One of the biggest challenges any generation faces is how to transfer knowledge to younger generations

Kevin Freeman: You know, one of the biggest challenges any generation faces is how to transfer knowledge, wisdom, culture, and values to the next generation, but do so with humility. We can't be condescending, and we must be willing and open to learning ourselves because they have things to teach us. Unfortunately, the baby boomers and Gen X have not done a great job with this. We've seen triumphs and the emergence of the American empire. It wasn't an empire when I was born, but we've learned and earned the respect of those coming after us. Have we? I'm not so sure. Or have we been exposed as hypocrites and frauds? Sadly, it's a mixed bag. A little of both.

Christian Hodges spent nine days in a coma due to viral encephalitis

To explore this topic, I'm joined by Christian Hodges. I've known him for a good time here. I mean, he's a young man. He's an influencer with a growing following. He's also someone willing to learn, but willing to teach. And he's got a lot to share with us. Christian, tell us your story. How did you get here?

Christian Hodges: Kevan? Well, thanks for having me here. It's good to finally be back in Texas. but honestly, on paper, it looks as if I wrote a book when I was 17, did pretty well. Within a month of it being out, the president had a copy at dinner, did well, threw me onto Fox and Newsmax, and all these shows made me a voice for the generation. But like I was just telling you backstage, I said, three years ago in January, before I wrote the book, I spent nine days in the hospital, and of the nine days, I spent a week in a coma, while I was supposed to be on my first missions trip to Jamaica. I thought the Lord was going to use me on the mission field, and he had a couple of other plans. and there's one thing I remember from the nine days in the hospital, and that's waking up from being unconscious. I remember waking up at midnight. there's a basketball game on tv. It's like Gonzaga versus UNC Chapel Hill. A big rivalry. And at that point, there's one thought in my mind. Where's my Bible? I have it in my room here. it's one of those big ESV thick study Bibles, if you know what I'm talking about. like all of high school, I was known as, like, the spiritual leader. He would carry it around everywhere. I was known by it And I was like, where is it? as my brain is fried, after being out for a week in a coma. so I remember ripping the IV out of my arm and getting out of the hospital bed at midnight. My mom's on a futon, my dad's in a recliner. I hobbled across the room, found, my Bible on the windowsill. got back to my bed, huffing and puffing after being out for so long. I remember flipping open to a random page, and I couldn't tell you where that was, Kevan. but I tried to read the words on the page, but once again, my brain was fried. I say that literally because my fever hit 109.

Kevin Freeman: 109. Seven days in a coma, 109. This is a very serious disease. This is viral encephalitis.

Christian Hodges: Viral encephalitis, which is the swelling and inflammation of your brain. So they call it like your brain is on fire. That's what they say. it is. but I remember opening, just trying to read the words, and I couldn't focus on it at that point. I remember crying out the only two words I could find the strength to mutter. And I cried out, I surrender. And what do you know after seven days in a coma? After every test, you can imagine an EKG, EEG, two spinal taps, cat, scan, an MRI, 50 blood work tests, trying to figure out what I have. They don't even know what I have at this point. They don't know what put me in a coma for a week. They don't know anything that happened. All they know is that I prayed, I surrender. And 24 hours later, I'm not only released from the hospital, but. But I'm literally running laps around the floor of the hospital, running, sprinting away from the doctor, saying, I'm fine. I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. And that's all they know, is that I'm fine.

Kevin Freeman: That's a miracle.

Christian Hodges: So someone just asked me the other day what's, like, your official job title. I said, I'll happily take walking miracle, because that's what I am. I should be dead, Kevan.

Kevin Freeman: But the only way to get there is I surrender, right? Is to let God live through you instead of you living through you.

Christian Hodges: Right.

You were a Christian before your coma experience

I think if we look at Ephesians 2, if we look at what Paul says in Ephesians 2, the first 10 verses. I want to focus on the first three verses. Paul is talking about how we're spiritually unconscious. If you will, if you Play off my story how we're dead without Christ. We're wretched sinners. total depravity as human beings, original sin. And then he starts the actual hope of it by saying in verse four, it's the greatest interjection of all time. I would say it's but God, comma. But God. What. What comes after the comma? It says, but God being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he has for us, made us alive together with Christ. For it is by grace that you have been saved. This is not of your own doing that no man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works in which he prepared in advance. He already knew the story. He knew the day I was born, on June 30, 2005, that I would go through that. And he used that point. Point as the catalyst in my life. I would say. I call it. I was called out of a coma. I was called to be a voice for the generation, called to lead the revival that we see coming to young people today. To be a voice leading that. That my voice would be his vessel.

Kevin Freeman: No different than Lazarus. Come forth. It was Christian. Come forth. You were in the coma. And so many things that can be brought to truth out of that. for one, when you're a coma, you're completely helpless. And apart from Christ, we are completely helpless. And until you acknowledge that and you were raised a Christian, you are a Christian. You've been a Christian before your coma experience. But that was a dramatic change for you in that you surrendered.

