The FIGHT for our Kids with Sam Sorbo

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Invested with purpose, making the most out of your time, talent, and treasures.

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Pull up a seat and join us as we uncover powerful testimonies that are sure to move and inspire

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you.

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Meet Christians from all walks of life and hear their incredible stories that will both

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motivate and challenge the way you view the world.

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These men and women exemplify Christian values and biblical stewardship in areas of mission,

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finance, entertainment, sports, and more.

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Welcome to Invested with Purpose, making the most out of our time, talent, and treasure.

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I'm Brian.

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And I'm Kara.

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And today we have Sam Sorbo with us, dedicated wife, mother, actress, author, and public

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speaker and home education advocate.

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Sam has dedicated herself to empowering parents to take back the influence of their children

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from institutionalized education and indoctrination.

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She has also starred in numerous films and television shows, even alongside her family

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in movies such as Let There Be Light, A Miracle in Texas, and Left Behind, The Rise of the

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Antichrist.

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Welcome to Invested with Purpose, Sam.

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Well, thank you so much for having me.

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It's a pleasure to be here.

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Well thank you.

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We'd love to start with a little bit about your journey from being an actress to becoming

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a home education advocate, and kind of what inspires you in this transition in your life?

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Big change.

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You know what?

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So I became an actress.

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I was modeling when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I became very successful, and

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I moved into acting.

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And I met Kevin.

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And at the time that I met Kevin, I had realized that I was going to have to compromise something

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if I wanted to have a husband and a family.

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But I didn't know what the compromise was going to be, and I thought, okay, I know that

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there's a compromise, God.

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What's it going to be?

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Is he going to be short?

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Is he going to be stupid?

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Is he going to be bald?

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I don't know.

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What's the compromise?

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And I met Kevin, and there was no compromise.

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He was like, ooh.

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He was fabulous.

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He was a phenom.

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He was incredible.

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He was conservative.

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He was Christian.

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He was clever.

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Just everything.

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And then we determined to get married, and I was considering what that was going to look

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like.

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And it was a bit chaotic because I lived in LA.

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He lived in New Zealand shooting the show.

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I couldn't go back and forth.

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It was a 13-hour plane ride back and forth.

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I was a career woman.

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I wasn't going to give up my career because that just seemed silly.

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I was trying to figure out what that was going to look like, and he got deathly ill.

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He ended up in the intensive care unit, and I landed the best job ever for three days

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in New York City, and he was in LA.

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I was in LA with him, and I got the job.

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I said, they'll fly me first class to New York.

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It's a lot of money.

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It's for my favorite thing ever, ice cream.

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It was the be all and end all because that's how God works.

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I asked him if he wanted me not to go, and he said, yes, I want you to not go.

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He was, mind you, he was knocking on death's door.

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He really thought he was dying.

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He felt like he was dying, and he nearly died.

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In that moment when he said that he wanted me not to go, I realized it was a binary choice.

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I could have the family and the husband, or I could do my career, but you can't have it

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all because there's too much.

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I walked away from my career at that moment.

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If you fast forward with my kids, it just seemed like the logical progression.

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I tried to go back to work, and then one of my kids, my toddler, my youngest, came up

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to me one day.

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I came home from an audition with her little finger out.

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She went, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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I'm like, well, that's good that you know that word now.

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I picked her up, and she turned to the nanny, and she said, bye-bye.

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I thought, oh, so she wants me.

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This is a binary choice.

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I try to tell young women that.

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We're sold a bill of goods.

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We're taught to pursue career above everything.

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That's not the hierarchy.

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That's not where our priorities should be.

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Unfortunately, our world has transformed, and so we can't be reliant like we used to

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be on the traditional norms.

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Women provides, wife does motherly housemaker type stuff.

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It's a confusing world, no doubt, but if you can manage it, I just found that I was really

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– this is my calling.

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My family is my calling, and everything else is secondary to that.

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That's why I'm on such a mission to get kids out of schools, because the school forms

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a wedge between the child and the parent.

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It is the embodiment of the destruction of the family.

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It is the catalyst for the destruction of family, and now it's the catalyst for the

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destruction of children.

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If you're a parent, and you have seen anything of what's been going on in the schools, whether

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it's Vermont saying the school can vaccinate your child against your wishes, it doesn't

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matter, to the school saying to the parent, we're transitioning your child.

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There's nothing you can do about it.

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You need to butt out.

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We're not going to tell you what's going on.

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All of those things just say no.

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Nothing is worth that risk.

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I told you, I just came from another interview, and I said, you're playing Russian roulette

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with your kids' lives, and every chamber is loaded but one.

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It's the reverse of the Russian roulette.

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Your kid's going to get shot.

