Unity On Purpose

Choosing To Grow Through Struggle

It certainly signifies something absolutely crazy about the life and times in which we live when an attempted assassination on a president is just another Saturday night. From the new norm of America to a unifying speech from a king, to advise from the highest king, all that and more on today's episode of Share the Struggle Podcast. Let me tell you something. Everybody struggles. The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it. The choice is completely yours. Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life. Am I so excited to be back with you? Oh, it is true. It is damn true. Episode 303 between me and you. That means 303 consecutive Wednesdays. We have gathered here together, sharing our stories, embracing our journeys, releasing our struggles. Woo! The truth shall set you free, boys and girls. Woo wee! Episode 303, and it's back to just you and me. Before I get rock and roll on today's show, I want to say thank you to my beautiful wife for being transparent, for being courageous, for being willing to sit down, to open hersel up, and to sharing her story, sharing what it is she's going through, what she's growing through, what's holding her back, what's keeping her back, and what she's overcoming, who she's becoming. Sharing all those things with you these past two weeks have been incredible. It's been great for me to just sit back and shut up and listen to my wife. Because far too often in life we don't let people finish their sentence before we chime in with our own opinion. I'm guilty of it. You can imagine I'm guilty of it. I always have an opinion, right? It's been great over the past couple weeks to hear from my wife. She is going through a lot, she is succeeding in what she is doing. And there is more to come from her. There's more stories to come. You're not gonna believe some of the things she continues to go through. But those are the things that make me proud of her to call her my wife. And we all have struggles, right? We all have things that we are that we are going through, that we are growing through, that we are dealing with. My wife has a lot on her plate, I have a lot on mine, I'm sure you have a lot on yours. I want to start by saying to each and every one of you much like my wife has been saying, give it to God, trust in God. If he allowed it, he will bring you through it. We are hardened by the fire. Many of us are going through the fire right now. Please remember that fire does not destroy gold, it refines it. And fire does not weaken steel, it strengthens it. Whatever it is that you're going through, whatever it is that you're dealing with, you're gonna get through. You're gonna succeed, you're gonna pull through, and it's gonna make you a bigger, better, stronger version of you. I'm proud of you. Keep on doing you. You will pull through. This too shall pass. On the opening of today's show, the uh the b-roll, the credits of the show, whatever it is you want to call the intro to the show, I mentioned what a crazy day and times that we live in when an attempted assassination on a sitting president just basically becomes another Saturday night. It feels like we've been through so many of these that we're not we're losing the luster of these, like we're we're not recognizing the severity of these, the importance of these, the disturbing actions of all of these. We need to call this out, we need to cancel this out. I want to give you the personal experience of myself and then just some of the things that have been going through my mind, or some of the things that um I have witnessed on TV, and just kind of putting all those together into this little boiling pot of me. I'm gonna set the scene by saying Saturday evening. I find myself in the middle of another late night working session for Loud Proud American. It's been a lot of uh early mornings and late nights. Saturday was another one of those nights just trying to make ends meet and to meet deadlines. So I'm in the office. Little Paisley is fast asleep. Allie is spending time with her father, and she sends me a message and says, I saw on TikTok that there was a shooting close by to the White House. Near the White House, there was a there was another shooting, and uh she said, I just put uh Fox News on, and there was another attempted assassination on President Trump's life. So I'm wrapping up what I'm doing, and I come upstairs and we sit down together as a family, and we're just watching what's happening, and I think that everybody listening knows what's happening. So you have this another crazy left-wing lunatic runs into um this hotel conference room gathering. This is the White House correspondent dinner. The president's present, uh, the vice president, many, many, many high-ranking members of his cabinet, and then all the reporters that would be involved in reporting from the White House or just political involved reporters. So there's a couple hundred people that are at this dinner, and this lunatic runs through security, tries to barge in with a shotgun and multiple weapons, and gets into a you know a shootout situation. Y'all already understand what happened. But I'm sitting on the couch watching this, and I'm thinking, how many more of these have to happen? And I keep thinking about the fact that what is this, number five for assassination attempts on the president? It's uncanny to me. I I can't even fathom what's going on. I come from a