Is There a Spiritual Shift Happening in America？
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Happy New Year, everyone! In this episode, I talk about the dangers of CTE and how to prevent it. I also talk about how my family has been affected by it and how it affects my family and how we can prevent it in the future.
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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Gains for Girls podcast. Happy New Year's. I hope
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you all are staying dedicated and consistent in your goals and resolutions and making 2025
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the best year yet. Before we get into this episode, which by the way, you can check out
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important, American meat delivered. I love this time of year. Of course, this year, especially,
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you've got the inauguration right around the corner. The Super Bowl is coming up. College football,
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national championship, it's right around the corner. If you follow this podcast for a while,
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or if you know anything about me, I feel like I'm pretty vocal about this. I come from a family
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of athletes, in particular, actually, football stars. My dad, his name is Brad, one of his older
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brothers, Chris, they played at Vanderbilt. I'm pretty sure my uncle Chris was responsible for an
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absurd 37 total tackles in a single game against Tulane. I think it's still an SEC record, actually.
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He went on to play with the Dolphins and a couple other teams. He even came back to coach Vanderbilt,
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coach some in the league. My dad, he played with the Eagles. My dad's oldest brother, Greg,
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he played at the University of Tennessee. He was a linebacker. He went on to play, I think,
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eight or nine seasons with the Seahawks. He's very tall. My dad's oldest brother, Greg,
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he's very tall. He's very lean, very strong, of course, but lean. His nickname in the NFL was
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Bullethead, because that's how he played. Bear in mind, this was before the days of targeting,
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really, so he's certainly paying for it now. CTE, which if you don't know anything about CTE,
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I think it was Will Smith. They did a movie about this brain disease, what it looks like,
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how it affects you several years back. CTE can only be, I think, definitely diagnosed after death,
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but my whole family is certain that my Uncle Greg is suffering from that in his day-to-day life. Now,
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between the three of them that played professionally, I think they're tallying over 30-plus
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major surgeries. I mean, backs and knees and shoulders and hips and ankles and all the things.
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Just in the past year or so, my dad had a total shoulder replacement. Just a few weeks ago, he had
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a back surgery. So, I mean, these are some tough men, okay? Mentally tough. Truthfully, it's kind of
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scary, to be honest with you. I've watched my dad squat over 600 pounds with a broken ankle.
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My great-uncle, so my grandmother, my dad's mom, her brother played, I think, 11 years in the NFL. He won
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the Super Bowl at the Steelers. Anyways, this episode isn't one where I'm just going to brag about my
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family and how awesome they are, which I definitely could. I haven't even gotten to my mom or my siblings
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yet, but again, I think it's important. I just wanted to give you a little background on me and
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my affinity for sports, where it comes from, especially football. So, you can imagine what my
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house has looked like watching the playoff games and all the bowl games around the country.
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I remember, also, a little fun fact about me. I'm married to a Brit who knew nothing about American
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football when he came to the States. To play a sport, mind you, himself at an SEC school,
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needless to say, it took him all of five seconds to fall in love with it. I taught him everything he
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knows. He is the most southernized Brit ever. Even his accent now is like this redneck country,
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British. It's hilarious. Working in construction, where, you know, being in Tennessee, a lot of
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people who work in construction are either very redneck or Hispanic, neither of which understand
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the Queen's English, so his accent has totally had to adapt. The ball has been on my TV 24 hours a day
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for the past few weeks. And can I tell you, this is what the episode is about, can I tell you what
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I have noticed watching all of these games? I have noticed that Christ is making a comeback.
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Actually, let me rephrase because that's not true. Christ is not making a comeback because he
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never left. What I've noticed is that we are returning to Christ. I have been so encouraged to
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see the long list of both athletes and coaches who have publicly declared their faith, giving glory
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to God, and professed that Jesus Christ is the one true Lord and Savior. It has left me feeling more
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hopeful than I have felt in a really, really long time, to be honest with you. And so let's start with
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this. I was watching Liberty University the other day, and their head coach, Jamie Chadwell,
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he shows up wearing this shirt. Bold letters across the front, Jesus won, which I think was
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pertinent considering Liberty lost in a blowout. But it has this awesome cross on the back, and it
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sent a bold message, but you're probably saying to yourself, Riley, Liberty University is a Christian
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school. You know, this isn't that much of a shock. Okay, maybe, sure, but understand, it's not just
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Christian schools that are doing this. I want you to listen to this clip, and I have followed
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this coach. I will say, I believe, actually, it doesn't even matter, but I believe the Boise State
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player should have been the Heisman Trophy winner, whatever. I've been following and admiring this coach
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and his passion, how he leads his team through the Mountain West Conference Championship, of course,
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post that. This coach of Boise State, Spencer Danielson, watched this clip here.
