The Eric Metaxas Show - Robert Netzly and Pete & Seth Talbott

Episode Date: July 1, 2022

It's a potpourri of guests and fun, starting with "Ask Metaxas," moving on to Robert Netzly of Inspire Investing exposing "abortion vacation" companies, then key business advice from the Talbott Group -- and a Fun Fact about our "young nation"!

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Hour two. You know what that means. I know. It's time for another segment of ask, ask, ask, ask, Mattaxas, Metaxis, Mattaxas. Metaxis. Albin, people write us. with questions. And you represent those people in this segment. You read the questions, and I try in my humble, broken way to answer these questions. So let's start right now.

Go. I have studied Russian, the Russian language and literature, and read everything by Solzhenitsyn. And I believe he was a moralist, mystic, spiritualist who loved Mother Russia. knowing the Christ of the Bible, have you, Eric, ever read or heard Christ in Solzhenit's work or life? Pass. Next question. No, I think, see, this actually is one of the reasons I think this is a good question to answer is because I think one problem that some Christians have is they are overly theological, right? if I paint something to the glory of God, but I don't put Jesus's Lord in the margin of the painting. People say, well, is it a Christian painting?

And I just think all goodness and truth and beauty is of God. And we need to reclaim that view of the world. There is not one square inch of all creation over which Jesus Christ, who is sovereign, does not say mine. That's the famous quote by Abraham Kuyper. And I think that if you read Solzhenitsyn, it becomes clear that a man who risked his life for the truth and who wrote books pointing to the truth and who was, in fact, a Christian, that in a way for us to try to put him in a box and say, but he was a Christian writer? Was he just a right? I think oftentimes we can err by doing that. I don't think there's any question that he was. But I think people are often looking for some. They did this with Bob Dylan. I just read a book. I want to have the author on. There's no doubt that Bob Dylan believes the whole Bible, all the New Testaments. And so in my book, he's totally a Christian. But there's this idea out there that he rescinded his faith or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I realized that that people can be very sloppy in their reporting, and they can also be very hidebound in

how they define people. It put people in these boxes and things, and I don't think that is biblical. I think that's unbiblical thinking. It's unbiblical. So when I get a question like this, I think just because Solzhenitzen, maybe didn't write specifically about theology, or that, that in a sense, we're wrong to expect that in every case. Now, that's a long answer. me the short answer after the show. Okay. Okay. A lifelong friend of mine just came out as liking the same sex. As a Christian, I don't support this lifestyle choice, but still want to love and support her as a friend. Any tips on how to approach this situation? Well, zillions of people are going through this. I don't know anybody who's not going through this. And I think that it's really no different

than if I have a friend who, you know, is living with her boyfriend. She's been a friend. She's been a friend, I love her, but her, she's not where I am, theologically. And she thinks that that's normal because that's what everybody does. And I would say, well, I love that friend, but there is not the ghost of a chance that I'm going to let them think I approve of that behavior because, you know, what's right and wrong is right and wrong. And so even if you, you aren't a believer, I think you still have the moral law. And so this is, there's no easy answer to this. I don't think, I mean, if I'm invited to a same-sex wedding, I wouldn't go because I want them to know, yes, I love you, but I don't approve of your lifestyle. Now, if you mean, if that means that you think I hate you or, well, that's on you.

It's not on me. I think that we have to say that where the Bible is true, says is true, and believe it and live it out. And I think in cases like this, you have to play it by. year. Maybe you have to distance yourself from that friend. Maybe not. Every case is different, but I, but I think you want to be clear. You know, you don't need to preach at them necessarily. Maybe they already know how you feel. But it's, but I think that it's valuable to think of, of people of who like the opposite sex, you know, if somebody says, I'm attracted to the, to the opposite sex, I go, great. And he's like, I'm sleeping with my girlfriend. I'd be like, well, that's wrong. That's going to hurt you.

is going to hurt her. You both might be deluded into thinking it's okay, but it's not okay. And, you know, there are a hundred ways to approach that. But I think, of course, we want to love people, but you have to kind of figure each of these out individually. I, gosh, I could talk for that 10 minutes on that. Sorry. Yeah. Okay. Well, actually, can we, let's skip to five because we don't have time. Okay. Okay. What do you think of Clarence Thomas's statement in the majority opinion announcing the intent to overturn other Supreme Court rulings like, birth control. Do you think that is actually a good idea? Well, this is another teaching moment, right? What Clarence Thomas was talking about,

