The Eric Metaxas Show - Doug Giles and Robert Netzly

Episode Date: April 5, 2022

Doug Giles has some new artwork to share that graces the side of a pro-Trump bus in New Jersey of all places; and Robert Netzly, CEO of Inspire Investing, has an update on the Smuckers woke jam.

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That's why we have you back. You're always hard to describe. You're a pastor, you're a writer, you're an artist, and you're the father of two amazing young women. I've had the privilege to meet. You're an activist. You're a hunter. What aren't you? I'm not a bald woman that you can make jokes about.

Don't make me come after you up there, bro. Honestly. If I was Chris Rock, Eric, as soon as Will Smith turned his back, and I would use, you know, this kind of tactic because I'm a small guy like Chris, as soon as he turned and was going back to his seat, I would have pushed his butt right off the stage. Nobody's going to slap me, and I'm not going to fight back.

You know, that's just... It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. My goal this week was not to talk about this, and I failed. Okay, seriously, though, you, my friend, you're an artist. Your art is amazing. I've seen it, and there's some of it in the room with you right now. But wasn't some of your art recently featured on a bus? Like, can you describe this?

I read about it, but I wanted to have you on to let you talk about it. Yeah, so last Monday, I, oh, open up my email, and there's a picture of my Trumpinator that I painted with Trump in a red, white, and blue leather jacket. He's holding the Constitution. You can see we, the people, you know, on the front of the Constitution. And on one of his glasses lens, he's got 2024, and at the bottom, it says, I'll be back. So about three or four months ago, Greg Duna and his business partner, Vinnie, I forget his last name, they reached out to me, and they said, listen, Doug, we're going to open up a store called Let's Go Brandon. We need some eye candy to park out in front of the store, you know,

just to generate buzz and get some traffic going. And so they placard my trumpinator, we the people painting on the back of their bus. Wait a minute. There's so much good information here. Hold on. First of all, you painted the trumpinator. So like the Terminator, I'll be back 2024. Okay. So I've seen that. And by the way, if people want to find you, what's the best website so they can go look at all this stuff? Yeah, Dougchiles.art.art. That's G. iLES dot art so Doug jiles giles giles dot art okay

so you painted this thing and you're telling me some people opened up a store called what yeah so it's in tom's river new jersey and my buddy gregg and his business partner viny opened up the let's go brandon store and eric

they parked the bus right in front of the store in tom's river it's freaking uh going crazy uh there They're selling so much Trump swag. They've got the bus there, and it's causing traffic jams. It's causing people are stopping, pulling over in the road, and taking their picture with the Trumpinator painting that I did.

It's freaking awesome, man. And this is in Tom's River, New Jersey. See, this is just good news, Doug. This is just amazing that these wonderful entrepreneurs, friends of yours, of course, have opened up a store called Let's Go, Brandon. How funny is this? This is just fantastic. and it's in Tom's River. People are going to make pilgrimages to this place. You realize that.

This is, this is, now that it's going across the country over this program, let's go, Brandon, in Tom's River. So do they carry other of your art there? Can people get posters of the Trumpinator there? Yeah, we're working that out right now. So I've done, I think, 35 Trump paintings. All of them have sold, save two. and if he runs in 2024, oh my God, Eric, those things are going to be worth $40,000 to $50,000 apiece. I've got one right behind me of Trump killing the Twitter bird on a successful hunt. I don't know if you saw that one or not. I did not see that Trump killing the Twitter bird on a successful hunt.

Look at this. I can't take it. I can't take it. I love it. I love it. You know, it's very scary when, when people like you start painting stuff because anything can happen. All right.

So you and I were talking recently. Our friend Mike Lindell, Hero, has something called MyStore.com. And he's carried most of my books there. But first it was my Trump books, Donald drains the swamp. Donald builds the wall. Donald in the fake news. And I think he's going to be carrying your art there, I hope. Is this happening?

