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So this interview today, I'm not interview, this solo episode today, this is the last
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solo episode that I'm recording before my surgery.
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Okay.
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So if you're new to the show, I'm getting vocal cord surgery on Monday the 10th.
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Okay.
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So I'm recording this on Monday the third.
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So you guys are going to be hearing this on Thursday if you're listening on time, but
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I'm going to be getting surgery on my vocal cords.
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I've had vocal cord problems basically since college.
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They've exacerbated and gotten worse and worse over time earlier this year.
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It got so bad that I was literally not even communicating at home.
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I was basically using sign language and texting to my wife and basically whispering to my children.
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And I've seen lots of doctors.
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I've gone through a whole bunch of different therapies and potential remedies and a bunch
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of different tax.
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And now I'm going to be going under the knife.
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So they will be making an incision in my neck and going in there and, you know, moving some
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stuff around and adding some stuff and whatever.
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And hopefully that fixes what's going to be happening.
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And I just want to say thank you so much to all the guys that have sent me DMS and emails
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and have called and just from people from all over the world that are praying for me
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that want to see the surgery go well.
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They're praying for the hands of the surgeons and the nurses because, you know, this is,
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this is what I do.
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You know, I talk for a living.
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I think up things and then I talk them through my face hole and, you know, I do it into this
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microphone or I'll do it live at other places.
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It's kind of one of those things like if you're a pitcher and all of a sudden you're going
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to have to have the elbow surgery, right?
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Like it's like, oh man, like that's my calling card.
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That's why I'm here on this planet is to throw baseballs really fast and, you know, things
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don't go well.
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That could be that.
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So I feel a lot of weight on this particular episode today, not the least of which because
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of the subject matter, because a lot of the things that we're going to talk about on the
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show are really, really serious.
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But in my head, I'm like, is this the last time I'm going to record?
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You know, I certainly hope not.
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But this, this, you know, the, the surgery, it doesn't have a high chance of having complications,
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but there is a complication, it could affect my ability to talk in general, much less talk
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into a microphone for you guys for 45 minutes to an hour every week or something like that.
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But I did want to kind of go over a little bit of housekeeping things with you in terms
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of what the show is going to look like from here because a lot of you that have watched
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the show for any length of time, you've gotten used to the cadence of me doing the forging
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table episode on Sunday, typically an interview on Tuesday, and then on Thursday, either a
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solo episode with quick hitters or another interview.
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So what we're going to do is over the last couple of months, I've, I've literally gone
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wire to wire and worn myself out to get a bunch of stuff in the can ready for release.
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So I've got a lot of forging table episodes.
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Thank you to my team here for helping me get those all squared away.
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So forging table episodes will continue to be released on Sundays.
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And then Tuesdays, I've got a lot of interviews that have, that are unreleased are literally
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just sitting here on my computer.
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I'm going to be releasing those and then we're going to be skipping the Thursday episodes.
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Okay.
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That's going to be the cadence, the release schedule for the foreseeable future, maybe
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at least the next couple of months.
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And then assuming things go back, maybe like in June, you know, or things go well, rather,
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then June, I'll come back and do my episodes and record new interviews and those types
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of things.
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But I've got enough content out there to basically, because I love you guys.
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I want to keep getting this content over there to you.
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That's again, you know, I'm so thankful for you guys, whether you're a donor or not a donor,
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just a supporter, you know, our show was in the top 1% of shows shared on Spotify last
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year.
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So that's you guys just sending a text message with our episodes to other people.
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I'm so, so thankful for that.
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So kind of as a payoff, I have not missed a week of releasing podcasts since 2017, since
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we launched this thing.
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And so that's with, you know, the birth of two kids, that's with sickness.
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That's with all kinds of other craziness, travel schedules and different things that
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have been going on.
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And so I'm not going to let this surgery and the potential issues with my voice stop this
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from, from happening.
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So you will be getting two more episodes a week and then we may go back up to three.
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We may keep it at two, we'll just kind of have to see.
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But again, thank you guys so, so very much for all of your kindness and all of your
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concern.
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I will say kind of where I'm at because I constantly get asked, I might as well answer
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it here.
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Are you nervous?
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Are you scared?
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Like, are you prepared?
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The thing is, is like there's nothing I can do to prepare.
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Like I literally feel and I've said this before that I'm the hoopty that somebody drives around
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until they're driving on to the lot to pick up a new car and the hoopty literally bursts
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into flames in the parking lot of the car dealership.
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Like that's what I feel like I'm doing.
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Like I'm wearing my voice all the way completely out, going into surgery and hoping that this
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surgery is able to take care of this.
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I am scared.
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I'm not really scared of not waking up or you know, my voice being completely destroyed
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even though there, there is an option that that may happen.
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I'm mainly scared that it's not going to get better because it's like, I don't really
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have anywhere else to go after this.
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You know, we, we prayed, we've gone to doctors, we've asked for healing, we've, we've gotten
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treated for healing and then here we are where I'm struggling to get through a podcast.
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You can probably tell if you're watching me right now, I've got lozenges, you know, in
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my cheeks.
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I've got more ready to go.
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I've got honey right there.
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I've got tea right here.
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I've got water.
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I've got throat spray.
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I've got everything to get me through today, but that's just not conducive to a long-term
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career in speaking and podcasting.
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And so that's just kind of where I'm at.
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So if this is the last time I talked to you guys live, it's been a great ride, you know,
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we'll keep the website up until, you know, the internet is no more, but we're just so
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happy that we can produce this stuff for you guys.
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So we pray that that will continue.
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So today we are going to be doing normal quick hitters.
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So this is what we're going to be going over in the quick hitter segment, former president
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Donald Trump getting indicted, disgraced former Hillsong pastor Carl Lynn's getting a new
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job in ministry in my home state of Oklahoma, the Wall Street Journal survey showing very
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disturbing trends in America, a Penn State wrestler getting into hot water for calling
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Muhammad a false prophet and then Florida governor Ron DeSantis winning again with parents.
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But today we are obviously going to be talking about the Nashville shooting.
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The name of today's episode is Nashville shooting when the victim becomes the victimizer and
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there are scare quotes around the victim and we'll certainly get more into that.
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Now for some of you guys, maybe you've already forgotten that this even went down.
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I'm recording this and this went down a week ago.
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But as you can see, the, the new cycle turns over, Donald Trump's dominating the news cycle.
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By the time you hear this, because as of right now, he's just been indicted, but he will
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be arraigned probably Tuesday this week.
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And there may be pictures floating around him and handcuffs and who knows what that's going
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to be.
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But the news cycle has certainly turned over that as I've done before with other shootings
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or other massacres or other big news stories is I tried to do the opposite of what most
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people do.
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What most people do is they run to the mic.
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They run in front of the camera and they just start talking, right?
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Before we have even a modicum of detail that would be required to give a full-throated
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response to what we've seen.
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They just run and react.
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And so then over the next several weeks, they have to retract and be like, Oh, I said
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this and this didn't end up being the case.
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I like to wait and see when there's been a tragedy, I like to wait to see what's actually
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happened.
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Was the evidence that we see?
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What are the videos?
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What are people's opinions?
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How are people trying to spin this?
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What is the news media trying to do with this story?
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And so that's what I've done here because I guess my thought is, is if you're immediate
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thought after a tragedy of any kind, including the one in Nashville is tweet or, you know,
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just react and not pray, there's something broken in you and there's certainly been something
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broken in me.
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I'm preaching to myself here.
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That's why I've had to be very active in making sure that I wait and see and try to understand
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what's happening.
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And that certainly goes for both sides of this issue.
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And guys, just I'm going to be taking a lot of breaks today, drink a water, doing that.
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So just bear with me here.
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But let's talk about the incident.
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So we could go Monday, March the 27th, a 28 year old piece of human filth named Audrey
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Elizabeth Hale walked into a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee,
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with two rifles and a handgun and proceeded to kill six people before she herself was
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killed by quick responding police officers.
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So she actually shot through glass exterior doors that were locked and proceeded to make
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her way into the school where she hunted for victims and the victims were three adults
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and three young children.
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So Evelyn Dicouse was nine years old, Haley Scruggs, nine years old.
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She's actually the daughter of the lead pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church, which was
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over that school.
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And William Kinney, nine years old.
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And then the adults were Cynthia Peake, 61 years old.
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She was a substitute teacher at the school, Catherine Coons, 60 years old.
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She was actually the head of the school.
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She was killed as she was running towards the assailant.
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And then Mike Hill, who was the 61 year old custodian at the school.
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So the murderer was a former student of that school was autistic, was receiving treatment
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for an emotional disorder, which we haven't gotten a lot of detail and most notably identified
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as transgender.
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So police searched the parents home where this murdering POS lived and found a detailed map
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of the school where the attack took place and a manifesto, which, you know, as of the
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recording of this podcast has not been released to the public.
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We'll talk more about that a little bit later.
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And they've already said that, well, actually, let's talk about it now.
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They're already saying that they will not be releasing this murderer's manifesto.
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Now they may end up releasing it eventually or releasing part of it, maybe redacting part
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of it or something like that, but they have not signaled that they will do that.
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I would assume that this has a lot to do with what is probably in the manifesto, which we
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can assume is a bunch of complaints about how this person was othered in their life as
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a quote unquote trans person, even though there's no such thing as that there are people that
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think they're the opposite sex, but in reality, that doesn't actually exist.
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And, you know, basically the manifesto, we'll talk about how much they blame Christians
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or right wingers or something like that.
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The manifesto is very likely going to make the LGBTQ lobby look complicit in what's going
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on here as well.
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I certainly think there is a political component to the fact that we haven't seen the manifesto
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yet because if this had been a white supremacist that went and shot up a predominantly black
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school and there was a manifesto, it would have been on Twitter immediately.
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So there's certainly something political going on as to why we haven't seen that yet.
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But as of now, the Nashville Police Department has not released an official motive for the
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attack, but it all seems rather obvious at this point.
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So there were the typical immediate reactions, right?
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The shock and horror.
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Some people are like, Oh, no, not again.
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You know, everyone kind of ran to their side of the gun debate, you know, left on and right,
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you know, liberals and leftists started blaming the guns and Republicans, you know, blaming
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Republican policies, I guess, and then conservatives immediately key in on the mental state of
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the murderer, mostly their identification as transgender.
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And a lot of people on both sides said a, you know, a bunch of crap that was either ill
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informed and accurate or just flat out lies.
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And that's what happens when you're trying to respond and react in the in the moment.
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And then the initial reaction from co-president Biden was especially egregious for its level
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of ridiculousness.
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And so if you're not watching this on YouTube or rumble, I'm sure you've seen this clip.
