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This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
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So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Guys,
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that is 1 Corinthians 1031. Glad to have you on the show today. Guys, just a little quick PSA
1:00
from the beginning. If you hear something rumbling during this episode, it's not my stomach. I am
1:04
well fed, but there are some thunderstorms running through here. It is Oklahoma after all. So if you
1:08
hear that, that is what that is. And before we get on to anything else, I just wanted to remind you
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undaunted.life/shop. You can find that in the show notes. And guys, also quick PSA for this week.
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That's what is that? Second or third PSA just for this one. We will have a bonus episode this week.
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Okay. So I don't normally release on Mondays. I don't certainly release on Monday afternoons
1:43
or anything like that. So this week, you will be getting three episodes because we got a special
1:46
guest coming on Thursday to kind of go over some drama that was stirred up by him. But that's
1:50
not going to be normal. But maybe over these next few months or something like that, we may have
1:54
some weeks where there's some three episode weeks. Maybe there's some interviews that I got to get
1:58
out because that week is the week the book releases or something like that. But again, we will normally
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release two episodes a week. This week, we're going to be releasing three. So just say thank you,
2:06
guys. Just say thank you. All right, guys, today in the quick hitter segment, we're going to discuss
2:10
a major incidents of racism that happened during a Yankees and White Sox game over their weekend.
2:15
Or did it the Biden administration pausing their newly announced this information board gas prices
2:20
hitting a new record high in the United States border patrol agents encountering the highest
2:24
number of people on our southern border and over a century in the Netflix telling their
2:28
woke employees to grow up. But should we actually believe them? But today, we're going to be talking
2:33
about the body positivity movement. Or as it would be more accurately called the fat positivity
2:40
movement. Okay. And there are actually people that do call this movement, you know, fat activism.
2:44
Now, here's the deal. I've actually wanted to talk about this particular subject for a very
2:48
long time. So if you go back to whenever I took off a little bit a time to, you know, prepare for
2:53
squish coming into the world and all that, you know, I had notes as to kind of some of the topics
2:56
that I wanted to hit right when I came back or maybe some stuff I was trying to sneak in right
3:00
before I took my break. And I wrote this in the margins of my notes. And it's been sitting there
3:04
for months and months and months. So really, since the beginning of the year, I've wanted to talk
3:08
about this. Now, I also want to talk about the fact that this show, you know, I do have some shows
3:13
that the content of the show is very offensive to people. But this one will be especially,
3:17
because I know there is certainly a segment of my audience that is significantly overweight.
3:22
Some people would say fat, I would say fat, you would say fat. But the thing is, is people get
3:27
very, very sensitive about their weight. And for good reason, I used to be fat back in the day
3:31
whenever I was, you know, kid growing up in school and then I, I kind of leaned out and, you know,
3:35
started focusing on fitness and all those different things. So, so I get it like even to this day,
3:38
I don't have the best body positivity that you could possibly have as an adult male living in the
3:43
United States with all this stuff at my fingertips. But I will say to all of you guys that are thinking
3:48
about skipping this episode, or maybe the title of the episode [inaudible] you off or something like that,
3:53
stay in the pocket, stay in the pocket on this one. This isn't something that I'm just like
3:57
pointing at people trying to shame them for shame's purpose. And we'll get more in the shame here in
4:00
a second. But guys, the temptation will be to just shut this out and kind of move on with your life.
4:05
Please do not do that. But the reason why I'm kind of doing this and doing this right now and
4:09
releasing it earlier than I was expecting was because of the latest Jordan Peterson controversy.
4:14
This guy's always stepping in something or, you know, there's some sort of ginned up controversy.
4:18
But recently, Sports Illustrated magazine, they released their latest installment of their
4:23
softcore porn softcore porn issue, which is, you know, their swimsuit issue. But historically,
4:28
SI since, you know, they're primarily a magazine that focuses on, you know, the exploits of the
4:33
world's best athletes, they show the athletic human form prominently in the magazine. Because
4:39
if you're covering sports, that's what you have to do. And this is especially true in their swimsuit
4:43
issue. Now, obviously, I have some major issues with the swimsuit issue. That's why, and even SI
4:47
knows that the issue itself is problematic because they will allow you to get a subscription without
4:52
that issue being in there. But for years and years, it is essentially devolved. This Sports
4:57
Illustrated swimsuit issue has devolved into professional swimsuit models who, you know, admittedly
5:03
are in amazing shape. They're essentially whoring themselves for money from men who will just use
5:08
the magazine later as a masturbatory aid. That's all that this magazine is. But now it's being used
5:13
as a political casual to kind of beat people into submission. So SI decided to throw a curveball
5:18
this year in particular. Okay. So as opposed to putting, you know, a highly airbrush, but very
5:24
typically big breasted and in shape bombshell on the cover, they decided to put a fat woman on
5:28
the cover. Now, I don't know the history of this issue because I don't pay attention to the SI
5:32
swimsuit issue. So I believe this is the first time they've put what they would call a plus size
5:37
model on the cover. But here we are. We have this plus size fat woman that is on the cover of the
5:41
SI swimsuit issue. Her name is Yumi new if you care about that. But considering the track record
5:47
of covers up to this point in history, this came as a shock to a lot of people. You know, a lot of
5:52
people are commenting about it on the internet, you know, people that pay attention to this sort
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of thing. But this hit a lot of people's radar on May the 16th of this year when Jordan Peterson
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tweeted the picture of the SI cover with the following commentary, sorry, not beautiful.
6:06
And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that. Now, as you can probably imagine,
6:13
anytime a man comes out and says anything that is negative and I mean, as it pertains to the
6:17
appearance of a woman, regardless of what the woman looks like, it's seen as a negative thing.
6:21
But the backlash was immediate and full-throated and just kind of is what it is. And you know,
6:25
he kind of responded, Jordan Peterson responded to some of that criticism, even responded to one
6:29
particular guy on Twitter by saying this, it's a conscious progressive attempt to manipulate and
6:34
retool the notion of beauty, relying on the idiot philosophy that such preferences are learned and
6:39
properly changed by those who know better, but don't let the facts stop you. And he actually
6:44
linked to a couple of different articles that kind of talked about how, you know, even babies will
6:48
respond to more attractive faces in a more positive light, blah, blah, blah. But because of all this
6:53
backlash, JP decided that he was going to leave Twitter. Okay, we'll get more into that here in
6:58
a second. But this is actually what he wrote, you know, talking about him leaving Twitter.
7:02
The endless flood of vicious insults is really not something that can be experienced anywhere else.
