The Eric Metaxas Show - Erskin and Joe Silva

Episode Date: March 30, 2023

Musical Artist Erskin returns to the studio with an update on a new album, and friend Joe Silva discusses an upcoming movie about boxing legend George Foreman. 

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And now here's your Ralph Cramden of the Airways, Eric Mott, Texas. Folks, welcome to Hour 2. We've got plenty more coming up. But before we get to the plenty more, we're talking to John Smirak. John, let's talk about Kerry Lake for a moment. This is, Carrie Lake is a wonderful MAGA candidate in Arizona who really probably was elected governor. She ran on fixing election fraud. So, of course, the election fraudsters made sure that she lost.

And I hear a lot about Carrie Lake because my girlfriend watches three hours of Steve Bannon every day. And if you're not watching War Room on YouTube or on Real America's voice, you're not really interested in what's going on in America because that is the show that breaks the stories, that Fox News won't touch except for Tucker Carlson. God bless him. Harry Lake won a really crucial victory in court. The judge ruled that, in fact, her claim that maybe 100,000 voters were not eligible to vote,

that their signatures were not real. That claim needed to be adjudicated on the merits. The election authorities in Arizona had said, you can't judge this on the merits. She doesn't have standing to complain about the fact that fake voters. were allowed to vote, even though she lost the election. And the judge had to admit this is absurd. And so now a judge is going to have to look at the massive evidence of voter fraud in Arizona. And as you and I have talked about before, however good a candidate is, on all the issues,

if he's bad on this, he's worthless. A candidate can be pro-life, pro-gun, good on borders, good on China, good at everything. But he wants to let the Democrats steal all the election. and if you protest, he thinks you should go to prison like the January 6 people. That's a big butt. That multiplies everything by zero. That's like saying, I will buy your house, Eric, for $1 billion. You get a dollar a year for one billion years.

Any Republican who doesn't care about voter fraud is utterly worthless because what he's doing is he's surrendering. He's surrendering. He's surrendering to the Democrats. Now, think about this. We know the Democrats want to kill children who survive abortion attempt. that they want to castrate little kids. They want to subject small children

to pornographic sex education. And if their parents complain, investigate them as domestic terrorists. We know they want to do all of this. But voter fraud? No, no, no, though. That's a line they wouldn't cross, right? We know that their consciences would kick in at that point.

Come on, people. How self-willingly naive can you be? But what I've found is it's this profound cowardice an appeasement. It's like when they were appeasing Hitler before World War II. Candidates like Harry Lake and Donald Trump, who talk about vote fraud, people like Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, they want to throw them under the bus immediately. Oh, their election deniers. Oh, they're extremists. They are insurrectionists. What is that instinct? That instinct

is countess. That is the instincts of someone who thinks the left is going to win anyway. their army ants, we're steak to the ground covered in honey. Their army ants are going to eat us eventually. Eat them first. Or it's like a kid who's being bullied, trying to get the bully to pick on the guy next to him. Rino Republicans, squishy modern Republicans who want to throw Trump and his supporters under the bus. They're just saying, hey, hey, bully, we're all, I'm fine with you bullying and stealing lunch money. But why don't you pick on that kid with the.

maga hat. He has more money. You should beat him up and I'll be on your side. I'll help identify other kids for you to bully. Just leave me alone. Churchill called it, throwing your friends to the crocodiles in the hope of getting eaten less. And in my article at stream.org where I call it, let's stop shooting our wounded like the brave Carrie Lake. Conservatives, we leave our wounded on the field. Nobody looked out for Kyle Rittenhouse, for Mark Judge, for Jake, for Jake, Gardner. They threw them under the bus. They wanted to associate themselves from them as quickly as possible. Why? They're throwing their friends to the crocodiles. Meanwhile, the left, they stood by Jussie Smollett. They stood by Michael Avinotti. They stood by Lori Lightfoot to the bitter end.