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If he doesn't get shot, that's going to be the tremendous unlikelihood.

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Not if, but when, at some point.

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Children today are experiencing anxiety like no other generations before them.

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I just went to an orientation for my children for high school, and I'm already considering

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my options, especially after this orientation, where 70% of the orientation was speaking

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about mental health and their concerns, and all the people on campus that are there to

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speak with them.

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As I'm thinking through this, I'm thinking about you.

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The many times I've heard you speak to the power that we have as parents, and why would

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I want to give that over to these people that I don't know their agenda?

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Well, I don't, don't I?

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What do you attribute this level of anxiety and depression to?

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How is institutionalized education contributing to the epidemic?

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Children are unmoored.

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There was a good book that I read years back about how children used to have chores.

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Because we've become so advanced and so prosperous, we don't need our children necessarily to

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do the lawn, to mow the lawn, to do the weeding, to take out the garbage, to clean the house.

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We don't need our children to do that.

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We hire people to do that.

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That is, that's a dangerous paradigm.

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Because when children were invested with responsibility to the family, instead of just being responsible

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to the school, to the baseball team, to the cheer team, to whatever, right?

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When they were responsible for being a cog in the wheel of the family, their lives had

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value.

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They knew where they stood.

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They knew that they mattered.

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They feel seen.

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If they didn't, they felt seen.

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If they didn't, if they weren't there to take care of the baby when mom needed the oldest

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daughter or whatever to take care of the baby, the baby would suffer.

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They were valuable.

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They're not valuable anymore.

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Our entire culture craps all over them.

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Our entire culture now hates children.

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Look at the DNC today.

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I don't know why this is airing, but they're celebrating child sacrifice.

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They are the child sacrifice party.

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Our major national political party celebrates child sacrifice.

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You think that, I mean, the entire culture is against children.

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We rob children of their childhoods.

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It's almost like we're jealous, right?

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I went to school.

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I put up with it.

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He better go to school and put up with it.

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I'm not going to make it easy for him.

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It was hard enough for me.

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No, no, let's take a step back.

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Let's protect our children.

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Absolutely.

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Let's be the better people.

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You have JD Vance speaking on this and talking about how the left hates children or they're

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not pro-family or pro-child and they scoff at this and they make fun of him and say,

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you're weird, and yet they're doing this right outside of the DNC.

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They're giving away abortions and mastectomies, but they're saying they're pro-family.

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Yes.

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It's funny because he made a comment about the childless cat ladies.

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Now they're leaning into everybody wants to be a childless cat lady.

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No, there's a stereotype for a reason.

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Nobody wants to be the childless cat lady because we know that those people exist.

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I like, Sam, how you brought it home with you need to spend the time where the time

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is valuable.

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We talked with Ted Bear from Movie Guide and he emphasizes this kind of thing too because

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between school and between entertainment, we get the least amount of time in front of

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our kids versus the two of those things if we're not homeschooling.

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Essentially you've given school over to a private school or a public school and then

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you've got the entertainment factor where they sit in front of a TV and what are they

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watching and ultimately as parents, you think that one Sunday a week we go to church, maybe

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they go to youth group once a week and that's going to cover it.

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We could totally come back in the world.

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The thing is now that we're seeing how decrepit our schools are and I struggle because I want

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to defend private schools but I struggle to defend them because their entire paradigm

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is the same as the public school and their textbooks by and large are very similar if

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not the same as the public school and the textbooks have all been, most been, I shouldn't

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speak in absolutes but most of the textbooks have been perverted by the DEI and the woke

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agenda and the CRT and the alphabet.

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And the teaching to test.

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Teaching to test.

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There are so many issues with the system itself.

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The system itself is not a failure.

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It is succeeding because this is what it wants to create.

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It wants to create a rote citizenry that only follows orders and if that's what you hope

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for your child then by all means leave them in that system because the system will turn

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out an obedient, unthinking, unable to solve problems individual.

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That's what the system turns out.

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So if you take that and you go so that's the one alternative and let's assume the bullet

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wasn't loaded for that round and that kid escaped so-called unscathed by the whole agenda

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that is now churning in our schools but that kid just made good grades, is a good student,

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whatever.

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You've still destroyed the family relationship and so what do you hope for for the future?

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That child, I mean you might hope that he moves to New York and gets an office with

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a view and hopefully maybe gets married and doesn't end up getting divorced.

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Like, that's a whole treadmill that is un, it's not seductive.

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It doesn't look that good to me.

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I know that that's the culture's definition of success but that's not my definition of

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success.

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I want my children to know how to be good people, how to be loving, how to receive love,

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how to forgive people, how to ask for forgiveness, how to donate to charity, how to be charitable,

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how to help somebody grieve.

