Chris Burgard, Director of Remember the Alamo

It is a privilege to welcome to the news line the chairman of the Republican National Committee.

He is Joe Grooters.

You know it was on February 23rd 1854 that a bunch of folks gathered in Crawfordsville in Southeast Iowa.

The first meeting of folks who would organize what would become the Republican Party in modern times.

Only six years later they elected a president.

And the success has grown since then.

Joe Gruders, that's the history.

Welcome back to talking to folks in the state of Iowa here on the radio this time.

I know you were in the state not long ago.

I'm not sure where your travels have you today.

Yeah, I was in Iowa last week.

I

went to the state fair.

I traveled around with Congresswoman Miller Meeks, who is probably one of my favorite members of Congress in the entire country.

she's just an absolute superstar in congressman none and uh... one-year up-and-comers uh... joe mitchell who's running for the cd two there and uh... and and i've never spent time with your governor before uh... and she's a superstar too i mean just the i mean i was just it was such a big up an amazing wonderful state and it's a uh... i really enjoyed my time there overall and uh... uh... and when i think about i what

i just can't believe that the democrats removed it uh... from being first in the the nation primary uh... with your caucuses i mean it's uh... to me it's uh... uh... a huge slap in the face the iowa i'd say that democrats uh... by you're not even the first in the midwest now you're

you're

like off the board uh... i'd put uh... your chairman of iowa the republican party

Uh, in charge of our primary calendar.

And so you're obviously going to remain first with the Republicans.

Uh, but it's going to be interesting to see how the voters in Iowa react to being rejected by the Democrats.

They say it doesn't represent, uh, the Democrat party.

And I'm surprised we have so many close races there when, when they themselves, uh, hate Iowa.

The only problem is you got to get that Kauffman guy to come out of his shell more.

Yeah.

When I was with him last week, that guy, he's an animal.

He's a machine.

Jeff Kaufman is one of my favorite cherubists in the country.

He's a great guy.

All right, so there has been mention made, and we talk about it today in the Iowa Politics Report that folks can hear at the end of the hour.

So many folks from the national level.

Cabinet officials, members of Congress, yourself as the RNC chair, y'all making your way to the state fair, and it's not just because of the food on a stick.

My sense is it's to show Iowans just how important they are to the movement.

Am I wrong?

Well listen, I really enjoyed that Chuck's pork sandwich that I got with the governor, and I'm sure people will travel across the country just eat one of those, but listen, you've already had a ton of people

I think the secretary Hexeth is coming now, too.

You're going to have so many people.

This is the easiest way for me to break it down to you.

We have 435 members of Congress.

We have a couple of seat majority right now.

And you look at things like the political reports.

So you look at the battlegrounds.

Where are the races really happening?

You have, out of 435 races, we're down to 19 toss-up seats in the whole country, 19.

Two of those seats are in Iowa with congressman non and Congresswoman Miller makes and so we need Like let the for example one of the cook political report says that We are starting with 212 seats at the Republican Party candidates should win So that means we need six of the 18 toss-up seats to win You have two of those that means you have 33% of the seats

that we need to win to hold the majority.

Iowa, 33%.

When you look at it like that, and you look at the importance, and then you look at the fact that we have the fantastic candidates in these seats who are working hard and who, and I think we have the matchups we want there, you're gonna see, I would imagine you'll see the President of the United States there come between now and the election, maybe once, maybe twice, you'll see

Uh, a lot more cabinet members.

You'll see me coming back, uh, numerous times and you're going to have a lot of resources dumped into your state because you have the, obviously the open governor's race, the Senate race, uh, two toss up congressional races and one, uh, you know, the Joe Mitchell seat is a, is a lean Republican, which, which we should be able to hold pretty easily, but it's still one we're watching.

But it's a, I mean, Iowa's the road to the majority starts right there in Iowa.

And so that's why you've had a lot of people, and that's why you're going to continue to have a lot more people show up.

Joe Gruders is chairman of the Republican National Committee, RNC.org.

He joins us live on News Talk 1540, KXEL.

Obviously, when you were here in Iowa, you saw the same things that we do every day.

It's a little tight in the ag sector.

Gas prices jumped 20 cents a gallon from Monday to Tuesday well above the national average here That's not the the the wind that you want behind your sales.

What do you say to folks who are?

Concerned about the economic future

Listen, it's it.

I think that we're still dealing with the the the era of Joe Biden and the auto pen and

and the disaster that he left this country.

And every single day the president Trump's been in office, he's trying to reverse course, bring the nose up, get everything steady.

