Speaker 1: Up next. How woud you know called part of the
Speaker 1: If brutal honesty makes you uncomfortable, then this podcast isn't
Speaker 1: for you, because today you're going to hear some straight
Speaker 1: talk from someone who isn't afraid to tell it like
Speaker 1: it is. Passionate, blunt, conservative, patriotic. The outspoken Lieutenant Governor
Speaker 1: of North Carolina, Mark Robinson is in the House, a
Speaker 1: rising superstar in the Republican Party who has taken a
Speaker 1: GOP by storm. This is outllowed with Gianno called well,
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Governor, is really a pleasure to have you. I've
Speaker 1: learned about you recently and I follow your Facebook page
Speaker 1: and I've been seeing the videos, and I get really
Speaker 1: excited and fired up when I hear you speak. So
Speaker 1: thank you for all you're doing, not just for the
Speaker 1: party but the country. Well, thank you for having me here.
Speaker 1: We appreciate all those all those kind words. We certainly do.
Speaker 1: Thank you absolutely. Before we get into politics and the
Speaker 1: issues of the day, I want to talk to you
Speaker 1: about your upbringing. I know you face adversity with an
Speaker 1: abusive father and you found yourself in foster care. Tell
Speaker 1: us what life was like growing up, Where were you raised,
Speaker 1: how did you overcome a rough childhood? Well? Uh, born
Speaker 1: and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. Uh, my childhood when
Speaker 1: I looked back on my childhood, I had a happy childhood.
Speaker 1: But it was right with all those things. My father
Speaker 1: was never abusive towards me or my siblings, but he
Speaker 1: was very abusive towards my mother. Uh. They had a
Speaker 1: very contentious, very violent relationship. He was an alcoholic. Uh.
Speaker 1: And he died when I was around twelve. When well,
Speaker 1: when I was twelve, I was in the fifth grade
Speaker 1: when he died my mom. That left my mom with
Speaker 1: five children in total. All of us were in school
Speaker 1: range from twelfth grade the first grade. UM, and so uh.
Speaker 1: You know, she had a choice. She could either go
Speaker 1: to work or or or go to the go towards welfare.
Speaker 1: She chose to work. She was a custodian. She did
Speaker 1: that for a number, for gosh, for almost thirty years.
Speaker 1: She was a coustodian. And that's how she took care
Speaker 1: of us. And I saw her have her priorities in
Speaker 1: order and do things on that custodian salary that the
Speaker 1: people would say was impossible, but she did it. And
Speaker 1: that taught me a great deal about what it takes
Speaker 1: to make it in life. What it takes to make
Speaker 1: it in life, It's for you to go out and
Speaker 1: earn your living and four your destiny. And that's what
Speaker 1: my mom did, and that's the example from shows. She
Speaker 1: also had a very strong faith in God, which I
Speaker 1: you know, I sustained her as well, so uh the
Speaker 1: primary source for strength as a matter of fact. So
Speaker 1: uh that was that was what my offbering was like
Speaker 1: like and that's what I learned. And this is uh
Speaker 1: as like I said, it's what helped leave me to
Speaker 1: where I am right now. Wow. And the faith in God,
Speaker 1: I think is the critical point. And I've seen you
Speaker 1: talk about that and viral clip after viral clip about
Speaker 1: how how how you believe and why you believe and
Speaker 1: why you believe this is the best country in an
Speaker 1: entire world and how God Jesus Is really had his
Speaker 1: hands on America. Can you expound on that please? Well,
Speaker 1: you know people people don't like to admit it. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of people that don't like to admit
Speaker 1: the fact that the reason why uh, this country is
Speaker 1: has been blessed because people pray for God to bless
Speaker 1: this nation. We say it in our songs, you know,
Speaker 1: we say it in our in our founding documents. We
Speaker 1: we say that every everywhere, everywhere you turn around. We
Speaker 1: always give God credit for for what he's done and
Speaker 1: what he can do and what he will do. And
Speaker 1: I think because of that, he hears it and he blessed.
Speaker 1: And of course we're not perfect people. We're not perfect people.
