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And then just wanted to point out a couple of things here
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before I go over what we're going to be doing for quick hitters.
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So I poked the bear again with pit bull comments because let me actually look and see this.
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So as I was preparing this show, this popped up because basically all these pit bull stories
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find me, but this is New York Post.
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Seven year old Louisiana girl mauled to death in her yard by neighbors pit bull.
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Now, again, we could have left the type of dog out of that.
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You would have known exactly what type of dog did that.
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So I posted that online and obviously like I've talked about abortion,
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I've talked about illegal immigration, pedophilia, transgenderism, everything,
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but I never get more hate and more like nonsense than whenever I talk about pit bulls.
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But again, go back to episode 377 of this podcast.
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Okay, 377. I don't even know what it's called.
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And go to the 49 minute mark.
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So if you're a pit bull person, if you're a pit bull apologist,
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I want you to go there with an open mind, you know, acting as if you're an intellectually honest
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person, you should, you should be that anyway.
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And I want you to start there because I break down the entire argument as to why that breed
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needs to be eradicated.
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That is a wild animal that is not a pet.
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So I'm going to just save that for all you guys.
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Episode 377, go to the 49 minute mark.
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Now, one quick thing before the quick hitters, I don't know that I've ever actually
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asked for this on the show, but I'm going to ask now because, you know,
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it's also in line of what we're going to be talking about today on the show.
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I need to ask for your prayers specifically for my voice and my throat.
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So as you guys can tell for a long time, I've had this gravelly voice, basically,
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since whenever you started listening to the show, but over the last couple of months,
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maybe five, six weeks or so, my voice has gotten progressively worse,
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not like sickness, not like a strep throat thing, but my voice has got progressively weaker,
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harder to speak.
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You know, I'm literally in my house like texting with my wife because speaking is so uncomfortable.
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I've gone to tons of doctors over the years.
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I've got another round of doctors that I'm going to see, basically starting from the beginning
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and trying to go up, but it is, it is becoming a major problem for this.
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So much so that I'm trying to consider what happens if my voice completely goes.
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How do we keep the show going?
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You know, how do we keep content coming out to you guys?
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You know, I'm considering all those things on my own, but it's affecting how I do business,
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but it's also affecting me and my relationships because I am evaluating whether or not I'm going
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to talk with somebody or hang out with somebody or talk to them on the phone or engage in a discussion
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with somebody about anything because I'm like, is this worth my voice?
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Because you know, this week, I've got two interviews.
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I'm recording, I'm recording this for you now.
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And on this particular podcast, hopefully you'll notice a little bit of a different well,
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hopefully not hopefully, but like you probably noticed a little bit of a difference because I'm
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going to be taking way more breaks.
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I'll probably be clearing my throat way more than normal coughing.
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I'm just going to leave all that in and just kind of is what it is.
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But I would really, really enjoy your prayers for that because it's one of those deals to
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where it's like, this is my skill set.
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God gave me a voice and he gave me a level of discernment and wisdom to be able to speak
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into particular issues and a very low level of give a crap.
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And so like, you know, in terms of other people's opinions and feelings.
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And so it's just interesting that that's my battle is like, okay, it's not like I've got a hurt
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finger or like constant, you know, throbbing in my left knee.
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It's my voice.
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So it's like the gift that I was given is the number one thing that is seemingly being
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attacked at this moment.
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So I would really enjoy your prayers on that.
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So in the quick hitter segment today, and guys, just a little side note on this particular
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episode, there's sometimes where I'm really excited to talk about particular topics.
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And there's other times where it's like, you know, I'll talk about this, but I'm really
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fired up about today's episode because we're not going to be doing a solo episode.
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Next week's we got a couple of interviews coming out that I'm so excited to share with
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you guys, but I really want to talk about all these quick hitters.
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And then obviously the main point of what we're talking about today, I'm just Jack.
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So in the quick hitters, we're going to talk about the Texas Supreme Court ruling against
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a father that has tried to prevent the chemical castration of his son by the boys pediatrician
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mother, the man as fear influencer Andrew Tate being arrested on allegations of sex trafficking,
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police arresting a man they think is responsible for the brutal stabbing murders of four college
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students in Idaho, Donald Trump blaming pro lifers for the lack of a red wave during the
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midterm elections last year, and time magazine saying that white supremacy is the origin of exercise.
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Is it any wonder why I'm so excited to talk about all these today?
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But the reason why we're talking about what we're talking about today and why I named this
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episode when prayers all you have is because I did something very interesting here about a
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week and a half ago. I decided to do something that I have not done in years. And I've talked
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about the reasons why on this podcast, but what I decided to do was to sit down and watch an NFL
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game. Because obviously I don't like being preached at, you know, I've been around, you know,
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at Super Bowl parties and Thanksgiving when you know, when a game is on, but I've not sat down
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to watch a game and see what was going on, right? Because I'm being preached out with Black Lives
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Matter messages and all this nonsense about, you know, coaches of a particular color and all that.
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But on the Monday night football game on January the 2nd of 2023, it was the 3rd or the 12 and 3
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Buffalo Bills versus the 11 and 4 Cincinnati Bengals. Okay. So the winner of this game,
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it had like implications for the playoff seating. And, you know, I've, you know, seen a bunch of
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videos about Josh Allen and Stefan Diggs and all these guys on the Buffalo Bills and you got the
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Bills mafia diving through tables. And it's like, man, it seems cool to be a Bills fan, even though,
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like, apparently got hates them because they lost 4 Super Bowls in a row and then haven't sniffed
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the Super Bowl since. But I was like, I'm going to sit down and watch that game. I literally had
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like an hour and a half, two hours of one evening where my mind was just blown out. And I was like,
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I can't do anything else for work. I'm just going to sit down and watch Monday night football.