And that's why he's done things like pass the working family tax cuts and the no tax on tips and overtime.

That's why he's gone out and done things like the Trump RX, where prescription drugs are the first time some of these drugs have gone down three to 500%.

to make it more affordable.

That's why he's gone out and got $19 trillion worth of investments, which you're not going to feel overnight, but will produce good-paying jobs moving forward.

This president understands that Washington, D.C.

leaders have sold the American worker down the river over the last five decades, people on both sides of the party, and he's taking this opportunity, his second chance at the presidency after they try to kill him.

He's trying to do everything humanly possible to make America the greatest place that's ever lived and been.

And so he's working hard.

And that's why you're going to see him continue to go to bat for the American worker, including the free trade and fair trade deals that he's proposing and implementing.

All these things are going to work out.

They just need time.

And so, yes, he has empathy for everybody.

I have empathy for people that are working paycheck to paycheck But we just have to give a little bit more time and the things will get better

Joe Gruders our NC chair joining us live on KXEL I imagine the Strategy for November broadly and every race is local as you've quite accurately noted but the rise of Democratic Socialists or whatever name we want to call them winning

primary elections.

That's I have to think your strategy pivots a little bit because and I don't mean to offend anyone but I suppose one of the arguments is well you may not like how things are going now but you elect those other folks and you're really not going to like it.

That doesn't fit well as a campaign slogan but I assume you have to pivot the message a little bit given who some of these opponents are turning out to be.

Well, and that's the matchups that we like.

I mean, that's why Miller makes and none should end up winning, because these radical leftists are being elected across the country, and people reject extremism.

People don't want to have the country be fundamentally changed into something that they don't even want.

I mean, these BSA candidates, but this is, you can't be too surprised when the party

The party's leadership is Mondami, AOC, Bernie Sanders.

I think they have 40 candidates that have one coast to coast, and we're not just talking about New York City and San Francisco.

We're talking about middle America, right there in Iowa and other places.

I mean, these guys, they don't want Thanksgiving.

They don't want things like July 4th.

They want to get, I mean, I say that tongue in cheek, but that's what some of these candidates have actually said.

But, you know, their strategies, they don't want any southern border.

They want amnesty for all, including for the rapists and murderers who were let go here during the Biden administration.

They want the toxic poison to continue to flow through that southern border to continue to kill our kids and on and on and on.

We have to obviously reject this type of narrative.

And yes, we are going to do everything we can to make sure their candidates win.

But that's why the president

has made so many endorsements because I think that we are going for candidates that are good for the district or state that they're in.

And I think we're well positioned to frame the choice of this upcoming election.

Really, it's common sense versus crazy.

And like I said, crazy and extremism is not things that win elections in generals.

We have a couple of minutes left with RNC Chair Joe Gruder.

So midterm convention, that's a new thing.

What do you hope to get out of it as the RNC in early September?

Well, if we're going to defy history, we've got to do things a little bit different than we've done in the past.

And one of those things is to make sure we do things like get our message out.

And there's nothing better than the convention style format.

So we decided to have a midterm convention that's never been done before.

And actually, it's open to the public.

People can go and get tickets by going to GOPConvention.com.

It's going to be an unbelievable experience.

It's going to look and feel just like a normal convention.

It's going to be a couple of days in Dallas on September 9th and 10th.

But obviously, we're going to talk about all the great things this president has done, all the great things we want to continue to do.

And we're going to show that contrast between the Republican Party in normal and common sense versus the craziness that you see on the left and what they're trying to do.

and some of the the ideas that they have to to shape our country and and where they want to take us i think it's uh... gonna be a great opportunity and like i said everybody could participate if you're interested go to g o p convention dot com and uh... sign up for the ticket lottery

twenty days away well twenty days thirty eight minutes and five seconds technically you have a countdown on there i have a feeling that stamped in your mind isn't it sir

you gotta be listed we usually have years repair for convention this time we're doing it with a

with a couple of months, but it's going to be exciting.

It's going to be a great couple of days.

And I can't wait to have the best showman that's ever existed in our party.

Donald J. Trump lead us in the messaging and help us deliver these low propensity voters like he's done time and time again.

Final 30 seconds reaction to the primary in your home state of Florida yesterday.

Listen, I served with Byron in the house.

We were elected together.

He's a phenomenal member.

He's one of the best communicators we have across this country.

Donald Trump's endorsement obviously continues to dominate the day.

A lot of most of his candidates won yesterday down here, but I expect really the biggest surprises on the Democrat side where you had Vendaman who came in here.

