0:00
You focus on your physical and mental health, but when's the last time you checked in on
0:04
your financial health?
0:06
Many Americans feel financially anxious, yet many are doing better than they think.
0:10
At Fairwind's Credit Union, we give you a clear snapshot of your finances and a plan
0:15
to move forward with confidence.
0:17
With high-yield savings and free checking, we help your money work harder.
0:21
Visit fairwinds.org for more information, federally insured by NCUA.
0:28
The new LinkedIn Hiring Pro can't undo your last hire, the Lone Wolf.
0:32
Who you thought was a good collaborator because you didn't have the right candidate
0:35
insights.
0:36
But once you hired them, it was all hoarding info, declining meetings, and howling at
0:40
the full moon?
0:43
But LinkedIn Hiring Pro can go deeper than just the resume to find you a perfect fit.
0:47
By using insights from the LinkedIn Network to give you a short list of best fit candidates,
0:52
hire right the first time with LinkedIn Hiring Pro.
0:55
And post a free job today at linkedin.com/quality.
1:18
This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.
1:22
I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
1:24
Let's get into it.
1:30
He has risen.
1:31
He is not here.
1:32
See the place where they laid him.
1:33
Guys, that is Mark 166.
1:34
I'm so happy to be with you today.
1:36
I will tell you right from the beginning.
1:37
Roman the Giant, my favorite, best friend on the entire planet.
1:40
My dog is right here at my feet, and he's been having a lot of dreams here recently,
1:44
and so he's been snoring, and then he's been like barking in his dream.
1:46
So if that happens, you hear that in the background.
1:48
Don't be alarmed.
1:49
That is my dog right here at my feet.
1:50
And I just wanted to extend a quick thank you to all of our donors, guys.
1:53
We can't pull off anything that we do without donors, just like you.
1:55
So thank you.
1:56
Thank you.
1:57
Thank you.
1:58
And also haven't given you this reminder in a while, but leave a review.
1:59
If you have not left us a five star review on people, either Apple podcasts or Spotify,
2:04
that does help with the algorithm and our rankings and things like that.
2:07
So if you want to see our show, keep showing up in the rankings.
2:09
If you want to help us get out to a wider audience, that is the way to do it.
2:12
And also here recently back on May 17th, I did my defeating pro abortion arguments talk
2:17
at Church of 1122 down to the Sandbob Pablo campus there in Jacksonville, Florida.
2:21
And I just wanted to give a quick shout out to all the people that came to that.
2:24
We were so happy with the crowd that came.
2:26
A lot of fans of the show came out and checked out what we were doing there.
2:30
I'm so thankful to the Church of 1122 staff and to Joby for his leadership and for bringing
2:34
me out.
2:35
And the thing about it is, yeah, you know, I speak for an hour and 20 minutes, an hour
2:37
and 30 minutes.
2:38
I talk about the abortion subject and I take the top 18 pro abortion arguments and show
2:42
you how to systematically defeat them.
2:44
And there's a lot of information, you know, it can be kind of dramatic and I guess emotional
2:49
at times, but I was going back to my room that night.
2:52
So I had a late night when I went out with the guys from Project Savior Outdoors, Mike
2:55
Dragotch and his crew and had a great time, ate a bunch of chicken wings and was going
2:59
back to the room.
3:00
And I'm going through my DMs on Instagram as I'm walking back to the hotel room.
3:03
I'm going to kind of sneak in because my wife was in there already asleep.
3:06
And I got this DM and I'm not going to say who it's from, but it was from a lady that
3:10
was at the talk.
3:11
So I want to just read this to you here to kind of give you an idea of the impact and
3:15
what God was doing in that moment.
3:17
You spoke tonight at 11 22, I wanted to raise my hand at the end.
3:21
So real quick, I did a an altar call.
3:24
I wanted to say, Hey, if you've been covered up in shame, because of abortion or things
3:27
like that, like just know that that is not what God has for you.
3:30
What he has for you is a complete clean slate.
3:33
All you have to do is you got to repent and put your faith in him.
3:36
So I'll go back to the message here.
3:37
You spoke tonight at 11 22, I wanted to raise my hand at the end, but didn't in fear, I'd
3:42
be judged by the people I was sitting with and near.
3:45
But I wanted you to know you were right.
3:47
I've been carrying the shame for a very long time.
3:50
Since I was 17, I'm 49 now.
3:54
As my husband and I were leaving tonight, I told him, honey, I can feel it in my bones.
3:58
The Lord is about to set me free.
4:00
I know he is going to use all of my pain to help other women and girls make different
4:04
choices and more importantly, to help girls get an education so they can have options so
4:08
they'll never be forced into a decision like I was.
4:11
Thank you for doing what you do and I'm sorry, I didn't have the nerve in the moment to raise
4:15
my hand, but I will raise my voice.
4:18
And so guys, anyone listening to this, we certainly want more opportunities to go to
4:23
different churches and to do that talk because a lot of people are like, hey, can I get a
4:27
copy of that talk?
4:28
We're not going to be uploading it to our YouTube page or anything like that because
4:30
we want to be able to deliver this live.
4:32
We want to be able to help women just like the woman here.
4:34
We want to be able to help men that have been covered up by the shame of the abortion
4:38
that they allowed or that they influenced or something like that, but could not have been
4:42
more excited with how the talk went again.
4:44
So, so very thankful to Emily into the rest of the crew there at church of 1122 for giving
4:50
us the opportunity to do that.
4:52
So today in the quick hitter section, we were going to be covering a lot of stuff.
4:55
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Bucker going viral for saying completely normal things.
5:00
Presidential candidate, RFK juniors, absolutely reprehensible stance on abortion, Pope Francis
5:05
saying the heart of man is good, Germany significantly softening its laws, punishing child porn
5:11
and humanity witnessing perhaps the greatest reunion of all time.
5:16
So if you want to know which one that is, you got to stick with us here towards the end.
5:20
But we're going to be talking about Jordan Peterson again.
5:22
And I know as I've said and as I still maintain, we can't be too obsessed with individual people
5:26
and whether or not they're going to accept Christ or become Christians.
5:29
I talk about Jordan Peterson talk about people like maybe Joe Rogan or Jocko Willink or things
5:33
like that.
5:34
But there's some interesting things going on with someone like Jordan Peterson.
5:38
And I know a lot of you listening to this are huge fans of him.
5:40
So if you go back to episode 590 of this show, it was called Jordan Peterson wrestles with
5:45
the resurrection.
5:46
I talked about the experience of going to see him speak live again in Tulsa and speaking
5:49
with him in the green room afterwards and some of the things that he's reckoning with.
5:53
I would suggest you go back to listen to episode 590.
5:55
But today we're going to be talking about really and truly a shocking admission that
6:00
Jordan Peterson recently made concerning Jesus and the resurrection.
6:04
So in episode 451 of his podcast, I'll put it in the show notes so you can watch the
6:09
YouTube link and then you can get it wherever you get your podcast.
6:11
But it's called navigating belief, skepticism and the afterlife.
6:15
This is a discussion that he had with a guy named Alex O'Connor.
6:19
So he goes by cosmic skeptic on YouTube.
6:22
Now here's the thing.
6:23
I was listening to this episode.
6:24
I was by myself at the house on Saturday and you know, sometimes as I've told you before,
6:27
a way that you can get more content in is if you think an episode of a podcast is going
6:31
to kind of be a turd of an episode, except for mine, we never do turd episodes here on
6:35
on Don't the Life of a Man's podcast.
6:37
But when I read the description and kind of heard, you know, his intro at the beginning,
6:40
I was like, I don't really think this is going to be for me, but I just started listening
6:43
to it anyway.
