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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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All right, guys.
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Today's podcast is about the single most important movie that you will see all year.
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And I'm not trying to be hyperbolic.
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I mean it.
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The movie unplanned is the most important movie that you will see this year.
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So for some of you guys that don't know that movie or you're not familiar with the movie,
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let me go ahead and kind of give you the description of it because it just came out yesterday.
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So if you're listening to this on time, it came out on Friday, March the 29th of 2019.
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So the description of this movie, I'll just read it straight from their website just so
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I can kind of give that to you and then I'll add a little bit to it afterwards.
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So here we go.
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What is the inspiring true story of one woman's journey of transformation?
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All Abby Johnson ever wanted to do was help women.
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As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, she was involved
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in upwards of 22,000 abortions and counseled countless women about their reproductive choices.
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Her passion surrounding the woman's right to choose even led her to become a spokesperson
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for Planned Parenthood, fighting to enact legislation for the cause she so deeply believed
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in until the day she saw something that changed everything, leading Abby Johnson to join her
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former enemies at 40 days for life and become one of the most ardent pro-life speakers
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in America.
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So guys, this movie is based off of a true story of the story of Abby Johnson.
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Obviously, as we just said, and it's taken a lot of the details from a 2011 book that
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was released by Abby Johnson about her experience working with Planned Parenthood, how she got
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into Planned Parenthood and subsequently how she got out of doing that.
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So before we get too far into this, as you can imagine, this movie has experienced some
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pre-sabotage, right?
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Because this is a movie that takes on a very, very controversial subject and probably one
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of the most polarizing subject matters that we have as Americans.
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Okay, so but there were several things that have happened to this film before it's released
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when it was released in theaters across the nation yesterday to basically try and sabotage
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it to try and stop it.
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And not the least of which was the fact that it was hard for them to find a distribution
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deal.
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But let's get into a couple of things.
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The very first thing is that this movie received an R rating, okay?
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So this movie was released by a studio called Pure Flix.
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It's a faith-based movie studio, same studio that did like God is not dead part one and
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two and that whole thing.
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It's the first R rating that any movie from Pure Flix has done again, because this is
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a Christian movie studio, right?
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And so getting an R rating, this isn't exactly like when Mel Gibson did Passion of the Christ.
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It really caught most people that were familiar with this movie, certainly the people that
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made it by surprise.
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And so the Motion Picture Association of America, that's the MPAA that's on there whenever you
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see a rating of a movie before it comes on, they gave an R rating for quote, some disturbing
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bloody images, unquote.
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Essentially they gave it this R rating because of two scenes and we're going to talk about
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those scenes a little bit later, but still, even after you've seen the movie, this shouldn't
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have warranted an R rating.
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But as most of you know, some of you are so far beyond the age of 18, you don't even
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think about this anymore.
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But an R rating means that you can't go see this movie if you're under the age of 18,
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unless you have a parent or guardian with you, right?
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Remember whenever you wanted to go see that movie that everybody was seeing and you were
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like 13 years old and you had to go get your older brother or get your mom or dad or show
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up or something like that?
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That's essentially what this means.
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But what I'm about to list for you are the states in the United States where you can
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be under the age of 18 and get an abortion without the consent of at least one parent
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or guardian or in a state where a judge can excuse you from getting that requirement altogether.
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So let me go and list them.
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Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,
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Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,
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Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode
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Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin,
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and Wyoming.
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And if you're wondering why I didn't list your state, let me go and give you the list
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of states where you need no requirement, there is no requirement whatsoever for consent
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or any involvement of the parents of a minor that is seeking an abortion.
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Those states would be Alaska, California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Hawaii,
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Maine, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.
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So in all 50 states, a judge, except for the ones I just listed, a judge basically can
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allow a minor to not get the consent of their parents if it's a warrants.
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But in those that I just listed, you can murder your baby, right?
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Without the your parents even having to know, you can walk into a planned parenthood at
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the age of 15, get an abortion as long as you can pay for it.
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But if you wanted to go see this movie unplanned in those states, you would not be able to
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do it.
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If you walked up to the window by yourself, if you had the money to pay for it, they would
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ask you for your ID.
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Think about that.
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Think about the seared consciousness in the lawmakers of those states to allow something
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like that to happen.