That was the guy who helped try to impeach the president a couple of years ago.

He moved to Florida, raised $20 million from outside interest, ran against a crazy wackadoo state rep that I served with named Angie Nixon.

And Angie Nixon claimed his clock and with no money.

Now they have a crazy at the top of the ticket, which I think helps us overall because now it's just like in Iowa, it's a rising tide lifts all ships.

We need everybody working together.

We need to make sure that we're getting out the boat and go to protectthevote.com also if you want to get involved or go get involved with your local party because we need to come together as a party.

No matter where your candidate was, if you're won a loss in the primary, we need everybody rowing in the same direction to defeat the real evil that's happening on the left and to make sure that we could save what we love about this country.

RNC Chair Joe Gruders, you're welcome here anytime.

Thanks for the conversation today and we'll stay in touch.

Thanks so much.

Bye-bye.

Take good care.

And Joe Gruders, the chair of the Republican National Committee, joined us live on the news line on News Talk 1540, KXEL, where Iowa comes to talk.

Once again, GOPconvention.com is the website to learn more and get in that ticket lottery for the midterm convention in Dallas, 20 days from now.

It is a privilege to be joined on the news line by Chris Burgard.

Mr. Burgard is director of a documentary that has a lot of folks in it who you've heard me talk to on the radio.

The documentary is called Remember the Alamo, Don't Sharia My Texas.

Chris Burgard, good morning and thank you for taking the time, sir.

Well, thank you sir for having me on your show.

I'm pretty honored.

You can go online folks, if you'd like to learn more about this, watch the movie for yourself.

The website is RememberTheAlamoMovie.com and that takes you to where you can go and you'll see some of these names and again I look forward to taking a look at it.

I've been wanting to have Mr. Bergard on the program but I was waiting until I had time to

to watch the movie.

Well, you know how time goes.

And so we've decided, you know, Christmas could come by the time I get time to sit down and watch this.

So I wanted you on sooner than later.

I want to talk about contemporary topics in your state of Texas.

But first of all, tell us about the movie.

Remember the Alamo Don't Sharee in My Texas.

It premiered a couple of months ago.

What was the the impetus for this on your part?

Well, thanks, Jeff.

I've been standing up against the Muslim Brotherhood for about 19 years.

Since we first ran into Jihadis in West Texas, Sinaloa Cartel was bringing them over the border, and they went through a buddy of mine's ranch, and his wife called law enforcement, and when that got back to the cartel, the cartel told her sister in Chihuahua, she better shut the eff up, or we're gonna cut her head off and take it back to Chihuahua.

So we stayed there for two and a half days with five different law enforcement agencies, and that got me in touch with a task force out of Department of Defense that was created by Rich Higgins and run by a guy named John Guandolo.

So then we ran into this again in South Texas, and then we ran into multiple brotherhood trying to infiltrate our church.

and then we ran into care and the love of brother trying to put uh... sharia law in my daughter's school and daughter school district and that was just a wild thing god put us there and then brought it in and we stood up to them we rallied the churches we we appeared to them went to the town council let them know who the Muslim brotherhood is who care is how the state mission is to take down america from the inside

And we beat them.

And we kicked them out of the school district and got Sharia away from our kids.

And so that was 11 years ago.

I thought I was all done with it.

And then out here in Texas, they've made Texas the target.

They figure if they can take down Texas, they can take down the United States.

They built 24 new moffs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in 24 months.

And then they're spreading out east into east Texas, where I live.

But East Texas isn't Dallas-Fort Worth area.

People are a little different out here.

And we don't like to be told that we have to have halal food only.

We don't like to be told that our women need to be covered up or they can be raped.

We don't like to be told that there's something wrong with us if we don't hear the call to prayer blast out of these speakers.

It's kind of a clash of civilizations down here and The Muslim Brotherhood stays mission that they put out in 1991 is they were going to take down the United States Destroy it from within and We say no you won't We we don't intend to let the Muslim Brotherhood win they've declared war in the United States of America It's a hundred year war.

They're 35 years into it and no one stopped them

government hasn't stopped him, the military hasn't stopped him.

So that's why we made this movie.

Mr. Bergard is a return guest to the program.

We spoke with him about two years ago here on KXEL regarding a prior documentary called The War on Truth.

This one is called, remember the Alamo, Don't Sharia, My Texas.

And what's striking to me, this is my opinion, I'm interested in yours.

What's striking to me is the fact that good God-fearing Americans are not able to understand the passion of a 100-year war.

In other words, we can't imagine folks with that kind of a long game.