6:44
I was just kind of folding some of the boys laundry or whatever.
6:47
I almost skipped it, but I'm so, so unbelievably, believably glad that it didn't skip it because
6:51
it's probably my favorite podcast I've listened to so far this year on on any feed.
6:56
So Alex O'Connor, he launched the Within Reason podcast back in 2023.
7:02
And he's really blown up right there from the beginning.
7:04
He said guests like Richard Dawkins and Slavojizic and Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sam Harris.
7:08
And he's also been in some debates where he was debating religion and politics and ethics
7:13
and he's done debates with Ben Shapiro, Douglas Murray, Michael Knowles, Pierce Morgan and
7:18
some others.
7:19
And so this guy's really been around.
7:20
He's a young guy, but his style is very, very interesting because you can tell he's a skeptic.
7:26
I think he's, I think he says he's an atheist.
7:28
He's either atheist or agnostic or somewhere in between.
7:31
He's a very, very smart guy and he's got a British accent.
7:33
So you know, you just kind of automatically adds like 20 points of your IQ.
7:36
I guess that's how that works.
7:38
But Jordan Peterson can be a different, a difficult person to have a discussion with because
7:42
when Jordan has an idea, he will just immediately start talking.
7:45
He interrupts people constantly.
7:47
What people typically do is they will just stop talking in the middle of their point to
7:50
allow Jordan Peterson to say what he wants to say.
7:53
So in a very non-intrusive, non-rude way, O'Connor didn't really allow for as much of
7:58
that in this discussion.
8:00
So that was unique.
8:01
But he was able to push back on Jordan Peterson in a very, in a way that it seemed like he
8:07
wasn't trying to get Jordan Peterson like to catch him in a quote, but that he was legitimately
8:11
curious and he wanted to push Jordan in a way that maybe he wasn't going to be pushed.
8:15
And so seeing that from such a young guy, from a guy that doesn't have nearly the public
8:20
profiles, Jordan Peterson, I found that to be very, very refreshing and very interesting.
8:25
But during this interview, there were several mind-blowing quotes from Jordan Peterson.
8:30
And so again, I'm going to link to the entire YouTube video and the show notes for you.
8:33
I think it is well worth your time or you can go watch it, you know, wherever you watch
8:37
your podcast or listen to your podcast, rather Apple podcast, Spotify, Google, whatever.
8:42
You need to go listen to it.
8:43
So there's four quotes that I want to show you or have have you listened to right now.
8:47
And again, every single one of these are fairly shocking, but let's go ahead and go into the
8:52
first quote here.
8:53
And I'll try to remember to give you the timestamps.
8:55
So as you're watching it or listening to it, that you can, you know, be looking for that
8:58
or be anticipating that.
9:00
So this first clip starts around the 2451 marks of 24 minutes and 51 seconds in.
9:06
Here's the first quote here.
9:07
The thing about the resurrection accounts is that they're all, look, so I could say something
9:13
like this, which will just annoy people, but it doesn't matter.
9:18
I believe the accounts, but I have no idea what they mean when you say you believe the
9:22
accounts.
9:23
Do you mean, and I hate to be sort of pedantic here, it seems pedantic, but do you mean
9:27
you believe that these are things that happened such that if I, if now, I know you don't like
9:33
that.
9:34
Let me put it this way.
9:35
If I went back in time with a Panasonic video camera and put that camera in front of
9:42
the tomb of Joseph of Aramethea, would the little LCD screen show a man walk out of that
9:49
tomb?
9:50
I would suspect yes.
9:53
So that, that is, that to me seems like a belief in the historical event of the resurrection
9:58
or at least of Jesus leaving the tomb, which means that when somebody says, you know, do
10:01
you believe that Jesus rose from the dead, it doesn't seem clear to me why I'm not able
10:05
to just say it would seem to me yes.
10:09
Because I have no idea what that means and neither did the people who saw it.
10:13
So just an astonishing admission there from Jordan Peterson, he was able to finally just
10:20
say, yes, I believe in the resurrection.
10:24
Now notice what he didn't say he didn't say, and so I put my faith in Christ for the propitiation
10:28
of my sin dead.
10:29
He didn't say that, but he believes that the resurrection actually happened.
10:33
And again, this kid, this O'Connor kid that I had never heard of until this particular interview,
10:39
he's able to flow with Jordan Peterson, because Jordan Peterson is very sensitive to certain
10:43
argumentation and certain questioning strategies, and he's been trying to be caught in a lot
10:47
of these interviews.
10:48
And so he's able to just kind of like very slyly say like, okay, look, let me give you
10:51
a scenario.
10:52
You know, if there was a camera back then, you know, what would the, what would the monitor
10:55
show you?
10:57
And he puts them to that, but then Jordan Peterson maintains, but I don't know what that means.
11:03
So, so Jesus literally rose from the dead, but I don't know what that means and neither
11:06
did the people that saw it.
11:08
So you can tell that he's, he's so deep into this process of reckoning with what happened
11:12
during the resurrection and what that means, not only for humanity, but for himself.
11:17
But this is the first time, and again, I've listened to just about everything Jordan Peterson
11:21
has said publicly since 2016 or thereabouts, this is the first time that he has said unequivocally
11:28
that he thinks that the resurrection actually happened.
11:31
It's absolutely stunning.
11:32
So that's clip number one, let's go to clip number two.
11:35
So this one is quite a bit further into the interview.
11:37
This is an hour, 35 minutes and about one second in.
11:39
So just an hour and 35 minutes in, let's go that clip here as somebody who, who doesn't
11:44
believe that those things did happen, I still have access to the, to the meaning of the story
11:50
of something like a resurrection.
11:51
Well, let's assume just for this, but I'm not a Christian.
11:54
It's not enough for me to say, well, you know, do I believe that, you know, self sacrifices
11:59
at the basis of, of, of a meaningful life, or maybe, but that's not enough to make me
12:03
a Christian because I don't believe it's the case.
12:05
I'm also, I'm, I'm quite interested actually how, I mean, you're obviously quite attracted
12:09
to, to Christianity and the Christian story.
12:11
I mean, Jesus on your, on your jacket, but so here's him doubling down, you know, the
12:16
guys like, yeah, you're rather attracted to Christianity in the Christian story.
12:20
Jordan says, cause I think it's true.
12:23
Now this is very, very important for those of you that, you know, listen to a lot of
12:26
Peterson or a lot of Peterson, you're, you're going to really understand why this is such
12:30
a big deal.
12:31
But for those of you that don't, whenever he is asked, do you believe in God?
12:34
He doesn't like the question.
12:35
He basically skates around the question because he's like, you know, that, that's so much
12:38
deeper than what people mean.
12:40
He's like, I think you're asking me because you want me to be on your team, but especially
12:43
whenever he's discussing the word true, and someone says, Hey, is the resurrection true?
12:47
Is Christianity true?
12:48
Sometimes they'll get into this long drawn out, somewhat circuitous conversation about
12:55
the nature of truth and what truth means for the individual versus society at large.
12:59
And, you know, our, our translation to the greater story of humanity or something like
13:03
that.
13:04
It's easy to get lost.
13:05
But in the middle of this guy setting up as question, Jordan Peterson goes, yeah, well,
13:09
I think it's true.
13:11
I think it's true.
13:13
He thinks the story of Christianity that a creator God sent his son to this earth to
13:19
die in the place of, of sinners.
13:23
He thinks it's true.
13:25
Now we'll talk in the end about what this means for him personally, but that's another
13:28
stunning admission, something that he's never said publicly to my knowledge.
13:33
So let's go ahead and go into the third clip here.
13:34
The third clip is around one hour, 43 minutes and 48 seconds.
13:38
So one hour, 43 minutes and 48 seconds.