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But this was co-president Biden after he found out about what happened in Nashville and he
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was coming down to address an event that was, that had nothing to do with the news conference
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to be fair.
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But look at his, the way that he is talking here from the very, very jump right after
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he found out about six Americans dying.
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Let's go to the clip here.
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My name is Joe Biden.
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I'm Dr. Joe Biden's husband and I use ice cream chocolate chip.
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I came down because they heard there was chocolate chip ice cream.
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By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs.
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I think I'm kidding.
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I mean, he just goes on and on and on like that, you know, it'd be one thing if you're
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trying to get everybody to kind of relax and, you know, hey, let's kind of ease into this
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thing before we talk about something kind of heinous.
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And again, it's kind of hard because he's clearly mentally handicapped at this point.
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Like even if you voted for him, you have to admit that he's not all there.
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But the fact that this dolt came out there and it's just basically talking about ice
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cream.
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Like, man, it's not the only egregious thing the White House has done, but we'll certainly
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get into that.
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But almost immediately you knew that there was more to this story than just some demon
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murdering people, including children in cold blood.
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And that's because the headlines and stories that started coming out from the media were
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shocking, absolutely shocking.
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And the initial reports stated accurately that it was a female that carried out this
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heinous attack because it was a female.
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And now that in and of itself is pretty shocking, right?
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Because I think that, you know, a female, this was only the fourth female mass shooter
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in US history, or it's something like that, very, very small number of female mass shooters.
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But then things started to really, really get strange.
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Okay.
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So USA USA Today tweeted this the day of the killings.
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Police on Monday afternoon said that the shooter was a transgender man.
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Officials have a knit had initially misidentified the gender of the shooter.
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And I mean, when I saw that, I was like, why does that matter?
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So that they said that the shooter was a transgender man, but they had initially said that they
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were biologically female.
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Like, what does that matter?
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But then it just kept going.
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Newsweek tweeted this the day of the killings, drag shows and gender affirming care for minors
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were banned in Tennessee this month, while assault weapons remain legal.
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NBC News writer Benjamin Ryan tweeted this the day of the killings, NBC has ID the Nashville
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school shooter as Audrey Hale, 28, who identifies as transgender and had no previous criminal
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record.
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Nashville is home to the Daily Wire, a hub of anti-trans activity by Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro,
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and Michael Knowles.
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It's getting weirder and weirder.
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And there were literally hundreds more headlines and tweets and articles like those.
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And it seemed like people were kind of tripping all over themselves to try to be accommodating
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to the preferred pronouns of someone that was killed after they murdered six people, including
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three children in cold blood.
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Now if we took the totality of the mainstream media's coverage in response to this, it basically
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comes down to two main narratives that this happened because number one, guns and number
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two, Christian bigotry, again, we're, we're absolving the murdering piece of garbage of,
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of all responsibility because it's the guns fault, which are inanimate objects in Christian
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bigotry, which is basically just a philosophy to these people.
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And this is even evidenced by Reuters.
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They had a tweet from the day after the murders where they said, former Christian school student
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kills three children, three staff in Nashville shooting.
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Now when you first read that headline, you might be thinking to yourself, well, there's
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not a whole lot of there there.
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Like that's exactly what happened.
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It was a former Christian school student that did that.
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But is that the main thing that we get from the story or are organizations like Reuters
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trying to set up the Christian bigotry angle?
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But for the mainstream media, that doesn't always cut it, right?
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Where they could just easily put out some narrative and just kind of stand behind it.
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They have to go deeper and they had to go farther in this case.
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And the reason is because they had a predicament.
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Their predicament was, in this case, the quote unquote victim in their eyes, you know, the
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downtrodden, the downtrodden LGBTQIA plus member was actually the victimizer and they knew
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that they knew that in order to report the story accurately.
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That's how they had to describe it.
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And in their worldview, victims can never be victimizers.
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It's not possible.
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Additionally, victims are not responsible for their own actions because of how oppressed
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they are.
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And yet the warm dead bodies of six people, including three children, laid at the feet
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of this trans quote unquote victim.
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Now a lot of people engage in hyperbole after the story.
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And when you have any type of a tragedy, there's a lot of hyperbole to go around.
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And I don't like to engage in hyperbole because I kind of have an extreme personality.
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I like to be bold and all those different things, but I don't try to be hyperbolic for
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the sake of being hyperbolic, okay?
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So think of that what I just said when I'm about to say what I'm about to say then in
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this whole situation, we all got to witness one of the most nefarious things, the mainstream
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media and the left, but I repeat myself, have ever done in history.
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They managed to turn this murdering demonic psychopath into a martyr.
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They literally turned the victimizer into the victim.
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Here's a tweet from the US Daily Mail, the day after the murders, exclusive Nashville
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Mass School shooter was rejected by her Christian parents.
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Then there was this tweet by NBC news the day after the murders, fear pervades Tennessee's
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trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter's gender identity.
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We were already fearing for our lives.
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Now it's even worse.
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And then we had a bunch of leftist trans protesters storm the Tennessee state Capitol, which,
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you know, side note, is the worst thing ever since they stormed the Oklahoma state Capitol,
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which is the worst thing ever since January 6, which is the worst thing ever since 9/11,
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which is the worst thing ever since Pearl Harbor.
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I mean, that's how we're supposed to do this, right?
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You know, democracy almost died because people, you know, storm the Tennessee Capitol building.
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And these protesters were videoed holding up seven figures or seven fingers rather, seven
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fingers.
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Why did they do that?
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Well, they were trying to signify silly you that there weren't six victims in this case.
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There were seven, seven victims.
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They added the piece of human debris murderer to the list of victims.
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Every death is a tragedy, but especially when a misunderstood trans person is killed.
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Again, ignoring the fact that they had just murdered six people and were planning to
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murder as many more as they could after that.
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So this sentiment was actually echoed by a radical transgender group called the trans
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resistant network trans resistance network TRN trans resistance network.
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They said that this incident was a dual tragedy, okay?
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The first tragedy being, you know, you know, the slaughter of six innocent people, including
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three children.
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And here's the quote from their statement that they released.
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The second and more complex tragedy is that Aiden or Audrey Hale, who felt he had no other
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effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others and by consequence
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himself, oh, okay.
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So this person who went and bought firearms with the express purpose of targeting children
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for murder and a few adults got in the way, they just, they couldn't find another way to
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be themselves to be seen.
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So they just had to lash out.
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It wasn't their fault.
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They had to.
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They were forced to.
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The media has an objective.
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They always have this objective and that is to deflect blame onto the people that they
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don't like because as we know, if the shooter is an avowed white supremacist or a Trump supporter
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or has ever voted Republican or something like that, it's easy.
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The narrative is already baked in.
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We already know those people are the worst types of people on the planet.
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But if the mass killer is a person of color or identifies as LGBTQ or something, it'll
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be a little more difficult, but they can still pull it off, right?
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They just have to blame conservatives and Christians for being too mean and judgmental, right?
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It's the classic, you know, the devil made me do it kind of thing.
21:57
You know, supporters of the second amendment will always be blamed.
22:01
Christians will always be blamed if it's a class that they can point to and say, yeah,
22:04
this is a sinful behavior and you shouldn't do that.
22:07
That's what they were going to do.
22:09
And this all kind of reminds me guys of the interview that I did with Lisa Childers last
22:13
year.
22:14
So she had me on her show.
22:15
We had a great interview.
22:16
And this was the question she asked me.
22:17
I think after she moved on to like her, her patreon side or whatever, just asking me a
22:20
few more questions.
22:22
And you know, we had talked about Jesus overturning the tables in the temple, which he actually
22:25
did twice not once.
22:26
He did it once at the beginning of his ministry and once towards the end of his ministry after
22:29
he returned back, you know, to Jerusalem, you know, after Palm Palm Sunday.
22:34
And she asked me a great question.
22:37
She asked me what tables would Jesus overturn today?
22:41
I started out with all of them, but then I landed on trans, the trans ideology because
22:48
it is completely counter to the narrative that we get from scripture about God making
22:53
us in his image, male and female, he made us.
22:57
And how more apt is that than this situation and what we've seen with this egregious conduct
23:02
by the media?
23:03
And we'll talk more about that.
23:04
But for their part, the Joe Biden White House has been just simply unforgivable during this
23:10
time, unforgivable.
23:12
So press secretary, Korean Jean Pierre said this week, our hearts go out to the, or this
23:17
would have been last week, our hearts go out to the trans community as they are under attack
23:22
right now.
23:24
Really?
23:25
We're talking about the trans community because I don't remember Korean Jean Pierre talking
23:32
about Christians being targeted for destruction, which is exactly what happened in this case.
23:38
And if that weren't enough, in addition to the chocolate chip ice cream, moronic statement
23:43
that he said when he first came down to address people, then last Thursday, co-president Biden
23:48
issued a proclamation to mark March the 31st of 2023, which would have been last Friday
23:55
as transgender day of visibility.
23:58
And he couldn't just do that.
24:00
He proclaimed in the proclamation, quote, transgender Americans shape our nation's soul.
24:09
Unquote transgender Americans shape our nation's soul.
24:14
This proclamation was issued three days after a trans person snatched the lives of six Americans,
24:20
including three children.
24:23
It's not tone deaf, like it's not like, Oh, you know, they got around the table.
24:28
Nobody mentioned.
24:29
It's probably not the week to talk about the transgender day of visibility and how those
24:33
types of people shape our nation.
24:35
So probably not the best time to do that.
24:38
And with all this and with all these stories, there's all this focus on the killer.
24:44
And frankly, I get it, you know, I'd rather know more about this murderous vile creature
24:48
than less.
24:49
Yeah.
24:50
I'd rather learn from their darkness again, a daughter lives here to equipment to push
24:53
back darkness.
24:54
You can't do that.
24:55
If your ears are plugged in your eyes recovered, right?
24:56
We need to be able to see the darkness.
24:59
But there are some very important people that are being lost in the focus of Audrey Hale,
25:01
and it's obviously the victims.
25:03
And there are some others as well, but the victims themselves, again, I'll say their
25:06
names.
25:07
Evelyn Dicouse, nine years old, Haley Scruggs, nine years old, William Kinney, nine years
25:11
old, Cynthia Peake, 61, Catherine Coons, 60, and Mike Hill, 61.
25:18
How much do we know about them?
25:21
Because we know a lot about the murderer.
25:24
But even in my research for this episode, I was just trying to find information about
25:28
these people beyond just their job and beyond, you know, people are sad and it's hard to
25:33
find anything on them.
25:35
And then another couple of people that are not going to get as much plays they need to
25:40
in this situation are their heroic officers that shot and killed the murderer.
25:44
So that's Michael Cleazzo, 31 years old.
