The Eric Metaxas Show - Sam Sorbo

Episode Date: August 3, 2023

Sam Sorbo returns with encouragement on home Education and news on a upcoming film appearing in theaters. More at https://www.undergrounded.org/

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We're talking to our friend Sam Sorbo. Okay, so Jason, so it sounds like you're making the case that the United States should back up Ukraine in this war. I'm not clear. In other words, are you? Yes, most definitely we should. We're obligated to. And John Zemirik disagrees with you. So what is your disagreement?

with him on that. Where do you- John and I agree. I think the main point that I don't want to get lost is we need a ceasefire immediately. And I would like it. Eric, does it not strike you as bizarre

that there is no one in the world calling for a ceasefire? I mean, you can't find any center of power in the world advocating for a ceasefire. Even from the anti-war right that John and I are a part of and our friendship was built on in our opposition to the invasion of Iraq.

They've become Putin apologists. And I think they're falling right into the, you know, I went to graduate school for military science, operational studies, international relations. I should have just listened to more Bob Marley. Because in his song, Amished in the Night, he says, they always get us. They always capture us with their propaganda so they can sell their weapons, spirit parts for money. And, you know, rather than fomenting empathy for the people of Ukraine who are being crushed, what we're doing is we're creating indifference.

And so the anti-war right is vanished. They've sort of become the gnostic right. And no one's calling for a ceasefire agreement. I want a ceasefire agreement. And my Ukrainian friends don't like that. They're ready to fight to the last Ukrainian. They're ready to fight to the very end, as you and I would be if our country was invaded in a similar manner.

But I think it's in the interest of the United States. And I do believe in it's in the interest. of the people of Ukraine, that we will work for a ceasefire, but we cannot abandon them to be ground into dust and to dirt. We have to put this in the historical context. In the 1920s, Lenin decriminalized abortion and sought to ethnically cleanse the Ukrainian people with abortions. In the 1930s, Stalin engineered a famine that killed eight million Ukrainians, the Holodomor. And people wonder why they fought alongside the Germans against the Russians well, because just like a few years earlier, you know, they lost all of their children to famine that was

engineered by Russia. And you look, you know, and this is not just an invasion from Russia. Let's be clear, this is Russia, China, and Iran. And Iran is providing the drones, the parts are from China. And people have not heard that. We've not talked a lot about this war on this program. I had not heard that China and Iran were involved. more about that? Yeah, these drones that are slamming into Ukrainian buildings are Iranian drones with Chinese parts. And this is where it gets spooky. You know, a lot of conspiracy theories swirling around Ukraine. Here's some conspiracies people need to remember. Iran shot down a Ukrainian airliner. You remember that in 1920 and 2020. Quickly after Zelensky was elected

looked west. A Ukrainian airliner gets shot down in Iran. It's a little fishy. And And Yukashenko was poisoned to that. Like Ukraine elected or pro-Western guy, he was poisoned. Then Russia rigged an election and 19% of the people of Ukraine went to the streets. 19% were on the streets protesting Russia interference in their elections. This is Russia, China, Iran. Russia's allies in this war are Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. all of them hostile to Christianity, all them actively persecuting Christians in their community,

and yet we're told that somehow a KGB lieutenant colonel Vladimir Putin is like leading a crusade to save the West from the trans. This is such a fantasy. This is so bizarre that it's really almost impossible. So John was talking about that yesterday, how people on the right with whom we would agree on many things are taking this final fatal step into somehow praising Putin and not seeing him as the monster that he is. Eric, and you know, you've been, and I'm looking at your books behind there, Letter to the American Church, Bonhoeffer, and my favorite memoir ever is your fish out of water. It's so much fun.

But what is the escape from Gnosticism? And the right is collapsing into Gnosticism. It's orthodox Christianity. It's humility. It's a simple, family life. It's a prayer life. It's leisure. It's quiet. And we have a movement that's been swept away by technology. You know, we talk about how the medium changes the message. The medium has changed the messenger. Twitter has changed people. It's changed our movement. It's changed the church. And we need to retreat. We need to escape from Gnosticism. We need to look to the cross. We need to look to Jesus Christ. We need to look to Orthodox Christianity and look to serving the vulnerable, not to be swept away by bloodlust or violence or this lack of empathy that I see across the spectrum when we talk about war is startling to me.