Can people go to MyStore.com and you use it. the code Eric and buy your stuff too? Yeah, it's not completely ready yet. So we're going through the approval process because, you know, my stuff, Eric, it can cause quite the stir. So I'm still haven't heard back from Mike yet in regards to my books. And we put about three or four Trump paintings. And then I've got my whole biblical badass collection that we sent over there as well,

where I depict, you know, the Christian characters, not as these forlorn. doormats for the powers of darkness, but the epic, you know, suns of thunder and these incredible, you know, just heroin women that did exploits for God. So those are some cool pieces, man. And I just thank God that I get to make a great living, pushing paint and writing books. I mean, really, look, things have to get really bad, obviously, before people wake up and things get better. So, you know, the fact that Mike Lindell has my store.com, and I was going to say, please use the code Eric. But the fact of the matter is that these friends of yours are doing a retail store in Tom's River called Let's Go Brandon.

This kind of stuff is going to be happening around the country because people realize there is such a hunger for truth. There's a hunger for, what would you call it, badassery? You know, it's kind of just funny to me that people are just really. waking up. And of course, there's going to be a market for this. People are really sick and tired. We'd be putting it mildly. Yeah, I think it's awesome. You know, a lot of Christians, Eric, are chewing their fingernails down to a knob and they're worried about the future. And things look freaking bleak. I mean, it's just Biden has done this country no favor whatsoever. But man, when you see stores opening up that are called Let's Go Brandon, when you hear, you know,

high school kids and college kids and adults in these stadiums filled with tens of thousands of people saying, let's go, Brandon. To me, that's hope because they understand that Joe Biden has been an abysmal disaster that he's completely wrecked our economy. Our borders are more porous than Rosie O'Donnell's stocking when she's high stepping a barbed wire fence. We've got the Afghanistan debacle. I mean, things are not good. The dollars devalued, and he's going to get us into a war with Russia and Ukraine. You know, people are longing back for the sanity that that bad orange man brought for the nation and the prosperity and the protection and the national security.

So I think it's a rife day, Eric, for this thing called righteous rebellion. Well, that's what it is. It is righteous rebellion. And I think that, you know, people have to see it modeled. And, you know, you're one of those people that, you know, you've got this attitude. and I think a lot of people think, gee, I didn't know, I didn't know I could be like that. I didn't know I could be feisty. I thought I had to be Ned Flanders or something like that. And obviously, when you go through scripture and you've written about this, you've preached about it,

I mean, we have these heroic figures all throughout the scripture. We act as if they didn't exist, and we don't even allow Jesus to be heroic. And the fact of the matter is, that's not biblical. If you want to be biblical, if you want to understand what the scriptures are, you really have to understand what they are. And you're doing your part, you know, with some of your paintings to kind of correct that misconception. Yeah, and I do it also with the books because, again, we've made, you know, Jesus into this bearded lady. He looks like some kind of character in a feminine hygiene commercial. And, you know, I wrote a book two years ago called If Masculinity's Toxic called Jesus Radioactive.

And I dare anybody to just go through the book of Matthew, just pay attention to the red light. letters and what Christ say, and you'll quickly come to speed and understand why they killed that 30-year-old rebel from Galilee. Because he didn't suffer any fools, Eric. If you're full of lies, hype, and spin, even if you're a disciple or you're some kind of vacillating vixen or bad priest or a politician, you're going to get verbally undressed by the son of man, and he had no problem whatsoever, do it be public or private. We're going to be right back talking to my friend Doug Giles, G-I-L-E-S.

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That's inspireinsight.com. Go there. Folks, welcome back. I'm talking to my friend Doug Giles, G-I-L-E-S. Doug, you've written a number of books. I want to talk a little bit about them. But where can people find your books? Where can people find more about you? I've got a number of websites here. Yeah, I've got way too many websites. I would say the hub, Eric, is Doug Giles.org. And that's my little neighborhood, and you can find my books.

podcast, all my artwork, or at least links to all this stuff that I got going on. Okay, Doug Giles, G-I-L-E-S-D-O-R-G. Because you've written a lot of books. I mean, the one we were talking about not that long ago is Psalms of War, prayers that literally kick ass. I don't know if I can say that on this program, but it's just the title of your book. It's just the title of your book. Psalms of War.