Why did they do that? For morale. The way the Marines leave no man on the field, the Democrats will leave no felon on the field. They're going to, whoever's on their side, they're going to stick by them right or wrong. Now, I don't think we should go that far. Well, we should certainly not be throwing innocent good people under the bus in the hope that the Democrats will bully someone else and leave us alone for a few minutes of peace. That is cowardice and it's the strategy of a loser. It's someone who thinks he's losing and guarantees he's going to lose. So if the moral case against appeasment at throwing your friends to the crocodiles, if that doesn't appeal to you, the practical side of it should. Don't act like a loser and make a loser. And make a piece of it.

maybe you won't be such a loser. You know, John, we haven't mentioned it today, but there are evangelical Christians like Russell Moore, who is now the head of Christianity today, who's allied himself with David French and others. They don't get one word of what you just said, including the beginning part about the Democrats, are the party of wanting to kill children after they come out of their mother's womb and on and

on and on. They dismiss all of this. It's unpleasant. They're afraid it will get them canceled in the salons in which they imagine themselves to be included. And we're at a point in the country where folks, you have to choose. You have to choose. What we're laying out is very dramatic. For decades, you could kind of drift along and pretend that only, the fanatics believe these things, but reasonable people don't believe these things. But increasingly reasonable people are waking up. Naomi Wolf is one of them. There are so many people, brave people speaking out, many of them, not any kind of Christian. And this is the shame of the Christian church, that we are allowing people who are outside what we consider the theological pale,

beyond the theological pale. Yet they have the common sense to understand what is good, what is evil, what is cowardice, what is bravery. So we're living in amazing things. They are like the Samaritan walking along the road who saw the man who'd been beaten and left for dead, whom the Levite and the Pharisee had walked past. The Samaritan, the liberal Jewish pro-choice commentator, sees that person and goes and helps them. So yes, Naomi Wolf in a sense is the Good Samaritan. The January 6th protesters who are

languishing in prison for free speech, who were put there in many cases by FBI informants, who were goading people to go storm the Capitol and who have not been charged. Those are the Good Samaritans. Those are the truly marginalized, the helpless, the victimized, the vulnerable. The people running million-dollar transgender clinics, the drag queens who want to come read pornographic stories to your kids, these are not the vulnerable, these are not the marginalized, these people don't need your help. They are on very good terms with the unholy Trinity that rules our society, Caesar, Mammon, and Sodom. And magazines like Churchianity yesterday, Russell Moore's publication, they want to be the court Christian, like the court dwarf who Caesar keeps around to amuse him,

or the Sadducee who works on behalf of Caesar. So the slogan for Christianity today under Russell Moore's leadership should really be, it's very biblical, we have no king but Caesar. I think they should carve that onto their front door. It is amazing. I just wonder if any of these people will wake up, will be brave. A lot of the people that we thought were our allies. They are doing now what many in the German church did with the rise of the Nazis. They're refusing to see the evil, refusing to stand against

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No, seriously, you've been on this program. Now, Joe, how do you guys know each other? Because that was the connection. I got connected to Erskine back in the November of 2016, and then we met for the first time in person at the NRB in Orlando in 2017. And that's, Erskine was on the program when we were at the NRB. But not that one. He was at the one in Nashville.

I wasn't the one Orlando. Were you? Yeah. Well, they all looked the same. They're all like in terrarians, like gerbil terrariums. It was Nashville. That's okay. They're all in these gerbil terrariums.

It's good. It's all good because. But that's what we met. We met and ever since then, I've been working with him and the Lord has done some amazing things and he's been on your show a couple of times. Well, you are a musician. And in case people want to find you, they go to Erskinemusic.com. Erskine music.com. Erskine music.com.

We're going to give that sound. No. That's going to be a sound bite for us. You're also, but you're also an advocate for adoption. So a musician. So I always want to get people's stories, even though we've been on the program before. What's your story? Where did you grow up?

How did you become a musician? Yes, sir. I'm from Texas. Yes, sir. I'm from Texas. And that communicates a lot for those that are from Texas. We like to tell people that. But, yeah, just definitely grew up with musicality as a part of my family.

and heritage and tradition. And as I grew in music, started the artistry part of that, which is my expression of music. And so I've often said, you know, what my favorite form of music is, is good music.