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You can't buy a drink at a bar.
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You can't buy a, you know, an album with an explicit lyrics content sticker on it and
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you also can't go see an R rated movie, but you can kill your baby.
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We're so woke, y'all.
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I'm so glad we're so progressive, but moving on and some of the other pre sabotage that
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we have with this movie, specifically it was very, very difficult getting this movie advertised
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on television.
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Okay.
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Because of the subject matter and because of the what most people in most media companies,
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the way that they lean, they were not allowing this movie to advertise think and just think
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about it this way.
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They weren't taking their money because that's what television is.
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That's all about the commercials, you know, you know, the things that you click through
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as fast as possible when you're DVRing a movie or a show or something like that, the stuff
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you try to skip over.
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That's all money right there.
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You're basically skipping over money.
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So as of what we know right now, lifetime, the travel channel, the cooking channel, HGTV,
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Food Network, the Hallmark channel and USA networks, all declined to do any ads or run
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any ads for this film.
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The only two that I could find of any substance that we're running ads and we're allowing
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them to purchase ads were Fox News and the Christian broadcast network.
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Those are the only two that accepted ads.
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So it was difficult for them to kind of get the word out there.
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There's also some evidence to suggest that they were tamped down advertisements and kind
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of shadow banned whenever they were trying to advertise on social media platforms.
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I know over at live action, that's a pro life group that we hear an undaunted life support.
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Live action has had a lot of their ads basically run silent or basically they will take the
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money for the ads, but then the ads will be shadow banned today.
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Actually, I'm pretty sure it was today.
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I'm recording this on Saturday, the 30th of March, the Twitter account for the unplanned
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movie was suspended for what we can't really know, right?
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But it was suspended on the weekend of the movie's release, the most important weekend
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for marketing, right?
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And this movie, you know, basically you couldn't find it anywhere on Twitter.
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No ads.
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No nothing.
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Now apparently a bunch of people tweeted at Twitter and at Jack, the guy, uh, Jack Dorsey
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who runs Twitter and all that.
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They basically tweeted at them.
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Oh, and it was, oh, we're so sorry.
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And then they reinstated the account afterwards, but it was just very, very interesting on the
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timing.
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But the reason that they're doing that is because obviously that this movie has a bad
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first weekend, it will be out of theaters by next weekend, right?
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So but look at what happened last time.
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Remember the movie?
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All that we talked about back, I can't remember what episode, I think it was in the 40s, but
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we talked about the movie, Gosnell, Gosnell was number 11.
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I think it was just right outside.
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There's a few thousand bucks from being outside of the top 10 in that weekend for movies and
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theaters.
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And then it was dropped from hundreds of theaters for the second week, right?
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I mean, these theaters could not wait to get this movie out of there.
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And it wasn't because they weren't making money, not selling popcorn and soda.
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It wasn't because of that, but there's been a lot that's kind of happened with this movie
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that has gone into a pre sabotage of it.
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But here it is.
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It's in the theaters.
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Hopefully it's going to be in theaters for a while so that a lot of people can go out
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and see it.
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So let's go ahead and talk about the movie.
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So I went and saw the movie this morning.
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I'm recording this just a couple hours after I left watching the film.
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The film was well done.
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I mean, it was had some of the to be expected bad acting at times that that comes along with
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some of these faith based films.
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It's not going to be a single actor or actress in there that you're really going to recognize,
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but overall it was good.
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I mean, it's not going to win any awards, obviously for for multiple reasons, but even
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if it was a neutral observer, it's not going to win any crazy awards.
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But this film, I don't want to give away too much of it because obviously I'm going to
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pretty much demand that everybody listening to this go out and see it or by the time you
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listen to this go out and buy it.
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There were two key scenes in this movie that I think sets it apart and they were they were
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gruesome.
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They were graphic and highly appropriate, in my opinion.
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In the first five minutes, I'll talk about the first scene.
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In the first five minutes of the film, we see a scene depicting a suction aspiration abortion.
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Okay.
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So the main character of the film, Abby Johnson, she is the lead of a clinic.
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She had been working at this clinic for eight years, but it never actually been a part of
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an abortion.
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But the young nurse walks in and says, Hey, we need some help in the back room.
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Are you available?
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So she's like, sure, she goes back there.
