The Eric Metaxas Show - Allen Wolf and Deborah Flora (Encore)

Episode Date: May 4, 2022

Filmmaker Allen Wolf talks about his new quirky romantic comedy, "The Sound of Violet"; then, Deborah Flora highlights an important film every parent needs to see, "Whose Children Are they?" at SalemNOW. com. (Encore Presentation)

Folks, welcome to the Eric Mattaxas show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit legacy p.m.investments.com. That's legacy p.m. Investments.com. Taxis show with your host, Eric Mettaxas. Folks, welcome to hour two. I have the joy of speaking with our friend John Zmirak. And we've got much more coming up today in this week. But John, in the few minutes, we have left. What else shall we discuss, my friend? Well, I just want to finish on the subject of Marjorie Taylor Green and the Catholic

bishops. As a Catholic who feels alienated from the church that she grew up in, she represents at least 40% of American Catholic. She represents me in my column at stream.org. I tell the story. My father was a mailman before they had cuts, and he used to carry the mail on his back like a mule around the Carnegie Hall area of midtown Manhattan. He had a back like a, you know, like a like a mule. In his free time, he would walk around collecting money to build a Catholic school in the story of Queens. Someday I would go to that school.

And when I was at that school, my religion teachers would mock the idea that that Jesus had been born of a virgin or that he had been raised physically from the dead. They would teach us that these things were not true. These were old-fashioned superstitions. This in the building, my father helped to build so we could have a Catholic church in Queens. I went to the principal. They threatened me that I might get kicked out of school. I wrote to the bishop.

How old were you when you went to the principal over this issue? 15, 16. So you were, you were activated very early, okay. At one point, they said if you're so unhappy with what we're teaching at this school, maybe you should find another school to which I said, if you're so unhappy with the contents of the Catholic faith, maybe you should find another job. And if that's a threat, talk to my attorney, here's his business car.

Yes, that happened when I was 16th. They backed down, I can tell you that. But it did no good. The point is our Catholic school had been stolen away. from us and turned into a hippie drunk tank, a rehab center for failed priests and disgruntled lesbian nuns. And all our institutions have been taken away from us and turned over to the enemy, to Satan, to pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, wide-open border, pro-Marxist. They were showing us Sandinista Agitprop in my high school, encouraging us to support.

the communists in Central America. So when your institutions are stolen away from me, the thing is, as a Catholic, you have absolutely no power, no influence, nothing. All the power is top down. Learned helplessness is the proper emotion of a layman in a hierarchical church. This is why so much good energy goes to the pro-life movement from Catholics, because we We have no influence at all over our worship, over the doctrine, over anything to do with our church. We are totally helpless and passive, but we can do something in the pro-life movement.

And since our bishops don't even care about it, they don't even try to control us. So the pro-life movement, in a sense, is the place where the energy of Catholics frustrated and disgruntled and dis-marginalized by our own church. Our energy goes to trying to save babies. So God brings good out of evil, right, Eric? It is amazing. It is amazing. Well, I mean, it's a challenge. You know, when you read the scripture, the famous Romans 828, all things work together for good for those that love the Lord and are called according to his purposes. God wants to weave our pain and our tragedies into something beautiful, but we have to give it to him. We have to align ourselves with his will utterly and trust him that he has the bigger picture. But there are times when it's very tough. I want to say that, you know, those of us, us who know that the election was stolen to be demonized, to be mocked, to be called conspiracy theorists. I think at the end of the day, folks, we have to realize it is a privilege to be reviled and scorned because Jesus was reviled and scorned. And the scripture is very clear.