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These are the things of education.

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And while our kids are being distracted by, even if it were just academics, being distracted

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by the only academics version of the school that we all would love to believe it were,

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it's not but we would love to believe it were that, even if that was it, they would still

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be missing out on everything that I as an adult human being have to impart to my children.

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So what I'm saying to people is you as a human being are so much more successful than the

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22-year-old Marxist college graduate who is assigned to your child randomly by an authority

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figure that you don't respect.

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Why are you relying on that?

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You have much more to offer.

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Now, can you teach your child calculus?

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If that's the scariest part for you, don't worry.

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All the answers are in the book and maybe your kid doesn't need calculus.

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Now that's hard for me to say because I love calculus and I was really looking forward

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to teaching my kids calculus.

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They don't need it and they don't want it.

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And I kind of understand that.

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It's too bad.

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I loved it, but we didn't do that.

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So it's fine.

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I don't think I've used any portion of calculus in my entire life.

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You haven't calculated the volume of a sphere inside a cone recently?

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I will never forget I got in trouble with my father who was helping me with my calculus

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work when I was in high school.

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I was in public school and I looked at him and I said, who will ever use this in their

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career in their lives?

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And he turns to me and said, well, I use this formula today at my work as an electrical

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engineer.

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And I said, thank you, dad.

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That really makes me feel great.

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I have yet to use any of the calculus I learned.

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I still don't know.

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And you work in finance.

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Well, I just kind of want to pivot a little bit because you spoke on some very godly characteristics

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that we all want our children to have.

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And the one that we forget so often or that we think is unattainable is virtue.

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So it's a topic that's scoffed at by many in society today, yet it sits at the core

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of our Christian values.

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So why do you see Christian parents struggling to discuss purity with their kids?

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They don't read the Bible because they went to school.

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And in school, you learn four foundational lessons that are sort of just imparted to

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you.

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It's not, it's not sort of done overtly.

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It's covert.

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You learn to always ask permission to question.

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You learn.

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So don't ask.

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You learn.

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Don't try because failure is bad.

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Right.

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So overtly the message is don't try.

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Don't think because the teacher just wants you to regurgitate for the exam what she's

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told you.

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So stop the thinking that you're doing because that can't end well.

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Right.

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Just regurgitate.

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Because they certainly don't want you to question in class.

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Right.

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And then don't read because the teacher read the book.

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She'll tell you what's in it.

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There's no reason for you to read.

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And all the reading assignments, especially these days, are awful.

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So they're basically gearing the child up to hate to read.

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And so the child is never going to crack a book.

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And I remember graduating high school going, wow, if I never have to crack a book.

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Well, and I misspeak because I didn't, I shouldn't, I shouldn't have said that.

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I did not graduate high school.

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But I remember leaving high school going, wow, if I never have to crack a book again,

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that would be wonderful.

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So it's don't ask, don't try, don't think, don't read.

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And then what happens is we have Christians who go to church, but they think they don't

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have to read the Bible because the pastor read it and the pastor's going to tell them

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what's in it.

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And then we have these wimpy namby-pamby pastors who don't subscribe actually to true doctrine.

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And they basically, they don't read the book because they went to school and they learned

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everything that they needed to learn.

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So, so, so the thing that I tell parents, the number one thing to do for your child,

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if you're home educating, this was the number one thing I did.

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And I did not know that I was accomplishing what I was accomplishing while I was doing

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this.

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But we read the Bible every day as a family, 15, 20 minutes.

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Like it wasn't even like this huge investment, right?

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Because I don't want to make it onerous for parents.

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But if that's all you do, your child will figure out virtue, honor, truth, all the good

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things because that book is an incredible book that somehow with the stories that are

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in it, and it's a good book, like it's good storytelling.

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It is.

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Somehow with those stories, your kids figure it out.

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My kids are so fervent today because of that.

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And I, and I would say, I would have to say nothing else.

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I mean, we went to church, yes.

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And they did some youth group stuff and, and they all did summit ministries, which is really

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exceptional.

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And I think that that actually was, was instrumental on their journey, but it was reading the Bible

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every day, man, that, that, that taught them that truth existed and that it was worth pursuing

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and that virtue existed and it was worth pursuing.

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Yeah.

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Your kids are incredible.

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I follow by the way.

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So I know that you have spoken about how Octavia is it that she's now interested in college

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as where your two sons were not.

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And I know that I had, I had seen your husband speaking at a Christian film event and he'd

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said that he had your boys audition for the role in Let There Be Light, which I did see

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is amazing by the way, tear-jerker.

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Oh, thank you.