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So there was also a fantasy football connection because again, I've told you guys I play fantasy
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football with a group of buddies mainly so that we can go to a restaurant and have fun and do a
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draft and not really take ourselves seriously. But I was in the championship round somehow
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with my buddy and I have Josh Allen and he had like one of the Bengals receivers or something. So
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there was like something on the line there for our fantasy football connection. And you know,
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I was actually planning to sit there and, you know, watch every play, you know, because I don't
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normally do that. I normally like turn the volume off of a baseball game or a football game and I'll
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read and look up whenever there's a play or something like that. But again, for whatever reason,
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I sat down and I'm like, I'm going to watch every play of this game. And I'm just going to hear
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the commentary. I'm at least going to watch until I fall asleep. And then most of you know where this
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is going because there was a play that happened that literally like tore a hole in the universe
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apparently with about five minutes left to go in the first quarter, Bengals quarterback Joe
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Burrow, who's also on my fantasy football team on the bench, he threw a short pass to wide receiver
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T Higgins. And so T Higgins collided. He ran across the middle and he collided with a second
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year Buffalo bill safety named Lamar Hamlin, who's 24 years old. And everything about it looked like
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a normal play. Everything about it. The past, the catch, the tackle, you know, the whistles,
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like even even the camera people, they immediately shifted to, let's see, let's show the coach for
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two seconds. Let's show the linebacker for a few seconds. Let's show, you know, Joe Burrow again.
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But then the camera, again, the camera angle went to all the other different places,
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the other different places or whatever. But then one of the cameras was on a particular player,
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I believe it was on the Cincinnati Bengals. And there was this immediate out of the ordinary
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reactions from players on both teams, the referees and also the medical personnel. And it was immediate.
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And I'm like, okay, someone's clearly hurt. Like, but I don't remember like what happened on the
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play. It must have been off the ball because, you know, it was such a, you know, typical tap
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tackle. But I just went back and I literally I'm like, we're winding the play over and over. And
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I'm trying to figure out who got hit. And you know, seeing everyone's reactions like, oh, this is
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maybe a really bad concussion, maybe even someone's paralyzed or something like that.
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But then I go to Twitter and I see the play from a different angle. And I see tomorrow Hamlin,
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make the tackle, stand up, adjust his face mask in his helmet, and then just fall backwards,
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like completely like a sack of potatoes. He just gets up and then collapses. And the
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immediate concern by the players is not something that I know that I've ever seen before. I mean,
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you know, you've seen broken legs and broken necks and all that in football. But the immediate
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concern was was astonishing. Then there was the hush of the crowd, like not even not a sound.
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Again, huge game. Everyone's all fired up and liquored up. Huge game, not not a peep.
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Players on both sides were in shock. Many of them were crying. Again, we don't know what happened
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at this point. I mean, and then there were sporadic groups and individuals that were praying.
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There's reports on the broadcast of CPR having to be administered. Another thing that I don't
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think I've ever heard in a football game before, there was an ambulance on the field almost immediately.
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And in any really bad situation within football, when an ambulance is brought out on the field,
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it's usually after a little bit. But I mean, the ambulance was there like in a couple of minutes,
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which again, is astonishing. Players from both teams also began, started crowding
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around Damar and the health staff, which was odd. It was almost like they were literally trying
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to block the cameras from from being able to see what was going on. And as the minutes
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kept ticking away, there was something that I don't again have never experienced watching a
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football game. There was a sense of dread that began to envelop the entire situation.
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And I think a lot of people had the same realization around the same point. And you know,
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I was seeing it on Twitter and getting text messages for random people. At this point,
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we all thought we had just witnessed a death on the field at an NFL game on Monday night football.
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A death, a player dying, right? The broadcasters didn't know what to do. They kept cutting to,
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you know, broadcasters back in New York. And then the broadcasters that were there,
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I think it was Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. And they didn't know what to do or know what to say.
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On Twitter, everyone was essentially saying two things, you know, pray for Damar.
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And then please, please, please, please be okay. Like we're all expecting, you know,
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loading into the ambulance and, you know, holding up the thumbs up, which we've seen,
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which there was none of that, you know, that the ambulance leaves the field. There's,
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there's no thumbs up whatsoever. There was a report initially, which I think was debunked that,
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you know, the NFL said that the teams, you know, would have five minutes to warm up,
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which they didn't do because, I mean, this was a long time that that play had stopped,
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you know, players and coaches and all that there on the field, like they became pretty clear that
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they were not going to be able to play this game. The coaches convened and the players
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decided that they were going to go to the locker room. The game was eventually postponed and then
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later canceled altogether. The initial reports on Damar Hamlin's health was that he had to be
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resuscitated on the field. He was given CPR and resuscitated right there on the field.
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And then again, once he got to the hospital, so this guy flatlined twice as far as we know,
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like no pulse, no heartbeat, you know, no oxygen getting to the brain, all that twice that we know
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of. And then after all that, there's so much emotion that there's so much craziness. I mean,
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it was hard to sleep that night because you're like, William, what's going on with this guy? You're
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just worried about him. But then he wakes up. Damar Hamlin does, and he was able to communicate via
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via writing. And the first question he asks is, did we win the game, which is kind of interesting.
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And then he had the breathing to removed. And he was, you know, talking to his family and to his
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teammates. You know, as of right now, it seems he was released yesterday as of the recording of
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this. He was released from an Ohio hospital going to be transferred to a hospital in Buffalo, where
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he's going to continue his treatment and all that. But it looks like the guy's going to be okay.
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And again, that's in a little over a week, we went from holy crap, we just watched a young kid
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die on the field during a football game, to hey, he might make a full recovery. And by the way,
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can you imagine if he comes back to play for the Buffalo Bills, can you imagine the ovation?
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Can you imagine, like, it's astonishing to even think about. But he actually did post on Instagram
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over the weekend, he actually posted this. When you put real love, when you put real love out
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into the world, it comes back to you three times as much. The love has been overwhelming. But I'm
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thankful for every single person that prayed for me and reached out. We brought the world back
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together behind this. If you know me, you know, this is only going to make me stronger on a long
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road. Keep praying for me. And he posted some more times over the weekend when the Bills played.
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I don't even remember who they played. But you know, they played Patriots, but they played
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again over the weekend. And just an astonishing thing considering where he started and where we went.
