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This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
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Guys, we have used that scripture a lot lately and for a good reason, and it's going to be very
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All right, before we get into today's content too far, a couple of quick things here from the very
1:34
jump. There were some podcasts that we did at the end of last year, and there needs to be some
1:38
corrections and some announcements. I did a review episode and a best books episode, and I said some
1:42
stuff that didn't end up being completely accurate or some things that like turned out really weird,
1:46
really quick. So I went to kind of correct the record. So part of the reason for that is because
1:50
I did most of the research for some of these episodes in kind of the beginning or middle part
1:53
of December, and then I recorded them early and released them. But anyway, the first thing is,
1:57
I said in the review episode, the year in review episode, episode 269, that Olivia Rodrigo,
2:05
that her album this year was the best selling album of the year. But by year's end, what actually
2:10
ended up being the best selling album of the year was an album called Dangerous, the double album by
2:14
country singer Morgan Wallen. And that's according to Billboard. So I guess Billboard, where I was
2:18
looking wasn't really taking these stats into account. But Billboard actually takes the digital
2:22
sales plus the sales of actual physical copies, and then also adds the streams that are being
2:30
played. And so he sold the equivalent of three million plus albums, so triple platinum in 2021.
2:36
Now, this is the country singer that you may have heard about earlier this year. I believe it was
2:40
earlier or I would have been 2021 early in 2021. He was drunk coming home in the middle of the night.
2:44
And as a joke, he called one of his white friends, the inward, right? So his neighbor was recording
2:50
it. You know, I guess in it to TMZ. So this goes around. He's, you know, dropped from his label
2:54
temporarily. He's a disinvited from all these different things. He had to cancels, you know,
2:58
to worry it to do all these different things. But his album continued to sell really, really,
3:02
really well. Now, some people would say that they would lead you to believe that the reason
3:06
that is is because there's all these secret racists that are so glad that this horribly racist,
3:11
basically the grand wizard of the KKK said the inward and now they can support this guy who's so
3:16
racist by buying his album. Or he's just an incredibly talented musician that writes good
3:21
songs that are like fun to listen to. That could be the other reason for it. But you know, the thing
3:25
about it is he kind of didn't do himself any favors this year because he had a very, very big year,
3:29
but he just kept stumbling over himself trying to continue apologizing. And the thing about it was
3:34
is the public doesn't deserve an apology for that. And this isn't an entire, you know,
3:38
episode about Morgan Wallen or any of this stuff that happened. He did not refer to a black person
3:42
and call them the inward, which is where that word becomes offensive, right? He used that word
3:47
towards another white person. It was, it was tasteless. It was something he shouldn't have said. It was
3:51
sinful. What he did. But this idea that he shouldn't be able to have a career anymore. I think the
3:55
guys in his twenties, like let him learn from his mistake. Don't get drunk and say stupid things.
3:59
Don't have really stupid words in your vocabulary. Now, I would be singing off a very, very different
4:04
sheet of music. If he had referred to a black person using that word, I don't care if he's
4:08
drunk or not or higher, whatever, that would have been absolutely unacceptable. Is it
4:12
except unacceptable enough for him to not have a career anymore? You know, that's, I guess,
4:15
worth your debate. But you know, good for him. I did want to correct the record that he did have
4:20
the best selling album of 2021. I'm glad that at least the majority of the public has forgiven
4:24
him for being such a bonehead. But also in our best books of 2021 episode, that was episode 268.
4:30
I said the worst book that I read last year in 2021 was your brain is always listening by Dr.
4:35
Daniel Ayman. Now, actually, there was a book that was significantly worse than your brain is
4:42
always listening that I completely forgot about. It completely slipped my mind that I had engaged
4:48
with this content. I don't know if I put a mental block in or something, but it's the book called
4:52
Jesus and John Wayne, how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation by
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Kristen Cobes de May, or I think it's de May. But this is actually a woman who I was supposed to
5:04
be debating on the unbelievable podcast over in the UK. And you know, she was going to be
5:09
representing, you know, the feminist side, I was going to be representing, you know,
5:12
kind of the complimentary and masculinity side. And she basically chickened out. She she wanted
5:17
nothing to do with the debate with me. She ended up doing an interview. So she didn't have to
5:21
engage with me and really have her ideas challenged, right? So that was a book that as I was reading
5:27
it, one thing I had to do with this book is I couldn't read it at nighttime before bed,
5:31
which is where I do a lot of my reading, because I would be so fired up at how stupid her arguments
5:36
were because she's clearly an intellectual woman. She's clear clearly a smart person. She's clearly
5:40
a good writer. But as I said on that debate, whenever I was talking about the fact that she
5:44
basically chickened out a debate, I mean, when I had to debate somebody else, I basically said,
5:48
she's a good example of a really, really smart person that gets all of the applications wrong.
5:53
It's kind of like whenever I talked about, you know, on the ways to avoid being a crappy man,
5:56
she has a lot of knowledge, but no wisdom. You know, it's I said seek wisdom, not knowledge.
6:01
So she's got knowledge coming out of her ears, but she has no idea how to coalesce it into something
6:05
that is cogent or even resembles the truth. So that is actually the worst book that I read in 2021
6:10
from 2021. And that was Jesus and John Wayne. And then the last one here before we get into
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today's content. And this is in an absolute worst turn of events or turn of news. In the Year
6:21
in podcast on Episode 269, I said that we could all come together and look forward to celebrating
6:28
the 100th and over 100th birthday, rather, of the unmatchable Betty White. Her 100th birthday
6:34
would be on January the 17th of 2022. Okay. That episode was released on Thursday, December the 30th
6:41
of 2021. And you guys already know where I'm going with this. Betty White died the next day.
