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Speaker 1: Much of who I am today was shaped by my

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Speaker 1: When I was in combat, we had the best gear

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be here today if I wasn't equipped with

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Speaker 1: It made us more effective in combat, and many of

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Speaker 1: be effective in this fight, we need a different kind

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Speaker 1: of armor. The Book of Epijians talks about the armor

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Speaker 1: of salvation, and to take the fight to the enemy,

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Speaker 1: the sword of the spirit. This is what we need

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Speaker 1: to arm ourselves with for this spiritual war. My guest

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Speaker 1: Sean Foyt is a worship leader and the founder of

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Speaker 1: multiple faith based movements to take back our country. When

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Speaker 1: but the government also said it was okay for strip

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Speaker 1: clubs to stay open. Sean Foyt said, no, he kept

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Speaker 1: from the evil that seeks to destroy it. He is

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Speaker 1: an amazing person and our conversation was really incredible. Enjoy Sean,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining Battleground. I'm so excited to

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Speaker 1: have you. You know. One of the reasons not just

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Speaker 1: which I like, so we're brothers in that regard. But man,

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Speaker 1: you're a faith leader, you're a worship leader, you're an evangelist,

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Speaker 1: I do see that there is a spiritual war happening

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Speaker 2: Yeah well, yeah, I mean I think for me what's

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Speaker 1: Well, Sean, I've seen just the you know, having been

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Speaker 2: I mean I think that you know, people haven't ever

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Speaker 2: They actually are purposely wanting the church to shut up.

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Speaker 2: How do we know that, Well, because strip clubs and

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Speaker 2: And it really the amazing thing about it, Sean, was

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Speaker 2: You know, Antifa attacked the church that we were worshiping.

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Speaker 1: It's right, it's right out in front of us. And

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Speaker 1: you're showing the American people another way, Sean, Because people

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Speaker 2: across America, and so it did give me a lot

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Speaker 2: of hope.

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Speaker 1: Well, in those moments, Sean, how you talk about in

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Speaker 1: those moments that you're feeling hopeless, like for the people

431
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Speaker 1: that are watching, how how do you find God in

432
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Speaker 1: those moments? How do you stay strong in your faith?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean for me, I think it comes down

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Speaker 2: to a like a personal relationship. It's like it's like,

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Speaker 2: you know, I encourage people a lot, even people that

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Speaker 2: are not either religiou they would call it the religious,

437
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Speaker 2: which I don't actually call myself religious. I have a

438
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Speaker 2: relationship with God and it's not a form to me.

439
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Speaker 2: But like when you read through the Book of Psalms,

440
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Speaker 2: you see David consistently vocalizing his honesty no matter what

441
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Speaker 2: season he's in, so he's you know, God, they're after me. God,

442
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. Help me. You know.

443
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Speaker 2: He's a little bit more dramatic obviously, He's like they're

444
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Speaker 2: going to come in and tear my skin off, my

445
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,959
Speaker 2: bones and wild animals are devouring you know. But I

446
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,959
Speaker 2: think it's important for people, no matter this season they're in,

447
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 2: to like vocalize to God like he wants to hear you,

448
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 2: he wants to hear your heart. And I think there's

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Speaker 2: even a connection that comes in a vulnerability that comes

450
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Speaker 2: in those moments. And you know, that's that's my encouragement.

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Speaker 2: And I think the other thing is, like, you know,

452
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Speaker 2: this is a great season in twenty twenty three, you know,

453
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Speaker 2: to kick off the new year, to get rid of

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Speaker 2: the naystayers around you, get rid of those people that

455
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 2: are cynics and skeptics and constantly pull you down, and

456
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Speaker 2: find some people that believe in something. I mean, give

457
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Speaker 2: me a break. I find some people that like know

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Speaker 2: what they're doing in life, know who God is, and

459
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Speaker 2: know where they're going. There's a lot of great people

460
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Speaker 2: out there, and you know, that's my encouragement. Try to

461
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 2: go to church. That's always helpful. You know, there's you know, yeah,

462
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 2: there are some fakes there, but there's some real people,

463
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Speaker 2: you know, going after God in the midst of their life.

