Total Luxury Boomer Communism

As she pointed out, this shows that America is increasingly geriatric, in many ways that America is quite literally dying, dying a slow, lingering death, not unlike the bearers of those sad, empty faces at the nursing home with no one to visit. But it's also symptomatic of a much larger problem that Russ Green recently expounded upon in The American Mind in his article, What is Total Boomer Luxury Communism?

Simply put, total boomer luxury communism means the way our current government siphons money from the younger working class and funnels it to seniors, who are on average much wealthier. Our system works to keep old people in their homes with comfortable wages from Social Security, which can rise as high as sixty thousand dollars per year for an individual, or just shy of a hundred and twenty thousand dollars for a couple.

Most people don't know this, but Medicare programs also pay for golf balls, Greens fees, social club memberships, horseback riding lessons, and even pet food. This means that as younger working families are struggling to get by, they're also being burdened with taxes.

to ensure that their parents and grandparents' generation can golf in the morning, horseback ride in the afternoon, have cocktails in the evening at the country club, and return home to sleep quietly in a million dollar home That they paid thirty seven dollars and three sticks of string cheese for back in nineteen seventy five. A little bit of an overstatement, but but not much.

Now, sure, wages haven't kept pace with inflation or the housing market, but at least young people should take solace that their taxes make it possible for older generations to take that luxury cruise, right? Now, ironically, as Green points out, America actually spends significantly more than communist China on social welfare programs, the majority of which go towards senior care and comfort.

Consider, for example, what Dan Wang wrote for Breakneck: quote: Nearly three-quarters of China's population are spared from paying income tax. Low taxes make China stingy on welfare. Around 10% of its GDP goes towards social spending, compared to 20% of the United States and 30% among the more generous European states. China's pension and health care spending are much lower than that of other rich countries.

Based on Wang's data, the U.S. spends at least six times as much per person on social programs as China, and again, mostly aimed at seniors. Green was right when he called this reality perverse. Retired millionaires, he said, have become the greatest recipients of government aid. Max Social Security benefits in the US are three to four times what seniors can ever hope to achieve in other developed nations, such as Britain, Canada, and New Zealand.

These are allocated by lifetime income, so the greatest social security benefits go to wealthy individuals who need them the least. End quote. You might wonder where all this spending originates from. And you might think it was the Democrat Party. You would be wrong. It came from self-proclaimed fiscal conservatives during the Reagan administration.

As Dan Green notes in the article, quote, the last major Social Security reform occurred when President Ronald Reagan signed the Social Security Amendments of nineteen eighty-three. This legislation saved Social Security from imminent insolvency

By raising the retirement age, slowing benefit growth, and increasing taxes. End quote. It was their aim to keep the peace both with blacks in the ghetto who received massive welfare payouts as a community, and with boomers, a hugely influential voting bloc. It was a manufactured cultural piece that would be paid for by the younger generation. The truth is, since Reagan, neither political party even fights about the budget, except maybe 15% of spending. The other much larger portion?

Well, that barely makes any congressman bat an eye. As Green said, quote, in other words, Democrats and Republicans agree on at least eighty-five percent of federal spending. Mostly because they both support a massive wealth transfer from young workers to seniors. There's no political debate in Congress or even online until recently about total boomer luxury communism. End quote.

What this amounts to, according to Green, is a fourfold generational injustice. First, it's an injustice because government taxation afflicts the young and allows for seniors to live posh lives. Second, the government continues to borrow even more money from future generations to provide luxury for seniors today.

Third, government spending and money printing is driving inflation, which halts economic growth, erodes young families' wealth generating potential, and sets them back financially for life. And fourth, The government will tax young people again to pay for the debt incurred to pay for senior entitlements. This is, of course, insane, but perhaps more insane is that most seniors simply don't care what's happening to the kids.

They live like King Hezekiah in the Old Testament, who, when warned about the destruction and judgment coming on his kids, said, Quote, The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good. For he thought, Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days? Second Kings twenty nineteen.

As long as he could die in luxury, he didn't care much what happened to the future generations. When he was on his sickbed, he cried out to God for more years. But when his kids were in danger, he couldn't even be bothered to offer a single prayer for them. Even the homosexual tech saltant Peter Thiel found this to be highly problematic.