6:47
The next day on Friday, December the 31st of 2021, she took her last breath, right?
6:53
About a month shy of her 100th birthday. And as soon as I got the news, like I had people
6:59
texting me out of the woodwork like Kyle, did you just jinx this woman? Did you take Betty White
7:04
from us? Which is obviously there was kind of being in Jess, which is a little bit of dark humor.
7:08
But yeah, the timing of that was was not very good. I couldn't believe that she passed away.
7:12
I was sad whenever that happened because she is one of those people in culture that
7:16
basically everybody had nothing but good things to say about her. But I will say,
7:20
I was going to, I think I even said on the podcast that I was going to do something a little bit
7:24
special for Betty White's 100th birthday. And here's the deal on the 17th of this month. That is her
7:29
100th birthday. Okay. She will not be here with us to celebrate it. She's moved on to wherever she's
7:33
moved on to, but we are going to do something a little bit special. So be on the lookout for that.
7:37
But today in terms of our content for today, we're going to be talking about gaslighting.
7:42
Okay. So if you are unfamiliar with that term, gaslighting is where a person intentionally
7:48
creates a false narrative and pushes that on to somebody. Okay. So basically what gaslighting is,
7:54
it's a form of manipulation that causes the other person or persons to question their own
7:59
perceptions of the world. And this could literally even lead them to questioning their own sanity.
8:04
Okay. So gaslighting, I'm sure a lot of you have kind of heard this. Maybe you just didn't know
8:07
where it came from or how it was used mainly or something like that. But it takes many forms.
8:11
You know, you can be gaslit by somebody with distractions to where you really need to focus
8:16
on this issue that's right here in front of you, but they want you to focus on something over here.
8:19
Hey, look at the shiny thing over here. We'll certainly give some more examples of that here
8:22
in a second. Another way that they do that is through denial. No, no, no, I didn't do that.
8:27
No, no, I never said that. Like that that that certainly didn't happen. Right. So they'll gaslight
8:32
you in that way. There's also changing history, which is, you know, with denial, but it's like,
8:35
no, that that battle didn't in that way. No, that person didn't actually think that back in the day.
8:40
No, no, Jesus wouldn't have said it and mint it that way. Right. They, they kind of change history,
8:44
a little bit of a 1984ish Orwellian say, oh, side of doing things. There's also the shifting
8:49
of blame. Right. Someone's clearly done something wrong, but they're pointing out the person opposite
8:53
them saying, no, no, no, it wasn't me that did this. You did this, right? They're gaslighting them.
8:57
And then I guess the last thing I'll kind of bring up is that it's just straight up lies.
9:00
You know, people will just lie right to your face. You say, Hey, this is something that happened.
9:04
They're like, no, I didn't. You're crazy. You have no idea what you're talking about. Okay.
9:08
And I think to a degree, we've all kind of dabbled in gaslighting, maybe without knowing what it is.
9:12
It's usually something that you try to do. Like, you know, you see kids do this where it's like,
9:16
you know, you know, they've done something that they broke something, but then they'll blame it
9:19
on their little brother. They'll blame it on the dog. They'll blame it on you. Somehow and be like,
9:22
no, I don't remember any of those things happening. Those are kind of little, you know, almost innocent
9:26
examples of how gaslighting is. But the thing about gaslighting, it's been around for a very,
9:31
very long time. Okay. In terms of where it comes from, it's a colloquial term that's actually been
9:34
around since the 1940s, if you can believe it. So there was a film that actually came out in 1944
9:39
called Gaslight. And in it, there's a husband that tricks his wife or is trying to trick his wife
9:44
into thinking that she's gone insane. So the plot of the movie, there's a whole lot of stuff
9:49
that goes along with the plot that plots kind of convoluted. And there's like a murder. And
9:52
there's like jewels that this person's trying to find and all this kind of stuff. But essentially,
9:55
the husband tries to convince his wife that she's going insane by hiding things from her and then
10:00
accusing her of losing them or hiding them herself. He also keeps dimming and brightening the gaslight
10:05
in the attic of their home. And when she mentions this, he essentially, you know, looks at her like
10:09
she's crazy and tells her, you know, it's all in her imagination. And this woman ends up kind of
10:12
going crazy. And you know, I think it kind of ends up going okay for the woman. But that's
10:16
essentially where we get the term gaslight. It wasn't used, you know, in common vernacular for
10:21
a very long time. But it is something that has kind of made it into popular culture. But the
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thing about gaslighting is it's a very powerful tool. Okay. And you know this, if you've done this
10:30
before, I talked about some innocent examples, somewhat innocent examples just a second ago,
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it can be used to manipulate family members, it can be used to manipulate and change friends,
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co workers, employees, if you're in a position of power in any way, shape or form, you can use gas
10:44
lighting or if you're not in a position of power, you can use gaslighting to try and gain power.
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Okay. But it can also be powerfully used, very, very powerfully used. And maybe the most powerful
10:54
use by politicians and government officials to manipulate the public to serve their own interests.
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And that's really going to be the main focus of today's episode. And the way we've seen this the
11:05
most, I'll go into some minor examples here in a second. It's got to be about COVID-19. Okay. So
11:09
just the fact that I immediately said that in this podcast, this is probably going to get
11:13
shadow banned a little bit. I probably that's why I didn't put it in the title of the podcast,
11:16
because but this gets transcribed and put out on the internet. So hopefully you guys are actually
11:19
hearing this and get shared around. But I made a post on Instagram on Monday, January the third.