time that these are all acts that you would learn and read from history books. This isn't modern history. This is the type of history that I learned in middle school, in high school, that I read in books. These assassination attempts on presidents, successful assassinations of presidents, those are from history books. It's not supposed to be a part of modern history. What we're seeing play out live in front of us is disgusting. What we're seeing played out live in front of us is not being condemned. I don't understand it. We have the opportunity right now to change the direction of history. Because if we continue to allow this to happen, someday the unthinkable could happen. I don't want Little Paisley reading in a history book some of the history that I had to read as a child. It's mind-blowing to me that this does not get handled the way it should. It doesn't get the attention that it needs. These assassination attempts, these are classes and lessons discussed from history books. Now they happen and they don't get a week of mainstream media attention. It's mind-blowing to me. Yet we continue to have the temperature turned up by some of the democratic leaders in this country. You have Jasmine Crockett who called this entire thing fake. She called this attempted assassination fake. And there's newspapers out there, I don't know if it was Wall Street Journal or New York Times, whoever it was, that did a research um poll on this, and I guess they were just searching all the articles they could find based off of Saturday's events, and one in five of every story that is published is focused on it being a conspiracy. Now, I gotta tell you, I'm over all the conspiracy nonsense. I'm over some of this shit, man. Some things happen in front of you, and you need to realize that that's real life. That happened in front of you. This isn't all being created to distract you. Some of these things are just actually happening. I know we've earned the right to be cautious, but a conspiracy theory over every damn thing in life is nauseating and it's paralyzing. And speaking of this, we want to talk about assassination. So let's draw a connection here. Because one of the most horrific things I've seen, one of the most heartbreaking things I've seen from this event was video of Erica Kirk bawling her eyes out, running through the hallway, because this gunfire is going off, and she's just crying that I just want to go home. I want to point this out because after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, I mentioned, I had full episodes where I discussed this is the opportunity for us to witness the next great leader in this country. And one of these next great leaders actually being a woman, being Erica Kirk, because the way that she showed dignity and strength and courage and power and got up and spoke and did those things and led Turning Point, I was inspired by it. But you know what has happened since conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory, that now she tried to get her husband killed. It was she was behind it. Turning point was behind it. This is all nonsense to me. And I want to say this to those that are out there that are criticizing Erica, they're they're calling out Turning Point, and they're saying that they they worked against Charlie and had him assassinated. People are saying this. This is wild. And as I am on the road uh for Loud Proud American, and I'm selling freedom t-shirts and I'm selling live like Charlie t-shirts, I'm getting these conversations. These people are coming up to me and they're saying, I would love to wear that shirt, but I don't want a dime of that to go into Erica Kirk's pocket. And I would say, Listen, I am not affiliated with Turning Point USA. I'm not affiliated with Erica Kirk, but I love and respect them and what they're doing. And I've had so many people come to me and then just go off about Erica and all these things that she's a part of to uh supposedly have gotten her husband killed and all these different theories. And and I said, listen, I just let's just find some common ground here. Let's just let's just level on something for one for one moment and and see where we're at here. Because if you're coming into my tent and you're inspired by that freedom t-shirt, that God family country, when you're inspired by living like Charlie, faith over fear, then we have a common ground here. We have a Christian faith common ground here. So both of us believe, and both of us want more people to believe, and both of us feel that if more people believe, then this world's gonna live with more peace, right? I think we can also agree. After Charlie's assassination, a revival started. A revival started in this country. I put my two feet, I used my lemon pepper steppers to walk into a church for the very first time, and part of that for me was honoring the legacy of Charlie Kirk, and in doing so, I spent far more time in my Bible since the death of Charlie Kirk than I did in the 40 plus years leading up to that moment. There's a revival. When I watched his entire ceremony, his entire celebration of life from from opening to close on YouTube, and millions and millions did the same thing. That's a revival. When people were not afraid to put their hands up and say they're Christians, that's a revival. When more and more people went to church, when Bibles were selling out, when I sat in the seat at the church and heard the pastor say to me, We've never