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Welcome to At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green

Welcome to at the Core with Walk a Whileman, Rick Green, every green America's constitution coach. Great to be back in studio live, man. seems like it's been a month. I know it hadn't been that long, but it feels like it. And just a lot of travel lately and of course then our special week last week. And thank you to everybody that is contributing and making it possible for us to, for us to bring you these truths, to literally to disciple. I mean that's what we do every day here on American Family Radio. And every program we're essentially discipling on, what it means to apply the Bible to our daily lives in every single area, whether we're talking our marriages and how we raise our kids, to how we organize our neighborhoods and our communities and our country. And of course that means what kind of laws we pass and all of these things have a biblical position that is right and a worldly position that is wrong. And it's our job to figure out what that is and then support the biblical position and so that takes us into all kinds of political discussions.

Two big news items of the day with hostages returned

But let's start first, the two big news items of the day. Of course, yesterday, just a glorious, glorious day with the hostages being, returned. I spent half the night bawling my eyes out, watching, watching videos of the reunions, just. Just so powerful, but also infuriating that they, had to endure two years separated and wondering if they would survive. And so many of their friends and others killed. And, So, as joyful as I am and as thankful as I am for President Trump being, definitely the greatest negotiator of all time, and, moves now into my top three as president. Yes, it's official. He has surpassed Calvin Coolidge. Okay. despite all that, and still thankful for all of that. But I, have not in any way, shape or form, lost my righteous anger at the evil that would have created this situation in the first place. And therefore, it's my wish and prayer that, Israel is somehow, some way, through whatever circumstances develop, able to finish the job and wipe Hamas completely off the face of the planet and take over, all of that area. The only way the Palestinians are ever going to experience peace and prosperity and freedom, and all of the things that we should want for all of our fellow men, is for Israel to govern that area. And, just like in, the current state of Israel, Arabs, Christians, Jews, whatever your nationality, your background, your religion, you get to, you know, experience freedom. And it may not be exactly what we have here in the United States, but it's the closest thing anywhere in that region for sure. And, and has been good, for the people of Israel. Again, regardless of Arab, Christian, you know, Jewish, doesn't matter. it, it is, It is always true that the principles, Biblical principles of liberty, when applied to a community, to a state, to a nation, produce, good results because they're lined up with the laws of nature, nature's God. So, anyway, enough about all that. I would just say thank you. Thank you, President Trump, thank you, God, of course, for all of the miraculous things that had to happen for even 20 of these remaining hostages to still be alive and to be reunited with their families. But let's not forget the 1200 murdered on October 7th and the others that were savagely beaten and raped and killed and, tortured, for such an extended period of time. None of that is forgotten or forgiven. It's not the job of the state to forgive. Yes, we're supposed to forgive our enemies, but it's not the job of the state to forgive. It's not the job of our governments to forgive. It's the job of our governments to bear the sword not in vain, but with purpose. And so, this is not over. I think we'll. We'll see essentially a repeat of munich, where in 1972, of course, the, radical Islamist and others that teamed, up to kill, the Jewish athletes and Olympians and kidnap and all the things that happened. A movie made about it back in, I think,04 with Eric, I don't know if he says a banya banya, but, about Golda Meyer and the plan, to. To hunt down and kill those that were responsible for that. I would not be surprised at all if you see something very similar to that following, the ceasefire itself. But alas, it is not my job to make those calls. Thankfully, President Donald Trump is in the White House and making the decisions for what America's position at least will be on these things. And miraculously was able to pull together a coalition to, put the pressure on these countries that would then put the pressure on Hamas. And I think it's true that Marco Rubio is probably the greatest Secretary of State, as Donald Trump said, that we've certainly seen in our lifetime time, maybe in the history of the U.S. i don't know. There was pretty good ones early on. but masterful, masterful job and pulling this whole thing together. And what a reminder of what happens when you have someone with moral clarity and discernment, essentially a man of Issachar that understands the times and knows what to do and, and is able to tell immediately who the good guys and the bad guys are and is willing to act on that. You know, President Trump came into office 2017, elected in 2016, but came into office January 2017 and immediately figured out why in the world are we giving, I think at the time it was 140, maybe $180 million to the Palestinian Authority and they were using it to blow up Jews, to kill Jews. And he's like, well, this is dumb. What in the world are we doing, funding terrorism and stopped it. And, so he's just always had that moral clarity that is, you know, not something I expected from him. But he's got it. And then he uses the power that he's been given, this Republican wimpiness of the past 50 years, where every time we'd win an election, we'd apologize for winning practically and do everything we could to make the other side happy. Instead of using the power that the people elected us to have, Donald Trump has changed that game big time. And in the last 10 months, not even a full 10 months at this point, he has absolutely used that power in good ways. I mean, 99%. I mean, I have to really reach, to look at some of the things that I would disagree that he's done. I actually would have let Israel finish the job before, cashing in all these chits and getting the peace deal done. but other little things, but 99%, just amazing what he has used the power to do. And I think we're gonna have to stay in that mode. We have to somewhat channel what Trump has done at the federal level into our local communities and our state legislatures and take advantage of the wind at our back.

