Erica, Erica, Erica Kirk, what is up? America's new boss babe. Yeah, we've got some stuff to get into today, guys. You might have seen, but I dug up a clip from Erica Kirk's interview with Megan Kelly, and we spent all of last week listening to people on social media call Candace Owens a witch, attacking her for being a faith c a fake Catholic. crazy. You know, all of the things in diagnosis for claiming that the lights would flicker around Charlie Kirk. Well, you're going to want to hear what Erica had to say about that. Also, a clip of Erica is going viral for her crying about her and Charlie's position over Israel that we're going to dive into, especially as Seth Dylan from the Babylon B, testified to the Trumpestablished religious liberty commission, which is holding a hearing called anti-semitism and freedom of religion. Why is no other religious faith in America considered when it comes to religious freedom? Now, that's a question. It's only ever anti-semitism. Anyway, Dylan is asked here about what happened and his involvement with Charlie Kirk in that now famous Hampton's intervention meeting, influencer retreat, whatever it was. Well, his answer reveals exactly what it was. And knowing what we know now about Erica Kirk being there makes all of this even worse. We also just found something out about the Turning Point USA Super Bowl halftime show, which really irked me. This is BS, but I'm going to save that for later. Let's start with the Hampton's intervention. I'm Zach Costello. >> The Hampton's meeting was a retreat called by Charlie. It was it was it was uh I don't know if many of you are familiar with this so I'll give you a little context but um there was a claim that was made that an intervention was staged with Charlie where people pulled him into a room um in a very aggressive manner pressured and blackmailed him because they felt like he was straying away from his support for Israel. That was the claim. The Hampton's uh retreat and that was the Hampton's retreat was characterized that way. It was not like that. There were about 30 people there handpicked and invited by Charlie personally. He brought us there. He stood at the front of the room with a microphone throughout the thing. Um the theme of it was save the West. His primary focus was on the the threat of Islam, the problem of Islam. Um there was heated and and spirited debate about the issue of Israel in the room, but it was debate that Charlie himself initiated and he wanted to hear different perspectives on it. Uh and so we we voiced a lot of our our perspectives. One of the things that I disagreed with him on was he said that, >> you know, there's if you're if you don't if you're not sufficiently supportive of Israel, you you it can be um really ruin ruinous for you in a position like his. um if you criticize Israel at all, uh they'll try to, you know, denigrate you and destroy you and call you names, call you anti-semitic, etc. Uh and it can it can ruin you. And I I said, you know, yeah, certainly that's that's true, but it can also be very costly to stand up to those people. [laughter] All right. So, this is an an admission under oath that unlike the post that Seth Dylan put on X right after Candace Owens exposed this meeting, that it was actually just a friendly influencer retreat, it was in fact a heated and spirited debate wherein Charlie expressed blatantly that he was destroyed and labeled anti-semitic for not offering a certain level of support to Israel. Seth Dylan confirms that to be true right there. And I just love how it's always about saving the West. The state of Israel is the only way to save and preserve Western civilization. Without Israel, there is no Western civilization. This we hear from BB Netanyahu time and time again. Which leads me to the next and very important point on this. because Erica Kirk was with Charlie at this Hampton's intervention. And you see what Seth Dylan did there. There are claims that this was being called an intervention allegedly. Yeah. The primary source on that is not Candace Owens. It was Andrew Kvette who told Candace Owens that. And you know damn well that this is what Charlie told Andrew Kovvette that this is what this was. So for him to deny that is dishonest. But Erica remember was also at this intervention. She must have seen Charlie's frustration over all of this. And she was there, per her own words, when BB Netanyahu called and Charlie turned him down there. Imagine the conversations just back in the room after the fact, like the way that real life plays out between Charlie and Erica at this intervention when they're away from everybody else. So for her now to be positioned in this way, still taking and accepting money from those same Zionist donors, making Charlie's life a living hell for the last months of it, just makes me very uncomfortable and questionable again about the overall direction of Turning Point USA. And then we have this from her CBS interview, if you remember, is the position that she takes on this issue of Israel. Listen, >> it's hate. It's evil. [snorts] Charlie and I have always been very clear on our stance. Israel and Jewish people, it's awful. Awful. Anti-semitism is what what healing factor comes out of hating Jewish people? What healing factor comes out of hating Christians? What healing factor comes out? Hate in general. Nothing. Nothing. Charlie always would say very clearly, "Jew hate was brain rot." >> He would always say it. We've been to Israel twice together. And to be able to walk in the place where our Lord walked and see the Bible come to life in Technicolor. How could you hate that place? How could you hate the Jewish people? Okay, there's a lot here, but this is emotional gaslighting from a woman grieving her husband while also advocating for and marketing pro-Israeli propaganda. The conflation of expressing dissent or disagreement with Zionism or just the Jewish religion at large is not Jew hatred. Here is where the current frustration comes from, which is something that Charlie Kirk was obviously beginning to understand. If Jewish believers can say that Jesus of Nazareth was a criminal revolutionary who was killed for his trouble, that's a direct quote from Ben Shapiro. And that what all Christians believe is something that doesn't exist or just take away Christianity. and that Muslims are a threat, a dangerous threat to all of our existence because of their religious belief. That's pretty harsh language about an entire group of constitutionally protected people of a certain religious group. And when slurs are used like it becomes