11:25
Okay. So in it, this is just on my notes on my phone. I pointed out the tremendous,
11:30
absolutely incredible narrative shifts coming from the United States government officials,
11:35
elected leaders and prominent liberals on COVID-19. And they were changes to the narratives that
11:42
it occurred within a week of each other, right? There were literally so many of these shocking
11:50
twists of narrative that happened almost all at once. Okay. And again, as I seemingly say all the
11:56
time now, I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm not. If you're watching me on YouTube,
12:01
it's just my headphones. There's no, you know, tin foil hat anywhere. But the timing of this thing
12:06
was pretty damn convenient for all these narrative shifts. All these narrative shifts on COVID-19
12:12
occurred essentially in the dead week between Christmas and New Year's or right around Christmas,
12:17
right into New Year's writing, you know, the seven to 10 day period. Why would they want to
12:22
change the narrative? It's like, if you want a news story to be buried, you talk about it
12:25
on Friday afternoon. That's kind of a common, you know, news trick. It's like, Hey, you know,
12:28
public relations wise, we need to kind of get rid of this thing and kind of shove it, you know,
12:32
behind the couch or something like that. So for those of you that are keeping score at home,
12:36
cause I definitely did, but I want to kind of bring you up to speed. Here are some of the massive
12:41
narrative shifts that we saw out of all in about a week in terms of COVID. It's not going to be an
12:45
exhaustive list, but here are the main ones. So here's the first one. We went from the federal
12:50
government will shut down the virus and states that don't want to get in line need to get out of the
12:55
way to the federal government is not capable of shutting down the virus. And it's up to the states
13:01
to figure it out. So the source of this narrative shift is president, or sorry, excuse me, co-president
13:07
Joe Biden. So the thing about it is, since he was running as a candidate for president, right,
13:13
co-president Joe Biden basically said he was the one that was going to shut down the virus.
13:18
Okay, that all you had to do was elect him. And guess what? Lickety split. He's going to follow this
13:23
five point plan. And then COVID will be behind us. He constantly talked about how anyone that
13:28
could allow hundreds of thousands of Americans to die on their watch because of a virus that
13:33
is essentially controllable according to them. Those people shouldn't be in office. He was obviously,
13:37
you know, referring to president Trump. But now that he's in office and COVID's out of control,
13:42
he's shifting his tune. It's very, very interesting. And this shift came really in late December.
13:48
So Biden said this while he was dressing, addressing a meeting of some of the nation's
13:52
government governors. He said this and this is a direct quote. Look, there is no federal solution.
13:57
This gets solved at a state level. Unquote.
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Now Joe Biden has hopped all over governor to Santas all over. He's his name is up in my
14:09
mine right now, but the governor of Texas, he the all these red state governors for not doing
14:14
things the federal way, not doing things his way, right? Saying that, you know, all these,
14:19
all these people are, you know, they're, they're engaging in propaganda and they're scaring and
14:24
killing their own citizenry, those types of things. That's been the narrative this entire time.
14:28
But right before he goes on Christmas vacation, co president Biden decides to say, hey,
14:32
it's not a federal solution. We can't take care of it. Best of luck to your states.
14:36
As he's also controlling the supply of monoclonal antibodies and not just sending them to states
14:41
outright. He's, he's privileged, privileging them to blue states over red states. There's been a lot
14:46
of evidence of that. They're, they're keeping these lifesaving treatments out the hands of
14:50
governors so that they can't distribute them within their states. But why the sudden narrative
14:54
shift the entire time it's been about, we can shut down COVID. We're going to be able to shut
14:59
down. COVID just elect me. We can take care of it. And it might lead to, and I, you know,
15:04
I'm just spitballing here because I think I said this in the wrap up episode. Again,
15:07
before we get into the midterms of 2022, the narrative is either going to be COVID is so out
15:12
of control. You have to keep us in power because we're going to continue to fight it.
15:15
Or look at us. We've shut it down. And it'll be magic. You know, August, September of this year,
15:20
it'll be like magic be like COVID never happened. So perhaps this is a way of them getting set up
15:24
for that. The second main shift was this from we should be focusing on case counts to we should
15:32
just be focusing on hospitalizations and deaths. And the source of this narrative shift is also
15:38
co-president Joe Biden. Okay. Because for the last two plus years, people like me have been
15:44
screaming about the fact that case counts do not matter. You've heard me say this. Have you been
15:49
listening to my show for any length of time? When you hear the media focusing in on case counts
15:54
and not even mentioning hospitalizations and deaths, that is a good sign that things aren't
15:59
nearly as bad as they want you to believe. Because cases sound scary. I get updates on my phone
16:04
from news nine, which is here in Oklahoma City. And we are constantly getting updates about the
16:09
number of cases that are happening in our area. And they're like, but they'll give you the exact
16:13
number of cases and then they'll just mention and hospitalizations and deaths are going up.
16:17
Or they're they're framing it as COVID related deaths or COVID related hospitalizations, right?
16:23
Even though we know the numbers get skewed, you could come in, you know, from a car accident from
16:27
which the injuries that you die from the injuries that you sustained, you die because of that. But
16:31
if you test positive for COVID, you become counted as COVID death so that it can be coded in a certain
16:36
way. So the hospital gets paid in a certain way, right? But we've been screaming this whole time
16:41
about case counts. But now Joe Biden is saying, Hey, we really don't need to worry as much about
16:47
cases. We need to worry about hospitalizations and deaths. Why? Because case counts right now
16:52
are going through the roof. But hospitalizations and deaths are only up taking a little bit. So
16:57
the narrative right now, if you're focusing on cases, it looks really, really, really bad for him
17:02
and looks bad for the entire administration. So that's the distraction gaslighting. It's like,
17:06
no, no, no, no, no. Look over here. Don't don't look right directly at the problem. Look over here.
17:10
So that's one of the other big narrative shifts that we've seen.
