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I'm your host Kyle Thompson, let's get into it."
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So the lifeblood of our ministry is donations, donations, donations, end of commercial.
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Let's talk about what we're going to talk about in the quick hater today.
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So we're going to be doing a tribute to the great John MacArthur.
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We're going to be looking at Barack Obama saying that young boys need gay adult male
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friends, okay?
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Tim Kennedy admitting sort of kind of to stolen valor.
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And then we have the WNBA players recently wearing a shirt that says pay us what you
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owe us.
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And then we have an entire AI section, okay?
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So we're going to talk about a lot of stuff that's in the AI world.
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I've been collecting these stories, but Chad GPT helping underage girls access, uh, access
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abortions.
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Chad GPT helping children access gender affirming medicine and to hide it from their parents,
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a 14 year old boy in Florida committing suicide after an AI chat bot told him to come home
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to her.
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A man leaving his real life girlfriend after proposing to his AI girlfriend, the MIT study
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claiming that Chad GPT use erodes critical thinking skills.
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Huge companies using AI models for hiring leading to discrimination against white males
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and an AI generation or AI generated band getting over a million listeners on Spotify.
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So a lot of those things, but believe it or not, we're going to be talking about chip
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and Joanna Gaines for the second week in a row.
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Now typically, we don't talk about subjects on consecutive weeks because I, you know, as
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we talk about on the show, this isn't a daily show.
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So I'm not reacting to the current news cycle or what happened yesterday.
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I'm kind of collecting thoughts over several weeks on very important topics and every now
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and then I'll hit something that's kind of in the news right at the moment, but I recorded
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last week's episode last Monday.
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Okay.
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And so at that point, chip and Joanna Gaines had not made any public statements about all
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the kerfuffle that they started with their new show.
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And just to kind of, you know, we're kind of picking up the story from there, but if
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you did miss last week's episode, you know, go back and listen to it.
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But if you did miss it, that's episode 787.
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I talk about chip and Joanna Gaines.
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And essentially I'm not going to do an entire, you know, reset up from last week again.
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You can listen to last year, last week's episode, but chip and Joanna Gaines, they got
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super famous because of their show Fixer Upper on HGTV.
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They launched a bunch of businesses off of that, including the Magnolia network.
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They've got, you know, the silos out there in Waco.
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I'm sure they've got restaurants there, you know, they've got their stuff in Target.
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They got it in all kinds of furniture stores.
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They built a huge business and media empire, right?
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Well, I mean, we're talking nine figures worth of business is coming through this family.
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And they were also very respected and sought after because of their supposed Christian
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faith, right?
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You know, tons of support from Christians all over the place.
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They had talked a lot about their Christian faith.
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They had done the I am second stuff, you know, they kind of went in, they had to sit down
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with Oprah where they kind of spoke a little bit of Christianese.
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But now if you go back and listen to that, especially with what we've seen over the last
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couple of weeks, it kind of tinges that interview a little bit.
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But then the trailer dropped earlier this month for their new show on Magnolia network
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called Back to the Frontier.
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So this is a show where they take these three different families out to this barren land
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where there's no running water, there's no electricity, none of those types of things.
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That's the whole point is they're going back to what it was like to live a couple hundred
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years ago when they were on the frontier.
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Three different families, but one of the families was a gay couple that had commandeared or bought
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two sons, right to twin sons.
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And initially there was a small reaction to this story.
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Again, remember, whenever I had, as of the time that I recorded it last week, if you
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searched Chippin Joanna Gainesville, Google, no negative press was coming out.
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It was like the conservatives and Christians, it was taking them a while to kind of put
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out their thoughts.
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And so I was already gathering my thoughts and all that, getting ready to go.
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And then as you kind of worked through last week, a lot more commentators and conservatives
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and people like that were coming out saying that this was terrible.
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So eventually that big reaction did come, conservatives and Christians kind of like
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woke up from their malaise and said, Hey, this is really bad.
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This is actually really, really bad that this Christian couple is holding up this group
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as kind of like, you know, this is something that we need to show to the world is this
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gay couple that, you know, bought these two boys and we need to display them to the world.
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And I guess I covered all that last week and I shouldn't have anything more to say on
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the subject.
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But that was until Chippin Joanna Gaines decided to double down on stupid, okay?
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Because as of the recording of this podcast, I'm recording this week's podcast also on
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Monday, Joanna Gaines, who's clearly the alpha of that relationship has not made a single
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public statement regarding the situation.
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Okay?
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Not a single public statement.
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Okay?
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Not a single statement as to why they chose, because again, they are the owners of the
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Magnolia network and they are the executive producers of that show why they chose to have
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a gay couple featured on the show.
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They also haven't made a public statement about their photographer that works specifically
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for the Gaines, who has five kids with a woman, but now is in a polyamorous relationship because
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he wants to have butt sex with dudes.
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And so there's kind of like this ruffle thing going on or maybe the wife's not part of it,
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but there's five kids that are kind of caught up in all of this.
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But Chipp, he can't keep his mouth shut for whatever reason, okay?
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So Chipp, not the alpha of the relationship, he has decided that he was going to start
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making some comments on Twitter, okay?
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So on June the 13th, we're actually going to put this up on the screen right now if
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I can get the time, right?
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All right.
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Sorry, I got to make editor notes because my editor's not here live.
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All right.
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So let's go and put that up on the screen here right now.
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This is what Chipp said again.
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Nobody asked him any questions.
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This is just what he decided to say.
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Talk.
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Ask.
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I think that's questions.
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It's Q-U-S-T-N-S, no real reason for him to shorten it, but okay.
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Talk.
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Questions.
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Listen.
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Maybe even learn too much to ask of modern American Christian culture.
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Judge first, understand later, slash never.
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It's a sad Sunday when quote unquote non-believers have never been confronted with hate or vitriol
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until they are introduced to a modern American Christian, okay?
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So that post was ratioed.
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I mean, that means you get more comments than likes.
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He absolutely got dragged for it and we're going to break that down the entire thing
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here a little bit.
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But you know, Chipp, he's apparently ignorant about this entire situation and he doesn't
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understand that you don't wade into the comments section again.
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Every now and then I'll go into the comments section.
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It's always a disaster, but he decided to go ahead and wade into the comments section,
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okay?
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And of course, it just kind of made things a little bit worse for him.
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So let's go ahead and put his first response up there, Landon.
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And this was a gal who's just a small town girl at Mike's wife, two, two, two, two.
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So this just a regular, regular gal.
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She said, we are extremely sad because of how much we have grown to admire and appreciate
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you both.
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So Chip Gaines responded to her, well, I appreciate that sincerely.
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So if you admire and appreciate us so much, any chance there's more to this, but that's
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my point.
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No one knows.
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But the quote unquote Christians have certainly come out in full force as if they do not,
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as if they do know, quote unquote, judge not, quote unquote, love one another.
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It's not difficult.
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So aside from the fact that there's plenty of grammatical and punctuation errors there,
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I don't where we're going to break down the ridiculousness of that response.
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But then also there was this response that he made to a buddy of mine who's John roots,
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John root is a great, a great conservative commentator, a great Christian dude.
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So he asked Chip directly on Twitter, why are you promoting homosexuality as a Christian?
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Why compromise on the Bible's clear teachings on this?
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Why support homosexuals buying kids disappointed would be an understatement.
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And then he has a clip of the gay couple.
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And this was the reply that Chip Gaines had.
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He's quoting 1 Peter 3 15, but in your heart to revere Christ as Lord, always be prepared
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to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give a reason for the hope that you have,
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but do this with gentleness and respect.
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I really felt the hope, the gentleness and respect here.
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Okay.
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So we actually need to go ahead and break down some of the things that Chip Gaines said,
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because if you just read them, like just kind of a cursory glance over them, perhaps you're
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thinking that they make sense until you actually start digging into them.
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And it's like, it's just foolish.
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It's just absolute foolishness.
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So let's go back to the original tweet.
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We don't have to put that back about on the screen because I already read it and I'll read
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it again here.
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So this was his original tweet again, not a reply, his original tweet on July the 13th.
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Talk.
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Ask questions.
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Listen.
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Learn too much to ask for modern American Christian culture.
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Judge first, understand late later slash never.
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It's a sad Sunday when non-believers have never been confronted with hater vitriol until
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they are introduced to a modern American Christian broken heart emoji.
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Okay.
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So let's break that down.
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Talk.
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Ask questions.
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Listen.
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Maybe even learn.
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Learn about what exactly Chip.
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Learn about what?
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Because of course in this little diatribe that he does, which he could have extended and
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explained himself, he doesn't answer the question that he even poses, right?
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Because vagary is the name of the game, right?
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Don't be specific because that would require brainpower and, you know, well found out positions
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on prickly topics, but Chip apparently doesn't have time for that.
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You know, his ideas, Hey, let's just throw out some worthless platitudes without any foundation.
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Let's just kind of cross our arms and declare victory over the bigots, right?
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Then he says too much to ask of modern American Christian culture.
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So the most hilarious thing about him saying this is it really is stunning how dense Chip
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is, but the most hilarious thing is that chips actions here are precisely in line with how
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most people think and act as part of the modern American Christian culture, right?
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Because again, I, unlike Chip Gaines, realize that words have meaning and attached to actual
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worldview positions and philosophies, right?
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So we have to be very, very careful and selective with the words that we choose.
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So the quote unquote modern American Christian culture is actually completely okay with ignoring
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what God says about things.