there are people that are so full of hate that they don't really care to think things through. Clarence Thomas is a legal genius and he's thinking through very carefully. He is not talking about the rightness or wrongness of birth control. He's not even talking about the rightness or wrongness of abortion. He's talking about what the Constitution says and what it does not say. And we've got to focus on that, folks. Okay? I know that abortion is wrong. So the question is not whether it's wrong. The question is, does the Constitution, as interpreted by the nine Supreme Court justices, create a right to abortion? They determined correctly that, of course, it does not. That it's the states that have to figure out what their abortion laws are. Number one,

two, anything else that was misjudged in the same way that Roe v. Wade was bad law, Clarence Thomas is simply saying, we need to revisit these things. In other words, put your feelings about same-sex marriage aside. The question is, does the Supreme Court have the right to say that the Constitution says something that it doesn't? And so I think it's very brave of him and wonderful of him to want to revisit these things. But it's not about the specific issues. It's about what the Constitution says and doesn't say. Okay.

Good. Let's try seven. Okay, seven. What is a rhino? Oh, okay. Rhino is spelled R-I-N-O. A rhino means Republican in name only. For example, Mitt Romney, John Corny,

you know, people that... Liz Cheney. They are technically Republicans, but they're not really committed conservatives. And when you really, when the chips are down, they'll stab you in the back. Or in the front, as in the case of the late John McCain. These are people who are helping the radical left Democrat Party. And we need to understand that. And I think we need to replace these Republicans.

Republicans in name only, these rhinos with people who love America and who are brave. I think of people like Lauren Bobert. I think of people like Josh Hawley. I think of people like Marjorie Taylor Green. I think of people like Rand Paul. There are only a handful of others who are genuinely brave and they need to lead the way. And people like John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell who are doing tremendous, tremendous destruction to America by this kind of fake bipartisanship. You know, if you're bipartisan and you're making a deal with the devil on gun control or something like that, stop pretending you're doing good. You're doing good for yourself, maybe, but you're harming America.

So that's what a rhino is. I guess are we out of time? Well, we have time for the, do you want that last question here? I'm going to throw it. Okay. Sorry. I know. We get this a lot.

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understand where their money is going, what they're doing with their money. And if their money is working against what they believe in, we're working for. what they believe in. We have just had Roe v. Wade be overturned finally. Thank God because it was horrible law. It doesn't even matter your position on abortion. It was just bad law. But we now see companies saying, doing this virtue signaling, that, well, we are so pro-abortion.

We will pay for our employees to have an abortion. You know, we're not going to pay for them to help them have a kid. and to pay for formula and diapers and rent and whatever. We're not going to help them have a kid, but we'll help them have an abortion. Most people that I know would say, I don't want to do business with a company like that. Are they crazy? Are they kidding? How can we know whether we are dealing with that kind of a company or aren't?

Yeah, we've been inundated with that question ever since late last week when that phenomenal decision came We're just praising God for that decision among with so many others. And, you know, all these companies coming out and saying they're going to start paying for, you know, abortion travel, you know, to states where it's still legal for the time being anyway. And so we had inspired. That's what we specialize. And we have the most robust data set to help people understand what the companies that are in your mutual fund, in your 401K, like what are they doing to, from a moral perspective, right? such as giving money to plan parenthood, or in this case, we're compiling a really robust A-Set on these companies in real time

as they're coming out on a daily basis now, which companies are paying for these travel benefits. So there's a form, there's a report that we can have done for people who are new for free, no strength attached, called an impact report. You can get one in Inspired Advisors.com slash Eric for free from our team of wealth managers around the country, and it'll show you down to the nitty-gritty details. All we need is ticker symbol.

no sensitive information we need for me to sticker symbols and our technology will drill down to the granular data on, you know, this fund in your 401k or your retirement plan and your trust account owns these stocks and these companies are giving money to employees to have abortions. Okay, so I want to be very clear on this. People listening to us right now can go to inspireadvisors.com. inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. And you're saying they can get what you're calling an impact report where they would put in the companies and they will know right away how these companies stack up. Because every time I have you on, I want to say to my audience, ladies and gentlemen, this is hugely important. It is hugely important. So many people have money out there.

You say, well, my money is working for me. Is it working for you or is it working against you or is it making you money through companies that are doing terrible, terrible things? You need to know. And it's now easy to know thanks to Robert Netsley and Inspire Investing. So, but the website you're sending people to, it's not Inspire Investing. I mean, there is a website, inspireinvesting.com, obviously. We have a lot of websites. We have multiple, you know, businesses going on.

