The Bishop of Rome is a Fool (Ep. 911)

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So, undaunted.life/donate, undaunted.life/donate. And we have a link in the show notes if you want to do a tax-deductible donation as well. Make sure you leave a review for the show and a five-star review, not just send your review, and also share this with a friend. Now, if you're watching this on YouTube or Rumble right now, you might be wondering, "Okay, what's the deal with the sling?" Well, if you follow us on Instagram, you probably heard me talk about it. Ruptured my bicep tendon. And so, it's not lost on me that on the last AMA, I mentioned I I mentioned a bicep rupture three or four times. Just talking about generic injuries and different things like that. I just mentioned it, and then here we go. Basically, what happened is we were doing a a 50th birthday celebration for one of our buddies, Mike at Fight Club. What he wanted to do is he wanted to do a, you know, a massive kind of bull in the ring style thing, but he wanted a bunch of different modalities. So, he wanted some jiu-jitsu, he wanted some boxing, and he wanted some MMA. And so, the way we set it up is we had six or seven guys you ready to do a minute, you know, bull in the ring style of jiu-jitsu. And then the plan was we were going to have three of us box him. I was going to start the boxing, and then there were going to be three people doing MMA, and I was going to end the MMA. And so, as I'm going in like he's about to wrap up his jiu-jitsu stuff, he's going to get his mouth guard and all that. And I remember mentioning to my buddy Rocky, I go, "Well, you know, this guy's turning 50. So, you don't want to hit him hard to the head. Like he doesn't need to leave here with a concussion. You don't need to be taking shots to the head at 50 years old." So, I was like, "I'm just going to try to bait him into, you know, uh throwing a two, right? Cuz he was standing conventional. Throwing a two so that I could hit him in the liver, right? Left hook to the body." And so, I basically spent 30, 40, 45 seconds baiting that, right? So, I had my I kind of had the like the Philly uh the shoulder roll kind of thing going on. What's that called? Philly shuffle? Something like that. Anyway, I had this front shoulder roll happening. I had the front arm down just trying to stay out of his way. And then I throw this left hook to the body, and it kind of it kind of folded him just a little bit, and I just feels a pop in the left bicep. And it was almost like, you know, when you hit your elbow on something, how you kind of have a shooting pain through your through your arm, and it's just kind of like you got a little bit of a stinger or whatever. And so, I started backing up, backing up, backing up, trying to shake out my left arm. And then I look down, and I see, "Oh, no." And so, I just kind of walk off. I walk to the other side of the mat. Uh you know, Eric Browning, who's on the forging table, he's uh he's a trainer and a physical therapist. And so, he comes over there with a couple of other guys, and I look down at my bicep. I'm like down on one knee, and I just look up at him. I go, "Is it gone?" And he just kind of closes his eyes and shakes his head, yes. And I just I mean, I lost it. And so, it's just kind of, you know, you have all this momentum, right? And I just got through telling someone I'm like, "I feel like I'm in a really good spot with my training, you know, a couple stripes on my my brown belt, you know, still learning, uh still, you know, able to solve some complex problems with some complex guys, if you know what I'm talking about. And then also, you know, with the my lifting, felt like I was in one of those places where I was at the strongest, maybe one of the strongest places I've ever been physically, you know, looking forward to the Murph. You know, I've done that every year for over a decade at this point. And now instead of any of that, instead of looking at, you know, any type of advancement in jiu-jitsu and my knowledge and my training, any type of advancement in my strength training, you know, knocking out the Murph, I'm looking at a I mean, I don't know what. I I've talked to like 10 different guys that have ruptured their biceps before. And from any number of things. I did a boxing, one guy did it picking up a bowling ball, one guy did it flipping a tire, one guy did it trying to lift a guy into a boat. I mean, we've seen like all these these different ways. I guess it's a super common injury. One guy was throwing a Frisbee, right, and pop, it just exploded. But, you know, it's kind of one of those deals where, you know, best case scenario, I guess, is what I'm kind of gathering in terms of information-wise, [clears throat] is it's going to take 6 months before I can start training. Like not 6 months until I'm back to where I was. It's going to be 6 months until I can even start training to get back to where I was, right? And so, um you know, if I'm being honest, right? Yeah, I'm not one of those super positive people, right? I always, you know, the sky is kind of always falling, very pessimistic. And so, I'm like, I'm always as like, okay, is this the injury? Is this the one that puts me out? Is this the one that is just I'll never be the same? Uh I can tell you I'm going to work to make sure that's not the case. Uh I'm going to work to defy the odds and to be one of those edge cases that has a tremendously fast recovery. But, I'm also very conservative when it comes to my recovery. Uh and I always have been. If a doctor's like, "Hey, you know, don't do this for about 2 weeks." I'll do 3 weeks, right? I I really want to make sure the healing has taken place. And I'm going to do some things to to make sure that the healing can be as accentuated as possible and I and be as effective as possible. But, I would absolutely enjoy your prayers and would ask for your prayers. As of the recording of this, I have not had surgery yet. Surgery is still a few days out, but by the time you will be hearing this, I will have hopefully already undergone successful bicep rupture surgery. So, prayers for that and also uh prayers that I can keep my mindset right because, you know, usually jujitsu and powerlifting, those are my escapes, right? Those are the things I do selfishly so that I could be unselfish the rest of the day as, you know, David said on his show a while ago, that's me you know, his first part of his day is selfish. But God's trying to show me something here. He's trying to trying to talk to me. Uh you know, I don't think that this is just some random thing that happened. And so, uh just just prayers that I can, you know, keep the mindset right. It's not going to only affect the show if I can help it. We've already got a lot of stuff uh recorded and in the can. We had to move some stuff around with the Forging Table and all that, but there shouldn't be any disruption at all. You're still going to be getting your three episodes a week and if that changes, I'll be sure to let you know. But, we have not done quick hitters in a very, very long time. And so, I wanted to do just a quick hitters bonanza, but there is a main topic I want to go over today. But we are going to go over a bunch of quick hitters and to be honest with you, I deleted probably three quarters of the things that I wanted to talk about that I've just kind of built up over the last couple of months just cuz I had to get this out there. So, in the quick hitters, we're going to talk about former lead pastor and convicted pedophile Robert Morris being released from prison in Oklahoma, Tucker Carlson claiming that Muslims love Jesus, Donald Trump posting an AI-generated image of himself as G- Jesus or maybe a messiah-like figure, country music singer Shane McAnally, yes, that's actually his name, having an appalling interaction with the baby he and his gay partner bought, a 7-year-old girl being kidnapped and murdered by FedEx driver, the man responsible for murdering Arina Zhurutska being found incompetent to stand trial, the Supreme Court of Finland convicting a woman of a war crime for quoting what the Bible says about homosexuality, the Biden administration partnering with abortion activists to track and imprison pro-lifers, the proposed drastic expansion of euthanasia services in Canada leading to children being able to be euthanized without their parents' consent, the Justice Department indicting the Southern Poverty Law Center for secretly funding white supremacist groups, a top hospital in New York ending its transgender surgeries program for minors, a judge in Texas giving a teenager a 25-year prison sentence for robbing a convenience store, the International Olympic Committee IOC announcing that it is banning men from competing in women's events, and then a high school principal in Oklahoma stopping a mass shooting before it begins. But today, we need to start with the Bishop of Rome. And so, I wanted to highlight a few things about some stories and some things that we've been seeing, but ultimately, the reason why a lot of people are talking about Pope Leo, as he's called, and Donald Trump right now is because they've been having a war of words, if you will. And so, we have Donald Trump basically doing all the things he does where he goes off half-cocked on Truth Social and says whatever he wants to say. And if anyone even hints that they don't agree with his approach, he usually comes at them with both barrels, such is kind of his thing. And Leo is basically positioning himself as this, you know, this peace process guy. He always wants to kind of have peace. And basically, as a a quick aside, I think it's fine to call him the Pope because that is his official job title, right? That's his official title. But for Protestants, we just have to remind ourselves that Leo has absolutely no authority, like whatsoever, right? He is literally just another guy, and a more accurate description for him is not Pope, it's not Vicar of Christ, it's Bishop of Rome. So, really, we should just refer to him as the Bishop of Rome. I may slip up and call him Pope Leo at some point in this podcast. I probably already have, but we're just going to be referring to him as Leo or the Bishop of Rome. And so there are a lot of people, especially like Catholic observers, that have been very interested in hoping that Pope Leo, there I go, I just did it, the Bishop of Rome, Leo, would be an improvement over Francis. But it seems like he's just going to be Francis 2.0. Because Francis was obviously very, very left-wing, very effeminate, didn't have a whole lot of regard for what the Bible said, as evidenced by the fact that the Vatican had to continue to come back around and play cleanup duty after he would say things off the cuff that he actually fervently believed that didn't jive with scripture at all. Which kind of leads to the whole problem [clears throat] with, you know, the whole mess with Catholicism versus Protestantism, because Protestants, you know, the reformers wanted to reform the Catholic Church, not to replace it. Right? So if we go all the way back to that, but that's part of the problem when you don't look at the Bible as your highest authority. If you say, "Yeah, yeah, the Bible, but also whatever the Pope says, whatever the Vicar of Christ says, right? What whatever this council says, whatever the tradition of the church says." All of those different things, it becomes a little bit problematic, but we're not seeing great things out of Leo in his early parts of his term here. But the two main points of contention seemingly between the Bishop of Rome and Donald Trump is illegal immigration and the now the war in Iran. And so basically the Vatican, uh, Catholics in general, the Bishop of Rome, they're they're kind of getting, you know, a in a bellyache right now. They're they're kind of they're kind of getting a little bit of, you know, inner turmoil because of the fact that Leo is in a political fight. That out of nowhere, all of the sudden we have Pope Leo, right? The Bishop of Rome, taking these arrows, right? From the political side of things. But the issue is is that Leo is making political statements. He he's coming in and talking about political things. And so if he doesn't want to get political blowback for his public comments, if Catholics don't want the Bishop of Rome to get into political fights and take any like resistance from the political world, perhaps Leo should keep his mouth shut when it comes to political issues. Now, I think he should be able to have political opinions and express them publicly, but if he's going to keep getting, you know, offended at the fact that people would basically question his authority and question his statements, maybe he shouldn't play in the political sphere. And then also we have the illegal immigration stuff. Leo has