25:47
He was nine year veteran of the police force in a marine vet and Rex Engelbert, 27 years
25:51
old, four year veteran of the police force.
25:54
And guys, just side note here, if you haven't watched the body cam video from these two
25:57
guys, you need to.
25:59
It's in the show notes.
26:00
And I mean, the entire thing from both guys, okay, I mean, it was masterful.
26:05
Now, I follow guys on social media and, you know, other different people that have heaps
26:10
of tactical experience, right?
26:12
Actual downrange tactical experience, not just kicking indoors, you know, on some dudes land
26:16
in the middle of Texas.
26:18
And many of them can be very, you know, curmudgeony with tactical mistakes, you know, they'll post
26:23
videos and point out the tactical mistakes and all that there.
26:26
They're doing it so that people will learn, but, you know, it's kind of like, you know,
26:28
just kind of nitpicking.
26:29
And I'm sure some mistakes were made that we see from these videos from these two officers.
26:34
But everyone that I saw was incredibly pleased with the performances of all the officers
26:39
and especially a kayazzo in Engelbert, especially considering the footage we saw from the officers
26:44
in Uvaldi.
26:45
I've obviously talked about that a lot on the show I talked a lot about at the time.
26:50
But cowards, in every sense of the word, they can literally hear children being systematically
26:56
murdered.
26:57
They're sitting there in the hallway, waiting on a key, waiting on permission over the radio.
27:02
One guy's getting a hand sanitizer, right, just sitting there with their thumbs up their
27:05
buds.
27:07
And isn't it so interesting that we have these two officers, kayazzo in an Engelbert,
27:13
these guys are sheepdogs, toxically masculine sheepdogs.
27:21
And they're being hailed as heroes today.
27:24
But had they not interceded to take out this murdering piece of garbage, they would have
27:28
just been toxically masculine sheepdogs, not even characterized as sheepdog in a good way.
27:34
And you know, they kind of look white, they're like kind of white officers, and so they're
27:37
probably racist and they're probably going around hunting black people, right?
27:42
Because their police officer, their pigs, right?
27:47
But in this situation, aren't we so glad that a couple of toxically masculine guys engage
27:52
this killer, along with about a dozen other toxically masculine police officers that ran
27:57
towards the sound of violence, towards the sound of danger?
28:02
Because that's the third group that's not getting any play here are all the other officers
28:07
that ran into the school and would have shot and killed the murderer or died trying.
28:12
Do we know any of their names?
28:15
Do we know anything about them?
28:17
So just let me just ask you, how much do you know about any of these people?
28:21
I mean, I'm pretty informed on current events and in this particular situation, it's kind
28:26
of my job to be.
28:27
But admittedly, I know a lot more about the murderer right off the top of my head than
28:30
I do about anybody else in this situation, any of the other people that I mentioned.
28:34
And I think that's part of the sickness of situations like these is that we focus on
28:38
the murderers.
28:39
I mean, we know by heart the names Dylan, Klebold, and Eric Harris, but can any of us
28:45
name any of their 13 victims whenever they shot up Columbine High School in 1999?
28:51
And again, they intended to have bombs go off in the cafeteria.
28:54
It was supposed to be more of a bloodbath than it ended up being 13 people killed about
28:57
another couple of dozen that were injured, right?
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I can name Dylan, Klebold, and Eric Harris can't name any other victims.
29:06
That's a damnable thing about a situation like this.
29:11
So I have a lot of thoughts on this story.
29:14
And so I'm going to go through some random ones and then we're going to start breaking
29:16
some things down.
29:17
And yes, we will go into the quick hitters, but guys, this is just going to be a marathon
29:19
episode. It might be my last who Ross.
29:21
So here we go.
29:23
I'm not even going to be doing an enormous breakdown of the facts in the myths of gun
29:26
violence in America on this show.
29:28
I'm also not going to be doing a huge breakdown of a biblical defense for self defense either.
29:33
Why?
29:34
Because I've already done that.
29:35
So after the slayings in Uvaldi, Texas, I recorded episode 315 of this podcast.
29:39
And that's called standing on the bodies of murdered kids in order to take your guns.
29:44
And so if you want that type of information, go back to episode 315 in all humility, guys,
29:48
I have to admit that that episode is a masterclass on those subjects.
29:52
So please go back and listen to episode 315 of this podcast will be in the show notes.
29:56
But here are some of my thoughts.
29:57
They're not in any particular order.
29:58
This is kind of how they ended up in the notes on my phone or the text message threads
30:01
that I send to myself.
30:03
This is clearly a coordinated attack.
30:05
This was clearly a coordinated attack to kill Christians.
30:09
The forthcoming evidence, the more that we learn will only work to confirm that.
30:14
And where is all the outrage that Christians were targeted specifically for being Christians?
30:21
Because if this group were a group of Muslims that were targeted simply for being Muslim,
30:27
people would be losing their minds.
30:29
If this was a targeted attack on LGBTQ people or Democrats or leftists or communists or socialists,
30:35
people would be losing their minds.
30:37
But you know, it's just a bunch of Christians that died.
30:39
So no big deal, right?
30:40
They were probably big at it anyway.
30:42
You know, that, that book that they read that they claim comes from God.
30:45
Yeah, it's just got a bunch of bigoted stuff in there, right?
30:48
Coordinated attack to kill Christians and we're not allowed to talk about it.
30:52
Also where are all the calls for a supposed hate crime?
30:58
Because every time an unarmed black man is killed by a police officer, typically after
31:01
they were trying to kill the police officer first or someone else, we always hear about
31:04
hate crimes, right?
31:06
Now, as I've said before and probably not in as much detail as I would have liked, I
31:09
think hate crime is just a useless category anyway in and of itself because all violent
31:14
crimes have an element of hate in them.
31:17
And in hate crime, you have to prove intent, right?
31:21
That these people did these things.
31:23
They killed these Asians or these black people or these white people, and even though, you
31:26
know, they're never charged with hate crimes when you kill white people, but you get my
31:29
point, you have to prove that they did that because they have racial animus in their hearts.
31:33
It's really, really hard to do, but no one's really talking about hate crimes.
31:38
I think there was one Senator, Josh Hawley, I think he was talking about how this is a
31:41
hate crime.
31:42
Like, hey, when are we going to get to the hate crime legislation here?
31:44
It was either Hawley or somebody else, but no calls for hate crimes here.
31:49
It's very interesting.
31:51
Into those in the audience that are in the law enforcement community, the LEO community,
31:58
you have to do physical and mental reps as it pertains to running towards violence.
32:05
You have to.
32:07
So one of my best friends of my entire life, he is a police officer in Kansas.
32:12
And he's the one that actually sent me the body cam footage before most anybody had seen
32:16
it.
32:17
And so I was able to watch that.
32:18
He and I had a couple of interactions back and forth via text.
32:20
And I was like, yeah, man, completely the opposite of what those cowards and you've all
32:23
he did.
32:24
And then I kind of caught myself.
32:25
It's like, well, I'm not a police officer.
32:26
So it's easy for me to point fingers and say someone's a coward, but I didn't sign on
32:30
the dotted line or raise my hand and take an oath to say, that's what I'm going to do.
32:33
Like I'm going to be a police officer.
32:35
And he said, yeah, man, like I do mental reps all the time about, you know, if gun fires
32:41
going on or something's going crazy, that I'm going to run towards the sound of that.
32:45
And I know he will.
32:46
I know for a fact, he will.
32:49
I even go back to whenever he was applying to get into the academy or become police officer
32:55
or whatever.
32:56
And I was one of his references and they called me and the last question they asked me was
32:59
a great question.
33:00
They asked me, Hey, if you were in town and your wife and kids were in trouble, I didn't
33:05
even have kids at the time I did this phone call.
33:06
But if your family were in trouble and you weren't able to save them and this officer,
33:12
uh, you know, my buddy, if he was on his way to the house and he was going to be the first
33:17
line of offense, how would you feel about that?
33:19
And I said, I feel good, my family's going to be good because I know the man.
33:25
I know he's not going to cower in his, you know, police cruiser.
33:28
I know he's not going to wait for help to arrive.
33:31
If someone's potentially dying and being hurt now, he's going to go and I knew it.
33:35
I knew that without shadow of a doubt, but it's because of who he is, but also because
33:39
of the reps he's done.
33:41
Physical reps are great.
33:42
You have to get in those physical reps during training, but it's the mental reps.
33:45
It's, I will pull the trigger and kill somebody if I have to.
33:49
I will run towards the sound of bullets, even if they're whizzing past my head, if I have
33:53
to, to save someone else.
33:54
And if I die in the process, it was my time to go.
33:58
What I thought I have here is in the future, if you want, you know, a hint as to the races
34:04
or identities of the people involved in a mass shooting, all you have to do is this.
34:09
Read the words or listen to the words in the media.
34:11
If they talk about the gun doing a particular thing, then the perpetrator is in a victimized
34:17
or oppressed class, like a person of color or a trans person or something like that.
34:21
But if they talk about the people, the perpetrators in detail, then that means it fits their narrative.
34:27
Like, you know, when a white police officer shoots a black person, because remember way
34:30
back when, when it wasn't a black supremacist named Darryl Brooks that drove an SUV through
34:36
a Christmas parade in Waukesha, which, you know, resulted in the deaths of six people,
34:41
it was simply an SUV that drove through a Christmas parade, which resulted in the deaths
34:45
of six white people that probably deserved it.
34:48
Right.
34:49
We, we focus on the SUV.
34:50
We focus on the gun.
34:51
We focus on the inanimate objects when it's a person perpetrating that crime that we actually
34:57
like and that we think is victimized because Darryl Brooks is a victim.
35:00
I don't know if you knew that he's a victim.
35:04
For sure.
35:05
Why?
35:06
Because he's black.
35:07
He was a poor black man and we all know poor black men can't possibly be responsible for
35:12
their own actions.
35:14
So it wasn't him that did that.
35:15
It was the Ford SUV.
35:18
Another thought here is again, the, the do something people were out in full force.
35:23
Do something.
35:24
We ought to do something.
35:25
And as I've discussed many times before, they don't, they don't actually mean that.
35:30
Because when those do something, people start giving their policy prescriptions and you
35:33
dig more than one level down, you realize that none of their policy prescriptions will
35:37
work to stop things like this.
35:40
They just get to sound virtuous by screaming, do something into the ether.
35:44
Another thought here is, do you know how you can tell that Democrats are actually full
35:48
of crap when it comes to stopping gun violence?
35:50
No, no, how you can tell if they were serious about this, you know, existential crisis of
35:55
gun violence in America, they would have passed the so-called assault weapons ban in the first
36:01
two years of Joe Biden's presidency when they had control of both houses of Congress, but
36:05
they didn't.
36:06
They didn't do anything.