But, I mean, talk about that briefly, because that's an interesting idea. Again, people forget, you know, it's the whole council of scripture. They kind of, they pick and choose what they like, and they forget the imprecatory Psalms, for example. Yeah, they don't even get talked about in most churches, you know, Catholic, Protestant, whatever. They don't get brought up, and there they are. This is the holy prayer book. This is the Psalter. This is what we're supposed to sing.

This is what we're supposed to discuss with each other. The Psalms. And everybody's like, well, they're kind of like NyQuil. they help you go to sleep. No, they're kind of like nitroglycerin. They're kind of like Tomahawk cruise missiles. They're kind of like Dirty Harry's 44 Magnum Smith and Western Model 29.

These are the big guns of intercessory prayer. And now we're under big threat from Marx's radicals. We've got big enemies afoot that hate America, hate the church, and the Christians are like, well, maybe Jesus will rapture us out of this mess. Hey, how about this? Maybe you should get off your gluten and large backseat. open up the Psalms of war and start praying these maledictions against God's enemies and watch him kick butt and take names. And it blows my mind when I'd go to churches and stuff. They don't

even talk about how America's being hijacked right now. They don't even talk about the 400-ton Marxist elephant that's in the White House. They don't say anything about it. It's just business as usual. And they don't say jack squat about shutting their church down when some dipstick Merrick-McChease, like we talked about a couple of weeks ago, tells them to shut their church down. Well, and you know why? Because their theology is so broken, Doug, that they say, well, we don't want to be political

because we think that if I'm in any way, quote, unquote, political, I'm driving people away who might be enticed to follow the fake Jesus that I follow. That's basically what it is. And so when it comes to issues of justice, I mean, if you really care about the poor and you allow BLM, the ultimate grifting organization to lie that they actually care about poor people in the interseason, it's complete nonsense. And you don't speak about that. You are now guilty for allowing them to perpetuate their grift. If you don't talk about critical race theory, if you don't let your congregation understand that this is wickedness,

that human beings are being, human lives are being destroyed. If you don't speak about that, you're part of the problem. And we have a lot of Christian leadership in this country that they really believe somehow they could take a pass on this. But of course, many German church leaders thought that they could take a pass on the Nazis and did. Right. I think you had, what, the preponderance, 90% of the pastors didn't say Jack Squat, Adolf Hitler. And you got Bonhofer, who you well know. He and his buddies are like,

the guy's a nut. This is insane. He's going to derail, you know, the planet if that guy who's nuttier and a squirrel turd gets the reins of power. And again, you had very few opposing. How come the pastors aren't talking about, hey, we want to teach your kids about transgenderism and homosexuality in kindergarten?

To me, the fact that somebody hasn't throat punched, one of those perverted, recidist pedophiles, that want to jack with your kids' noggin when he's four or five years old, that blows my mind, man. Actually, I'm with you on this. Like, it's stunning to me that we would allow this.

I mean, that is like child abuse. That would be as bad as putting your hands on my child in an inappropriate way. It is child abuse. It is evil. It is sick. The idea that we are allowing people to talk to our kids about these issues. Even if you were saying the right thing, you should not be talking to get. It's not your business.

It's the parents' business to talk to their kids about this stuff. But we are allowing it because we obviously, and you know this, we have a lot of men who are not manly. We have a lot of Christians who are not living out their faith. And if folks like you and me don't talk about it, I don't know where people are getting their ideas from. But there's a lot of bad stuff going on out there, which is why it gives me, such joy, Doug, because you give me hope because you're out there talking about this stuff. I want to tell people again, you should find Doug at Doug Giles, G-I-L-E-S-D-O-G-E-S-O-G-E-S-O-W where we can find your art and your books.

What's the previous book? The last one was Psalms of War, but there were a couple before that. Yeah, so the one that preceded it immediately was biblical badass as the women. And then the one before that, if masculinity is toxic called Jesus Radioactive, and Eric, come June 1st, I have a new book called Dear Christian, Your Fear is Full of Crap. That's coming out in June.

