329: Adam Kinzinger | When Politics Get Culty
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
For Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, service to country has been the guiding principle of his life and career — first as a member of the armed forces, and later as a lawmaker in the halls of Congress. When the strength of the nation was tested on January 6th, 2021 and in the months following, Kinzinger took his sworn oath further, boldly demonstrating an exceedingly rare loyalty to country over party.
As one of only two Republicans on the January 6th Committee, Rep. Kinzinger stood against his own party in pursuit of democracy and justice. Shortly after the insurrection at the Capitol, Congressman Kinzinger started the Country First movement, which has grown rapidly to over 100,000 members today and counting.
From 2011-2022, Congressman Kinzinger served six terms in the United States House of Representatives, where he proudly represented Illinois’ Sixteenth Congressional District, which stretches across 14 counties in Northern Illinois.
While in Congress, Kinzinger served as a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he served as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Energy and the Environment in the 116th Congress. He also served on the non-partisan Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
His top priorities included strengthening U.S. energy policy and making our nation less reliant on foreign resources as well as bolstering the strength of our national security –both at home and abroad.
Prior to being elected to Congress, Kinzinger served in the Air Force in both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Kinzinger continues to serve his country as a pilot in the Air National Guard, with the current rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and balanced this service with his duties in Congress.
During his time in Congress, Kinzinger worked tirelessly for IL-16, and for the security of our nation. From getting veterans back to work, to combatting the opioid epidemic, Congressman Kinzinger fought for his constituents and stood up for America, keeping his oath to protect and defend our Constitution.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, |
| 0:06.9 | physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 0:12.1 | Not all legal outcomes are known or final. |
| 0:15.1 | Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. |
| 0:19.7 | Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski. |
| 0:24.0 | All right, everybody, welcome back to the show. Adam, thanks for joining me. I appreciate it. |
| 0:29.3 | Yeah, man, it's great to be with you. Thanks for having me. This is an interesting one because you |
| 0:32.9 | reached out to me a while back and said you'd been listening to the show. First and foremost, how'd you even |
| 0:38.8 | hear about Preacher Boys? Because it's not every day a former U.S. Congressman reaches out and says, |
| 0:43.3 | hey, I've been listening to your show. Yeah, no. So it was funny because, you know, obviously I grew up |
| 0:48.7 | IFB until I was about 20-some years old when I left. And I was always a rebellious kid. But anyway, |
| 0:54.9 | one of the, when I got to Congress, actually an old buddy of mine from the church, I actually |
| 0:59.0 | hired him and we've been great friends. And he actually discovered you and said, like, hey, |
| 1:03.7 | you need to listen to this podcast, Preacher Boys, because we're always like back and forth going |
| 1:07.7 | through, you know, these different traits we have or these different |
| 1:10.8 | struggles and like, you know, how does that relate to the church? And so when I discovered |
| 1:15.4 | you, I'm like, man, this is like the recognition, you know, I guess I knew I was IFB because the |
| 1:21.1 | church was called Independent Fundamental Baptist, but I didn't recognize that it was a whole big |
| 1:26.3 | movement, you know, and you kind of opened my eyes to that and then seeing that there's a lot of people out there that have frankly struggled with the same things we have. It was a good discovery. So I figured eventually I'd reach out to you and we made it work. I reached out and you said, I'm going to be a little bit busy in the next week or so. And then it was like, bang, Jimmy Kimmel and then speaking at the DNC. And I was like, oh, okay. Well, I would have |
| 1:48.5 | bumped myself for those too. That makes sense. For people that are listening who didn't know |
| 1:53.9 | this about you, I want to kind of just paint the picture of growing up in the kind of independent |
| 1:58.5 | fundamental Baptist world. Like, obviously, you didn't know |
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