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Mark Driscoll’s Outrage: Real or Imagined? (Ep. 587)

April 25, 2024 1h 13m Full transcript available
Mark Driscoll’s Outrage: Real or Imagined? (Ep. 587)
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In this episode, Kyle dives deep into the recent controversy surrounding Mark Driscoll and his comments at a men's conference, dissecting the fallout and the implications for the church. He also touches on the cultural chaos surrounding issues like abortion and the transgender movement, urging men to stand firm in their faith and convictions.
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0:00 This is Undaunted Life. A man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into
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1:41 abortion arguments presentation. That will be at the main campus. That's the San Pablo
1:45 campus, which is 14286 Beach Boulevard number two. Then Jacksonville, Florida. We have an
1:51 official time. I don't know if I've announced this yet, but it is seven PM. So May the 17th,
1:56 that is a Friday, seven PM. If you are anywhere near Jacksonville, I know people that are actually
2:00 flying in to come and watch that, you know, gosh, we just absolutely love our fans. But
2:05 we will be in the main area where Joby does his thing. And I'm going to have his podium
2:09 set up the same way that he does during his sermons. I may try to break it or just like
2:12 move it a few degrees left or right just to really jack with him. But it should be an
2:16 awesome, awesome time. But guys, it is all about equipping you to be able to push back
2:20 the darkness. That is the scourge of killing babies in the womb. So you got to make sure
2:25 you're there seven PM on May the 17th at the San Pablo campus of church of 1122. And also
2:30 I know we announced this Tuesday, but we'll announce it again today. When I was with Joby
2:33 Martin last, he gave me a bunch of his books, he gave me four boxes full of his books. And
2:38 a lot of you've already got these. But I've got about 65 of his books to give away. And
2:43 he signed all of them. And the way that I'm going to get these into your hands, okay,
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2:52 backslash donate on Daunton dot life backslash donate. Anyone that gives a donation, a one
2:57 time donation of $30 or more emphasis on that or more, you will get one of these books.
3:02 So this is first come first served. There is no cut off date to this. And so if you're
3:06 like the 66th person or something like that, I'm sorry, I'll try to announce it as quickly
3:10 as possible. But just know that this will go to a good cause regardless of if you get
3:14 a book or not, okay, because half of the money, this is what Joby and I decided, because
3:18 it's like, you know, let's raise money for a don of life, but let's also do something
3:21 else. And let's fight for the unborn. So half of the money raised is going to go to support
3:25 on Daunton life and all of our operations. And the other half is going to go to support
3:28 the hope pregnancy center here in central Oklahoma. That is our pro life pregnancy center.
3:33 So guys, this money, let me tell you where this money goes. Because yeah, this is part
3:37 of the, you know, 10 10 life initiative through what they're doing, you know, at church of
3:40 11 22 and making sure that we are pro life from womb to tomb and all that. But if you
3:44 give money to the hope pregnancy center, this goes to pay for ultrasounds, which are expensive.
3:49 This goes to pay the doctors that read the ultrasounds. This goes to pay for, to create
3:54 pots of money so that when women are like, ah, you know, I'm, you know, I'm poor, I can't
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4:13 they have impregnated and to be a father. That's where this money goes. Okay. So this
4:17 isn't paying for pizza parties and for lavish vacations. Okay. This is literally going to
4:21 help these people convince these women, look, you have other options. You don't need to
4:26 kill this baby. Let's bring it to term. Okay. So again, go to undaunted dot life backslash
4:31 donate. The link is in the show notes. Again, any one time donation of $30 or more will
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4:42 half of it needs to go to the Hope pregnancy center. So make sure you put your name and
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5:08 They're right here. So if the tomb is empty and anything is possible. Okay. Boom. There
5:12 we go. All right. Quick hitters today, we're going to be talking about Max Holloway delivering
5:16 the greatest knockout in MMA history. Joe Biden trying to turn Easter into Tranny Christmas.
5:22 Caitlin Clark somehow saving and ruining women's basketball simultaneously. A gay man in Chicago
5:28 being arrested for allegedly distributing child pornography and planning to rape his newborn
5:33 son. Yes, you definitely want to stick around for that story is absolutely maddening. And
5:38 in the NAIA, that's the National Association of Intercollegia Athletics adopting a new
5:42 policy banning males from competing in women's sports. But we need to talk about something
5:47 that literally you guys have been, you guys have been bothering me and I'm okay to be bothered
5:52 by you guys because you're my guys. You're like, you're my dude. But Mark Driscoll and
5:57 his recent, most recent kerfuffle that he caused in his controversy and it went mega viral and
6:02 all that I got to say, as soon as this went down, I was getting flooded with messages.
6:07 Well, we'll get there. So in general, some of you guys have wondered my thoughts on Mark
6:11 Driscoll, just because of the, what was the name of that podcast series? Oh, the rise
6:15 and fall of Mark Hill, Mars Hill, not Mark Hill, the rise and fall of Mars Hill. A lot
6:20 of you guys are like, Hey, Kyle, I want to know what you think about all this. And you
6:23 know, did you listen to it? And it's like, well, no, I'm not going to listen to a 20 hour
6:27 podcast series that only presents one viewpoint and doesn't actually interview the person
6:33 that is the center point of all the lightning rod of all this stuff. So for me, I've always
6:39 really enjoyed Mark Driscoll. And so I've kind of over the years, you know, had sometimes
6:43 where I was listening to a sermons and not listening to a sermons. I've never read any
6:46 of his books or anything like that. But he just seems to be an incredibly gifted and talented
6:52 speaker and expositor of the scriptures. And so in general, it's like, okay, I don't know
6:56 if any of this stuff about him is true. But I think a lot of people just really don't
7:00 like how forward he is and how much he he works with men. And he's considered toxically
7:05 masculine and all that's like, well, I don't know, I don't know any of that personally.
7:08 So I'm just going to try to listen to his sermon content. But I was at the acts 29 conference
7:12 here a few weeks ago. And I just start getting flooded with messages and emails and DMS asking
7:20 me my thoughts on the Mark Driscoll controversy. And while I'm sitting there, because you know,
7:24 I'm hanging out with Joby Martin and Matt Chandler and I mean a bunch of great people
7:27 there at the acts 29 pastors conference. And I was like, okay, what happened? What happened?
7:33 Because my first thought was he probably said something that everybody took completely out
7:38 of context or you just took wrong or he was too forceful about and everyone got all got
7:42 all sensitive. And so I just go to Twitter. Again, I can't call it X. That's so stupid.
7:47 I go to Twitter and I just search Mark Driscoll. And I see this video. And it's this really
7:51 grainy kind of iPhone video. You can tell this person took the video from like pretty far
7:56 away they look to be in this arena or something like that. And the first thing I found this
8:01 first video was Driscoll speaking from a stage and he was delivering a rebuke. Okay, so he
8:06 was on stage at the 2024 stronger men's conference, which is hosted by a pastor named John Lindell
8:12 who runs River City Church. Okay, so I don't know anything about John Lindell. Some of you
8:16 may have strong opinions about him. I had never heard of him before this. Okay. Now,
8:20 I would play the audio from what Driscoll said, but it is like super low quality. And it would
8:26 only get worse with me ripping it from the internet and then throwing it into my editing
8:30 software or something like that. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to read the
8:33 transcript of what Driscoll said. And if I can remember I'll put in the show notes him
8:37 actually saying it. So let me read the transcript of what Mark Driscoll said while on stage
8:42 at the 2024 stronger men's conference again hosted by John Lindell. Okay, so here's Driscoll.
8:48 Let me do this. I've been up since one o'clock in the morning. The reason I'm hoarse is that
8:51 I have been praying for you and my heart is very burdened for you. And I want to be very
8:55 careful that this is with this and it's not what I want to say, but the Jezebel spirit
9:01 has already been here. The Jezebel spirit opened our event. This is a rebuke and a correction
9:06 of no one. This is an observation. Before the word of God was open, there was a platform.
9:12 It was a high place on this was a poll of Ashera. The same thing that was used in a strip club
9:17 for women who have the Jezebel spirit to seduce men in front of that was a man who ripped his
9:22 shirt off like a woman does in front of a pole at a strip club. That man then ascended.