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Post a free job today at linkedin.com/quality. The third one that I wanted to go over is we've
17:44
gone from forget about economic health, we have to protect public health. Two, we need to consider
17:53
public health and the health of the economy when it comes to recommending lockdowns. And the source
17:59
of this narrative shift is obviously St. Anthony Fauci. So he actually told MSNBC on this was an
18:05
interview towards the end of 2021 that renewed lockdowns were not feasible. Okay. And this is a
18:10
reason that he gave. And this is a direct quote, quote, we're trying to have a good balance of
18:15
preserving and protecting the public health. At the same time, we don't have to have the draconian
18:21
decision of shutting down the country. End quote. Really, really, St. Fauci into year three of this
18:31
pandemic, someone called a plannedemic, but I'll just use the normal term pandemic. You're telling
18:37
us that we should now be considering not just the public health, but the economic health of the public.
18:44
Wow. Wow. Because for the last two plus years, anytime someone even hinted at that, you know,
18:52
because he won't go on, you know, any, you know, mainstream kind of conservative sources, he always
18:56
goes to his friends at MSNBC or CNN. But anytime somebody would question that, you basically
19:01
looked at them like they wanted people to die. Like, are you really more concerned about money
19:07
than you are about people's lives? That that was the uppity answer that you kept giving us
19:12
for years for literal years. But now all of a sudden, we need to focus on the healthy economy.
19:18
Could it have anything to do with the fact that there's midterms coming up in 2022 and all these
19:23
Democrats are looking to get trounced because the economy is in the toilet and people won't go back
19:27
to work. And our recovery has not been nearly as explosive as it should have been in 2021 going
19:32
into 2022. Could that have anything to do with it? Again, we have to ask, why are these narrative
19:37
shifts coming? Why are they coming so suddenly? So that's the third one. Let's get into the fourth
19:41
one here. We've gone from we have no idea if natural immunity is helpful. So everyone should
19:48
just get vaccinated to natural immunity should be taken into serious consideration when it comes
19:55
to mandates and lockdowns. Okay, so the source of this narrative shift is again,
19:59
St. Anthony Fauci, because here's the thing, when it became apparent that Omicron was, you know,
20:05
more virulent, way more virulent than Alpha or Delta, but much, much, much less severe and less
20:14
deadly than Omicron. Fauci said it was because of the strength of natural immunity for many Americans,
20:21
natural immunity. Again, remember that hashtag? I think it was so I forget to post it a while ago,
20:25
when you use the hashtag natural immunity on Instagram, it would take you this like the CDC's
20:31
website, basically to talk about how you needed to get vaccinated, right? But as soon as we realize
20:37
that Omicron is not this tremendous boogie man that they're trying to make it out to be,
20:41
we all sudden are focused on natural immunity. Now, we still think that you should get vaccinated
20:46
because we're going to ignore the Israel study that said that, you know, somebody that, you know,
20:51
gets COVID and has natural immunity from COVID is way more protected than somebody that, you know,
20:56
would get it later because of the vaccine or something like that. But yeah, yeah, we can't talk about
20:59
that. It was a major, major narrative shift. And you got to wonder why? Why are we all the sudden?
21:05
And I say we, why is Anthony Fauci all of a sudden talking about natural immunity?
21:09
He's been asked about natural immunity over and over and over in the media. And he constantly
21:15
would skate away from the question. And now he wants to talk about he's the one that brings it up.
21:19
It's incredible. The fifth one here, we've gone from, if you get COVID, even if you are not
21:25
symptomatic, it is imperative for public health that you quarantine for at least 10 days. Two,
21:33
if you get COVID, you only need to quarantine for five days. The source of this narrative shift
21:38
is United States Centers for Disease Control, the CDC. Okay. So the 10 day quarantine has always
21:43
been the thing. And that was a very big sacrifice for a lot of people. But they thought they were
21:48
doing it for the sake of the public good, because, you know, I work from home, my wife and I, you
21:52
know, both work from home, we run businesses, you know, and that's just kind of our thing. So
21:56
being, you know, stuck in the house, we both had COVID at the same time, you know, it wasn't so bad.
22:02
Like it wasn't that bad. But there are a lot of people. You missed two weeks of work, right?
22:06
You know, maybe you can see any of your sick family members or something like that.
22:13
The 10 day quarantine was hard on you. You know, you had to figure out a way to get groceries,
22:17
you had to figure out, you know, hey, I probably shouldn't be in the house because I'm the only
22:20
one that's sick. You know, maybe I should get a hotel or maybe I should say somewhere else or
22:23
camp in the backyard or something like that. That was a 10 day quarantine. And for over two years,
22:28
that has been the recommendation from the CDC. But then all of a sudden, the CDC's director,
22:33
Rochelle Walensky, said that she said about the change. This was in an interview with CNN.
22:38
But the change from 10 days to five days didn't really have to do anything with scientific
22:43
discovery or some sort of a new breakthrough. Like, oh, you know, after five days, you're good to go.
22:48
It wasn't that she said this. This is a quote. It really had a lot to do with what we thought
22:54
people would be able to tolerate. End quote. That was a quote in reference to the 10 day quarantine.
23:01
We did a 10 day quarantine because it had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able
23:05
to tolerate. And so now people are able to tolerate five day quarantines, not 10 day quarantines.
23:12
I feel like this didn't get nearly enough coverage. It got, you know, quite a bit of coverage in
23:18
conservative circles. But this is an unbelievable thing for her to admit that the 10 day quarantine
23:25
wasn't based in anything scientific. It wasn't based in anything that was really meant to help
23:32
the public health, to take care of people, to keep people from getting sick, to prevent the
23:37
spread of COVID-19, to prevent, you know, other variants from coming to coming to be, right?