always signaled he's like, okay, basically, as he sits behind the walls of the Vatican, right? The the the walls that are guarded by men with automatic weapons in the Vatican, he loves to tell other countries that want to maintain their own sovereignty with things like walls and fences, that somehow they're doing something that is un-Christ-like. And he's obviously hinted at the same things here in America. But the the war of words between these two, uh the Bishop of Rome and the President of the United States, has really escalated since the war in Iran started. Uh so, back in March on Palm Sunday, during the Bishop of Rome's homily, he famously stated that God, quote, does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, unquote. So, obviously considering the timing of this, it was obviously a smack at Donald Trump. I don't think anybody can really make an argument against that right now. Perhaps it wasn't, but overwhelming likelihood is that it was. I've seen people try to just explain it away, but they really can't. But also in April, the Bishop of Rome denounced so-called tyrants who spend billions of dollars on war while the poor suffer, which was obviously another swipe at Donald Trump. And look, Trump has responded in kind to everything. He's taken a bunch of shots at uh at Leo because he, you know, Trump is a very petty guy and he can't really let things slide and he can't really let things, you know, roll off his back. He has to, you know fire back, right? So you send one shot, he's going to send 10. That's just Trump style. It's always been his style and that's very likely not going to change. But there's actually a larger point in all of this and I think it's really being ignored by most people that are paying attention. And it's the generalized positioning of Leo in reference to actual atrocities and evil happening on this planet. So Leo has his pet issues. You know, like global warming, like remember when he prayed over a block of ice, like what a worthless turd. I mean that was that was awesome to watch. And he loves to talk about illegal immigration and regular immigration as if they're the same thing. He likes to conflate those two in order to make some sort of leftist political point. But even though the Bishop of Rome seems to have a lot of time to talk about his pet issues, he doesn't really seem to have a lot of time to talk about real issues. So he loves to make these, you know, generalized statements about, you know, war bad and tyrants bad and you know, stuff like that. But he sure hasn't had anything to say about Iran and what they would do if they got a nuclear weapon. Isn't that so interesting? Cuz Iran is on the record as saying that America, where Leo is from, is the great Satan. Right? And then you basically have the the secondary Satan, which is Israel. And so if they had a nuclear weapon, they would love to and would very likely eventually use it on Israel and or the United States of America. Leo apparently doesn't have anything to say about that. It's just so interesting. Also, have we heard the Bishop of Rome talk about how horrible it is that the Iranian regime has slaughtered tens of thousands of their own citizens over the last several weeks and months? Does anybody have the have the quote? Anybody have the clip where he's talking about how horrible that is? Do do we have the clip of him talking about how a lot of Iranian And are being slaughtered as well? Because you have a lot of people in Iran that have gone from being Muslim to being atheist to being Christians. We've heard reports that it's the fastest growing church and underground church in the entire world is in Iran. Does Leo have anything to say about that? >> [clears throat] >> He's been kind of mum on that now, hasn't he? Now, he's been pretty silent on all that. But, you know, war bad, right? He he doesn't want us to also know war bad in general. And the most rich thing about his stance on war is apparently he has no regard or even knowledge of how Catholics have waged war for centuries. He apparently has no familiarity with just war theory, with why war is, you know, sometimes a necessary evil, right? Like all these different concepts, it's like, bro, do you even know the history of the church you purport to be the leader of? Do Do you have any any knowledge of the Crusades? And the defensive parts of the Crusades where Christians finally decide to stand up and push back against the predations and the spread of Islam throughout Africa and Europe? In the Middle East? Does he have any regard for that? Well, no, he just loves making these vague statements about war bad. But I think the larger point about this is that the Bishop of Rome, in addition to being a feckless coward, is also a fool. He's a fool. You see, he spends, you know, all this time decrying people and things and policies that he doesn't like, right? And yet he will speak softly about truly evil things like Islam. So, let's look at that just in a little bit more detail. In May of 2025, he spoke to Jewish and Muslim attendees at this interfaith speech. He does a lot of those. And he referred to them, to Muslims and Jews, as brothers and sisters. And he was essentially saying that they all worship the same God just slightly differently. Now, if you go back to my crisis of discernment episode, I talk about how even self-described evangelicals, a majority of them agree that God accepts the worship of all religions including the the worship of Jews and Muslims, right? So, obviously there's a lot of problems even within Protestant Evangelicalism. But here's the vicar of Christ, right? The leader of Christ's church calling Muslims and Jews brothers and sisters when Jews and Muslims would not say the same thing about Catholics or Protestants or really any form of Christian. And then in August of 2025 at another interfaith meeting, the Bishop of Rome said, quote, "Dialogue and friendship between Muslims and Christians is possible." Unquote. And that the only way to accomplish that is to put aside the arms of war. To put aside the arms of war. And well, the thing about these arms of war is that seemingly only the Christians are willing to do that, Leo. Because a lot of people talked about this with, you know, Israel and Gaza. It's like if if Gazans, you know, if Hamas, if they were to put their arms down, there would be peace in Gaza today immediately. But if the Jews were to put their arms down, they would be slaughtered entirely by Hamas. We see a similar thing here. We have Christians that will get to a point to where peace is possible and they're willing to put their arms down. Muslims have no such compulsion. Because they are commanded by their false prophet Muhammad to slaughter the infidel. So, when he talks about, you know, dialogue and friendship between Muslims and Christians is possible, well well, yeah, it is possible for you to have dialogue, to have conversations with people that believe in Islam. Like that's certainly possible if you're a Christian and as a Christian you should befriend those people so that you can share the gospel of Jesus Christ with them, right? Not that he was some minor prophet in a larger story, but how he's the main point. He is the way, the truth, and the life, and the pathway to the Father, right? But to put aside the arms of war, it's like he's refusing to acknowledge that we're even in one, which we are. And then in September of 2025, he was addressing a group where he talked about how authentic religion, when well cultivated, can strengthen human relationships and social life. So this is really a derivative of the universalist argument, which basically says that as long as you fervently believe in what your religion says, as far as like whatever structure of the religion you've made, as far like if you really, really believe it, it's a net positive and a net good. But it doesn't matter if you fervently believe in something if it's stupid or if it's wrong. So I've heard Joe Rogan say this a lot about Bernie Sanders. He's like, "Man, that guy's been saying the same thing since the '70s. He's been very consistent." Yes, he's very consistently stupid. He's very consistently wrong about literally everything. And he's been in Congress for a long time and has never never once authored a piece of legislation that went through the Senate. Not once. So he's a professional worthless person, but at least he's consistent. Like that's not really the feather in the in your cap that [clears throat] you think it is. And I've talked about this on the show before, but in October of 2025, the Bishop of Rome decreed that he would allow Muslim scholars access to the Vatican Apostolic Library in order to do research. Okay? Not a big deal, right? People can kind of come and do all their different research and everything else like that. I totally understand. But he made sure that they set up a private prayer room for those Muslims in the Vatican, complete with Muslim prayer rugs. Right. Now, now I don't like the Vatican is It's I've been there. I've walked through it. It's a It's a great place. It holds no special meaning to me as a Christian, right? It's just It's just a big, gorgeous building, right? But if you're a Catholic, it's like, "Well, wait a minute. You're allowing the Muslims to pray to Allah, which is not the same as Yahweh, and to do their own little worship of Muhammad, and to use your archives to research so that they can better argue for the Muslim worldview." But no issues. No issues with that. We We have no consternation about that whatsoever. Find that to be somewhat foolish. But in November of 2025, about a month later, the Bishop of Rome was in Turkey, and he gave a speech that described, quote, "Crossroads of cultures and religions." Unquote. So, he wanted to see cooperation between the worlds of Islam and Christianity. So, he insisted that today, quote, "We need people who will promote dialogue and practice it with firm will and patient resolve." Unquote. So, something tells me that whenever he created his speech and made his comments, he had completely forgotten that Muslims violently took over Constantinople in order to even establish the city of Istanbul inside of the country of Turkey. But yeah, let's talk about dialogue. Let's talk about patient resolve. Patient resolve? Muslims sure didn't show any of that when they were slaughtering Christians by the tens of thousands, did they? And a couple of days after that, he went to the Blue Mosque there in what used to be Constantinople, a gorgeous building. I've been there myself. And he said, quote, "With deep respect for the place and for the faith of those who gather there in prayer." Unquote. So, again, the Bishop of Rome has deep respect for the religion that says that the infidel, which would include all Catholics and all Christians, should be beheaded. That they should either be forced to convert to Islam or die. But he has tremendous respect for the people that are praying to that religion. And in December of 2025 during an in-flight press conference following a trip to Lebanon and Turkey, he addressed the growing concern towards Islam in the West cuz a lot of people are sounding the alarm and they should be and they should be sounding them louder. But he decided to lecture everybody about their fears. Basically saying that their fears are untenable, right? Hey, your your fears aren't really warranted. He says that the fear of Islam is, quote, generated by people who are against immigration, unquote. This doofus thinks that the reason people are sounding the alarm on the issues with Islam, the murderous bloody issues with Islam, is because we're just generally against immigration, which he's actually kind of, you know, he's kind of euphemizing what he actually means, which is basically people that don't want Muslims immigrating to their country are racist. Right? They're just racist. Right? And he also used the the phrase political maneuver. Like people are only talking about Islam being a problem in the world because it's political. It's just in order for them to be able to discriminate and exclude people based on their religion and their race. Well, no, actually, it's because whenever we allowed unfettered immigration from these third world Muslim countries into the West, into Europe, and into the United States and Canada, we've seen the negative downstream consequences of crimes shooting up, rapes shooting up. And when you try to import the third world into the first world, gosh darn it, isn't it so interesting there's always seemingly issues. Especially when the people that you're importing from the third world or just ignoring them as they walk through the back door of your country and they refuse to assimilate to Western Christian values, yeah, it eventually comes to a head. Especially when the values that they're espousing says, "You can't hold to your values and if you do, we're going to chop your heads off." Yeah, it becomes problematic, Leo. And in that same month in December of 2025, he was speaking at yet another interreligious meeting in Lebanon where he talked about how, quote, "Christians, Muslims, Jews, and countless others can live together." Unquote. And they And he was also talking about that Jews and Christians and Muslims all have a belief in a, quote, a God of love and mercy. Okay, let me point out just very basic differences in the God that Christians, Jews, and Muslims believe in. So, the difference between the Muslim God and the Christian God is Christians or well, let's let's look at all of it. Let's start with the Jews. The Jews believe in Yahweh, right? They believe in God in one person. Muslims believe in Allah, God in one person. But that's not the same God. When Jews are worshipping and praying to Yahweh, that is not the same God that Muslims are praying to, as in Allah. And then Christians differ with both of them because we believe in God in three persons. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. And so yes, Christians, Muslims, Jews, and other religions, we can all live together, but we don't have a belief in the same God. They're superficially the same, but fundamentally different. And then in March of this year, the Bishop of Rome praised efforts, quote, "to foster fraternity between Christians and Muslims." Unquote. And he affirmed respect for the followers of other religions and called for deeper, quote, "Christian-Muslim cooperation for the sake of the common good." Unquote. So again, the Bishop of Rome seems to be completely He can seems to just completely disregard the fact that not a single fervent and real Muslim on the planet wants the same thing. Not a single Muslim wants the cooperation with Christians for the common good cuz they don't believe in that. Cuz they their good is that all these Christians would not exist or would become Muslims, which are the options, right? Their death or their forced conversion. They don't want peace. They want the blood of the infidel. And in April of [clears throat] this year, he met with Islamic leaders in Cameroon and he said this, quote, "Everyone's desire to find peace. Not a peace of indifference, not a peace that takes away from the richness of differences, but a peace that is born when we recognize that we are all brothers and sisters, all creatures of the one alone." Unquote. Which we are all made in the image of God. If he had used that phraseology, that would have made a whole lot more sense. But he's saying that we are brothers and sisters. But I have nothing in common with a Muslim. They are not my brother. They're not. Cuz they don't believe in the same thing. Now, I will desire for them to become my brother, but they can only become my brother if they are in Christ. They cannot do so if they remain in Adam. And if they worship any other religion and worship any other god or any other set of deities, they are still in Adam. Only if they are in Christ, have placed their faith in Christ, can I call them a brother. But apparently the Bishop of Rome doesn't understand that concept. And there's a lot of other comments, but we we we need to move on here. But I want to go back to my main contention for the this part of the episode, which is that Leo, the Bishop of Rome, is a fool. He's a fool because he is signaling that he actually and truly believes that Christians can be friends with Muslims in a completely peaceful way. And again, I don't just mean like you have Muslims that live next door to you and you invite them over for dinner occasionally, right? I'm obviously not talking about that. He's talking about it through the lens of peace. And there cannot be peace when one side of the equation is always standing by with a sword. You can't. It's not a defensive posture, it's an offensive one. And what he has no regard for is that Christians and Muslims can only live in peace when Muslims leave their religion and convert to Christianity. That's the only time. That is literally the only way that Christians and Muslims can live in peace is if Muslims convert. But we're not going to make them convert at the threat of death, at the threat of beheading. Like we can pretend that we're friends, but it's not real. And remember when I was talking about taqiyya, right? We were talking about basically the Crusades and all these different things and I learned about the concept of taqiyya which we get from teachings of Muhammad in the Hadith. It's where Muslims are told go to Christian places. Go to Christian countries and pretend to be Christian. Pretend to be nice. Pretend to be a friend, not a foe. But stand ready. When Allah wishes for you to do what is said in the Quran, especially the ninth sura, the least abrogated of all the suras in the Quran, stand ready. Stand ready to take advantage of the foolish Christians in your midst that see you as a non-threat. Be ready to do that. I mean deeply problematic, right? I mean really just Raymond Ibrahim, go to his books and look at these concepts of taqiyya, the two swords of Christ, you know, we have the defenders of the West and Sword and Scimitar and you can see this is something that Muslims are trained and taught to do. And I actually saw Mark Driscoll will talk about this recently. I think it was on, you know, TikTok or maybe his podcast, I don't really know where, but he was talking about a lot of he was basically making a lot of very good and compelling points similar to what I've made before in reference to people that are drawn to the priesthood and then you have, you know, the head priest who becomes the Bishop of Rome, right? So, we had this enforcement of celibacy and this vow, you know, it's a vow of chastity and it's a it's a vow of poverty and all these different things. But that only became a thing inside of Catholicism, inside the priesthood a thousand years after Christ. So, a thousand years after Christ, the Christians in the Catholic Church decided, all right, priests, the Pope, like all these different things. Okay, can't have a wife, can't have kids, can't have sex. Like, you got to be poor. All the money you make or generate has to go through the church, all that. A thousand years after Christ. And so, basically the strong, virile, productive, type A men, and it probably didn't take very long, but certainly we're here another thousand years later, those people aren't drawn to the priesthood in general. Because those people want to love a woman as Christ loved the church. They want to have sex with her. They want to create children with that woman. They want to build a household. They want to have dominion over the small part of the world that Christ, uh, you know, is, you know, that God has given to them and they're going to be subservient to Christ's leadership in their life and and and they want to go forth and conquer. They want to they want to hunt. They want to do all those types of things and I don't just mean like hunt like literally hunting animals, but like that attitude of like I got to go out and create. I got to make stuff and I got to bring it home to provide for my family. Well, that type of guy a guy with that wiring is not going to just be like, yeah, I want to be a priest. And so, the Bishop of Rome, he's basically the leader of a group of effeminate, low testosterone men. These kind of more academic minded, theoretically based types of individuals, that's who is kind of going into these areas. And also, if you don't have children your view of the future is stunted. Because assuming all things are equal and assuming that I pass away before James or Elijah, what I am trying to do is I'm trying to set James and Elijah up better for the future because I won't be here. But if I have no progeny because of some made-up thing that the church came up with a thousand years after Christ, then what exactly is is my focus on the future for? There's an inherent selfishness in it. And I'm told by Catholics, "I will no, no, no, he's the father of many. Priests are the father of many." Except they're not. Except they're not. Those aren't their actual children. What What if I was were to say that I'm the father of you listening to this right now? I'm your father. I'm your spiritual father. You would do well to look at me like I had, you know, like that I was crazy. Like, "What are you talking about? You're not my father. You're not my dad." Right? But we're supposed to believe that priests are? That the Bishop of Rome is somehow a father of some kind? No, if you don't have your own progeny, there's this inherent uh desire to just store up things for yourself, to maximize life for yourself, as opposed to the delaying of gratification or the complete foregoing of gratification for the benefit of your children, which sets up your children's children and beyond. And the other thing about this is why do you think Muslims keep accepting these interfaith meetings and speeches from the Bishop of Rome? Why do you think they keep being a part of all those things? I mean, they're not doing it because they're trying to find common ground with them, right? They're not doing it so that they can work together with Christians to find peace in the world, right? They're not utilitarians. They're not doing it to establish some sort of new partnership where they just have, you know, slight differences, but over overall they disagree on most of everything. They're doing it because they know the Bishop of Rome is a fool. They know he's a coward. They know he's a weakling. And because he is all those things, he's very, very easy to control and manipulate. And during the crisis of discernment episode, uh I talked about two different types of people required to make these big shifts in culture or society. You have the conscious nefarious actors and the useful idiots. And the Bishop of Rome, Leo, is clearly a useful idiot. And so why do I bring all this up? Ultimately, I'm bringing it up because you will see Catholics and well-meaning Protestants talk about how we should respect the office of the Pope. And I'm here to tell you that we do not need to respect anyone that is not respectable and who is not acting in a respectable way. I'm sorry, I don't respect people that are allowing the sheep to be slaughtered by the wolf, that are completely okay with allowing wolves in sheep's clothing to enter into the premises of the people that they are purported to be protecting as a shepherd or as a father, as they would say it. And as Protestants, we know that the Pope is an unnecessary non-biblical position, right? Catholics will say there's been an unbroken line from Peter through till today, but here's something that they can't answer. Who did Peter appoint as his his successor? There's been an unbroken line, Catholics, right? Show me the line. Who did he appoint? Oh, you you don't know? Maybe it's because even Peter didn't believe that he was the rock on which Christ was going to build his church, but it was the truth of the gospel that he is the Christ is what the church would be built on. Again, Catholics say Peter was the first Pope, he's the rock. Peter didn't even say that. Peter didn't even believe that. Right? So we know it's an it's an unnecessary position, but the only reason why there still is an office of the Pope is because the early church tried to centralize power. Okay? They did it through the papacy, they did it through church tradition, they did it through church councils. And again, let me remind you about the difference, really, the main difference between Protestants and Catholics. So, Protestants believe faith equals salvation plus works. So, when you are imputed faith, you receive your salvation or justification, and then works will be a part of that. Catholics believe faith plus works equals salvation. So, inherently, Catholics believe in a works-based righteousness. Which is something that does not jive with the Bible at all. I mean, Paul directly and explicitly rejects this ideology in Ephesians 2:8-9, "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast." Not a result of works. Not, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, faith and all that, but here's these seven hoops that you have to jump through in order to become a believer, in order to become saved." So, to the non-believers listening to this podcast, ultimately, you should ignore what the Bishop of Rome says, because he is a coward and a fool and not worthy of your attention. But to the Protestant Christians listening to this podcast, ultimately, you should ignore what the Bishop of Rome says, because he has no more authority over you and over anyone on this planet other than the perceived authority that is espoused by the Vatican. We should consider his opinion to be similar to any other generic civilian