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Basically the abortion doctor just immediately gets her in on the procedure.
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And this woman, Abby Johnson, sees what's going on on the ultrasound.
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She can see the baby moving.
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She can see the baby's heart beating, all those different things.
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The woman that is getting this abortion is in a tremendous amount of distress and discomfort.
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You can see a different point.
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She's actually trying to get up.
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She's like trying to maybe stop this from happening.
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But then the abortion doctor, which interestingly enough, it is an actual abortion doctor that
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is in this form or abortion doctor rather that is in this film.
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He's now a pro life advocate only after killing tens of thousands of people, but he is actually
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the doctor in this film that is depicted doing the suction aspiration abortion.
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He's basically sticking a tube.
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If you forget what suction aspiration abortion is, I describe it in detail in episode six
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of this podcast, but you're sticking a suction tube up the woman's vagina and into the womb
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and you're sucking the baby out, right?
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So at that point, the baby is fairly pliable.
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So you're sucking a leg off and then you're kind of sucking the other leg off.
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You're sucking out part of the abdomen.
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You eventually suck out the head.
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So it's basically a suction tube that sucks the baby out and liquefies it essentially
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is what it is.
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And in the first scene of that movie, the first main scene of that movie, that's what we see.
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And it is about what you would expect.
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And so I don't remember the last time I had a tear rolled down my cheek in the first five
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minutes of a movie, but I'm man enough to admit I am meet the anger and the overwhelming
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emotion of that moment.
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And all really the surprise of them not sanitizing it at all was was absolutely overwhelming.
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But that scene was only outdone by a scene about maybe 20, 25 minutes later into the film.
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And in this scene, the main character, Abby, she was having her second abortion.
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So she had two abortions because she was impregnated by the same guy twice.
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It was her first husband.
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He was a deadbeat, whatever, whatever.
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So the first time apparently it was a suction aspiration abortion, but the second one, they
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had advanced so much that they could do a chemically induced abortion.
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So basically a chemically induced abortion, they give you pills to take and then you go
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home and you basically quote on a quote, pass the pregnancy, right?
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In other words, the baby is poisoned and then expelled from your body violently.
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So there is a scene and it is probably the most powerful scene that I have seen in a movie
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in my entire life.
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And yes, I've seen all the same movies that you have.
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So your gladiators, your brave hearts, your, you know, whatever movie that you can think
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of with these incredibly long lasting memory scenes that just stick in your brain.
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I've seen all those two.
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This is the one that as of right now takes cake because we're watching the main character
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of this film, essentially going through a chemically induced abortion alone at her house
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and in her bathroom and it is gruesome because it is gruesome.
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And to be honest with you, it absolutely floored me.
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It, it, it like froze me.
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I mean, the level of attention, the level of detail, how graphic it was.
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Because at that point, you're not really worried about being tasteful because there is a baby
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that is basically being pushed out of the woman's vagina in pieces because it's been
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chemically killed, right?
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Those two scenes were the two scenes that made this, right, made this an R rated film.
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But it's nothing that you haven't even seen that I've seen bloodier things on television,
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right?
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It's just the fact that the blood was coming from a baby and most of the people probably
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at the motion picture association of America are pro choice individuals.
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They just didn't want very many people to see this because can you imagine what this
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would do if you're 13 or 14 or 15 or 16 year olds all this, the ones that are being indoctrinated
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in the public school system by these people are telling them that this is health care,
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that this is a woman's right to choose that how dare we take the right to do something
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like this away from people.
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Can you imagine what it would look like if those individuals were able to see a scene
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like that and understand the true reality of the horror of this procedure?
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Wouldn't that change their minds even at an early age?
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Damn right, it would.
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And to be honest with you guys, I've never been this angry and upset during and frankly
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after a movie experience in my entire life.
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Like the entire time I'm watching this film with, with each subsequent scene that's depicting
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these, these horrific things, the level of anger and sadness, it was overwhelming like
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at multiple occasions.
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Again, I'm not a terribly emotional guy when it comes to, you know, crying and any expressing
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emotion in that way.
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I think I cried four or five times during this film, not like who is sitting there boo
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hooing, but just tears rolling down my cheeks because of the sadness and the anger that
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I feel knowing that those things happen every single day to thousands and thousands of children
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just here in the United States and the tens of thousands that had this happens to around
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the world.
