From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.
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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: June 12, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight | June 12, 2026
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck, and america's enemies
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- Aren't just coming after us with missiles and tanks.
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- They're targeting our economy, our culture,
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- Our values, even the us dollar.
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- Tonight, kevin freeman joins us to break down
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- The economic war being waged against america, from iran
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- And china to the growing threats facing our financial system.
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- Plus, biblical education is returning to public school
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- Students during the school day, and it's completely legal.
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- Joel penton of life academy explains how this movement
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- Is spreading across america.
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- And it all starts now.
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- America's
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- Enemies understand
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- That the battle for our future won't only be fought
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- With missiles and tanks, but with resilient markets,
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- A strong cultural identity and economic power,
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- From an exploding national debt and growing challenges
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- To the u.s.
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- Dollar, to concerns about the erosion of values
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- That helped build western civilization.
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- Many americans are asking whether
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- The foundations of our nation are steadily being weakened.
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- Joining us now to discuss it all is our good friend
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- Kevin freeman, host of economic forum
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- And one of the nation's leading experts
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- On national security finance.
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- Kevin, always great to see you, my friend.
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- Hey, one issue
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- When we talk about threats to the united states
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- And the western way of life, one issue you've been covering
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- Very closely is mass islamic migration.
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- Kevin, it's changing the face of europe.
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- They've made major inroads.
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- Have islamist right here in the state of texas.
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- How concerned are you about this?
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- And are we starting to see pushback here,
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- At least in america?
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- As you know, eric, sharia systems say
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- No interest, and yet that's fraudulent.
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- I'm very concerned that we're seeing it
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- Creepy here in texas, but also across the country,
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- Whether dearborn, michigan or wherever,
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- Will they take over the entire
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- Economy as well as the political structures
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- Of power and so forth, like, china.
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- And like so many of our enemies,
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- They realize they can't take america down from without.
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- They our military is too great.
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- Our capabilities are too strong.
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- So they seek to undermine us from within.
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- And that's what the muslim brotherhood plan was.
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- And that's what we have in
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- The exploratory memorandum that was found.
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- That is literally a game plan to to destroy us,
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- And our house from within.
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- Yeah.
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- That muslim brotherhood explanatory memorandum.
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- Kevin, i'm so glad you brought that up.
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- Found in virginia, of all places in the shadow of dc,
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- As you said, outlining the muslim
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- Brotherhood's plan to subvert america from within.
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- And they're having some success, sadly.
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- Hey, you're an expert, kevin, in the rise
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- And fall of nations of empires, of civilizations.
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- We had this mass muslim migration.
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- We have the left
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- And the globalists in america, across the world, who adamantly
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- Oppose judeo christian western civilization.
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- How important is it for a nation, for a civilization
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- To have a cohesive culture and identity?
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- Well, the success of america has always included
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- Immigrants from around the world.
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- The difference
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- Is, historically, immigrants came here to be americans.
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- They came here to enjoy our liberty
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- Or freedom, as enshrined in the declaration
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- And the constitution.
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- What we see now from biden's open
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- Border policies are people who have come here to remake
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- America in their perspective and in their image.
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- And sadly, i saw a poll today
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- That 55% of democrats wished they lived in another country.
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- And so they've opened the borders
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- To bring other countries here and ruin it for the rest of us.
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- Yeah.
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- And they're trying to tear down the vision of our founders.
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- And, kevin, you've done
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- Such great work on our founders
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- And their vision for our country.
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- Hey, speaking of which, right now, a lot of threats globally,
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- Which i know you're following very closely. okay.
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- We look on the economic front, obviously, a war with iran.
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- Strait of hormuz been closed.
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- Oil and gas prices have risen.
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- What concerns you the most right now
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- When you look at the global financial landscape?
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- And how concerned should we be
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- About the iran conflict in that regard?
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- Well, i've looked at every period of history.
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- We've had these two narratives, one narrative
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- Being exciting technology like we have with space and ai,
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- But at the same time, economic challenges at home.