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And then a lot's been made about this. He originally did a GoFundMe. And I'm actually going to click
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on the link here to see what the the updated amount is. But he originally, wow, he originally
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did a GoFundMe for $2,500 to raise money for, I think, a daycare that his mom runs or that his mom,
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you know, works out or something like that to get toys for underprivileged kids, right? And that
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was $2,500 was the goal. And after two years, it hadn't even reached $2,500. As of right now,
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they've raised $8.69 million on that GoFundMe page. I remember before I went to bed that night,
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it was just under a million. And I'm like, Oh, this is going to be over a million. And by the
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next day, it was at $2 million. And then $3 million. And here we are sitting here again,
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probably eight or nine days later, $8.69 million on the chasing M's foundation community toy drive,
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just absolutely astonishing. But I want to go back to Cincinnati for a second. To the moment the
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ambulance began to drive off the field with the Mar Hamlin inside. As the ambulance is pulling away,
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you see, right, you right there in the middle of the field, because there's cameras all on it,
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the head coach of the Buffalo Bills, Sean McDermott, gathers the entire bills team,
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they all take a knee and they pray together as a team in front of everyone.
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And it didn't seem the least bit odd or ill timed, not the least bit.
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And then all of our social media and the regular media sphere immediately and for days and days now,
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commentators, anchors, celebrities, athletes, politicians, content creators, influencers,
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everybody, they're all saying that they are and that you should be praying for tomorrow Hamlin.
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And hasn't seemed the least bit controversial or bothersome. And then the day after the incident,
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so this would have been Tuesday of last week on the show NFL Live, which is live on ESPN,
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football commentator and retired NFL quarterback, Dan Orlowski did this.
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Football gave me everything, you know, and I think even through the midst of absolute tragedy
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last night, I think you saw some of the beauty of football as well, that it's brought us all here
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together. You know, like, this is a little bit different. I heard I've heard it all day like
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thoughts and prayers. And you just heard Sheriff and Jonathan Allen say like, all we can do is pray
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for him. And I've heard the Buffalo Bills organization say that we believe in prayer.
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And maybe this is not the right thing to do, but I want to it's just on my heart that I want to
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pray for the Mar Hamlin right right now. I'm going to do it out loud. I'm going to close my eyes.
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I'm going to bow my head and I'm just going to pray for him. God, we come to you in these moments
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that we don't understand that are hard because we believe that you're God and coming to you and
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praying to you has impact. We're sad. We're angry. And we want answers, but some things are
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unanswerable. We just want to pray, truly come to you and pray for strength for the Mar for healing
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for the Mar for comfort for the Mar to be with his family to give them peace. If we didn't believe
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that prayer didn't work, we wouldn't ask this of you, God. I believe in prayer. We believe in prayer.
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We lift up to Mar Hamlin's name in your name. Amen. Amen. Amen. It's beautiful.
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And it didn't feel the least bit awkward or lead to protests or demands that our
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lobster could be canceled or fired. And then after it became pretty clear after a few days
18:27
that Hamlin was going to survive, right? Like a miracle, it seemed like that he was going to
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survive. The bills did a press conference where players spoke and also their head coach,
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Sean McDermott, address the media and took questions. And during that presentation,
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he said this. The amount of faith, hope and love that we saw on display over the last
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three days has been nothing short of amazing. And just as important as anything is glory to God for
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his keeping tomorrow and his family in the palm of his hand over the last couple of days
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and his healing powers. And that didn't seem the least bit forced or unnatural.
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And then in one of the first NFL games back after this incident, the Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville
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Jaguars, I think this was last Saturday, this happened. What you're seeing now is what Doug
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Peterson talked about that we felt the whole NFL as a community came together this week.
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And he talked about this, both teams coming together in prayer before this game starts.
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It's just an unbelievable deal for both teams to get together and pray and thank God for what's
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happening this year.
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And for those of you that are not watching this on rumble or on YouTube,
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it is literally what you would expect. It was the entire Tennessee Titans team and the entire
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Jacksonville Jaguars team at the Jacksonville Jaguars stadium. They're together, all kneeling,
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holding hands, praying to God. I don't know who led the prayer. I don't know that it even really
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matters, but it didn't feel the least bit weird or uncomfortable. Now, before I went to bed,
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the night that this happened, so this would have been a couple of Mondays ago on Monday night
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football, before I went to bed, I already knew that this was way more than a football story.
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Everyone could feel that everyone knew that the text messages I was getting from people that I
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didn't even know watched football was pretty astonishing. And even way more than the, you know,
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that this was going to be even way more than a story about a young professional athlete that
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might lose his life, right? What I knew in that moment and what has been reinforced in the day
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since and will likely be reinforcing the weeks after, as I've reflected on everything that was
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happening in and around that situation, is that even though in the West and specifically America,
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we have become so secularized, we still know that God is real, that we need him
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and that we can communicate with him directly. We know that people will say they're atus,
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they'll say, I don't really believe in a, you know, boogie man in the sky or whatever those
21:23
types of things, but we know that he's there. And it reminded me of a recent Alster Begg
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sermon that I actually listened to within a few days of this all happening where he talked about
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Romans one. And so if you look at Romans one versus 18 through 20, I'll read him here.
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The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people
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who suppress the truth by their wickedness since what may be known about God is plain to them
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because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities,
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his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen being understood from what has been
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made so that people are without excuse. God has made his presence known to us. To all of us,
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he's not hidden from us, right? He doesn't need to, you know, write in the sky. Hi, I'm God,
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I'm here for you, right? We know it. It's written on our hearts. Why? Because we're his children.
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We are made in his image and we know that, right? Because you've seen this, you know,
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with basically any tragedy that happens from a natural disaster to a mass shooting or something
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like that, the thoughts and prayer, you know, when people say thoughts and prayers, right?
22:30
That's become something that could be easily mocked now, right? Oh, yours. Oh, you're sending
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thoughts and prayers down to the hurricane victims. I'm sending money and bottles of water. Ha ha.