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It's absolutely heartbreaking.
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It's absolutely maddening.
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And again, the amount of emotion you'll get from watching a movie like this is overwhelming.
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And I feel like it should be and we'll get into more of that here in just a second.
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So I don't want to describe too much more of the film because I do want you to go see
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it yourself.
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But let's talk a little bit about the critical reception of this film.
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So as you would have expected for a film about this subject, the critical reception from the
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actual critics has been overwhelmingly negative because this is an incredibly polarizing subject.
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So a few quotes that I found, the Guardian, they called it a quote, a dim-witted Christian
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drama based on the anti-choice activist Abby Johnson's memoir.
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So again, she's anti-choice, right?
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That's who she is, even though she used to work there and she had to abortion.
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She should be a hero, right?
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Then we have Variety magazine.
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They said that the movie tells Johnson's story in a quote, flat, didactic style of an ideological
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Sunday school lesson.
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Ooh, fancy.
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And does a skillful job of using religious piety to conceal its underlying political
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agenda.
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Unquote.
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Yeah, yeah.
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They made this because of a political agenda.
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I doubt that they did anything with this film because they cared about, you know, kids being
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ripped ripped pieces.
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It's all about politics.
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Thank you, Variety magazine for that.
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And Variety magazine didn't just stop there.
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They claimed that this film, the agenda was mobilizing.
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This is a quote here, mobilizing those on the pro-life side to come out and vote for politicians
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who will step up the legal assault on abortion rights and basically abortion laws already
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are being eaten away at the state legislatures by conservative judges.
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And this is just the film that's going to keep that stuff going.
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Right.
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Variety magazine.
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Thank you for participating.
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Thank you for playing.
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And then we have Planned Parenthood, you know, the main subject of this film, the satanic
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people inside of Planned Parenthood.
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They got their PR firm in on this.
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So this is their statement.
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Quote, the movie promotes many false hoods, including most importantly, distortions and
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incorrect depictions about health care and ding, ding, ding.
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There's our word health care.
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This is about health care.
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If, if you're out there and you're a pro choice dope, or you're surrounded by pro choice
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dopes on a regular basis, don't you and all those other people use the word health care
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a lot.
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This is just health care.
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I've had people tell me before, look, abortion is not murder, it's just a medical procedure.
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It's just a medical procedure.
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Come on now.
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So if your surgeon slits your throat and bleeds you dry, he's a surgeon.
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It's just a medical procedure, isn't it?
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Probably outstanding Planned Parenthood doing yeoman's work out there.
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And then you got rotten tomatoes.
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So here's the thing with rotten tomatoes.
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Pretty much I don't watch a movie unless I go to rotten tomatoes and see that the non
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critics, because you got the critics side and then you have the non critic side, unless
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the non critic side has it at an 80% or above, I'm probably not going to waste my time with
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that movie because I don't get to watch movies very often, maybe one or two a month, right?
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As of right now is the recording of this podcast on the critics side.
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It is a certified rotten film.
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It is 50% and I think it has to be above 70% but for it to be a certified fresh and rotten
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tomatoes language.
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So it's 50% on the critic side thumbs up pretty much, right?
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It's 91% thumbs up on the non critic side.
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How interesting.
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It's almost as if the people that are critiquing films are maybe bringing in some of their
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personal bias and animus towards a movie of this kind, right?
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Because again, this isn't an Academy Award nominated type film.
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It's not terribly well acted.
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There are issues with the film, but it is what it is.
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I think the budget of the film was like six or seven million dollars.
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I mean, Dumbo, a movie that I think came out this weekend as well.
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It's going to bomb by the way, but it has like a hundred and seventy million dollar budget,
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170.
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This one had seven, right?
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But again, this just kind of gives you the wide gap, the people who actually saw the
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film, they got on there and yes, it Yeah, this is incredibly important film.
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Now, I think it's important here since on this podcast, we obviously talk about abortion
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quite a bit.
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And if you're tired of it, suck it.
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I'm not going to give you any refuge from that.
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All right.
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It's basically what we're going to be doing.
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So if you don't like it, find you another podcast, but we're going to go ahead and compare
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and contrast the movie, Gosnell and the movie, unplanned just very quickly because there
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were some definable differences in these movies because there are two movies that had a lot
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of faith based elements.