Christian Hodges: It was. And I mean, there are definitely points in my life before that where I would pray the same kind of I surrender prayer. But like you said, at that point in your life where you can literally do nothing. For myself, I. I could have done nothing, that people were praying for me. That there was a prayer chain internationally, people in Europe who were praying for him, people in Jamaica. I was supposed to be with people all over the country, in every state, people here in Texas who are praying for me. And that's why the Lord healed me. The Lord heard their prayers. While I could do nothing for myself, people interceded to the Father for me. This is the role that Moses played for the nation of Israel. In, like, Exodus 33, we see, that Moses is praying. Lord, I don't want to go anymore. I don't want to do anything else. If, your presence does not go before me, I don't want to do anything. And the Lord basically said, you're the intercessor for this nation. If you come, I will lead them through you. It's the same kind of thing. so absolute miracle that Lord did in my life. And here we are today, with a couple things. A couple things to say.

Kevin Freeman: Yeah. So how do you get there from the coma, and the time in the hospital? Miracle healing. And then you come out with a book. America, Don't Give up. What's that Journey? How did you get there?

Christian Hodges: I would say, honestly, I accidentally did it all. I accidentally got into this whole thing. If I had it my way, I probably would have gone into business, made some money, and then got into politics later in life, probably, if I had it my way. But the Lord obviously had other plans. And, he showed me that through this hospital story, that obviously my life is not in my hands. It's in the hands of the Sovereign Father. so I got out of the hospital on Friday and my last semester of high school started on Monday. In that last semester of high school, at my school, every student had to write a thesis project. So for a high schooler, a 17, 18 year old in high school, 20 pages is like the end of the world. And give a 30 minute presentation. Here we are talking for an hour. But, I had to write the 20 pages. a month into the class, I had nothing done. My teacher was obviously gracious with me after everything I had been through. everyone else had eight or ten pages done. They were halfway done. I didn't have a thesis statement. So I was like, I gotta choose a topic that's easier. So I chose freedom of speech. Not knowing really how much there was to freedom of speech. So, the next six weeks I didn't write 20 pages. my teacher hated me because I wrote 70. and, it was still at that point, no desire to write a book. It was not a book. I didn't go into it writing a book. but I'll tell you what sparked that is I couldn't drive for four months. So like a senior in high school into the freaking world. I don't have any independence.

Kevin Freeman: You couldn't drive because the doctor wouldn't let you or you didn't feel up

Christian Hodges: to it, or the doctor wouldn't let me.

Kevin Freeman: Yeah, okay. Because you were, I'm sure you were fully capable.

Christian Hodges: Oh, I wanted to, of course. so my mom had picked me up from school that day and I was just reading to her, like what I wrote in class because I needed some feedback. I was just down to myself and Your mom's going to tell you you're a freaking genius. And it was great. And she said, after I finished reading, she said, I can see some books in your future. At that point, it's kind of like a light bulb. I'm like, wait. Most people probably take this as if I want to write a book before I die. I want to write a book before I turn 40. I'm a little bit crazy. So I said, I'm 17. I've got about two months before I turn 18. This is my new goal. I want to become an author before an adult. I want to publish my first book before I become a legal adult. so I did that over the next two months. I put it all together. I didn't have a single author in my phone. I didn't know a single Charlie Kirk or anyone in national politics. I was like, I'm just going to do it. So I figured out how to do it and published m my book the day before my 18th birthday on June 29, in 2023. Like, I said it did pretty well.

Kevin Freeman: Yeah, you get the president. I mean, my first book, Donald Trump actually wrote a letter. He saw it, but he wasn't President Trump then. He was just the real estate guy. He wrote me a letter. He published by the same author. All right, so that is an amazing story. And it's led to a podcast. It's led to you being a leader, in your generation, and people looking up and respecting. And an influencer is the proper term, I believe today. It's kind of an amazing history how you've done all right.

Christian Hodges: I mean, I can't take any credit for it. I wish I could. I wish I could say, I want to do this. I want to do this in my life. And I planned all of this. I didn't plan any of this. because my whole life, the thing I hated doing most, you know what it was, what I'm doing right now, talking, whether it's to one person or it's to a whole radio show or it's to the biggest show in the freaking world on Fox and Friends in the morning. Because that was my first ever media appearance a week before the book came out. Didn't have any social media, was not an influence or anything. I had no aspirations for that. And I got a message on LinkedIn from a Fox producer saying, would you come on tomorrow morning and talk about a thing called Gen Z? I didn't know what that was then. I obviously said yes, because I was like, lord this is obviously an opportunity that you brought to me. This is not something I desired or wanted or anything or pursued. And, it was after that that the Lord had like an epiphany moment with me and said, this is your lifetime mission to be a voice for the generation.

Kevin Freeman: Wow. And Gen Z, that's. I mean, who, knows? I can't keep track of all this. Gen Z is from this period to this. Baby boomers. All right, baby. Baby boomers, like 46 to 64 and then Gen X and then all these generations. But there really are differences, and we're going to talk about that. We've got Christian Hodges. He is an influencer. He's a Gen Z member, but he's a committed Christian and he cares about America. He loves it. We've got a whole lot to cover and we'll do so right after this break. We'll be right back.