dehumanizing. There exists no such word or protection for any other religious group besides the Jewish people. Why is anti-semitism and the religious and the religious rights of Jews being discussed by the religious liberty commission? Where is the where's anti-Christianism in that conversation? Because when Christians turn around and say rightfully and truthfully according to our beliefs that Christ was the Jewish Messiah who fulfilled the Jewish religion and God's covenant continues with us, when we do that, we're anti-Semitic. And as such, because of the incredibly powerful pro-Israel lobby and influence on American politics, government, and media, we are then at risk for censorship and considered extremists or a hate group or it's considered hate speech for that dissent and disagreement. Do you see the double standard that's at work here? And can't you then understand that maybe it isn't really Jew hatred, but just a sick and tiredness of the inequality that's taking place. Look, when it comes down to it, we are seeking justice. We don't want another Holocaust. Nobody wants that. We aren't asking for Jews to have their rights taken away. We are asking for a play a fair playing field where all religions have equal rights and protection under the law. All religions, not just special protection for one of them and for one state. Remember, the Jews needed a home after World War II because of the Holocaust and what happened to them. This was going to be a way to protect them. Around six million Jews were killed because they were Jewish. And that's terrible. Every human life is a tragedy. But 55 million Christians were killed because they were Christian in the Bolevik Revolution from 1910 through the collapse of the Soviet Union. 70 million Christians have been killed by hostile states. hostile states since the time of Christ. Where are we safe? It was supposed to be America. One of the primary goals of the founders was to have a place where we could practice our religious our religion freely without the monarch having to dictate what we believe. But our rights take a backseat when compared to Jewish believers. The Holocaust was a terrible thing, but this cannot allow us to operate imprudently and not have real and truthful conversations about how the overreaction from the trauma of the Holocaust has caused the unequal treatment of the different religious traditions in America, especially those of Christians. But when it comes to Erica Kirk and this answer, at the very least, it is worth asking this question. Why is Erica Kirk taking Turning Point USA in the direction that Charlie was fighting so hard to keep it from in the last months of his life? If Erica did accept the deal that Charlie turned down, as Candace reported last week, and she's now just accepting all of this money from the donors who were making Charlie's life a living hell, why? You'd think she'd at least be on the vendetta to oust these donors and tell them to pound sand. And god forbid Turning Point USA loses some money from it as she takes the stand for her husband. But at least she's getting after it for Charlie Kirk in that scenario. Like imagine if Erica took over as the CEO of Turning Point USA. She exposed every donor who made Charlie's life this living hell over the last six months of his life, explained why and that they were trying to control his tongue, and then also called out the authorities to uncover every stone to find out who killed Charlie, and made the pledge that they were going to look under every nook and cranny to find the full truth, even if that included people inside of Turning Point USA. No stone uncovered. And they said that everyone would be held accountable. I mean, damn. I'd be like, Erica, boss babe, I'm with you. [laughter] What' they say about Kla or was it Hillary? I am with her. That would have been me if Erica had come out and done that. But no, it's not been like that. And I think actually Candace thought that it would be like that. I thought that's what she thought Erica would do. You could see it on her face last week. I think she was truly disappointed. Like there was disappointment on her face with how this has all played out in that open letter to Erica Kirk. Like you could see like the pain that Candace had because of her expectations and how she thought Erica was going to get after this. [snorts] Now Erica did tell the truth about something though. And before we get to Erica vindicating Candace Owens in just an alltime way and these details emerging about the Turning Point USA halftime show, which you're going to want to hear, we got to take a quick break for today's sponsor. If you're taking ibuprofen or Tylenol every day just to deal with aches and pains, you've got to hear this. Those drugs don't solve problems. They just cover it up. For most people, the real issue is chronic inflammation. That's why I want to talk to you about Native Path krill oil and why it's actually better than regular fish oil for pain. Krill oil delivers omega-3s in a phospholipid form, which means your body absorbs them more efficiently. 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Native Path Krill Oil helps your body manage inflammation the way it was designed to. Again, that site gnativerepath.com getnativepath.com/zac. Okay, so like I said, we spent all of last week reading all over social media about how Candace Owens is an evil witch for mentioning this light flickering and the frequencies about Charlie Kirk. Uh yeah, listen to what Erica Kirk told Megan Kelly. >> It will be a sign for you to know that Charlie's with you in something. Um, when we first started dating, we would walk, we were walking to dinner one night and this happened a lot. The lights would start to flicker and he'd look up at the light and be like, you know, it's so weird. This happens to me a lot. And I was like, really? He's like, yeah. So, our whole dating and whole marriage, anytime we'd be a room and a light started to flicker, he would just look at me and wink. [laughter] It was like our little thing. It's power. >> It's a total frequency thing. And so the night everything happened when we were in Utah, I was in a hotel room by myself u in the one the bedroom portion by myself and the bathroom light was on and it just was a strobe light all night just fl and I was like part of me couldn't sleep because it was a strobe light. The other part of me couldn't sleep because of how just my world has just crumbled and the other part of me couldn't sleep because I was like baby I feel you. I know you're here. >> [laughter] >> Well, it