Speaker 1: We're not a perfect nation. We never have been, and
Speaker 1: we don't claim to be. But we ultimately we know
Speaker 1: who we is we have to answer to, and we
Speaker 1: know who it is that oh that we owe the
Speaker 1: credit to, and that's who, that's who we give that
Speaker 1: credit to. And as far as it's being the greatest
Speaker 1: nation on earth, you know, I don't see Mary. I've
Speaker 1: read this this this morning on social media, and it's true.
Speaker 1: America is so great that even the people that hate it,
Speaker 1: hate America, won't leave. That's how great America is. The
Speaker 1: people who claim to hate it leads. Uh, this is
Speaker 1: this is still the greatest snakes on our still a
Speaker 1: place where you can make dreams come true. And uh,
Speaker 1: that's I mean, that's just the way it is. The
Speaker 1: proof is, like they say, the proof is in the
Speaker 1: Putt indeed it is. And like I mentioned before, viral
Speaker 1: video after viral video, you really arrived on the national
Speaker 1: scene for a lot of people in two thousand and eighteen, UM,
Speaker 1: and it was because of a viral video of you
Speaker 1: defending gun rights in the second Amendment of the meeting
Speaker 1: at the Greensboro City Council And that got you noticed.
Speaker 1: And from what I understand from watching the interview with
Speaker 1: you and Governor Mike Huckleby, UM, it got over two
Speaker 1: hundred million views, he said, I mean from there, I
Speaker 1: mean you talked about what people told you you could
Speaker 1: do in terms of creating a brand for yourself and
Speaker 1: making a lot of money because you're this you know,
Speaker 1: this fresh star before millions of people, but you chose
Speaker 1: to serve instead. And what got you into politics. I've
Speaker 1: been politically aware, what I call politically aware for many
Speaker 1: many years. That started way back and uh the mid nineties,
Speaker 1: I guess. Uh. I had a friend who uh challenged
Speaker 1: me to think better and uh, you know, to do
Speaker 1: my own research. And I did that and once I did,
Speaker 1: I found out that I was a conservative and I
Speaker 1: always had been a conservative. And then I started looking
Speaker 1: at the two parties, the Republican Party Democratic Party, and
Speaker 1: learning about the differences between the platforms and the differences
Speaker 1: between the histories of the two parties, and of course
Speaker 1: I logically fell on the on the right hand side
Speaker 1: of the Republican Party. And uh so i'd like to
Speaker 1: tell folks, you know, uh uh, being involved in politics
Speaker 1: is not it's not really well, you have you have
Speaker 1: an option, but here are the options. You can make
Speaker 1: the determination of how you're governing and who governed you
Speaker 1: or somebody else can make that determination. And somebody else
Speaker 1: is making that determination, it's probably not going to turn
Speaker 1: out good for you. The founders made this country so
Speaker 1: that the people could decide who who it is that
Speaker 1: would govern them. And when we don't take that responsibility
Speaker 1: series we end up with people who don't have our
Speaker 1: best interests at hard. We need to make sure that
Speaker 1: we we take it serious and politics needs to be
Speaker 1: something we all need to be involved. And that's like
Speaker 1: I said that about involved, absolutely, And I love your
Speaker 1: story reminds me of my own, which I talked about
Speaker 1: my book Taking for Granted. I love to send you
Speaker 1: a copy of that. But yeah, just learning the distinctions
Speaker 1: between the parties and realizing that oftentimes, especially as black conservatives.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what you're experiencing upbringing was, but mine
Speaker 1: on the South Side of Chicago. I realized quickly after
Speaker 1: our research the two party systems in the history that
Speaker 1: we largely have been lied to about the Republican Party
Speaker 1: and the history Democrats have did such a brilliant marketing
Speaker 1: job to make people think that the Republican Party was
Speaker 1: just a racist party. They created slavery, Jim Crown, all
Speaker 1: these other things, and to find out none of that
Speaker 1: was true was actually the Democratic Party was pretty astounding
Speaker 1: to me and made me really, uh question the people
Speaker 1: that were around me. Did you have the same experience, Yeah, well, uh, honestly, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, when you really look at the
Speaker 1: stories and you just you're just blown away by how
Speaker 1: much misinformation there is out there. You know, Uh, just
Speaker 1: one small thing you could take out of that you
Speaker 1: take a look at, uh, or something like the epithet
Speaker 1: that's thrown Uncle Tom. People throw that as an epithet
