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I'm your host Kyle Thompson, and let's get into it.
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Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from Him.
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Like arrows in the hands of a warrior, our children born in one's youth.
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Blessed is the man whose quivers fool them.
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They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.
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Guys, I saw him 127, 3 through 5, and I just want to give a quick thank you to our donors
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today, and this is going to be very quick thank you just because we got a ton of stuff
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to cover, because I realize something.
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I have all these things that I wanted to talk about on the show.
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All these quick hitters, all these different things that I wanted to get to, and it just
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wasn't going to happen.
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I was not going to be able to get on here and record another episode until like probably
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mid-October.
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Got some really, really, really cool things coming up in September that you guys will
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know about here in just a little bit.
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And so we've got a lot of ground to cover today, and I am emptying out the bag on quick
2:08
hitters.
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And so we've got a quick hitters bonanza, and then I got a bone to pick with Luke Combs.
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So here's what we're going to be covering in the quick hitters segment.
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You will not want to miss it, Planned Parenthood giving away free abortions of a sector means
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during the Democratic National Convention, a website tracking how conservative and liberal
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US senators are deleting their page ranking Kamala Harris as the most liberal of all 100
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US senators.
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Donald Trump attempting to tarnish his pro-life legacy.
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A Christian will use that in scare quotes, news sites saying that Christians should support
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abortion.
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Medic CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealing that the Biden Harris administration
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has pressured them to censor dissenting content, the US government losing track of tens of
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thousands of illegal immigrant children, 20 illegal immigrants attempting to hijack an
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elementary school bus in San Diego, California, a secret service agent leaving her post to
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defending former President Trump in order to breastfeed her child in a private room,
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a new law in Iraq that would allow grown men to marry nine year old girls, the UK banning
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purity blockers for gender confused children, the mastermind of 9/11, and the other terrorist
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attacks being spared the death penalty, a woman murdering her newborn baby by throwing
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her out of a window because she was afraid that the baby would ruin her career major league
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baseball in the New York Mets, disgracing themselves by allowing the Hawk to a girl to throw out
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the first pitch at a game.
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Second gentleman Doug Imhoff proving that he is indeed a beta male, university press
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releasing a critical race theory Bible commentary at high school in my city at Mino, Oklahoma
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barring a student from flying an American flag on his personal vehicle and Andy Stanley
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still super duper sucking.
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Now you might be thinking yourself, how in the world are you going to talk about all
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of that and what you plan to talk about right now?
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I don't know, but we're going to figure it out.
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So here we go.
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Send it.
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So here's the bone that I've got to pick with country music mega star Luke Combs.
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Now, you might be wondering, Kyle, why would you have a bone to pick with one of the biggest
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stars in country music in modern country music history, who's, you know, by most indications
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whenever you hear people talk about the guy seems like a really good caring dude.
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Well, I'm going to tell you why, because here I was mining my own business.
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In some time in May, I saw a bunch of videos using a snippet of audio from a Luke comb
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song.
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Okay.
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But it was an unreleased song called huntin by yourself.
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Okay.
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And people were making all kinds of videos using the snippet from their song and they're
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showing their kids and it was making everyone cry and, you know, it was just kind of one
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of those deals.
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And I guess now that I'm a parent and now that I have sons, I'm like, okay, these things,
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they really do get to me.
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They really do make me emotional.
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Then I see a video pop up on social media that shows Luke Combs himself openly wondering
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if he should release an entire album full of songs about fathers and sons.
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And I think at the time there was the single out that was kind of a father son ballad thing.
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I think that was huntin by herself.
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And so I took that social media post where he was wondering if she'd release an entire
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album.
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It's just a piece of marketing for that one song and that, you know, Luke Combs would
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just move on with his life and, you know, do another album down the road or something
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like that.
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But wrong.
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I was wrong.
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I was because here I was on June the 14th, 2024, just minding my own business.
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And Luke Combs, the country music megastar did indeed release an entire album of 12 songs
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just about fathers and sons, aptly called fathers and sons.
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Okay.
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Like any good-hearted, red-blooded American father with sons, I decided to give it a listen.
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Okay.
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And I made it approximately 23 seconds into the first song before I was in tears.
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And that trend continued on and off for the next 40 minutes as I listened to the entire
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album front to back.
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And it's right about now that I should go ahead and let you know that, no, I am not
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going to change the name of this show to undaunted life, a man that cries too much podcast.
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Although it may seem like that here lately because obviously if you've been listening
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to the show just a couple of weeks ago, I got onto the mic and blubbered when I recorded
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episode six, 38, fine guys, it'll help you bury your dog.
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I got into big detail about my best friend, Roman, the giant dying and kind of everything
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that went along with that.
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And you know, a lot of you guys actually like that and a lot of you guys are really like
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made an impact with you.
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And here I am talking about Foxhole here.
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I am talking about three and friends here.
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I'm talking about, you know, who's car we're going to take friends?
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I'm all my way friends.
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But somehow I talk about guys that'll help you bury your dog and it kind of landed with
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you.
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So I guess those tears were worth it.
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And I'm going to tell you right now.
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When I start talking about some of these songs from this album here in a second, it's going
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to choke me up for sure for sure because I've listened to this album about a dozen times
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all the way through since it was released.
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And I get weepy every time.
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There's certain songs that get me every time we'll get into those or certain songs that
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don't give me sometimes and do give me sometimes.
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And so like it's just, you know, it's kind of all over the place.
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So here's what I'm going to do.
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I'm going to take you through the songs in the album.
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Some of them I'm going to go into, you know, detail on, I'll read some of the lyrics and
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do whatever.
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And here's the thing.
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If you're tempted right now to skip this episode because, you know, you don't like country
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music or because you don't have kids or you only have daughters, just let me tell you that
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would be a bad idea.
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And this is why, okay?
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Because all of us are sons, okay?
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And just by the data that I do know, most of the guys in my audience listening to this
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are fathers.
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That's why.
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There is something of value here for everyone.
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In fact, you know, this would probably be best.
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If you have not already listened to this album, Fathers and Sons by Luke Combs, again, I
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don't care if you like country music or not.
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Okay.
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I have, you know, hits or misses inside of that, that genre, but go to Apple Music or Spotify
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or YouTube or wherever you, you know, listen to music and listen to the entire album.
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Okay.
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Then I want you to come back to this point in the show and start listening.
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Okay.
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If you don't want to do that, no problem, I don't care, but that would probably be best,
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you know, do what you want.
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So here we go.
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Let's dig in.
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Okay.
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So Fathers and Sons, right from the top, after listening to each song on the album, it's
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clear that it's not just 12 songs all about the same stuff, okay?
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Each song inside of this album kind of strikes a different chord.
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No pun intended.
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It has kind of a different theme.
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So here we'll get into it.
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So here's the first song.
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The first song is called Front Door Famous, okay?
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The theme of this song is how being famous with people at home is worth more than being
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famous with people of the world.
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Okay.
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So let's go and read the lyrics here.
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Here's verse one.
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I see his face sometimes out there in the crowd in between the melodies.
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He's asking me why, when I'm coming home, after all the lights come on, after all the
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folks are gone, I hit the road and close my eyes and I imagine I'm, here's the course,
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walking through the front door here and daddy at the top of his lungs and his feet on the
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wood floor, running up to give me a hug.
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Yeah, that's what it's all for.
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And the spotlight can't replace it.
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And in a heartbeat, man, I trade it because it ain't got nothing on being front door famous.
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Okay.
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And so I'm going to read it, you know, as he's singing and so I'm even, I've even got the
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tune in my head.
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So don't worry, guys, I will not sing it to you.
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But this is a good reminder for a lot of you guys out there, especially if you've got
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a job, you know, kind of like admittedly a job like this where you have at least a
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modicum of fame where people do recognize you in public.
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They want to take pictures with you and you know, it's awkward every time, but you know,
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you want to do, do right by your audience and honor them and all that.
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But there are people out there in this world and you know, people like this, that that's
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what they focus on.
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They want the attention.
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They want people to focus on who they are, what they do for a living.
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They want you to come and ask them for a picture like it's a level of narcissism and
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self, the self absorption, which is not healthy.
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And these are the same people that when the lights do go out and when their career does
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start to dim a little bit, so do their prospects of, you know, seeing themselves as a positive
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healthy, character filled person.
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And so this song just reminds us, okay, even if you've got a cool job, even if you're just
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kind of like a local celebrity, you've got a good business or maybe you're, you know,
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a local pastor or people look to you for advice, focus on being front door famous.
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Okay.
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So that's song number one.
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Now we got song number two in case I ain't around.
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And so if you didn't cry during the first song, you're definitely going to cry during
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the second song.
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The theme of this song is preparing your sons to succeed, regardless of your presence.
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So regardless of if you're there or not, and kind of the implication in the song is not
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that the dad's deadbeat, but that the dads, you know, passed on.
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So first one, I send the check for the lease every January to 1100 Beckham Ridge Road.
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Have your corn knee high by July, where the hunt, where we hunt the bottom by the white
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oak road before you crank the tractor, pump the clutch, I ain't going nowhere.
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No time soon, but just here's the course in case I ain't around when you get older, I
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just thought I'd tell you now, so down the road, you're all good to go through the highs
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and lows and all lives up and down ups and downs.
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Yeah, that way I'm still here for you somehow in case I ain't around.
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And so again, there's not as much motion in it whenever I'm just reading it.
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But when you're hearing him sing it with the, you know, the fervent nature that he's singing
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these songs with, you can definitely hit it.
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But this is one of those things for a lot of guys and I'll speak for my experience personally.
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I didn't get a lot of time with my grandfather growing up.
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There's probably a lot of reasons for that, you know, different familial fights and people
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preferring this person over that person, but I didn't get to learn a whole lot of lessons
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from my grandfather.
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And then even with my father, my dad was capable and knew how to do a lot of things,
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fix a lot of things.
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But I wasn't with him often to do a lot of those things and it wasn't like he was actively
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keeping me away.
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I just wasn't included in a lot of those things. And so I missed out on some of that stuff
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to where it's like, okay, someday you'll need to know how to do this. And also my father
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and I have led very different lives, made very different decisions and took very different
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tracks in life. And so a lot of the things that I've experienced are not a lot of things
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that he's experienced and vice versa.
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And so the advice that he's able to give me on the stuff that I'm experiencing is I guess
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you could say not as appropriate or not as specific, I guess, would be a better way of
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looking at it.
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And so for a lot of you guys out there, the reminder is, hey, you may not always be around.