is truly comical at this point. Candace says something, everyone loses their minds, calls her crazy, says it's all made up. They coordinate to diagnose her with something, even bringing in, you know, mental health experts from all over the world. They accuse her of forging or whatever they do. Then it gets confirmed as true. [laughter] >> [gasps] >> This was the case with the Hampton's intervention, the text message thread of Charlie saying that he had no choice but to leave the pro-Israel cause. You remember they made that up until Andrew Kovette confirmed it. The meeting that Justin Strife had with Pierre, they accused her of lying. And then when in fact after the dust settles and the receipts are provided, they were the ones that were caught in fact lying. and why you only lie to cover something up. Finally, and you know, I have to be honest with you guys, I didn't hate the Turning Point USA halftime show. Look, I like country music. I thought the artist did a good job. It definitely was a better alternative to Bad Bunny. I've said it to you guys before. I'm a sports guy. Sports are one of my hobbies. Okay. I also don't think that the numbers are necessarily made up. I know a couple people put put that out there. I think Milo uh put that out there initially and then he backtracked on it because what he shared was not 100% accurate as it relates to YouTube live shows. [snorts] Um I think that people might think that because I think people actually underestimate how many people actually watch the Super Bowl. Average concurrent live viewers, meaning how many people actually watch it when it's happening live for the Super Bowl halftime show is around 120 million people. Huge number. Turning point USA's pulled at most 10 million. I think it was like 6.1 million on YouTube and Rumble. I think both of those platforms they had some other ones going on. So that's around an 8% um p that's 8% of total viewers that they were able to pull over from the NFL halftime show. But that means 92% of viewers still watch Bad Bunny. So I don't think just based on the overall numbers that the numbers that Turning Point USA did were anything crazy. I think that what it proved though is that an alternative market exists for an alternative halftime show. People are sick and tired of watching the Jay-Z produced NFL halftime show. I think over the last seven years they haven't had they've only had kind of what you would what you would call they've only had like white or or I'm sorry they've only had Hispanic, black or just basically non-white artists do the halftime show. [snorts] But what I am very unhappy with and I did not know this and I don't think most people know this. The Turning Point USA halftime show was not recorded live. It was pre-recorded in Atlanta days before with 200 crowd guests that came and it was recorded before the Super Bowl took place. They tried to keep this quiet, but it was a live stream that was not live. And I feel like that's complete BS and it's misleading. And you know what? I was about to give him credit, too, because Charlie wanted to do a halftime show. This was something that he had been outspoken about. He wanted to do one. So, my my my thing for them was going to be like, look, when you take Turning Point USA in the direction that Charlie wants to go and you do the things that Charlie wants to do, good things can happen for you. But they still botched it. It wasn't live. Are you kidding me? That's a disappointment. It really is. All right, let's get the super chats and and some comments here. Make sure you get your your super chats in, guys. Yo, are you coming at me right now or are you joking? I think you're joking. But you know what? It's impossible for me to be an anti-semite. You know why? Because I am a semite. [laughter] We Christians, we Christians are the ones that have continued God's covenant. We are the ones who have accepted God's promises. We are the Semites. We can't hate ourselves. We don't. Thanks for the comment. Yeah. So, I I started this one because it said Milo said Charlie was gay. that explains everything. Um, obviously I don't believe that and I don't know kind of where he's getting that from. I did see that he had put that out there. Um, yeah, and I think that this is in reference to maybe you guys in the chat were talking about the numbers that Milo had put out. He basically right after the live stream ended, Milo put out that um YouTube comments don't lie and that because the live stream did not have very many comments on it, that that proved that the numbers were fake. And he then backtracked on that. He kind of rescended his criticism as far as that goes. Because if you are familiar with the way that YouTube does their live streams, like we're live streaming right now. If you guys actually go into the comments, like you guys all see the chat, but if you guys actually go into the comments, you actually can't leave, I don't think, a comment. So, when I end this live stream, it's going to go into processing and then you can start to leave comments on it. So, you know, I might have, you know, I think it says it says like 2400 people are watching right now. That's going to end. I'm going to have a certain amount of views on the on the stream, but the comments aren't going to line up with that. I think you see the likes on it, but the comments do not. So that's what he was referring to and that's that that piece of information from him I think was inaccurate with regard to the numbers reporting overall. But just like what what I just said guys is something that you need to remember and consider. While the numbers are very big for like an alternative social media show and platform, like the the YouTube live stream numbers were were very good and very big, the Rumble numbers were okay. I think um I think they maybe got like 1 to two million on Rumble. But when you look at just the overall numbers and how much of the market they actually captured with regard to number of live viewers that tune in to the Super Bowl halftime show, guys, it's one of the most viewed events in the entire world. I think it might be the most viewed event. The Super Bowl halftime show pulls in more eyeballs than the actual game itself. Okay, people people come to watch this without even watching the game. So 120 million is the overall market here. They captured a good they captured 8% of that from what I can see from the live concurrent views. [snorts] All this all these numbers that you see about oh they captured 50 million views. So Turning Point USA captured half of the market. That's not true. That's