They hated him. They hated him first. And so if you stand for the truth, very often the time you will be reviled. But the point is, we really don't. We don't need to worry. Worry is a sin. We're to be anxious for nothing. We're to do the right thing. We're to speak the truth. And we're to draw a strength from God and from those who love him as we do those things,

knowing that in the end the truth prevails. There's no way around it. We may have to struggle and suffer in the midst of it. So there's a lot here. I want to remind people one more time. Socrates in the city May 31st. That's now this month. It's the 50th anniversary.

this is a big deal 50th anniversary of Apollo 16 Charlie Duke walked on the moon he is a man of profound Christian faith so the fact that I'm going to have to be able to talk to him at Osocrates in the city event about his life about landing on the moon he will inevitably bring up how that gave him no joy ultimately his marriage was falling apart and so if you know somebody uh who maybe isn't serious about their faith or who doesn't know whether there is such a thing as faith they could take seriously. I want to say May 31st at the Union League Club, go to Socrates in the city.com. This is a very, very special event. We still have tickets at every level. John Smirak tomorrow morning, Stream is publishing an open letter that you and I are

signing to exhort people to ask our government to, to ask our government to, to come to terms so that we don't escalate into World War III. Maybe you should say a little bit more about that because it's going up live tomorrow morning at stream.org. Right. Basically, as Christians, we should be peacemakers. It doesn't say, Blessed of the Warmongers. We should be seeking a negotiated peace in Russia,

not cynically exploiting the quagmire in Russia in order to weaken Russia, crush the spirit of Russia, dismantle the regime, and enrich the military industrial complex, and the kind of donors that Liz Cheney depends on. The corrupt coalition of the Hillary Clinton Democrats and the Dick Cheney Republicans are the ones who destroyed this country. When the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War and are meddling in the Middle East, trillions of dollars went down the toilet so that a few people like Dick Cheney could retire comfortably. Thousands and thousands of innocent people in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan

died needlessly in futile wars. Let's not let Russia turn into that or something worse, quite literally World War III. But to get back to Romans 828, if it hadn't been for all of the horrors that have happened in this country in the last four or five years, many people would not have woken up. Because of the things that have happened, I have woken up and, as usual, come to agree with you about the Iraq War and many things. But things sometimes have to get really bad for people to wake up. When you see what is happening in this country, when you see gas prices at $7 and an economy

going into a death spiral, when you see lies being promoted, when you see people talking about disinformation, the government is now going to decide to tell you what's going to have. If these things don't wake you up, you'll never wake up. But there are many, many, many, many Americans waking up now. They've been waking up. And something is happening in this country. We wouldn't have people like J.D. Vance running for the Senate, Marjorie Taylor Green,

in the Congress. There's so many people that are heroes that love America. and we are now realizing that the rhino substitutes, they have to be thrown out, and we have to take our country back. So all of these horrible things, I think, are leading to many good things, many people praying for the country.

We just got a moment left, John. Final thoughts. Let's pray that, in fact, that monstrous decision, Roe v. Wade, is finally overturned so that Americans are free to vote to protect the most innocent among us, only then will America be worthy of God's blessing? Only then can we really, with any sense of self-respect, even ask God to watch over this country. That is a fact.

That is a fact what you just said. So, folks, please pray. Ultimately, we've got to vote. We've got to pray. We've got to do anything we can do. John Samarik, my friend, thank you. Thank you, Eric. Tell me, Eric, why is relief factor so successful at lowering or eliminating pain?

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There are very few people that crack me up instantly. And I hate it because I have no control over myself. I just get like a goofy idiot. Alan Wolfe, who is my friend, is one of those people. He's a filmmaker. He's got a film coming out this week. Alan Wolf, welcome to the program. Thanks for having me.

Great to be here. I'm going to try to have a substantive conversation with you and not just get really stupid and joking because that's what happens. How many years? I've known you for like 25 years. Yes, yes, more than the age of my kids, my marriage, a long time. Way before that. Way, way before that.

I think I knew you before I was married. Yeah, that's true. So for a quarter of a century. And you're a filmmaker and you have a film coming out this Friday. This Friday, my friend. It's days away. I can't believe it. I want everyone to get all these facts.

So my friend Alan Wolf tell us the film is the sound of Violet. What is this film? This film is a romantic comedy about a man who thinks he found his perfect soulmate, but his autism keeps him from realizing that she's actually a prostitute. Okay, that sounds like something you would make up as a joke. That's right. But it's actually true. Yeah, that is a true.

That's the truth. He doesn't realize that she's looking for a tuesday. it out of her trap life. But the movie has an anti-trafficking message as part of it as well. It's been called a more serious take on pretty woman. But yes, it's a film. You'll laugh. You'll cry. Okay. So it's called The Sound of Violet. And no joke, folks, this is the premise of it, is that the protagonist. What is his name in the Sound of Violet? Sean. Okay. Sean is what we say on the spectrum, but it's not just Asperger's. He actually has. functional autism.