And if you go to InspiredVisors.com slash Eric, that's where we have free impact report. So right now. But right now we're talking about what we're saying to people, folks, if you want to find out if the companies that you're investing in are pushing abortion, you can find out at inspireadvisors.com. Inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. You got it. And they will be able to figure it out. from there. Inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. The report will show you all the, all the nitty-gritty details on the abortion and LGBT

activism and all sorts of things. It also shows you how to make changes to that portfolio in order to actually improve, potentially improve your investment returns while kicking those bad actors out of your portfolio. That's one of the people's questions is, well, if I remove Facebook and, you know, Google and Netflix and all these woke companies out of my portfolio, what is it going to look like performance base? So this answers that question for you. And, you know, it's not a guarantee, you know, we can't guarantee returns. But our team is particularly skilled in constructing portfolios based on these values to support conservative faith-based values and not sacrifice, you know, not have to sacrifice returns.

And so there's a performance analysis that's involved there. There's a very comprehensive report. Again, we're doing that for free if your listeners, and we're happy to do it, especially this time. Okay, Robert, I just wanted to say, I have in front of me right here exactly what you're talking about. This is an inspireadvisors.com impact report. So if people go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric, they can get a personalized report. I'm looking at it right now. Here it is. And we actually plugged in the stocks of one of my colleagues here at Salem. This is their 401K. And so we actually plugged in, okay, I've got a 401K, these are the companies, and let's plug everything in.

And it tells me here exactly, this is kind of amazing, you know, whether I'm invested in good things or bad things or how good or how bad. So walk us through that. Yeah, so the first part of that report is that really the values-based analysis. And so a couple highlights there, you know, there's on the abortion topic, you've got Facebook trading under the symbol meta now. So meta companies, you've got Google, you've got Netflix, you've got a whole host of others, dozens of others that have come out just immediately after this Supreme Court ruling and said they're going to pay for abortions for their employees. So that's a huge problem, right? Huge disconnect. And they don't have to invest in those companies.

So there's other options for them. There's also Alaska Airlines who is being. sued right now for wrongfully terminating two of their flight attendants because they, those two flight attendants had faith-based convictions where they could not support the Equality Act at celebration that Alaska Airlines was having. And so they fired them. And they put it on their pink slip. That's why they were firing. And they call it hate speech. So Alaska Airlines is in that portfolio. Okay. So having biblical values, I just want to be clear. This is where we are in America, folks. If you have biblical values, you could say, I love my gay neighbors, but I, I,

according to what I believe, that's not a lifestyle. I can celebrate Alaska Airlines and other companies are saying, oh, yeah, well, we're going to fire you for having basic biblical values. Goodbye. Now, I have to say that strikes me as wrong, but if Alaska Airlines wants to do that, it seems to me we ought not to be investing in Alaska Airlines. We need to know what companies are demonizing employers. who have a biblical worldview.

We at least ought to know that and not help them to succeed in doing that. Yeah, exactly. And going back to the so-called abortion travel or abortion vacation or whatever they want to call it, a subsidy from these companies, it opens up a whole host of real problems for shareholders. Again, whether you're pro-life or not, if you're a shareholder, you know, how many thousands, hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of dollars are these companies saying that they're going to pay from your dividends, your potential return, is your money that they're going to give to these employees.

And how are they going to solve for the potential fraud and waste and abuse of that program? Are they going to require the receipts from somebody who just went to California to supposedly have an abortion? Are they going to require their employees to give them that sensitive information? How could they legally? Otherwise, employers are, you know, if you're an employee in, I don't know if Arizona has a trigger law, I think it does. But if they're going to travel to Southern California, the beaches in San Diego, I hear, are nice. They're going to have an all expense paid trip to California for free on your dime as shareholder. How is that company going to hold them accountable?

You, the shareholder should be up in arms about these sorts of policies. And we, for one, it inspired pushing back on these companies demanding they account for that and give us risk and analysis on these supposed programs and so-called benefits and really asking them to stop and instead give us those dividends. And, you know, abortion is wrong, but so is corporate waste and fraudulent benefit programs that, you know, open up all sorts of hazardous legal issues as well that companies haven't fully thought through in the, you know, how many hours, you know, days since this case has gone through. It's really astounding that these companies would take such a risk to push such an extremist agenda on their shareholders, on their employees, on our society. Well, that's where we are. And that's why every time I have you on, I want to say to my audience, folks, this is very important, very, very, very important.

There are millions and millions and billions of dollars being used in ways that if you had any choice, you'd say, oh, no, I don't want my money to go to that. I don't want to help that agenda. So we're asking you, please go to inspireadvisors.com. inspireadvisors.com slash Eric, inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. And you can get a free impact report. Robert Netsley.