President Trump will give the Medal of Freedom to Erica Kirk this afternoon

The other major news of the day, that is the reason we have the wind at our back. It's a national remembrance of Charlie Kirk Day on his birthday, what would have been his 32nd. And President Trump will be giving the presidential, Medal of Freedom, to presenting it to Erica Kirk, for Charlie. And that's this afternoon, I believe, at 4:30 Eastern. So here in just a coup hours. by the way, the pace this man keeps, I can't, I couldn't do it. Everybody's always asking me, how do you do it, man? How do you, how do you travel so much? How do you do these different radio programs and TV shows and, and write, books and run the Patriot Academy and all, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. And I'm always like, you know, caffeine and the holy Spirit, man. That's, that's the way I get, get to it. I couldn't hold a candle to what Donald Trump does. This guy does not sleep. It's ridiculous. Ridiculous what he's able to accomplish. And what a contrast to sleepy Joe Biden. Wow, what a contrast. But at any rate, I mean, literally flying all night and and getting back and, and, and meeting with Malay today from, from Argentina, hopefully the model of, of government around the world for the future. this guy has done very much like Donald Trump used the power that he was given. I mean, immediately when he got in office, slashing department, slashing things, really just doing a phenomenal, phenomenal job. And I love seeing those two together. I think, man, if only Bolsonaro was still, president in Brazil and able to continue reforms there, those three would be similar to, it'd be kind of like the you know, who was it? It was President Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul, ii, that were the kind of the trifecta that defeated communism. Right. They just were inseparable on the calling out of evil and standing against communism until it was, it was finally defeated. I think Donald Trump and Milei, could use a third person. Maybe this Italian prime minister. she's got some guts and she's been taking some really good stands. but anyway, I'm praying that Malay is the model and that there's more and more of that that happens all over the country. So I'm glad he's at the White House today. So those were the three main headlines today that I wanted to hit. I want to really talk about. I'd love to hear from you. So if you want to call in today, 888-uh-5898-408858-98840 is the phone number. And we can talk about whatever you want, any topics, on the table and you've got might have a comment about something we covered in the last few weeks or that's happened that I forgot to cover or just didn't have time to cover. maybe you got some questions about some of these things that are going on and application of the Constitution and, and maybe you just got an insult for me. So I always say comments, questions, insults, whatever you got, bring it my way. more than willing to hear you out. We did the same thing on campus last week. We had a big open house at the Patriot Academy campus. We were becoming Constitution City and we faced, begun facing a lot of opposition, opposition that really came out of the woodwork. A week before they assassinated Charlie. They started calling us Nazis and fascist and said we should die and all these crazy things. And so we started facing a lot of this opposition. So we decided to really go on a, ah, public relations campaign, if you will. William Wilberforce called it a sustained campaign of public persuasion. My buddy Lance Wall now always reminds me of that. and that's what we've decided to do as Patriot Academy in our communities. And so we're all over the place, you know, talking about what we're doing, but we're also doing these open houses and, and I enjoy opening the floor to any question. I just, I think that's. I've always done that. Even back when I was a state rep. That was my favorite part of doing town halls or receptions at people's homes. You know, I'd have my little canned speech and all that. I talk about what I was passionate about. But I loved Q and A. I loved just opening it up to whatever people wanted to discuss. and so we did that at an open house last week. It was great, man. We had a packed house. It was full. We had to cut off registration, and, lots of great questions, some challenging, you know, people that want. Genuinely wanted to know what we're about, what we're doing. it was great. And so that's kind of the way I like to conduct this radio program, too. Just open floor, whatever you want to talk about. I do tend to rant a little bit and go off on whatever's on my mind and in the news for the first couple of segments and try to save the last segment for phone calls. But today, we'll try to do both the second and third segments with phone calls, if you would like, please. Plenty of other things I'd love to talk about. I definitely want to hit some of the local, efforts that I'm hoping people across the country will do as part of our Rebuilding Liberty in the 250th effort. We want to restore property rights at the local level. We want to get government out of our kitchen, our living room, off of our property, and stop allowing government to micromanage our lives and tell us what we can do with our. With our property. And this morning, man, I testified at the, commissioner's court. I'm going out there now every other week and, just, you know, talking about Patriot Academy and sharing a few biblical principles of liberty, trying to educate the community. And all of us, you know, need to be sharpened. And so I like the opportunity to jump in there.