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- And every one of those time periods, say, one, ended poorly.
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- Whether it was the 1920s, whether it was the 1960s.
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- But the one that changed things was the 1980s,
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- Where we suffered economically for a good long term benefit.
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- We confronted iran and we got the hostages back
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- Where we had peace through strength,
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- Like president trump is doing,
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- Where we had sound monetary policy,
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- Which we hope the new fed chairman will institute,
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- And where we had a reduced regulation
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- And increased lower taxes and increased opportunity
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- For american citizens.
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- It was short term pain, long term
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- Gain in those circumstances.
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- And that, i think, is what president trump
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- Is putting in place if we'll let him.
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- So we've got to unleash the the american ingenuity
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- And opportunities with these free market, economic
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- Principles and at the same time have a strong national posture.
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- And i think that's the president's intention.
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- I think that's what he's accomplishing.
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- What can people watching right now
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- Do, kevin, to safeguard their assets?
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- Look, a lot of uncertainty, obviously,
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- With war in the middle east, russia, ukraine, etc.
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- What can people do? right.
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- Any steps people should take right now is a gold.
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- Silver.
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- What should people do to again
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- Kind of safeguard their financial position?
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- I just did a show on this on economic war room,
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- And that's a barbell strategy
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- You need to plan for both
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- The very successful ai space revolution and
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- Have a piece of your portfolio there
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- If your circumstances allow.
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- And i don't give advice over the air,
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- I'm not giving any personal advice, but a barbell strategy.
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- Would you would
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- You would invest somewhat in the great future,
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- But then you'd also have some of your money and more caution,
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- Approach where it would you would own the bricks
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- And mortar sticks
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- And tools
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- That make for that revolution, which could be energy,
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- It could be electricity and so forth.
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- So a barbell strategy, but get a good financial advisor.
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- Your situation's unique.
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- You need personal financial advice.
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- Don't just take it off something you see on.
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- And whether it's me or anyone else
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- Talking on television, but those are the two areas
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- In which you should consider investing gold.
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- Of course, being a part of that is sound money.
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- Silver to kevin, will said. great breakdown as always.
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- My friends and folks.
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- The greatest thing about kevin is he
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- Does it all from a biblical perspective.
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- That's why we love him.
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- Hey, more with kevin freeman after the break.
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- Check him out across social media.
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- Be sure to check out his great show, economic war room.
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- And up next
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- We talked about the founders and their vision for our nation.
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- I'm going to dig more into that.
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- Have the founders see the financial system
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- And landscape for the united states?
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- More with kevin freeman after the break. stick around.
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- More with kevin freeman after the break. stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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- We're to our good friend kevin freeman,
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- Host of economic war room.
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- Kevin, you wrote a great book called pirate money.
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- Folks.
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- Pick it up, amazon.com, wherever books are sold right now.
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- In the book,
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- You wrote that there is a constitutional solution
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- To the economic challenges we're facing.
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- What did the founders understand about money
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- That we've kind of lost sight of today?
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- Well, the founders suffered through hyperinflation.
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- That's what they understand.
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- I don't know if you've seen the movie the great awakening,
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- Which is the story of ben franklin
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- And the story of george whitfield.
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- The franklin was was at many points in his life
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- Ideas that he believed that god gave man everything we need.
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- And then we can figure it out.
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- And god's just kind of watching.
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- And he created a paper money system.
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- In fact, the federal reserve calls
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- Ben franklin, the father of paper money.
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- That paper money that he printed at his printing press
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- Failed the colonies
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- And failed,
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- The united states under the articles of confederation.
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- And that's what i wrote about in the book.
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- Pirate money is the failure of paper money.
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- Now we're looking at doing that modern lee,
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- Only on steroids and making, unbacked
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- Digital money like central bank digital currencies,
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- Which is going to
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- Also be a miserable failure and bring in hyperinflation.
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- But what the founders figured out,
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- What ben franklin figured out when he listened
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- To george whitfield, when he finally heard
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- What god's word said about money,
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- He figured out that gold
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- And silver are real money, and that paper is not.