not true because that's taking concurrent views and then comparing it with overall views that happened after the fact. So, if you go on TurningPoint USA's YouTube channel and see that it has 30 million, 40 million views, that includes views that happen after the live stream, which wasn't really live, which is again complete BS, man. Like, that's wrong. I can go in my streaming software, do a pre-recorded video, and put it as a live stream and not be technically live. And I could go on here and you guys would think that it's live when it's actually not. I don't think that's ethical. I I really don't. I think there's ethical concerns as far as that goes. I think that Turning Point USA tried to position it as a live show and it was pre-recorded, which I feel like is kind of messed up. But in any case, I think that that kind of gets into the weeds of of of some of it. So, and I think that they prove that an alternative market can exist from from from for this halftime show, which I think is cool cuz I think it opens the doors for maybe others to do something better. Hint hint. That's something we'll look at. All right. Anyway, that's why I started that one. I wanted to bring that one in here. Um, and then I wanted to bring this one in here. Thank you. I appreciate that. I just got a haircut as you guys can see. you know, when my hair gets a little long, it gets a little cur curly and it gets gets sloppy. But I appreciate you. Thank you. Um, I always, you know, it's always appreciated whenever you get a haircut, you know, you never know. And it's nice to nice to get feedback. So, thank you. Makes me feel better. Always be true. Thank you. Um, just got here just Oh my gosh, I didn't even see what this says. Just to say nice haircut, Zach. Keep going. Let's go. You guys are nice. Thank you. It's been a while since [laughter] [gasps] it took me a while to figure out what haircut to get. Um, I don't invite you guys to go back and look at like maybe my older social social media. I've had some haircuts that have not done me well and it's been a long time for me to kind of figure out like what is kind of the best hairstyle for me. I think this one is good. I mean, you know, I fade it on the sides and keep the hair a little longer on top to show some of like the natural curls that I have. There are pictures from like me and my wife in high school where I have like the big long hair and the big shag and it's oh my gosh, man. Brutal. It's brutal. I don't invite you guys to do that. But it's it's entertaining if if you feel like it. But thank you. I appreciate it. I think I appreciate it so much because I've actually it's it's it's been an ongoing process and journey for me to figure out the right haircut. I went through a phase where I definitely looked like a lesbian for a little while. [laughter] So here I am. Thank you. Me private pito me pito. It's really true. We can't We can only My gosh, can I read? We can count only on God. I'm sure that Charlie is praying for Erica, for her conversion, and for his kids, but poor Charlie. Yeah. No, I know. And and gosh, it was it was really difficult to kind of get over the hump when it came to what was going on with Erica Kirk. when all this first happened, like you know, I I I wanted to almost like I said, like if she had come out and done done those things as far as taking over the organization and kind of really went hard in the direction of like finding out the truth and just like kind of truly full transparency, not not saying that they're going to be super transparent and then not being transparent or saying they're going to be super transparent and then lying about things. Um like if they had actually come out hard and like really had gotten after it. um almost like Candace Owens is doing. I think that they'd be in just a totally different situation. Um Turning Point USA would, Erica Kirk would. Um I mean, imagine that. Like imagine Turning Point USA if they had just come out hard and been like, "Yo, we don't believe the mainstream narrative about Tyler Robinson. We want to know everything. We're looking internally to figure this out." And we want no no stone unturned like Candace go. [snorts] Andrew, yeah, Andrew is giving her giving her this stuff because we want to know what happened. Andrew Kovvette coming out and saying like, "Yeah, you know why I gave the the text message thread of Charlie saying that he had no choice but to leave the pro-Israel cause to the federal authorities? because I thought it was relevant evidence given the treatment that he'd been receiving for the previous 6 months and all the crap that I had seen him get put through by all of this. So I thought, you know what, that's suspicious. So that's why I I that's why I submitted this piece of evidence in there. Imagine if they had done that and taken that route. [snorts] Maybe Turning Point USA, I think they would have had a transition in the type of donors that they had, but that really would have galvanized the the the the base and the American people behind them. But that's not the way that it went. So yeah, you know, we're Christian and you know, and I have I have hope that that Charlie is in is in heaven with God and looking down on on all of us and and Erica for sure and and his kids and you know, I'm sure he wants them to get to heaven. He wants them to get to heaven to be with them, right? So, um that's important for us to to keep in mind for sure. But yeah, I think that the best place for Erica to be like you see a lot of people out there saying like it's our Christian duty. Like how dare you how dare you criticize Erica Kirk? How dare you come after Erica Kirk? It's like we are called as Christians to to love and support grieving widows, the widow. Like that's that's God calls us to to do that. And I agree. I agree. And I think the best way that Erica I think the best way that we can support Erica is to urge her to be with her children and to and to not be the CEO of Turning Point USA. That's what I think. I think a lot of you guys agree with me. We have to own the word to take away the power of the slur. I was called an antivaxer and was proven to be right. Go Max Zack. Thank you, Roseman. And I agree with you. I think that just taking it on and you know, and I've I've we've done that here a little bit. You know, my fellow in Christ, what's up, Like the way you know, we we take it as a term of endearment. You know, we're the dumb non-Jews, right? Like we take it on and and we own it. That's that's how we do it. Yeah. I mean, it it definitely takes it I'll say this, like it it certainly