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But you know, as a mother, it must make you really proud to see them not just, you know,

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following along in some course that you, you mapped out and you know, but they're, they're

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doing what God put on their heart.

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That is, that's part of it, right?

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So when you're home educating, you realize that they have a little bit of autonomy.

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They have a little bit of a, of a self determination and it's your job to lean into that and help

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them figure it out because you want them to be happy.

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Whereas when they're in school and they're distracted by what the school determines has

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value, right?

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The school determines that an A has value and an F has no value, which, which really

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is wrong, right?

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Thomas Edison said, I didn't fail 10,000 times.

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I found 10,000 ways not to invent a light bulb.

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And so we, we, we ought to recalibrate our thinking, not just on education, but on the

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very foundations of our schools, right?

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Yeah.

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When I realized, and that was, that was a bit of an epiphany for me because when I started

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the homeschool journey, I was all about the academics.

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I thought that it was all about academics because I went to school.

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And for me, school was all academic.

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And then I started to realize, oh, this is more about character.

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This is about, you know, creating, envisioning a future with my child.

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Yes, Sam, it's very interesting.

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As part of Timothy Plan, we've had the privilege of going to a lot of these homeschool conferences

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over the years and there's a gigantic community out there.

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And now with, with Trump running, and getting political again a little bit, but with Trump

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running again for presidency here and announcing his agenda 47, he has kind of delved into

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the use of 529 plans.

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And I'm very familiar with those being working for Timothy Plan and how they can be used

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for school, but they were never really allowed to use for homeschool.

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And now he's looking at the avenue of opening that up for homeschool families.

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What would that mean for parents out there to have an option like that?

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It's probably just another tax savings opportunity, right?

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I don't know that it's much more than that.

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I looked at, you know, you can, if you're a homeschooler, you can avail yourself of

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a 529, was it 529 plan?

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529, yep.

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And I opted against it because at that point, when I first started looking at it, I was

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like, are my kids going to go to college?

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Because I don't need it to pay for their current school because I homeschool them.

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I am skeptical of any government intervention.

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Interesting.

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Full stop.

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Full stop.

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So, you know, we have school choice.

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That seems to be really big.

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I sort of equate that with pro-choice in my book.

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It's like a bad word because I'm not pro-choice.

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I know that sounds like, well, then you're exclusive or whatever.

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Yeah, I have pretty exclusive views on life, the value of life.

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But also the school choice movement with the vouchers and stuff, it is proving to be fraught

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with problems and very quickly.

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So one year, Arizona puts in the ESAs or the education savings account and they're so proud

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of themselves.

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No strings attached.

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It's a great thing.

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Parents are going to be, they're going to avail themselves of all this money and it's

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going to be great for them.

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No.

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Tuition skyrocketed.

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So then they were still priced out of the market in any case.

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And then the government decided the next year, oh, you know what?

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We are going to put a couple little strings, just a few strings.

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We want you to do this, this, and this for the money.

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And that's going to go way downhill very quickly.

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And it's actually government takeover.

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So it really means school choice movement really devolves into, and we could walk all

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the way through this, but basically it's public school for all.

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It's the elimination of homeschool.

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And more than that, it's the elimination of the homeschool groups or co-ops or outreach,

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the homeschool outreach that will not seek government accreditation.

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It will price them out of the market because if they don't seek accreditation, then they

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won't get any of the funding that the government magnanimously returns to the people.

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Remember, it came from you to begin with.

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So it's just, it's literally it's public school for all.

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It is a very dangerous movement because it's so seductive.

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It's so sexy.

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It's so pretty.

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Don't you want school choice?

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Don't you want your kids to be able to choose?

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Yeah, sadly.

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Wow.

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Is this not the way I had thought about it?

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Yeah, that's really eye-opening.

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Yeah, in a conservative circle, school choice is like, it's everything.

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Yes, sadly.

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So when you're speaking of accreditation, I think of say, classical conversations.

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Are they accredited?

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Nope, she will never.

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Absolutely not.

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And that's just one of the best that there is.

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Which is why I like them.

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Right.

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In fact, my daughter was looking for a college and I found a college that seemed to be basically

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a continuation of classical conversations.

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Not accredited.

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And I went, oh, not accredited.

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That sounds good.

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So that's the problem that we're facing because with the school choice movement, the accreditation

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is going to come and it's going to further separate out and alienate all of the entities

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that don't want to jump through government hoops.

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And I think we've learned now that the government hoops are not necessarily beneficial for us.

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So the other thing is like in Florida, you get like $8,000.

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The child costs 16.

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Right.

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Who's getting the other eight?

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Where's the other eight going?

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I'm sorry.

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I'm a little bit of a stickler for the math on this.