23:42
It was because we thought we could get away with 10 days. We thought when we all got together in
23:48
our lab coats and our glasses and our big brains that we could control the American people for
23:52
10 days. That's what we've determined. And now two years plus down the road, the American people
23:58
aren't nearly as fond of that idea. And all of a sudden it goes from 10 to five cuts in half,
24:03
like a miracle, like Rochelle Walinsky just farted out a miracle. Wow, incredible. So that's the
24:10
fifth one. We got a couple more left. Number six, we went from masks will prevent us from spreading
24:17
COVID and will save countless lives to most masks are essentially worthless at stopping the spread
24:23
of COVID. That's what we've gotten to now. The source of this narrative shift is Dr. Liana
24:28
Nguyen. So she's seeing she she's seeing ends medical expert. She's actually the former head of
24:33
Planned Parenthood. That's where you may have seen her before. But she said this to CNN's John
24:37
Burnman on Christmas Eve. She said this and this is a quote cloth masks are not appropriate for
24:42
this pandemic. It's not appropriate for Amacron. It was not appropriate for Delta Alpha or any of
24:47
the previous variant variants either because we're dealing with something that's airborne.
24:52
We're dealing with a virus that's extremely contagious. Unquote.
24:56
So Dr. Liana Nguyen who for all intents and purposes have been one of the most public
25:02
defenders of masking. All of a sudden comes out and shifts on Christmas Eve and says,
25:07
yeah, the masks essentially don't work. It's essentially just a facial decoration, right?
25:12
Because she doesn't even mention the the N95s or the K and 95s. But the thing about those masks
25:18
is do you guys have one of those? That's either yes, no. And it's like, do you have one? Because
25:23
I have one. It's been in my truck. You know, it's been sitting there for years. If you are
25:28
appropriately using those, you can't have facial hair. It's got to be stuck to your skin, right?
25:32
You need to get rid of it after, you know, each use when you see these doctors in the hospital,
25:36
they're replacing their masks literally all the time, these surgeons and things like that.
25:40
So people are using them appropriately. But these cloth masks that if you needed to go to target
25:46
or go to Walgreens or go to Lowe's or go to any of these places and walk in and do your business,
25:50
you had to put on these cloth masks because, well, we don't know why.
25:53
Because you have to do this because we said that's why. But now all of a sudden it's like,
26:00
yeah, these masks essentially don't work. And so now people that are on the masking side of things,
26:04
they're trying to figure out, Oh crap, do we still do the masking thing? That was one of our ways that
26:08
we could signal virtue is the fact that, Hey, we're in stores that don't require it now,
26:11
but I'm going to continue to wear it because this makes me a good person. Hey, I'm going to
26:14
even get one that says Black Lives Matter. Hey, I'm even going to get one that's a rainbow because
26:18
then I can communicate that I'm super understanding as well as virtuous for masking, right? Which is
26:23
a dead giveaway that you're also triple vax going on your fourth vax like those types of things.
26:27
But that was just such a sudden shift for two plus years. We were told we had to wear these things
26:32
in order to save grandma in order to save ourselves in order to save our kids. And that really goes
26:36
in the last one that I want to talk about here. And this one's just absolutely, absolutely egregious.
26:40
This is number seven, we went from, we must protect our children from this virus at all costs.
26:45
Two, we should really consider the mental health of our children as well as their physical health.
26:51
So the source of this narrative shift is from many people. There's been a lot of people that
26:57
have kind of made this shift. And it's, it's kind of thankful that they're kind of coming to the
27:00
party now, even though I think they're doing it for their own reasons, not really for altruistic
27:03
reasons. But we're going to look at two people individually, we're going to look at CNN's Brian
27:07
Stelter. And then we're going to look at the New York Times as David Leonhardt. Okay, so let's
27:10
look at Brian Stelter first. So he said this on his show at the end of 2021 quote, we collectively
27:16
took action to protect the elderly from COVID. Now shouldn't we be doing more to protect children
27:22
by letting them live normal lives? Are we really going to let kids suffer even more? And are the
27:28
facts about COVID getting through to the people who need to hear them? Isn't that just such a stunning
27:35
admission, guys? I forgot to say end quote. But yeah, you got you got the idea in quote. Brian
27:39
Stelter for two plus years has been one of the people beating the drum that we should keep our
27:44
schools locked down to protect the kids that kids, if they are in school, should be masked,
27:50
because we need to protect the kids that there's so many kids in hospitals and on ventilators,
27:55
even though they aren't, but we got to do everything we can to protect them. And now we're worried
28:00
about them living normal lives. We're worried about them being able to develop by seeing people's
28:06
facial expressions by communicating language, using the mouth and the cheeks, which is important
28:13
for their development of language. But then there's a section in this article by David
28:18
Lanehart from the New York Times. And I'm going to read a big chunk of it because it just was
28:23
absolutely, absolutely stunning. I mean, you guys can't even imagine like my skin was boiling as I
28:30
was reading this. But here's the quote. American children are starting to 2022 in crisis. I have
28:36
long been aware that the pandemic was up ending children's lives. But until I spent time pulling
28:40
together data and reading reports, I did not understand just how alarming the situation had
28:45
become. Children fell far behind in school during the first year of the pandemic and have not caught
28:51
up. Among third through eighth graders, math and reading levels were all lower than normal this
28:57
fall, according to the NWEA, a research group. The shortfalls were largest for black and Hispanic
29:02
students as well students in schools with high poverty rates. Many children and teenagers are
29:07
experiencing mental health problems aggravated by the isolation and disruption of the pandemic.
