The Eric Metaxas Show - Sean Feucht (Encore)

Episode Date: September 29, 2022

Sean Feucht drops into the studio to discuss his Times Square "Let Us Worship" event, as well as his new film in theaters this Thursday, "Superspreader." (Encore Presentation)

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He's a senior counsel at ADF and director of the Center for Academic Freedom at ADF to talk to us about something they're working on now. So you get some sense of what these heroes at ADF are doing. Tyson Langhofer, who is currently in Loudoun County, Virginia. Welcome to the program. Thanks for having me, Eric. You tell us about the case of Pam. Ricard. This is just so classic. I mean, the evils that people are dealing with, that parents are

having to deal with, with schools effectively telling them, we can do what we want with your kids. We don't need your permission. I mean, this is as un-American as anything imaginable. It's happening now, and you guys at ADF are dealing with it. You're fighting the battle. So tell us about the case of Pam Ricard. Yeah, sure. So Pam's a middle school math teacher in Junction City, Kansas. And, you know, a year ago, Pam was forced to, she basically was forced to use pronouns of students at their request. And she said, look, I'll be happy to use their name, but I just don't want to lie to the students. But on top of that, the school told her that, you know, she had to use the legal name and biological pronoun with communicating with parents. but yet when the students, you use the preferred name.

Okay, so what you're saying is she had to participate as a teacher. She was being told to deceive the parents. This is what she was being told to do. Absolutely. I mean, I just want to be clear. This is amazing, folks. Do you hear what is going on out there that teachers are being instructed, that your job is to deceive the parents of the kid who pays the taxes for this school?

I mean, this is unbelievable. So she came to ADF. She did. And, you know, they had suspended her. They reinstated her after three days. She's back. She came to us. We filed a lawsuit.

And earlier this year, we had a hearing with the judge. And thankfully, the judge agreed with us. And the judge and joined the school district, entered an order, said, look, you cannot force teachers to deceive parents. Whether you like it or not, parents have a constitutional right to participate in the education and that bringing of their children, and they've got a right to know what their child is being called at school. And if their child is being, you know, participating in this social transition, they have the right to know that. And thankfully, the court agreed with us. And after she entered that

order, the school district agreed to settle the case and change its policy. So now teachers are not forced to lie to their parents about, you know, what's going on with their child at school. It's just hard for many of us to believe that this is really happening in America. And what state was this? This was in Kansas, in rural Kansas. Okay. There you get. Could it be more preposterous?

This is Kansas, not California, not New York, not Massachusetts. This is in Kansas that you have a school telling a teacher that either she gets with the program and lies to the parents or is in trouble. And so when that happens, where do you turn, folks? Where do you turn? Well, this woman turned to the Alliance Defending Freedom. You've heard me talk about them many times on this program, and I want to be blunt. I am asking you to help them today. Go to metaxis talk.com.

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It's hard for a lot of people to believe, Tyson, that this is happening in America. And it's kind of amazing to me that you have to take this stuff to court, that people have to, that they have no recourse, but to say that I can't do. this. I can't lie. It's not just wrong, but it's completely unconstitutional. So the idea that ADF is stepping up to defend our most basic constitutional rights, which you would imagine most people wouldn't contest this. It's so basic. But in our woke, crazy world, we have to contest this. What are some of the other things that ADF is working on these days? Well, you know, we're representing a professor who was fired at the University of Louisville because he spoke at a Heritage Foundation event, you know, about the treatment of children with gender dysphoria.

And his colleagues were outraged, even though he'd been there 16 years and was a leading psychiatrist on this. And so, you know, we're having to fight it even in the universities where just debating on how what's the best treatment approaches can lead to you being fired after a 40-year career in academia. So that goes to trial later this year. You know, we're representing, you know, student groups who are, the schools are refusing to recognize them simply because they hold to biblical values on marriage and sexuality. You know, so these rights of parents and teachers and professors and students, they're being attacked at every different turn. And, you know, we're having to step in and defend them. It's, again, it's hard to believe that it's happening. but folks, it is happening.

And I don't know where we would be without the Alliance defending freedom. I mean, what happens to someone like this woman, Pam Ricard, who obviously you guys are doing this pro bono, you're helping her, she doesn't have a lot of money, and she turns to you and you help her. So, you know, she gets to have some victory and self-respect and to continue her job without lying to parents.