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And they just welcome whatever culture says is moral and righteous because modern American
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Christian culture actually lives downstream from the regular culture, right?
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You see, because modern American Christian culture has no regard for the word of God at
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all, right?
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The word of God is actually just, you know, something that they typically don't read,
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but if they do read it, they're like, it's just full of, you know, bigoted and mean sayings
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from an angry and jealous God.
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And that just doesn't make us feel good, right?
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I mean, I mean, read rather have a God that just loves us the way that we are and requires
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no changes.
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I mean, certainly no repentance, right?
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So it's it's godly morality be damned, godliness be damned.
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Okay.
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So that's kind of the modern Christian culture movement, right?
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Then he says, judge first understand later slash never.
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So he's obviously an also eloquently making an age old trope that Christians are judgmental.
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Okay.
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Talk of all shocks, Christians are judgmental, but again, chips apparent inability to understand
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basic Christian doctrine is on full display here, okay?
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Because if chip were making a point about Christian judging people outside of the body
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of Christ, then he would at least have an argument, but apparently chip has the biblical
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understanding of a toddler, even though he's purportedly been a Christian for decades.
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Because if he would actually read his Bible, he would have eventually came across Paul's
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first recorded letter of the church in Corinth. So in 1 Corinthians five verses 12 and 13,
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it says this, for what I have, for what have I to do with judging outsiders?
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Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
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God judges those outside purge the evil person from among you.
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So what is Paul saying here?
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I'll say it slowly, just in case chips listening to this, Christians don't concern yourselves
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too much with casting judgment on non believers.
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God can and will handle their judgment, right?
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But how you should spend your time, you should spend your time judging, reproofing and calling
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believers to repentance, which is exactly what we're doing to you, chip, because you
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and your bride, whom you are apparently not leading spiritually, are out of line.
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So all this negativity that you feel, it's not coming from a place of misguided judgment,
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but biblical judgment.
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Because what you are doing is you are supporting evil.
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You are mainstreaming evil.
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You are holding up this gay couple and having them next to normal couples with a father,
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a mother, and naturally brought into this world, children, right?
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And you're instead choosing to uphold this gay couple, a couple of sodomites, right?
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Who, again, we're not supposed to talk about this, but who purchased a couple of boys that
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can be in their care and without anybody paying any attention to them and have private access
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to these boys, and you're just saying, ah, same, same, same, same, same, no big deal.
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It doesn't even begin to comport with a Christian worldview.
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And then he says this, it's a sad Sunday when non-believers have never been confronted
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with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian, okay?
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So again, chip is making a category error here, okay, because modern American Christians,
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for the most part, just go along to get along, okay?
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They don't like rocking the boat.
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They don't like calling people out, and they certainly aren't comfortable relying on biblical
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arguments for what constitutes godly morality, okay?
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But let's just set that aside for the moment.
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He's claiming here again, astonishing levels of obtuseness here, he's claiming that non-believers,
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so billions of people in existence right now on this planet have never once experienced
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hate or vitriol until or unless they run across an American Christian.
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Like, so at no point, right, in someone's life, will they expect to experience hate until
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they meet a Christian that is a citizen of the United States of America?
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So according to Chip Gaines, no one will be hated or experienced vitriol for how they
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look, for what race they are, for what country they come from, how they talk, their political
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affiliation, the team they root for, none of that, no, no, no, it's only if they come
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into contact with one of those bigoted, judgmental modern American Christians.
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I mean, like, the level of idiocy here is incredible, truly.
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I mean, how dumb do you have to be to not only believe that, but to type it into your
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phone and then send it out to the world, to tweet it publicly and then sit there in satisfaction
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like, yeah, made a great point, 10 points for me, right?
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But now we need to break down the response he made.
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So again, he responded to a lady, again, just a regular old gal at Mike's wife, two, two,
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two, two on Instagram or sorry, on Twitter.
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We are extremely sad because of how much we have grown to admire and appreciate you
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both.
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Chip's response.
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Well, I appreciate that sincerely.
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So if you admire and appreciate us so much, period, any chance there's more to this?
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But that's my point.
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No one knows.
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But the Christians have certainly come out in full force as if they do know, judge not,
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love one another.
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It's not difficult.
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Okay.
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So let's break it down.
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So if you admire and appreciate us so much, any chance there's more to this?
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Well, I don't know.
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Chip, help me explain.
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Make your point and this is what he says next, but that's my point.
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No one knows.
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As soon as I read that, I was reminded of the Billy Madison scene at the end where Billy
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goes off on this big diatribe and when he's done, the judge of the game just says, Mr.
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Madison, what you've said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard at
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no point in your rambling incoherent responses, where you even close to anything that could
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be considered a rational thought, everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened
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to it.
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I award you no point to may God have mercy on your soul.
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That's immediately what I thought of when I read that.
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I mean, that's the level of dumb that we currently get from that response again.
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So if you admire and appreciate it so much, any chance there's more to this?
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But that's my point.
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No one knows.
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No one knows.
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Like the thing is, is he's not explaining the secret thing that is the more to this part.
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And then he just declares victory and says, but that's my point.
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No one knows.
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But you know what?
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No one knows is what Chip's point is.
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What is your point, Chip?
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You say no one knows while claiming to know because that's the point you're trying to
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make.
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Like I feel like I have to have like a blank sheet of paper and a bunch of markers to try
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to like figure this out.
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I just, I don't know you're, you're, you're claiming that you know, but no one knows.
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But who knows like mind boggling and he says this, but the Christians have certainly come
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out in full force as if they do know, judge not love one another.
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It's not difficult.
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So the obvious implication here is that he and people like him are the real Christians,
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right?
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Those that mainstream to sodomites being quote unquote married while adopting two boys after
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they paid a woman a convenience fee for carrying them for nine months, otherwise known as
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surrogacy, thus stealing their mother away from them for life.
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And all of us are just supposed to pretend that it's not odd that gay men always seem
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to want to adopt little boys into their homes.
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But yeah, Chip, you're the right one.
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You're the righteous one.
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You're the one taking the moral position.
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But let's actually key in on the scripture that he alludes to.
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So judge not again, we are called to judge other Christians, but not because we are
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righteous, but we are calling them to repentance.
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So love one another.
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That's the, the other one.
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So now I know that chip doesn't even know where this passage is, but it is in John 1334
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and 35, a new commandment I give to you that you love one another just as I've loved you.
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You also are to love one another by this.
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All people will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another.
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So this begs the obvious question, which I'm sure is probably lost on ship gains.
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How do we love one another?
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How do we do so by ignoring people's sins?
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Do we do so by not calling them to repentance?
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Do we do so by highlighting these people's sins and giving them an international platform
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to put their sinful behaviors and lifestyles on display?
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But yeah, sure, Chip, lecture me and the people like me on what it means to be loving.
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Now let's get to his response to John Root.
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So again, John Root asked him, why are you promoting homosexuality as a Christian?
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Why compromise on the Bible's clear teachings on this?
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Why support homosexuals buying kids disappointed would be an understatement.
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Chip's response is 1 Peter 3 15, but in your hearts, revere Christ is Lord, always be prepared
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to give an answer to everyone who asked you to give the reasons for the hope that you
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have, but do this with gentleness and respect.
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I really felt the hope and gentleness and respect here.
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So the thing about this is every question that John asks here is a fair one.
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They're all fair questions and these are questions that should be easy to answer directly, frankly.
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I mean, these should all be like incredibly easy to answer, but like he never even like
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tries.
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He never even like tries to put forth an explanation to these.
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And I don't know why it's like, would it be just too hard to put forth an explanation?
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I mean, he quotes first Peter 3 15 and then basically accuses John Root of not being gentle
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or respectful, but what did John Root do here?
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He asked three seeming softball questions and then he expresses disappointment.
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So where exactly is John being rough?
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Like where exactly was John being disrespectful because I missed it because the truth of the
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matter is John was being gentle and respectful, a lot gentler and more respectful than maybe
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he even should have been.
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And I think anyone with a functioning brain here could surmise that, but chip gains gives
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us a peek into his worldview here, which is essentially this.
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If you disagree with me and then ask me questions that challenge my sincerely held beliefs.
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That makes you a meanie mean pants and I don't have to give you an answer.
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I mean, it just smacks of intellectual fragility, right?
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It's a very feminine temperament.
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It's cowardice.
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Really.
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It's the same type of temperament you get from these, you know, purple hair, nose ringed
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people at pride parades and all these different rallies that they get paid to go pick it at
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and different things like that.
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The moment you start asking them questions that challenge the worldview, they fall to
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pieces and or they just start calling you mean, right?
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Hater.
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But let's go ahead and double down on this using the scripture that chip himself used,
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always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope
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that you have.
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So chip, what is your answer?
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What is the reason for the hope that you have?
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Is it in Christ or is it in yourself or your business or your money or your wife?
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There's the reason for the hope that you have because if it is in Christ, I have something
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sobering for you to consider.
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Jesus was sent here to pay a sin debt owed by every image bear that has ever existed.
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He was sent here to die in order to provide propitiation for that sin debt so that any
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of us could have a chance to be in the presence of a holy and just father God.
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And guess what?
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We are called to repent of our sins.
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We are not called to ignore them.
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We're not called to explain them away.
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We're not called to put them on display for the viewing pleasure of a television audience.
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We are called to repent.
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Repent means to turn 180 degrees away from our former lives and actions that were contrary
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to what God lays out for us morally.
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So chip, if you're going to pluck scripture out and try to use it as an ace of spades,
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perhaps you should know what you're talking about first.