in the world. And I think it'll save us a lot of heartburn to realize that Leo is just another guy. He just happens to wear ridiculous clothes and is the head of a religious movement that has very little regard for what the Bible says and considers the gospel to be anathema. Yes. Did you know that Catholics actually think that the gospel that I just talked about there in Ephesians is anathema. We have to go back to the Council of Trent. So, this would have been in Canon 9 of the decree on justification. This was session 6 in January of 1547. This is a direct quote. If anyone says that the sinner is justified by faith alone, meaning that nothing else is required to cooperate in order to obtain the grace of justification, and that it is not in any way necessary that he be prepared and disposed by the action of his own will, let him be anathema. Unquote. Let him be damned. And this is closely related to Canon 12. I'll read the quote here. Quote, "If anyone says that justifying faith is nothing else than confidence in divine mercy, which remits sin for Christ's sake, or that it is this confidence alone by which we are justified, let him be anathema. Let him be damned. So no. They don't believe the same way that we do. The leader of the Catholic Church believes that the gospel of Jesus Christ is anathema. And this isn't just some something that was said, you know, 500 years ago or something like that that we don't believe anymore. This is still the current decree of the Catholic Church. That the gospel, the explicit gospel, is anathema. So, to the Protestants listening to this, no, we do not respect the office of the Pope. It's not a real position. It's not position, and they have no authority over you. We have no intercessor between us and the Father God other than Christ. And you can take it to the bank. Hey guys, real quick. You may have noticed a lot of companies out there that are advertising and marketing that they're American companies, but guess what, guys? All their manufacturing and all their jobs are overseas, right? These companies are manufacturing overseas in order to increase their profit margins, but they're allowing globalism to put America and Americans behind. 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So, this is according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on March 31st. Former Gateway Church lead pastor Robert Morris released a statement Tuesday after he was released from prison in Oklahoma. The The Texas megachurch founder began serving his 6-month prison sentence after he pleaded guilty in October to charges of indecent conduct with a child in connection with his sexual abuse of Cindy Clemons Shire in the 1980s. Morris will serve the remainder of his 10-year sentence on probation in Texas. So, uh just as a reminder, he was an adult when he was basically um digitally raping a child named Cindy Clemons Shire, right? As far as we know. Groping her, uh penetrating her with his fingers, and that's the extent of what we know, okay? And Robert Morris uh also released this big, you know, lengthy statement talking about how he was deeply sorry and, you know, blah blah blah and all this kind of stuff. And I've talked about Robert Morris uh a lot on this show, and so I have entire episodes on all those different things. So, I'll go to straight to my big takeaway here. Whether or not Robert Morris is a Christian is not up to me, obviously. And I frankly have no idea if he is or not. I hope that he becomes one if he's not. And obviously the gospel applies to all people uh that have committed all manner of sins, including the ones that Robert Morris did. But in terms of this planet, Robert Morris has evaded justice. He sums somehow made it through prison as a pedophile and was not taken out, okay? So, I don't know what's going on with the prisoners in there, but apparently they're not as hard as they used to be on pedophiles, or at least they weren't in the prison that Robert Morris was in. And so, he's out now. He's going to be on probation, and he's still a mega millionaire. So, he's going to be able to get a haircut, you know, change up his appearance, buy some houses in some more obscure places of the country or the globe, and live out his life in relative peace, right? I'm sure he has some residuals coming in on his books. I'm sure he has a golden parachute from his church that he has since had had to be fired from and all that. So, Robert Morris is going to be just fine. But Cindy Clemons Shire, she's going to have to live with the reality that a grown man who was working in the ministry at the time raped her for the rest of her life. She's going to have probably daily reminders of the fact that she was taken advantage of when she was a child. But we say justice has been served. Well, well, justice about has obviously been served. Kyle Robert was found guilty. You know, he had to he had to go to prison, don't you know, right? Yeah, a whole 6 months for raping a child. Again, I'm a big-time advocate for the death penalty in this country. I think we should use it. We'll talk more about that here with a later quick hitter. But you're telling me that somebody that raped a child not only deserves to serve a short prison sentence, but that that's somehow also justice? That's justice? I mean, make the affirmative case for why Robert Moore should be alive today. Like, after he was convicted, after he was found guilty, yeah, give him his appeal, and if he's still upheld on appeal, his guilt's upheld, he's he's done now, right? We don't need pedophiles in polite society, right? God is sovereign over salvation. He can give it to him whenever he wants. We don't have to put him on death row for multiple decades. He could save him now if he wanted to, right? So, uh Robert Morris is uh again, if he's not a believer, I hope that he finds Christ. I fervently pray for his salvation, but he definitely evaded justice here on this planet. All right, next quick hitter here. Tucker Carlson claiming that Muslims love Jesus. So, a few weeks ago, Tucker Carlson, via his daily email through the Tucker Carlson Network, made the following statement. This is a direct quote. The people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus. Islam reveres him as a a prophet and messenger of the Lord. Believes he performed miracles and states that he will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist. That's why Donald Trump's painting depicting himself as the son of God offended the president of Iran. It was an attack on his religion as well as Christianity. So, we'll get to the Donald Trump image here in just a just a minute, but just to address the last thing there, who gives a crap if the president of Iran is offended? Who cares if anyone's offended honestly? If you offend your wife, yeah, you should care about that. If you offend your kids, if you offend your pastor or your elders, okay, you should care about those things. Who gives a crap if the president of another country, who's basically a puppet president right now, is offended by something? And I'm just going to go and tell you this right now, the president of Iran was not offended by Donald Trump putting an AI image on the internet depicting himself as Jesus, who if you follow Jesus, the president of Iran thinks that you should die for following Jesus as Lord. Just throwing that out there. Feel like I've established that. But a lot of people were claiming that at at the very least Tucker, who my gosh, talk about Tucker 2 years ago versus now, it's like a completely different person. A lot of people are claiming that Tucker is being paid by foreign Muslim actors and countries, perhaps by Qatar or Turkey, to make all these very positive-sounding comments about Islam. And some are going as far as saying that Tucker has privately converted to Islam as well, but mind you, we can't know for sure. I don't see the evidence for that, but you know, it wouldn't be surprising at this point. But what we can know for sure is that Tucker believes or is at least propagating a bevy of falsehoods as it pertains to Jesus and Islam. We saw it right there in the messaging from that email. First of all, he says that Muslims love Jesus, and yet anyone that puts their faith in Jesus for the propitiation of their sin debt and considers him to be the Messiah, not just a prophet, is considered to be an infidel worthy of beheading. So, there is that slight difference, Tucker. And also Muslims believe that Jesus performed miracles and believing that Jesus, you know, will come back to Earth and is going to be, you know, part of part of the judgment and all those different things. But saying those things as a Muslim doesn't prove that they love Jesus, Tucker. It just proves that they know stuff about him. It's a part of the historical record that Jesus of Nazareth, an itinerant rabbi, performed miracles that couldn't be explained during his 3-year public ministry. Do you know how many people believe that that don't love Jesus? A lot, Tucker. And yes, Muslims believe that Jesus is a major prophet, right? Some say minor, but okay, we'll take it that they're a major prophet, but that he is subservient to Muhammad. Okay? And yes, they believe that Jesus will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist, which is what's going to happen, right? Jesus is going to return to Earth, right? He's going to judge the Earth, the living and the dead. But what Tucker Tucker neglects to realize is that when you look at descriptions of the Antichrist, it is very likely describing the Mahdi, right? The 12th Imam, that we talked about with Mark Hitchcock when we were talking about the Persian storm. That's who's described. And so Jesus is not going to come back to help Muslims. He's going to come back to destroy them. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. You will either bow willingly or you will be forced to bow. There's not going to be a single person at when Jesus comes back that is a Muslim that will be spared. Not a single one. Unless they convert and follow Christ. And unlike Tucker Carlson, I actually have Bible verses to back up my claims. So we have the words of Jesus as recorded in Matthew 7:15, "Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves." Then in 2 Peter 2:1, "But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 1 Timothy 4:1, "Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times, later times, some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons." There's a lot of people in this world that are currently converting to Islam. And I would say that it was a demon that visited Muhammad in that cave to dictate the teachings to him from God, right? So, my big takeaway on this one is don't get your theological advice from people that seem to misunderstand even basic theology. So, I don't know what Tucker Carlson's belief systems are. I don't know that he really does. He seems to be a moving target these days. But if you're trying to get theological advice or have some sort of theological foundation, perhaps don't get it from political commentators who have a long career and track record of changing their opinions on all major topics. All right, next quick hitter here. Donald Trump posting an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus. So, uh Landon, let's go ahead and uh just put this image up on the screen here. So, uh there you go. There you have it. If you're watching this on uh on YouTube or Rumble, you can see it. Uh but you can see it all over the internet, okay? So, you have this picture of Trump. He's He's touching this guy's head. Uh you know, it's kind of like this this healing thing. And you know, there's uh a guy like, you know, looks like a you know, a veteran that's the off to his left. And then there's a soldier to his right and a nurse down to his right and a woman praying. And there's eagles flying and military planes flying. And uh there's a bald eagle in front of an American flag. And here's Jesus uh you know, sorry Trump uh kind of looking Jesus-like touching this guy on the head kind of doing the whole healer thing. So, there you go. Now, when he posted this on Truth Social, there was immediate backlash from everyone, right? Left, right, Democrat Republican Christian atheist, there was backlash from everybody, okay? And to be honest, I was thrilled to see the backlash. And I was especially thrilled to see the backlash from Christians and conservatives that supported him, right? Even people that are big, big MAGA people, people were like, bro, this is terrible. Like th- this is nonsense, uh you shouldn't be doing stuff like this. Like, what's wrong with you? Loved seeing that. Cuz that's where I landed. It's like, how dumb can you be? This is ridiculous, right? So, AI posting AI images isn't the problem. Some people are like, he posted an AI image. Who freaking gives a