13:40
Let's go to the clip here.
13:41
It's the same question in some sense as the reality of the resurrection of Christ.
13:46
So the Christian interpretation is Christ defeats death and hell.
13:51
Okay, well, the logical objection to that is, well, where's the evidence for the defeat
13:57
since death still exists and so does malevolence.
14:01
Well, the Christians then will escape, so to speak, into something like a symbolic interpretation
14:07
and say, well, it's true in eternity.
14:10
And I think fair enough, like I do believe, I do believe that the idea that Christ defeated
14:16
death and hell is true, but I don't know what that means.
14:21
He doubles down or triples down.
14:23
He says, I do believe and then even more fervently says, I do believe that Christ defeated death
14:28
and hell, but I don't know what that means.
14:32
So let's focus on the first part.
14:33
He believes it and you can tell like Jordan Peterson shouldn't ever give off this impression
14:38
that he's, he doesn't really believe what he believes.
14:41
He can be very, very black and white, but he's also very open about where the gray is
14:45
and the gray for him is, but I don't know what that means.
14:48
And I get the sense, if I were to guess, he doesn't know what that means for him and
14:51
his life because he's been surrounded by a lot of Christians.
14:55
He's been delving into the texts of Christianity into the word of God, maybe more so than just
15:01
about any living person over the last several years, so he could prepare himself to, to
15:06
do his, his Exodus seminar and to do his upcoming seminar with the daily wire on the
15:10
Gospels and to also write his newest book, we who wrestle with God, but I don't think
15:15
he's quite reckoned with what that means for Jordan B. Peterson.
15:20
So we'll talk about that a little bit more here in a second.
15:22
So let's go to the last clip that I want to show you.
15:24
This is an hour, 47 minutes and 25 seconds in.
15:27
So 147, 25, I think it's a 24 it's 147, 25, we'll go to that and then we'll wrap up our
15:33
commentary there.
15:34
Well, I can only tell you what has been the pattern of my investigations.
15:41
It's like the more deeply I, this is knocking and asking the more deep, the more I see the
15:49
more is present.
15:53
So guys, immediately after I heard this and again, this is almost two hours into this
15:57
point.
15:58
So I'm like sucked completely into this interview.
16:00
I immediately thought of Matthew seven, seven and eight.
16:03
So this is Jesus during the Sermon on the mountain.
16:05
He says, asking it will be given to you, seek and you will find knocking it will be open
16:09
to you for everyone who asks receives and the one who seeks finds and the one who knocks,
16:15
it will be opened.
16:16
And so again, there's different quotes that will get bandied about and thrown around.
16:20
And I it's even shared in some of our group text messages with even within the forging
16:24
table.
16:25
And it's like, we're all like, man, he's so close.
16:26
He's so close.
16:27
He's literally circling the drain of his own personal faith.
16:31
But for all intents and purposes, I do not think it would be right or correct to say
16:36
that Jordan Peterson himself is a Christian.
16:39
Because this interview is so stunning, because he's finally admitting, because it implicitly
16:45
is admitting that Jesus was a real person.
16:47
Because you can't admit that he was a real person from history.
16:51
And like you can't say that that didn't happen, but yeah, he probably walked out of the grave.
16:55
Yeah, you can't say that.
16:56
So he's admitting Jesus was a real person from history.
16:59
He's admitting that he believes that he did a public ministry in the Middle East roughly
17:03
2000 years ago.
17:05
He's admitting that he died via crucifixion on a Roman cross and was put into the tomb
17:09
of Joseph, Joseph of Arimathea.
17:12
And he's admitting that he believes that three days later that he rose from the dead
17:15
and walked down the grave.
17:17
He's admitting all that.
17:19
He's admitting that the core tenants, really the cornerstone of the Christian faith, which
17:24
is the resurrection of Jesus, which provides us the ability to have our sin debt consumed
17:29
so that we could be in the presence of a holy and just God, right?
17:33
That our total depravity can be spoken for and that our sin debt can be paid for in full.
17:40
He believes that.
17:41
He believes that Jesus in his death defeated sin and death, the grave and hell.
17:48
He believes all of that, but the last step for him is believing that that somehow counted
17:55
for him, that it didn't just count for eternity.
18:00
It didn't just count for humanity, but that accounted for Jordan B. Peterson, that that
18:05
reality is not just worth knowing, but it's worth repenting and dedicating your entire
18:11
life to that proposition to saying that I'm going to lay down my life in servitude of
18:19
the reality that Jesus laid his life down for me.
18:24
And so I think this is all very, very interesting.
18:27
I am very excited for the gospel's seminar that will be released.
18:31
It's so interesting because of me talking to him about the resurrection, you know, after
18:35
his show in Tulsa and hearing him kind of deal with it, but then leave it open ended.
18:41
I get the sense that he's going to leave it a little bit open ended on the daily wire
18:44
side on the thing that he's doing with the gospels, but technically his book is not done.
18:49
We wrestle with God, which comes out in November when I was talking to him, he's still writing
18:53
the introduction.
18:54
So the entire rest of the book is finished, but what a lot of people will do is they'll
18:56
write the entire book before they write the introduction so that they can, you know, set
19:00
up the entire book and all of the, you know, through points that they're going to be doing.
19:04
I'm very interested to see what he comes to, what kind of a revelation he comes to as he's
19:08
writing the introduction, but for all of us, and again, I say this all the time, we shouldn't
19:13
put an over in abundance of faith or justification on what happens to one man.
19:19
Although it is going to be exciting.
19:20
I think that we should pray for Jordan Peterson, we should pray that he will repent and put
19:24
his faith in Christ.
19:25
And we should also, as I always like to remind you, pray for our neighbors in the same way.
19:30
Pray for people in our church that we know are just going to church so that they can
19:33
have, you know, the Christian box checked, but they've never put their faith in Christ.
19:38
But man, I got to tell you guys again, just giving you another commercial for that particular
19:41
episode.
19:42
It is in the show notes.
19:43
You've got to watch the entire thing.
19:44
I thought it was an absolutely masterful discussion and again, just the revelations that we got
19:49
from Jordan Peterson were absolutely incredible.
19:52
Hey, guys, real quick.
19:54
Here recently, one of my family members was telling me about how they partnered with another
19:57
family and they bought some beef from this local cattle producer.
20:00
And when they got the beef, it was unbelievably terrible.
20:04
And I can tell you this from experience because they made me some beef ribs from that animal
20:08
and they were terrible.
20:09
And they even gave me some stakes and some ground and it was basically inedible.
20:12
Like I couldn't believe how bad it was.
20:15
And they ended up finding out that the person killed an old bull or something like that.
20:19
And just the meat was old and tough and awful.
20:21
And that's just what happens when you don't have a quality cattle operation that you can
20:25
trust to give you a quality beef product on the back end.
20:28
And that's guys why I want to introduce you to the official beef delivery partner of Undaunted
20:33
Life, my friends at Primal Beef.
20:35
The Primal Beef is a cattle operation owned and operated by Sean Glass.
20:39
He's a retired Navy SEAL that has partnered with Jocko Willing to launch Primal Beef.
20:43
So what makes Primal Beef different from some of these other cattle operations where you
20:46
can end up getting bad beef?
20:48
This operation is all American black Angus cattle.
20:51
The beef comes from one farm and that's in Virginia Shenandoah Valley.
20:55
The beef is all natural, no hormones ever, no mRNA ever, no vaccines ever.
21:00
And after slaughter, this is a big deal.
21:01
The beef is dry aged and then it's hand-cut by artisan butchers and then flash frozen
21:05
to ensure that it maintains tenderness, marbling and flavor.
21:08
And here's another great thing about it.