Christian Hodges: How do we pass on liberty, security and values

Kevin Freeman: And I'm joined by Christian Hodges as an author. He's an influencer. He is explaining to us what Gen Z is and how it works. You know, it's the challenge that we face. How do we pass our liberty, security and values to the next generation? Ronald Reagan said, you know, every generation must face an existential crisis. To liberty, to freedom. And we've got to nurture it and pass it on. That's what he said. but a lot of times we buy things from companies that don't care if they destroy our values. And in fact, they use the destruction of our values to entice us to buy their things. There's a difference. and what you do with your money makes a difference. There are only three things you can do with your money. You can give it, spend it, or invest it. Here at Pirate Money Radio, we work to explain solutions that support all three areas in a way that promotes liberty, security and values. Patriot Mobile, it's a mobile phone company, supports our Pirate Money radio program. Patriot Mobile uses US carriers, including AT&T, Verizon and T Mobile, and operates on both Apple and Android phones. More information about Economic War Room and Patriot Mobile is [email protected] AFR that's PirateMoneyRadio.com AFR now, Christian, we're talking about preserving the values you obviously were raised with Christian and pro America values. You love the Constitution. You love freedom of speech. You made that your thesis. what I want to do is dig into what your generation, Gen Z, thinks about those values and how, whether or not they're pro America or they think America should go away.

Christian Hodges: Right. I think we only have one choice is to be a pro America. and what we're seeing is on college campuses, they're going conservative. You, can make the argument that Gen Z is literally the reason why Donald Trump is sitting in the Oval Office in Michigan alone. Donald Trump won young people by 13 points.

Kevin Freeman: I don't think that's a message people are getting out. That's a message Charlie Kirk carried before, he was shot.

Christian Hodges: Charlie famously said. He said, the reason why these college campuses are so scared of me coming to them is that I can undo three years of indoctrination in three hours of their time by coming here. And not even. It's not like Charlie went up to the mic and he said, you're stupid. You believe in communism, you believe in socialism. You're voting people like Zura and Mamdani into office. No, he took a mic and he said, here's your mic, and asked me a question. And then what did he do? He didn't still call him stupid. He said, well, here's what's actually true. And then he caught them in their stupidity and made them realize it. That's the thing he did most. He made them think and caught them in their lives, and they have no choice. They were either quiet or they admitted they were wrong, and then their beliefs changed after that.

Kevin Freeman: You know, Glenn Beck has made an AI version of George Washington so you can talk and ask him questions. We have so much content from Charlie Kirk, from all those campus tours that in AI version, you could. I doubt that there's a question he has not been asked, and I think we could do that. But his voice isn't silenced, not because it continues in video, but it also continues through you and through other people of your generation that have learned from him and are carrying the message out. You know, what are your memories of Charlie?

Christian Hodges: Right. I remember, one thing vividly. his last America fest, which was 2024. I was backstage with Dr. Carson. Charlie was first speaker, then it was Ben Shapiro, and then it was Doc. I was back there with him. and I walked back. I was just giving Doc a cup of water or a coffee or something before he spoke. I always remember Charlie just running around like a chicken with his head cut off. he didn't even have his shoes on yet. He was on stage about three and a half minutes. but he still made time for Erica right before he went on stage. Most people don't know that Charlie was super involved in behind the scenes and everything. He wanted everything to be perfect, but he made sure it was perfect himself. He didn't just delegate to someone else, but he wasn't controlling as well. He was always involved. and just seeing that firsthand and seeing how he made time for his wife, in the thick of all of that, most guys would just, like, push him off and say, honey, I've got it. I got to get this done. This is work, this is business. It wasn't Charlie.

Kevin Freeman: Yeah, no. I was with Charlie when he was much younger, when he was first starting out. He was younger than you are now. He's 17. and he got his first donation from a dear friend of mine. I was with him when he.

Christian Hodges: My Delaware buddy.

Kevin Freeman: Yeah, he spoke at convocation, and I was a co speaker. I'm kind of hidden on there, but I did. You can go look it up. The same weekend that they introduced the Falkirk center, it was Kevan Freeman and Robert Epstein. So I was there with him. and then I was with him backstage that last America Fest. He invited Marnie and me, sent Mikey to find us and take us backstage. And he's just watching him grow. But he was the same all the way through. His presentation changed, but his attitude was the same.

Christian Hodges: I think the number one thing that changed is that Charlie, when he got started, he was so focused on the red hat.

Christian Hodges talks with us about his faith and how it impacts you

And towards the end of the last few years, you know what he did? He focused on the red letters.

Kevin Freeman: Oh, wow, that's powerful. All right, we're talking with Christian Hodges. We'll be right back. I want to talk with you, Christian, about your faith and how it impacts you. We'll be right back right after this break.

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On the Texas ballot on March 3, there's a proposition regarding Sharia

Welcome back with your host, Kevan Freeman.

Kevin Freeman: Yeah, we're right in the middle of a fight here in Texas. there is on the Texas ballot on March 3, there's a proposition. It's Proposition 10. It's whether or not Texas should prohibit Sharia. That is an all encompassing. It's not a faith, it's an all encompassing ideology of submission. Islam means submission. And we're watching the Islamification attempt here in Texas as we've seen in Dearborn, Michigan. We've seen it in other parts of the country and we've seen it submission in Zoram Hamdani in NewSong York, and we see it in the uk And I've had Some guests here from the uk and that is, it's a challenge because Shuri is antithetical, to our faith. It's antithetical because women are not deemed equal to men. It's antithetical because you have to submit and you have to cover yourself this way and you have to eat this food. And if you try and leave Islam, Sharia says you ought to be killed. It's called apostasy. And they want 11 nations on Earth believe in that. But you have a faith that's about liberty. You have a faith that's about, believing God as a conscious choice and not a forced submission. Describe your faith.

