WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:09.200 truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:12.160 Hey everybody, welcome to the Jack Hibbs Podcast. Today we are going to be 4 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:17.360 absolutely blown away. Stay tuned. I think we've got some hope and it's come into 5 00:00:17.360 --> 00:00:22.120 California. If it's come into California, then it's come into the other 49. Stay tuned. 6 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:32.760 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:33.400 --> 00:00:39.240 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 8 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:45.960 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or yes. 9 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:51.480 Then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has 10 00:00:51.480 --> 00:00:58.600 to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. We're everybody. Welcome to this special edition of our real 11 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:04.760 life podcast. And we are really excited to have with us someone that's not going to be a stranger 12 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:11.240 to you. If you've ever watched Fox TV, Fox News, you have seen his program. You have seen him 13 00:01:11.240 --> 00:01:17.480 as he makes commentary and as he brings insight into what's going on in our world and our nation 14 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:22.680 specifically in them in the political realm, cultural realm. And I'm talking about Steve Hilton. 15 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:27.640 It is awesome to have Steve Hilton with us. And he's got some things that I wanted to share. 16 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:31.800 You're going to want to know. And I think by the time we're done, you're going to want to get out 17 00:01:31.800 --> 00:01:37.560 the word about what Steve Hilton is doing. Because if you know anything about me and about us, 18 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:44.040 we're all about having our faith make a difference in the culture in which we live in. And as Americans, 19 00:01:44.360 --> 00:01:50.760 we can do that because of the founding of this country founded upon not only the belief of the 20 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:57.320 Magna Carta, but it was the Magna Carta that inspired our pilgrim fathers to pen a two pair of 21 00:01:57.320 --> 00:02:02.680 phrase document called the Mayflower Compact, which is really the birth certificate to this to this 22 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:09.080 country. And so Steve, I'm just delighted to have you. I'm telling you, I'm such a fan. And 23 00:02:09.160 --> 00:02:13.960 likewise, it's just an honor. It really is. What you've built here and with everyone 24 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:20.120 is just phenomenal. It's so exciting. Well, I tell you, I think that we share a lot of things. 25 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:25.160 And people might find it interesting that, so wait a minute, Jack, you're from San Diego and Steve 26 00:02:25.160 --> 00:02:29.400 with that accent is from where? Where's your roots? Tell us about your background. 27 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:34.440 So the accent, people would say, well, he's from England. But here's the journey. 28 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:40.760 And I think that that idea of the journey is very much in my mind right now. My parents are 29 00:02:40.760 --> 00:02:47.720 actually Hungarian. Both my parents are from Hungary and I was born in the UK. So they made their 30 00:02:47.720 --> 00:02:57.080 journey. They started in Hungary in a communist regime. They left. And in fact, my stepfather 31 00:02:57.160 --> 00:03:06.680 is also Hungarian had a very, very difficult journey. He was in a village on the west side of 32 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:15.640 Hungary. And they heard on the radio in 1956, the invasion by the Soviet Union, the Soviet 33 00:03:15.640 --> 00:03:21.800 invasion, the Russians are coming. And they left. They ran. They were 14 years old with his brother 34 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:26.680 and some friends from school. And they ran and they went to the border with Austria. And they 35 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:32.760 tried to get out. And some of them died in the attempt. And they ended up in a refugee. He and 36 00:03:32.760 --> 00:03:37.960 his brother were okay and a couple of friends. Many of their friends died trying to escape. 37 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:44.840 And then they were in a refugee camp in Austria and ended up in England. So this journey, 38 00:03:45.720 --> 00:03:52.120 and I'll explain why it matters so much to me. I feel very, very deep. I think about it very 39 00:03:52.120 --> 00:04:00.280 deeply because of that, the nature of that effort to get to freedom. And so there I was born 40 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:07.160 in England with all the opportunities that that brings compared to my cousins who I spent many 41 00:04:07.720 --> 00:04:12.120 vacations with when I was a kid. We'd go back to communist Hungary and would experience what 42 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:17.640 that was like and see it. But then we'd get to go back home to England. And that's where I was 43 00:04:17.640 --> 00:04:26.520 raised. I had enormous opportunities there. And then 12 years ago, the journey as far as I'm concerned 44 00:04:27.400 --> 00:04:34.840 was complete because we moved here to California with my family. Wait, you moved to California? 45 00:04:34.840 --> 00:04:41.080 We moved to California. You intended to do that. Exactly. On purpose, it wasn't an accident. 46 00:04:41.880 --> 00:04:48.440 And it's a very interesting thing because we came in 2012. And that was for, it's actually connected 47 00:04:48.440 --> 00:04:52.840 to my wife's work at the time. We didn't know that we were going to stay. We didn't really have 48 00:04:52.840 --> 00:04:58.360 a strong feeling about that. We just had our second son had just been born. And she was traveling 49 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:03.480 and it was just complicated for our family. At the time, I had a big job. By then I'd done all 50 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:07.720 these things and ended up in the government in the UK. I was working in 10 Downing Street. I 51 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:13.160 was senior advisor to the Prime Minister. So I had this big job in the government. And our family 52 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:18.440 was, you know, it was just tough with a young child and the family. So we decided for our family 53 00:05:18.440 --> 00:05:25.240 to stay together, moved to California, to the Bay Area. And then four years later, this is this 54 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:31.480 is when I think the final step, I think really you could say took place. I remember going back 55 00:05:31.640 --> 00:05:36.600 to England, I'd written a book about the importance of, the book was called More Human. 56 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:43.800 Designing a world where people come first. And the theme of the book was that everything in our 57 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:50.280 world has become too big and bureaucratic and centralized and distant from the human scale. 58 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:56.200 And we need to put humanity back at the heart of everything we do. That was the argument in the 59 00:05:56.200 --> 00:05:59.960 book. And it did very well there a year before when it came out. And then they published a paper 60 00:06:00.760 --> 00:06:06.840 and I did an update for the paper back. And it was the same time as the Brexit debate was going 61 00:06:06.840 --> 00:06:13.080 on. Remember Brexit 2016, the first really first sign of this populist revolution that then of 62 00:06:13.080 --> 00:06:19.480 course Donald Trump led here in America. But this a few months before his Brexit. And the paper 63 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:26.120 back of More Human came out in the UK and I did an update. And in a way, the EU, the European 64 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:31.880 Union bureaucracy was a perfect example of what I was arguing against. So I laid out in the paper 65 00:06:31.880 --> 00:06:37.880 in the update that I was in favor of Brexit. And so I went back and did the book tour and campaign 66 00:06:37.880 --> 00:06:41.960 for Brexit. And that happened. But I remember so clearly, this is the moment I wanted to 67 00:06:42.520 --> 00:06:49.240 you know, really focus on in terms of this idea of the journey. Landing at San Francisco Airport 68 00:06:49.880 --> 00:06:54.440 after spending a couple of weeks away campaigning for Brexit. And I just remember the plane 69 00:06:54.520 --> 00:07:00.680 coming in and I just sat back and I said to my I thought to myself, oh, it's so great to be home. 70 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:07.400 That's so interesting. Yeah. This is now home. Wow. And and and then I thought about that and 71 00:07:07.400 --> 00:07:12.840 reflected on it. And it was home, not just in a literal sense, but in a spiritual sense, 72 00:07:12.840 --> 00:07:21.080 because it it was clear to me that America meant something very special that I felt at home in 73 00:07:21.080 --> 00:07:27.880 America in a way that more than I had ever done in the UK. And then even California and we 74 00:07:27.880 --> 00:07:32.200 joke about it and what a disaster California is and we can get into that. But there's something 75 00:07:32.200 --> 00:07:39.880 special about California that I have found I really connect to the way I put it now is that I was 76 00:07:39.880 --> 00:07:45.560 in love with California even before we ever moved here. And in fact, thinking back on all these 77 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:52.920 steps, I recall an article in one of the political magazines