doesn't have any power. It doesn't have any power over me. Like we know like we're in Christ. Like we know we know where we are and we are rooted in this truth and we know that our truth produces life and heaven. We know that our way, and I love calling it the way because that's what the first Christians called it. They actually were called Christians by the Jews and the Romans in Antioch for the first time because they were trying to categorize them and describe them. They called them Christians so that they could have they could categorize, box up and then have control over this group. The original followers, the original believers, the first Christians of the apostles and then after they actually just called it the way. It was the new way. Like Jesus said that I am the way, the truth, and the life and that nobody could get to the father except through him. So they they called it the way. That's that's how that's acts of the apostles. This way of life that we ascribe to that we put of highest importance in our lives is the way that produces life. heaven, peaceful, stable, joyful, loving societies and individuals. It's the most reliable way to build and produce a stable individual and nation. It's universal. It applies at the individual level all the way up to the civilizational level. Civilizations and nations built on Christ will thrive. Individuals and everything that we do, individuals, families, organizations, businesses, nations, states, civilizations built on Christ thrive. This is a universal truth. The closer you are to Christ, the closer you are to allowing the spirit of Christ to guide you will lead you to thriving. That's what we believe as Christians. Any deviation from that, any deviation from the truth, however slightly or however far away prevents you from the fullness of life and the fullness of truth, any deviation away from Christ, like even we as believers, like when we sin, this is a deviation away, which prevents us from experiencing the full thriving that we that we could. like it prevents us from our full potential. And this is the case for individuals. This is the case for nations. Part of our job as collective Christians is to ensure that the societies and the states that we live in like we try to keep ourselves on path and then we try to keep our communities and our states and our nation on the path. This is our life. It's the purpose of it. Anyway, uh last night I was I was called an antiaxer and then was proven to be right. Absolutely. Absolutely. And you see all of this right now. And this is why I am so freaking concerned about this anti-semitism issue and this conspiracy theory issue. You we were called antivaxers. We were called conspiracy theorists and they used that to censor us and shut us down online. I'm going to talk a little bit more about this probably this week, but there's a move by, I think, 10 US senators to repeal section 230. They're calling it the Sunset Section 230 Act. and they're disguising it in the name of protecting children. When in reality, who has been a very vocal and adamant supporter and lobbyists to reform section 230 or repeal it outright? The ADL. What they are moving to do is repeal or reform section 230 so that social media companies are then liable for conspiracy theorists or extremists or hate speech on their platforms which opens them up to be sued by who? by organizations like the ADL if they deem that Zack Costello is anti-Semitic because he believes in and talks about supersessionism on his YouTube channel and then YouTube can shut that down and they're and they they they would because they're open up they're then opened up to liability and prosecution for for doing so. So yeah, big problem. So So imagine go back to COVID. We have, you know, Joe Rogan who, well, I'm pretty sure actually he did get punished and censored by YouTube uh for the stuff that he put out there. But remember, he had on the the all of the doctors, Peter McCulla and um shoot, I'm drawing a blank on the guy's name who created the mRNA vaccine. He had both of them on and he was basically like the called to be cancelled for for spreading dangerous misinformation and being a conspiracy theorist and he was right. It's dangerous and insane. And if and if you don't remember the ADL classified Turning Point USA under Charlie Kirk because of everything he was going through and getting heat for at this Hampton's meeting, they labeled him an extremist. They labeled Turning Point USA an extremist organization. So under what they're trying to do, they could literally like go to the Turning Point USA YouTube channel and shut it down because they're an extremist organization. I mean, it's it's insane. It it's literally insane. And then they turn around and say like, "Oh, if you question this, you're an anti-semite." And then they act like they don't understand the frustration on our end. It's like, you're creating victims. You're creating victims who who are us, like the people being censored for talking about the things that we believe in, like in a fairly respectful way. I am fully willing and happy to have this conversation about Orthodox Christian belief with anybody. Anybody like feel free feel free like I'm happy to debate it. We're happy to talk about it in the open. We're happy to talk about these different ideas because it's very important for us to talk about the truth and and free speech and justice. Like if we really want religious freedom in America, which is literally like the core value of America, we have to be able to talk about these things in a fair and honest way. And we cannot have one group that says that the beliefs of another group are hate speech and they don't get to talk about these things because that group considers it a threat to the things that they believe in. Christians have to deal with threats to the things that we believe in freaking day in and day out. And what is it called there? There's no name for it. There's no name for it. It's just called free speech. It's just called free speech. But if I don't agree with the Jewish religion, which I don't, and I don't think the Jewish religion bears the fruit that Christianity does. I think Christianity bears better fruit in individuals and in nations than the Jewish religion does better than Islam does, better than Buddhism does. Like this is my argument. Am I not allowed to make that argument in the in the public sphere in America? lest I be considered an anti-semite. I don't know if I want to go down this rabbit hole right now, but I just, you know, do you know how all of this started? Do you