Christian Hodges: Right. Our faith is built on what he's done for us. Ah, our faith says that, there's freedom in him. John, 8:32 says, we have freedom. and we also see that the difference between Islam and Christianity is that Islam and these other faiths always say, that we have to work to get this. We have to work to get here, we have to work to get this. Christianity is the only religion that's built on grace. I don't think most people realize that grace is the gift of freedom. That's what separates us. and you can also say in the Quran there's things that are true. There's things, in Mormonism that are true. I, was talking to Dr. Frank Turek, a week or two ago. He said the difference between Christianity and things that are true is that when you talk about other religions, does it say that other religions are completely false? It says that every way that, another religion contradicts, Christianity, that those religions are false, that it says that Muhammad is the son of God, that is false. We see that Jesus is the son of God. We see how he was baptized. We see the whole trinity, in John, how he was baptized, the dove descends. we see every part that they contradict Christianity is false. but we also see young people especially are going, Mormon, they're going Islam, but we don't understand that in America. I don't think Christians are equipped apologetically to actually defend that. and I think we need more teachers like Dr. Frank Turek, to, teach young people, young Christians, because we see that even Christians who are raised in church, who go to youth group, who go to church on Sunday, even go to church twice a week, Wednesday nights, that 7 out of 10 of them fall away from Christianity once they go to college. I think the number one reason for that, you can say It's a shallow faith, that their faith wasn't rooted well, but it's the fact that they can't answer the why questions of their faith. And that is the essence of apologetics. That's why Paul was here. Paul says, I am put here for the defense of my faith. He says in 1st Peter 3:15, we should always be prepared to have a reason for our faith. Answer of gentleness and answer with humility. That, young people, need that depth, of understanding the why so that we can go out and defend our faith in public, whether, it's on a radio show or it's actually a conversation with your college roommate who's, a Muslim, that we should have the why to, get there.

Kevin Freeman: Yeah. And you're studying at Liberty University, which does a great job of explaining the why and has a great apologetics. My daughter actually graduated from an apologetic degree there. and that's important because we can't just say, believe it because I told you so or believe it because it's in the Bible. We actually have to have that personal relationship, and then we have to have that willingness to let the Holy Spirit lead and speak to us and through us to accomplish his purpose.

Christian Hodges: Right. I mean, that's the essence of Christianity, is that, we're here and we believe in, God because He sent his son. He wrote the whole story. He wrote his whole love letter to us. in Scripture, we see that in the Gospels, and he came, he did what no man has ever done before. Muhammad didn't do it. Muhammad didn't rise from the dead. So if you want to talk apologetically, if you want to prove Christianity, if you want to say that Christianity is true and Islam is not, prove the resurrection. And you can. So but as a Christian, think to yourself, ask yourself, can I prove the resurrection? Can I deny the theories that say, that Jesus was just stolen by the apostles? Can I deny the theories of all of these people? Ah, making assumptions in the early days. Can I deny all of these things to, another faith today? Can I prove the resurrection? If you can't answer that question and say you can prove the resurrection, you can. You should go study more yourself to be more well equipped to, face anyone in the public square.

Kevin Freeman: You're so right, Christian. In fact, Islam claims that Jesus did not die and rise from the dead. But that is central to the Christian faith. That resurrection story is the truth of the gospel, and it is the essential part of what we must believe to be Christian. We'll Be right back.

Kevin Freeman talks with Christian Hodges about what young Christians think about money

Mike Carter: Welcome to Pirate Money Radio with your host, Kevan Freeman, helping you unpack the economic headlines and providing real money solutions.

Kevin Freeman: All right, we're talking money solutions, on Pirate Money Radio. We talk about it all the time. We have, Christian Hodges, who is a brilliant young man who comes from Gen Z, who's written a book before he became an adult, who has his own podcast, who's hung out with, presidents. And Dr. Ben Carson's a great mutual friend, worked for him for a while. He's got a lot to share. He's connected to Liberty University, and he really, really has a great future and a great voice. I want to talk with you Christian a little bit about money, because the Bible says, Luke 16:11, if you're not faithful with your unrighteous mammon, you will not be trusted with true riches. That was Jesus speaking and saying, essentially, no one will trust you with true riches. True riches are liberty, security values, family, eternity with Christ. Those are true riches, the things that really matter. Money is a tool. It's something we should use. It is, defined as a unit of account, a store of value and a means of exchange. That's how the Federal Reserve would say money is. but what do young people think about money?

Christian Hodges: I think there's a misconception among a lot of young Christians especially, is that money's evil. They misinterpret the verse that says, money is a root of all evil, as is greed, as is lust. All of these things are roots of evil. they misinterpret that verse in, the church.

Kevin Freeman: And it's the love of money. It doesn't say money itself.

Christian Hodges: Right, I agree. I was reading Proverbs 16 this morning. It said, that better is the little that the righteous has in the abundance of the wicked. It's better to have little and be righteous than to have a lot and have. Let's just take Elon. If you had everything Elon had and yet you still don't believe in Christ, you still have nothing. but there's. I don't know if you.

Kevin Freeman: And by the way, that is Elon. He says, I'm a cultural Christian and he wants Christianity to dominate the culture he's getting.

Christian Hodges: We need to keep praying.

