The Eric Metaxas Show - Rick Green (Encore)

Episode Date: August 25, 2022

Founder of Patriot Academy and Co-Host of The national radio show Wall Builders Live Rick Green talks taking back our freedom (Encore Presentation)

Folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxus 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. A Texas show with your host, Eric Mettaxas. Hey there, folks. If you know me or you listen to this program, you know that one of the most important things to me in my life is this. this issue of how faith intersects with American freedom. I have confessed many times my ignorance on that subject up until I read Oz Guinness's book, which came out, I guess it was in 2014 or 2015, called the Free People's Suicide.

When I read that book, some pennies dropped, my mind was blown, and it led me to write my book, if you can keep it, the forgotten promise of American liberty. And I have had just a burning passion ever since I wrote that book to communicate to my fellow Americans and to the whole world, frankly, the concept of how faith in the God of the Bible is inextricably intertwined with liberty, liberty on the American model. We have been really, we've allowed these ideas, is, which are central, as central as it gets. We've allowed them to evaporate during my lifetime so that

especially young people aren't really aware of how what we have, which is so vital, how liberty is beautiful, and how most people aren't even aware quite what it is and how hard one it is and where it comes from, and there is nothing more important, frankly, to the restoration of liberty in the world, starting with this country, than understanding this idea. And one of the folks who understands this idea extraordinarily well and who's living his life to promote it is Rick Green. He is the founder of Patriot Academy. He's been on this program before.

Rick Green, welcome. Hey Eric, good to be back, man. Thanks for having me. There is literally nothing more important than this. So I want to know what is your journey when you talk about, I mean, you're a public Christian and you talk about biblical citizenship, that if you're going to take the Bible seriously, it leads to how you behave as an American citizen. But first of all, quick question, what is the Patriot Academy before we get into your journey in founding it? Yeah, man, I started it back when I was a legislator in Texas and just frustrated with where we were going and how little of the foundation we had and how little people knew what you just described, which is the secret sauce, the secret ingredients to what made America great in the first place. And Patriot Academy now teaches people that secret sauce. So whether it's our biblical citizenship course being taught in churches across the country or our constitutional defense course being taught in gun clubs and places like that across the country to teach the Second Amendment, it's all about going. back to the founding formula and say, hey, why did America become the most successful, most powerful, most free, most benevolent nation in history? There has to be a reason. There has to be

a cause for the effect. And we just lost that completely. I mean, the tyranny we saw over the last two years of these petty, tiring governors, people being willing to give up their freedom, those were horrible, but they were just symptoms. They were symptoms of the underlying cause that had been festering for decades, which is civic and biblical ignorance. We don't know the formula anymore, and that's what we're trying to bring back to rebuild those foundations. And obviously the reason that it went away, you know, folks, let's be honest, we only notice things sometimes when they're gone or they're nearly gone because we don't realize they're going away until suddenly you think, hey, where is that thing?

In my lifetime, because of Hollywood and because of the culture, the drift from the 60s, we adopted this kind of anti-American narrative. And like all lies, there's plenty of truth. baked into it. That's why we believe it. So when you talk about the way this country dealt with the slavery issue, when you talk about the way this country dealt with

the Native Americans, there are plenty horrible sick sins in our history. So that's right. That's true. But in dealing with it from the 60s onward, we kind of got stuck in the negative narrative. And instead of saying, like, we want to fix these things, we have fixed these things. We

desire to change what we did wrong. We desire to repent and to get it right and to be faithful to the founder's vision. Instead of that, we kind of got caught in this negative narrative, and that has washed over the culture. It's basically an anti-American Marxist narrative, which aims to destroy America. And by the way, when you destroy America, you know, Dr. King talked about our founding documents as promissory notes. In other words, he spoke about them positively, that they got this right in these documents. Have we lived them out? No, let's live them out.

But instead we have a new narrative that's come in that says all the founders were corrupt. They didn't write anything worth studying. We're going to blow it all up and do something else. And we have to be blunt. You can't. The wise voices over the centuries have understood this is what Lincoln called the last best hope of earth. In other words, in terms of governments, this is the best we've ever seen. He called America God's almost chosen people.