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No, that's a really good point and we need to have those conversations.

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Sam, I did have another question.

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It's more along the lines of just general homeschooling.

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You've already addressed, I think, one of everyone's biggest hurdles.

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Like, what do I do when I have to teach my child calculus and I don't know how to do

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it?

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What are some other common fears that you hear people express when they talk about homeschooling

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for the first time?

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So I'll take a step back because I don't know that I really addressed the calculus thing

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because it's a little bit bigger than just the answers are in the book.

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Because what happens is when you walk down the homeschool path from an early enough age,

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you're teaching your child autonomy and you're training the child to be self-sufficient.

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It happens naturally.

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It's not like a purposeful thing.

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But what happens is your child has a little book that is like beginning grammar or beginning

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logic or something.

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And he comes to you and he says, I tried to do the first question, but I don't understand

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it.

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Can you explain it to me?

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And so you say, did you read the chapter?

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And he says, sure.

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No, he didn't read the chapter.

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So you turn back and you read the chapter with him.

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And the moment he figures out the answer to the question, he wants to turn back and answer

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the question.

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And you say, no, no, no.

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You read the chapter and then the questions serve to jog your memory to see if it's stuck.

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So read the whole chapter first and then do the questions.

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And all of a sudden you've taught him how to teach himself.

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By the time he gets to calculus, he won't need you to teach him calculus.

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That's how it works.

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The reason that we don't believe that it works that way is because we went to school and

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we learned that we needed a teacher because we were trained to think that we needed a

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teacher.

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And so we're upending the whole thing.

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The other question that parents all have, well, curriculum.

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Curriculum is the big question.

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I actually created a curriculum for parents and it teaches them that they don't actually

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need curricula to because let's put it this way, education is a software download.

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School is data entry.

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We are not in the business of data entry.

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We don't want robots.

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We're not programming computers.

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We are downloading our software, our doctrine.

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We're downloading into our children so that they think and believe similarly to us with

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their own independent thoughts.

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And then after that, the data accumulation is on them.

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They go find the data.

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They do the research.

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Because we want them to go do research.

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What the schools are turning out are kids that have a very limited data set that are

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making judgment calls based on this very limited data set.

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Republicans are bad.

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That's their data set.

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Trump evil, orange man bad.

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That's their data set that they're getting in school.

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Their data set is there are 78 different genders.

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They're not taught to question, well, what's the 78th gender?

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I get that they're 77, but what's the 78th?

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They're not taught to question any of that.

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And so when you start to look at it that way, it changes the way you will go about it.

483
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,720
It is not school at home.

484
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,640
It is not data entry.

485
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,160
It's growing with your child.

486
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,000
It's shepherding your child into adulthood.

487
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,800
It's a different paradigm.

488
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:06,060
And the final question is socialization, which I just laugh at because the kids today in

489
00:29:06,060 --> 00:29:10,240
schools are taught that they can poop in a litter box in the hallway.

490
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:14,360
I would never wish that kind of socialization on my child.

491
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,480
People think that children get socialized in school.

492
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:23,720
The only reason that we believe that is because that is the only outlet that we think exists

493
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,960
because school is just normal.

494
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:26,960
School is the default.

495
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:33,920
And just to add to that one right there, this week, like I said, my son, he just started

496
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:39,960
ninth grade in high school and he said, Mom, it's not as easy as it used to be to make

497
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:43,400
friends and he grew up going to Christian private school.

498
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,320
And what's happened is obviously there's the technology boundary.

499
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:51,320
These kids have, I mean, they had what two years in their homes during COVID.

500
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,360
They have no communication skills whatsoever.

501
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:58,560
So they meet each other and when a child walks up to them and says, hi, I'm so and so, you

502
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,600
know, looks them in the eye, shakes the hand.

503
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:01,600
It's weird.

504
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:02,600
Yeah.

505
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:07,680
Oh, so he's the weird one now because he knows how to be social.

506
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:13,560
So the other thing that socialization and what I like to say is correlation just because

507
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:20,040
they go to school and they in theory turn out socialized does not mean causation.

508
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:21,280
Correlation is not causation.

509
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:25,880
So your children get social by you teaching them how to be social.

510
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:30,540
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511
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512
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513
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515
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516
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521
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522
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523
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:20,920
What are some other myths or lies that parents tell themselves about why they can't hold

524
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:25,920
school when these are our kids and why have we just gone along with this?

525
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:30,520
Because we went to school.

526
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:31,520
We were schooled.

527
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:32,520
We were never educated.

528
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:33,520
We were schooled.

529
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,800
We think we were educated.

530
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:41,200
And I'm sad that I have to bring this news to people.