And so therefore we don't take it as seriously as we should to our own detriment.

And Texas seems to be a great example of that, because again, everybody's just kind of going along until it's like, wait a second, do you people understand what's really happening here when they declare a hundred year war?

You know, you just nailed it, that you're a hundred percent, ten percent over the target.

And you add on top of that that, you know, we're a nation has freedom of religion.

So, you know, it's in our hearts to be tolerant to anybody.

But what's happening is we're committing apathetic suicide.

And it's not America's fault.

We just didn't understand that Islam isn't a religion.

It's a civilization.

And that's not my word.

Don't take my word for it.

Watch the movie.

You'll see it from Muslim scholars and the moms from all over.

Islam is a civilization.

It's a political system with its own set of laws that hasn't changed since 632 AD.

And that law is sharia.

You cannot have two separate laws in the same civilization.

And in the United States of America, we have constitutional law.

It's who we are.

It's what we were founded on.

It's what built this country.

Sharia, no matter what they tell you, sharia, if you read all their founding documents, sharia is the enemy of the constitution.

As our law enforcement, our military, and our politicians have all sworn an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies born in domestic, all those folks that have taken that oath need to stand up against Sharia law.

Empathetic suicide.

What a wonderful phrase to describe this, because again,

We up here like to say we're Iowa nice.

Well, you can be nice and, uh, and lose the whole battle.

Once again, it's remember the Alamo.

Don't sharia my Texas.

Remember the Alamo movie.com is where you go to learn more.

Chris Burgard, the director of the documentary kind enough to join us live on news talk 1540 KXEL.

I mentioned a few minutes ago, some of the folks who.

You portray who you interview who appear in the documentary.

They are well familiar names.

They have great credibility They aren't just showing up because Chris Burgard called they know what they're talking about and they believe in this cause Give us a sense of who helped with this project

Well general Flynn is in the film he and I spoke last fall and

i didn't think i was gonna be doing movies like this i thought i was done making documentaries and i was talking to the general and this is one epic center at the east plaino islamic center uh... here in texas was wanting to make an entire muslim only city here in texas and that made the news and uh... i said to the general do we need a movie to wake up america to to what's been going on as far as the muslim brotherhood declaring war on us he said yeah chris we should add it two years ago

so he's in the movie that's why and laura logan and her husband joker katter in the movie uh... laura when you see this movie she really goes you know she's she's been a war course but on the top or course bonds we we've seen in our lifetime she lived in uh... in afghanistan she lived in bagged at five years her husband is uh... special forces former intelligence and

She was gang raped badly into here square in Egypt and beaten and almost died and Everything that was done to her under Sharia law is legal because she wasn't covered up You're gonna see Tommy Robinson.

He's from the UK Tommy is a leader who stood up against this Because his his defining moment was when his 13 year old cousin Jeanette was raped by a house full of

Bearded Muslim women destroyed her life and then no one was arrested because The police didn't want to seem to be bigots and because in the UK you have enough folks that have gotten into government that follow Sharia law that was what was done to his 13 year old cousin is perfectly legal We also have Alan West in the film

Pastor Ben Warke is in the film.

He's one of the pastors here in East Texas.

He's also former military.

He's saying, no, you're not gonna, you're not putting your civilization, your way of life here.

And then we have the Allied Special Intelligence Group.

That's John Wondolo, John Bennett, Matt Shea.

These are former military guys that have put together this organization that goes around the country

educating law enforcement military politicians um... civilians and actually this next weekend clergy um... on what the threat is how to understand the threat and how to stop it now when i say stop it jeff i want to be really clear we're talking about doing things peacefully here all peaceful waking up the population to understand what the threat is and how to stop it just with the laws that are already on the books

This is a major infiltration operation that's being done against the United States of America.

Using the Allied Special Intelligence Group training, we were able to stop them in my daughter's school district.

We just had a big win down in Texas and come for Texas at the Patriot Academy.

It stopped a big mosque being built in broken arrow, not a mosque, an Islamic center.

It's usually in broken arrow, Oklahoma.

Now they're being sued, and all the politicians that are taking money from Islamic sources are standing up against the folks in Broken Arrow.

And that's what we're fighting here.

And you have to understand, remember, this isn't a religion.

This is a civilization.

And what's happening in Texas over and over, I mean,

It's not like all of a sudden there's all these Islamic folks sitting around with no place to pray that they have to build all these Islamic centers and mosques.

It's more like a military operation, like where I live, the next town over.

We've had folks that are Muslim that have been there for 40-some years.

