Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer - Texas FORCES Kid to TRANSITION, Dad HORRIFIED! | Guest: Jeff Younger & Blake Kresses

April 22, 2022 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer

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Texas FORCES Kid to TRANSITION, Dad HORRIFIED! | Guest: Jeff Younger & Blake Kresses | Ep 246

Texas isn’t exactly a safe space for transgender kids….that is,…. for kids that don’t want to transition. This is the story of how a father lost custody of his son and the state of Texas, doctors, and his mother have been forcing him to transition into a girl despite his father’s many attempts to stop the abuse. The problem is that the courts turned on him, but now he’s fighting back by running for the state house in his last attempt to save his son from chemical and physical castration. The war isn’t over until we give up. ________________________________________________________________ ⇩ TODAY'S SPONSORS ⇩Show more UNDERTAC: Men are being inundated with over-priced boxers, designed for testosterone deficient men, but here at Slightly Offens*ve we demand more. That's why we trust UnderTac. Head to http://www.getundertac.com/ for 20% off with the offer code OFFENSIVE20. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. BANK ON YOURSELF: Don't let inflation & big government ruin your retirement/investments! Protect your money with Bank on Yourself TODAY. You can get a FREE report with all the details of how adding Bank On Yourself to your financial plan can help you take back control of your money RIGHT NOW at https://www.bankonyourself.com/offensive BIRCH GOLD: Inflation is already running hot…which is why we don't put our trust in fiat currency, we trust gold. Not sure how to get into investing in gold? Check out Birch Gold! Get started on protecting your savings with gold in a TAX SHLETERED account and request a free info kit from Birch Gold by texting the word "OFFENSIVE" to 9-8-9-8-9-8 ________________________________________________________________ ⇩ FOLLOW THE GUEST⇩ BLAKE KRESSES INSTA: https://instagram.com/blakekresses?igshid=NDA1YzNhOGU= KGB INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/thekgbshow/?hl=en YT: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheKGBShow JEFF YOUNGER: WEBSITE: https://www.jeffyoungerfortexas.com/ INSTA: https://instagram.com/jeffyoungerfortexas?igshid=NDA1YzNhOGU= ________________________________________________________________ Become a subscriber at BlazeTV https://get.blazetv.com/slightly-offensive/ use my code "ELIJAH" to get $10 off a full year ________________________________________________________________ Slightly Offens*ve Merch: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/elijah-schaffer ________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOAD AUDIO PODCAST & GIVE A 5 STAR RATING!: APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/slightly-offens-ve-uncut/id1450057169 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbVobnHs7q8pSRCtPmC41?si=qnIgUqbySSGdJEngV-P5Bg (also available Google Podcasts & wherever else podcasts are streamed) ______________________________________________________________ ➤BOOKINGS/INQUIRIES: [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ ⇩ SOCIAL MEDIA ⇩ ➤ INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/slightlyoffensive.tv ➤ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer ➤ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/officialslightlyoffensive _________________________________________________________________ The Idea Of A Free Society...For Kids! Head to https://teachrealprinciples.com for a unique book series that introduces the important ideas that schools no longer teach. Show less

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	I believe you promised my son a roar.
	Do the roar.
	Ah, Transaurus Rex was back at it.
	You might have seen that clip captured by the members of the KGB show that was at a university right here in the smackdad middle of my homeland.
	You didn't think crazy people were living in Texas?
	You're looking at one.
	But I'm not the kind of crazy that wants to, you know, remove my breasts, remove my genitals, force other people to do that, you know, wear 12 masks and scream into the air in an absolute gasp for breath.
	You thought she was mad about somebody's ideas?
	No, that's called a lung degenerative disorder.
	That's due to weight and carrying too much on you.
	You are just going, you have to scream to get pressure in your lungs so that you can live another day.
	That's what happens.
	That's what happens these days.
	Of course, I have some amazing guests in the studio today.
	This was at a speech for a man.
	You may not know him or you may know a lot about him and you're going to learn more today.
	Jeff Younger, who is the father of a young child that we will talk about that is being forced into this trans identity movement in a long-standing court battle and is now actually trying to do a damn thing about it.
	This is what we talk about here at Slightly Offensive.
	You've got to stop crying.
	You've got to stop complaining and you've got to stop screaming with your fat hanging out of your gut into thin air.
	Jeff Younger, who is running for Texas House seat, welcome to Slightly Offensive for the first time.
	Great to be here.
	Thanks for having me.
	So where are you running actually in the state?
	I'm running in House District 63, which is a southern strip of Denton County.
	And well, and you know, I like your shirt, by the way.
	What are you wearing?
	It says, crush the anti-fascist mob.
	It's my little message to the UNT mob.
	Yeah, and that's what we were seeing, and people have seen those clips.
	We'll watch a few more of them right now.
	But, you know, you went to the speech at the University of North Texas.
	This is right by my home.
	This is people think this is outside of here, a conservative area, they would think.
	What the hell were you doing there?
	So I was invited by the Young Conservatives of Texas to talk about my campaign and particularly my program around ending the transgender child abuse that's still legal in Texas.
	And when I signed up for the talk, I got a call from UNT police and they asked me if I had a personal protection detail.
	And I said, well, I got 10 of them.
	You know, I got two fists.
	That's about all I got.
	So they assigned me a personal protection detail.
	And I knew when I walked in there, either they were going to let me give my speech and we'd have a raucous QA or they were going to shut me down.
	So I had a plan when they tried to shut me down.
	And we see, we have a video right here.
	Gay Tupac actually just sent it to you of one of the students that was there.
	I don't think your meeting went as planned and I don't think the security worked that well.
	No.
	This was basically what was the substance of the meeting.
	Can we go ahead and play that?
	I just laughed the whole time through this thing.
	What they started doing was they started beating on the desk so I couldn't talk.
	So I started telling them, is that all you got, commies?
	You call me Pinkos?
	That's all you got?
	Cockies.
	You found me?
	Yeah, yes.
	And I whipped them into a frenzy.
	And after it turns out, after about 45 minutes, you just can't keep up that intensity.
	So they started sort of winding down a little bit and they started sending people up like this to scream in my ear.
	Then they tried to surround me.
	Then some people are freaked out by bodily fluids.
	So they got this girl to spit on me repeatedly.
	And when that didn't work, about 300 people surrounded the building.
	You don't see that on the video.
	Three to 400 people surrounded the building and they threatened to burn it down.
	So the cops evacuated the building.
	And I went out the back and there were about 200 people back there and somebody got a really good rib shot on me.
	I thought he'd broken my rib.
	Somebody put me, tried to put me in a rear naked chokehold.
	They had a gable grip out of it.
	They put me in the cop car.
	They tried to turn the cop car over.
	And we got out of there and they chased us down the street for a quarter of a mile.
	It was crazy.
	I can't believe that person can run, let alone walk.
	I mean, and you know, it's like absolutely crazy, too.
	This is a, this is a good reminder.
	I remember my mom told me, you know, if you work out, don't get into hormones because it can make you unstable.
	With a lot of these people injecting the hormones, has left them there.
	We're going to talk about this and the story.
	We have another guest.
	This is your field director and also one of the hosts of the KGB show who was a part of capturing this instrumental moment here.
	Blake Cressis, welcome.
	This is not your first time.
	This is welcome back to Slightly Offensive.
	I've been on You Are Here.
	I've not been on Slightly Offensive yet.
	So I want the confetti of color.
	You got it.
	The COC in your face.
	Awesome.
	The fat COC.
	I love it.
	I love it.
	That you can suck in your face.
	Yeah.
	You know, that was like the best night of my life in UNT there.
	It was so funny.
	And just about that video specifically, that girl who was spitting on you.
	The first spit hit Jeff.
	The second one, she didn't have the mouth muscles, I guess, necessary.
	She literally just spit on the person in front of her.
	It was the funniest thing I've ever seen.
	Like, I don't know if the person in front noticed, but it landed on top of her head and it killed me.
	But yeah, that was an absolutely great time.
	All that footage was captured by Gabe, who was here a couple of weeks ago.
	Yeah, Gabe did a great job.
	He was very fearless.
	There was a moment where one of these protesters tried to grab his camera and he snatched it away and then they got into an argument.
	And there's a great clip where Gabe misgenders one of them.
	And like, it's a he, it's a he.
	And Jeff is just like, she, she, and everyone's freaking out.
	And there's another one.
	Jeff is just saying, trans people aren't real.
	And that's the best phrase ever.
	Like, they're literally not real.
	There's no such thing.
	It's false identity.
	It is.
	And I got to say this, you guys.
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	You got to get the pronouns.
	You go and you notice the price of boxers has actually gone through the roof.
	That person was talking, and this is why.
	It's because the competition has heated up because apparently like that, that the trans Tifa person said there that, you know, hey, suck my fat cock, meaning they're wearing boxers too.
	And this is competition.
	There's a lot of people buying them.
	But, you know, just to make matters worse, the material is cheap, just like these people's, you know, sense of personality.
	And these brands are run by a bunch of social justice warriors.
	You don't want to wear these weird boxers that people are, you know, for their pronouns, rainbow waistbands.
	They put a sock in it.
	All the models are gay anyways.
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	I mean, seriously, think about the breaths of those people.
	I don't know if you smelled them.
	I always talk about the breath of the people.
	It's gross.
	They're anti-pilling.
	Those people are on lots of pills.
	That's called destabilization.
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	And so we want to support them.
	And they also support the part of your body that matters the most.
	So, so true.
	Absolutely.
	Which we're going to talk about today.
	People say we can't get an episode without talking about penises.
	And unfortunately, I've said this constantly.
	I wish we could.
	But unfortunately, like I said, that's what our culture is obsessed with.
	And that's where the arguments are.
	It's crazy.
	Am I right?
	You're totally right.
	I mean, look, it's there's an entire movement to deconstruct traditional sexuality, which used to just be kept secret.
	You know, it was your thing, whatever.
	But now, this whole thing is it has to be out in front, and they're going to make us acknowledge it as though it's normal.
	Well, it's not normal, right?
	Look, let's be honest.
	We wouldn't need tactical boxer shorts if sexuality was normal today, right?
	We need the combat protection, right?
	I mean, we need it because it's so crazy right now.
	You know, when I was at UNT, these people, it was very clear.
	They truly, this girl truly believed she was a male.
	Like she truly, it was not an act.
	She truly believed she was a male.
	And by challenging that, I was just striking a blow at a very fundamental self-image that she has, which actually I enjoy delivering those blows.
	But she did say to deliver a blow that I don't think you're ready to deliver on.
	That's right.
	That was a serious blow that I think we would.
	I think I'm going to say, Blake, you seem tempted, though, when she gave that offer.