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You know, that kind of thing. But the only statements and comments that have seemed odd
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since the beginning of this Demar Hamlin thing was where the people only said our thoughts are with
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Demar and the bills because I remember the NFL released a statement and they said our thoughts
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are with Demar Hamlin, his family and the bills community, something like that, our thoughts,
23:02
not our thoughts and prayers, just our thoughts. That seemed odd. I've seen other people. I forget
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who it was. I think even on the broadcast, I think it was Joe Buck. He couldn't bring himself to say
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prayer was happening on the field. He's like, Oh, look at him. Get in together showing a moment
23:15
of solidarity for Demar Hamlin. Like it was just kind of weird and kind of vapid. But in that moment,
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watching what was going on with that young man and what I witnessed was the veil of secularism
23:27
being torn down because at least I didn't see it. We didn't see any of these new atheists,
23:35
you know, these, these people that love to get on Twitter and Instagram and tell people how stupid
23:38
they are that they believe in the boogeyman in the sky. We didn't see any of them chastising
23:42
people for calling out to God in their grief and concern. We didn't see any of that. We weren't
23:47
seeing Darwinian humanists point out the folly of anthropomorphizing, you know, a highly evolved
23:52
chimp and feeling bad for his physical entry. Because again, that's what they believe. They
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believe that all of us are just highly evolved chimps. They used to be fish. They used to be
23:59
goo. They used to be stardust, right? That's what these people believe. We weren't seeing them point
24:03
that out though. They were pretty quiet. And we weren't seeing secular leftists shouting down
24:09
people for mentioning prayer and God as being some sort of an affront to their freedom from
24:14
religion, right? Not at all. We saw an almost society-wide acceptance that sometimes
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prayer is all you have. Because let's go to the hurricane example real quick.
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When a major hurricane happens somewhere in the world and people are dying or have died,
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or they're without any type of, they don't have underwear. They don't have bottles of water. They
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don't have food. They don't have anything. There are things that you can do. You can send money
24:46
to the Red Cross. You can load up the back of your truck with bottled water and drive down there
24:51
and start giving it out to people. There are a number of things that you actually can do.
24:55
You know, when tornadoes rip through Oklahoma, which happens periodically, that's one of the
25:00
reasons why I own a chainsaw. So I can go and help, you know, cut trees down for people or,
25:04
you know, those types of things, right? There are things you can do.
25:07
But in that moment, when DeMar Hamlin's on the field and we think he's dying,
25:14
what can I do? I'm sitting in bed in Oklahoma and he's fighting for his life in Ohio. What,
25:22
what exactly can I do? The, the people in the stands, what exactly were they able to do?
25:28
Well, even the players that were on the field, what, what were they to do?
25:33
They could do nothing except clear the pathway for these skilled professionals to come and
25:40
try to save this young man's life, which they did, incredible, incredible. But all they had
25:47
was prayer. And if that's all you have, you have everything because you are convening
25:57
with the almighty God of the universe who holds you in his hand and is here to prosper and protect
26:04
you. Now that doesn't mean you're going to get everything you want. He's not a genie. Sorry, Joel
26:09
is deemed like you're not just going to name it and claim it. But that means when you don't understand
26:14
why something's happening, when you're confused about what to do next, when you have no idea
26:20
how you can enter into the situation and make it better, you can convene with the almighty.
26:26
You don't have to go talk to some man in a box and have him shoot the prayers up from there.
26:30
You can talk to him directly yourself. And what an incredible thing that isn't just
26:34
think about where we've come as a culture because I remember Tim Tebow back in the Florida Gators days
26:41
and even into the Denver Broncos days and even into the into the New York Jets days
26:45
that he would be criticized and chastised for daring to pray on the field. And people are like,
26:53
well, oh, you know, there's this prayer. It's all these non-Christians, you know, leftist atheists
26:56
that are like, Oh, well, isn't there a scripture about not praying in public and doing all those
27:00
things and praying in private? Well, um, what I remember from watching a play of Florida is that
27:05
he would go to a part of the sideline by himself and kneel down and pray to God and he was ESPN and
27:12
ABC and in CBS and all these other places where their games were shown, they decided to put the
27:17
camera on him. He didn't make prayer the story. They did. And he was chastised for that. And he
27:24
was constantly asked about it and teabowing became a thing. Everybody remember that?
27:28
Some people did it in support of Tim Tebow. Most people did it to try and ridicule the man.
27:32
And somehow our culture has become significantly more secular since that time. And yet in this
27:41
scenario, prayer makes sense. I don't know what goes into that. I don't think everybody has an
27:48
ax to grind against Tim Tebow. I don't think anybody, you know, prefers to Marhamlin over Tim
27:52
Tebow. Like it's not that type of a situation, but it's almost like we know that God's there and
27:58
that we can talk to him. Isn't that so incredible? All right, guys, let's hit the quick hitters.
28:03
Now we'll go into the first one right here. The Texas Supreme Court ruling against a father
28:08
that is trying to prevent the chemical castration of his son by the boy's pediatrician mother.
28:13
So this is according to the postmillennial. Jeffrey Younger has lost his court case to
28:18
prevent his ex wife from taking their son to California, where he could be medically transitioned.
28:23
Younger has been trying to stop this from happening for years and said that he has now
28:26
reached the end of the line. He wanted the courts to stop his ex wife from taking the children to
28:30
California and to protect his boys from medical mutilation at the hands of their mother, who is
28:35
a pediatrician. The courts prevented him from forcing the mother to bring the boys back from
28:39
California. Younger has accused her of using the children to help advertise her inclusive
28:44
gender affirming practice. The Supreme Court of Texas denied my man Damas effectively terminating
28:50
my parental rights. My children are now subject to being chemically castrated in California.
28:55
Texas is an empire of child abuse led by Texas judges, he said. The custody case was before the
29:00
Supreme Court of Texas, which ruled against Younger. Younger has petitioned or has issued a petition
29:05
on December 16th to try to regain his parental rights after his ex wife, Dr. Ann Jourgoulas,
29:12
sorry, took the boys to California. California has a law and place starting on Sunday that
29:17
children in that state will not be returned to their home state in the event that the home state
29:21
would prevent the child from being medically transitioned to present as the opposite sex.
29:26
Younger wanted the boys brought home. California Senate Bill 107 proposed by state
29:30
Senator Scott Wiener and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom will prohibit the enforcement of
29:35
an order based on another state's law authorizing a child to be removed from their parent or guardian
29:40
based on that parent or guardian allowing their child to receive gender affirming health care
29:44
or gender affirming mental gender affirming mental health care. Okay, so I've mentioned this
29:49
story on the show quite a bit. A lot of you guys have been following the story for years and years.
29:53
This was a young boy after his parents split up. You know, when basically the boy would go
29:58
hang out with mommy, he would come back to daddy and would say things like, Oh, I'm a girl now.