They have a little mosque where they pray.

But just down the road, there's eight and a half acres that these

folks came into town, they bought it, overlooks one of the oldest Baptist churches in the county, and they bought that.

They turned the house on the property into a mosque and they're raising millions of dollars to turn it into a Islamic center.

And as I talked to Malik, the guy spending for 40 some years, he's like, Chris, I don't know those guys.

I'm not with those guys.

I don't know why they're building this.

If we had maybe 80 families, I could see, but we don't have that.

I'm like, well, Malik, how many, how many, how many Muslim families do we have out here?

He goes into county six.

So what you're seeing here over and over is they build the centers, they claim the territory, and then they bring folks in.

Throughout the Islamic world, the call has gone out that Dallas is the new Mecca.

And as you see in the movie, they have to take down Texas to take down the United States of America.

You'll also see in the movie, my friends who live in Nigeria.

Nigeria and Texas are very, very similar.

Both got hit in 9-11.

We are both Nigerians.

largest concentration of Christians in Africa.

Texas is the Bible Belt buckle, and we're the energy capital of America.

They're the energy capital of Africa.

The difference is they don't have the Second Amendment down there, and it's genocide.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed just for being Christians.

Over three quarters of a million people have been displaced.

You're going to see my friends in the movie whose family have been killed, their houses have been burned down.

They're killing their neighbors as we're speaking on the phone right now.

You'll see that in the film.

Everything I'm telling you isn't my opinion.

It's not my words.

You'll see it in the movie.

You'll see the facts.

You'll hear moms and top Muslim scholars telling you that they are called

By Allah to put Sharia in every house in America and then Islam must be the religion of the United States So we want to stand up and do this peacefully because the facts are by 2040 Islam will be the second largest religion in America and the facts are if you see what's happening in Europe if you see it's happening in Spain if you understand the 1400 years of history which is laid out in the movie if we do nothing Texas will become an Islamic State

Not a matter of if it's just a matter of what

it's a takeover from within I mean you don't buy that many acres Unless you're setting up a base of operation quite obviously and the symbol I would suggest in a different we were just about to the 25th anniversary of 9-11 Why did they take out the buildings?

They did designed to be the US Capitol the Pentagon the Twin Towers

that was all purposeful to send a message.

If you infiltrate Texas with its history and spirit of independence, that is devastating as an example for the rest of this country, but emboldening as an example for those who want to take over the entire nation.

It's not hyperbole to state it that way, is it?

No, again, you're right over the target.

The two things we're seeing out here in Texas is a lot of the mosque that they're building is they're taking over churches and turning the churches into mosques.

Same thing they're doing in the UK.

And we've been going all around the country trying to help folks.

We were up in Buffalo, New York, one of the biggest, most beautiful cathedrals in all of New York being turned into a mosque.

And what you're seeing here in Texas, when it comes down to concrete, it comes down to claiming territory.

We had an attack on March 1st down here where a fellow wearing a property of ala sweatshirt, I believe he was from Senegal.

I can't pronounce his name.

It's Zanambi, Zanag, or something.

I'm sorry, I sound really illiterate then.

But he attacked a place called Bufords, which is

It's a bar restaurant in Austin where all the college kids hang out.

Now the reason he attacked there is because in Texas everybody has guns.

Everybody are you walking the restaurant at most every waitress can have a gun in her purse It's just the way it is sure and it's very safe down here

Except

unless you're an organization a business that makes over 51% of its money off of alcohol Then you're not allowed to carry a gun He specifically picked Buford's because he knew none of those kids would have guns this guy came in he shot the place up Parked his car put his pistol down picked up a rifle came up shot it again and

They got taken out by a whole bunch of cops that came in.

Those images went out to the whole Islamic world.

Now, Americans look at that as like, oh, it's a crazy lone gunman.

He killed those four kids.

It's a one-off.

No.

He was called to do that.

And how those images play across the Islamic world is the lone warrior of Allah went into the capital of the new Mecca, went into Austin,

Into the great state of Texas and took out all those people by himself and being held up and being celebrated That's what I'm talking about.

That's that's that's the conflict going kinetic We've had more Islamic terrorist attacks in Texas than any other state and Union and we're fighting to realize here when you see when you see a Whole bunch of military-age Muslim men Closing down the streets of Dallas or Austin and Houston praying in the street.