Rick Green rants against Texas dark sky ordinance that's pure Marxism

And I could not believe the dog and pony show they had justifying this. This. This dark sky ordinance baloney that got passed here in Texas. Unbelievable to me that in the state of Texas, a Marxist idea. They literally call it light justice. It's complete Marxism. And it's all about controlling your neighbors and where they can put their lights, how much a business can light up their parking lot to try to stop crime. Are you kidding me? And this goofball at the. At the county commissioner's court today, dressed up as a wizard, talking, about how important night skies were and all this. Literally valued a night sky over safety. Just. Just insane. And the more the guy talked, he literally showed maps of countries in Africa and other places where, you know, there aren't a bunch of lights. And I'm thinking to myself, this guy needs to Go live without running water and without electricity and with all the disease and everything else that comes from not having progress, and then come back and tell us that we don't need to light up our parking lots so that people don't get raped and mugged in our. In our parking lots anyway. I couldn't hold back. I ranted at commissioner's court on that. Instead of Patriot Academy, I planned to talk about Patriot Academy and some of the things we're doing. But, man, we got to start speaking up, against this insanity that it's pure Marxism and it has seeped into every part of our government, local, county, state, federal. This mindset that government's going to save you, this safety ism that we're going to, you know, somehow not be harmed by our neighbor if government just becomes big enough and bad enough and mean enough and. And has enough regulations. It is. It is so wrong, folks, and it is the mistake that so many countries made when they bought into safetyism. They grew government and freedom died, and we are on the way to that. Trump has helped a lot at the. At the federal level, and he's saying a lot of the same things I've been saying for 25 years regarding these things, and he's pushing back on a lot of these regulations. So that's good, but it's not enough. We got to do it at the local level, state level. Got to take our. Our property back, take our freedom back. Okay, quick break. 888-589-8840 is the phone number 888-589-8840? You're listening to at the Core with Walker Wild. Min.

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Rick Green: America's Constitution coach with you on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Welcome back to at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach with you on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Walker's got you Monday, Wednesday and Friday and all five days. You can call 888-589-884 if you would like to be a part of the program. That's 888-589-8840 and we're going to go to the phones right away. I'm trying to do, as much of that as I can today. let's go to Mike in Nebraska. Mike, you are up first. What's your comment question? Insult. Good stuff. Oh, wait, my application, closed. Guys on the call screener, if you can connect Mike, I'll reconnect. All right, let's try it. Mikey there.

>> Caroline: All right. Can you hear me?

>> Rick Green: I gotcha. Go for it.

>> Caroline: All right, good. I don't have any insults for you, but my wife is Constitution coach and excellent Biblical Citizenship. And she's taught some of the classes around here and you know, I've kind of looked over, listen over her shoulder. Ah, she was going through the courses and, and I was just thinking, I actually have two questions, but if you wanted to expand maybe, you know, on like working a deal with AFR and maybe, you know, Flashpoint, because we watch on Flashpoint too, and Flashpoint Network, you know, to make your courses available, you know, videos online. I think that would be a good, way for you guys to make a deal, you know, and expand and get the, the truth about the Constitution and Biblical Citizenship out.

>> Rick Green: Yeah, man, we've we've, we've made our courses free for, for years and years. So any, anybody can sign up for our, our classes. They can, they can sign up for free at our website, patriarchademy.com and download the videos. They can, they can, you know, play them for a, group if they invite them into their home or, or online. And then some of our classes are available on YouTube and different places. And then some, you have to actually sign up with a class and because we really prefer you do it with other people rather than just sitting at home. but we also have our patriot. You patriot, you calm. That's our streaming channel and we're soon going to be making that available to everybody, not just our Partners and our, and our coaches. And so we'll be making more and more of those available. And then we've got our new course, Rebuilding Liberty, which is also available and free to everyone. So. Absolutely. Man, I'd love to see as many people as possible going through those courses.

Rhonda from Iowa has a question for you about Jesus' Last Supper

Okay, I think we had, Rhonda next. Rhonda's in Iowa. Rhonda, go ahead. Hi.

>> Caroline: Thank you for taking my call.

>> Rick Green: You bet.

>> Caroline: I got a question for you. I believe it was Peter ran out of the room or the house after, on the Last Supper when Jesus said, one of you will deny me three times. He ran out and spit his bread out. And I'm wondering, I didn't understand why.