in the UK when I was working for David 78 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:57.000 Cameron, when he's the prime minister, and it was about the kind of ideas that I was trying to 79 00:07:57.960 --> 00:08:04.200 bring to the policy argument in England and implement in the government. And the article was 80 00:08:05.400 --> 00:08:11.000 California dreaming. And the theme was Steve Hilton, David Cameron's advisor, 81 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:15.560 what wants to make Britain more like California. So that was 12 years ago, more than that, more 82 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:21.480 like 15 years ago. And you think, well, today, I say this all the time and I'm on the road a lot 83 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:26.680 in California. I say, is there a policy advisor to any political leader anywhere in the world 84 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:31.480 who would want to make their country more like California as it is now? No, no, no, the point 85 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:35.720 that counts. But the reason it's so there's a lot we need to change. But the reason I bring that up 86 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:44.600 is that I love this state so much because to me, it represents the best of what should be the 87 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:51.240 best of America. What it used to be exactly. And that's sad to say that it used to be because 88 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:55.240 everything, as you've traveled up and down this state, we're talking about this earlier before 89 00:08:55.240 --> 00:09:02.440 where the geography of this state, the sheer beauty, the resources, the where you and I could go to 90 00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:08.760 the desert today and then be back to be in Newport Beach tonight. Yes, you know, it's just remarkable. 91 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:13.880 That said, everything that's wrong about California is manmade. 92 00:09:13.880 --> 00:09:18.360 100, but this is the crucial point. Yeah. And that means we can turn it around. And also 93 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:23.320 and think about the fact that it's happened relatively quickly because actually you don't have to 94 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:28.520 go back that far. Even when we moved here, you could see things were wrong. It's 12 years 2012. 95 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:35.400 But not like you see today. That's happened quickly. It is totally manmade. And the thing I always say 96 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:41.640 about this point is that, of course, we need to turn things around in California and that's 97 00:09:41.640 --> 00:09:48.600 what I'm working on now. That's my focus now. But it's not just for us, actually. It's not just 98 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:54.040 for those of us who live here now and for our friends and our neighbors or even for our children 99 00:09:54.040 --> 00:09:58.120 or our grandchildren. It's bigger than that. And this is what I really connect with California 100 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:03.640 because to me, it's the physical beauty, but it's the spirit of California, that idea of 101 00:10:04.760 --> 00:10:11.720 optimism and energy and innovation and just a positive spirit about things. That's really what 102 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:16.440 California is all about. And actually in that sense, there's a quote that I came across. 103 00:10:17.400 --> 00:10:22.440 And I say this at pretty much every event I do. So forgive me if people have seen me say this 104 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:27.800 before, but it's at the heart of why this matters so much that we save California. I read it, 105 00:10:28.280 --> 00:10:34.200 I think sometime last year and here's the quote, California means to America what America 106 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:40.760 means to the world. I agree. And that is so profound because if we think, as I know, we do that 107 00:10:40.760 --> 00:10:46.440 America is the greatest nation on earth, greatest nation that's ever existed. What that means is 108 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:52.840 that California is the should be the greatest expression of everything that's wonderful about 109 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:58.360 America. I'm old enough to have lived the years where that was in fact true. Were people 110 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:03.480 long to come here? Yes. Not just America. They land in America to get to California. Exactly. 111 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:09.960 There's a reason why there is a North rip. There is the Tesla, the gold rush, the Apple, the 112 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:16.920 Disneyland, the surfing. You know, surfing was born right in Huntington Beach. It's off city. 113 00:11:16.920 --> 00:11:28.200 Yes. It's absolutely epic. And in fact, it used to be where California produced even politicians 114 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:34.120 that were reputable guys like Ronald Reagan. Exactly. Was, you know, California governor and 115 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:42.120 but what's interesting is the change to the negative has happened so quickly. Yes. Where I can hear 116 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:50.760 Steve my naysayers who a lot of them are fellow pastors who say you shouldn't be talking about 117 00:11:51.400 --> 00:11:56.200 should never talk about politics as a pastor. I think that's absolutely ludicrous. When I read 118 00:11:56.280 --> 00:12:04.200 the Bible, it is it is a book about God, his government, kings and kingdoms and God's the one 119 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:10.520 that says that you need to elect a good people to office so people can live at peace because when 120 00:12:10.520 --> 00:12:16.920 bad people rule the people grown, that's what Proverbs 29 verse 2 says that. When bad people are 121 00:12:16.920 --> 00:12:20.920 empowered, people grow when good people are empowered, people rejoice. California is a perfect 122 00:12:20.920 --> 00:12:27.240 model of that. California used to be the destination for the person that would say, I'm going to head 123 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:32.600 west. Yes. This is what I talk about the whole time. The California dream, right? Other states, 124 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:37.480 you know, with the greatest respect, of course, don't have that, right? And we know what that is. 125 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:43.320 The California dream. We all feel it, right? It's come here. It's follow your dreams. It's, 126 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:49.080 it's raise your family within a home of your own in a in a in a in a beautiful neighborhood. Enjoy 127 00:12:49.640 --> 00:12:53.800 in a single family home. Then we're not allowed to say that. That's apparently evil to have a 128 00:12:53.800 --> 00:12:59.320 single family home. Well, then we have to say it like, of course, exactly. So, and a good job that 129 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:04.760 that can provide for your family in a safe neighborhood with a decent education and you 130 00:13:04.760 --> 00:13:08.680 enjoy everything that California has to offer. And that's just been taken away from people. So 131 00:13:08.680 --> 00:13:13.160 the California dream is something that we know what it is and we know that it's missing and we 132 00:13:13.160 --> 00:13:17.720 need to put it back. But the point about faith in all this, I think, is so important in the 133 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:22.360 interaction with politics because, you know, we were talking about this earlier. Of course, 134 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:29.080 it's true that the fundamental things are human, you know, that it's about us and how we are 135 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:33.960 and how we operate in the world and how we relate to each other and our families. And particularly, 136 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:38.840 I want to focus on that word family, please, because this is, you know, going back to my very early 137 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:43.560 days with David Cameron when I was with him when he was running for the leadership of the Conservative 138 00:13:43.560 --> 00:13:49.880 Party. And we really connected, you know, we were good friends and we really connected on the fact 139 00:13:49.880 --> 00:13:56.760 that family is the central thing. And in fact, I remember writing these lines for him, but I mean, 140 00:13:56.760 --> 00:14:02.040 he felt it too. So, I mean, it wasn't as if I was putting something into his, into his thoughts 141 00:14:02.040 --> 00:14:08.200 that wasn't there already. We both shared this sentiment. The line was, family is the most 142 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:12.120 important thing in my life and it should be the most important thing in our nation's life. 143 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:18.120 So, if we believe that, and I certainly do, and I say it today because I mean it, 144 00:14:19.640 --> 00:14:26.840 well, then if you look at what government does in terms of the framework that it puts out there 145 00:14:27.560 --> 00:14:32.680 through which people have to operate, the framework in which people have to make decisions 146 00:14:32.680 --> 00:14:37.960 in the thick of everyday life about how they operate and how they relate to each other. And if you 147 00:14:38.040 --> 00:14:45.000 have a framework put there by politicians that is actively hostile to family life, to the 148 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:53.640 idea that people come together as a couple to raise children in a stable and loving way. 149 00:14:54.120 --> 00:15:03.480 Then if the politicians are actively assaulting that with bad policies, then of course we must 150 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:08.840 get involved in that fight. Because that's the way you get to what we want to see, which is 151 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:14.360 a society that's founded on these strong human relationships. 