God has given us a holy burden in this country. And if we don't know that, we just kind of let it drift. And so we have drifted to a place where most people don't appreciate this. And we're folks like Rick Green, founder of the Patriot Academy and I and some others are trying to say, folks, we need to wake up yesterday. This is absolutely crucial. The insane chaos erupting everywhere is a result of we took our eye off the ball. So tell my audience, Rick, again, what exactly is. is the Patriot Academy. How can people get plugged into that before we get into more? Well, part of it is just our approach. You know, what you just mentioned is so important. We too often go to the two extremes. Either everything in America is bad or that we have

this polyana, you know, gloss over the negative and the sins. And what we say is, look, you've got to teach the good, the bad, and the ugly. You've got to show all of it. Because when you do, when you actually step back and you look at it in the context of history, the American story is absolutely amazing despite those sins. The whole world had those sins. the whole world was dealing with slavery. Every nation on the planet had it. And the truth is, when you really teach the total history, you're amazed to find out that America actually was the first to end the slave trade. We beat England by three weeks.

We were the fourth nation to end slavery completely after a war that had 600,000 casualties. There's 90 nations still that haven't ended slavery. And so when you get that full big picture and you look at the progress made by a Lincoln and by an MLK when they were quoting from the declaration almost as much as they were the Bible, and you look at the progress that we had even after the 60s in terms of racial reconciliation, and then you look at how much we've stepped back and gone backwards. Now we're judging each other by color of skin rather than content of character, doing the opposite of what MLK wanted because we don't know the history. You just described it perfectly.

People take a kernel of truth and they say, well, this founding father had slaves, so they're automatically evil. Instead of going, oh, wow, this founding father who had slaves worked his entire life to try to end slavery, he talked about the evils of slavery. I mean, look, this is at the heart of cancel culture, and it's anti-biblical, and I'll put it this way. MLK was an adulterer, okay, folks. You don't cancel somebody for a sin.

You look at what they were doing, okay? Thomas Jefferson, we know, George Washington, slave owners. We know that's wrong. We know that's evil, but you don't wipe them out. You know, it's kind of like discovering that Isaac Newton was a sinner. So calculus is stupid and I don't believe in gravity. That's not right. You have to have a biblical view that says human beings are sinners and there's grace.

And it's a little complicated. But we have fallen into this Marxist, anti-biblical, anti-human, anti-American trap in the culture where we're canceling people. We're finding what they did wrong. So there are plenty people. some of them cultural Marxists, some of them actual white supremacists, they would love to cancel Martin Luther King Jr. But when you read a letter from a Birmingham jail, when you read other things that he said and that he did, you say, wait a second, this man was used by God remarkably, David was used by God remarkably, I don't think David was perfect. We need to have a biblical view.

And that's part of the larger narrative that we have lost in America. And you guys are the Patriot Academy are trying to wake people up to that. What is the website, by the way, for Patriot Academy? Patriot Academy.com, and Eric, what you just said is so spot on. I was shocked. You know, I've been studying the Founding Fathers for 30 years. I was shocked to find out that they were human. It's such a bizarre thing.

It doesn't mean there's not a price, folks. We know that, right? That we take these things seriously, okay? I don't think adultery and slave-owning are like no problem. But we have to look at the bigger picture. We'll be right back. And what God can do with fallen people, right? Well, that's the point, and that's all he's got to work with. We're talking to Rick Green. You can go to patriot academy.com. We'll be right back.

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Folks, welcome back. I'm talking to Rick Green, like the color, and he is the head of Patriot Academy. You can go to Patriot Academy.com. You are also the co-host of the National Daily Radio Program, Wall Builders, live with our friend David Barton, who has just been a hero in the midst. to the madness of the last couple of decades of trying to restore a biblical vision of America, an American vision of America. If people go to Patriot Academy.com, what do they find there?

Is there something they can sign up? Is this series of courses? What do you have there? Yeah, the number one thing I recommend is becoming a Constitution coach and hosting classes in your home or at your church or wherever in your community. It's easy, it's free, and it's actually fun, believe it or not. Our courses are the only Constitution classes in which you will not fall asleep. We make them exciting and they're applicable.