	I don't know, but I saw a little wink out of your eye.
	You know, that whole situation at UNT, I first off, it's really scary that that place is so close to where I live.
	Not only is it the worst school in Texas, it's one of the worst schools in the country.
	I mean, it's really a liberal hellhole.
	But I had a lot of fun.
	Don't get me wrong.
	It was one of the best nights ever.
	And I'm not going to say I was scared being in that room, but there is this feeling that you get being surrounded by just that high quantity of satanic energy, right?
	Like, you know, all these people are possessed.
	And it makes you queasy.
	You get this uneasy feeling, right?
	And you sort of got to hide that a little bit with the laughter, but it's just, it's really, it's saddening to see these people in the state that they're in.
	And it makes you, it makes you really worried, I suppose.
	Well, it does too, because I was going to say the assumption of sucking the fat cock, very descriptive, too, because, you know, usually people say big, but fat is like, you know, I mean, you could be a chod.
	I mean, it's not necessarily a positive movement, right?
	The only thing positive in these people's lives is probably their STD tests.
	And that's the thing.
	Literally, only a lesbian would say that.
	Like, that was not something that a guy would say, right?
	Oh, a butch lesbian with dysphoria.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, which is exactly what she was.
	But, you know, she was sent there.
	There was an Antifa shot caller there.
	Okay.
	And he's.
	Yes.
	Wait.
	Can you, for the blind viewers, can you please explain this?
	I've never heard anyone else mention this.
	Please.
	Yes.
	Please tell people.
	Okay.
	So when Antifa operates, they always have somebody who they'll, and they won't be dressed in black.
	They'll always be dressed in colors.
	And they're the guy that calls the shots.
	They call him the shot caller, right?
	It's also an extremely gay name, but that's Antifa for you.
	That's what I was going to say.
	They use LGBT dark sex dungeon nomenclature for their, you know what I mean?
	Like they do.
	People don't realize how organized it is and how sexually stimulated.
	Just think of him as the just think of him as the top in the Antifa relationship.
	So, this guy sends her down to me because he's like, the guy won't shut up.
	He's, you know, he's yelling back at us.
	So, sends somebody down to scream in his ear.
	And then they sent, you know, Transasaurus Rex.
	Oh, man.
	That's how we got her involved.
	She came up with the name.
	That was, I think that that was Gabe.
	He did, he did a great job.
	No, no.
	Wait, I'm getting that totally wrong.
	Okay.
	She commented on the KGB Instagram post with her video.
	And her name, her tag on Instagram was Tranosaurus Rex.
	She came up with it herself.
	And then we used it to turn her into Trigglypuff 2.0.
	And it worked so well.
	And you know, Steven Crowder did a change my mind at UNT shortly after Jeff was there.
	And there were no Antifa people.
	They didn't show up.
	And they said the reason they didn't show up was because they were trying to boycott the event.
	They didn't want to give any attention to Steven Crowder.
	I think the real reason they didn't show up is because we did such a good job of meming the hell out of them.
	Yes.
	The last time they were there.
	15 meme wars back spectacular.
	I was in a time machine back to where you looked at these people.
	I mean, I was, I was going, am I back in LA, you know, seven, five, you know, years ago?
	You're exactly right.
	That's what it felt like.
	And it was like, this is what I've talked about.
	We're not even in a horseshoe model.
	We are in a hamster wheel model where it's like we went through years and then Antifa got violent and then we're back to fat, ugly, confused people with high BMIs screaming.
	When the best thing they could do to change their life would be maybe lowering their cholesterol.
	I don't know, eat a leaf.
	You know, that's work out.
	Work out.
	It's like, all right, yeah, women shouldn't be fat.
	And that's what I, I mean, and also, too, I got to say this.
	I, I, I, I, to your point about, you know, this is a lesbian.
	Um, I don't know if you know about the um, I don't know, just I, what is that called?
	Or maybe gay Teepac, you know, that uh, you Jubilee, right?
	The YouTube group that does bring people together.
	So, one of the funniest things that I watched, they made a um Jubilee argument between masculine conservative men, which is why I didn't get invited, but then, but they had masculine conservative men and like trans conservative men.
	And don't, if you're watching this and they're not, they're not conservative.
	I didn't write make the video, I didn't title it, just here you go.
	All right, so they bring them together to talk.
	And uh, one of the people that was on there was uh this uh a friend of mine, an individual, he's African-American, he's very, very large, dude, he is very masculine, and I was really laughing because he basically took over the conversation, was putting all the trans men in their place.
	Yeah, the trans men all kept ganging up together and being like, Don't interrupt us, don't interrupt us, and all gang up together like women because you can't change who you are on the inside, even if you change who you are on the outside.
	They're like, No, I'm getting in here.
	And then the best part about this was ready-the top comment that all the trans people were liking were like, Oh, why can't men ever just be quiet and listen to correct the biological man who was dominating the conversation?
	It's like, therefore, concluding, yeah, you can have a beard on your face, you can have that, but then you can never get rid of the voice, which is always just like, I'm a real man, right?
	It's always like a little bit like a Disney commercial.
	It's like, watch, I'll watch the new Mickey Mouse, six o'clock.
	I'm a man.
	This has been the thing that I've talked about so often.
	Like, the whole thing with trans that is so that's transparently obvious that it's a fraud, is that whenever these women try to become men, they never adopt the extra responsibilities that men have in this society, right?
	If this place caught on fire right now, I don't get to leave until all the women leave, all the children leave, all the old people leave, then I get to leave, right?
	And I have all these extra risks that I have to take in society.
	That's why I get 17 cents more an hour than a woman, I guess.
	I mean, there's like, it's like we have all of these social duties that they don't have.
	And one of the things that we don't get to do is to complain to other men that you're being mean to me, right?
	We don't get to do that as men, right?
	They just, so it's like he does, though.
	Yeah, you're right.
	That's because that's because he's a transgender comedian running a transgender country.
	That's a fake country, too.
	I mean, it's a trans country, for God's sakes.
	I want to go back to calling you.
	There's even a place there called Transnistria, by the way.
	It's Transylvania.
	Literally.
	I mean, we are in, we are in the translation.
	It is true, though.
	I mean, you want to go back to the, you said to go back, call it the.
	We call it the Ukraine.
	The Ukraine.
	Ukraine means borderland.
	That's right.
	It's called the borderland because it was the buffer zone.
	Exactly.
	It was a buffer zone between NATO and Russia, right?
	Yeah.
	I'm getting the history.
	No, you are getting it somewhat correct.
	Here I'm slightly offensive.
	We do give you some history and we do a couple things.
	Well, that's a good question.
	We do a couple things.
	No, but so like with this, okay, people know.
	And the point is, the reason why we're talking about this, if you've seen this, this was who was at the event.
	This is what was going on.
	And the reason why I'm bringing this up is because it's about time we stopped capitulating to these absolute fascist losers.
	There's no point.
	That's when you said, like, when they say, oh, are you anti-fascist?
	And you go, no, I'm not.
	Does it mean I'm pro-fascist?
	No.
	Just anti-fascist is a phrase that means you're pro-communist.
	That's right.
	So I'm not pro-communist and I'm also not pro-whatever the hell you're doing.
	That's right.
	Which is, by the way, if real communism came into play, you're the first ones to get shot.
	Oh, they're always, the Vanguard is always shot first, right?
	Because they're the most dangerous to the regime when it's set up.
	They're revolutionaries.
	But you know, when I walked in the room, what they expected me to do is what most conservatives do, right?
	After about five minutes, you know, I realize I can't get my speech, so I walk out of the room.
	I told them, hell no.
	I got a two and a half hour speaking slot.
	You're going to have to protest my ass for two and a half hours.
	I'm not leaving.
	And when we're done, I will see all of you file out that, out of this room, and I'll be the last one here.
	This is my room.
	You're not chasing me out.
	And that was what really pissed them off, right?
	I'm supposed to cower like all the other conservatives did.
	Instead, I just called them commie pinkos, told them that the Chinese Red Guards could shout louder than they could.
	Oh, I don't want to offend any Stalinists in the room.
	They didn't like that joke.
	So I just started insulting them left and right, you know, and I'm not taking their shit.
	You know what?
	I really wish you would have done this.
	I've said, suck my fat cock, get on your knees and say, let's do it right here.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Come on, take out your camera.
	Let's really see how impressive it is.
	Let's see how impressive it really is.
	And I bet you there's nothing there.
	And that's the key thing with the whole movement.
	There's nothing there.
	It is a big, fat, phallic movement, and it has no ability, no force, because if you're not backing it with real testosterone, if it's only artificial testosterone, you're not able to accomplish this.
	And this is why this is a movement built by unstable individuals.
	It's neither led by male nor female.
	And all stable movements are led by males with the backing of strong females together to create a movement.
	But when you have neither, you have a smokescreen.
	It's a mirror that's out there.
	And so, you know, people go, well, why are you running?
	Why are you doing this?
	So let's go back to your story a little bit here.
	This has been going on for eight years.
	And I know you're not supposed to talk about this for a specific reason.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the crazy Dallas County courts, the liberal judges in Dallas County, put a gag order on me with an intention of preventing me from running for office and to prevent me from lobbying for laws in this state to stop transgender child abuse.
	This gag order that they put on me outlaws me from doing any podcast interviews, radio interviews, television interviews.
	I'm not allowed to write blog posts myself.
	I'm not allowed to talk about any transgender political issues.
	I'm not allowed to talk about any gender expansion issues.
	I'm not even allowed to tell you whether my son is a boy or a girl.
	So I've told the judge multiple times that I have no intentions of following this gag order.
	It's totally illegal.
	It's unconstitutional.
	And I have maximum contempt for the court for issuing it to me.
	And I'm never going to follow it.
	And that they should just put me in jail for criminal contempt.
	And we'll just do a writ of habeas corpus and we'll go up to the Fifth Appeals District and we'll just see who's right.
	And instead of doing that, she took my kids away from me.
	So, yeah, I was going to say, I mean, people don't realize how liberal Dallas is.
	They don't understand this is what one, I think it might still be in one of the top 10 most dangerous cities in the country in terms of crime.
	It's a very, very crime-infested place.
	Very dangerous place.
	I don't live in Dallas intentionally because I don't like it at all.
	Absolutely.
	I don't like it.
	But there is jurisdiction and power, judicial power.
	Obviously, it's centralized here.
	And, you know, it's only recently that Texas and Florida have been fighting back to sort of take control of their courts.
	But the institutionalized left has absolutely taken over from the highest degree, from the superior courts to the county courts, into order, even the state court, federal appeals, everything.
	I mean, it is so crazy.