9:27 See our God is not arrogant. He doesn't ascend. Our God is humble. He descends. And then now
9:33 at this point, Lindell, the pastor hosting this, he screams out from the crowd. Wrong
9:38 time mark. Then we go back to Driscoll. He swallowed a sword and Jesus cried. Lindell
9:44 again from the crowd screams. Wrong time mark. Driscoll. Again, now acknowledging this says,
9:51 okay, Pastor John, I'll receive that. Lindell from the crowd screams. You're done. And
9:56 then Driscoll says, thank you. He gathers up his notes in his Bible and he walks off stage.
10:03 Everyone's very, very confused. They don't know what's going on, but they allow these
10:08 guys paid money to go there and see Driscoll talk. And in his like first few minutes of
10:13 his comments, he's gathering these things and he's walking off stage. Okay. So Lindell
10:17 gets on stage and he's trying to talk to the crowd, but they are booing him loudly. Again,
10:24 there's a certain percentage because there's thousands of men here, apparently. There's
10:28 certain percentage of them that are just like really confused. Like what in the world was
10:31 that? They have no idea what's going on. But then there's another group of people. These
10:35 are like Driscollites or whatever. They are just shouting Lindell down. Okay. But then
10:40 finally, whenever the, you know, crowd subsided, just a little bit, you know, the loudness
10:43 subsided, Lindell says this, wow, let me just say this. If Mark wanted to say that, he should
10:49 have said it to me first. He didn't Matthew 18, Matthew 18. If your brother offends you,
10:56 go to him privately. I talked to Mark for a half hour. There was not one word of that.
11:01 He's out of line. If you want to say it, he can say it to me. You may not agree with
11:05 me. You may not agree with him, but we are brothers in Christ and there's a right way
11:09 to handle this. And I'm telling you, I'm not going to sit back and watch someone do publicly
11:13 what they should have done privately. And as a pastor and a man of God, I'll call another
11:17 man of God out. And I love Mark, but he was out of line. And I have a responsibility spiritually
11:22 for this event. And we saw 530 people come to Christ. And we're going to conduct ourselves
11:27 in a Christian manner. And we're going to go according to the Bible. And the Bible tells
11:32 us how that should have been resolved. And it wasn't. Okay. So at this point, I'm thinking
11:38 like, whoa, like, they literally opened a Christian men's conference with a gay stripper.
11:46 Like that's nuts. Again, the first video I saw was of Mark Driscoll saying what he was
11:50 saying. And then, uh, Lindell getting up there and I was like, holy cow. Mark Driscoll said
11:56 they, they opened this thing with a gay stripper. But then I go and see the video of the performance
12:02 that opened the event. And my initial thought was, wait a minute. That's not a stripper.
12:07 That's like an acrobat. That's like a, uh, Cirque du Soleil guy. Like that. That's like
12:12 one of those guys that like doesn't work out in the gym, but like works out on like a playground.
12:16 And so there's like, you know, polls or whatever and they can like grab onto the pole and they've
12:20 got the core strike to like have their body out like parallel to the ground. I was like,
12:24 that's an acrobat, not a stripper. And so at this point, I'm like, wait a minute, Lindell's
12:28 like off his rocker. Like why in the world would they start out a man, Christian men's
12:32 conference with, with, uh, you know, something like that. But then it was like, no, no, no,
12:35 that's an acrobat. Like it's kind of a weird way to start everything out, you know, bring
12:38 out an acrobat who's also a sword swallower. But okay. So now I'm thinking, okay, Driscoll
12:45 has never seen an acrobat perform before. You know, like he sees somebody and he thinks
12:50 that's a stripper. And it's like, no, that's just an acrobat. But then I see that later
12:55 in the conference, Lindell and Driscoll appeared on stage together and apparently that they
13:00 had reconciled. Okay. So Lindell gave Driscoll his flowers for a bit. And then Driscoll gave
13:06 Lindell his flowers for a bit. Driscoll said that he should have talked to Lindell before
13:11 doing what he did. He called Lindell his spiritual father and Lindell warned the crowd not to
13:16 criticize men appointed by God, which was kind of weird. Well, actually, no, it wasn't kind
13:21 of weird. It was like very inappropriate because Lindell basically straight up said, uh, I
13:26 surmised that this person has been anointed by God. And so if you criticize him, then
13:31 you are, you know, criticizing God, right, which, you know, keep that in mind as we continue
13:36 going through this nonsense. So now after seeing the kind of reconciliation on stage
13:41 thing, I'm thinking, all right, well, Driscoll either legitimately realized that he was in
13:47 the wrong that he was an error, or he folded like an old launcher. You know, one of the
13:52 two, then I see more information about the acrobat guy that kind of started this whole
13:59 problem, this whole issue. So apparently his name is Alex Magala. I'm not exactly sure
14:04 how he pronounces his last name, but we'll just go with Magala. So he was on Britain's
14:08 Got Talent. Uh, he's decently well known for his pole acrobatics and sword swallowing
14:14 and some of these types of things. And after all this, you know, went viral, he released
14:18 a public statement on his social media stating that he's a born again Christian. So now I'm
14:24 thinking, well, this is an absolute mess. Lindell says that Magala has been a Christian
14:30 for a decade. And Magala himself confirms that. And so it looks like Driscoll really
14:35 screwed the pooch on this one. Then I found a 2016 article from Daily Mail. And it revealed
14:43 that Magala had been dancing and stripping in gay bars after his supposed conversion
14:50 to Christianity after it. And also Magala had made social media posts of himself performing
14:59 these kind of weird Buddhist esque religious rituals that have nothing even tangentially
15:05 in common with Christianity or how we perform Christianity. And then when people were claiming
15:10 that he had been, you know, stripping in gay bars after he'd become a Christian, he came
15:13 out to clarify to say, no, no, no, no, I wasn't stripping it gay bars. I was go go dancing.
15:20 So go go dancers are, you know, people, they're like women like up in cages and they're dancing.
15:25 Those people are dancing for the sexual gratification of the people that are watching them dance.
15:31 And so he would go to gay bars and dance for the sexual arousal and gratification of
15:36 gay men post supposedly becoming a Christian. So at this point, I'm thinking this is nuts
15:44 and it certainly cannot get any weirder. Can't get weirder at all, right? Well, of course
15:50 it can get weird because everything is stupid. Because then Lindell in a service at his church,
15:56 he just excoriates Mark Driscoll just eviscerates him. So the guy he was last seen, you know,
16:03 slurping while on stage at this men's conference. Now he's all mad again. So this video has
16:08 since been taken down by his church. But if we know anything, we know that if you take
16:11 a video or a tweet or something like that down, it only brings more attention to it.
16:15 So you can certainly find it. I'll put it in the show notes. But Lindell claimed that
16:19 Driscoll was spreading lies about Lindell about James River church, about the acrobat guy,
16:24 Alex Magala, the, you know, the stripper. And he said that they were demonic lies. And
16:28 Lindell also said that they were in the final stages of the reconciliation process described
16:33 in Matthew 18. So let me actually read that from Matthew, no, I actually read a quote from
16:37 him where he's talking about it. Matthew 18. So this is Lindell referring to the situation
16:41 with Driscoll. The Bible gives us a three step process for resolving conflicts, not just
16:46 conflicts between believers, but a plan for confronting sinful behavior. Step one, you
16:50 go to the person and point out their fault just between the two of you. Step two, if the
16:54 person does not repent, you involve one or two other people. Step three, if they refuse,
16:59 you tell it to the church. So with great sadness, I let you know that we are in step three.
17:04 Let me just say that I've known Mark since 2008, when the church that Mark pastored Mars
17:09 Hill fell apart and Mark had very few friends. We stood with Mark and Grace to encourage them.