152 00:15:14.920 --> 00:15:21.480 You graciously use the word if, if the government wants to help us be a family. 153 00:15:22.760 --> 00:15:28.440 The truth is, because you're being so kind, the truth is they have proven themselves to be both 154 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:33.480 California and nationally. They've proven themselves to be actually the opposition to the family. 155 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:38.120 They have done everything and they're doing everything possible right now to destroy 156 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:44.520 the family. Because when they tax us, I think I just read this recently that the California, 157 00:15:45.400 --> 00:15:52.120 the California gallon of gas, one gallon of gas in California is taxed, something like 15 times 158 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:59.800 before it reaches your tank. And that is that's seven taxes more than any other state. 159 00:16:00.520 --> 00:16:06.360 And how does that affect people? It affects the mom that's trying to get to work. And then all 160 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:10.600 of these things that are taking place where, and you know this better than I do, even though I was 161 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:17.880 born here, you've studied this well, California has the natural resources. People don't realize 162 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:24.760 we have oil. We literally have unbelievable amounts of oil. And I'm going to guess where I'm 163 00:16:24.760 --> 00:16:29.960 going tomorrow. Baker's field. So you go to Baker's field and stick a straw on the ground and oil 164 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:35.560 comes up. Yeah, Kern County, 70% of our oil and gas reserves are there. These are communities that 165 00:16:35.560 --> 00:16:41.640 and what are they doing? They're crushing it. But the thing that drives me crazy about this is that 166 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:46.760 they're not doing it in any way. It doesn't make sense even in their own terms because 167 00:16:47.880 --> 00:16:54.760 as they're crushing our industries and the communities that support them here in California, 168 00:16:54.760 --> 00:16:59.800 it's not like we're not using oil and gas. No, what are we doing? We're importing it from from 169 00:16:59.800 --> 00:17:07.080 who? Venezuela, Ecuador, Iran, it's insane. We are funding to put that gallon in our tank. 170 00:17:07.080 --> 00:17:12.520 We're funding the very ones who want to see our demise. It's insane. And on top of that, again, 171 00:17:12.520 --> 00:17:17.880 even if let's give them everything that they're arguing about climate change and carbon dioxide, 172 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:24.680 whatever, even on those terms, it doesn't make sense because the method, how does that oil get here? 173 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:30.920 Super tankers, they are the most polluting forms of transportation in the world via mile. I mean, 174 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:36.600 some people have said, in fact, Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know, it's the eye to eye with on 175 00:17:36.600 --> 00:17:45.960 everything. He's a critic of this. He told me that the 15 largest super tankers on earth that 176 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:53.320 are traveling the oceans, many of them carrying oil around produce more carbon emissions than all 177 00:17:53.320 --> 00:18:01.000 the cars on earth combined. You can't doubt that because we're not all that far from L.A. Harbor 178 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:05.400 and they're parked out there right now. And when they fire those babies up, when they turn those 179 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:13.960 ships on, there is a plume of soup for hours. It comes out on a few. It's just insane. 180 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:17.480 Wow. So none of this makes sense. But here's what's cool. Here's what's cool. 181 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:25.000 It's not that you and I are beating up on all of government. I'm going to say government. 182 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:31.400 I'm going to avoid politics. I'll tell you why in a moment. As I said, I grew up when in the day, 183 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:37.000 California used to be. When was the last time you heard this, everybody? California used to be 184 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:45.320 famous for smog. Smog, you can't breathe. I went to elementary school, junior high, where we had 185 00:18:46.840 --> 00:18:54.600 PE, physical ed. We had sports. We had games canceled because of the smog alerts. The sky was 186 00:18:54.600 --> 00:18:59.960 yellow and it burned your throat. You could taste metal in your throat. But there were some 187 00:18:59.960 --> 00:19:08.440 emission controls established and put into place. And listen, today you'll be hard pressed and 188 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:14.520 it's been true for over 20 years now. You'll be hard pressed to find smog in California, including 189 00:19:14.520 --> 00:19:20.680 Los Angeles. I mean, you would have to be here on a very, very foggy day that holds it in somehow. 190 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:26.840 Technology works for the betterment of people can make things better, but technology in the 191 00:19:26.840 --> 00:19:35.000 wrong hands or the fake move of technology where we've got to do something we have to save the 192 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:40.760 environment. California is actually a fantastic example of how over the last 30, 40 years, the 193 00:19:40.760 --> 00:19:45.800 environment has been saved. Exactly. And I always say this every time I talk about this subject, 194 00:19:45.800 --> 00:19:52.920 I always say, look, I am an environmentalist. Conservatives typically in my experience, by the 195 00:19:53.320 --> 00:19:58.280 way, know a lot more about nature and have a stronger connection to nature than a lot of the 196 00:19:58.280 --> 00:20:04.680 people on the left who are lecturing us the whole time about it. And so, you know, next week, 197 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:08.440 I'm going to be visiting with our family in National Park. You know, so we love nature. 198 00:20:09.080 --> 00:20:13.800 That's the most incredible thing about California. This beauty that's here that we get to enjoy. 199 00:20:13.800 --> 00:20:18.360 We get to enjoy it if we protect it and we look after it and we pass it on to the next generation. 200 00:20:18.360 --> 00:20:27.160 We understand that. So the idea that that objecting to the insanity of some of I call it, 201 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:33.320 I mean, they go on about climate policy. It's extremism. It's climate extremism. It's not sensible. 202 00:20:33.320 --> 00:20:37.160 It doesn't even achieve the objectives that they claim for it. And in the process, 203 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:42.360 people are being hurt. So get back to where we started. Like if you look at actually, 204 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:49.480 you know, the framework for family life in California, so much of it actually is negative because 205 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:52.680 of this climate extremism. So I'll give you another really good example. And it should 206 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:56.520 that I've spent a lot of time working on through my new organization, Golden Together, 207 00:20:56.520 --> 00:21:03.000 which focuses on golden together, which is all about ideas and policies to turn things around. 208 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:09.320 So we can go get back to that vision of the golden state and the California dream. So housing 209 00:21:09.320 --> 00:21:16.200 is a really good example. So we now have the highest housing costs in America and the lowest 210 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:22.040 home ownership in saying in California, the home of the California dream. And what you're seeing 211 00:21:22.040 --> 00:21:29.160 is the impact of of high housing costs on families because it's making people younger people say, 212 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:35.160 well, look, I can't start a family because we can't afford to buy home. And it's a really direct 213 00:21:35.240 --> 00:21:41.240 factor in that decision. And also a family is leaving and saying, well, I can't afford it here in 214 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:44.840 California. You never be able to afford a home. So we can have to move somewhere else. And that 215 00:21:44.840 --> 00:21:49.320 breaks up a family because then the grandparents aren't there with the children to help. 216 00:21:49.320 --> 00:21:56.040 That's reality. Oh, but Steve, but Steve, you know, I'm a Christian and you're mixing, 217 00:21:56.040 --> 00:22:01.800 you're mixing politics with with my Christian faith. Wait a minute. What? What you're talking about 218 00:22:01.800 --> 00:22:05.560 is a reality. And for so many Christians, they say, well, I'm not going to vote because that's a 219 00:22:05.560 --> 00:22:10.840 dirty world. That's why you should vote. You should vote to help clean it up. You should vote for 220 00:22:10.840 --> 00:22:15.240 the right people. Exactly. Not sit it out because we've all learned that if you sit it out, 221 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:21.640 then the crazy is going to elect it. Yes. And so when you talk about climate or pollution or 222 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:27.560 homes or oil, you're all talking about issues that actually deal with morality. And