7:06
I like to follow the people I know and I think the incentive structure of the platform makes it
7:11
intrinsically and dangerously insane. He's talking about Twitter, obviously. So I told my staff to
7:15
change my password to keep me from temptation and am departing once again. If I have something
7:20
to say, I'll write an article or make a video. If the issue is not important enough to justify that,
7:25
then perhaps it would be best to just let it go. And I plan to write an article on the technical
7:29
reasons that Twitter is maddening us all very soon. Bye for now. Okay, so a few things just kind of
7:35
quickly where I think JP went wrong on this. First in the initial tweet, he used the word beauty
7:40
and not healthy. Okay, so let me read this back to you and I'll insert that word. Sorry, not healthy
7:47
and no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that. That probably would have been a
7:50
better use because obviously beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This woman, you know, had a very
7:54
attractive face, but obviously a very, you know, bordering on morbidly obese bodies. She was kind
7:59
of getting to that point of certainly being very significantly overweight. Also, he didn't follow
8:05
his own advice that I've, I've used myself and have, you know, encouraged other people to use,
8:09
which is to let the outrage die down for a couple of weeks and then just get back to business,
8:14
right? You know, batten down the hatchets, realize that it's going to blow over, they'll find something
8:18
else to be mad at and just kind of move forward. He's, he's talked about that a lot, but he didn't
8:21
really follow his own advice here. And then I guess the other thing that I really wouldn't have done
8:25
if I was him is he left the pro, the platform loudly, like he announced everybody, Hey, I am
8:30
leaving the platform now when he could have done so quietly, you know, he could have changed his
8:34
password and, you know, let his team keep him off it so he keep off temptation and just not
8:38
tweeted anything for about a month. And you know, there would be, you know, a few thousand people
8:42
that might be a little bit concerned or wondering why he wasn't posting live, but it really wouldn't
8:47
have been that big of a deal. But, but here's the reality. Here's the reality about all this. Jordan
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Peterson was right. He was right. Again, he used the word beauty and not healthy, but I think we kind
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of know what he was trying to talk about. And he was right and everybody knows it. That's why
9:02
there's the outrage because this is one of those sacred cows that you can't touch. I mean,
9:07
no pun intended on the cow reference. You just can't touch this because it has to do with people's
9:11
appearance, right? LinkedIn is pretty great at a lot of things. Like, how can you tap into the latest
9:16
trends and insights in your field? We cannot stop your co-worker from tapping her pencil.
9:21
LinkedIn can help you find new jobs that align with your career goals. We cannot help you find
9:27
the source of that weird smell in the office fridge. Yeah. And while we can't stop your co-workers
9:33
from bringing their hobbies into the office, LinkedIn can help you bring your career to the next level.
9:39
LinkedIn is the network that works for you. Which may be really delved into the history of the whole
9:45
fat positivity movement. And guys, believe it or not, you can get down a rabbit hole. And I'm not
9:49
going to go through all the stuff that I read. But this began back in the 1960s, where most of the
9:53
world's, you know, worst stupid ideologies began. But it began because fat people at the time were
9:59
starting to protest that they were being discriminated against because of their size, right? Again,
10:04
their size is something that they could presumably control, but they were somehow being discriminated
10:08
against. And that their size was leading to a lack of access for them and something like that. But
10:12
where this really all kicked off was in 1967, when there was an op ed written by a guy named
10:17
Llewellyn Lauterbach or Lou Lauterbach called more people should be fat. Okay. So in a surprise to
10:23
nobody, Lauterbach himself was a fatty. But the thing is, is you can get into all this stuff. And
10:28
I actually put that in the show notes because I'm not going to read it here because it's kind of a
10:31
long op ed and all these different things. But it's a guy back in the 1960s. Tina's wife were both
10:35
fat. He wanted everybody to accept the fact that they were fat. And so he tried to make it like
10:40
it's this thing, right? Here's this big official thing that being fat is okay. Now this kind of led
10:46
to a lot of things that have been expanded on over time. Okay, there's something called the
10:51
fatosphere. Now, so that is the the blogosphere, but for fat people, so people that can, you know,
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you know, I guess write down their thoughts about fatness and what it's like to live as a fat
10:59
person in this world. There's something called fat in gatherings, fat ends. And so all these
11:04
people that are fat apparently get together in a room that's got to be probably a pretty large size
11:07
room. They got to get together and they're they're having a fat in like you people used to do sit-ins
11:12
right whenever they're right. We're racially segregated, you know, restaurants and stuff like
11:15
that. They did a sit in. So they have fat ends. There's the invention of something called fatphobia,
11:19
right? Because if you want your your stuff to kind of get to the mainstream, just put the word phobia
11:24
after it, right? Create an issue, create an entire category of people and issues. So fat phobia was
11:29
created. But then that all gave way to the fat positivity movement. Now, I got to go over some of
11:35
the realities of the fat positivity movement here. So indulge me a little bit. The first one
11:40
is that this is just the latest iteration of the the world should love me for who I am and as I am
11:46
movement, right? So no matter what your thing is, no matter what the thing is that you're into,
11:51
no matter what you identify as the world is just supposed to say, yeah, totally makes sense.
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And I love you. Thank you for being unique. This is just the latest iteration of that. Also,
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it's the latest iteration of the look at me. I'm a victim to I'm in a marginalized group thing.
12:05
Because there are people that actually think that being fat makes them a marginalized person,
12:10
whereas there are other people that have immutable characteristics like maybe they were born a woman
12:14
or they were born a person of color or they were born short or tall or something like that,
12:18
something that they literally have no control over and can't I just magically identify as
12:22
something else. But people that are fat are opting into that type of ideology that they are some
12:27
sort of a marginalized group. That's what the fat positivity movement is leaning towards and leading
12:32
people to. Also, this movement is causing fat people to look at themselves with pride and not shame,
12:40
which is deadly. You have a lot of people that need to get their lives on track. They need to be
12:47
moving more and eating less and taking care of themselves. But instead, they're looking at the
12:50
cells saying, not only is this okay. This is what beauty looks like. Look at TV commercials. You have,
12:58
you know, Adidas and all these other major sports entities are showing these incredibly overweight
13:02
people not like, hey, look, they're trying to aspirationally get to a smaller size to where they
13:08
can be healthier in this world. It's like, no, no, this is the size they are. This is the size they're
13:12
going to stay. And here's the stretchy pants they're wearing, right? You see these magazine covers,
13:16
I think a couple of months ago is Cosmo had these magazines that said this is healthy and had these
13:21
very obese women on the cover wearing like yoga pants doing, you know, some sort of a stretch or
13:26
something like that. But the thing is, is people don't like to use shame anymore. And I think shame
13:32
is one of the best, if not one of the most appropriate motivators for somebody. Because what keeps me
13:38
from sitting on the couch and getting fat, what keeps me from eating some of the food that I want
13:42
to eat at the times I want to eat it is the potential shame of being back to the size I was back in
13:47
the day. When I was a kid, whenever, you know, I would have people literally walk up and grab my
13:51
little man tits, right? I mean, yeah, I was bullied and all those different things. But part of that is
13:56
I brought it on myself and my parents brought it on me because the stuff they fed me, right? But
14:00
the thing is, is shame is a tremendous motivator. Why do you not do some of the things that you want
14:05
to do in life that would be hurtful to you or people in your life? Because you're trying to avoid
14:10
future shame. Future stick, you know, everyone talks about carrot, but you're avoiding future
14:15
stick. But this whole movement is causing people that look the way that they do to just ignore that
14:21
and say, this is me and I'm beautiful and it's awesome. Don't you think I'm awesome too?
14:25
Another thing that this movement has done is it has successfully somehow rebranded common concern
14:33
and interventions as fat shaming. And oh, you don't want to, you don't want to blank shame,
14:38
you don't want to [inaudible] shame, you don't want to raise shame, you don't want to fat shame.
