Mattel is selling a new Barbie doll, and on the back of the packaging is a link to a porn site. We ve got all the details on that alleged accident on today s episode of Relatable. We are also talking about Megan Fox s strange and new age announcement about her new pregnancy, and all of the theological context surrounding her short statement. And we ve got a call to share the arrows with a restaurant in Wheaton, Illinois.
00:00:00.800Mattel is selling a new Barbie doll, and on the back of the packaging is a link to a porn site.
00:00:09.520We've got all of the details on that alleged accident on today's episode of Relatable.
00:00:15.080We are also talking about Megan Fox's strange and new age announcement about her new pregnancy
00:00:22.600and all of the theological context surrounding her short statement.
00:00:27.740We've also got a call to share the arrows with a restaurant in Wheaton, Illinois, all the details on that.
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00:00:53.780Hey, guys, and welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday.
00:00:56.360Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far. We are back in studio looking and sounding like we typically do.
00:01:04.000We are going to focus more on culture today. We've been talking so much politics, and for good reason.
00:01:09.600But I wanted to talk about a few stories that you guys have sent me and asked my thoughts on.
00:01:14.660This first one is this crazy story about Mattel.
00:01:19.020That is the company that made Barbie misprinting a link on the packaging for their dolls, Wicked Dolls.
00:01:27.940And I mean Wicked, the movie that is based on the musical, that is based on the book.
00:01:33.180This packaging had a thing on the back that actually linked to a porn site rather than the site that it was supposed to link to, which of course was something about the dolls.
00:01:48.080And what they're saying was just a giant mistake.
00:01:51.620So Mattel printed a porn website link on the back of its Wicked movie-themed dolls geared toward young girls ages four and older rather than the link to the website for the movie.
00:02:04.720The error gained attention on social media over the weekend where numerous users shared photos of the URL printed on the back of the boxes featuring characters from the movie adaptation of Wicked that's hitting theaters this month.
00:02:18.020By the way, as an aside, I am not going to see this movie.
00:02:56.440And if they are targeting kids, little girls ages four plus, I think it is of utmost importance to get the link correct on the back of the box.
00:03:07.960So it's supposed to link to Universal Pictures' official WickedMovie.com page, but instead it leads to Wicked.com.
00:03:21.240I do not recommend testing this out for yourself.
00:03:24.800In a statement sent to the Associated Press, Mattel said it was, quote,
00:03:28.840made aware of a misprint on the packaging of the Mattel Wicked Collection dolls, which it said are primarily sold in the U.S.
00:03:36.900We deeply regret this unfortunate error and are taking immediate action to remedy this, the company added.
00:03:44.180I cannot imagine something like this slipping through the cracks at a place like Mattel.
00:03:50.180You've got so many hands and so many eyes that a product like this has to go through.
00:03:56.480This is also a very evil misprint because it's not just like it got sent to some like unpurchased domain and it was just, you know, a letter off or something like this.
00:04:09.460If this was an entire word off and you would think that there would be someone employed at Mattel or someone on the Wicked production end of things that would have tested the URL, that's not just a small thing.
00:04:23.500As of Monday morning, most of these Wicked dolls appear to be no longer available or not in stock on sites like Amazon Target and Mattel's website.
00:04:32.220In the meantime, the company is advising consumers who already have the dolls to discard their packaging or obscure the link and contact Mattel's customer service for more information.
00:04:44.160First of all, I don't even know why there needs to be any kind of URL on the packaging of a kid's toy.
00:05:20.200You'll remember a couple of years ago, the episode that we did on the Balenciaga scandal.
00:05:25.240That is a big brand that has been advertised, promoted by lots of celebrities, especially Kim Kardashian.
00:05:32.660And they were selling bears and putting bears on their models on the runway that were dressed in bondage gear.
00:05:41.360So like BDSM, which is like violent sex gear.
00:05:46.380And these toys seem to be targeting children.
00:05:49.840And in fact, if I remember correctly, children were in some of these ads with these kinds of strange, kinky BDSM bears.