you say, 223 00:22:27.560 --> 00:22:32.280 well, how can that be morality? It's the welfare of the human. Exactly right. No, 224 00:22:32.280 --> 00:22:38.200 it is. And the strength of our society, if you measure the strength of our society in the 225 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:46.440 strength of our families and strong families across the generations, then we are the current, 226 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:52.920 I don't even want to use the word leadership, the people in charge in California are actively 227 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:57.480 undermining that through these policies. And that's not what they think they're doing. I don't 228 00:22:57.480 --> 00:23:02.520 want to describe that motive to them. You're so nice. They're not saying, I want to, you know, 229 00:23:02.520 --> 00:23:06.760 destroy the family unit in California. And that's why I'm pushing this climate extremism, 230 00:23:06.760 --> 00:23:10.920 but that is the effect of it. And by the way, it is not an accident. It is the direct result of 231 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:16.680 the policies. So why is housing so expensive in California? It's not the weather. It's not, it's 232 00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:21.320 not some inevitable consequence. We have plenty of room. It's because of the regulatory. There's 233 00:23:21.320 --> 00:23:27.000 two things that are driving it. One, there's this thing called secret, the California Environmental 234 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:32.920 Quality Act, which is abused horrible. The name sounds good. It is abused to block the kind of 235 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:37.880 housing being built that we need. They want to force everyone into tiny apartments so they can 236 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:42.680 live like in North Korea, not in California. No single family homes. You can't have the suburbs. 237 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:47.240 They hate all that. And so even that's where people want to live and raise a family. That's how 238 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:51.640 they want to live and enjoy the weather and have a yard. No, can't have that. And so this is being 239 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:56.520 abused in order to block that kind of housing from being built. And the people also who are 240 00:23:56.520 --> 00:24:02.600 abusing sequer to block housing. And barely anyone knows this. And I didn't know it till I really 241 00:24:02.600 --> 00:24:08.600 dug into it. The unions. People don't see that connection. The unions file lawsuits to block 242 00:24:08.600 --> 00:24:16.040 housing developments in order to extract concessions from developers. That's right. And so that's the whole 243 00:24:16.040 --> 00:24:21.080 scam going on there. And then the second part of it is just the enormous taxes that elevated 244 00:24:21.080 --> 00:24:27.160 in particular by Democrat runplaces where in San Francisco, for example, recently, you know, 245 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:32.280 it went as they call it impact fees where they put all these different taxes on to the construction 246 00:24:32.280 --> 00:24:38.680 of housing. In San Francisco, it went as high as $300,000 per apartment unit. If you add up all 247 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:43.800 the taxes. And so no wonder it's so expensive. That means people are leaving. That means the 248 00:24:43.800 --> 00:24:48.120 families are broken up. Grandparents don't get to see their grandkids because now the families in 249 00:24:48.120 --> 00:24:54.760 Texas or Arizona, or wherever it may be. And young people who otherwise, if they could see a path 250 00:24:55.560 --> 00:25:01.000 to buying a nice little starter home where they could have kids and raise them the way that they want, 251 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:05.080 they would get together. And they would come together as a family unit. And that's not happening. 252 00:25:05.080 --> 00:25:11.720 So it's completely connected to politics. And actually, I would say if we want to see that vision 253 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:18.120 realize of a healthy wholesome society centered around strong families, then we have to engage in 254 00:25:18.120 --> 00:25:23.080 this fight because it's the politicians who are currently fighting against that. We got to kick them 255 00:25:23.080 --> 00:25:30.600 out. Yeah. You know, so allow me to say this. I'm going to represent team faith for your Muslim 256 00:25:30.600 --> 00:25:35.240 Jew, Christian, it doesn't matter. I'm team faith over here on this side. And let's say that you're 257 00:25:35.240 --> 00:25:41.640 on that side and you're representing California's government. Wouldn't it be refreshing? It's said that 258 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:48.600 that I think it's going to have to be this way, but it would be at least refreshing for a California 259 00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:57.800 political individual to say, Hey, Muslims, Jews, Christians, we got a homeless problem. 260 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:04.360 Right? Listen, we've got a homeless problem. You guys are all about faith, right? You're about doing 261 00:26:04.360 --> 00:26:11.400 this love thing. So how about if we hope, how about you help this state out? How about each church 262 00:26:11.400 --> 00:26:16.280 in every zip code area started adopting so many homeless people? You got people in your churches 263 00:26:16.280 --> 00:26:22.200 that own businesses. Maybe we can get these people taught and rehabbed and put back in the culture. 264 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:27.560 The church and I'm, when I say church, I'm going to put again, Muslim Jew and Christian, 265 00:26:27.560 --> 00:26:33.480 they're blabbing off about how great they are. Why don't we shut up and have the governor 266 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:39.560 or have the state legislator say, you know, you guys have been around here since Father Sarah showed up. 267 00:26:40.520 --> 00:26:44.440 Why don't you do something good? We want you to fix the homeless problem. My goodness, 268 00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:51.720 I think the homeless problem would be done in months if houses of faith stepped up. But so many 269 00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:55.480 pastors I know are waiting for the government to give them a thumbs up about something. Well, 270 00:26:55.480 --> 00:27:01.400 I can't do that unless the government, well, what if there was a leadership that said faith's 271 00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:06.920 a big deal, especially in California. A lot of people will realize that Father Sarah was establishing 272 00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:13.480 mission stations in California at the same time, no offense to your English side. But we were 273 00:27:13.480 --> 00:27:18.200 finding a, let's be clear. I'm an American. That's right. We don't have to worry about that. 274 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:23.800 That's right. Well, we're fighting our four freedoms in 13 colonies. Father Sarah was preaching 275 00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:31.880 the gospel to the native natives in California. Education, morality, help them. They helped them. 276 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:39.720 What's remarkable is if, and I do believe that California's got enough good people and enough 277 00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:46.040 people with faith that if a good idea was brought forth, it would be done. When you and I head up 278 00:27:46.040 --> 00:27:50.440 north on the five freeway, for example, and we get in just north of Bakersfield, 279 00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:56.200 these start experiencing farmland. Yes. Some of the most prolific farmland. I was there last 280 00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:59.160 week. I'm in the Central Valley often. It's one of my favorite parts of this thing. So then you've 281 00:27:59.160 --> 00:28:04.280 seen the signs that say something like this, the farmer has on his property. It's not a sin to 282 00:28:04.280 --> 00:28:08.600 grow food. I know. It's unbelievable. What's being done to offer. Please give us our water back 283 00:28:08.600 --> 00:28:14.120 Gavin. Yes. These are real signs. It's so offensive to me. I mean, there's a lot. If I can just 284 00:28:14.120 --> 00:28:20.040 sort of unpack some of them. First of all, let's just make the big point in relation to 285 00:28:20.760 --> 00:28:27.400 faith and the institutions of faith that operate in our communities. So that actually gets to a 286 00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:33.320 really deep point about my political philosophy, actually, which that book that I've mentioned, 287 00:28:33.320 --> 00:28:39.000 more human captures, and I make the argument in there. But it's really what I try to bring. Every 288 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:44.600 time I've operated in the area of politics or policy, I mean, I've done other things. I've 289 00:28:44.600 --> 00:28:49.320 started companies and including restaurants. That is not an easy business to be. Back in the day, 290 00:28:49.320 --> 00:28:53.240 so exactly. So I've done, you know, I started a tech company here and I've done different 291 00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:59.720 things. But when it comes to politics and policy, the central idea, and I think this going right 292 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:06.360 back to where we started, why I feel so proud to be an American and so at home here, the central 293 00:29:06.360 --> 00:29:12.680 idea that really drives me is the decentralization of power, putting power in people's hands. That, 294 00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:17.800 of course, is the American idea. That's right. That's what it was all about. Putting power in people's 295 00:29:17.800 --> 00:29:23.480 hands, taking