36:08
The same could legitimately be said for Republicans and pro life legislation on the federal level
36:12
during the first two years of the Trump administration that both houses a Congress and the White
36:16
House.
36:17
And, you know, president that was ready to sign any piece of pro life legislation that
36:19
came across his desk and Planned Parenthood funding went up and abortion access got wider.
36:25
Now, Marsha Blackburn, she is a senator from Tennessee.
36:30
She put forth the Safe School Act and, you know, this is basically where they're going
36:36
to get more funding for, you know, security and different types of interferences for this
36:43
type of violence.
36:44
And you have to ask yourself why no prominent Democrat on the national stage has ever tried
36:49
to pass a bill that would increase school security.
36:52
No one could it be the fact that they actually like school shootings.
37:00
Democrats actually like them.
37:03
Why would you say something so extreme, Kyle, because it gets them closer to their goal
37:07
of full gun confiscation, obviously, in every mass shooting, especially when children are
37:13
killed, just feel for the fire, baby, just the cost of doing business.
37:19
Another thought here is that we collectively need to stop reacting to people that mock
37:25
thoughts and prayers.
37:27
These people want to get a rise out of you.
37:29
They think it's funny.
37:31
That's why they're doing it.
37:33
They give them the satisfaction.
37:34
And the most egregious example of this from last week was a tweet from some blue checkmark
37:38
person named David Pakman.
37:40
He said this, very surprising that there would be a mass shooting at a Christian school given
37:44
that lack of prayer is often blamed for these horrible events.
37:48
Is it possible they weren't praying enough or correctly despite being a Christian school?
37:56
So the funny thing about this tweet, if there is anything funny is that if we had more prayer
38:01
in school and if Christianity were more ubiquitous in this country, we would likely have fewer,
38:07
significantly fewer instances of this kind of evil and see as evidence, we've had a precipitous
38:13
decline in church involvement, attendance, and Christian faith in this country right
38:17
at the same time that we see a tremendous increase in mass violence and despair.
38:22
But yeah, sure, keep mocking thoughts and prayers.
38:25
I'm sure he got a lot of claps from people on the left and a lot of sarcastic people,
38:30
the skeptical people that are like, yeah, this guy's awesome.
38:32
But just don't give those guys any air.
38:35
Don't clutch your pearls because it's guys like that that are being controlled by demons,
38:39
essentially.
38:41
That's why they have these types of worldview.
38:43
It's pearls before swine with someone like that.
38:46
Another thought is one of the people that was killed in Nashville was a black man named
38:50
Mike Hill died.
38:51
I think he died.
38:52
They just 61.
38:53
He was a custodian there at the school.
38:55
But the thing that's interesting here is it was an unarmed black man that was killed
39:01
by a white person with an AR 15.
39:05
But the oddest thing is happening.
39:08
Black lives matter isn't writing.
39:10
Black lives matter isn't demanding that I say his name.
39:14
Reverend Al Sharpton hasn't shown up.
39:17
You know, the the grifter attorney Benjamin Crump hasn't done a press conference with
39:21
this person's family.
39:23
LeBron James or Colin Kaepernick, they're not walking around wearing, you know, warm
39:26
up shirts or sending, you know, memes around that have some pithy slogan on it.
39:31
Why is that?
39:32
Again, to use the word I've been using all episode narrative is why it just doesn't fit
39:39
the narrative.
39:40
But again, a black person was killed by an AR 15, not a not a person shooting the AR 15.
39:46
They were killed by an AR 15.
39:48
And they can seem to find the time to talk about it, though, is that interesting?
39:53
Another thought here is people were saying that trans people are way more likely to be
39:58
victims of violent crime than to be perpetrators of violent crime, okay?
40:03
And they're citing some statistics, but the statistics are incredibly bogus and univariate
40:08
in nature.
40:09
Essentially, what these people are saying is that they will take all the people in a particular
40:14
year that identifies trans that are killed via homicide and then extrapolate that out
40:19
to the greater quote unquote trans community.
40:21
But in reality, if you look at the cases of murder of homicide, the majority of trans
40:27
people that are murdered are murdered because of domestic violence and or violence that
40:32
takes place because of things like drug dealing or prostitution.
40:36
So nothing like trans people just being targeted while walking down the street.
40:41
Nothing like that at all.
40:43
But this sentiment in and of itself just completely disregards that the person in this situation
40:50
that was supposedly trans had just murdered six people, including three kids.
40:56
The fact that they're trying to get the focus on the trans community is bogus.
41:01
It's fallacious.
41:02
It's terrible.
41:03
It's a distraction technique.
41:06
Oh, well, we, you know, we can talk about what this particular trans person did.
41:10
You know, trans people, they're just, you know, they're the ones that are the real victims.
41:13
They're the ones that really have to watch their back.
41:15
Another thought here is some of the morons in the media have said that the majority of
41:22
previous school shootings were perpetuated by white males that identified as Christian.
41:26
We've seen that.
41:27
Oh, they identified as Christian.
41:28
Well, what these simple minded morons fail to understand is that you can't just identify
41:32
as Christian.
41:33
Like Christianity isn't something made up whole cloth like the trans ideology is.
41:39
You either are a Christian or you are not a Christian.
41:42
You either have your faith in the blood of Christ for the propitiation of your sins or
41:46
you don't.
41:47
And then part of the reason why we can tell if you are a Christian or not is by the fruit
41:52
of your life.
41:54
And I think we could safely assume that if you murder people and cold blood that you're
41:57
not in fact a Christian.
42:00
And so stop with this.
42:01
Well, all the other guys, they were, they were Christian.
42:03
Oh, Hitler was a Christian.
42:05
We can tell by their fruit.
42:06
Pretty sure those people weren't Christians.
42:08
Pretty sure those people are rotten in hell right now.
42:10
Another thought here is it will be interesting to see the media try to spin their way out
42:14
of a scenario like this.
42:16
Cause I thought about this as kind of a cob.
42:18
And I don't want this to happen because I would mean there would be bloodshed and I
42:22
don't want that.
42:23
But I really want to see what the major media would do with this.
42:28
A trans white police officer killing an unarmed black man.
42:35
Can you imagine?
42:37
I'm pretty sure the universe would tear in half that stars would just begin to fall.
42:44
A trans white police officer killing an unarmed black man.
42:47
Wouldn't that be interesting?
42:49
Another thought here, just a few more and then we'll move on to some other things.
42:53
All the firearms in this case were purchased legally.
42:57
And what's interesting about that is that that actually strikes against the narrative
43:00
of red flag laws that are pushed mainly by the left because I doubt very seriously that
43:06
the left would be comfortable with someone being limited in their rights of any kind
43:10
because they identify as trans.
43:13
Because again, red flag laws are, Hey, you know, we think we know this person is going
43:17
to do something crazy.
43:18
And so we're going to go before the court and we're going to have all their, their guns
43:20
taken away.
43:21
So they can't hurt anybody and they won't be able to purchase any more guns and all those
43:23
types of things.
43:24
And typically those are people that have violent past, they have mental disorders or something
43:28
like that.
43:29
But in this case, what red flag law would have that these people would have put in place
43:35
would have triggered this trans person from being able to get these firearms.
43:39
It would have to be the fact that they would have to admit out loud that these are people
43:42
with mental illnesses.
43:45
These people need help mentally.
43:46
They don't need to be tutted and told that their, their delusion is real.
43:51
So again, they don't even mean it when they talk about red flag laws.
43:55
There was another thought here I had.
43:56
There was actually a great quote by a Tim Poole podcast where he said, the acts of criminals
43:59
do not warrant suspension of my rights, right?
44:02
So he's not a crazy right wing nut job, but that's exactly the case and criminal does
44:06
something bad.
44:07
Doesn't mean that you punish me.
44:08
You punish the criminal and people like them.
44:10
And the last thought here before we move on to some other things inside of this Nashville
44:13
story is perhaps the best take of all the takes on this particular case came from Seth
44:19
Dylan, the CEO of the Babylon B. He had this tweet that he put out last week.
44:24
We're being offered a deal except radical gender ideology, drag for kids, porn and libraries,
44:31
grooming and schools, compelled speech, the mutilation of minors, et cetera.
44:36
And trans people will stop killing themselves and murdering others.
44:39
Yeah, that's where we're at now.
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That is a perfect encapsulation of where we're at.
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And a Ben Shapiro framed it similarly on a show by saying essentially that the left used
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to tell us that we had to accept trans people's thoughts about their identities as truth,
44:56
or they would commit suicide and we don't want that to happen, right?
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But now we have to accept their thoughts about their identities or they will commit homicide.
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It's just stunning how we've gotten to this point.
45:08
But all of this begs a big, big question.
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Can we expect to see more targeted violent attacks on Christians and conservatives from
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LGBTQ activists and members?
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The answer, you bet your ass we will.
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We absolutely will.
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In many ways, the situation in Nashville, I think is only the beginning, I believe that
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wholeheartedly.
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And there are many reasons why I believe this.
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Some of that is that if words and you know, wrong think are actual violence, which is
45:40
what these people believe, then you can be justified in responding with violence.
45:47
That's absolutely the case.
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And that's what these people are starting to do because trans people were already signaling
45:54
that they were going to lash out violently against their perceived adversaries.
45:58
Last Saturday guys was supposed to be the trans day of vengeance.
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This was all over social media.
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He had these transgender people supposedly transgender people with their transgender flag
46:08
up behind him holding a bunch of weapons, basically saying things like we're going to
46:11
get even here.
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They're they're holding these rifles and they're they're posting these very violent
46:16
threats on social media, TikTok, Cancer, Instagram, Twitter.
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There were groups that were raising money to arm trans people and supporters for what
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they would call demonstrations on that day.
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Last Saturday.
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Now a lot of their trans day of vengeance festivities were canceled last Saturday and they did that
46:37
for a lot of reasons, but these violent pieces of garbage just saw the writing on the law.
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And remember, they are perpetually victims, right?
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Because these perpetually mentally ill quote unquote victims who were planning to be violent
46:52
towards people managed to turn themselves into victims yet again by claiming that they
46:58
weren't going to follow through on their own day called the trans day of vengeance.
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Why?
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Because trans genocide and threats against trans people like you can't make this stuff up.
47:14
They were planning to be violent towards people that think that their ideology is terrible
47:19
and awful and bad for society.
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And you know, people that pity them for their their mental state and they're not getting
47:26
any help for it.
47:27
They're just being affirmed, which is not helping them, but they have to be victims.
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And they're saying because of trans genocide and threats against trans people.
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And there's an important side note here.
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Something that almost no one is pointing out is that there is actually a population that
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is incredibly dangerous to the lives of trans people.
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There there really is.
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Okay.