Kevin Freeman: But. But he hasn't acknowledged Christ that I'm

Christian Hodges: aware of right now. I agree. I don't know if you know who Wriley Meek is if you're familiar with his work. No, Charlie, was bringing him into the fold in, the last year or two of his life. but he runs what's called King's Council. And he kind of changed my perspective a little bit. Learning from him, he, gave the story of, the town is Eden Prairie, Minnesota. In, like 2003, it was the number one town rated by TripAdvisor. All of those places, like the small town to move to in the country, Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Kevin Freeman: Eden Prairie. Okay, And I get Prairie and I get Minnesota.

Christian Hodges: Okay. Eden Prairie, Minnesota. number one in 2003. Flash forward to 20 years later in 2023. You know what it is? It's 60% Muslim. It's the first town in the whole country to have an all Muslim town council. This is where they ban the pride flag. You've probably seen these stories in the news. It's called Eden Prairie, Minnesota. So how did that happen in 2003? The number one town in 2023, majority Muslim. In 2003, the Muslim population was about 6% or less. It was a vast, minority. But what they did is they used their money very well. In the Muslim faith, a $1 bill, transfers between other Muslims does not leave the Muslim faith 13 times before it enters another faith. In Judaism, it's similar. It's 12 times. You transfer between other Jews. 12 times. I mean, Christianity, you know what that is? Two times. Wow. So you see how Christians are not giving their money to other Christians. For one, they're afraid to make money and to be entrepreneurs, actually make money and use it well, but they're afraid to give it to other companies like a Patriot Mobile, or a Glint, these other Christian companies. But think about what that does for missions. Christians are not funding Christian missions. Right. Who's funding it? If you want the actual gospel that's pure and unfiltered to go to the 1020 zone on, the mission field, or you want it to go to the back streets of Baltimore. Who do you want to be funding that? You want the people who believe in it, who have been saved by it, not other faiths.

Kevin Freeman: That is being faithful with your unrighteous mammon. You can give it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. those are the three things that you can do with your money. But here's the problem too, is you're running uphill because we have fiat currency, not backed by anything. So if you took a dollar in the year 20, 26 years ago, now you took a dollar, it's probably worth less than $0.75 in purchasing power, and it loses. If you go, back 100 years, it's lost 95% of its purchasing power. If you go back to 1971 when Nixon took us off the gold standard, it has lost 80% of its purchasing power. So when I was a kid, a, Hershey bar was a dime. Now at the dollar store, it's a buck and a half. At the dollar store, I mean, nothing's supposed to be over a dollar. A Hershey bar is a dollar and a half. And it's true for everything that we're facing.

Young people feel pushed out of the future due to inflation, says Glammon

How do young people feel about, the fact that they can't get ahead because they start to save money and the money's worth less and less and less from inflation? What are people feeling?

Christian Hodges: And young people just feel pushed out of the future. That we are the future, but we're not going to be able to have a future ourselves. That our bodies are going to be here, but our wallets aren't. we look at the average age of the first time homebuyer. it is now 40 years old.

Kevin Freeman: That's unbelievable.

Christian Hodges: I don't know when you bought your first house, but I'm sure it was at 40. Nope, it, was not 40. It was probably almost halfway there. but young people feel as though they're just being pushed out of the future. They're not gonna be able to have a home, we're not gonna be able to have a family, we're not going to have children because we can't afford it. But, these are the things that young people are desiring. 93% of young people actually want to get married. 93%. But how many of them are actually going to be able to do it financially? You think about all the jobs that, AI is going to take. How many people are being pushed out of a career?

Kevin Freeman: Wow. And because of that, this is my next book, the Four Horsemen of the American Apocalypse and our six Trials by Fire. And no, the four horsemen are not straight from the Revelation. These are the ones unique to America. So I'm not making a biblical statement there, but we're facing serious trials. And the six trials by fire, one of those is demographics. 100 years ago, the average age of a woman getting married is your age. And she would have a baby in nine months, which is an interesting number. Right. So the wedding night, nine months later, there's a baby. That's the average. Now today, the average woman getting married is 29.6 years of age. And she'll wait 3.3 years to have a baby. Why? I can't afford it. We Gotta put it off. I don't have a house yet. So that means she's 33 years old, M before she has her first child. How many kids can you have if you start at age 33? If you start at 20, you can have six. And that was. The average birth rate was 6.0 for a woman 120 years ago. Today, the average birth rate is 1.6. We're not even replacing ourselves.

Christian Hodges: Right? This is the original topic I actually chose when I was telling you the story of changing the topic to freedom of speech. I originally chose declining birth rates, because look at the replacement rate in 1960. Not even 100 years ago. We're talking 60 years ago, it was, what, 2.6? And now we're at, what, what, 1.4? 1.6.

Kevin Freeman: Yeah, 1.6. 1.6 may be less than that.

Christian Hodges: Right. So we're barely replacing ourselves. There's an argument to be made. I heard Seth Gruber say this not too long ago. He said there's argument to be made biblically that if you're only having two children, you're not being fruitful and multiplying. You're only replacing yourselves. You're only replacing yourselves if you're having two children.

Kevin Freeman: and we're not even doing that.

Christian Hodges: Three or more. Four or more.