14:41
But if you were to show concern to a friend, which I've done with friends in my life before,
14:46
right? I think I've talked about that on the show here before. I can't remember the exact
14:49
context. But there are people that are overweight where even their families would come to me because
14:53
they know I have an influence on these people and they're like, please, can you talk to, you know,
14:56
such and such and so and so. I'm really concerned about them. They've gained so much weight over
15:00
the last year. You know, they're so young. I don't want them to die early with a heart attack. I want
15:04
them to, you know, keep being my brother and keep being, you know, a father to the kids and keep
15:07
being the cousin or whatever the situation is for that person. But if you do any of those things now,
15:12
if you take a friend aside and say, hey, brother, you've gained a lot of weight over the last six
15:17
months to a year, you're not exercising anymore. You know, I see some of the stuff that you eat.
15:22
This is very, very dangerous for you. And brother, I love you. You can't do this anymore. That's fat
15:27
shaming. You can't do that. Because what could possibly be worse than hurting someone's feelings.
15:34
Now, never mind the fact that their, their blood type is brown gravy. No, we don't need to talk
15:38
about that. We don't need to talk about the fact that they're going to go to an early grave because
15:42
of decisions that they're making. We just want to make sure that they don't feel bad. That's
15:47
something that this movement is done. Also, this movement is breeding fat people. When we literally
15:54
guys, we literally live in the easiest time in human history to be in elite shape, elite shape.
16:01
Okay. Because here's the thing. People used to be in shape back in the day, just because they
16:07
existed, right? There wasn't a whole lot of food around. There certainly wasn't food that
16:12
was made in a factory. And they actually worked using their bodies, right? You know, they were
16:16
keeping, keeping up the village or, you know, you know, going off and hunting or fighting or
16:21
something like that. So they were just skinny. They were just in shape. They were just as healthy
16:25
as they could be, but they looked healthy, right? Because they were smaller. But now we live in a
16:29
world where there are amazing supplements. There are super diet plans. You could even get your
16:36
blood or your, you know, genetic code or whatever sent off to some labs somewhere and they'll send
16:41
you a like rundown of the foods you should avoid because they're bad for your genetics
16:46
and foods that you should, you know, go towards because of your genetics. You can get that done.
16:50
There's free exercise programs everywhere. Every time somebody asks me to make an exercise
16:54
program for them, I'm like, dude, seriously, it's just go to YouTube and type in whatever,
16:58
like hit workout or running workout or heavy bag workout. There's so many free things
17:03
out there for you. There's nothing keeping you from any of these things. And again, guys,
17:07
just think of what people that are quote unquote in shape look like in 2022 and then go back 50
17:13
years ago and look at what those people look like. I saw a picture the other day. It was like five
17:16
or six, you know, strong men of the day. This was probably, you know, close to 100 years ago or
17:20
something like that. It was hilarious. These guys were not big at all. They may have been strong,
17:26
but they didn't have these bulging muscles. They weren't super vascular. They didn't have veins
17:30
popping out everywhere. They weren't tanned and shaved and all those different things.
17:33
Being in shape 100 years ago is way different than it is today. And yet we still have this
17:38
overwhelming abundance, especially in the United States of America, of people that are morbidly
17:42
obese and not just according to BMI because according to BMI, I weigh too much. But I mean,
17:47
people that are legitimately overweight. Okay. But I just kind of need to be clear about something
17:53
here as we continue talking about this. Fat people are not a marginalized group.
17:57
Fat phobia is not a real thing. Okay. Fat people are not healthy. And I know this all,
18:05
this all seems mean, it seems super judgmental, all those different things. But we need to stop
18:09
trying to like take care of people's feelings. People need to sit in this shame for a little bit.
18:14
If they're going to make that life change, how often do you make a life change just because you
18:17
wake up one day and you're super inspired and you change your life for the next decade based on the
18:21
feeling that you had when you woke up? No, these people need to understand that they're like that
18:26
for a reason because here is the hardest truth of them all. Okay. Fat people are fat by choice.
18:32
It is a choice to be the size that you are. Now, I will create one small caveat for people who
18:39
have legitimate thyroid issues. And by legitimate thyroid issues, I mean, there is such a problem
18:45
with their thyroid and it's functioning that no matter how much you take care of yourself,
18:50
you will continue to gain weight. There are people out there like that. It's just a weird
18:54
thing. It is like, it's just a crazy thing that these people have to deal with. It's really hard
18:59
and I hate that for them. But for the overwhelming majority, the rest of the population that is
19:04
overweight, they are that way because they've chosen to be because when the choice was between
19:09
watching Netflix or working out, they chose Netflix. When the choice was a sport that, you know, will
19:15
keep you trim as opposed to a sport that will kind of aid in your fatness, you know, jujitsu versus
19:20
golf or something like that, that that's what they chose whenever they could have eaten, you know,
19:27
the steak with a sweet potato and broccoli, they decide to eat a double quarter pounder, you know,
19:33
with two milkshakes and a bunch of fries, like that's what they chose to do. And they've done
19:37
it and they've compounded it time after time after time. And I'm not talking about people that are
19:42
big boned or genetically everyone in my family's big, even with those people, if you were on a
19:46
significant diet and exercise regimen, you're not going to look the way that you look now.
19:50
And that's a hard truth that people need to understand is that you're fat in America,
19:56
especially, and you are that because of a choice that you've made. And because of a, you know,
20:01
combination of choices that you've made over time. I know that seems harsh, but now we need
20:05
to go to what the Bible says about all this. Okay, because I'm not just kind of pulling this
20:09
stuff out and, you know, oh, well, you're already in shape. So of course, you'd say that you're
20:12
going to put yourself on the right side. Let's really dig down. So we need to talk about exercise,
20:16
laziness, gluttony, self control, all those different things. So let's start with exercise.
20:20
So let's go to 1 Corinthians 6 19 through 20, or do you not know that your body is a temple of the
20:25
Holy Spirit within you whom you have from God, you are not your own for you were bought with a price.
20:30
So glorify God in your body. Now, before everyone starts freaking out all you theologians out there,
20:35
Paul is mainly talking about sexual sin. You see that in the context of the things he's talking
20:39
about in his first letter to the church in Corinth. Okay. But since Christ died, right? And this is
20:47
basic theology. I'm not going to go too deep here. But since Christ died, the Holy Spirit now dwells
20:52
inside of our bodies. It used to dwell in the temple, the physical temple of place,
20:58
and now dwells in a people and us as individuals. Okay. And so this idea that we don't need to take
21:05
care of our bodies is nonsense. I've heard people explain away fatness by using this scripture,
21:11
albeit exegeting it very, very poorly. They're like, Oh, it's really no big deal. You know,
21:16
your body is what it is. You're going to get a new body anyway in heaven. So why did we care
21:20
about this one? And it's funny, everybody that makes an argument like that is fat. You don't see
21:24
anybody that spends a lot of time taking care of themselves arguing for it in that way.
21:28
Also, I talk about, you know, the first four books or first four chapters, rather, the book
21:33
in Nehemiah. It's some of my favorite parts of the entire Bible, but you know, just kind of bring
21:36
us up to speed. Nehemiah is going back to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls. You know, he convinces
21:40
everybody. He kind of becomes a politician gets everybody fired up to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,
21:44
right? But then he doesn't say, guys, so we're going to start a training program tomorrow morning.