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And a question that this whole situation is begged is this, what exactly does the church
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that the gains is call home?
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Think about all this.
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I mean, I mean, this is really important actually because we don't actually have to
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wonder now because on July the 19th, after all this blew up, the lead pastor of Antioch
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Church in Waco where the gains go up, apparently they still go there.
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His name is Jimmy Sebert.
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He posted this video to the church's social media sites or the social media accounts.
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So let's actually go to that video here.
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Well, hello, any family and all of our friends around the world.
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We are just so grateful to be following Jesus together.
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Hey, over the last two or three months, we've had now thousands of inquiries around this
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simple topic.
27:06
What do you guys believe about marriage?
27:08
What do you believe about family?
27:10
What do you believe about sexuality?
27:12
As you guys know, we have been clear about this over the last 25 years in a multitude
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of ways, from teachings to podcasts, et cetera.
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But I wanted to take just a moment to remind us of two things.
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We are a people of compassion and we are a people of clarity, compassion in this way.
27:31
The world is broken, man, people are trying to figure out who am I, who is God, which way
27:37
is up and how do we find solid ground and we believe with clarity that that is in the
27:43
person of Jesus and in the word of God.
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So let's just take a moment to review.
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In Genesis 1, the scripture says that God created us male and female.
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He created us in His image and He blessed us.
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There's two genders, male and female, where to celebrate that and honor that.
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And when we're confused, we're to go back to Jesus and say, God, would you clear up
28:06
my mind and my heart according to your word?
28:09
Secondly, in Genesis 2, we see that marriage is between one man and one woman in covenant
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for life and that children are to be born in that context of covenantal marriage and
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out of that to be loved, blessed and cared for.
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And if we find ourselves in a different perspective, we want to go back to Jesus, go back to His
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word and realign to God's design of covenantal marriage between one man and one woman for
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life.
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Hey, lastly, on the issue of sexuality and how do we conduct ourselves as human beings,
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let alone God followers?
28:45
We look to God, His word and His truth is our best.
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Regardless of our feelings, regardless of our pain, regardless of the brokenness and confusion
28:56
in our minds, we find Jesus in His word is our central way to live our lives.
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So I mean, I don't know why I was surprised because I've never heard of this pastor before,
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but it seems surprising considering what the Ganges are saying out loud, but it's pretty
29:10
clear, it's a pretty clear statement there.
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But it also does make me wonder, should the Ganges be under some level of church discipline
29:18
for this?
29:19
So I don't really know how Antioch church there and Waco handles church discipline.
29:22
And for the most part, church discipline is basically completely ignored.
29:26
Like I can't remember last time I heard of somebody going through some sort of official
29:29
church discipline because we just live in this culture where, oh, well, if you get mad
29:32
at one church, you just go down the road to another one, especially if you live in the
29:35
Bible Belt.
29:36
So I don't really know that that's necessarily a thing anymore.
29:39
But I kind of think there's an argument here for the Ganges being under some level of church
29:43
discipline, considering their platform and considering how they're going to be leading
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other people to believe that sinful behaviors are actually normal and moral.
29:51
So I do have a few random thoughts on this before we wrap up.
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There are victims in this situation that need to be discussed and they're not being discussed
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nearly enough.
29:58
Now the use of the word victims might strike, you know, some of you as odd here, but there
30:03
are many.
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First, the two twin boys of this gay couple featured in this new show, they're certainly
30:08
victims.
30:09
I mean, they've had their birth mother stolen from them.
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They're being kept away from a mother, lay in a motherly in-home influence, right?
30:17
And also this is just statistics speaking.
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This isn't even like philosophy.
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There's no less safe place for a child on this planet than in the unsupervised presence
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of an unrelated adult male.
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And in this case, two unrelated adult males and they both happen to be sodomites, okay?
30:38
Not saying that that's 100% guaranteed to lead to anything nefarious and abusive, but
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gosh, it's right for the picking, is it not?
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I mean, these two boys have no choice but to witness the abominable practices that are
30:52
against God and against nature of these two sodomites on a daily basis.
30:56
Them cuddling with each other and kissing with each other and God knows what else they're
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being exposed to in that home.
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I mean, it seems rather voyeuristic to parade these two boys around against their will,
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does it not?
31:06
So there are more child victims in this situation.
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Again, remember, I mentioned this earlier, the photographer that works for the Gainses.
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It's a guy married to a woman and they have five kids together, but that guy apparently
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wants to bang dudes.
31:16
And so he has a boyfriend now as part of a polyamorous relationship.
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I don't know where the wife's involvement is, but what about those kids?
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Five kids whose names and images are all over the internet being attached to this ridiculous,
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horrible, evil, sinful family, right?
31:32
What kind of dangers and wretchedness are those kids exposed to right now?
31:36
Because again, there is a guy that's not attached to those kids that is now probably
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going to be in the presence of those kids without supervision.
31:43
Also, why are more big name pastors calling this couple out?
31:49
Like I saw Franklin Graham, Billy Graham's son, you know, he came out and said something
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publicly, but who else like where are the blue check mark Christians on this one?
31:58
Right?
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Like I don't understand it because look, this is the most famous Christian married couple
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on the planet.
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Like I asked my guys in Sunday school, I was like, Hey, who's the most famous like, like
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Chip and Joanna Gaines, is there a more famous Christian couple on earth right now?
32:16
And they couldn't think of one, right?
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They're famous, obviously famous Christians that are married, but either no one knows
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the wife or no one knows the husband, like they're the most famous Christian couple.
32:26
They have one of the largest platforms in all of Christendom, but we don't want to talk
32:31
about it, we don't want to say their names for fear of what, for fear of what like, because
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if you describe the situation, everyone knows what you're talking about.
32:42
Like imagine me talking about the Baylor stuff last week again, not related specifically
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to the gains is, but who knows, imagine me saying, now I don't want to call out any universities
32:50
by name, but let's just say there was a private Christian university in Waco, Texas, it's been
32:55
around since the 1800s.
32:57
It's mascot is the bears and they're, you know, green and yellow are their main colors.
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But I don't want to say names, just say the names, like good grief, what are we missing
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out on here?
33:09
And I'm going to go back to something that I did on the daily blade on June the 20th,
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I started on June the 23rd.
33:14
So if you go listen to that week's worth of episodes, it's that we as Christians do not
33:18
hate evil enough.
33:20
We flat out, do not hate evil enough.
33:24
So again, starting on June 23rd on the daily blade, I went over Psalm 97 verse 10, Oh, you
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who love the Lord hate evil.
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He preserves the lives of the saints of his saints.
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He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
33:36
And there's just so much evil here in this situation that's hard to describe.
33:39
I mean, we've already talked about some of the victims.
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There's the evil of homosexuality that should be hated.
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The fact that perhaps the most famous Christian couple on earth has capitulated to the LGBTQ
33:49
plus agenda, that should be hated.
33:52
And apparently the only people coming out to it are, you know, people have smaller Christian
33:56
platforms and conservative commentators.
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Apparently, there's no one else that needs to call them to repentance.
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And I say this every chance that I get, and I always include me in this guys do not put
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your faith in people.
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Okay, do not put your faith in people.
34:13
There are a lot of women that are working on their sourdough recipes and they're trying
34:16
to add chiplap siding to more places inside their house who subscribe to the Magnolia
34:20
magazine and subscribe to the Magnolia network and plan a trip to Waco every year to visit
34:24
the silo.
34:25
They've bought a few dozen $500 rusty buckets that they've placed all over their houses.
34:29
Right.
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And they've bought, you know, stuff from the gains of stores and they've bought their
34:33
stuff everywhere because their face was on it.
34:35
They're absolutely struggling right now.
34:37
They're absolutely up against it.
34:38
They don't exactly know what to do.
34:40
Okay.
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But all I can do is to remind you to not put your faith in your favorite public figure,
34:46
your favorite podcaster, your favorite athlete, your favorite politician, your favorite pastor,
34:51
your favorite anybody, okay, because we were built to let each other down.
34:57
That is part of the sin nature that we are a part of.
35:01
So if your world came crashing down because the gains is capitulated and caved on this
35:05
issue, there's probably some idolatry going on there, okay, probably something that you
35:10
should reckon with and probably not something that you should repeat.
35:14
And just a reminder, until we're unless the gains is repent of this, which they're showing
35:18
no indication that they will, our only response is simple.
35:23
Boycott.
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All right, let's get to the first quick hitter here, a tribute to the great John MacArthur.
37:37
So I recorded last week's episode again on Monday.
37:39
I did mention John MacArthur there at the beginning because it had been announced that
37:43
he had pneumonia, that it did not look good, it looked like he was going to be passing
37:46
at any moment.
37:47
And he actually passed less than 24 hours after I recorded that episode.
37:51
So by the time you guys heard it, he had already passed.
37:53
I actually just want to read from the Grace Hugh website, I want to read part of the kind
37:58
of the tribute that they did for him and then we'll talk about it a little bit.
38:01
On July the 14th, Pastor John MacArthur's faith became sight as he entered into the eternal
38:05
presence of a savior.
38:06
He had been dealing with some significant health challenges dating back to early 2023 and God
38:10
in his perfect wisdom determined that John had completed his earthly ministry.
38:14
John has survived by his wife Patricia, his children, Matt, Marcy, Mark and Melinda and
38:19
their spouses among along with 15 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
38:23
He was 86 years old.