And so I've played classical music, small band music, jazz music, all the different types of music. And so it's just an honor to be able to be able to do that in a way that allows me an artistic freedom to create as well as...

But I'm only fascinated because, like, I love music, and I can sing, and I love to sing, and I have sung, but to write songs, that's another thing. I mean, to play an instrument and to write songs. When did you start writing music? Yeah, so that's probably been about a 20-year journey or so. I've started when I was in college, actually. I was on a college basketball scholarship,

and I probably shouldn't have been, I probably should have been paying more attention to playing basketball, but at this point, I would disagree. I think you made the right choice. Got involved with a group of guys who were writing songs and really found that that was something that I enjoyed doing, something that came relatively easy. Fast forward, about 10 years or so, past my college experience, and I was still writing songs. And my wife started kind of asking me about that, and others were kind of asking me, and you seem to write songs pretty easily and you seem to enjoy writing songs. Is there something here?

And I'm thinking, no, that's not what a person does in their life. I mean, how do you make a career out of writing songs and performing music? and so that just sort of stuck with me for a while. And so I started just dabbling with, you know, kind of pushing out to the edge of what does it mean to be an artist? What does that look like? And I guess now that we've been in Nashville for 10 years, doing this full time, that's, I guess, we'll keep going.

Is there anybody in Nashville who doesn't write music? There's a few people. That's the problem. There's a few people. Right? You need a couple of people to come to your shows. Yeah, okay. Well, so you, you, now, is your music, in your music,

do you write about faith? write about what genres are you in it? Because I know that you mix it up. We mix it up, man. We keep it going here. Pop, country, hip hop, R&B, ballads, sold, children's music, EDM. We do all of that. You don't do Klesmur.

We don't do poker. Yeah. But you can't, you might in the future Joe. I know. All right. He can do it. Make the case. If anyone is out there who's interesting.

With God, all things are possible. I will help get that connection. You have an accordion. We're willing to make the connection. We'll talk. But so you, So you move in different genres, and I think that that it's interesting to me because, you know, it's, when you said you like good music, I'm right there in the sense that it doesn't matter. You might be in a certain mood and you want to hear this kind of music or that kind of music.

And so, like, my playlist is insane. I mean, I'll be listening to good music that's bad, like, you know, the Archie's playing sugar, sugar. If I'm in that kind of a mood, right? That's one of my favorite songs. And then next thing you know, I'm listening to, I don't know, Ricky Skaggs or Fleetwood Mac or, you know, anything, ELO. Like, anybody who listens to this program on the radio knows that the bumper music on this program is insanely eclectic

with a heavy kind of 70s pop kind of thing going on. Can we get some Erskine music on this show? Can we get, well, on today's show. Oh, today's show, the bumper music will be Erskine music. Don't worry about that. And Erskine is spelled not with an E at the end. That's right. If you're looking it up, everybody adds that E at the end.

It's E-R-S-K-I-N-M-M-E-Sk-N-Music. But yeah, we will be playing your music on the bumpers. At least that was our plan. That was a big ask, I know. No, it's not a big ask. We would do that without you asking. Of course, if we don't get to have a lot of musicians on here because everybody else, I hate musicians.

He's not going to play a were-wolves of London. No, I love. I love, no, the show always opens with Werewolves of London, but the bumper music following that, we would always, if we do have musicians on, and we do now and again, obviously, we try to play their music, and we will. Why wouldn't we? Because most people, as they're sitting here listening to me, Yammer, they're thinking, I just want to hear Erskine's music.

So, well, you can go to Erskine's Music.com, but you could just listen to the bumper music. You can, you can. Right? But what... All of the above. When you say you work in different genres, where did you start? Was it like Christian music, country music? Where did you start out?

Yeah, so Erskine music, the Erskine music brand is going to be unapologetically in favor of supporting of and advancing the kingdom of God. And so we're getting gospel and all of that. Oh, don't get me that religious stuff. Yeah, no, we're coming strong in Erskine music. But we don't always put that at the front door. Right. It's somewhere in the house.