It's all about showing people, hey, the system works if we work it. We do, in fact, have a great foundation and wonderful founding documents, but we've got to bring them back to life, get rid of the court institution, come back to the actual constitution and teach people how to do that in their communities. And it's fun. So patron academy.com to do that. If you've got young people that you want to be trained, that's our flagship program, 16 to 25-year-olds. We take them into state capitals, put them in the chair, put them in the committee room,

and teach them biblical worldview and constitutional guns. governance at the same time. And then lastly, we have our constitutional defense course, which is handgun defense and constitution training combined into one. So you can learn to defend your family while also learning the history of the Second Amendment and why it exists. This is amazing stuff, Rick. I really am just in awe that you are doing this because we need this so desperately in the country. You know and I know. I've just written a book called Letter to the American Church, where I talk about, not in these kinds of specific necessarily, but this, this incredibly harmful lie has crept in to much of the church in America that we're not supposed

to be political, that somehow our politics are supposed to be kept separate from our faith. Our faith is supposed to be kept from our politics? And you think, not only is that not true, that's out of the pit of hell. If you do not bring your faith into your politics, if you don't understand that God doesn't see a dividing line, God wants you to bring truth everywhere into the political process, into who you are as a citizen, into what you say publicly. If you don't get that, that's not biblical. But we have bought into this, just as I say in my book, letters to the American Church,

just as the German church bought into this in the early 30s. They had bad, but they thought valid theological reasons to say, Romans 13, we're going to take a pass on that. We're going to let Hitler take over, and that's what God's will is for us to do. It was the devil's will. they did it, and it's been happening in America. And if people don't wake up to this and understand, folks, it is on you. When there's a famous phrase, silence in the face of evil is itself evil, not to act is to act,

not to speak, God will not hold us guiltless. Every single one of us is on the hook, that if we take a pass and say, I'm not going to get involved in this, I'm not going to bring that up, I'm not going to, folks, God judged Germany. They're hanging their heads nine decades later. they are hanging their heads in shame because they missed God. Some good people missed God. And some good people are missing God right now. So there is nothing more central than this because America has been holding up the torch of freedom in a flawed way for a long time.

And people around the world have looked to us. And somehow even people in churches have been persuaded like, well, I'm just going to sit this one out. That is not the voice of God. And so I get excited when you talk about being a constitution coach, biblical citizenship. this is crucial. This is the delivery system for this stuff. Once people begin to understand this stuff, they're going to wonder,

how have I gotten away with blowing this off for all these years? I don't deserve to live in a country where I'm not doing anything to keep it free. But I want to get to your story. How did you get to where you are today to where you're the head of the Patriot Academy? And what is your story? Where did you grow up? And how did you come to see these things? Well, first of what you were just saying, if I could,

I mean, what you're talking about, we see that every day I hear stories of people going through this class and saying exactly what you just said. How in the world did I miss this? How did I not know these truths? How did I let the lie cause me to put my faith in a box and only allow my faith to apply to certain things in life and literally separate the biggest things in life? And, you know, you mentioned David Barton. I mean, his, initially his book, Myth of Separation of Church and State 30 years ago became original intent and it absolutely opened the door for people to get educated on these things. And now I love seeing Supreme Court justices and everybody else quote from the things that he was pushing and teaching 30 years ago. And of course, we teach all those things in the courses as well.

But for me, it was really out of frustration as a legislator, a young legislator in Texas 20 years ago and just realizing that, you know, most people aren't grounded. They can't reach back into foundational principles. And they were silent on the major issues of the day. And in fact, that quote you just gave, I learned that quote from you in your book on Bonhofer years ago when I read that. And now I use that everywhere and teach that even in the classes because even out of James, we know when you know what is right and don't do it, that is sin. And so many people today know that the culture is crumbling before them and they want to know what to do. They know in their gut something's wrong, but they don't know what to do. So these Constitution classes give people a chance to come together in their community,

learn the truth, learn action steps, and it gives them hope every week they come back going, wow, there is an answer, there's a way to do this and there's something I can actually do. So I wanted to do for other people with Patriot Academy, what David Barton did for me. When he brought me on when I was a young legislator, taught me all those things, put me out there on the road speaking and doing those things, other people would come to me and say, hey, I want to be a part of the solution, but I don't know what to do. So we created these Constitution coach programs and Constitution classes so that everybody could have a vehicle.