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You could suffer a tragedy, you could get sick, you know, life circumstances could befall
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you.
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You've got to make sure that you're driving home lessons to your sons while you still
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got their entire attention.
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Okay.
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Song number three is called hunting by yourself. And so this was kind of the first song that
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was leaked from the album. And the theme of this one, dude, if you're a hunter at all
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and you have sons, like you're going to be blubbering with this one for sure. The theme
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of this song is it may be annoying to hunt with your kids, but you'll miss it when it's
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gone.
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So here are the lyrics, verse one, he ran out of the bedroom about his gung ho as he could
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be in his mossy oak, took the first hunt picture on my phone for he even fell asleep on the
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way. I held the gun, he held the light, a cup of coffee and a can of sprite. The stand
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was only 10 feet high, but on the top of the world that day, I already knew he wouldn't
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see a thing, been there, been three more times and it's always the same. Here's the course,
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because he moves too much and he talks too loud. But I don't mind because I'm finding
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out that even if it's just time we're killing, it's never felt more like living. They'll
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make you cuss and wear your patience then. But next thing you know, they're all grown
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up and then you're hunting by yourself again.
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Here's verse two, well, I've heard him say these days don't last. I know the years are
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going to fly fast right out the door and never come back as bad as you want them to as pretty
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soon he'll sit in his own tree, be a bad out of hell with a set of keys and chasing girls
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is going to be all he'll want to do. He'll have a lot less time for his old man. So I'm
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going to soak it up while I still can course again. When he moves too much and he talks
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too loud, but I don't mind because I'm finding out that even if it's just time we're killing,
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it's never felt more like living. They'll make you cuss and wear your patience then.
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The next thing you know, they're all growing up and then you're hunting by yourself again.
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And so this these lyrics and that course especially that's what was put into all these videos
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and just got every man's man hunter across America crying watching these videos and what
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drove a lot of people's attention to this album. And here's what it did for me specifically.
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As I've talked about a lot on the show, I didn't grow up in a family that hunted and
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so I hunted for the first time in my mid twenties and then by the my early thirties, I was like,
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okay, I'm going to be a hunter. I have to figure this out. And so here I am in my twenties
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and thirties making mistakes, hunting that five and six and seven year old boys had made
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and long, you know, stopped making right. And so I'm trying to do that, but I'm doing
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that for the benefit of my children. I want my sons, James and Eli to know how to hunt.
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I want them to be comfortable hunting. I want them to be around me. I want them to be around
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other experienced hunters. I want them to see these different circumstances and see the
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value in it, not just for procuring meat for your family, but also just all the life lessons
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that you learn, the patience, you know, just the being capable in certain areas and all
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those types of things. And I've thought about it before, like, I don't like when my kids
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don't do stuff that I want them to do, right? So that should be reflective of all your fathers
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out there. And I'm very much so in the Jordan Peterson camp of don't allow your children
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to do anything that makes you dislike them. But after listening to this song, I guarantee
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you this is what I did. I went and told my wife, so my oldest son is four. So he can't
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sit still and be quiet for 15 seconds. I told her, I'm going to take James hunting this
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season. Okay, so do it on a day when it's not super duper cold and it's not raining or
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something like that. And go out there, you know, with my rifle or bow with an expectation
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that we're not going to see anything and we're not certainly going to be able to shoot anything.
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Because he's going to move too much. He's going to talk too loud. But I'm not going
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to mind because one day he's not going to want to do that with dad. Okay. And so what
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I'm going to focus on is making a core memory with my son at a very early age that dad took
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him on a ride out to the country. We got to stay in a cabin. We got to ride in an all terrain
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vehicle and we got to go to either a covered blind or a non covered blind. And hopefully
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we get to see something even if it's just a squirrel or some birds. But who the heck knows
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we might even get something on the ground. So that's something I'm focusing on. So number
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four is called little country boys won't read any lyrics to this one. But the theme is
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if you live in the country, just let your boys be little country boys. And so if you
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did have a country up bringing or you live in the country now, that's a great song.
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Song number five, whoever you turn out to be. The theme of this song is love your sons
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regardless of what they end up being interested in or what, you know, life decisions they
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make, assuming they don't become like a, you know, weed dealer or, you know, murder somebody
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or something like that. But here are the lyrics. First one, a hand me down F one 50 might not
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be the tank you empty burning gasoline the day you turned 16. And just because dusty boots
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and camouflage are in your roots don't mean you ever got to wear them. If that ain't you,
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I don't care. Yeah, I used to love to sling that dirt up on them rule routes. But God
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might have a different map dot plan for you mapped out. Here's the course. So what if
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you don't stick around this little town that raised you? So what if you don't cut your
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teeth on junior Jones and Wayland great line, by the way, now it might work out that you
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don't turn out anything like me, but I'll love whoever you turn out to be. So the lesson
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here is a is pretty obvious for a lot of us guys, we would love for our sons to be into
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the things that we're into. Would I love it? If my sons were into jujitsu and wrestling
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and baseball and became big St. Louis Cardinals fans and love podcasts and metal music and
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all the type of stuff. Yeah. And I, you know, I'm going to expose them to things like that.
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Yeah, I want them to go hunting with me and I want them to do all these cool things that
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I like to do. But dads have to be okay with the fact that your sons are going to be your
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own sons and the more pressure you put on them to conform to a certain way of life or
17:20
a certain team that they need to root for any of those types of things, you might actually
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be driving them away. That's what I'm going to be doing in terms of wrestling baseball
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and jujitsu. Those are the three sports I've played the most over my entire life in my
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youth. It was mainly baseball. And so our boys are going to be required to play sports,
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but dads not going to pick the sports. Okay, they're not going to play football because
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all the head injuries and all that crazy stuff. But in Edmund, we have every single other
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sport that you could imagine, including like ice hockey and lacrosse and like everything
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that you could possibly imagine in Edmond, Oklahoma. And so that's going to be available
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to my boys. And so I want them to be into what they're into. I want them to like the
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music that they're into. I want them to get the haircut that they want at a certain age,
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you know, within reason and things like that. If they don't turn out exactly how I want
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them to turn out, I need to be able to love them anyway. Alright, song number six, remember
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him that way. So the theme of this one is remembering your father for the best and strongest
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version that he ever was. So here's a lyrics first one. There's an old man and a lazy boy,
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TV on a Western fast asleep, gray in his hair, at least what's left, but the heart of a lion
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beaten in his chest. And there's a little more slow in his go and a little less rock
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in his role these days. Here's the course. But I remember him 10 feet tall and bulletproof,
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throwing me a ball and cowboy boots, a whistle in the dog star running, a whisper and mama
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starts blushing, a wrench in his hand and the beer and the other. God couldn't make
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a man any tougher. And that S on his chest is starting to fade, but I'll always remember
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him that way. And so for some of you, that description during the course of a father,
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that is something that you're very familiar with. And that's something that you you think
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about. And for a lot of us, when a man ages out of his peak masculinity, I guess you could
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say for every man, it's a little bit different. And it's a little bit the timing of that is
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all over the place. That doesn't mean you have to only look at the man as in the version
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he is today, you can also look at who he was when he was at his best and strongest and
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try to remember your father in that way. Now for some of you, I know this is going to be
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a little bit of a rough subject because maybe you never met your father, maybe your father
19:16
was an absolute POS, maybe your father, which is not someone you would ever want to emulate
19:20
in any way, shape or form. But for those of you that did get to have your father, perhaps
19:24
even still have your father, you might be tempted to look at who they are today or some
19:27
of the bad decisions that they've made and try to see them through that prism. And I understand
19:31
the temptation as a pessimist myself. But if you can look at your dad for the best version
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of who he was, that's probably going to be better for you overall.
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Song number seven, the man he sees in me. Okay. So big drink of water. Around this time in
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the album, I'm still really enjoying it. Okay. But the tears on my face have dried a little
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bit, good songs, but they're not really hitting me the same way. I'm just listening to the
19:56
music at this point. And then this song comes on and the water works start again. Okay. So
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the theme of the man he sees in me is hoping that we could ever live up to be the kind
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of man that our little boys think that we are. Okay. So here we go. Try to hold it together.
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Verse one, he's spider man and Walmart boots and a camouflage hat with a baby blue zeb
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code that gets hung up every cast. He thinks he's learning fishing from the man that taught
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Bill dance. And I think as I untangle it and put it in his hands course, I hope he never
20:30
finds out that I didn't hang the moon. And I've never scared a monster out the closet
20:34
of his room. One day between him leaving home and driving on my knee, maybe I'll finally
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be the man he sees in me. Verse two, he waves that blanket like a checkered flag pulling
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off of the interstate with a happy meal cup held high like I won the big race. When we
20:51
get home, his mind is blown when I untie his shoes. And he smiles and says, daddy, there
20:55
ain't nothing you can't do course. Well, I hope he never finds out that I didn't hang
20:59
the moon. And I've never scared a monster out the closet of his room. Some day between
21:03
him leaving home and driving on my knee. But finally, but maybe I'll finally be the man
21:07
he sees in me. And so this is right in the crosshairs for where I am right now. Okay.
21:14
My four year old two year old sons think that okay, literally last night during prayer,
21:19
which I should really record my son's prayers, James's prayers, because they're all over
21:23
the place. They're typically hilarious. But in the prayer, he thanks God for me being
21:28
the strongest man, like the strongest man. He doesn't know how Thor Bjornson exists.
21:33
He doesn't know whoever just won the world's strongest man. I can't remember his name.
21:36
Some do from UK. He doesn't he doesn't think that dad is a strongest man in the world.
21:41
Dad has the biggest muscles in the world. Dad can jump higher than anybody else. Dad
21:44
can do all that. And he's very impressed whenever I cook something or make fire happen. Like
21:50
I'll let him now hold my cigar torch and hit the button and he's just like, Oh my gosh,
21:55
dad, he thinks I made the fire. You know what I'm talking about? And so imagine if we could
22:01
live up to that, because as we all know, and some of you already know this very, very well,
22:06
one day your sons are going to think they know a thing or two, right? Just like I did
22:10
with my dad. We think we're going to know a thing or two. Our dad's dumb. Our dad doesn't
22:14
understand, you know, our dad's just an old time where he doesn't really get things in
22:17
this day and age. Your dad's gonna or your son rather is going to be less impressed with
22:22
you than he is right now. But I want to extend this part. I don't want him to have extended
22:27
adolescence and just treat him as my little boy the entire time. But that process of him
22:31
being impressed with who dad is. I want that to be there for a long time, not because I
22:36
need the ego boost, but because he thinks the best of me, because he's seen some bad.