seen the attendance that we're seeing right now. That's a revival. So when you speak hate, when you speak ignorance, when you give credence to conspiracies, you, my friend, are stifling the movement. You, my fellow God follower, are stifling the revival. You're halting the revival, you are snuffing it out. That is what the devil wants. That is what everyone who doesn't believe wants. They don't want the revival to happen. Therefore, how do we infiltrate the revival? Let's attack who's left. Let's divide Turning Point and Erica by saying the most hateful thing you could possibly say. That's a rant I didn't expect to go on today, but I got goosebumps today because it infuriates me today, because we're all here for the revival. Don't you be a part of the conspiracy to end the revival? Sorry about that. That's that's a different note. I gotta I gotta breathe for a minute. But seeing Erica crying and screaming that she wants to go home, it broke my heart. It absolutely broke my heart. And as I say it and I think about it, what the people that I've encountered on the road, and now my program reaction is always don't stop the revival, don't feed into the conspiracy. Even if you feel that certain way, I don't need you out there sharing it every damn day because you are stopping the movement, and that's not what this is all about. After another attempted assassination on our president's life, he takes the podium, turns on a microphone, and delivers in the face of fear. A calm, concise, confident speech. And in his speech, he says, This was an event dedicated to freedom of speech, and it is supposed to bring together members of both parties, along with members of the press. And in a certain way, it did. I saw a room that was totally unified, something you don't always see. And he went on to say more things there, but he talked about unity and calling for unity, and that this needs to be a time that maybe this is a sign, maybe this is an opportunity for us to stop, to turn down the hate, to unify, and to do what's right. This is a time when the Democrats have had uh they've denied funding for DHS, for homeland security, for border patrol, for ICE for months. And if we think about this, this creates the most vulnerable time in American history when it comes to us being attacked from either outside of our borders or internally here at home. Because we're not funding some of the most important people to protect this great country. So it doesn't feel like a coincidence to me that Democrats are not funding members that should be or organizations or branches of military and protective services that are here to protect this country, that are here to protect our leaders. If you have people that aren't getting paid, you're creating an opportunity for chaos to be had, for these types of things to happen. That in itself is ridiculous. And it should have been resolved by Monday. Congress should have got together on Monday and said, We're done with this, we're funding this, we're moving on from this. This is American safety, this needs to happen. You have a president that takes the podium and says, Let's unify us. I was proud to see members of all sides caring and being compassionate and loving the ones that are in this room. That was a beautiful thing. We were united for a moment. Instead, you have Democrats like like Jasmine Crockett saying that this was fake. This was all created, this wasn't real. You got Hakeem Jeffries being asked if he will turn down the rhetoric and he says that he's continuing to double down on calling for maximum warfare. You see, Democrats back violence if it's justified in the name of progress. They think it's justified to eliminate our current president for the progress of their movement. You have former FBI directors, James Comey, posting 8647. You think about these these leaders, you think about these supposed democratic leaders, or these these high-ranking members of the media and of Hollywood. One of the most crazy things I heard leading into this weekend was from Jimmy Kimmel, who, by the way, to steal a word from the president, he's a complete loser, okay? He gave a fake speech in front of the White House on his show. I don't know if it was a monologue or but I don't even watch his show. But he had it staged where it looked like like a b-roll footage, so it looked like members um, you know, from from Trump's cabinet and members of the press were in the audience, and Jimmy was giving a speech. During his unfunny speech, he was referencing Melania and saying how beautiful she is, and he said, Mrs. Trump, you have the glow of an expected widow. You have the glow of an expected widow. What what are you doing here, man? What are you doing? He he since then, now President Trump and Melania have both asked for him to be fired, and I think he should. Because people are gonna say, oh, it's freedom of speech. He can he can say what he wants to say. Yeah, but it's also it's also like a freedom of influence. You have the freedom to cause and affect and influence people. I shouldn't be giving you, granting you the opportunity to come into my household five nights a week and speak hate to me. You understand what I'm saying? We don't need to give you a platform week after week where you speak hate. You don't need to be provided a platform on one of the biggest networks in the country to say you have the glow of an expected widow. Now here's the thing. His apology is I was referencing the fact