crap? He posted an image where he's in the center of it looking like a Jesus figure as a healing figure. So, uh this is just another one of those reasons where, guys, we need to be praying for for Jesus to to enter the heart of of Donald Trump, right? He is not a Christian, right? I don't care that he has a Trump Bible or any of those things. There's no evidence that he has put the you know, his faith in Jesus for his sin that. None. He seems to be uh Jesus curious, he seems to be Christian adjacent, but he is not a follower of Christ. Like, you can't really make the affirmative case that he is a follower of Christ. So, we should be praying for him to become one. So, if you are a Trump supporter, if you hate Trump, if you're a never Trumper, if you're a MAGA MAGA person, we need to pray that he should follow Christ, which also means we should pray that he should get some actual Christian advisers around him, not women that think they're pastors, not people that have absolutely no theology whatsoever, but some really Bible believing people getting around the president. I think that would be a good idea. But then we need to get to the White House response on this. So, the picture was deleted pretty quickly, but yeah, obviously the internet lives forever, so it's almost like it was never deleted. Then Trump said that he thought the image was of him as a Red Cross doctor. And then we had J.D. Vance do an interview. He came out and said, "Oh, it was a joke, you know, the president was joking." And all those excuses and and all those things they just came out within 24 hours. So, it was like the White House was trying to figure out how exactly to make this thing work. But, Donald Trump understands so little about Christianity, and we see that very, very clearly in most of his public statements, that I think it is actually plausible, you know, honest-to-goodness, it's a plausible thought that he or it's possible that he thought that it was a picture that depicted him as a healing doctor, right? And didn't draw the connection to Jesus. But, I don't actually believe that. Like, it's plausible, but it's very, very improbable, okay? So, let's go right to my big takeaway here. This is yet another example that solidifies my overarching point that Donald Trump is one of the least controllable people in existence. Because I made just like a little, you know, side comment when I was interviewing Mark Hitchcock when we were talking about the Persian storm about how people say that, "Oh, Trump is just a he's a stooge, right? He's controlled by Netanyahu, like he's a Mossad operative. He's all these different things." And I'm like, but the thing that all these people have in common that are making these claims is none of them have any evidence whatsoever. No evidence whatsoever that he is a Mossad plant or that he's, you know, basically doing things at the behest of the Jews, right? None. None at all. And yet, we constantly see Donald Trump being told, "Please don't do this. Please don't do this. Please don't say this. Please don't post that." And guess what? Trump does whatever the hell he wants to do. And he always has. Well before he got into the political sphere a decade ago, Trump was the guy that did whatever he wanted to do. In business, in his personal life, this is the track record of Donald Trump. And yet, all of the sudden, in his latter years, he's being controlled by the Jews. He's a puppet for Mossad. Netanyahu's telling him what to do. You will go to war with Iran because insert conspiracy theory, insert thing that I can't substantiate. That's why. This is another example Where he got this image, I don't know. Was he sitting there talking to his chat GPT, "Make me look like Jesus." We have no idea, right? But he got the image, he loved it, he posted it, or he told one of his underlings to post it. He's the least controllable person, maybe in existence, out of everybody else today. He will take a look at what's happening in the world, if he sees the poll swinging too far away from him, he'll make adjustments, but he does exactly what he wants to do. He will take your advice, and then he will do exactly what he wants to do. This is just another story that proves it. All right, next quick hitter here, country singer, country music singer-songwriter Shane McAnally having an appalling interaction with the baby he and his gay partner bought. So, a gay country music singer and songwriter named Shane McAnally, yes, somehow a gay country music singer is named Shane McAnally. That's just incredible. I had previously never heard of this human being, so I thought it was kind of a joke. It seemed to be a little bit too on the nose, or on the penis, or whatever I'm supposed to say. But that is his actual last name. But Shane McAnally and his sodomite partner, they apparently used IVF and surrogacy to purchase a baby boy. Okay? So, I've talked a lot about IVF and surrogacy. Again, we're not supposed to notice that gay sodomite male couples at a clip of about 80% prefer boy children over girl children, but that's neither here nor there, apparently. We're not supposed to be talking about that. But in order to garner some social media clicks and clout, Shane McAnally posted this video recently on his social media. Hey. Hey. Who do you want? Dada or papa? YOU [laughter] WANT MAMA. DO YOU want Dada or papa? >> [laughter] >> Who do you want? Dada or papa? No. Do you want dada? You want papa? No way, Jose. Maybe Jose. I think Oh. You There is no mama. I'm so sorry. You have dada and you have papa. Two choices. No mama. >> [crying] >> No No. >> [crying] >> But no mama. Dada or papa. >> [crying] >> But no. So, for those of you just listening, so we have one of the sodomites right there holding up the baby saying, "Do you want dada or papa?" So, those are the names that they've given to themselves. And the baby is obviously mouthing, "Mama." Mom, right? Baby doesn't know what it's saying. But even this baby understands the attachment to its biological and birth mother. That was stolen from this baby by two sodomites that just want to be able to post things on social media and show their baby off, you know, like an extra handbag or something like that. And for other nefarious, more nefarious reasons, again, about 80% of gay male couples want boy children, right? Not supposed to notice that. And so, it's it's heartbreaking because this baby is confused, obviously, and is crying. And the baby understands no, no, no. He's being chastised, this baby, for wanting his mother. And the guy even says, "I'm sorry, no mama." He's actually not sorry. This is all part of the design. Right? He and his sodomite partner jerked off into a cup. They likely did the sperm swirl thing. They took it from a purchased egg from another woman, and they injected the sperm into the egg of this woman. They put it into the rented womb of another woman, right? All possible because of IVF technology and the legality of surrogacy for gay people, right? And had paid her convenience fee for carrying her child, right? But it wasn't her child because it wasn't her egg because it was made with someone else's sperm and then combined with that egg and then put in her, right? So, there's all this separation, right? It's all very, very dark. But there was some very negative public comments and reactions to this cuz again, a lot of people didn't know this person existed. And this is just kind of another example of country music theology, right? People just assume because if it's wrapped in the American flag and recorded in Nashville that it's at least Christian adjacent. Here's two gay people that are completely embraced by the machine that is Nashville. Nashville is no more Christian than most mosques, okay? But then there were some comments and it was actually on there on the screen there. One of the comments was, "Throw it away and start over." Talking about the baby. And Shane McAnally responded to that with three crying laughing emojis. And then another commenter said, "This happened to my friends then one of them came out as trans. Not saying babies know, but you might want to talk." To which Shane McAnally responded, "OMG." And then somebody else commented, "I'm just glad you're breaking it to him early versus waiting until he's all grown up." Shane McAnally just ripped the band aid off. Okay? So, this is incredibly dark. It's incredibly evil. But my big takeaway here, and obviously this is not going to be a surprise to you, gay adoption, surrogacy, and IVF should be illegal. It should be This should be completely illegal. Again, we'll talk more about slippery slope a little bit later. But remember when it was just like, "Hey, just let us have civil unions." Right? Then it was just, "Hey, just let us get married." Right? Then it was, "Hey, let us have the exact same rights as heterosexual married couples." Then it was like, "Hey, just let us adopt orphans." Right? These poor orphans, just let us adopt them. We're both gay, we both work, we make we make a good living. We're going to make a good life for this baby. Then it was let us make babies. Let us design babies. Let us have these babies and there be no possible recourse to stop us. Again, make the affirmative argument for why this should be allowed. Because IVF facilities, they love raking in the money, right? Cuz again, just as a reminder, they'll make 10 to 12 embryos, realizing that maybe only one is going to be allowed to live. They're going to charge you a bunch to do that process and then they're going to charge you a bunch to store the brothers and sisters of the one child that might survive in some cryogenic freezer somewhere. Well, until they get abandoned, right? Until they sell them for even more money to places that will do research on those those human beings that have been created. Or if the machine dies or the freezer dies, then all those human beings that are created in the image of God just die. But no moral issues, right? With IVF. Surrogacy. At the very basic level, you're separating biological mother from birth mother. Katie Faust has talked about that a bunch. That that's a big problem. It causes this gap for these babies. And again, this isn't just gay people adopting children that are already existing outside the womb that don't have a mother nor a father, orphans, right? I've heard the arguments for that and some of them are actually not terrible. Right? I disagree with them, but they're not awful. But that's not what we're talking about anymore. We're talking about gay men spending tens of thousands of dollars and in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars to design boys that will live in their homes without any oversight. How long are we going to keep allowing things like this? Yeah, people love to get mad on the internet. They love to get mad in the social media comments. I can't believe this. But do you hear any Republicans talking about, "Yeah, we need to basically stop this. We need to get rid of Obergefell. Marriage is between one man and one woman for life. God created it. He gets to define it. Too bad, so sad. Life's tough, get a helmet, right? And gay adoption, surrogacy, and IVF are just no longer going to be a thing." None of it's even argued. So, sad state of affairs. All right, next quick hitter here. A 7-year-old girl being kidnapped and murdered by a FedEx driver. So, here's another absolutely evil story following the previous one we just did. This is according to USA Today on April the 17th. Disturbing recordings of a 7-year-old child's final moments left jurors visibly distraught on Thursday, April the 16th during the sentencing trial of an ex-FedEx driver accused of kidnapping and strangling the young girl. Tanner Lynn Horner, 34, pleaded guilty on April the 7th to capital murder in the case of Athena Strand, a little girl taken from her Wise County, Texas home in November of 2022. The ongoing sentencing trial, which also began on April the 7th, will determine if Horner is subject to the death penalty. Sobbing jurors heard excerpts from more than an hour of video and audio that captured Athena's final moments starting from the time she was lured into Horner's vehicle and continuing through the attack, reported local news outlet NBC DFW. Judge George Gallagher warned observers in the courtroom of the recording's graphic nature on Thursday, April the 16th saying, "If you think you cannot watch it or listen to it, leave now. Now's your time to get out." Athena's parents left the room before the audio, which reportedly left jurors shaking and weeping, and it was played. In earlier testimony, Athena's mother, Maitlyn Gandy, apologized to innocent people who had to listen to the recording in full, reported Fox 4. "Not anyone in this room besides Tanner Horner asked for what's on that video, and Athena definitely did not," she said. So, big takeaway on this