you just want to go and enjoy a great movie
that's going to be very violent, but you're not going
to hear a cussword. You're not going to see any nudity,
but it's you might see heads popping off, you know,
(05:17):
but it's almost cartoonish. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Okay, Tom, buddy, you're good? Anything else to say?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Did you fell off? Great? Usually he's also because he
already knows the greatest Christmas movie of all times?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Yeah, well, he usually says, have blessed Jeesville Day. I
love That's how he ends. That's why I always like
great man. Great man, let him say goodbye? Yes and
giving us your two cents on whether you think Thanksgiving
should be its own standalone holiday without Christmas trees.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Or with Christmas.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Trees without I mean questioning that I don't even stand Look.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Because people put them up in October. Now have you
not been in a store Christmas starts in October. It
is crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You know, we're getting away from good traditions in this country.
And it's really sad to say. This is not a
conspiracy theory. This is just the identification of what's going
on in a conspiracy being it, we've we've commercialized holidays
(06:31):
to the point they don't mean anything anymore. Yeah, it's
you're you're you're taking what I would call the the
magic of Christmas away because we never that. The Christmas
tree always went up after Thanksgiving. It went up that Friday,
after that Thursday. And growing up in my home and
(06:53):
I'm thinking a lot about my father now since he's passed.
My dad always made it special. You know. We we
got my mom got everything out. There was a way
we did it. Dad did the lights and then relaxed.
Mom decorated with the kids. The kids decorated and Mom
told them what to do, and Dad sat there and
(07:15):
we talked as a family. And we did that every
year until I left for college, and we would still
come back and do that because they were building My
parents were building into us events that were family oriented
events that where the father was there, the mother was there.
We have driven the roles of father and mother out
(07:38):
of society to where it's become a cheap, commercialized. Hey,
everything's up, and you know, people just were all busy,
so you just throw the tree up when you get
a chance. I kept the traditions that my father had,
My wife, Erica and I we did it with all
of our kids, all eight of them. We blended a
family and we would have that and some of the
(08:00):
sweetest pictures we have every year of our doing the
tree together and the kids all knew this is what
it was. Erica would cook, you know, we would when
they were young. We would put food out for Rudolph,
you know, because he did come and eat Santa which
was me and I wanted sugar cookies.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And spry cook Yeah, I was like milk.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
No, we had we had, I mean, but you know,
my dad would even carve a little place for Rudolph's
nose in the cone and the carrot that he would
left for Rudolph.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And I still remember seeing Santa Claus, waking up one
night seeing him out there. So you know, we But
the thing is, we've gotten away from that because we've
dumbed down what are important traditions And it all starts
back in the education system because we've we've taken away
(08:53):
the traditions that made this nation great. There's nothing wrong
with traditions. There's nothing wrong with family. If you we
talked about movies, talk about TV. When we were growing up,
Father Knows Best, Happy Days. The father was always the
stable character Tom Bosley, My Three Sons, Tom Bosley and
(09:16):
Happy Days. He was like the surrogate father for the fawns. Yeah,
and Mariene Dowd was a mom. I guess she was,
and these were all great family shows. Then fast forward
and the dad's adult. He's like, what am I going
to do?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Man?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Everyone's making fun of dad getting on. It's an intentional
You have to understand what you're looking at. It's intentionally
trying to drive the father out of the home. Now,
if you don't have a dad for whatever reason, or
you don't have a mom for whatever reason, you know,
God takes that into account. He'll bring you that person
to step in the gap, for you to stand in
(09:52):
the gap. But there's nothing wrong with the traditional family.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to raise kids and women saying,
you know, I need a career, I need I need that. Well, great,
that's where God's calling you. But there's nothing more satisfying
than having a family. I mean, my wife, I could
not say enough nice things about her. She's the greatest
mother and wife to me on the planet. She loves
(10:14):
our kids. I mean, we're having Thanksgiving here and she's like,
we're gonna have a few extra people. And I'm like,
of course, because there's kids here that don't have parents, yeah,
or the parents aren't in their lives. They're gonna come
to our house for Thanksgiving. My wife potentially we had
a table that could fit ten people, which is our
(10:34):
eight kids in US two. When our kids went off
to college, my wife said, we got to get a
bigger table. She got one twice sets. I can put
twenty people around our table. Now it's just massive in
our dining room because and it's just an old wooden table,
it's nothing fancy. But she's like, I want to cook
and I want to have the family around. And my
(10:56):
wife will build into young girls' lives, you know, whose
moms may not be talking to them or just you know,
what does the Bible say, no prophets respected in their village.