	And sometimes we even get shocked when we see a judge, like in Florida, actually weigh in favor of constitutional rights and amendments.
	We get shocked because we're so used to the judicial system not being a balance of power, but an extension of power.
	Right.
	And so this is the opposite of what the framers intended.
	And here in Texas, we've been victim to the same thing that you in Illinois and in Indiana, which if you're watching this on Friday, I'm speaking at Indiana University in Bloomington tonight at 6 p.m.
	And you're welcome to come and see that.
	And as well, as don't forget, we're also speaking on the 27th in, where are we speaking the 27th?
	Pennsylvania and then Tennessee on the 4th.
	So we got a lot of good speeches coming up.
	You guys should keep track of that.
	Follow me on all social media so you can keep that going.
	But you have these kids and you, this is your ex-wife, right?
	Yep.
	My ex-wife, she's a pediatrician in Capelle.
	So yeah, so she, so she's, Capell's nice as hell.
	It's a nice area.
	Very nice.
	Starting at the age of two, when I was still living there with her, we were still married.
	She began to transition my son to a girl.
	She would put him into timeouts and say, you know, don't be a boy.
	The monsters only eat boys and weird things like this.
	So I just said, look, you can't do this stuff.
	Don't do this.
	So she filed for divorce, forced me out of the house.
	And at the age of three, transitioned my son to a girl.
	You can go out on YouTube, search for mommy says I'm a girl.
	It went viral.
	It went all over Eastern Europe and Russia because I'm Orthodox.
	So they were like, what's happening to this little Orthodox boy in Texas?
	And it got millions and millions of views.
	And it's me learning for the first time that she was telling my son that he really is a girl.
	And my son at that time actually believed it.
	I mean, his mom told him, so why wouldn't he believe it?
	So I got that all straightened out by the age of about four.
	You know, he presented as a boy with me thereafter and only presents as a girl with his mom.
	And then I would take my son to school as a boy in Capelle, and the teacher would give him a dress without telling me.
	This is collusion with the state.
	Yeah.
	They transitioned my son to a girl at school and made him use the girls' restroom and everything.
	And this went on for a year before I even found out about it.
	So, but I mean, because your son was young, did they tell him not to tell you?
	Is that what it was?
	They told him not to tell me.
	Yep.
	And it's legal in Texas.
	So parents don't know that in Texas, you have no right to the medical or psychological records of your children.
	The medical professional or psychological professional has a right of privacy that they can exert against the parent or the child.
	And they don't have to tell you they exerted the right.
	So the school counselor exerted this privacy right so they didn't have to tell me.
	Well, you know, in Quebec, it even got worse recently with their new title that they just passed.
	And for our Canadian viewers, we don't forget about you.
	I don't have all the details on this, but we are tracking what's going on there, where officially the state now has been given itself power to where the parent officially has no power over anything.
	If the state disagrees with the parent's decision, the state can override the parent in any personal matter or any decision possible.
	I mean, this is where we're heading.
	No, that's right.
	I mean, and we're not as far in all situations.
	That's not the case here in the United States.
	But think about where a kid spends most of his time.
	It's usually at school or, you know, even think about where you're going, you know, on a field trip or everywhere you stand is municipal, county, or city territory.
	It's incorporated to the most part.
	If you live in a metropolitan area or under this law, people are going to abuse this.
	And your son was a victim and is a victim of this.
	And I just have to ask you, before we go any further, I know you have a couple kids.
	How are they?
	How are they doing?
	So I have twin boys, James and Jude.
	I named them after the brothers of Jesus.
	James is the one that she's transitioning.
	What happened was because I refused to follow the gag order, they said, here's the reasoning from the judge.
	The illegal gag order was entered in the best interest of the children.
	Mr. Younger is not following the illegal gag order.
	Therefore, Mr. Younger is not acting in the interests of the children.
	Therefore, I'm taking his children away from him.
	So I haven't seen them since July 31st.
	And all notifications.
	Last year.
	Yes.
	All notification requirements were lifted by the judge.
	That's actually illegal in Texas.
	If you are a parent with conservator rights, you are always allowed to be notified of educational and medical decisions.
	She doesn't have to notify me of these things.
	That's illegal.
	That was an illegal order from the judge.
	That's a second illegal order.
	So I write them letters.
	You know, I write letters on how should you think about your education.
	I did one on how should you read books and how should you think about reading.
	How do you know when stories are true, when they're not true when you read them?
	I'm writing a game for them right now.
	I'm writing a video game for them to help them with spelling and stuff.
	And they could interact with that.
	I took them some treats from London.
	You know, my girlfriend's a flight attendant.
	She went to London and brought some special treats that they like.
	I took that to them.
	They wrote me a card, said I was a good father and that they missed me, but I don't have any interaction with them.
	The judge actually set me up with supervised visitation twice a month for two hours each.
	Cost me $600 per visit with my sons.
	And the so-called psychiatrist that's going to supervise these visits refuses to let me take my son out of a dress and refuses to let me call him by his legal name.
	So as you can tell, I don't follow illegal orders and mandates.
	I don't control your speech.
	I mean, I understand there's like, so they're probably on the line of this is like abuse or threatening language, which they would use the same thing.
	You can't make threats of violence.
	That's correct.
	So words are violence here.
	That's correct.
	So I won't participate in the abuse of my son.
	So I haven't gone to any of these, you know, these supervised visitations, which are really just attempts to get my son to be embarrassed in front of me so that the psychologist can get in front of a jury and say my son scared of me or something.
	It's really just to manufacture evidence.
	So I haven't gone to any of these.
	So now the judge is saying, well, since you're not visiting your sons, you've abandoned them, forgetting that the state is the one who took them away from me.
	And it's the state who won't let me see them on my terms, right?
	So that's the kind of the state where we're at.
	I'm about to have to launch another quarter of a million dollars in litigation to try to get visitation back.
	Your ex is a wicked woman who's going to hell.
	I agree.
	And she dies.
	And I cannot understand even probably what tormenting her brain really does to her when she goes to sleep.
	And I'm sure it's horrible.
	And she's in too deep right now.
	And she doesn't want to admit this.
	I mean, and it's just absolutely the savagery of this, especially to target a man.
	I mean, what a conduit a woman can be.
	A loving, nurturing woman.
	It'd be men that hate women.
	And I hate this.
	I don't like the SJW women.
	I don't like these fake women.
	But I do know that there is nothing more instrumental in the formative years of a young kid's life, especially as a young child, of a mother coming in and helping form that so that when she can transfer him to the to the dad to help turn him from a boy into a man, right?
	I mean, obviously you come along, your son as a boy and as a baby, et cetera, but the mother's nurturing and she helps grow him.
	There's that point where he gets off the breast and he gets into the, you know, on his own feet.
	And then there's a point where he gets away from the protection of the mother and away from the home of the mother.
	And he says, you know, you're becoming a man.
	We don't have that anymore in our culture, a certain age or a time when you move into adulthood.
	So this Munchauser system symptom, this idea of these women coming in and abusing their kids and manipulating their kids, this is such a disservice because, you know, I think your son still has a bright future.
	I think that he really can recover greatly.
	And if you don't have any contact with him, my question is, Has he communicated to you at all how this has affected him?
	Do you know how this is this is this is taking a toll on his mental health?
	I mean, is he doing okay?
	He's not doing okay.
	So let me tell you what precipitated the July event, which led to them taking my sons away from me.
	So the court-ordered psychologist, her name is Dr. Susan Fletcher, and she's in Frisco, Texas.
	She's not the county commissioner.
	She's a psychologist, okay?
	Dr. Susan Fletcher, refused to see my son when he came from my home because he would come as a boy.
	So he would only see my son for appointments when he came from his mother's home as a girl, right?
	Clearly, she wanted to get in front of the jury and say, I've never seen him as a boy.
	He doesn't ever present as a boy, right?
	So during July, I got him for a full month.
	And so she had to take an appointment for my son.
	She actually took two.
	So he goes there and he tells her point blank, I want to be a boy and I want to go to school as a boy.
	This is getting embarrassing.
	He comes back and says, well, she's not doing anything.
	She's not even responding to me.
	And he had an Apple Watch that I had bought him.
	And he said, I'd like to record myself telling her this.
	And I said, okay, well, we're not a sneaky family, right?
	So just record openly, record it openly.
	And he recorded her, telling her that he wanted to be a boy.
	The counselor flipped out, threw my sons out of the office, initiated the eighth CPS investigation on me or forcing my son to want to be a boy, then wrote a report to the court that my sons were being coerced and never told the court that my son wanted to be a boy.
	I then had to file suit to get her records to prove that he said that.
	And the court denied me access to the records, even though under the rules of civil procedure, I'm allowed to see them.
	So they're trying to do everything they can to prevent me from producing evidence that my son is a boy, wants to be a boy, and with me for seven years has always been a boy.
	They're suppressing this.
	This is going on in Texas.
	And guys, we're going to jump back into this because if you are listening, don't forget this is an audio-only podcast for the blind viewers.
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	And if you leave a five-star review there, it might get read on the show later.
	But I got to talk to you about something.
	So obviously we're talking about the massive instability and you're not safe no matter where you live.
	Unfortunately, the federalist system has taken over and our finances, our lives, our families, everything has basically been brainwashed into believing that the only way that we're going to be safe is by relying on the government.
	And it's just not true.
	And if you want to grow your money and you want to have your safe safety for your future, for your kids, that's a huge important part, whether you're young or you're old.
	And many people think that is to risk it in the stock market.
	But the problem is that's not true because you can reach your financial goals and dreams without taking any unnecessary risks because you really are not in control if you risk your savings in the stock market because the government kind of controls that.
	I don't know if you realize that.
	And we can crash it or make it work.
	And if you've got a 401k or an IRA or a similar retirement plan, the government actually has the power to control that too.
	They decide how much you can borrow when you must pay it back.
	And you'll owe taxes and penalties for taking money out too soon or waiting too long, even though it's your money.
	And thanks to our skyrocketing national debt, who knows how much you'll have to pay in taxes during a retirement that could last 30 years?
	Just ask yourself this question.
	Do you think if I asked you, taxes in 30 years will be higher or lower than they are?
	Blake, what would you say?
	Higher.
	Jeff?
	Higher.
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	So, you know, I mean, and this is funny.
	A lot of ads we do on here is like for food prep, for guns, for things.
	And the Bank on Yourself, by the way, is really cool.
	And the reason why I do a long ad for that is because it's like specifically for millennials, Gen X, and stuff.
	This is a great way to have a retirement plan, not based on the government, because I don't like the government and I hate the government and I want to do something that doesn't rely on that.
	They're going to take your retirement.
	They will.