21:49
You know, it's P 90 X. We're going to do some pullups, pushups and and air squats. And we're
21:54
going to get everybody in shape. And you know, at the end of those 90 days, we're all going to do
21:56
the Murph to show that we've, you know, we've really come and to this great place of being in
22:00
shape. We've really arrived. And then we're going to get to work because the work's going to be
22:04
hard. It's going to be backbreaking, work rebuilding these walls. And also we'll mix in some, you know,
22:08
Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai and Western boxing training, because you know, we're maybe going to have to
22:12
fight off some people as some people are working. No, there was no training that needed to happen.
22:17
These people were physically ready for the work. And so as I describe a lot of times,
22:22
if God required something of you that made you have to get out of your comfort zone and do
22:28
something physically so that he could have his glory be brought to a particular people group or
22:33
to a situation, are you ready for that? If it requires walking for a long ways or, you know,
22:39
working a very, very difficult in difficult circumstances using your body, are you ready for
22:44
that? Because most of you, you're not because you have not honored God with your body for decades
22:50
at this point. Now we need to talk also about laziness. So let's go to Proverbs six versus nine
22:55
through 11. How long will you lie there, oh, sluggered, and when will you arise from your sleep? A little
23:01
sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like
23:06
a robber and want like an armed man. Now, I could have picked one of like a dozen different Proverbs
23:13
that talked about laziness and slothfulness and being a sluggered great word. But this overall
23:18
idea of laziness is not a positive thing. Like you don't hear laziness talked about in the Bible
23:24
as this great thing that we should all aspire to. There's talk of rest. There's there's talk of
23:29
sleep. There's talk of those things. But whenever you are able bodied and able minded and yet you
23:34
choose with your able mind not to work, that is a major, major problem. We see that throughout the
23:39
Bible, certainly in the Proverbs. Now we need to talk about the sin of gluttony. So let's go to
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Proverbs 23 versus 20 and 21. Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat for the drunkard
23:50
and the glutton will come to poverty and slumber will clothe them with rags. So here's the reality
23:56
of this as well. Gluttony is a big deal. And that goes for everybody. So even if you're somebody
24:01
that's in shape and there's a thunder for you guys. There it is. I told you it's not your stomach.
24:07
Perfect timing for the thunder though. But the gluttony is something that applies to everybody.
24:11
But again, since most people are fat by choice, gluttony becomes a lifestyle.
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Every meal is gorging yourself or you spread out your meals and you're gorging yourself
24:21
over a span of one waking day, right? But it's sinful to act in that way.
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And the last thing that I guess we can talk about on this is just having self control overall.
24:31
Kayla, so let's go back to first Corinthians, but let's go nine versus 20, 23, 27, 24 through 27
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rather. So first Corinthians nine 24 through 27. Do you not know that in a race all the runners
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run, but only one receives the prize. So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises
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self control and all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we and imperishable.
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So I do not run aimlessly. I do not box as one beating the air, but I discipline my body and
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keep it under control less after preaching to others. I myself should be disqualified. And then
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guys will go to Galatians 5 22 and 23 here. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,
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patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control against such things are there is
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no law. So self control is a very, very big thing here. It's something that we need to make sure that
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we are controlling ourselves. So if you are eating too much, it is sinful to keep doing that because
25:31
you are not showing self control. If you are not exercising your body, if you are not staying in
25:36
shape, you are controlling yourself to the detriment of your body. You're saying, no, I'm just going to
25:41
stay in. I'm going to take another year off to rest or something like that. Having self control
25:46
is very, very important to all this. Now, quick sideboard for a sidebar before I kind of bring
25:51
all this home. There are obviously risks associated with focusing on your body too much with focusing
25:56
on exercise and dieting too much, because like anything else, too much of a God given good thing
26:01
can be sinful, okay? You can make being in shape an idol. It can certainly become an idol. I would
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say I probably lean towards that if I'm being honest, like I'm making an idol of looking a certain
26:12
way or being able to perform in a certain way. But also you can easily become covetous of someone
26:16
else's body or performance, right? Like, Oh, look how tall that person is man, his abs look amazing
26:20
or my calves aren't that big. Man, I can't believe he can deadlift that much way. He does how many
26:24
pull ups in a week. You can always get to that point. So you obviously have to, you know, focus on that
26:29
and make sure that you're aware of that. But I do want to go back to the scripture that I said
26:33
from the beginning of the podcast is 1 Corinthians 10 verse 31. So whether you eat or drink or whatever
26:38
you do, do all things to the glory of God. So I'm going to read a few commentaries on this particular
26:44
scripture. So this is from the ESV Reformation Bible commentary. Paul brings his argument in
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chapters eight through 10 to its climax. The Christians, every decision is to be governed and
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determined by what will promote the manifested excellence of God through the drawing of Jews and
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Greeks to faith and the strengthening of the church of God. Now this is from the Moody Bible
27:05
commentary on 1 Corinthians 10 verse 31. To do something for the glory of God is to act in such
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a way that people see him in action and that his reputation is enhanced. And now we're going to go
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to the MacArthur Bible commentary here. Christian liberty, as well as the most common behavior
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is to be conducted to the honor of God, the most common behavior, even what you eat, even how you
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exercise. So here are three big questions that you guys need to ask yourselves or ask to the men in
27:32
your life that you have some, you know, influence on. Okay. The first is something like is sitting on
27:39
the couch and watching your waistline grow, promoting the manifested excellence of God.
27:46
Here's another one is constantly gorging yourself with food made in, you know, factory somewhere,
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allowing people to see him in action and enhancing his reputation.
27:57
And another one to consider here are the choices you're making pertaining to your diet and exercise
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showing honor or dishonor to God. And obviously if the title of this podcast was any hint to you,
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obviously I think that this is showing dishonor to God. Something that I've talked about before
28:17
when I've done some speeches and I've had some people not react very positively to it. But you
28:20
know, we kind of get there is I talk about spiritual mental and physical resilience on a daily basis,
28:25
right? You know, cultivating those things on a daily basis. The thing about physical resilience
28:29
is you can see that in somebody. Now there are people that have bad bodies. I mean, you look at
28:32
someone like, you know, Tyson Fury or Daniel Cormier or someone like that. These are people that do
28:36
not have good bodies that they're some of the most in shape people on the planet, but their bodies
28:40
just don't look good, right? They're they're visually fat, even though they're not fat on their
28:44
inside. But for the most part, aside from some of those, you know, exceptions of exceptions,
28:49
you can see whether or not somebody's physically resilient. You can look at somebody and be able
28:53
to determine whether or not they would be able to run to the end of their street and die or not,
28:58
right? Whereas it's kind of hard to tell whether or not somebody's mentally or spiritually that,
29:03
right? Whether somebody is mentally or spiritually at a point where, you know, they're all the way
29:09
to the point of being able to cultivate that resilience. They're super, super resilient in
29:13
those areas. Okay. So that's all very important. But now before we wrap up the section, I do want
29:17
to talk about the ways that we can combat the fat positivity movement. Okay. Some people call it
29:22
body positivity or whatever, but the fat positivity movement. This is how we can combat that.
29:26
The first thing, and this is to all of us individually, is model physical health and wellness
29:32
personally, model it personally. Because if you aren't in shape, why are you telling other people
29:38
about being in shape? And this especially goes for pastors. Because you see these pastors are
29:42
talking about how you should live and what you should do and how you should comport yourself.
29:45
And man, they're biggies. They're really, really big. They're clearly not taking care of themselves.