21:09
For every box sold, Primal Beef donates meat directly to a member of America's Special
21:14
Operations Forces through the C4 Foundation.
21:17
So you can take pride knowing that your purchase will help to put literal food on the table
21:21
for America's finest warriors.
21:23
If you're not salivating yet, it's probably because you're a communist.
21:26
Don't be a communist, try Primal Beef out today by going to www.primalbeef.com.
21:31
That's PrimalBeef.com.
21:33
Use the promo code Kyle, that's my first name, to get 10% off of your order.
21:37
The great thing about that promo code is you can stack that on other deals as well and
21:40
get all this money off.
21:41
Again, that's PrimalBeef.com, promo code Kyle, that's K-Y-L-E, to get 10% off your order.
21:47
All right, guys, let's hit the first quick hitter here and this has just been everywhere.
21:50
I feel like I'm like way late to the party but everyone is still talking about this but
21:55
this Kansas City Chiefs kicker, Harrison Buck, are going viral for saying completely normal
21:58
things.
21:59
Now, before I get to the comments, I do just want to do a quick rant about kickers and
22:02
football.
22:03
I think that kicker should be banned, okay?
22:06
I don't think, I know it's called football and so it doesn't make any sense to get rid
22:10
of the foot and ball portion but literally, just think about this, guys.
22:15
Would you care if kicking just went away in football?
22:18
If we got away, you know, went away from kickoffs, P-A-T's and punts, like how would that make
22:24
the game worse?
22:25
Because this is what I would suggest, okay, you started at 25, there is no kick off, okay?
22:29
There's no punter turns.
22:30
Oh, no, I'm fourth down, you just got to go for it.
22:32
So if it's fourth and one or fourth and, you know, fourth and 40, you got to go for it,
22:37
okay?
22:38
If you score a touchdown, congratulations, here's your six points but you got to go for
22:40
two, okay?
22:42
If we got rid of kickers, I think that that improves football, it's going to have much
22:45
more interesting things in terms of strategy, so I don't even think there should be kickers,
22:49
but there are kickers.
22:50
I don't think I'm going to get my wish but I want to give you guys the opportunity to
22:54
listen to everything that Harrison Bucker said, because what I was going to do was going to
22:58
break down his speech and I was going to do that but then the Jordan Peterson interview
23:01
came out so I kind of moved this around a little bit, but most people have not listened
23:05
to the entire speech.
23:06
The speech is like 21, 22 minutes long, so that is in the show notes.
23:09
Go watch the entire speech for yourself because you might be just getting these little clips
23:12
here and there, but even these little clips aren't making the point that a lot of leftists
23:16
want to make, but in the speech, he is doing this speech out of college.
23:22
It's a Catholic college that he was invited to come speak at as a Catholic, but in the
23:27
speech, he calls out co-president Joe Biden for claiming to be Catholic, but also being
23:32
a big supporter of abortion.
23:33
He criticizes pride month, he criticizes the COVID lockdowns, he criticizes gender ideology
23:38
that is being pushed on children, and so he's basically taking shots at everything and a
23:43
lot of people are like, "Well, wait a minute, isn't this a graduation speech, aren't you
23:45
just trying to lift people up?"
23:46
Well, he's also trying to make these kids aware like you're about to go into the real
23:49
world, there's a lot of things you need to be worried about, and your faith needs to
23:53
be very, very central and important to you.
23:55
But seemingly the biggest sin of all from the comments that Harrison Bucker made at this
23:59
speech or during the speech is that he had the temerity to suggest that women, that these
24:06
young women that are going to be walking across the stage to get their diploma, that while
24:10
they're sitting there thinking about their career moves and all the things that they're
24:14
going to accomplish during their career, that they will look back on their life and they
24:16
will think to themselves as great as all that was, the greatest thing that I did was to create
24:21
a home, was to be a servant to my children and to my husband, to be a homemaker, to which
24:29
I would say, "Oh, the horror, right?
24:31
Like, how could he say something so crazy?"
24:34
Well, that's at least the reaction we got from everywhere.
24:36
I mean, for a while there, I was wondering if the algorithm just got stuck, because as
24:40
I'm scrolling Instagram and scrolling Twitter, every second or third post is about a kicker
24:45
from the Kansas City Chiefs saying completely normal things out loud, saying Catholic sounding
24:50
things while at a Catholic commencement service at a Catholic college, right?
24:55
The reaction was just basically apoplexy, but there's some very interesting things to
24:59
point out, which I know at this point, guys, I'm probably not going to say anything that
25:02
you haven't heard because everyone and their dog has given their opinion about this, but
25:06
I'll try when I get to the big takeaway to be at least somewhat unique.
25:09
But Harrison Bucker's jersey immediately, like same day, shot to the number one best-selling
25:13
jersey in the NFL, which is hilarious, I think it's the first time a kicker has ever had
25:16
the best-selling jersey, but the most delicious part about it is that includes also all the
25:21
women's sizes.
25:22
So they actually sold out of all the women's jerseys.
25:26
The Harrison Bucker women's jerseys, they had to go back and make probably thousands and
25:30
thousands more, which I think is extra delicious.
25:33
But also he got a standing ovation after his speech, again, this horrible right wing, the
25:37
terrible speech, he got a standing ovation after it.
25:40
Also, all of the lines that have been clipped and passed around the internet, the lines
25:45
that he said that caused the most apoplexy to for the left, they were actually applause
25:50
lines during the actual speech.
25:52
Like the part where he talks about women loving the role of being a homemaker and how amazing
25:58
his wife has been to him, that got the biggest, most robust applause until the very end when
26:02
he got a standing ovation.
26:04
I find that to be very interesting.
26:06
Also, essentially every single one of his teammates that has spoken publicly about this
26:10
since this has happened has supported him.
26:12
That includes his quarterback, Patrick Mahomes.
26:15
That includes Travis Kelsey, sorta, we'll talk more about him in a second.
26:18
And also Chris Jones and also their head coach, Andy Reed.
26:21
And some of the ownership as well have been like, yeah, this is a nothing burger, like
26:24
let's all move on.
26:26
But then we also had the Kansas City official Twitter account.
26:29
I think this is a city of Kansas City.
26:31
They actually docked Butler and kind of said where he lived.
26:34
And they said they did it on accident, which of course they didn't do it on accident.
26:38
But then you have the NFL.
26:40
They release a statement about this saying that his views are not those of the NFL as
26:44
an organization, which is so ridiculous.
26:48
Do they honestly feel the need to express every single time an NFL player says something
26:53
that are not the opinions of the organization?
26:55
But here's the other thing, the NFL is an organization made up of people.
26:59
How can you maintain that you have an opinion as an organization that's filled up with disparate
27:04
people with differing viewpoints and backgrounds?
27:06
That seems kind of funny.
27:07
And the last little thing here is change.org.
27:10
There's a petition on there now.
27:11
And I just looked at it.
27:12
They're close to a quarter of a million signatures that are demanding that Harrison
27:16
Butker be fired, which is so hilarious.
27:20
But there's been a lot of comparison here by people on the left to the Harrison Butker
27:24
situation and Colin Kaepernick, okay?
27:27
So obviously, Colin Kaepernick starts kneeling, you know, his career is basically ended and
27:32
he keeps pretending like he wants to come back while on one hand, he's saying like being
27:35
in the NFL is like being a slave, but on the other hand, please, please, please give me
27:38
a job.
27:39
He pretends that he wanted to do like this tryout years ago, but then he like didn't do
27:43
the tryout at the last minute and he wanted to do it at his own field.
27:45
So the guy's absolutely full of crap.
27:47
But let's talk about the differences and this is actually very easy for us to surmise.