I'm familiar with that brand that you're discussing. It's somewhere in the house. Yes. But it's not always the front door when you get there. And so there's some songs that will allow you to get in and your groove a little bit and you'll think, okay, that's different. Then you'll get a Jesus left hook upside your head, and you're like, where did that? I didn't see that coming. It just seemed like fun. You would fun, George Foreman, we're going to talk about that. You would be excited about this song. We haven't

released it yet. It's called The Giver of Life, myself and another artist by the name of Lydia Walker Athea wrote this song, and it's a pro-life song, but the way that we've done it, it's a jazz, pop artistry kind of song, and it's very ingratiating so that we can say, that God is the giver of life and sort of sidestep some issues, but instead of punching people in the face, why would we want to do that? Instead of punching people in the face, we want to come artistically and allow people to enter into the discussion with the lower walls than what we have normally had. It is why you're on this program and why I'm excited about what you're doing, because this is

it's what I say all the time, what you just said. Look, there's a time to be explicit and on the nose and in your face is a time. But a lot of the times, time that is not the wisest path. And so I say let's do both. And it is important that we're oblique in our approach, that we invite people in. And music and comedy and art invites people in, they lower their guards, and they're open in a way that they might not be if you come out with, you know, guns blazing or whatever. And you have to reach people where they are, which is obviously a big part of your brand. So now we can kind of circle back to what you were to ask me about earlier about the adoption advocacy and some of those other things that factors into our life.

I think Lydia has four or five kids. I'm not even sure how much she's him to have a kid every year. But she has kids. She has a family. I have a family. We're pro-family, very big on family. And so as we watch the expression of that in our own family, we have the credibility, so to speak, and the experience to be able to say this is what life looks like. This is what family looks like. So instead of being bombastic like you were talking about from the start, we just get to tell our story. And we just get to tell our story through art and the ability to write songs.

And so I'm really excited about this upcoming project. So if people go to earthcanmusic.com, can they listen to some of your music there? They will need to use whatever their streaming platform is of choice. But that's the way in. But if they want to see the pictures and the gallery and all the different things that Erskine Music offers, that's a good place for them to start.

So talk about, well, you've worked with Fellowship of Christian Athletes, with Life Action. You're unapologetically pro-family, pro-kids. The two kids you have are adopted, so you and your wife adopted two kids. How old are your kids now? 15, and later on this week, 16. Whoa. Friday, right?

Friday at birthday. By the time this airs, we'll have a 16-year-old. Oh, my gosh. On planet Earth. I live through that. Beat the heck out of me. No, it's just... Pray for Earthskin Music.com.

We praise God. We praise God. It's just great to have you back, and we're going to keep you on. So, folks, you can go to earthkinmusic.com. It's here. It's a show. Don't go away. But I've tried and failed, and I've been derailed.

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Right. None of whom is I. That's it. But it kills me because I really love, nah, you know, when you go out of town, you can't be there. But we're going to get you to interview George Foreman. That would be the most insane thing. I wouldn't need like an hour on TBN to give George Foreman. You know, people don't know that he's been pastoring a church in Houston for 40 years. People know him as the boxer.

They know him, you know, the grill, right? George Foreman Grill. but he's been pastoring his church in Houston, Texas for 40 years. He used to box on a Saturday night, fly home to pastor on Sunday mornings to deliver a sermon. Come on. That is a story. Big George Foreman. I've preached in a lot of churches, but I've never gone around with any heavyweights. The night before.

Literally. No, that's just, that is amazing. So it's a film about his life story. And what's it called? Big George Foreman. That's the title. Where does it come out? April 28th.

All right, so it's coming out soon. It's going to be released April 28th. Unbelievable. Yeah, it's in a firm film distributed by Sony. So it's a big, a big film. It's really, really good, too. I've seen it. Well, yeah, if I got to interview him, that would just be amazing.

Because I've admired him forever. When I was a little kid, we don't want to get into that right now, but we will get into that at another time. That's the strength of this guy. He brings people together. He's opening doors all over the place. and you're allowing the connections that, man, this isn't going on. Well, no, I know that.