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Speaker 1: I I think it's such good it's such good advice, Sean.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, I I feel like I've always

466
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Speaker 1: struggled with with with not my faith, that's not the

467
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Speaker 1: right way to say it. It's not struggling with my faith,

468
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Speaker 1: but I always wrestle with it. And you know, for me,

469
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Speaker 1: when I was I was growing up, I was in

470
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Speaker 1: public school. I really wasn't was it wasn't resonating, it

471
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Speaker 1: wasn't resonating with me. And then I ended up going

472
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Speaker 1: to Catholic school my junior and senior year of high school,

473
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Speaker 1: and then I went to Catholic College. But there was

474
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Speaker 1: something that happened when I braided my faith with my

475
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Speaker 1: education that really made a huge difference in my life, Sean.

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Speaker 1: And it seems like you had a similar experience in that, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're you're a faith leader, but you also at some point,

478
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Speaker 1: you know, ran for Congress in twenty twenty, right, so

479
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Speaker 1: at some point you you braided your faith and your

480
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Speaker 1: desire to serve in the faith with serving your country

481
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Speaker 1: in Washington. Where where did that inspiration come from?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's that's a great question. I you know,

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Speaker 2: I think that when I when I was in high

484
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Speaker 2: school and I had to encounter with God, and I

485
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Speaker 2: I told the Lord, I said, I'll go anywhere, I'll

486
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Speaker 2: do anything. And I was more thinking, you know, I'll

487
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Speaker 2: go to China, I'll go to Indonesia, I'll go to

488
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Speaker 2: these nations, and I'll be your voice and your hands

489
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Speaker 2: and feet and whatever. And I did do that. But

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Speaker 2: then there came a season where I felt like God

491
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 2: was calling me to politics, and and he reminded me, hey,

492
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Speaker 2: remember when you gave me your yet, you didn't say

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Speaker 2: I will only just go to these nations like and

494
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Speaker 2: and I began to see how dark and gnarly the

495
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Speaker 2: political realm was, and so I just pictured myself as

496
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Speaker 2: a missionary of sorts. I'm like, all right, well, there's

497
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Speaker 2: it's dark, it's difficult, it's hard. You know, we've seen

498
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Speaker 2: this in other nations before. And I raised my hand.

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Speaker 2: And to be honest, at the time, I felt like

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Speaker 2: I kind of got tricked into it because I had

501
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Speaker 2: no idea how difficult it was going to be. I mean, dude,

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Speaker 2: I ran for a I ran for a seat in

503
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Speaker 2: the Bay Area, in Pelosi's backyard. I like it was

504
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Speaker 2: not I thought it was going to be more like purple.

505
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 2: It was definitely blue. It's not purple. And uh and

506
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 2: I got exposed to so much like I saw stuff.

507
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Speaker 2: I peeked behind the curtain in the political realm. I

508
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 2: saw things I can't unsee and and and what was

509
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Speaker 2: interesting about it was is it wasn't just like on

510
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Speaker 2: a local level. Of course, at local level politics in

511
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Speaker 2: California and the and the GOP and Republicans. And by

512
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Speaker 2: the way that they Republicans were the ones that actually

513
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 2: took me out. It wasn't It wasn't the Dems. Uh surprise, surprise.

514
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Speaker 2: But but you know, I found myself in the Oval Office.

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Speaker 2: Uh like a month after I announced. Two months after

516
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Speaker 2: I announced, I found myself in the Oval Office praying

517
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Speaker 2: over President Trump. And God opened these doors into crazy

518
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 2: places that I never thought that I would go. And

519
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Speaker 2: I started to realize, man, like I can't can't disassociate

520
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Speaker 2: my faith in my calling to be the hands and

521
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Speaker 2: feet of Jesus. I can't separate that from the political realm.

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Speaker 2: This has to go with me in all areas of

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Speaker 2: my life. And then I started to realize, this is

524
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Speaker 2: why we're in the place that we're in in America

525
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 2: because too many believers, too many good people, separated their

526
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Speaker 2: faith from their politics. And it's like, no, no, no, we

527
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 2: can't actually do that, Like, we have to bring our

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Speaker 2: faith into all areas of our life. And this is

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Speaker 2: what people hate. This is why they call me a

530
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Speaker 2: Christian nationalist. This is why they call you know, I

531
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Speaker 2: mean whatever, they go on and on and on with

532
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Speaker 2: their things, because they don't want your faith, they don't

533
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 2: want the light, they don't want God in that realm.

534
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Speaker 2: There's a strong agenda to shut God out. We've seen

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Speaker 2: it with prayer and schools. We've seen it with you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean even during the Pelosi era. I mean, you

537
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Speaker 2: couldn't even go in the Capitol and right and worship

538
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 2: thank God. A week ago I was in the Capitol

539
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 2: rotunda playing my guitar worshiping. Because the regime has changed.