one. Tanner Horner is eligible for the death penalty. And since this is taking place in Texas, he may actually get it. Right? By the time you hear this, he may actually uh have received the death penalty. And I've said it a lot on this show, and I still maintain my position. Why do we feel like public executions of people like Tanner Horner are uncouth or beyond the pale of consideration? Again, Tanner Horner is dead to rights. There's not a single other person in existence that could have committed this crime other than Tanner Horner, and he's admitted to it. We don't need an appeal. If he is given the death penalty, which he obviously should receive, he should be hung from the neck the following morning at dawn. Uh and enough of this lethal injection and all, you know, we're going to make this a peaceful thing. No, he should be marched to the gallows, his head left uncovered before uh a bevy of onlookers, and he should be hanged from the neck until he dies. Well, why would we do that, Kyle? Why would we not? Well, we're just going to sanitize this? We're going to be horrified by some headline we read in USA Today and then forget about the story for pretend it never happened? And here's another thing that a lot of people aren't really understanding and and thinking about. Uh Tanner Horner obviously was casing this house and hunting this little girl. Okay? This wasn't just a a crime of opportunity. He just saw her and was like, "Ah, grabbed her." and then kind of freaked out. And I would bet my life on it. Tanner Horner probably was engaging in uh and using child pornography for masturbatory aids. And it probably didn't start there. As with most people that are eventually caught up watching child pornography, they started with innocent pornography. Playboys. Pictures. Then it went to harder pictures, and considering his age, he kind of grew up with the internet, so it probably went from more tame porn, you know, just naked girls, and then it was on into sex acts, and then harder sex acts, and then rougher sex acts, and then he wasn't able to get off seeing these older women doing this, and so the people, the female subjects in the videos kept getting younger and younger and younger until they were children. Probably children around the age of Athena. Would anyone be shocked to learn that about Tanner Horner? Right? I certainly wouldn't. So, cuz he just kidnapped a girl, and then what likely happened is he couldn't believe he had kidnapped somebody with the intent of doing what he had seen in these videos, very likely, right? But then whenever he got her in the vehicle and realized, "Oh my gosh, this is a human being." he freaked out. He realized, "I can't just bring this girl back to her house." So, he panicked and strangled her to death. Strangled a 7-year-old girl to death. Can you imagine? Can you imagine the fear she had in that truck? But you have all these advocates that want to make sure that the death penalty is off the table. That Tanner Horner, who's in his 30s, should be kept alive for decades until natural death on the taxpayers' dime. When he hunted, kidnapped, and then murdered a child. I guess the only positive here is that he didn't rape her before he murdered her with his bare hands. We always love to think about the rights of the person that did the crime, and we completely neglect to remember the victim. So, let's remember the victim. Okay? Athena didn't want that for herself. Certainly not Athena's family. But Tanner Horner, who has obviously been taken over by a demon or something like that, decided he was going to do one of the most unspeakable things that could possibly be done. But how many voices are we going to hear saying, "Spare this man's life?" Well, you can spare me those arguments. Our next wicked here, the man responsible for murdering Iryna Zhuravska being found incompetent to stand trial. So, a lot of people remember this case. This is De Carlos Brown. This is the the black guy with the long dreads and the hoodie. He was on public transportation. Iryna Zhuravska, who had just got off of a shift working at some food place, sits down in front of him, opens up her phone and just looking through her phone. He pulls out a knife and stabs her in the neck and kills her. Okay? Now, before this, De Carlos Brown had been arrested multiple times. Multiple times have been found and guilty of multiple crimes and yet was still able to roam the streets. Right? At no point was his mental stability to be in the community ever questioned. Right? And then we have the video of what De Carlos Brown did to her. Right? So, just like in the previous case, we have him dead to rights. There's no other person who could have possibly committed this crime. We have him on video doing it. It's clearly him. This also should have been a hate crime, even though I don't even believe in hate crime as a category, because if you're performing a crime like murder on somebody, you have hate for them. Right? But specifically, if we're going to use hate crime as a as a policy, do you remember what he said right after he murdered her? He said, "I got that white girl. I got that white girl." Right? So, this absolutely seems to have been a racially motivated murder and that he wanted to destroy a white girl for being white. And isn't it so interesting that we have people like the Bishop of Rome and Democrats and leftists all over the planet who seem to be so overwhelmed and concerned about the plight of immigrants? Right? We're constantly lectured about that. And yet they have nothing to say about this young lady who was an immigrant to this country. Nothing to say about Irina Zarutska. Gee, I wonder why that is. Could it have anything to do with the fact that the circumstances of the case are incredibly hurtful to the narrative that those same people put out there about the plight of black people in this country or any type of minority? Cuz we can't talk about the problems, the overwhelming violence that comes from black men of that age of D'Carlos Brown. Right? But it's usually convenient to talk about immigrants and how they should have rights and how they should be protected until an illegal immigrant kills somebody or in kill until a black person that's in the same cohort as a lot of other violent black people kills an innocent immigrant. Then we just can't talk about it. Right? So this is according to the New York Post on April the 8th, the deranged homeless man accused of savagely butchering Irina Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte light rail train has been found incapable to proceed on state murder charges. According to a motion filed on April the 7th, D'Carlos Brown Jr. was evaluated December 29th at Central Regional Hospital and the subsequent report determined he was not competent to stand trial. According to WTV, his attorney has asked the court to delay his competency hearing by 180 days. The results were previously sealed in state court and were only revealed once the motion was filed. So big takeaway on this one. If you are charged and found guilty of a heinous crime like D'Carlos Brown Jr. was here then you should still get the same exact sentence whether or not you are deemed mentally capable of standing trial. Because obviously this person is mentally broken. Look at what he did. He saw a woman sit in front of him, had a knife, thought, "I'm going to take this knife out and stab her in the neck." Knowing that she would die. At the very least you should be imprisoned for your entire life. According but according to these people's own argument the person is incapable of understanding the difference between right and wrong, right? So he can't stand trial for himself and yet there will be people that will advocate after he spends some time in a mental facility that he is changed. That he has been rehabilitated. Which gets down to the fundamental issue with how some people view prison. Oh, is this about rehabilitation or is it about punishment? Let me just tell you, it's about punishment. And secondarily, it's about keeping these horrible wolves away from the rest of the population. Rehabilitation is way down on the list. You are to be punished. The punishment should lead to the rehabilitation. Think about how you deal with a child, right? If they perform a behavior that is wrong or immoral, you punish them for that. You spank them. You take away privileges. You ground them right? The punishment leads to the rehabilitation. You know, look at them making the issue, doing the problem and say, "You know what we need to do? We need to talk to a counselor. We need to talk to a licensed therapist. Hey, tell me how you felt before you set your Lego set on fire, right? We don't do that. Why not? Because you punish them to correct the behavior. And if that punishment does not correct the behavior, you accelerate the punishment, right? That that is You are not to spare the rod from your child, whether physically, emotionally, or through any type of other punishment, right? You don't abuse your child, but you obviously have to show them what they're doing is wrong. So we need to stop thinking about prison as rehabilitation facilities. They are punishment facilities and they are facilities that are in existence to protect us from people like that, like DeCarlos Brown. But again, like I said, arrested all these other times, no one ever thought to evaluate his mental state. Hey, should this guy be just walking around? Is this like a thing? He's been arrested and convicted of a bunch of crimes. Should he just be kind of like out and about? No one seemed to care. Not a single judge, not a single attorney, not a single DA. Until he murdered a woman in cold blood, a white girl, because she was white, right? Who knows what was in his brain, obviously very mentally ill. But, is all this a downstream consequence of BLM? And this idea that black people have been told in this country they can't possibly get ahead because of this nameless, faceless white devil, this they that is keeping them down? That all white people inherently are racist? There's no possibly There's no possible other way for that the white people are the enemy of blacks, we've we've constantly held them down. Could that be a potential issue here? Nobody wants to ask any of those questions. But, all of the sudden, he's not competent enough to stand trial. So, more than likely, he will not go down for murdering Arenas Ruszka because he was black and because she was white, which is the obvious motivation here. He's not going to go down for that, and he's just going to go to some facility where they keep him doped up, and eventually some psychologist with low discernment is going to say that this person is fine and can be let out, which will be a disaster for the greater community. All right, next quick hitter here, the Supreme Court of Finland convicting a woman of a war crime for quoting the Bible and what the Bible has to say about homosexuality. So, this is according to the Helsinki Times on March the 26th, Finland's Supreme Court has fined a member of Parliament, and I'm sorry, I I I cannot pronounce this woman's name, I'll do my best. Paivi Räsänen, Paivi Räsänen, for incitement against a group over a church pamphlet while clearing her of charges linked to a social media post that cited the Bible. The ruling ends a legal process that lasted close to seven years and has drawn political and legal reactions across the country and world. The court ruled by a 3-2 vote that Räsänen, a Lutheran bishop, and Lutheran bishop Johanna Pujola committed an offense by publishing and keeping available a text that insulted homosexuals as a group. The text formed part of a pamphlet written in 2004 and later shared online in 2019 and 2020. The court imposed fines of 20-day units on both defendants. Räsänen must pay about 1,800 euros based on her income. The Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese and Luther Foundation face a corporate fine of 5,000 euros. The court also ordered the removal of specific passages it found unlawful from online platforms. The judgment stated that the pamphlet described homosexuality as homosexuality as a disorder in psychosexual development and rejected the view that it forms a natural variation of human sexuality. The court found such claims incorrect and said they placed homosexual people in an unequal position compared to heterosexual people and held that these statements amount to an insult against a group on the basis of sexual orientation. The court said that the case did not center on religious confession. It found that the disputed passages reflected social and medical claims rather than expressions tied to religious doctrine. It added that freedom of religion did not protect statements unrelated to religion when assessing criminal liability. The court stated that the decision did not