That's not because there isn't room at the mosque

that's them claiming that territory and those images are going back to the to the islamic world you don't see that happen in riyadh or in in cutter or or almost any country bagged at where we're laura for years this is something they're doing here to claim the territory when it when a small town gives up its city ordinances for noise and they allow the call to prayer to go out over the moth everywhere you hear that

called they're claiming that territory to jihad when they put in a new mosque there's a three mile perimeter just like an embassy the we would build three mile perimeter they're claiming as islamic territory that that's a military operation those are ford operating base they buy it they build it and then they fill it and this really sped up under it started bad under a bottle you see how Minneapolis changed

yes

i mean crime you live in Somalia one of the hottest countries

on the planet, and you say, I want to move to the United States of America.

Oh, I know.

Send me to the Great White North where I can live with a bunch of Vikings.

No, that's how you fundamentally transform the United States of

America.

And

then under Biden, the gates were wide open, and so many of these folks just came in.

So this is, yes, we are being, they're having more kids than Americans are, and now you're starting to see in Dearborn,

you know, the rackets to built the united states and the states out of their money and the welfare fraud and all that in uk it's not uncommon for a Muslim man to have three four wives and a whole bunch of kids and they're all welfare and they're milking the system he doesn't need a job kids are kids in his life are all getting public assistance same thing in France and now we're seeing it in Dearborn this is and this is this is there's a name for this to Jeff it's called HYSRA

Isra in Arabic means immigration jihad And when you read the stated most Memorandum of the Muslim Brotherhood it says that the attack on America is a grand jihad And this all has precedent in Islam you're commanded to live your life to emulate the perfect Muslim who was the Muhammad Okay, so Muhammad where does he draw come from when Muhammad gets kicked out of?

Mecca, after 14 years of preaching, he only has 130 followers.

He goes to Medina.

At the time, Medina is a large Jewish town.

There's five tribes, two Arabs, three Jewish, and he goes into politics.

And he becomes a warlord.

He starts working faction against faction.

Within five years, he's the leader of Medina, and there's not a Jew left alive in Medina.

That's the history.

But the way he took over was he went in through immigration jihad.

That's why it's being practiced now.

It's called hijra.

And the other name that you all need to know is a word named taqiyyah.

Taqiyyah means to lie or deceive to in order to further jihad.

So you can say anything as long as it furthers jihad.

Now you'll see in the movie, I'm debating a Muslim scholar in the movie, he says taqiyyah means you're allowed to lie in order to save your life if people think you're Muslim.

So he doesn't go as far as I do.

But I've read the original documents.

If you read the Qur'an, you're only getting 14% of Islam.

It's not like Christianity, read the Bible, you know the whole thing.

You need to read the Qur'an, you need to read Hadith, and you need to read the Surah.

And the Surah, I believe, is the most important document.

The Surah is the biography of Muhammad, which is written by his contemporaries.

And if you don't understand who Muhammad was, the Qur'an has no text.

When you read the Surah, you'll realize that Muhammad was a warlord.

He was a slave.

He kept sex slaves.

He made getting sex slaves common practice to inspire his men to go to war.

And here's the pedophile.

He married his favorite wife, Aisha, when she was six years old.

And he had sex with her and consummated the marriage when she was nine.

That's why we're still seeing child marriages in Texas and throughout the Islamic world.

That's why we have dads here that you know, Muhammad would be had people for offending him

and

That's why you have we had a dad here in tech Dallas a couple years back his two daughters They were dating regular Texas kids that were non-Muslim and that's called to fear to fear is non-Muslim and The dad shot both of his daughters because if he thought they dishonored him that's Sharia law.

It's a completely different civilization

Our Constitution guarantees the separation of church and state.

Under Sharia, church is the state.

You have to believe them when they tell you who they are.

That is just such a fundamental premise with regard to this conversation and so much else in American politics in a very different way.

You have to believe them when they tell you who they are.

Remember the Alamo, Don't Sharia My Texas is the documentary that was directed by Chris Burgard.

The website is RememberTheAlamoMovie.com.

Now, I would also note, coming up in early October, just go up the road to Mason City.

There will be a free showing at the Praise Community Church there.

It's on the website as October 3rd, and you encourage folks across the country

to host showings in their hometowns so that the experience can be a communal one, correct?

How do they get to do that?

Absolutely, Jeff.

Just reach out to us at the website.

Remember theanimalmovie.com.

I knew this movie was going to be censored.

We can't buy advertising on television.

Theaters are afraid to put it in their theater chains.

So we actually were on tour right now.

We got a big old bus and we go around and I thought we would just be doing Texas for the first couple of months and

then go to

the rest of the country.

But no, we're getting calls from Iowa.

We're getting calls.

We just got back from Spokane.