27:50
The differences between Harrison Butker and Colin Kaepernick.
27:54
It's first of all, the on field part of this versus the off field part of this.
27:59
So Harrison Butker did this speech off the field and not during the season, even if he
28:06
had done this during the season, he did not do this in his capacity as the kicker for the
28:10
Kansas City Chiefs.
28:12
So he's in the off season, he's asked to deliver a speech and he does so Colin Kaepernick very
28:17
specifically decided, okay, I feel like my career might be coming to an end.
28:21
I need to kind of get myself back in the headline.
28:23
So I'm going to kneel during the national anthem on the field just before a game while in uniform.
28:30
So these are not even close to being the same thing because this is an off field thing versus
28:34
an on field thing.
28:35
But let's also talk about the on on field thing.
28:38
Let's talk about the performance of these two individuals because people will be like,
28:41
Colin Kaepernick was one of the best quarterbacks ever.
28:43
Why doesn't he get this job?
28:45
Why can't he at least get a second string job, a backup job or even a practice squad
28:48
job?
28:49
Well, I'm pretty sure that Colin Kaepernick in his last like 13 games, he was like one
28:53
in 12.
28:55
The 49ers were like one in 12 in those games.
28:58
Like I think it was gabbard that came in and got the starting job over Colin Kaepernick.
29:02
So his on field performance was so bad that he lost his starting job, they need his sides
29:08
to do something that was going to be so unbelievably distracting to what they were needing to accomplish
29:14
on the field that actually had to do with the game of football that no team was willing
29:18
to take the risk.
29:20
So that's a f around and find out problem Colin Kaepernick because it's not like that
29:25
you gave anybody the warm fuzzies that you were going to be able to perform on the field.
29:29
You're very athletic, but you had problems reading defenses, which is kind of what you
29:32
need to do as an NFL quarterback.
29:34
And then you do something that is so self serving and in so one sided in terms of who's going
29:40
to be able to support you that there wasn't a franchise that was willing to take on the
29:43
headache.
29:44
By contrast, Harrison Bucker is one of if not the best field goal kickers currently in
29:49
the NFL.
29:50
Go back to this year's Super Bowl against the 49ers, not Colin Kaepernick's 49ers, but
29:54
against the Christian McCaffrey 49ers, Harrison Bucker was four for four with field goals.
30:01
One of those field goals was a 57 yarder, which set a record for the Super Bowl.
30:04
This is one of those weird Super Bowls where you kind of felt like it was going to come
30:07
down to the kickers a little bit.
30:09
And also he hit a field goal as time was expiring in regulation to send it to overtime where
30:14
the Kansas City Chiefs went on to actually win an overtime and when they're, what was
30:18
that?
30:19
Patrick Holmes, third Super Bowl.
30:20
This is Harrison Buckers, third Super Bowl that he's won.
30:23
So you have a guy that is one of the best kickers in the game, right?
30:27
Make go down as one of the best kickers ever versus a guy that was so bad towards the end
30:31
of his career that he couldn't even start for a team that sucked.
30:34
So it's not even comparable, but I've got a couple of big takeaways here.
30:39
So let's go to the first one.
30:41
It's apparently okay if our greatest athletes are deadbeat dads and criminals, but it is
30:47
completely unacceptable, apparently, for one of those athletes to be a vocally Christian
30:51
and conservative man because that's what we're seeing here.
30:56
All he did was get up at a commencement speech and deliver Catholic talking points apparently
31:02
from his actual Catholic beliefs to a Catholic crowd at a Catholic college that this shouldn't
31:08
even have made the news.
31:09
No one should have ever seen a clip of this.
31:11
There should only have been a few hundred people that ever even knew that this speech
31:14
took place and it would have been the people that were actually there for, but it was blown
31:18
up and created to be this entire big thing.
31:21
But the NFL had to give their opinion on that, but they certainly don't give their opinions
31:24
on all the deadbeat dads and criminals that are in their midst in the NFL.
31:28
I think another thing to think about here is let's talk about, you know, the fatherlessness
31:32
epidemic that we see.
31:34
Let's talk about Tyrekeel.
31:35
That's the greatest wide receiver in the game right now, absolutely a studly person on the
31:39
field, but he, during his stretch, I think it was last year, he fathered, right, or he
31:44
sired three children with three different men in, sorry, three different women, that'd
31:52
be kind of hard to do even in this day and age, three different children with three different
31:56
women in a span of about four months.
32:00
That's in addition to three children that he has with another woman that he didn't marry.
32:05
I think he's got other children that I didn't even mention.
32:07
So that's Tyrekeel.
32:08
I don't remember the NFL releasing a statement saying, yeah, we don't really think that this
32:12
is a good thing for someone to sire this many children that he doesn't intend to father.
32:17
And then we've got the most famous example from the NFL and that's Antonio Cremardi.
32:21
This guy had 14 kids with multiple different women.
32:24
I think he used to be a cornerback or something like that.
32:27
I think I remember playing him playing for the Jets, but Cremardi had 14 kids by multiple
32:32
women.
32:34
He made a comment from the NFL, an area comment from the Players Association.
32:38
I don't remember us having think pieces in the New York Times or the women on the view
32:42
talking about that and how inappropriate that is.
32:46
But perhaps if Tyrekeel or Cremardi decided to be openly Catholic and conservative, then
32:51
they probably want to talk about it.
32:52
And the second big takeaway on this one is apparently Americans want our heroes to be
32:57
immature in a perpetual state of arrested development.
33:01
So what I mean by this is for the entire football season, most people weren't really
33:06
focused on football.
33:07
They were focused on this relationship between Travis Kelsey, who's the tied in the Kansas
33:11
City Chiefs and the biggest pops are on the planet right now, Taylor Swift.
33:15
So if you watch the Kansas City Chiefs game, roughly 16% of the game was focused on what
33:20
Taylor Swift was doing up in the box where she was watching the game.
33:24
Or if she wasn't there, it was, I wonder where Taylor is in, you know, our her and Travis
33:29
having problems, right?
33:30
But let's talk about those two individuals, Travis Kelsey, who is in his thirties, I believe,
33:37
he gets his degree from the University of Cincinnati this year.
33:40
And as he gets his diploma and he walks across stage, he opens up a beer and chugs a beer.
33:45
And everyone thought it was so funny.
33:47
Oh, isn't that so funny?
33:49
This guy finally gets his degree, which is a great thing, great accomplishment.
33:53
And he decides to act like a child, tack like a frat boy to pop a beer and chug it on stage
33:59
and make the entire procession, the entire meeting of these people about himself and
34:04
all how funny and cute he is.
34:06
And his girlfriend, Taylor Swift, is also in her thirties.
34:10
And she is even still in her thirties, riding these angsty teenage high school breakup songs.
34:18
And she's in her thirties.
34:21
At this point, you know, she should probably be focusing on on other subject matters, perhaps
34:25
even, you know, dealing with children and a family of her own, but no, her boyfriend
34:30
is this, you know, grown up goon that just likes to chug beers and act a fool.
34:34
And she's just riding these songs that appeal to 14, 15 and 16 year old girls.
34:39
And America loves it.
34:42
Taylor Swift is the most popular person, probably in America right now.
34:47
And Travis Kelsey is the most popular NFL athlete right now, even though it's, you know,
34:51
jerseys aren't the number one seller.
34:53
But hey, what can you do?
34:55
And it's these people that I would not, I don't want my children to emulate what Travis
34:59
Kelsey is doing publicly.
35:01
Certainly what he does on the field as a player is extraordinary, but getting an Andy Reed's
35:05
face and like bumping him at the Super Bowl and getting physical with his coach, acting
35:10
a fool at his graduation ceremony when he's supposed to be celebrating this, this tremendous
35:14
accomplishment.