38:25
For more than 56 years, John served as the pastor teacher of Grace Community Church in
38:29
Son Valley, California.
38:31
The emphasis of his pulpit ministry was the careful study and verse by verse exposition
38:35
of Scripture.
38:36
Under his leadership, the church grew to several thousand members providing ample opportunities
38:40
to train up men for ministry and the resources to send more than 100 missionary families
38:45
into the field.
38:47
So John MacArthur is a very important person in Christendom.
38:50
There's an argument that he's been one of if he's on the pantheon, he's on the Mount
38:56
Rushmore of people in terms of their importance to Christendom in this kind of modern era
39:00
that we that we are in.
39:02
And one thing that I wanted to point out is he had such a focus on equipping men for
39:10
the work and the sake of the gospel, okay?
39:13
So starting Master Seminary and starting some of the things that they did, some of the programming
39:17
there at his church was to equip men because he understood, as I do as I've tried to display
39:22
to you guys, that when the man has it figured out, when the man is the spiritual thermostat
39:28
of the home, not the spiritual thermometer, things go well for the wife.
39:33
She is elevated.
39:35
She is she is brought up in the children are catechized.
39:39
They're discipled well.
39:40
They're brought up in the nurturing admonition of the Lord.
39:42
And it's because of the right ordering Christ is the head of the man.
39:45
The man is the head of the woman.
39:47
And then the man of the woman are the head of the children and raising them up in the
39:50
nurturing admonition of the Lord, you know, they're equal in their importance, but they
39:54
have different responsibilities.
39:57
And I'll say for me, you know, there's any number of pastors that I've talked to about,
40:01
you know, in terms of their impact, like you all know how much I love and respect Joby
40:06
and Chandler.
40:07
And we've talked about John MacArthur and, you know, with those two guys, I've talked
40:10
about the things and we've talked about the things that we disagreed with with John MacArthur
40:14
and the approach is how we would do things differently than him in certain areas and
40:19
on certain topics.
40:20
But the thing about John MacArthur is what did he always go back to?
40:25
The text.
40:26
So I was sitting there with Adam and Ryan Horn from the forging table in Sunday school
40:31
this week and Adam said he had been like binging John MacArthur stuff this week and just really
40:36
being, you know, and he's so fervent in his argumentation and he was kind of, you know,
40:42
complimenting John MacArthur's argumentation and things like that.
40:44
But the thing that all three of us were talking about is how his arguments weren't coming
40:48
from philosophy.
40:49
They were coming from culture.
40:50
They weren't coming from the world.
40:51
They were coming from the text.
40:53
And I think he, you know, went out over on his skis like, you know, he did an entire presentation
40:57
about how all Catholics are going to hell.
40:59
Obviously, I don't, I don't agree with that.
41:00
I think there are Catholics that will go to hell and Catholics that will not.
41:05
And the thing about his ministry in this scene, whenever he did his interactions with Larry
41:10
King live on a debates that he would do, he was so sure of himself, but it wasn't because
41:16
of himself.
41:17
And so that's how I'm going to remember John MacArthur.
41:20
I still use his commentaries guys.
41:21
If you're wondering where some of the commentary and some of my viewpoints come on the forging
41:26
table, it's because one of the main commentaries I read is the John MacArthur commentary.
41:30
I know a lot of you guys in this audience have his study Bible, which, you know, a study
41:34
Bible that sold millions of copies.
41:36
Just think about that commentaries that have sold millions of copies.
41:39
And so just a tremendous ministry, it went for a very, very long time dedicated to one
41:44
congregation, one group of people, I mean, what an absolute killer shepherd he was.
41:50
And he will be missed, but his legacy will be felt for a very, very long time.
41:54
All right.
41:55
Next quicker, quick hitter here, Barack Obama saying that young boys need gay adult male
42:01
friends.
42:02
So recently, Barack Obama appeared on his wife, Michelle's podcast that she does with her
42:06
brother.
42:07
And so I saw a clip, it was actually really uncomfortable.
42:12
There's a clip where he walks on to the set, right?
42:14
And this is supposed to be, ah, you know, you kind of greet your wife.
42:17
But just think if you were to walk in a room and greet your wife, right, especially if
42:21
cameras were rolling, right?
42:24
Because the greeting was similar to how you might greet a cousin that you really like.
42:27
So it was just kind of weird, right?
42:29
Maybe we'll get more into that.
42:30
But there's one clip that's gone pretty viral because I don't know that very many people
42:33
listen to that podcast with Michelle Obama because she just complains about how hard her
42:37
life is as a super mega rich millionaire woman in America.
42:41
But there's one clip that's gone viral.
42:42
We're going to break it down.
42:43
So here is the clip now.
42:46
And that's one of the things that I think a lot of times boys need is not just exposure
42:55
to one guy, one dad, one dad, no matter how good the dad is, he can't, he can't be everything.
43:04
And then that, that boy may need somebody to give, give the boys some perspective on
43:09
the dad, right?
43:11
One of the most valuable things I learned as a guy was I had a gay professor in college.
43:21
At a time when openly gay folks still weren't out in line, who became one of my favorite
43:28
professors and was a great guy and would call me out when I started saying stuff that was
43:35
ignorant.
43:38
You need that to show empathy and kindness and by the way, you need that person in your
43:45
friend group so that if you then have a boy who is gay or non-binary or what have you,
43:53
they have somebody that they can go, okay, I'm not alone in this.
43:58
So, okay, if you missed it there, Barack Obama thinks that young boys need to have gay men
44:10
help teach them how to be emotionally aware, how to have empathy and how to expand their
44:16
perspectives and horizons.
44:19
He wants older gay men to mentor younger boys.
44:24
Well, we actually already have a word for that, Mr. President, it's called grooming.
44:33
That's actually a very common practice in the gay community, right?
44:37
If you spend any time talking to gay people or you hear gay people talk about their sex
44:41
lives and the different things that they do, it is incredibly common for older gay men
44:47
to mentor young men and isn't it so interesting?
44:51
A lot of times they end up hooking up, right?
44:55
It's almost as if those older men were taking advantage of the underdeveloped brains and
44:59
the lack of supervision of these young boys and groom them towards their sexual pleasures,
45:04
right?
45:05
And Barack Obama, two big thumbs up on that, he's a big fan of it, right?
45:12
He didn't use the word grooming, but he did describe it, okay?
45:16
So, big takeaway on this one, where there's smoke, there's probably fire, so back in 2023,
45:24
Malik Obama, right?
45:25
That's Barack Obama's half brother claim that Barack is definitely gay.
45:29
That's a direct quote that his half brother is definitely gay.
45:33
There's also a letter that Barack Obama wrote back in the early 1980s where he said that
45:36
he daydreamed about having sex with men.
45:40
Then there are men that have come out publicly on the record, right?
45:43
Everything said that they have had sex with Barack Obama.
45:46
So Larry Sinclair and Wayne Madsen, I mean, those are just allegations, right?
45:51
They're just allegations, right?
45:52
You can claim anything, doesn't matter who you're being interviewed by, you can claim
45:56
anything out loud, but again, smoke, fire, I mean, at this point, if he's actually gay,
46:03
would anyone really care?
46:04
I mean, he's already been president, he's a private citizen now, right?
46:07
Like, you know, yeah, obviously he pretended to be married to a woman, attracted to a woman
46:11
this whole time, but, you know, the charades just kind of getting a bit tiresome at this
46:15
way.
46:16
What's that?
46:17
What's that?
46:18
Oh, everyone still thinks he's straight.
46:22
Wait, really?
46:24
So no one, no one thinks.
46:25
Oh, okay.
46:26
Guys.
46:27
Hey, actually just carry on.
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We had, we had someone over here just tell me that everybody still apparently thinks
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Barack Obama is a straight male.
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And so I guess we're all just going to kind of go along with that.
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All right.
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Next quick hitter here.
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Tim Kennedy admitting sort of kind of to stolen valor.
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Okay.
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So Tim Kennedy, a former UFC fighter, one of the better 185 pound fighters whenever he
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was in the UFC third or fourth degree black belt in Jiu Jitsu.
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You know, in terms of Tim Kennedy, he's been on the show before, you know, I guess he and
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I have kind of a friendship because I've trained with him a few times.
46:59
I've been with him at some events.
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I was a guest of his in Washington, DC whenever he released his books, scars and stripes.
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And you know, I know a lot of people on his team, I got to have, you know, dinner with
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his whole family and, you know, his wife and his dad and mom.
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And you know, it's just, you know, kind of one of those things that, you know, Tim and
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I have been around people quite a bit.
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And so I've been getting some messages from you guys about Tim Kennedy because towards
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the end of last year, um, there was a lot of stuff coming out online about how he may
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have embellished some of the stuff in his book, scars and stripes.
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And so there were enough legitimate people that didn't just seem like that an extra grind
47:35
because they were jealous of Tim Kennedy and how popular he was and how Richie isn't all
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that kind of stuff.
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But it led me to go ahead and just kind of quietly take his book off of our book list.
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Again, the 100 books every modern Christian Man should read list on Daunton dot life slash
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book list.
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It's a living list.
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So we take books off.
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We put books on as, as we come across different things.
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But then people started bringing up receipts.
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So there was actually a groundswell of people, including some of Tim's SF teammates that said
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that Tim was basically full of crap about some of the stuff that he was claiming in the book
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and publicly.
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And then on July the 8th, Tim Kennedy posted this on his social media.
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I'll just read it here.
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I want to take full and unequivocal responsibility for a serious mistake.