Yes, that's correct. Asperger usually means they're at the high functioning part of the spectrum. And that's him. He's high functioning. Okay. So this protagonist, because he doesn't pick up, like a lot of people, if they have autism or Asperger's, they don't pick up social clues. So he does not pick up that this woman, this young woman, actually is a prostitute.

And he does not. So he, so what makes it funny, because I saw a very early version of this, like, I don't know, way over a year ago. But what I remember, it really is a brilliant concept because he, it's like when people are talking past each other, she doesn't understand what he's not getting. Right. He doesn't understand what he's not getting. So the name of the prostitute is Violet? That's correct. Yes.

And why is the film called the sound of violet? Well, he also has something called synesthesia, which means he can hear sounds in colors. So he explains that to her early on. When he looks at colors long enough, he starts to hear sounds. And so he will even look at people and try to figure out something about them by looking at the colors that they're wearing. And so when he realizes that her name is a color that makes him especially interested in her. Okay. So it's a serious film, but it's a comedy as well. But it's serious because you're dealing with the actual issue of somebody who has this kind of inability to pick up social clues. But in a sense, it makes him an innocent. There's something really beautiful about it. He sees her differently because of this kind of innocence. That's right. Yes. And he's, I mean, this is not true of all autistic people. This is true of him specifically. I mean, everyone,

autistic person is different in the way that they are able to pick up social cues, et cetera. But for him, he also has a very trusting nature. He's also been very sheltered by his grandma who takes care of him. And then he actually asks her what she does for living. And she says she's an actress. So he believes her because he's a trusting person and he doesn't pick up all this other cues.

And so he starts going with her on her quote unquote auditions thinking that, yeah, She's just a nice woman. And then she sees that there's something different about him that she's never experienced before. So she wants to keep getting to know him, but wants to keep what she's really doing as a secret. That is what creates that conflict and a dilemma. So now you and I are obviously Christians. And so I know it's a certain kind of a film. It's not loaded with F bombs like Father Stu.

but you, in other words, it's not an officially Christian film. It has Christian sensibilities, but it's just kind of like a mainstream film, a rom-com. It's a mainstream film, but definitely from a Christian world view. So the character, the main character, Sean, is someone who loves Jesus, who goes to church. And he also, at one point, invites her to go to church with them. And so that's very much part of his story. you see his faith journey, you see her grappling with what it means to have a faith journey. So that's definitely part of the plot as well.

I just have to ask, because I don't remember if there's an answer to this, but in scripture, is it Josea the prophet who marries a prostitute? Like God kind of tells him to do this? That's right. Yes. And that is that served us inspiration for the film. So just the idea of this person, this is from the Bible in the book of Josea, and he's told to marry a prostitute and realizes all kinds of things because of that relationship. And so that definitely was part of the seed of this idea.

You take someone who is a person based in faith, who loves God, and then you bring him into a relationship with someone who is very opposite of where he's coming from. And I just thought that could really set up some interesting dynamics, some interesting conflicts. It is a romantic comedy, so you get that vibe, you know, as part of the story as well. But because of the trafficking aspect, it does have some serious undertones as well. When I first approached this story, I approached Violet's character very similarly to how you typically see that kind of character in a Hollywood movie, the empowered prostitute, you know, the woman who's like, she's doing it on her own terms. But then when I did more research into trafficking, I discovered that this is one of the most, the highest criminal enterprises of today is trafficking and that these women are being trafficked and that this is not something coming out of their choice. So the idea that they're empowered is a lie from the pit of hell designed to harm women and anybody else who gets near this kind of thing. So look, this is, you're dealing with two really serious issues.

obviously human trafficking, which is at the heart of the story, but also Asperger's and that. So you have really two serious issues baked into a romantic comedy. Not easy to do. Now, Alan, you wrote this film. I did. And you directed the film. I did.