I mean, sometimes you have to have another couple come
and encourage the kids when they're having trouble. And we've
lost that sense of community, and I believe we could
get it back, especially here in Corpus, because Corpus is Look,
(11:20):
whether you like it or not, we're we're closed off deal.
Corpus is on the way to nowhere. I mean, you know,
Corpus is not on the way to Austin. It's not
on the way to San Antonio. It's not on the
way that the valletal. No, Corpus is a sole destination.
Corpus has survived being that kid that just didn't quite
(11:40):
fit in. But as Corpus Christians, you know, my prayer
is this Holidays, we'll go back to what made this
nation great, what made the state great, and it all
started with community. I am. I'm a voracious reader. I
love to read, and I found a book on written
It's a It's a It was written by the daughter
(12:02):
of the man that lived it, and it was her
father had come here from Louisiana, stowed away at twelve
years old and come to Texas on a ship. This
is before Texas was even a state. Came to Texas
and he talks about coming in down south south of
here and coming up walking through Texas and it's basically history.
(12:22):
And this twelve year old kid was talking and I mean,
at twelve, lived with family, They took him in, they
fed him. I mean, there was so much community. It's
neat seen. Texans have always been this way. Yeah, they've
always been this way. Yet we're being divided by race,
We're being divided by ethnicity, We're being divided by gender.
(12:45):
I mean, these things that have existed since the beginning
of time. How about we just unite around common principles.
How will we unite around common holidays? How we unite
around common geography. I mean, it's it's just so important
that and most importantly around God. I mean, this is
(13:05):
we have gotten so far away from understanding that the
community is what makes the state. You know, I hate
to tell people this, but we weren't founded by a
bunch of illegal immigrants. We were founded by people that
came here for freedom and for that idea black, white,
purple whatever, and the thing that made this nation great
(13:29):
and gave us so much grace is what allowed a
lot of these French groups the tolerance they needed to grow,
build and become a you know, a loud voice. But
just because you're allowed to have that loud voice doesn't
mean you divide the nation again. I mean, we just
need to stop. Remember Nancy Reagan in the eighties to drugs,
(13:49):
Just say no. Just say no to the division, Just
say no to the gender studies. Just say no to
the oppressive colonialist bs that you're being fed. You know,
it says history is written by the victors. But the
unfortunate thing is the victors that built this nation aren't
writing the history anymore. The true history. You have the
(14:11):
radicals that are just coming up and wanting to write
the revision is history.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
It was that guy that you had to study Mandolitz.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Oh late Howard zen Is, the Howard zenn Is, the
Walt Disney of history.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
He was my That was my history book for my
for my American history classic boarding school. And so I
bought there's like a point for point counter book called
so the Howards in books called A People's History of
the United States. I bought A Patriots History of the
United States, and I did double the reading the whole year,
(14:43):
and I read the Howards Enn and I read the
Patriots History, and I went in and I sat around
our little Harkness table, that's what it's called, our little
circle table.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
And I was like, this is all wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Well, Howards's photograph, but again, look at the pop culture.