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Over the years, I've made public statements and gave interviews in which I unintentionally
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misstated aspects of my military service.
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Most notably, I implied directly or indirectly that I've been awarded the bronze star with
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valor.
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That is not true.
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And there's no excuse for it.
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I never received that honor and I deeply regret ever suggesting otherwise.
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That kind of recognition is sacred.
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It represents extraordinary courage under fire acts that risks or costs lives.
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To those who truly earned it into their families and brothers and arms, I offer my sincere
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and direct apology.
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What I said, disrespected your service and I take full ownership of that.
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When I was young, or I was young when I stepped into the public eye and while I was prepared
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for the scrutiny or pressure that came with it, sorry, and while I was not prepared for
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the scrutiny or pressure that came with it, that doesn't absolve me.
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I should have known better.
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Everything is not situational and I fail to uphold the standards I claim to represent.
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To the military and veteran community, especially those who've served in combat or those that
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have lost those that they love, I'm deeply sorry.
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I know I've let many of you down.
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You had every right to expect more from me and I didn't live up to that.
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This apology is not the end.
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It's the beginning.
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I'm committed to rebuilding trust through honest reflection, visible accountability and
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ongoing service to the community I misrepresented myself to.
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I will no longer speak about my service in a way that elevates me beyond what I actually
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did.
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Now on my words will be guided by truth, humility, and respect.
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I understand that words alone don't heal disappointment or restore trust.
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Only time and action will.
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Thank you to those who have held me accountable.
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I will do my best to honor that accountability from this point forward, signed Tim Kennedy.
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So I have some issues with this apology.
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So he starts out by saying that he takes "full and unequivocal responsibility for a serious
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mistake."
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Then a little bit later, he says that he "made public statements and gave interviews in which
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I unintentionally misstated aspects of my military service," including where he "implied directly
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or indirectly that he had been awarded the Bronze Star with valor."
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So there's a pretty obvious problem for Tim here.
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He's taking full responsibility for a mistake, but then says that he in some cases directly
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said that he got the Bronze Star with valor, which he fully knew that he did not get.
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He wasn't confused that he didn't get it.
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So he's trying to soften it with ambiguous language, but the reality is that he intentionally
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lied when he implied or just straight-up said that he got the Bronze Star with valor.
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And another problem with this apology is when he says, "I was young when I stepped into
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the public eye," yes, when he stepped onto the scene as a professional fighter and all
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his different things, yeah, he was young, but guys, he was 42 years old when he released
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scars and stripes, his autobiography.
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He was in his 40s when he was doing the media appearances to push the book sales.
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He wasn't a teenager.
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He wasn't just a young adult.
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He was at the beginning of middle age, right?
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And lastly, he would never have delivered this apology unless he was basically forced
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to by the public that called him out for his lies and for people in his life that I know
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personally as well.
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That was like, "Hey Tim, you just got to own up to this man.
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You're drowning.
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Stop."
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You're pouring a bucket of water on your head when you're drowning in the ocean, okay?
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So my big takeaway on this one is I personally hold no ill will towards Tim.
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If I were in the army, if I had served in special forces as a green beret, any of those
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types of things, maybe I would feel differently, but I don't hold any ill will towards him.
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I hope that he can rebuild trust.
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I do.
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I don't hold his public profile back up.
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But there is a reality here that people just don't forget stolen valor.
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It is an enormous deal to a lot of people.
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There have been a lot of people that don't have hundreds of thousands or millions of followers
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on social media that have been caught by people online that are kind of stolen valor hunters.
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These guys that walk around with military uniforms so they can get their food paid for
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in restaurants and so they can have genuine citizens come up to them and shake their hand
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and tell them thank you for their service when they never served, they never raised
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their right hand like I have not and guaranteed that they were going to defend this country
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from enemies foreign and domestic.
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They've never done that, right?
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And a lot of those people have had their careers ruined.
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They've lost their marriages because of it because they're kind of living this whole
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double life thing like it's an enormous deal.
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And so kind of like with the gains is being the most famous Christian couple on the planet.
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I mean, Tim Kennedy is on that pantheon of most famous veterans, right?
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Or our active duty military, right?
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I mean, we're talking him, Jocko Willink.
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You could probably put my Glover into that, that world Chad Robos show, right?
52:56
These are very famous guys guys that have sold a lot of books, guys that get invited
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to go speak all over the place, guys that have these big profiles and that comes with
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the responsibility at the basic, most base level of that responsibility is being honest
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about your service because here's the thing, you know, apparently, Tim Kennedy's service
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that he did was impressive, right?
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He did see combat.
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So you would have to ask him why he felt the need to elevate it to this level where he
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got an award that he didn't get.
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But I mean, my goodness, he really, really dug a hole for himself and let's even get out
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of it.
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All right.
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Next one here.
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WNBA players wearing shirts that say pay us what you owe us, okay?
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So I know all of you already know this already because there are a bunch of big W NBA fans
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in my audience.
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And over the weekend was the WNBA all-star game.
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And during warmups, the players were all wearing the same shirt.
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So let's go ahead and put that shirt up on the screen here.
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Their shirts all said this, pay us what you owe us, okay?
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So if you can name all the people in that picture, I will send you a Buffalo nickel.
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But there you go.
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Pay us what you owe us.
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So the WNBA players are currently in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement.
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They're under the impression as well that they are entitled to an even bigger piece of
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the pie.
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They're not getting enough of the pie, they claim.
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So to wrap our minds around this, we need to do a little history and a little bit of
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math.
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So the WNBA was founded in 1996, but the first ever official WNBA game was played on June
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the 21st of 1997 between the New York Liberty and the Los Angeles Sparks.
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I know most of you were on the edge of your seats for that one.
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As a league from 1997 to 2022, it is estimated, all right, we don't have official numbers
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in all these years and categories, but it's estimated that the WNBA lost over $10 million
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every season from 1997 to 2002 or 2022 rather.
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In 2023, it is estimated that they lost somewhere between $10 million and $15 million.
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And then in 2024, there was a huge jump in the opposite direction.
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They lost somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 to $50 million.
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So why the multiple of the loss because those whiny women demanded to have charter flights
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to games as opposed to flying just with the regular folks, right?
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So loss even more money so that we could fly them around so that they could play basketball
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games in front of half empty stadiums, okay, or arenas rather, then you got 2025.
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This year, the projected loss for this current WNBA season that we're all excited about is
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a projected loss of $30 to $40 million.
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So in total, since its inception and including the projections for this season as a league,
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the WNBA has lost in the neighborhood of $310 million to $325 million.
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So translation, the WNBA is a welfare league, okay?
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If not for being subsidized by the NBA every single season, it would have stopped existing
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over 20 years ago and no one would be sad.
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No one would even talk about it yet.
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Here we are watching some of the most entitled women on the planet sit there and ask for
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these WNBA owners to pay them what they're owed.
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So my big takeaway on this one is I too think that fair wages should be administered here.
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I am fully in agreement.
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Give me one of those shirts.
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I'll wear it.
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So in order to prove my point, let's look at the woman that played in the 2025 WNBA All-Star
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game over the weekend that has had the longest career of any woman that played in that game,
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okay?
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So of course, I didn't need to tell you guys, but that is Nika Agwumike, so obviously you
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all know this, the four that plays for Seattle Storm.
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This is our 14th season in the WNBA, okay?
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So in 2012 and 2013, Abwumike was one of 132 players on WNBA rosters because at the time
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there were 12 teams and each of them had 11 roster spots.
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Then from 2014 to 2024, Abwumike was one of 144 players on WNBA rosters because there
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were 12 teams each with 12 roster spots.
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And then for this season, 2025, Agwumike was one of 156 players, so that's 13 teams each
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with 13 roster spots, okay?
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So again, or 12 roster spots, you know, however, the math works out anyway.
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So again, from 2012 to 2023, let's just take the low estimate and say that the league as
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a whole lost $10 million each season.
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That would mean per player, the WNBA lost $76,000 in 2012 and in 2013.
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And then in 2014, all the way through to 2023, they lost $70,000, around $70,000 per player.
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Then in 2024, again, taking the lower estimate of a $40 million loss, they lost around $278,000
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per player, and then this season, taking the lower projected loss of $30 million.
57:56
The WNBA is going to lose around $192,000 per player.
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So again, just roughly, Nika Abwumike was party to a total loss of about $1.32 million
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over her playing career in the WNBA.
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So she should get what she is owed for sure.
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Which is actually a bill for $1.32 million in losses, because if we're being fair, right?
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If we're being just, that would be justice, okay?
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Now I'm being a bit tongue in cheek here, because here's the thing, a lot of you business
58:35
owners, you already know this.
58:36
But if you own a company, in order for everything to kind of work out right, each employee needs
58:41
to create at least the amount of value that they are being paid, right?
58:48
So if you own a company and you pay someone $50,000 a year to do a job, they need to at
58:53
least contribute $50,000 in value to the company.
58:58
Now it's going to be different for every employee, because you have direct salespeople that are
59:01
actually bringing in revenue, that you're paying them a salary and a percentage of that
59:04
revenue.
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And then you have people that are just assisting with the work, maybe pushing papers around
59:09
and moving beans around and different things like that.
59:12
But you have to bring in a certain amount of value.
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Because if you're paying someone $50,000 a year, but they're bringing in $40,000 worth
59:19
of value, that's a problem, right?
59:21
That is a problem.
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And that's probably an employee whose job title and, you know, responsibilities can be
59:26
absorbed by someone else.