>> Rick Green: He spit his bread out. Well, you probably have the wrong host for, for that, kind of question. I am not very good at, some of the Bible answer man type questions. some I'm great at. But, one like that, I got to say, I have no idea. I really don't. Other than, you know, of course, if, if, if, if I were convinced that I were Jesus best disciple, and he had said he was going to build his church, on, on, on that rock. And and then, you know, two seconds later he's telling me, get the, get, get the behind me, Satan. And then, you know, tells me he. That I'm going to deny him three times. I might spit out whatever I'm chewing on as well. So that's the best I can do for you. But if you got a constitution question, I can probably do a lot better for you. I apologize. But. Good question. Very good question. I think all of us though, don't we kind of end up in a situation where we know that we've betrayed the Lord, where we've betrayed what we knew was right, and we literally, want to spit out whatever is in our mouth or in our stomach. I mean, we're literally, our stomach is turned by our own failure, to live up to the righteousness that we, that we all want to.

Larry: I'm with you all the way on the dark sky issue

Okay, let's go to Larry. Larry's in the great state of Texas. Hook em. What a great victory last weekend. Anyway, Larry, go ahead.

>> Caroline: Hey, thank you so much. My comment is on the lighting situation that you talked about, that it was a Marxist thing. Yeah, I live out in the country and there was, they built some, storage places, around my property. They put up aluminum all across the front of my property and all this lighting. Now I feels like I live in the middle of Cowboy Stadium. I can't see the stars at night. it. You know where word is their right to put up lights. In my right to have a peaceful evening.

>> Rick Green: Yeah, yeah. It's no different, man, than. Than anything getting moving in next door to you. What, what if you have a, you know, a steel manufacturer that. That. That buys the property next to you, and now they're. They're. They're making steel, you know, all hours of the night and it's loud or, you know, different. Different things like that. I mean, there. There is a. The gray area is when it actually becomes a nuisance if they're, you know, literally shining the light into your bedroom window and, and, you know, you can, you can prove a nuisance. I'm with you all the way on that. On, on civil. The problem is you asked the right question. Where is the line between your right as a property owner and their right as a property owner? That's exactly how the question should be asked and the issue approached. Unfortunately, what has happened is nobody does that cost benefit analysis. Nobody weighs the unintended consequences. Everybody's got good intentions. I want to be able to see the stars, man. I'm the same. Our campus is out in the country and, and the students and I are often laying out in the parking lot looking up at the. At the stars at night. And we love that and we get to enjoy that. but, you know, so it's not that we don't want things like that. They're good. It's what Thomas Sowell said. There's not a solution. There are only alternatives. There's always a cost benefit analysis and progress and electricity and running water and all the things that make our lives so convenient, they come with a cost as well as a benefit. And the more, you know, the area grows, the less you get the stars at night or big and bright like we get in rural Texas. and it's just a part of life, and there's not a. You know, when we go to government to try to prevent those things from happening, the unintended consequences of the good intentions become far worse. And what I mean by that is, you take, for instance, this dark sky ordinance and these ridiculous regulations, and if you could have seen the slides that this dude was showing today about how the lights should work in your driveway and in the parking lots, in order to prevent anybody from having anything other than a dark sky, it is a recipe for crime and for muggings and raping and all of those things. That happen in those dark parking lots whenever we're fools like that. and so the good intentions to have the dark skies, great, that's good. I'm with you. But the unintended consequences when you use government to force that on people, it's the same as these, these acreage, you know, minimums, where, you know, in my home county, they're now requiring 10 acres to be able to, you know, subdivide your, your, your piece of Texas so that your kids can have a piece of Texas and build a house. And, you know, there's nothing scientific about that. It's an arbitrary number in order to stop growth and keep people from moving in. It's this mindset that I got my little piece of heaven. I don't want anybody else moving in, which is great. If you want to buy the land next door, then nobody can move in. But, but it's not our, it's not, it's not. You don't have free property. When we're able to tell the neighbor what they can do with their land. You know, back to your original question.