531
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,240
And I went to Duke University and I wasn't educated.

532
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,920
I got educated after school and most people did.

533
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,320
Most people who are educated taught themselves after school.

534
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:56,460
So ask yourself, are you doing for a living like daily?

535
00:31:56,460 --> 00:31:58,960
Are you doing what you went to school for?

536
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:03,600
Most people, 95% of people don't do what they went to school for.

537
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,980
And even if they do it, they will admit that they learned much more once they got into

538
00:32:07,980 --> 00:32:12,000
the workforce because that's where you actually learn.

539
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:20,200
So we tell ourselves, so there's this weird paradigm where we privatize or personalize

540
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:21,760
failure.

541
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,680
If I can't learn math, that's on me.

542
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,200
I don't have a math brain.

543
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:35,400
But if I succeed in XYZ writing, if I'm a great writer, it's because of my schooling.

544
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:40,680
And so we corporatize our success because that's the offset that we've been trained

545
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:41,680
under.

546
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,680
School is successful where you're successful.

547
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:49,120
You're a failure where you failed.

548
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,680
And it's not the school that failed you.

549
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:56,600
But I can attest that most people who feel like they can't do math, I can lay it at the

550
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,280
feet of the school for most people.

551
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,200
And people listening to this will probably be saying, oh my gosh, absolutely.

552
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:10,400
I remember the day my teacher said the thing and I knew that I was never going to do math.

553
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,000
I just wasn't going to get whatever.

554
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,280
And I've gotten emails like that from people.

555
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,120
And so we personalize the failure, but we somehow corporatize the success and we think

556
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,200
that school is beneficial because we were trained.

557
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:27,780
We were schooled K through 12, 13 years, school good, school good, school good, five days

558
00:33:27,780 --> 00:33:33,000
a week for 270 days a year or whatever it is.

559
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,680
And it's a lie.

560
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,440
Sadly, it's a lie.

561
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,080
School is the grand experiment.

562
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:41,420
Here's the proof.

563
00:33:41,420 --> 00:33:43,760
We live in the greatest country in the world.

564
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:50,880
This country has produced the greatest prosperity for the world, for the entire world.

565
00:33:50,880 --> 00:34:03,240
Unbeknownst to anybody heretofore, this country founded by 56 Christian men who were all homeschooled.

566
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,400
School is the grand experiment.

567
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:11,440
We have to stop this horrifying toxic experiment on our children.

568
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,280
We must stop it.

569
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:20,400
We have to look at the results and say, oh, this was a bad idea.

570
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,400
Look at all the people who are super successful who never graduated.

571
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:24,400
Oh yeah.

572
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,360
There's a list of them.

573
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,600
Because they got smart enough to go, oh man, this isn't going to work.

574
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:31,600
I don't need this.

575
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,140
I don't need this.

576
00:34:33,140 --> 00:34:34,620
Now businesses are waking up.

577
00:34:34,620 --> 00:34:38,580
So businesses have started to hire kids out of high school.

578
00:34:38,580 --> 00:34:40,980
They don't want the college graduates.

579
00:34:40,980 --> 00:34:45,760
College graduates can't get jobs because they get degrees in stupid things that have nothing

580
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,000
to do with reality.

581
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:52,360
The whole thing is sort of imploding and we're just hanging on by our teeth because we're

582
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:56,880
so afraid of change because we've been so indoctrinated by our own schooling.

583
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:57,880
Oh absolutely.

584
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:03,840
We had CEO of the Red Balloon, Andrew Krepp, he's on the show just a couple of weeks ago.

585
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:12,960
He was talking about how there just isn't a pool of employable young people right now.

586
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,440
Obviously because of what's happening on college campuses and they come out with this sense

587
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,200
of entitlement.

588
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:22,280
He says when they do come across one, they're incredible.

589
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:26,520
They're usually Christian or conservative and they've been taught how to look somebody

590
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,720
in the eye and shake their hand and be polite.

591
00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:30,720
And be responsible.

592
00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:31,720
And be responsible.

593
00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:32,720
Be accountable.

594
00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:33,720
And be a good elder.

595
00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:34,720
Exactly.

596
00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:36,600
You took a shot right at me.

597
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,800
It's probably most of my friends too I think is the same thing.

598
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:40,800
I didn't mean it.

599
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:41,800
What did I say?

600
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:46,400
I went to college, I got my degree and what I thought I was going to do and now I am doing

601
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,480
something that has nothing to do with my degree and I learned everything I learned by being

602
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,960
on the job.

603
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:57,520
That could sum up not just myself but most of my friends as well in the career path.

604
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:58,520
That's my point.

605
00:35:58,520 --> 00:35:59,520
Yeah.