We were in Sheridan, Illinois, middle of Illinois.

They're trying to build Islamic City.

We were in New York.

We're going back to New York, going to DC.

So just go to the website and if you can get a big enough audience, we'll bring the whole tour out to you.

If not, you can

You know, to get together and we can do a quest to Q&A.

We can come in on Zoom.

We can, whatever y'all need, we can make get this happen because this is an information war.

And if you're armed with the truth, we're going to win.

So that's why we just want everybody in the world to go see this movie.

Again, October 3rd in Mason City.

And so I mentioned that again, folks, so that if you're in a neighboring area, you get a sense they're going to be doing this stuff.

in early October, so maybe you can add your community to the calendar when they're in the neighborhood.

That's just a pointed little hint there for folks.

Once again, remember thealamomovie.com.

Chris Burgard, it is always an informative conversation.

I appreciate you being willing to tell the story.

Appreciate the passion you bring to this, and we'll talk again hopefully when you come up to Iowa.

God bless you, Mr. Stein.

I'd love to meet you in person.

Absolutely.

Likewise, God bless.

Chris Burgard our guest director of the documentary remember the Alamo don't sharia my taxes it is Worthy of this extended conversation because if this worries you or frightens you it should Because again, we didn't talk about the airports and the foot washing stations Which by the way had already been in place in Dallas in Houston the news of the recent weeks was that they were going to expand it

So it was already there.

The infiltration, though, was getting even broader.

So it's here, it's happening now, and folks need to be prepared.

Remember the Alamo Movie dot com Chris Burgard, our guest.

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renowned artist Gary Kelly passed away earlier this year.

A Cedar Falls native, there will be a way to remember Gary Kelly that will help to allow new artists and others working in two-dimensional media to continue on in the Gary Kelly Artist in Residence program, which we're going to find out more about now.

It was just recently announced.

It'll be housed at the Hearst Center for the Arts.

And among our guests this morning, we're joined by Corey Hurlis, who directs

the Hearst Center, thanks for being with us.

Oh, thank you so much for having me.

So tell us a little bit about what the goal is for this program.

Oh, I'm so proud that this spark of an idea is now an actual thing, a program.

Gary was so important to the Hearst Center and the whole community.

He was so generous with everyone, but he had a working relationship with the Hearst Center for over 20 years, especially working with our...

curator on exhibits many times over the years.

And so when an opportunity came to acquire his studio equipment, he had a printing press, he had a work table, easel, his furniture.

Just the idea came to me that could we use this for an artist in residency program, something where along the similar lines of Gary helping us and collaborating with us and being such an

inspiration to local artists where maybe somebody could serve in a capacity of collaborating with the Hearst again, very much like he did, work in the same mediums that he did, be inspired by working on his equipment and then be able, for us at the Hearst, be able to foster

New talent to be able to partner with somebody, provide an exhibition, continue to collect local artwork, much like the Hearst has collected Gary Kelly's artwork over the years.

And so from that spark came together, hey, let's do a program.

And so we went talk through the logistics of how this might work.

And so what it came down to with the Gary Kelly Artist in Residency program is an excellent opportunity for an artist to have a full year of working in a studio space within the Hearst Center for the Arts.

So this person would be in close collaboration with staff.

and you have room and space to work, you have great equipment to work on with Gary's press and his furniture and equipment, and to be able to have a stipend to get your own materials and be able to come up with a body of work, to have that full year of being able to produce a body of work, and then there's also a framing allotment that comes with it.

So not only does the artist get $2,500 for the year to work for materials, but we're also working with a great local company, Vandoren's Framing out of Waterloo, to provide a framing allotment so that the artist can have their work professionally framed.

And at the end of the residency period,

they get a solo show at the Hearst with fully framed artwork.

So if you can imagine from an artist's perspective how hard it is to get your work out there and how expensive it is to put it together professionally so that you can be marketable to galleries or other museums.

And so this Gary Kelly artist in residency not only gives you space to work, but you will also come away with the experience with the full series.

ready-framed, ready to go on to your next opportunity.

And the only thing that we're really asking back from the artist is to work with our curator and donate one piece of art to our permanent collection.

So that the other part of this great opportunity for the Hearst is just as we've been able to collect.

great works from local artists, and Gary Kelly is included as one of those, we'll be able to build off that opportunity and to continue to collect local artists' work in perpetuity for future generations to enjoy.

I'm just so excited about it.

Hearing from Corey Hurlis of the Hearst Center for the Arts about the new Gary Kelly artist in residence program and applications opened up for this just a few days ago and the application period runs through September 18th.