that he's nearly 80 and she's younger than me. There's crazy lunatics out there that take it a whole different way. And Jimmy, I kind of feel like it's the way you intended it. You're referencing another assassination on our president, and then just a couple short days later, some lunatic tries to assassinate our president. Let us not forget that Jimmy Kimmel isn't far removed from the man show, where the highlight of every show was chicks jumping on trampolines or their boobs falling out, which let's not say that I'm not a fan of, but he's denying the roots in which he comes from. He's denying how many times he dressed up as blackface and painted his face black, which that canceled so many people in this country, but it was okay for Jimmy to do it. He was a sexist son of a bitch on his show, and here he is now taking the high road. Which, if we're talking about the high road here, how do some of these influencers, some of these people with platforms, these late-night talk show platforms, not even reference the Democratic member who had to resign because he is being charged for drugging and raping women? And there is multiple women coming out and saying he drugged me and he raped me. You don't reference any of those things. But you want to try to attach our president to Epstein files, you want to attach our president to rapes, you want to do all these things because you're manifesting hate, because you're breeding hate, because you're you're you're expanding the lens of violence. Because, as they have already said, violence is justified if it is all part of the progress. Violence is justified in the name of progress, and the biggest way they can take their movement is by the biggest, largest forms of violence. Jimmy, I hope you get fired. You're a useless, sorry excuse of a comedian. For years I've talked about mainstream media breeding hate, encouraging violence. I've talked about all these leaders that are using their platforms for the wrong things. This is another example. When we look at the manifesto from the the latest, craziest piece of crap that tried to assassinate our president and many hundreds of other innocent people in that room on Saturday. His manifesto reads as a mainstream media manifesto, if you ask me. Onto why I did any of this, I am a citizen of the United States of America. What my representatives do reflects on me, and I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. This is a mainstream media manifesto. You've read this hate, you've continued to project this hate. You're brainwashing Americans night after night into hate and into violence. You're taking some of the weak, you're feasting on the weakest, and you're filling them with hate. Shame. Shame on you. I come from a time when presidents and presidential families were protected. When I grew up, there wasn't news channels spreading hate and lies and discontent about presidential families. They weren't attacking the Clintons' kids. They didn't even talk about Obama's kid. None of these things happened, right? But here we are, week after week, all these mainstream media attack every member of Trump's family. They're attacking his wife, the first lady. This is nonsense. We come from a time when these people were protected. I've listened to so many people, and I'm not trying to make that's a total political episode today, but people are complaining about the presidential ballroom that President Trump is building that American taxpayers aren't putting one dollar into. American taxpayers aren't paying for that. Trump's paying for that, investors are paying for that, and people are still in outrage about it. They didn't go in outrage when President Obama put in a basketball court, but Trump wants to put in a ballroom, which, if that ballroom has not been stopped, if that ballroom was finished, that ballroom was secure, nothing like this would have happened. And we continue to have some of these big pivotal leaders. For example, we had a king visit America today. If there's that big presidential ballroom, they can have those dinners, they can have those ceremonies, and they can be safe and they can be protected by the military, and it doesn't cost the American taxpayer a dollar. Stop the nonsense, stop putting a stick in the spoke of every single tire that it has that is moving in the direction that Trump wants to roll. I'm over it. It's absolutely ridiculous. Now, speaking of a king, today I got to sit down and watch a speech in front of Congress given by King Charles. I thought I was witnessing history. I was fully enjoying and appreciating every single moment. It was a great speech, it was delivered perfectly. He was witty, he was funny, he was charismatic, he was heartfelt, he was honest. I loved every minute of it. I am a sucker for a good speech. King Charles today in front of Congress delivered a great speech. It's heartwarming and and and and satisfying for me to think about witnessing history. Sitting on the couch with my little baby girl, witnessing history. The last time this happened, King Charles' mother gave a speech in the 90s in front of Congress, and here he is now fulfilling, living in his his mother's footsteps, so to speak, right? He delivered a tremendous speech today. It was witty, it was charismatic, it was funny. I enjoyed all of it, and it was uplifting, and it resonated with me because it was a speech on unifying America and unifying both countries. And it felt like his speech was him