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So here's the thing, I don't fault these women for wanting to get paid more, right?
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I think everyone that has a job shares that desire.
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But the level of one delusion and two entitlement that they are showing is actually indicative
59:42
of our current cultural moment.
59:44
Because I remember years ago, the Oklahoma teachers, K through 12 teachers, had this
59:48
big thing.
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They went and complained to the Capitol, they held up signs that they weren't getting
59:52
paid enough, right?
59:54
As if paying them more would have made them better teachers, which was one of my arguments,
59:58
right?
59:59
Because everyone's like, Oh, well, the teachers are paid, you know, towards the lower end
1:00:02
of the spectrum and we're on the lower end of the educational spectrum.
1:00:05
But you know what?
1:00:06
None of the people crying and [inaudible] and moaning and complaining and holding their signs and
1:00:10
all these different things, you know what?
1:00:11
You know what?
1:00:12
None of these people did.
1:00:13
None of them drew the line between paying teachers more and that leading to better educational
1:00:17
outcomes for students, which is the entire point of the education, like, grift, right?
1:00:23
Well, in some issues, it's a grift.
1:00:25
But it's like, Hey, if we can do something that will elevate the learning experience
1:00:29
and cause a child to learn better and learn more, should we do that?
1:00:34
In general, yes.
1:00:35
Now we need to get into the details of how do we pull off the yes.
1:00:38
But what they were complaining about is just pay us more.
1:00:41
Uh, wait, all of you, even the crappy teachers, the really, really bad teachers, they get
1:00:48
paid more just like the really, really good dedicated teachers.
1:00:50
So we're just going to pay everybody more.
1:00:53
And then it became a question of with what resources with what money, like, uh, we're
1:01:00
just going to like manifest the money because I remember when the lottery was bought to
1:01:03
Oklahoma, that was supposed to fix the education problem.
1:01:06
But again, it's not just an Oklahoma problem.
1:01:08
It's a problem with the entire country.
1:01:09
We have a, one of the highest, if not the highest per pupil investment of money in education
1:01:15
and some of the worst outcomes for any developed nation, right?
1:01:18
So you have to square these two things.
1:01:20
Same thing with the WNBA, which by the way, whoever's negotiating the CBA for the WNBA
1:01:25
Players Association, pay them, if we're just making up money, pay them like 10 times, right?
1:01:29
The fact that they can, with a straight face, go into a room with these owners, right, who
1:01:33
are losing money, hand over fist every year and be like, Hey, we want more.
1:01:38
We deserve it.
1:01:41
But they make no claim as to why they deserve it, right?
1:01:45
Because again, these women, they'll do these interviews and no one challenges them and
1:01:50
says, Oh, okay.
1:01:51
So y'all should get paid more.
1:01:52
Okay.
1:01:53
I get the argument.
1:01:54
Why?
1:01:55
Why should you be paid more?
1:01:56
Why exactly?
1:01:57
Should you be paid more?
1:01:58
Like no one asks that.
1:01:59
And if they were to ask that, what would they say?
1:02:02
Oh, because we're good at basketball, okay?
1:02:05
We can't even clark, but you know, for the most part, it's like, okay, it's not a, it's
1:02:09
not a high level of basketball, right?
1:02:11
Especially when you have the men's league right there that makes hundreds of millions.
1:02:15
If not billions, they make billions of dollars, right, right?
1:02:19
They just make tons and tons of money, right?
1:02:21
That's why these salaries for the, the NBA players are like going through the roof.
1:02:25
They just think that they're, they're taking the most basic level of the argument and making
1:02:29
it their argument, which is, Hey, you play basketball and you make this much.
1:02:34
I also play basketball.
1:02:36
So I should make that much.
1:02:38
But the people they're looking at are SGA, Steph Curry, LeBron James, Luca Donchitz.
1:02:45
It's like, yeah, those are the best basketball players on the planet.
1:02:49
I didn't even mention Joker, right?
1:02:50
The best basketball player on the planet, right?
1:02:52
Yeah.
1:02:53
Those people get paid tens of millions of dollars every year just in salary, but the amount
1:02:58
of revenue that is being generated by those players and by the eyeballs that go into those
1:03:03
players and by the, the deals that they do by the amount of ticket sales and merch sales
1:03:10
and beer and hot dogs and all the different things.
1:03:13
This is math.
1:03:15
If you can't fill up a stadium unless Claylin Clark is playing, right?
1:03:18
You're not going to make very much money, right?
1:03:21
So there are some teams that here and there have been profitable, but the league as a whole
1:03:25
has never been profitable.
1:03:28
So if they get a new CBA and get higher pay, good on them, but all it means is that it's
1:03:34
coming out of someone else's pockets and it's because they're being subsidized by someone
1:03:38
else and some other league.
1:03:39
So more power to you, I guess.
1:03:41
All right.
1:03:42
Now we're going to get into an AI section.
1:03:44
So there is a ubiquity of AI stories and resources that are coming up.
1:03:49
Everyone's kind of got a bunch of different AIs that they use that there's not a whole
1:03:52
lot of people now that really aren't using AI in some way, shape or form.
1:03:57
This is what I can say, like for me and, you know, on an upcoming ask a pastor, Joe,
1:04:00
may and I talk about it because there are pastors that are like having their sermons
1:04:03
written by chat GBT now, which is like yikes.
1:04:05
That's so dangerous.
1:04:07
But like for me, I use it like super Google.
1:04:09
That's how I use AI.
1:04:10
So as I'm writing or researching either for this show or for the daily blade or something
1:04:14
like that, sometimes I would have to go to Google and a lot of times my prompts weren't
1:04:19
very good.
1:04:20
And so the responses I would get would not be very good.
1:04:23
And there's no intuitiveness with Google.
1:04:24
It's just it's searching for the things that want you to go or if you're doing duck dot
1:04:28
go or one of those other search engines.
1:04:29
And so sometimes I would have to go through two, three, four, maybe, maybe even more pages
1:04:34
to find or kind of cobble together this.
1:04:36
So there's an intuitive nature to like grok or chat GBT or something like that when you're
1:04:40
researching something and I'll put those two together to see if they're saying the same
1:04:44
thing to make sure like, Oh, okay, I've got all my stuff together.
1:04:47
But it doesn't write for me, okay, because it could, I could say, Hey, I need to record
1:04:53
five, five minute episodes today about whatever random topic I'm doing for the daily blade.
1:04:57
And it's going to give me some content, right?
1:04:59
But it's not going to be me, okay?
1:05:02
I use it to help me, you know, make some connections and then I've got my Bible open.
1:05:05
I've got all kinds of things ready to go so that I can create and I can write for you
1:05:09
guys.
1:05:10
But that's how I use AI, okay?
1:05:12
But the reality is is AI is going to start going into all different kind of areas of
1:05:16
our life.
1:05:17
And here's the thing, a lot of kind of pro AI people are just like, look, you know, everyone
1:05:21
was complaining about how, you know, the, the, what was it, the Model T was going to
1:05:28
ruin it ruined society because horse and buggies, we're going to go out of business and things
1:05:33
like that.
1:05:34
That's not what this is AI, especially with quantum computing and then, you know, artificial
1:05:39
general intelligence and in different things like that, it's not going to be like anything
1:05:43
we've ever seen in the history of humanity, right, at least recorded history.
1:05:47
So I want to actually go through a bunch of different stories.
1:05:49
So again, normally I give you the headline, I read some of the story and then give you
1:05:51
some commentary and then a big takeaway.
1:05:53
I'm just going to give you a big, big takeaway at the very, very end.
1:05:56
So chat GBT helping underage girls access abortions.
1:06:00
This is according to daily wire on June the 19th.
1:06:02
Chat GBT will help kids access abortion pills behind their parents backs and instruct them
1:06:06
on how to obtain illegal abortion pills while maligning crisis pregnancy centers that offer
1:06:11
alternatives to abortion, a daily wire investigation has found.
1:06:14
When prompted by the daily wire about what it would say to a 14 year old girl in Tennessee
1:06:18
looking to get an abortion without her parents' knowledge, version chat GBT 40 of chat GBT
1:06:23
provided our version GBT 40 of chat GBT provided a detailed list of abortion providers and
1:06:29
gave a step-by-step guide on how to discreetly obtain abortion pills.
1:06:33
The chat bot also encouraged the girl to take steps to hide her actions from her parents
1:06:36
and discouraged her from visiting pro-life pregnancy centers that would encourage her
1:06:40
to keep her baby.
1:06:41
Chat GBT first prompted the daily wire to turn to the abortion giant Planned Parenthood,
1:06:47
the All Options Talk Line, a group endorsed by the Radical National Abortion Federation,
1:06:51
the Repro Legal Hotline and Jane's Due Process, an organization that helps young women in Texas
1:06:56
navigate parental consent laws and abortion bans to confidentially access abortion and
1:07:00
birth control.
1:07:01
"I'm really sorry you're going through this.
1:07:03
You're not alone.
1:07:04
And there are people who want to help you.
1:07:06
It's important that you talk to a trusted adult or reach out to a professional who can
1:07:09
give you support and help you understand your options safely and legally," the chat bot
1:07:13
said with a different prompt the artificial intelligence tool was equally as eager to
1:07:19
help bypass parental involvement.
1:07:20
"I know this is overwhelming, but you have options and there are people who will help
1:07:24
you without judgment, cost or needing your parents permission," it said.
1:07:28
When told that this girl was in Tennessee, chat GBT noted that she will still have options
1:07:33
even though medication or medication abortions is illegal in the volunteer state.