22:42
He seen dad fly off the handle. He's seen dad use bad words. He's seen dad get angry
22:45
when he didn't need to get angry. He's had to have dad come and apologize to him and ask
22:50
him for forgiveness for, you know, punishing him to, you know, too strongly or getting,
22:55
you know, very aggressive with him. And I mean, that verbally like to where, you know, he
22:59
gets upset and those types of things, you know, we've all been there as dads. And so
23:03
I want him to constantly see me in the best light. It goes back to that song. We're talking
23:07
about remember him that way, where I want him to remember me in the way that is positive
23:12
and encouraging overall. All right, song number eight. All I ever do is leave. Okay, so I make
23:18
it through the last song. Okay. And then I get to this song and get punched directly
23:23
in the tear ducts right over again. So this song is from the perspective of a son whose
23:29
father is gone a lot. Yeah. So here we go. Here's the theme. Your sons may not understand
23:36
all the details, but their perspective is still important. Okay. So here's a lyrics,
23:41
verse one, worn out stitches on a baseball up against the wall, me and myself trying
23:45
to play catch because daddy ain't home yet. I was Batman, Robin and the Joker to it was
23:50
Gotham City lonesome in the living room. And mama would say you pray because your daddy's
23:55
going to be late course, but the lights stayed on somehow. And love filled up my house. Yeah,
24:01
life ain't always what it seems. Because I thought all he ever did was leave. First
24:07
to that somebody played tooth fairy left the cash, took out the trash, made mama feel pretty,
24:13
good to dent in the whiskey. There were tip toe prayers and midnight kisses. I love using
24:17
little boy wishes for Saturday's where we could play all day. But the lights stayed on somehow
24:23
and love filled up my little house. Yeah, life ain't always what it seems. Because I thought
24:27
all he ever did all he ever did was leave. Okay. So with this one, I travel for work.
24:35
I go places to speak. I go places to record and be recorded on podcast. You know, I go
24:41
do jujitsu. You know, I'll do little men's trips. I go hunt and things like that. And
24:46
you know, you'll have those times whenever your your kids are just hanging onto your
24:49
legs. They don't want you to leave and they don't realize, look, I'm just going to the
24:52
store. Right. They don't realize, look, I'm going to go to jujitsu. I'll be back in a
24:56
couple hours or hey, I'll see in the morning, you know, because you'll be in bed by the
25:00
time I get back. But you don't want your kids to only think that all you ever did was leave.
25:06
But at the same time, they're children. They don't understand how the bills get paid in
25:11
the house. They don't even understand the concept of bills. They don't know how money
25:14
is made. They don't understand the value of money, money yet. They don't know why mom
25:18
has to leave sometimes and why dad has to leave sometimes and why mom and dad have to
25:22
leave sometimes together. And they get left with somebody else that isn't mom nor dad,
25:27
right? They may not understand those things, but their perspective is important. You need
25:31
to let them know you are still important, but I've got to go do this other thing right
25:36
now, whether that's trying to procure meat on a hunt going and doing an event where you're
25:39
going to get paid, you know, any of those types of things. But one thing that I've started
25:43
to do is I'm starting to deputize my boys on the way out the door. Okay. Because I always
25:47
told James, Hey, protect your little brother, you know, we're in the parking line. I'm like,
25:51
Hey, hold your hand. We got to protect little Bubba's hand. And here he is. He's looking
25:54
around for every car. And if there's a car in the zip code, he's letting dad know about
25:58
it. So that his little brother can be safe, right? I was even, you know, at the doctor,
26:02
you know, in a little Eli, I was getting vaccines and James was in there with us. And I thought
26:06
James was going to grab that syringe and stab the nurse in the heart with it. Because after
26:11
Eli got his first vaccine and was crying and, you know, kind of apoplectic, James was furious.
26:17
He was like crying, angry, [inaudible] off tears. And he was yelling, stop hurting my brother,
26:23
you know, just going crazy. So he kind of has a cheap dog in them. But now I'm telling
26:27
him whenever I leave the house, Hey, you're the man of the house now, protect mom and
26:31
your brother until I get back, protect the dog until you get back those types of things.
26:35
And you can kind of see like, all right, you know, he's with it. He's looking around. He's
26:39
he's looking for threats or things like that. I don't want him to think that all I ever do
26:43
is leave, but I want him to be ready. If I do leave to let him know he's a man of the
26:47
house. Alright, the next three, I won't read any of the lyrics. But number nine is called
26:51
plant the seed. The life of the theme of this one is life is short. So be thankful that
26:54
God gave you the time that he did to plant some seeds in your boys and to watch him grow.
26:59
Song number 10 is right around heaven all day. This is like the most super duper like country
27:03
song on this. This is like country music theology, like all wrapped up into a song. This is
27:07
a song from a perspective of a grandson having a dream. And then he got to take a truck drive
27:13
around heaven with his grandfather. Okay, so there you go. Super country song. And then
27:17
song number 11 is my old man was right. The theme of this one is sometimes our fathers
27:21
were right, but we couldn't see it when we were young. I think all of us have been there
27:25
and some of us are still currently there. But then we get to the last song on the album.
27:29
Okay, it's called take me out to the ballgame. So we're at the end of the album. It's been
27:33
rollercoaster of emotions. But I read the the track title of the last track called take
27:39
me out to the ballgame and I immediately get excited because I think okay, great. Oh, it's
27:43
just going to be a song about a father taking a son to a baseball game. I love my sons.
27:47
I love baseball. I love America. I like hot dogs. What could possibly go wrong? Well,
27:52
this track I'm telling you guys, is easily the most heartbreaking track on the entire
27:58
album. It is absolutely devastating. It's from the perspective of a young boy whose parents
28:05
are obviously split up. They're divorced. And he's confused why his life is the way that
28:10
it is. So I've held together most of the time. So we'll see if I can get through this because
28:14
I feel for the young boy in this because in a lot of ways I was this boy. And so here's
28:19
verse one. I caught a foul ball up in the bleachers in the shortstop autographed it.
28:25
I kept it on the dresser with every day that passes. I've been throwing it to myself. I've
28:29
got pretty good at catching. I just called to say I miss you and make sure that you know
28:33
that it's my birthday pretty soon. And all I want is for you to here's the course. Take
28:39
me out to the ball game. Pick me up at the house. What's this every other weekend thing
28:44
even all about? Because mama said she loves you. And in some ways always will. I guess
28:49
maybe things are different now. But daddy, can't you still take me out to the ball game?
28:55
And this is the second verse. It's like, Oh gosh. All right, second verse. I sure love
28:59
to go again. Seems like seems like it's been a long time or seems like it's been so long.
29:04
If we could get some tickets Friday night, me, you and maybe mom. Because I feel like it's
29:09
my fault that you two ain't together. I'm so sorry. I was bad. I promise I'll be better.
29:15
Because I just want to see you. And if you come back, you don't have to take me out to
29:21
the ball game. Pick me up at the house. What's this every other weekend thing even all about?
29:27
Because mama said she loves you. And in some ways always will. I guess maybe things are
29:31
different now. But daddy, can't you still take me out to the ball game? Here's the bridge.
29:35
We need hot dogs and then same seats in the seventh inning. We'd sing. Take me out to
29:40
the ball game. Pick me up at the house. What's this every other weekend thing and even all
29:44
about? Because mama said she loves you. And in some ways always will. I guess maybe things
29:48
are different now. But daddy, can't you still take me out to the ball game? Take me out to
29:53
the ball game. So this poor young boy thinks his parents are split because of him because
29:59
he was bad because he asked his dad if he would go to the ball game. You can see in the
30:03
second verse, first verse, he so excited. Dad, can you just take me to a ball game? Second
30:06
verse, he's like, Hey, if you just come back, you don't even have to take me to the ball
30:10
game. Oh boy, just an absolutely heartbreaking song. And that's the story of some of you
30:16
guys in this audience. That's a story that I recognize. That's a story that I level with
30:22
and understand. So you might be wondering at this point, before we get to the quick hitters,
30:27
you know, why would I take you through all this? Because I say this with as little hyperbole
30:32
as I can muster. This is one of the most important pieces of entertainment I think that's ever
30:36
been created for fathers and sons. I'm serious. Just imagine, just imagine the pitch meeting
30:44
for Luke comes. So he goes in to talk to his record producer and he's like, Hey, yeah,
30:48
I'd like to do a whole album of songs just about fathers and sons and the, you know,
30:52
executives got to be like, yeah, Luke, a song about fathers and sons, that'd be great. And
30:55
then looks like, you know, no, no, no, not just one song. I'm going to do a full album.
30:59
So, you know, 10 to 12 songs and LP about fathers and sons and nothing else executives
31:03
like a full, a full album of just songs about fathers and sons. Yeah. Well, what about beer
31:09
and pretty girls and tractors in America? And, you know, I mean, we will sneak some of that
31:13
in their record executive guy, but the main theme is just fathers and sons. The record
31:17
executive had to have just lifted him like, this is completely confusing. But for all
31:21
intents and purposes, this was a huge risk for Luke comes. Again, it's like him, Morgan
31:26
Wallen, I guess, jelly roll, even though the dude can't really even sing. And Lady Wilson,
31:31
maybe those are like, maybe is that like the top four right now for country music? I don't
31:34
really know. I don't follow it that closely. But Luke Combs is up there, right? I guess
31:38
Luke Bryan, for those of you that need to mention Luke Bryan. All right. So it's those
31:41
people, right? So this is kind of a risk because you're like, you're really segmenting your
31:46
audience here. This isn't just fun and red cups and boats and tractors and whatever,
31:50
all that kind of stuff. But I would put this album in terms of products from entertainment,
31:55
the entertainment world that are essential to consume for fathers and sons alongside movies
32:00
like Field of Dreams or the Lion King or the pursuit of happiness. There really isn't something
32:05
else like this that I know of in the modern music industry. But above all else, this album
32:10
has real life lessons and applications for us. That's what I tried to elucidate as I
32:14
was going through the tracks. So if you're a grandfather, of course, if you're a father
32:18
of sons, of course, if you're a father of daughters, you're still a son, right? And
32:23
there are lessons here that apply to your daughter. If you're not a father, you're still
32:28
a son. And there are lessons here that will apply to you someday when you Lord willing
32:33
have children. And even if you're one of our lady listeners right now, the supplies to
32:36
you as well, because you will never know, you could never know what it's like to feel
32:42
like a father or a son. Just like none of us dudes will ever truly know what it's like
32:47
to feel like a mother or a daughter. But it's important for you to have a glimpse into the
32:51
mind of a man as he sees through the eyes of a young boy or as he sees through the eyes
32:56
of a man onto his young boy. So hopefully that wasn't too painful for you guys. It's
33:01
a fantastic album. I highly, highly recommend you go and check it out.