And now, Eric, be encouraged, man, 14,000 Constitution coaches now at Patriot Academy all over the nation doing this. Young people that have come through our program are now elected to school boards, city council, state legislatures. We've got some of our coaches and people through our class that are now in Congress, like Lauren Bobert and Burgess Owens and people like that. So it's really good to see people taking these truths. They're the minority right now, but man, they are starting to push the whole system in the right direction. And we just need more people to do it at the local level. That's where it's critical. And that's what Patriot Academy equips people to do.

Well, when you talk about Burgess Owens and Lauren Boehbert, I mean, there are just a handful of people that they are on fire. They get this stuff. And they give me hope for America. And one of the reasons I want to have you on, Rick Green, a founder of Patriot Academy, is to give people hope to say, folks, you have no idea what is going on out there, who is being trained this minute, who is getting activated and excited this minute about living out their faith in such a way that it blesses the nation and that blesses the world. You don't think there are people around the world hoping that Americans wake up and save our democracy, save our republic for their sake.

If you're a Uyghur Muslim in a death camp in China, don't you hope that there might be some Christians out there in a place like America who actually believe Jesus defeated death on the cross and they're living out their faith fearlessly? Because you know it will affect you, just like people in the Soviet gulag, when they heard Reagan say, Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall. They said there are people out there who really believe, who really care, who are willing to fight. and I know that that's part of where we are right now. We're in a battle, and people every day are getting this stuff. The penny drops and they go, how have I missed this? I need to get busy. You referenced James earlier in my new book, Letter to the American Church,

I was going to title the book, Faith Without Works is Dead. Because I said, how have we in the evangelical church, how have we possibly missed this, that God says, I don't care about your quote-unquote faith. If you do not live out your faith, if I don't see it in your works, I know you have no faith. So don't fool me and tell me, well, I go to this church, I believe in this. This is the statement on the church's website. That's what I believe.

The Lord says, I know you don't believe that because you're not living that. You're not living self-sacrificially. And this is kind of the major disconnect of our time where I just believe God is saying, if we will wake up now and there are people waking up every day and reverse course and turn from our wicked ways, the Lord will have mercy, but if we don't, he won't. It's an amazing thing. And Eric, the left knows this too. That's why, as they see the church awakening right now, you see all these attacks and these goofy phrases like Christian nationalist and all these things they're trying to make you think, oh, if you bring your faith into the public square, you must want a theocracy. You want everybody to, have to be a Christian to live in America. Nobody I know wants a theocracy. We all want people to

live out their faith, let their faith be salt and light in every community. And guess what? The Muslim, the Buddhist, the atheist, they all benefit. Whenever Christians are salt and light, and we come back to those Christian foundations, it's good for everyone because everyone gets to live their freedom. And that's what the left, they don't want that. They absolutely do not want that. So they're trying to stop Christians from getting engaged to anyone listening to the sound of my voice right now. If you're a person of faith, do not be intimidated by that. You take your faith into the public square. You let it inform the way you vote. If you're going to go run for office, you let it inform the way you vote as a legislator or as a city council member or a member of a school board,

but get engaged and do your duty under the Constitution, but also do it biblically. That's what being a biblical citizen is all about. And by the way, we call it that. You got to be clear here, ladies and gentlemen, if you care about black lives and you do not speak out against this Marxist evil organization called Black Lives Matter, you have been gamed, you have been silenced, and you are going to harm black communities. Think about that. You're going to have to face God and say, well, because I was afraid of what some people would say about me. I kept my mouth shut. God commands us to speak the truth in love for the sake of the marginalized, not because we don't care about them, exactly the opposite. So we have been silenced. And I, and I,

I do, I talk about this in the book. It's just how little it takes to get people to shut up. Throw a name at them. Throw a thing at them. Oh, you're a Christian nationalist. You're this or that. Your white supremacist is, oh, okay, I'll shut up. God forbid that we would shut up.