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Thank you, Jesus. And, I mean, Jesus deserves all the glory. I mean, we serve a champion. He died on
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the cross, but he rose again three days later. That's the God I serve, man. Everything's possible.
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And our players, they don't run from hard work. They just keep swinging, keep swinging, keep swinging.
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That's uncommon. They deserve the credit. Jesus deserves the credit.
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Bear in mind, right, Boise State is one of, if you can remember, it's one of the five schools that
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decided to forfeit in the sport of women's volleyball against San Jose State University.
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Even at their Mountain West Conference Championship, which is outside of the NCAA tournament,
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it's the pinnacle of their sport, competing for that conference title.
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So, they were up against San Jose State. They knew if they forfeited this game, which they had done
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previously in the season, which, of course, is detrimental, but not to the gravity of which this
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forfeit in particular would be. But these girls, this team, they were able to say, look, we know
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we're ending our season prematurely. We know if we forfeit this game, we won't win a conference title
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and we won't go to the NCAA tournament. But it's a forfeit that we're willing to pursue
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because we know some things matter more than victory. And our safety, the integrity of sport,
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objective reality are some of those things. So, they must be doing something right at that school.
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I'm sure they have a phenomenal athletic director. I can only imagine they have to make up for that
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smurf blue field somehow. Maybe this is it. But this clip, this next clip, is really important
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because it's not just a little clip of the coach talking, which any coach can do. It shows the
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impact that Coach Danielson has had on his team. Watch this.
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I want to start off and say, oh, glory to Jesus Christ. He's the true champion.
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Coach D, you changed my life. You changed my life. I did not know God until I got the voice of state.
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And I serve a true champion. Jesus Christ is the only true God. He died, rose from the dead three days
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later. That's the champion that I serve. And thank you, Coach D. Like, seriously, you changed my life.
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So, that was one of Boise State's defensive ends. As a Christian, there is nothing better
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than to hear, you changed my life. That's what we're called to do as Christians, is to disciple
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in that way. So, that coach, he led him, Coach Danielson, Coach D, as he calls him,
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he led him to make the most important and consequential decision of his entire life.
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What a legacy to leave your players. I will tell you personally, I have donated to the Boise State
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University NIL Fund. Again, I think we have to incentivize this. It's what the left has done so
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well for so long, is they know how to, and again, we've seen this in corporate America, we've seen it
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in academia, we've seen it in the media, in our government. The list goes on. We see how they
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infiltrate in and how they control. Unfortunately, these things require funds, especially with the
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new NIL era. And so, I will tell you, I have donated to Boise State's NIL Fund. If you feel
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called to do so, I encourage you to do that as well. We'll leave a link in the description of this
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episode, so it's easy for you to do. If you feel called, you can pray about it, but I think it would
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be a fantastic use of your money. Now, I want you to check out this clip. I watched it live. I watched
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it as it happened. I'm surprised that ESPN did not clip away from it, but this is the Texas Longhorn
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running back, Nick Sanders, and Arizona State running back, Cam Scabito. This clip, I mean, truthfully,
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it almost made me emotional. As a competitor, I can't tell you. I can't even imagine, truthfully,
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putting myself in that situation where you have your opponent approach you after you just lost
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in double overtime, mind you, ended your season. They approach you and say, you know, can I pray for
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you? I can't imagine how hard it would be to be cordial and responsive and kind and compassionate
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and gracious with your time in this scenario, but I think this was beautifully done. Props to Nick
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Sanders for taking this action and props to the Arizona State running back for allowing this to
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happen. I think it was really beautiful. Another Texas player, check out Texas quarterback Quinn
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Ewers here. For all of us to stay calm, it kind of starts with me and I just try to be that calm
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within the storm for all the guys. And I think that my relationship with Jesus has helped me
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in that specific way of knowing that no matter what happens, that he's going to be there for me.
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It's been super cool to see the amount of guys that have really let God come into their heart.