540
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 2: But but that, but you know that, that's what really

541
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 2: motivated me. It's like, hey, listen, I can't be a

542
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Speaker 2: person that cuts out my faith on this area of

543
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 2: my life or like it has to permeate and it

544
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 2: has to guide me through everything. And so anyway, that

545
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 2: was my journey. It was I think I was a

546
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 2: bit optimistic obviously, and I didn't realize how crazy that

547
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Speaker 2: that path was going to be.

548
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Speaker 1: But it it is crazy. It is it's insane. And

549
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: once you see behind the curtain and how sort of

550
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: the sausage is made, Sean, you can't unsee it, right.

551
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: And I ran for the House, I ran for the Senate.

552
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: During my Senate campaign, it was Republicans who took me

553
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: out too, by the way, so that that your experience

554
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: resonates with my own in that way. And I think

555
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: both parties, here's the deal for me, Sean, I don't

556
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: really care about political parties. Like I'm a constitutional conservative.

557
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: I love this country, the people for me, the first period,

558
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: end of story. And and like you when you when

559
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: when you're going to these you said you're going to

560
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: blue states, going to red states, going to blue areas,

561
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: going to red areas. That's how we campaigned. I don't

562
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: really I went there. I went and tried to build

563
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: bridges with everybody, because that's the job description, right, And

564
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Speaker 1: and I feel like that was one of the most

565
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Speaker 1: rewarding experiences of my life. But it was the most dirty, corrupt,

566
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Speaker 1: right terrible like and so like the people in the

567
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Speaker 1: campaigning and just getting a chance to be there and

568
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Speaker 1: lead among the people was the privilege of a lifetime.

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Speaker 1: But all the other stuff, all the other stuff, it

570
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Speaker 1: makes me wonder, like, what kind of personality on both

571
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: sides of the aisle is attracted to those types of positions.

572
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: Just the clinging to and keeping of power at all costs,

573
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Speaker 1: even if that means destroying the life of someone else,

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Speaker 1: you know. Okay, But just I got to ask you,

575
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Speaker 1: how did you end up in the Oval Office with Trump?

576
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: Praying with President Trump? Because I've met him too. I

577
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: think he's I don't think the media gives him a

578
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 1: fair shake at all. Yeah, my meetings with him, I

579
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: found him to be a good man who cared deeply

580
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: for this country. Doesn't always say the right thing, you know,

581
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: but who does right? Who does? You got to tell

582
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: me about that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was basically a gathering of faith leader's, younger

584
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 2: faith leaders from across America, and I got an invitation

585
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 2: and I was actually running at the time, and so yeah,

586
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Speaker 2: it was just a wild experience. I mean, there's about

587
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Speaker 2: fifty of us. I think the picture, the pictures definitely

588
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 2: circulated the internet because I'm kind of standing next to

589
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Speaker 2: him with my hand on him, because I thought in

590
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:57,760
Speaker 2: the picture we were praying over him, and we weren't.

591
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 2: So I'm the only one that's like extending my hand

592
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 2: towards him. But we, you know, we we basically went

593
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 2: through and talked to all of his officials in his

594
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 2: in the government, and we talked to Ivanka and Mike

595
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 2: Pence and Sam brown Back and all these different guys

596
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 2: about how they were incorporating faith into you know, their

597
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 2: policy decisions and stuff. And then kind of the end

598
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 2: of it was going to meet you know, Trump, and

599
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 2: he just, you know, he's so unorthodox. He just had

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Speaker 2: us all come into the Oval office, all fifty of us,

601
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Speaker 2: and he just said, all right, you guys going to

602
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Speaker 2: pray over me. And then he sat at his at

603
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 2: his desk, and we laid hands and we prayed, and

604
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Speaker 2: I mean we did it pray weak prayers, you know,

605
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 2: we prayed real bold prayers. And you know, whether or

606
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 2: not people agree with him, or or they think his

607
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 2: faith his faith is real or not, or whatever, I

608
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 2: just love a person that says I need prayer. You know,

609
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:06,760
Speaker 2: there's something about the most powerful man in the world,

610
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 2: with the biggest platform in the world saying, hey, guys,

611
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 2: I need prayer. And he wasn't doing it for a

612
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 2: photo op. We didn't have our phones and cameras out.

613
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 2: I mean, this was like, no one recorded the prayer.

