Transcript [00:00] [Music] [00:00] welcome back ladies and gentlemen Lone [00:01] Star conservative I'm your host Michael [00:03] Wilson and as I promised before the [00:05] break coming on with us will be Troy [00:07] Miller from the nrb to talk all about [00:09] their organization the importance of [00:10] what they do and some exciting stuff [00:12] they've got in the works welcome to the [00:14] showy tro did that back good to be with [00:16] you today how you doing today buddy [00:19] we're doing great up here in Tennessee [00:21] uh a it looks like it's going to be a [00:23] great day uh so just excited for [00:26] everything that's going on and uh for [00:29] the news cycle to days and seems like [00:31] the White House is at warp speed so all [00:33] the time dude all the time I mean these [00:35] have been some of the most eventful few [00:37] weeks I've I've pretty much ever seen at [00:39] the beginning of an Administration [00:40] speaking of Tennessee how's the how's [00:42] the weather uh it's you know we're in [00:45] the spring now I mean it's Tennessee so [00:48] I think we're going to be in the 50s [00:49] today and tomorrow we could be in the [00:51] 70s and back to the 40s so that's that's [00:54] Tennessee weather right now we get it we [00:56] get it we're sitting in the 80s today [00:58] and next we going to be down in the 50s [01:00] you just never know what's going on man [01:01] so speaking of speaking of what what [01:04] what is in RB what do you guys do the [01:06] National Religious uh broadcast [01:08] Association what is y'all's Mission what [01:10] what is your group all about so we're [01:12] the largest uh Association of Christian [01:16] communicators and uh we've been around [01:18] for 80 years started back in 1944 when [01:22] radio was the top medium and a group of [01:25] pastors wanted to get on radio to do [01:27] what God's called them to do and uh even [01:30] back then there was a group of [01:31] Gatekeepers that wanted to decide who [01:33] could and who couldn't be in the public [01:34] sector so nrb was formed to Advocate on [01:38] behalf of uh started off as Christian [01:40] broadcasters and today we say Christian [01:42] communicators because we have [01:44] broadcasters we have podcasters uh we [01:47] have program producers we have Hollywood [01:49] film guys we have uh publishing houses [01:52] pretty much anybody that's out there and [01:55] uh wants to be in the public sector in [01:57] any form of medium we're ating on their [02:00] behalf to be able to do that we watch [02:03] all the legislation that's going on in [02:05] Washington DC the regulatory environment [02:08] things that go through the courts and we [02:10] fight hard so those people can do what [02:12] uh in our opinion God's called them to [02:13] do yeah of course and uh that's part of [02:16] by the way what I love working at this [02:17] station I started working here about a [02:19] year ago and uh it's it's been such a [02:21] blessing I always I always make the joke [02:23] I said you know I don't know if there's [02:24] many other places I could work my [02:26] opinions have frequently gotten me in [02:27] trouble um but I've always I've always [02:29] felt the calling to speak them I think [02:31] it's important uh especially with my job [02:33] particularly to expose the works of [02:34] darkness to go over the things that are [02:36] going on and have those conversations I [02:38] think it's really important what you [02:39] guys are doing uh to make sure that [02:41] people are protected that people are [02:43] able to speak in the way that God has [02:44] called them to speak for his will and [02:46] his glory uh so so what do youall got [02:48] going on right now I know you'all have [02:50] some pretty exciting things coming up [02:51] later this month can we dive into that a [02:52] little bit and and go over uh you know [02:55] what you guys got going on sure couple [02:57] big things that we have going on areas [02:58] that we're you know advocating and [03:00] fighting for right now we have a a bill [03:02] going on called the uh AM radio every [03:05] Dash um so as you know AM radio uh car [03:08] companies came out a couple years a year [03:10] ago said hey we're going to pull AM [03:12] radio out about 80 million listeners [03:14] across this country depend on radio I [03:16] grew up in rural Nebraska uh we depended [03:19] on it we depended on it for the [03:20] emergency alert system but also the top [03:23] genres on AM radio are conservative talk [03:26] and religious talk and teach and so so [03:30] we have been working hard advocating [03:32] that AM radio should stay Congress just [03:35] introduced in both the house and the [03:36] Senate the AM radio uh reintroduced the [03:39] bill uh so we're fighting hard to get [03:41] that passed this year you know that bill [03:42] is not about technology interference [03:45] anything it's about who's going to [03:47] control the content in the car uh the [03:50] the auto manufacturers they they want [03:52] the free over the air radio out so if [03:55] am's out FM's right behind it um so that [03:58] they control everything through app [04:00] subscriptions and what they call the [04:01] connected uh Dash and so that that's the [04:04] real fight is are we going to have free [04:07] free over thee a Content or is [04:09] everything going to have to go through a [04:10] subscription today so that's one of the [04:12] big fights we have going on yeah and I I [04:14] always said and it applies in in [04:16] multiple areas I've always said uh it's [04:18] it's not which God it's not it's not if [04:21] there will be a God in charge but which [04:23] we I talk about this a lot in government [04:25] it's it's not about whether or not you [04:27] have morality because you will it's [04:30] whose morality gets enforced and so the [04:32] same thing is true here it's not about [04:33] whether or not we're going to have [04:34] content creators available it's who gets [04:37] to decide which ones are allowed to yeah [04:40] that's right another one we have going [04:42] is we're taking the Internal Revenue [04:44] Service to court on a piece that's [04:46] called the Johnson amendment should be [04:48] clst to you guys in Texas back when [04:49] Senator Johnson was running uh there [04:52] were several organizations that were [04:54] opposing his candidacy for Senate so he [04:57] slipped into a bill in 19 uh 54 that [05:01] limited the free speech of 501 c3s which [05:05] is every Church uh and