Larry King: Who decides who can do what on private property

100%, there is a point at which it becomes a nuisance and you have a civil, you should have a civil lawsuit if they are, you know, like literally shining a spotlight into your window. But I don't, I think at some point we have to say, you know, people are going to expand and grow and businesses are going to go in and neighborhoods are going to go in. And that's all part of progress. This guy today, he was literally, he was literally choosing. He would have rather been in Africa. He showed the map and showed how dark these, some of these countries in Africa are at night and how much that's somehow better. really, you want the disease and no running water and electricity. I mean, I use the same slides for showing the evil of communism in North Korea versus the freedom and prosperity of a constitutional republic and a free enterprise system in South Korea. And I show the lights at night as a positive. It's like, this is a good thing. This means that people have jobs. This means that people have homes with air conditioning. and anyway, so everything's a trade off. There's pros and cons to everything, and there are unintended consequences to the good intentions. And so the real answer to your question, Larry, is who decides? Who answers the question that you pose? In other words, who decides how much you can do with your property? And the answer to that should be you. Until you damage your neighbor, and then you have to have Laws that define what that damage is. And my argument is that we have gone so far on the side of trying to prevent any damage from ever happening or any inconvenience from ever happening to anyone that we've taken away the very essence of what made having private property, you know, worth spending the money and the toil and the, and the saving all your life and having something to pass down all the pluses, all the, all the reasons we love freedom and, and free property and free enterprise, get taken away and we literally kill the American dream with all these regulations that prevent people from being able to open their business or to build the home for their mother in law or their, or their sister or whatever it might be. So in all of these situations, the question is who decides? And the answer most of the time should be the owner of the property. Sometimes it should be the government. There are times when government, it's a proper function for government. I do not believe that how well we can see the stars is a proper function of government. I don't think they should be the ones deciding how much light you can have on your property. Because guess what, it doesn't work anyway. All of this stuff that they do that ends up costing millions and millions of dollars in compliance and engineers and plans and approval and, and, and, and the right kind of light bulb supposedly. And then the crime that that's that's available, all of the bad stuff, all of that stuff doesn't make much of a difference at all. May maybe in some of these unique situations a little bit of a difference. But again, is it worth it? Is the trade off worth it? And I don't think government should be the one to decide that. I think we should decide that with our, with our own property. So anyway, that's my rant on, on who should, you know, where, where the line should be drawn. I totally understand. I want stars at night to be big and bright as well. I just don't think that's something government can guarantee. It's kind of like health care. It's the same thing. Everybody's running to government to solve their health problems and thinking that some expert at the government level is going to make our health better never happens, never works, Only makes it worse every single time. Which is why government shouldn't be in the business of healthcare. It's the old yellow pages test, you know, if you, if people are in business in the yellow pages, government shouldn't be doing it. So if you have people offering health care, which is what you really want not health insurance. But if you have people offering health care in the private marketplace, and you have people offering health insurance in the private marketplace, government should be. It should not be involved in it, which is why in the Constitution, it's not involved. There's nothing in the United States Constitution giving any authority whatsoever for the government to have anything to do with healthcare. That is your life. That is. The, answer to who decides is you. You decide whether or not to inject your body with an experimental, you know, drug. You decide whether or not to keep injecting your body with, with too much sugar and, and fats and all those kind of things. And you decide whether or not to exercise and stretch and do the things that, that would, make your body last longer. It's up to you. It's up to me. And then when we don't do make good decisions over time, we end up having to experience the disease that comes with that. And then we expect government to bail us out and our neighbors to pay for our healthcare. And I realize somebody's probably call in with this, but, you know, I realize, you know, all disease is not created and caused by our decisions. There are diseases that obviously happen to people or accidents that happen to people that wasn't their own fault and wasn't, you know, something that they built up to and made a bunch of bad decisions to get there. which is also why I do believe in a safety net. But it's not a government safety net. What, what do 90% of the hospitals you drive by, what do they say on the building? Some sort of saint this or saint that or church of this or church of that? It's the, it's the churches that made that possible. It's the churches and philanthropy and individuals that created situations where we could take care of those in need and take care of those who could not take care of themselves. And government can have a safety net that is a really low safety net, but if government's providing it, it should be a lower quality than what the private market can pay for. There is no reason, as soon as you have government providing the best of the best, you will no longer get the best of the best. It will now become the worst of the worst for everyone. Socialism always does that. It does make everybody equal. So if you want everybody to be equally miserable, you should absolutely support socialism. And I know this wasn't the guy's question, but it's the same philosophy. It's all about trying to have government save us and protect us from ourselves and Protect us from these things that are not, you know, life threatening. They are not, you know, taking away our, our, livelihood or, that you could say, maybe it's taken away your pursuit of happiness. Because if your pursuit of happiness is watching the stars at night, well, I get that. But then you might have to move to Montana or you might have to move way out to West Texas and you can buy. I mean, I used to our place in Dripping Springs, we could see the stars. Great. And everything grew up all around us. And now we can't. That's not government's job to prevent that from happening. That's life. That is what happens in life. And what are we doing? We moved. So, you know, it's the same with water. We get all these people that are like, you know, we can't do this, we can't allow that because we're going to run out of water here. Government doesn't create water. Private entities come together and sometimes they use government funds, which I'm not for, but sometimes you got to, or sometimes they do, in order to create, companies that can then pipe in water from lakes and all that kind of. That's the free market at work. And you're going to have areas that grow too fast and run into water issues or run into traffic issues or run into what it's been that way forever. And these policies that people think are going to prevent any problems for happening are good intentions that lead to unintended consequences. So you should always err on the side of freedom. Always err on the side of letting the market figure it out. Not some bullshit government bureaucrat expert, you know, Pope Fauci type person that's going to end up abusing the power and the money that we give them every time, folks, it's going to happen that way.