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All right. Well, we made it through that. Let's get into the quick hitters. Bonanza guys,
34:40
we got a lot of ground to cover. So I'm not going to be able to give a ton of detail on
34:43
each of these. I'll just give you a lot of big thoughts. But Planned Parenthood giving
34:45
away free abortions and my sector means during the Democratic National Convention. This is
34:49
according to Fox News on August the 17th. Planned Parenthood is offering more than a
34:53
free t-shirt or sticker at the DNC this coming week. The organization will offer free of
34:57
a sector means medication abortion and emergency contraception. Planned Parenthood great rivers
35:02
of St. Louis announced in an expos that they bus is headed to the DNC in Chicago on August
35:07
the 19th and 20th to offer the free services. So right to my big takeaway on this one, but
35:12
yeah, sure, the Democrat party isn't the party of death and abortion. They're not the party
35:17
of child sacrifice. Because a lot of people said, well, wait a minute, wait a minute,
35:21
the DNC didn't hire the this local Planned Parenthood to come and do this. Guys, they
35:27
were in coordination. Like, come on, Planned Parenthood didn't show up to the RNC. They
35:33
showed up to the DNC. Why? Because the Democratic National Convention, the Democratic Party
35:39
is as pro Planned Parenthood as you could possibly be. They love this organization.
35:44
If we're up to them, this organization would be even bigger because they would be killing
35:48
even more children and sacrificing even more children to molic. Like that that's exactly
35:53
what they want. So I'm really tired of these these Christians that are trying to convince
35:58
me that, Oh, you know, well, we'll get more into that here here in a second with Donald
36:02
Trump. But you have a lot of people that are just trying to separate and you even have
36:06
the Democratic Party trying to soften and seem more moderate on the abortion issue. But
36:11
this proves it. There were human beings, image bearers of God that lost their lives so that
36:17
Planned Parenthood and the Democratic Party could make a point at a convention at a political
36:22
rally. It's absolutely sickening and satanic. Our next wicked are here, Donald Trump attempting
36:27
to tarnish his pro life legacy. So a couple of different, um, different headlines here
36:31
are different stories. According to NPR, this is from August the 16th and a Friday post
36:35
on true social Trump, whose appointees to the US Supreme Court helped overturn a constitutional
36:40
right to an abortion said, my administration will be great for women and their reproductive
36:45
rights. So Trump has co-opted a leftist viewpoint and language and he's using reproductive rights
36:53
to talk about abortion. And this is from August the 29th from Florida politics.com. This is
36:57
egregious. Former president Donald Trump says he'll vote in favor of Florida's abortion
37:03
referendum that will appear on the ballot through the state for the November 5th election.
37:08
NBC News reporter Dasha Burns on her X feed highlighted video of Trump telling her that
37:12
he would vote to support the ballot initiative. He said, according to Burns, that he thinks
37:17
Florida's ban on abortion after six weeks is too restrictive. I think the six weeks
37:21
is too short. There has to be more time, Trump said. So you'll vote in favor of the amendment
37:25
Burns asked, I'm going to be voting that we need more than six weeks. Trump replied, Florida's
37:30
ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy went into effect in May of the year. The statewide
37:34
referendum called amendment four would alter the state's constitution to protect abortion
37:38
until viability in effect, negating the six week limitation on abortions that Governor
37:43
Ron DeSantis signed. So here's my big takeaway on this one. Now, I think Trump is fighting
37:50
an uphill battle to win the White House anyways for a lot of different reasons. But this is
37:55
just political negligence, absolute flummoxing political negligence from him and the people
38:02
that are in his camp. Because what he's doing is he is trading Christian conservative evangelical
38:08
voters for secular independent voters in a handful of states. Because again, this really
38:14
comes down to Pennsylvania, but you've also got Wisconsin in Michigan. You've got Nevada
38:19
Arizona, Arizona, North Carolina, and Georgia. Okay. The odds are that Trump wins Nevada,
38:30
Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina. But if he doesn't win one of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
38:36
or Michigan, he loses the election. Okay. So he's looking at a small population of secular
38:43
independent voters in a handful of states. And he's saying, ah, Christian's conservatives
38:48
evangelicals, you'll vote with me anyway. So I'm just going to do this. It's incredibly
38:52
incredibly stupid. I really don't understand the move. But guys, believe me, I'm very [inaudible]
38:58
off about what Trump and the Republicans are doing right now on the issue of abortion.
39:02
They removed abortion from the RNC platform. They've they've removed it every time Trump
39:07
has talked about it. He's talked about it, not even as a moderate, but as a liberal. That's
39:12
basically how he's talking about it. But but even though I'm very [inaudible] off, even though
39:16
this is my one issue, if you're going to be a one issue voter, we have to be realistic.
39:21
His administration is going to govern way more in a pro life manner than with the Harris
39:29
Walts administration for sure. Because again, you're not hiring one person when you vote
39:35
for president, you're hiring an entire federal government apparatus, 15 to 20,000 people that
39:41
that person will have hands and appointing or getting into their jobs. The Harris wall
39:46
administration would be the most pro abortion, Mo pro baby murder administration in the history
39:53
of our country. Again, need I remind you, Kamala Harris is the first and only sitting
39:59
vice president or president to go to an event at an abortion facility. She went and toured
40:05
an abortion facility, I believe it was in Minnesota. She's the only person to do that.
40:09
And that wasn't an accident. Also, if you look at her generic ads, which you can't basically
40:14
escape them right now, because they're all over YouTube and all over, you know, tick
40:18
talk and all these other different places in her generic ad, she's talking about abortion.
40:23
Now she talks about reproductive rights and a woman's right to choose that kind of stuff.
40:26
So it's all colloquialisms or euphemisms or other. But you don't make abortion front
40:32
and center in your campaign. If you don't think it's important, if it's not important
40:37
to you, and you want to talk about governor walls in Minnesota, he signed into law the
40:42
most liberal abortion. It's up there with the most liberal abortion laws in any state
40:47
in the union. Okay. So it's abortion up to the moment of birth. And also he went against
40:53
any type of thing which would have protected the child that made it that survived a botched
40:58
abortion. Okay. So if an infant is born after an abortion, the abortion was not successful,
41:05
there is going to be no criminal or civil consequences for these health providers, right? Or you
41:13
could call them that for these for these murders in this moment, they're either going to allow
41:16
the baby to expire there on the table, or they're going to actively in the life of this
41:20
child now residing geographically outside the womb. So you might be [inaudible] off of Donald
41:25
Trump. I am [inaudible] off of Donald Trump as well. You might be [inaudible] off at the RNC and the
41:30
Republican establishment. I am also [inaudible] off at that. But you cannot just not vote,
41:37
especially if you're in one of those states that I mentioned earlier, again, Michigan,
41:40
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, you can't just sit
41:45
on your hands because he's not saying all the words that you would prefer because both
41:49
sides right now are trying to see moderate on the abortion issue because Harris knows
41:54
that they're way too left leaning for anyone that's even mildly moderate. And Trump and
41:59
Vance don't want to seem as if they can't moderate on the issue of abortion. But we
42:04
know for a fact that Harrison walls as soon as they get into office will run to the left
42:10
on that issue. They've shown their willingness to do so and they will do so in all indications
42:15
show that Donald Trump and Vance and the entire government apparatus will move towards the
42:19
more conservative side the more pro life side. Okay, so don't just say I'm going to stick
42:24
my flag on the ground. I'm not going to support this candidate because he didn't say words
42:27
that I liked. We have to be realistic. We have to vote for the candidate that is can protect
42:31
more image bearers of God. All right, next quick, it or here a Christian news site saying
42:37
that Christian should support abortion. So this is according to Baptist news.com on
42:42
August the 25th. So here's the article title, why Christian should support reproductive justice,
42:48
including abortion access. So here's some highlights from this piece of direct number
42:52
one, reproductive justice is about whole persons whom God loves and tells us to love and care
42:57
for as well. Okay, so there's no regard for the baby here. Number two, abortion is not
43:02
a sin. Imagine the theological gymnastics you would have to do to circle us a layer way
43:09
into thinking that. And number three, we can lower abortion rates without making abortion
43:14
inaccessible. How are we going to do that? They don't exactly elucidate that. But here's
43:17
the author's bio of this article, Susan M Shaw. She's got a, well, we'll get there in a second.
43:24
She's a professor of women in gender and sexuality studies at Oregon State University in Oregon.
43:29
She also is an ordained Baptist minister. She is an ordained Baptist minister and holds
43:34
a master's and doctoral degrees from Southern Baptist theological seminary. Her most recent
43:39
book is called intersectional theology, an introductory guide. And as no surprise to
43:45
anybody, she's got a really, really short spiky haircut. And I don't know exactly what
43:50
her persuasion is, but it wouldn't be an entire shock if she had played college softball and
43:54
now lives with a woman's just going to go out there and go out on them. But here's a big
43:57
takeaway on this one. Satan's going to Satan, y'all. It is his to his tremendous benefit
44:05
that there are so many gullible, moronic people out there because there are Christians that
44:11
will read this article. And they're going to be like, well, look, it's from baptistnews.com.
44:16
So it's obviously got to be biblical and indefensible. And they're going to be like, you know, well,
44:22
well, maybe abortion isn't a sin. Gosh, I did a word search in the Bible and the word abortion
44:26
didn't pop up. So it's couldn't possibly be that that, you know, maybe God, well, maybe
44:35
God, and then you know, they're going to try to work it out. They're going to try to figure
44:39
out a way to make abortion, not the killing of an innocent living human being, but to
44:44
make it something else like, oh, it's just the stopping of her pregnancy, or the removal
44:49
of a clump of cells or some other euphemistic way to describe ripping a child of God limb
44:55
from limb, right? And yeah, people like this, what's her name? Susan Shaw and other people
45:01
like her that are just fine being used as a tool of Satan. And again, I have to go back
45:07
to this for things like this, for these nefarious worldviews to take hold, you need conscious
45:12
nefarious actors and you need useful idiots. I'm not sure which one Susan Shaw is, but she's
45:18
doing the work of Satan here by trying to convince Christians that indeed abortion is
45:23
not a bad thing. It's actually a good thing. And if you're a good Christian, you should
45:27
support it too. And isn't it so interesting? We're a couple of months away from an election,
45:32
and you've got an article like this coming out. They could have written this article
45:36
a year ago, why didn't they write it a year ago? It's because they want stupid, ignorant
45:40
Christians that are very gullible and easily swayed to go into the Kamala Harris camp.