30:03
I'm my name's Luna. And the dad would be like, wait, what, what exactly are you talking about?
30:07
And then after a little bit, the boy would be like, yeah, you know, I'm just a boy. Yeah,
30:10
just whenever I'm around mommy, she likes call me Luna and you know, paint my nails and dress me
30:14
up and girl clothes and stuff like that. And so this dad has been trying to prevent his his kid
30:19
from from being abused by their mother for years and years and years now. And the Supreme Court of
30:23
Texas is disallowing that. But to talk about this a little bit more, for those of you listening in
30:27
California, I know there's a lot of you, your own state is now becoming not only a sanctuary
30:33
state for those that want to murder their unborn unborn children, but a sanctuary for people that
30:38
want to abuse their children and chemically or physically castrate and mutilate them.
30:44
Because what's happening here is Texas has a law where they can remove the parental rights from
30:48
the parent that is trying to force transition on their children, which is exactly what's happening
30:53
here. But California has basically created a non extradition rule to where if you move the kids
30:58
to that state and the state of Texas is like, Hey, bring that kid back. That chick's crazy.
31:03
We're going to keep her from cutting this boys, you know, genitals off or giving them, you know,
31:06
hormones that don't he's not going to be able to reverse. But the state of California is basically
31:11
saying, Nope, we're not going to recognize the laws of any of the other 49 states. If you are here
31:15
and you want to, you know, get this treatment for your children or something like that,
31:20
even though they can't consent to that, we're going to make sure that you can do that without
31:23
any other states getting into it. Okay. Now, as I've said before on the show,
31:26
this would never happen in our family because my wife's not a crazy satanic beast.
31:30
But if she did become a crazy satanic beast and she was going to do this with one of my boys,
31:35
I can tell you this right now, I would take both of those boys and y'all would never find us.
31:42
Everybody listening to this right now can make it their life's work to try and find me and my
31:46
boys and you wouldn't do it. I would do everything to protect those boys from that type of procedure,
31:54
from any of that type of lifestyle. And I know most of you listening to this know exactly where
31:58
we're going with this. But it's an interesting point brought up by the father in that story.
32:02
That is ex wife, Dr. Ann, you know, Gorgulus, it's G-E-O-R-G-U-L-A-S,
32:08
that she wants to have an all inclusive gender affirming pediatrician practice. And what better
32:14
thing can you have than that as part of that practice than to have two mascots that are your
32:19
children? Hey, let's just chemically transition these kids. And I'm going to show everybody how
32:26
normal this is and how much they're thriving and how it's not that really, really that big of a deal.
32:31
So why don't you bring your kids to me where I can make an unbelievable amount of money
32:36
on the number of times they're going to have to come back and see me as we take them through this
32:40
transfer from one gender to the other, as if that's a real thing. Because as many people pointed out,
32:45
obviously Matt Walsh being the goat on this, that puts these kids on a conveyor belt to surgery.
32:51
So you start with the pills or actually you start with, you know, socially transitioning them,
32:56
then you start with the pills and then you start with actually, you know, changing things on their
33:01
body, cutting off breast tissue, cutting off their penis, making a fake phallic-like thing that
33:05
you sow to the front of their crotch or whatever those types of things. And it puts them on that
33:08
conveyor belt. And once they're on it, they can't really stop because again, these are children.
33:12
They can't consent. They can't see the future. Their brains aren't going to be developed until
33:16
their mid 20s. But what I think should happen to her is obviously she should lose her practice.
33:21
She should certainly lose her kids because this is not healthcare. This is the destruction of the
33:26
human body, which you supposedly take an oath that you're not going to do when you become a doctor
33:30
here in the United States of America. Well, let's go to my big takeaway on this one. It's actually
33:35
two big takeaways. Number one, California will always lead the way in satanic depravity. I think
33:40
we're seeing that now. Number two, more has to be done to prevent this satanic level of child abuse.
33:46
Okay. So again, for those of you in California, paying taxes in California, this is where your
33:51
tax dollars are going to create a sanctuary for people to kill their children. And if they allow
33:56
them to live to eventually chemically or physically mutilate them, that's what's happening.
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California seemingly will always lead the way. You cannot out California, California,
34:05
no matter how much Illinois or New Jersey or New York or Oregon or who tries, they will never
34:10
do it. And there has to be more done to prevent things like this. So there needs to be federal
34:16
mandates that prevent states like this from being able to create a law like this, because
34:21
think about it, because obviously I've argued for federalism and how much I think that's a good
34:24
thing in states rights and blah, blah, blah. But imagine if a state, let's pick a random one, Idaho,
34:28
okay, let's say Idaho decides, well, actually, that's going to be kind of funny because of another
34:33
story we're going to talk about here a little bit. But let's say Idaho said that, you know what,
34:36
we're going to ignore federal law, we're going to make murder legal in the state of Idaho,
34:40
because states rights are something, right? That is a great opportunity for the federal
34:45
government to come in and say, nah, no, uh, no, freaking weirdo. No, you're not going to do that.
34:51
Murder is super duper illegal, no matter where you are inside of these 50 states,
34:55
lower or the greater United States, not going to happen. Okay, more has to be done to prevent this.
35:01
And so we have to be watching our governors and also the federal government and how they act,
35:06
because most of the laws are tending towards what California is doing and not away from it.
35:11
Okay, so that's a big concern for the future. Again, we got to keep an eye on it.
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Manosphere influencer Andrew Tate being arrested on allegations of sex trafficking.
35:51
Okay, so this is according to the New York Post. Incendiary social media influencer Andrew Tate
35:55
and his brother were busted in Romania Thursday. This was a few Thursdays ago related to sex
35:59
trafficking allegations according to a report. Police and tactical gear descended on a villa
36:03
where Andrew Tate and brother Tristan were staying Thursday to detain the British brothers
36:07
on kidnapping and rape charges. Judicial sources told Romanian outlet Libertia. Libertia, whatever.