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celebrate him and know who he was, and we would memorize the poem Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and we would remind ourselves over and over in the culture of the nobility of this idea of liberty and how we have to stand against tyranny and how we have to face death and some people have to die. And that's what makes us who we are as Americans is what makes us willing to live out our faith, to live out, to pay the price of liberty. Many of us have given our lives over the decades and the centuries. And we used to teach that in the culture. We used to teach that in the public schools and all the schools.

And by the way, folks, these things are true. But we've ceased to do that. We've ceased to inspire young people especially about, look how beautiful this is, that this person valued doing the right thing more than anything. And that's why we got to have this country that we have today. So it's an amazing thing. And I think teaching that history, which is a big part of what David Barton has done at wall builders and you're involved with that every day. That is part of the key is getting people

excited about our history. No doubt, man. And by not doing it, by not honoring it, I mean, we dishonor them by not living out that freedom. You know, Lincoln said it best in the Gettysburg Address. How do you honor it? You have an increased devotion, he said, to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. So if we're not out there engaged in this, if we're not spending at least a little bit of our life, fortune and sacred honor to preserve freedom. And that's all we ask people to do. Say, listen, give a little bit of your life, two hours a week. pick one night a week, do a Constitution class, get your friends together, your fortune. Donate to good candidates, donate to good causes, and sacred honor, be willing to stand up and be honorable and

speak truth, even if you get canceled out there. And Eric, one thing, if I could say about these classes, when I say they're applicable, a perfect example of this, so the FBI raid on Trump's house, right? Everybody's talking about that now. Believe it or not, David Barton teaches in the second week of biblical citizenship, a year and a half ago, we did this. And he teaches on, when you go to that workbook. He teaches on writs of assistance, which is essentially what this was on Trump, this blanket warrant, any piece of paper almost, anywhere in the house. And James Otis in 1761 gave a five-hour speech on how evil that was and how it would allow petty tyrants, aka some of these agents out there, petty tyrants to reign and terror. And John Adams responded to that speech by saying

independence was then and they're born and it grew up 15 years later into adulthood in 1776. David Barton teaches on that in the second week of this course. We had no idea this kind of stuff was going to happen that's happening right now. But I think that's God's way of preparing people to know the truth because as John Jay said, you've got to know your rights so you'll perceive when they're violated and be the better prepared to defend and assert them. We the people have to know our rights, know the truth and know how to biblically, properly, peacefully assert those things if we're going to save this country. Well, that's what's so fascinating to me is that we have been lulled over the decades into thinking that I don't need to do any.

thing. Folks, that's a lie from the pit of hell. You not only have things that you need to do, you have an obligation before God. You don't deserve to be free unless you do something to preserve that freedom every day or every week. So whether it's an hour or two hours or whether it's some kind of your part of your money, it's just like a tithe. You owe that because many people, many people, everybody in the world would like to live in a free country where you can criticize your government where you can everybody would want that but are we willing to pay the price over the centuries we have paid a price some people paid a price in blood other people pay a price in volunteering and in doing all kinds of things and in teaching the constitution becoming constitution

coach doing all these kinds of things no one understood this and i write about this in the if you can keep it book lincoln got this better than anybody he understood the sanctity of what we have in America, that this is something we do not deserve, but God has given it to us as a gift to use for his purposes. And so if you are somebody who has benefited from living in America, folks, you have an obligation to give back, however you can give back. But you need to take a part of your life, just like we say this about the faith. You know, you don't just do nothing. You've got to do something. You've got tithes and offerings and volunteering. We have to live out our faith. If you don't live out your faith, you probably don't have faith. You're kidding yourself. And similarly, if you don't live out

the freedom that we have in this country, it goes away. It has been going away. And so that's why, to me, what you guys at Patriot Academy are doing, it is so vital because you're giving people a way to do it. They say, well, I'm not sure what I want it, what I can do. Eric, what do I do? Well, there are many things you can do, folks. I give you the principles, but Patriot Academy, Pitcher Academy.com gives you some tangible things you can do, like become a Constitution coach, whatever. But we are going to change the country in the world if we take this seriously. Eric, you'll love this. At the closing ceremony for our leadership Congress, the one we do at the Capitol with the young people on the House floor,

and we have military veterans on the Senate floor learning how a constitutional republic works. They all leave saying, now I know what I was fighting for. But at the end, in the closing ceremony, we have the veterans at the front of the room, and the kids come forward. They sign the declaration. They pledge their lives, fortune, and sacred honor. They go up to that military veteran who places a medal on them and says, I was willing to die for you for your freedom.