614
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 2: It was just a powerful moment. And he literally just

615
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 2: said I need prayer, and we prayed over him, and

616
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 2: it was it was powerful. And you know, I tell anybody,

617
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 2: if a president invites you in, I don't care which

618
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 2: side of the island's on, and he says, would you

619
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 2: pray for me? I'm there. I'm there the next day.

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Speaker 2: You know, however, that story that I just told you

621
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Speaker 2: right now, I've never heard of that story and any

622
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Speaker 2: other president in American history, So I think it was

623
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Speaker 2: a pretty cool moment.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever think that, you know that that kid

625
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 1: from Montana, then California, and you know, doing missionary stuff

626
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: all over the world, find yourself in the Oval Office

627
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,720
Speaker 1: someday praying over the President of the United States.

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Speaker 2: You know, I would have never thought that in a

629
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Speaker 2: million years. I think I think God is funny, and

630
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 2: I think that it it was like, I don't know,

631
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 2: that was that that door kind of opened right after

632
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,959
Speaker 2: I made my announcement that I was a long haired

633
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 2: worst leader that was going to run for Congress, and

634
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 2: I just kind of felt like, all right, God, maybe

635
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 2: maybe if it was just for this moment, you know,

636
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 2: maybe if you had me, you know, answer yes to

637
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Speaker 2: do this, maybe it was just for a thing like

638
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 2: this and it was worth it, you know. I don't know,

639
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean, I mean, it was like it

640
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Speaker 2: was really cool. It was a really cool experience. And

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Speaker 2: I don't think, you know, I've been with them several

642
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Speaker 2: times since then, and of course we've gotten to do

643
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Speaker 2: that similar thing with governors and leaders of other nations.

644
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Speaker 2: So I don't think that that door is closed. I

645
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 2: have a sense that we're going to be We're going

646
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Speaker 2: to be seeing a shift in the coming days, and

647
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 2: I think that that that kind of thing is going

648
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Speaker 2: to be more common. We need that in America. We

649
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Speaker 2: need people do the president, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: We do. We do. And and I think, you know,

651
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Speaker 1: you know, did you see did you happen to see

652
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Speaker 1: that that cartoon? That Disney cartoon that I mean Disney.

653
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Speaker 1: I say this to somebody who grew up watching Disney films. Boy,

654
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Speaker 1: I feel like Disney has lost their way. And I

655
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Speaker 1: mean they're overtly sexualizing our children. Yes, and I and

656
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Speaker 1: I say this to somebody who's my own children love Disney, right,

657
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Speaker 1: But Sean, I feel like I'm past the point where

658
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: I can support a company like that, where there's a

659
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Speaker 1: clear agenda of sexualizing our children. And I'm telling you

660
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Speaker 1: it's not okay. And you know, some of the videos

661
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Speaker 1: that I watched do in research and prep for this

662
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: segment were you taking You're actually out there taking on

663
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Speaker 1: that fight. And man, god, I think that's great. How

664
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Speaker 1: has that been for you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I don't think I you know, I

666
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Speaker 2: don't think I woke up one day and was like,

667
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Speaker 2: we need to attack Disney. I think that, you know,

668
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Speaker 2: I think that because I grew up on them just

669
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Speaker 2: like you. But I think that. You know, hey, listen,

670
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Speaker 2: you can mess with me, you can attack me, you

671
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 2: can slander me, you can say all kinds of stuff

672
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 2: about me, which you know the media has done for years.

673
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Speaker 2: But man, you start messing with my kids, it's it's

674
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Speaker 2: a different ballgame. Like I mean, you're going to see

675
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Speaker 2: You're going to see you're going to see a warrior

676
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 2: rise up, because that's the primary role of parents, you know,

677
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Speaker 2: is to protect and raise their kids. So when Disney

678
00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 2: was mocking my fucking Lee advertising and that whole leaked

679
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Speaker 2: video behind the scenes of their producers saying that they

680
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:10,760
Speaker 2: are and intentionally trying to indoctrinate kids and groom kids,

681
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Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, it is on and and that

682
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 2: was something for me that it's like that that's an

683
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Speaker 2: area you don't you don't play with. And I think

684
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Speaker 2: that they overestimated or underestimated how parents would react as

685
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Speaker 2: we as we started to host host those those protests.