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The Gosnell movie did have a little bit of a it was it was a kind of a crowd sourced movie.
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It had kind of a longer runway than this one did, but the first thing is I'll just kind
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of compare and contrast my participation in the movie.
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So obviously, if you go back to the Gosnell episode, we talk about how I had gotten an
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advanced screening ticket to go see this movie so that I could release a podcast the
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week that it came out, obviously talked about that importance and my friends that were able
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to hook that up for me.
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Whereas this unplanned movie, I didn't really have a whole lot of involvement with it.
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I didn't really hear about it until a few months ago, then you know, probably not surprisingly
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it didn't really show up a lot on my on my news feed on Instagram or on Twitter or something
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like that.
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And so it kind of caught me off guard that it was even coming out this weekend, I'm sorry
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to say, but basically that was a little bit of a difference there.
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I knew Gosnell was coming.
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I was ready for it.
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Boom, boom.
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I'm literally scrolling through social media Friday night last night and I'm like, Oh crap,
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I need to go see this movie like tomorrow.
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So I wouldn't saw it at the first showing on Saturday today.
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The second thing I want to compare and contrast is the pre sabotage, which it was essentially
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the same for both movies with Gosnell and with unplanned.
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It was incredibly difficult for them to get ads out.
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It was incredibly difficult for them to get new spots on things that weren't, you know,
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more conservative, right leaning Christian type organizations.
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It was a little hard for them to do that.
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But now let's compare and contrast the brutality of each film.
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So if you remember, if you go back to the podcast I did on Gosnell, I talked to one of
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the producers, there were two main producers of that film.
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And after I viewed the film, I went and talked to him and I was like, Hey, is there anything
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that you want me to share with my audience about the film?
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And the number one thing that he stressed to me at the time was to, Hey, stress to your
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audience that this is not a graphic film which I was a little disappointed by, to be honest.
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I kind of wanted the film to be a little bit more graphic because there were a lot of things
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in it that were like, Oh, that's gross or I can't believe that happened.
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But it did kind of sanitize a little bit of what they were doing in that film.
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And so that was the number one thing that was a PG 13 film.
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He's like, we want as many people to go see it.
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We want whole churches to come and see this thing.
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So we don't want people to think it's just going to be some, you know, sort of vomit
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fest.
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Now, the movie on planned didn't hide anything.
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I mean, remember I described those two scenes already of a suction aspiration abortion and
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a chemically induced abortion.
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It was shown in all of its gory, goryness, right?
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All of its brutality, which I absolutely prefer.
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I absolutely, absolutely prefer.
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We'll talk more probably about that here in just a sec.
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Something I'm going to compare and contrast is, is the focus of the film, okay, of those
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two films rather.
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So the Gosnell movie, it was focused on Kermit Gosnell.
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It was focused on a single abortion provider in a single office in the horrific things
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that he did.
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But again, remember Kermit Gosnell is not in jail for the rest of his life because he
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performed abortions.
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He's in jail for the rest of his life because according to law in the state of Pennsylvania,
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he was inducing labor giving these women were giving live birth to babies and he was snipping
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their necks, right?
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So after they passed the magical vaginal canal, he snipped their necks and it became
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murder, right?
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Now the thousands and thousands of murders he had done prior to the, I think, seven that
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he was convicted of murdering, we don't talk about those, right?
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And so the movie, it's kind of hard because you're glad Kermit Gosnell isn't doing this
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anymore, but it didn't really demonize abortion in a intense enough way from, from my taste.
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Unplanned focuses on the abortion industry and specifically the biggest provider of baby
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murder in the United States, which is Planned Parenthood and it, it takes you right behind
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the curtains.
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And here's the deal, Planned Parenthood and all the people that have come out saying
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that this movie's a lie and it's, it's taking everything out of context and it's this and
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it's that, what about all the undercover videos that have been released?
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Just go to YouTube and type in like Planned Parenthood undercover.
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I'm sure you can find them.
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Some of the same things that are depicted in hidden camera videos are the same things
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that are depicted in this film.
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So we're not exactly expanding the boundaries of possibility in our brains here.
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But that's the thing that I really appreciated about the focus of the unplanned film is it
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didn't just focus on a singular doctor.