Commenting on the rising popularity of self-described socialist and Muslim politician Zoran Mamdani, he said, quote, Boomers are strangely uncurious about how this is not really working for their kids. If all you can say is that Mom Dani is a jihadist, communist, ridiculously young person, what that sounds like to me is that you still don't have any idea what to do about housing or student debt. If that's the best you can do, you're going to keep losing. End quote.

What is to be done about this generational problem? Boomers living in luxury while their kids pay for their excess. Much could be said, and we'll talk more about it in the episode. But we should start with the words of the prophet Malachi, who foretold a day when the Lord would, quote, turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, end quote.

What we need is a deep conviction, arising from the gospel, that fathers ought to love their generations, make sacrifices for them, and plant trees whose shades and fruit they will never enjoy, but which their great grandchildren will. The King's Hall Podcast exists to make self-ruled men rule well and win the world.

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You know, they're just they're really v they're very careful, physically careful. They're not like those commies over in China, but then you're like, actually, we are basically just communists.

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a feeling of love for somebody. And it's love actually is a f it in involves a feeling. I'm not saying it's just an action. But out of that action and disposition, it then gives itself for the sake of some object. So

You just apply that to the duties, the natural normal duties that God built into the world of a father to his children and to his children's children. And and really on down, because in blessing one generation and teaching them to bless their generations, you bless all the generations. Of course you wouldn't just want to serve yourself.

But you would want to look to the absolute perfect model of the head of a home, which is Christ, according to Ephesians five, twenty two to thirty three, this mystery that's now revealed in Christ, that marriage is actually a picture of the gospel. What did Christ do?

He gave himself for his bride. And and what comes from the the bride? Everything. Like the the union of the of the husband and wife. That is where fruitfulness comes from. That's where the children come from. So he he gives his strength in his very self, his blood for

But how many great pleasures can I pursue? The pleasures of loving my people, the pleasures of leaving an inheritance, the satisfaction of a job well done, the satisfaction of hearing the Lord say, Well done, good and faithful servant. You've loved the Lord, you've loved your people, you've left an inheritance of faith and wisdom and finances. So it's like we could go on forever, but really fundamentally the f the frame that everyone needs to think in is what are what are the demands of love.

in my life, in the office that I have. And as a father, you certainly have large demands in the economic world for the for the object of your love, your children, your wife, your generation.

That's right. Um and and so there's a whole list of kind of sins there. Maybe it's selfishness, maybe it's a love of comfort and ease.

And I do, I agree. I see many, many um older generations who are awake to these things. And to be fair, I don't want them to hear us say like, All of you chose for this to be the state of affairs.

my mom, his wife, and um his inheritance plan. None of it was his call necessarily, and there are lots of boomers in that world, but they certainly do have to change their mindset. from how can I get the most ease and like, well, I've worked hard and now it's me time. Mm-hmm. And they actually need to understand that the goal of of s of Love, including self-denial, is actually much greater pleasures for them than the cheap and thin pleasures of

How many vacations can I fit in? And just to use my parents as a good example of this, um My my mom and dad are aware of a lot of these dynamics. You know, they're they're thinking about them. My dad and I talk regularly about inheritance and how he would like to of course in the right order fulfill his obligations. Like his number one really is to take care of my mom and to make sure that she makes it

To her last day, not destitute and depend but but then I can step in and say, Dad, even if something happens, mom is taken care of. I'm taking care of mom. Me, you know, my brother and I and my sis we're taking care of mom. But then how can I bless And he's thinking not just of his children, my brother, my sister and I, but of our his grandchildren, his like the proverb says, his children's children. And so he's

Because he's an engineer, he has a spreadsheet. He's like, this is how I'm thinking about in here. And we've talked about it a lot, and it's great. But also, and much more importantly to me, and he knows this. We're not so much like, how much money can you leave the children, my children and your children's children when you die? That's great. But how can we maximize you giving them the greater gifts now?

Of your presence, of your wisdom, of involvement in their life, of yeah, and he's financially helped us even in uh ways through the years to make sure that we can get established and love his children's children now. Um but one thing he does constantly now, and they they've they've done especially since my dad like second retired. He's

He's retired several times at this point because he's a hard worker. And uh but he's constantly, I mean at least once a week, like, Hey, can I can I pick up these two boys this week and they can help me build this cabinet I'm working on?

