So if any of you guys missed any of this, you can always go back and listen. But I kind of want to, it's sort of fascinating to me how you grew up in that era, and you were surrounded by all these things, but you eventually got out of it.
But I want to go back, though, because you mentioned how you were a – and by the way, thank you, Robin, for putting this out there.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. You mentioned how you were – those theologies, they were the only thing you were taught. You were not told to critical think, and that gave birth to things like critical race theory, because you already had a worldview and a theology that allowed for these bad ideas to come in, and you just fell right in, right, because you already had – like I said a minute ago, you were put on that path to believing those things.
So I was that involved. And then I decided that I had enough with academia and even politics. So I retired in 2015.
I retired in 2014, and in 2015, I was not getting as much money because I was retired and my salary was not that high because I had not worked enough years. I decided to move to Mexico. I lived in Baja California for two years until it became very violent, and there were two murders among the expat community that I was hanging out with.
So I came back to California to a little town north of Los Angeles in the mountains, a very beautiful little town called Ojai, very artsy town, very liberal. I could not stand it. And that's when COVID happened.
And I was still going to these centers for spiritual things, but when the lockdowns ended, they closed all the churches. They shut down, right? The centers would then shut down. Yes.
Everything had to. Yes, and California was like a prison. It was like a gulag during the COVID.
Oh, yes. It was one of the worst states in the country. It was horrible.