Speaker 1: and then and and many of the people that use
Speaker 1: that word don't have a clue is that where it
Speaker 1: came from. They don't understand anything about who the character
Speaker 1: Uncle Tom was in the book and what he did,
Speaker 1: and they don't they don't understand it all the Uncle
Speaker 1: Tom with somebody who sacrificed his life because he refused
Speaker 1: to turn away, to turn turn over to runaway girls
Speaker 1: would run away from the horrible master Simon legree. They
Speaker 1: don't have a clue that in that book that he
Speaker 1: was beaten to death by two other black slaves who
Speaker 1: would do anything to it, including beating a good man
Speaker 1: to death at the behalf of Simon mcgree. The evil
Speaker 1: matter when you read that book and you understand that book,
Speaker 1: it's one of the books that opened my eyes up
Speaker 1: more than anything about what you just said about how
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party and the leftists have turned this entire
Speaker 1: thing around. You can see a micro calls him of
Speaker 1: all their lives and coming to understand what that book
Speaker 1: and that name represents. And that's just one example of
Speaker 1: the way that that folks have been lied to and
Speaker 1: this whole thing has been turned upside down. Only say
Speaker 1: it and and of course we're talking about from a
Speaker 1: historic perspective, but those lives continue today. And I want
Speaker 1: to play this audio for you that a majority with
Speaker 1: James Clapporn was just on MSNBC, and he was talking
Speaker 1: about the funded police movement, which we know a lot
Speaker 1: of progressives folks just generally on the left said was
Speaker 1: the best way in terms of creating uh more fairness
Speaker 1: and equality when it comes to policing in America, and um,
Speaker 1: what they believe is that the best route forward. If
Speaker 1: you would just take a listen, I want to get
Speaker 1: your response. On the other side, defunded police is a
Speaker 1: non start, even the black people. And if you don't
Speaker 1: think that's true, then look at the results of what
Speaker 1: just happened in York sitting this election. So the proof
Speaker 1: is in the pudding. I know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I talked to people every day and defund the police.
Speaker 1: Is it cool around the Democratic Party? What do you
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? From the majority with Clyburn,
Speaker 1: it just goes to show you how ludicrous the statement
Speaker 1: is defunded police. You know, even if this guy, a
Speaker 1: progressive Democrat, is saying it's hard for you know, it's again.
Speaker 1: You know, I've told some ideas, uh everything that the
Speaker 1: left has it counted. They've cut counted climate change. All
Speaker 1: the predictions they've made about climate change have not come true.
Speaker 1: They they are now their their accounting critical race theory.
Speaker 1: We know those things are not true. There now they
Speaker 1: now counted defunding the police. We see the horrible effects
Speaker 1: of that. Everything that they tell it's almost like a
Speaker 1: collection of I told you so. We conservatives were screaming
Speaker 1: from the raptors. If we contained this anti police rhetoric,
Speaker 1: we're gonna see crime go through the route. It's gonna
Speaker 1: go through the roof. And what has happened. Crime has
Speaker 1: gone through the roof. So you know, Uh, it's it's no.
Speaker 1: It's actually shocking to hear him say that. Uh, admit
Speaker 1: that in public, but he's absolutely right. It's just it
Speaker 1: is one of the dumbest things, uh, one of the
Speaker 1: top five dumbest things I think there's ever been proposed, uh,
Speaker 1: in in my lifetime and possibly in the history of
Speaker 1: this nation. We're talking to Mark Robinson and Lieutenant Governor
Speaker 1: of North Carolina and rising superstar within the GOK. We've
Speaker 1: got much more with him right after a quick break.
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting to me, and I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be just straight up honest with you. There's
Speaker 1: you know, obviously a lot of figures and figures in
Speaker 1: are in the Republican Party, but you, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: you and Rhon de Santa's are the most exciting two
Speaker 1: people in the Republican Party, and I think have the
Speaker 1: most rolls, robust opportunity for the party. I listened to
Speaker 1: speeches of yours and it sounds like a Baptist preacher.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you, I think that the words
Speaker 1: in which you use, in the way in which you
Speaker 1: disseminate your message is one in which would resonate with
Speaker 1: all coalitions, all constituencies, black folks, white folks, expanding folks, whatever.