Maybe it's because I've had the sorrowful privilege of being around war so much in my career. But it startles me. And it startles me to see it in people like General Millie. And it startles when I see little old ladies that comment on petitions we have. We have a petition at the great campaign.org calling on Biden to advocate for a cease fire and I'll see little old ladies on social media saying we don't need a ceasefire let them fight it out and you're like what you know I can take you their miss and you can see what fighting it out looks like to children into women into human beings um but the only hope for this

republic the only hope for the west is a return to um orthodox Christianity return to the cross and um and that's that's our only hope well I heartily agree with you there. This is a very complicated issue with Ukraine and Russia because, well, we've been talking about what makes it complicated. What is so disturbing to me about it is that I know that if Joe Biden hadn't stolen the election or the Democrats hadn't stolen the election and Donald Trump were in office, this wouldn't have happened. I don't believe that Trump would have allowed it to happen, or that if he were in the White House today, he would do what he could to negotiate an immediate ceasefire.

And so it is, it's just one of those things that it's hard to know where this is going to go. Where do you think it's going to go the way things stand right now? Well, let's hope that there's a ceasefire before the election, you know, and let's work. I run a nonprofit, but I think it's clear, you know who I, we should work for a president that's going to, that's not going to start wars and it's going to work to prevent wars. And one thing I want to bring up, Eric, this war can be brought to an end in an hour and a half. The United States has more oil than Russia and more oil than Saudi Arabia. We have more natural gas than the rest of the world. Our energy industry is good at one. They're the best in the world

and making the cheapest and cleanest energy in the world. And we need to free them to do that. And that's something the next president of United States, President Trump could do. This is what Reagan did. Unfortunately, he didn't use American oil. He used Saudi oil to bankrupt Russia. But we have enough energy right now in this country to run the world's present energy needs for 100 years.

That alone would not only take rob Russia of bullets. It would rob them of butter. And that's it. that that would be a good way to bring them to the negotiating table right away. Something else people need to remember with a lot of propaganda about the eastern oblasts. In 1994, prior to the Russian gangs and thugs and mercenaries that flooded the region and tortured and arrested and deported people, the vast majority of Ukrainian, Russian-speaking Ukrainians from the Eastern Oblasts voted not to make Russia, Russian, a co-equal language in their oblasts, but to make it Ukrainian.

Zelensky himself is a Russian-speaking Ukrainian. And why is that? Because the Russians had worked for generations through the Soviets, and prior to that, through the Tsars, to ethnically cleanse the Ukrainian language from the Ukrainian people. So many Ukrainians didn't speak their own language, but they wanted to, and they wanted it to be their official language. So the idea that these Eastern oblasts aren't somehow Russian because they speak Russian,

they speak Russian because of language cleansed from them. We're going to have to stop there. Jason Jones, thank you very much. And I got to say, ladies and gentlemen, I want to remind you, we need your help. We need you to go today to metaxis talk.com. Please go to metaxis talk.com. Click on the banner to help our friends at Food for the Poor, help the poorest of the poor in our southern hemisphere. We need your help. Please go to metaxis talk.com today. Thank you. We're doing a campaign for food for the poor. People will listen. listen to this program, know that we partner with Food for the Poor. They are total heroes. Food for the poor steps up because there is always, there are always hurricanes flooding other natural disasters at this time of year. So because of poverty or collapse infrastructure in a lot of these countries, by the way, in case you didn't know, America is an amazing country. These other countries do not have a lot of infrastructure. So we need to step up. Those of us who have the ability to step up. I want to encourage you to go to Metaxistock.com and give way,

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I consider her a friend. I consider her husband a friend. And her name is Sam Sorbo, not to be confused with Kevin Sorbo, who is her husband. Sam Sorbo, welcome to the program. It's just, it's always such a fun time with you. And you're always so ridiculous. It's important to be ridiculous because we're talking about very serious things. You're for folks that I don't know you.