religious [05:08] organization across this country and he [05:10] pulled a a a freedom they had for 175 [05:14] this country which was to talk about [05:16] political issues and specifically [05:18] candidates y um and so we decided this [05:22] has gone on long enough and we're taking [05:24] the IRS to court uh to get this uh [05:27] thrown out which is incredibly exciting [05:29] I for years have said that I actually [05:31] not only do I think uh that that's [05:33] ridiculous in general but I actually [05:34] think that a lot of times pastors [05:36] especially have an obligation to speak [05:38] on things like politics because those [05:40] things are directly impacted by our [05:42] worldview when it comes to Christianity [05:43] and so I I hated that they they [05:45] basically it was a First Amendment [05:47] violation to say that you actually can't [05:49] exercise your religion which is telling [05:51] the people that listen to you as the [05:52] shepherd you know the truth about what's [05:55] going on in our world I I always think [05:56] it's been ridiculous so that's very [05:57] exciting for me to hear I didn't even [05:58] know that was going on [06:00] yeah and and it's also been you know [06:02] unequally applied that's the the biggest [06:04] issue you know this last election cycle [06:07] you know both uh President Biden when he [06:09] was a candidate and vice president [06:11] Harris uh they spoke at multiple [06:13] churches and were endorsed from the [06:16] pulpits by you know left Progressive [06:18] pastors uh but you know when pastors [06:21] simply talked about issues they got [06:24] letters you know conservative issues as [06:25] you said our worldview they got letters [06:28] from the IRS saying you know CE some [06:29] assist or we're going to take your tax [06:31] exemption away well and the really funny [06:33] thing that we're finding out just over [06:34] the past few days has been that we have [06:36] uh I'm not going to name any names we [06:37] have some people that are in this [06:39] movement that are rather Progressive [06:41] liberal when it comes to church who not [06:43] only were not getting the letters but [06:45] actually got funding from the government [06:48] so it's been it's been a whirlwind in [06:51] that regard that's been crazy to see I [06:53] just I can't even yeah you're no exactly [06:56] right that has just been crazy to to [06:59] have the the the curtains pulled off of [07:01] that and to see what's really been going [07:02] on behind the scenes yeah it's been [07:04] absolutely wild so with that being said [07:06] how can everyone join this clearly is a [07:09] very important fight y'all are on that [07:10] fight in multiple fronts how can people [07:12] support what y'all got going on uh keep [07:14] up to date with what you guys got going [07:15] on get involved in whatever way that [07:17] y'all that y'all let yeah several ways [07:18] of that you can track all that we're [07:20] doing uh up to help uh Christian [07:23] communicators and conservative [07:25] communicators at nrb.org.np [07:29] things that were going on and and we [07:31] give you some action points like we'd [07:33] love for everybody to call their uh [07:35] congressman and say hey I support AM [07:37] radio in the dash uh so we can get that [07:40] pushed through but we have a a large [07:42] conference coming up we have an annual [07:43] convention every year it's a largest [07:45] gathering of Christian communicators and [07:48] uh in all the different areas that I [07:49] talked about will be right there in [07:51] Texas uh February 24th through the 27th [07:55] in Great Vine just a little bit north of [07:57] Dallas and uh we expect over 5,000 [08:00] people there we have a an exhibit floor [08:02] over 270 exhibitors over 60,000 Square [08:05] fet uh so if you're uh interested in in [08:09] getting into this and that that means if [08:10] you're going to be a podcaster even a [08:12] blogger or even for your own social [08:15] media uh we have we have panels we have [08:18] Hands-On uh uh workshops going on all [08:20] things and then we'll be talking about [08:22] with the experts on all of these issues [08:25] other cultural issues uh going on so [08:27] it's a great place to get informed and [08:29] great place to get involved and to [08:31] increase your skills in in [08:33] Communications and getting the gospel [08:35] out getting the truth out awesome and [08:37] what's the what's again what's the best [08:38] place people can find that information [08:40] if they want to learn more about the [08:41] conference find out the exact location [08:43] the dates how can they check back on [08:45] that when you're not here yep go to [08:47] nrb.org.np [08:59] n rv.org is the place to be and you can [09:01] follow me on uh X at NRV CEO wow you [09:07] guys have made it I guess nrb getting [09:09] that getting that little that little uh [09:11] three letters was was Nifty because that [09:12] makes it really easy nrb.org.np [09:21] [Music] [09:29] a conservative talk show host uh but my [09:31] my entire slant is from a Christian [09:33] perspective uh so I I really love what [09:35] you guys are all [09:36] about well thank you and thanks for [09:38] having me today and keep up all the good [09:40] work you're doing of course of course [09:41] again thank you so much for coming on [09:42] and we'll talk to you soon Troy all [09:44] right God bless God bless you as well [09:46] sir yeah again these These are instances [09:49] where we have these incredibly important [09:51] missions that are actively going on [09:53] right behind the scenes uh that a lot of [09:55] people are not aware of like I I did not [09:57] know that there was currently an ual [09:59] legitimate possibly successful fight [10:02] going on against what has frankly been a [10:06] a [10:07] complete kneecapping of pastors a [10:10] complete kneecapping of Christian [10:11] communicators uh in in their inability [10:14] to speak to things of political nature [10:16] I've I've for years said that is [10:18] ridiculous that politics is [10:20] directly interconnected to Christianity [10:23] because what you believe about Christ [10:25] and what you believe about his work in [10:27] this world and and the word of God [10:29] directly and completely impacts what you [10:32] believe about politics government the [10:34] job of government what law should look [10:36] like uh so I think everything they're [10:38] doing is incredibly important again you [10:39] can go to nrb.org.np