it away from a despotic monarch and putting it in people's hands. Now, how does that 296 00:29:23.480 --> 00:29:30.760 connect to policy making? I have always argued that that's what we should be doing in terms of how 297 00:29:30.840 --> 00:29:36.680 we saw problems. Take the power and put it in the hands of individuals. When we were in, I wrote 298 00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:44.760 a mantra for our policy reform program back in the day in the UK government and it was this. We 299 00:29:44.760 --> 00:29:51.560 need to decentralize power wherever the default assumption should be that power should go directly 300 00:29:51.560 --> 00:29:58.040 to individuals where possible. If not individuals, then the neighborhood and the local community, 301 00:29:58.040 --> 00:30:03.960 and only then to government and only in the last resort to national government, so that kind of 302 00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:10.120 cascading idea of power going as low as possible in the Catholic Church, they call it subsidiarity 303 00:30:10.120 --> 00:30:16.520 where you just defer to the lowest possible level. Now, what we're seeing, so what that means 304 00:30:16.520 --> 00:30:24.200 is that actually the agents of change in our society to advance the goal that we want to see 305 00:30:24.280 --> 00:30:29.080 are individuals and families and communities and members of churches and faith organizations, 306 00:30:29.080 --> 00:30:33.640 not the government institutions, and even if it is the government institutions, it should be the 307 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:38.200 local government because that's really connected to people and therefore represents people. 308 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:43.080 What you're seeing in California, it's actually across the country as well, is the exact opposite, 309 00:30:43.080 --> 00:30:48.360 is power being taken away from the individual. Centralize. You see it at the federal level where you 310 00:30:48.520 --> 00:30:54.520 have the federal government, the Biden administration, taking power that it should never be involved. 311 00:30:54.520 --> 00:30:59.480 I mean, and I'm a strong, I mean, there's all the different amendments that we like to focus on when 312 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:03.720 we have our political conversations. The one that I don't think gets talked about enough, 313 00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:08.040 that I feel very strongly about is the 10th amendment, the 10th amendment that makes it clear 314 00:31:08.040 --> 00:31:13.640 that powers that are not specifically set out in the constitution are, this is the quote, 315 00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:18.520 are reserved to the states respectively or to the people. That's the 10th amendment, 316 00:31:18.520 --> 00:31:23.160 it's broken every single day with this enormous sprawling federal government bureaucracy. 317 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:27.960 Here in California, you look what's been going on in recent years, power over schools, 318 00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:33.160 and all these things being sucked up to Sacramento, taken away from local communities. 319 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:38.360 It is completely outrageous, a further point when you say, well, let's get faith organizations, 320 00:31:38.360 --> 00:31:43.640 community organizations involved in helping fight homelessness. They literally are going 321 00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:48.440 in the opposite direction. For example, when it comes to homelessness, they passed this law in 322 00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:54.920 2016, housing first. That's the, that's the, exactly. Well, what does it actually mean in practice? 323 00:31:54.920 --> 00:32:02.520 This is the law in California. If you are an organization that wants to help the homeless problem, 324 00:32:02.520 --> 00:32:09.000 help homeless people directly, you are not allowed to receive state money from the state 325 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:16.440 government in Sacramento if you require abstinence from drugs or alcohol as a condition of participation 326 00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:22.760 in the program. So as we know, everyone can see that the driver of this chronic homelessness 327 00:32:22.760 --> 00:32:30.440 problem is drug and alcohol addiction. That's immoral. It's politics. Right. And they've made it 328 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:35.240 illegal to actually, there's a way I put it, they've actually made it illegal to solve the problem. 329 00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:40.920 So if you are, and I've met people in Venice and California, Venice Beach, faith-based organization 330 00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:47.080 that works with homeless addicts to help them get clean so that they can get their lives back on track, 331 00:32:47.080 --> 00:32:52.760 they are not allowed to take a penny in state funding. They raise all their money, philanthropic 332 00:32:52.760 --> 00:32:57.960 cleanser, good for them. But all the organizations that are getting the billions and dollars of 333 00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:04.120 our money, you just saw recently, 24 billion dollars. No idea where it went. It went to organizations 334 00:33:04.120 --> 00:33:09.880 that the explicitly are prevented by state law from getting people off drugs. It is an 335 00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:14.920 unbelievable contradiction of everything that we know in terms of common sense and decency. 336 00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:21.080 Okay, so how do we change that? We have to elect people who have a different view, a more human 337 00:33:21.080 --> 00:33:25.800 view. And this comes back to the politics. And can't bad lives be repealed or changed? Well, 338 00:33:25.800 --> 00:33:29.640 there's a number of, I mean, look, that's why we need, I talk about it all the time, we need a 339 00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:35.160 California revolution. We need a revolution in California by show it on Fox will the next revolution. 340 00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:38.840 I would say the whole time, let's make the next revolution, the California revolution. 341 00:33:38.840 --> 00:33:45.720 And it's not going to be easy, but all these people that say it's impossible and that this is a far 342 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:51.480 left democratic state forever. I think it's absolute rubbish. There's a real hunger for change. 343 00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:55.320 More now than ever. Exactly. And people can see what a disaster is when you have this one 344 00:33:55.320 --> 00:34:00.840 party rule, one party in control for like, was it 20 years now? It's a disaster. So we have to 345 00:34:00.840 --> 00:34:06.600 fight for the change and fight to take that power and put it back in people's hands. You can't do 346 00:34:06.600 --> 00:34:11.560 it overnight. It's going to be quick. You got the state legislature, but we need to elect people 347 00:34:11.560 --> 00:34:17.320 to statewide office who actually believe in common sense practical solutions to these problems 348 00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:22.520 that are all about putting power in people's hands and solving problems and restoring the California 349 00:34:22.520 --> 00:34:29.080 dream that we will cherish so much. It's so awesome. I would love to figure out how to 350 00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:37.240 encourage good people wherever they're at, right? They're in business or they're in the church 351 00:34:37.240 --> 00:34:41.960 or they're in the, but it doesn't matter. They're just good people. They're qualified. They're 352 00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:50.520 good people to run for office. There's so many people that view running for office as, oh man, 353 00:34:50.520 --> 00:34:58.280 why would I subject my family to this? Why would I do that? And I understand that, but 354 00:34:59.960 --> 00:35:04.600 you know, it wasn't a Reagan that said something to the effect that we're just one election away 355 00:35:04.600 --> 00:35:11.400 from from losing our freedoms or it's just one generation away. We're at the point now where 356 00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:17.400 that conversation was somebody's an attorney and he said, I live here, but I'll never get it 357 00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:21.160 involved. And I said, well, how much how much do you love living here? I love it. And this particular 358 00:35:21.160 --> 00:35:29.000 person's got a mega million dollar home overlooking L.A. and L.A. Hills. Yeah. A name that people would 359 00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:35.400 know legally throughout the United States. And he was telling me why he's not going to get involved. 360 00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:39.960 And I said, well, how much do you like your house? Yes. Well, I love my house. I had this house built. 361 00:35:40.680 --> 00:35:46.440 Do you plan on moving? Why should I move? And I said, well, you know what? I think 362 00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:50.200 it's keep trending politically in California the way that they are. You're not going to own this house 363 00:35:50.200 --> 00:35:55.560 much longer. You're not going to have the freedom to go do what you do. You are not going to 364 00:35:55.560 --> 00:36:01.880 everything you fought for and you've made this state left as it is. It's going to take it from you. 365 00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:07.320 And he actually paused and he said, you know, I had not thought about that. I'm ashamed. I haven't 366 00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:15.800 thought about that. And I just find it remarkable that so at my age, I'm almost 67 and so I've had 367 00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:22.760 kids and I've got grandkids. I remember when my kids we had not yet had grandchildren. And I'm 368 00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:28.280 thinking I was thinking, okay, I have fought the fight. And it's time for me to hang on my gloves 369 00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:34.200 and let the next generation fight. Yeah. And that would be my kids. And then you have grandkids. 