29:52
And that's a problem. So you should model physical health and wellness. Personally,
29:56
if you're going to tell other people to do it. Okay. Another way to combat the fat positivity
30:00
movement is to not celebrate people for losing weight. Don't celebrate it. Now,
30:07
this might sound crazy considering, you know, all the stuff I've talked about, but follow me here.
30:11
Because you have people, we all have people like this in our lives. They go on a crash diet,
30:16
you know, they exercise for, you know, a period of time, maybe it's, you know, three months,
30:20
you know, six months, maybe a whole year or something like that. And they lose a ton of weight.
30:24
And then you see it. The magical Facebook post, right? The before and after picture on Instagram.
30:31
I used to look like this, but I look like this now. And it's a ton of likes, a ton of comments,
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congratulations, great job, great work, all those different things. Oh, that's so awesome.
30:42
Look at you go, go, go, go. And then a lot of these people gain all that weight back.
30:49
They gain it back. Some of them get to where they were bigger than they were before.
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And then they just start the cycle over. And then a year or two down the road,
31:00
they make a post again. And people say, Oh, how great it is. Look at you. You're doing so great.
31:04
All those different things. So if somebody has one of those moments, set a reminder on your phone
31:10
for six months from that exact moment to congratulate them and only congratulate them
31:16
if they've maintained that lifestyle, because it's kind of easy, believe it or not,
31:21
to do something for 90 days. Okay, I'm not going to eat all this junk. I'm not going to eat sugar
31:25
for 90 days. I'm going to go keto or I'm going to go meditarian or I'm going to go whatever,
31:29
I'm going to go blah, blah, blah. And you can do that for 90 days. You can force yourself to do
31:32
it for 90 days. It's really easy, believe it or not, to go on a workout regimen to do P90X for 90
31:38
days or to do T 25 or to do this running program or to train for this particular event and then go
31:42
and do that event. It's about what life looks like after that. Because your body to lose all that
31:48
weight, you're starving your own body. But then if you start adding the calories back in,
31:52
if you start adding all this junk back into your diet, your body's going to store that even more
31:57
fervently than it did before, because it's like, Oh, okay, the body was going through this famine
32:02
period. And I don't know when the next famine period is going to happen. So let's store up this,
32:06
this as much as possible, and we'll store it as fat. So don't immediately tell these people that
32:12
they're awesome. Wait, wait six months, wait a year, and then celebrate them, which it leads me to the
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next thing about how you can combat the fat positivity movement, which is to celebrate people for being
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in shape. Because I always kind of found it funny, we're celebrating these people that spent years,
32:28
if not decades, destroying themselves. And then all of a sudden, we're just going to heat praise
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on them. Because for three to six months of their life, they actually live like a disciplined adult.
32:37
Is that what we want to reward? How about you tell the people that are in shape in your life,
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the people that take care of themselves, they watch what they eat, they're very mindful about
32:46
being active? How about you send that person a quick text message? How about whenever they post,
32:50
you know, the cell's wearing a, wearing a suit or a dress or something like that on Facebook.
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Hey, man, looking great. Good for you. Like, I know it's hard to be that size to maintain your
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weight for, you know, for the last 10, 20, 30 years, maybe your entire life, but good on you, man.
33:05
Like that's discipline. Celebrate those people. And the last thing here and again,
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this is where I'm going to get all the angry emails. So I'm obviously prepared for it. If
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you're still listening to this 30, 30 minutes in or whatever, we need to call fat Christians to
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repentance. Call them to repentance. We need to tell these people, you can't live like this anymore.
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You're dishonoring God by eating how you eat and by being, you know, just sitting around.
33:32
Like, this is bad for you. This is not honoring to God. You shouldn't be doing this.
33:37
Because a lot of us, if someone we knew was sinning because they were maybe acting out on a homosexual
33:43
impulse, we would call them out on that. Or maybe somebody's cheating on their taxes or they're
33:48
having an affair or they're having any of these other varsity sins that we consider to be varsity
33:52
sins. We're really okay about calling those things out, you know, some of us, but for the most part,
33:56
we're okay with calling those people out. But something like this seems like it's too offensive,
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could be too hurtful. You know, it could really, really hurt someone's feelings.
34:06
And supposedly we're just not, we're not supposed to be able to do that. But again,
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as Christians, we should be way more concerned about how Christians live than everybody else.
34:15
So why would you not call a friend of yours? That is a Christian. That is fat.
34:21
Why would you not point this out to them? But again, it goes back to the thing is, are you modeling
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it yourself? Right? Because you point out to your buddy, hey, you shouldn't be cheating on your
34:29
wife and you've gotten an affair going. That that's probably not the best setup for this entire
34:33
conversation. But telling your friend or just sitting by as your, your friend has a sedentary
34:39
lifestyle. And they're dishonoring themselves and dishonoring the only body that God's going to give
34:43
them until glory. That's not a good thing. It's not something that we should allow for the people
34:48
that are in our orbit. All right, guys, we're not going to let a little rain and thunder and
34:52
lightning over here mess us up. We're going to keep it going. We're going to get into the quick
34:55
hitters for this week. So there was supposedly a major incidents of racism that happened during
35:00
a baseball game over the weekend. So in order to really set this up, we need to go all the way back
35:05
to May 13th on a night in Chicago. So there was an incident at third base between the shortstop for
35:10
the Chicago White Sox named Tim Anderson and the third baseman for the New York Yankees named Josh
35:15
Donaldson. So there was a play where Tim Anderson kind of got caught off a third base kind of going
35:20
towards home. And the ball came back in from the catcher and Josh Donaldson caught it. And in the
35:25
process of catching it and trying to put the tag down, you could tell he kind of loses his
35:29
balance a little bit. But then he kind of like goes and does what most good infielders would do
35:34
is in doing the tag, you kind of want to push the person off the base a little bit. You know,
35:38
you're not allowed to block the plate necessarily, especially not anymore. But you want to kind of
35:42
move them off the plate because the up may give you the out, right? So he pushes Tim Anderson a
35:47
little bit as he's, you know, kind of trying to make the play. Tim Anderson takes inception to that.
35:51
He gets up and he pushes, you know, Josh Donaldson and they kind of have some words and Tim Anderson
35:55
pretenses a tough guy and he's going to fight because obviously there's people in between them.
35:58
And that should have been it, right? Not really that big a deal. I don't think the bench is even
36:02
cleared. I'll put in the show notes of video so you can kind of watch it for yourself.
36:05
But then on Saturday, this, this last Saturday, there was so that that initial game was the Yankees
36:10
versus the White Sox in Chicago. Now the series was in New York City. It's in the Bronx. And so
36:15
it happened. So I'll set it up this way. So is at the end of the inning, you have Tim Anderson
36:21
coming off the field, Josh Donaldson had just rounded second. There was the last play. I think
36:25
there was an out at first base or something like that. And these two cross paths again,
36:28
Tim Anderson and Josh Donaldson. And Tim Anderson said something to Josh Donaldson.
36:33
I haven't been able to figure out what it was, but he said something to Josh Donaldson.
36:37
And then Josh Donaldson said the comment. This is the comment that has made its way all the way
36:42
around the sports world since Saturday. He referred to Tim Anderson as Jackie.
36:48
This was reported after the game. He called him Jackie, which was a reference to Jackie Robinson.