conflict with constitutional protections of freedom of speech or of speech or religion. So a lot of things with this story. This could have been the lead story that I talked about today. But obviously there is an unequal position between homosexual people and heterosexual people cuz homosexual people by definition cannot propagate the species. If you look at it in just a strictly secularist atheistic concept, they can't propagate the species. So obviously they're in unequal position. And they also don't have the same strictures to the continuing of a people group because they can't propagate the next generation. They can't create the next generation. And so this entire thing is being seen as a this entire thing is being seen as like, "Oh, it's just freedom of speech thing and all that." But this woman was convicted of a war crime. That's how this Supreme Court there in Finland got her was on a war crime that she quoted scripture that talked about homosexuality and quoted what was settled science up to about a few decades ago that people that considered themselves to be homosexual actually had some sort of mental disorder. She was convicted of a war crime. Right? And again, the left-wing media is saying that this woman is guilty of a hate crime, so-called hate speech. But again, I just have to go back and tell you what changed several decades ago. I think it was in the 1970s when homosexuality went from, "No, this is a disorder, right? This is a disorder that needs counseling and treatment." to the entire world being like, "No, no, no, this is just just one of many sexual orientations that are acceptable and moral." So big takeaway on this one. If you don't think that this could happen in this country, you are a fool. Something like this could absolutely happen in the United States of America. Just think about it. The Democrats will be in power soon. Right? We'll talk about that more in the next one. Well, actually, you know what? I'll I'll save uh some my further commentary cuz I want to get into this next quick hitter. The Biden administration partnering with abortion activists to track and imprison pro-lifers. This is according to Daily Wire on April the 14th. We now know that the Biden administration was literally partnering with abortion activists to track and imprison pro-lifers. According to Daily Wire reporting, President Biden's administration relied on information gathered from radical pro-abortion groups to track, prosecute, and snoop on peaceful pro-life protesters who were later arrested by the FBI. The DOJ report titled the Biden administration's weaponization of the FACE Act examined more than 700,000 records. The FACE Act is a bill that was designed to prevent people from obstructing entry into abortion clinics. The FACE Act also said that you were weren't allowed to invade churches during church services. This came up in the context of Don Lemon and his friends invading and disturbing a church service in order to protest ICE. The dossiers that the DOJ examined contained information and pro- about pro-life activists who had not yet been charged with any federal crimes but were deemed threats by abortion groups because of their activism. So, this big takeaway is related to the previous story and this one. When Democrats regain power, they will begin doing things like this again only in a more extreme and overt way. So, you would have thought because of how badly they got shellacked in the last general election that they're going to tamp it down a little bit. They're going to cool off. They're going to moderate. That's not what the Democrats are doing. They're going whole hog in the other direction. Okay? So, Democrats are very, very likely to win the House and potentially the Senate at the midterms. And I would say they have a better than 50% chance of winning the White House in 2028 regardless of who runs as a Republican and regardless who runs as a Democrat cuz that's just the swings that we see in this country right now. We're having two two to four to eight-year swings. That's just basically what we're seeing. And so, they're going to do this again. Think about what would have continued if Kamala Harris and Tim Walz had been elected. All those pro-lifers that these elderly grandmas that were praying outside of abortion clinics, praying that these women would not in fact murder their children, praying for those babies that were already in existence but just residing in their mothers' womb wombs, they were in federal [clears throat] prison. If Kamala Harris and Tim Walz were in office, they would still be in prison. >> [clears throat and cough] >> Think about that. We would be years in to their prison sentences. But luckily, Donald Trump was put into office almost immediately got them all out of there. Democrats have signaled that they will continue going down this route, and there's really nothing that we can do about it. Hey guys, real quick. I know a lot of you train for very specific things. So, maybe you've got a mud race coming up, a mountain hunt, a 5K, or maybe you just want to keep up with your kids, or you just don't want to let the old man in. But, for a lot of you guys, whether you're working out at the Globo Gym or even your garage gym, you get there and you just don't know exactly what to do. And so, you just kind of settle for the same old workout routine, maybe some bench press, bicep curls, a walk on the treadmill, and you know you're not really getting the most out of your workout plan. 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This means that parents or guardians may or may not be consulted in the euthanasia death of a child that is deemed capable of decision-making. So, let's go through some statistics here about the medical assistance in dying the you know, forced murder program happening in Canada. In 2024, there were about 16,499 reported MAID deaths in Canada. This accounted for 5.1% of all deaths in the country meaning roughly one in 20 deaths in Canada is now a result of medical assistance, basically medically induced suicide. So, cumulative total. So, since legalization in 2016 through the end of 2024, about 77,000 people have died by MAID. And the projections for 2025, there's preliminary data that says that the MAID deaths will likely surpass 90,000 by late 2025. That's the what the projections say. And then basically while most cases involved people with a reasonable reasonably foreseeable death in the future because of a terminal illness, there are a lot of people that were being euthanized under what they call track two, which applies to those with chronic non-terminal conditions, right? So big takeaway on this one. Almost everyone that tries to dismiss the slippery slope fallacy knows inherently that the slippery slope argument is not a fallacy. It always goes farther than what they initially say. Just remember what I said earlier about gay people. Oh, just let us have civil unions. And now it's hey, we're going to make designer babies via IVF and surrogacy, right? It's never about whatever the first thing is. It's always the slippery slope. And so when cultural conservatives like myself are like, hey, hey hey hey hey no no no no no. No civil unions. None whatsoever. If you all want to plug each other and do that whole thing, like, okay, do that in the privacy of your own own homes. Don't dress up in drag and and and read stories at the library and don't, you know, do it on a park bench in public. But if you want to do that in your own homes, that's fine for you. You shouldn't do that, but you know, fine for you. No. No civil unions. We are we are not as a society acknowledging this nonsense. This this this abomination. We're not doing it, right? We're shouted down as bigots, as haters, as non-Christians, as whatever. And then it always ends up the exact same way that we say. When we're like, hey, it's not going to stop here. It's going to go beyond that, it always does. Same thing here. The initial pitch was, look, there are people that are about to die. That are suffering. They're in pain. They're in late-stage cancer. They have some terminal issue. And you know what? We don't want them to, you know, blow their brains out or hang themselves in a barn. We we want them to come to a sterilized facility where they can be put down like a dog, right? That that was the pitch. And then the acceptable conditions for medical assistance in dying, what a euphemism, were expanded. And then the conditions were expanded. Now the age is being expanded to where parents don't even have rights over the lives of their own children, and eventually, because this is exactly where it's heading in Canada, you're not going to be able to stop the state from euthanizing you. You're not going to be able to stop them. Because you're going to be such a drag on their socialistic health care system that's like, you know what? This person can probably live for another five years in relative peace. It'll get bad at the end, but they can probably live. But gosh, it's going to be expensive. So we're just going to kill them. Some doctor somewhere, right? Or some, you know, group of physicians or some hospital administrator, you know, and also some, you know, minister within the government or whatever, they're just going to decide, yeah, you're just going to die. Right? We advocated for all these socialistic policies. We We took a bunch of money from rich people to pay for all this. You know, our our system sucks, right? It takes you like six months to get an MRI on your busted knee. But you know what? We're not just going to We're not going to keep this person alive. It's going to be a whole lot better. You know, it's going to be better for them and and and actually it's going to be better for the state if we take this person out. Because, you know, the amount of money we're going to have to spend to keep this person happy and comfortable and alive, you know, that can go to social programs. Like getting two-spirit queer albino like undocumented immigrants, you know, trans surgeries or something. Or pay for their college or whatever. You think that's ridiculous now? But I'm telling you, as a social conservative, the slippery slope is never a fallacy. It's always going to be like that. All right, next we're going to hear the Justice Department indicting the Southern Poverty Law Center for secretly funding white supremacist groups. So this is a newer story. A whole lot more is going to come out about this, but this is according to the Daily Wire on April the 23rd. The Justice Department has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center, the SPLC, for purportedly funding the Unite the Right rally, assisting with its messaging and coordination, and secretly funneling over $3 million to the leaders and the organizers of a of very racist groups the SPLC claimed to be dismantling. Among them the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance. Their paid informants weren't just monitoring extremist groups, they were actively promoting them while the SPLC simultaneously denounced those same groups in its publications and solicited donor money to fight them. Yes, an organization whose stated mission was to dismantle white supremacy and confront hate across the country funded white supremacy and hate across the country. This is an incredible story. You want to talk about a psyop that's being performed on the American public? The SPLC that is constantly brought up by all these groups like, "Oh, you know, this is the group that basically takes care of and keeps an eye on all these extremists, especially these white supremacists." They were funding them. So, remember Joe Biden said he got into the race because of what he saw at Charlottesville, saw those white supremacists, and then, you know, the lie that's been, you know, bandied about for the last 10 years that Trump said there were good people on both sides. No, he denounced the white supremacists. He was talking to people that were on both sides of the issue about whether or not there should be Confederate statues displayed in America. But, we have all this thing around Charlottesville, and it looks like the SPLC was funding and fomenting all this rage. And so, big takeaway on this one, when faced with the reality that the demand for American racism far outweighs the supply, this is what we see leftists do in order to stay in power, to control the narrative, and to make ungodly amounts of money. Because after Charlottesville, the SPLC has gained hundreds of millions of dollars in donations. And they were literally propping up financially some of the same people listed on their website as extremists. This is a tremendous story. If it doesn't end with the absolute dismantling of the SPLC, then I mean the the DOJ basically would have screwed the pooch on it. But I mean, at the very least the SPLC uh >> [laughter] >> the