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Feb. 24, 2023 - Stew Peters Show
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From Darkness To LIGHT! Overcoming Addiction With The Stew Crew
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Thank you.
Welcome to Crosstalk News.
This is Lauren Witzke.
A little different today because Edward Zoll is out on running an errand, but today we have Pastor Justin Franich.
So today's going to be a little different.
We're going to go into recovery solutions.
So stay tuned.
More on this on Crosstalk News.
America, war now, America.
Welcome back to Crosstalk News.
So as many of you all know, I struggled with addiction all through my 20s.
I could not get clean.
I was in and out of detox centers.
I was in and out of short-term rehabs.
I tried to get clean on my own.
I tried to take Suboxone and nothing worked.
The opioid epidemic in America has reached catastrophic proportions.
I don't know a family that hasn't been affected by addiction in some way.
I was able to finally find freedom from my addiction when I walked through the doors of Teen Challenge.
So Teen Challenge is a Christian long-term residential program.
It's a year long.
It's not easy.
But it was the only thing that I could do to break myself from the chains of addiction by just locking myself away.
No phone.
No cell phone.
Cleaning toilets.
It was good times.
And, you know, I really started to heal from the inside out.
Now, Pastor Justin Franich, it's very cool we have him with us today.
So he was the director of my program at Teen Challenge in Shenandoah Valley.
So welcome, Pastor Justin.
Thank you so much for being here today.
Now, what inspired you to get into rehab programs or, you know, long-term residential Christian rehabilitation?
Similar to you, I went through addiction myself.
So years ago, I was a crystal meth addict, and the Lord used one of these long-term residential programs to help set me free from addiction as well.
And so after returning home, my dad had attempted to start a residential program in our area for years, and there was just nowhere to get help.
I mean, I had to go all the way to New York from rural Virginia to be able to find a place that could help me get free.
And so dad came home, I came home and, you know, worked with my dad and we launched a residential program to help people struggling with addiction in our community. - Yeah, and I know it's very much so needed right now.
I think it surged also during COVID, you know, the lockdowns.
Did you know that the elected officials were warned before the lockdowns that drug overdoses, suicides, and alcoholism would surge?
Due to the COVID lockdowns, it would cause a serious chaotic event within the United States and America.
It would really hurt people.
And as a result, we had over 100,000 overdoses just last year.
What do you think are the components of that?
What do you think?
America's got its sick.
What is causing that sickness?
I mean, you think about it, especially during the COVID lockdowns, church was non-essential and the ABC stores were essential.
So what do you expect to happen to people when you lock them in their homes, you take away all their freedoms, take away church, and even on a more practical level for recovery, this means all of your non-residential support groups that these folks struggling with addiction rely on for help.
They went away overnight.
And then you go one step further for the recovery programs.
I know the ones my parents had to run.
They had to quarantine people.
For two weeks coming into a residential program.
Now, I'm sure you remember those first few days, just like I do.
I couldn't imagine in the middle of all of that, you're finally making that courageous step to get my life together.
And then I go to a rehab program and I've got to quarantine all alone for 10 days.
I mean, the terror in that and the struggle that these folks had to go through.
I mean, it's just astonishing.
Yeah and I think it was like almost cruel and you know since they were warned that this was going to happen it came as no surprise to them when it did happen now we have had you have had a lot of success through programs like Teen Challenge a lot of my friends graduated a lot of my friends are doing great the girls I graduated with majority of them are doing great now what is it that sets Teen Challenge or year-long Christian residential programs apart from these 28-day detox centers,
the things that I try going through, the easy way out.
What sets them apart?
Yeah, so it's the spiritual nature.
It's Jesus Christ, I mean, first and foremost.
But it's more of a holistic approach.
So the reality is when we come off drugs, we're using to fill a void.
There's something broken in us, something that we're going after, and that's why we use in the first place.
And so Once we get past the physical detox, the reality of Teen Challenge and the discipleship is that we're teaching people how to live, how to find other things that are positive, that are life-giving, to fill that void that was created through the drug and alcohol use.
Yeah, you know, and also I think that it was that Christ-centered, every day you get up and you do your devotions.
You know, every day you start the day with the Lord.
And usually when I used to wake up and start my day with a hit of meth or, you know, an injection of heroin, you know, that used to be my wake up.
But at Teen Challenge, every day you start off with biblical studies or a devotion of some sort, and it really kicks off your day.
Now Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge specifically, I think it was better than all the others.