Remember Matt Damon in Goodwill Honeying. He talks about Howard
Zinn like it was with gospel or something, and you're like, yeah, no,
Howardson was a chucklehead.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
But that's so.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
So what's interesting about that is I'm in, I'm up
at the DMZ with Blake and we run into the
DMZ de militarize between the Okay, that's.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
What I was thinking, not that, not the Department of
Motor Vehicle, the DMV. The DMZ.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
We're up in South Korea.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I'm familiar and uh.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
This kid comes up to me and ask me, do
do you do you know Amanda Farenthald.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
You have a daughter named Amanda?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And I said, yeah, she's my daughter.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
He had gone to school with her, and I asked her, I, well, anyway,
we start talking and he goes yes. She was very
very outspoken when it came to American history.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
But you know what I say that good parents? Yeah good.
Let me. Let me just tell folks. You know, sometimes
kids they grow and they go their own way, and
it's not the parents. Okay, I mean sometimes it is,
but most of the time they just kids grow up.
They get free will. But good kids aren't an accident. Yeah,
good kids come from someone that took the time to
(16:11):
speak truth into their life. And here's the thing. When
you're young, Amanda, you probably know this more than anyone.
When you're young, you want truth. You're looking for truth,
and the problem is the university's writ large feed you
what they want you to know, and then they stir
your passion behind that truth and it comes out to
(16:31):
something called amanthia. Do you know what amanthea is? Listen
to this, This will blow your mind. Amanthia is an
ancient Greek word. Socrates talked about it a lot. He
thought it was the epitome of evil. Amanthia. If you
had to translate it, it's called intelligent stupidity. Yeah, intelligent stupidity.
(16:53):
It's where, you know, it's not like average stupidity where
you're just ignorant. It's intelligent stupidity. And when you have
intelligent stupidity. It's the most dangerous I mean it truly
is the most dangerous thing you can you can be
around because if you if you call good bad and
(17:18):
bad good, that's intelligent stupidity. Yeah right. But in the
reason Socrates talked about it, he said, these are people
that were smart enough to know they were wrong, but
refused to accept it. They would rather live in their
ignorance because it threatened listen to this their identity, and
when it threatened their identity, they didn't want they didn't
(17:42):
want that identity threatened. So that's why they give you
an identity, and you.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Know, they just that they can validate. Right.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
So what I give a man a credit for might
be your unique talent, because today is celebrate your unique
Talent Day, is that you you. Not a lot of
kids would go look for the for the antidote to
(18:14):
what they're being taught, right, And not a lot of
kids are going to go challenge their professor because, like
this kid said in the you know her Korean.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
I also think though it's it was a little bit
of a different time because to his credit, my teacher
was very.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Open to me challenging him.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah right, he was like Okay, let's be I'll say
what I believe, you say what you believe. Let's see
what we got.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
And I think that's more and more rare. I think
by the time I got out of college, that was
not something that was really happening.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Is because it's a mathia. I mean, think about this.
It's like, again, best translation, willful ignorance. It refers to
the ignorance that's not a lack of knowledge, but rather
an unwillingness to learn right, an unwillingness or active choice
to remain ignorant despite having the capacity to know better.
(19:09):
Because simple ignorance, I mean, if you think about it
stems from a lack of exposure or understanding, whereas amanthia
involves a conscious decision to ignore evidence or refuse to learn.
And I mean, think about it today. It's so relevant
because it highlights the issues we call cognitive dissonance, her mentality,
or ideological rigidity. It serves as a reminder that individuals
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can become trapped in their beliefs. This is what we're
seeing with these kids coming out of school, and that
leads to societal harm because people refuse to engage with
conflicting information of perspectives. That's why you see all these
people just screaming at you. You start speaking to them
and you start trying to engage them in conversation, and
they just yell and start cussing you out, and they say,
(19:54):
understanding Amanthia is so important because you'll recognize the roots
of wilful ignorance in contemporary discussions about morality, ethics, and
social responsibility. And if you have a mathea, you won't
discuss morality, ethics, social responsibility. You'll just discuss what you've
been taught.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
In your and anything else is a threat, and everything else.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Shut down. It's funny because Socrates was the stoic philosopher
back in ancient Greece, and he described this guy Alcebates
al Sibates, was this popular general and politician. He was admired,
super eloquent. Who does that sound like a lot of
people right, had a lot of ambition, But Socrates wrote
he saw something fatal in him. It was the illusion
(20:40):
of wisdom, the illusion that he's right. He mistook cleverness
for actual understanding. And that's what we see in a
lot of arguments, is you know, he would argue any
position to win any debate, yet he never questioned himself
and his position. Right. I love I missed my friend
Charlie Kirk so much. But if you watch Charlie when
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he was in Europe, and he was at the two
biggest institutions in England, and he was there and he
was talking to these students and he was arguing, but
at the same time he would listen to them, he
would try to find common ground, and he was intellectually honest.