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And, you know, me being part of that and Johnny being part of that, it's kind of like a domino
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effect in the locker room. I think more guys are, you know, starting to come to Bible study,
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come to chapel, whatever it is, and just to see that. And I think that's what grows us closer as
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well. Just the amount of guys that are putting their faith in the Lord has just been really cool
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to see. I mean, we pray after every practice as a team and, you know, prayer is very powerful and I
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really believe in prayer. And it's just been cool to see how Jesus and God have just worked in our
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lives throughout this year. And I think that is also a testament to how we stay level-headed and
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poised throughout the entirety of a game. One more Texas player I want you to look at. This is their
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defensive back, Jaday Barron. Last year and the years before previously, I wanted things done on my
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time. But it doesn't work like that. You know, God has everything planned. It's already written,
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literally relying on God. And then Psalms 105 verse 1, just give thanks to the Lord and
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proclaim His greatness and show the whole world what He has done. I mean, I'm showing y'all with
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my talent, but I mean, I'd be surprised too when God just pushes me and go out there to allow me to
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make plays like that. I love that he mentioned, you know, last year or in previous years, I wanted
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to control things on my time. I wanted to do things how I wanted to do them. But what he displayed,
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what he talked about, learning how to trust and rely and give it all to God, that is called growth,
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growth, which is a rarity to see, especially among young college men. And I'm watching all
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these Texas players. There's a correlation here. There's no doubt. You hear them talk about the Bible
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studies and getting their team together and congregating and going to church and worshiping
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together and praising the Lord. There's no doubt that this is a large part as to why this team as a
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whole has been successful. And I'll tell you, as an SEC girl, through and through, you can't argue
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with me, they are undoubtedly the best conference in every single sport across the board. I was
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hesitant about Texas joining. We already have a UT and they're already an ugly orange. Do we need two
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of them? But this maybe changed, swayed my view a little bit on the Texas Longhorns, especially joining
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the SEC. Here's another quarterback. I want you to watch the Notre Dame quarterback, Riley Leonard,
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here. What can you say about what this win means to you? Yeah, first and foremost, I want to thank my
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Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Without him, I wouldn't be here. We wouldn't be here. That's a whole group.
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Similarly, I want you to watch the Ohio State quarterback. You know, first and foremost,
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I got to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you know, for giving me this opportunity to be on this,
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be on this stage and here in the Rose Bowl. I mean, you know, a younger me would be,
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would be in awe right now. Both of these men, both of these quarterbacks,
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I love how they address this because they both said first and foremost, as in before I do anything,
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before I talk about myself, before I talk about my team, before I talk about the hard work and the
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blood and the sweat and the tears, I want to thank my one true Savior. Amazing. That's what it's about.
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This clip, though, of the Ohio State quarterback, Will Howard, it went viral because after this
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encounter with the media, the ladies asking him the question, you know, what did you take from this
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game, this win? After this, it was the Rose Bowl. They have a stage set up in the middle of the field.
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Rose is on there. And you can see in this other clip that has surfaced, Will Howard is trying to
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get on the stage to celebrate with a lot of his teammates. But there's a man standing on the steps,
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of course, a worker, someone who maybe works for the Rose Bowl, for the league. And he says,
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look, you can't get up right now. And I saw a lot of people who were really quick
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to criticize, whether it was the individual man, the ESPN, whoever it was who was on this stage,
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they were quick to criticize and say that he was being targeted for his Christian faith.
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After he did that interview, he ran over to the stage where the network TV had their cameras set
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up and they wouldn't let him up. You can even hear Will Howard in the video saying, hey, look,
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they're blocking me. And for goodness sake, he's the quarterback. Let him on the stage.
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Um, people said that he wasn't allowed on stage for his faith. Here's what I think. I think that's
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just not true. Um, Ohio State, they were a team that all season was stood, I mean, loud and proud
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and professed their faith to anyone that would look or listen. Uh, they wore shirts, uh, similarly to,
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to Jamie Chadwell, the Liberty University coach that says Jesus won at many of their players got
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baptized. I mean, they were really fun and inspiring truthfully to follow all season.
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And even there was another teammate, I think his name was Trayvon Henderson, who had the eye black
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on that said Romans 322, uh, on, you know, written on his eye black and he was on the stage. So I will
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be one to say, I don't think he was being targeted for his Christian faith in this instance.