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- And so in the constitution, led by the pennsylvania delegation,
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- Ben franklin had put in article one, section ten,
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- That says a state can make nothing
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- Other than gold and silver coin legal tender,
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- And that little provision has opened the door for us
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- In six states.
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- We've already passed laws where florida, arkansas, texas,
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- Louisiana, missouri, and now utah,
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- Where the governor signed into law the ability for people
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- To transact in gold and silver using a debit card.
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- That's what the book pirate money is about.
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- It is a revolution based on a very old idea,
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- Using modern technology
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- That can protect us from the ravages of hyperinflation.
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- So i talk about this all the time
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- On the economic forum and on my radio show, pirate money radio.
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- Yeah, kevin, it's fascinating and it's incredible
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- Because it's really happening right now.
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- You rattle off the states like texas, florida,
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- Arkansas, louisiana, missouri, utah.
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- Passing this legislation
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- Is really connected
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- To sound money principles that dates back to our founding.
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- Okay. how's the fed feel about it?
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- How does the federal government feel about states
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- Moving to the standard?
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- Well, you know,
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- Number one, what they feel doesn't really matter
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- Because the constitution is the constitution.
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- This is an enumerated power.
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- The good news is we have the gold president.
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- We got a president trump
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- Who loves gold and silver
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- And believes in states rights and loves governors sanders
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- And desantis and abbott and kehoe and landry,
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- You know, the governors that signed this bill.
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- So i believe we're going to have
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- Strong support from the federal government.
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- Kevin walsh coming in, understands
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- The importance of sound money.
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- And literally this is something
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- The founders gave us as an alternative.
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- If the federal reserve messes up and they have messed up.
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- And the good news is kevin walsh is going
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- In, i believe he's going to right that ship.
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- I think the dollar's going to be
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- Sound for a long time because of it.
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- But people should have a choice in money
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- If they want to use gold and silver instead.
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- And that's why i wrote the book pirate money.
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- Yeah. and it's a great one.
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- Hey, we hear a lot, kevin, about affordability.
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- That's become a buzzword,
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- Especially for democrats as the midterms approach.
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- Everything cost a lot.
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- Can anything be done about that to get prices down?
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- Obviously, joe biden left
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- President trump with inflation and very high prices.
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- The president's working diligently to get things down.
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- But what else can be done on that front to reduce prices
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- For the average american?
- 00:11:12.626 --> 00:11:13.694
- Well, long term affordability is caused by printing
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- Too much money.
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- Milton friedman said that
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- The cause of inflation is too much money chasing too
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- Few goods.
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- And we saw during covid when we shut the economy down
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- And gave everybody a whole lot of money, what happens?
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- The natural result is higher prices.
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- And if you open the borders, that's going to cause problems.
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- So all of those things combined trump policies will be good.
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- We can draw our way out of it, but we need sound solid money
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- And that's the solution. and that's again
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- Why we've got this at the state level.
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- If you price the house in gold in 1971 and price
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- The same house in gold today, it takes fewer ounces of gold
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- To buy a house today than it did, you know, 55 years ago.
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- Same is true for a suit or a car or food or anything else.
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- If you have sound solid money like gold and silver,
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- Then prices haven't gone up. they've gone down.
- 00:12:04.845 --> 00:12:06.947
- You combine that with, good economic policies like
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- President trump is proposing and a growth in, in technology
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- Like space and ai, and you have a booming economy.
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- You have no inflation.
- 00:12:19.326 --> 00:12:20.294
- You're the exact opposite of stagflation.
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- And that's the secret we learned in 1980 with president reagan.
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- Sound money combined with pro-growth
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- Policies and technological innovation.
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- President trump has the chance
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- To have that right now
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- With the effort that we're making in these states. yeah.
- 00:12:35.075 --> 00:12:37.544
- And he just returned from china a few weeks ago.