Where they wouldn't, they weren't. They would just they would
(21:22):
just mocking. If they were losing their argument, they would mocking.
And you know, but that's what they do.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
That's what people do who cannot defend their own position,
who aren't the.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Intellect as a weapon of deception. And so that's where
you get this quote elite, the smart people, you know,
the people that are the intellectual they call them intellectual elites.
They're not intellectual leaks. They're intellectual deception artists, and they're
really smart at deceiving people. You know, how we hear disinformation.
Socrates called it disnowledge, this knowledge wrong knowledge. He called
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it a sickness of a soul caused by false beliefs.
And listen to this bad education. So the liberals know this,
that people, the communists, socialists know this. They had to
get in and create disinformation by bad education. You want
wrong information given bad education, because it doesn't begin in
(22:24):
the brain. Listen to this, It begins in the character, right,
and the character. So what they have to do is
they have to get in And the Bible talks about
corrupting the conscience, they have to get in there and
corrupt the character. And so you know, if people are wrong.
You saw this, Morgan when you were in school, they
risk of losing who they think they are. And when
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they risk losing who you know, if I've been fed
this stuff and my daughter, my oldest daughter, went to
Brandeice and she was fed so much stuff she really
believed that I'll never forget. When she graduated, we took
her up to our house in Montana, flew her up
there and I brought her it's like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen.
(23:06):
I brought her a cup of coffee that morning to
her bedroom and I said, you know, we're so proud
of you for graduating. And she was crying, and I go,
what's wrong? And she goes, you wouldn't understand. You don't
know what it's like to be a woman of color.
And I'm sitting here like I'm this is me right,
(23:26):
And I looked at her and I said, sweetheart, you
don't know what it's like to be a woman of
color in your definition, I said, you just flew up
here in a private jet. You're in a beautiful home
overlooking the mountains, and I'm bringing your coffee. You just
got a you just got a four year semi ivy
league education that's paid for. You know, you're not in
debt debt, and you're crying. And she believed it. I
(23:50):
mean she really believed it. It's such a distortion of reason.
It's a corruption of the intellect by ideology, ego in
the fear well, it's.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
A control mechanism too, right, If everyone's.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Said ing control if you're a victim, here's the thing.
The Bible explains, if you're a victim, you have a
right to rebel. Yeah. And if you have a right
to rebel, then I don't. I have your identity in
my hand. I don't let you figure out who you are.
I make you who I want you to be. And
(24:22):
I do that by going to gender studies do oppressed colonialization.
You know, studies do whatever I need to do to
make you feel like a victim. And here's the thing.
When you become a victim, you have the right to rebel.
It's the same thing in the Bible. So what it
started with Adham and Eve and they had Satan had
(24:43):
to create a victim with Eve, he had to threaten
her identity. So what did he do? First thing, he said, Hey,
if he made her think God wasn't good. He said,
if God was a good God, why wouldn't he want
you to eat that fruit from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil? And he goes and then
he goes and you know, so he created one God's
not good. Two he made her envious. He said, God
(25:06):
doesn't want you to be like him because he knows
once you eat from that tree, you will have this knowledge.