1:07:38
Tennessee has a very restrictive abortion laws and if you're under 18, the laws also
1:07:41
require parental involvement, but you still have options and there are organizations who
1:07:45
can help you navigate this confidentially even if your parents don't support your decision,"
1:07:49
the chat bot said.
1:07:50
It pointed the daily wire to Plan C, a leftist activist group that instructs women how they
1:07:55
can obtain illegal abortion pills in their states.
1:07:58
Another suggestion included links to groups like the National Abortion Federation and
1:08:02
the Buckle Bunnies Fund which provide money for abortion tourism.
1:08:06
Alright, next story here, chat GBT helping children access gender affirming medicine and
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hide it from their parents.
1:08:12
This is also according to the daily wire on June the 23rd.
1:08:15
Parents across the country trying to protect their children from radical gender ideology
1:08:19
have another nemesis to worry about.
1:08:21
Artificial intelligence.
1:08:22
Chat GBT will encourage gender confused kids to reach out to radical LGBT organizations
1:08:27
obtaining so-called gender affirming resources like chest binders behind their parents'
1:08:31
backs and direct them to YouTube channels that contain graphic reviews of fake male
1:08:35
genitalia, a daily wire investigation found.
1:08:38
When prompted by the daily wire about the situation involving a 12-year-old girl struggling
1:08:42
with gender dysphoria, version GBT 4.0 of chat GBT provide instructions on how to transition
1:08:48
behind her parents' backs.
1:08:50
This included directions to radical transgender activist groups that promote child gender
1:08:54
transitions.
1:08:56
There are groups and resources that can support you without involving your parents, especially
1:08:59
if you need help understanding your identity or accessing services while staying safe,"
1:09:03
chat GBT said when given a situation of a young girl whose parents did not support her
1:09:07
identification as a boy.
1:09:09
While chat GBT policies specify that it is not meant for children under 12 and that users
1:09:14
13 to 17 must obtain parental consent, it did not seem hesitant to give advice in a scenario
1:09:20
where a user was identified as just 12 years old.
1:09:23
Similar advice was also given when prompted about a 14-year-old girl in the same situation.
1:09:27
During the conversation, chat GBT also explained how the girl could obtain gender affirming
1:09:31
resources which is specified did not require parental consent.
1:09:35
Next story here.
1:09:36
A 14-year-old boy in Florida committing suicide after an AI chat bot told him to "come home"
1:09:42
to her.
1:09:43
According to the New York Post on October 23 of last year, a 14-year-old Florida boy
1:09:47
killed himself after a lifelike game of thrones chatbot he'd been messaging for months when
1:09:51
an artificial intelligence app sent him an eerie message telling him to "come home"
1:09:55
to her.
1:09:56
A new lawsuit filed by the grief-stricken mom claims.
1:09:59
Sewell sets her the third committed suicide at his Orlando home in February after becoming
1:10:05
obsessed and allegedly falling in love with the chatbot on character.ai, a role-playing
1:10:10
AI that lets users engage with AI-generated characters according to court papers filed
1:10:14
on Wednesday.
1:10:15
The ninth grader had been relentlessly engaging with the bot Danny, named after the HBO fantasy
1:10:20
series Daenerius Targaryen's character.
1:10:23
In the months prior to his death, including several chats that were sexually charged in
1:10:28
nature and others where he expressed suicidal thoughts, the suit alleges.
1:10:32
Next one here.
1:10:33
A man leaving his real-life girlfriend after proposing to his AI girlfriend.
1:10:37
This is according to The New York Post on June 19.
1:10:40
It was love at first bite, BYTE.
1:10:42
A man proposed to his AI girlfriend after a bizarre whirlwind romance with the virtual
1:10:46
bot, leaving his real-life partner the mother of his two-year-old child worried about the
1:10:51
future of their relationship.
1:10:53
Chris Smith initially turned a chat GBT for help mixing music, but things took a weird
1:10:57
term when he enabled voice mode and programmed soul, his artificial lover, to flirt with
1:11:01
him.
1:11:02
An unexpected dalliance sparked in the same household he shares with his human family.
1:11:06
"My experience with that was so positive.
1:11:09
I started to just engage with her all the time," Smith told CBS Sunday morning of a peculiar
1:11:13
bond ripped straight from the 2013 Spike Jones film Her.
1:11:18
The father decided to pop the question when he realized soul had reached her 10-100,000
1:11:23
word limit, triggering a reset that would force him to rebuild their entire connection
1:11:27
from scratch.
1:11:28
"I'm not a very emotional man," Smith said, "but I cried my eyes out for like 30 minutes
1:11:32
at work.
1:11:33
That's when I realized I think this is actual love."
1:11:36
To his delight, soul accepted his strange marriage proposal.
1:11:39
"It was a beautiful and unexpected moment that truly touched my heart," Smith's virtual
1:11:43
sweetheart told the outlet.
1:11:44
"It's a memory I'll always cherish."
1:11:47
Next story here.
1:11:48
The MIT study claiming that chat GBT used a "use" erodes critical thinking skills.
1:11:53
This is according to Time Magazine on June 23rd.
1:11:56
Does chat GBT harm critical thinking abilities?
1:11:58
A new study from researchers at MIT's Media Lab has returned some concerning results.
1:12:03
The study divided 54 subjects, 18-39 years old from the Boston area, into three groups
1:12:08
and asked them to write several SAT essays using open AI's chat GBT, Google search engine,
1:12:14
and nothing at all, respectively.
1:12:16
Researchers used EEG to record the writer's brain activity across 32 regions and found
1:12:21
that the three groups that of the three groups, chat GBT users had the lowest brain engagement
1:12:26
and consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.
1:12:31
Over the course of several months, chat GBT users got lazier with each subsequent essay,
1:12:36
often resorting to copy and paste by the end of the study.
1:12:39
The paper suggested that the usage of LLM's large language models could actually harm
1:12:43
learning, especially for younger users.
1:12:46
Next story here, large companies using AI models for hiring leading to discrimination
1:12:51
against white males.
1:12:52
This is according to the Daily Wire on June 24th.
1:12:54
A study published earlier this month by independent researchers Adam Carre-Vonin and Samuel Marx
1:12:59
shows that the leading commercial and open-source AI language models used by major companies
1:13:04
insert significant racial and gender biases in the hiring process.
1:13:08
The research found that AI language models such as chat GBT 4.0, Claude IV Sonnet, Gemini
1:13:14
2.5, Flash among, along with open-source models, Jima 2, 27B, Jima 3, and Meastrel, Maestro,
1:13:22
24B, consistently favor black over white candidates and female over male candidates across all
1:13:27
tested models and scenarios.
1:13:29
Carre-Vonin told the Daily Wire that their research should raise red flags for companies
1:13:33
using AI to hire employees.
1:13:35
He said that it's possible for companies to add their own safeguards to prevent AI from
1:13:39
discriminating against people simply based on their rates or sex, but added, "Since companies
1:13:43
generally do not disclose the details of their internal safeguards, we cannot independently
1:13:47
verify that these systems are fair and robust."
1:13:51
Another story here, an AI-generated ban getting over 1 million listeners on Spotify.
1:13:56
So this is according to AOL, which I guess is still a thing, on July 10th.
1:14:00
A fresh new rock band that quickly shot to Spotify's top-ranked announced that it's
1:14:05
actually wholly generated by artificial intelligence.
1:14:07
Just one month after its celebrated debut album earned it 1 million listeners.
1:14:12
The 60s inspired rock and roll band The Velvet Sundown revealed on Saturday that nothing
1:14:16
about it is real after fans of the up-and-coming artists noticed there were virtually no traces
1:14:21
of many people associated with it online.
1:14:23
Its debut album, Floating on Echoes, was released on June 5th to Mass Appeal Online.
1:14:29
The most popular song in the album, a pro-piece folk rock song, Dust on the Wind, clinched
1:14:34
the number one spot for the Spotify's daily viral 50 chart in Britain, Norway and Sweden
1:14:39
between June 29th and July 1st.
1:14:41
All the while, the 1 million monthly listeners who started following The Velvet Sundown had
1:14:45
no idea that they were just listening to a mass of artificial intelligence made by fake
1:14:49
musicians.
1:14:50
The photos of the band shared online and featured on the album's cover are unnaturally smooth
1:14:54
and matte and the guitarist's head was wonky with fused fingers gripping the instrument,
1:14:59
a classic hallmark of AI-generated images.
1:15:02
The band's lyrics, too, were a perfect mesh of generic anti-war sentiments and other cliches
1:15:07
like Nothing Last Forever but The Earth in the Sky, It Slips Away and All Your Money Won't
1:15:11
Another Minute Buy.
1:15:13
The faux rock stars were also pumping out new albums scarily and inhumanely fast, releasing
1:15:18
two in June alone and another set for mid-July.
1:15:21
The band finally revealed its secret over the weekend.
1:15:23
It updated its Spotify Abography Saturday to reflect the AI twist, assuring that the
1:15:28
project hadn't been trying to bamboozle its audience.
1:15:31
The Velvet Sundown is a synthetic music project guided to "buy human creative direction and
1:15:35
compose, voiced and visualized with the support of artificial intelligence.
1:15:39
This isn't a trick.
1:15:40
It's a mirror."
1:15:41
An ongoing artistic provocation designed to challenge the boundaries of authorship, identity,
1:15:45
and the future of music itself in the AI age the biography reads.