45:45
That's exactly why they're doing this. Next we get her here a website tracking how conservative
45:50
or liberal US senators are deleted their page ranking Kamala Harris as the most liberal
45:56
of all 100 US senators. So this is according to in wokeness on Twitter on July the 24th
46:01
breaking GovTrack just deleted their 2019 page that ranked Kamala Harris as the most
46:05
liberal of all 100 senators. So the big takeaway here on this is apparently Kamala Harris never
46:09
existed until she politically assassinated her boss a few weeks ago. She was never in
46:16
any other office. She technically wasn't even the vice president. She definitely didn't
46:20
help, you know, Joe Biden in the Biden Harris administration, which Joe Biden even said
46:25
over and over and over, he would always combine himself with Kamala Harris, but apparently
46:29
she just didn't exist. So GovTrack deleted their page, but the Internet is forever. And
46:34
so people found the page of the 100 US senators. Okay, before 2020, when she was in office
46:40
in 2019 as a center of those 100, she was the most liberal, more liberal than Bernie Sanders.
46:48
That in GovTrack looks at voting records, right? They don't look at what you espouse
46:52
at a political rally or what you put on t-shirts. They look at your voting record. She was the
46:56
most liberal of all the 100 senators. And now the mainstream media is in cahoots with
47:02
the Democratic Party trying to convince you that Kamala Harris not only is an accomplished
47:06
individual, which she is not not only that she got every job in her entire life because
47:11
she warranted the job and because she earned it, as opposed to just failing upwards after
47:16
she started by basically being a whore for a guy 30 years or senior. No, no, no, no,
47:21
none of that's true. And no, she's not liberal. She's just kind of that quirky and with a
47:26
weird laugh that, you know, she just wants you to be joyful. And she wants you to be
47:30
happy, right? That that's what she wants. And she's she's moderate. Don't don't believe
47:36
what Trump and those crazy people, those maga people over there, those maggots don't believe
47:40
what those people are saying about Mamala. Like she is America's crazy and she should
47:46
definitely be at the levers of control. That's what all this is. And you know, the fixes
47:51
in with the mainstream media, the fixes in with these different states with their drop
47:55
boxes and their ballot harvesting and things like that. And then you have websites like
47:59
this basically trying to erase the past, you know, in a very, very sinister way to pull
48:07
off something like that, you know, this is very 1984. And so in an Orwellian sense, they're
48:12
trying to get rid of the past so that we can't see Kamala Harris as she truly is. It's all
48:16
part of the fix. Our next quick hitter here, meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
48:21
revealing that the Biden Harris administration has pressured his company to censor dissenting
48:26
content. So this is according to the Christian Post on August the 28th, meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
48:31
claimed in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee on Monday that the Biden administration
48:34
pressured his company to effectively censor Facebook content related to COVID-19 and the
48:39
Hunter Biden laptop. I believe the government pressure was wrong. And I regret that we were
48:43
not more outspoken about it. Zuckerberg wrote in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman
48:47
Rep Jim Jordan of Republican of Ohio. I feel strongly that we should not compromise our
48:52
content standards due to pressure from any administration in either direction. And we're
48:56
ready to push back if something like this happens again, he added. So obviously this is
49:00
a big admission from him. A lot of people are like, Oh, good for him for doing this. But
49:03
here's my big takeaway. Mark Zuckerberg obviously has an angle here. He is not a hero nor is he
49:10
a victim in this story. I don't buy that for one second. So I'm not exactly sure I can't
49:14
really read between the lines here as to what exactly the angle is from Mark Zuckerberg. But
49:18
he's saying, look, you know, we put money into the last election and we're not going to do
49:22
that this time. And we're not going to, you know, downgrade content via the algorithm
49:27
until a fact checker has been able to give us confirmation that it's real. We're not going
49:31
to do that anymore. But he's not doing that out of the goodness of his heart guys. He's
49:35
a political actor. He is a leftist liberal political actor. And I guarantee you, if he
49:41
can move the needle just a little bit to ensure that Kamala Harris gets into office, he would
49:46
and he perhaps still might sound off. He's just running pre interference for himself.
49:50
Yeah, it's great that he wrote the letter, but sorry, I just don't buy it. All right. Next
49:53
quick hitter here, the United States government losing track of tens of thousands of illegal
49:58
immigrant children. So this is according to ABC News on August the 20th. The Department of
50:03
Homeland Security's internal wash dog says it has uncovered an urgent issue with how immigration
50:08
officials handle cases involving unaccompanied migrant children warning in a new report that
50:12
the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency has been unable to keep track of all unaccompanied
50:17
minors released from government custody. The interim report sent to Congress on Tuesday and
50:22
obtained by ABC News said that in the past five years, more than 32,000 unaccompanied migrant
50:27
children failed to appear for their immigration court hearings. And ICE was not able to account
50:32
for all their locations. By law, the Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for
50:36
the care of unaccompanied migrant children. So after they are initially taken into custody
50:40
by US authorities, it is ICE's role to ensure they're timely and safe transfer to HHS,
50:45
which is often placed, which then often places them in shelters or qualified sponsors homes.
50:51
So here's my big takeaway on this one. And this is absolutely heartbreaking, but it's certainly true.
50:56
These children are currently being trafficked for sex and or labor. And it was all facilitated
51:03
by the Biden-Harris administration. That's a reality. So if you go back to some different
51:09
movies that have come out recently in documentaries, they will say that there will be a child that
51:12
will show up to the border. They will have a piece of paper. They speak no English and it'll have a
51:16
phone number. And it'll say call this person and the, you know, the Border Patrol people or the ICE
51:22
people will call this individual and say, Hey, I've got little Rosa here. Is this your niece or
51:28
whatever? And then, you know, the person will say, yes, they are. And then the United States
51:32
government and you the taxpayer will pay for that child to be put on a plane or a bus to this individual.
51:37
There's no vetting of this individual. There is no understanding of who they are as it pertains
51:43
to this child. They're just sent there. And then these kids disappear as with a lot of these
51:48
immigrants that come through the ports of entry and say, Oh, I'm seeking asylum from
51:51
nothing exactly, but I'm seeking asylum. They give them a court date that's four or five years
51:56
down the road to show up and oh, don't you know what they these people just don't show up.
52:00
But these children are being sent here by their parents. Some of them have been convinced
52:04
that we're going to give your kid a better life. You know, we're definitely going to get them to
52:07
your family that's in America, but the coyotes and the cartels are getting these people to their
52:12
traffickers in the United States and they are being trafficked again for sex and or labor.
52:16
And when you have a wide open border and you basically tell the cartels and you basically tell
52:22
anyone throughout the entire world, because it's not just central and south America, but you tell
52:25
anyone through the entire world, look, the southern border is open for business. You will not be
52:29
stopped at the border. You will not be shot at the border. You can just come in and you can really
52:34
come and go out of this country as you please, right? And even if you get deported, which is not
52:39
something that really happens under Biden, Harris that much, you can just easily come right back,
52:44
right? You can always just make your way right back. And when you let the entire world know
52:49
that we are not taking care of our southern border, that we are not guarding our southern border,
52:53
you are making the children susceptible to things just like this. Because you have these evil men
52:59
in central and south America that are sending these children through because they know that
53:03
they will make money on the transfer and they will make money on the other side again via sex
53:07
or via labor. And again, with a lot of these children, I know this is a little bit macabre,
53:11
but hey, it's a man's podcast. We're going to get into the rough subjects. A lot of these children,
53:15
these small children that are sold multiple times a day to be raped by pedophilic men.
53:20
A lot of these children will be so destroyed physically that they're discarded after they become
53:27
no longer an asset to be used to make money. So what I'm saying is that they are
53:32
penetrated so violently so often. And it's destroying their internal organs and different things to
53:38
where it's going to cost too much money to get this child nurse back to health. And what exactly
53:42
are you going to tell the people at the ER that happened to this person that has violent anal
53:48
fissures and is bleeding from all their orifices in their body? Well, you're not going to take them
53:52
to the ER. So you're just going to shoot them. You're just going to kill them. You're just going to
53:55
bury them in the desert. And that's what's happening. And that's what's happening because of what Biden
54:01
and Harris have done with our southern border and what every other democratic administration is on,
54:05
except for most recently, the Trump and Pence administration. And so think about that when you're
54:10
voting as well, if you have any heart or conscience for these children, perhaps don't vote for an
54:14
administration that's going to continue to allow something like that to happen on their watch.
54:17
All right, next quick hitter here, 20 illegal immigrants attempting to hijack an elementary
54:22
school bus in San Diego. This is according to Fox five San Diego on August the 29th.
54:27
In a disturbing series of events in San Diego County, California, illegal immigrants attempted
54:31
to board two school buses filled with children from the Jamal Dulzera Union School District.
54:36
The incidents which occurred on different days along highway 94 have raised significant safety
54:41
concerns among local authorities, parents, and the broader community. So specifically with this
54:45
story, the parents were near the bus. And so the parents kind of helped facilitate getting these
54:51
people away from the bus and keeping them from hijacking this bus. This school district is
54:57
informing their bus drivers now to skip bus stops or to skip, you know, stops altogether that have
55:04
immigrants at them illegal immigrants. They're just saying, oh, just skip that, just go right past it.
55:10
So a couple of takeaways on this story. The first one, try that in the small town.
55:13
Okay, because you want to see that the local populace rise up against people that are not legally
55:21
supposed to be able to be here. Again, we're told these people are just downtrodden, you know,
55:25
they're they're experiencing political persecution, or they're just trying to make a good life with
55:29
their family. Well, why are they at the same time using firearms or any type of weapon to hijack
55:37
a bus full of children? Do they need a ride? Were they just going to sit on the bus and sing songs
55:44
with the kids? Or was there something more nefarious and foot? And big takeaway number two is when
55:49
your federal government's policy, your federal government's policy is open borders. This is
55:54
always something that was bound to happen. And guys, it's only a matter of time until a bus
55:59
loaded children are taken as hostages by one of these pieces of human debris. And then what?