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I think depicted in the film were two separate abortion doctors, but they weren't even main
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characters.
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They were just people, right?
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They were just dudes in scrubs murdering babies.
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No big deal, right?
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But it was like Planned Parenthood was the antagonist of the film, the, the people that
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were working with Planned Parenthood, those are the people that we focused on.
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And I really, really appreciated that.
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And the last thing I want to compare and contrast here is basically my feelings afterwards.
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So leaving Gosnell, you know, I got upset and emotional and angry during that film, but
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it was basically kind of in one controlled section.
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It was because I had read the book prior to, and this was whenever they were showing pictures
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of one of the murdered babies to the jury.
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Now in the movie, they didn't even show you the picture, but I had seen the picture before
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that they were depicting being shown to the jurors in that jury room.
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And I just remember just being overcome with anger.
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I just, it was just so unbelievably frustrating.
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That happened four or five times watching unplanned.
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And I can be honest with you.
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You know, I, I prepared that podcast for God.
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Gosnell, Gosnell is an incredibly important movie.
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But I will say I'm still a little bit on tilt right now, recording this podcast hours and
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hours after I've left the theater, right?
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It's like it's still affecting me.
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I got other things I got to do today, guys.
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And I got to go blow off steam and do something today was supposed to be a rest day, but maybe
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I'm going to take the dog on a super intense walk or something.
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Cause I'm, I'm like, I'm like, I'm sitting here like sweating.
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I'm like so frustrated and fired up and this movie didn't do that.
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It didn't induce emotions that aren't there, that aren't real, didn't fabricate anything.
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It just revealed something towards like I knew this stuff happened, but just in the way that
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it was depicted, it's affecting me just in a very, very different way than the Gosnell
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movie did.
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Again, not saying Gosnell is a bad movie.
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I think you should support both of these films continuously, even whenever they're both
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out, um, you know, out of theaters, which Gosnell is right now, when you're buying them
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on DVD, sharing them with people, these stories do need to be told, but the emotions are very,
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very, very different between the two.
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So guys, as we wrap up here, uh, I want to go over some reasons why I think every modern
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Christian man should see and support this film.
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So if you're wondering who I'm talking to, I'm freaking talking to you.
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So guy who has headphones in right now or is driving down the road, I'm talking to you.
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Okay.
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So few things.
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We have been this sensitized from bloody, the bloody horror of abortion for too long.
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And so I think that every modern Christian man should watch this film because you can
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escape it.
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I felt like you could watch Gosnell and still kind of escape it, even though you saw depictions
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of him with bloody gloves, even though you saw the depictions of the baby parts that
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they found, the feet that he kept in jars, unplanned does it very, very differently.
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It's brutal, it's gruesome, and we need to look at it directly in its evil face.
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Okay.
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The second reason why I think you guys should see and support this film is that our politicians
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aren't telling the story appropriately enough, the story of abortion.
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Okay.
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So obviously people that are on the pro choice side of the aisle, they're never going to
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tell it appropriately because it'll basically undercut their voter base.
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But even on the pro life side, most people that are on the pro life side right now, they're
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basically just saying that they're pro life.
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Even if they're not, I'm going to assume that most of them are actually pro life, but they
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need that voter base, but they're not really doing anything to affect change on that level
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nationally or locally.
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And if our politicians aren't going to appropriately tell the story when they have the biggest
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microphones and the biggest audiences to do so, films like this have to take up the slack.
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And this one certainly does.
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All right.
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Another reason why you guys should see and support this film is because most pro life
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organizations don't have balls literally.
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Most pro life organizations, they don't go far enough, right?
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And there are some pro lifers and one thing about this movie is it did kind of show you
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a dichotomy between the pro lifers that are holding the Bible and then just like screaming
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at these women and being absolutely brutal and uncaring and ungraceful.
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But I think that they did show a lot of people from the 40 days for life organization that
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were very, very caring and also very, very upfront about what was happening.
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That they were trying to care for these women that were working inside the clinics, but also
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the ones that were going in there to have their babies murdered.
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But most pro life organizations, they just don't have balls like they just want to sit
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there and you know, they'll do the basic things, but when they have a chance to speak truth,
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they don't do it or they don't do it with with any vigor very fervently, right?