It's just unbelievable that we know. need the Alliance Defending Freedom to defend this kind of thing. But when you talk about a leading psychiatrist talking from what he knows professionally, you said at the He spoke of the Heritage Foundation, but his colleagues are so woke and so happy to leap along with the latest narrative that they vilify him for that. And he has to turn to the Lions Defending Freedom. I just don't know what world we'd live in if the Alliance Defending Freedom didn't exist, which is why I'm really not apologetic at all in saying to my audience, folks, go to metaxis talk.com, click on the banner, give what you can. Again, the number is 855-5-4-7-53-33 or just the banner, metaxisestock.com.

You'll see the banner or 855-5-4-7-53. We're doing a campaign with the Alliance Defending Freedom this month. And you guys have just been such heroes. How did you get involved in this kind of thing, Tyson? Because, you know, when people go to law school, they don't think in the future they're going to be dealing with something like this. It's kind of amazing. Yeah, you know, Eric, I've always been really passionate about America, about our constitutional freedoms, about the things that we stand for. And I was in private practice for 16 years at a large law firm. But, you know, about seven years ago, I joined ADF because, you know, I really want my kids to understand.

and realize the same freedoms that I have. And as you've indicated, Eric, these are eroding over time. You know, and I don't want that. I don't want my kids to experience a less free society than what I did. And so, you know, I joined ADF and I love being able to stand up for people like Pam Rickard, Pam Rickard and Dr. Josephson, who are, you know, who are willing to take a stand, not just for their rights, but for everybody's rights. When they get a victory, it's a victory for everybody.

You know, when you protect the First Amendment, you're protecting everybody's rights. Well, again, it's just amazing. I always think of what happened to Germany under the Nazis. They had a modicum of legality. You know, they didn't just say, no, now we have a tyrant, and we all have to do what Kim Jong-un says. They had laws. They had judges. They had lawyers.

And they had to navigate that crazy world. But, of course, they didn't have the freedoms that we have in America. They didn't have the alliance defending freedom. So right now we have the opportunity to fight these battles in the courts. We have the opportunity, folks. If something like this happens to you or someone you know, you can turn to ADF and something can come of it. You can have victory. You can at least have a chance at victory.

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to be worshipping Jesus in the middle of Times Square publicly, beautifully. So last night we saw the film. The film Super Spread is fantastic. The only part I didn't like is my part. I'm in it, folks. I apologize. You know what I mean? I was just very bloated and confused.

But they put it in any way. But Sean, just tell us what happened yesterday? Man, it was wild. I mean, like you mentioned, you know, being in Times Square, the place where the ball drops, the place where the eyes of the world look at during New Year's. And we were there actually during the real New Year's. See, but is that not amazing?

Yeah, it's so cool. And what was even more wild, I mean, there's so many different threads to weave. But when we first came in 2020, and we were on the West Coast and we were doing lettuce worship, and of course, you know, people were, there was a narrative from the media that it was like this anti-lockdown, anti-government protest. It wasn't that at all. It was just like, hey, we're the church of Jesus Christ. We need to rise up. This is a dark time. People are fearful. People are filled with, with, with, with, you know, this, this chaos, this confusion, drug and alcohol use of skyrocketing, suicides are skyrocketing. We need to worship. And so then when I had it in my heart,

like, we got to go to New York City. Like, this is a city I love. I've been coming here since I was a kid and when we showed up in Washington Square Park under the big arch there was a policeman there a chief of police that met me and he said what do you what are you guys doing here and I said well you know we're here to worship and at that time protesters had been raging through that park and it was just a place of chaos and violence and he said well like we could use the church here that's what he said so we began to worship then I went back to him and I said hey what do you think about us doing baptisms, this chief of police. And he said, well, I don't know where would you do them? I said, the fountain. He's like, he just started laughing. He's like, are you serious? I'm like,

yeah, people want to get baptized. See, I just want to explain to people because they need context. How amazing this is. Okay. Union Square, okay, is where we are here. This was in Washington Square Park. So it's a little bit south of here. There's that iconic arch, that iconic fountain. I remember being there in the 80s, like when breakdancing was invented and there's like stuff going on. I'll never forget. So it's this absolutely central place in New York. So the fact that you chose, now this is not last night, this is at, you know, in the middle of when you started this stuff, to come to New York, to go there and then like something out of a movie to do baptisms in that fountain. That's just, it's astonishing.