Speaker 1: You're just a truth teller. Why do you think your
Speaker 1: stars is rised so quickly in the in the GOP
Speaker 1: and national and nationally it's a matter of people have
Speaker 1: been hungry for somebody to stand up and just tell
Speaker 1: the truth. And too many people are afraid to stand
Speaker 1: up and tell the truth. Know we we see it
Speaker 1: all the time. We see folks that you know you
Speaker 1: you know what's right. You don't people know exactly what's right.
Speaker 1: Then you have a room full of people sitting there
Speaker 1: in in a in a collect why it would be
Speaker 1: a school board, whether it be a city council, whether
Speaker 1: it be Congress, and everybody in the room will know
Speaker 1: what the right thing to do is, and nobody will
Speaker 1: stand up and do the right thing. That's what we
Speaker 1: need in this country. We need people that are unafraid
Speaker 1: to stand up and just tell the truth. And sometimes, yeah,
Speaker 1: the truth hurts and the truth sounds ugly, but sometimes
Speaker 1: just needs to be told. And that's what people want
Speaker 1: to hear. They want to hear somebody tell the truth. Now,
Speaker 1: I've told people several times, you know that my my
Speaker 1: goal is not to get elected in any office. That's
Speaker 1: not the ultenate goal. Ulten and goals to leave people
Speaker 1: with the truth and let people here here the truth.
Speaker 1: And if they don't want to, they want to reject
Speaker 1: the truth hunts, and so be it, so be it
Speaker 1: reject the truth. But that's that's that's gonna that's gonna
Speaker 1: be what I'm gonna tell people all the time, and
Speaker 1: that it turns out that that's what the majority of
Speaker 1: people out there they want to hear, soolutely it is. Now,
Speaker 1: you're lieutenant governor. Now in North Carolina, the governor is
Speaker 1: a Democrat. You're well respected. Now tell me what what
Speaker 1: what why did you choose to run for Lieutenant governor. Well, uh,
Speaker 1: we looked at running a lot of officers, a lot
Speaker 1: of different officers, and when we looked at this office
Speaker 1: in particular, we thought it was you know, it suited
Speaker 1: our skill set just right. What the job entails uh
Speaker 1: uh you know a lot of what this job entails
Speaker 1: is having what they call a bully pull pit to
Speaker 1: be able to push, uh, push back against things and
Speaker 1: push for things that you uh, that you stand for.
Speaker 1: And we said, hey, you know, we're pretty good at that.
Speaker 1: I think we'll we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll try to step
Speaker 1: into this role. And so far we've done well at it.
Speaker 1: Uh and we uh, we're gonna continue to try to
Speaker 1: do well at because you know, the states it's doing
Speaker 1: well right now, doing very good. But I believe this
Speaker 1: state can do a whole lot better in the future.
Speaker 1: But I think what it's gonna take to do a
Speaker 1: whole lot better in the future is to continue with
Speaker 1: the conservative prince will that have gotten us to this point.
Speaker 1: And uh so we decided to get in there and
Speaker 1: help these conservatives here in North Carolina. They helped fight
Speaker 1: to make this state even better. Yeah. Absolutely, Now I
Speaker 1: tell you people don't just love you, they're genuinely excited
Speaker 1: about your political future. So with that being said, what
Speaker 1: is your future in the GOP? Do you have any
Speaker 1: aspirations beyond lieutenant governor at this point? Well, we're sitting
Speaker 1: down with our folks and we're talking about what we
Speaker 1: think the next step is the best step, next best
Speaker 1: step will be. We have to determined that yet, But
Speaker 1: as soon as we do, we're gonna let the people
Speaker 1: know and we're gonna try to rally wherever it is
Speaker 1: we need a rally to get to that point. Uh.