606
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:00,720
That's absolutely my point.

607
00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:05,840
The most successful of my friends are not college goers.

608
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:07,520
They never went to college.

609
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,960
They just got it figured out by themselves.

610
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:14,200
Well my degree sits pretty in the back of my office so I can say I did it.

611
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:15,200
It's pretty.

612
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,320
It's in a frame.

613
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:22,960
Before we let you go, we wanted to cover one last thing that wasn't necessarily homeschooling.

614
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:28,240
Talk a little bit about your book, Words for Warriors, a fight back against crazy socialists

615
00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:30,920
and the toxic liberal left.

616
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:37,320
It's received some critical acclaim and tackles some really important political and cultural

617
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,000
issues.

618
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:44,280
What inspires you to write this book and what do you hope that readers will take away from

619
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,280
it?

620
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,800
We live in a time of universal deceit.

621
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:55,200
We have a political party that is busy lying to the American public.

622
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:59,640
The thing that inspired me to write the book was the word fascism.

623
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,320
Antifa is a fascist movement.

624
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:06,000
Just because they call themselves anti-fascist doesn't mean they're not fascists.

625
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,240
It doesn't mean they're actually anti-fascist.

626
00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:10,080
They are in fact fascists.

627
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:17,240
They have all of the tactics of the fascist left.

628
00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:22,980
To go along with that, they rebranded fascism to be right wing.

629
00:37:22,980 --> 00:37:28,400
They just redefined it and said it's a right wing thing because they need to brand the

630
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,040
right as violent.

631
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,120
But the right is the opposite of violent.

632
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,720
The right seeks to compromise.

633
00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:41,160
The right seeks to, we're way too nice, frankly.

634
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,040
The most intolerant thing is the truth.

635
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:48,480
The truth is absolutely intolerant of the lie, which is why the left is so angry because

636
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:54,440
they're very busy lying and they hate being called out by the truth.

637
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,440
Fascism was the word that spurred me on to write the book.

638
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:05,720
I needed to put in paper, put down, codify in words, the actual definition of fascism,

639
00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:11,240
which is basically communism with a slightly different political structure.

640
00:38:11,240 --> 00:38:14,360
But the end result is the same.

641
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:19,440
In communism, you don't own the factory and the government does what it wants with the

642
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:20,440
factory.

643
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,680
In fascism, you get to own the factory and the government does what it wants with the

644
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:24,680
factory.

645
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:29,720
So, it's the same thing and it's totalitarian and it's all the same.

646
00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:32,720
But somehow they decided, well, Hitler was a fascist.

647
00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:33,720
He wasn't.

648
00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:34,720
He was a socialist.

649
00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:36,120
They changed history.

650
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:40,480
He did join forces with Mussolini, who was a fascist, but Hitler was a socialist, which

651
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,400
is the equivalent of a communist.

652
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:48,200
The problem was, after World War II or during World War II, we joined forces with the communists

653
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:53,720
of Russia and we vanquished the Nazis.

654
00:38:53,720 --> 00:38:57,540
And Winston Churchill wanted to go in and finish the commies because he knew how evil

655
00:38:57,540 --> 00:38:58,680
communism was.

656
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:02,320
FDR being socialist didn't really want to pursue that.

657
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:06,760
He was good with getting rid of the national socialists of Germany because everybody could

658
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,760
see that they were really evil.

659
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,320
The commies were so much more evil.

660
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:18,080
I mean, if there's a death count, the commies beat the socialists every time.

661
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:19,920
There's no comparison.

662
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:25,960
But at the Nuremberg trials, because we hadn't gone after the communists during the war,

663
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:26,960
they sat in judgment.

664
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:31,680
The communists sat in judgment over the socialists, which must have driven the Nazis crazy because

665
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:35,120
they're like, you killed so many more people than I ever even thought about killing.

666
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,680
Why are you sitting in judgment?

667
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:44,640
And then after the war, they morphed the national socialism to say nationalism is bad.

668
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:45,640
Socialism is not that bad.

669
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:50,160
It was the national part, which is why we're in the fight now for our identity.

670
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,320
Christian nationalism.

671
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:56,720
And why they now put Christian with national and Christian.

672
00:39:56,720 --> 00:39:59,360
Is this the worst kind of national?

673
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:00,480
It's absurd.

674
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:01,960
We're all team players.

675
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,240
Everybody believes in team play.

676
00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:08,480
We all have a football team or a baseball team or whatever.

677
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:10,760
Why can't we have a team USA?

678
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:11,760
And we do.

679
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:16,000
We send them to the Olympics, but somehow putting up a border and saying, well, team

680
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,640
USA is on this side of the border.

681
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,400
Oh no, you can't have that.