I know that. Well, Erskine, since you're here and we're playing your bumper music, since I'm here. What is, what genre are you working in these days? Or do you not do that with an album or whatever? Do you do, you know? Well, we're actually, I think, on the heels of a distribution deal. And so what the project that I'm working on right now is going to look like

is going to be a compilation of some older albums, put them together. It'll be album number eight for me, but it'll be the first time that a lot of people ever hear that I've ever done anything because you know how that works. You write seven albums and then a distribution group. So this is like your first greatest hits.

Yeah, first greatest hits album. This is the essential Erskine. So it's going to be a number of different genres. Is that what you're trying to tell me? Yes, sir. Can you name some of these genres? That's how we do. We're going to kind of rap rock is going to be on there.

I think there's even a country feel for one of the songs. There's definitely going to be pop there. There's going to be some rock there. There's going to be some dance. type music that's there. And so we just kind of do a lot of different things.

Is that going to be on there? It's kind of like what you were talking about. Like when you go to the gym, you don't have the same music playing there that you would as you're riding in your car. You've got to switch it up. Can I tell you? Well, I'm bench pressing. I listen to the carpenters.

What are you benching? 100 pounds? 100 pounds? Oh, oh. No, no. It actually, I'm not joking. My music case is so eclectic and wacko that often if I'm at the gym or I'm working out,

I think if somebody could see me now, like, doing curls to whatever it is. It's not what you think. Whether it is, but I mean, if it's the Carpenters or what I, like, I thought to myself, it's just kind of funny what motivates you or what touches you or whatever, you know. And that's why my favorite song is paparazzi. Oh, that's my song named Paparazzi. I love that song, and that's what I listen to when I work out. He's one of three people in the world that has ever asked for this song.

And so I'm literally dusting this. often. It's a good song. I haven't played it since the last time I was with him in New York. It's a real good song. Hey, I appreciate your appreciation for that song. I think that song should be played on the radio. It's, it's that type of a song. Well, see? That's why he's here. Well, maybe we'll play it on the radio. Since this is, you know, the radio, we can play it on the bumper on the bumper music. But so, but you are unapologetic about your faith in Jesus. Yes, absolutely. About your love of family and adoption and children. And, you Listen, in these crazy times, that itself is a bold, beautiful thing.

So I want to thank you for, you know, not just trying to make music, but trying to make a difference and caring about that stuff. Isn't that Luke 1710, after we have done everything that we are required to do, we can only say that we are unprofitable servants? Like, what else are we supposed to be doing? The time, talent, and treasure. That's what I'm talking about. That is exactly correct.

It's like to do anything else is foolishness. Yes, absolutely. But wait, there's more. I have the Erskine Music Show that I have morphed into since the last couple of years. I don't know about that. You better tell me about it.

The Erskine Music Show airs every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We're taking over YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, LinkedIn, and yeah, I'll talk about cultural commentary. You'd have him as a guest on your show. I know that's what I'm saying. I want to interview the interviewers.

That's what... The Erskin Music Show. The Erskine Music Show. So you do this obviously at Nashville where you live? Well, I do it on the go now. Yes. If I'm here, then tomorrow. And tomorrow is going to be another show.

So I'll need to do a broadcast from here. But I'm using Streamyard. How often do you do it? Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday is my podcast where I kind of compile the week's notes. And then Saturday I do a different show called The Way Forward. You're busy. So I'm a content creator like yourself. Yeah.

And so this is helpful for me to see you work and just envision. Okay, this is what my studios are going to look like. Yeah. Wow. No, nobody gets a studio this beautiful, including, me. This is like a dream. This is so beautiful. Just don't look around because it can't be

real. It's too beautiful. It is amazing. And congratulations. Well, thank you, and I'm thrilled to be here. And I'm thrilled you guys stop by. Joe Silva. Is there a way people can reach Joe Silva? Yeah, you can go to joanthanysilva.com. Hey, Joeanthonysylva.com.

