This episode of the American First podcast with me, Sebastian Gorka, is brought to you by Franklin

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facilitators of freedom. Welcome dear friends to American First One on One. How often in your life,

that doesn't happen frequently to me. Do you meet someone, do you hear someone, and you just connect

at a kind of visceral level, at a kind of genetic level, you say, that resonates. I like the cut

of that man's jib, and then you say, yeah, brother from another mother. That happened to me recently

at an amazing event in New Jersey, a collection of four, five hundred American patriots, it was called

seat at the table. And the man I'm talking about stood up on a panel, concerned with the topic of

courage and manhood, and I've invited him on America first. Pastor John Amatoukou, welcome to the

Salem Network. Thank you for having me back on your show. It's a pleasure to be on. You've been on

the show before, but now we're going to go deep dive because I want to get to the bottom of everything

that you are traveling the country preaching, and especially so excited. You've written a book,

My Buddies have picked it up at Regnery. It's called Erased. It's going to be out in a couple of

weeks beginning of October, uncovering the lies of critical race theory and abortion. But let's start

with the event where we met, and let's talk about what the message you had for those collected there.

I've had this radio show for three and a half years. Large chunk of that was COVID, and under COVID,

I came to a sad realization as a man who chose this country, who sees it as the greatest nation on

God's earth. Wasn't blessed to be born here, but I'm now an American citizen. That there's been a

tragic loss of the most important virtue, and that was demonstrated by how we reacted as a nation

to COVID. And it is the virtue that makes all the other virtues possible, and that is courage,

especially courage, evinced by men. Men, the job of the male in Western civilization, is to

stand up for the innocent, to protect the vulnerable, and to fight for the truth. And I didn't see a lot

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