36:55
Obviously the guy who very famously broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
36:59
Okay. Now after the game, Tony LaRouza, who's the greatest manager in the history of baseball,
37:04
he came out and said that this was unknown in certain terms. It was a racist comment that
37:08
Josh Donaldson said towards his shortstop. And then Tim Anderson, all of a sudden, you know,
37:13
he's, he's bombastic on the field, right? He's hitting his chest and he's talking trash. He's
37:16
doing all this stuff. And he's, you know, doing whatever, whatever. He's like, Oh, he wants to
37:19
fight and all that kind of stuff. And now he's really kind of sullen and not really looking
37:23
anybody in the eye. He's looking down and just like you would do if you were a victim, right?
37:28
And the, the, you know, one of the people in the media said, Hey, your manager, Tony
37:31
LaRouza said this was racist. Like what do you think? He's like, yeah, yeah, it definitely was
37:35
racist. He definitely meant it in a racist way. Okay. So if that's all I told you,
37:40
if that's all there was to this story, you would probably think that Josh Donaldson for the Yankees
37:47
was, you know, one inward use away from being the grand wizard of the KKK.
37:52
But hold the presses. There's a little article from Sports Illustrated.
37:57
Second shout out to Sports Illustrated. This podcast, a little article from 2019 that is
38:03
throwing a big wrench into all this narrative about racism. You know, to anyone who's actually
38:08
paying attention and cares about intellectual honesty. So this is from the article in 2019.
38:14
This is Tim Anderson talking about himself. I kind of feel like today's Jackie Robinson,
38:19
he says, that's huge to say, but it's cool, man, because he changed the game. And I feel like I'm
38:25
getting to a point where I need to change the game. Whoopsies. Apparently Tim Anderson, hilariously,
38:34
thinks of himself as a modern day Jackie Robinson. Now, Tim Anderson is a good player.
38:40
He's a fine player. I think he won the batting title at one point. He's gotten some votes for
38:43
MVP before. He's a really, really good player above average player. He's not a great player.
38:48
He's not going to be a Hall Famer. He's certainly not going to change the face of sports like
38:52
Jackie Robinson did. But in his own messed up mind, he thinks that he's like a modern day
38:59
Jackie Robinson. And apparently, Josh Donaldson had jokingly called Tim Anderson Jackie to him
39:07
before, like to his face. And they both laughed about it. According to Donaldson, he was literally
39:12
ribbing the guy, right? So you have everybody coming out. MLB is going to do an investigation,
39:17
like somehow they're going to get into Josh Donaldson's head and figure out if he has any racial
39:21
animus in his heart towards black people or something like that. And they're just going to get to the
39:24
bottom of it. And you know, everybody in the media is jumping on Josh Donaldson as his horrible
39:28
racist and even his own manager, Brett Boone or not Brett Boone, Aaron Boone. He comes out and says
39:34
that this was a bad thing. And like everybody's jumping on Josh Donaldson. So this is what I would
39:38
do if I were Josh Donaldson. Okay. I would call a press conference. And I've actually already
39:46
prepared his statement. I'm going to read it to you now. So if anybody knows Josh Donaldson or Josh,
39:50
if you're listening to this, I've done the hard work for you. You're not going to have to,
39:54
you know, pay a PR team on retainer to kind of come up with this for you. I've got it. I've nailed
40:00
your prepared statement. So here we go. Again, this is Josh Johnson. Hello, everyone. As you
40:06
have likely heard by now, it is being reported that I made a racist remark directed at Tim Anderson
40:12
this weekend when we played against the Chicago White Sox. As I was leaving the field, Tim decided
40:17
to talk a little trash to me. And I responded by calling him Jackie, a name I had used before
40:23
to with him to lovingly poke fun at the fact that he referred to himself as today's Jackie Robinson
40:29
in an interview with Sports Illustrated in 2019. Yet after the game, when asked about the comment
40:36
by the media, he clearly suffered a bout of temporary amnesia and completely forgot that he
40:41
had previously said that about himself. If not about of temporary amnesia, the actual reason for
40:47
the his confusing comments is that he feels that it is now advantageous in our current culture
40:53
to be a victim. Being a supposed victim could earn him a multi million dollar contract
40:58
after his playing days are over a la social justice hero Colin Kaepernick. It obviously pays
41:04
to be a victim. So why not take advantage? This is not a real story. The foundations of the
41:10
supposed racist incident are non-existent. I reject this story entirely. So to the media
41:18
members that have been pushing this false narrative to the White Sox manager, Tony LaRosa,
41:23
to the entire White Sox organization, and especially to Tim Anderson, here is my final statement.
41:28
Spread your feet, bend over, grab this fake outrage and shove it straight into your rectum.
41:38
That's the statement. And then what he should do, and hopefully it's one of those things where
41:43
there's like 40 microphones in front of them, he should grab each individual microphone and
41:47
just drop it on the ground. Grab another one, drop it on the ground, grab it, make it awkward.
41:52
Like take your time with it, drop every single one on the ground, take no questions, flip the
41:57
table over and go back and do your job being a major league baseball player. This is not a real
42:02
story. This is so unbelievably fake. And you can tell because the entities that are covering
42:06
this like ESPN or the New York Times or Washington Post or anything like that, if they even mention
42:10
the SI article from 2019, if they even do, which a lot of them don't, it's way, way, way, way, way,
42:17
down in the story. Okay, because that is the entire story, because it's not going to make
42:23
front page news or be trending on Twitter. Two baseball players share words as they talk trash.
42:28
Like that's not going to be anything. But this is some sort of like modern day lynching,
42:33
right? And Tim Anderson, screw Tim Anderson for this. What is, what is wrong with this guy?
42:38
Like he's been talking trash and bringing all this attention on himself his entire career.
42:44
He's the one that called himself Jackie Robinson. Like if I were Jackie Robinson's family,
42:50
I'd be like, really? Tim Anderson? You want to maybe like, I don't know when an MVP or two
42:54
before we start talking like that? Can you be a little bit better than you are now before you
42:58
compare yourself to one of the greatest athletes, literally ever, not just one of the most important
43:02
athletes ever, but one of the greatest Jackie Robinson was a legitimately great baseball player,
43:06
a legitimate Hall of Famer. Like, but now we're all supposed to just have you in the same
43:11
conversation as him because you make it up, right? So this guy wants all the attention. He wants all
43:16
the smoke until it's his opportunity to be a victim. This is not a real story. Like Tim Anderson
43:22
should absolutely be ashamed of himself. Everybody that's coming out and not defending Josh Donaldson
43:26
should be ashamed of themselves. The Yankees players should be coming out right now and say,
43:30
look, I know Josh Donaldson, all the players that used to play with him whenever he was on the
43:33
Minnesota Twins last year, or you know, all those years he played with the Blue Jays,
43:36
they should be coming out and droves right now and saying he's not a racist person. Tim Anderson
43:41
is a clown. Okay. And then that should be the end of this story. All right. Next quick hitter here,
43:46
the Biden administration pauses their newly announced disinformation board. So this is
43:50
according to Taylor Lorenz at the Washington Post. And yes, that Taylor Lorenz, the one that docks,
43:55
the woman that runs the Libs of TikTok account, the one that is all of a sudden a professional
43:59
victim as well. She said this, a pause of the Department of Homeland Security's newly created
44:04
board comes after its head. Nina Jenkins was the victim of coordinated online attacks as the
44:10
administration struggled to respond. So according to Taylor Lorenz at the Washington Post, the story
44:16
wasn't, Hey, the United States government is putting together disinformation board. No, no,
44:20
no, it's not that it's not, wow, the rollout was just as bad as just about everything else that
44:23
comes out of the Biden administration. No, no, no, it was that Nina Jenkins poor little Nina
44:27
Jenkins was the victim of a coordinated online attack. Here's the reality.