Yeah. Dear Christian, your fear is full of crap. Man, I was going to use that title. I guess you beat me of that punch. Okay. If you are a little timorous titmouse in life and you're scared of your own shadow, you didn't get that from the Holy Spirit,

because when he moves into your life, I don't even care who you are. You will be bold as a lion when you need to be. It's amazing. Recently, I've been reading about Jesus dealing with the religious leaders in Jerusalem and Holy Week and turning over the tables in the temple. And it is an amazing thing, Doug, that some people have completely airbrushed that Jesus out of the Bible. It's absolutely amazing.

I mean, it's clear that they don't want to read the Bible. the Bible makes them uncomfortable because that's just the New Testament. You go into the Old Testament and you've got even bigger problems. But it's kind of amazing because what we're talking about is basic Christianity. This is not next level Christianity. This is called basic Christianity. Yeah, I've always talked about Jesus's disciples. They were rough cussing fishermen. I've been around fishing captains and professional hunters for 40 or 50 years. These guys were rugged male individuals. They upset the planet. They bested, you know, false prophets and they confronted kings.

And nowadays, you know, we have nary a peep to say bad about anybody or anything. And it's just something that I think is completely demonic. I listen to pastors talk, you know, when I go to certain cities and I'm out of town, I've got to dip into church. And it's like, you're saying nothing. If Jesus said or preached what you are saying right, right now, they wouldn't have killed him. Isn't that the point?

That's exactly the point. Jesus spoke the truth, knowing he's going to go to the cross, and he had no fear because he knew that by going to the cross, he's going to destroy death forever. And we have a lot of people, supposedly, his followers, who clearly don't really believe that. And I think that folks like you and me, God wants to use us just to remind people of what we're supposed to actually believe. This is not some, it's not extra credit.

This is like the basics, the basis of where we're supposed to be. Yeah. And you know who loves the Rowdy Christ? You're talking about Jesus clearing the temple, like in Matthew 21, after he pulls out a whip and clears the punks. It said the children started singing his Hosanas. So the word children in the Greek, I'm kind of a little fuzzy on. I did three years of Greek in my undergrad, but the children expands for, you know, not just from, you know, the eight-year-olds, but way up into the late teens.

So people are like, Doug, you know, the way you preach, you know, young people don't like it because you're just so hard. And you act like John Wayne when you get in the pulpit. It's like, well, I beg to differ. Young people love that kind of attitude. Everything smells Eric, so attitude sells. And you see Christ going in there with a whip and just turning this place upside down,

whipping the religious hucksters and stuff. And then the young people were like, yeah, we want some of that. we don't care about this state, rustic, you know, kind of religious

stuff. And listen, they also knew, they all knew that this was deeply corrupt. This was deep corruption. In fact,

the people purveying this, they knew themselves that this was corrupt. It was kind of wink, wink, nudge, you know, go along to get along.

Nobody say anything. We know this is dirty. So when he called him on it, in a sense, it silenced them because there really was nothing to say except we've got to kill this guy. We've got to kill this guy. He's just trouble. We know what he's saying is right. But there's the witness of these young people saying he's the son

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When you were young, wasn't open. Used to say. Hey folks, welcome back to the Air from Taxes Show. Every now and again, I get really excited and encouraged. It's pretty rare. But when I got to know Robert Netsley and heard about what he's doing, I just said, this is, I don't know anybody else who's doing this. And this is potentially game-changing.

What I'm talking about is he runs, he's the CEO and founder of, inspire, inspire investing. And his idea, again, it's hard to believe this doesn't exist times 100, but evidently it doesn't. So Robert Netsley, welcome back. Hey, pleasure to be here. Thanks for having it back. Explain to my audience, who don't know what I'm talking about. What was your idea?

You've implemented it, and it's just, it's just gigantic. I'm very excited. Yeah, I mean, I didn't invent the idea. You know, basically we invest money in a way that, uh, recognizes that what you invest in matters. And so many people are shocked to discover that, you know, for instance, you're a pro-life person and also your 401K is invested in abortion drug manufacturing companies. Total disconnect.