But what he's getting is like it's such a gift. It's such a joy. He gets to see his children's children. Do you know how many people die of cancer and never see their grandchildren? Do you know how many people their children don't have children? Like It's such a mutual blessing when you do it right, when love binds ever like this, Paul says love binds everything together in perfect harmony is how he puts it in scripture.

That's what it's talking about. From heaven to earth, horiz vertically, horizontally amongst the generations of people. There's such harmony. And that's really what I want to win people to is not even like here's the strategy that's going to work for every single person to leave the perfect threading of the needle on inheritance. I actually just want to enculturate people. to love the right things.

And then I think they will figure it out how to thread the needle in a lot of ways in their actual circumstance and situation. I want them to love their grandchildren, love their children, want to bless them, want to help establish them. n put to death this very stupid idea of like, well if I help'em then they won't develop on their own. Stupid. God made the generations to work together.

uh for one of our kids and we're around'em all the time and we pay them rent and it's really supplementing their household and and and we're helping with all these things. So we're taking that money and we're reinvesting it. So cool. In our people. And I thought, well, that's a really creative way actually to do that sort of thing. Um, it's also interesting as you think about Um a lot of these principles take a lot of planning and preparation.

Like so a lot of people I think when we've received feedback and Q and A and stuff like that. Where where it's cool to just see people start thinking about it. Mm-hmm. And so just to encourage people, what would happen if you just started praying about it? Yeah. And saying, What are some ways that I could leverage whatever wealth I have, whatever time I have? Yep.

Well one thing that's interesting too, because this article was kind of about golf. And uh some of the places we golf are like um retirement villas. And so you see a lot of old people. But I went one time uh to a local course and I saw a grandpa playing with I think they were like his three grandsons. And I was like, s even something like that, it doesn't mean that you can't enjoy golf.

insignificant enough that maybe other political concerns. But that's why this is happening. It's the bribery of What the founders warned about that as soon as the people realize that as soon as the the politicians realize that they can bribe the people with their own money. Then it's the it's the death of the system in principle. That's what's been happening. So there's the political side where we really need to figure this out and say, let's stop being communists.

Let's stop subsidizing the extravagant luxury boomer communism of the elderly generation in these governmental policies and doing so by taxing the yo the young in in in ways where they are so unlikely to ever be able to receive the same level of government benefit when it's their turn, that's what's so deeply unjust about it. Right. And so there's that side of it.

Inflation and housing prices, and do make policy changes that might affect the value, for example, the inflated value of homes is because that would. Harm boomers who are such a powerful voting block. You're actually just telling the young generations, we literally don't care about you.

And then you create all this policy where it makes it very hard to to uh you know, buy a home. Yeah. Well the reality is if it's really hard to buy a home, you have a pink collar economy where it's very hard for men to get jobs, they've I've I've looked at a lot of research on this. The n

It's like by by and large, men are the number one determinant for whether families get started. So if the wife has a job, doesn't matter, families aren't getting started. If the man has a a quality job and he he can buy a home, families get started. So if if you actually and our of course our elites don't want this, but if you actually wanted to grow the country, have healthy families

Those are the sorts of things you would have to do. Make it more affordable to buy a home. Provide better blue collar, you know, and manufacturing those sorts of jobs. Unfortunately, a as you said, the ruling elites don't want this.

is that people hear this, especially a lot of young men. Mm-hmm. And they get really frustrated. Yeah. And we've seen this in real time where they start taking that out in conversations with their parents every single time they see them. Yeah. And so pastorally, I'm just I there's been a a lot of conversations, but what do we typically tell people?

And would you have had the power to do that? Understanding the right enemy is important in this conversation, but also recognizing that whenever God commands us to honor somebody. a human being. He is commanding us to honor somebody who fundamentally does not deserve perfect honor. Right. Like whenever a uh uh when when God instructs a woman to receive that you respect your husband, obey him, honor him, submit to him in everything.

It's a it's a tall order. Um he is commanding her to do that, knowing that the husband is imperfect and knowing that the husband's gonna sin, he's gonna fall short, his leadership's not gonna be perfect, he's gonna make mistakes. Her submission to that command is fundamentally and and ultimately a submission and honor to God who appointed that authority. So when we think about honoring our parents.