Thank you. And God bless you. Thank you, Eric. Hey there, folks. Eric Metax is here. As you know, our friend, and he's a real friend, Mike Lindell, has a passion

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That's when I have to choose. Welcome back. Oh, my goodness. In a couple of minutes, we're talking to our friends, the Talbot's business. advice. I just, I always learn from them. Look, they're business geniuses. So if you're interested in small business stuff, they're the guys. We're talking to them once a week for one segment. That's coming up in a moment. Do we already air the Ask Mataxis? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Ask Mattaxas was a lot of fun and I got to say my previous guest, just a moment ago, Robert Netsley, folks, I want to remind you,

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You'll get that video, Anne McElhenney and I discuss this true crime podcast that she and her husband, Phelham McAleer, have created, is, I think it's called serial. Killer. Yeah. Killer pod. Go to serial killer pod.com. Serial killer pod. Dot com.

Anybody who likes to listen to a podcast or who is, especially young people, oh my gosh, it's just so fascinating and informative. Serial killer pod. com. Okay. Do I have a couple? I got a couple more seconds. Let me mention this.

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It's called The Matter of Life, Salem now.com. Obviously, we are affiliated with Salem. So we just happen to know about this. A lot of people have no idea even. I mean, if you have friends and say, I don't know what to watch. I don't know what I got. Believe me, SalemNow.com has a whole raft of things that are fantastic viewing, usually for the whole family. Yeah. And I just found out yesterday that Jonathan Kahn's movie about the Harbinger, that's coming to Salem now in the weeks ahead. So there's a lot of great stuff right there at Salem now.com.

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We continue our series with Pete and Seth Talbot of the Talbot group, where I get to ask kind of a classic business question. So the question I'm asking this week is, uh, From the point of view of the business owner who wants to know, is my age an advantage or a disadvantage? You're looking at me. I'm looking at you. What are you looking at me for? Yes.

Well, I started in business pretty early. I graduated from high school with a 1.1, and I'm proud that I made it through high school. I'm kind of off the charts with my learning. Successful businessman has a story like this, right? But my folks, keep me out of that. I wish I could be. And then he sales. His story is not my story.

He never cracked a book once in a four point. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, just drove me nuts. Okay. Anyway. Not my problem. But my folks let me get into business at age 16. And I started singing professionally.

Singing? Singing. In nightclubs. And as a Christian, there's a lot of old fuddy-duddy Christians that weren't too happy about it. But I was with three guys, and we were good, and we sang in nightclubs. And we did special events for Campus Crusade for Christ and what have you. It's how you eventually met Pat Boone.

Yeah, that's how we met Pat Boone. His agent saw us at a club in Santa Barbara. Long story. So your parents let you say, enough with the books, singing, a rear and singing. I did make it through high school, Belvey Christian School. I made it through. But if I hadn't had that outlet, I think I don't know what would have happened.

I then had my own TV show at 18. An hour a week. I interviewed politicians and what have you. Open my first restaurant, and I talked about five loaves and two first company. You know, for a dumb guy, you're pretty smart. Well, I wasn't afraid to risk. And I'm afraid I had some dark,

I had some failures in businesses throughout the last 50, 60 years. But I'm asked all the time, why don't you retire? Well, usually by me. Well, it's a standard assumption. But on our website, we talk about old school and new school. Obviously, I'm old school. Sometimes I get, you know, I don't understand. all of the technical aspects of high tech and all the computer and the programming and what have you.

But you're never too old. I am having more fun than I have ever had in my life. And I think we benefit from the amount of experiences that you have. And so my answer to this is twofold is that the more exposure you have if you're a student of learning. and you're constantly trying to innovate and pivot, innovate and pivot, your age is a massive advantage. Conversely, the first executive book I ever read, which I mentioned to you, I think, in one of our first interviews, was what got you here, it won't get you there.

The downside can be is that you develop a stubborn formula that has baked into it successful principles and behaviors and some really unsuccessful things that are holding you back. And so the trick to making your age an advantage and at a disadvantage is being able to reconsider and reevaluate what you need to be doing and what's holding you back. And that's one of the things that I think is relevant to companies that have quite a bit of miles on their tires is that we work with companies that have a good amount of mileage on their tires and they feel a little plateaued or stuck. Sometimes they're in retreat. We're working with a company that was growing and growing and then they,

They're thinking, hey, this is going to go huge. And then they had this year of retreat when every other business this last year, a lot of them were doing phenomenally well. And they're pulling back. And so there's a reconsideration. I think the trick is being able to figure out and isolate what is succeeding and what's working and what is an advantage from what's holding you back. And personally, that can be done through a variety of things from what they call 360 degree interviews where you're allowing people below you to review you and people that are working aside. But from a business perspective, you need that third party to come in and say, here's what you really have from our perspective. And that's why people bring us in a bit is that he's got more experience than I do.