I mean, obviously you have a career, a long career as an actress, but you're a proponent of what I would call homeschooling or teaching your kid, letting your kids learn at home as opposed to in these increasingly horrific schools of every type. So talk talk about that because there. are things happening in schools right now that completely boggle my mind so much so that I have to look away. I almost can't talk about it because it's so disturbing. I would never let my kid go to a school where they're asking them what their pronouns are and confusing these sweet young children with things that are just really abusive to ask children these kinds of questions. And so obviously what you've been talking about for a long time about doing this at home, there is more and more reason for people to do that.

But the number one objection, and I'll start here, people often say, to my mind, preposterously, really intelligent, educated people say, oh, I'm not qualified to teach my kids or to oversee my kids. Even school teachers say I'm not qualified. Yeah, except many of them aren't qualified. Right. But that ought to tell you. something like even the school teachers don't believe they're qualified so why are we trusting that

we've been educated if we feel unqualified to educate what is the purpose of education if it's not to share knowledge listen you know and i know but we need to kind of break it down here for people who don't know most children throughout the history of the world didn't go to schools they learned in every other kind of way they learned from their parents So this idea that we've all adopted like it's, you know, clear as about, we're supposed to go to school. You're supposed to go to this room and sit with 25 other kids and listen to someone. That is, it's not something that has been typical throughout history, but it's also not something

that is often very effective. But why do people feel that I have to send my kids to a school? school like that. Where do we get those bad ideas from? Well, okay, it's a little bit complicated, but basically they've been brainwashed. But if you break it down, you went to K through 12. That's 13 years that they taught you that the ultimate goal was college prep and career readiness. And so if you think about that, what is college prep and career ready? By the way, never mind that they're not career ready anymore, right? Even if they used to be, the upshot of that is that your highest value as a human being is the amount of money that you earn. And so we had 13 years of

indoctrination that it's all about the money. It's all material. None of it is spiritual. And so we've bought into that lie. We've bought into the lie that you need to get a degree in order to be self-sufficient, in order to take care of yourself better, in order to earn the almighty dollar and and we have lots of evidence to the contrary but because we had 13 years of indoctrination we are so we are so subjugated by our indoctrination by our brainwashing that we just we don't know any better we don't know enough to question the system the good news is people are starting to question the system because they're seeing what I love that you use the word it's abusive it's absolutely child abuse but more than more than like

confusing children about their pronouns, you have to understand that is grooming. That is preparing the children to be taken advantage of. I just read a story about an eight-year-old who dragged a six-year-old girl into the bathroom to rape her, and the teachers heard her screaming. So they rescued her, okay? They suspended the rapist, the would-be rapist, I should say, would-be-be-raped. And by the way, he was eight, okay? That doesn't make sense.

I'm not aware of how an eight-year-old rapist, but please continue. No, exactly, right? So where does he get that idea in the first place from his, okay, I can't blame the parents because he spends more time in school, okay? I'd love to just say, well, it's bad parenting or whatever. It's not. It's the whole community. It's the whole thing.

Anyway, he got suspended for a couple days. She's back at school, seeing him again every day. Well, this gets to a bigger issue of where I, because I went to Yale University, I can tell people categorically that you have no idea, this idea that you have in your mind of how these places educate you, the places that are supposed to be the best, the Ivy League and those kinds of schools are absolutely the worst. their fundamental assumptions about life, about truth are mostly garbage. And this is what you're sending your kids to if you send them to one of these colleges. And there is no question that this has now filtered backward into K through 12. Our ideas about what is truth. I mean, you and I would say truth is a person, Jesus.

Truth is something that it's much more than influence. We don't have this enlightenment idea that it's just all this information. No, there's meaning and truth and beauty. And that's what education used to be about. And we've moved more and more and more away from that. So that now you and I are literally talking about children in elementary school being subjected to utterly inappropriate things. I mean, listen, if kids went to a regular school and they were simply taught reading, writing, arithmetic, I would say, you know, that's okay. It's kind of like, you know, I want you to learn.

working. I want you to learn spelling, multiplication, basics, whatever. But what has happened, it's become an ideological breeding ground like the colleges have become. And that's the number one reason to get kids out of these schools and to do homeschooling or whatever. What's your website, Sam? Because I want people to go to your website. Thanks. It's samsorbo.com. And I do have a ton of resources. But I want to backtrack for just a minute because you said something really important, which is, which is really, it sort of encapsulates the general idea, right? We think that education is reading, writing, and arithmetic. We think, well, those are the basics.