And maybe I'm very thankful that my parents are very honorable in in these in even in these particular things. They are aware and they're thinking through it and they're aiming to bless. Maybe your parents aren't. Maybe your parents are like all of the boomerist boomerisms are just booming out of their boop their mouth. They're booming constantly. I I really do think that there is an aspect that for the good of your soul, that you that it is good to recognize God appointed this exact trial.

for my life. He custom fitted it for me. That I would have parents who are booming at me these very stupid boomerisms. And yet I'm called to honor them. And so I'm going to self-consciously choose that I am not going to try to make it my life's ambition to invert the hierarchy and Um, be the parent and try to convert my parent to every single talking point that I believe about this and why they're wrong about everything.

But instead to find ways to honor them and yes, to call them up and give them as red of a carpet you can roll out to on to honor God themselves. And absolutely there can be opportunities for conversation where you do discuss these things. But man, you have to attempt to do your best to honor them and not to be. Belittling.

But yeah, I've seen it so many times where guys will just make it every conversation. To regain lost ground, Christians need a wealthy mindset. Beyond the Households working with Joe Garrett Backwards Planning Financial are adding more effective. In my experience, Joe has gone beyond simply helping me manage my own. He understands the importance of the first. do exactly that. Contact Joe at backwards planning financial Or call six one five seven six.

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And honorably and respectfully and directly and give him the courtesy of direct speech. Dad, here's, here's, you know, I've been rolling the red carpet out. I've been really looking for ways to involve you in your grandchildren's lives. I'm trying to give you opportunities to win the glory of Proverbs thirteen, to leave an inheritance to your children's children. And I want you to know that the door is wide open and that it doesn't have to be exactly what I think, but I really do believe.

that it would be good for your soul, good for your generations, for you to do these things. And it's been frustrating because uh my experience has been you seem resistant to it. Let's talk about that. I would really like to have this conversation with you. Not I'm now going to go on Facebook and rant about my parents.

What are you doing? Yeah. What are you doing? You're out of order. You're not you're not obeying the general patterns of bringing admonition to somebody, especially when you're you're giving admonition up the chain of hierarchy that and God established the hierarchy, not you. So I don't want people to he to hear me say, never tell your parents anything hard. Never have a conversation. Never invite them in. Never even attempt to correct their thinking on something. I don't mean that.

But do it in a way that it is so obvious that you're trying to go out of your way to honor the the fifth commandment, obey the fifth commandment, that it's like you couldn't be mistaken unless somebody willfully mis mis decided to mistake you.

But God said to him, Fool, this night your soul is required of you in the things you have prepared, whose will they be? So he's actually asking a question like, Do you have an inheritance plan? It's interesting because Jesus addresses this to I think two men who are fighting over who gets the inheritance.

So my point with all of that is that I think pastors can do a much better job and be courageous.

And and here's a man who's like started businesses. Used even being like manufacturing uh so that his kids could have jobs. Yeah. And he's provided those things for his people. So I I I think also just

To put a ball on that, just pastorally. Pastorally, you can just literally preach Luke twelve. And apply that to the older generations.

profit for me and my sharehol what am I trying to do? I'm actually trying to maximize the service that I can bring to my people.

The blessings multiply and they grow richer around you. And you end up so much more blessed than you otherwise would have. Yeah. You know, I think about your your fa um, your son's father-in-law. Um what what would that be to you? I guess there's not an official title for that office.

that he can train up his own children and you know, even like in the case of his daughter, the h the man who marries his daughter, your son. to take over and learn and run these businesses and have ownership in them. And then here's a job like it seems so benevolent and it really is. Like I don't wanna detract from that. But it's also tricksy.

'Cause you're like you're like, hm, I want all of my children to be able to have lots of grandchildren so that I can play with them and like hang out with them and like see chubby toddlers that are my grandchildren and get them Christmas presents that make too much noise. And so, and I want them to be close. So how do I do this? And then you scheme and you like, I could start businesses.

I want to work with them. Yeah. I want to see them. I want to check in with them. I want to I wanna see what's going on in their life. Yeah. And I was like, wow, that it's just such a great picture. Yeah. And so here's this crazy deal. Th obviously love your people. I'm gonna say this, like your people.

A father can be a business owner that sincerely cultivates a love. Yeah, it tries to employ his family and children and whatnot, but there's gonna be if you're successful business, you probably employ more than just your immediate family at some point. And if you cultivate an affection for the people that work for you and you won you really seek their good, then when it comes time and you're thinking about like, what was the top line profit of our business this year?