But I've been, I developed my career actually independently from him. So I went tech. And we didn't work with each other for the first half of my career. I was developing a career in technology and building systems and running data centers and all kinds of nerdy stuff. And so we had different levels of. experience. And I think the thing that's made our partnership work so well is that we had different entrepreneurial experiences and we were able to come together to figure out what worked and what didn't and what held us back. And that sort of obsession of focusing on how to improve, see,

a lot of companies are okay with just being where they are. We run into a lot of business owners that are just tired. And because they've put so much creative energy into it and they've tried so hard, they're just exhausted. And so when they come to us, they kind of come in breathing heavily through the front door where they're just and they're ready to sell. Well, it turns out that there's a lot

of times a lot that can be done with the business, but they assumed pieces in the business had to stay that actually could be broken off. But the thing that's important about what he just said, they did come in the front door. They are the ones

that instead of just clamping down. Clamping down and doggone it. This is the way it's been done. This is the way I'm going to do it. They realize, okay, I need help. That is not a bad thing to realize. Well, it's the opposite of a bad thing.

It takes humility and wisdom. It's a good thing to do. We run into people that are embarrassed all the time about needing help. It's really interesting. So the company that we're just working with hit eight figures. It's great business. It grows in scales. had to tell the team repeatedly, you've got identified gaps. That's the win. The fact that

their gaps isn't something for you to be ashamed of. And a lot of times they don't think through that. They think, oh, well, I should have been able to do everything. No, you shouldn't have. No, you shouldn't have. So we're, it's fun when they do come to us. We love it. Whether you're in your 70s, like me, or 20s, 30s, 40s, 40s or 50s. What did that happen? What have I done? Wait a minute. No clue. But we love helping these people that are just willing to come to us and say, and we can partner, we can consult. There's all kinds of hybrid relationships that we can develop whatever is best for the client.

Or we can just give you a lot of unsolicited feedback. There you go. All right. If people want to find you, then go to talbot group.com. Talbot group.com. It's T-A-L-B-O-T-T. Talbot group.com or the phone number 866 Talbot. Talbot.

That's it. We'll leave it there. Thank you. Folks, literally today, over the weekend, this week, we're celebrating the 4th of July. This is the time we celebrate Independence Day. It is one of the most amazing things, 1776.

I've written about it in my book, if you can keep it. I recommend the book, not because I wrote it. I wrote it to get these ideas out to my fellow Americans. We've got to understand what, we have is amazingly beautiful and fragile and important and we need to defend it and fight for it and spread these ideas around the world and certainly spread them in our communities. We need to keep the republic. Albin, what do you have to say about this issue of 1776? Well, this is the

anniversary of that's 246 years. So if you get an 82 year old guy, okay, today and go back to the day that he was born, on that date, you find another 82 year old guy. You go back to the day he was born on that date. You can find another 82 year old guy. That's three 82 year old guys back to back to back. You get to 1776. And that shows you just how young this country is. Three back to back 82 year olds.

My father's 95. We don't even need an 82 year old. If we get my dad, we can get somebody who's in the 70s. In the 70s. Now, it is really, it is an amazing. thing that look, there are people, we just, there's a video you looked at it the other day. I saw it. There's a guy, this was in the 50s on TV, an old man remembering being five years old,

sitting in the theater the day Lincoln was shot, hearing the shot, seeing John Wilkes Booth. I mean, this was, this was in the 50s. this just happened for many of us. There's so many things like that. History is so beautiful and it's so important. So I just want to say, folks, as we celebrate this important day, this important time 246 years ago, it is vital that we take time out to learn our history, to celebrate our history. I don't know what to say other than I wrote a whole book about it because once I really

understood this, which was quite late in life, I flipped out. I said, I cannot believe. I didn't understand this before. It wasn't taught. You're not getting it from Hollywood movies. It's not in the culture very much. We need to get these ideas out. How do we keep the Republic? So my book is titled, If You Can Keep It, the Forgotten Promise of American Liberty. But this is very, these ideas are exciting when you understand them. And I feel like for most of our history as a country, we've been excited about these ideas. We've taught these ideas. We put them into movies. And Frank Capra put them into his movies. And in our lifetimes, Albin, most of this has been lost. And I want to say, folks, the truth is always the truth. You can never really lose it. You can forget about it,

but it's always there. And the truth of the greatness of this country, what this country has meant to people through the centuries, to people like my mother and father who got choked up when they passed the Statue of Liberty in the 50s, when they had the privilege of coming to this country and raising kids in this country, that's something that it never really goes away. We can just take our eyes off of it. But we need to celebrate it.

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