I haven't attended any of the others, but of course I'm biased, but you know, it was in the mountains.
It was such a great program.
You know, I look back and, you know, I have nothing but great memories there.
It was a beautiful old bed and breakfast up in the mountains.
It was like there was something super special about that mountain.
I truly believe that and I believe God used Teen Challenge to really, you know, just change lives.
Now you had a men's program too, is that correct?
Yes.
Now is the men's program still operational?
Yeah, so the women's program, they had to unfortunately close that down during all the lockdowns and all that.
It just became difficult to maintain staff.
But their men's program is still running strong now.
My parents are still working there as the directors.
I've stepped away.
I've been gone from the ministry for about four years now.
Really?
Yeah, time just goes by so quick.
It's been that long?
Yeah, but they're still operating the long-term men's program there in the Shenandoah Valley.
If you want to support Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge, we will put that link in the description.
The men's program is still going strong.
I'd love to get the women's program reopened.
I don't know if I can come work there.
I worked there for a while.
It was fun.
It was a lot of fun.
It was beautiful.
It's really interesting that programs like Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge don't get federal funding.
Like, they don't get state funding.
Like, for example, the detox centers.
That don't work.
So our tax dollars end up going into an endless pit, like a round door of people just coming in and out of addiction.
They go in, they get their Suboxone, they come out, they use again.
They don't deal with any of the heart issues that really caused addiction.
In the first place, you know, a lot of people have trauma, a lot of people have childhood issues, depression, stuff that's really deeply rooted into them and into their souls, essentially, that detox centers are, just put a bandaid over.
You know, they may help with the withdrawals, but you're still gonna have to deal with you when you get out of, you know, your program.
And, you know, the thing about Teen Challenge, for example, was that it changed you from the inside out.
And, you know, I think it was really great what you guys did.
I love your parents.
We call them Mama Novella and Pastor John Franich.
And they are just, you know, they should be retired, but they're not.
They're still at it.
They're still trying to, you know, do the right thing, try to encourage others and to pull others out of addiction.
And I think that's wonderful.
Now, you...
Did you have an encounter with God before you came to Teen Challenge?
Or what really was your aha moment?
Yeah.
You know, I remember after five years of meth addiction, intravenously using, I remember going to my grandmother's house one night to try to stay.
So I would go on my binges, disappear for three or four days, and I'd go back and rest and relax.
And I remember one day I showed up, and there were more family members there than just my grandmother and my parents.
Uh-oh.
The intervention.
The intervention was coming.
So, yeah, the TV show is accurate.
Yeah.
They all show up.
They ambush you in the living room.
And I knew something was going to happen.
And Grandma looked at me and said, you know, Justin, we love you.
We care about you.
But we're not going to let you do this to yourselves anymore.
And the thing that really clicked for me was that you can typically always go to Grandma's house.
If grandma shuts you down and says you're being thrown out, you know you've really blown it.
You've really done some terrible things.
And that just struck me because I got on the telephone to call all my friends, all the people that I had partied with, all the people that I'd used drugs with, and not one of them would come pick me up.
Wow.
And I remember feeling so hopeless that night in the backyard of my grandmother's house.
I was out there on the phone trying to make phone calls, trying to get help, and I contemplated suicide.
I had an eight ball crystal meth in my shoe, and I considered using all of it that night just because I felt like there was no way out.
And I remember for the first time in years since I can remember...
I just broke down in tears and I asked God, I said, God, if you can do something with this mess, would you fix it?
And on that night, I believe that's when the Lord started to get a hold of my heart.
And then I eventually made the decision to go to Teen Challenge a few days later and start my journey to freedom.
But it was, God met me in that yard that night.
And it was because my parents were willing to have the hard conversations, right?
I think a lot of times we tiptoe around folks in our family that are struggling because we're afraid, well, I'd much rather than be here Then go off and me not know where they're at.
But my mom and dad made the hard decision.
My grandmother made the hard decision and had that conversation.
And ultimately, if they wouldn't have done the uncomfortable thing, I would have never found freedom.
Yeah.
And you know, when I would call my parents to bail me out, like my electric's off and I need money or, you know, my cell phone shut off again and I need money because I'd spent all my money on drugs.
You know, my mom had to eventually cut me off, like where it was like, all right, well, She would help pay my phone bill, but I had no reason to get clean.
There was not a reason.
I didn't have to because I still had my electric on.
I still had my phone on.
I was doing okay.
And I had no reason to really get clean.