know how all of this started? How Orthodox Christian belief and what we believed for the first 2,000 years of our church. Do you understand how this became now anti-semitism that could potentially be punished by law? Do you understand how the way that they did it? The way that it's been done is that for the first 1900 years of Christianity, we believed in supersessionism. I've talked about this that the Christian faith fulfilled the Jewish religion that Jesus is the a long- awaited Messiah of the Jews and he fulfilled the Jewish religion. He fulfilled God pro God's promises to the Jews. The Jews were chosen so that the Messiah could enter the world. And that Messiah came and that was Jesus who then created a new and everlasting covenant and fulfilled superseded the Jewish religion. The first the first part of Christianity was the Christians trying to deliver to the Jews the good news that the Messiah came under the in the under the specific instructions of Jesus that we should go and make disciples of all nations by baptizing them in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit. And we were to peacefully win over those to this new way. It was a new way that was created because every other way before that, if you didn't get on board with whatever ideology it was, they'd just kill you. This new way was a different way of going about life. It was a love first way. A love first way. So it was a delivering of the good news to the Jews that the Messiah had come guys like you have like he came you had like he came like it's it's almost like it was an excitement. It was like and what did they do? What was the response? Acts of the Apostles is all about the first Christians explaining to the Jews what had happened, trying to win them over and and and how did the Jews react? Well, they stoned Steven and they tried by every means necessary to kill them or conspire with the Roman authorities to do it on their behalf. Like this is Acts of the Apostles. If you if you have any other different read of Acts of the Apostles, let me know. But if you want to talk about Christian history, start with Acts of the Apostles and then let me know what you think about how that all played out. In any case, you go from the church fathers to there and go to a saint called St. John Chrysstumm who wrote against the Jews or against the Jewish faith or against the Jewish religion which was a series of homalies explaining the Christian relationship between Christians and Jews. Fast forward to Nazi Germany in order to propagandize and influence German and Austrian Christians to their cause to the Nazis cause which was you would say an anti-semitic cause. They quoted and used the church fathers, specifically John Christensen and the teaching and the doctrine of supersessionism to influence and propagandize Christians in Germany and Austria to support what they were doing to the Jews. This was then blamed. Jewish historians and people after World War II then blamed this Christian teaching for the Holocaust and considered it anti-Semitic. Then the churches after out of how terrible the Holocaust was made adjustments to the teaching of supersessionism. It went from a hard superism to a soft supersessionism and that resulted in the and and that that all that then resulted in where we are with kind of this soft superession this lukewarm faith from an orthodox perspective from a Catholic perspective. Many in the church are soft or lukewarm when it comes to this issue or just their faith in general. And then you have just outright Protestant evangelical denominations that have fully rejected supersessionism and therefore you have Christian Zionism. I I mean it's it's this is the way that it all came about and this is the way that our that our original faith that our original beliefs were then categorized and labeled as anti-semitism and why the adjustment in in the church teaching on this issue was made and here we are. Anyway, my goodness, [laughter] got me going on that. Uh, more on that this week cuz I'm I'm going to I'm looking into that that repeal of section 230 which is headed up by Lindsey Graham. And if if you guys have any clue about the things that Lindsey Graham has been saying, you're going to know where this is coming from. And the the the the nasty and disgusting thing is it's being disguised as protecting children. So, it's cloaked in protecting children. Um, yeah, it's not good. Great point, my brother in Christ. We are Semites. The chosen people are those who follow the new covenant, the people of the church, not a race of people, but those who accepted the promise from God. Amen. Look, I didn't make that up. I was talking to my priest after mass on Sunday and he's the one that said, "Zack, like just be bold and take a stand and just say like it's impossible for me to be anti-Semitic because you are the true semite." [laughter] I was like, "All right, let's go. I'm going Max then this week." Tune in. Thanks, Eric. I see you, man. I appreciate you back in here again. which came to fruition 20 26 years 2026 years ago. Yep. Talking about that Christian faith. Talking about the God keeping his promises with the original Israel, which the Old Testament Israel, the promises were kept. The promises were kept. God does not. Don't let Don't let these Zionists gaslight you and say, "Are you saying that God can break his promises?" No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. We believe that God keeps his promises. God did did keep his promise and he delivered. He chose Israel to bring himself into the world. And he did he did so through the person of Jesus of Nazareth who became the Jewish Messiah to create the new covenant and to reconcile the human race with God, with himself, with the father and to give us a way that we could then also follow in those footsteps by taking up our cross and and doing the same. Thanks, Eric. I'm anti-satanic. Is that bad? No. [laughter] Being anti-Satanic is good, too. Guys, look, there's a whole number of different ideologies that compete with our way of life. There's a whole number of different belief systems that that are trying to upend or suppress or destroy Christianity. We have to be aware of all of them. All of them. Like we got to walk and chew gum at the same time. Like yeah, we've been talking about been talking about Zionism and how that's damaging. We've been talking about how Jewish influence in our churches and in politics and in media and government has kind of suppressed our faith, suppressed Christianity, suppressed the church in order to keep it acceptable for the for