29:14
Three medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, recently declared a national
29:18
state of emergency in children's mental health. Suicide attempts have risen slightly among adolescent
29:25
boys and sharply among adolescent girls. Many schools have still not returned to normal,
29:31
worsening learning loss and social isolation. The Omicron variant is now scrambling kids or
29:36
children's lives again. Most schools have stayed open this week, but many have canceled sports,
29:41
plays and other activities. Some districts have closed schools for a day or more,
29:45
despite evidence that most children struggle to learn remotely, as my colleague Dana Goldstein
29:51
reports. Closings are taking place in Atlanta, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Newark and several New York
29:55
City suburbs, among other places. For the past two years, large parts of American society have
30:01
decided harming children has an unavoidable side effect of COVID-19. And that was probably true
30:07
in the spring of 2020, when nearly all of society shut down to slow the spread of a deadly and
30:11
mysterious virus. But the approach has been less defensible for the past year and a half,
30:15
as we have learned more about both COVID and the extent of children suffering from pandemic
30:20
restrictions. Data now suggests that many changes to school routines are of questionable value
30:27
in controlling the virus's spread. Some researchers are skeptical that school closures reduce COVID
30:34
cases in most instances. Other interventions like forcing students to sit apart from their
30:39
friends at lunch may have also been of little benefit. One reason, severe versions of COVID,
30:44
including long COVID, are extremely rare in children. For them, the virus resembles the typical flu.
30:52
Children face more risks from car rides than COVID. Unquote.
30:57
Guys, if you've been screaming at your car, at your phone that you're listening to, believe me,
31:05
I want to scream super loud right now, because this entire time they've been talking about
31:09
close down schools. And I didn't have a kid that was school age, or else I would have probably
31:13
lost my mind by this point. We have to keep schools closed. We have to partition kids with
31:18
plexiglass. We can't let them sit with their friends. We can't let them wrestle. We can't let
31:22
them play basketball. We can't let them play outside even because it's just way too dangerous.
31:26
Because as of right now, I believe this is, I forgot the person's name, but it's a doctor from
31:30
Johns Hopkins. Less than 20 in the entirety of this pandemic, less than 20 children
31:36
have died from COVID alone. And even in those cases, they're not 100% sure that there wasn't
31:42
another comorbidity. We're talking about less than a couple of dozen kids, which is not
31:47
diminished the lives of those children and the suffering that their families are feeling,
31:51
obviously. But this was never a pandemic that was going to affect our children. And a lot of
31:56
people will point this out. But in case you haven't heard me say it before, if this had a death rate
32:01
as high with children as it did with elderly people, society would have chosen to shut
32:06
everything down. We would have ruined the world economy. No big deal. Because there's no way in
32:11
hell, we were going to let this affect our kids in the way that it's affecting elderly people.
32:15
But thank the Lord that kids basically get this and shake it off for the most part.
32:20
It's not a big issue. There are more kids, especially teenage boys that are being negatively
32:25
affected by injuries from the vaccine than they are from actually getting COVID. They're not getting
32:30
hospitalized with COVID, right? But why the narrative shift? All of a sudden, these people
32:37
who for two years were somewhere between ignoring the problems with kids or diminishing them outright
32:44
are now all of a sudden super, super, you know, concerned about our children. Where did that come
32:49
from? And guys, there are literally a lot more of these, but those are the main ones. And it all
32:55
just changed in a very, very short period of time. Okay. Now, the thing about this is if you had
33:01
uttered any of those previous statements, right? So the from statements I made as opposed to the
33:05
two statements, if you had uttered any of those statements in the last two years, in public or
33:12
social media or something like that, even a month ago, a month ago, it would have led to you being
33:17
publicly mocked and derided, especially by the mainstream media. And it was likely enough to
33:22
get you kicked off of all major social media platforms, including Twitter, including YouTube,
33:26
which is technically like social media now. And you would have been branded as a conspiracy theorist.
33:31
If you would have said any of those things, even when you had the data to back yourself up the
33:36
entire time, it was, oh, you just don't care about people. You just don't care about old people.
33:40
You want grandma to die? Oh, what if it was your kid that died? Remember, it was all those things,
33:46
right? So the main gaslighting that we've seen really for the past two years has been with COVID,
33:51
but there have been other things and we're not going to be able to dive too deep into this because
33:54
I wanted to mainly make it about COVID because this is pertinent to the time we're living in.
33:58
But, you know, we've been gassed a little lot about, you know, racist cops killing black people in the
34:02
United States. Every black person supposedly unarmed that's killed by police, it's because of a
34:08
systemically racist system because, you know, somehow cops, you know, they were originally people
34:12
that went and, you know, found runaway slaves and now they're basically doing the same thing in 2021
34:17
or 2022. That's basically been the narrative, right? We've been gassed a little about those
34:21
things. Every time something happens, we're basically focusing on it until it becomes apparent that,
34:25
oh, this person probably should have been shot. And then all of a sudden, we forget the story,
34:29
or we just move forward with a narrative and say that, oh, yeah, the cop was clearly racist,
34:32
right? Go back to the George Floyd thing. There's still not a single person on planet Earth that
34:37
has come forward with even a shred of evidence to suggest that Derek Chauvin is a racist.
34:41
And yet that is a racial killing according to tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions or
34:46
billions of people around the planet. Derek Chauvin is a white supremacist racist that just wanted to
34:50
kill a black man that day. We've been gassed a little on that issue. But also even here recently,
34:55
we've been majorly gassed a little on January 6th. You know, we're, you know, democracy almost
35:00
died on January 6th. Did it? Did it almost die? Because what it seemed like is a March turned into
35:08
a riot where a couple of hundred people broke the law, trespassed, tried to do violence to people,
35:13
you know, were motivated by some sort of random, you know, excitement, they go in there. And then
35:18
once they got into the Capitol building, they forgot what they were supposed to do, right?