Right. That's what happened to me when I, about 10 years ago, realized. But the point is, this is not some weird thing. This is not like, you know, find out if, you know, your home is being robbed right now. I mean, this is basic. If you have money invested, chances are this is true, that your money is working against what you believe in. I mean, this is, it's simply true, but there's not many ways to deal with that until, I guess, until you came up with this idea, I think. Inspire investing, I mean, going back to the slave trade in England, I mean, the Quakers got out of the slave trade.

They refused to invest in the slave trade, right? And so it's not a new idea, but in the modern sense, it's a shame that's been such a blind spot, I'll say, among investors. And, you know, abortion, human trafficking, pornography, and good on the list. There's all sorts of things that many people have to. issues with people of faith and people just of, you know, with well-meaning intent wanting to, you know, benefit society. But we're profiting from these things in our investments and we're just sort of not thinking about them. So what we do at Inspire investing is help educate investors what they're currently invested in. We've got investment funds that you can invest in that align

with biblical values, you know, a number of ways that we can help people who are looking to align their investments with their deeply held beliefs, specifically, especially from a biblical perspective. But again, many non-Christians invest with us, too, because they happen to be, you know, pro-life or, you know, they don't like human trafficking, for instance. You know, it's a really important thing to many people. Well, I mean, give us an example, if you're allowed to, of companies that would just be part of somebody's normal 401, you know, their portfolio, that they're not thinking about this, but that those companies are supporting these values, like genuinely. Sure. Pfizer, right? So Pfizer, big,

drug company, they utilize embryonic stem cells in their research, including for vaccines. And they have, you know, fetal kidney tissues that are used in their COVID vaccines. They also manufacture abortifaxioned drugs. And what kind of vaccines do they use the kidney fetal kidney tissue? COVID vaccines. And the COVID vaccines. Okay. But the point is the news doesn't cover this.

So if you have a portfolio and you see Pfizer, you don't really think about this. You don't think that you are supporting people that are making monstrous profits in the abortion world, in the abortion industry. It just wouldn't occur to most of us. And so that's why I get so excited about this, because you're waking us up to the fact that our money,

which is very powerful, is being used to do things that most of us would think of as evil, or at least wrong. So Pfizer is one example. Give us some others, if you can. Along that same line, you know, Johnson and Johnson, Merck, I mean, the list goes on in the drug company realm. Currently, we're engaged with Smuckers. Last time I was on your show, we're talking to the James Smucker Company.

You know, unfortunately, they decided to go down an extreme kind of woke path and support in particular the Equality Act, the so-called Equality Act, which is religious discrimination, in disguise. And so we have a petition at inspireinvesting.com slash smuckers that people can sign. We're getting good traction there engaging with them to, so they can hear from investors with a different perspective, conservative viewpoints, biblical viewpoints. There's obviously too many to mention, but these are just some of the bigger issues. Yeah, the last time you were on a month ago, we talked about smuckers. And you're saying that, and again, this is, you know, part of why I want to have you on the

program is, like, most of us, it would never occur to us. that are kind of a heartland brand like smuckers, the name smuckers. We would never dream that that company is going down this woke path and that they're going to use the money. When you buy a jar of smuckers, the profit is going to go into a company that is pushing very, very bad ideas. That's putting it nicely. It just wouldn't occur to most of us.

And so part of the reason I get excited to talk to you is because we need to start talking about this. We need to start understanding that where I'm spending my money in the grocery store, my, you know, whatever, my 401K, that all of this money is being used in many cases for wickedness, for things that anybody would say, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, that's bad. I'm going to go to the voting booth in November. I'm going to vote against those people. but your money is voting for those people every day. Yeah, I'm going to take it a step further there, Eric.

It's not just who we're supporting. I mean, that is certainly important. We need to think about where the money is being used. But as an investor, you're profiting from this. I mean, how many of us would go out and start up an abortion clinic tomorrow to make some money? Hopefully not a whole heck of a lot, right? But that's what we're doing. We're profiting from abortions.

How many of us would start a, you know, pornography production studio to make some extra cash on the site? We wouldn't do that because, oh, my gosh, it's disgusting. investing. But guess what? If you own Netflix, you're making money on those things. You're not just supporting it. You are earning money. And there's a, there's a moral obligation to earn money from righteous sources. The scripture, you know, talks about such things. I want to come back and do another segment because we've, we've only scratched the surface. But folks, this is so important. Please check out inspireinvesting.com. Inspireinvesting.com. We'll be right back. Hey, folks, if you listen to this program, of course, you've heard me talk at infinitum about my pillow.