that this really happened. You know, this is not like an idea. You guys did this. And all that's on the film, which, I mean, that's where the baptism movement started for us. It was in that fountain. Well, when you say that, the baptism movement started. Because, you know, there are people listening and watching that, you know,

they don't realize you tell, because you've been on here before, you said this before, but give us just the 30-second version of, you know, you decided to take the church outside to worship during COVID, just so people understand what the movement is that we're talking about. Yeah, I mean, we just. just, you know, when these kind of tyrannical government orders came down targeting the church, you know, Sue's marijuana dispensaries are open and casinos are open and strip clubs are open with the church is deemed non-essential, we just felt like we need to create a petition called

Let Us Worship to get hundreds of thousands of leaders and pastors to sign it and basically say, no, we need to take a stand, not on just the Constitution, but on the Bible. We're like, we're commanded to worship through hard times. So anyway, that birth of movement, but to get back to Washington Square Park, what was amazing was... Don't bang the desk, the engineer's telling me, he's saying we're banging the...

Are we banging it? We're bang. Can you hear this? All right, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, go ahead, go ahead. So what was amazing was is when we showed up there, this policeman, he was like a man of peace, right? And it was really, really incredible and really welcoming. Well, last night we get to Times Square,

which is a long ways away from there. Very far. It's like the same guy. The same cop. The same policeman that's, oh, that now is switched and now he's over the Times Square area. So he shows up and he's like, I remember you guys. You're the crazy baptism guys. And I was like, yep, we're here again.

Yeah, I was there when Jay Kupman, like, made that connection. Like I was standing next to Jay and he's talking to this cop. And I thought, this is just like crazy. It is so wild. Listen, look, the whole thing is crazy. This is a dream come true. How many, I want to be clear, and this is if you want to talk about the false narrative in culture, okay? Most New Yorkers, the cops, the people who clean your hotel rooms, the people, like basically all of New York are basically God-fearing, often faith-filled Christians, okay?

But you would never get that impression. The media gives you the impression that the cultural elites who live here, that that's New York. When you do an event like this, whether it's in Union Square or whether it's in Washington Square or it's in Times Square, and these people come, you start seeing how many people in New York love God, love the cops, want peace, want leadership that understands these things. And so it really was, but I, yesterday, when I arrived at the event, I just said, I feel the spiritual warfare. In other words, if you could see into the spiritual realm, the angels and the demons battling over this city, especially in this spot. I mean, you know what you do. When you're doing worship, you're doing spiritual warfare. Yeah.

No, I agree. And I think, you know, one of the most powerful things about that specific piece of real estate and even the prophetic act of what we did is that's the most distracted place on planet Earth, right? the whole point of Times Square is to distract you. That's exactly right. There's, you know, every building's lit up. There's ads going on. I mean, half the time when I'm leading worship, I've got to close my eyes because it's crazy ads come up.

You're like in the spirit and then you look and it's like a bikini ad. You're like, oh, Jesus, you know. But it's so, you're exactly right. But it's a battle for your mind. It's a battle, you know, who's going to win the advertising war. And so last night it was so powerful to go in that place to shut off that noise, to lift our hands to heaven to sing to Jesus and say you are enthroned over this place. We will not be distracted by any other noise. We lift you up over this place. And I think that was a prophetic sign to America.

As we approach the midterms, as we approach this increasingly hostile environment, especially to believers and people of faith, we got to put those blinders on and just sing about who God is, declare who he is. And so we did that last night. And I felt like something broke in the spirit. Well, I got out of there at the end because to show you how much I love you and Jesus, I showed up there yesterday because I hate crowds and I never, ever go to Times Square. It's like it's like so chaotic and vulgar, basically, to my mind. So when it was over, I thought, okay, I got to get out of here because we're going to go to the theater to see, and I want to talk to you about it, the film Super Spreader, right?

So we left with all these friends and stuff. And a couple of friends who remained behind said, oh, people were getting slain in the spirit. I said, are you kidding me? And evidently, these are people that I know, right? So in other words, the presence of God was manifesting itself there. So in case anybody doubts that this is real, I mean, I'm going to talk to my friends more to get details.