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I've done the research.
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It's not conservatives.
47:54
It's not NRA members.
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It's not Republicans.
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It's not Christians.
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It's trans people themselves, trans people themselves.
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The suicide rate for trans people after they've received some sort of treatment is around
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40%.
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So they have all this affirmation.
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They have all these plot is they get their own month to act out in the summer.
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And 40% of them kill themselves.
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The homicide rate against transgender people is so unbelievably small.
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So as to be almost statistically insignificant and in almost all of these few homicides involved,
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like I said before, prostitution and drugs again, that's where we're at now and we're
48:39
already seeing an uptick in violence from people in these groups.
48:42
Anyway, the Colorado Springs shooter identified as non binary.
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The Denver charter school shooter back in 2019 identified as trans the Aberdeen, Maryland
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shooter back in 2018 identified as trans.
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We can expect to see more quote unquote trans murderers because these people are people
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with mental illnesses and they're simultaneously being told that a that their victims be that
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no one except for allies understands them and see they must demand after affirmation
49:16
and acceptance.
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They must demand it now and if they don't get it, the affirmation and acceptance that
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they so desperately seek, they're being taught to take it by force.
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Oh, you want to accept my lifestyle?
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You want to accept me as somebody that is normal?
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Well, I'll make you bend the knee.
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And the leftist media will continue to nuance and contextualize these attacks and murders
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to deflect blame onto the victims themselves.
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They've been doing it since the moment those people were killed last Monday, which leads
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to an all important question here, which is why are these mass killings happening?
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Why?
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Now, I've talked about this a lot again, episode 315, but here's some of the most popular wrong
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answers.
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Because there are too many guns in this country, well, per capita, we have virtually the same
50:15
level of gun ownership in this country as we did 50 years ago.
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The mass shootings and school shootings never happened then and they happen often now.
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We're not in the top 10 of mass shootings in the world again, episode 315, but they do
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happen often, they didn't happen 50 years ago.
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It guns are to blame which, you know, every Democrat and anti gun zealot claims.
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Then they need to be the ones to explain to me and to all of us why rifles like the ones
50:41
used in this attack have been around for decades and decades.
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And yet the commonality of these mass shootings using these firearms and specifically school
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shootings are only common today.
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They haven't been common for very long in the history, the long arc of human history.
50:59
They're just coming out of the woodwork now and another popular wrong answer is because
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we don't have enough gun laws.
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Again, what gun law would have prevented the shooting in Nashville?
51:09
I'm all ears, but here are the right answers for why this is happening, decline in Christian
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faith in America.
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Those are actual legitimate Christians are not murdering people.
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They're just not.
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And so when you have a decline in Christian faith, you will see the uptick in these types
51:30
of attacks and the down tick and people understanding that these aren't just people walking around.
51:35
These are image bears of God and they're not to be destroyed whether living inside the
51:40
womb or outside or in any other circumstance.
51:43
Also another right answer is the decline of mental health in America because again, these
51:48
are mentally ill people that do these killings.
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They're mentally ill, 100% they're sociopathic, they're psychopathic.
51:56
There may be a little bit on the spectrum or something like that.
51:59
Maybe they have some multiple personality thing going on.
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Maybe they're paranoid schizophrenic.
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These are people that need help and what they're getting in modernity is affirmation.
52:10
Also another right answer is the non treatment of these real mental illnesses because we
52:17
talk about mental health, but it's becoming like, yeah, you should probably, you know,
52:21
meditate and eat kale and, you know, get in an ice bath to help your mental health, but
52:28
we're not treating people that actually need full on treatment.
52:32
Another of the right answers and this is going to be uncomfortable for many of you to hear,
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but we as a people as a society have allowed our, our supposed most precious assets to
52:44
become easy targets.
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And no, I'm not talking about our schools, I'm specifically talking about our children
52:52
in those schools.
52:55
That school and most of the schools in this country are soft targets.
53:01
The school administrators of covenant elementary school felt that the locked doors would be
53:08
sufficient to ensure the safety of their students and staff, but as we saw, locked doors can
53:13
only do so much.
53:15
And this is further evidence evidenced by what the police chief in Nashville told us, which
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is that this demonic murderer was actually wanting to attack another school, but thought
53:27
better of it.
53:28
Why?
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Because that other school had a lot more security.
53:33
The risk to the shooter was going to be a lot higher.
53:36
They weren't going to be able to kill as many people before help arrived.
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They avoided that school because they had deterrence in place.
53:46
The reality is is that we need armed officers at every single school in America, private
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or public, all of them.
53:55
And here's the spoiler alert.
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The federal government has more than enough money to pay for that more than enough.
54:03
We've sent over a hundred million dollars to help the Ukrainians fight a proxy war between
54:07
us and Russia, and as I broke down the math and episode 315 of this episode, it's not
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going to take that much to retrofit the schools with physical deterrence and to get armed
54:18
guards on each campus in this country.
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And if it's a big campus, multiple armed guards into the people that scoff at that idea, you
54:27
must ask them, what exactly is the argument against having more of an armed presence at
54:33
schools in this country?
54:34
What's the argument against it?
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Because the only answer that I've ever seen is, well, we don't want our kids to see guns
54:41
in the schools and be scared of them.
54:44
To which I would say, have you ever taken your kid to a damn airport?
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There's armed police at airports.
54:50
How about a bank?
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Have you ever taken them into a bank?
54:53
We protect our money, our printed money with people with guns.
54:57
Have you ever taken your kid into a state or federal building?
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Those are protected by people with guns, but not our schools?
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Really?
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I mean, guys, how many veterans do we have in our country that need jobs that need a
55:12
purpose since they've gotten home from the GWAT?
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How many?
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Hey, again, how much money have we sent over to Ukraine to fight their war to protect their
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children, but not to protect our own?
55:25
And I've seen videos of veterans popping up last week on Instagram and on TikTok, they're
55:28
like, hey, just tell me which school needs me.
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I'll go do it for free.
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I'll volunteer, I'll do whatever background checks you need and all that.
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I've got all the training in the world.
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Set me up, send me to a school.
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Don't even pay me.
55:41
And how about this is another thing that makes people uncomfortable.
55:44
How about teachers concealed carrying the head of the school?
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She ran towards the shooter and she was killed.
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She was also unarmed.
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I wish she had been armed because you are your first line of defense.
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You are not the police because in that situation, when seconds mattered, help was minutes away
56:12
and they got there as quickly as they could.
56:13
They cleared that building and they killed that piece of garbage.
56:16
But what if the teachers had been armed and I don't mean all of them.
56:20
I don't think we need to force our teachers to get their concealed carry.
56:23
If you don't want to carry a firearm, you should not be forced to do so.
56:26
But what about the people in that building that would have been okay with that.
56:30
That could have engaged the shooter and potentially stopped them before they killed anyone.
56:35
And yet here's the head of the school throwing her 60 something year old body towards bullets
56:41
that didn't work out for.
56:44
And we've done that because we think it's bad for firearms to be on school grounds in
56:48
any way, shape or form.
56:51
And one thing that I've noticed that is, you know, as macabre as it is interesting is
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that many of these schools that suffer a school shooting, after the fact, the schools will
57:03
hire way more security and put in more security systems and deterances inside their schools.
57:10
Which begs the question for the school boards and the people running these places, why in
57:14
the world did you wait until the blood of these students was on the floor before you
57:22
decided to invest fully in their fricking safety?
57:28
Why is that what it took?
57:32
Seriously, you wait and now we're going to hear there's going to be some story that comes
57:39
out after these kids go back to school at Covenant.
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They're probably going to be out for the rest of the school year, I would assume.
57:44
But when they come back, they're going to talk about the new security system and, you
57:47
know, the, the, you know, shatterproof glass on the, you know, the bulletproof glass on
57:50
the exterior doors and they're going to talk about all these different things.
57:53
Where was that beforehand?
57:54
There's a lot of money running through that school.
57:56
My boys are going to be going to a private Christian school where there's a lot of money.
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And I happen to remember walking around on that campus years and years and years ago.
58:05
And I just walked right into the high school.
58:07
I was looking for somebody on that campus that I was supposed to be meeting and I kind
58:10
of went to the wrong part of the campus, I got turned around and I just walked right into
58:14
the school.
58:15
I'm walking by classrooms, walking by the gymnasium and I'm just thinking to myself, wow,
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if I was a wolf, this is easy pickings right here.
58:24
This is fishing a barrel.
58:25
But again, we don't think in these terms because bad things just don't happen, right?
58:31
Yeah, until they do.
58:33
So how do we stop these mass shootings?
58:36
Again, episode 315, again, I'll tag it a ton of detail.
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But I'll do the quick rundown that I did from that episode.
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The best solutions possible right now are first to focus on micro problems.
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So first, install full video security and barricade systems in all public K through 12
58:51
schools in America immediately.
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And you know, go ahead and do that for private schools as well to where possible retrofit
58:57
every single K through 12 school in America with a single point of entry on their school
59:01
buildings.
59:02
Number three, begin the planning hiring process and training for full time security officers
59:07
to be placed at every single school in America immediately and for train the students and
59:12
faculty and staff on what to do during school shootings.
59:16
There was a lot that was actually done during the school shooting that helped preserve life
59:20
because they had actually practiced it and drilled it just like you would a fire drill
59:22
or hear an Oklahoma tornado drill.
59:25
So those are the micro problems, but then the macro problems are number one, address the
59:29
crisis of fatherlessness in homes because a lot of these mass shooters don't have fathers.
59:34
Number two, address the mental health crisis, I've talked about that at nauseum at this
59:37
point.
59:38
Number three, address the prescription drug crisis because a lot of these kids that go
59:43
on the shooting rampages are on SSRIs, you know, these supposedly harmless SSRIs.
59:49
Number four, address the end of shame.
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We don't have a shame culture and it's affecting us.
59:54
It's leading to more cowardice and more people lashing out.
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And that's the fifth thing is address societal cowardice.
1:00:03
But then in all of that, how should Christians respond to this story?
1:00:09
How should we as people of God respond to this story?
1:00:13
The first thing that I thought of is that we should always seek out and hold up truth
1:00:18
because there's truth in this situation and a lot of people are trying to obfuscate that
1:00:21
and hide it or diminish it or blur it, but we need to seek it out.
1:00:26
And when we find it, we must uphold it.
1:00:29
And then in this situation, it just absolutely breaks my heart, just breaks my heart when
1:00:32
I was preparing this interview, just thinking about nine year old kids and the families
1:00:37
and what they're going through right now.
1:00:38
We need to mourn with those who mourn and I don't know exactly what that looks like.
1:00:42
Not right now, but maybe it's supporting the families financially.