And so that's education. And we'd love to put the extras on. But if we can't put the extras on, then at least they're getting, right? But the problem is that that is what got us into the mess we're in now. Because education is actually much bigger than reading, writing, and arithmetic. And when you leave out the bigger things, you end up with secular humanism, basically. So what they did was they took out the spirituality out of our education. And that permitted them then to have the facade that education was just the reading,

writing, and arithmetic. So then they took out the woodworking, which, by the way, has a spiritual component. The art classes have a spiritual component, all of these other things. Even Home Act has a spiritual component because it takes. talks about how you live your life. Okay. They're not talking about that at all in our schools. And so we've ended up with these schools that are now teaching abject lies.

And because we've been so brainwashed, we believe that we need them. And we don't. And of course, that's my entire mission. My whole platform is you don't need schools. In fact, I just came up with this tweet this morning. Education is free. It's just that the government makes you pay for it. And we don't believe that because the government has taught us.

education doesn't come for free. You have to go to school. And so we're going to provide you with your education. And then they fail to provide us with our education. And we're standing on the sidelines going, hey, you were supposed to, you know, A, B, see me. And you didn't do that. And so bad, bad government. But in fact, it's so much deeper than that because what they did was they led us astray. They led us astray. And so now we have a lost society, a society that believes that men can turn into women, a society that believes there are plenty of people in society today who believe that there's nothing wrong with an eight-year-old sexually assaulting a six-year-old. They believe that that is perfectly natural and normal. It's not. And what's funny is you and I

adhere to truth. To me, the truth is so obvious. That's not right. That should never happen. Well, assault is wrong. But when you train children that survival of the fittest is the natural. law of the land. It's, it's nature's law. Then what's their argument? What would be your argument to, well, assault is not good. You shouldn't assault people, right? Well, you don't call it homeschooling. I call it homeschooling, but what do you call it? Well, I call it home learning, but it's just, it's that you take a different approach to education. And the reason that you take a different approach is because our very definition of education has been perverted by a system that purports to educate. We see now that they're not educating.

So why are we still believing in their definition? We think, well, when we went to school, we learned proper things. But you know that that's not true. You went to Yale. And even at Yale, when you were there, you weren't learning proper things, correct things. People think I bring up Yale because like I'm bragging or boasting. I bring it up to market because I'm in a position to know that it was, you know, again, I was there early on in the 80s.

They were pushing, we used to call it political correctness, but the woke ideology was being pushed in the 80s. This is now 40 years ago, and it was being pushed strongly. And I was a kid from a working class background. You know, we're out of time. We'll be right back with Sam Sorbo. Tell me why Relief Factor is so successful at lowering or eliminating pain. I'm often asked that question just the other night.

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but it's now worked its way backward down into elementary schools. And Sam, I think a lot of parents are just afraid. And I want to say to them, and I want you to back me up because this is what you do, you know, 24-7, that parents are infinitely more qualified to teach their kids than they would ever dream. And the idea that you've got to get some degree in education is a ridiculous joke.

Like, you need to get a ridiculous joke. a degree to teach your kid how to ride a bicycle or how to wash the dishes or how to be polite. Anything, you know, that you know, even slightly, you can help someone else learn. But we, this is part of the whole culture. It's all about, I have this piece of paper that says, you know, I have a degree in this and this and this and this. And those people who often aren't particularly talented at teaching or who let their, let the information get crushed under some ideology, they're the ones we think, well, we're. Well, they're qualified, as though there's some great mystery to communicating.

There is not. Right. So I'll tell you a quick little story. I brought my boys up and I homeschooled them. Okay. So I had all the academics and I was basically force feeding them academics and they are very bright. They're very accomplished young men.