Yeah. And erskin music.com Thank you. God bless you. Great you see you. Folks, welcome back. If you are a listener to this program, if you watch us on Rumble, I hope you do because I want you to see what I'm wearing.

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For those of my audience who are in and out and don't remember or never heard you and who it is, what it is that you do and whom you represent, just tell my audience the nutshell version, if you don't mind. Sure. So I'm the founder, CEO of a firm called Inspire Investing, where the world's largest faith-based provider of exchange traded funds. And we do something called biblically responsible investing. essentially we invest the hell out of your money.

People are unaware generally that there's all sorts of little demons like abortion drug manufacturers, LGBT activism, pornography companies, etc., running around in most 401K options, mutual funds. And so we have the technology and expertise to illuminate that and help people invest in companies that are not making the world a terrible place to live and undermining your deeply health values and ways of life and help to inspire transformation. by advocating with these companies to respect biblical values and conservative values on behalf of our clients. I don't normally do this, but on my social media today on Twitter, I posted a link because I want to

encourage people. This is hard, folks, because I understand that unless things get really, really, really, really, really bad, our tendency is to do nothing or to just kind of float along and not to take any kind of action. But I want to say that the reason that we have Robert Netsley on here is because he has brought to my attention what he just mentioned, that most of us have thousands and thousands of dollars, some people millions of dollars, invested in things that are helping destroy America, helping to work against the values that you claim to believe in, it is not difficult to do something about that, but it does take some effort. You have to actually know about it, and then you have to go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric.

So that's what I put on my Twitter feed because I feel like, and I've said this, Robert, I've had you on this program before, people do not realize the power they have they're not using. and you have to use the power you have. So the money that you have invested in various places, if you let it go, you can make some money off of things that are destroying America. So it's like eating like an ice cream while you're sitting on a branch on a tree that is being sawed off with every lick of the ice cream.

You're going to die, but you know, you're just enjoying the ice cream. Yeah. What is happening right now with a lot of us, we've got our money, whether it's a little bit or a lot, in these funds, and we're just unaware of it. So you, Robert, this is what you do. So the company that you run, of course, is inspire investors, but for the link, people need to go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. So that's the action point. But tell us about your affiliation. You've been working

with the Alliance Defending Freedom, Total Heroes. We've talked about them on this program many many times. but talk about one of the things you're involved in with them right now. Yeah, so we were contacted by Alliance of Fending Freedom a few years ago to start working together on shareholder activism. And so recently we've been partnering up on some shareholder proposals regarding this whole trend of debanking conservatives and people of faith. You know, you may have heard some people like Ambassador Brownback, getting debanked by Chase and some other.

high profile. Now, hold on a second. Disbanked. That's like a really ugly verb speaking as a word smith. It's just a grotesque term. But what does it mean? It sounds a little bit. It means it's really evil.

Yeah. Well, yeah. It means that if you have a, right. So if you're a conservative person or you have certain political viewpoints or hold certain faith-based values, this is a bank saying we don't like that. We're closing your accounts or severing relationships with you, canceling your loans, canceling your lines of credit, whatever those may be, as a business or as an individual,

and you don't have access to the financial services. You need to run a ministry, run a nonprofit, run your life. You know, your friend Mike Lindell, you know, was suffered from this sort of thing. I think it was it last year or year before. There's a long list that's growing. It's a troubling trend. It doesn't matter what your values are.

I mean, whether you're conservative or liberal or somewhere in between or on the, whatever, right? you should have access to a bank account in America, for heaven's sake. And so what we're doing with Alliance to Pending Freedom is putting it to these banks, some large banks that are in our portfolio. We filed shareholder resolutions with several last fall. I'm going to highlight one in particular because it's been in the news, signature bank.