17:15 And we shared our platform with them when almost no one else would. So Lindell in this
17:20 talk, he went on to say that Driscoll engaged in sinful behavior to sell books and to get
17:26 clicks. And Lindell said that Driscoll actually never really apologized. He read Lindell read
17:33 a bunch of private texts between him and Driscoll. And he claims that one said, well, I just
17:37 crapped all over your event that Driscoll had said that to Lindell. And then Lindell claimed
17:41 that Driscoll was trying to destroy Lindell's church. And you know, he's just really, just
17:45 really, really going after him. Then I listened to Driscoll's latest presentation in front of
17:51 his Wednesday night men's crowd, which is called Real Men, where he made a few jokes about having
17:56 had a busy week, but he never actually addressed the controversy directly. But then Lindell recently
18:04 went before his congregation again. This time, he apologized for even inviting Mark Driscoll
18:11 to the conference. And in addition to that, he also apologized for inviting McGalla, the
18:16 mail stripper acrobat guy to the conference. He apologized because of the, you know, division
18:21 that abroad. Okay. So if you're wondering, yes, I'm completely exhausted by this story.
18:29 I completely am every day or two, a new kind of like wrinkle comes out. And it's like, I'm
18:33 just not that interested in the story. And the right, the main reason that I'm exhausted is
18:37 because you can't know for sure who to believe. Yeah, I mean, you've got these two strong personalities,
18:42 Driscoll and Lindell, and you can't know exactly who to believe you can surmise you can read between
18:46 the lines, but you can't know for sure. I think one thing that we can know for sure is that Lindell,
18:51 he's the type of guy that if he feels any heat whatsoever, he will fold like laundry. That's
18:55 just kind of like his thing I feel like feel like we can surmise that. But I can tell you this
19:00 about this whole situation. Since all this broke, I have personally spoken with several people
19:07 that know Driscoll personally, either now or they knew him very personally at a time in the past.
19:13 Okay, some of whom you could say knew him intimately, right? So they weren't just like, hey, buddies,
19:19 you know, when I see you around, you know, I'll say, Hey, what's up? But knew him intimately,
19:23 like they were, you know, really tight friends and confidants. And this is what all of those
19:28 people told me almost unanimously, like to a tee, they basically said four things. You can put them
19:35 in these four categories. Number one, Driscoll is a marketing genius. He is very opportunistic
19:42 and will do almost anything to get media attention. Okay, that his undergraduate degree is in marketing
19:48 and you know, that's the type of guy he is and that's how he thinks. Number two, that Driscoll
19:52 is a bully. So you heard that with the rise and fall of Mars Hill podcast, you heard that on all
19:58 the, you know, platforms, you know, whenever he lost Mars Hill or left Mars Hill or was fired or
20:02 whatever, that he's just a bully. The third thing they told me is that Driscoll is a habitual liar
20:09 and or that he has like, like a reality dysmorphia or something like that. So what I mean by that is
20:16 like, he could have watched that performance by the gay stripper guy. And let's say that guy
20:20 wasn't a gay stripper. Okay, let's just take that out of it because that certainly complicates the
20:24 water. So let's just say it's John Doe, you know, acrobat guy that starts out this conference.
20:30 Driscoll may have actually watched that and thought to himself that is a gay stripper.
20:34 And regardless of that's the reality, that is his reality. And that's what he's going to roll
20:39 with. And so everyone said that that's just kind of Mark's thing. He will either just lie to get
20:44 what he wants or he fervently and honestly believe something that is just completely not the truth.
20:49 And the fourth thing that all these people said, again, all these people said these things that
20:54 were not very nice and not very flattering about Mark Driscoll. And then they said this fourth thing
20:58 that he is one of the best modern Bible teachers that we have.
21:02 Literally all of them said the exact same thing. They all had very negative opinions about him
21:09 as a person of blah, blah, but it was always, but he's an incredible Bible teacher.
21:14 So with all that getting into all those details and everything, let's get down to brass tacks.
21:20 When the world are we supposed to think about this story?
21:25 And my answer is, I don't know. I really don't know. I have no idea because I don't know
21:30 Lindell or Driscoll personally. I just know people personally that knew them personally,
21:36 right, specifically Driscoll. But I do want to tell you what I've chosen to do because
21:41 I've gotten the entire spectrum. I've got guys telling me, Hey, don't listen to all the crap.
21:47 Driscoll is the man. He's the only one that's right in every situation. And you should just
21:53 support him blindly. So that's one side. Then we got the other side, which is Mark and avoid.
21:58 I've literally had multiple people that you would know their names. Tell me, Kyle,
22:02 you have to mark and avoid him. You can't believe anything that the man says. So I have both of
22:06 those ends flooding me almost constantly. Any time Mark Driscoll comes out or anytime I share
22:11 a Mark Driscoll clip or every time I mentioned him on the show, but this is what I've chosen to do.
22:14 I've chosen to eat the fish and spit out the bones until further notice.
22:21 Because of what everyone said about Driscoll in terms of his Bible teaching,
22:26 you may have problems with who he is as a person. You may think he is living an
22:32 unrepentant sin concerning how he used to act. And when he had Mars Hill or how he still acts
22:37 right now, or that he's insulated himself at his new church out in Arizona, that there's no one
22:42 that can tell him what to do, that he is basically a dictator out there, all of that. But that his
22:48 Bible teaching is incredible. And so what I can say is when I listen to his sermons and when I
22:54 listen to his presentations to his men's groups on Wednesday, it is incredibly edifying to me,
22:59 is incredibly edifying to me. And so since I don't know him personally, and since I can't make my own
23:05 call on the type of man that he is and whether or not he's full of crap, all I can go on are his
23:10 public comments. And almost 100% of the public comments that I hear from him are in a sermon,
23:17 exegetical, expository preaching context. And when I talk to people that also do or have listened
23:25 to his sermons, they can't, they don't have anything bad to say about the sermons. Now,
23:31 the way they view the sermons is tinged because they know the man personally, and they just don't
23:35 like him. But at the same time, you're looking at a situation and you're judging the person's
23:40 words. And that's all you can go by. You can't, you can't judge intentions because we can't prove
23:46 whether someone intended to do this or that, we can only go on what they say. And so again,
23:50 until further notice, and whatever you guys want to do, do whatever you want to do. If you want to
23:54 mark and avoid Mark Triscoll, great. If you want to defend him, like, no matter what, I would caution
24:00 you against that, because you shouldn't do that with anybody. You've heard me say this before,
24:04 do not put all of your trust in me, or in your favorite pastor, or in your favorite politician,
24:12 or your favorite musical artist or something like that, because we are all deeply flawed. And if I
24:17 haven't done it yet, I will do something that will so severely disappoint you that it could
24:21 crush your entire world. If you've put me up on this pedestal, don't trust any of us. Trust Jesus.
24:27 Trust in Jesus for the propitiation of your sins. Trust in Jesus for your salvation. Trust in the
24:36 grace that has been given to you that you've had to accept in order to be reconciled to the
24:41 Father. Trust in that. Don't trust in man. Don't trust in us. But when it comes to Mark Driscoll,
24:46 for me, I'm going to eat the fish and spit out the bones until further notice.
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26:25 All right, let's get into the first quick hitter here. Max Holloway delivering the greatest knockout
26:30 in MMA history. Okay, so let's talk about the lead up to UFC 300. So UFC 300 was earlier this month.
26:37 And man, I just, I love the UFC. I love UFC nights. One of my favorite things is Saturday night,
26:44 watching the UFC fights, having a cigar and a whiskey and just sitting there with my boys and
26:48 not not my sons, they're asleep. But like my dudes, my foxhole guys and watching fights.
26:53 And we've known UFC 300 was coming for a long time. And the UFC was like, okay, we're gonna
26:57 put together the greatest MMA card of all time. There's gonna be fights in the early prelims that
27:01 are just going to absolutely blow your mind. But then as the fights were being announced,
27:06 like the fights were, they were interesting, but they didn't seem to like blow me away, I guess.
27:11 And then they announced that Justin Gaichy, who should have been fighting for the lightweight 155
27:19 title, that he was gonna be fighting Max Holloway, a 145 for the BMF belt. So if you don't know what
27:27 the BMF belt does or what it is, is there was a fight, I think Nate Diaz had just beaten
27:33 Anthony Pettis or somebody like that, and he gets on the mic, and he starts talking about,
27:38 yeah, I want to defend my BMF belt against him. And he just starts like saying nonsense because
27:46 he's he's more on. But he says that he wants to defend his belt. He called it the BMF belt,
27:51 BMF stands for baddest mother effort, right? Well, then the UFC runs with this and they actually
27:55 create a belt. They literally create a belt for a guy with a mental disorder and have him fight
28:02 for it. So he fights Jorge Mazudal, Jorge Mazudal, just kind of just pieces him up because Nate Diaz
28:07 is in a very good fighter. And then so Jorge Mazudal gets the belt from the rock. And so he's
28:11 the BMF now. And so they he ends up not being the BMF anymore because he's not in the UFC anymore.