My daughter, on the other hand, was an artist. And so when she was little, I basically set her free. I said, if you really like to do art, you should do art for 15 minutes a day. just draw for 15 minutes a day. And so very soon she started drawing for three hours a day. And she became quite an accomplished little artist so that by the age of 11, I was looking at her and going, well, I'm giving her all the academics, but clearly she's gifted in a completely different direction.

And far be it for me to be able to teach that because I went to school for engineering. So I can handle the academics, but the art, come on, you know. And I actually hit my knees. And I talked to a lot of people. and somebody suggested anatomy classes. So I ran up to her room and I said, what do you think? We'll do anatomy classes thinking she needs a teacher.

And therefore, if I outsource it, if I find her a teacher, we'll be okay. Like she'll get her education in the thing that she's clearly gifted at. And she looked at me with that little, oh, aren't you precious kind of 11 year old approach. And she showed me her sketchbook. and in her sketchbook were drawings of the interior workings of the human knee in various positions. And I looked at her and I said, you're already studying anatomy?

She's like, uh-huh. She understood what she needed to learn because that's her gifting. What we've done is we've outsourced teaching when actual teaching comes from within. In other words, you won't learn anything that you don't first purpose to learn. Nobody can force feed you. You can memorize it for the test. You can be coerced. But what does that really get you?

How many of us remember algebra or trigonometry, right? They force fed us, and we did the work because we needed the grade, because we needed the almighty dollar, right? But at the same time, do we use it to get the almighty dollar barely? And so my point is, if you find your gifting, you will lean into that. As long as somebody doesn't come along and teach you. you that learning is hard. Okay. So if there's a parent listening right now, there are many, many parents listening right now who are thinking, well, I've thought of doing this. It's August,

early August. Yeah. What would I need to do to pull this off for September? Where can I go? Can they find things at samsorbo.com? Yeah, absolutely. And I will say, so I just got a, somebody tweeted me actually two days ago and said, she was, we moved from California. So three and a half years ago, she came to my garage sale. And I talk to everybody all the time because I want to save the children from the abuse in our schools. And so I spoke to her and I encouraged her and I said, you are enough. And this is my message to parents. You are enough. You love your kids. That's enough. Do not send them to be abused. Do not rely on strangers who you have no idea just because the government says these people are correct. Look at our president and look at our vice president. That's

government, right? Just because a consensus of people say that this is the proper way to go, don't trust that. Trust your instinct. If you have questions about the school, your first step is don't enroll them. Figure out how to comply with the law in your state for homeschooling and then figure it out. But mainly it's about setting the children free to teach themselves. Get them off the games, do all that stuff. Go to my website, samsorber.com. I've got a ton of resources and advice on how to do this. And this woman texted me and said, I remember our conversation at your garage sale, and I can't thank you enough for giving me the courage. We've been homeschooling for three years. It couldn't be better. And I get those emails a lot. My job is to encourage you.

I want to say that, you know, I speak all over the country and I bump into parents and their kids who, whom they have homeschooled. Almost invariably, I am blown away by the poise, the maturity, and the learning of these kids. I mean, it happens over and over and over to me that I meet these kids, and I'm just astonished at their, they're like wise little adults, as opposed to most kids who go to schools who, they come across as very adolescent or whatever. So the lie, and I want to end this segment here, there's a lie out there that I've heard a million times that, oh, kids have to go to school to get socialization.

That is an absolute lie. That means that they can't get that in the home environment, in the church environment, complete nonsense. So, folks, I want to encourage everyone out there listening. If you have the slightest inclination to do this, please do it. Please go to samsorbo.com. We'll be right back. On MyPillow's 20-year anniversary with over 80 million My Pillow sold, Mike Lindell with MyPillow wants to thank you by giving you the lowest price in history on their MyPillows.