the Jewish religion. Satanism is obviously evil. The woke left ideology is also godless. The secular ideology that takes God out of everything that detaches itself from objective truth is also very damaging. Atheism which leads to secularism, relativism, all of these all of these are damaging. We have to be on guard against all of them. So yeah, no, being anti-satanic is not a bad thing. [laughter] When we decide to be Christians, we are deciding to be anti- a number of things. Like it's yeah, we're we're anti- other belief systems. We're anti- other ideologies, meaning that we don't ascribe to them. We're also anti- sin. Like we also are are resolving to live our life in a certain way. Even though we might have different temptations and things that pull us in different directions, we are resolving to not do those things. Saying yes to Christ means no to a lot of other things in this world. Thank you. Thanks, Dean. Love is greater than hate. Yes. And love also requires discernment. Prove all things. Hold fast that which is good. Thank you for that verse. Um, very good one. Love is greater than hate. Yes. And love also requires discernment. Love, what love truly is, is keeping another in the truth. Keeping another on the path toward who God made them to be. Keeping another on the path toward heaven. Okay, that is what true love is. It is not loving if my brother or sister is in sin. It is not loving for me to affirm or to encourage them in that sin. That's not love. That's actually hate. That's the opposite of love. If I wanted the worst for my brother or sister, which is hell. If I wanted them to end up in hell, then I would encourage them in their sin. I would encourage them in their delusion. I would encourage them in their non-truth. What is love is to do everything that I can in a way that wins over and gets that person on the path toward who God made them to be towards heaven. That's what love is. That's what love is. So when you think about love, like it actually takes courage to love someone. Love is not just letting a person do whatever they whatever they they think they should be doing or going with every temptation or or living in sin. That's not love. It's not love at all. Love is something that is difficult to do because it's because it's hard. It it it's it's self-sacrificial. The reason that I love the crucifix and I try to keep the crucifix in every main area that I'm in for in my life, my home office, my studio here. It's it's in multiple places in our house, at mass. Like I I want I have a pocket I have a pocket crucifix like because that's the way. That's the way. That is the the way to love. That's how we do it. We have to be willing to do that. We have to be willing to to sacrifice ourselves and give ourselves up completely for other for the good of other. And if you're wondering what your purpose is, it's like, okay, what do I need to do to mimic that in my life? So like if I'm like, for example, for me, like I'm the leader of my wife, my kids, employees, I have a platform. So it's like, okay, what am I in prayer meditating and looking at and and just staring at the crucifix, staring at what that is and what Jesus did for us. That's the model that I too must follow. That's what I got to do. That's it. How can I do that in every moment of the day? Even if I don't feel like it. Even if it makes me feel uncomfortable. Even if it means having a hard conversation with someone. Even if it means risking losing money. I don't think people understand the demand that true love actually requires of all of us. Thank you for that. Uh, JTAV, uh, thank you for that generous donation. I appreciate you, man. I am so bad at reading your guys' tag tags. But, uh, Margie, the Bible refers to grieving widows, not glitter and pyrochnic widows posing [laughter] just to profit. Yeah, I agree. I mean, look, see, this is again, our language and everything just gets so distorted in this day and age. It's like you hear people say like, "Oh, you're a Christian. Like, why are you, you know, talking like that or oh, you're a Christian, so you shouldn't be criticizing or acting this way." It's like, you guys just heard me go on a long spiel about what love actually is. It's like, no. Like, like, this is what Christ says. when Christ says like I came not to not to bring peace but to divide like to cut like a sword because that's what love and truth really does. It really does. You have peace when you are in the truth when you are in Christ. But for those that aren't and those that are, there is going to be conflict. There is going to be conflict. So like our language is just all distorted nowadays. So it's like, oh, how could you how could you criticize or how could you attack a grieving widow? It's like, look, Erica Kirk decided that she was going to step into the CEO role of a massively influential organization that, you know, that has a lot of people that cared about how much influence that it had. So, she's going to she's stepping into the arena. Like, welcome to the club. Welcome to the club. Everybody else is here all taking shots all the time. So, just be It's terrible that her husband died. I mean, none of us wanted Charlie Kirk to get killed. None of us did. Erica decided to step into this arena and take it all on. Okay? So, she's subject to all of it. Like, there are those that are going to be critical about her direction of Turning Point USA and ask these questions and talk about these things. So yeah, I mean the way that she is behaving, you know, it's not like your kind of typical typical widow. I mean, people have their opinions on that. All right, I got to I got to keep rolling. Um, Rose, thank you. Subsidiarity Catholic social teaching. It works. Yep. It's a and it's it's it's the principle. It's the principle that we must defend. Subsidiarity means that we on the lowest level of society like as individuals and as families for example. We have the freedom to practice our religion and take care of ourselves and then that trickles all the way up for to from from our family to the community then to the the state and then to the level of what you would call the federal government. And you want you want more restriction on rights at the lowest possible levels. And as you as you get up, there's less law, less restriction, right? So me as the husband and father of my family, me as the leader of my family, like I'm running it as a what you would call um Catholic monarchy. [laughter] I am the king, right? I am the king. my kids have what you would call less rights in in my household than they do from the federal