Now it's time for you to go live it. It's a spike moment for that young person, 18, 19, 19, 22 years old to say, I'm going to now go live my freedom and give of my life, fortune and sacred honor from now on. We all need that. We need that epiphany moment where we say, you know what? My child's freedom and my grandchild's freedom is worth the sacrifice, whatever it takes.

I'm going to start investing in freedom. Folks, this is a glorious opportunity. Patriot Academy.com. Rick Green, God bless you. Thank you for doing this. And God bless America. Well, thanks, Eric. Right back at you, man.

All of your books inspire me and our folks at Patriot Academy. We recommend them all the time, learn from them, and get inspired from them. So thanks for what you do, man. Thank you. Folks, welcome back. What a day. I mean, in hour one, we spoke to Rebecca Hatfield with second vote.

I just feel like I want to give people hope and I want to give people something to do. People say, what can I do? What can I do? Folks, there is so much we can do. Secondvote.com we mentioned in our one today, obviously getting involved there, starting to let your neighbors know, hey, don't shop at that store because they give their money to this and this. and you do not want to be supporting that with your money, with God's money, with your husband's money, with your children's money.

You do not, you have choices in America. And so in our one, we talked to Rebecca Hatfield's second vote.com. We've just finished talking to Rick Green of Patriot Academy. Same thing. Patriot Academy is amazing. I mean, they are doing things. I want every American to get psyched and to get involved with them, because it's something that we can all do.

We need to take our country back. We need to take our country back to 1787 in the sense that, you know, we once understood what liberty was. And we abolished slavery. We abolished Jim Crow. We've made tremendous strides. And yet on the central issue of liberty for all,

we've moved backwards. We need to recapture that vision of our founding documents of what Dr. King called the promissory note. We need to live up to that. So I want to encourage you Patriot Academy. It's just very important. Tomorrow in the next couple of days, we'll be speaking with Jeff Meyer of Summit Ministries. He's fantastic. We've got Jerome Corsi coming back talking with us about his new book.

I'm sorry, not his new book, an older book, but I just read it. It's called The Shroud Codex. Oh my gosh, it is astonishing. Very exciting. We have Andrew Claven. We're going to re-air my conversation with Andrew Claven because Socrates in the city is going to be in New York, September 27th, with Andrew Claven. And I want people to, because I know not everybody can get to New York. If you can get to New York, you don't want to miss this one.

There's nobody like him. He's a genius. But we're going to be re-airing my radio conversation with him about his book, The Truth and Beauty. When I read the book, I just said, I can't even imagine how he pulled it off. It's beautiful. It's important. Andrew Claven.

And let's see. If today's Wednesday, that means tomorrow we're talking to John Smirak. John's Mirac He's written a number He always writes brilliant pieces But he just wrote a couple of pieces That are particularly hot And I want to talk to him about those tomorrow

So that's happening tomorrow Also tomorrow we have asked Metaxus in our two Okay Now I have to say Chris you know this Salem now.com If people want to find a place to

you know for entertainment like stuff that they can watch that's great stuff Salem now.com Salem now.com we're part of the Salem now family my books are published by Salem this radio program is on the Salem Network along with our friends

what's that? Yeah yeah it's a digital platform so you know you've probably done the thing I know I have I'm on Netflix or Amazon Prime I'm like looking to watch things and everything's kind of depressing and terrible and I'm looking and, you know, and it's like 20 minutes go by. You might want to check out Salem now because they have some really cool movies that actually are, you know, should be on your list to see for documentaries. It's amazing if you're going through Netflix or Amazon Prime, whatever, how incredibly dark that world is. A lot of these people in that world, it's almost like they're competing with each other for who can make something just darker, gloomier, more depressing. saying more. It's really weird that we've come to a place where things are just so bleak.