370 00:36:34.200 --> 00:36:39.720 And then it's like gloves come off the wall back on because. Interesting. Yeah. I found that 371 00:36:39.720 --> 00:36:44.040 to be shocking. I mean, I actually experienced that where it's like, oh my gosh, I've got to get 372 00:36:44.040 --> 00:36:51.880 back in the fight. So you're never too old to fight. But I love the simple answer to what people 373 00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:57.640 think is a really big problem. Oh, why vote? It's all corrupt. Let's assume it's all corrupt. 374 00:36:58.600 --> 00:37:04.600 You still have a chance to vote. Oh, so how do you fix corrupt? Everybody goes in votes. 375 00:37:04.600 --> 00:37:09.560 Exactly. Look, this is the thing. First of all, I'm all in for this fight. I mean, I'm not 376 00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:16.440 there. No announcements today. But I'm telling you that this is my commitment now. This because I 377 00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:22.760 feel incredibly strongly that I've had this amazing opportunity since we moved here to America 378 00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:27.800 and to this beautiful state of California. I've taught at Stanford University. I've done a 379 00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:32.040 tech startup. I had this incredible and unexpected for an Oxford. I know exactly. I've done 380 00:37:32.040 --> 00:37:38.280 it's incredible. Very unexpected career in the in the media, which has been a great blessing. 381 00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:45.800 And so I feel like I've had all this. And so I need to put it together to actually 382 00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:51.240 make something of that opportunity that I've been given. So, you know, stay tuned on that front. 383 00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:57.800 But in terms of the politics, I think it's just really important for people to remember that 384 00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:05.000 we have the power. We have the power. They don't have the power. We can insist on the changes we 385 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:09.560 want to see. And there's more of us than them. There's more. I mean, I call it team sanity. 386 00:38:09.560 --> 00:38:15.320 Right. There's more people on team sanity than there are on team crazy, which is we have in charge 387 00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:22.040 right now. And actually, the demoralization that seems to be going on where you have this 388 00:38:22.040 --> 00:38:28.360 narrative being pushed constantly by the media, by Democrats, which is, oh, it's Democrat state, 389 00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:33.720 Democrat state, Republicans can't win in California. They want us to think that. But Democrats have 390 00:38:33.720 --> 00:38:39.080 been winning in California. They have been. That's because the Republicans, and I'm not, you know, 391 00:38:39.080 --> 00:38:44.280 don't want to blame anyone in particular. But for whatever reason, we haven't had that energy 392 00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:48.920 and the leadership to fight. Now, if you look at what's going on across the country, but 393 00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:55.320 also here in California, you see signs that I think absolutely point to an awakening. And people 394 00:38:55.320 --> 00:38:59.320 saying, look, we've had enough of this. Even in South, I live in the Bay Area. In San Francisco, 395 00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:06.200 just now, you had an overwhelmingly Democrat city vote for policies on crime that, you know, 396 00:39:06.200 --> 00:39:11.560 if a Republican had put them forward two years ago, would have been condemned, you know, as racist 397 00:39:11.720 --> 00:39:16.520 and whatever for supporting the police, giving the police more power, et cetera, right? You've got 398 00:39:16.520 --> 00:39:22.760 the, you look at just now Gavin Newsom's ballot initiative, which was, they assumed would sail 399 00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:28.840 through as his kind of flagship policy, his legacy. That was how it was all framed. There was no 400 00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:34.440 money spent against it huge because they couldn't raise the money. Huge amounts of money spent in 401 00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:41.080 favor of it. It barely squeaked by 50, 50, right? So, and there's so hunting to beach as a great 402 00:39:41.080 --> 00:39:46.680 example. It is. They've taken back that is a great example. I always talk about, if you want to 403 00:39:46.680 --> 00:39:51.000 look at the California revolution, what's happening in Huntington Beach, the revolution there. I mean, 404 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:56.680 Tony Strickland who led this good friend of mine, he's very much involved in my efforts now. And 405 00:39:56.680 --> 00:40:00.920 that's it. You know, so there are signs everywhere. Another thing that's so important to bear in 406 00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:05.960 mind, you look at our state where we're now that the largest group in our state Latinos 40% 407 00:40:06.520 --> 00:40:11.160 and you see what I mean, I shared this number with you earlier. It's an amazing number. If you 408 00:40:11.160 --> 00:40:16.520 look at the Latino vote across the country and you go back to the, the last presidential election 409 00:40:16.520 --> 00:40:23.080 before Donald Trump came on the scene. So this is Romney, Obama 2012, the New York Times, 410 00:40:23.080 --> 00:40:34.520 Ciena poll 2012 Latino vote Obama 72% Romney 23. Same poll, exact same poll about a month ago. 411 00:40:35.160 --> 00:40:42.840 Latino vote Biden 40 Trump 46. We've gone from a 50 point Democrat lead to a six point 412 00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:49.480 Republican lead. That isn't absolute transformation. That is. And so if we can capture even some of 413 00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:55.320 that energy for positive change among the Latino friends and neighbors we have here in California, 414 00:40:55.320 --> 00:41:01.000 we win. Yeah, I love this. Steve, the Bible says, God says, my people are perishing for a lack of 415 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:08.120 vision. Is that a beautiful statement? Yes. Yes. With what you're just saying, if a vision was given, 416 00:41:08.120 --> 00:41:14.440 people rally around direction. Exactly. When kids don't miss this, Dr. James Dops and like 50 years 417 00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:23.000 ago did this study. He was a big wheel at USC School of Psychology and Pediatrics. 418 00:41:25.160 --> 00:41:30.520 They had a, they put a bunch of kids out in a big, big open field and these little kids all 419 00:41:30.520 --> 00:41:34.600 congregated together because they were afraid to wander out because there were no fences. 420 00:41:34.600 --> 00:41:39.080 The kids didn't know there were fences, but they knew that there were no fences. They looked 421 00:41:39.080 --> 00:41:46.120 around it was so vast that the little kids huddled together. The moment they came in with this 422 00:41:46.120 --> 00:41:54.280 psychological test, they put up fences. Yeah. And the kids came back the next day and they went 423 00:41:54.280 --> 00:42:00.840 all over the place, even some of them by themselves kicking the ball, running, playing. It's wonderful 424 00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:07.640 story. Yeah. The fences, fences structure vision, vision gives you guidelines to where you know if 425 00:42:07.640 --> 00:42:12.920 you're succeeding or not. You know if you're getting closer. In this nation, we have removed 426 00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:20.360 the fences. So nobody knows exactly where are we? Yes. And the fence. I mean, people are going to 427 00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:25.720 yell at me for being a Christian nationalist, which I'm a Christian and I love my country. I 428 00:42:25.720 --> 00:42:34.520 think if you're German, you should love Germany. Crazy thought. But anyway, I think that if we were 429 00:42:34.520 --> 00:42:43.320 to reintroduce into our public school system, a season of teaching the constitution. 430 00:42:44.520 --> 00:42:48.360 What is the bill of rights, by the way? Does anybody know what the Declaration of Independence 431 00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:57.160 was all about? What are these things? Yeah. What is this this this division of power, these three 432 00:42:57.160 --> 00:43:04.440 governmental agencies, which were found in the book of Levedicus, the John Locke, literally 433 00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:10.200 sites scripture about the separation of powers. There's kids graduating from school. I got to 434 00:43:10.200 --> 00:43:16.440 tell you something to prove my point. Lisa and I were on vacation. We were we took a tour of the 435 00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:22.280 Supreme Court in DC. And you know, when you take a tour of the of the Supreme Court, it's with 436 00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:29.160 a law student from some of the some local college. And if you've been to the Supreme Court, 437 00:43:29.160 --> 00:43:38.360 just like in the state capital, Moses is represented. There is Moses. He's looking right at the 438 00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:43.240 chief justice, right straight down the middle of the 90s, right in the middle there. And it's Moses. 