682
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:24,520
Although at the DNC, they put up a pretty, pretty serious border and they're demanding

683
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:28,520
ID before you're allowed to get in, which is why it's so empty inside the hall because

684
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:32,400
apparently nobody has IDs anymore.

685
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:33,400
So the whole thing.

686
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,360
So I wrote the book and I got a little bit snarky.

687
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:41,960
I think one of the definitions in here, I end with duh.

688
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:48,600
Because I just, I get a little bit frustrated that people can be bamboozled, but this is

689
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:49,600
it.

690
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:50,600
That's the definition of fascism.

691
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:55,960
It's a page and a little bit more and people really enjoy the book.

692
00:40:55,960 --> 00:41:02,520
The term after it is feargasm, which came out during COVID, right?

693
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:08,240
It's we have redefined a number of words and it's a dangerous thing.

694
00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:13,240
The book is dedicated to the word because in the beginning was the word and the word

695
00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:17,720
was with God and the word was God.

696
00:41:17,720 --> 00:41:22,840
And so the attack on our words is actually an attack on God, just like the attack against

697
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:27,160
our children is an attack on God's image bearers.

698
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,360
And that's the world that we live in today.

699
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:30,720
Words are redefined frequently.

700
00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:36,360
I mean, I can't tell you how many times you go online to the Marian Whipster dictionary

701
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:40,240
and word means something and then someone they don't like uses that word in a certain

702
00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:44,400
way and then the definition gets altered to slightly mean something different to accommodate

703
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,560
the person they don't like.

704
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:51,360
Just like fascism is basically something I don't like.

705
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:52,360
You are a fascist.

706
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:53,680
You are something I don't like.

707
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:54,680
Right.

708
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,080
It's just, it's easy.

709
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,720
And we've been trained to do that in school.

710
00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:04,160
We've been trained to just this one judgment, one characteristic.

711
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:05,160
That's it.

712
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:11,560
We see things very black and white with singular characteristics instead of understanding it's

713
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,200
the whole person.

714
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:14,600
It's not just the one belief.

715
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,160
It's a collection of beliefs.

716
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:22,180
And if you can find common ground in one area, maybe you can move their beliefs.

717
00:42:22,180 --> 00:42:24,480
Maybe you can affect some change.

718
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:30,000
But the left takes a very firm view about deplorables.

719
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:31,000
Right.

720
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:38,560
I do a show every day on patriot.tv and today I'm actually playing a clip that was put together

721
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:46,440
and it's a series of different leftists, Democrats saying, well, we need to have some camps.

722
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,040
We need to put these people in camps and reeducate them.

723
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,120
And they are talking in all seriousness.

724
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:58,120
And the next step to reeducation, because frankly, reeducation is difficult and expensive.

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You might as well just kill them.

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Be easier, faster.

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Well, Sam, where can people find more about you, your homeschooling initiatives, your

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books, your appearances in media, everything?

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So the best place is sorbostudios.com.

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That's where the shop is.

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My books are there.

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I have a couple here I can show you.

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So this is my first one.

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They're your kids.

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This is my journey into homeschooling.

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And it's basically the first part is why you should homeschool.

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It doesn't it's written before COVID.

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So it talks a lot about Common Core.

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All of that applies and more today.

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So at the beginning is why you should homeschool.

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And then the second part is how easy it is, because I want people to understand it's not

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rocket science.

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You're competing with a 22 year old recent graduate from Marxist training college who

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only really knows classroom management.

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It's a skill set you don't even need with your own kids.

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So why are you competing with that?

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Just take them out of school and do it yourself.

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And then this is Teach From Love.

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It's a devotional for families.

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I go through two virtues.

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You wanted to have the conversation about virtues.

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I go through two virtues every week that are sort of coordinate.

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And because it's we have binocular vision for a reason we see in 3D.

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So loyalty and faithfulness is one week.

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And then there are just these five little stories.

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Some of them are Bible stories and some are just regular everyday stories.

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And at the end of every week, I have a notations page where you can write down the things that

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your kids say because kids say the craziest things sometimes.

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And people love this book.

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I have kids coming up to me and thanking me for writing this book.

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So that's a lot of fun.

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So SorboStudios.com.

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Be sure you sign up for the newsletter because that's how we stay in touch with people.

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Facebook doesn't like us very much.

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Twitter is being very kind these days, but the other social media sites are a little

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bit rough and we need to stay informed.

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And so that's where people can go.

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And also patriot.tv for my TV show every day 4 p.m. Eastern.

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Excellent.

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Excellent.

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Well, thank you, Sam, for joining us on Invested With Purpose, making the most out of our time,

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talent and treasure.

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