1:00:48
Maybe it's doing something and we'll keep our ears out with undaunted life to potentially
1:00:52
be doing something.
1:00:53
But we need to mourn with those who mourn, even if we can only do it through prayer.
1:00:57
But also as Christians, we must prepare ourselves to protect image bearers of God.
1:01:03
So in some forging table episodes we have coming up, we'll be going over to Nehemiah.
1:01:06
So spoiler alert for some of you guys or I guess I just let the cat out of the bag.
1:01:11
But especially in the first four chapters and even more specifically chapter four, we see
1:01:18
image bearers of God preparing themselves to fight off people that are going to thwart
1:01:23
them in their actions to serve God and a lot of Christians get real squeamish.
1:01:29
When you talk about physical violence and all that and then you have morons like Shane
1:01:32
Clayborn that go out there and go around the country convincing Christians and well-meaning
1:01:36
conservatives to give up their firearms as if that somehow makes them safer that an inanimate
1:01:41
object that can be used to protect them is now no longer at their disposal, thus making
1:01:46
them more susceptible to the wolf.
1:01:48
But we must prepare ourselves to protect image bearers of God.
1:01:52
We have to prepare our bodies.
1:01:53
We have to prepare our minds.
1:01:54
We have to train to do it in those situations.
1:01:57
As I've said multiple times at Nazim at this point, when someone's being violated, you
1:02:02
become a person, a woman being raped, you know, in an alleyway now is not the time to
1:02:08
text your, your prayer circle to message one of your accountability buddies, to call your
1:02:12
pastor and ask for advice to, you know, do a prayer circle to, to sing a worship song.
1:02:21
What you need to do is you need to stop the wolf from trying to devour an image bearer
1:02:26
of God.
1:02:27
You need to be ready for that.
1:02:29
And as Christians, we also must understand that not all of our enemies are of this world.
1:02:37
Go back to Ephesians 612 from the very top of this podcast for we do not wrestle against
1:02:41
flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers
1:02:45
over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
1:02:51
There are demonic things that are happening in our culture and all over the globe.
1:02:56
There are demonic presences that are trying to keep people from God and trying to destroy
1:03:01
them in the process.
1:03:02
And in a lot of those times these forces are good at it.
1:03:08
They're able to make that happen.
1:03:11
Because ideologies like transgenderism or mental illnesses that go and check that lead
1:03:16
people to lash out violently.
1:03:18
These are things that could be handled, but they're not because we're not doing our part
1:03:23
to push back the spiritual darkness that we see.
1:03:28
And also as Christians, again, a lot of this is going to make everyone uncomfortable, but
1:03:32
here we are an hour in.
1:03:34
We must work to destroy the ideology of transgenderism while simultaneously loving people with
1:03:45
mental illnesses that cause them to think they were born in the wrong body.
1:03:50
We must hold those things in tension because the ideology of transgenderism comes from
1:03:55
the pits of hell.
1:03:58
But the people that are swept up in this ideology and this mental illness and this societal
1:04:05
contagion, they need Christ.
1:04:08
It's the only thing that can save them, not just from that ideology, but in general.
1:04:15
But many pastors and evangelical leaders are going to take the goings on in the last week
1:04:22
and they're going to, they're going to get the wrong lesson from it and they're going
1:04:25
to act according to the wrong lesson.
1:04:28
Many of them that were signaling support for trans communities or even a little bit of support
1:04:34
or something like that will now fully support it with the idea that if they do that, if
1:04:41
they acquiesce, if they affirm, if they accommodate that they won't marginalize somebody who may
1:04:46
end up being a mass murderer, they're going to think that they're going to buy the lie
1:04:53
that somehow Christian bigotry and pointing out sin and pointing out demonic presences
1:05:00
and ideologies in this world is going to lead to murder.
1:05:05
And thus, they're going to ignore it or they're going to go to the full affirmation route.
1:05:11
So here's how I'm going to wrap up my discussion here about what happened in Nashville.
1:05:17
I call on all Christian pastors in this country, many of who listen to this podcast, or we
1:05:23
have people that can easily just text it over or email this episode over to them.
1:05:27
I call on all Christian pastors in this country that have not spoken to their congregations
1:05:34
in a clear way on the issue of transgenderism to do the following.
1:05:39
I'm going to break it down for you.
1:05:41
Step one, reach down the front of your pants.
1:05:45
Step two, make sure you still have your nuts.
1:05:49
Step three, prepare a sermon that expresses a full-throated opposition to the trans-ideology.
1:05:57
Step four, batten down the hatches.
1:06:02
That's it.
1:06:05
Your flock is confused on how to comport themselves in this situation.
1:06:09
It is your job to lead them, not to tut, tut around the issue, not to, okay, we're just
1:06:16
going to move on to the next thing.
1:06:17
We're going to go on to, you know, the third week of this five week series on some random
1:06:21
topic that no one really cares about because they need God, not another TED talk.
1:06:26
It is your responsibility to lead your flock.
1:06:31
What could be more important to discuss in this moment than this than what the trans-ideology
1:06:38
is doing, and if you're a pastor and you're listening to this right now and you need a
1:06:43
little help, well, here's a jumping off point from a news anchor that might help you.
1:06:49
Let's go to the clip.
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The trans-movement is the mirror image of Christianity and therefore its natural enemy.
1:06:58
In Christianity, the price of admission is admitting that you're not God.
1:07:03
This openly can see that they have no real power over anything and for that matter very
1:07:08
little personal virtue.
1:07:09
They will tell you to your face that they are sinful and helpless and basically absurd.
1:07:14
They're not embarrassed about any of this, they brag about it.
1:07:17
That saved a wretch like me goes the most famous Christian hymn ever written in English.
1:07:24
The trans-movement takes the opposite view.
1:07:27
Trans-ideology claims dominion over nature itself.
1:07:31
We can change the identity we were born with, they will tell you, with wild-eyed certainty.
1:07:37
Christians can never agree with this statement because these are powers they believe God alone
1:07:42
possesses.
1:07:44
That unwillingness to agree, that failure to acknowledge a trans person's dominion over
1:07:49
nature incites and enrages some in the trans community.
1:07:54
People who believe they're God can't stand to be reminded that they're not.
1:07:58
So Christianity and transgender orthodoxy are wholly incompatible theologies.
1:08:04
They can never be reconciled.
1:08:06
They are in a collision course with each other.
1:08:08
One side is likely to draw blood before the other side.
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That's what we concluded last week.
1:08:13
And he goes, he goes on from there, but there you go, there's your jumping off point.
1:08:20
If you've read through scripture and you just have no earthly idea what to say and how to
1:08:25
push back against the darkness of the trans-ideology, Tucker Carlson's got you hooked up.
1:08:30
A conservative TV commentator, but if you're a pastor that's worth your salt, you already
1:08:36
know what you need to do.
1:08:37
You just haven't done it because, oh, you don't want to be divisive and you don't want
1:08:41
to be political and you don't want to, you know, alienate any of the trans community.
1:08:44
You have trans friends and you love trans people and you know, you're, your sermon dies
1:08:48
at death of a thousand qualifications before it even gets off the ground before you even
1:08:51
start punching it into your keyboard.
1:08:54
What's your excuse now?
1:08:57
There are people like that that are coming for people in your congregation.
1:09:00
They're coming for your children, whether in a murderous rage like that person did last
1:09:05
week in Nashville or just because they want to change their ideology, they're coming
1:09:11
for them.
1:09:12
What are you going to do about it?
1:09:13
All right, guys, let's transition to the quick hitters.
1:09:16
So here's the first one right here.
1:09:18
Former president Donald Trump getting indicted.
1:09:20
Okay.
1:09:21
According to the Daily Wire, a Manhattan grand jury has indicted former president Donald
1:09:25
Trump in connection with so-called hush money payments to Stormy Daniels in 2016, according
1:09:29
to a report.
1:09:30
The felony indictment was filed under seal or filed under seal by the Manhattan district
1:09:34
attorney's office, according to the New York Times, and will likely be announced within
1:09:38
days.
1:09:39
It's already been announced.
1:09:40
At that point, Trump will be compelled to surrender and face arraignment according to
1:09:43
the report, a lawyer for Trump confirmed an indictment to the Associated Press.
1:09:47
The former president is now the first former president in US history to ever face criminal
1:09:52
charges.
1:09:53
So this story was shocking to most people, which should make you wonder why?
1:09:58
Why is this shocking?
1:10:01
They've literally been gunning for this guy since he came down the escalator at Trump
1:10:05
tower.
1:10:06
What was that?
1:10:07
2015, maybe in 2016?
1:10:08
This was inevitable.
1:10:10
They were always going to find something.
1:10:12
And here's the other thing.
1:10:13
This isn't the only thing.
1:10:14
He's going to be indicted on other charges before the midterm or not the midterms, but
1:10:18
before the run up to the general election is even done.
1:10:23
That's definitely going to happen.
1:10:25
But I will say about this story is I'm inclined to agree with the sentiment that this pretty
1:10:33
much guarantees that Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination.
1:10:38
I think it does, which almost assuredly guarantees that Democrats will retain the White House.
1:10:44
Donald Trump is easily beatable.
1:10:48
And I know, I know you wear your MAGA hat and you think 2016's going to happen again and
1:10:53
you think he's just going to ride his wave that he did in the first three years of his
1:10:56
presidency and all those different things.
1:10:59
But I don't know if you guys, you know, have calendars on the wall.
1:11:01
I know that's something from a bygone era, but I just checked the other day.
1:11:04
It's 2023.
1:11:05
It's not 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 is 2023.
1:11:12
The world changed in 2020.
1:11:14
And guess what?
1:11:15
We've already seen Donald Trump lose to Joe Biden.
1:11:20
He's a terrible candidate, but so are the rest of them.
1:11:23
Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, random people that I can't even think of because they're
1:11:27
not important.
1:11:28
Whoever they run, they, they're going to beat Donald Trump.
1:11:33
Because again, regardless of what you think about January the six that happened and it
1:11:37
was terrible.
1:11:38
And most people think it was Donald Trump's fault.
1:11:39
And after all, the video came out telling a different story about what exactly all that
1:11:43
looks like.
1:11:44
And I was Tucker Carlson again, but he already lost by millions and millions and millions
1:11:49
of legitimate votes to a dead person that didn't even campaign.
1:11:53
He just sat in his basement and ate ice cream.
1:11:55
And you think that that's just not going to happen again?
1:11:59
Now a lot of people are saying that, Oh, this is just Alvin Bragg, the DA in New York City.
1:12:04
He's got an axe to grind.
1:12:05
He promised to do this, do this before he was elected.
1:12:07
So just following through on his promise.
1:12:10
Now that can be true.