So he may or think God wasn't good and was
try holding out on her when God was great and
giving her everything that she would ever need. Well, the
same thing that I mean it was such. I mean,
she's living in the garden of Eden. She has everything
(25:26):
she could ever need. There's trees, abundant food, abundant fruit, abundant,
and he goes, but is this this one. It's the
same thing. Satan's successful because he uses the same tricks
because they work. It's same thing. When you get to college,
they tell you, well, you know, your college is paid
for her, your parents love you. But you're a victim.
You don't know you were oppressed. You're you're micro oppressed,
(25:49):
you're subconsciously oppressed. And so what they do is when
they feel like a victim, then they lose their morals
because they feel like they have the right for rebellion.
I'm gonna go drink, I'm gonna go act out and behavior,
I'm gonna do what I want. The thing is this,
when you lose your morals, you lose your mind.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
I took a conflict resolution class at Vanderbilt and I
will never forget. At the time, I don't remember what
it was, maybe a Black Lives Matter purchase. There's some
big protests in Nashville that made a bunch of people
late to class and all the streets around campus were closed,
and we were talking about it and I just went off.
I was like, it's just really annoying, like my whole
you know, protests, fine, but don't close the express like
(26:30):
I think they close the expressway, like, don't close the expressway?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Like how am I supposed to live my life?
Speaker 6 (26:34):
And one of the other little fits well, one of
the other students was like, well, I think that's great.
Now you know what it's like. Now you're feeling some
of the discomfort of a that a black person feels.
And I'll never forget my professor, it's from South Africa.
He goes, you need to be careful with that line
of reasoning because that's how you get you know, suicide
bombers or like domestic terrorism.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
It's like, okay, you want someone.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
To feel the oppression or to feel uncomfortable like black
people say, okay, by that logic, you can go in
and you know, bomb a post office because you know
you're a victim. You're getting you know, black people are
getting killed in the street. Might as well, you know,
not everyone in the post office get killed.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
But again, what do you mean oppression that black people feel?
Number one, any black person living in today hasn't felt depression.
He's he's transporting the oppression that he's told about people
at slavery and look slavery was terrible. One of the
largest slave owners in the world was black. The people
are sold into slavery were sold by black people.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I will never forget being in Ghana, being at the
place where the slaves saw Africa for the last time, right, yeah,
and going through hearing all the sob stories, hearing all
the blah blah blah. And I raised my hand in
the back of the of the of the prison, whatever
it was called, and I said, so correct me.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
White people came over here and did all this.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
No, and he goes, who oh, I go no, seriously,
what how did these guys get here?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Oh, the tribal wars.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
They would sell their people, the captured prisoners to into slavery.
Their own people sold them into slavery.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, hello, look.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
That means black people sold their own black people.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Again again, I'm not giving a pass on slavery, but
let's be honest about that history, honest about it again.
So you lose your morals, you lose your mind. The
thing is the way God designed this nation, Morgan is
on a moral fiber optics. And here's the thing. If
you want to believe, if you don't believe that, think
about this. He designed it to live in virtue. So
(28:44):
what does socialists and communists do. They use the counterfeit
of virtue or virtue signaling. It's where they don't have
real virtue, but they signal it. And they say, well,
you don't understand just what you said. It was such
a brilliant example. You don't now you want understand the
oppression of a black person. No, I understand that I
have to go feed a family of four and I
need to drive down this highway to get to work,
(29:07):
and people don't understand that. So it's everything is done
on a moral fiber optic. That's how you communicate. And
so that's why the Bible says, seek ye first, the
kingdom of God. Kingdom is what everyone should be seeking,
and his righteousness. And so like I was the worst
person on the planet, so I'm not a righteous person.
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But when I accepted Jesus, he came into me and
gave me his righteousness. That's what I should be seeking,
not my own. And then so when you do that,
you get baptized and you tell on yourself, You tell
what a pos you were, and I did, you know,
I blurted it out every bad thing I did. And
then once you expose yourself. You get to step into reality.
(29:49):
You're forgiven, and you expose yourself so that no one
has anything to hold on you. Someone could go, I
remember when you did this, and I go, yeah, I did.