Speaker 1: But we like said, we have not made that decision
Speaker 1: firmly yet, but we will here pretty soon. Okay, so
Speaker 1: not firmly. But I have to ask, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: a lot of people are asking you this question, what
Speaker 1: about if not the top job that being president, would
Speaker 1: consider being someone's running mate if they asked you, maybe
Speaker 1: round the sentence if he was to choose to run, Well,
Speaker 1: you know, right now, nothing is off the table. What
Speaker 1: I want to do is I want to go to
Speaker 1: a place where we can be the most effective for
Speaker 1: the causes that we believe in. And if that should
Speaker 1: happen to be, no matter what that that where that
Speaker 1: place might be. We're all for something of that, of
Speaker 1: that nature. We would evaluate it and we would feel
Speaker 1: like that, Uh, it was good with me and good
Speaker 1: with my family and good with God. We go that direction.
Speaker 1: But what we want to do is find out a
Speaker 1: place where we're gonna be absolute most effective. Absolutely, And
Speaker 1: I can appreciate that. And I'm glad that you're thinking
Speaker 1: about that because there's a lot of folks. I'm sure
Speaker 1: we put a lot of a lot of time and
Speaker 1: energy behind your candidacy, with with whatever role you may choose,
Speaker 1: I want to switch gears and move the President Biden.
Speaker 1: You said last month that President biden Is administration are
Speaker 1: turning America into a socialist hell whole, and you urge
Speaker 1: fellow Republicans to run to the trouble. What did you
Speaker 1: mean by that? Uh, don't arn away from it. Don't
Speaker 1: run away from it, run to it. There's trouble. There's
Speaker 1: you know, we have we have uh, we have enemy.
Speaker 1: We have enemy inside our camp. We have a we
Speaker 1: have an enemy that's no longer outside the gate. They
Speaker 1: are inside the wire. They are actively working against this nation.
Speaker 1: I believe to bring this nation down, to bring what
Speaker 1: Barack Obama calls UH fundamental change to our to our
Speaker 1: system of government, and to our way of life. We
Speaker 1: have to actively go to those people and confront those
Speaker 1: people and confront that problem. We have to work to
Speaker 1: make sure we get those people out of office, and
Speaker 1: we have to work to make sure we get people
Speaker 1: in offices that are gonna have this country's best interests
Speaker 1: at our i e. Making sure that capitalism, our constitution,
Speaker 1: and all the good things that come from and continue
Speaker 1: to stand in this nation. So we need to confront
Speaker 1: it headlong. We do not need to be afraid this
Speaker 1: whole thing is shrinking away and hoping that somebody else
Speaker 1: to do it. That time is over. We gotta step
Speaker 1: up it. We gotta take this calls on them. We
Speaker 1: gotta be the want to do them. Mark, I absolutely
Speaker 1: agree with you. Let's dig into that further after a break.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts of the current Republican Party, Because
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, you know, Democrats, Uh, in spite of
Speaker 1: their failings and all this other stuff in the policy.
Speaker 1: We can talk about the cultural wars, we can talk
Speaker 1: about any number of things. They seem to be kind
Speaker 1: of tough in a way that they all lie cheat steal,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, and they'll look you in their face
Speaker 1: and say, oh, no, Republicans want to defund the police,
Speaker 1: not us. Like it's like, no, Republicans were the party
Speaker 1: of slavery, not us. No, like they would say all
Speaker 1: these different things, which they just said something three months
Speaker 1: ago or maybe even the day before. They don't have
Speaker 1: a problem doing any of those things. And we got
Speaker 1: some Republicans. I think back to the Hunter Biden situation.
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden using an inn word. We see what happened
Speaker 1: with um the congressman when he said something about white
Speaker 1: supremacy to the New York Times, when the white supremacy
Speaker 1: become a bad thing, nationalism or something like that he said. Anyway,
Speaker 1: they stripped him of his comedian assignments, essentially put him
Speaker 1: out the party. Hunter Biden. You know, no no comments
Speaker 1: from the White House, no comments from any Democratic leader.
Speaker 1: You see Sheldon white House, the senator, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
Speaker 1: belonging to a quote, as it was reported, all white
Speaker 1: social club, but white only. That's what it was called,
Speaker 1: a white only social club. And they won't say anything
Speaker 1: about it. But you know, Republicans, we gotta be do
Speaker 1: the right thing. Put folks out the party, and you know,
Speaker 1: they can do and say whatever they want. What is
Speaker 1: the party need to do? And that's right, the right
Speaker 1: thing to do. Let me comment on that. But what
Speaker 1: is it that the Republican Party needs to do in
Speaker 1: this day and time when you've got so many lives
Speaker 1: coming from the left and also the liberal media who
Speaker 1: perpetrate those same lives. They have to be bold and
Speaker 1: telling the truth, just like President Trump was President Trump
Speaker 1: over Frank Stamp to tell the truth. That's why people love.