It was really when they make the uncomfortable, your parents make the uncomfortable decision to either cut you off or kick you out of your house.
It was the best thing my mom ever did for me.
You know, and it was finally like, oh gosh, like I'm out of options because I don't have anybody to bail me out.
And as parents, who I know there are a lot of parents probably watching who have had a child that struggled with addiction, enabling keeps them sick.
They will continue to be sick.
They will not seek help.
They will not try to get rehab or any kind of treatment if you keep bailing them out because they don't have to because he has you or she has you to be right there to pay their cell phone bill.
Right there to bail them out of jail when they get arrested again.
You know, and it's one of the biggest lessons that parents have to learn and family members and loved ones have to learn is that enabling is one of the greatest pieces of the addiction puzzle.
And cutting that off really can make the difference.
I'm not talking about like, you know, I know you love your children.
I'm not saying, you know, like you just...
Cut them off and give up on them.
What you do is you give them another option.
You make it so you're not bailing them out and be like, hey, listen, when you're ready, we'll take you to get some help.
We'll take you into a treatment plan.
And if you want your child to have an 80% chance of success, take them to a Christian rehab.
Christian rehabs like Teen Challenge, for example, have an 80% success rate as opposed to Suboxone or Methadone, which have a 6-9% success rate.
That's it.
It doesn't get any better than that.
They have to change their character.
They have to change their entire lives, essentially, where you unlearn all the things that you have learned.
Even behaviors that I learned...
During my addiction, I had to learn how to unlearn those too.
I've realized something too.
I cannot go back to lying.
You know what I'm saying?
Because if I lie, that puts me in a slippery slope and it's all the way down.
I have to keep a straight, honest about everything because that's just as good as relapsing.
That's the same path.
If you start lying and covering up your lies, you end up going down that same path and it just leads to destruction.
You have to kind of unlearn that entire behavior.
Well, those behaviors are triggers.
I mean, they take us back to where we used to be and they become triggers for us falling back into that lifestyle.
I've noticed for some people, they'll quit using the drug, but they have a difficult time breaking the lifestyle of the addict.
And it's not necessarily they're putting the substance in their body anymore, but all those soft skills, all the manipulating, all the hustling that we do while we're in active addiction, Sometimes that lifestyle is harder to break than the physical dependency itself because those are learned behaviors that, you know, we may change, we may have our issues with drinking one time or use this drug or use that drug to get high, but those behaviors are just constant through all of it.
It's true.
You said it's a trigger, and I think that's very true.
Stealing.
It's not drug use, exactly, but that is a trigger.
That will start the downfall.
You give the devil an inch, he'll take the whole thing.
We're watching as American birth rates are dropping, too.
I wanted to address this part because I think it is related to addiction.
As our borders have remained open, as people stopped getting married and having children, as we have a fatherless generation growing up, drug addiction is directly related to that.
I think that it's a result of a fatherless generation.
The drugs are handily available.
I know immigration probably isn't your But I mean, wouldn't it be a lot easier to function in America as an addict if it wasn't on every corner brought in through the southern border, which fentanyl is brought over from China, funneled through Mexico, ends up in the United States of America, then they go to the inner cities.
Then the inner cities dispense it to, you know, the trailer parks, and then from the trailer parks to, you know, the suburbs.
And it's just, it's an endless cycle, it seems.
But it starts really initially with immigration, too.
Wouldn't be here.
Addiction wouldn't be here had the drugs not been available, but also we have to take responsibility to a degree ourselves because it was a choice every single day.
A lot of people try to say that it's a disease.
What are your thoughts on that?
Yeah, this is a controversial one, right?
Woo!
So you get into the whole disease concept, and my position has always been that disease or not disease, Jesus is still the great physician.
And so for me, I believe it's a choice.
Now, you can get into the discussion about the struggles that happen in your brain and some of the chemical stuff that changes after a lifestyle of using, but the reality is whether it's a disease or not, Jesus still is the solution.
And so I think a lot of times we've, and this is where, you know, you were talking about the struggle to get funding because we push these medical models.
And the reality, I mean, knowing what we know about the corrupt nature of big pharma, you know, it behooves them to have funds running to medical treatment centers because they can continue to create customers for a lifetime.
And that's one of the things that, you know, Teen Challenge coming through.
Now, I believe there's a place for psychotropic and depression meds and all of that.
But I was able to come out on the other side of that without having to use any of that stuff.