building should be destroyed and we should salt the earth underneath it. It's been a garbage organization from day one, but this just proves that man, like of course there are racists and all that, but if you look at all the other different countries, we're the only non-homogeneous country that has such low levels of overt racism that you have to have groups like this pay for racism to continue so that they can still have something to fight. Which is another little thing, 501c3s, whatever these groups are advocating for, you know that most of them don't actually want what they're advocating for. Because if they're advocating for it, let's pick pick a thing, homelessness or something like that. You're a 501c3 set up to solve homelessness. Well, what if you do? Can you continue to raise money? You can, but it's going to be a whole lot harder. Like a whole lot harder, right? Because why would anyone give you money? You solved the problem. It's part of the problem with the Trump administration coming up to the midterms, they can't run on the border. Because we've basically solved the border issue. We still need a fence, we still need a lot of things taken care of, right? We need a border wall. But at the same time it's like, oh we shut down the border on the first 10 minutes that Trump was in the White House. So they can't run on the border until Democrats take over, open up the southern border again. That's just kind of how these 501c3s work. All right, next we're going to hear a top hospital in New York is ending its transgender surgery programs for minors, according to Fox News on February the 18th. NYU Langone Health, a major Manhattan hospital, has moved to end its transgender program for minors in the face of threats to its federal funding. Given the recent departure of our medical director, coupled with the current regulatory environment, we made the difficult decision to discontinue our transgender youth health program, according to a statement which was provided to Fox News Digital by an NYU Langone spokesman, Steve Ritea. "We are committed to helping patients in our care manage this change. This does not impact our pediatric mental health care programs, which will continue." The link to NYU Langone's landing page on the transgender youth health program now leads to a page entitled gender and sexuality services, which states that the hospital helps children and their families understand and explore their identity with the goal of helping them achieve a true and nuanced sense of self. The page says that mental health experts can help your child and family understand gender identity and connect your child with appropriate medical services and mental health services. So, big takeaway on this one, we need to be perfectly clear about something here. This is all about money. It's all about money. These hospital networks got into the transgender game because it was incredibly lucrative. An unending stream of money per patient. And the only reason they are backing away from it now is because they stand to lose even more in government funding and because of the lawsuits that have happened and that will surely follow. That's the only thing that matters here. They're all about money. They do not care about these patients. If they did, they would not inject hormones into gender confused children. If they cared about these kids, they would not be surgically removing the healthy breast tissue of gender confused girls and the genitals of gender confused boys. They wouldn't be doing it. Okay? So, people can talk about oh, conservatives did this and there's there's a big shift and there certainly is a part of that, right? What is a woman and and different advocacy groups and things like that talking about this, but it should have never been talked about to begin with, right? That this should have been a foregone conclusion that this is something that isn't possible. You can't change your gender, so why in the world would we inflict this irreversible pain on children? So, yes, there has been a cultural shift here, but it's all a big money game. All right, next quick hitter here. A judge in Texas giving a teenager a 25-year prison sentence for robbing a convenience store. According to Fox News on March 19th, a Texas judge had a few choice words for a teenage defendant convicted of a violent convenience store robbery in which a worker was assaulted. Kaden Fontenette, 18, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery in Jefferson County March 10th, according to 12 News Now. The charges reportedly stem from Fontenette's role in a violent robbery and assault of a Bulldog Express convenience store clerk in Nederland in October 2025. Fontenette and two others used a gun to carry out the hold-up. Surveillance video captured the moment one suspect brandishing an apparent assault-style rifle instruct the clerk, officials reportedly said. Fontenette and two additional suspects were subsequently taken into custody the same day. During Fontenette's sentencing, Judge Raquel West admonished the teenager's actions as she handed down her ruling. "Mr. Fontenette, there was a time some years ago, uh there wasn't really a question. Everyone, state's attorneys, were recommending youthful offenders probation to give everybody an opportunity," West said. "Things have just changed in such an incredibly dangerous way with young people doing what I saw you do on that screen." The judge went on to show sympathy for the convenience store clerk victimized in the robbery while imploring Fontenette to reflect on his actions. Big takeaway on this one. I love this one. Thank God that there are still judges in this country that believe in true justice and give more consideration to the victims of crimes as opposed to the ones that perpetuate them. To the ones that do them. It goes back to what I was talking about earlier with the little girl and the FedEx driver, right? We have so much regard for the murderer and we forget about the victim. Now, in this case, thank God the victim is alive, but they they have physical and emotional scars. Thinking that they were going to be murdered because they were working a shift at a convenience store and some thug decided to come in with his thug buddies and hold the place up. And before anybody clips out on the internet, thugs come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, guys. I grew up in a town with white thugs, black thugs, Mexican thugs, Asian thugs, Native American thugs, every kind of thug you can imagine, okay? Thuggery doesn't have a color. But in the same time, in a situation like this, if this kid got a slap on the wrist, he goes in there with a loaded rifle where he could have killed somebody. Thankfully he didn't, but did assault them, robbed them, and then gets a year probation, 3 months in prison, 2 years probation, something like that. What is going to be his incentive to never do that again? What will the incentive be to the kid that's paying attention to their thug older brother or their thug buddy or their gang member or whatever like that and says, "Hey, you know what? I'm going to go get me some money. I'm going to go get this money. And even if I get caught, no big deal. 3 months in the can. I'll be all right." Is that really what we're doing? No, not this judge. 25 years in prison. We are taking you out of the the society, out of the gene pool, right? We're not even going to let We're not going to let you procreate. We're not going to let you do anything to make this community worse. And hopefully the 25 years you spend in prison, you think to yourself, "Man, that was really stupid. Trying to live a life of crime is a bad deal. If I get out and perform another crime, going back to how punishment works, if I perform another crime, they're going to put me right back in here. And boy would that suck." Which is the best kind of rehabilitation you can get. So, bravo to this judge for doing what she did. Next one here, the International Olympic Committee announcing that it's banning men from competing in women's events. This is according to The Hill on March the 26th. The IOC announced Thursday it will ban transgender women athletes, otherwise known as men, from women's events ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The policy states that eligibility to perform in women's sports will first be based on SRY gene screening to detect the absence or presence of the SRY gene, the committee said in a statement. The test determine if a male Y chromosome is present. The gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex generally found in the Y chromosome, according to the Murdoch Children's Research Institute based in Australia. Athletes will be screened through their saliva, a cheek swab or a blood sample, the IOC said. Based on those results, no athlete with an SRY positive screening is eligible for competing in the female category at an IOC event, the committee said. So, big takeaway on this one, the fact that this even had to happen proves that we are experiencing the complete decay of our society and that there is a demonic attack on truth. The idea that we could ever allow men, biological men, to compete against biological women in any sport whatsoever, especially at the highest levels, is a farce and hopefully every school district, every country takes the IOC's lead, if they were waiting on the IOC to weigh in on the issue, to realize that this is a farce, it's nonsense and it shouldn't be allowed. And now we've made it all the way here to the very end. I know we talk about a lot of rough stories on this show, that's certainly indicative of today's episode, but this next one is just absolutely incredible. This is from April the 7th. This is a high school principal in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma stopping a mass shooting before it begins. So, let's actually go to the video here. All right, so for those of you just listening, we have a former student that is walking into Pauls Valley High School, walks in through a door, already has a pistol in his hand, and is pointing it at somebody that runs across the lobby, and you see the principal come out of a side door, and just charge this dude. And basically and this is a big fella, right? And he just charges this guy and lays on top of him until another big fella comes out of the office and they they get the pistol away from him, stopping what would likely have been a mass casualty event. And so the principal's name is Kirk Moore. I don't know what the the you know, potential assailant's name was or anything else like that. But just an absolutely incredible story that he did that. He reportedly was shot in the leg during this process. I wasn't able to confirm that or not, but that is what has been reported. And just like a couple of weeks later, or maybe like a week later, was the prom for Pauls Valley High School. And guess who they named prom king? The principal, Kirk Moore. Maybe the first time in the history of ever the principal of the school was the one that was named the prom king. And so just an absolutely incredible thing. But here's my big takeaway on this one, and I told my buddy Mark Wahlberg the same thing. At the very least, and I certainly hope this happens, this man should win the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That is the highest honor that can be given to a civilian here in this country, and just think about what he did. Unarmed, and 7-8 feet away from a guy holding a gun, and his first thought was not run, his first thought was not yell, his first thought was not hide, his first thought was attack. And guys, just looking at the guy, this is a portly fella, a little bit older. I don't know I don't have any idea what he did in the past life, maybe he was in the military, maybe he was a Golden Gloves boxer, I don't know who the heck knows. But my my guess is is that this guy wasn't super well acquainted with violence right? But he had made a decision at some point as a principal of the Pauls Valley High School in in here in [clears throat] Southern Oklahoma, he had made a decision at some point that if someone comes in and tries to kill my kids, I'm going to take them out. I'm going to throw myself at the problem, even if it costs me something. And thank God he did that. All right guys, that'll do it for today, but before you go, we're going to do a quick resilience boost on Undaunted Life for Missions, equipping men to push back darkness with content that forges spiritual, mental, and physical resilience. Again, would really appreciate your prayers as I go through this uh bicep surgery and recovery process, but if you would like to donate to Undaunted Life, you can do that here in the show notes. You can also donate to the Daily Blade, that allows you a tax-deductible donation. 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