Kevin Freeman: well, we had Nisar on, last week, and Nisar from the uk, he has six kids. So, you know, my sister had six kids. but here's the problem. People don't feel like they can afford to have kids. Why? Because the money keeps losing value due to inflation. The Federal Reserve says we're going to make sure that there's at least 2% inflation every year. And, of course, it's been much, much higher than that. And so how do you be faithful with your unrighteous mammon? Well, support for this program comes from Glint. It's a financial technology service offering a debit card and mobile app that enables users to access their gold holdings for everyday purchases. With Glint, users maintain ownership of allocated physical gold, which is stored in a managed vault. In the Bible, gold and silver and copper are money, at the time of a transaction. Gold is sold in real time to cover a purch amount in local currency. Glint offers an alternative way to store and use the value. Combining gold and silver with modern payment infrastructure, Glint clients can monitor their gold balance, view transaction history, and manage their account through the Glint app, available on major mobile platforms. More details about how vaulted physical gold can be used as money are [email protected] Gold247 that's glintpay.com Gold 247 Glint providing access to gold for modern spending. That's something that I think young people can embrace. They realize, hey, actually I bought gold at $2,000 an ounce and now it's $5,000 an ounce and I can spend it. There's no friction.

Christian Hodges: States may make gold and silver legal tender

You don't have to go store gold bar at your house, but you can actually have gold and silver as your money instead of just paper dollars.

Christian Hodges: Right. I think that, I don't think enough young people know about Glint, but, I think this is something that would actually quell their concerns. Because if a young person has $1,000 in an account in the bank and they were to leave it there for a year or two years even, how much is it going to be worth? It doesn't matter the exact number it's going to be worth. The spending power of it will be less than $1,000. If you had that same $1,000 in gold, how much is that going to be worth in a year or two? If you left in the same account, same place, it's going to be worth more. The spending power is going to be worth more than in the original $1,000. That's, what young people need to understand. There actually is an option out there. There is something that we can do, to have a better down payment on a home, to have a better down payment on a car, to actually be able to afford having a family like we all want.

Kevin Freeman: Well, I'm going to give you a copy of my book, Pirate Money, which makes this exact case so that you can take it and share it, with your generation. Let them know there is a future and a hope. And we have. It's Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution makes it possible to do this. In Article 1, Section 10, it says states may make nothing other than gold and silver legal tender. And we've convinced five states so far. First, Governor Sarah Sanders signed it into law in Arkansas. Second, it was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida. Third, Governor, Jeff Landry in Louisiana. Fourth, Governor Greg Abbott in Texas. Fifth, Governor Mike Kehoe in Missouri. Those five states represent $5.3 trillion of economic activity, real, genuine economic hope and economic justice for Gen Z and every generation. All right, we'll be talking more with Christian Hodges when we come back right after this break. We'll be right back.

Christian Hodges: Why did Zoran Mandani get elected by young people

Mike Carter: Welcome back to Pirate Money radio with your host Kevan.

Kevin Freeman: And I'm joined by Christian Hodges, who truly is a voice for his generation, written a book, you know, come out of a miracle story, out of a coma. God called you and has thrust you into the limelight in so many ways. So you were on Fox and Friends, and you've written a book and you've got podcasts and you're talking deals. You know, everybody wants to know your voice. What are you thinking, and how can you help communicate? And I want to ask you this question. Why did Zoran Mandani get elected by young people in NewSong York? I mean, you made it clear President Trump was elected by young people across the country. But in NewSong York, Zoran Mandani, he's a globalist. George Soros, Alex Soros is his good buddy, George Soros son. He's a globalist, World Economic Forum type. He is also a communist. I'm going to use the term. He says socialist, but he talks about taking private property from people, and you have to pay more if you're white and all these things. These are communist, Marxist, principles, critical theory principles. And he's an Islamist. He believes in the. He's a Twelver from Iranian background. He believes that, the Grand Mahdi is going to emerge at the end of time, and it's the exact opposite of Christianity. He said Islam must rule the world, and when they do, then the judgment will come. Well, my Bible says that there will be an Antichrist that rules the world, and judgment comes. My Bible says that people that get beheaded go straight to heaven and are a crowd of witnesses and a great throng worshiping God Almighty, worshiping Jesus. but in Islam, they're infidels, they're apostates, and they need to be killed. So I see both of them might be true, in a sense, and that Islam might be true, that they rule at the end of the earth. I hope not. I don't know. But I know an Antichrist will. I think it's an Antichrist spirit. But they elected a guy that believes, that believes in communism and hangs out with Alex Soros.

Christian Hodges: The sad reality of it is that young people have not gotten to the point in their lives where they value results over promises. because what does Zoe Ramdani get up there and say, you get this for free. You get this for free. Government's going to give you this, government's going to give you that. And young women especially, they hear that and they say, the government's going to be my daddy. Absolutely. I'm going to vote for this guy. It was over 60 or 70% of young women in NewSong York under 30 who voted this guy into office. I think the number of the young men is hovering around 50%. So there's still a big problem there, with the young men as well. but the young women are about to find out. Like you said, with, a Muslim, leader coming into office and the Sharia law that he's going to implement, the Sharia law that his faith tells him to implement as a leader, is something that most people don't realize about Muslims. Last week, Nisar, made the point that all these young women want the, the Eastern men. but what those women don't realize is that in Islam, obviously they view Muhammad as the perfect role model instead of Jesus. Right. You know who Muhammad also was? He was a pedophile. He, he consummated marriage with a nine year old. This is in the early texts of the Quran and the early Muslim text. And you can read this, you can read this yourself. they don't realize that, that this is the kind of leader that Zurami sees a pedophile as the perfect role model for his life. This is what Muslims are taught.