And so it's likely, had I went to a medical treatment center, how long would I have been a Suboxone customer?
Or one of these drugs.
And there's a lot of profits that continue to be made on the other side of drug treatment.
And I think that's why they don't allow this funding to go to non-profits.
Which is crazy because we can run our programs.
We don't want it anymore.
But the non-profits in these Christian programs, they run for a tenth of the cost.
Right.
I mean, it's crazy, the cost difference.
I remember I was able to come into Teen Challenge with $400.
Yeah.
Which is, and it's like $28,000 just to attend a 28-day rehab center.
It's like $1,000 a day.
And, you know, I was able to attend Teen Challenge with $400.
My family could afford it.
You know, of course, like, also, like...
We did work projects, too.
So I learned how to be a hard worker, again.
How to work for money.
I learned that not everything's just given to you and you don't deserve it because you just don't deserve it.
And you kind of unlearn that selfish behavior where it's like, okay, I have to learn how to serve.
And once you learn how to serve others, that's where you have the opportunity to become a leader.
I like how they teach servanthood leadership is so important.
And that's not something you're gonna get from a detox center.
And it moves on to after graduation.
After graduation, I continue to try to be a servanthood leader, where I lead by serving others.
I'm always training my replacement.
Peggy taught me that.
Always train your replacement.
And it's really...
I'm just having to walk down memory lane.
It was such a good time.
It was such an important part of my life.
And I think it's very interesting for the Stu Peters Network to hear a little bit about who works behind the scenes.
You know, behind the scenes of your network, you have people with amazing stories who have overcome addiction.
People who were kicked out of the military for not having the vaccine.
You know, right over there, production guy.
There's a lot of amazing people who stood up when it was needed in order to stand for righteousness, stand up for their beliefs, even though it cost them everything.
Every little piece, every little part of this puzzle is what creates the Stu Peters Network, which has become such a force as we know.
The network that released died suddenly.
You know, the network that pretty much put an end to the shots.
If you haven't noticed, now legislators are now pushing for the COVID-19 vaccine to come to an end in their states, criminalizing it possibly, which is amazing stuff.
And you know, not only us, it's our audience.
It's a thanks to you for sharing the content, sharing Stu's show as well.
And, you know, when you support him, you're supporting a whole network of people who, you know, you're getting to know a little bit today.
And you're going to get to know a little bit about Elizabeth and Kirsten coming up next.
They are producers on the Stu Peters Network.
And we're just going to come on and talk about some of our favorite stories.
Now, Pastor Justin, any last things you'd like the audience to take away before we close today?
Yeah, I think, you know, you mentioned it briefly, the role of the father in the home.
I think that that part of men being willing to step up, and that's something that's been on my heart a lot recently, is just seeing how much we're seeing father absence all across the country.
In every culture, every race right now, father absence is a big deal.
I think it's important that men are there to step up, to breathe identity into their children, to speak life into their children.
You know, people like myself who have worked in the addiction field, we would rather not have a job, right?
I mean, that's the truth of the matter.
None of us want to be in this fight.
None of the people working in this field want to do it.
We'd love to see these problems eradicated.
And it starts with what you were saying.
You're dealing with the borders, making sure that this stuff isn't pouring over, but then also on the ground in our homes, making sure we're present, we're speaking life into our children, and we're doing the very best we can to raise them up and, you know, sharing the truth of what's happening in the world, but also the truth of God's Word with them and helping to direct their paths.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Yes, he has a heart for young men.
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Welcome back to Crosstalk News.
So I told you you're going to get to know a few of the people behind the Stu Peters Network.
I thought this would be a lot of fun for us to do.
Today I have Kirsten with me during this segment.
So she is a producer behind the Stu Peters Network.
You know, she works with me every day.
We're going through stories.
When you send in your stories, they either go to Stu, and then we are the ones that will be calling you to get you booked.
Now, Kirsten, you've gone...
You've booked dozens and dozens, probably hundreds, thousands of stories since joining the Stu Peters Network.
Would you mind sharing a little bit about your favorite story?
So I think definitely my favorite one, it was just when I'd recently gotten hired by the Sue Peters Network and I got to know Matt Taylor.
And he is definitely my favorite.
He's someone who actually got a hold of the Pfizer vaccine and then looked under it, under his microscope, saw a lot of crazy stuff.
And he's just really my favorite Yeah, he was the one in Ecuador who didn't have a cell phone.
Yeah, smart guy.