Speaker 1: There are too many folks who, uh say, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't say that because that will have the wrong
Speaker 1: kind of tone. Look, how do you call somebody a liar?
Speaker 1: If they're somebody is a proven liar. The only way
Speaker 1: to call that person a liar effectively is to say, hey,
Speaker 1: you're a liar. You know, if somebody is a proven
Speaker 1: bigger and has proven it time and time again that
Speaker 1: they would have said bigger at things, and if push
Speaker 1: bigger at policy, how do you call that person the biggert?
Speaker 1: You say, hey, this person is a biggert who pushed
Speaker 1: bigger at policies. It's time for for for conservatives to
Speaker 1: stop being timid with the truth. I say it like this,
Speaker 1: we gotta be as bold with the truth as they
Speaker 1: are with their lives, and often times we are not.
Speaker 1: We've kept to around things, and we don't want to attack.
Speaker 1: We don't want to punch, and be quite frankly, we
Speaker 1: don't want to kick. Sometimes we need to do all
Speaker 1: all of that and more because there are people out
Speaker 1: there right now are doing things that are absolutely egregious.
Speaker 1: These people out of here to the pushing CRT and
Speaker 1: pushing these on the police. And I've already openly claimed
Speaker 1: to be so, and already openly proudly for claim to
Speaker 1: be socialists and tell us that they want to change
Speaker 1: the minds of our children, and tell us they want
Speaker 1: to bring the country down. We need to fight those
Speaker 1: folks with everything that we have, and those people that
Speaker 1: are not doing it should be ashamed themselves. I can
Speaker 1: agree with that. I appreciate that sentiment, and and thank
Speaker 1: you for mentioning CRT also known as critical race theory
Speaker 1: for those who may not know, I want to ask
Speaker 1: you another question about a statement you made last month.
Speaker 1: You said the following, the government cannot give the American dream,
Speaker 1: but the government will give you as false hope, and
Speaker 1: that will give you a nightmare. The American dream only
Speaker 1: comes through hard work, stead fastness, and standing up and
Speaker 1: controlling your own destiny, not allowing the government to do that,
Speaker 1: but doing it yourself. I agree with that message wholeheartedly.
Speaker 1: What can be done to push more Black Americans to
Speaker 1: fully embrace this message and stop voting for the big
Speaker 1: government Democrats and start voting for conservatives. Of things we
Speaker 1: can do is, you know, we could might remind folks
Speaker 1: of their of their history. You know, it's funny when
Speaker 1: things in this nation were at their worst for black people.
Speaker 1: Black people were at their best when we were in
Speaker 1: our own neighborhoods. Uh, and we were confining those neighborhoods
Speaker 1: by segregation. When we were on our own schools and
Speaker 1: we were confined to those schools by segregation. Uh. We
Speaker 1: had uh homes with two two parents. We had uh doctors, lawyers. Uh.
Speaker 1: We had we were building schools, we were building we
Speaker 1: built churches, we built whole communities. Uh. Those trends started
Speaker 1: to change once we turned our power over to the
Speaker 1: federal government and start believing that the federal government was
Speaker 1: in control of our destiny, our fortunes started to change
Speaker 1: the single parenthood start going through the roof. UH, Crime
Speaker 1: in our neighborhoods start going through the roof, Our education
Speaker 1: numbers start dropping dramatically. UH. In order to get those
Speaker 1: things back, we've got to understand that we are not
Speaker 1: to rely on the federal government. We are to rely
Speaker 1: on each other, on our families, on our communities. Sure,
Speaker 1: the federal government has a role to play because they
Speaker 1: set they set the rules, they make the rules, so
Speaker 1: to speak, and they're supposed to be the guardians of
Speaker 1: our constitution to keep our freedoms. But the real question
Speaker 1: is not what the federal government will do for you,
Speaker 1: is what will you do with the rights that you have.