1:12:11
But what I actually think is that the Democrats are doing this on purpose because Democrats
1:12:15
have stupid ideas, but they're not dumb.
1:12:17
They think Trump is super beatable because he is.
1:12:21
And we saw this back in the midterms.
1:12:23
There were Democrats that donated money to a lot of people during the Republican primaries
1:12:27
that they thought were more Trumpy and more Maga and more easily beatable.
1:12:30
And aside from JD Vance, they were right.
1:12:34
And as Trump will say, why I endorsed, you know, all these people, dozens, dozens, dozens
1:12:37
of people and they won.
1:12:38
It's just a few races.
1:12:39
I endorse that they lost.
1:12:41
But when you endorse someone that was already going to win a race, like that doesn't mean
1:12:44
anything.
1:12:45
Like Donald Trump endorsed my buddy, Mark Wayne Mullen, Mark Wayne Mullen won by like 30 points
1:12:49
in Oklahoma.
1:12:50
That wasn't because of Trump.
1:12:51
He was going to win by that much anyway.
1:12:53
He would have won by that much had Trump said, yeah, I don't really, I don't really like
1:12:56
the guy like he still would have gotten it.
1:12:58
Okay.
1:12:59
He still would have been the senator here in the state of Oklahoma.
1:13:01
He'd be like waiting until the final three seconds of a basketball game and one team is
1:13:05
up by 30 points and being like, yeah, yeah, I think that team's going to win.
1:13:08
It's like that didn't need to be said.
1:13:10
That's one of the dumbest things you could have possibly said.
1:13:11
We're watching it right now.
1:13:14
But all of a sudden we're supposed to just pretend like the Democrats aren't trying to
1:13:17
do this to get more people behind Trump because I guess Trump has raised already like $4 million
1:13:24
in the last few days after this indictment came out.
1:13:29
His gap between him and Ron DeSantis or anybody else in the Republican poll has continued
1:13:34
to widen.
1:13:37
Why would you think that the Democrats are doing this on purpose?
1:13:40
Because again, I've signaled on this podcast quite a bit.
1:13:43
I'm a big time DeSantis guy.
1:13:45
I love DeSantis.
1:13:46
I think he is the best person to be the next president of the United States, regardless
1:13:50
of party, but it might be best at this point to wait until 2028.
1:13:56
It might be.
1:13:57
I know it sounds ridiculous to say, especially for somebody that is going to support Ron
1:14:00
DeSantis.
1:14:01
And if he runs during the primary, I very likely would vote for him in the primary.
1:14:05
But who knows?
1:14:06
Maybe that's best because if Trump is the unstoppable force and all the other people
1:14:11
that got into the race or you know, you'll have Nikki Haley or Tim Scott or any of these
1:14:15
other random people, they're just going to be taking support away from you, not from Trump.
1:14:19
Trump is a known entity in the Republican party.
1:14:22
And if they want him to be the guy again, that's just what's going to happen.
1:14:25
Now that would kind of suck for DeSantis because he's going to be out of office in 2026.
1:14:30
Because you know, his term, his second term as governor of Florida will be done.
1:14:33
Can you keep momentum for two years to run in 2028 when it will be a new Republican versus
1:14:38
a new Democrat written where our list of how he slice it may be.
1:14:42
But my big takeaway on this first quick hitter is this might be a crossing of the Rubicon
1:14:47
for the United States.
1:14:50
I just don't think there's any coming back from this.
1:14:52
I think the gloves are officially off now.
1:14:56
We're starting to try to jail our political enemies.
1:14:59
Again, Donald Trump is the first president in the 250 year history of this country that
1:15:05
is being brought up on charges.
1:15:07
Now, here's the other thing that you can say.
1:15:10
He's being brought up on charges for hush money that was paid to a porn star that he cheated
1:15:16
with cheeto on his wife with his third wife or whatever, it's not exactly a good person
1:15:22
that that's making all, you know, he's he's the source of the story and he's he's a villain
1:15:26
in this story for sure, even though there are additional villains.
1:15:30
But this is astonishing what we're seeing as a country and Republicans are starting to
1:15:34
fight back a little bit, conservatives are starting to fight back a little bit as well.
1:15:39
They're understanding that, oh, the other side hasn't been playing fair.
1:15:43
And we've been morons for decades thinking that if we're just going to be nice, that
1:15:46
they'll be nice back and they're not being nice back.
1:15:49
So how long until Joe Biden has indicted after he leaves office?
1:15:53
I mean, that's where we're at now.
1:15:55
There's no going back.
1:15:57
Our next quick hitter here disgraced former Hillsong pastor Carl Linds getting a new job
1:16:01
in ministry in my home state.
1:16:03
So this is according to the Christian Post more than two years after a sex and leadership
1:16:07
scandal led to his firing from Hillsong church in YC Carl Linds is now back in ministry as
1:16:12
a strategist at the transformation church led by pastor Michael Todd in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1:16:17
In a statement to two news, Oklahoma, transformation church's executive pastor Tammy McCorders
1:16:23
is that interesting said she they believed that Linds has been restored and are pleased
1:16:28
to have him help others experience restoration as well.
1:16:31
After two years of Carl being in his own discovery and healing process, he has shown
1:16:35
readiness to use his God given gifts towards the local church again.
1:16:39
We believe in Carl, his marriage, his skillset and his restoration, restoration, McCorders
1:16:43
said.
1:16:44
So here's an interesting thing aside from mentioning his God given gifts, there wasn't
1:16:48
a whole lot of discussion about God in his recovery process, right?
1:16:55
You know, he's having his own discovery and healing process right now, but now it's time
1:16:59
to unleash his God given gifts, but has God restored him back to ministry?
1:17:07
Because perhaps his marriage and family have been restored and I certainly hope so anyway.
1:17:12
But Carl Linds, he's still going to be a problem no matter what he does because of what he
1:17:17
believes about God in the Bible, not necessarily what he's done.
1:17:21
Again, he will always be tinged as the guy that, you know, was part of the downfall of
1:17:26
Hillsong and horrific leadership defaults in his sexual deviancy.
1:17:32
But as concerning as all that, that is his teachings at Hillsong in NYC were really, really
1:17:39
disturbing, mostly vapid and a lot of people that think they're going to heaven are going
1:17:43
to hell because of the things that they believe that Carl Linds said.
1:17:47
And he's joining a leadership team headed up by pastor Michael Todd, who's basically
1:17:51
Stephen Furdick with dreads and no, that's not a compliment.
1:17:54
It's just her reticle self help nonsense.
1:17:59
It's whatever is convenient to me at the moment, including stuff that touch the trans ideology
1:18:04
that even came here recently for Michael Todd.
1:18:07
But Carl Linds will 100% for sure launch his own church within the next five years.
1:18:14
I think the writing's on the wall for that.
1:18:15
Maybe it'll be even sooner, but this is very typical, right?
1:18:19
We see this happen quite a bit.
1:18:21
You'll see a politician that's disgrace for some reason.
1:18:23
Maybe they go to prison or something like that.
1:18:25
They go quiet for a while, a couple of years, and then they get a job in some random office.
1:18:31
Some random political office, maybe out of think tank or something like that, and then
1:18:35
they may run for a small office and then they'll try to make themselves all the way back to
1:18:39
where they were.
1:18:41
We see this in politics and I guess we're going to see this in ministry.
1:18:43
He's going to have his own church.
1:18:45
But my big takeaway here is you can hold these two things in tension.
1:18:50
You can want Carl Linds' spiritual family and personal life to be restored, but you could
1:18:57
also want him to never serve in Christian vocational ministry ever again.
1:19:06
You can and should hold those two things in tension because I am so thrilled that Carl
1:19:14
Linds and his wife have their relationship still intact that they didn't get divorced
1:19:21
even though they could have on biblical grounds.
1:19:22
She could have divorced on biblical grounds.
1:19:25
I'm glad that his kids are still part of the family and seemingly there's good things happening
1:19:31
there and there's fruit inside that family, but I don't want him anywhere near a pulpit.
1:19:36
It has nothing to do with the fact that he cheated on his wife multiple times with multiple
1:19:40
women.
1:19:41
It's because he believes things that send people to help.
1:19:45
He's not preaching a real gospel to people.
1:19:47
He's preaching a partial gospel, a moral therapeutic deism version of the gospel.
1:19:54
As I mentioned before with Andy Stanley, who I think is a heretic and shouldn't have his
1:19:57
church anymore, I'm not wishing for his death.
1:20:01
I'm not wishing for him to have some sort of moral failing.
1:20:03
I'm wishing for him to lose his job in whatever way that that takes place because I think
1:20:08
it's better for the capital K kingdom of God in order for that to happen.
1:20:13
And the same thing I would say for Carl Lentz, my hope is that he works at this church.
1:20:19
He realizes, yeah, maybe I don't want to get back into vocational ministry.
1:20:22
And then he just he's like the next Rob Bell.
1:20:24
He just says stupid things and writes stupid books and Oprah loves him.
1:20:28
And then he just kind of fades off into oblivion.
1:20:30
But if he's trying to pretend to be a Christian pastor, I think that's terrible for Christianity
1:20:36
in America.
1:20:37
All right, next quick hitter here, the Wall Street Journal survey showing a very disturbing
1:20:40
trend in America.
1:20:42
So this is according to the New York Post, and I will also link to the actual Wall Street
1:20:46
Journal article where they show all these results as well.
1:20:49
Long held values like patriotism, religion and community involvement are in retreat across
1:20:53
America, according to a stunning poll released Monday, the Wall Street Journal in ORC survey
1:20:59
found that just 38% of Americans said patriotism is very important to them down from 70% who
1:21:06
said the same in 1998, slightly more Americans 39% place the same importance on religion down
1:21:13
from 62% who said faith was very important to them 25 years ago, the percentage of Americans
1:21:18
who said raising children was very important to them fell 30% in the new poll down from
1:21:22
59% in 1998.
1:21:24
Meanwhile, the share of Americans who valued involvement in their community as very important
1:21:29
fell 27% down from a high of 62% in 2019.
1:21:34
The last time the question was poll, one virtue long associated with liberals, a belief in
1:21:39
tolerance for others is now deemed very important by 58% of Americans down from 80% four years
1:21:45
ago.
1:21:46
By contrast, the only value that has grown and worth to Americans is money with 43% calling
1:21:51
it very important compared to 31% who said the same in 1998.
1:21:56
So right to my big takeaway on this one, none of these results should be surprising to anyone
1:22:01
that's been paying attention.
1:22:05
Patriotism, religion, raising children, community involvement, tolerance, all falling off a
1:22:10
cliff.
1:22:11
Yeah, you're seen as bigoted if you're patriotic or religious, you're a weirdo if you want
1:22:16
to raise kids and have a big family, being involved in the community will only if it's
1:22:20
the right types of people in the community.