government. And then as you get up up and up, there are less restrictions and less less laws, right? We don't want them we don't want a Catholic monarchy. We don't we don't at the national level, right? We want freedom of religion at the national level and then at the very small local level like the level of a family, we want more restriction. Very important concept right there. the principle of subsidiarity. [sighs] Uh yeah. So what other religion calls for the lack of self-centerness more than Christianity? Put faith in God, not yourself or human desires calls for peace. Again, this that's a great point. And this is why, you know, I I kind of say this fac physiciously, but like it's like Christianity has created this kind of playground for all of these different ideologies to be able to play around with. Like everybody has the right to say all of these things because we we created a country that allows for this freedom of ideas, this freedom of speech back and forth, which which ultimately when it comes down to it, it's a Christian, these are Christian ideals. Christianity created the environment to where we can we can seek to win over through influence and debate and through free exchange of ideas. This did not exist prior to Christianity. This is this was a gamecher when it came to different human and and ideological interaction. Um, so when you when you think of something as like a human innovation, Christianity was one of the most innovative ideas from just like if you want to think about it that way from from a from a human interaction standpoint. But such a great point and and this is why it produces the most stable and peaceful individuals and nations. Mom loves you. I agree with what you say. Thank you so much. Christ is king. refreshing to hear truth. Thank you for that and thank you for the support. Very much appreciate it. Uh but I love what you're doing. God bless you. Keep telling the truth. Did you hear that EK was texting and messaging 15-year-old girl when she was just 25? Crisis King. I did hear that. Was that something that Baron Coleman shared in his last show? I think that uh he then put out a tweet about Erica said something in the comments of that video where he was talking about how um uh she said Erica was like super involved politically in Washington DC or connected or something like that. Anyway, uh yeah, that's interesting. I didn't see that. I didn't see that uh really in depth, but I know that that was being talked about. Um Zamit, thank you. Can we decouple from Judeo-Christian? Yeah. You know, again, I think that I think what's important to talk about here is just that again, we we've been forced into this corner as Christians to have a faith that is acceptable for Jews after what happened in World War II and what the Nazis did and from the Holocaust. And I think that that is unfair. And I think that that has caused as again and I always say this like as terrible as the Holocaust was like it was wrong. But this overreaction and the trauma because of it has put us in a in a world now where it's I don't know why this stupid thing does that. I have some setting where if I go like this, it gives a it gives a thumbs up. But we live in a world now where our faith has almost had to be watered down and and I mean castrated so that it is acceptable for for Jews. And I don't think that's right. Like we don't require that of them. Why do they require that of us? So I just don't think that's fair. I don't think that that's um I don't think that's it's not equal treatment. It's not religious freedom. So I think it's important that we talk about these things. um give a shout out here to a new member. Um yeah, guys, new members. I mean, you know, if if you if you're a member here and you and you comment, I'll get to it along with the super chats. Um that's kind of the promise of being a member. If you leave a comment on it, I normally try to interact with all of those member comments. Again, that's kind of part of the part of the promise. I think it's like I don't know, three bucks a month to to be a channel member. Um just gets you more access, you know, gets you more exclusive access. Anyway, um so thank you. Yep. Thank you for joining. New members there. Um okay. Yeah. Last thing I'll last thing I'll say to you guys is this. Look, you know, when it comes to it, I've seen a lot of you guys say, um, you know, spread the reach of the channel, spread the message. If you believe in the message here and what we're doing, I urge you to again, look, look, I started this just, you know, kind of talking because it was a call in my heart. I don't know anybody in media. I don't have a bunch of media contacts. like that's none of this. Like this is like straight from the bottom. I started talking with zero subscribers and the first videos were terrible and I've just, you know, I've just started doing this um on my own because I just truly believe that I wanted to uh put myself out there and stand for the truth and uh and just be a voice for for the church ultimately is what it comes down to. to defend our faith and to be someone that, you know, at least when my life is all said and done, I can say that I at least gave it all for the church. And that's ultimately what I'm doing. So, if you believe in that, then I would just say like, look, if you guys watch these other channels or you think that somebody might be somebody needs to know, like, you know, hit them up in the comments like leave a super chat, you know, if a lot of you guys have mentioned Baron Coleman. I don't know Baron. I've never met him. I've never spoken to him. Same thing with uh Candace. Like I cover a lot of her stuff here. Um we've had some slight interactions and stuff on X, but I don't even know if she knows who I am. But again, like part of what I would ask you guys is, you know, spread the message. Uh you know, blow these people up with with um you know, with with the message here, right? This is what we're doing. Like let's let's increase this. Let's build the movement so that we can have more of a voice to galvanize and and protect our faith. All right. So, uh, spread the word, get involved in these guys comments. Like, let's blow this thing up. I would really appreciate you. Um, and then of course again, uh, super chats are a good way to do it for now. Uh, visit the zaccastello.com so you can check out the merch store. Um, one nation under God hoodies, cups, mugs, etc. Um, I'm sorry, hats, mugs, etc. Like, check check it out. Um, it's a great way to support the channel. All right, I will uh see you guys tomorrow. Bye.