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comforters, and much more. Or call 800, 978, 3057. That's 800, 978, 3057. To use the promo code, Eric. Folks, my guest right now is Robert Netsley. He's the CEO and founder of Inspire Investing Robert, we were talking a moment ago about smuckers. You said that smuckers, this kind of, we think of it as a heartland brand, they are going down a woke path, and you're trying to influence them. You would inspire investing, are trying to not just get people not to invest in companies going down wrong paths and already well down some of these paths, but you're trying to influence those who might be influenced.

So what can we do with regard to smuckers? You said there's a petition? I mean, how many signatures do you have? What do you need? Because maybe my audience can help on that. Sure, yeah, inspireinvesting.com slash smuckers. You can go there and see all the information about what we're talking about. They've supported the Equality Act.

They've made a concerted decision to jump on the woke bandwagon. It's five generations of Smucker's family leadership. Mark Smucker, the current CEO, is making a hard-line departure from what the brand has stood for for generations. and yeah, we're seeing hundreds and hundreds of people sign on to that petition. It's been in live for, you know, just a few weeks. So you need people to sign on to that petition? We need more sign on. I don't know how people would even hear about it other than this program because, you know,

but folks go to inspireinvesting.com, please and sign up for that petition. We have to use our voices. We have to use, or I keep saying so over and over, if you don't use your voice, if you don't speak the truth, if you don't try to influence these people, these things are going in one direction. Cultural Marxism is taking over, and it's destroying the fabric of our culture. And I never thought I'd be one of those people

who talks about that, but it's become so dramatic that if you don't act, you're part of the problem. So I want to say to people, the least you can do is sign this petition, inspireinvesting.com smuckers. Tell us also about you guys are trying to get openly Christian universities not to invest in

pro-abortion companies and things like that. I mean, so the idea that we could have evangelical Christian universities or Catholic universities that ostensibly they would never want to support these things, but with their funds, they are supporting these things. Right. So you think Biola, Wheaton, you know, Southern Seminary, Reform Theological, Westminster, I mean, these stored institutions that have rich legacies of biblical values. They teach from a conservative, orthodox biblical perspective.

Their alumni care about pro-life issues. Their alumni are giving money to these schools and these scholarship funds. However, there's this big blind spot. Guess what that money is going into? Abortion drugs. And I was just talking to a, I'll leave the name out of it, but a very luck, one of the most staunch supporters of the pro-life movement, it's a nonprofit ministry. They have an endowment that is tens of millions of dollars.

they are one of the most outspoken opponents of abortion at the Supreme Court level. All of their funds are in Black Rock. BlackRock run by Larry Fink, one of the most adamant opponents of religious freedom, biblical values, supporters of abortion. There's a board of fashion drug manufacturers all through those portfolios. And because it's BlackRock, Larry Fink and his people get to vote the proxies for. those funds. So these people, you know, we're giving money to support a certain thing and say pro-life, but it's going into an endowment that is actually allowing the other side, the pro-choice, the Planned Parenthood side, to use our money to leverage those voices with corporations to sign on

to pro-abortion legislation. It's ridiculous and it's, you know, it's not on purpose, but that's the problem. It's not on purpose. We need to think. We need to lift our eyes up and think about this and look what we're investing in. We can do much better and we must do better if we expect any sort of change to happen. Okay, folks, I hope you're hearing this. This is just amazing. While you're sleeping, your money is working against you, and I would say against truth, against God's purposes, against justice, you need to care about this. The very least you can do, I guess, in the short term, is go to inspireinvesting.com. But I just, I'm kind of in awe of the scope of this, Robert, that we're talking about many, many, many, many billions and billions of dollars.