36:13
Video shows the officers with battering rams and guns sweeping through the dark villa before
36:17
escorting Tate into a car. The brothers in April had allegedly detained two young women,
36:22
one with American citizenship and one Romanian inside the villa against their will where they
36:26
were subjected to physical violence and mental coercion, the Daily Mail reported. Police said that
36:31
the Tate's allegedly formed an organized crime group and sexually exploited women by forcing
36:35
them to perform pornographic demonstrations for the purpose of producing and disseminating those
36:39
through social media platforms. So the reason why I want to talk about this today kind of gave me a
36:44
good ample opportunity is I've been asked about Andrew Tate a lot. Like a lot, a lot, a lot.
36:50
A lot of you guys wanted me to talk about him, give you my overall thoughts about him.
36:54
And then here are those big story breaks. And so, so here's kind of the thing.
36:57
So I think that the best take I've heard, because everybody's given their opinion on Andrew Tate,
37:01
the best take I've heard was from Ben Shapiro, where he said, Andrew Tate is really good at
37:06
describing some of the problems that we see, but his prescriptions are terrible. So when you listen
37:12
to his videos or when you see his videos on Instagram or TikTok or YouTube or anything like that,
37:16
he says a lot of things that make sense. A lot of things about family, a lot of things about
37:19
the role of men and manhood and masculinity in society. And I'm like, yep, double stamp,
37:24
cosign, all of that. But how he prescribes how to how to do those things is by having as many
37:29
sexual partners as possible doing whatever you can to make money, you know, putting down women
37:33
treating them like property, like, I obviously can't cosign any of that nonsense. But it's kind of
37:37
one of those things I think it's a, you know, what is it? I forget the guy, Mark Driscoll. I think he
37:41
says, accept, reject, redeem, right? There's things with people or with platforms or philosophies
37:46
that you can just accept outright. There's things that you have to reject outright. And then there's
37:49
things that you can redeem. Okay, so I can accept the things that he says that are absolutely true
37:53
about masculinity in the public square or whatever, and then reject outright all this nonsense things
37:58
that really do cross the line into something that we wouldn't want to model in a Judeo Christian
38:03
society. But the thing about him, is he predicted like that something like this would happen?
38:09
Because if you don't remember this, he was kicked off of all social media platforms for just saying
38:13
these totally egregious things. But a lot of the things that were like, you know, they were they
38:17
were mild compared to what we hear in like top 40 rap songs, right? You know, you know, because
38:24
these people are talking about dominating women and have sex with multiple women and doing all these
38:27
other different things. It's certainly way more vulgar than what Tate would even say in public.
38:33
And the other thing was, is he was constantly talking about, you know, this cabal of evil
38:37
people that's high controlling the money in the world, controlling media, controlling the COVID
38:44
and the response to it and the vaccine and all these different things. But he predicted that
38:49
eventually he would have some sort of charge brought down on him and that, you know, he would he would
38:53
go down for it. Now, here's the thing. I don't know if he actually did the things that he's,
38:58
you know, been accused of. Would it surprise me if he did those things that they're alleging? No,
39:02
it actually wouldn't surprise me. Like I, the level of depravity, I assume with everybody in
39:05
humanity is pretty high. Would it surprise me if he did none of the things that they're alleging
39:11
and that this is, you know, an elaborate setup to shut him up? No, that wouldn't surprise me either.
39:16
Right. You know, in this situation, we don't know what truth is and we may never know what truth is.
39:21
This guy, you know, may just be the sacrificial lamb. But my big takeaway on this one
39:25
is your idols can and will always let you down. Okay. So this is a lesson to the young men in my
39:31
audience. And I'm so thankful for you all that are listening to this. Because it's a lot of young
39:35
men that were attracted to the videos and to the ramblings of Andrew Tate. And so he says things
39:42
that are right, things that you're right unquestionably. And then when he says things that are like
39:47
mildly offensive or things that don't seem to be true, because he's been right on so many other
39:51
things, you just assume, Oh, this must be true as well. And then we start to idolize people.
39:55
Okay. So obviously we know about normal idols. You know, we idolize professional athletes,
40:01
we idolize celebrities, we idolize, you know, people in local government or in federal government,
40:07
we idolize pastors, we idolize our favorite authors, we idolize these people.
40:12
And I always tell people to be careful. And I always name the people that I'm big fans of on
40:16
the show. Nothing would surprise me. Right. I remember a long time ago, and I helped out with
40:22
this organization that repackaged a lot of John Eldridge stuff because apparently they
40:25
couldn't come up with their own content. They would just repackage John Eldridge stuff and,
40:29
you know, do camps and do stuff with it. And it was always John Eldridge, John Eldridge, John Eldridge.
40:33
They would even play prayers that John Eldridge did, you know, in a room live with 100 guys,
40:39
they would just hit play on a, on a prayer that John Eldridge just do as opposed to just giving
40:43
a guy a microphone in the room and just having them pray, right? And I always try to tell these
40:46
guys is like, guys, if John Eldridge decides to go on a murder rampage and like kill 14 people
40:52
in his neighborhood and then set himself on fire, like your entire business is predicated on the
40:57
fact that John Eldridge is not a crazy person. And I know John Eldridge pretty well. I assume
41:02
that he's never going to do something like that. But do you know for real? Do you really know any
41:06
of these people? Like, you may assume that I would never do something like that. You don't know what
41:10
I'm capable of. And you also can't tell the future. If I live to, you know, however long I'm supposed
41:15
to live, that's another half century on this planet. Can you know that I'm never going to do
41:19
anything that's going to disappoint you? Right. I even had people this week with the pimples of
41:22
like Kyle, I agree with you about everything, but you're wrong about pimples. Well, you didn't know
41:26
that you disagree with me on pimples until I started talking about it. So we just don't know.
41:30
So don't idolize people. Even if they're pastors, even if they seem great, like I just watched over
41:35
the weekend, you know, the first episode of, you know, exposing a mega church, all these people that
41:40
loved Carl Lynch and loved Brian Houston and loved everything around Hillsong. They're having
41:44
an attack of faith right now because they got saved or think they got saved at a Hillsong event.