	There's Social Security, too.
	You're not getting that.
	They're already talking about anytime you hear in the federal Congress word of a haircut, they'll say we need to take a haircut.
	You'll hear this phrase a lot.
	What they're talking about is shaving off a little bit off for everyone's retirement.
	Literally going into the accounts and taking that money.
	And they can do that legally.
	I'm not going to say.
	I'm already having like three.
	You're actually out for things.
	You really are better off paying the taxes now and then saving that money because you've already paid the taxes on it before you have higher taxes in the future.
	It is true, but I'm saying that with the government.
	This is the sad part: is with your with your son.
	And so you're fighting this and you look at this and you're going, man, like I genuinely need to do something.
	So you've decided to run for state house here.
	Yeah.
	You've decided to actually run in the state.
	So you mentioned the district again for those who are maybe just popping in here.
	What district is it?
	Yeah, it's House District 63.
	It's Southern Denton County.
	Okay.
	And what do you, I mean, if you win, or if people, you know, if you're in the House, you're going to need people to vote for you.
	And like, I just am just wondering with all the people that are out there, this is a very, I would say not a tough district to win, but this is something you're going to have to convince people.
	Why would I vote for you?
	What would be the purpose?
	There's a couple of things.
	First of all, I think we need to start thinking differently about who we elect to political office.
	We should actually look for people who have actually been harmed by government.
	People who've been harmed by government know why it has to be limited.
	And they have skin in the game.
	I'm not going to run out of my son.
	I'm not going to back down on protecting him.
	You know, the courts took my sons away from me.
	This is the only way I can protect him.
	I got to get a law passed to protect my son.
	That's what it takes to be a father today.
	That's how bad it is.
	But I'm not going to back down because I have skin in the game.
	People who've been harmed by the government have skin in the game and they don't back down.
	You know, one of the criticisms that's been leveled at me by my opponent is that I'm a one-issue candidate on this transgender issue thing.
	Well, I always shoot back.
	Well, yeah, but you don't have any reason to run.
	You're not been harmed by government.
	You have no reason to run at all.
	You're just running for power and money, right?
	We need to think differently about who we elect.
	I'm a candidate who has actually fought the government and in some respects won in this state.
	You know, we had the recent Attorney General opinion.
	I don't know if you know, but I was instrumental in getting the law through a law passed through the Senate.
	We weren't able to get it through the house, but by quantitative measures, I produced more political power for that bill in the legislature than any other bill in Texas history, right?
	I know how to use political power for the right.
	And I'm not one of these wishy-washy conservatives.
	I'm one of these normie conservatives that wants to be a statesman.
	I don't want to be a statesman.
	I want to put my boot up the left's ass.
	And that's exactly what I'm going to do when I go there.
	And after I have my foot on their neck and they surrender to me and do my will, I'll go back home and run my business.
	All right.
	That's what makes me different.
	I have skin in the game and I'm never going to back down from the left.
	Yeah.
	And I was going to say, it's quite insane, too.
	It is different because I've noticed that a lot of your campaign, you're using young dudes who are passionate about this too, that are Christian, that are saying, I am so sick of the bullshit.
	And this needs to end now because it's like, this is, this is, it's crazy the conversations we're having on there's a party that wants to mutilate and kill children inside the womb in California, passing a bill through the house right now to kill them up to a week outside of the womb.
	Up to 28 days possibly, murdering children.
	You wonder if they'll kill a baby in the womb, kill a baby outside of the womb.
	Why would they not kill the mental, spiritual, and fortitude of a young man when he's in his formative developmental years?
	And I know that what's happened is millennials have let this slip by, but it's the Gen Zers that are coming out that are going, you know what?
	It has to end here.
	And obviously being young, you know, well, we may not have the connections, the power, the money to do so.
	And a lot of you guys are being retarded, Gen Z, and you're not connecting with the generations that can actually get things done.
	But there are a lot of you who are not.
	And like Blake, that's what you're doing.
	Why'd you get involved with Jeff?
	You know, Jeff is a Zoomer at heart.
	I got to say, okay, he's a meme lord.
	He's incredibly based and also like probably the most intelligent person I know.
	But I had been following his story since it first came to light.
	About four years, four or three years ago, I started hearing about his story.
	And I moved here to Texas and through a friend who actually went to UNT, I got in contact with Jeff Younger and I was so excited and I met him and I found out how base he is.
	And yeah, I'm very passionate about working for him.
	It really gives me, I feel like it gives me purpose because I mean, if I were in his position, we got to commend this man for a second.
	If I were in his position, if my ex-wife was doing this, I'd be going ape shit.
	I know you're going to have to cut that out or whatever, but I'd be going crazy.
	I would not be able to control myself.
	I don't threaten to kill anyone anymore on the show.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You know, Jeff controls himself very well, much more than anyone else I know ever could.
	And it's truly one of the most horrifying things happening in this country, what's happening to his kids.
	So I'm very happy to be working for him.
	I think we're going to get him in there.
	He's going to make some changes.
	I think Blake exemplifies, and I even go further.
	He's emblematic of what the new right needs to become.
	Okay.
	It's people on the right who live in the real world, right?
	Blake doesn't quote to me the Constitution and say, oh, this is unconstitutional because he knows the Constitution doesn't even constrain the government anymore.
	That has no effect.
	It's like, you know, the government is not constrained by the laws, right?
	We have to understand that we need a new kind of right-wing politics, one that is restorationist, not merely conservative, because there's nothing left to conserve.
	If they can kill babies, one-week old babies out of the womb and call it abortion, if they can castrate 14-year-old boys, if they, you know, and my, when we deposed their expert witnesses in my last trial in 2019, the doctor admitted she had referred out over 250 pubescent girls to have their breasts removed.
	What the heck?
	That's in Dallas alone.
	There are thousands of cases just like Jeff's happening all over Texas.
	There's nothing left to conserve at this point.
	What we are trying to do is restore a lost political order.
	It's a restorationist project, and that project requires a different kind of politics than conserving the status quo.
	And these young guys like Blake get that.
	Bingo, you're the first person other than myself that I've had on this show that has ever said that I think conservatism is dead.
	And I don't believe there's anything too conservative.
	I mean, it's absolutely true.
	It's like I tell people, it's like, well, you know, a house that burns down oftentimes from the outside looks like it's still intact.
	Sure.
	And it's like, well, let's remodel.
	It's like at a certain point, you have to realize the house is burned.
	The outside might look okay.
	But, you know, you need to demolish that.
	The foundation might not be cracked from the fire, but at the same time, you need to rebuild.
	And it's going to require their know they're realizing the next step is requiring them to tear down.
	And we're realizing that, yeah, we've let them go for so many years, for so many decades, that this is dilapidated.
	And they were smart and they were intentional and they were systematic.
	People warned us from 1947 and Walt Disney talking about the communists, the elites, and the global cabal that was trying to take over Disney and Hollywood.
	Yes.
	And we ignored them.
	And we had McCarthy and people saying this was going on.
	You had William F. Buckley, who kicked out the people that were warning about this in the John Birch Society who are warning about these things.
	McCarthy was right.
	He was totally right.
	He taught us he was wrong.
	In California schools, McCarthy warned that there was going to be communist takeovers of our colleges, institutions, and our government that were going to want far-left policies away from America.
	What a fear monger.
	And he's right.
	He's also right.
	He was right that the State Department was infested with communists and the CIA was infested with communists.
	He was right about everything.
	Everything.
	And he was obviously privy to a lot of good intelligence.
	And he probably couldn't tell everybody everything, but he was totally right.
	So we just have to understand that.
	The other thing that I think conservatives are in denial about is power.
	There is a massive power imbalance between the left and the right.
	They control the commanding heights of all institutions in this country.
	They control all of the agencies.
	They control all of the foundations and nonprofit institutions.
	They control most of the media, right?
	As much as I, you know, I'll give you an example.
	I had a new New York Times has contacted me many times.
	I won't do interviews with them.
	And they ask me why.
	And I say, because you're a left-wing media organization and I don't support them.
	I support independent right-wing media.
	That's all I talk to, right?
	Conservatives have got to not think it's an honor to be in the New York Times, right?
	It's an insult for these Cretans to call you and ask for an interview.
	It's an absolute insult, right?
	Because you should be so right-wing and so powerful, they wouldn't even dare to call you.
	So this is, we have to have a completely new attitude toward power.
	And I think constitutional conservatism holds us back here, right?
	Think about this.
	How many times have you heard conservatives say, I can't do that because if I got into office and I did that, it would be unconstitutional.
	You know what, man?
	At this point, whatever it takes to destroy the left has to be done.
	Any power that we can take, governmental in corporations, whatever, has to be turned against the left.
	You get your principles after you win.
	The founders of this country did not use constitutional principles to win the Revolutionary War.
	We stole those British ships, right?
	We stole those rifles, right?
	We didn't follow the Constitution.
	We got the Constitution after we kicked the English ass.
	Our founding fathers were insurrectionists.
	100%.
	This is the part of the episode where Elijah says something a little too hot for YouTube.
	But of course, we didn't want to cheat you out of everything hot.
	So we provided this semi-hot to hottish woman instead.
	If you want to hear the whole conversation, go to blazetv.com/slash Elijah.
	Check it out.
	And I pray to God that you change your mind because people can only take so much.
	And they will only take so much.
	The Declaration of Independence is very clear on when the people can revolt, when there's a train of abuses all directed toward one purpose, tyranny.
	And I think if you think about the long history since the 1960s in this country, you see a long train of abuses, all aimed at subverting the institutions of freedom and liberty in this country.
	And I think that's one of the reasons that I want to join the Texas legislature.
	So I've talked to the legislatures in South Carolina and Florida.
	I actually want to create a contiguous landmass in the United States to create an abortion-free zone, to create a child transgender-free zone, and to start pushing back and nullifying federal regulations.
	Because I really believe that the only peaceful future for the United States is a return to radical federalism, where, and conservatives don't like to hear this, but we're going to have to accept that California is not going to live their lives the way we want to live them, right?
	They're going to kill babies.
	If you do that in Texas, we're going to hang you.
	I love it.
	Okay.
	We're going to hang you for that.
	We're going to have to accept that in Maine, they're not going to have guns, but in Texas, you're going to have guns.
	Like we have now.
	Yes.
	Just unfettered, go around.
	And it was never expected.
	It was never even contemplated by the framers of the Constitution that the states would live uniform ways of life.
	And we need to get back to that.
	And so I'm mainly concerned with increasing the power of Texas and neighboring states so we can push back against the federal government and begin to nullify these regulations.
	It was the great lie after the civil incursion was that it was like, oh, well, you know, the North decides what's bad and the South is bad.