Kevin Freeman: So you can have multiple wives so that you can treat women as property. So if your woman is not submitting to you the way that you want her to, sexually or otherwise, that you can beat her, you need to do it a little bit gently, but you can beat her, that if she doesn't dress properly and goes out of the house without a male escort, that she is like enticing and tempting to rape. I mean, how can young women in NewSong York think any of that's acceptable?

Christian Hodges: Because they see Islam as just some peaceful religion that's here and it's something new, that America is just some Christian nation, some white American nation, that we need something new, we need to progress,

Kevin Freeman: as a Muslim, get past the patriarchy. And yet they're instituting the worst patriarchy ever.

Christian Hodges: They don't understand, that's my point, is that the promises that Zara and Mamdani made are soon to fade. and they're about to experience the result. And I do believe it's a good thing for young people, for my generation as a whole, to see NewSong York burn to pieces, to see them burn to pieces. Because young people will not learn a lesson until either because they're not learning from Cuba, they're not learning from Venezuela, they're not learning from these communist countries. They're at the point where young people need to fail themselves. And NewSong York is the first to bite.

Kevin Freeman: Well, they haven't seen the failure in Minneapolis where they're turning on decency in law enforcement and making them the enemy, not the. This is a really crazy world that we're in, and we're fighting that fight here in Texas. By the way, the Texas Stock exchange is being raised up because if the NewSong York Stock Exchange goes down in Texas, we're going to have our own stock exchange. We're trying to lead on the money issue. We're trying to lead on the Sharia issue with the Prop 10. that's coming up in March. Third vote yes to prohibit Sharia law here in Texas. All right, we got so much more to cover, and we've only got a little bit of time left to do it. We'll be right back with Christian Hodges after this break.

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Kevin Freeman: What do you think are the biggest threats facing America today

Welcome back with your host, Kevan Freeman.

Kevin Freeman: Yeah, and I'm joined by America Don't Give up author, Christian Hodges. And the reason I say America, don't give up, because now is not the time to give up. He's got a whole generation, Gen Z, that is listening to him. He's an influencer. He's making a difference. even the President has listened to him. and he worked with Dr. Ben Carson. He's just got an incredible background and resume coming literally from the dead, from a coma and coming out of it. And the Holy Spirit got ahold of him and is doing things, amazing things through him. But we face some real threats. Christian, what do you think the biggest threats are to America and the future of Gen Z?

Christian Hodges: I think it's the generational suicide that we're committing. That's a harsh way to say it, but we already talked about the birth rate. We're not replacing ourselves. So if we're not going to have kids, who's going to come after us? Who's going to take the jobs? Who's going to further America? So right now we're at the choice where rather going to get married. We're going to have kids. In that order. Exactly. that we're going to do that and we're going to extend America for another generation. Do our part or not. And secondly, you see what's going on in the LGBTQ ABCDEFG+ community, that they're committing generational suicide as well. for one, they're cutting off their genitals, they're marrying the same sex, which they can't reproduce with. They're doing something that ends their fertility. It goes back to the birth replacement. but we're also choosing people like Zoran Mamdani who will burn us to hell.

Kevin Freeman: You know and I what you just said, when we do that, if we don't have enough people, we import them and it's a hijra to the Islam, to Muslims, that they will move in and take over communities that way. But all of those things began when we left the gold standard. And I'll tell you the six trials by fire in my new book. Number one is national debt. And we're saddling you with massive national deb realize $40 trillion how much that is. The total of all credit card debt hit an absolute high record and that's 1.28 trillion. And the federal government owes 40 trillion. That's a lot of money. That debt has created an attack on our dollar. The BRICS nations are trying to dethrone the dollars of the reserve currency of the world. That has created the government push for central bank digital currency, which you know how bad that is and we don't have time to cover it. But that has created a wealth gap. And the wealth gap means no economic justice. If you have a wealth gap then you have a problem. People feel like I can't afford to have family. and so that creates a demographic problem. And then that leads to mass immigration because big corporations, we need more workers. Where will we get them though? So they get them from non Christian countries that move here that want to take over our country. All of this is tied together and all of those are threat. So what do you see the solution is how do we fix?

Christian Hodges: I mean obviously the solution. I don't. You always say politics downstream of culture. Now we see there's examples where you make an executive order, you pass this piece of legislation, you're changing the culture's opinion by just going and doing it. But it's still not going to solve it. Politics is not going to solve it. We need actual fearless leaders in the church. Pastors who are actually shepherding their flock and raising up and discipling young people. we've seen for so long, since the 90s. I would say that the church has become feminized, that we've pushed, pushed men out of the church. Now we're saying there's a little bit of hope because young men are leading young women coming back to church overturning 100 years of trends. but how do we do that? We need to actually get, young people, mentors. they need a spiritual mentor, a, personal mentor, they need a career mentor, professional mentor. They need mentors to guide them through, so they actually know that getting married is a good thing, having kids is a good thing. And these are all noble things that we should be pursuing. And we shouldn't be listening to culture that's lied to us for how long, that's built a generation on these lies that your God's not real, your gender's toxic, that all of these things that we can't even have a society because we can't even address those issues. Like you said, the national debt, all of these massive issues that are facing the country as a whole if we're not here as a generation, if we're the generation that's replaced, not the generation that's fighting, because the Democratic Party's understood this. This is why they hit college campuses and made them leftist, indoctrination camps, because they understood that young people are the future. They've also seen the work that Charlie did on campuses where young people are coming back to the conservative side. So what's their play now? The reply is to replace us. I brought this issue up to Thom Homan on my podcast that they want the illegal generation now. They don't want the generation of Gen Z. The Democratic Party wants the illegal generation to vote for them. This is why they're so scared to death of things like the Save act that require ID to vote. They can't lose their voter base of illegals. but if I could add one more thing to the three things I originally mentioned, it's that the poison in our food. They're not only making us, stupid, they're not only making us, infertile. They're, making us unhealthy. They're making us fat, ugly, and lack of energy, just lazy.