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- Kevin, as you look out across the landscape,
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- We talked about iran, the ongoing war there, earlier,
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- Geopolitical competitors, financial, economic competitors
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- On the world stage. it seems communist
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- China would be at the forefront of that.
- 00:12:49.990 --> 00:12:52.626
- How do you see, when you look out the landscape
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- And the global chess pieces?
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- Who do you see?
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- I should say, as our main geopolitical
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- And financial competitors?
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- Well, the geopolitical and financial,
- 00:13:02.302 --> 00:13:04.037
- You've got to put communist china at the top.
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- You've got to have,
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- Radical islam and that's that's the green axis.
- 00:13:06.740 --> 00:13:09.543
- Then you're going to get to the globalists.
- 00:13:09.543 --> 00:13:11.378
- But communist china is the number one
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- Geopolitical adversary that we're facing.
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- And the reality of it
- 00:13:16.450 --> 00:13:17.517
- Is all three of those recognize economic warfare.
- 00:13:17.517 --> 00:13:20.287
- I've been talking about this
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- Since i was in the pentagon, talking about economic warfare,
- 00:13:21.521 --> 00:13:24.791
- Back, almost 20 years ago.
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- And now it is in the major press in every nation
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- Except the united states.
- 00:13:30.797 --> 00:13:32.366
- This is the chinese focus.
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- It's the islamist focus, it's the globalist focus.
- 00:13:33.834 --> 00:13:36.904
- And we in america need to wake up.
- 00:13:36.904 --> 00:13:38.372
- We're in an economic war,
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- And president trump is ideally suited
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- As the president to help us fight it.
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- Kevin, great stuff as always, my friend.
- 00:13:43.644 --> 00:13:45.279
- Folks, be sure to check him out on the economic war room show.
- 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:47.948
- And also pick up pirate money, his great book.
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- Kevin. god bless.
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- Keep up the great work. we'll see you again soon.
- 00:13:52.219 --> 00:13:53.987
- And coming up after the break,
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- The bible in public schools, folks.
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- It's happening. we'll tell you how next.
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- It's the ground.
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- It's the ground.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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- For decades, christians have lamented
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- The fact
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- That the bible disappeared from america's public schools.
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- But what if there was a way to bring biblical education
- 00:14:18.681 --> 00:14:22.017
- Back to students during the school day, legally,
- 00:14:22.017 --> 00:14:25.888
- And with the support of parents and local communities?
- 00:14:25.888 --> 00:14:29.391
- That's exactly what's happening right now
- 00:14:29.391 --> 00:14:30.993
- In schools across the country, through a rapidly
- 00:14:30.993 --> 00:14:33.996
- Growing movement called life y's academy.
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- Joining us now is joel penton, founder and ceo of life
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- Y's academy, which is helping bring thousands of students
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- To the gospel and to learn god's word every single week.
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- Joel, great to have you with us.
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- Hey, i've got some amazing numbers here
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- In terms of what you're doing life wise. academy.
- 00:14:51.246 --> 00:14:53.048
- You guys started from a single program in ohio.
- 00:14:53.048 --> 00:14:56.051
- Your home state, joel, more and now
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- More than a thousand schools across 37 states.
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- This is a movement, joel.
- 00:15:02.858 --> 00:15:04.593
- Why don't more people know more about it?
- 00:15:04.593 --> 00:15:07.129
- We're getting the word out now,
- 00:15:07.129 --> 00:15:08.764
- But this is spreading like wildfire, it seems.
- 00:15:08.764 --> 00:15:10.833
- It really is.
- 00:15:10.833 --> 00:15:11.667
- And it's because parents desperately
- 00:15:11.667 --> 00:15:14.203
- Want something like this. communities want this.
- 00:15:14.203 --> 00:15:16.672
- As you mentioned, as we all know, decades ago, our nation
- 00:15:16.672 --> 00:15:20.109
- Systematically removed the bible from the public school day.
- 00:15:20.109 --> 00:15:23.345
- But few people realize there is a legal way to put it back.