standing there in front of all of us on the cusp of America's 250th birthday, reminding us who we are. He was standing there reminding us who we are, and he received standing ovation after standing ovation. I think there was a dozen standing ovations, and I gotta say, I was scanning the crowd and I was watching and I was looking because the one thing I didn't want was to be embarrassed. I didn't want to be embarrassed by Democrats not standing up because I've watched many addresses where you could bring out, you could bring out gold star families, you can bring out parents that they've lost their kids to uh to murders from illegal immigrants, you can you can bring out sick kids, you can bring out whatever you want, and these democrats won't even stand up for them and clap. So I'm sitting here today saying, please, please don't embarrass us. And to their credit and to everybody's credit, nobody embarrassed us. They stood up, they clapped, they gave a standing ovation, they were unified, and it was a glimpse of hope, and it was a time to show what is possible. I remember times when everybody stood and clapped for things that we all agreed on. Now, Democrats can't stand and clap even when they agree because they're fearful of what is going to be written, what is going to be said when they get on their feet and clap for something that the president did. That's no way for this country to move forward. Today, King Charles reminded us who we are, and it showed us that we can be unified. It was a great thing to see. It was a great speech to see today. The greatest bit of irony for me is that all these Democrats that are behind every no king's protest found a king today that they were proud to stand up and clap for. Y'all have no king's protest holding up traffic, keeping me from dunking donuts lines every freaking weekend in every state across this great nation. No king's protest. I got kicked out of a parking lot in Tennessee. Thankfully, I peed in the parking lot where these crazy lunatics had to stand for their no king's protest. Today, they all stood for a king, and they all clapped for a king. During this episode today, the most common word, the one that you heard most today, was unity. I said it a lot today, and a lot of leaders have said unity. People post about unity, they talk about unity, but what does it actually mean? And most importantly, what does it require of us? So on this day, where we we recap King Charles giving his speech to Congress, we're gonna end today's show with advice from the highest of kings, the greatest of kings. Psalm 133. How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity. How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity. Notice it does not say it is easy. It says it is good and pleasant. Unity isn't automatic, it is intentional. Ephesians 4 3, make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. We need to focus on that line, make every effort. Unity isn't passive, it takes work, it takes restraint, it takes choosing peace when you'd rather be right. I wish our politicians would realize the truth. Unity doesn't mean agreement on everything, it doesn't mean ignoring differences or pretending everything is fine. It means you value people more than winning arguments. It means you stay at the table when it'd be easier to walk away. It means you choose connection over division, even when it's uncomfortable. Unity isn't something we wait for, it is something we build in our homes, in our relationships, and how we speak, how we listen, and how we show up. Because at the end of the day, unity isn't about being the same, it's about choosing to stand together anyway. And I beg and implore of each and every one of you, as I say to you, when I change me, we change we. You understand? When you change you, you change we. It starts with us, it starts with you, the individual, me the individual. When I change me, we change we. When we choose to look and feel and view and act different, eventually everyone around us starts to view and act and be different. When we change us, we begin to change all of us. I love and appreciate each and every single one of you. I hope and pray that today you made it from beginning to end. I hope you took the the word of the gospel to start the day, and we ended it the same way. We sandwiched in the middle some political divide. We talked about a great moment in U.S. history with King Charles giving his speech. We've talked about one of the darkest times in history with another attempted assassination, but we started on good faith and we're walking out today's door on good faith. I appreciate each and every one of you, and I thank you for standing here with me, for listening from bell to bell with me. I hope today something mattered for you. I hope today is a catalyst for change for you. Today's an opportunity for you to change some way you feel about something, because when you change you, you're changing all of us. I love and appreciate each and every one of you. Thank you for being a part of this great show for over 300 consecutive weeks. If you found some value today, please share this show with someone you know. Spread this positive vibe, grow this positive tribe. We are on a winning streak lately. We're seeing good growth on the podcast lately, and I hope that continues. Thank you to each and every one of you for all your support. And thank you for supporting my American dream. That's it, and that's all Biggie Smalls.