Kevin Freeman: This is an important voice. Christian Hodges is a voice in the next generation. We need to support him. How do people follow you?

Christian Hodges: You. You can go to Christian Hodges.org you can find all of my social media links, podcast, book, everything there.

Kevin Freeman: All right, Pray for America. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. This is Kevan Freeman, joined by my friend Christian Hodges for Pirate Money Radio.

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Christian Hodges: What gives me hope is the gospel that's transformed my life

Kevin Freeman: Yeah, and this is a bonus segment for afr. I've got just one question for you, just to wrap up with just a couple minutes. What gives you hope?

Christian Hodges: What gives Me hope is, I would say, the gospel that's transformed my life. but it's also seeing the Holy Spirit work in me. you have, like, those epiphany as a Christian. You're, like, doing something. You're saying something. This person, the Lord makes this divine connection. You're like, wait, I know that was just the Lord. I just saw the divine hand of the Father in my life. Those moments are what give me hope. To, wake up in the morning to go try to meet this person, go connect with this person. That's what gives me hope. because I see the Lord moving. I know if he can do that, if he can save, all these souls on college campuses, baptized thousands at one college event. What can he do with this generation? That he's setting this generation ablaze for tradition, for Christ, and he's building their new counterculture on the wooden beams of the cross. When have we seen that? At the beginning of a generation.

Kevin Freeman: No, it's phenomenal. And I'll tell you, Christian, I've seen you multiple times. I saw you with Dr. Carson. I've seen you at America Fest. I've seen you at various conferences that we've done.

Christian Hodges: But

Kevin Freeman: you were there. The dutiful servant ready to serve and take care of and meet the needs of all the. You have emerged as a voice on your own, and it's a powerful voice, and it's a voice to your generation, and it's a voice of truth. What, I love about you is it reminds me of when I met young Charlie Kirk and what, six years ago, when we spoke at Liberty, University together at convocation. There's Charlie, and it's phenomenal. You've got that voice. You've got that anointing, You've got that power. You've got the doors opening for you. You know, Charlie, when he left and went to heaven, he didn't leave behind one person. He left behind thousands. And you are one of the leading voices that have emerged from that incredible movement.

Christian Hodges: It's an honor to even have my name in the same sentence as Charlie's, the impact that he made on my life. but you made a great point that this is what I mean. And I was on Krish, Cuomo's show the day after Charlie was assassinated, right after Erica's first speech, and he asked me a similar question of that, and my only response to him was preaching the gospel to Krish Cuomo's face, live on TV there. M. But you said I, was telling these liberals, they took the first Charlie, they didn't take the last. They just created a whole generation of Charlie Kirks, of Erica Kirks, that actually understand the biblical, call that they have to citizenship, to be a good patriot, to understand that we're not here for ourselves, that we're here to build something. That's what Charlie did. He built a legacy that outlives him. That should be the drive for all of us, literally. The morning he was assassinated, I was reading, I believe it was in the Psalms I was reading, just blanking on the verse on the spot. But I remember a prayer I wrote that that morning. I said, lord, I want my life to be not one fold, not twofold, not tenfold. I want the things you've given me, the gifts and talents, I want to steward them, to make them a generation fold. So that's my mission.

Kevin Freeman: Well, you know, Elijah left behind Elisha who got a double portion of his spirit. You know, may God give you a double portion of the spirit that Charlie Kirk carried. This is incredible. what you're doing is amazing. Where do people follow you?

Christian Hodges: You go to ChristianHodges.org, you find Instagram, you'll find Twitter, you find the podcast, you'll find the book, you'll find any ways to donate and support right there on ChristianHodges.org alright, if you

Kevin Freeman: have questions, prayer needs or comments, email [email protected] Pray for Christian Hodges. Pray for America. Pray for God's principles to be restored. Listen, wherever you get your podcasts, Apple, Spotify or whatever. This is Kevan Freeman joined by Christian Hodges for Pirate Money Radio.

Gen Z author and influencer Christian Hodges shares his miraculous recovery, bold faith, and mission to spark a values-driven revival among young Americans. Kevin Freeman and Hodges unpack free speech, apologetics, and the cultural shift on college campuses while honoring Charlie Kirk’s enduring impact. They tackle money truthfully: inflation, fiat decay, gold-as-money solutions, and why Christians must align giving, spending, and investing with liberty, security, and values. A candid look at demographics, Sharia challenges, and the generational choices shaping America’s future.