And you're producer on the film. The novel that I wrote. Did you know that? I forgot about that. Okay. Now, couldn't you get somebody respectable to direct it, like maybe Mel Gibson's living girlfriend? because I know that she's now,

I can't joke, I can't joke about this. You know that Father Stu was directed by Mel. It's just so strange, and it's loaded with F-bombs, but it's kind of a good, other than that, it's a really nice film. But you directed this. What is it like, you know, to go through this? It's a huge process. I've known you for so many years to put a film out there.

It's such a big deal. It takes years. It's just huge. It is. And it's, there's something very magic. about seeing the words that you created on screen. I mean, just seeing these words, these characters that you just kind of create in the darkness of, you know, your office or wherever you're writing. And then suddenly they're coming alive on screen.

It's really, it's been a really wonderful experience. This last weekend, I actually, speaking of Father Stu, they've been showing the trailer before Father Stu. And I went into the theater to watch the trailer. It was the first time I saw the trailer on the big screen. And it was just amazing, just seeing the audience react to it and laughing at certain lines. And just knowing, okay, in a week, this is going to be coming out in the theaters, that people are going to be in the audiences all over the U.S. Okay, this week, April 29th, Friday.

April 29th, yes. If you go to the Sound ofviolet.com, you can see where it's playing at a theater near you. If it's not playing near you, you can sign up so that we can let you know when it's going to be playing near you. The Sound of Violet. dot com. Yes. Now, I'm trying to remember. Was that the title of the novel?

I don't remember. No, the original title of the novel was hooked. Oh, that's right. I want to say, the sound of violet, speaking as a writer, it's a beautiful title. Really beautiful. And I'm glad you switched it.

I forgot, but now that you mentioned it, the sound of violet, it really is just, it's beautiful. I mean, the sound of any color, it's a beautiful concept, but violet is such a beautiful word, such a beautiful color.

the sound of violet.com. So folks who want to know where they can see it this Friday, they go to the sound of violet. com. You said that it's going to, it'll list there where they can go. And there are all kinds of special events we're doing in Los Angeles, New York, Seattle. We're having red carpet events there in Dayton. And the Brandon Heath, who wrote a song for the movie. He's a five-time Grammy nominee.

he's actually going to be performing the song live in Nashville on April 28th for the evening screenings. Get out of town. Yes. Now, the only thing, this I have against you, Alan Wolfe, I'm not in the film. You're dead to me. We're never going to talk again. Folks, go to the Sound of Violet.com.

Actually, I'm in the film. I play the Bert Reynolds rogue figure briefly in the film's second half. The Sound ofviolet.com. We'll be right back with Alan Wolfe. In November of 2020, the Democrats were up to no good. They were planning to pull off the greatest scheme of election fraud in history. They didn't think we would catch them, but we did. Find out what they did and how they did it in the new documentary film called 2000 Mules,

directed and narrated by renowned filmmaker Dinesh DeSuzza, and executive produced by Salem Media Group. With research from truethovote.org, 2000 Mules tells us a story of the ones who tried to hijack a person. presidential election. You'll see the actual video surveillance tapes. You'll see how we tracked their cell phones to box after box as they got paid to carry out this illegal scheme. Watch the movie and decide for yourself. Attend a limited release premiere of 2000 Mules in advance on May 2,000 or May 4th. To see the movie in the theater, you must buy tickets in advance at

2000 Mules.com. Tickets are not available at local theaters. You can also attend a virtual premiere on May 7th, including a Q&A with Dinesh DeSouza. Buy tickets for the virtual premiere at 2000mules.com. That's the number 2000mules.com. Hey there, folks. You often hear me say, you know, what I'm watching. Is there anything worth watching? Is there a film out there?

And you also hear me talk a lot lately, because I'm on the Salem Radio Network, about SalemNow.com. Well, on SalemNow.com, right now. Now, there is a film that I highly recommend that you watch. It is called Whose Children Are They? That's what we call a rhetorical question. They're your children.

But I have one of the producers, makers of the film, Parents United, founder, Deborah Flora, as my guest to discuss the film. Welcome. Thank you so much, Eric. It's great to be here with you and I. I really appreciate your help and get the word out. Well, listen, we got to get the word out because this is extremely important. I'm just doing a little radio program. You were part of making a film.