439 00:43:43.240 --> 00:43:50.440 And then all the law givers are reliefs on the wall. But it's it has, well, we don't know what 440 00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:58.920 Moses looked like, but it's Moses's face and it says Moses. And I just thought for fun in the 441 00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:07.160 group, I asked the guy, Hey, who's the guy in the middle? Yeah. It said Moses. He said, excuse me, 442 00:44:07.160 --> 00:44:11.960 what in the middle? Now, I don't know if he was blind. He didn't read. I don't know, but he said, 443 00:44:13.560 --> 00:44:18.680 I'll get back to you before this tour is over to answer that question. He didn't know who that was. 444 00:44:18.920 --> 00:44:25.080 Point being, it's not his fault. The point being is we're raising up kids that know more about 445 00:44:25.720 --> 00:44:31.560 Madonna or Taylor Swift than they know about George Washington. I would say it's yes. And 446 00:44:31.560 --> 00:44:38.600 worse than that, to the extent that they are taught anything about America, it's negative. 447 00:44:38.600 --> 00:44:44.760 It's negative. And it's it's and it really is true. It's not an exaggeration. If you look at 448 00:44:44.760 --> 00:44:50.040 the curriculum, if you look at the details of what's being taught in public schools over the 449 00:44:50.040 --> 00:44:58.520 last few years, it is a non-stop diet of negative argument about America's history. And of course, 450 00:44:59.640 --> 00:45:05.240 we believe we're not going to say everything's always positive. Of course, you don't ignore 451 00:45:05.240 --> 00:45:11.800 messy. You don't ignore the positive. And and and actually, I mean, for example, the this idea 452 00:45:11.800 --> 00:45:16.600 that America is a racist country, it's just so offensive to me. I mean, you're like some black 453 00:45:16.600 --> 00:45:20.520 president. And if you look, there's nowhere in the world where you would rather be 454 00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:26.200 someone of any race than America, if you want actual opportunity, nowhere in the world, 455 00:45:26.200 --> 00:45:34.040 not a country, it's ridiculous. And so but the constant diet now is colonialism and oppression 456 00:45:34.040 --> 00:45:39.480 and this and that. And it's just it's so dispiriting, literally, disparity takes away the spirit 457 00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:45.720 of optimism about what America can be. And so that's really important. And if you look again, 458 00:45:45.720 --> 00:45:53.000 going back to how we change this in the end, it's not going to happen unless we get in the fight 459 00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:57.480 to change it. So what does that mean? That means electing people on school boards who can have 460 00:45:57.480 --> 00:46:02.600 influence what happens in the school. But that's not enough because here in California, 461 00:46:02.600 --> 00:46:06.840 look what happened. You know this very well here in this community, which is you try and do 462 00:46:06.840 --> 00:46:11.560 something at your school board that they don't like in Sacramento. What do they do? They sue you 463 00:46:11.560 --> 00:46:15.800 and they try and pass a law to stop you from ever doing it again or anyone else doing it again 464 00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:22.280 at the local level. So there's no substitute for actually getting in the fight and getting people 465 00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:28.840 in positions of power at every level of state government who believe in the ideals of America 466 00:46:28.840 --> 00:46:34.360 and of California. To underline and underscore what you just said, in the midst of that battle, 467 00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:42.040 this was the circumstances that caused Gavin Newsom to secretly deploy his secretary of education 468 00:46:42.680 --> 00:46:52.680 Tony Thurman, flew down here and showed up at the school board meeting and tried to 469 00:46:53.640 --> 00:47:00.360 declare the governor's wishes that parents should not be allowed to know what the kids 470 00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:07.400 are being taught. This is the children's rights that we must protect. And our school board crafted 471 00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:13.080 local, do you talk about the power of local government, our school board crafted the local 472 00:47:13.080 --> 00:47:19.880 verbiage of we will not allow our children to be exposed to pornography of the mind in any way, 473 00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:25.400 shape or form, words or pictures. It's not going to happen. Newsom was so upset by that that he 474 00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:31.720 sends his thug down to stop and the citizens took the man outside and made national news. 475 00:47:31.720 --> 00:47:36.760 Yes, it's remarkable. But what you need to think about friends is why would an elected 476 00:47:37.560 --> 00:47:43.320 in what is supposed to be a republic, form of government tried to stifle the very will in this 477 00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:47.080 case of a local government, let alone the state of California. Well, they do it the whole time. 478 00:47:47.080 --> 00:47:52.840 I mean, this is what's so laughable about their endless lectures about how they're the ones that 479 00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:57.080 are standing up for, do you remember our democracy, our democracy? So they say it's the virus. 480 00:47:57.080 --> 00:48:02.360 But when they don't like the answer, they override it, try and overturn it. I mean, we talked about 481 00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:08.040 Huntington Beach, Huntington Beach just passed, you know, the council led it and they put it on the 482 00:48:08.040 --> 00:48:13.240 ballot and the voters pass vote to ID for elections in Huntington Beach. What happens next? They 483 00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:20.440 almost the next day, from Sacramento, they sue them to overturn it and just like with the school, 484 00:48:20.440 --> 00:48:26.200 they part, they're now, there is a now a law going through the state legislature to bar any city 485 00:48:26.200 --> 00:48:34.600 or location in California, any entity from requiring voter ID. So it's nothing to do. It's not 486 00:48:34.600 --> 00:48:39.000 our democracy that they care about. It is their power. That's what they care about. They're 487 00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:46.360 power, by the way, to implement what has there is very clearly now a far left ideology. It is not 488 00:48:46.440 --> 00:48:51.160 just regular democratic politics that we were used to maybe from the Clinton era where 489 00:48:51.160 --> 00:48:57.720 bit more taxes, bit more regulation. No, this is a far left ideology. They have the themes of it 490 00:48:59.080 --> 00:49:05.320 incredibly destructive of our social fabric. The obsession with race and gender and climate 491 00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:12.680 extremism is so destructive of so many things and they have nothing positive to say other than 492 00:49:12.760 --> 00:49:16.920 give us power and let us run your lives. And that is the opposite of what California should be 493 00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:20.840 all about. You guys, everything Steve is saying right now. If you say, well, I disagree, I disagree. 494 00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:27.880 Well, is it interesting? Listen, everything that a community or this culture in America in California 495 00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:37.240 tries to do, that's good. Okay. And I'll say it because Steve's timid. It's Democrat. It's 496 00:49:37.240 --> 00:49:43.720 Democrat. I'm not, listen, I'm not all out on the Republican party. There's some train wrecks 497 00:49:43.720 --> 00:49:54.280 in that as well. But 100% of the Democrat power brokers in Sacramento attacked Huntington Beach, 498 00:49:54.280 --> 00:50:01.000 trying to send a message to the rest of the cities of California. That's thuggery. That is bullying. 499 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:05.800 Isn't it amazing? Who's going to say bullying's wrong? Oh, the Democrats are going to say bullying's 500 00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:11.240 wrong, but they're the ones that do it. But there's so many examples. I mean, you shouldn't spend 501 00:50:11.240 --> 00:50:16.680 all the time on it, but you just list them. For example, the a ballot initiative that qualified 502 00:50:16.680 --> 00:50:21.320 for this year's ballot, the taxpayer protection and government accountability act. This was a ballot 503 00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:27.480 initiative. Howard Jarvis taxpayers business roundtable put it forward and got hundreds of thousands 504 00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:32.680 of signatures through the constitutional process to qualify for the ballot. It would limit the 505 00:50:32.680 --> 00:50:39.000 ability of governments up and down the state, state and local to raise taxes in an unconstitutional 506 00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:43.720 manner. It's restoring the protections for taxpayers that were there that had been there years ago. 507 00:50:43.720 --> 00:50:49.000 So guess what? It qualifies to the ballot. So the Sacramento, they Democrats try and take it 508 00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:52.840 off the ballot. They're suing. It's going before the Supreme Court. I don't think they're going 509 00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:57.080 to succeed. They try and take it off the ballot. So you can't even have a say. I mean, the whole 510 00:50:57.080 --> 00:51:05.240 thing is just so extreme. And what it really shows you is the arrogance of power. They are so 511 00:51:05.240 --> 00:51:09.640 sure that this assumption that they'll be in power forever, that they can do whatever they want 512 00:51:09.640 --> 00:51:13.000 and no one's going to complain and no one's going to stand up to them. I think those days are 513 00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:17.240 over. People are complaining. They are standing up to them. And I think we're going to win this 514 00:51:17.240 --> 00:51:23.160 California revolution because as far as you can't push people so far to the left and not have a 515 00:51:23.160 --> 00:51:29.240 reaction. And people are seeing it right across the board in their daily life on every single 516 00:51:29.240 --> 00:51:33.960 area. The education that's going on in their kids schools, the crime, the safety, the homelessness, 517 00:51:33.960 --> 00:51:39.080 what they pay for their utilities, the gas prices, the rent, the house prices, you know, you name it. 518 00:51:39.080 --> 00:51:44.040 There's nothing that's going well. It is all going in the wrong direction. And at the heart of 519 00:51:44.040 --> 00:51:51.720 it is something that I think is very profoundly anti-Californian because the whole spirit of California 520 00:51:51.720 --> 00:51:57.080 is do your own thing, live your life, live how you want to live, come here to this amazing place 521 00:51:57.080 --> 00:52:02.600 and follow your dreams. And instead of these people are telling you, no, you can't have this, 522 00:52:02.600 --> 00:52:06.840 you can't live in that kind of home, you can't drive that kind of car, you can't cook your meal 523 00:52:06.840 --> 00:52:12.360 on that kind of stove. No, no, no. That is not California. That is the opposite of California. 