44:33
The story was dumb to begin with. Like it was terrifying whenever it came through,
44:38
but it's not shocking that this kind of died on the vine because just about everything that the
44:42
Biden administration does dies on the vine because they're not a serious, you know, administration.
44:47
These are not serious people. These are people that really, really think they're smart because
44:51
they hang out with other people that are smart. And then that's all they want to take care of.
44:54
This is all they want to do. Okay, it is just a shocking thing to me that people are still looking
44:58
at this administration as if it's something that can be turned around that, Oh, you know, you know,
45:02
things are rough right now. They've been rough for the first, you know, 15 months, but I guess I'll
45:05
turn it around. But here's a big takeaway from the story. This will be tried again.
45:10
It will be tried again. Now, is it possible that this will be tried by the right by a Republican
45:17
administration? Yes, it is certainly possible. But nothing that we see right now would be any
45:23
evidence towards that end. So as you're pulling the lever for this candidate or that candidate
45:27
on the federal level, remember this, because this would have never come about if the Republicans had,
45:35
you know, the charge of the house or the Senate right now, I doubt that this would have been
45:38
something that would have ever been announced. They didn't have to get congressional approval
45:42
to create this disinformation board. But obviously, this was something that they felt like they could
45:46
do that they had the stones to do it, the capability to do it, and that nobody would really respond
45:51
negatively to it. Again, these people live in their own DC bubble. It's all these people that
45:55
hang out in Washington, DC or New York City, and they think that everybody else in the country is
45:59
just not going to be paying attention to the stuff that they're doing. But we are paying attention.
46:02
Our next one here gas prices hit a new record high in the US. So this is according to arena
46:08
even off over at CBS news. This was last week. The price of gasoline in the United States
46:13
edged up and hit a new all time high as failing capacity at refineries increase the cost of filling
46:18
up the average price of gallon of a gallon of regular gas rose to $4 and 43 cents, according
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to Triple A. That's up from $4 and eight cents just a month ago and $3 in May of last year with
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spiking energy costs contributing to the fiercest bout of inflation across the country in 40 years.
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Premium and gas now averages $5 and seven cents up from $3 and 62 cents a year ago.
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While diesel over that period has jumped from $3 and 15 cents to $5 and 56 cents a gallon.
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Gas now tops $4 per gallon in every US state with the biggest jump in fuel prices this week in
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Michigan, New Jersey, Connecticut, Kentucky and Indiana, according to Triple A. The priciest
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states for gas are in the West California 587 a gallon Hawaii 531 a gallon, Alaska 481 a gallon,
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Nevada 513 a gallon and Oregon 490 a gallon. So obviously this isn't breaking news to you.
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Any of you that have driven your car in the last week or two, you understand this,
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especially you guys that drive diesel trucks, maybe, you know, you work out in the field or you do
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stuff in oil and gas or construction or something like that. You know, something like this, this is
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hitting you significantly hard. And this is a really hard time here in the United States of America
47:28
because in addition to gasoline, everything else is more expensive, right? Everything at
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the grocery store, everything that you buy even online, everything is way, way, way more expensive.
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Now, the administration that is currently in force is trying to tell you that this is because of
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Vladimir Putin, even though the price of gas was already skyrocketing before the Ukrainian,
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Ukraine was invaded by Russia. So this is not the Putin gas hike, right?
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All this inflationary stuff happened almost essentially whenever Biden took office, right?
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You can go all the way back to the Trump administration whenever there was the, you know,
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disrupting things with because of COVID and all the different, you know, lines of communication
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and all the different ways of getting products to the market. All those things were basically
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thrown out of whack. But the big takeaway for me for this story is that this feels like it's by
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design. This may be by design because we keep hearing people from the Biden administration talk
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about how, well, just if you had an electric vehicle, this wouldn't be happening because it's
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these people that pretend that when you plug in something into the wall, it's magic. It's fairy
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dust that comes out. We don't, we don't talk about what happens on the other side of that plug,
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right? We don't talk about the fact that a lot of these places that are refining the lithium to
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make these batteries to go into these electric vehicles are refining them using drum roll, please,
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brr, coal, which is what every environmentalist on the planet hates, right? But we don't think
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about that. But do you have the administration talking about how just go buy an electric vehicle?
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I mean, I think a cheap electric vehicle is like 3540 grand. And you can go well over six figures,
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right? You can go well over $100,000 buying a really expensive Tesla.
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And so you really think that people that are worried about gas being over $4 or $5 a gallon,
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that this is somehow this can be solved by spending 75 grand on an EV. Are you kidding me? This seems
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like it's by design. Because again, if the government can crash something, they can also come in and
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say they can fix it for you, which increases our dependence. I talked about this with Chad Prather
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last week whenever did some interviews with him for the blaze that I think are coming out later
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this week? If you can break something and then convince everybody that you are also the person
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that can fix it, dumb people will do that. They will absolutely line up and say, yeah, you're right,
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help me fix it. Daddy, government daddy, that's what they're going to do.
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All right, next quick hitter here, border patrol agents encountered the highest number of people
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on our southern border in over a century. This is an enormous, enormous story. Okay, we're obviously
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going to be talking about a whole lot more throughout the summer. So this is according to
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Anna Giro-Ratelli at the Washington Examiner. The number of migrants encountered attempting to
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enter the United States illegally from Mexico rose in April surpassing all previous records
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over the past century and indication of the scale of the illegal immigration crisis at the border.
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US border officials intercepted 234,088 migrants attempting to enter the country illegally last
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month, according to a federal court document obtained by the Washington Examiner late Monday.
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In the first 15 months of President Joe Biden's term in office, federal law enforcement officials
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at the southern border have stopped more than this is astonishing. They've stopped more than 2.75
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million people attempting to cross into the US without permission. So let's talk a little bit
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about this. Just in April, 234,088 migrants were intercepted at the border, which means how many
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actually got across without being intercepted. And again, in the first 15 months of Joe Biden
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being in office, 2.75 million people, 2.75 million people have been stopped at the southern border.
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Now, my senator here in the great state of Oklahoma, Senator James Langford point this out whenever he
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was addressing Congress, he talked about how since Joe Biden has been taken into, I almost had taken
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into custody, he probably should be, but since Joe Biden has taken over the White House, we have
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found are we have intercepted people at the border from every single other country on the planet,
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all of them. There's been somebody from all of them. So think of a country, think of the most
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obscure country that you can think of for whatever reason, Eritrea is the one I'm thinking of in my
51:35
brain. There's been somebody caught at our southern border from that country. But you have to remember,
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this includes our enemies. This includes China, North Korea, Iran, Russia, any of these countries
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are people groups that hate us and hate our way of life. They're making their way into our country,
51:53
and they're just walking over the border, or coyote is taking them across the border. This is an
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entirely enormous story. If not for the rest of the news cycle, this should be the news that
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everybody is talking about. And not because people of color bad, brown people bad, because we shouldn't
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have immigration in this country. It's not because any of those things. It's because we don't have
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a way to sustain these people in this country. You can't create this permanent underclass of
52:22
citizenry in the United States. And guys, I don't have the time here, and it's certainly not the
52:28
place in the episode to really dive in with both feet into this issue. I've actually talked about
52:32
this whenever there was a surge, probably two or three years ago, I did an entire episode on it,
52:36
and I will likely do that again at some point this summer. But this is my big takeaway from this
52:39
story. The last one I talked about how that that may be by design, the whole electric vehicle,
52:44
gas prices thing that may be by design, probably by design. This is by design. This is 100% by design,
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because as a nation, we could close the southern border if we really wanted to.