- 00:15:23.345 --> 00:15:26.849
- In 1952, the supreme court ruled that public school students
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- Can be released from public school
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- During school hours to attend religious classes
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- If the program is off school property, privately funded,
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- And students have parental permission.
- 00:15:40.129 --> 00:15:41.797
- It's called legally released time religious instruction.
- 00:15:41.797 --> 00:15:45.801
- But it's just been, as you said,
- 00:15:45.801 --> 00:15:47.636
- Kind of under the radar, under-utilized.
- 00:15:47.636 --> 00:15:50.706
- And we're trying to let people know and popularize it.
- 00:15:50.706 --> 00:15:53.475
- And it's totally legal. it is. it's amazing.
- 00:15:53.475 --> 00:15:56.078
- So how did you find out about it, joel?
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- And how did you start life wise academy?
- 00:15:57.880 --> 00:15:59.915
- Well, i spent 12 years doing full time
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- Speaking evangelism around the country, and in 2018,
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- I got a call from people in my hometown of van
- 00:16:06.121 --> 00:16:08.590
- Wert, ohio,
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- And they said, joel,
- 00:16:09.758 --> 00:16:10.692
- You need to come and see our release time
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- Religious instruction program.
- 00:16:12.995 --> 00:16:14.530
- And i said, what is that?
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- I'd never heard of that.
- 00:16:16.265 --> 00:16:17.232
- And they showed me that kids were receiving
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- Bible education during the school day.
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- Not only that, they had 95% of the whole school enrolled.
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- And their question for me was.
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- And these were at public schools. yeah.
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- I mean, it was a public elementary school.
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- 95% of the kids once a week were being released.
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- They'd walk next door, get a bible class, walk back,
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- And they said they were asking me, why don't more communities
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- Have this?
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- I did some research and i my conclusion was, it's
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- Too hard to pull off,
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- But if you would
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- Put all this in a box, make it scalable, make it repeatable,
- 00:16:46.595 --> 00:16:50.065
- I think communities would do it.
- 00:16:50.065 --> 00:16:51.366
- And they said, joel, great idea.
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- We don't want to do that.
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- We think you should do that.
- 00:16:55.104 --> 00:16:56.171
- And so i was volun
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- Told in 2018, and that's how life wise academy was born.
- 00:16:57.339 --> 00:17:01.009
- It's incredible.
- 00:17:01.009 --> 00:17:02.144
- And the response, i think we're here in texas.
- 00:17:02.144 --> 00:17:04.713
- But the response you're getting is incredible, joel,
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- Because there's a hunger, there's
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- So many problems now in america's public schools.
- 00:17:07.616 --> 00:17:09.852
- Obviously, kids are struggling with depression,
- 00:17:09.852 --> 00:17:12.354
- All sorts of troubles here in the united states.
- 00:17:12.354 --> 00:17:14.490
- But there's this need right now for god that only god can fill.
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- And you're filling that need.
- 00:17:18.961 --> 00:17:20.162
- What's the response like you're getting
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- When people learn and say, wait, and it's completely legal?
- 00:17:21.897 --> 00:17:24.399
- This is incredible. what's the response been like?
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- Well, it's been tremendous.
- 00:17:26.502 --> 00:17:27.970
- As you said,
- 00:17:27.970 --> 00:17:28.971
- All of the statistics you don't like to see
- 00:17:28.971 --> 00:17:31.073
- Are on the rise are anxiety, depression, suicide,
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- 90% of parents and educators believe that as students have
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- More pressure, more challenges now than they have ever.
- 00:17:38.580 --> 00:17:42.284
- And that's why a national poll shows that 90%
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- Of parents and public educators
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- Believe that students need moral and character
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- Education, and are supportive of using the bible to do that.
- 00:17:52.461 --> 00:17:56.064
- Basically, the need is so great, people realize we've got to do
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- Something and the results show it makes a difference.
- 00:18:00.669 --> 00:18:04.673
- When kids have the biblical foundation,
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- There's fruit in their lives.