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Apparently, uh, the stage had a weight limit, which is a different conversation. I don't know why,
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uh, that's the route that they went. Uh, but I don't think he was snubbed from the stage because
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of his Christian faith. But while we are talking about getting snubbed, let's talk about ESPN.
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I've desperately tried to keep ESPN off my TV, uh, for several reasons, really. Um, Sage Steele,
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she's been on the show before. Uh, she's a dear friend of mine. She is a role model of mine. She's
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someone who, who is as genuine and kind and authentic in real life as she appears to be,
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uh, even more so really in real life than she appears to be, uh, on a screen. She is just amazing.
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After how she was treated during COVID, during BLM, uh, since her departure only what a year,
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maybe two years ago, uh, Sam Ponder, same thing. Uh, how ESPN did this, this big special on women's
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history month, uh, around Leah Thomas, who is actually Will Thomas and, and all of the,
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the insanity there. ESPN taking my dad's, I mentioned my dad, of course, in, in the beginning
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of this episode, uh, what I didn't talk about when referring to my dad is his SEC story. Um,
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and how he was in the limelight for a long time regarding a play. It was Vanderbilt versus Ole Miss
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long pass thrown to my dad. My dad catches the ball, the Ole Miss player by the name of Chuckie Mullins.
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Uh, ends up tackling my dad, uh, where ultimately he would break his neck and eventually pass away
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from the hit, uh, which was, of course, it takes a toll. It took a toll on my dad. Um,
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even still to this day, I mean, just a few weeks ago on Christmas day, I've never had my dad home
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for Christmas because he goes to Chuckie's grave to clean it, to spend time with him because he tells me,
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look, Riley, no one deserves to spend Christmas alone. Never had my dad home on Christmas. He goes,
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the day of the hit, the day he passed in the, in the, of course, Christmas day, like I said,
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and ESPN made this wonderful documentary about it. It was on SEC storied. It was on 30 for 30.
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And as soon as I was critical of ESPN, uh, when they made that women's history month
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segment surrounding Will Thomas, uh, they removed my dad's documentary, which is again, first of all,
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that had nothing to do with, with the stand that I have taken. Really, my dad's story is one of
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overcoming, uh, racial divide and adversity. It's, it's a really, of course, it's heartbreaking and
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it's tragic, but it's an amazing, remarkable story. Uh, so all that to say, I try and keep ESPN off my
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TV, but this time of year, it's really hard. There's not a lot of other networks who are airing all the
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games and all that kind of stuff. I was so disappointed, uh, by ESPN's coverage or really
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the lack of coverage of the national anthem, uh, and the, the moment of silence following
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the horrific terrorist attack that we saw on January 1st, the beginning of the new year.
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ESPN went on to say it was a timing issue. Uh, I listened to Clay Travis, actually his segment
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about this being in sports, being in sports media for a long time. He says, look, I know how this
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works. There's no such thing as a timing issue. They would have made time. He's absolutely right.
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Had this been a moment of silence, uh, you know, for a pride event, uh, where something horrific
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happened. Let me tell you, ESPN would not have missed that. And then we see the, the all state
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CEOs, um, totally tone deaf approach to the situation saying that, you know, uh, you know,
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there's just some divides in America. No. How about you condemn terrorism in all forms,
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whether it's domestic terrorism, international terrorism, it doesn't matter any form of terrorism
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where everyday Americans, innocent people senselessly lose, lose their lives at the hands
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of radical extremists. It should be easy to condemn that, but no, we saw this, the CEO go
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on to tout crazy stuff. I shopped around my insurance. I have all state insurance. I'm in
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the process of shopping around my insurance now, uh, to get out of that because again, that's
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how you make a difference. You hit them where it hurts, which is their pockets. Um, so very
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disappointed by ESPN, but shocker, right? Disney owned, uh, we have learned over the past few
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years that ESPN does not represent the average American, especially not, uh, your average
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football fan. One more clip I want to share with you, uh, from, from the past few weeks,
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again, watching all of the bowl games, watching the college playoffs. I came across this, this
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clip of Marcus Freeman, who is the head coach of Notre Dame. Watch this here.
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You and James Franklin are kind of making history here. Um, can you kind of just put in perspective
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what it means to you to be, you know, one of two black coaches in this playoffs?