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This offer comes with a 10 year warranty and a 60 day money back guarantee. It's time to start getting the quality sleep you deserve. Go to MyPillow.com and use promo code Eric or call 800 978 3057 today. Folks, welcome back. We're talking to Sam Sorbo. as in sam sorboe.com. And Sam, you mentioned that you and Kevin have made a film that's coming out in October. I think we talked about it on the program before when you were first beginning,

when you just were beginning making it. Yeah. Yeah, it's been a while. So we made it and then it got caught in COVID jail. So we're finally putting into theaters at the end of October. And I'm very excited. you can order tickets. If you go to SORBO Studios.com, I will say sorbos studios.com.

The name of the film is Miracle in East Texas, and you can find out everything you want to know about the film. But I'll tell you right now, it's a lot of fun. It's a comedy. It is about the 1930s oil strike, which was the biggest oil strike in the history of the world. It was really incredible. It brought an entire community out of the Depression. And it changed people's lives.

And so we tell it as a comedy is sort of a little bit of a romantic comedy. It's a family friendly film. It's not the kind of stuff that you typically see coming out of Hollywood. And I'm excited. I'm even more excited about it because I developed a homeschool curriculum to go with the film. Wait, wait, wait, wait, what? Yeah, yeah. What do you mean?

So I want people to understand that education happens everywhere all the time. And the thing that prevents us from being educated is the time. is the teaching in school that you only learn in school. And so I developed a curriculum because the film is historical, it actually tells the story that really happened, albeit we take a little bit of comedic license, but basically it's the true story of the East Texas Oil Strike. It talks about entrepreneurism.

It talks about freedom. Freedom isn't free. It talks about forgiveness, which is a very important value that we as Americans hold. the Judeo-Christian value that is leaving our culture right now. And that's why we have the cancel culture. And so Kevin and I make these films to try to breathe back into culture our traditional values. And at the same time, because the film is so much fun, I thought, wait, I could do like a little

homeschool curriculum for parents. The learning happens in the conversation that you have with your children. So this is kind of a little bit of a study guide, but I don't want to call it a study guide because it sounds like work. and we all go, well, education, right?

Because we all went to school and they made, they made education so boring. This should be a lot of fun to do with your kids after you take them to the film. And if you go to sorbostudios.com, you can sign up.

It's free. I'm just offering it for free because I want to introduce, introduce families to this idea that education is easily accessible anywhere. And it should be mom. Well, there's no question. I mean, life is about, you can be learning constantly.

I was just at the, doctors reading a book while I was waiting for the doctor. And I thought to myself, I'm learning. I'm learning some really, really interesting things sitting here reading this book. Learning never stop. So this idea that you have to go to a school to learn is utter nonsense, ladies and gentlemen. Sam, the idea for this film, where did this come from that you and Kevin wanted to make a film about the oil strike in Texas in the 1930s? Well, if you remember our film, Let There Be Light.

that I co-wrote with Dan Gordon, who's an Oscar-nominated writer, he gave us this script a couple years before. And once we got it funded, it was, I mean, we wanted to do it because it's historic. It tells a true story. It's about heroes. It's about forgiveness. It's about the values that we hold dear. And so we just thought, and plus it fit our budget, right?

So when we got the funding, we were like, oh, that's perfect. We can do this movie. And so that's what we ended up doing. it is not easy raising funds to do film as I'm sure you're aware. And so I'm very aware of it. That's why we started the studios. We do fundraise. By the way, if you're interested, go to sorbostudios.com and you can support our work.

We're also doing a pay-it-forward campaign for Miracle in East Texas where you can buy tickets that we will then give to people who don't have the funds to go to the theater because it's a good film to watch in the theater. it's a big film it's it's uh it's texas doesn't get bigger than that but just just as um homeschooling is increasingly replacing the old model of a guy i got to send my kid to the public school i got to send my to come to similarly films like yours and kevins are replacing hollywood people are aware every day that hollywood has gotten darker and darker and darker and darker or if i turn on Netflix and flick around.

Most of the stuff is really dark. And I think people are just thrilled that they can pivot away and that increasingly there are other things that that are out there, that they can watch with their family. So the success of Sound of Freedom basically crushing this Disney film, Indiana Jones, when you think of the relative budgets, something amazing. We're seeing like an earthquake, a revolution in culture, whether it's with education or with entertainment. And I want to encourage people listening right now.