Rick Green: Government should not decide your health care decisions for you

There's just. There's just. It's a principle of nature. Government will never be as interested in making sure that your property works well and as well maintained as you are. So you should be the ones making one, making the decision about your property. Government is never going to care as much about your health as you and your loved ones. Therefore, government should not decide your health care decisions for you. You should make those decisions. These are just basic things that the founders understood in America. They were basic principles that Locke and Montesquieu and Blackstone and others, had made so clear. Reverend John Wise and the Bible. And so the founders understood all this and that's why they created America, was to try that experiment, the Experiment being that the answer to who decides should most often be you in rare circumstances, should be government. And, and it worked. And it created the greatest nation in the history of mankind. And now we've allowed our safety ism to chip away at that. And I'm on a mission to destroy safetyism and return freedom and prosperity and, and respect for your neighbor, not control of your neighbor. All right, quick break. We'll be right back. You're listening at the Core with Walker Waldman and Rick Green. This is at the Core on American Family Radio with your host, Rick Green.

American family Radio is doing Operation Christmas Child through November 24

Welcome back to at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green, Armored Green, America's constitution coach. And my job here is to, to make everyone that's ever had something annoying move in next door to them upset. That's what I'm trying to do. Not really. Not really. That's not really my goal. I get it. I understand. I've had things move in next door to me that, you know, they were a nuisance. I didn't like it. But you know, it's like, like my wife's grandfather taught me 30 years ago, if you, if you don't like what I'm doing with my property, buy it. Okay. by the way, this is, we're doing Operation Christmas Child. So now through November 24th, so we got what, about a month left, five weeks maybe. Sending the good news of Jesus Christ to children around the world through a simple shoebox. Now, most everybody listening to this program, you've probably seen the shoeboxes at some point over, the last couple of decades. This is an amazing ministry. Every shoebox gift is an opportunity to share about Jesus Christ and God's love and it blesses an entire family. This is a way that we can all be a part of it so you can have a direct impact on a child's life and their family. A direct way for you to equip, the local churches so that they can then impact those families and then those families are drawn to that local church, which is another benefit from it. Operation Christmas Child, it's a way to work with our local ministry partners around the world. Simply a shoebox gift, it reaches out in their communities and establishes those long term relationships. And a lot of times these are in tough areas, unreached people groups. these gift boxes basically open the door. I mean, who doesn't pay attention? If somebody shows up with a gift box for you, you tend to pay attention and and you're willing to listen and it's it's a great way to start. So it really does open the door for evangelism and, and discipleship. And we see tremendous results from this operation, Christmas Child. This year though, Our goal is 12.6 million children will be reached with the gospel. 12.6 million children will be reached with the gospel through a simple shoebox gift. And we get to be a part of it here at American family Radio. You get to be a part of it as one of our listeners. So you can go to samaritan's purse.org/occ samaritan's purse.org occ for Operation Christmas child. Any standard shoebox will do. Or you can order pre printed shoeboxes and support materials for your church or your family. And I'm telling you, it's a cool thing to do. If you're homeschooling, this is a great project for you to do with all your kids. If you're in a co op or your Sunday school class or your church group, it's a great opportunity to, to be a part of this. And you, can do something cool with like a stuffed animal, something that they'll really enjoy. You can do a soccer ball with a pump. you can do some sort of clothing, anything that'll capture their attention, with some fun toys, but also personal care items, school supplies, that sort of stuff. And Samaritan's, purse will take care of the rest. So samaritan's purse.org occ samaritan's purse.org Occ be a part of it and find out where the drop off locations are right there close to you.

John in Kansas wants every American schoolchild to read the Bible every year

Okay, let's get back to the phones. I, believe we've got John in Kansas. We are in Kansas, John. Go for it, man. Your comment question and so all yours.

>> Caroline: Yes, on, property rights here, the subject of the day, apparently.

>> Rick Green: Yes, sir.

>> Caroline: the basic question should be on, new laws or any law. What evil does this law attempt to defer by government punishing the property owner?

>> Rick Green: John, that is perfect. Have you been to Patriot Academy?

>> Caroline: No, no, but I'm kind of an analytical thinker and I follow.

>> Rick Green: I love it. I love it. M. You just said almost verbatim what I teach the Patriot Academy students and every leadership congress. When they come in and they're going to be a legislator for the week and they're going to file their bills and debate their bills, that's exactly what I tell them. When they're standing up there explaining their bill. I say, here's what you should be explaining. What is the evil that you are trying to deter. I love it. You're spot on, John. Go ahead. Did I lose you?