35:15
If I had daughters from, for my buddies that have daughters, I don't want them to, to listen
35:19
to Taylor Swift songs and, and do that whole thing and focus on boys and, you know, some
35:24
of this is really dark imagery that she's been, you know, flirting with and all that.
35:28
But that's what we like in America.
35:30
We're all for Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift.
35:32
We're all for ignoring, you know, things like what Tyree Kiel and Antonio Cromarti do.
35:36
But God forbid a Christian conservative kicker, say Christian conservative things.
35:41
That certainly can't be dealt with.
35:43
All right.
35:44
Let's go to the next quicker, quick hitter here.
35:46
RFK junior absolutely having one of the most reprehensible, probably the most reprehensible
35:51
stance on abortion.
35:53
So RFK junior, he is polling nationally in the double digits because people don't like
35:58
Trump and they don't like Biden.
35:59
He has no chance of winning the election just because of math, but something that he said
36:04
recently on an interview on the Sage Steel show should, yeah, well, we'll get to the big
36:09
takeaway here in a second.
36:10
Let's actually go to the clip here.
36:11
Again, this is RFK junior talking to Sage Steel.
36:15
But so to leave, so, so in other words, keeping it as is with Roe versus Wade having been overturned
36:20
and leaving it up to the States to determine if and when a woman can have an abortion.
36:25
No, I wouldn't leave it to the States.
36:27
Right.
36:28
Oh, I would.
36:29
I would.
36:30
He would say completely.
36:31
It's up to the woman.
36:32
You know, I believe we should leave it to the woman.
36:34
We shouldn't have government involved.
36:36
Even if it's full term.
36:39
Even if it's full term.
36:41
The level of evil of that is really hard to put into words, but we're going to do our
36:46
best here.
36:47
So good on Sage Steel for actually giving that example, even if it's full term because he's
36:51
trying to play the whole, you know, federalism thing, like, you know, we shouldn't leave it
36:55
up to the federal government, but also we shouldn't really leave it up to the States.
36:58
It should be between the woman and their doctor.
37:00
And he even said before it should be between the woman's doctor and her spiritual advisor,
37:05
whether or not they kill the baby.
37:06
And it's like, well, dude, if I said that my doctor, my spiritual advisor said it was
37:10
okay for me to go next door and, you know, stab my neighbor to death, I don't think that
37:15
you would be for me not going to prison.
37:17
But let's go right to the big takeaway here on this one by saying this, by saying what
37:24
he said that he is completely okay with abortion up to the date of birth.
37:31
He should be disqualified as a serious candidate for the president of the United States, obviously.
37:37
But then again, all he said was the official democratic party platform on abortion out
37:45
loud.
37:47
That's all he did.
37:48
He did it without hesitation.
37:50
She pushed him and said, you know, even if it's full term and he goes, even if it's full
37:53
term.
37:54
And she was just like, okay, you could tell like the weight of that really sat on Sage
37:58
deal.
37:59
I get the sense that Sage deal is a religious individual.
38:01
So that's a man.
38:02
That's a stunning thing to hear someone five feet away from you say out of their face hole.
38:06
But the official party platform on abortion for the democratic party is abortion for any
38:09
reason at any point of pregnancy and paid for by taxpayer dollars.
38:14
That's the official party platform, but these candidates are just now saying it out loud.
38:20
They're not even trying to be moderate on this issue anymore.
38:24
It's absolutely astounding.
38:25
And so I get it.
38:27
I know some of you don't like Donald Trump.
38:29
I wish he wasn't the Republican candidate right now.
38:31
I wish it was Ron DeSantis, but we don't live in my world.
38:33
We live in y'all's world, so Trump is the guy for the Republicans.
38:37
Maybe you don't like maybe you don't like the Democrats.
38:40
You don't like Joe Biden.
38:41
He's he's the worst president in modern American history.
38:44
Certainly.
38:45
I don't think that that's any debate at this point.
38:46
He's been absolutely terrible.
38:48
And I could have told you that he was going to be terrible because this was where all
38:50
the signals were going even during the election of 2020.
38:53
So there's all that.
38:56
So some of you are like, okay, well, what about RFK?
38:58
Can't vote for the libertarian candidate because, you know, no one really cares.
39:01
If you're a libertarian, that just means that you hate winning elections or having any
39:04
influence whatsoever.
39:05
So you're thinking you're going to vote for RFK and I'm here to tell you, you can't.
39:10
You cannot vote for a candidate for that position that believes that a woman should be able
39:15
to kill her 40 week old baby inside the womb.
39:21
It is such an evil way of thinking, but he is a slave to that ideology because he's not
39:26
an independent.
39:27
He's a Democrat.
39:28
He just was being pushed out, he wasn't going to be allowed to get on the same stage and
39:32
debate Joe Biden because the Democrats wouldn't allow for that.
39:34
And so he's a independent.
39:35
And so you think, well, I'm more centrist.
39:37
I'm more moderate.
39:38
Am I leaning?
39:39
So I'll vote for the independent.
39:40
He's not an independent people like, oh, he's just an old school liberal.
39:44
Yeah, on some things, but on this, they doesn't get more left leaning than this.
39:48
Well, I guess technically he didn't say he would be okay with the baby being killed once
39:52
they were outside the womb because there are some Democrats that actually believe that.
39:56
Like the, you know, post birth abortion, right in fantasy.
40:00
That's what they believe in.
40:02
But if you're thinking that RFK is a serious candidate and that that is a candidate that
40:06
you should potentially put your faith in and put your support behind, you absolutely cannot
40:10
do that.
40:11
All right.
40:12
Next quick hitter here, Pope Francis, gosh, our favorite saying that the heart of man
40:16
is good.
40:17
So Pope Francis recently did an interview on 60 minutes and he had this to say, when
40:22
you look at the world, what gives you hope, everything you see tragedies, but you also
40:34
see so many beautiful things.
40:38
You see heroic mothers, heroic men, men who have hopes and dreams, women who look to the
40:46
future.
40:47
That gives me a lot of hope.
40:52
People want to live people forge ahead and people are fundamentally good.
41:01
We are all fundamentally good.
41:02
Yes, there are some rogues and sinners, but the heart itself is good.
41:09
So here's the quote, people are fundamentally good.
41:12
We are all fundamentally good.
41:14
Yes, there are some rogues and sinners, but the heart itself is good.
41:19
So the woke Pope is, I mean, I feel like I don't want this to become the, we hate Andy
41:24
Stanley.
41:25
We hate Pope Francis podcast, but it's like they just keep saying things that suck and
41:28
that are reprehensible.
41:29
So let's go right to my big takeaway here.
41:32
I know that the pope on and many Catholics for that matter and many Protestants for that
41:36
matter could not care less about what God says in his word, they just don't care less
41:41
about it, but just in case Pope Francis accidentally cracks his Bible, hopefully someone around
41:48
him can point him towards this, or hopefully he comes across some of the following passages.
41:53
Romans three, 10, as it is written, none is righteous, no, not one.
41:59
Romans three, 23, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
42:04
Jeremiah 17, nine, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick.
42:09
Who can understand it?
42:11
Some translations would say desperately wicked.
42:14
And the last one here is Mark 10, 18, and Jesus said to him, why do you call me good?
42:19
No one is good except God alone.
42:22
Guys, I know some of you out here listening to this are Catholic and I know several Catholics
42:27
that are not fans of Pope Francis, but this should kind of give you an idea that there
42:31
are people that think that the pope is infallible or infallible, that he, he is without sin that
42:38
doesn't do things that are wrong.