524 00:52:12.360 --> 00:52:18.280 That's why I think we're going to win this fight. I so agree. And here's why I'm encouraged. 525 00:52:18.280 --> 00:52:26.680 I mean, there's a lot of reasons why, but when you get knocked down so much so often that eventually 526 00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:32.360 you either don't have the strength to get back up or you decide, this is the last time I'm going 527 00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:41.400 to get knocked down. And everybody knows this in a school yard where you go and now I'm not 528 00:52:41.400 --> 00:52:48.440 endorsing this kind of counsel, but this is how I was raised. My dad taught us that there's 529 00:52:48.440 --> 00:52:53.880 going to be a bully, everywhere there's a bully. And he said the best thing to do regarding a bully 530 00:52:54.600 --> 00:53:01.880 is when you are, when he's a confirmed bully, taking everybody's lunch money and all this kind 531 00:53:01.880 --> 00:53:07.240 of stuff and pushing people around, you just got to walk right up without warning and punch him 532 00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:13.880 right in the mouth. And he may turn around and beat the tar out of you, but he'll only do it once. 533 00:53:13.880 --> 00:53:19.320 Yep. And he will stop doing it for the entire rest of the year because number one, somebody stood up. 534 00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:25.480 When you stand up, and I think that's where California is right now, California started to stand 535 00:53:25.480 --> 00:53:33.560 up. We have indicators of life again. Why? There are bills being written. There are good things 536 00:53:33.640 --> 00:53:41.240 starting to trend. There's congressional races that in California flipped in Washington, DC, 537 00:53:41.240 --> 00:53:47.240 Congress, and Nancy Pelosi had to go home. That came from California, local government, 538 00:53:47.240 --> 00:53:53.720 school boards, that whole national school board debate started in this city. There's a lot going 539 00:53:53.720 --> 00:53:57.640 on. There's a lot of good. So Steve, we got about two and a half minutes left. I want you to just 540 00:53:57.640 --> 00:54:02.520 go on or go for it. Look, I thank you. I mean, look, first of all, thank you so much. It's great to 541 00:54:02.520 --> 00:54:09.080 be here. I love to be part of this. I feel such a great connection with everything that we're 542 00:54:09.080 --> 00:54:14.520 talking about. And I just want to say, look, we can do this, right? We can do this. I've got this 543 00:54:14.520 --> 00:54:20.280 is just the beginning for me. We started off talking about my journey, the journey home to California. 544 00:54:20.280 --> 00:54:25.880 I want to make California what it should be. This vision of the most optimistic, 545 00:54:26.680 --> 00:54:33.400 positive, innovative, high energy place on earth. That's what it needs to be again, where people 546 00:54:33.400 --> 00:54:38.920 can come here and live the life that they want to live and raise their families, do it affordably 547 00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:45.880 insecurity and prosperity. And in a way that spiritually nourishes them and their community. 548 00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:51.000 I think that is what this is all about. And I'm now committed to doing that. I'm on the road 549 00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:54.920 the whole time. I'm traveling the state with building and building. We're building a movement 550 00:54:54.920 --> 00:55:00.440 for change. The first part of it is this organization golden together. People can check that out. 551 00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:07.400 Golden together. GoldenTogether.com. That's really a policy-focused organization. The ideas that 552 00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:12.360 will help restore the California dream. But that's just the first step. We're really getting going 553 00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:19.480 here because I think that it's just too important, as I said, it's too important for us here in 554 00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:27.400 California for the country. We are not going to let California slide into this swamp of negativity 555 00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:34.200 and failure. That is not going to happen. And when people say, I hear all the time when I point 556 00:55:34.200 --> 00:55:37.480 out the things that are going wrong, and you hear it particularly from people in other states, 557 00:55:37.480 --> 00:55:44.520 well, just get out, just leave. I would say, why should we leave? Why should we leave? Because they, 558 00:55:44.520 --> 00:55:50.760 the far left Democrats have gone completely off the rails with this extremism and sent everything 559 00:55:50.760 --> 00:55:55.000 in the wrong direction. They're the ones that need to leave. They need to leave office. And we need 560 00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:59.560 to help them on their way. That's what this is all about. That's how we save California. And if we 561 00:55:59.560 --> 00:56:04.360 save California, I firmly believe we helped save America too. There's no doubt about that. Absolutely. 562 00:56:05.400 --> 00:56:12.120 That's why, listen, I'm inviting, I'm appealing to the logical Democrat. 563 00:56:13.080 --> 00:56:18.120 Maybe you've been brought up a Democrat and you, you've always voted Democrat because your mom and 564 00:56:18.120 --> 00:56:24.040 dad, your grandma, grandpa, but it's time for you to thank right now for yourself and to come on 565 00:56:24.040 --> 00:56:28.120 over. Now, I'm not saying come on over to the Republican side. As I said, there's a lot of crazies 566 00:56:28.120 --> 00:56:35.800 and they, that camp also. But my point is this, there's one, there's one party that is for total 567 00:56:35.800 --> 00:56:42.600 absolute control. And there's another party that wants to let you be free. One party is 568 00:56:42.600 --> 00:56:49.640 absolutely take from you and give to people who have not worked for it and call it a day. 569 00:56:49.640 --> 00:56:55.960 There are others who say, listen, in your prosperity and in your wealth, help us, help these. And 570 00:56:55.960 --> 00:57:02.120 those that cannot be helped, well, that's what state institutions are for. For you to start thinking 571 00:57:02.120 --> 00:57:06.520 or maybe you've been conditioned, a California is lost. Well, wait a minute. It wasn't always the case. 572 00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:13.320 So if we roll back the hands of time and start doing what worked, it'll work again because truth 573 00:57:13.320 --> 00:57:18.520 never changes. And so we're living at a time right now, everybody where we need to get involved. 574 00:57:18.520 --> 00:57:24.440 You can't sit it out. And it's exactly. And the, the, the, to prove the point, is it interesting 575 00:57:24.440 --> 00:57:32.040 that I was, Steve and I travel a lot. I, when I hear people in other states say to me, man, 576 00:57:32.040 --> 00:57:37.320 we need you guys in California to straighten it out. We need you guys to get it right in California. 577 00:57:37.320 --> 00:57:42.280 Why do they say that? Because what happens in California is exported to other states. 578 00:57:43.080 --> 00:57:49.640 This is the state that sets the heartbeat of the nation. And it's been under the control of 579 00:57:49.640 --> 00:57:56.840 people who want to control you. It would be better if this state was under your jurisdiction, 580 00:57:56.840 --> 00:58:02.760 so to speak, the voter so that those who are sent to office do the will of the people. 581 00:58:03.480 --> 00:58:11.000 And I agree with Steve 100%. 10 noisy people make it feel like there's 10,000 noisy bad people. 582 00:58:11.960 --> 00:58:17.880 But it's that silent majority that's got to start speaking up. And you say, well, I don't have a voice. 583 00:58:17.960 --> 00:58:21.800 You have the ability to vote. Make sure you register to vote. Steve, 584 00:58:21.800 --> 00:58:25.880 where can people find you more and more? I mean, you mentioned, is there other websites? 585 00:58:25.880 --> 00:58:29.800 Yeah. Well, there's, there's, I have a weekly show. The Steve Hilton show. Watch it. 586 00:58:29.800 --> 00:58:34.360 It's a podcast. It's great. We talk about California. We talk about national politics. That's 587 00:58:34.360 --> 00:58:40.200 very good. You can follow me on X at Steve Hilton X. You'll be hearing a lot more from me about 588 00:58:40.200 --> 00:58:46.040 California and how we win this fight because I'm very, very confident we can. I'm excited. 589 00:58:46.040 --> 00:58:48.680 Thank you. It'll be great. Great to see you. Thank you. Good to see you. 590 00:58:53.400 --> 00:58:57.640 This Jack Kibb's podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, 591 00:58:57.640 --> 00:59:02.280 are listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 592 00:59:03.080 --> 00:59:08.680 Go to jackhibb's.com to learn more and stay connected.