>> Caroline: A child says, oh, I need this and I need that, and I need that. No, no, they want it.

>> Rick Green: That's right.

>> Caroline: The only thing the government should meddle in is things that are needed.

>> Rick Green: That's right.

>> Caroline: Safety and health.

>> Rick Green: John, would you run for office?

>> Caroline: That's not quite my job.

>> Rick Green: I'm.

>> Caroline: I'm more of a staff person, I guess.

>> Rick Green: I love it. I love it. Well, thank you for your call. You're spot on. That is exactly the right thing to ask. You know, we, we. If we lose the principles, the plumb line, it's easy to get off into things that. That have the unintended consequences. But if you have a plumb line, if you have something to measure things against, if you have a set of principles and ideas that are not changing, in other words, we call them the timeless principles of liberty. They don't change, and they're true in any circumstance. If you have those to guide you, you can avoid a lot of this stuff. And that's why we teach the kids. Ask these fundamental questions. Number one, before you even read a bill, get yourself in the mindset of, is this issue within my domain, within my jurisdiction? If I'm a state rep, or I'm a congressman, or I'm a county commissioner and an idea is brought to me, the first question should be, do I have authority? Is this within the jurisdiction that I've been given by the people to govern? So, for instance, if you're a federal congressman, if you're in Washington, D.C. you're a United States Congressman under the Constitution, and a constituent comes to you, or another congressman brings a bill that says, let's just. Let's just pick something that, says, you know, we really think that, we need to have, a requirement that every student in America.

>> Rick Green: Has to read the entire Bible in one year. M. Okay. Well, I would love for every student in America to read the entire Bible every year. I think that's a great practice. I think that's. That's. That's what I try to do. It's what the founding fathers did. It's what we teach people at Patriot Academy to do. That's a wonderful idea. All right. I'm a congressman. I'm sitting there in Washington, D.C. as a congressman. Somebody else brings this bill. They're really on fire for getting students to learn the principles of liberty, to be better Citizens and do all this stuff. And if I ask the question, do I have authority to require every school in America and every child in America to read through the Bible every year? I would have to say, no. No, that. That is not in my responsibility as a congressman. There's. There's nothing in the Constitution that says that the federal government should dictate how education is going to work. That is a state issue, a, local issue, and most importantly, a parental issue. And so even though it's a good thing and would no doubt. I mean, there's no doubt in my mind, it would cause our culture to do better, it would cause our society to do better. Now, if we want to pass a constitutional amendment that actually says in America, all education systems must include the Bible and must include a reading through the Bible every year, I would vote for that constitutional amendment because I would be now creating a requirement, along with a vast majority of the country, for this particular nation in this society that we live in. And we would be choosing, together, with a significant majority, to require that. And we would be deciding what the power and authority of the federal government or state government or whatever it would be. But first you have to ask the question, do I have authority? So that's an example. and then you say, okay, if it's within my domain now, I can ask, what's the evil that's trying to be prevented here? In other words, is it a good idea to do this now, and what is the thing that we're trying to stop from happening? and then you get into the semantics of, okay, what's the best way to do it? So that's kind of the matrix, if you will, the decision matrix that we teach at Patriot Academy as students are analyzing legislation.

Tara and Indiana have 84 Udo changes to accommodate for solar

Okay, let's go back to the phones. How about Tara and Indiana? Tara, go ahead.

>> Caroline: Hi. Yeah, I live in a small farm community, and with all the property right questions, I thought that, this might interest you. We have, you know, around like, 33 or 34,000 acres of farmland going into solar.

>> Rick Green: Yeah.

>> Caroline: And so, we have had, 84 Udo changes to accommodate for solar. And, the last election, we did get a commissioner.

>> Rick Green: What's a udo? Real quick, help me out, Tara. What's a udo?

>> Caroline: It's an ordinance. It's an ordinance set in place to help protect the property owners from, you know, like, commercial, businesses or whatever coming in. Because we're a farm community. So there's, like, big farms and stuff like that.

>> Rick Green: Yeah. So UDO is just a Local ordinance. Okay, go ahead, Go ahead.

>> Caroline: Yes. Okay, so 84 of them were changed to accommodate for solar. they will not put a cap on how many acres could of solar could go into our community. Which leaves the door open for more companies to come in and more ground be put in. There are some landowners who are landlocked by these things. Like it is surrounding all three sides of their property and across the road from them. And like I was saying, we have one commissioner in who listens to the people, but then the other two, you know, obviously, you know. And what do you do when you're in a situation where, the people are speaking? A lot of showing up to meetings, sometimes we get public comment, sometimes they work it out so that there's another meeting right after and there can be no public comment. But what do you do when you feel like you're fighting a losing battle against your own local government?