But people don't want to leave. They want to worship. Yeah, I mean, we had to end early because, you know, there was too many people. Like, the police couldn't control traffic. It was wild. But, you know, I'm increasingly blown away. We were in Philadelphia the night before, and we love going into these difficult areas. People say, it can't be done.

God can't break in. It's too far gone. And I love watching God flip the script. That's one of my favorite things in life. And that's what God does. I mean, that's the ultimate definition of it's God's. paradox, right? That his truth flips the world's truth around and reveals itself as deeper truth. Right. And that's basically part of what you saw. And the fact that he can move anywhere. Like he's not

intimidated by the powers of beat. We had protesters there last night. We had people doing crazy stuff there last night. But like, I feel like sometimes Christians or like people of faith, we get too worried and concerned. Guys, it's not worried. It's not like he's insecure. It's not as he's The angels in heaven are looking down, and the only place they see in the earth is troublesome. It's New York. They're like, I don't know. I don't know if this guy up here can do it. You know?

And so when we get the posture of heaven and we get that mindset and perspective, gosh, it feels this with so much hope for where we live. Well, listen, God has used you in my life along those lines because it's very easy for us to get discouraged or to get pushed back. I was saying earlier to Albin before you came on about the negative comments I get. from the most religious Christians on Instagram, on Twitter, whatever, like God's already judged us. And I want to say, shut up Satan. That's not the voice of God. That discouraging, you slit. So what happened yesterday was the exact opposite of that. We got more with Sean Foy. Don't go away. So I walk on up to the doorstep for the screen and across the floor.

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No one can. But I can pronounce it. Foyt. F-E-U-H-T. Sean, okay, people know you. in various contexts. Last night, you had a let us worship event in the middle of Times Square. It was amazing.

And it was, what I think, part of what you're helping people do, and you've definitely helped me do that, is really to be bolder in our expressions of faith. I mean, to worship God unashamedly in the middle of Babylon, essentially, and to say that we're going to take back. Babylon for Jesus because he loves all of these broken people and they need him.

There is something powerful about that. Now I want to say, again, you've been doing these worship, let us worship events all around the country, but now, and I said this yesterday at the end of the film, the film Super Spreader is spectacular. It's really wonderful. It's not an official Christian film because Kevin Sorbo is not in it. All right? So I just want to say, we can't say like,

official Christian film because Sorbo is not in the cast. But I'm in it and all kinds of other people are in it. But it tells the story of what happened with you and your beautiful wife and your family. But what amazes me is that as people go to theaters now to see Super Spreader, it's going to continue the movement. In other words, the film in theaters is continuing the movement and getting these ideas out there. So I was thinking in other revivals, in history, we've never had the possibility of like, we were capturing stuff. I mean, in the Jesus movement, in the late 60s, early 70s, whatever, you know, they weren't, they weren't able to spread this around the country.

Maybe it would be in Time Magazine if you're lucky, but there's no way. And to me, the film Super Spreader is somehow being used by God to touch people. You can bring your friends to the theater to see Super Spreader who maybe wouldn't go to a church. Just go ahead. You check this out. It's about, you know. totally it's it's beautiful yeah i beautiful film you should be so proud thank you i mean it it's it's been a it's definitely been a battle and it's it's it's man it's not for the faint at heart movie making is not

for the faint at heart but but you know when god breathes on it and he wants to you know bring influence and increase like we just we just say okay lord yes and you know i'm not a big movie guy i don't watch a ton of movies i i i think i told you yesterday i i usually go once a year with my mom at Christmas. But the opportunity for the gospel to be proclaimed and released and to spread, it's incredible. And, you know, we have over 600 theaters across America this Thursday, September 29. This Thursday, September 29th. That is going to be showing about 300 of those 600 are one-night-only events. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, did you hear this? Did you hear this? September 29th, one-night only. No, but I mean, this is where I want to say to people, you need to show up. Yeah.