	And so then the federal system can decide, hey, we just decide uniformly what is good.
	Now, here's the point.
	Morality is not subjective.
	It is objective, but it is also predicated on your framework, on your actual worldview.
	And so this is why you see across the world, there is a difference in law.
	There's a difference in totality, a difference in morality, depending on how it's laid out both socially and in the courts.
	But I think that that's the key thing is that we are saying Texas will become a, like they go, well, you can't become a Christian state.
	Yeah, we can.
	And we will hang out.
	I don't think hanging is the best.
	I think fire slots are.
	Actually, the Constitution only murderers in the womb and out.
	I mean, we need to remember the Constitution only prohibits an establishment of religion in the federal government.
	It does not prohibit the states from establishing a religion in the government, right?
	The Constitution limits the federal government and it gives some duties to the states as well.
	But the Bill of Rights in particular limits the federal government, not the states.
	And so that's another thing we need to think through.
	You know, the Ninth and Tenth Amendment are the surest way to, like, if you talk to law scholars and lawyers, like the Ninth and Tenth Amendment arguments are the surest way to lose a case in federal court because the courts just totally ignore them.
	But I don't think the people ignore them.
	And the people are a powerful force and more powerful than the courts.
	I love Utah because Utah is like my favorite state because it's the closest thing America is going to get to a theocracy anytime soon.
	Unfortunately, it's a Mormon theocracy, but the Mormon church basically controls everything that happens in that state.
	Yeah, except Salt Lake City is like one of the gayest cities in America.
	And it's also been one of the strictest with the laws because the state is so totally religiously inclined, anyone who's not is going to move to one central zone, which is going to be Salt Lake City.
	And that's been the problem is that the people, we saw the people who do not want to fall in line with what the country wants have been hijacked in city centers and they've been used as abuse factors in order to manipulate, control, and subjugate the rest of states.
	The people who produce the produce, the people who produce the wood, the supplies, any type of, even want to live independently, the children.
	And they take people.
	They promote you not to have kids.
	They want you to live single lifestyles.
	They do not want you to even own a car.
	They don't want you to have independence.
	They want public transport.
	They want a centralized grid system that they can control, that they can shut down, like we're seeing in Shanghai right now.
	This is the order that they want.
	This is the new world order, and this is what we're fighting against.
	Yeah, if I had to describe what the leftist vision of society would be, it would be to turn the entire country into one giant college campus.
	You get a meal car, you get a meal card.
	You're told where you need to be three times a week.
	You are given approved recreational activities.
	You know, that's exactly what they want to do.
	You know, when I talk about using power and asking conservatives to adopt a politics of power rather than a politics of mere principle, one of the things you talk about cities, you know, Austin is a hotbed of Antifa activity.
	Austin has adopted many of the failed policies of San Francisco.
	You know, in Texas, people think that we have three co-equal branches of government, like the federal government.
	That's not true.
	In Texas, the legislative branch is absolutely supreme over all the other branches.
	The legislature tomorrow could revoke the Austin City Charter, turn it back to the county, or split it up into five cities.
	We could remove the city council, appoint a new sheriff.
	A truly right-wing legislature could destroy, utterly destroy the political power of these cities in these states.
	They have the power to do it.
	They could simply dissolve Houston and turn it into 10 cities and just break it up.
	It's absolutely legal and possible.
	Is there a precedent for it in Texas history?
	But our weakling conservatives, because they still have this belief that they're trying to conserve the status quo, won't rock the boat and use the power that they have.
	Right.
	This is why we love Jeff.
	This is why we love and appreciate Jeff so much because he's one of the few people who understands power.
	He's one of the few authentic and effective conservatives who can actually get things done and understands this.
	His opponent, his opponent has been, so he's running for the, he's in a runoff election.
	So he's running against another Republican.
	His opponent has basically been endorsed by the Democrat named Denise Wooten, who is running for the same House district.
	He has been endorsed by her because the left only goes after effective conservatives like him.
	They're not going to bother with the rhinos and the libertarians who aren't going to do anything because they don't serve as any obstacle to what the left actually wants to get done.
	You're not going to see Ben Baumgartner, his opponent, go to UNT and get a huge Antifa crowd because they don't care.
	They don't care.
	Jeff Younger is an actual threat to them.
	He's an actual threat to the establishment, the rhinos in the Texas legislature.
	He's going to get things done.
	Right.
	No, and I think like if you, I don't know if you go to my screen, GT here, just it'll be a little bit of a lag, but this is just some videos of the mandatory daily testing centers in Shanghai that's going on right now across China.
	And this is what they want for us: it's that you are six feet apart, that you are in your little pod, that you're in your little lane.
	You know, that if you, if you even have a questionable test, they just grab you.
	You don't get to go home.
	They stick you in a quarantine center for 19 to 20 days.
	Even if you show negative, you don't, they keep the lights on all hours of the day, like prison.
	And you are food rationed.
	They give it to you and they control every one of your movements.
	I want to remind you guys, for everyone that thinks that China is some sort of a third world country, Shanghai is one of the financial centers of the world.
	It is one of the richest cities.
	It is much nicer than New York.
	It is much nicer than London.
	Shanghai is clean.
	It is beautiful.
	It is one of the most well-built and designed cities I've ever had the pleasure to work in and live in for a while.
	And I would never think in a million years that if any place in the world would have this happen, it would be Shanghai.
	Despite your understanding of the CCP, this is their mecca.
	This is their glory.
	Beijing is too polluted.
	And so they've taken their prize and their jewel.
	And the reason why this is out today, it has nothing to do, why do we have this?
	Because China's letting us know what to expect.
	This is the point.
	This is the World Economic Forum gaslighting the public, saying, this is your future.
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	So I look at this and I want to play a couple clips here and get into a little bit of a discussion.
	You know, with the power and the control, people say, oh, but Shanghai is obviously a populated city.
	It's, you know, again, like it was like the same with a trans argument, right?
	Oh, it's just some people, some adults.
	You know, it's not going to be your kids.
	And when we were complaining about Desmond is amazing, like, hey, they're having kids stripped for them and there's naked, you know, drag queens with them.
	Everyone's like, oh, you're you hate gay people.
	And you got to ask yourself the question if not wanting naked non-family member drag queens taking pictures of little boys means that you're anti-gay.
	Makes you question if the agenda that we claim to exist is really as fake as they say.
	Yep.
	You're exactly right.
	I mean, so look, we don't have to speculate about China as the model because at the Davos Summit, they every year they openly say China is the model for the future.
	Their digital currency program is the model for the future.
	The New York Times and all of their entire opinion staff have all at one point said China's the model for the future.
	They moved our manufacturing to China for a reason, precisely to make us dependent on the China model.
	They're now moving our food production out of the United States.
	A lot of people don't know that.
	They're culling herds.
	They're pulling cattle hoards right now when we have the most expensive beef in American history.
	They're doing that to move food production up.
	They want to make us dependent on these foreign systems so that we'll adopt those systems.
	And there is a definite movement to do this with our with this with sexuality.
	Why are they focusing so much on the sexuality?
	Because the only resistance to the globalist tyranny is the American middle class.
	This is the only place in the world where you actually can speak freely.
	This is the only place in the world where people still have traditional Christian values.
	If you go to Europe, you can find enclaves of it, but they have no political power.
	But the American middle class still controls who gets elected in this country.
	They're a massive political force.
	And that's why all this effort goes into splitting the vote of the middle class and to eradicating their families.
	Because one of the things that Republicans are in total denial about married people with children vote Republican.
	Why isn't family formation then the number one issue for Republican for the Republican Party?
	Because they're working with them.
	They never talk about it.
	You're exactly right.
	They're working with them.
	When I talk about changing the tax code to actually benefit people with kids, right?
	We've seen what's happened in Hungary, right?
	They're approaching replacement birth rates because they simply changed the financial incentives for having children.
	You have two children, you get a minivan, right?
	You have four children, you get free college education, free schooling, free tutoring for your kids, right?
	You get all these benefits for having children.
	Russia is experiencing the same thing.
	They did the same thing.
	They learned it from Hungary, right?
	So we penalize people for having children in this country.
	So we need to focus on family formation and protecting the family because it is the bulwark of freedom in this country.
	Nothing else stands in the way of the globalists except the traditional family, and they are going to do everything they can to destroy it.
	That's what it's really about.
	And for some of the viewers of the show who are either new to politics or you don't even understand maybe the depth of what he's saying, a good example of this could be a sports team that you are watching or a movie that you're watching, the new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, or whatever it's called.
	I mean, apparently they were in the classroom with you in UNT.
	Those are the beasts.
	Is that, you know, there is a, apparently, Brett Cooper was telling me about this whole gay thing between Dumbledore, the wizard, and something, and they cut it out in China.
	Now, we could call that a win for China, but meaning we see this even further, like in sports, how people, you know, people are sponsored by Nike and they're not allowed to condemn the abuses of Nike in China because they don't want to piss the Chinese off.
	And we've intertwined our industries to where we're subservient to China and we're not subservient to our own values.
	We are, it's a globalist system to where we are all to humanity.
	And by humanity, it's not this utopian new age, you know, let's all get along.
	By humanity, it means the greater globalist powers that control the narrative, the systems that we don't have democratic representation to actually have a say-so in.
	And that's their goal.
	Didn't Davos, they say we would like to hand-select leaders that run things.
	This is the idea of this new feudal system, this new technocratic feudal system to where a few people own and run everything and we are all indentured servants to them.
	Our lives are expendable and we're worthless, only equal to our productivity.
	And any type of resistance or independence is seen as a rejection of what they believe to be good, their morality, their system.
	And we are enemies of God, who is them.
	And I do want to look at this.
	And we know that because they're even now trying to deify the idea of turning trans kids, which I reject the premise, but turning kids trans, saying that, in fact, this is a shocking video of a former Dick Cheney advisor speaking about Jesus Christ.
	And I don't want to preclude it.
	Let's go ahead and let's listen to this.
	Over the Easter holidays and the Easter holidays, the entire message of the gospels of the Easter holidays was love one another.
	And I have said this before, and I'll say it again.
	If Jesus Christ was alive today, he would be called a groomer, he would be called woke, and he would be called a socialist if he was alive today.
	If he was speaking the message he spoke in the gospels today about treating everybody with dignity, Jesus Christ hung around with prostitutes and tax collectors.
	He was nailed to a cross because he spoke on behalf of the most marginalized people in the Middle East.
	And the idea that certain segment of our population has tried to capture the faith and corrupt a message that I may have been a follower of since I was baptized and was confirmed and served on the altar in the course of this is something I think all of us, it's not just people of faith, but all over the East.