- 00:18:07.676 --> 00:18:09.011
- And so that's why we, you know, demand just continues to grow.
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- Amen.
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- Tell us more about the curriculum and the program.
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- Yeah.
- 00:18:15.250 --> 00:18:15.784
- So we have a wonderful
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- Curriculum that we partner with called the gospel project,
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- Where students great.
- 00:18:19.855 --> 00:18:21.390
- We tend to start with elementary school
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- And grades one through five.
- 00:18:22.958 --> 00:18:24.226
- Students walk through the entire bible, genesis to revelation.
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- They start in first grade in genesis.
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- And over five years they go through the whole bible.
- 00:18:29.231 --> 00:18:31.567
- And every week we cover the head, heart and hands.
- 00:18:31.567 --> 00:18:35.137
- Head. what's the information on the page?
- 00:18:35.137 --> 00:18:37.039
- What's the story about heart?
- 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:38.874
- How does this story connect to the bigger picture?
- 00:18:38.874 --> 00:18:40.809
- Story of the gospel message and hands.
- 00:18:40.809 --> 00:18:43.979
- If we rightly understand the gospel,
- 00:18:43.979 --> 00:18:46.114
- How does it transform our lives?
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- More than 1000 schools across 37 states.
- 00:18:48.450 --> 00:18:52.120
- It's amazing question.
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- You get any pushback? number one.
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- And number two, are you getting support?
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- I can sit you're an apolitical
- 00:18:58.560 --> 00:19:00.362
- Organization, obviously, but the current administration
- 00:19:00.362 --> 00:19:02.831
- Has put try to put faith front and center, it seems.
- 00:19:02.831 --> 00:19:05.267
- Do you get pushback.
- 00:19:05.267 --> 00:19:06.368
- You're getting support at higher levels.
- 00:19:06.368 --> 00:19:08.737
- How's that been? well, i will say we get some pushback.
- 00:19:08.737 --> 00:19:11.240
- As you can imagine,
- 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:12.174
- There are those who don't like the bible,
- 00:19:12.174 --> 00:19:14.576
- Who celebrated the bible
- 00:19:14.576 --> 00:19:16.044
- Being the bible being removed from public school.
- 00:19:16.044 --> 00:19:19.514
- But that's the minority we tend i talk about the ten, 1080
- 00:19:19.514 --> 00:19:23.919
- Principle that 10% of people love what we do so much.
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- They'll fund it, they'll volunteer,
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- They'll make sure it happens.
- 00:19:29.424 --> 00:19:31.026
- There's 10% of people that can't stand it.
- 00:19:31.026 --> 00:19:33.195
- They don't like the bible. they don't want us doing it.
- 00:19:33.195 --> 00:19:35.364
- But 80% of people are just living their lives,
- 00:19:35.364 --> 00:19:38.634
- Just want their kids to to learn some things.
- 00:19:38.634 --> 00:19:41.303
- And they're trying to put food on the table.
- 00:19:41.303 --> 00:19:42.771
- And it's that group
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- That we're seeing
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- Enrolling our classes and being impacted in a big way.
- 00:19:45.207 --> 00:19:48.043
- And as you said, i mean,
- 00:19:48.043 --> 00:19:49.211
- The average american wants moral guidance for their kids.
- 00:19:49.211 --> 00:19:52.981
- And if it's biblical, even better, obviously.
- 00:19:52.981 --> 00:19:56.051
- But the average american sees what's happening, the problems
- 00:19:56.051 --> 00:19:58.420
- You laid out, joel,
- 00:19:58.420 --> 00:19:59.488
- And they know that kids need that moral compass.
- 00:19:59.488 --> 00:20:02.190
- They're not getting it all too often in public schools.
- 00:20:02.190 --> 00:20:04.159
- So this is amazing what you're doing.
- 00:20:04.159 --> 00:20:06.261
- And we pray it continues to spread like wildfire.
- 00:20:06.261 --> 00:20:08.930
- How can our viewers learn more about it?
- 00:20:08.930 --> 00:20:10.699
- Because there's people right now watching.