You need to buy many tickets and drag the youth group, drag your friends. This is the opportunity. What Sean and Friends did to make this film, I know, because I saw a little bit of it, it is gigantic what you did, much less the money that you put into it. But I'm saying you're teeing this up for Americans to say, okay, I can bring some people who, you know, just to check it out. Well, and the first time that we showed it, this is how I knew that there was an an anointing on it. for evangelism because the first time that we showed it, we were trying to pitch it to some investors

to help us with some marketing capital. And an atheist showed up from Atlanta that is used to funding faith films because they make money. And so he was showing up as a potential investor. Lifelong atheist, he watches the whole film. At the end of the film, we turn the lights on, he's weeping. And he says, I need God. I need this. I need this. I need this. I'm a dead serious. First time it was ever shown and atheists gave his life to Jesus. So I know there's power on this. You know, I know that people are going to encounter God and his spirit. And it's just another way that we can broadcast the movement and the life and the hope of what God's been doing. And, you know, and I think we want to be really clear. It's not you. It's not me. We know this

is God that God is using this. And, you know, lately, my favorite scripture lately has been Romans 828. You know, all things. All things. All. things work together for good for those that love the love COVID you know fascist governors all of this stuff yeah has just driven people to God right it's open doors that wouldn't be open I mean this movement never would have happened yeah if it hadn't been for the draconian foolishness of these blue state governors and mayors who are clearly out of their minds power hungry and they they decided to to flex their muscles and got you want to talk about you know spiritual jiu jutsu God flipping the script. It's unbelievable. I mean, this is in the film, but in case you don't know,

we've had Chey Ann right here at this desk. But I mean, all of these pastors that were persecuted by Gavin Newsom in California, they won their lawsuits. Like it's unbelievable. Our friend Jenna Ellis was involved in the one with John MacArthur. Cheon is a pastor and a friend. They were just, the government was trying to crush them and God gave them the victory. So that part of that is in the film. Josh Hawley, the senator is in the film. There's just, there's a lot going on. Yeah. And I mean, it's, it is. I feel like it is a season where God's flipping the script, you know, he's using what the enemy meant for evil and he's turning it around. I mean, even the name Super Spreader, it's funny, like it comes off of a hit piece from Rolling Stone, you know, calling me a Jesus Christ

super spreader, which at the time is kind of devastating a little bit because I'm like, yeah, I'm musician. It'd be nice to have some recognition someday in a magazine like that. And then they did this hip piece. And I was, I remember I was sitting at home and I was like, oh, man, this is horrible. And my buddy calls me and he's like, this is the most brilliant marketing idea ever. He's like, God writes the best stories. Super spreader. He's like, this is what we're all called to be. And then when we tried to connect with the Christian film guys to help us get the word out, they were like, yeah, the film's amazing. He's powerful, but we don't like the name. super spread. You need to change that to

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Yes. Super spreaderfilm.com. Superspetterfilm.com. They can look up which, which theater is showing it closest to them. It's not at every theater, but it's a lot of AMC, Cinemark, Regal. I think Cinemark and AMC are one-night-only events. So it's September 29th, Thursday, one-night only. And then Regal, I think, is doing a full week, which is pretty historic.

Okay. Yeah. Now, there are a lot of people like you and me, that do believe God is using the chaos of this time to bring revival. But very few people have been eyewitnesses to the beginnings of that. But you and Jay Coopman and others, you've been there. You've seen this stuff. Talk a little bit about that because they're not putting this on the news.

They're not putting any of this stuff on the news except to be negative. And it's funny because I was on an interview with a very, very famous guy two weeks ago. he was explaining me and this is a guy that knows everything and he was like bummed about the response of the church during COVID and I said well yeah a lot of churches shut down and you know they were fearful or whatever but did you know that there's a whole church that's been rising up did you know that there's people like we've been to 175 cities and thousands of people I mean I would have never believed it in if you would have told me in Times Square you're going to gather together to worship and 5,000 people would show up like last.

night. You know, in Philadelphia, downtown Philadelphia, thousands of people were going to show up. That was Saturday night. I mean, it's like every single city God is moving in such a profound way, and there is a remnant body of believers that is rising up. So I got a lot of hope. You know, it talks about in the book of Joel, you know, the end times, it says the great and terrible day of the Lord, or the great and dreadful day of the Lord. Yes, there's a lot of dread. There's a lot of terrible things, but there's a lot of great things too. I focus on the great. That's where I live in that place.