41:49
And now they're like, well, what I do, because, you know, apparently there's a bunch of sexual
41:53
deviance over there, right? Don't put your faith in people. Like, how many times you have to be
42:00
disappointed by people before you realize, dummy, stop putting your faith in them. The only thing or
42:06
entity or person that you can put your faith in that won't let you down is God, God, the father,
42:12
God, the son and God, the Holy Spirit, like that's it. Okay. So your idols can will always let you
42:17
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All right, let's get to the next week hitter, but going to take a swig of tea because my voice is
42:54
killing me. Oh, that tea is delicious. Shout out to the Independence Fund for the mug. Let's get into
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it. Police arresting a man they think is responsible for the brutal stabbing murders of four college
43:05
students in Idaho. So this is according to Fox News. The suspect arrested Friday in connection to
43:10
the murders of four University of Idaho students studies criminal justice at Washington State
43:14
University and was hiding out his parents home in Eastern Pennsylvania after the killings. Brian
43:19
Christopher Kohlberger, 28 is a PhD student at the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology,
43:25
according to the WSU website. The college town of Pullman, Washington is about eight miles from
43:29
the King Road home where Kaylee, gone. Sorry, these names, some of these names are hard. Kaylee,
43:34
gone Calvies, 21 Madison, Morgan, 21 Ethan, chapter 20 and Zaina, Colonel, 20 were stabbed to death
43:42
between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on November the 13th. Kohlberger was arrested at about 1 30 a.m. on
43:48
Friday. This is a couple of Fridays ago by local police and the FBI at his parents home in the
43:52
gated community of Indian Mountain Lake and all Brightsville, Pennsylvania, court and public records
43:57
show. So this has been a crazy story. Okay, it's been crazy from the beginning because there are
44:04
murders that happen all the time all over the United States. But there was something especially
44:08
grizzly and gruesome about this one. The nature of the crime, apparently the the forensic team
44:15
that came to the scene was having trouble doing their jobs because they said the level of blood
44:21
was astonishing. It was literally seeping through the walls and going through the exterior walls.
44:26
It was astonishingly gruesome crime where four children, essentially young people lost their
44:31
lives all the same time. This guy was apparently identified by his car, which was in the area of
44:37
the the murder around the time that it happened. And also genealogy data. So publicly available
44:42
genealogy data was kind of able to lead them because that matched some of the DNA that was
44:46
left with the crime scene. This guy, they looked into his past and his PhD studies, he was studying
44:51
how to get away with crimes. He was interviewing criminals, asking them, you know, hey, if you were
44:55
to kill someone, how do you think you would get away with it? That type of stuff. And one thing
44:58
I do want to make clear from the very beginning, this guy isn't innocent until proven guilty.
45:02
But the authorities sure seem to think that they have their guy. Okay, so we'll just leave that
45:06
there. But here's my big takeaway on this one. Only the Christian worldview gives you a
45:11
proper delineation between good and evil and a means by which justice should be administered.
45:18
Okay, because again, I'll go back to what I was talking about earlier with, you know,
45:22
the Darwinian humanist or something like that. We're just chimps. We're highly evolved chimps
45:28
that can communicate via language can, you know, create iPhones and climb to the tops of mountains,
45:32
right? Like we're just chimps though. So their worldview gives you no foundation with which to
45:39
argue that one chip that is stronger, killing four chimps that are weaker is wrong.
45:45
Again, to you new atheists out there, show me how that's wrong. Because your worldview doesn't
45:53
give us right and wrong. It gives us preference and not preference. Like you may have preferred
45:59
that somebody didn't kill these four college students, three gals and one one guy. But it's
46:06
just your preference. Because again kind of tied in with that Darwinian humanist worldview is this
46:11
postmodern worldview that your truth is your truth. My truth is my truth. Your morality is
46:16
your morality. My morality is my morality, right? So Ravi Zachari said this back of day and another
46:20
sexual deviant. But he said basically in some cultures, you know, you're supposed to love your
46:24
neighbor as yourself. Other cultures eat their neighbors, right? They cannibalize them. And so
46:29
who's correct? Like again, those other worldviews give you no means by which to differentiate
46:36
between good and evil. And then the means by which justice should be administered. Because
46:40
here's the thing, if this young man is found guilty, okay, beyond a reasonable doubt and or if he,
46:45
you know, confesses to these crimes, he should be killed by the state of Idaho and swiftly.
46:50
Like he shouldn't be on death row for 20 or 30 years before a sentence is commuted by some
46:57
liberal governor. And you know, basically, oh, we're going to commute his sentence to life in prison
47:01
or something like that, that known you die. Like we get the foundation for that argument
47:08
from the Old Testament, where if you take a life, your blood will be shed. If you take a life,
47:13
your life will be taken from you. He should be taken out. And in Idaho, they do have that where
47:19
they do have the death penalty there. But these these atheists that are outraged by this, I would
47:25
ask you why? Again, it's just a superior chimp that killed inferior ones. Again, using your
47:31
worldview, your logic, the level of gruesomeness of the crime should have no bearing on anything.
47:37
Because people are like, Oh, this is egregious. They don't really care about, you know, the gang
47:40
banger that killed another gang banger or anything like that. But this seems somewhat dirtier and
47:45
more gruesome, right? But guys, animals all over the globe for millennia have slowly eaten their
47:53
victims alive. There are some species, a lot of kind of the cat species, they even play with their
47:59
food before they kill it, right? You know, some animals, you know, they basically take you out
48:03
and kill you pretty quickly. But then you have like bears that eat you from your butt to your head,
48:08
right? So you're alive for a very, very long time before you die. Why is this crime any different?
48:14
Again, we we we get nothing from these other worldviews. The only way we know that this murder
48:22
was wrong is because God told us it was wrong. That's that's the only way there's no other way
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slash special offer. Our next quick hitter here, Donald Trump blaming pro lifers for the lack
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of a red wave during the midterm elections last year. So this was according to Donald Trump here
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recently on his true social accounts. I don't know what these things are called. Trues or truthers
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or what? I don't know. But he posted this on January the 1st at 1.37 PM. So this was it.