And how are we gonna what are we gonna we're gonna reinvest here? Are we gonna hire somebody? Are we gonna do raises? Are we gonna what what is it are we gonna cash a check as a business owner and and you know, go on a cruise? What what's it gonna be? When you have an affection for the people that work for you.

it it changes the way you think about that calculus. Yeah. Because you suddenly go, Ah, you know what? I really want that family to do well. I want them to be able to have, you know, to buy that house and Yeah, have that they're they're in that two bedroom apartment right now and they got two kids and like three, you know, three on the way. They wanna have more. What could I do to bless them?'Cause I really like them. I like I like being around them. I want them to do well.

And you th there's a way in which you can think like we're gonna be so much more profitable if we could just be really lean and bonuses or whatnot. And the stupid thing is you end up making your own life miserable and destroying everything when you do that.

All of the staff that would like clean tables and whatnot were gonna like optimize so the waiters do that and this and the other thing. And all of a sudden, like wait times went up and Then it, you know, basically the company tanked. And I think it went from like a hundred plus dollars a share to like two dollars and eighty-seven cents.

Spend less, we're gonna be this much X percent more efficient. It's gonna look really good on the shareholder news this quarter. And then they promptly destroyed everything. What uh but the companies that consistently companies that take care of their people. They care about the local aspect of the business. They want to like I want my countrymen. I want my neighbors in this city. I want this manufacturing plant to be here. I want there to be good wages for the people.

And yeah, like the top line profitability of the company this quarter and next quarter and the next five quarters, it's gonna look maybe a little thinner. and and and maybe less attractive to a takeover proposition from some, you know, huge hostile buyout or whatever. But those companies just tend to actually do well. When they care about the small things and the actual people. And then the funny thing is, they're way more profitable a lot of the time. I think this works in families too. Yeah.

They see which ones do the best and then Amazon copies it. Everything, because almost nothing's proprietary about a normal business or a product or whatever. They copy it, they slash the prices. Sometimes they sell it at a loss, even until all those other businesses go out of sale, go out of business. It's awful. It's horrible. And I mean like customer service in India, low quality print, like all this stuff.

And I'm just looking like and I've made them all to date. Like I all the album covers, I just made them. And I'm not a graphic designer. I'm just like I use PickMonkey. Evan's laughing because it's tr it's like That in it it's a toddler version. I'm like I can't even use Photoshop and uh but I do what I can. And then you go I don't like that we did that. Let's not do that anymore. Let's make the next decision. Okay, we're printing books here.

Can we print them in in America? Yeah, yes, we can do that. So let's talk to this company. Oh, let's actually you know, we had the head of a printing company that we are partnering with even in here in the USA in our office recently. And meeting with Martin. And so it's just it's

A lot of the time what people do, and it this sounds like we're not talking about this the same thing as we started, but we are. People let the perfect be the enemy of the good, they start looking at a problem and they do this. They go, Well, I can't fix Social Security, so I can't do anything.

Make a small make the next change. Do the next thing. If you're a business owner, you're like, oh man, my whole business model is reliant on this foreign labor and this thing and that, whatever, and my subcontractors are all, you know, Venezuelans and whatnot. Okay. Do the next thing. Make the next improvement. S make the next investment in the right area and then see if the Lord doesn't bless it. Do the next hard thing. Make the in I can't buy all my children houses.

w the the day the first day of their marriage. Okay, maybe you can't do that. What can you do though?

See if the Lord won't bless it. Yeah. See if the Lord won't actually Oh, I thought that that decision of my business that was like hiring people that are my actual neighbors instead of illegal immigrants was going to make my business 12% less profitable this year. And it was going to like put me on the margins. Weed grew 19% this year. What? See if that won't happen. Yeah. I'm not guaranteeing I'm not a prophet, but I am saying this is how God made the world to work.

All right. And so he was imprisoned for a while and this guy come they they get to America. He ends up having to like re earn an engineering degree that he had already gotten in Cambodia or something like that or like Southeast Asia somewhere. And um he they get here and they're not Christians. These are like, I think, Buddhists.