28:18 And like, I don't know. And so this belt, this like non-existent belt just becomes this thing.
28:23 And so then Justin Gaichy and Justin Poirier fight for this stupid, like non-existent belt at 155.
28:30 Justin Gaichy headkicks, Dustin Poirier knocks him out. I think it was in the second round. And so
28:34 he's the BMF champion. And so again, Justin Gaichy should be fighting Islam Akashev for the 155 title,
28:41 but then they announced that he's fighting Max Holloway. Now Max Holloway has only fought once
28:45 at 155. And it was years and years ago against Dustin Poirier, and Dustin Poirier just pieced
28:50 him up, just pieced him up for the entire fight. Max Holloway got absolutely destroyed in that fight.
28:56 And so kind of just doing some MMA math in my head, I'm like, okay, well, Justin Gaichy just
29:00 got through head kicking, Justin Poirier into another dimension. And now we've got Max Holloway coming
29:04 up to a weight class that is not his weight class, because he's a 145 or and he's gonna fight him
29:08 again. I'm like, Justin Gaichy's just gonna run right through him. And you know, Max Holloway was
29:13 kind of in this weird point in his career, where he couldn't beat Alexander Volkinovsky. They fought
29:16 three times. He lost all three times. The last time he lost incredibly one sided fight. And so
29:22 here's this great former champion, the former goat of that division that is now just doing fun
29:27 fights, right? And so he he can't beat the top guy, but he can beat everybody else is kind of what
29:31 happened. So we get into the fight itself. And I kind of got to this point, we're like, okay,
29:36 I think I'm excited about this. But again, I still thought Justin Gaichy was just gonna run right
29:40 through him. And then the first round happens and Gaichy doesn't look quite right. And Max Holloway
29:46 is kind of piecing him up. But Max Holloway is not a KO fighter. He's not a power fighter. He just
29:50 swarms you with pressure. And just with a lot of shots, he just can't knock anybody out with one
29:54 punch, right? But at the very, very end of the first round, Max Holloway throws a spinning back kick
30:00 and connects with Justin Gaichy's nose. In the last few seconds of the first round,
30:03 shatters Justin Gaichy's nose. You can tell he's bothered by it. It affects his breathing. He's
30:08 had a lot of nose problems before he had got it fixed with surgery. But his nose is shattered.
30:12 Then the second, third, fourth, and fifth round are basically like the rest of the fight. At one
30:17 point, Justin Gaichy does drop, drop Max Holloway was kind of like a flash knockdown. But for basically
30:23 the entirety of the fight, Max Holloway is just peace and Justin Gaichy up. Again, the nose is
30:28 bothering him. Justin Gaichy's not getting any of his, you know, he's leg kicking Max Holloway,
30:33 but it's not really working or anything like that. And so Max Holloway is on his way to winning a
30:37 50-45 decision because it's a 10-9 must system. He's going to win all five rounds because it was a
30:42 championship fight for this non-existent belt. All five rounds Max Holloway was going to win.
30:47 And then with 10 seconds left in the fight, this happens. Holloway shows some mortality.
30:56 Look at this. Holloway just told him to sit right here. Literally, I'm not watching the video right
31:18 now. I'm just listening to the audio and like my heart rate just went up into the 80s. Just listen
31:23 into this. Okay. So for those of you that have not seen it, you're one of about 14 people on the
31:28 planet that has not seen the clip yet. Or if you're, you know, just listening to the audio of this
31:31 podcast. So Max Holloway is about to win the fight. There's 10 seconds left in the fight. All he has
31:37 to do is not get knocked out and he wins the fight because you're not going to get served with 10
31:41 seconds left in a fight. You have won 24 minutes and 50 seconds of a fight on the biggest fight card
31:47 in the history of the UFC. And Max Holloway points to the center of the octagon and says,
31:54 let's go. Now, I think he fought this was, I don't know, seven, eight years ago, we fight a guy,
31:59 fought a guy named Ricardo Lamas. Right. I think it was who it was. And he did the same thing,
32:03 a fight that he was winning. He was winning it going away. He points to the center of the octagon
32:07 and they just threw until the very end. It was one of the most gangster moments that we've ever
32:10 seen. But Max Holloway points to the center of the octagon against one of the most dangerous
32:16 strikers on planet earth. And they just start throwing bombs, throwing absolute bombs. Max
32:23 Holloway threw caution to the wind and with one second left in the fight, he connects with a right
32:29 and knocks Justin Gaichi completely out. Just folds him to the ground.
32:33 Absolutely mind blowing. I'm watching this with with all my foxhole guys and all that.
32:39 And we were in complete shock, complete and utter shock. Okay, just absolutely stunning
32:48 what had happened. So I'm going to go to my big takeaway on this one. Considering the context and
32:53 circumstances, considering that it was UFC 300, that it was kind of like the people's main event,
33:00 the fight that I think most people were looking forward to, that it's one of the biggest gates
33:05 in UFC history, the most eyeballs, the most people watching and sharing on social media,
33:10 that right there is the single greatest knockout in the history of MMA.
33:15 There are other fantastic knockouts in terms of not just the knockout itself, but the importance.
33:21 You have the ascendancy of Conor McGregor, and then he's fighting the number one pound
33:25 for pound fighter on the planet, the greatest fighter in the history of the 145 pound division
33:30 in Jose Aldo, and he knocks him out in 13 seconds. You've got one of my favorite knockouts of all
33:35 time. When Dan Henderson, you know, I had him on the show last year and we talked about it,
33:39 all this months and months of trash talk between him and Michael Bizbing, and then he knocks him
33:43 out and then he flies through the air and finishes him on the ground with another brutal shot when
33:47 he was already knocked out. And there are many, many, many others. But considering everything
33:53 about the circumstances and all the eyeballs, it is the greatest knockout in the history of MMA.