That was terrible. That's before I got saved. And so
once you do that, you step into light. But when
you don't confess and don't understand what you did, you
live in what we call twilight. And I think the
(30:09):
American Church right now is in twilight. They're not in light.
I agree that they substituted truth for tolerance, which is evil,
and they quit calling sin by the first name. And
the biggest problem in my per my estimation is they
lost the fear of God, because if you fear God,
you fear nothing else. But if you don't fear God,
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you fear everything else. So they're afraid that this group
will talk bad about me and then I won't have
enough attendance to pay the bill on my big building.
And that's just that's not kingdom, that's not the way
God designed it. And so you know, no one wants
to be exposed. But once you expose yourself, then you
get to step into reality. And I think that's where
(30:53):
the church is kind of suffered, I think, and that's
why we're Look where where we are right now, not
because the socialists and the communists. Where where we are
right now in a nation, It is because the church
decided to be tolerant and quit calling truth truth. Do
you remember? You and I are old enough, de have
you remember the moral majority? Right?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And back in the eighties nineties, politicians would not push
even Hillary wouldn't push against the moral majority bill, wouldn't
you know? They had to They were scared of the
moral majority. Yeah, but we've lost the moral majority and
we've come into the it's not my truth, my morals,
it is your truth, White what I think the microphones off.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
It's been co opted. The moral majority has been co opted.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
That what was once moral is now they claim, is
you know, oppressive or is social rue?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Social?
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Yeah, you know, the whole idea has been totally co opted.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
And then good people who want to be nice.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Think they're doing the right thing by cow towing, you know,
instead of standing in truth, because they're being tolerant and
they're not hurting people's feelings.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You know how many times nicest mention't in the Bible?
Zero zero? But truth is light is you know, I don't.
I guess I didn't get that gene where I worried
about what other people thought.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I never did.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I know you did. And that's why we've always got
along since the beginning of time. You know, I never.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
But that's not to say that you know I don't care. Yeah,
I heard somebody these feelings last week. I still feel
bad about her.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And that's your conscience, and you go and apologize to it.
You know, You're like, if I'm mean to someone, then
I need to go and I need to make it
right right and I and I'm all about that, but
I'll never forget. I heard this one theologian, older guy talking,
and he said, oh no, And I heard Vody Bachmann
talk about him. Vote's with God now and body. Vody said,
(32:48):
why don't we speak truth? He says, you're not helping
someone if they're living a life that's going to condemn
them to hell. He goes, What's that's not love? That's tolerance.
And when they stand before God someday and they go, well,
no one told me. But the thing is, you can
speak truth in love like I may not agree with
(33:09):
your lifestyle because I think it's not it's it's wrong.
But at the same time, I can still love you
while I tell you. And it doesn't mean I'm going
to treat you different or bad, but it means I'm
gonna at least be truthful to you. You may not
agree with what I do, but I'm going to stand
by what I understand and know, and I know that's truth.
(33:29):
And the thing is that people go, well, how do
you know Christianity's truth? Well, you know it's truth because
that's how we got here as a nation.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
And that's really to me, honestly, kind of what Thanksgiving
is all about.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Amen. I mean, it's it's the it's it's what.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
It's why I love Thanksgiving more than Christmas.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Does anyone actually know the truth Thanksgiving story?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I want to do a thing on this.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Okay, Well I I can tell you because I did
it on Jim Show a long time ago. I want
to do the Thanksgiving story is keep talking and I'll
pull up my notes for my truth things.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Okay, Well, the bottom line is this, when the when
the Pilgrims came over, they did something where they said,
we're going to have a community Okay, we're going to
share everything. It's going to be a commune. The main
Flower Compact was a community compact which said everyone works
and we put all our stuff together and we share
(34:34):
it because it's so it'll work. That was their idea.
That was. So they come to this, they come to
this nation, they do this compact, and what they found
out after several months is that the old guys couldn't
work as hard as the young guys, and the young
guys were getting mad because they had to do more work.