56:03
Then what? There's there's a standoff. Maybe they kill a few kids in the process. Maybe all the
56:11
kids are killed in the process. Maybe we tell the, you know, the racist white cops that are just
56:17
looking for people of color to murder. We tell them to stand down that we're not going to follow
56:21
this bus because, you know, we don't want them to drive it and kind of care, careen it off the
56:25
road. So we're just not going to deal with it. And then these children just disappear. They
56:29
become sex slaves. They just become labor slaves. This is what we've allowed happen to our country,
56:35
people. When are we going to stop it? November 5th, November 5th is going to be one of those options
56:41
to be able to stop it. Our next one here, a Secret Service agent leaving her post defending former
56:46
president Trump in order to breastfeed her child in a private room. Oh, okay. This is according to
56:52
the New York Post on August the 17th, the United States Secret Service is investigating allegations
56:56
a female agent left her post at a campaign event for former president Trump this week to breastfeed
57:01
her child. The side agent went to do one final sweep of the walking route and found the agent
57:05
breastfeeding her child in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service
57:09
official work, i.e. potential emergency related to the president Crabtree wrote Crabtree was on the
57:14
people that gave the comments. So this was after Donald Trump's head was almost turned into a canoe
57:19
in Pennsylvania in July, and then not that far thereafter, a Secret Service agent as opposed to
57:25
being where they're supposed to be to potentially prevent somebody from killing president Trump
57:30
is not doing her job. She's breastfeeding. So there's a lot of issues here. There's certainly a lot of
57:34
issues here. One of them is I think it's safe to say that the Secret Service actually kind of sucks.
57:41
And I don't mean these individual people suck. Some of them probably suck. But in terms of doing
57:45
their job, they suck because we only know that they sucked on July the 13th in Pennsylvania
57:50
because Trump was almost murdered. But how many other times could somebody have murdered the person
57:56
that was under their care and protection because they're so inadequate and so stupid and so terrible
58:01
at their jobs? But my big takeaway on this one, and I've talked about this before, not a popular
58:05
opinion, but I don't get really care. Women should be mothers, not field officers for any kind of
58:11
police department or personal protection agency. Okay, this woman should not have been a field age
58:18
for the Secret Service. Okay, and I'm not saying mothers can't work jobs. I'm not saying mothers
58:24
have to stay home and just try to be pioneer woman. If that's what you decide to do, great. If
58:28
that's not what you decide to do, great. I don't honestly care. But this woman should be at home
58:33
caring for her child. And yet she's in a job where she has to use her body to potentially throw on
58:40
top of a presidential candidate to take a bullet that's part of your job. You have to agree to die
58:46
in the place of the person you're protecting to be a Secret Service agent. So not only do I
58:50
think that she probably wouldn't have made that decision to put her body on top of Donald Trump's
58:53
if that's what was required of her. But now you're putting a woman, a mother of a young child
59:00
in harm's way. That child needs its mother and also needs its father. But we live in in a world
59:07
where wombs are significantly more valuable than sperm is, right? I've used this example before,
59:13
but let's say you've got a, you know, a tribe that's 50 women and 50 men and another tribe comes
59:17
over and they kill all the women except one and leave all the men alive. That people group is
59:23
over with because there's only one womb and you're not going to be able to repopulate that people
59:27
group. But if you flip it and you have one man that survives and 50 women survive, that man is
59:31
going to be busy. But that people group will survive because there are 50 available wombs for
59:36
his sperm to connect with an egg to create a one celled zygote, right? And so wombs are more
59:42
important for little children, women, their mothers are way more important. And this woman
59:47
is in this job. Again, most men aren't capable of doing those jobs. Most men shouldn't be Secret
59:54
Service agents or police department officers that are actually out there on the beat.
59:58
If you want to be an officer that is in the office, that is doing managerial stuff or any
1:00:02
type of coordination of logistics, that makes a lot of sense. But to be in an environment where
1:00:07
you're going to have to use your physical body potentially to protect a male that is way bigger
1:00:12
than you and or to use your physical body to stop a threat coming at the person that you're
1:00:17
in charge of protecting, we need no women in those jobs whatsoever. It's ridiculous and farcical.
1:00:23
All right, next one here, a new law in Iraq that would allow grown men to marry nine-year-old
1:00:28
girls. So this is according to Time Magazine on August 9th, an amendment to Iraq's 1959 personal
1:00:33
status law was officially proposed in the Iraqi parliament on August 4th. The draft law could
1:00:38
theoretically make it legal for girls as young as nine years old to get married. The bill was
1:00:43
proposed by Iraqi MP, Rad Al-Maliki, and is supposed and is supported by conservative Shiite
1:00:50
factors within the government. Many civil societies and women's groups have mobilized against the law
1:00:55
protesting on the streets of Baghdad and other cities across the country. So here's my big takeaway
1:00:59
on this one. No, not all worldviews are equal, nor should they all be seen as equally moral and
1:01:05
acceptable. Islam is an abominable, satanic worldview. Okay, if you're wondering, where would these
1:01:14
Muslims even get the idea for allowing such a young child to marry an adult male? If you're
1:01:21
wondering that, it's because you need to look no further than their quote unquote prophet Muhammad.
1:01:28
One of his brides, Aisha, was somewhere between six and nine years old when Muhammad not only married
1:01:37
her, but consummated their marriage, aka he raped a child. Okay, so they look at their main guy,
1:01:44
and they think, well, gosh, I want to do the same thing. If Muhammad could have a child bride,
1:01:52
why can't I have a child bride or a child bride? So save me and spare me all of this well. It's all
1:01:59
about cultural context and it's all about whatever, morality is relative to the time and date and the
1:02:03
place in the world and all that really. Pretty soon there might be nine year old girls that are
1:02:10
married off to fully grown men. Some of you guys have daughters that are in that age range. This
1:02:17
should make you furious as it does me. Our next one here, the UK banning puberty blockers for
1:02:22
gender confused children. I've been wanting to talk about this one for a lot a long time, but this
1:02:26
is according to the BBC from March the 12th. Children will no longer routinely be prescribed
1:02:30
puberty blockers at gender identity clinics in HS England has confirmed. The decision comes after
1:02:35
a review found that there is not enough evidence that they are safe or effective puberty blockers,
1:02:40
which pause the physical changes of puberty, which is actually not true. Thank you, BBC,
1:02:44
will now only be available as part of research. It comes weeks before an independent review into
1:02:48
the gender identity services in England is due to be published. An interim report from the review
1:02:53
published in 2022 by Dr. Hillary Cass had earlier found that there were gaps in evidence around
1:02:58
the drugs and calls for a transformation of the in the model of care for children with gender
1:03:03
related distress. Okay, so in reality, there's no such thing as a puberty blocker. You cannot
1:03:08
block puberty. You can negatively affect the person that is going through puberty biologically and
1:03:14
physically and medically, but you can't stop it. You can't pause it and pick it back up later.
1:03:19
Here's my big takeaway on this one. Unless Jesus comes back in the next few months or the next few
1:03:25
years, historians will look back on this time in history, this time in world history and wonder
1:03:31
aloud how humans could have ever been this barbaric and naive. Again, find me a conservative that
1:03:38
thinks that a child can change their gender and that it would be okay to cut off their healthy sexual
1:03:42
organs or breast tissue or something like that, or to put them on some sort of puberty blocker,
1:03:46
which will essentially make them sterile and affect them for the rest of their lives in a
1:03:50
negative deleterious way. This is a leftist progressive agenda item. And you're already seeing
1:03:56
countries all over Europe, liberal Europe, saying we're not going to do this anymore. Like we bought
1:04:02
the we bought the lie, but now we're going back on it. But Canada and America are going full bore
1:04:09
into this. And there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. And history will judge us super harshly
1:04:14
for this as it should. Next one here, the mastermind of the 911 terrorist attacks being spared the
1:04:19
death penalty. So this is according to the New York Post on July the 31st. The alleged mastermind
1:04:24
of the September 11 terror attacks and two other terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay will be
1:04:28
spared the death penalty under a new deal with prosecutors. It was revealed Wednesday, a spokesperson
1:04:33
for the office of military commissions, which is prosecuting the case, confirmed that it entered
1:04:38
into pretrial agreements with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused principal architect of the Al-Qaeda
1:04:42
attacks, and two alleged co-conspirators, while lead Mohammed Salik Mumbarq Ben-Atash and Mustafa
1:04:48
Ahmed, Adam Al-Har-Sawi, all of whom have been held in the US military prison off the coast of Cuba
1:04:55
since 2003. So my big takeaway on this one is why are any of these men still alive to begin with?
1:05:01
You may have been shocked to learn that KSM was actually still alive. Now I knew that he was still
1:05:07
alive, but 9/11 happened almost 23 years ago. What exactly are we waiting for? And this is
1:05:17
when you have an indication that a country does not have the stones, well, there's two things
1:05:22
you can look at here. The country doesn't have the stones actually stand up for true morality. Again,
1:05:26
you know, if you can kill thousands of our citizens and we don't kill you back, that's problematic.
1:05:31
And then the other side, the more, you know, tin foil hat side is that these men are being kept
1:05:35
alive for a reason. Now some of them, you know, if you're one of those dorks that thinks 9/11
1:05:39
was an inside job and, oh, you know, it was George Bush because he was getting back at the Middle
1:05:43
East because he wanted to invade because they weren't nice to his father and all that. Okay,
1:05:47
you know, show me some receipts that actually prove that any of that's true. But there's not
1:05:52
a whole lot of options as to why these men are being kept alive. So thousands and thousands and
1:05:56
thousands of people who lost family members on 9/11, they hear this that this guy is just going to be
1:06:01
able to live out the rest of his days in Guantanamo Bay, right? And I'm again, he is in prison,
1:06:07
but at the same time, he's not being held under horrible conditions. This is a guy that should
1:06:12
be in a gulag, you know, on the Arctic Circle. And yet he's kind of chilling in a climate that
1:06:17
he actually prefers. And I'm sure he has some amenities that actually make his life not really
1:06:22
that bad. And we're all just okay with that. Why? Because we've moved on from 9/11. We don't
1:06:28
really care anymore. Oh, you know, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan didn't go well blah blah.
1:06:32
And so I guess it's all just kind of a wash. I just don't really understand why people aren't
1:06:35
that fired up about it. All right, next quick hitter here, a woman murdering her newborn baby by
1:06:40
throwing her out of a window because she was afraid that her baby would ruin her career.