He um they would his wife would garden and she'd like give us. I remember the big old like zucchinis and stuff from their garden that my dad would bring home because my dad was his boss. And he would bring him gifts and things like that that they grew in their garden. But his parents moved in with them. So his dad, who had been imprisoned in Cambodia, like almost died, came out of prison probably seventy five pounds, like

starving and he said, like, oh, he get out of push, he eat a lot. He eat a lot. But uh because he was almost dead. Their parents moved in with them. And this was just the Norman Asian culture. The parents moved in with them, but it was this the mutually beneficial. The the t the parents were like working hard around the house, helping with kids. And the expectation is like they didn't have a retirement plan. That was their retirement plan.

And they live forever, Asians. They're tiny. They live for like 200 years. So Zoon's dad is like 90s, probably in his 90s or something. And he's still there like gardening, helping with kids, like cooking. But it was just so Pitiful to me that in our culture This like great Christian culture that used to understand these things, and that would have been a totally normal situation.

in our culture, our Anglo Protestant culture. Yeah. For a parent to be like, w retirement, 401k, do you mean moving in with your kids and helping and then they take care of you until you and then they bury you? Like It has become so abnormal for that to happen that I would just challenge people. If you're the older parent or the the grandparent or if you're the the child, make the offer.

If it works in your situation, if there's any way to make it work, maybe it's like we've got this house that's paid off and and like could we figure out a way to to move in and be of service and help? And and integrate in into the family. Do you know what a blessing that would be to everybody? Like you would be blessed, they would be blessed. This was how human beings lived and did it.

We're gonna help you guys out, get started, and you're gonna expect for mom and dad to live with you. If if that's what the I mean, there's other situations that can work. There's not a one size fits all.

Like I just think it's probably gonna be insolvency. You see what happens with fiat currencies given enough time at some point.

pretty low confidence overall. But what we can do is we can get our houses in order. And it's gonna be much harder because g we're getting our houses in order in while being robbed in both pockets. Like we've got the government in both their hands are in both of our pockets. And y they're trying to rob you at every turn and like they're teaching you to hate yourself just'cause you're white and they're like you're

They are flooding the world with immigrants and they're like, Hey, let's import a you know what? The birth rate's not supporting total boomer luxury communism anymore. Let's import a class of slaves. That's what their immigration policy is. That's what they're doing to keep the inflation machine going.

Okay, they're doing all of that. I know it sucks. We experience it every time. We pay taxes. We live in this world. We're trying to make it too with lots of kids and all this stuff. But what can we do to get our house in order? How can we work together with our parents, with our children, with our brothers and sisters in the church? And how can we? Relentlessly insist that love be the thing that drives us.

But we were doing it genuinely before God because we wanted to do something good. We wanted to obey the Lord. We wanted to love our people. And so even when we didn't do it right, and we're probably still not doing it right in 10, 15 different ways. I just have this wild degree of confidence that God will bless it. Even if it's hard and there will be setbacks and you know, blah, blah, blah. But it's that to me is kind of what.

f faith looks like in a nutshell, it is a wild degree of confidence that God is your father, he is love, and he's completely for you. And so even though he's gonna discipline you because he loves you, and it might be hard and things might suck, neither famine nor nakedness, nor death, no, nor sword, nor any such thing can separate us from the love of God. And so why not just try?

He was like, you know, one of the dumbest things we told Christians forever was like, Be radical. Like go start an orphanage, go be a missionary. And he was like and the thing that we missed was what Christians did for centuries, which was love your families.

It is the cradle of the nation. It is the seminary of the nation. It's a small commonwealth. Love your people well. And so right now in this current political cultural moment, I know people are going in a million different directions. Mm-hmm. I keep coming back to this and Scott said this. He said, Trust me as someone who has been walking and fighting in this race for a long time. Build your house on the rock, and it is the word of God. Yeah.

So that's what we're trying to do at the conference. I think it's gonna be really encouraging for people. Yeah.

difficult, thorny, complex, bitter, divisive, horrible, no good, dirty, rotten. Like there's just a bunch of bad stuff out there. And it's easy to bet to blackbill. It's also easy to get into a race to the bottom, like to get into a race to um w what it there's a lot of contr there's a lot of edgy and controversial political stuff that's that's pressing and important and and actually I think

the political theory conversation is very, very important. But in the whole thing, We've just come back to over and over. All of it is worthless if we don't get the foundations right of our churches and our families and ourselves before God. If we don't actually figure out positively what does a human being look like, what is a good man look like? What does a good woman look like? What does a good marriage look like? What does it mean to parent your children? If we don't just

get these foundations set correctly in faith, then we are all absolutely screwed. And it like the Lord will work, but it it will be not through us. So we've been think just h how can we do that? What are the what are the leadership principles? What are the pastoring principles? What are the marriage and family principles? What are the business principles? What are the intergenerational inheritance principles? What are the things that we need to take hold of with that wild confidence?