	Turn that blasphemer off.
	So there's many, many places he got wrong.
	If you're not familiar with these, with the Bible, which he's clearly not, and he is the deception of thinking being a part of a church, being baptized in a church understands relationship with Christ and understanding the Bible, which is a lost art in many ways.
	This is why I'm more inclined towards orthodoxy even over Catholicism, because there's a much more push towards understanding the scripture and actually knowing why you believe what you believe and having the power and authority to know what God says and to be confident in it.
	This idea, it's like, oh, yeah, the guy who brought whips and said that, you know, that his, that the place, the house of God had been turned into a den of thieves and deceivers.
	The guy who came out and literally said that he came to divide family, brother against sister and families against one another, that he came as a essentially a stumbling block to those who were not saved, to those who were headed towards destruction.
	And he's coming back in a robe dipped in blood, literally to conquer the nations of the world.
	Yeah, very socialist.
	Literally, give unto Caesar what Caesar's.
	You know what he was able to do that socialists can't?
	He can take less and make more of it.
	The bread and the bread and the wine, right?
	I mean, he can literally, he can literally divide bread and turn it into more.
	All socialists do is take someone else's bigger loaf, tear off little pieces until they have none.
	And he had baskets left over.
	You ever seen a socialist with surplus that wasn't created from nothing?
	I haven't.
	Yeah.
	You know, the thing that the left always gets wrong about Christianity, he said it here.
	He said, Jesus spoke on behalf of the marginalized.
	What Jesus spoke on behalf of was the salvation of the marginalized.
	And he told them to stop being tax collectors and to stop perverting the temples of their bodies with prostitution.
	And he told them to turn away from that and instead turn to almsgiving, fasting, and prayer.
	He told them to stop doing these things.
	What this man is doing is turning that around and saying that Jesus was affirming these sins, which is a complete, you're right, it's blasphemy.
	It's probably heresy.
	Yeah, there were times where that man wouldn't exist anymore.
	Yes.
	Better times.
	See these types of people, this sort of groomer defending, because he's calling Jesus a groomer to sort of defend what's going on in Florida or he's against the anti-groomer bill.
	The more I see these types of people, the more I see the types of events like Jeff at UNT, it just confirms my belief in Christ every day.
	So in a sense, I'm kind of glad that these things are happening.
	They're sort of fulfilling prophecies that the Bible lays out.
	Our society just becoming more degenerative and degraded.
	And it just reaffirms my belief in Christ every day.
	Yeah.
	And I think that's myself too, because I do know God very well in terms of the reality of truth, but sometimes we walk far from it, right?
	I mean, it's an interesting predicament that humanity is in.
	Well, you know, I'm Orthodox, so we believe in the sacraments.
	Sacrament just means mysteries, right?
	And one of the things we believe is that we ourselves are mysteries.
	We're created by God by some inexplicable mechanism, but in some way we participate in divinity, but we're still human and much like Jesus.
	And Jesus built this, you know, became incarnate so that we could know God.
	But we're still a mystery, even to ourselves.
	You know, one of the phrases you'll hear the Holy Father say is: you don't know what your name is in the book of life.
	You don't know what that name is.
	You're a mystery to yourself in many ways, and you have to trust God because he knows who you really are.
	And he reveals who you are.
	It's something that's revealed to you.
	It's not something that you know and then you go act on.
	It's something that you begin acting, prayer, fasting, doing good works, almsgiving.
	You do these things, and your true self is revealed to you.
	That's something like this, this critinous heretic will never understand.
	No.
	You know, Jeff has been, Jeff has been instrumental in my transition towards Christ.
	Elijah, I think I'm much like you.
	I was agnostic my whole life, basically.
	And I only came to Christ maybe in the past three or four years, I suppose.
	And I was actually, I would say I was conservative before I was Christian.
	I was pro-life and I became anti-gay.
	And I realized, oh, the Bible sort of verifies all of my beliefs.
	Oh, there's a whole lot more stuff in the Bible that's really based.
	Okay, yeah, I'm Christian now.
	And Jeff has, Jeff's a great teacher.
	Jeff's a very smart guy.
	You should come to his church with us one of these days.
	I'm not going to ask where I'm on here, but we'll talk about it after.
	I want to burn it down.
	Yeah, but I do understand too, like the interesting part is the ownership of realizing.
	And people say, What does it mean to take ownership of your faith?
	I said, taking ownership of your faith is to realize that you are owned.
	You were bought and paid for with a price.
	Yes.
	It's not you taking ownership.
	No.
	It's realizing who has ownership over you.
	Right.
	And again, and it's an acknowledgement of seeing that price cannot be undone.
	That price cannot.
	And by the way, I don't know if you guys saw all the cringe Easter posts from like all these white girls.
	Like, there's a lot of like cringy stuff out there.
	I don't, I don't know.
	And people are like, Christ would do it again if He had to.
	And it's like, why would He have to do it again?
	It's an eternal eternal covenant.
	What are you?
	What the hell are you talking about?
	And it's like, yeah, today give thanks because God knew that you would need Him.
	It's like, what do you do?
	Okay, you do not understand the depth and the riches of what God has done.
	And no one can, but don't try to trivialize it.
	It's okay to just sit back and say, Look, there are some things outside of our control, and there are many things that are outside of us, but there's one thing within our lives.
	And it's realizing that one day that you were designed, you were created, and that you need the Creator to catalyze and to create that destiny, that vocation, that calling on your life.
	And most importantly, what you realize in the end of this, the emptiness that you have felt, the confusion, the fear, the trepidation, is because there is literally a car, you are a car going full speed without a driver.
	Like you would, people don't understand that.
	It's like you are a vessel, you are a vehicle.
	Yes.
	And the Lord uses you.
	God uses you and moves through you.
	And yeah, you're going to fail massively in your own power.
	Put any car on full speed of the brick on the pedal without a driver, and it's sure to crash.
	And so, if you've crashed, if you have been in these positions, the great thing is, is not all cars that are totaled can be rebuilt, but there is no vessel that is so damaged that God cannot redeem and God cannot rebuild.
	There is always restitution, there is always the ability for God to restore.
	And that continues even once you acknowledge God.
	If you walk away, if you run away, God will still, He understands that there is forgiveness and redemption for those who call upon the name of the Lord.
	It does not justify, does not push you into living a life intentionally to live away from God and take advantage of His love and His mercy and His grace.
	But at the same time, even in those moments that you do, this is the best day.
	Today is the day of salvation, the Bible says.
	It's literally today is the day.
	And so, as we take part in that, that's why I like the Orthodox understanding of the theology there.
	We are taking part in that.
	And I just want to remind everyone watching that is the truth and that it doesn't take 20 years, 30 years to come to know God.
	Today, you can, and you can understand that.
	And like I know, where I'm a little bit disobedient, we should be under the protection of a pastor of a church of the covenant.
	I'm still trying to figure that part out myself, right?
	And maybe you are too, but I'm leaning towards Orthodox.
	Why Orthodox?
	Well, because Orthodoxy is the closest thing to the original teachings of the church.
	I mean, we have a joke in Orthodoxy: you know, how many Orthodox does it take to change a light bulb?
	Change?
	What's that?
	Right?
	You know, we haven't changed the calendar of the church, the liturgy of the church.
	Nothing's changed.
	Like, people don't know.
	Like, when John, who wrote the Gospel of John, was tortured on the island of Patmos, right?
	They couldn't kill him.
	It was miraculous.
	No matter what they did, they could not kill him.
	They couldn't drown him.
	They couldn't burn him.
	They couldn't strangle him.
	They couldn't do it.
	They tried to cut his head off.
	They couldn't do it.
	They could never kill him.
	So they let him go.
	Eventually, the emperor just let him go.
	And he stayed on the island of Patmos and founded a church.
	And for 39 years, he taught people to understand his gospel.
	And these people that John taught, that's why we call him John the Theologian.
	These people that he taught taught us how to interpret the scriptures, including the Old Testament.
	John is the one who came up with the understanding of the Christian understanding of the Old Testament, right?
	And so we have this history of the first hundred years of people who are directly taught by the apostles and how we should interpret scripture.
	They even developed a method of reading the scriptures so that they could teach the common person orally since they didn't have books.
	Remember, there was no Bible for the first 350 years of Christianity.
	I could argue, really, until the printing press, nobody had Bibles, right?
	But so there were right-believing Christians before there were written scriptures.
	They were taught orally.
	And if you look in every epistle, it says keep to the teachings, both in writing and the ones that we gave you orally and the practices that we taught you.
	There were practices in the church that were taught, right?
	Fasting being one of them, right?
	The traditional fasting rule in the church goes all the way back to what Christ taught the apostles.
	And none of that has been changed.
	Now, we've added some things.
	You know, the Bulgarians one year refused to seat bishops that weren't Bulgarian.
	So we said, okay, you can't do that.
	So from now on, the Lord's Prayer has to be said in every language in the parish, and the priest has to listen to every language spoken, even if it's not Bulgarian.
	So you go to an Orthodox church, the Lord's Prayer is said in every language spoken in the parish, and the priest has to stand there and listen to it to remind him that he serves everybody, not just the people of his own nationality, right?
	So there have been things that have been added to combat heresies like that.
	But in the essentials, particularly in our understanding of how to interpret scripture, which was taught to us by the holy fathers from the apostles, we haven't strayed from that.
	And I found, yeah, not being involved in a good church and stuff like that, it is impossible to be a sheep among wolves and to not somehow get at least injured.
	And I've felt that definitely, which is why I'm like having a personal, and when people say this, it's not like I woke up one day.
	I'm like, now I'm perfect.
	It's like I'm on a journey towards perfect, like going to perfecting the faith.
	Salvation is worked out in fear and trembling, as St. Paul said.
	And the Orthodox understanding of that is that it begins with a relationship of slavery to God.
	You know, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom.
	You fear the consequences of going to hell.
	So you follow the law and you follow the dogmas of the church, but you don't really know why and you really don't want to, but you do it because of fear.
	So you're in a relationship of slavery to God.
	Later, you begin to realize that you get benefits from it.
	You become almost like an employee relationship, right?
	Where you get benefits from your relationship with God.
	You begin to see that he blesses you, right?
	And eventually, you don't even care about the blessings anymore because you become an adopted son of God.
	And like any good son, you love your father just because you love your father and nothing else.
	And we consider this the three steps to spiritual enlightenment, moving from a slave to a bondsman to an adopted son of God.
	And that's the path that we all have to follow.
	And it's a hard path.
	And we know that lots of people won't make it along that path, but it's our job to try to help everyone.
	And you know, that's where I think the juxtaposition comes between that and this sort of non-denominational evangelicism, which is which I find to be where we have a different problem, right?