686
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Speaker 2: First we did it in Burbank, Disney headquarters, and we

687
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Speaker 2: did it in Disneyland, California. That we did Disney World

688
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Speaker 2: in Florida. The primary people that gathered with us were

689
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Speaker 2: Hispanic moms and they came out of forced I mean,

690
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 2: it was it was wild and they were not having this,

691
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Speaker 2: you know. And so just like we saw in Virginia,

692
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 2: what flipped the tide in that state is uh, you know,

693
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Speaker 2: was was the parents. And I think that you're going

694
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Speaker 2: to start seen that even more as as the intensity

695
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Speaker 2: and the perversion of our education system continues, you're going

696
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Speaker 2: to see parents rise up a lot more. And I

697
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 2: think that's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: God, I think it's a great thing. And you know,

699
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Speaker 1: you know, you talk about COVID being a major trigger

700
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Speaker 1: point in your life, and I think that was the

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Speaker 1: case for a lot of people, specifically with regards to

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Speaker 1: the education of their children. You know, having you know,

703
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Speaker 1: kids at home right doing virtual learning for the first

704
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Speaker 1: time ever. Basically you know, parent working at the table

705
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Speaker 1: on their laptop, kid doing virtual schooling, maybe in another

706
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Speaker 1: room or maybe at the table. Parent listening to some

707
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Speaker 1: of the things that the teacher are saying and thinking

708
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Speaker 1: like is it really is this what they're teaching my

709
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Speaker 1: kid in school? So I think COVID really created this,

710
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Speaker 1: at least in part, this movement of parents being more

711
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Speaker 1: interested in the direction of their children's education. But what

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Speaker 1: sort of blows my mind, Sean, is that we're now

713
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Speaker 1: at a point where the modern day left is advocating

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Speaker 1: for and saying, basically to parents, I'm going to have

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Speaker 1: men dress up in women's underwear and come and dance

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Speaker 1: in your school to teach them about you know, LGBTQ, drag,

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Speaker 1: Queen Story Hour, whatever. How has our culture gotten to

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Speaker 1: this point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it's it's insane. I mean the

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Speaker 2: level of you know, again again talking to somebody the

721
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Speaker 2: group in the in the nineties and you know, I

722
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 2: didn't even know what transgender nothing was. You know, it's

723
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Speaker 2: just like it's there, we have, we have that. And

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, going back to Hillary, why we

725
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 2: really dodged a bullet in twenty sixteen was because Hillary

726
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 2: what are her agendas and goals was to have the

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Speaker 2: state control the entirety of education, you know, and she

728
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Speaker 2: wanted the state to be the parents and not the parents.

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Speaker 2: And I think that that, you know, going back to

730
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Speaker 2: the the you know, the the ideologies and the demonic forces,

731
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Speaker 2: not the boogeyman like the real one. I think that

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00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 2: they know that the next generation is key. If they

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Speaker 2: can get the next generation, if they can get them confused,

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Speaker 2: and if they can get them uh, you know, dependent

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Speaker 2: on the state and dependent on the government, and then

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Speaker 2: you know, then they got the nation. And I think

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Speaker 2: that you know, we're seeing that not I think a

738
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Speaker 2: lot of it started with with prayer being taken out

739
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Speaker 2: of school. I think that that was a huge thing actually,

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Speaker 2: and then in its place we've seen not no longer

741
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 2: the dependency on God, but it's the dependency on the state,

742
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Speaker 2: and it's dependency on the teachers. And yeah, we've come

743
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Speaker 2: to a really stick place. I mean, we're in California,

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Speaker 2: Thank God, it's a very easy it's a very easy

745
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 2: state surprisingly to homeschool. So we do that with our

746
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 2: kids here and it's very, you know, very popular thing

747
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 2: obviously in southern California is too is to homeschool our kids.

748
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Speaker 2: And so we've taken back control of that. And a

749
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Speaker 2: lot of that started in COVID where it was like,

750
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Speaker 2: you know what, I'm not going to let you guys.

751
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 2: Everything was canceled and it's just like one disappointment after

752
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 2: another in school, and I'm like, I'm not going to

753
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 2: let you guys set the tone for how my kids

754
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 2: are going to live life. We're going to do it ourselves.

755
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 2: So we raised our hands to do it, and you

756
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 2: know it. You know, anyway, there's some encouragement for you

757
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 2: parents out there, like, you know, there's a lot of

758
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 2: grace to do that. And we never wanted to be

759
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Speaker 2: the homeschool parents, but look at us now.