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It wasn't my fault that the Republicans didn't live up to expectations in the midterms. Again,
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he set himself up for 2024. I was 233 to 20. It was the abortion issue, poorly handled by many
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Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on no exceptions, even in the case of rape,
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incest, or life of the mother that lost large numbers of voters. Also, the people that pushed
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so hard for decades against abortion got their wish from the US Supreme Court and just plain
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disappeared, not to be seen again, plus Mitch stupid monies. So I don't know if Mitch McConnell
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I don't know what stupid monies is. Anyway, I don't really understand what law that is. And I don't
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really understand why he capitalized a certain words and not other words. So here are my here are my
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questions to the goes of you that are listening to this. Okay. So whether you're a Trump guy or
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not Trump guy or whatever. Does this seem like the guy you want to run for president to represent
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the Republican Republican Party? That guy, the guy that just stream of conscious that and just let
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put it out there into the world. Does it seem like the guy? Do you think that guy can beat Joe Biden?
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Because again, he's own one against Joe Biden before this was before January 6th, but you know,
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everyone has their opinion about January 6th, but there are a lot of people that think that was
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the attempted overthrow of the United States government predicated on the words of Donald Trump,
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right? So we can assume that Donald Trump's not going to get more votes than he did.
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And you think he's going to beat Joe Biden? That Donald Trump? But here's I guess the big one.
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You guys realize it's not 2016 anymore? Again, Donald Trump's ascension from celebrity billionaire
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to president United States is one of the most incredible things we've ever seen in modernity ever.
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Like there should be whole sections of history that are dedicated to just trying to figure out
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what in the world happened in 2016. And again, the fact that he was elected in 2016 got three
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Supreme Court justices and you know, it was unbelievable in terms of the grandeur and positives that
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it created for the United States of America in the first three years of his presidency.
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It was incredible, like almost to an unprecedented degree. But it's just, is this the guy now?
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It's not 2016 anymore. We don't have the new shine. We don't have everything. His routine seems
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tired at this point. He announces he's running for president and then he basically goes and hides,
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which again, you announce you're running for president like 14 seconds after the midterms or
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over. And it's like, are you really going to keep this up for two years, buddy? Are you going to
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keep this momentum up for two years? Like, what are you going to get going? So I just don't know,
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again, I proudly voted for him in 2020 proudly did. And if he is the Republican nominee for president,
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I will proudly vote for him against Joe Biden. If those are my only two options, obviously,
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I would go with Donald Trump over somebody like Joe Biden. But my big takeaway on this one,
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even even though the story is kind of sensational and maybe heard about it, maybe didn't.
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As I've said over and over again, it will maintain into the future. I'm not sure
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that former president Donald Trump is actually pro life in his heart, but he is still the most
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pro life president in United States history. Without question, again, I will he can say and do
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whatever he wants for the remainder of his life. But he got us Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and ACB.
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Those three were three of the deciding votes to overturn one of the worst decisions in the
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history of the Supreme Court, the Roe v. Wade decision and Planned Parenthood v Casey as a throw
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in, right? Donald Trump did that. Now, you can say, Hey, Ted Cruz would have done the same thing
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had he won. And you know, Marco Rubio and what? Okay, but we don't live in a parallel universe
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where we can see if that's true or not. All we know is that Donald Trump got more electoral
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college votes than Hillary Clinton in 2016. He went into the White House and got three picks.
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And here we are. We don't have Roe v. Wade, which doesn't mean the fight for life is over. Certainly
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it's getting it's just getting started. There are a lot of nefarious things happening even at
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the state level to make sure that women can continue to murder their children. But we'll just have
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to see how it goes. But he is the most pro life president ever by his actions. I don't care about
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how he feels in his heart. Alright, last quick hitter here, Time magazine saying that white supremacy
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is the origin of exercise. So this is according to Time magazine. Well, actually, the title of the
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piece is the white supremacist origins of exercise and six other surprising facts about the history
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of US physical fitness. So this is literally the first sentence of this piece by a gal named Olivia
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Waxman. How did US exercise trends go from reinforcing white supremacy to celebrating Richard Simmons?
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Like, I just can't. How did we get here? How did we get here guys? Like, uh,
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voices given out on me. Hopefully it'll last another five minutes or so. But apparently this
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article, this Time magazine article is reviewing a new book by Natalia Mailman Pertrazzella. What's
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with all the names on this podcast? Anyway, the book is called Fit Nation, the gains and pains of
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America's exercise obsession. And this article was a Q and A with the author. Okay. So they asked her
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this. They asked her, what's the most surprising thing you learned in your research? And this was
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her response. It was super interesting reading their reflections of fitness enthusiasts in the
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early 20th century. They said we should get rid of corsets, corsets are in assault on women's form.
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And that women should be lifting weights and gaining strength. At first, you feel like it's so
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progressive. Then you keep reading and they're saying white women should start building their
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strength because we need more white babies. They're writing during an incredible amount of immigration
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soon after enslaved people have been emancipated. This is totally part of a white supremacy project.
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So that was the real holy crap moment as a historian where deep archival research really reveals the
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contradictions of this moment. Like, I want to give people the benefit of the doubt. I know I'm a
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pessimistic guy. I know I can be a jerk. I'm anal retentive. I'm all these negative things.
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But what? What exactly is that? Like, how do you get to be an adult? You know how to tie your
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shoes? You can walk and chew gum at the same time and you read things. And this is what you decide
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is what all this data and all this research coalesces in this.
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That the whole reason that we're obsessed with working out today began with the fact that we wanted
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to make more white babies somehow. So before I like blow a gasket and lose whatever's left
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to my voice, I'm going to move to my big takeaway on this one. And you've heard everyone say this
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and it's absolutely true. If everything is racist, then nothing is racist. Like, we we have a tech,
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I have a text, you know, thread with a few friends and like once every week or two,
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one of us will find a story that says something else is racist. So remember when Shark Week was
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racist because it showed too many, you know, white marine biologists that were named Mike or
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something like that. This particular restaurant is, you know, racist because they serve this, that,
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this, that or the other thing. I saw one with a De Mar Hamlin thing like this just shows the
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reality of the violence that black men experience in America playing football.
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And then you have this story from Time Magazine. In this book, that's probably going to become a
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New York Times bestseller. Okay. But here's my message to everybody because this is the beginning
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of the year. Everyone's excited, you know, new year, new me, right? You wasted a whole bunch of
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time and effort. You ate way too much pie over the holidays and everything like that. And you're
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like, okay, you know, now I'm going to get myself together and I'm actually going to get going.
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So to all of you that I have motivated in some way to get out there and exercise this year,
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I say, have fun participating in white supremacy, you racist pickets.
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