That the Father loves to bless his people. What what are those things? And that's what this conference is aimed at. And so, yeah, I mean, look, we've been known to to get get down and dirty in the in the whole political debate. We've been known to do that and I stand by it. I stand by ev I stand by it all. Someone's gonna clip me in it. This you and be like, that was me, and that was a banger. You know, absolutely. We've been known to, I don't know, get ourselves protested by Antifa.

Uh, for certain things said at this table recently. Yes, we we stand by them. Um, those are all important issues.

The conference is is going to maybe a letdown for for someone who's like, let's, you know, figure out how to solve our all of the problems of immigration. Ah, we're n are probably not gonna do that. But what we are gonna try to do is say everybody in this room right now, the you you're like our people. We're thinking the same thoughts, we're looking at the same problems. What can we do?

What can we do right now to make uh our war the war for normal, the war for a world that is normed by God's norms? And yes, that has political implication, has all sorts of implication, but it has massive implication for the way that we live our lives as men and women before God in c in in community and in families with one another. So let's figure that out. And the reality is.

I think we have a lot of work to do there. I think there's I think there's enough work right now to be going on with that. So let's you know, let's get busy working there.

And that's not a testimony to our scheming greatness. Like that's just the Lord's providence. That's how he does it. You put your sales up, you go meet people, you put yourself out there, you aim to love other people and be of service, and then the Lord blesses you and gives you new friendships that last for life. They happen in these kind of contexts. So come Thursday. Uh and

sign up for one of the things happening there. We'll have a family day that morning, um, like at the park where especially moms and kids can go hang out and play and dads too, of course. Um, at the same time there'll be a golf tournament, which is it we love playing golf, but the main reason we do is'cause it's one of the best ways to just hang out and be friends.

That's one of the reasons it's a four man scramble. So it's not like who's the best golfer. It's it's teams of four players. Put your team together. If you don't have enough people, we'll pair people and and h you'll probably make some lifelong friendships that way. Uh, come play the golf tournament. And New Christendom Games, Thursday afternoon, uh to the evening. Uh we'll have like an Olympic sport competition of new cr of our people.

Crown Victors, Ben and I will be commentating, so you know it'll be highly professional commentary. Very few Your Hon jokes, like completely polished. Eric will be commissioning. He'll be there in his big suit. They'll be walking around just like smoking a cigar or something.

It's wild. It's a huge crazy idea I had. What if we made music with instruments and just recorded them? and then played them for people. So that's what it is.

good and true and beautiful and will help hide those things in your heart and we become what we consume and what we behold. I think that's true musically, so I hope that they're a blessing to you. If you can chip in if you want, you don't have to. You can just go stream it for free by the time it's out. But my my goal is that it will be launched the week of the conference. That's my aim.

publicly everywhere. Um, but also there'll be a vinyl, there'll be a bunch of ways that you can participate. The if it's not already claimed, there is a like for our real patrons out there, if you're like, I don't know, one of those Barons of like if you're a coal magnate or something. A coal magnate? I don't know. Uh there is a tier uh on the fundraiser where you can just fund the whole album and I literally give you the guitar that I wrote the album on.

My Taylor five seventeen E, which is like a three thousand dollar guitar. So it's like That's a real tier. That's real. Yeah. That's the that's the fun the album tier. I mean, like it's probably not gonna happen.

Um short years. Short years. Yeah. So you can go chip in a couple bucks or fun the whole album and get a guitar.

And then Sunday we'd if you can make it and and hang out, stay for church. We we'll do it at the venue so that everybody can fit our church and all the visitors. And then we have a barbecue like a potluck in the park on Sunday afternoon. And then Lord bless you and you can Head on home the next day, hopefully, or whenever is convenient. But uh it's just a great time. Like these conferences. I am not a big conference guy. I don't think either of us are. No.

Like I don't speak at a lot of them. I say no to most invitations and we don't