So tell us the story, Deborah, because the question whose children are they, it kind of says it all. We all remember the nightmare of the level of ignorance that the man running for governor in Virginia, that he dared out of his mouth say something as nakedly preposterous as we can't let parents, you know, get involved in what their kids and you thought to yourself, what? That's like right out of communism. It's like it just doesn't even, it's not even possible that Americans would think that much less would run for office and would come out of their mouth. So whose children are they? Obviously, we know the answer, but we need to look into this.

So you made a film. So what led you to make this film? And congratulations. Thank you so much, Eric. You know, you hit the nail in the head. The title, whose children are they, really is about this intersection. that we're facing right now between Marxism and freedom, you know, founded on our Judeo-Christian principles, what everyone intrinsically knows versus the Marxist idea when he said that from the

moment a child could be without their mother's care, they'll be in the care of the state. That's what's being reflected, both in the Virginia Governor, you know, McCalliffe and his conversation about that, but also what's going in our school system. So how this came about is about three and a half years ago I founded Parents United America because I was one of many parents that got my dander up when I realized they were shoving comprehensive sex ed through. We testified against it. I helped introduce sex ed curriculum transparency legislation. It went to the Kill Committee. And what we realized, and my background is also as a filmmaker, is what we needed to do was to drag this all into the light, do have an awakening for parents. And that began to happen

during COVID, but we'd already been working on this project. And you know, Eric, you're such a student of history, you know that many movements never reach the tipping point. Many movements get to a point and then they just dissipate. We made this documentary because we want to make sure that this parent uprising reaches the tipping point where real change happens and that comes from parents and grandparents concerned citizens knowing what is actually going on in our schools. Well, that's very, very well put. The website for you, Parents United America, is that it? Well, it is. It's parents, 9america.org, but where I encourage everyone to go to is whose children are they.com. And that'll take you to the Salem screening, because this is what I've been working on now for two

years with parents not in America, as well as helping flip school boards and get the word out in other ways also. Well, I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, Deborah, how much it means to me that you and those with you are working on this. This is a battle for the soul of America. there's no hyperbole in that. It is not less than, as I said earlier, astonishing that we could come to a place. You know, it's one thing for a callow AOC to mouth off some preposterous Marxist idea. But for somebody like Terry McCalliffe, who, you know, was a stalwart in the party with the Clintons going back decades, for someone to reach that level where they could be governor of a major state and be so, ignorant of the basics. It's like saying, who's to say if one plus one is two or three? You would say,

excuse me, no one, no one questions that. How can you question that? And by the way, who are you? And then we find out, oh, you're running for governor of the state. It's just one of those things where, as you say, it's a tipping point, or it needs to be a tipping point, because you cannot have in America if people in America don't understand the basics. The basics are the parents get to teach their kids. And I mean, I think, so in the film, because I want to interview you for a second segment, but we'll just probably be able to air this one today, what will people see in this film if they go to SalemNow.com and look at whose children are they?

Yes, absolutely. So what they're going to see is a comprehensive expose that ties everything together for too long. Many people think, oh, it's just one story in Oregon about eliminating standards, or it's a story over here about sex education or another story in another city about gender fluid-eating kindergarten or the CRT. What we chose to do because we knew that it is a systemic issue, the right use of the word systemic, by the way, that this is going on in all of these areas in our schools. And it is comprehensive.

And those who are behind it actually are the teachers unions and their ideological partners. This has been going on for a long time ever since John Dewey, the father of modern education in the 20s, who was an honorary president of the teachers unions. He helped form many of the teachers' colleges. And he was a fan of the Soviet-style education. He was a communist. So this has been a long march in this direction. And we tie it all together. So people who watch know, it's not just one thing. It is all connected. And then we talk about what we can do about it, because there's so much we can do. And honestly, it will take a lot less to flip this around because the most passionate stakeholders in this, parents, grandparents,

concerned citizens will stand up and not go back to sleep. We've got folks, if you don't get involved, it's on you. This is absolutely crucial. Please go to whose children are they.com whose children are they dot com and we'll talk to Deborah

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Actually, we're in a series of crises, plural, ES, because so many things are happening. At the heart of it all is not just an un-American, but an anti-American ideology that is hostile to the view of the founders, hostile to most Americans, but most of us are too busy living our lives to know what is happening, which is why I'm so excited that there are people like my guest right now, Deborah Flora, making films and getting the word out about what is happening. Deborah, welcome back.