	You said other people don't make it.
	But see, I came with the opposite path.
	Like I was living in the world completely.
	Then I had a radical, like born-again, like salvation experience with God where I knew God because I believe God, there's many ways God can call people to him.
	I mean, God gives visions to Muslims and people in other countries.
	And so it's important to realize that, you know, in some ways, though, God leads people still to his church.
	And so it's funny because it's like mine was very, I wasn't around anyone when I accepted God into my life and I committed to him.
	But then what I have seen is that that commitment isn't enough to remain loyal, meaning it actually isn't.
	And I admit that.
	And so what the evangelical, you know, a movement does is it puts a lot into like, oh, you're an individual.
	It's very, it's modernity.
	And it focuses on this.
	And what you find over the years is that energy, that emotion, that love for God isn't enough.
	It's not.
	It's not enough to sustain.
	It's good in the, it's a blessing from God, that, that push, that catalyst that allows God, like people say, well, how does God save people outside of like, if they don't have an Orthodox church in the neighborhood?
	Well, God can do, he's a miraculous guy.
	Yes.
	God can bring people to salvation.
	Yes.
	But at the same time, like you said, you work it out.
	And I'm not going to get into predestination or this idea of, we're not getting that today, but I will speak this on the elect, just using the phrase election in terms of God calling us.
	A lot of people are watching this and you have been called by God and you've been stronger with God and you know that the way that you live your life is not in line with exactly how God would want you to, which is where I'm at in my life right now.
	But it's that fear and trembling of going, there's some things in my life I got to clean up because like you said, you go, it doesn't even matter if I want to.
	I'm just going to have to do this because I know who's not going to enter the kingdom of heaven and we need to work on what God said.
	And I think that's fair.
	And I think I, and I want to, and I'm, and I'm only saying this because the Protestant evangelism of the today, the non-denominational is the main, I would say, the main overall movement in Western countries.
	And here's the problem: they have this born-again model that once saved, always saved.
	And then you come and then they go, once like you lose your salvation, you're gone, forgetting the redemption arc of God bringing you into his church and his body.
	And so most people have had a salvation moment, but now they've walked in darkness and they've walked away from the kingdom and they feel like they can never get back.
	Because it's like, well, I've already had that transformation.
	How do I have re-transformation?
	Forgetting that there's a constant, it says the renewing of your mind.
	It is a verb that is ongoing.
	It is the renewing.
	And you look at every part of salvation.
	It is an ongoing process that it is like it is never too late to repent.
	We should be repenting daily and giving that over to God.
	I think people even don't know what repent means.
	I think people think of repentance as some kind of, you feel sorry about something or you have some emotional issue or emotional response to something you've done.
	Actually, one thing about Orthodoxy is your emotions don't matter at all, right?
	Repentance in Greek means to re-aim.
	It means you aimed and you missed the mark.
	You missed it.
	So what do you do?
	Do you keep aiming where you missed?
	No, you aim at the bullseye again and you try to hit the bullseye and you're going to miss.
	And you continually retry to hit the mark, right?
	That's what repentance means.
	That's why when you repent, it doesn't matter how you feel.
	If you make peace with your neighbor, even though you hate him and you really don't feel that it's just that you make peace with him, and even though you still think he owes you the money and you don't have any sense of emotional sense that you did anything wrong, but if you make peace with him anyway, you did repent.
	Your emotions are not what guides repentance.
	Your actions are what guide repentance, right?
	You could feel sorry, but you're correct.
	Correct.
	And what happens is that's why, you know, we have prayers that are ancient prayers, you know, with a Trisagion prayer, which goes all the way back to the year 50, right?
	Those prayers are said because we know that people reformed their souls.
	They reformed their thinking.
	They reformed their actions by conforming themselves to the words of those prayers.
	Many saints were made from those prayers.
	And we have an all saints day.
	Why do we have an all saints day?
	Because we don't know who all the saints are.
	It's just like you said, there are saints all over the world that maybe have never been an Orthodox church and we don't know who they are.
	So we have a special feast for all the saints that we are not aware of, that we will know on Judgment Day.
	So, you know, this, but this process of sanctification, you know, the focus on salvation in the Reformed churches leads to a diminishment of the idea of sanctification, where you purify yourself and become more and more Christ-like.
	You know, Luther famously said that we are dung-covered snow, right?
	That salvation covers us like snow, but really we're depraved and dung.
	We would probably say it's the opposite in Orthodoxy, that we're dung-covered snow.
	And by sanctification, prayer, fasting, you know, reforming ourselves, we can remove most of the dung till we have the snow is much more pure.
	And then Christ can lay new snow and make it completely pure.
	That's powerful.
	Yeah.
	That is powerful.
	And you guys, obviously, we want to always continue to include these kind of conversations.
	And we really do find it absolutely important.
	We have a lot of people on here.
	We people from atheists to Jews to Catholics.
	And I think it's important too that you realize that, you know, that you ask God to lead you into the right opportunity because just recently, even like, not in the weeks, whatever, but I was just like, man, I am so far from God.
	And I was going, I don't even have a desire.
	Like, I mean, I was going, I was going, and I was like, Lord, and this is a crazy where it can be supernatural, just saying, Lord, if you're looking for that desire, you can just go and start.
	Pray for it.
	But that's what I'm saying.
	It is true.
	And I just said, and I decided to do a prayer and I just said, and I honestly, I don't know if I didn't even have the faith.
	I was just like, I'm just so dead inside from all the bullshit and everything that's going on.
	And I was just like, Lord, I don't even have a desire for you.
	I just, I don't.
	And I, but I, but like you said, it's like, I know I need one and I need, and I, then I don't have it.
	And that's okay.
	It's like, it's like, I'm not going to manufacture it.
	And I don't, I wasn't asked for emotional.
	I wasn't asking like, you know, like, oh, just like, I just like, I need, I need a heart to want to seek your things.
	And since I've asked, I've been on a great road towards working that out with fear and trembling.
	And I'm, the only reason why I say this on the show is it's not, it never pays.
	This is why I don't like the evangelical community very much either, is because they don't ever talk about the struggle.
	They talk about the past struggle.
	Everything's always what happened.
	Yeah, man, I had 10 years where I was just in orgies and I got out of it.
	Now God saved me.
	But were you going, you were going to church those 10 years?
	Yeah.
	Did you talk to anyone?
	Did you, did you, did you, did you, like, did you, did you not work it out then?
	It's like, did you really try to do this all on your own?
	You could have cut that 10 years down to six months, maybe a year.
	You could have saved yourself so many more problems if you'd just been honest.
	And there's not a lot of people, like a lot of push to be honest, which means unless you really do want to go to heaven, unless you really do love God, you've got to start being honest with yourself.
	And also, that means you need to stop taking the approach to people to where you think this is a hierarchical position.
	There's the only hierarchy right now in actuality is God and man.
	It is like he is over us.
	And of course, in the church, when you submit, there is the hierarchy.
	We submit yourself, therefore, to the authority.
	But I'm saying you would.
	You can choose not to.
	But still, I'm just saying like, I mean, now I'm saying there is hierarchy, but it's not the same thing.
	Nobody is God and nobody has control over your spirit or your soul besides God himself.
	So just realize that don't play God in people's lives.
	If they want to get towards God, be patient with them, love them and love them into redemption.
	Yeah, I mean, that's one big difference between Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism, for example, is there's no hierarchy.
	All the bishops are equal.
	Bishops are just elders and every elder was selected one by one all the way back to history to an apostle.
	The apostle chose someone.
	He chose two people later.
	All the bishops can trace themselves back to an apostle being chosen that way.
	And they're all equal to one another.
	So every single parish with a bishop is the complete church.
	It's the whole church, right?
	So as long as there's even one church left on the earth, the whole church is present.
	That's the first thing.
	But the other thing is, you know, people get really down on themselves.
	But remember the prayer of the leper.
	I think this is, we just also had this feast three weeks ago, the feast of the leper.
	You know, Christ, the leper asked Christ to heal him.
	And Christ says, well, do you believe?
	And he says, Christ, he said, Jesus, I believe, help my unbelief.
	I believe, help my unbelief.
	That was his prayer to Jesus.
	And Jesus said, your faith that I can help your unbelief has saved you.
	And he healed him.
	Right?
	That prayer is a prayer we should all say every day.
	Lord God, I believe, but help my unbelief.
	I love that.
	That is a most powerful.
	And that's a wonderful icon that we have.
	It's up in my church.
	It's on the north wall.
	It's a beautiful icon to teach us that, you know, we can pray for help to get closer to God.
	And honestly, we don't know how to get closer to God.
	He's got to tell us how to do it.
	Lord, I believe, help my unbelief.
	And he'll tell you how.
	And I was going to say this, practical sense.
	After praying that prayer, it took, you know, I mean, I'm not by no means, you know, anybody that's come out and boasts about being some like model example of like, you know, of life right now, but it's crazy.
	Like within, within that amount of time, within within a couple months of praying that prayer, God has brought back a strong Christian friend, which, by the way, is crazy.
	People who really are mature in the faith, even if it's with their own issues.
	And on top of that, it's like, I have found victory over like just bad habits and vices and things that I've never had in years.
	Like I, and it hasn't even been like a like a trying.
	I wasn't like, I'm going to really do this.
	It was just like, I just feel like I have more power and control over my own body.
	And I just feel like I have my mind is more sound and I've been able to navigate situations in ways that I haven't understood.
	Because I think I sent this verse.
	It is such a common verse and people use this in a lot of contexts, but it is still good as always to hear this.
	That Ecclesiastes 4, 12, very famous verse, but a person standing alone can be attacked or defeated, but two can stand back to back and conquer.
	The three are even better for a triple-braided court is not easily broken.
	Not going to get into the whole exegesis of that, but you can take it at what it is and go research it yourself.
	But it is such a powerful point of bonding together and how powerful that is with God as keeping us at the center.
	And bringing this back to marriage a little bit, the Orthodox view of marriage is that it's a form of asceticism, like being a monk, right?
	It's two people who decide to leave worldly cares.
	They will have sexual relations with no one else.
	They will leave even their own families and bond with this other person.
	And their goal is that both of them will get to heaven together.
	They partner together so that they can each work together and curb each other's sins and help each other.
	You know, Lord, I believe, but help my unbelief.
	Your helper will take care of your sins and help you repent in times when you wouldn't do it.
	And you can both get to heaven together back to back, like Ecclesiastes says, where you couldn't do that before.
	That is the Orthodox view of marriage.
	It's a form of asceticism in which two people commit to get to heaven together.
	That is the Orthodox view of brotherly love and fraternal love.
	The love I have for Blake, right?