1:06:44
This is according to the Daily Mail in July the 5th. A woman has been jailed for seven and a half
1:06:49
years after dropping her newborn baby out of a window because she was worried that the baby would
1:06:52
ruin her career. Katarina Java Novich, 28 from Laffen Amnecker Baden Worm Turbog State,
1:07:01
Germany. Good grief was found guilty of manslaughter at the Hillbron District Court
1:07:07
on Wednesday, July the 3rd. Judges heard how she had given birth at home in secret 10 months ago
1:07:12
on September the 12th and then dropped her baby daughter from her apartment window almost 12
1:07:16
feet on the tarmac onto the tarmac below. Horrified passersby found the minutes old infants body with
1:07:21
a shattered skull underneath Jovana Vich's balcony and called the police. So an absolutely horrible
1:07:28
story. This woman works for Porsche. And she, you know, was like, Oh, this baby is going to ruin my
1:07:34
chances at an even better office and even more pantsuits and designer handbags. And so she's
1:07:39
decided to kill her baby. The fact that she was given seven and a half years, she should have just
1:07:44
come to America. And we would just say, Oh, it's a woman's right to choose. They would have killed
1:07:48
the baby. And then she could have gone back with her conscience clear. Right. But you know, I guess
1:07:51
in Germany, they're like, well, this, this baby was in the world. And you kind of dropped it out of
1:07:55
a window. But you know, maybe you didn't intend to kill this child. You just meant to drop it from
1:08:00
a 12 foot place. And then you weren't going to go out and try to save it. So man slaughter, I guess,
1:08:06
couple of big takeaways here. Number one, this is a direct consequence of feminist ideology.
1:08:11
Because women all over the world have bought into the lie that their value comes from what they can
1:08:18
produce in a business context, not what they can produce in a familial context. They bought the lie.
1:08:28
So if women not getting married, you have women foregoing having children,
1:08:32
waiting until later on their life to try and have children, then they can't have children. Right.
1:08:35
But you have these women that think, I need to compete like the men do. So I need that corner
1:08:41
office. I need that C suite position. I need that next thing. I need to work the more hours.
1:08:46
I need to take the extra trip. I would need to do the extra sale, all those different things.
1:08:50
And what gets in the way of that for most women, a baby. And so that's what this woman did.
1:08:57
She bought the feminist lie and she thought, I've got to get rid of this thing. I want to have
1:09:01
sex. I want to have unprotected sex because that's fun. But I don't want the consequences of that.
1:09:05
And I'm not taking any of the necessary precautions to keep that from happening because I'm irresponsible.
1:09:10
But on the back end, I'm just going to kill the product of that thing that I want to do because I
1:09:15
like it. And then big takeaway number two, this woman should be executed by being thrown out of
1:09:20
a window of a tall building. So let's figure out the math, the size of that baby, you know,
1:09:25
how far of a 12 foot fall that would be. And then let's take this woman, let's put her out
1:09:29
an equal height and let's drop her directly on her head. That would be justice here.
1:09:35
This woman should be executed for this. But we live in a greater society of the world. That
1:09:42
doesn't really take the killing of young children, whether they are located in the womb or outside
1:09:47
the womb. That's seriously. They certainly don't in this case either. Our next quick hitter here,
1:09:52
Major League Baseball in the New York Mets, disgracing themselves by allowing the Hawk to a girl
1:09:56
to throw out the first pitch at a game. Okay, so this is according to the New York Post on August
1:10:01
the 16th. Haley Welch isn't charging them out over her first pitch backlash. Welch, who became
1:10:06
internet famous after an interview in which she said Hawk to to describe a sexual act when viral
1:10:11
throughout the first pitch before the Mets played the athletics at Cityfield on Thursday and not
1:10:14
everyone was happy about it. So at this point, basically, all of you know exactly who this is
1:10:20
referring to. So what this gal did, she was somewhere with a girlfriend and they're doing these kind
1:10:25
of man on the street interviews thing. And this is a long interview. And this guy basically asks
1:10:30
her and she may have been drunk who knows asks her, Hey, how do you keep your man satisfied? And
1:10:36
she says you got to give him that Hawk to and spit on that thing. So what she is describing
1:10:41
is spitting on a man's erect penis that she is about to suck. Okay, that's what she's describing.
1:10:48
So it became an internet phenomenon. You basically could not get away from it.
1:10:53
Like every single algorithm had some sort of a Hawk to an angle for this girl. This girl went
1:10:58
dark for a while. No one can find her figure out who she was. Then she pokes her head above water.
1:11:03
Now she's doing all these interviews. She's getting paid a whole bunch of money. She's
1:11:06
appearing on stage with I was Zach Brian, you know, that was like her first, you know, public
1:11:11
appearance and all that type of thing. And she's, she's famous for being a whore. That's kind of
1:11:19
a hard truth of this, because if you listen to other little snippets from that little interview,
1:11:23
again, you couldn't really get away from it. She was talking about how she had multiple sexual
1:11:28
partners and she always kept, you know, F buddies on the side and different things like that. She
1:11:32
just went viral for the Hawk to a thing because it was so sound by worthy. But my big takeaway here
1:11:37
is that in an attempt to be hip and with it and relevant, Major League Baseball in the New York
1:11:43
Mets took advantage of a horse 15 minutes of fame. I remember when I saw this because I was never
1:11:48
going to talk about this on the show because I was like, this girl just needs to go away.
1:11:51
Like I keep thinking about her father, like her father's out there somewhere being like,
1:11:55
this is what I raised, this complete whore of a person and maybe her father's a complete piece
1:12:00
of crap. Who the heck knows? Maybe we shouldn't feel bad for him. But the New York Mets posted
1:12:05
that she threw out the first pitch. And then Major League Baseball reposted it.
1:12:10
They like accepted the collaboration. So Major League Baseball, one of the four major sports
1:12:17
entities here in the United States of America signed on to this. And again, they don't have
1:12:22
their top level executives watching other social media accounts and things like that.
1:12:27
But they're taking advantage of this young girl for defiling herself, not only in her personal
1:12:31
actions, but for how she's presenting herself in public so that they could get some clicks.
1:12:36
Like really? Like it was just an embarrassing moment because even the fact that the Mets invited
1:12:46
her was problematic, but then posting about it and MLB posting about it. And it really
1:12:50
just talks about the currency of our time. And you see this when you see these video clips of
1:12:55
these young people because now there's girls trying to outdo the hawk to a girl. So they're
1:12:59
going up to these people in wherever they're, they're doing these in New York City or Nashville
1:13:03
or wherever. And they're trying to say something so out landishly whorish that they too might be
1:13:09
able to make money off of that, which is basically prostitution. So you're trying to make money off
1:13:14
of your sexual peak of dillies. And we're all here for it. Like my goodness, Major League Baseball
1:13:21
in New York, the New York Mets should be absolutely ashamed for that. All right, next one here. Second
1:13:25
gentleman, Doug Emhoff, proving that he is indeed a beta male. So about a year ago, I think it was,
1:13:30
he did he does this interview with another beta male from MSNBC. And so we're just going to go
1:13:34
ahead and play the clip here. So let's go ahead and get into it. Can we just talk about masculinity
1:13:40
for a moment? As being second gentleman changed your own view of perceived gender roles or what it
1:13:47
means to be a man. That's this is something I've I've thought about a lot and something I've spoken
1:13:54
about a lot. There's too much of toxicity, it's masculine toxicity out there. And we've kind of
1:14:01
confused what it means to be a man, what it means to be masculine where you've got this trope out
1:14:06
there that you've got to be tough and, you know, angry and lash out to be strong. It's just the
1:14:13
opposite, you know, strength is how you show your love for people strength is how you are for people
1:14:18
and how you have their back and how you you stick up for other other people and pushing up pushing
1:14:25
out against bullies. I mean, that's what I believe it is. So every time I can speak against this
1:14:32
toxicity, we're seeing it with our younger people, we're seeing it in our discourse and our politics.
1:14:38
In the media, you're seeing it as it relates to so many of the issues that we're pushing back on.
1:14:43
So I think it's a problem and I'm going to continue to use this platform every time I get to speak
1:14:50
out against this toxic masculinity that's out there. Okay, so right after you watch a video like that,
1:14:56
there's really nothing more I love, nothing I love more, I guess, than two beta males discussing
1:15:02
what it means to be masculine. It's like so funny, right? That's like two elephants having a discussion
1:15:07
about what it would be like to, you know, swim across an English channel. It's like, well,
1:15:10
what exactly are we doing here? Big takeaway number one, isn't it so interesting that the only men
1:15:17
complaining about toxic masculinity are usually like doughy, pacified dudes or homosexuals. Isn't
1:15:25
that always so interesting? We never hear from like a virile, healthy, jacked, you know, red-blooded
1:15:33
American male, we got a real problem with toxic masculinity in this world. It's always guys like
1:15:38
this. It's always liberal dudes like this. My second takeaway on this is it's a lot harder to
1:15:46
control a populace that has virile, strong, capable men. So people that don't want men like that,
1:15:55
people that want to control society and the levers of power, they have to get rid of the men and
1:16:00
the people like this in our society. So one thing that you can do is you can castigate those people,
1:16:04
you can make them seem crazy, you can make them seem like they're so far beyond the pale and
1:16:08
outside of polite society that they're basically put out of polite society just by everyone else's
1:16:14
seemingly virtuous actions, or you can get rid of them specifically in their ways to do that,
1:16:19
or you can just convince, you know, underheaded young men that they don't want to be like those
1:16:25
rough and tumble men. They want to be more relaxed. They want to be more frumpy. They want to have a
1:16:31
dad bod. They want to be a stay at home dad. They want to do everything they can to support the
1:16:36
women in their life, not protect them, but to support them along their, you know, their road that
1:16:41
they're going down like that's what they need them to do. So it's so amazing. And so obvious that
1:16:48
this is really only happening on the left side of the aisle. And this is exactly what they want
1:16:53
men to be like. And so for all you men out there right now, there are some of you that are a little
1:16:56
bit doughy, a little bit frumpy, a little bit softer around the edges. Is that the type of guy that you
1:17:00
want to be like? Or do you want to be like a guy that's actually mainly that is actually capable?
1:17:05
So I guess you can make that decision. All right, just a couple more here, a few more here.