33:58 But I didn't want to talk about it immediately on the show, because you guys understand this,
34:04 you know, the concept of recency bias and also primacy and recency. Remember, the first thing we
34:08 hear in the last thing that we hear. So there's so many times when a guy wins a fight and then later
34:12 on that night, someone will be like, that's the greatest, whatever that's ever happened. You know,
34:15 a team wins a game. That's the greatest performance I've ever seen. You need to kind of let let
34:20 everything die down for a little bit, because again, there were two more fights after that on the UFC
34:23 300 fight card. But I was going to bed around one o'clock in the morning after that fight card,
34:29 and I was still buzzing, right? My heart rate was still high just from that fight. But in the
34:34 last couple of weeks, I've thought about this, that knockout might be the most incredible
34:42 mind blowing thing that I've ever witnessed in sports in general, at least sports that I was
34:50 watching live. And you know, I was texting around with some buddies trying to like think through
34:53 this like, man, I don't want to be hyperbolic. I don't want to sound crazy. But for me, when the
34:57 St. Louis Cardinals were playing the Texas Rangers in 2011 World Series, in game six of
35:03 that series, they were down to their last strike twice. But David Freeze hits a bases clearing triple
35:08 to tie it up in the ninth. And then he comes back in the 11th and hits a walk off home run. And
35:12 he's a St. Louis boy. So even if you don't care about baseball or the Cardinals or the Rangers,
35:16 that's an incredible moment. I thought back to the 2007 Fiesta Bowl and college football,
35:21 when Boise State, a mid major conference goes up against the Leviathan that is OU that had Adrian
35:26 Peterson on the game in the game at the time. And they tie the game late in the fourth on a hook and
35:31 lateral and then they do a couple more trick plays and end up beating OU. That was absolutely
35:35 mind blowing. Another college football example, example, the Iron Bowl back in 2013, Bama versus
35:40 Auburn the kick six. So tie game, Auburn is or the Bama is trying to hit like a 57 yard field goal
35:48 or something like that. Well, Auburn puts one guy at the back of the end zone. And the field goal
35:53 is short. He catches it and he runs it back 109 yards to be Bama. Then I also thought about Michael
35:58 Phelps back in 2008. So he's in the Olympics in Beijing. He's going for a gold medals. And
36:04 it's a four by 100 meter free relay. And the USA was losing. And you're thinking crap, you know,
36:10 he's going to get seven gold medals and not eight. So he's only going to tie the record,
36:13 not set the record. But then in the final leg, which was he was not swimming. I forget who was
36:18 swimming. It may have been Ryan locked or something like that. The USA wins by 0.08 seconds. All of
36:23 those examples and more are one of those things where it's like time feels like it stands still
36:28 for a second. Everything's happening in slow motion. And then it's just like craziness,
36:33 crazy reaction. I feel like this Max Holloway moment is is bigger than those moments. I just
36:38 feel like it is considering everything that was on the line. And what this means for Max Holloway
36:43 is he can basically do it every once. It looks like he's going to fight Iliotoporia for the 145
36:47 pound championship. They might try to do that in Spain. Make it a huge fight. Heard people say
36:50 that, you know, he's next in line for the 155 title. So he may fight Islam Makhashev after Makhashev
36:56 defends his title against us Emporia or whoever wins that fight. I've heard that he may fight
37:00 Conor McGregor because Conor McGregor has a win over Max Holloway early in his career that all
37:04 those things are on the table. Max can basically write his ticket. And it's just one of the most
37:08 incredible moments. That's why I wanted to spend the time actually talking about it. But I did
37:12 want to do one quick bonus quick hitter and take away from UFC 300, because some of you may have
37:17 missed this. So in the main event of US 3 300, it was Alex Pajeta, he knocked out Jamal Hill in the
37:24 first round of that fight. So it was kind of a crazy KO as well because Jamal Hill hits Alex Pajeta
37:29 in the cup with a with a kick. And so Herb Dean is trying to come in to stop the fight to time
37:33 out for the nut shot. And he doesn't even look at Herb Dean. He just basically holds his hand out
37:37 like, no, I'm just going to keep fighting. And like five seconds later, he hits him with a with
37:41 a left hook that wasn't even flush and just puts the lights out. So Alex Pajeta, just an incredible
37:46 incredible story hasn't been an MMA fighter for very long. And he's already been the 185 pound
37:51 champion, 205 champion. Now he's talking about going up to heavyweight. So he gets a KO. That's
37:54 great. But after the fight, he gets his jujitsu black belt. Now people were kind of making fun of
38:00 it because it's like, Oh, you got your black belt for in jujitsu, a ground a ground discipline for
38:06 knocking out, you know, a guy like that didn't really make a whole lot of sense. But go over to Shara.
38:10 And you know, his other coaches were giving him his jujitsu black belt. And Dana White,
38:16 again, this is the final fight of the biggest fight card in UFC history from top to bottom,
38:21 the biggest event in UFC history. And Dana White's job is to put the belt on the champion after he
38:27 is announced by Bruce buffer out of reverence for the jujitsu black belt. Dana White puts the UFC 205
38:36 pound lightweight championship belt on his shoulder. And he literally whispers in Pajeta's ear and
38:42 says, Hey, I'm not going to put that over your black belt. It reminded me of when Tyron Woodley
38:49 was, you know, dominating the welterweight division of the UFC. And he was just knocking dudes out.
38:54 And he was defending his title against Darren Till. And so Tyron Woodley is kind of a knockout
38:59 artist or wrestler. Well, he submits Darren Till, I think it was with a Darce joke or something like
39:03 that. And he had just defended his UFC belt for the, you know, second or third time. It's a big deal.
39:10 Darren Till was like the heir apparent to winning the fight. And he or, you know, taking the championship
39:14 for the division. Tyron Woodley just runs right through him ends up subbing him. And they give him
39:19 his black belt in the octagon. And he breaks down in tears. He was shocked. And then he just
39:24 completely broke down in tears. He just won the UFC belt. He just made a few hundred thousand
39:29 dollars for, you know, fighting this guy. But he was in just complete shock because he got his
39:35 black belt. So my bonus takeaway on this first quick hitter is you've just got to start training
39:40 in jujitsu. I know so many men probably hundreds of men at this point that have started training
39:45 jujitsu because of this podcast in part because of this podcast. I constantly talk about the benefits
39:52 of training jujitsu. Obviously it's good for, you know, your cardio and it's, it's good for, you know,
39:56 if you're not very flexible, you'll get more flexible. So you can be better at jujitsu. If you're not
39:59 very strong, you know, you'll get stronger. So you can be better at jujitsu. You know, it's good for
40:03 your brain because when you're doing when you're doing around, you can't think about all the other
40:07 stressors in your life because you're trying to like not get killed. You know, what someone else is
40:11 trying to fold you up in your clothes while you're still in them like all that's very, very good.
40:15 But just think about these guys. The, some of the biggest names and fighting at the time when they
40:21 were fighting and then they get their black belt and that superseded everything else because in
40:26 order to get your black belt like because jujitsu is a real fighting style. This isn't, you know,
40:30 kung fu or karate or wing chung or any of that nonsense where you can get, you know, your black
40:33 belt in like two years from some fat dude down by the airport. Like this is a legit thing where
40:39 if you train three to five times a week and compete fairly often, it's going to take you 10 years
40:45 at most legit schools to get your black belt. I'm seven years in, I'm, you know, purple knocking on
40:50 the door brown, right? And so I'm kind of on pace to, in a decade, get my black belt. That's a PhD,
40:57 y'all. Think about into school context, you get your undergrad in four years, you do two years
41:02 of master's program and then you go get, you know, four more years and get your PhD. That's a PhD
41:07 and whooping people. Like, man, and just think about how much that means all the black belts in our
41:13 school, when they've gotten promoted, I think we have 15 or so black belts that have been promoted.
41:18 Some of the baddest dudes, some of the toughest dudes I know and almost all of them cried when
41:21 they got their black belts, because it means that much you've literally put in hundreds if not thousands
41:26 of hours, dedicated to something that is very, very mentally and physically difficult. And you
41:32 arrive and then you don't stop, you don't get your black belt and stop training. I'm sure there are
41:36 people out there like that. But you get your black belt and you keep training, you get your
41:39 black belt and you realize, man, there are guys that have been black belts for longer than I've
41:43 been training. And I just got my black belt. So to a degree, it's like, well, this journey just
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42:27 Our next quick hitter here, Joe Biden, trying to turn Easter into Tranny Christmas. So this is
42:32 according to the White House themselves. I'm actually going to read from this proclamation that
42:37 they made on Easter this year. On transgender day of visibility, we honor the extraordinary
42:42 courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our nation's commitment to forming
42:46 a more perfect union, where all people are created equal and treated equally throughout their lives.
42:51 I am proud that my administration has stood for justice from the start, working to ensure that
42:55 the LGBTQI+ community can live openly and safety with dignity and respect. I am proud to have
43:01 appointed transgender leaders to my administration and to have ended the ban on transgender Americans
43:06 serving openly in our military. Transgender Americans are part of the fabric of our nation.
43:10 They deserve and are entitled to the same rights and freedoms as every other American,
43:14 including the most fundamental freedom to be their true selves. But extremists are proposing
43:19 hundreds of hateful laws that target and terrify transgender kids and their families,
43:23 silencing teachers, banning books, and even threatening parents, doctors and nurses with prison
43:29 for helping parents get care for their children. No one should have to be brave just to be themselves.
43:36 Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans. You are loved, you are heard,
43:41 you are understood, you belong, you are America, and my entire administration and I have your back.
43:47 Now, therefore, I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., President of the United States, by virtue of the authority
43:54 vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31,
43:59 2024 as transgender day of visibility. I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives
44:06 and voices of transgender people throughout our nation and to work toward eliminating violence
44:11 and discrimination based on gender identity. In witness, we're of I have here to set my hand
44:16 this 29th day of March in the year of our Lord 2024 and of the independence of the United States of
44:22 America and 248th. Yeah, then he signs his name there at the bottom. So let's just go back to some
44:31 of these comments. And I didn't read the entire statement. I just read a lot of the pertinent parts.
44:35 So at the beginning, he talks about the extraordinary courage of transgender people.