Thank you, Eric. It's great to be back with you. I really appreciate it. I'm, look, thrilled to have you and thrilled to get the word out about the film. I want to tell people right out of the gate, it's whose children are they? You can find it at salem now.com, where you can find a ton of great films. SalemNow.com. Or just go to whose children are they. Dot com. How is it, Deborah, because you're behind this film and you're an expert on this at this point,

how did it come to be that teachers' unions became radical leftists? When did it happen that they were anything but, you know, a teacher's union? They're worried about the wages or worried about, you know, teachers being treated fairly. when did they become a politically activist organization at war with the parents of the kids they're supposed to be teaching? You know, Eric, that's such an important question because the reality is this movie is pro-teacher, pro-parent, pro-student, which used to be the golden triangle of education. But what got right in the middle of it are teachers' unions, which don't represent teachers. In fact, they bully them most of the time.

And our documentary interviews, a lot of great teachers willing to stand up. But it's been a long road getting here. I mean, the reality is John Dewey, the father of modern education in the 20s. He was an honorary president of the Teachers Union, and his agenda was Soviet-style schools. So they had gone that way for a long time. Teachers unions, now many of them refer to parents as barriers or dissenters trying to push us outside. They bully teachers into submission. And really, their goal, there was a past president of one of the teachers unions who said, you know, when students start paying dues, we'll represent students, but they don't.

So we don't care about the students. So that's a reality. They're a power structure with ideological partners. And we can just see from plummeting academics, their goal is not the advancement of education. It is the advancement of indoctrination and ideology. So it's been a long road. We haven't had David Horowitz in the movie. And when he was a child, he marched with the May Day parade with the Communist Party and marching right along where the teachers' unions.

I believe that was in the 30s or 40s. So it's been going up for quite a while. Well, you know, it's hard for us to believe, really, that stuff. Stalinism was a thing in America. But I think we have to be honest and say that as bad as it was then, you could plead ignorance. You could say that whether it's Lillian Hellman or whoever they were, who were devotees of the Stalinist communist way of life, they didn't know most of them the horror of it. We now know. We now know the satanic evil of the Soviet Union and what they were pushing.

But the idea that these ideas have gone underground and now we're facing cultural Marxism wherever we go. And a lot of parents, as you said earlier, during COVID, they kind of woke up. They kind of saw what their kids are getting. And you thought, wait a minute. I'm paying taxes so that my kids can go to this school and they're being taught this. This is not my will for my kid. It's supposed to be in loco parentis. Why are they teaching things antithetical to how I want to raise my kids?

and where do they get the idea that that would be okay? So obviously in the film, you're kind of waking people up. Without a doubt. I mean, this has happened because it was in the dark. I mean, parents are busy. Many of them working two jobs. They're busy with after-school activities, taking care of their kids. But what happened during COVID, probably the only silver lining,

was the reality that parents saw firsthand what was actually being taught to their students. I mean, when you have a school district in Tennessee that asks parents to sign a waiver so they won't observe what their children are being taught, you realize that this has become an existential threat. I do believe, however, that this is the hope for our country. It's the hope for our children because parents, when you wake them up, they're not going back to sleep. And let's be clear, it doesn't matter for you're a Democrat or Republican.

You're a mom and a dad first. The only ones who don't agree with this agenda are those who are so far extreme on that Marxist ideology that the children belong to the state, and the state has the right to train them everything, including a worldview. That's not the role of the schools. It is academics. It is education, not indoctrination. And so I'm encouraged because parents everywhere are rising up. Well, it's a wonderful thing. No small thanks do to you and the other folks behind the film.

I want to remind people again, it's whose children are they? You can go to who's children are they.com. And folks, I really want to push you to see this film and to share about it on social media. Share this interview. Obviously, we post everything on social media and on Rumble. If you sign up for my newsletter, Eric Mataxis.com, you'll get this. But it is vital that parents in America wake up and get activated. If you are not involved in this stuff, then in a sense, you're letting it happen. And it is a horror. I have to say that part of the only good news, Deborah, is that things are. got so bad that it woke some people up and it got people like you to make a film about it.