And he was actually, excuse me, he was, you know, he came across the self-assembling, self-assembling, it looked like microchips, whatever it was, but he was just an ordinary guy living off the grid who got a hold of the Pfizer vaccine and what he found was just astonishing and he ended up being one of our most highly viewed segments.
How did you find him?
Through the Stu Peters email, through the tips email, I was going through and I saw his email detailing some of the stuff that he had found.
I'm like, I need to get this guy on.
So we had a call and he really just went through all of these self-assembling structures and just showed me all of it.
And I couldn't believe it at the time because it was new.
It was something we hadn't seen before, but not surprising.
Yeah.
Yeah, we find the most fascinating emails.
We meet the most fascinating people.
You know what the interesting thing is?
Is that a lot of these people are ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things.
Moms who are standing up for their children, raising hell at school board meetings.
Those who are protesting in the face of pharmacists, elected officials, really impacting The culture and also doing their own scientific research.
Like La Quinta Columna says, put it under a microscope yourself.
Get some Pfizer vaccine.
Have a look at it yourself.
Tell me what you see.
And you know, it wasn't like some secret operation that only doctors or people with PhDs or business billionaires have to do to impact change.
It's little things that you do like that.
You know, ordinary people can do extraordinary things like Mac Taylor.
And that's been backed up by history, too.
All throughout history, there have been people who have banded together and done great things, and they've all been ordinary people.
You know who that reminds me of?
Like Queen Esther.
You know, Queen Esther, she was an ordinary person, and she ended up saving her nation, her people.
By being extraordinary, you know, and God gives us extraordinary, like He gives us bravery.
He gives us wisdom.
He gives us power, you know, through His Holy Spirit.
And we end up, you know, doing extraordinary things that we could have never done ourselves because He is so good.
And people forget how big our God is.
You know, if you think that you're inferior, that's such crap.
It's not true.
God has called us all to greatness.
We just got to answer the call.
Well, and Jesus does say in the scriptures that he calls the weak of the world to do his work because when he calls the weak, his glory is more shown through that.
It's amazing all the work that he's doing here, the work that he's doing on the Stu Peter Show, and every day you see people who are standing up for the truth and are fighting.
Amen.
It's so true.
Now, Kirsten, any last words you'd like to leave with the audience before we take off?
Um, never stop fighting for the truth.
Always dig in his scriptures, always read the word and always be praying.
Amen, folks.
That's good advice.
Now, if you want to submit tips and have a conversation with Kirsten, go on over to tips at StuPeters.com and you'll be hearing from us.
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Welcome back to Crosstalk News.
I'm Lauren Witzke, and we appreciate you joining us today.
Right now, I have Elizabeth with me.
She is my personal assistant, and she also is a producer on the Stu Peters Network.
Now, a little bit about Elizabeth.
She was homeschooled, so she has a way higher IQ than anybody I know, but she has been such a pleasure to work with.
Now, Elizabeth, can you tell me about one of your favorite stories that you booked for the Stu Peters Network?
There has been so many, and especially since I started, I think, in the later half of 2020.
And I've been able to talk to a lot of people, especially with the progression of the pandemic and everything like that.
But, man, I think one of my favorites, it was this mom.
Her name was Heather.
And she actually came on to talk about how her son had had this really crazy severe reaction to the vaccine.
He got it because he wanted to work at a cafe with his friends at college.
Next thing you know, his whole body just deteriorated.
And it sounds like a really sad story, but through it all, she persevered.
She did everything she could for her son.
She drove him across state.
She had actually set up her SUV to have a bed in the back so he could lay there so none of the blood clots would circulate through his body.
She drove him across state wherever she could find help, and eventually they were able to get assistance from, I think his name was Dr.
Eduardo Balbona.
I remember about that.
We've had him on as well.
And it's kind of a miracle story.
God really persevered in that whole situation, but she would not let him die.
She was fighting tooth and nail for her son, and it's really inspirational.
Super, super, super cool gal as well, and it's just...
It's been really cool to talk to her and see like, oh, her son made it.
It's super cool to talk to the guy who actually made it happen.
And it was a really cool story.
Really cool people.
Yeah, we meet really, really cool people.
I was talking with Kirsten earlier about how we meet ordinary people who do extraordinary things.
So this mom, her son went out and got the vaccine, literally built a bed in the back of her car, you know, and took his butt to wherever she could save him, you know?
And it just goes to show, like, I love the parents that watch the Stu Peters Network.
I love the moms.
Keep fighting because we see you and you are making a change.