How many people are you expecting and do you have some indication of how the submissions are going to be judged and this artist in residence will be determined?

Sure.

Being that this is our first go around with this, I'm going to be really positive and say that it's going to be very hard for our selection committee that they might have to look through.

more than a dozen artist applications.

It's open to people in the Blackcock County area, people that are in within driving distance to the Hearst Center.

And so I think this is such a great opportunity.

I'm expecting that this is going to be a very hard decision.

And so the decision is not up to me, actually, of who is selected.

We have put together a committee.

of people that represent our board that also represent contemporary artists of Gary Kelly.

So we're one of those artists being Dwayne Slick of someone who

a new Gary who might be working in slightly different mediums, but an established professional artist will also be judging the submissions and helping us choose this artist.

And so when the applications close, it will take some time a few weeks to review everything before a decision is made and announced in October.

But as far as for the artist, I'm speaking to the artist, if you're interested in applying, the process is easy.

There is no fee to apply, so it's free.

And what the artist needs to give to us is a resume or CV, and then just write us a few paragraphs about why they're applying for the opportunity and what they hope to get out of it.

And then we want a curated selection of 10 to 12 images of what the artist is making, rather than just sending us a

link to your Instagram, we want you as the artist to curate or put together your best representative work to show the selection committee.

And so that is the process.

Well, let's welcome in Wendy Bowman, who's president of the Friends of the Hearst organization.

And Wendy, this was something that came together relatively quickly compared with, you know, sometimes getting the idea into reality can be much more challenging.

Why was this something that was able to be pulled together within really a matter of weeks, it seems like?

Well, it was really a no-brainer for the Friends of the Hearst.

This is what we're all about, is collaborating with staff to take advantage of opportunities as they arise.

So when, as Corey said, the furniture, the easel, the table became available and her mind started creating this opportunity for a residency, we said, yes, immediately.

And how can we fund this?

Being a Friends organization for over a decade,

We had funds on reserve that we were able to move into an endowment, and we chose to partner with the Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa to set that up in Gary's name to make sure that this wouldn't be just a one and done program, but that this would be something that would carry Gary's legacy well into the future.

Yeah, was there was there a vision for what this might look like after this first cycle?

Was that something that came up in the discussions about how to put it together?

Well, it's really already proven Corey has set up a James Hurst writer and residency program that is now in its completing its second year and it has been very successful and

So the bugs have already been kind of worked out for for the Hearst staff on how this is going to work.

So we're really pleased to be a partner both with the Hearst Center and with the Community Foundation.

Wendy Bowman is the president of the Friends of the Hurst and you've alluded to the Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa and we're joined by Paula Hill who's the director of charitable impact for the Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa and Could you talk about what this project looks like for?

Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa relative to some of the other things that you've taken on.

Where does this one fall in and how much expertise were you able to bring to this?

Again, pulling it together on a relatively short

window.

With all of our funds that we have, we've established quite a variety of funds, and this is unique in that it is a specific type of stipend fund, whereas some of our other funds are investment funds, donor advice funds, and different types of endowments that are maybe designated to a specific group or family.

This one is particular.

offers a stipend to that individual that is participating in the Artist in Residency program.

And in this case, my assumption is that it was important to get this going relatively quickly in the wake of Gary Kelly passing away earlier this year.

Sometimes there's a little bit of a lead-up, a run-up to establishing an endowment.

There's some time to do some fundraising.

This seems like it had to come together a little bit more quickly to have the timeliness that may have been ideal.

It sure did.

Wendy and I, along with Corey, were in communication frequently once they received those.

word of the items that they'd be receiving in doing that.

We worked together to coordinate with the Hearst Board, the Friends Board, and then our team worked together to get those documents in order and created so that they could move quickly with approval, and then we would go ahead and get that finalized.

Well, again, the Gary Kelly Artist in Residence program being offered at the Hearst Center for the Arts in Cedar Falls.

We've been hearing from a variety of guests this morning.

You just heard from Paula Hill, Director of Charitable Impact at the Community Foundation in Northeast Iowa.

Paula, thank you for being with us this morning.

Thank you.

Wendy Bolman is the President of the Friends of the Hearst.

Thanks for coming in to see us, Wendy.

Thanks for having me, Tim.

And Corey Hurlis is the Hearst Center for the Arts Director and Cultural Program Supervisor for the City of Cedar Falls.

Thank you for coming back in to join us again.

Thank you for having me again and for supporting local artists.

This is the station where Iowa comes to talk, News Talk 1540 KXCL.