That's absolutely the case. I mean, it's unfortunate and there's many things that we have to do. Right now, if your children are in school, find out if a change can be made. And if not, you may need to pull them out until changes can be made. It's going to take a while for us to get this back. But there's so much that can happen from flipping school boards, which we did in our own school district, to, you know, helping legislation where the money follows the student, not the system. that helps the most vulnerable amongst us to just getting the word out there. I mean, one of the hardest parts of the movie, Eric, is the sex education portion. If this was rated by the MPAA, this movie would be rated R or worse just because we show people

what are being taught to kids as young as third grade. If that's not enough to wait people up, then we are far gone, but I do really believe it is. And like I said, I've heard from parents from every spectrum that are against us. because as you said before, intrinsically, we know children should be allowed to be children. It is the purview of the parents to train them in the things of personal development, their worldview, and they should not be sexualized or indoctrinated at such a young age. Folks, if this doesn't make you mad, I kind of wonder whether you love your children or your breathing, because this is absolutely at the heart of everything.

You should be offended that people would dare, would dare do this. this to your kids. It would be no different than if somebody touches your kid inappropriate. They don't say, well, that's the way things are today. Please go to whose children are they.com. It is imperative that Americans wake up, that they see the film, that they share this information, whose children are they.com, Deborah, Flora. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Eric. I really appreciate it. And I want to encourage everyone. We can turn this around and protect the innocence of our children if we stay awake and take action. So thank you for getting the word out. My pleasure. Whose Children Are They.com?

Hey, folks. A couple of things before we go for the day, Alvin, guess who is on the plane with me flying down here to Palm Beach? Okay, I'm going to guess. Sylvester Stallone. How's that? Close enough. Brandon Tatum, the officer Tatum. Wow. And I, yeah, somebody sitting next to me, who was also flying down here for some Moralago event, was talking to the stewardess about this guy, this podcast or conservative guy, whatever. And I thought, he's not talking about me. He doesn't know me. Who's he talking about?

Brandon Tatum. So I said hello to the officer Tatum. And I'm going to see him tomorrow night. He's going to be at the event, the premiere, the Mar-a-Lago premiere of 2000 mules tomorrow night. I want to say again, folks, this film is going to change history. Think about what I just said. There's no hyperbole. people are going to see this. They're going to know that the election was stolen. That's going to put you in a tough spot when you know, when you really know, because you're not going to be afraid to tell people. And then other people are going to see the film. And what's going to happen is it's going to make us have a moment in this country where we try to decide, do we stand for what is right and true and fair elections or don't we? It's a big deal, 2,000 mules. I'm in the film wearing my green.

green pants. And every time I'm in the film, if you want to play drinking game with the whole family, every time Eric has a line in the film, you got to do a shot of V8. It could be warm V8, it could be chilled V8. That's up to you. We should say, too, this is a Salem produced film, which is really exciting for all of us at work in Salem Radio. So it's a great thing for Salem. Well, that's right. And that's news that made it with Salem and it's on Salem now.com, whatever. I'm going to go to Las Vegas after this because there's a. virtual premiere this Saturday, the seventh. So I'm going to be there in Las Vegas for that. I want to do everything I kind of support this because Dinesh is a hero. Now, we should mention a couple of other things.

I mentioned earlier. We have a really special Socrates and City event in New York City at the Union League Club, May 31st, Tuesday. Folks, I'm telling you, it is going to be Charlie Duke, the man who walked on the moon 50 years ago. He is going to be there. We're going to have a special VIP reception if you want to meet him and get a photo with him. We're going to have an exclusive patrons dinner afterward. If anybody wants to participate in these things, email us. We have several rooms booked at the Union League club.

If you want to stay in the club overnight, you know, make a night of it or make an extra long weekend of it, whatever you want to do. go to Socrates in the city.com, but you kind of have to hurry up. I also want to say that we have coming up this whole month, we're trying to raise money for the film premiere. I was just going to mention, Albin, we're doing a fundraiser this month. People always say, what can I do? There are many things you can do.

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