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Speaker 1: I know, who would have ever thought, you know, but

761
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 1: you're right. You know, it does seem like there is

762
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,879
Speaker 1: a deliberate attempt from the state or from forces in

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Speaker 1: this country to separate children from their parents, you know,

764
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Speaker 1: separate children from their faith and control the things that

765
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Speaker 1: they're fed in school, hoping that parents don't pay attention

766
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 1: to it, and in doing so, they become more reliant

767
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 1: on the states, more reliant on state propaganda. Ultimately, you know,

768
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: if they get their way, the next generation is easier

769
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Speaker 1: to control. And that's that's why, Sean, what you're doing

770
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: is so important. And I think, so, okay, so you

771
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 1: got to tell me, you know, what's next for you?

772
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,720
Speaker 1: You know how first of all, how can I get involved?

773
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: How can other people get involved?

774
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're we're actually we're actually starting a crazy

775
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 2: initiative called the Kingdom of the Capitol where we're taking

776
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 2: we're going to all fifty US capitals in America and

777
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 2: we're hosting the let Us Worship event, worship prayer. We're

778
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 2: bringing the churches together from across the region. We're taking

779
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 2: a stand for specific bills, pro life bills, pro you know,

780
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 2: parent control and the education process. And yeah, it's going

781
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 2: to be awesome. We're starting we're doing twenty seven capitals

782
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three and twenty three capitals I think

783
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 2: at twenty four, So by the time of the elections

784
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 2: in November twenty four, the presidential election will have gone

785
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 2: to every capital in America. And we're starting in March

786
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,839
Speaker 2: and we kind of kick off this tour. It's very ambitious,

787
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 2: it's very expensive, it's very overregulated. We're getting permits at

788
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Speaker 2: every single US capital, and yeah, it's gonna be gonna

789
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,240
Speaker 2: be a wild thing. We're partnering with Turning Point USA,

790
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 2: Faith and several other organizations to pull this off. But yeah,

791
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 2: it's gonna be amazing, and I don't think it's gonna

792
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 2: be anything that we've seen really in America, at least

793
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 2: in my lifetime before. You know, thousands and thousands of

794
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 2: people gathering at the steps of every state capital and

795
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 2: so you can find out information if you go to

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Speaker 2: Kingdom to thecapitol dot com. That's capital with an O,

797
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 2: so Kingdom to the Capitol dot com and you can

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Speaker 2: find out all the days. I think we've published our

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Speaker 2: first nine tour stops. I think it's it's Baton Routhe Jackson, Mississippi, UH, Montgomery, Alabama,

800
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Speaker 2: and then we go to Little Rock, Arkansas, Nashville, Tennessee,

801
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Speaker 2: Jefferson City, Missouri, and then then we go to Oklahoma City, Texas.

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00:47:56,560 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 2: And it can so the first and there'll be a

803
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:04,399
Speaker 2: lot more coming this year.

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Speaker 1: Well that's command. That is great. The forces of good

805
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:13,359
Speaker 1: are on the march, man, and I am I'm a believer, man,

806
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: I am. I love what you're doing. I love that

807
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 1: you're involved. You know when you talk about being a conservative, right,

808
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: it's an active word. We have to conserve something, the values,

809
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: the principles, the faith, all of the things that make

810
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: this country exceptional and great. You're you're actively out there

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00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: fighting for You're not just talking about it, You're doing

812
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:40,760
Speaker 1: and I admire that, Sean. And you know, look, I

813
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 1: could talk to you all day, but thank you for

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00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: the time, and thank you for being on the show.

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Speaker 1: And you let me know if there's anything that I

816
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 1: can do to help. I'm there one hundred percent.

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00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,280
Speaker 2: I will, man, I'll let you know. Thanks for having

818
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 2: me on. And yeah, go to go to Kingdom, to

819
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 2: the Capitol and sign up everybody out there so you

820
00:48:57,800 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 2: can know when we're when we're coming to your next

821
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 2: the woods.

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Speaker 1: You heard the man, Ladies and gentlemen. Anyway, Sean, thank

823
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Speaker 1: you and we'll be in touch, all right. God bless okay,

824
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. That is a rap. I hope you

825
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826
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Speaker 1: It's great. It goes out weekly and in the meantime.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your help in saving this country. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining this movement, and thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for watching and listening to this podcast. Life is a battleground.

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Speaker 1: It's our duty to never surrender. God bless you all,

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Speaker 1: and God bless this incredible nation that we call home.

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Speaker 2: Take care as