I think that moms I think this country would have collapsed had it not been for the moms.
We would have collapsed because they were the ones fighting at the school board meetings.
They were the ones fighting the vax mandates.
There was a mom out in Idaho that got arrested for taking her child to a playground.
She's out there fighting legislation.
I love our moms and I think that they are so precious and important to us.
We have a lot of moms that listen.
We hear you and we see you and we find you extremely brave.
Yeah, exactly.
Especially in the face of, you know, having to take care of your children when the medical professionals are saying, no, this is the right thing to do.
This is what you need to do for your child.
And like so much of the campaign behind the COVID epidemic was, you know, if you want to see your family again, if you want to be part of society and, you know, see your grandma and your kids and everything like that, you need to get this vaccine.
And, you know, to be a mom in that position is challenging.
And it's really, you know, I don't have that perspective.
I haven't been a mom yet.
But to stand up against all of that, to stand up against the people who you've been told to trust, who have Technically, the most understanding on paper.
Right.
I know this is what's best for my kid.
This is what needs to happen.
And literally, sometimes even go to court for that.
I mean, we've had women come on.
We've had their kids taken away because they wouldn't get them vaccinated.
You know, it's crazy to be in that position.
Just for the sake of being a mom and caring for your kids.
So for those who stand up and for those who fight for their family and their children, that's amazing.
Keep doing it.
I mean, you know, it sounds kind of a shallow thing to say because after all this time, here we are in this crazy world and it's like, oh, I don't want to fight anymore.
But, you know, Christ is there for you at the end of the day and he will give you all the power and redemption that you need and through that.
So keep fighting.
It's amazing.
I love to see it.
I love to see it, too.
And you said something about, like, you know, the people that we were supposed to trust, people on paper who, you know, have six degrees and, you know, are the ones who can read and understand the science, quote unquote.
You know, they were the ones who turned their backs on us, it seemed.
It was that motherly instinct that probably saved thousands and thousands, probably millions of children's lives during that time because the medical professionals were saying the exact opposite.
It was almost like they were getting paid.
Something happened where only motherly instinct ended up saving children because the medical industrial complex would not.
Exactly.
And I understand that was probably very hard for moms because they're questioning themselves, like, am I doing the right thing?
Like, then, you know, they gaslit people and, oh, you want to kill your kid.
Oh, you want your kid to die.
You're going to get all the kids sick at school.
And it made them think, am I crazy?
Like, you weren't crazy.
You were in the right the whole time.
Yeah, exactly.
And I actually just got on talking to a woman not too long ago.
And, you know, she's a mom and she has some kids and her kids have kids.
So she's a grandma now, but She was talking about how her daughter is, you know, continuing to get the vaccine and how hard it is to really feel like, you know, I'm your mom.
I've had the vaccine.
This thing has affected me and it's destroyed my life.
You are continuing to get these injections as your mom.
And you've seen it happen to me.
She's like a literal walking getting thing in front of her kid.
She's presenting all this information to her daughter.
Like, I know that you have the choice to do what you want to do as an adult, but look at what's happening.
You know, that's a heavy weight to bear.
And I mean, at the end of the day, it sounds really discouraging.
But for those who are willing and, you know, apt to go ahead and say, look, this is what you need to know.
This is what you should know.
I mean, we have no informed consent in this situation.
Like people don't realize when you went and got the vaccine, you didn't have informed consent because nobody knew what was in that thing.
And so being the person going out and saying, no, look, this is a matter of the situation.
This is what this does to people.
You know, this is a risk you face, not only as, you know, a child or, you know, somebody who's an athlete and everything like that, who has this coursing through their system, causing myocarditis.
It's good to know, no matter who you are, how many vaccines you've had.
Because at the end of the day, we can't trust the medical providers to give us informed consent.
We need to do it at this point.
It's time to come together and be like, yeah, this is what needs to happen.
True.
It's true.
Well, folks, thanks for tuning in to Crosstalk News today.
Edward will be back on Tuesday.
But I'm so glad you got to meet.
And see a little bit about what goes on behind the scenes.
I see those crazy messages saying, you know, like, oh, Stu, he must be Illuminati because he came out of nowhere.
No, we're just ordinary people who love our country, who all came together to fight the good fight.
And, you know, we're just, you know, we're still fighting.
I mean, the fight's not over, folks.
And, you know, we're just ordinary Christians who love God and want to spread his message.
And we just wanted to offer you a word of encouragement.
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