1:22:22
And yeah, we'll tolerate you, but only if you believe the things that we believe.
1:22:26
Well, yeah, that's America right now.
1:22:28
And the focus on money going way up, well, of course, things are more expensive than
1:22:32
they've ever been.
1:22:34
There's more wealth than we've ever seen.
1:22:36
The United States government is spending more money than God's ever seen.
1:22:39
And that's just kind of the world that we live in the, the story should not have been
1:22:44
the results of the survey.
1:22:46
The story should have been where the results of the survey will continue to go if they
1:22:50
continue to conduct it.
1:22:51
Think about 25 years from now, what is that 2058?
1:22:55
Can you imagine what the answers are going to look like then?
1:22:58
I mean, you won't be here, but a lot of us will be.
1:23:01
Do we all of a sudden see the trends in patriotism, religion, raising children, community involvement,
1:23:06
tolerance and money going in different directions?
1:23:08
I mean, again, the world that we see right now is not even recognizable to somebody from
1:23:13
1998.
1:23:14
It's not recognizable from somebody from 2015.
1:23:18
And yet here we are.
1:23:19
So I'm very, very concerned about the future, but hopefully something stems the, the onslaught
1:23:24
that we're seeing with all that.
1:23:25
All right, next quick hitter here, a Penn State wrestler getting into hot water for calling
1:23:29
Muhammad a false prophet.
1:23:31
So the Penn State wrestler in question was a guy named Aaron Brooks.
1:23:35
He's a 184 pounder from Penn State and Penn State is the most dominant wrestling program
1:23:40
of the 2000s.
1:23:41
It's not even close.
1:23:42
I think they've won 10 out of the last 12 national team titles, but Aaron Brooks won
1:23:46
his third straight, 180 84 pound national title a couple of weeks ago back in Tulsa in
1:23:52
Mark Wayne, Mullen and Donald Trump were there in attendance and that in and of itself would
1:23:57
have been impressive enough because frankly, not too many people have done that.
1:24:01
But it's what he said in his interview right after the match that actually made the headlines.
1:24:06
So let's go to that clip here.
1:24:08
David, I know share a strong faith.
1:24:11
How does that help you on a night like tonight?
1:24:14
It's everything.
1:24:15
Christ's resurrection's everything, not just his life, but his death and resurrection.
1:24:20
You can only get that through him, Holy Spirit only through him.
1:24:23
No false prophets, no Muhammad, no anyone else, only Jesus Christ himself.
1:24:28
Power and finesse.
1:24:31
You're calling card, Holy Spirit, what, which acts after one verse eight, power, Holy Spirit
1:24:38
power.
1:24:39
It's everything.
1:24:40
That's where it's from.
1:24:42
Where'd the finesse come from?
1:24:43
Holy Spirit as well.
1:24:45
Mom and dad, maybe a little bit of both, but oh, God, I put in perspective one in three
1:24:50
of these in a row and dominating fashion, by the way, I'm blessed God use me.
1:24:55
He gives me this platform for this right here.
1:24:57
So that's all it's for when I'm suffering, kind of wait home from not away from my family.
1:25:03
It's all for him.
1:25:04
So it's all for his glory.
1:25:06
Enjoy it.
1:25:07
Put in the time and the sacrifices.
1:25:08
Congratulations, Darren.
1:25:09
And so if you're a reasonable human that has a functioning brain, you might be like, Oh,
1:25:14
yeah, that's a Christian guy who's obviously he's still out of breath from winning another
1:25:19
national title after a really, really tough season and a really tough tournament where
1:25:22
he took down like the number one, two, four ranked guys, like, I mean, he did work in
1:25:28
this tournament, man.
1:25:29
Third national title.
1:25:30
He's out of breath.
1:25:31
He's a Christian.
1:25:32
You quote some scripture there, but the backlash from people in the, I guess this is my big
1:25:37
takeaway here.
1:25:39
How dare a Christian actually say Christian sounding things?
1:25:43
That was like the majority of the people.
1:25:44
I remember even like Ariel, Hawaii, he's the, the guy who covers a lot of MMA and stuff
1:25:48
like that.
1:25:49
You get into all these other little persnickety areas.
1:25:51
He's like, I can't believe they allowed him to say such a thing that Muhammad was a false
1:25:56
prophet.
1:25:57
They let him say that.
1:25:58
They actually showed that on air.
1:26:00
How dare they?
1:26:01
And the reason is because the world is universalist and it's bent really like people want to just
1:26:10
hear that their worldview is equally pleasing to God is every other worldview in a belief
1:26:15
system and that, you know, basically all dogs go to heaven.
1:26:18
But people just can't stand to hear an honest Christian say honestly Christian things because
1:26:25
as a Christian has a bold Christian that hopes that if I ever have a microphone in front
1:26:30
of my face, not certainly at the NCAA's, but that I would say something very similar
1:26:34
to that because, you know, yeah, it's one thing to talk about, you know, double eggs
1:26:38
and single legs and sprawls and all that kind of stuff that would go into a tournament.
1:26:42
But he talked about a savior, he talked about how you could have it too, but everyone's
1:26:46
focusing in on the fact that he said, no false prophets, no Muhammad, those types of things.
1:26:50
But guess what guys?
1:26:52
If you're a proponent of Christianity, that's exactly what you think of Muhammad, that he
1:26:57
is indeed a false prophet.
1:26:59
Like, what if it had been a Muslim wrestler and he got on the mic and said, Allahu Akbar,
1:27:03
which means God is good.
1:27:04
And if he said, you know, all praise be to Allah and to his prophet Muhammad and if he
1:27:09
said the Shahada and all these other different things, like would you have been like, how
1:27:14
dare he say that, how dare he say that Muhammad is the prophet of Allah?
1:27:19
Well, that's what Muslims believe.
1:27:21
They can be wrong and they are, but that's what they believe.
1:27:25
There was no shock and all the shock and all came because it was a Christian.
1:27:27
It was a Christian that said a very Christian, but seemingly sounding bold thing in modernity,
1:27:34
but good on him, three time champ and a bold follower of Christ.
1:27:38
I love it.
1:27:39
All right.
1:27:40
Last quick hitter here, guys, Florida governor Ron DeSantis winning again with parents.
1:27:42
This is according to the blaze, Florida governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill into law effectively
1:27:47
enabling all K through 12 students in the state, including those who are homeschooled to take
1:27:51
advantage of school vouchers.
1:27:53
HB one was passed in the state house on March the 17th and in the Senate on March the 23rd.
1:27:58
DeSantis signed it into law Monday at an all boys Catholic high school in Miami.
1:28:02
The law will eliminate the previous financial eligibility restrictions such that students
1:28:06
of all economic backgrounds can participate in the state's voucher system so long as they
1:28:10
are residents.
1:28:11
The law also scraps the enrollment cap on parents who can participate in the family empowerment
1:28:16
scholarship for educational options.
1:28:18
Whereas a family of five making over $129,880 was previously ineligible for the scholarship,
1:28:24
which is funded through the Florida educational finance program.
1:28:28
Now they and others of varying means will be able to apply for assistance.
1:28:32
Lower income families will, however, continue to receive priority.
1:28:35
In addition to making sure parents have a choice in the schools they support and send
1:28:39
their children to, the legislation requires the development of a government website informing
1:28:43
parents of every educational option available to their family.
1:28:47
Here's the thing.
1:28:48
Ron DeSantis just can't help but win.
1:28:51
I know what I said earlier in this podcast.
1:28:53
He might need to just hang on to his hat until 2028 or something like that, but he just can't
1:28:59
help but win.
1:29:00
He just keeps making the right decisions, pulling the right cords, and it's just going
1:29:05
well for him.
1:29:06
And my big takeaway is more of this, please.
1:29:09
Not just from Ron DeSantis, but from governors and state houses all across the United States
1:29:14
of America, Oklahoma, you're on the clock because a universal school choice bill has
1:29:19
passed the Oklahoma House.
1:29:21
And I really have no idea where it is with the Senate.
1:29:23
I got to tell you, it is frustrating as all get out to even figure out what's going on
1:29:27
in your own home, own home state.
1:29:28
I know what's going on on the federal level, but just trying to figure out where a bill
1:29:31
is, you know, here in my own state is already crazy, but the governor of my state, Governor
1:29:36
Stitt has already said that if a universal school choice bill comes across his desk,
1:29:40
he will sign it.
1:29:41
So essentially you would be able to use your tax dollars that was going to the public schools
1:29:45
and you could use it to go to a private school, a charter school, or to even a homeschool
1:29:49
your kids.
1:29:50
And there would be varying levels of that more of this, absolutely more of this.
1:29:54
The public school system has violated the trust of the people in America, 2020 exposed
1:29:59
them for the frauds that many of them are, especially the teachers unions.
1:30:03
And so, and at this point, most of the teachers, even the well-meaning Christian teachers in
1:30:07
those schools, they cannot stop the secular onslaught of the things that are happening
1:30:11
in those schools.
1:30:12
Parents should not be forced to go to them, right?
1:30:16
And the government is not forcing you in terms of like, guys with Jack Boots, you know, with
1:30:20
a bayonet and you're back forcing your kids into these schools, but a lot of parents don't
1:30:24
think they have options.
1:30:25
So I'm glad that the state of Florida and around the Santa's, they're putting something
1:30:27
out there where parents can evaluate all the options that they have.
1:30:31
And if they do choose an alternate, a form of education, private schools, charter schools,
1:30:37
you know, anything that would happen with homeschool or something like that, then they
1:30:40
can use that money for that, because I pay a lot in taxes in the community that I live
1:30:45
in to support a school system that my boys will never be a part of.
1:30:49
I should be able to use that money for my family.
1:30:51
All right, guys.
1:30:53
We made it.
1:30:54
This is maybe the longest solo episode that I've done, you know, it's at least up there.
1:30:58
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I've got all the notes to the things I've already tagged in this particular episode.
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But again, I just want to say thank you, thank you so much to our donors.
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And we just appreciate all the prayers for everything going down again.
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April the 10th is when I'm getting my surgery Lord willing and hopefully that fixes it.
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So I'm very, very hopeful.
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You know, I have my doubts because I'm a doubtful person just by nature, but I'm really, really
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hoping this goes through.
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I appreciate you guys very, very much.
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Just go to www.andonton.life and as always, we want to thank the band, August Burns Red
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for allowing us to use their music for our content.
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The music on this podcast is our song, Cutting the Tides, which is off their 10th anniversary
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re-recording of their album Leveler.
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The links are in the description.
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I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.
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Remember, keep pushing back darkness, keep forging spiritual, mental and physical resilience.
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Keep seeking the Lion of Judah.
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