This is just a level of financial economic power that people have and that we've ceded it to the other side. So, I mean, so what do you do at Inspire Investing? You mentioned to, I think the last time you mentioned how people can go there and see if they are investing in things that they shouldn't be. How do they do that? Yeah, Inspireinvesting.com. You can go there. There's a link to a technology tool called Inspire Insight. It's free to use. You can type in a ticker symbol of any of your stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, whatever you got in your IRA, 4-1K, et cetera, and see all the good, bad and the ugly from a biblical value's perspective of what you're actually investing in, down to the nitty gritty of this, on this state, this company gave this much money to plan parenthood, right, or manufactures this abortion drug. So that's the first step. Find out what you own. We have, you know, our own wealth managers, financial planners that can help you with that. If you're looking for help there, we have investment funds you can invest in on the New York Stock Exchange, wherever you've got your investment accounts. There's a number of resources there inspireinvesting.com.

And we would just, we're passionate about driving this message home. People just need to realize that, oh, my money is invested in actual things that matter. And you know what? Wherever you're at with values listening to this today, I guarantee you, if you haven't paid attention, something in your portfolio is going to shock you, right? So just find out what that is and take some action. Well, this is the kind of thing. I mean, I just, again, it's like this is so huge that it kind of boggles my mind. We're talking about, I mean, it's one thing to be involved in politics

and understanding how important your vote is. Then when you understand that Americans who share our values control scores, hundreds of billions of dollars of economic power that we have ceded to the other side to do tremendous damage to everything we care about, to our children and our grandchildren, it's affecting the whole world. There's no question that it affects the whole world. And most people listening right now probably have money invested with, you mentioned, Black Rock. It's just astonishing that we haven't realized this and that we've let it happen. And we need to. We need to to do something about it.

How long have you been running Inspire investing? How long you've been doing this? Been in this line of business for a little over 10 years. Inspire Investing, we started up as that brand name back in 2015. We're the third fastest growing investment firm in the nation, by God's grace. We've managed about $2 billion in assets, and it's about doubling every year for the past several years. It's humbling and it's amazing, but it's like you said, we need to wake up. And as people are waking up, it's like, hello, and there are options.

We're going to have to leave it there, but folks, I beg you, check it out, inspireinvesting.com. It is gigantically important to tell your friends, inspireinvesting.com. Robert, thank you. Thank you. God bless. Folks, before we go for the day, I want to reiterate the good news that I mentioned at the beginning of the program before we spoke to John Smirak, before we spoke to Doug Giles and Robert Netsley, the good news. a lot of good news. Tomorrow, we're going to play my interview with Mel Gibson.

Mel Gibson. And I think you'll find it entertaining. I asked some really dumb questions, which I don't know if you understood that I was joking. So it really was kind of crazy. Yeah. But you saw it. You had a funny opening and he was taken off guard a little bit. I think I caught him off. I caught Mel off guard. Yeah.

And, yeah, it was kind of- The road warrior, you got them. So that's more now, I got to tell you, if, you want to see the video of this. You have to sign up for our newsletter. You got to go to ericmataxis.com. It's my website. Sign up for the newsletter.

There's all kinds of stuff we can share with you there that we cannot share with you on the radio program. Number one would be videos. Because on radio, you typically can't get videos. If you want to see video of my short interview with Mel Gibson, believe me, sign up at ericmetaxis.com. We should mention that. We should also mention we got clarity.

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And please tell your friends. I think I should be much more forceful in asking people, tell your friends to use the code Eric. We could use the help. As you know, the program isn't free. It costs money. And in order to do it, you know, our sponsors are a big help. Albin, yes, sir. Our friend Sean Foyt, we had on this week last week, he is doing a couple of big rallies in front of the Disney studios in Burbank, California,

and at Orlando in Florida. Sean Foight is a hero. Most people are sick over Disney's woke anti-child stance. They used to be pro-child. They have really gone insane. And Sean Foyt is going to, we'll get more information about those dates when we get it from Sean. Yeah. But I just got to tell you, he's a hero.

And he stands, you know, for American families who don't often have a voice. You've been meeting a lot of great American heroes lately because they're stepping up. They're stepping up and it's great. They really are. Anyway, I think we're out of time tomorrow. I'm talking to Andrew Claven. Oh, my gosh. You'll see.

Talk to you soon.