	Is that I'm trying to help my brothers get to heaven.
	And let's be honest, we all have need different medicines.
	We have a medicinal view of the church, not a legal view, right?
	So, you know, we all have different problems.
	We have different medicines, you know?
	You know, I'll share one with you.
	No, I went to confession one time and the priest, when I confessed, he said, the wages of sin are death.
	And I was like, wow, this is really bad.
	That's not how I wanted this to go.
	And he said, anytime this happens, I want you to do 10 full prostrations and say the Our Father 10 times.
	Well, that wasn't some magic incantation.
	It was just that, you know, I was looking, I was working with some very attractive women and I was very tempted.
	And he knew that if I did some physical exercise, I'd stop thinking about it, right?
	Orthodoxy is very practical in this way, right?
	So I went to some friends of mine and they held me to it.
	They held me to that, to that discipline, right?
	That if I felt myself straying, that I would go and just do some physical exercise and get my mind off of it.
	And they helped me do that.
	I wouldn't have been able to do that on my own.
	Fraternal love, brotherly love, love between two men is about working together to get each other to heaven.
	We all want to get our friends to heaven with us and to share in the holy judgment together.
	That's what it's about.
	Yeah, and I've never heard this from my background.
	And that's probably why that's been the fatal flaw that I've noticed is it's such an individual thing.
	Yes, we don't believe in it.
	And I really have, I've seen that.
	It's not anecdotal.
	I have just watched that as the failure of so many and myself included.
	And I'm not down on myself about it, actually.
	I think it's just one day you go, why am I going to continue to try to do the same thing if it's not working?
	And it's like, it's like, God didn't design us not to work.
	He designed us to make sense and to work.
	So if we're doing something continually and it's not working, it's either A, in our power.
	And so we were not, we were not created to be able to do it in our own power.
	Right.
	Or B, we weren't created to do it.
	Like, that's not how we do it.
	And I, and I've, and I think this is a really vulnerable place to make yourself publicly to people about just being like, yeah, I haven't, I'm working out my salvation with fear and trembling.
	Yes.
	I haven't worked it out.
	And I don't, I don't mind doing that because I know that if, again, because I care about you guys, that all the SOBs, the slightly offensive backers that are out there, I really do.
	And I want you guys to go to heaven.
	And I'm not doing it for, like you said, an incantation, blind religious experience, or also as a holier than thou, I'm better than you.
	Look to me.
	I'm the true person.
	As you've seen, there's a lot of religious people out in this world that genuinely pretend to be something that they're not.
	I'm not going to pretend because I can't tell you what I don't know I am.
	There's nothing I don't know what I am.
	And so I'm like be like, what church are you a part of?
	I'm not taking the cop out like a gender thing.
	Like, I don't know what my gender is.
	I'm saying I'm looking because I have acknowledged that I need to be under the authority of a pastor.
	God gave pastors and teachers.
	I know I need a body of believers, but I've been a part of ones that didn't work and didn't make sense.
	So I'm not going to just go do something out of blind allegiance.
	I'm going to go find what the right way is.
	And so just because we know the truth, don't let that discourage you.
	And also, if you're around people, just go, like you can go to a different church and go do different things.
	Meaning, I'm just saying, go find out how to get to heaven and try to actually get there.
	And don't actually just, you know, sit around doing nothing because you don't want to be judged.
	I don't care about you judging me.
	You should judge me.
	And it doesn't happen by, it doesn't happen by knowledge.
	This is one of the, this is a dead end I took.
	And I think, you know, I see a lot of people, even in Orthodoxy, taking this dead end.
	You know, academic theology is a dead end for getting to heaven.
	They're all crazy.
	I went to seminary.
	They're insane.
	I know.
	And it's interesting.
	I studied philosophy.
	And in that sense, theology is probably the application of philosophical categories to religion.
	And so it's interesting in that regard.
	But it's a total dead end for sanctification, right?
	The best thing to do is to pray, fast, and go do some good stuff for some people where you don't expect anything in return.
	Just try that.
	Just try that.
	Right.
	And you will find that God will teach you infinitely from these things.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	It comes from acting first and then you know, you know, that's what Paul said.
	You know, you, in order to believe, you have to first come and see.
	You have to come and see first, right?
	You have to take action and then you will understand.
	Then you will have faith.
	It's not like a lightning bolt hits you and then you go do it, right?
	It's the exact opposite in Christianity.
	And people, a lot of people don't get that.
	Start just start doing things.
	Try fasting.
	That's a simple one.
	Just try fasting.
	It's healthy for you.
	But, you know, fasting reminds you.
	You know, Jesus said John the Baptist was the greatest man who ever lived.
	Right.
	He lived as though he had no body, no physical body.
	And his icon, even he has wings like an angel because he lived like he had no body.
	Fasting teaches you that you should not be dependent on the things of this world and that you actually don't need them.
	You actually don't need them, right?
	They're the least important things.
	That's not what you should be focused on.
	Fasting reminds you of that.
	I tell people, I didn't fast recently from some things for seven days.
	I hadn't fasted in a while.
	It was both like way easier than I thought it would be.
	Cause we were like, huh.
	I mean, unless you're like genuinely have some sort of a dietary addiction to something where you have some sort of like genuine alcoholism or drug addiction.
	Okay, maybe it's not so easy to fast from heroin if you've been stuck on it for 10 years.
	Yes.
	And that's different, but you still, you can get help to fast in that.
	For the most part, that's what I think the lie is.
	I couldn't give this up.
	I couldn't do this.
	And then you do it and you go, huh?
	It's not that bad.
	It's not only not that bad, it's not that difficult.
	And yeah, it's like temptations or I wouldn't even call them temptations, but it's like, you know, the cravings or like things.
	I mean, you still want to, when you're on a diet, you still want to see ice cream.
	Yeah, you want that.
	But for the most part, you're like, after a while, a few days, few weeks, you're like, actually, sugar makes me feel like crap.
	It does.
	And you're like, I don't really need that.
	And so you start to actually gain, it becomes more of like a knowledge.
	That's where the knowledge you said comes.
	You take the action, the knowledge comes, and you go, ah, now I get why I shouldn't eat like shit every day because then you are what you eat.
	So why do I feel like shit?
	It's because look at how I'm eating.
	And that's why I even think God even might have put food fasting too, not only to give our organs a rest on a physical sense, but just so that we can have these resets to know like our bodies are not our God.
	We don't live for the appetites of the flesh.
	And I want to say this, if you want to do something that would be, you don't get anything in return, leave a five-star review on the podcast.
	I know that's crazy.
	I can't say it'll get you into heaven, but it'll get you into my good, my good seat.
	We have two podcast reviews here.
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	This is the first podcast that I have found that isn't scared to share their opinion or feel like they need to censor themselves.
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	Little Dr. Coco says, Elijah Schaefer is the voice of a generation.
	I don't know.
	Whoa.
	Okay.
	I don't know what that means, but fearlessly fighting for a generation not yet born.
	Fearlessly fighting for freedom in the face of the mob that wants him dead.
	Slug butts, beware.
	It's true.
	They're out there.
	He will not stop dropping truth bombs.
	Godspeed.
	Literally, I drop truth bombs like the United States whops drums on brown people at weddings overseas.
	It's like very, very common and it never stops.
	I want to give a huge shout out to our guests today, Blake Cresses and Jeff Younger, who have come to join us.
	We appreciate it.
	And so obviously on two ends, how can people support your campaign?
	And also, where can people find you on social media?
	So the best place to find me on social media is Jeff Younger for Texas on Facebook.
	Just search for that.
	You'll find me.
	New Instagram out as well.
	Pretty recently made.
	Blake just created one for me.
	I'm the oldest guy on Instagram.
	I'm just going to tell you that right now.
	But Blake's taking care of that.
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	Great, because there's a lot of people that watch in Texas.
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	So there's at least a couple, maybe like 20,000, 10,000 of you guys that are here in Texas.
	So we'd love to love to bump you in there as well.
	And Blake, where can people find you and follow the KGB show, et cetera?
	Yeah, you can find me on Instagram at Blake Cresses, B-L-A-E-K-R-E-S-S-E-S.
	And you can find the KGB show on YouTube, the KGB show.
	You can follow us on Instagram as well.
	You can find a really good interview that we did with Jeff Younger.
	He's been really helping us out.
	You know, he really, he says he helps out the young conservatives because we're all on the same team, you know?
	And he has really, he's really been great to the KGB.
	And yeah, we really have to get this man elected.
	I mean, it'll be the biggest punch in the face to the radical left.
	They hate the guy.
	They hate him.
	So we got to support him.
	We love him.
	I was going to say, that's the huge disservice.
	I'm just going to end with this.
	And I'm going to make this point continually because we have found that over half of you guys watch every episode, which is the regular viewers like watch every episode.
	But there's like, there's like 25% of you that only watch one video a month.
	Like if we look at the views of every video, 25% of those views come from people who watch once a month.
	So I'm repeat myself constantly for them.
	And if you make it this far on the podcast, that's been a huge problem for me.
	Gen Z scares a lot of people, and I feel like that's a really bad position to take.
	And the reason why they do is because Gen Z has a few commentators that they idolize.
	And so there's like a few portions of Gen Z that feels like the only way to get ahead or to latch on is to latch onto these few people.
	Most of Gen Z doesn't think or feel that exact same way.
	They want the same end result, which is to find a revolution and a way to change the country, but they may not agree with the tactics.
	And you don't have to be Catholic.
	You know, there's other, like, this is crazy.
	So then what happens is everyone thinks that there's all these like radical, like Catholic kids that don't know their Bible, that is, which we love too, by the way.
	And I love, and you support the show.
	I just want to let people know that's not the only side of Gen Z.
	And so what I have found is there's a huge disservice of the millennials, Gen Xers, and boomers in the fact that they forget that, like, just like in the real world politics, you think that all Democrats are leftists because the 8% are so loud.
	You do yourself a disservice thinking you can't change Democrats over to Republicans.
	You can.
	You can't win the leftists, but not everyone's lost.
	And in Gen Z, just because you don't hear from all of these more stable, biblical, or different, you know, Protestant, evangelical, Orthodox, different Gen Zers, they are out there.
	And it is my hope, like Jeff Younger, myself, to engage.
	So if you are an older viewer of the show, don't get spooked out by the Gen Z. I'm not spooked out by anyone in Gen Z personally.
	I love them all.
	But I meant just remember: the people that you don't know exist are there because you haven't reached out the olive branch to show them that they can be used, that they can move.
	And it's not a movement of three people and everyone who copies them.
	This is a movement of individuals that have their own views, their own worldview, and we can make, shake, and change the world for the glory of God.
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