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And that leads me to the next reason why you guys need to go and support this is because
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most of our pastors don't have balls either.
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Think about this, honestly, think about the last 12 months that you've been going to your
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church, right?
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Or whatever church you've been going to.
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If your church shopping or doing whatever you're doing, how many times have you heard
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your pastor mention abortion, like, like even just mention it, even in passing.
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Okay.
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Now think about the times in the last 12 months that your pastor has done an entire sermon
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on abortion.
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Much less a sermon series on abortion because what I've witnessed and what I've seen, even
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in the churches that I go to, is it's just kind of a passing fancy, it'll get mentioned
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as an aside to whatever they try to make to be the larger issue of their, their sermon
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that they're presenting to you at the time, it's just presented as an aside.
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Have you ever heard your pastor describe a suction, aspiration, abortion?
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What about a DNC, food about a chemically induced abortion?
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What about the one where they literally inject salt into the amniotic fluid around the baby,
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basically burning it alive until they expel it through the woman's vagina?
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Have you ever heard your pastor talk about that?
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Basically go back to episode six of this podcast, re-listen to it and ask me if you've ever
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heard your pastor say anything even close to that.
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I bet you you haven't, because our pastors are effeminate [inaudible].
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Every last one of them, they don't want to talk about this issue.
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Why?
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What are they doing?
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What are they proving?
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Oh, are they all of a sudden not going to have enough grace if they describe murder
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as murder?
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Your pastors are complicit in this, most of them, they won't talk about it.
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Why?
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Why won't they talk about it?
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The next generation of beautiful Americans is being slaughtered every single day, every
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day.
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And what are they doing?
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They're sitting up there, they're talking about how you can be a good person and how
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you can give people like you more.
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Our babies are being murdered.
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And they're just standing up there talking about nothing, raising their hands during
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worship for nothing.
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Enough.
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I have had it.
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I absolutely had it.
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If you're a pastor out there and you don't talk about this, you are worthless.
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Preach the gospel.
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Do what you need to do.
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But you also need to talk about life.
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This is real life happening right now.
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All right, the last reason I'm going to give you guys for why we should see and support
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this film is that we can't actively fight an enemy that we don't know.
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Right now may seem like part of our enemy is our pastors and believe me.
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When I see the pastors that don't talk about this, I'm going to give it to them just as
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raw as I did just then.
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But for us as thinking Christian men, as Christian leaders of our churches, right?
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As most of us have to end up leading anyway, how can we fight an enemy that we don't exactly
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know their tactics of evil?
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We need to know a Planned Parenthood is doing.
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We need to know exactly what is happening behind these walls.
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And you're not going to get that from reading a blog for the most part.
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You're not going to get that from talking to your buddy.
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I think this movie did a fantastic job and absolutely fantastic job of giving us a peek
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behind the curtain.
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There have been great organizations out there that have gotten us behind the curtain and
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you know, revealing that Planned Parenthood is selling baby parts for money that they're
32:45
basically trying to make things fit their bottom line, there's been, you know, these
32:49
forensic researchers that have showed us that they're cooking their books to show that they're
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not making as much money off of abortion or that it's not an overall big thing or moneymaker
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for them.
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But at the same time, we know that those things are true now, but now what?
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We have to actively fight that enemy and we need to know their tactics of warfare before
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we can.
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No, I'm not calling for violence.
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No, I'm not advocating that any of you go out there and do violence to anyone that has
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anything to do with the abortion mill or the abortion industry inside of this United States.
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But at the same time, we've got to be able to fight and I'm tired of fighting fair.
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All right, guys, before we let you out of here, we're going to do a quick resilience boost.
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As we know by now, we are a men's ministry and our mission is cultivating mainly resilience.
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Specifically, we do that by providing content that for just spiritual, mental and physical
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toughness.
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So today, just a couple of things.
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I've got the unplanned movie website.
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So you've got the trailer there.
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You've got all the links to the different news things that they've been on.
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You've got links to resources.
33:44
You got links to a devotional.
33:46
You've got links to find tickets in your area.
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All those things are there.
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And then the second one is just a link to the book on Amazon.
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So that is the book that was written about Abby Johnson's life and I think it was released
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back in 2011, but it was re-released here this month for people just for this film.
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