35:22
This, this wasn't an insurrection as evidenced by the fact that none of these people that are
35:26
currently languishing in jail that were arrested for trespassing on January the 6th, none of them
35:30
have been charged with an insurrection. So you're being ghastly because every chance a prominent
35:35
Democrat has to use the word insurrection. They're doing it. Oh, it was an insurrection.
35:40
Really? Why didn't they have any guns? If I'm going to take over and try to overthrow, you know,
35:46
you know, the greatest election in the history of elections, I would probably at least bring a
35:50
potato gun, something. Why were there no firearms anywhere to be found? None of these people that
35:56
are currently in jail have been charged with a weapons crime. Why not? They had a weapon, a weapon
36:01
on federal property without the proper licensing, right? Without the, you know, the proper permission.
36:06
Why have they not been charged for that? Maybe it's because they didn't have any weapons on them that
36:10
day. We're not even hearing about these people having knives or pipes or, you know, mag, you know,
36:16
mag lights or, you know, locks that are on the ends of bandanas or anything like that.
36:20
Anything that big can be used as a weapon. None of those things have been found.
36:23
And yet democracy almost died on January 6th. Again, I don't, I don't dismiss that as a no,
36:29
there's nothing burger as a big nothing because it was something egregious. It was gross. It was
36:33
horrible. But say that democracy almost died within hours. All the chambers were completely
36:38
done in a Republican, you know, led Congress, you know, was signed off by the vice president,
36:43
Mike Pence, you know, certified the election. But we've been gaslit into believing that this was,
36:48
you know, up there with Pearl Harbor and up there with 9/11. And I even had one of my idiot friends
36:54
here in Oklahoma compare what happened on January 6th to the Oklahoma City bombing.
36:58
He said it was the same motivation that connected those two things. So a lone wolf guy or basically
37:04
a guy that had a little bit of help kills 171 souls. There were 168 people that died in three
37:09
women were pregnant. So that's 171 people, 171 souls were blown up that day. And you're
37:15
saying it's the same as January 6th. We're the only person that died was one of the rioters,
37:19
Ashley Babbitt, give me a break. But we've been gaslit. And again, it's the power narrative
37:24
because we're going to be hearing about January 6th all the way up until the next presidential
37:28
election, not just 2022 midterms. We're going to be hearing it through 2024 because they got to
37:33
make sure orange man doesn't get back into the White House. Okay. But now we need to transition
37:38
into why we should even care if we're being gaslit. Because I know I can kind of hear
37:43
from a lot of you guys. It's like, okay, Kyle, it's like, look, I got to run my business and I
37:46
got to take care of my family and I got to do all these other things. I can't really worry about
37:50
whether or not I'm being lied to or being gaslit. Is that really something we should be focused on
37:54
right now? And the reality is that you should be okay. So the first reason we should care about
37:59
that is that honesty is a really big deal. Honesty, integrity, those are big things.
38:06
And I was thinking about this in a proverb six came to mind. This is verses 16 through 19.
38:11
There are six things that the Lord hates seven that are an abomination to him.
38:14
Hotty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans,
38:22
feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breezes out lies, and one who sows
38:27
discord among brothers. I mean, a lying tongue, a heart that devises wicked plans,
38:32
you know, a false witness that breeze out lies and one who sows discord among brothers.
38:36
That's gaslighting. So if you're a serious person, if you're serious about the Bible,
38:41
if you're serious about sin, you should care about honesty. You should care about integrity
38:46
like clearly. But another reason why we should care about this is there's no such thing as
38:51
quote, unquote, your truth or quote, unquote, my truth. There's no such thing. There's only
38:58
truth. That's capital T truth, right? We live in this postmodern era where for a lot of people,
39:06
and this is even in Christian circles, we're so afraid of offending somebody that we're going to
39:10
allow them to change reality into their form of truth. We're not going to call someone out for
39:17
propagating a narrative that is not true, that is a lie that is made up or fabricated,
39:22
because we don't want to be offending towards them. We don't want to offend them and their
39:26
sensibilities. And so we've allowed this postmodern notion that truth is relative to creep into our
39:32
livelihoods, to creep in to our culture, to creep in to our churches. But the reality is,
39:38
is things are either true or they're not. So I said earlier, you know, that, you know,
39:42
COVID is not affecting kids in the way that it's affecting elderly people as an example.
39:46
That's either true or it's not. That's not a bumper sticker. That's not a narrative.
39:51
There's data to prove that either children are dying in droves or they're not.
39:58
Either old people are dying in droves or they're not. And between the two, when you compare them,
40:02
one of them is going to have a higher percentage of death. And don't you know, it's not children.
40:07
So that's truth. And that's why we should be so, you know, concerned about the fact that
40:15
people are trying to gaslight us about the truth. And for a lot of us, we just accept it so easily.
40:20
And another reason why this is really important and should be important to us
40:23
is it should always concern us when our elected officials or, you know,
40:27
unelected government, government bureaucrats lie to us to manipulate how we act.
40:32
You know, lie to us to control our lives, to control our businesses, to control our families,
40:39
to control our congregations. Because here's the whole thing. And I've started saying this
40:44
recently and I've said it in some interviews and, you know, I've said it a little bit on this
40:47
podcast, I believe I'm not as concerned about the push that has been going on in the last two years
40:54
from our government overlords. It's definitely concerning, obviously, especially what's going on,
41:00
you know, like in Australia with basically internment camps in Europe whenever, you know,
41:04
I think Emmanuel Macron basically was talking about unvaccinated people like they were insects,
41:08
you know, it's kind of a rough thing when you consider what happened early in the 20th century
41:12
in that same part of the world. But I'm not worried about this push. I'm worried about the next
41:18
couple of pushes. Because people have talked about this, like anytime you give the government
41:23
more power, they're not going to give it back to the people. Well, we've just laid down and
41:27
allowed the government to take over a lot of things, right? We didn't even question them.