So if you want to watch something wonderful, yes, try SalemNow.com. And by the way, right now, Uncle Tom 2, some of you know, Larry Elder made Uncle Tom 1, Uncle Tom 2 is a sequel, eye-opening documentary. Everybody should see. It offers a compelling, brave analysis of the true history of black America. Guarantee you'll be shocked, guaranteed, because this stuff has been suppressed utterly. It tells the story of the cultural shift from prosperity in black America and integrity and faith to his current perceived state of anger, discontent, victimhood. So it's a deliberately Marxist strategy. You learn about the NAACP's sinister agenda. They are no longer what they once were.

You find out about the truth behind Black Lives Matter. But anyway, Larry Elder, of course, is the executive producer. He's our friend. Brandon Tatum is in it. Vody Bakum is in it. Chad O. Jackson is in it. But it's one of these films that we need to learn the truth. And we have been living in this bubble where the media narrative has always been negative,

anti-American, really culturally Marxist in various forms, has become more and more brazen. Uncle Tom 2 is available at SalemNow.com. And if I may say so, I hope you haven't forgotten that our friend, Mike Lindell, is somebody we should support. We should support his products made in America. Go to My Pillow.

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We'll be right back. Folks, welcome back. What a crazy day. Tomorrow we've got John Smirak. Do you hear me? Zmirak on the program. I just love talking to him. In fact, speaking to John Zmirak, Chris Heimes, you and I are last night.

Yes. We went to Astoria in New York. So across the East River, Manhattan. We went across the East River to a story where I was born, where John Zmirak was born. We were born in the same hospital, I don't know, like six months apart or something like that. Story General Hospital, but John Zmirak lived there for most of his childhood. I left when I was 17 months old. I just had had enough. So I got on a bus and, you know, I ended up in Jackson Heights. But the point is that Zmirak and I had dinner, I don't know, it was a month ago,

weeks ago at a place called Anyanti, which is right by Astoria Park. It's so beautiful. It's not like one of these noisy kind of Greek restaurants. It's just this really delightful Greek restaurant, Anyanti, A-G-N-A-N-T-I. And yesterday, you, Chris Heimes, and our friend Seth Ward and I, we were going to have dinner Manhattan, and we were like, why? Why? Let's go to Astoria. So we went to Astoria last night. And it's just it was delightful. There's a lot of, for people that don't know

about where a story is, it's in the borough of Queens, which is the most diverse part of the world anywhere per capita. So per square mile, there's more diversity in Queens than anywhere else on the planet. So Astoria is the most important diverse group is the Greeks. Let's be clear.

Let's be clear. be clear. The Greeks. The story are the most important element of diversity there. Yes. Because it's also diverse in terms of the kinds of Greeks. You have people from Crete, people from the Ionian Islands. Every kind of Greek is there. If there was a, if there was a Chinatown full of Greeks instead of Chinese people, it would be called Astoria. That's correct. Anyway, so we were there yesterday and I was thinking at John Smirak, and I never talk on the phone. I try not to give my phone number out because I just don't like to. talk on the phone and and I'm too busy. So my parents have it. My brother has it.

You know, but John Zmirak called me yesterday, not knowing that I was sitting in his favorite restaurant in the world, Anianti in Astoria, on Astoria part. It was just kind of a a freaking moment of Kismet except we don't believe in Kismet. But we're talking to John Zmirak tomorrow. We are, we have Aspen Taxis tomorrow. We've got Jerome Corsi coming up. I think we'll play that Monday we have Andrew Claven coming up. If you haven't signed up for Socrates in the city, let me remind you, ladies and gentlemen, September 27th in Manhattan.

Andrew, I don't, you know, you try to get these people. When you get them, you're just, you can't believe that Andrew Claven is going to come to New York to do this. He's a big deal. So we'll replay that in case you don't remember what that's about

or in case you can't get to New York on September 27th. The early bird tickets are sold out. This is a pretty popular one. But the dinner is available. a private dinner, everything. You'll see. If you go to Socrates.com, you will see. Before we go for the day, I want to say thank you to my guests, Rick Green and Rebecca Hatfield. Amazing stuff. Please share what we do on this program, the Rumble videos, whatever it is. If you are signed up for

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