44:40 Well, you say there are people of extraordinary courage, but then you also say that if I don't use
44:46 their given pronouns or names or pretend that they are the opposite sex that they're going to kill
44:50 themselves. I've been told that if you don't basically go along with the delusion of a seven
44:59 year old boy that thinks he's a seven year old girl, that the only outcome for that child is that
45:03 they will kill themselves. So how can you simultaneously have extraordinary courage? And when anybody
45:11 says that you're not the thing that you purport to be that you just decide you're going to kill
45:15 yourselves. That doesn't really work out. But he also says he's proud to have appointed transgender
45:21 people to his administration also to the military. Let's talk about the military part. If you have
45:25 flat feet, you can't make it into the military. If you're too fat or on have been on SSR eyes too
45:31 long, you can't get into the military. They're probably going to change all that because basically
45:34 everyone's fat and on SSR eyes now. So that'll eventually change. But basically what he's saying
45:40 is that I am proud that I have removed the band on people with open mental illness serving in our
45:47 military. Because that's what gender dysphoria is. If a grown man thinks that he is a grown woman,
45:54 they have a mental disorder, or they're just cosplaying as a woman, or they are sexually aroused
46:02 by the thoughts of themselves as a woman or dressing up like a woman that's auto guna filia.
46:08 So he is proud that he's allowing that in the military. And we're shocked that corn fed ochis
46:14 and farm bread guys from Nebraska aren't just tripping over themselves to sign up for the
46:20 military. But he also talked about how extremists are proposing hundreds of hateful laws. So again,
46:26 he thinks it is hateful for states like Oklahoma or Florida or other red states to say, yeah,
46:32 we're not going to be cutting off the healthy breast tissue of teenage girls that have a mental
46:37 disorder and need mental help. We're not going to be shaving parts of their arm off, and then
46:42 wrapping it into a phallic like, you know, flesh thing, and then sewing it on top of the vagina of
46:49 a girl to make this fake penis. We're not going to be giving little boys puberty blockers that will
46:55 sterilize them and cause them to have massive issues in the long run. We're not going to do that.
47:01 But those are those are extremists that are hateful. He also talked about the fact that he's claiming
47:07 he was proclaiming that March 31st was transgender day of visibility. So this is where we need to
47:11 get into the fact that, you know, most people were like, I can't believe that he chose Easter as
47:16 transgender day of his ability. We didn't choose Easter as the day because March 31st is apparently
47:21 transgender day of his ability. But the way people were talking about it was as if this was as old
47:26 as time. That since time in Memorial, we have known that March the 31st was transgender day of
47:32 visibility that the Biden administration didn't do this on purpose to take a pot shot at Christians
47:36 or Christianity or conservatism or any of that type of stuff. It's just the way it fell on the
47:40 calendar. But even the Obama administration didn't celebrate praying transgender day of
47:46 visibility. And they were the wokest presidential administration until the Bidens. They didn't celebrate
47:52 this. This just started happening with the Biden administration. Okay. So no, he didn't choose this
47:59 day, but this could have easily been dealt with another way than doing it on Easter on the most
48:03 important day on the Christian calendar. He also talked about eliminating violence. It's not a
48:07 real thing. These people that are being murdered, these supposedly trans people that are being
48:12 murdered, most of them are not being murdered because they identify as the opposite sex. They're
48:16 being murdered because they also do illicit drugs and they get in drug deals and it goes poorly.
48:21 Or they're engaging in prostitution. And that also ends poorly. But the real thing here,
48:26 and this is just how he ends all of his proclamations, but he talks about in the year of our Lord,
48:30 that in the year of our Lord, we're proclaiming this. If you think Joe Biden is a sincere Catholic,
48:38 you're a fool. If you think that Joe Biden is a Christian, you're a fool. He has no reverence
48:44 for the Lord. I can't even tell you that he believes in the Lord. But again, the reaction from the
48:50 right was complete apoplexy. And you know, for good reason, the reaction from the left is this
48:54 is a nothing burger. Let's go to the big takeaway here. This administration, the Joe Biden administration
49:00 is the most hostile United States presidential administration towards Christianity and Christians
49:05 in our nation's history. And there is not a close second. Again, Barack Obama came into office in
49:11 2008 as you know, the great savior, he was gonna, you know, bring the races together and it wasn't
49:16 going to be about red American blue America. It was just going to be about America. But as
49:20 things worked out throughout his administration, he became incredibly, incredibly radical.
49:24 But he looks like a moderate compared to the Biden administration. Now, again, I don't think
49:29 Joe Biden's a Christian. He's certainly not a Catholic. He's certainly not a practicing Catholic.
49:34 But also he's not in control of his own faculties. They have him walking down the
49:38 short stairs of Air Force One, and he's still having problems getting up and down those.
49:42 He has no idea where he's going the other day. He was walking down the short stairs and then
49:46 he turned around to look at people to be like, where do I go? It's like, look more on just walk
49:51 down the stairs. You've got three more steps. Your job is to get from inside the plane to
49:56 the ground. Just freaking keep going. He's not in control of his faculties. And he's probably
50:00 going to be elected president again for a second term. But he is allowing for people that hate
50:07 God and to hate Christians to do things inside of his administration that literally go counter
50:12 to the dictates of God. And so again, any of you Christians out there that are thinking about
50:17 voting for Joe Biden in November, what's wrong with you? Again, this administration,
50:24 if they had complete power, complete control of the courts and complete control of both
50:28 houses of Congress and the White House, they would have abortion for any reason at any point of
50:33 pregnancy and paid for by taxpayer dollars and without apology. They would have, they would remove
50:39 all laws that would ban the, the transing of the children that would ban boys from competing
50:45 in women's sports. And then who the heck else knows what we would have in terms of hate speech
50:51 or hate crime laws. So if I were to proclaim on this podcast that it is abominable for a man
50:56 and a man to have a sexual relationship, I could go to prison. It would be just like what we saw in
51:01 Scotland, where if given the power, you will enforce it on your enemies. And the Joe Biden
51:07 administration is the enemy of God. They certainly are. Our next quick hitter here,
51:12 Caitlin Clark, somehow saving and ruining women's college basketball simultaneously. So let's talk
51:17 about women's basketball. Not a fan. Okay. I've watched women's basketball here and there throughout
51:24 the years. I've accidentally been at women's basketball games in high school and college.
51:29 Basketball is one of the most athletic games possible. And watching women do it is just not
51:36 entertaining to me. You may love it. And hey, that's your thing. But to me, this is a game about
51:41 explosion and, and jumping and dunking. And it's just not what we get from women. That's not what
51:48 they're best at is this, these explosive movements, quick Twitch, it's just not really what we see.
51:53 So not a fan of college basketball. But a few years ago, I remember seeing highlights of this
51:59 white girl from Iowa named Caitlin Clark. And she would just be dribbling up the floor and then
52:04 she would just pull up and shoot, which is not really a thing that you see, because kind of the
52:08 thing with women's basketballs are going to stand there and then they're going to get the ball and
52:10 they're just going to do this kind of weird squat thing and then take their shot, right? But Caitlin
52:15 Clark wasn't doing that. She was shooting the ball like Steph Curry. She was shooting the ball like a
52:18 dude. And I remember thinking, Oh, that's interesting. But then I went back to, you know, sports that I
52:23 actually can't enjoy. And so I didn't really follow Caitlin Clark, Iowa or women's basketball at all.
52:28 But then last year, there was a lot of attention around LSU and Iowa in the women's final four,
52:33 they're in the national championship game. And the, you know, the trash talk that happened between
52:37 one of the LSU players and Caitlin Clark and all that. And so it kind of made the rounds. But then
52:41 this year, it seemed like I couldn't go a few days without seeing a Caitlin Clark highlight,
52:46 even just scrolling Instagram or scrolling Twitter or something like that. So then we get to the
52:50 women's tournament, we get to the final four. And the thing was is every subsequent game that Caitlin
52:55 Clark and Iowa played in, the ratings were astonishingly high. I think for the lead eight game, it was
53:02 like 12 million viewers. And then for their final four game, I don't know who they beat. It was 14
53:08 million viewers. And then in the final, right, the naddy when they played South Carolina and got
53:13 destroyed, that was like 18 million viewers. It was the most viewed women's college basketball
53:18 game. I think of all time, it had more views than any of the men's games. And I think it had more
53:24 views than any of the NBA finals games from last year, where Denver beat whoever, right? And so this
53:30 was like a big deal. This was like becoming a cultural phenomenon. And so you would be thinking
53:35 that everyone would have only nice things to say about Caitlin Clark. But this just wasn't the case.