42:40
And here's the main problem that I see with the Catholic ideology, because there are Catholics
42:46
that are going to hell and there are Catholics that are going to heaven, just like the Baptists
42:48
and Methodists and Presbyterians, there are Catholics that have put their faith in Christ
42:53
for the propitiation of their sin debt.
42:54
They have repented of their sins and turned towards Christ and there are Catholics that
42:58
have not done that.
42:59
There are Catholics just because grandma was a Catholic, so I'm Catholic.
43:01
I go to mass couple of times a year and then I'm Catholic, but here's the reality.
43:06
The biggest problem with Catholicism as a denomination is that there is no defined highest
43:14
authority.
43:15
What I mean by that is, is in my church in a non-denominational Bible church, faith Bible
43:19
in heaven, Oklahoma, shout out, Mark Hitchcock, in his church, he is not the final say and
43:26
he would be the first one to tell you that.
43:28
He would say that God's word would be the final say, but in the Catholic church, they
43:33
don't have that.
43:34
It's, yeah, there's what the Bible says, but then there's what the early church fathers
43:37
did, then there's also tradition and then there's also what the pope says.
43:41
So the pope in 2000 and 24 can say something that is completely antithetical to what we
43:46
see in Scripture or even just a biblical outside of the Bible altogether.
43:50
And then you have to ask the Catholic, so who's right?
43:53
Is the Bible right?
43:56
Is the word of God right?
43:57
The Aaron infallible word of God, is that correct?
44:00
There is the pope right because they're saying things that are contrary to one another, right?
44:06
These things are opposing in their viewpoints.
44:09
So, so who, who gets it?
44:11
Like who are we going to go with?
44:13
And a lot of Catholics will just default to whatever the current pope says, whether they
44:18
are liberal, conservative or somewhere in between.
44:22
That's very, very, very problematic.
44:24
So if you're a Catholic listening to this, you need to reckon with that.
44:28
There's appeal, you know, authority are you going to appeal to, you know, whenever I've
44:32
been in these debates with atheists or agnostics or when you've seen any Christians debating
44:36
these people, they always will get to the sticking point, which is the question of morality.
44:40
How do we know the difference between good and evil?
44:43
What is the higher authority that we appeal to?
44:45
Because you might think that it's wrong for us to genocide a particular group of people
44:49
just simply based on their race.
44:51
But what if someone else says that, no, that's completely acceptable and fine.
44:55
Who's correct?
44:57
Because if you're appealing just to the heart of man, then it's a stalemate, because this
45:02
person says A and the other person says B, and those two things don't jive.
45:07
But if you can appeal to the highest authority, which would be God's law, which we get through
45:12
his word, then we can actually surmise what is moral and what is immoral.
45:17
So some of the two on there.
45:19
All right.
45:20
Next quick, it are here.
45:21
Germany significantly softening its laws on punishing child porn.
45:24
So this is according to the Washington Examiner on May the 21st.
45:28
The German parliament took a major step in bolstering its pro pedophilia credentials
45:32
by lowering the criminal liability for possession of child pornography.
45:37
Last week, the German parliamentary body advanced a bill that will reduce the possession of
45:41
child pornography from a felony crime to a misdemeanor.
45:45
Supporters of the bill claim that the legislation is necessary because minors could face felony
45:49
charges for possession of pornographic images.
45:51
A downgrade to a misdemeanor is also urgently required in order to be able to respond appropriately
45:57
and with the necessary flexibility to the large proportion of juvenile offenders, the legislation
46:01
reads, according to Redux here to the perpetrators generally do not act in order to be sexually
46:06
aroused by the child pornography content, but rather out of a drive typical of the adolescent
46:11
stage of development, such as naivete, curiosity, thirst for adventure or the desire to impress.
46:19
Rather than simply address the specific matter in the legislation, the German government
46:23
opted to reclassify the crime altogether for anyone regardless of age.
46:28
The effect will be that adults who possess child pornography will now be simply charged
46:32
with a misdemeanor rather than a felony treatment they should receive.
46:36
The law leaves and place a minimum one year jail sentence for the crime, but it will have
46:40
a devastating effect on the safety of children as pedophiles who possess child pornography
46:45
will likely face significantly shorter sentences than they otherwise would.
46:50
So right to my big takeaway on this story, remember a few years ago, when some of you
46:55
thought that I was crazy for saying that the next thing that the leftist Marxist revolutionaries
47:01
were going to try and shove down our throats and normalize would be pedophilia.
47:07
The category of the normalization of pedophilia, I remember saying those things and having
47:10
people say, Hey, Kyle, Kyle, I get it.
47:12
You're kind of extreme, you like to have these big, bold opinions, but come on, man, you
47:16
think pedophilia is going to be inside the overton window, like, come on, man, like just
47:20
relax.
47:21
And yet here we are because the law is a teacher.
47:26
So you've seen people say, even here recently with Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.
47:30
Casey being overturned because of the Dobbs decision here in America, you're having women
47:35
talk about, Hey, I'm going to be celibate because just in case, you know, I get pregnant,
47:38
I may not be able to get an abortion in the city that I live in.
47:42
So their motivation for being celibate might be wrong, but the law is a teacher to them
47:48
now.
47:49
Because for 40 years prior to that, I would have been like, willy nilly, let me just open
47:51
my legs for any available swing and you know what?
47:54
And if I get pregnant, no big deal, I'll just, you know, go pay a few hundred dollars and
47:57
get it taken care of.
47:59
But now there's this extra consideration because the law has changed or the permissibility
48:04
of certain actions in certain, you know, jurisdictions has changed as it were.
48:09
In this exact moment, you have a law that is going to send the possession of child pornography,
48:15
which let's talk about that just a little bit.
48:17
These are images and videos of minors that in every case are being raped, right, or forced
48:23
to do things against their will sexually, which is another form of rape.
48:27
And that is being used as a masturbatory aid for pedophiles.
48:31
That's what child pornography is.
48:34
So in Germany now, if you're in possession of this masturbatory aid material that shows
48:39
the sexual destruction of minors, that's just a misdemeanor.
48:44
It's a no biggie.
48:47
Legally speaking, slap on the wrist.
48:49
That's all it is.
48:51
And the law will be a teacher.
48:53
Because the next generation that will have had this law in place for the entirety of their
48:58
existence of their lives, they're going to think to themselves, well, this must not be
49:01
that big of a deal because it's only a misdemeanor, because there are plenty of laws that you
49:05
guys would maybe think of here in this country and in the United States, where, oh, that's
49:09
just a misdemeanor.
49:10
It's not that big of a deal, but it might be a big deal.
49:13
It's just not felonious and how it is, you know, adjudicated via the law, right?
49:18
So we're going to have people in Germany, which is a post-Christian culture, Christianity
49:21
essentially doesn't exist in Germany that are going to be thinking to themselves.
49:24
Well, I guess child pornography is not that big a deal because it's just a misdemeanor.
49:28
So again, we're going to keep seeing this.
49:31
There will be other countries that will decriminalize the possession of child pornography.
49:36
They will either decriminalize it or lessen, you know, the severity of the charges.
49:42
And eventually, countries like Germany will completely decriminalize pedophilia altogether.
49:47
What is it?
49:48
There's the North American man, boy, love organization.
49:52
This is an organization whose tagline is before eight or what is it either?
49:58
I just forgot.
49:59
It was on top of my head.
50:00
It was before eight or it ain't great or if it's before eight is too late or if it's
50:06
after eight is too late, I think is it?
50:08
So there, I think I eventually got there after eight or before eight or it's too late.
50:11
Boom.
50:12
Sorry.
50:13
That's very confusing for some of you guys, but there's a group in America that their
50:16
tagline is essentially if you're having sex with a boy as an adult male, if you're having
50:19
sex with a boy and they're older than the age of eight, you've missed your window.