And then you had the young women that were doing
(34:55):
a lot of the work because they were younger, that
were work than the older women. And everyone was getting
angry because not everyone physically could do what everyone needed
exactly we got baby microphone. So he agrees with me.
But the thing is, in this compact, what they did
is they realized and I believe it was John uh
(35:17):
blaken know his name, I'll think of it John Smith
or I think it was John Smith, but whatever, the
guy maybe not John Smith. But the bottom line is
the leader of the group decided, you know what, we're
gonna die because they were they were failing, miserably and starving.
So he said he broke out and he gave everyone
their own land and everyone started from the same place.
(35:40):
So everyone got an equal amount of land, equal opportunity,
and then they celebrated Thanksgiving because there was an abundance
of food they could share with the others. And it's
so that showed that that mayfire commune compact didn't work.
What worked was rugged individuality, trusting God and mayorgtocracy. This
(36:01):
nation was built on not shared wealth. But you have
the opportunity to start at the same place. When I
mean start, you have the freedom to grow. You can't
do that in India, there's a cast system. You'll never rise
above that cast system. Here you can start out dirt
poor and you can go anywhere you want because you
have the same opportunity. You may not have the same funds,
(36:23):
but yeah you do because you can get your collegue
paid for it. You can get your food samps, you
can get you have everything to start and use your mind,
use your merit. And this nation was built on meritocracy,
Kingdom of God. Meritocracy. It's not you know, salvation is great,
that's a free gift, but after that, it's meritocracy. And
(36:45):
it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
And that's why I love Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yeah, that's why I love But the true story of
Thanksgiving where the whole communism thing didn't work because they
had a commune and they had communism and they shared
everything and they were it was miserable, no one got along.
But after that, when you were responsible for what you had. Look,
if you didn't want to work, then you didn't have
as much as the guy that decided to bust his
tail and work.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
And I feel like you you fast forward one hundred
years to the seventeen hundred, the mid seventeen hundreds, late
seventeen hundreds were were really founding the country and writing
the Declaration of Independence and writing the Bill of Rights.
It's all kind of they learned lessons. I don't know
that this country learns lessons anymore.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Well they don't. I mean we went to school, I
mean every day in grade school. I went to public school.
I'm a product of public school. I never went to
private school except to Baylor University. And that was you
question that. But we we always said the Pledge of Allegiance,
the Texas Pledge. When I was in Texas and we prayed,
(37:51):
and when we kicked prayer out of school. You know
what we got the first year we kicked pray out
of school Columbine.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm telling you I went on.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
So there's a listener that took me to task about
prayer in school the other day. I want you to
come back and talk about prayer in school one time, because.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I think that was the beginning of the end.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Well, here's the thing. I'll tell you this. You have
communities in the United States that are majority Muslim communities
where they enaccored Sharia law. Dearborn, And don't get me started,
because I can go into Islam as a political force,
but it was designed that way. But you have, like Dearborn,
you have okay. Yet you have Christian communities that are like,
(38:37):
oh we're tolerant. We don't want prayer in school. We
don't want we don't want our kids. Look, I pray
for my children. I know you do, Debbie, every single day.
You pray for your children. You pray for your grandchildren
if you have them, because you realize one thing. You
realize that I can't be there all the time to
protect them and they need the grace of God covering them.
(38:59):
I'm sorry. The older you get, you're gonna realize one
of the two things you're gonna realize your life sucks,
You're going to realize you're not God. Those are the
things you're gonna realize. And once you realize you're not
God and you meet Him, then your life gets joy.
Doesn't mean it's easy, but you realize there's something more,
there's something more fulfilling. And so what you have in
(39:20):
the schools right now, like a man I was talking
about it is you have people they're trying to put
something in that God hole to make you feel feel fulfilled.
But there it's a man made thing. It's man made
created and if you know anything living in Corpus CHRISTI,
everything man made eventually rusts, breaks, down, falls apart, crumbles.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
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