53:41 There were people like me, people like my buddies that don't watch women's sports or
53:46 when certainly not women's basketball, that are suddenly talking about Caitlin Clark and
53:50 sharing clips around, did you see what she just did? Did you see about the game that she had? Look
53:53 at her line that she had in this game, isn't this crazy? But the hate that Caitlin Clark was getting
53:58 was not coming from men, certainly not coming from men like me that don't even watch the sport,
54:02 but from women inside of her own sport. So let's go to this story from the USA today.
54:08 Even without a championship, her season was still incredible. She managed to captivate
54:13 basketball fans everywhere, just about everyone seemed impressed by what Clark managed to pull
54:17 off the season. Everyone except Diana Tarasi, that is, the Phoenix Mercury legend just hasn't
54:22 really seemed that impressed by Clark over the last few weeks. She took a few shots at the soon-to-be
54:27 WNBA rookie during her NCAA tournament run. And now the Mercury are marketing the team's upcoming
54:32 game against the fever where Clark will be presumably drafted by as Diana Tarasi versus the rookie.
54:38 It's wild. Okay, so since then since this story was written, Caitlin Clark has been drafted number
54:44 one overall by the WNBA, but I want to go right to or not by the WNBA, but in the WNBA, by the
54:50 Mercury or whatever. But let's go to my big takeaway number one. I've got a couple.
54:54 They are saying this. People like Diana, Diana Tarasi are saying this out of an
54:58 an astonishing amount of jealousy. Okay, Diana Tarasi has been considered by many, I guess to be the
55:03 greatest female basketball player of all time. I don't really know that I couldn't give you.
55:06 I couldn't name five women that have played in the WNBA, but I know a lot of people would say
55:11 Diana Tarasi is probably the college goat or was until Caitlin Clark came along. And now she's the
55:16 professional women's basketball goat. Okay. But the reason Diana Tarasi and a lot of these
55:21 people are saying this is out of jealousy because of the attention that she's got and the money that
55:25 she has gotten and will be getting, but there's something even more nefarious afoot here.
55:29 They are saying these things people that don't like Caitlin Clark. They're saying these things
55:34 because she's a white, straight female that played for a university in a red state.
55:40 Because if she were a black lesbian that played for a university in a blue state,
55:47 she would be touted as the greatest athlete of all time. I'm serious. Again, she played for Iowa,
55:54 right? Doesn't get redder than Iowa for the most part, right? But let's say she was a black lesbian
55:59 that played for Cal Berkeley. Again, ESPN would just completely slobber over her and they wouldn't
56:06 allow any critique because that's what ESPN does. If they like you, if you're approved, if you meet
56:12 their matrix of things that they want to support, they're not going to really allow anyone on their
56:16 airwaves to be critical of you. It's just not what they're going to do. But she got so much criticism
56:21 for just playing. And people are so excited when they lost to South Carolina because they're like,
56:25 yeah, see, she's not that good. You would have these dorks that would say, oh, well, she's not
56:29 going to be complete without a championship. She can't be considered the greatest female basketball
56:33 player in college, women's college basketball history unless she wins a championship. It's like,
56:38 dude, there's a tournament. Do you realize how many great college basketball players
56:42 that there have been that didn't win the tournament? Because it's a tournament. You play one game
56:48 over a seven game series. It's really hard to accidentally win four games, but you can accidentally
56:52 win one game in a tournament where you're playing today and then playing again in another, you know,
56:56 two days or something like that. And so it's just all this nonsense. But again, I think it's because
57:01 she was white. She was straight. She doesn't seem to be leaning into any of the culture war stuff.
57:05 So she couldn't be the darling of the liberal media or of ESPN. But I repeat myself. But my big takeaway
57:10 number two on this is that people just don't understand basic economics. So what I'm talking
57:14 about is she gets drafted number one overall to go to the WNBA. And I think her salary is
57:20 like 70 or $80,000 a year. Now, what is the name of the kid that just got drafted number one overall
57:26 by the Spurs? Dude, that's like windy, wind beyond or whatever the dude that's like eight foot tall
57:30 and like a 10 foot wingspan or whatever. So he's making like 12 or 13 million a year as a rookie in
57:37 the NBA. And people are putting those, those numbers beside one another. And they're talking
57:42 about it. And they're saying, you see misogyny. This is hatred of women, right? But it's like,
57:49 if you've, if you understand anything about economics, you can't say things like that,
57:54 because people are like, they need to be making the same amount, right? They somehow need to be
57:59 making $13 million. But as a lot of people pointed out, and they've actually broken down the math,
58:03 the WNBA has been around for 25, 30 years. The WNBA has never turned a profit.
58:09 They've never operated in the black. They've only operated in the red. The only reason that
58:17 it's still a league is because the NBA subsidizes their entire league so that they can have a league.
58:24 Because people will say these things, they'll be like, the women in the WNBA should make their
58:29 fair share. And I guarantee you, you don't want that. Because again, someone did the math,
58:35 and they looked at, okay, let's say they weren't getting any subsidies from the men's league, from
58:40 the NBA, from the actual basketball league. Those women would have to pay tens of thousands of
58:45 dollars to play for those teams. So if you're being nice, they would be making $0. But if you're
58:52 being legitimate, and you're actually just looking at it as a spreadsheet, they would have to pay
58:56 tens of thousands of dollars to play the sport that they want to play. And so they should be thankful
59:02 for every single dollar of salary that they make. But they're not thankful. They're a bunch of
59:08 whiny babies. And then you've got these people that apparently don't don't know anything about
59:12 anything and certainly don't know how money works or numbers work, saying that they should be making
59:16 the same amount of money as the men. But the NBA turns billions of dollars of profit every year.
59:21 That's why these salaries are the way they are. That's why LeBron James and Steph Curry and these
59:26 guys make $50 million a year just in salary has nothing to do with their endorsement deals or any
59:31 other business deals just in salary. It's because the money's there, y'all. You can't be paid with
59:37 money that isn't there. Going back to my MMA stuff, everyone would always complain about Mighty Mouse
59:42 not making enough money and not getting the love. Well, nobody cared to watch him fight.
59:46 It's prize fighting. You might be the best exes and owes fighter on the planet earth. But if
59:51 nobody cares to watch you fight, there's no money to pay you with. This is not a charity. This is a
59:57 business. Get real. Alright, the next quick hitter here. It's a heavy one. It's a tough one. But a
1:00:02 gay man in Chicago being arrested for allegedly distributing child pornography and planning to
1:00:07 rape his newborn son. So this is according to the Chicago Sun times, a Chicago veterinarian and
1:00:12 dog show judge allegedly distributed child pornography and had plans to sexually abuse his
1:00:17 newborn son according to federal prosecutors. Adam Stafford King 39 of Elburn allegedly sent
1:00:23 several images and videos depicting child pornography to a person in New York via the messaging app
1:00:27 telegram while using the handle at Perve Child Dude. I'm not exactly what that is. Perve Child Dude,
1:00:33 I'm not sure what that is. According to a complaint filed last week in the US District Court of the
1:00:37 Northern District of Illinois, King was arrested Friday, March the 23rd in charge with distribution
1:00:42 of child pornography, according to federal court records. In one message, King said that he had
1:00:47 previously drugged and sexually abuse his nieces and nephews by giving them the allergy medicine
1:00:52 binadrill, the complaint claims. He also allegedly said that he and his husband are expecting a child
1:00:58 by surrogate due in spring and that he plans to sexually assault the child after it's born.
1:01:04 King sent a photograph of a baby's outfit in the same text conversation according to the complaint.
1:01:10 He also sent ultrasound photographs of the unborn child on two separate occasions
1:01:14 and absolutely diabolically evil and horrific story. Big takeaway number one, I've got a couple.