>> Rick Green: Yeah, yeah, great question, Tara. And not something that is going to go away quickly. We're going to be struggling with a lot of these very same questions we're fighting in our county right now. The issue of, these battery plants, very similar, to what you're dealing with with the solar power. And, you know, we've got this all over Texas where they're putting in these huge battery storage, facilities. And there's, you know, definite concerns about, you know, what it does to the water supply and what happens when they melt down and all that kind of stuff. So, we're going to be grappling with a lot of these things. AI technology is going to become something that we have to really, you know, figure out. Okay, Is this crossing the line to something we've got to regulate and that sort of thing. Here's what I would say first, almost every one of these scenarios I just mentioned, and your specific, scenario would not exist right now if government had stayed in its lane. All of these windmills, all of these solar plants, all of these battery deals, all of it subsidized by government, created by government, out of this, you know, bogus, most often, hoax science, dealing with, you know, climate control and climate change and whatever name they're going to come up with next since, you know, ah, global warming became obviously not a good name since it was starting to get cooled. my point is it's what Milton Friedman called friction in the market. When government starts subsidizing these things and pushing these agendas, it creates a false market for it so that it changes the cost benefit Analysis. And people are willing to sell their farms to put it in because it's. They're being paid by government, you know, government funds and other means to put it in. And so it creates a scenario that I would argue probably would not exist if it wasn't for all of that government intrusion into the market. Unfortunately, we're already here, so all that money is already out there in the market. And so now you do have private entities that have been able to tap that money or in, in other ways, you know, benefit from it. And now they have a way of benefiting by putting these, these solar farms in. So then we end up with. We're back to the original question. Who decides? And, and how do you get more power politically, to be able to at least make sure it's not damaging your land? So I guess the questions I would ask if you're still with me, and I'm sorry for filibustering here, number one, what is the actual damage to your property when there's a solar, plant next to you? Because I'm trying to envision in my mind, and I'm assuming what we mean by solar plants are where they basically do these solar, panel fields where it's just like rows and rows and rows of solar panels. Is that what we're talking about?

>> Caroline: Yes.

>> Rick Green: Okay. And so what is the damage to you when that's next door to you? Well, I'm genuinely asking that, by the way, because I want to get a better handle on this.

>> Caroline: Well, for some people it is property values, because who's going to want to come in and buy your house when you're surrounded on four sides with, solar panels? And then they, the solar company usually is the one who, pays the people to come in and do these, the research to say, oh, wait, no, it doesn't affect property values. And then there is the fear of the, you know, what is the runoff going to do to our water? And when the UDO is changing effects like drainage and stuff like that, how is that going to affect the people who live right next door? And honestly, I mean, the traffic of these things going in, like, I mean, it's kind of chaos around here. People have been wrecked into. It's been. It's honestly been a total mess. So, I mean, like. And they're not right next to my property, but it, I mean, I can see them from my front yard right now.

>> Rick Green: Yeah.

>> Caroline: And then there's tax abatements being given on them. You know, so then our county's not even actually like getting revenue.

>> Rick Green: Yeah, they're losing, they're, they're losing revenue instead of gaining revenue, which is what they usually say. This is why we want this thing here because it's going to bring jobs and, and revenue. So I would start with the first thing. If it devalues property, I don't think that's government's job to prevent that from happening. That happens all the time. Whenever, you know, somebody moves in or moves out or a business leaves and, and, and jobs are lost and now property values in that area go down. If we tried to compensate everybody or prevent, property values from going, down, then we really would skew the market and, and move towards socialism. so I think that one, even though it's painful and I don't like it when it happens to me either, is not the proper role of government. I don't think we have a cause of action because something comes, in next door and devalues our property. And that's true with oil field and, and, and you know, concrete plants and anything that's, that's needed in order for us to have homes and for us to have electricity and for us to have roads and you know, those things that are needed by society, when they go in, they're typically going to devalue the property, next to them. I do think there is a real, concern, environmental concern. And I'm a scientifically based, economically rational environmentalist. I think if the science is there and you do the cost benefit analysis on the economics, you know, we should always do everything we can to take, you know, not, not rape and pillage the earth, but rain and have dominion as, as God told us. And so I do think with a lot of this solar stuff and the batteries and everything else, we need to be studying what is this doing to the ground and what is it doing to our water supply. And those are legit issues to be able to try and stop some of these things. So, the rest of it, it gets a little bit messier. So I guess what I'm saying is this is one of those that has to be analyzed. Always start with the question, you know, who decides and, and can we prove actual damage? And what are, what is the evil that we're trying, trying to stop? Man, I could spend more time on this. Maybe we'll pick it up on another day. Thank you so much for calling in. Thank you for listening today. You've been listening to at the core m. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.