50:24
This is a group that is constituted here in the United States of America.
50:29
But guys, how far are we away from prominent leftists in national politics from agreeing
50:36
with that point of view?
50:37
10 years ago, you would say Kyle never would that happen.
50:41
Would you say that now?
50:42
Because yeah, in 2014, gay marriage, you know, quote, unquote gay marriage wasn't legal.
50:49
And think about all the different things that we're going on societally.
50:52
That would just be completely unrecognizable from where we are today.
50:56
In 2014, you would have been like, wait a minute, wait a minute, they're, they're shaving
51:00
pieces of little girls's arms off and sewing it into a phallic like penis structure and
51:06
then sewing that onto the top of a little girl's vagina so that she can have this sort of penis-like
51:12
thing inside of her underwear.
51:14
Wait, were we were giving little boys puberty blockers so that they don't develop into young
51:19
boys because they think their girls, wait, what in 2014 you would thought that we were
51:23
crazy.
51:24
And yet here we are.
51:26
So by 2034, where do you think we're going to be on the road to pedophilia?
51:30
I'm going to just maintain for you that we're going to be a lot further down that road than
51:34
you would be comfortable with.
51:36
All right, guys, the very last quick hitter here.
51:38
And so if you stuck with me all the way, you got there from the very beginning pitch, which
51:42
is that humanity is witnessing perhaps the greatest reunion of all time.
51:48
And that is creed is back together, y'all.
51:52
And that is creed the band, not the awful Rocky movies, creed the band.
51:56
So let's talk about creed a little bit.
51:57
I remember being in the CD exchange store in law, Oklahoma, where the CDs were just open.
52:04
And so they had a little like community, you know, CD player and you could put an album
52:09
in and you could listen to some of the songs before you bought it, right?
52:11
It was a UCD.
52:12
So shout out to CD connection.
52:14
I remember popping in my own prison, which is the creed, their initial album back in
52:20
1997.
52:21
And I'm like, man, I really dig this.
52:23
And so we bought that album and I wore it out.
52:25
I loved it.
52:26
But then creed mega blew up in 1999 when they released their album, human clay, had the
52:30
songs higher and with arms wide open.
52:33
And then they followed that up in 2001 with weather where they had one last breath, which
52:36
might be their biggest song and then my sacrifice.
52:39
But then right around 2001, 2002, and some of you are very familiar with this, it all
52:43
sudden became not cool to be a creed fan.
52:47
Not cool.
52:48
Not cool to be a creed fan.
52:49
You can't own creed albums.
52:50
You can't wear a creature.
52:51
You definitely couldn't go to a creed concert and you would never let a friend borrow your
52:54
creed album because then they would know you had a creed album and then you would never
52:57
live it down.
52:59
And I'll tell you what, I was susceptible to all that because I remember this is going
53:03
to be sound crazy to any of you that were, you know, were born not in the 1900s.
53:06
But I had all my hundreds of CDs and then I got a laptop where I could like insert my
53:11
CD into the CD slot, DVD slot on the laptop and I could or this was on a desktop actually.
53:17
So I had a tower and then I could upload all of my songs to iTunes, one album at a time
53:23
probably took about 17 hours per album to get that to upload.
53:26
And then that could go on my iPod, right?
53:29
So I had a separate device from my phone, right?
53:32
And this was just for my music, right?
53:34
I know crazy, crazy to think how far we've come as humanity, right?
53:38
But I put all of my albums, I spent the, you know, years and years getting all of my albums
53:43
uploaded to my computer so that I could have it on my iTunes so that I could be on my iPod.
53:47
But I left three albums off and that were the first, those were the first three creed
53:51
albums.
53:52
I did not put my own prison, human clay or weathered on there.
53:56
You know why?
53:57
Because what if I put my iPod on shuffle and what if a creed song came up and a friend
54:02
was in my car again, you can't live that down.
54:05
It's like pooping your pants in the middle of the hallway when you're in high school.
54:08
You will always be the kid that pooped his pants, whether you were the quarterback of
54:11
football team that led your team to a state championship or you were the best voice on
54:14
glee club or whatever that no, you're the kid that pooped his pants in the middle in
54:17
the hallway, right?
54:19
But then last year there were rumblings that Scott Stapp and the crew that they were going
54:25
to be getting back together and potentially doing a tour.
54:28
And then all of a sudden it was announced in 2023 that in 2024 they would be doing the
54:33
summer of 99 tour that would they would be traveling the country, playing their old hits.
54:40
But no one really knew that it would happen because you got to think for a band like that
54:44
to get back together with the level of power mixed with the level of hatred, taking some
54:48
of the heat off of Nickelback's back that this couldn't actually happen.
54:51
But the very first concert they were supposed to do was supposed to be on a cruise ship.
54:57
This was going to be their first concert in 12 years and people were like, man, I don't
55:00
know.
55:01
I don't know if this is going to happen.
55:02
I don't know if the world can handle Creed coming back together, but deadgum it.
55:06
You know what?
55:07
That's exactly what they did.
55:08
They got on a cruise ship with several hundreds or thousands of their fans and they did their
55:13
first show in 12 years because they released a fourth album somewhere back in the day and
55:17
nobody really listened to.
55:18
And then they all went their separate ways.
55:20
And so Creed is officially back.
55:24
I would like to apologize for succumbing to all the peer pressure to not listen to
55:28
Creed because I'll tell you over the last several weeks, maybe listen to a little bit
55:32
of Creed.
55:33
I have a little speaker and a little Bluetooth speaker in my shower, get a song or two in
55:36
while I'm, you know, washing off.
55:39
May have had a little bit of creed going.
55:41
May have sung it out loud.
55:42
May have pumped my fist, may have put my foot up on something that I pretended was a monitor
55:47
on a stage and did my best Scott Stapp impression.
55:50
Maybe that's something that happened.
55:52
Let's go right to the big takeaway here.
55:54
So let's go there.
55:57
Let's make our escape.
55:59
Come on, let's go there.
56:02
Let's ask, can we stay?
56:04
Can you take me higher to a place where blind man see?
56:10
Can you take me higher to a place with golden streets?
56:16
Now you might be asking yourself, Kyle, did you just in this episode by reading the lyrics
56:22
to higher by creed to that I would say a dang sure did.
56:28
All right guys, before we let you go, we are going to do a quick resilience boost at undaunted
56:30
life or mission is equipping men to push back darkness with content that forges spiritual
56:34
mental and physical resilience.
56:35
Don't don't forget rather that we are a donation based ministry.
56:38
So guys hop on board, be a monthly donor if you want to see us get this content out across
56:41
the globe.
56:42
And then in the rest of the show notes, I've got the link to that Jordan Peterson interview
56:46
that I talked about and then everything else I talked about in the quick hitters.
56:49
Thank you for listening to this podcast.
56:50
Wherever you're listening to this.
56:51
Please subscribe, rate and leave us a positive five star review.
56:54
If you want me to come speak live at your event or on your podcast, shoot me an email
56:57
to info@undaunted.life.
57:00
That's I N F O at undaunted life, follow us on Instagram and like us on Facebook and check
57:04
out our website for everything else, including how to donate to keep more content like this
57:07
coming your way.
57:08
Just go to www.undaunted.life.
57:10
And as always, we want to thank the band Holy Name for allowing us to use their music for
57:14
our content.
57:15
The music on this podcast is our song Perpetua, which is off their self titled debut album
57:19
on Face Down Records, the links are in the description.
57:22
I'm your host, Kyle Thompson, remember keep pushing back darkness, keep forging spiritual,
57:28
mental and physical resilience, keep seeking the lion of Judah.
57:49
in the next video.