1:01:22 Castration, public execution. Who says no? Again, if found guilty by a jury of his peers,
1:01:32 because he needs to have his day in court, he is a due due process, right? But if he's guilty,
1:01:40 why would we not castrate him and then publicly execute him? Why would we not send a message
1:01:46 to other sexual deviance that if you distribute this type of material and if you do the things that
1:01:52 you said that you want to do and that you have done to children, why in the world will we not
1:01:57 punish you? Again, I go back to a scripture in the book of Judges where it talks about when you do
1:02:01 not bring justice speedily, it allows people with evil hearts to continue doing the things
1:02:08 that they're doing. So let's say he is convicted in Illinois. I don't think they do the death penalty
1:02:14 in Illinois. It's a blue state. But let's say he was in Oklahoma, right? Here we're going to throw
1:02:19 you to the front of the line if you do something like this. But then he's going to be on death row
1:02:24 for 20 years, maybe 30 years, and then maybe have his sentence commuted by some squishy governor
1:02:30 at the at the 11th hour. No, if he is convicted, he should get one more chance, right? So you know,
1:02:39 you may have had a bad bad trial. So maybe get new lawyers and all that you get one more chance.
1:02:43 And if the sentence is upheld, you're executed at dawn. And for those that do these types of crimes
1:02:49 against children, you're castrated first. So you will be in utter suffering until you're
1:02:55 mercifully executed in public. And I don't care how they do it firing squad, hanging guillotine.
1:03:01 Who says no? Have we somehow evolved past executing people in an expedient way that have done these
1:03:09 horrific things? Why in the world should taxpayers have to pay for that piece of filth to live for
1:03:15 all this time? Why should we have to do that? Big takeaway number two, I want you to remember
1:03:21 what I've been saying about surrogacy and gay adoption. Talked about this a little bit on the
1:03:26 IVF episode and I've talked about it. When other stories like this have come up, this will keep
1:03:31 happening. Because we're doing mail order babies for gay men. There's a story I talked about, I think
1:03:39 last year was these two gay fathers that were married, quote, unquote, married. And then they
1:03:44 adopted these two boys and they were not only sexually abusing them and raping them, they were
1:03:49 pimping them out to their gay pedophilic friends. These two should have never been allowed to adopt
1:03:55 these boys to begin with. And now we're allowing gay men to swirl their sperm to take an egg donor,
1:04:03 combine that, use the IVF process to then implant that human being into the rented uterus and
1:04:11 subsequently womb of a woman. And then on the back end, they just hand it right over. They don't
1:04:20 allow this this baby to to feel the touch and warmth of its mother outside the womb. They just
1:04:24 take it from one room to another room. And they allow these these satanic losers to like sit there
1:04:31 on a bed as if they had just got through doing something holding their baby that they ordered
1:04:36 from a catalog. They got the right type of egg donor at the right time of year and the right type
1:04:41 of surrogate and the right nutrition and all that kind of stuff. And we just hand them over.
1:04:45 You think stuff like this isn't going to keep happening? Again, yes, I'm fully aware that there
1:04:51 are heterosexual couples that will foster or adopt children and sexually abuse them. Obviously,
1:04:56 there are plenty of examples of that. And I think that those people as well should be castrated
1:05:00 and publicly executed. But in situations like this, the best case scenario is you're putting a
1:05:05 child into a household where an abominable sin of homosexuality is celebrated. And they're not
1:05:12 going to be seeing a mother of any kind. That's best case scenario. One of the worst case scenarios
1:05:19 is something like this, where literally this satanic piece of filth was able to order a child
1:05:28 with his husband with the plan of sexually abusing them after they were born.
1:05:34 Help me understand. There's not a good argument for it. I'm telling you.
1:05:38 All right, last quick hitter of the day, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics,
1:05:42 that's an AI adopting a new policy banning males from competing in women's sports. So this is
1:05:47 according to CNN, the NIA voted to adopt a new policy on Monday. This was a couple months ago
1:05:52 that effectively bans transgender women from participating in most of its women's intercollegiate
1:05:56 sports programs. The NIA and athletic association consisting of 241 mostly small member colleges
1:06:03 and universities, as of 2023, governs intercollegiate athletics for more than 83,000 student athletes
1:06:09 according to its website. According to the organization's new transgender participation policy,
1:06:13 only NIA student athletes whose biological sex is female may participate in NIA sponsored female
1:06:19 sports. They define biological sex as having distinguishing characteristics that can be supported
1:06:24 by birth certificate or signed affidavit. Scientists and advocates for the LGBTQ community argue that
1:06:29 such definitions do not reflect the biological complexity of sex and gender. And they stress
1:06:34 that biology does not override a person's gender identity. That was printed in a news article. I
1:06:41 have to read this last section here first. That's why I included it. Scientists and advocates for
1:06:45 the LGBTQ community argue that such definitions do not reflect the biological complexity of sex
1:06:51 and gender. And they stress that biology does not override a person's gender identity. That's
1:06:56 presented as news, y'all, right to my big takeaway here. Because a lot of people talked about, oh,
1:07:03 NIA, great job. NCAA's on the clock. NCAA's never going to do this. But feminism and transgenderism
1:07:10 can't mix. And you're seeing that on full display here. But in the victim Olympics,
1:07:16 apparently, trainees are higher than real women. Because feminists have fought for equality.
1:07:23 Right to vote, right to drive in some countries, making the same amount as men, you know, given the
1:07:28 same opera, same opportunity. And you know, the glass ceiling and shattering all the glass ceiling
1:07:33 and something like that. And trainees are like, yeah, hold my beer. Dudes and dresses are like,
1:07:38 yeah, watch this. And these women are shocked. These third and fourth wave feminism women are
1:07:44 absolutely shocked that dudes and dresses are usurping them in the victim Olympics.
1:07:50 Because it used to be, oh, that poor woman, she's only making 70 cents for every, you know,
1:07:55 70 cents on the dollar that a man makes, which is completely bunk and completely made up.
1:07:58 Like all these poor women not getting the same opportunities. They're not getting into these
1:08:02 colleges and all they're not making as much as the men, all that other stuff. But now we have this.
1:08:06 Feminism and transgenderism, these are these are both movements of the left. They're trying to
1:08:13 figure out how do we operate together? Because LGBT, the T's and the L's that they can't really
1:08:19 jive or just the feminists, they can't really understand the T part because it doesn't really
1:08:24 mix here. It doesn't really work because you can't advocate for the rights of women and protecting
1:08:30 those rights. And then also say, yeah, but let's go ahead and let men and women's spaces.
1:08:34 Let's allow men to go into female changing areas like locker rooms and just, you know,
1:08:40 swing their, their wieners around and watch the women as they undress.
1:08:45 How can a feminist support that they certainly can't, but you will be seen as bigoted if you
1:08:49 don't support that. So you have a feminist like the author of the Harry Potter series, JK Rowling.
1:08:54 She's very open about wanting to protect women and girls. And she's seen as a transphobe by saying,
1:09:00 no, you shouldn't compete in women's sports. It's not fair. What's the reason has nothing to do with,
1:09:06 uh, oh, you know, uh, lung capacity and red blood cell count and all that type of stuff.
1:09:10 It's because it's not rights because you're not a woman. This is easy. You're not a girl.
1:09:15 So you can't play girls sports, boy. You can't do that.
1:09:18 But as we continue to see this unfold, we have the left going further left on this issue,
1:09:24 specifically as it pertains to transing the kids, we have the title nine changes that have come,
1:09:28 and that that just came here recently. I'll be talking about that on a future episode,
1:09:31 what the Biden administration has done to title nine, basically destroying women's sports in a
1:09:35 lot of ways, allowing men to apply for women's colleges and for women's scholarships and taking
1:09:41 women's opportunities. But again, where this all goes is nowhere good, except for the fact that
1:09:47 these feminists might wake up and realize, wait a minute, the logical outworking of a leftist,
1:09:52 liberal point of view and logic, if there is such a thing is this. It's people that are so
1:09:59 clearly not women taking rights away and opportunities away from women. So maybe they'll turn around
1:10:06 and get real and be like, wait a minute. I need to question everything that has gotten me to this
1:10:10 point philosophically, because it just doesn't work in real life. So hopefully that that happens,
1:10:15 but I'm not going to hold my breath. All right, guys, for let's go, we are going to do a quick
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