Well, you do feel like the wheat and the tears are growing up together because you see evil becoming more evil. The protesters that were there last night, and again, this was this tiny clot of really broken, pathetic people. Like you look at them and you think, this is what you're doing with your afternoon.

Right. It makes me want to cry because they're openly negative would be too sweet of a word. They're openly satanic. Hostile. They're hostile to God. They're hostile to the church. But they're viciously hostile. They're not hostile in a principled way. They're viciously disruptively hostile. And that's what you saw with Antifa attacking your equipment in the last couple of years. I mean, you see a level of hostility and viciousness. You say, if I was a an objective observer, I would say, this is weird. Like you've got families praising God and, you know, maybe I don't believe in God, but it's kind of sweet. And then you have these nasty people

coming in so you can see the evilness of evil in a way that in the past really you couldn't. Right. Yeah, I mean, you can't. It's polarizing, you know. It's a lot of times people ask me, you know, of what we've seen across America and in the world is the darkness getting darker is like getting lighter and I always tell people both. Yeah. You know, I mean, that's, and the gray area is shrinking. And so there's a polarization. And I'm telling you, we've never seen.

I was talking to the historian David Barton about this. And he said, you know what, Sean? He said, he said, the greatest revivals always come in the days of the most intense polarization. Yeah. The more things are polarized, the more the gospel shines. So we're in one of those seasons. right now. Well, also, too, I think we forget that if you don't know God and you're looking at these horrors unfolding around us, I mean, it's madness in any direction you look. I think most people

eventually get to a place where they say, this doesn't make sense. There has to be an answer to this. Is there a God? Is there a solution to this? And I think people are turning to God because things are so bad. And that's why it's an opportunity in a sense. I mean, I think of those poor protesters that I hope some of them would eventually open their hearts to receive God. Because you can see how broken they are. They're looking for meaning in life and they're not going to find it in rage. Right. I mean, there's a, there is a sense of desperation. I don't know if, you know, fast forward, pre-COVID, you know, 2017, 2018, 2019, I don't know if you would have seen the hunger like we experienced last night. There's something about the trying times that we're in, the divisive times

that cause people to be hungry for what's real. And so that in and of itself is also a gift, I believe. You know, I mean, we could say the enemy's doing whatever and we give Satan a lot of credit for stuff. But what if we say, okay, God, now people are getting hungry. They're getting ready. They're getting desperate. I mean, people last night were desperate for a touch of God. Well, I mean, look, I look back in my own life. When I was 24 years old, I was totally lost. It was one of the worst times of my life. But in retrospect, it was a blessing because it opened me to God in a way that if things had been going fine, there's no way I would have been open to God at that time. And now I look at it as the greatest thing that ever happened in my life. How did that transformation happen through difficulty? So I really do think that there are a lot of people today who, are, they're lost, they're looking around. They're wondering, is there such a thing as truth? Is God real? Can I know him? Where could I go to find him? And God is providing opportunities. These worship events that you do, I saw people wandering through there yesterday. They're like,

what is this? They're like, what is going on here? And I'm telling you, it's just an amazing thing. Just got a minute left. What's going on with you like in the next couple of months? What do you have to? Well, we're really, really excited. Not only the release of this film on the 29th, this Thursday, but on October 22nd, I feel like it's going to be one of the most powerful things we ever do. We're coming back to the National Mall in D.C. And this is going to be about nine days before the midterms. And I've just been having dreams and visions that people from across America are going to gather. And there's just going to be a stream of people as we gather on the National Mall.

And we're going to, you know, days before this election, we're just going to say, Jesus, we've got to have your move in America. We got to have you show up right now. You need to break in. And so, of course, we have, I mean, an incredible list of Holy Spirit-filled Bible-believing senators and congressmembers and people like that that are going to be there. We have another really big surprise. What's the website when we go to our break here? Let usworship. Folks, do you need more?

Let usworship. Dot U.S. John Foyt, we love you. We're proud of you. Thank you. God is using you. Thanks for being with us. Yeah. What an honor. Thank you. I want to read this on the air to everybody who's listening. Okay, we're all concerned about cancel culture. That's part of what we're talking about when we're talking about all these things. Okay. So, specifically, if a public school teacher is being dismissed for refusing to teach woke ideology,

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