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Yeah, it's, um, again, you're very grateful. Um, it's a reminder that you are a representation
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for many others and in many of our players that, that look the same way I do. Um, then,
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you know, your color shouldn't matter, right? And then the, the evidence of your work should
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The old bait and hook, uh, they try this all the time. They do it with Angel Reese. They do
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it on the other hand with Caitlin Clark. This tactic is constantly used by reporters and analysts
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in the NFL. Um, trying to, to get you to comment on, on skin color and put other people down,
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prop yourself up. Uh, I love what he said. Look, he said, while your color shouldn't matter,
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he's acknowledging explicitly that unfortunately it still does. And I love how he, how he said,
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it takes everybody. That's what the, the entire statement in its entire context says. He says,
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it takes everybody. Absolutely right. Uh, and so I guess after watching this episode,
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I mean, do you feel it too? Like, do you feel this, this shift? I'm not talking about a political
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shift. I'm talking about a spiritual shift. I, like I said, I, I feel encouraged. I feel hopeful.
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There's been lots over the past few months, especially, uh, that have, have left me feeling
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hopeful, but it's easy in today's world, especially surrounding recent events. Again, uh, the, the
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horrific terrorist attacks that we've seen, uh, the fact that we have a bumbling president who gave a
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four minute press conference following what happened in New Orleans and Vegas, uh, where he took no
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questions, answered nothing, uh, walked off stage. I mean, that to me, I remember watching that,
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you know, earlier last week and just, just being totally in dismay what's going on in the UK,
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which I want to do an episode on this as well. Uh, these, these grooming gangs, so they're called,
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but, but I think that's to put it mildly. We have seen the reports have, have showed us,
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and I've read the transcripts of the trials, some of these excerpts, horrific, like, like sickening.
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It's been going on for, for decades. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I will do an episode on
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this, but it's shown us that over the past, again, 10 years plus, at least 250,000 young British girls
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have been sold out or who have been trafficked, uh, and are a part of these Pakistani gang rape,
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uh, circuits. I mean, it's, it's, it's disgusting. All that to say, it's easy to feel down. It's easy
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to feel hopeless, but these young men showing their faith, professing that they stand firm in the word
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of the Lord, uh, that gives me hope. It is certainly reassuring, and so why now, right? I think there's a
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couple reasons. Number one, cancel culture is fading. Uh, that has been made, I think, pretty obvious over
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the past, again, few weeks, especially after November 5th. Uh, you think of that, keeping on the analogy
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of a football here, you think of that little Trump dance that's been going around. Thank you, Nick Bosa
00:26:47.460
for this. Uh, he really started this, at least on the football field. And while that dance, I've said
00:26:53.060
this, I think before, maybe on this podcast, while that dance might seem silly, it might seem just like
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a silly little display. It's fun. It's lighthearted. I think it's much more than that. That dance
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represents free speech. That dance represents, represents patriotism. The dance represents the fact
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that cancel culture is losing its grip. So maybe people realize that, that we are the majority.
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It's easy to, to, uh, stand firm in what everyone knows to be true when you know there's people behind
00:27:22.840
you. Um, and truthfully, as a Christian myself, uh, maybe we're, we're getting ready to see a second
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coming. Uh, we know it's, it will happen. Jesus will return. He will come back to this earth.
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Um, maybe, maybe we're rounding out the corner here. Of course, I am not a pastor. Uh, I am not
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qualified to, to, you know, be the, the bearer of what is to happen. I don't think any of us on this
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planet are. We just spent a year long, uh, we did a year long series, uh, with my church, actually
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Long Hollow in Hendersonville, Tennessee, a year long series on revelation, which was amazing to dive
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deeper into what this could look like, you know, being able to interpret some of the different
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things. And revelation is very, uh, most people think of it as fiery and dark and scary, but,
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but it was really amazing to get into. So Jesus is coming back. God is moving, uh, more of this
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in 2025, please. Uh, again, as always, thank you for joining the gains for girls podcast. Um,
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we've got some exciting things in the future, new year, uh, really hoping to, to amp this up,
00:28:34.200
um, have some, some big goals, uh, some big developments happening with the podcast. So if
00:28:40.020
you have been here for a while, uh, again, your support, it means the world to me. Uh, but we're
00:28:46.780
hoping for some, from exciting, for some exciting things in the future. Uh, so keep following along,
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