Speaker 1: That's the real question, and that's what we've got to
Speaker 1: get back to, not even what you can do for
Speaker 1: your country, really because we want to do it for
Speaker 1: our country. But I believe that the best thing that
Speaker 1: you can do for this country, the best thing you
Speaker 1: can do for this country, the best thing you can
Speaker 1: do for your state, your your your your city, and
Speaker 1: your neighborhood and your family, is by understanding that you
Speaker 1: have to do what's right with your You have to
Speaker 1: do what's right with your rights, and if you do that, Uh,
Speaker 1: I think that we get folks to to really believe
Speaker 1: in that, do that. I think that's how we get
Speaker 1: back to that good place we were wanting. Now, before
Speaker 1: I let you go and thank you for that, for
Speaker 1: sharing that with me or with us, rather before I
Speaker 1: let you go, I know you're you're a man of faith.
Speaker 1: You've been vocal about it. I want to ask you
Speaker 1: just two questions. Here's a two part question. I want
Speaker 1: to know what role does your faith playing your life
Speaker 1: and in your politics? And does it concern you that
Speaker 1: it seems to be that our country is becoming increasingly
Speaker 1: secular and outright hostile to faith. Well, you know, you know, wisdom,
Speaker 1: Wisdom comes from from from faith. Wisdom comes from God.
Speaker 1: Where where there's no God, there's no real wisdom. That's
Speaker 1: bottom line. Where there is no God, there's no wisdom.
Speaker 1: Because the very first step in in in in wisdom
Speaker 1: is having a fear of God. That's the very first
Speaker 1: that's the very first step in with So where there
Speaker 1: is no there's old faith in God, there's no wisdom.
Speaker 1: And I'm convinced to that you can see it in
Speaker 1: the chaos. Has been bread in our school system that
Speaker 1: has pushed God out of the public square, which leads
Speaker 1: me to the second part that the more we continue
Speaker 1: to push God, in the principles of God, out of
Speaker 1: the public square, out of politics, out of education, out
Speaker 1: of mass media, out of out of all of our businesses,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna see more and more chaos. Never in
Speaker 1: my lifetime, but I would have thought that human beings
Speaker 1: would be confused about whether or not somebody's a man
Speaker 1: or woman. But here we are, and while we're there,
Speaker 1: we're there because people simply refuse to acknowledge God's creation,
Speaker 1: simple creations. There are men and there are women, and
Speaker 1: people refuse to acknowledge that. And because of that, we're
Speaker 1: now living in the age of chaos right again. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what I want to tell you. I thank
Speaker 1: you for for giving us some time today to to
Speaker 1: learn more about you. And I know for those who
Speaker 1: don't uh and this is their first opportunity to learn
Speaker 1: about you, I'm sure they're gonna want to learn more
Speaker 1: word about you. Can you tell us if you've got
Speaker 1: anything playing in North Carolina that folks at homes you
Speaker 1: know about? And where should people stay updated? Is it Facebook?
Speaker 1: Or how can they they be in touch in that
Speaker 1: way to follow what you're doing. People that keep up
Speaker 1: with us on Facebook at Mark Robinson uh, and they
Speaker 1: can keep up for us at on Facebook at Mark
Speaker 1: Keith Robinson. That's my personal page. They can also keep
Speaker 1: up with us on Twitter at Mark Robinson n C.
Speaker 1: And uh, we're also on Uh, we're on Instagram as well,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure the addressed because I very rarely
Speaker 1: go on Instagram, but we do have a page there.
Speaker 1: When I said, we have a pretty strong following there.
Speaker 1: So you keep up with us on all those social
Speaker 1: media platforms and uh uh. Like I said, we just
Speaker 1: are happy to have the support of people out there
Speaker 1: and continue to want to do things to keep that
Speaker 1: sport a man. And I certainly follow you on Facebook,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate all that you're doing for the for
Speaker 1: the party in the country, in your state, of course,
Speaker 1: and certainly you have definitely piqued the attention of many
Speaker 1: folks outside of North Carolina, and we're going to continue
Speaker 1: to follow you and support what you're doing. So thank you,
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson for joining me on out Loud
Speaker 1: with Gianno called. Well, all right, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: We'll appreciate. I want to thank Mark Robinson again for
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