So signature bank, if you've recently heard, had a massive implosion and, you know, has been taken into receivership and the FDIC and this big problem, right? Well, last fall, we filed this resolution to, force them to make transparent their so-called, you know, hate speech policies or, you know, anti-discrimination policies and making flying rabbit ears or anybody can't see me. Because oftentimes these are so vague that they're used by folks in these banks to just, well, hate speech means whatever I think it means. And so that means if you believe in marriage of pun a man and a woman only, then I might

think that's hate speech and cancel your accounts, right? So it's a problem. So we're forcing them to make these policies transparent, opening them up to public accountability and scrutiny to make sure that they're not these vague statements that can be misinterpreted and twisted to hurt people, but instead are clear and actually do what they're supposed to do. And so Signature Bank in particular was not interested in having a resolution put on their ballot. They fought that. We, along with Alliance Defend Freedom, pushed back. They acquiesced and our shareholder resolution was then approved by regulators and the company to be put on the ballot. And then they went out of business.

So it's a little bit of a moot point. But the point is maybe they should have been paying more attention to their core business of running a good bank instead of... We're just at a time in this segment. I just want to tell my audience, folks, this is really. real. If you don't get involved, if you don't take your funds out of some of these places, I mean, the idea of debanking, this is wicked, this is right out of the book of revelation, go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. Please go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. Folks, welcome back. I'm talking to Robert Netsley.

inspireadvisors.com slash Eric is the action point because Robert you every time I talk to you I'm amazed at what is happening and you kind of wonders anybody doing anything about it. You're doing something about this. What is happening is it's right out of the book of Revelation.

If you don't play ball with the Marxist Loonies, with the transgender activists, the viewpoint diversity score, garbage. If you don't play that game, people are being prohibited from having access to their banks, to their money. They are being targeted. If you have biblical values, you are being targeted or the big fish are being targeted. They're going to come for you soon enough.

But you need to stand now. And so many of us are just kind of drifting along like, well, it'll happen to somebody else. and the reason I wrote a letter to the American churches, because that's everybody in Germany thought exactly that. And so you can be guilty or you can step up and do something right now. And it's why I wanted to have you, Robert Nestle, back on the program, because you were just sharing with us on and off the air about the horror of this,

that this is actually happening and how people, first of all, need to get their money out of funds and out of companies that are supporting values that are completely at war with what most of us believe in. So in order to do that, you can go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric, folks, please do it. It's free. But Robert, you're not making this up. And it doesn't seem like most people are aware of this, that this is happening today. It's happening right now. Yeah, people are losing their access to financial services because of their political affiliations and their religious beliefs. in America, right?

And like you said, well, it's just these high profile people. And it's just kind of an elitist, you know, game going on. Well, no, it really is going to trickle down if left unchecked to you and me and the people listening here. And we need to stand up and say, hey, this, like enough is enough. And money is power, right? Money is power. The money you have is giving somebody power.

So where are you putting your, money. That matters. What funds are you putting your money in? What fund companies are you investing with? Are they standing for your values? Are they using your money, your power to advocate for your destruction and your family's destruction, instruction, instruction of America and everything you hold dear? You've got to think about this, right? So inspire investing. We manage about $2 billion right now. We're one of the fastest growing investment firms in the nation because we're standing up and speaking biblical truth to corporate power and good friends like Eric right here and others who are just sharing this message and getting it out to the masses.

need to get together and wake up. And that's why we're making this free offer, Inspiredvisors.com slash Eric, where if you want to know what's in your portfolio, good, bad and ugly, we're going to give you that information, do that report for free so you can do something about it, right? Take some action, whether it's with us or with somebody else, but just don't do nothing, right? Don't do nothing. Do something because frankly in Germany. People say, how did that happen? How did that happen? And I want to be really clear, folks. It happened exactly as it is happening right now with good people doing nothing or hesitating and saying, I'll do it tomorrow, I'll do it another time. It's not them. I've got

a lot of other stuff to worry about. And they pick us off one at a time. If you do not tow the woke line, they're coming after you, after your money, after your ability to buy and sell. This is out of the book of revelation. What will it take to wake us up? I promise you that you're going to feel very guilty if you don't step up. We're doing all we can to communicate this. The action point, since we're out of time, inspireadvisors.com slash Eric, just go there.

Please tell your friends. We've got to get our money out away from these wicked, wicked corporations. InspireAdvisors.com slash Eric.