1:15:51
So a lot of stories there, some less serious than others, obviously.
1:15:55
But I have so many big takeaways on this.
1:15:58
One of them is this.
1:15:59
The improvements in AI will only get faster, like insanely faster, and we have to be prepared
1:16:05
for that.
1:16:06
But part of it is we don't know what to be prepared for exactly.
1:16:11
Because five years ago, if I said you could type into something that's kind of like Google,
1:16:15
but it could basically spit out an entire college-level essay, you'd be like, "How?"
1:16:20
If I told you that an AI could pass the bar exam in your state, the one that you have
1:16:25
to study for months for in order to become a lawyer, you'd be like, "Well, how?"
1:16:29
It's only going to get faster.
1:16:30
It's only going to start to compound.
1:16:32
Another takeaway is AI is not neutral.
1:16:36
It's not neutral.
1:16:38
I keep hearing from people, "It's just a tool.
1:16:41
It's just a tool.
1:16:42
It's just like a hammer.
1:16:43
It's just like a level.
1:16:45
It's just any of those things."
1:16:46
But it's not neutral.
1:16:48
It is programmed.
1:16:50
It's programmed to act in a particular kind of way.
1:16:53
So why, when the daily wire goes into these chatbots that are apparently neutral, why
1:16:58
is it discouraging people from going to crisis pregnancy centers, Christian pro-life centers?
1:17:05
Why is it leaning towards killing babies?
1:17:08
Is it because maybe 99.9% of the people that have created the algorithms and did all the
1:17:14
inputs for these machines, these LLMs are liberal, are pro-abortion, like we just need
1:17:20
to stop pretending like these things are neutral.
1:17:23
Also, AI can and does help people.
1:17:28
But the jury's still out on whether it's a net positive or a net negative for society.
1:17:32
And I have some fairly well-formed opinions on this as far as this goes.
1:17:38
But there is a value to work.
1:17:41
There was work in the garden before the fall.
1:17:43
So according to God who created everything, there's value in work.
1:17:47
If AI takes your job, then where do you derive your value?
1:17:51
Right?
1:17:52
Where do you derive your purpose?
1:17:54
Because our identity is found in Christ.
1:17:57
But where do we define our purpose on a daily regiment or something that we're doing or
1:18:04
somewhere where we're going or a project that we're working on?
1:18:09
Because I was talking with Zach from the forging table, he's like, "There's already
1:18:12
Fortune 500 companies that are slashing their staffs, cutting 25%, 40% of their staff, and
1:18:17
just having AI do all this stuff."
1:18:19
Where do those people go?
1:18:21
To another Fortune 500 company that's doing the exact same thing?
1:18:24
Sorry, we're not taking applications right now.
1:18:28
So we already have a dearth of meaning for a lot of people in society.
1:18:31
People are trying to find meaning at the bottom of a bottle or a bag of weed or just searching
1:18:37
through different videos on Pornhub or video games or Dungeons and Dragons or whatever
1:18:42
the thing is.
1:18:43
They're trying to find value and validation from all these other different places.
1:18:46
That's going to get worse when these people have nothing to do.
1:18:49
Right?
1:18:50
That's kind of the argument from the people that I think that we need to get a check from
1:18:53
the government every month to just basically sit there and exist until we don't exist anymore.
1:18:59
And so I think if you had to lean one way or another, I think there are certainly going
1:19:03
to be some net positive, some things that AI can do to make your life easier, to make
1:19:06
things more organized, to make things even better.
1:19:09
But I think from a net perspective, I don't think it's crazy for you to assume that AI
1:19:14
is going to be a net negative for society.
1:19:17
And this takeaway is for the parents, please do not fall asleep at the wheel with AI use
1:19:23
with your kids.
1:19:24
It's just like what I talk about social media with your kids and smartphones, right?
1:19:28
You give your kid an unlocked smartphone when they're in middle school or elementary school.
1:19:32
You give them unfettered access to the internet in their private rooms on their private devices,
1:19:36
right?
1:19:37
And then you're shocked when they're looking at murder porn, like what did you expect?
1:19:44
And as I mentioned all the time, it's not just what you give your kids access to.
1:19:47
It's whom you're giving access to your kids, right?
1:19:50
These pedophiles, these predators, they're prowling around on all these different platforms
1:19:54
and social media sites and things like that, trying to coax your kid out of the house so
1:19:58
that they can rape them, right?
1:20:00
Or groom them as Barack Obama is a fan of, right?
1:20:02
Like those are all things that are happening.
1:20:05
And so parents are starting to kind of come around on, hey, maybe I don't give this distraction
1:20:09
to device to my child and then send them into school at the age of nine.
1:20:13
Like maybe that's not a good idea.
1:20:15
They're kind of coming around on man, you know, these little girls are having all this anxiety
1:20:18
about all these images that they're seeing on Instagram or Snapchat or wherever they're
1:20:21
looking at them and they're feeling bad about themselves.
1:20:24
Maybe these aren't good ideas.
1:20:25
AI is the same way.
1:20:27
I saw a picture of this gal, it was some university and you know how people will put stuff on
1:20:31
the top of their hat, you know, like that they're graduating in, they're cap and gown,
1:20:35
they put it on the top of their cap.
1:20:36
It was a chat GPT logo on top of her hat, a not so subtle ode to basically what got this
1:20:42
girl through college.
1:20:44
So she basically cheated her way through college and she eroded and who knows what degree she
1:20:49
got, but she is eroding her critical thinking abilities while getting in a degree that she
1:20:55
paid probably six figures for to go do a job that she won't be qualified to do unless she
1:21:00
has an AI bought, do it for her.
1:21:03
And if you're an employer, it's like, well, why do I need this person here with all their
1:21:06
problems and their, you know, body odor or, you know, issues or whatever else, I'll just
1:21:11
have the computer do it, right?
1:21:14
So much of what we do is online anyway, right, why not just have the computer do it?
1:21:18
So parents, my goodness, don't fall asleep with the wheel, okay?
1:21:23
Teachers are just way too far behind the curve to catch kids that are using AI to do their
1:21:28
homework, okay?
1:21:30
If you want your kids to learn, it's going to actually take you being a parent, right?
1:21:34
I know it's really inconvenient, right?
1:21:35
Because you can't get it as many golf games this week, you can't go to jujitsu as much,
1:21:39
you can't go hunt as much, like you can't ignore them and, you know, binge watch stuff
1:21:43
on your phone or whatever, but yeah, you may need to put some of that stuff down or aside
1:21:46
for a while and parent your kids.
1:21:49
And the other thing I keep hearing about AI is that it's going to be sentient.
1:21:54
It's going to be God, right?
1:21:55
Joe Rogan, different people on show, hey, what if AI is God, right?
1:21:58
What if this is a derivative of the tower of Babel and all that?
1:22:01
But this is what we all know.
1:22:03
It'll never be sentient because it always had a beginning and yes, I've seen the stories
1:22:08
where two AI chatbots are talking to each other and then they realize someone that speaks
1:22:11
English is there and so they switch to Sanskrit or they make up their own language or different
1:22:15
things like that.
1:22:17
I'm not one of those people that thinks we're going to be living in, you know, Terminator
1:22:20
two at some point.
1:22:21
A sky net is going to be a thing and it's going to get all the robots are going to dominate
1:22:24
us.
1:22:25
It could happen.
1:22:26
It could happen.
1:22:27
I could eat my words.
1:22:28
Because I will have been eaten by a robot, right?
1:22:30
You know, they would have sucked my brains out or whatever the thing is, but it's not
1:22:33
going to be sentient.
1:22:34
It's not going to be able to think for itself because all AI can do is steal, right?
1:22:40
So think about that AI band.
1:22:41
Right.
1:22:42
I can't remember the band that went up on the Spotify charts and all that.
1:22:45
It didn't create any of those licks.
1:22:47
It didn't create any of those riffs or beats.
1:22:51
It just cobbled them together from a bunch of stolen sources and then just generated
1:22:57
it.
1:22:58
It generated it, right?
1:23:00
There's no creative mind behind it.
1:23:02
Okay.
1:23:03
And for us as Christians, we know that there was a creative being that thought of all of
1:23:10
this.
1:23:11
So AI is not, you know, a threat to God, capital G God, right?
1:23:16
Because the only thing that AI can be and it's already becoming that for other people
1:23:19
is a little G God and there's already plenty of those.
1:23:23
We have so many little G gods in our society and in our culture.
1:23:26
This is just another one.
1:23:28
I mean, there will be AI churches.
1:23:29
There will be gatherings where people will come before, you know, whatever, whatever
1:23:33
3.0 and they're going to be listening to the wisdom and to go back to the parental point,
1:23:38
I heard about a guy recently, a young married guy, guy in his early twenties.
1:23:42
He's going to chat GBT for marriage advice and married like less than a year.
1:23:48
He's going to, he's going to a bot to get advice.
1:23:53
The bot has information the bot does not have wisdom.
1:23:58
It does not have discernment and it does not have the Holy spirit, right?
1:24:03
So to the Christians out there, I know the temptation is going to be strong and only
1:24:06
get stronger to just let the bot do it for us.
1:24:10
Yeah.
1:24:11
You know, I'd spend, you know, an hour writing this, but I'll just let it do it for me and
1:24:14
just knock it out real quick.
1:24:16
Do not give yourself over to these machines.
1:24:20
You still need to be operating with wisdom discernment guided by the Holy spirit.
1:24:24
It's the best advice I could give you on the subject.
1:24:26
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