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And to all you Trumpers out there, it goes beyond a wall. A wall is obvious, you know, it's an obvious
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basic deterrent. That's how you deter people from coming into your home. You have locks on your
53:07
doors and you have walls, right? But if we really, really wanted to, we could shut down the southern
53:12
border this year. Now, you could go crazy because and I'm and by no means advocating this. I think
53:19
this would be insane. But you could put the military on the southern border and shoot anybody
53:23
that's trying to come across. And then all of a sudden, there would be no one else trying to get
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across. Again, I'm not advocating for that. I do not think we should do that to any white
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that's going to clip this out later and say that I'm advocating that we shoot people out the border.
53:34
I'm literally not saying that. I'm saying that we shouldn't do that. But we could do that.
53:38
That's what other countries do to keep people from crossing borders. And it works incredibly
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well. But since we are a country that was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics, because we do act as a
53:48
country in a better moral way than most other countries on the planet, there are ways to take
53:52
care of this where you can still humanely treat people that are actually trying to come to the
53:56
ports of entry legally to get asylum. But the way that we're doing it now, the border is open because
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Joe Biden and his administration want it to be again. It seems like I'm dumping on Joe Biden
54:07
with all these quick hitters, but it's so obvious. They want this to happen. And now everyone's talking
54:12
about the great replacement theory and all these different things. And none of that super duper
54:15
applies to all of this. But there is a reason. They're not just opening it up because, you know,
54:20
the overwhelming majority of Democrats just have the biggest hearts possible. And they want as many
54:23
people to share in their love that they could give. This is by design. They're trying to hurt
54:28
the United States of America. Now, as a Christian, which we should all look at all these different
54:32
things through a Christian lens, I all throughout scripture, we see, you know, people that should
54:37
take pity on the sojourner and take pity on these people and help these people. And I want
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us to be able to do that. But the best way of helping them is not by having it to where they're
54:46
illegally coming across the border, risking their lives in order to do so. And then once they get
54:50
here, they're like, okay, no big deal. Like, yes, you should be poor for the remainder of your life
54:55
in this country because of some sort of altruism or something, right? This is this is a really,
54:59
really big story, but we're gonna get more into it later. So we're gonna hit the last quick hitter
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here. Netflix tells their woke employees to grow up finally. But should we actually believe them?
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I'm not so sure. So according to Chris and in low over at Blaze Media, Netflix is taking
55:14
a hardline stance against woke employees who advocate for silencing artists whose content
55:18
offends them. The news come after net. The news comes after Netflix disclosed a dismal business
55:23
performance in the first quarter of 2022. The company, in fact, lost 200,000 subscribers between
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January and March, the first subscriber declined in more than a decade. The company has expected a
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the company had expected a net gain of 2.5 million subscribers over that time period.
55:39
The streaming platform updated its famous corporate culture memo to include a section on
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artistic expression variety reported. The memo vows Netflix will not cancel artists even if Netflix
55:49
employees find the content objective or objectionable or harmful. Not everyone will like or agree with
55:55
everything on our service, the memo reads. While every title is different, we approach them
55:59
based on the same set of principles. We support the artistic expression of the creators who choose
56:04
to work with or we choose to work with. We program for a diversity of audiences and tastes,
56:08
and we let viewers decide what's appropriate for them versus having Netflix sensor specific artists
56:13
or voices. The memo adds that if employees cannot support Netflix's work, they should hit the road
56:18
and find another job. As employees, we support the principle that Netflix offers a diversity of
56:23
stories, even if we find some titles counter to our own personal values. Depending upon your role,
56:28
you may need to work on titles you perceived, you may need to work on titles you perceived to be
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harmful, the memo states. So I kind of jacked that up there at the end. But Netflix is signaling
56:40
that you might have to nut up and work on stuff that you think is harmful or that you don't agree
56:46
with or that just doesn't agree with your sensibilities or it makes you sad or those types of things.
56:50
But guys, I don't believe this for a second. Not one second. Obviously, when I saw they lost
56:57
a couple hundred thousand subscribers in one quarter when they thought they were going to get
57:01
$2.5 million things, 2.5 million subscribers during that time period. I could see that. There's a lot
57:07
of reasons for that. Maybe we've reached this crescendo of these different entities that are
57:13
allowing you to subscribe for their content. Maybe it's because people are going to other
57:16
content things. Maybe it's because there was a big uptick because of COVID and now people are
57:20
kind of coming back down because they're going back to work and they're going out without masks
57:24
and they're doing all these different things. There's a lot of different reasons for it.
57:26
But I think that this is just straight up signaling from Netflix. That's what I think this is.
57:31
I don't think they actually believe this. I do not think they're actually going to be telling
57:36
their woke employees that, hey, if you don't like working on this Trump documentary, get out,
57:42
right? If you don't like working on this thing that doesn't cast this group that you find to be
57:47
special in the most positive light that they're going to tell them to hit their own. I don't believe
57:50
that at all because I think the people that run Netflix actually believe in all these entities.
57:55
They believe all these ideologies that are from the woke left, they believe it, right?
58:00
Now, as I told you guys years ago, I got rid of my Netflix subscription the moment I found out about
58:04
the cuties movie, the movie that kind of glorifies and takes advantage of these young girls and
58:09
sexualizes them, right? It's basically kitty porn. It's still up on the platform and I will not
58:15
consider having a Netflix subscription as long as that is on the platform. I'm sorry because if I
58:20
spend whatever it is, 15 bucks a month on Netflix, part of what I'm paying for is for that creator
58:25
to be paid for child porn, for taking advantage of these young girls and sexualizing them. I'm not
58:30
into it, right? And I encourage all of you guys to get rid of your Netflix accounts as well.
58:35
But this is my big takeaway for this. If this is true, again, I really don't think it is. But if it is,
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go woke, go broke, y'all.
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But because this is a deal, if you keep putting out stuff where you're cascading
58:50
half of your audience and calling them bigots just for thinking the way that they think,
58:55
don't be shocked when they get rid of their account. This is pretty easy. And Netflix is
59:00
signaled that they're not going to be doing, you know, this series with Ember Max Kennedy,
59:03
you know, they're not going to be doing, you know, this different woke thing and that different
59:06
woke thing. Maybe that's all true. But let's see how it goes into the future. Because again,
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I significantly have my doubts. But if this were true, that would be a great thing. Because if
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Netflix could tell all their woken plays to go pound sand, or hey, you have to be an adult,
59:21
if you're going to work here, you're not going to like everything that you do. And if you don't
59:24
like it to a certain degree, there are plenty of other places for you to go work. I think that
59:27
would be a great thing. And I hope a whole bunch of other companies would follow suit.
59:31
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