You know, tell people, you know, give them a little bit of a synopsis about it.

Yeah, well, you know, the book really is all about the one thing that all of us, regardless if you're a Republican, a Democrat, whether you're from Asia, America, Africa, whether you're young, you're old, we all are actually chasing the exact same thing, but none of us are catching it.

And that's why I call it chasing after the wind, because the wind's elusive.

You can chase it, but you never really will catch it.

And that one thing's happiness, all of us.

We want to be happy because God designed us to be happy.

God's the happiest being there is.

as the husband when you walk in the door somehow not every day not all the time they're mad but some days it's your fault because you forgot to do something and you're like oh that's right i did forget that i see why you're mad now and then you're like okay well let me exit stage left and i wouldn't trade marriage for anything in the world i mean you know my wife's my best friend she's probably you know my biggest supporter of everything I do I mean you know I'm I work full-time I run this podcast you know I'm writing a children's book you know I'm writing a book like I'm just doing all these things and she makes sure everything just flows you know like I know if she were like all I when she had surgery back in March and she wasn't able to be doing all that stuff I learned real quick about how important my wife

What did you think about that when you heard that the president was doing this?

Well, it kind of brought me back to the crossroads that our nation was at in November of 2024.

America was going to go one way or the other.

We were at a Y Harris Trump, but it was more than a decision between those two candidates.

It was either we were going to return to God or we were going to keep going away from God.

And you got to remember Easter 2024 under Joe Biden, uh, That was Transgender Visibility Day under his administration, which is, you know, the ultimate slap in the face to every single Christian in this country because, Dan, you and I both know this, the schedulers at the White House, they knew that that Sunday was Easter Sunday.

Everyone, even if you're not really a follower of Jesus, you know when Easter Sunday is.

faith,

Sir?

Well, Dan, to your point, you're not exaggerating on if the Democrats take over during the midterms because we know what they're going to do day one.

They're going to impeach Donald Trump, and then we're going to relive the first administration, all that chaos all over again.

And so here's the thing.

Those of us that are in the conservative, MAGA, Republican camp, we have to realize that there is strength in numbers and sticking together.

If we can learn anything from the Democrats, Dan, it's they stick together no matter what.

And here's the reality.

Anyway, what's your message to those people?

I hear there's, what, about four candidates so far? Why'd you throw your hat in the ring, my friend?

Well, Dan, it's always good to be on with you and excited.

It's a new adventure.

And, you know, the reason that I'm running is pretty simple.

You know, I want to bring Oklahoma values.

We have unique values, hard work, integrity, resilience to Washington, D.C. to help advance President Trump's America first agenda, which is, you know, securing and keeping our southern border secured.

Also helping Americans afford what it means to live here.

But how's the field looking? When's the primary?

You've screwed up your life, right? But one of the things and why I want to emphasize this is, man, I think that's what drives a lot of people away from a relationship with God and or quote unquote Christianity.

Yeah.

Oh, for sure.

For sure.

You know, Gandhi put it like this.

I would have became a Christian.

I never met one.

It was – yeah.

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In one chapter, he calls down fire from heaven, kills the prophets of Baal.

The very next chapter, he's suicidal.

H- how do you go from such great faith to being suicidal the very next chapter? It's that duality that we all experience.

There's two of us inside of all of us.

There's w- good wolf, there's an evil wolf, and they're both vying for control, and the one that you feed is the one that wins.

When we hide our sin, it only grows, and so we have to shed light on what we're struggling with.

We need it.

What's wrong with these people?

I think to your point, they're either really, really dumb or intentionally dishonest.

And Dan, unfortunately, I think it's a little bit of both.

To your point, you know, all 13 colonies, you go read their original charters.

These are the documents stating, you know, why they formed Delaware, Virginia.

You know what every single charter says of the 13 colonies? This colony, Virginia, Delaware, whatever, was formed to advance the kingdom of God and to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Every single founding charter.

They want to tear this nation down and rebuild it in some ridiculous socialist, Marxist, non-believing-in-God country that, not on my watch, over my dead body, Pastor.

I

knew nothing at all.

And now I look back and I say, I can't believe people listen to me.

I can't believe people listen to me now, let alone when I was 25 years old.

But then I saw other pastors or church leaders that I looked up to as a young guy.

And then they kind of have their fall.