41:31
We just basically said, yeah, they, they probably have our best interests at heart,
41:33
right? What could possibly go wrong, right? But they've pushed and they've reset the boundary.
41:41
So what about the next push? Let's say two years from now, there's something completely
41:46
different than COVID, but it's similar. Well, they've already got the new standards.
41:50
What are they going to do to push beyond that, right? Again, go back to the CDC director,
41:56
Rachelle Walensky, when she said this, you know, about changing from 10 days of quarantine to
42:00
five days, that the change didn't have anything to do with science, right? But it really had a lot
42:03
to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. Well, we tolerated 10 days.
42:09
Well, are we going to tolerate 15 or 30 or a month, you know, or a month or longer, I meant to say,
42:16
right? 45 days, 90 days. How much are they going to be able to continue to push us?
42:21
Again, we're supposed to be, you know, liberty-filled Americans, right? You know, we got our guns
42:26
and we got our liberty and we got our, you know, inalienable rights, like, you know,
42:29
you can't tread on us. Well, they've been treading on us quite a bit.
42:33
And the thing about tyranny, guys, is there's not a big sweeping tyranny that typically happens.
42:39
It's typically a slow creep towards tyranny. If you go back and study the rise of Adolf Hitler,
42:45
which is interesting for anybody that really cares about the millions and millions of people
42:50
that died during World War II, not just the Jews that were eradicated systematically, but for the
42:54
people that went and fought and died over there, he didn't just come to power overnight. He wasn't
43:00
an overnight phenomenon. You know, like even a guy like Barack Obama, he was kind of like an
43:05
overnight phenomenon, right? He wasn't even a senator for two years before he announced that he was
43:09
going to be running for president. It's a miracle that a guy who literally never even,
43:12
you know, wrote a piece of legislation for Congress was able to get elected to two terms,
43:16
again, power of narrative, hope, change, and forward. I mean, three words basically got the
43:20
man in office for eight years. But when you look at what it took for Adolf Hitler to continue to
43:26
change people's minds, it happened over weeks and months and years. And then it led to all the
43:31
horrific things that we saw during World War II that were propagated by the Nazi party, by the
43:35
third Reich, right? But it was a slow creep. You think about the book, Ordinary Men, where these,
43:40
I think it was the, the, these Polish police officers, they went from being these police officers that
43:45
were trying to, you know, maintain the peace to, you know, being part of the systematic eradication
43:50
of Jews to be part of the execution squad. Well, they didn't just go from being normal law enforcement
43:55
officers to being a kill squad. It happened over time. And we are slowly moving towards tyranny,
44:03
one little step at a time. And this will be the last thing I say on it. That slow creep of tyranny
44:08
will eventually break down the walls of your church.
44:11
And as I say that, perhaps that's a good thing. Because if you've been, you know, plugged into
44:18
any Christian circles, the church is thriving in places where you think it shouldn't be.
44:23
Iran, China, North Korea, Cambodia, like some of these places, the church is absolutely exploding.
44:32
It's because these people have nothing else to depend on. They don't have their money to
44:38
depend on. They don't have their culture to depend on. They have to depend on Christ.
44:41
They have to depend on provision from God. They have to, you know, depend on direction from the
44:46
Holy Spirit. And this tyrannical thing is going to affect the West. Now, Western Judeo-Christian,
44:55
you know, institutions, those are things that have kind of withstood a lot of different tests
44:59
over time. But this is one that it might not be able to withstand. Now, this is Christ's church,
45:04
and he's going to build it his own way. But it is very, very cocky of us as Westerners,
45:08
especially as Americans to assume that tyranny will never actually come to our doorstep.
45:12
Do I need to remind you of the pastors that were arrested in Canada and jailed in Canada?
45:17
We had one on this podcast, Pastor James Coats, go and look up the interview we did last year.
45:20
I believe it was sometime during the summer, right? Think about what's happened in Europe.
45:24
Think about what the government has been able to tell congregations, whether or not they could do
45:28
this thing or that thing. Sure, you can have church, or no, you can't have church. Sure,
45:33
sure, you can sing if you want. Nope, nope, can't have singing because droplets, right? You're
45:36
going to be shooting, you know, death droplets into the air, right? Think about that. That that
45:41
was a big deal for a long time. Think about the next several pushes. So as we're thinking about
45:48
gaslighting, I want you to remember Ephesians 5, 11, take no part in the unfruitful works of
45:53
darkness, but instead expose them, okay? A lot of what I've said today, again, a month ago would
45:59
have got me kicked off a lot of the platforms where I exist, right? And we're reevaluating right
46:03
now kind of certain platforms because we're not really active on Twitter. You know, we're waiting
46:08
to see what's going to happen with with Parler and with Gitter and with all these other different
46:11
platforms, you know, Instagram that we haven't really gotten pegged too bad on there quite yet,
46:16
you know, YouTube, it's not quite big enough for people to be paying attention, but we're
46:19
remarking that way. But again, we're doing everything that we can here at Undaunted Life to equip you
46:24
to be able to push back darkness. And you can't push back the darkness that comes from gaslighting
46:30
by pretending that it's not happening, by ignoring the fact that it's happening,
46:35
by playing along with it, you have to actively fight against it. All right, guys, before we let
46:40
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46:51
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your way. Just go to www.undaunted.life. And we also want to thank the band August Burns Red for
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allowing us to use our music for our content. The music on this podcast is our song "Cutting the Ties,"
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which is off their 10th anniversary re-recording of their album Leveler. The links are in the
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description. I'm your host, Kyle Thompson. Remember, keep pushing back darkness, keep forging spiritual,
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mental and physical resilience, keep seeking the Lion of Judah.
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