- 00:20:10.699 --> 00:20:12.067
- They have kids in public schools.
- 00:20:12.067 --> 00:20:13.268
- They probably would love to be involved with life wise academy.
- 00:20:13.268 --> 00:20:16.138
- We would love to connect with anybody who is even interested.
- 00:20:16.138 --> 00:20:20.142
- If people can go to life wise, dot org, that's life wise, dawg.
- 00:20:20.142 --> 00:20:25.647
- You can actually, well,
- 00:20:25.647 --> 00:20:27.082
- You can watch videos, you can see resources,
- 00:20:27.082 --> 00:20:28.984
- But you can look up any school district in the nation.
- 00:20:28.984 --> 00:20:31.553
- Every school district has a page
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- And you can see what's the status.
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- In my community,
- 00:20:34.456 --> 00:20:35.424
- We have a simple ten step process
- 00:20:35.424 --> 00:20:37.793
- To start a local life wise program.
- 00:20:37.793 --> 00:20:40.128
- Find out where your school district is.
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- You can add your name to the petition.
- 00:20:41.630 --> 00:20:43.398
- You can join a planning team, or maybe it's already up
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- And running and you can enroll your student.
- 00:20:46.001 --> 00:20:48.036
- Joel, this is great.
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- Keep it up my friend. we appreciate it.
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- God bless and coming up next
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- Look encouragement there on your friday from joel.
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- Up next, my final thoughts
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- With some more encouragement to take into the weekend.
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- That's next week around.
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- That's next week around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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- As we wrap up here, look, every day
- 00:21:08.457 --> 00:21:10.359
- We're bombarded with headlines about war in the middle east,
- 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:13.595
- Rising tensions with china, economic uncertainty, cultural
- 00:21:13.595 --> 00:21:17.899
- Division, and growing threats to our freedoms.
- 00:21:17.899 --> 00:21:20.902
- It's easy to look at everything happening around us and wonder
- 00:21:20.902 --> 00:21:24.139
- Where it all leads.
- 00:21:24.139 --> 00:21:26.007
- But history teaches us something very important.
- 00:21:26.007 --> 00:21:28.810
- Nations aren't ultimately defined by their wealth,
- 00:21:28.810 --> 00:21:32.581
- Their military power, or even their political leaders.
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- They're defined by their values.
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- And when a nation loses sight of its values,
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- When it forgets who it is and what it stands
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- For, it becomes very vulnerable from within.
- 00:21:43.658 --> 00:21:47.729
- That's why the battle we're facing
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- Today is bigger than politics.
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- It's bigger than economics.
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- It's bigger even than any one election cycle.
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- It's a battle for truth, for faith,
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- And for the hearts and minds of the next generation.
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- Here's the good news god has not abandoned america.
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- Across this nation, there's people standing firm
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- For faith, family, freedom, and biblical truth.
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- There's parents, pastors, teachers,
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- And everyday americans who refuse to surrender
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- The judeo-christian biblical values
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- That made this nation strong in the first place.
- 00:22:21.530 --> 00:22:24.499
- And that is where real hope is found, not in washington, dc,
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- Not on wall street, not in the headlines,
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- But in turning back to the timeless principles
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- That have guided free people for generations.
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- Think of psalm 33, verse 12.
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- Blessed is the nation whose god is the lord,
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- The people he chose for his inheritance.
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- Folks, that verse is just as true
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- Today as it was thousands of years ago.
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- Because no matter how dark the moment may seem,
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- God is still on the throne and he's still moving.
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- Hey, be sure to join us next week
- 00:23:01.136 --> 00:23:02.504
- For some great conversations with josh hammer.
- 00:23:02.504 --> 00:23:05.073
- Jonathan, shandra, rachel campos duffy of fox news.
- 00:23:05.073 --> 00:23:08.243
- She's here as well, and many more as we continue
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- To cover the stories shaping america and the world.
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- Till then, have a great weekend.
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- God bless you. we'll see you soon.
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