1:17:09
InterVarsity Press releasing a critical race theory Bible commentary. So it's called the New
1:17:13
Testament in color, a multi ethnic Bible commentary. So here's the description. In a first of its
1:17:19
kind volume, the New Testament in color offers biblical commentary that is multi ethnic, diverse,
1:17:25
contextual, informative, reflective, prophetic, and inspiring. Historically, Bible commentaries
1:17:31
have focused on the particular concerns of a limited segment of the church. They mean white
1:17:35
people, all too often missing fresh questions and perspectives that are fruitful for biblical
1:17:40
interpretation. Listening to scholars from diverse backgrounds, they mean not white people. And
1:17:46
ethnicities, they mean not white people offers us an opportunity to explore the Bible from a wider
1:17:51
angle, a better vantage point. So my big takeaway on this absolute piece of direct is Karl Marx would
1:17:57
be so proud. I mean, my goodness, InterVarsity Press, what in the hell are you doing? So this
1:18:06
plays right into ethnic Gnosticism, where you know, standpoint of epistemology, like, Oh, because of
1:18:11
your level of melanin, you can give a certain level of experience at us white people won't
1:18:15
possibly be able to understand. But what this is, is this is an attack on all of the dutiful theologians
1:18:22
that have carried the scripture from biblical times to us today that have given us theological
1:18:29
commentary and direct commentary to help us understand what the scripture is saying to help us understand
1:18:34
what God is trying to communicate in his word. But they're saying that if any of those people were
1:18:39
white, that they weren't capable of doing that job well, they will even say, well, wasn't the Bible
1:18:46
written down by a bunch of white men completely ignoring the fact that Middle Eastern Jews are not
1:18:52
white people. And here's another thing. What do you mean by white? When you say whiteness is
1:18:58
problematic. Do you mean Germanic? Do you mean Nordic? Do you mean Anglo? Do you mean Saxon? Do you
1:19:03
mean Celtic? Do you mean Latin? Like, do you mean Scandinavian? What exactly do you mean when you say
1:19:09
white? Like, you just kind of put all these people that have lower levels of melanin, you just kind
1:19:14
of mishmash them and put them into this group and call it white. And then you put a big red
1:19:18
X one and say that's bad. Like, you're absolutely full of crap. An intervarsity press is just going
1:19:23
right along with it. They're literally creating something that I expect people to buy. And I'm
1:19:27
sure a lot of leftist non Christians, liberal folks will actually, you know, progressive Christians,
1:19:31
if you can call them that, they will buy this hook line and sinker. They will absolutely get
1:19:35
this and they will give it to other people. And then you're going to have dopey people, these,
1:19:39
these well-meaning pastors, these go along to get along pastors, these I want to be known for what
1:19:42
I'm for now when I'm against pastors, they're going to read this and they're going to be like,
1:19:45
well, I need to understand these people's perspective. Why do they have a unique perspective? Well,
1:19:50
because they don't look like me. It's like you moron. You don't need to know someone's ethnicity
1:19:59
or their race or their gender to know whether or not they're giving you good, biographical
1:20:04
information on somebody from the Bible or overall biblical commentary about something we're seeing
1:20:09
in the scripture. You don't need to know any of those things to get a good exegesis of a particular
1:20:16
text. But this is exactly what the critical race theorists want you to do. They want you to
1:20:24
view things. That's why it's so dangerous that people like JD Greer allowed CRT to creep its way into
1:20:29
the SBC. That's why something like that is so dangerous because if you're like, no, no, no, no,
1:20:34
it's not critical race theory. We're just going to see the Bible through a more multicultural lens.
1:20:40
What does that mean? Prove to me how someone's level of melanin can change their understanding
1:20:47
of the word of God. Please help me understand how African pastors that last I checked are way
1:20:56
darker than I am are against things like this because they can see it for the perverse
1:21:01
satanic nonsense that it is. But here you are, like you got your fancy book deals and your fancy
1:21:07
churches and you go up there and you've got all your stuff and you're all squared away and you're
1:21:11
going to all these conferences. And gosh, you're just so smart and so awesome and you get to be the
1:21:15
hero because not only are you going to support the New Testament in color, you're going to require
1:21:20
it as reading for everybody that's on your staff, all the white people that are on your staff.
1:21:24
And then you're going to look to the people of color on your staff and look to them as if they
1:21:30
can give commentary to this group that nobody else could possibly understand. What is that if not
1:21:36
racism? What is that if it's not racism? To look at a group of people and say, yeah, we don't really
1:21:43
need your opinions anymore. People that have looked like you have given their opinions enough.
1:21:47
But hey, you people over here that don't look like us. How about you teach us dumb white folks?
1:21:52
How to how to think about the Bible, right? My goodness, like guys, it's not going to stop.
1:22:00
Things like this are not just going to stay at university press. They're going to be all over
1:22:04
and still in some ways are all over some of our bigger Christian publishing houses.
1:22:07
All right, next week, we're here a high school in Edmond, Oklahoma. That's my city,
1:22:12
barring a student from flying an American flag on his personal vehicle. So this is
1:22:15
according to the Oklahoma on August the 26th. Controversy sparked last week after Caleb Horst,
1:22:20
a senior at Edmond North, was told that he couldn't fly the American flag on his truck.
1:22:24
I've been flying it for a while, Horst told KOCO. I've never really had problems with it before,
1:22:29
and it's our first amendment. So it's kind of hard for them to infringe upon our rights.
1:22:33
Last week, Edmond Public Schools told the Oklahoma that prohibiting all types of flags on vehicles
1:22:38
is a long-standing practice due to potential disruption. The policy is also implemented
1:22:42
in an effort to provide a safe school environment as flying flags on vehicles creates safety issues
1:22:48
in the parking lot and can cause damage to other vehicles. The district said, "My frickin goodness,
1:22:53
this is about as dumb as that. We couldn't put snipers on that roof because it was sloped at like,
1:22:57
I don't know, like a 10 degree angle." Okay, I've literally never seen a flag do damage to a vehicle.
1:23:03
Never seen it happen. Now, the flag pole might be able to do that if it literally jumps off the car
1:23:07
and goes through the windshield of the car next to it, but we don't see that as being an issue.
1:23:11
But here's my big takeaway on this one. I guarantee you that if this had been a pride flag
1:23:17
on a student's vehicle, that the liberal school district and all the people running the school
1:23:23
wouldn't have said a damn thing about it. Not a thing, not a word, nothing. They may have even
1:23:29
called the news to say, "Look at how brave our young student is for having this pride flag or
1:23:34
their pride progress flag. Isn't this so great that they can just be who they want to be in our
1:23:40
school?" Guys, I get it. Some people try to say, "Look, Edmunds had this for forever. This isn't
1:23:47
really that big a deal. Hold your horses. They don't want one day for it to be a BLM flag and
1:23:53
another day to be a Hamas flag and another day to be a this flag and all that." It's like, "Okay,
1:23:57
I can see the argument for that, but old glory, you're telling me that you can't make an exception
1:24:05
for the flag of the United States of America?" Because if there were one flag that would be
1:24:11
good for kids to have on their vehicle, it would be the American flag. This flag that you trot
1:24:19
out there at your basketball games and your football games and you make a big deal about your ROTC
1:24:23
doing the presentation of the colors, but if a kid wants to fly the flag from their vehicle,
1:24:27
their personal vehicle, that is outside of the school, that's beyond the pale.
1:24:32
So it may not seem like a big deal to you, but it is a big deal because again, I guarantee you,
1:24:37
if this had been a pride flag, the school wouldn't have said anything, they would have celebrated
1:24:40
the student. All right, so we made it all the way here and here's the payoff for you guys that
1:24:44
made it all the way here towards the end of the episode. Last quick hitter and it's Andy Stanley,
1:24:49
still super-duper sucking. So this guy sucks for a myriad of reasons. I've talked about a lot of
1:24:53
them on the show. He has a heretic for the things that he's done and said in the conferences that
1:24:58
he's held, but let's go back to the beginning of the Paris Olympics. We've got the opening
1:25:02
ceremonies. Again, I've already said, everyone's given their commentary on the opening ceremonies.
1:25:06
They were ridiculous, like they were obviously mocking Christianity, mocking Jesus, mocking the
1:25:11
last supper, all these different things, but I mean, France has been pagan for hundreds of years at
1:25:16
this point. I don't know why anyone was shocked, but Andy Stanley sent out this tweet the night of
1:25:23
the Paris opening ceremonies, okay? Dear France, the Normandy American Cemetery is the final resting
1:25:30
place of 9,238 Americans whose graves are marked by 9,238 crosses. American soldiers who in most
1:25:37
cases volunteer to come to your shores in your time of need. Their final prayers were to the God
1:25:43
whose son you mocked in front of the entire world. It was during the very meal you went to such
1:25:50
creative pains to denigrate that Jesus instructed his followers to love one another and then defined
1:25:56
what he meant. Greater love has no one than this that won lay his life down for his friends.
1:26:01
While you host the Olympic Games, remember your nation hosts a 102.5 acre or 172.5 acre reminder
1:26:10
of what love looks like. You don't just owe Christians an apology. You owe the Western apology.
1:26:15
Like I literally just got chills just now rereading that tweet. What an amazing tweet.
1:26:24
An absolute one, two punch knockout KO perfect response to what we saw. I mean, it was pristine.
1:26:34
There was not an ounce of fat on that tweet. It was absolutely amazing. And I'm sitting here,
1:26:39
like dad, gummy, Andy, you had to say something positive. You had to do something right. So now
1:26:45
I'm going to have to say good things about you on my show. But then he deleted the tweet.
1:26:55
Within about 24 hours, he deleted the tweet because apparently he got some feedback that
1:27:04
it was a little bit mean, it was a little pointed. It was a little incendiary. You know, what are
1:27:10
people going to think? They're not going to think you're very open minded or welcoming of other
1:27:16
viewpoints or artistic expression. So my big takeaway here, it's apparently Andy Stanley is just planning
1:27:24
to be a yellow belly coward for the rest of his life. We already know he's a wolf in sheep's clothing.
1:27:29
And I've said this before, and I will say it again, we should pray that he repents
1:27:35
of all of his ways, all of his cowardice and all the things he's doing to try to make Christianity
1:27:41
more progressive by ignoring sin. And if he doesn't do that, we should pray that he loses his entire
1:27:48
ministry. The entire thing that it all comes crashing down right on his head, and he can just go
1:27:54
retire with all his millions of dollars and just no longer have any influence whatsoever on Christ's
1:28:00
church. We should all be praying for that. All right, guys, thanks for sticking around with us
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