And I'm looking at myself like... don't want to be that one day i don't want to do this for my entire life and end up with that disaster at the end of my ministry run listen nobody starts in ministry with the goal i want to do this for 30 years and then at the very end i want to have a major scandal that ruins it all nobody starts like that nobody goes into a marriage saying you know what i want I want to be married to this girl for 20 years.

Do you understand what I'm asking? Oh,

Your thoughts.

Unbelievable.

You know, the left has crossed the Rubicon.

Church used to be sacred in this country, whether you were a Christian or not a Christian.

I remember back in 2020, there was the BLM protest, and one of the leaders in Tulsa wanted to protest and come to our service and interrupt the service, and she posted it online.

And her grandfather rebuked her online and said, don't you ever go to a house of God and interrupt the service.

That was 2020.

I hope to see justice for what he did in God's house of worship in St. Paul.

Why are people ignoring this story?

I know, isn't that the craziest thing you've ever seen? Because these are our brothers and sisters in the Lord.

I mean, first you mentioned it earlier.

Before I'm an American citizen, I'm a citizen of the kingdom of God.

Amen.

And to see what's happening, you know, there's about 2.2 billion Christians in the world.

One out of every seven Christians are being persecuted today for their faith.

What are we doing to help them?

I mean, so many of y'all love this stuff.

You're stopping us in the street going, "I love Kewpie." And if you're thinking, "Wait, what is Kewpie?" Uh, do you not have the internet? It's the OG Japanese mayonnaise, the one with the red cap and the little baby on the bottle.

Do you think the spiritual battle will increase? I wanna ask that first.

Well, I think it already has increased, because right now there's a spiritual awakening that is happening in America, and the enemy does not like that, so he doesn't just let it happen.

He goes after churches.

And I would encourage pastors and church leaders, uh, you've gotta take the necessary measures to make sure that your people are safe whenever they come to your church.

I mean, you know, at my church, we have law enforcement at our services.

We have a security team at every single service, and we do that because we recognize the world that we live in.

Go ahead, Pastor.

I think you're totally right, and you know, people wonder why are public schools like a war zone today, and it's pretty simple.

When you remove God out of that place, it's a vacuum, and something's going to fill it, and so it's nice to see We have a president now that embraces faith and embraces God rather than hatefully rejecting him.

And that's why America is returning.

America is becoming great again because America is becoming godly again.

And so President Trump.

has made this a top issue of his administration because this is a real issue.

Your thoughts, Pastor?

So it didn't, it didn't start under Clinton's, it started under Obama?

Not as far...

Uh, listen.

There was bias, but there was not a systemic targeting of Christians like there was under Barack Obama using the weight of the federal government.

I'm speaking about the DOJ, FBI, ATF, but especially, uh, the IRS.

That, that's the big one.

The IRS going after Christians, auditing pastors for no reason whatsoever, other than that they were pastors who happened to maybe support Donald Trump.

Right.

Would you agree, Pastor?

Oh, it's not even close.

You know, there is a looseness about the president when you're around him now, and especially at the White House.

You know, I got a jersey of an athlete that I love, Kobe Bryant, behind me.

And in sports, there's always a phrase, you know, this guy's playing tight.

And when a guy is playing tight, they're just not playing well.

President Trump is playing loose, and you can see it in all areas.

That's the difference.

Sorry.

I love it.

I love it.

Oh, it was, you know, I always joke now that President Trump preached a flawless Resurrection Sunday sermon to a group full of pastors.

He shared the gospel and then he talked about how we're going to make America great again.

And it was a blast and it was quite a long evening.

And then after dinner, the president in his own decision took us up to the residence where I guess people are not allowed or supposed to go.

I'm hoping God's making a comeback, Pastor.

Do you know why? Do you know why this is happening? Who's paying for it? And why no one in this country wants to talk about it?

I sure wish I did, but let me just say to you and to OAN, thank you so much for even bringing it up.

I mean, it's crazy what is happening, yet what's even maybe more crazy is that nobody's talking about it.

Nobody is talking about this in the mainstream media.

And Christians, I think because they're unaware that this is happening, aren't even bringing this up.

And here's just some interesting stats.

You know, Christian persecution around the world is actually at an all-time high.

I think it

I

know.

It's amazing because, you know, the left always says, you know, separation of church and state, all that kind of stuff, when it's someone like me being involved.

But, you know, you have someone on the left taking $53 million from the U.S. government, and now Trump's a bad guy because he's reevaluating this whole thing.

And so the hypocrisy runs deep.

But, yeah, kudos to President Trump once again.

doing exactly what he said he was going to do.

How was that? I was right