Always choose the alternative stuff. Do not give your money to Hollywood. Do not give your money to these establishment things that have proved themselves not to be worthy of you over and over and over and over. You ought not to go along with the crowd and you ought to pivot away and watch films like the ones that we're talking about right now.

So, Sam, it's great that you and Kevin are actually making films like this. And it just seems like a new industry has been born over the years and that we're seeing better and better stuff. Yeah, better and better. Certainly Hollywood caliber filmmaking now. Sound of Freedom is obviously broken some records. And that's exciting.

But more importantly, it's exciting the groundswell of support that that film received and others like it. And so we know that we're on the right track. We know that people are hungry for uplifting. and enlightening content and things that support their values. And that's what we try to do at Sorbo Studios. So I'm encouraged. I'm encouraged by Sound of Freedom.

I like to say, if you enjoyed Sound of Freedom, you're going to love Miracle in East Texas because it's also a true story and it's a comedy, which Sound of Freedom is not. Sound of Freedom is definitely not a comedy. Well, I think that, again, this is, I am hopeful people, I think a lot of times people are fretting about what's going on. but I see that things have gotten so bad that people are waking up. People are saying I will never spend another dime with Disney ever again, ever on principle.

I will not send my kid to that public school because during COVID, I saw what they were learning and I was disgusted. So I think good things are happening. Sam, it's good to see you. Give my best to Kevin. And I want people to go to samsorbo.com because folks, you need to encourage everyone you know to homeschool their kids. kids. This is the way of the future. It's good for your kids. It'll be good for the future of this country. We won't have a future unless more people do it. So Sam Sorbo, thank you. Thank you. It'll be good for your future. Yes.

I want to remind you that this month, we're doing a campaign with food for the poor. We really need your help, folks. I want to ask you again, to go to metaxis talk.com, click on the emergency relief supplies banner. I mentioned at the beginning of the show. We're in our third day of my summer campaign to raise money for food for the poor, to raise money for the poorest of the poor in our own hemisphere. So I'm inviting you to donate to Food for the Poor. It's a Christian nonprofit relief organization that provides life-saving food.

imagine they're hungry kids. Just imagine. And they're in our own hemisphere. Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, many of the poor countries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. So I'm asking you to do this today because we really need your help. Your money goes a long way when you give to food for the poor. I also want to throw this out there.

Well, before I say that, let me just say, our goal is to get everybody to participate. So if you listen to this program, I'm asking you, you can do it any way you want. You can go to metaxis talk.com on your computer, your phone. You can text my name, Eric, to 911-999. That's correct. I'm looking at it out here. You can just tech, you can do this right now before we go to my next segment with Dutch

sheets. You can just text Eric to 911-999. And I hope you will do that. If you have a phone, if you prefer to call, you can just dial 844-863-hope. That's 844-8663 hope. Again, the number is 844-863 hope. We need you to step up. I know that we all know that we've got to give out of, you know, we've all been blessed and we can we can all give something. We can all give something. The question is, where do I want to give my money?

Whom can I trust with my money to do God's work? Food for the poor is someone that we trust deeply. It's why we do this every year and why we're doing it right now. But if you don't donate, we fail. And so we need you who listen to this program, who have a heart for the poor, to step up. Please go to metaxis talk.com. You can click on the banner there. You can see just so you know, a gift of $100 provides emergency kits that include tarps,

first aid, hygiene, first aid in hygiene supplies and blankets. $240 provides that plus a number of weeks of food and water. Now, by the way, the reason we're doing this in this month of August, and this is to push you to give today, is because hurricane season is coming. These folks go through hell. And food for the poor wants to be prepared in advance because they know this is coming. It happens every year.

And they want their response time to be able to be immediate and not a number of weeks later because these people really suffer. So this is a big deal. there there is genuine pressure to do this now and so i'm asking you again go to mettaxistocococcom give whatever you can uh you can text my name eric to 91999 you can do it right now on your phone you can text eric to 91999 again you can just text the word eric to 919999 or you can go to metaxistock You'll see the banner right at the top, emergency relief supplies, food for the poor.