00:06:01.680And in one of their photo shoots on the desk was the text of a Supreme Court decision that involved child sex abuse material, typically referred to as child porn.
00:06:16.540And they said, oh, this was just a giant mistake.
00:06:19.460This is a messaging that we meant to put out there.
00:06:22.960But again, this is a situation where you've got a huge major corporation that routinely does photo shoots like this.
00:06:33.740And every single detail has to be scrutinized and approved by multiple people.
00:06:39.280It's just hard to believe that an error that giant could happen.
00:06:44.000And so obviously what I'm implying is that someone at one of these companies is sick and twisted and nefarious.
00:06:51.320Now, I hope that that is not the case.
00:06:56.540But again, like what are the odds that these major companies are placing porn or porn themes into the hands and eyes of children accidentally?
00:07:09.160I think that we understand at this point that many of the powers that be really like the idea of sexualizing children.
00:07:18.840That is what is behind this entire gender ideology movement that places in libraries and curriculum this idea that you should talk to a trusted adult that is not your parent about your genitalia and your feelings about your genitalia and your stated identity surrounding your genitalia.
00:07:40.840I mean, progressive ideology seeks to destroy, it seeks to destroy innocence, it seeks to destroy beauty, it seeks to destroy truth, and therefore it also seeks to destroy the family.
00:07:54.000And we already see in places like California legislation that cuts ties between parents and children when the parent won't go along with the new stated identity of their child.
00:08:07.480We've interviewed some of those parents whose children have been taken out of their custody because they refuse to put their teenage daughter on hormone blockers.
00:08:17.500And so that's what progressivism does, it destroys, and I just wouldn't be surprised if some nefarious person used this channel to introduce children to pornography.
00:08:33.680And maybe I'm wrong, again, I really hope that I'm wrong, but unfortunately porn is so incredibly pervasive.
00:08:42.440A lot of progressives were so mad at the idea that possibly Project 2025 afloated the idea of banning pornography.
00:08:52.360And even though I don't think at all that is on the docket for any legislators or the Trump administration, it would be a good thing.
00:10:31.280And the fact that children could so easily access it, as we've talked about on this show, it is very easy.
00:10:37.940If you allow your child to have any access to the internet, it is very easy for them to stumble upon pornography, to be traumatized by the images that are in their mind, to become addicted to pornography.
00:10:51.300That rewires their brain in a way that they very often cannot heal from the entirety of their lives.
00:10:58.760Yes, I believe that we should do whatever possible, legally, technologically, culturally, to make pornography inaccessible, to relegate it to the deep and dark rungs of the dregs of the dark web.
00:11:20.100Sure, whatever has to happen to make it really, really hard to sell, to profit from, and to distribute, then I'm for that.
00:11:30.080I'm glad Mattel is making this right, and I just hope that no one, no child accessed this, but make sure that you look out for this if you are a parent.
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00:13:06.480Another story that might not seem like one that I would typically cover, but does have a theological significance that I want to get into because this is an idea that I've seen a lot.
00:13:23.460And it comes our way via Megan Fox announcing her pregnancy.
00:14:03.800And that is because she had a miscarriage not too long ago.
00:14:08.120And so what she is saying is that the baby that she lost previously through miscarriage is now back.
00:14:18.580And this is a new age idea that I've actually heard several times.
00:14:24.860And it doesn't really surprise me coming from someone like Megan Fox because she actually believes that babies inside the womb are conveying messages to us through their spirit.
00:14:38.280She said this just a few years ago in an interview.
00:14:42.460She said, when I became pregnant with Noah, that's one of her sons, I could feel through my mother's intuition, I suppose, that he was not subscribing to gender stereotypes.
00:14:53.360So I decided to provide an environment for him early on that would allow him to discover how he wanted to express himself.
00:15:00.540Unfortunately, her boys now present themselves.
00:15:03.840It seems in pictures that have been that have been shown in a very feminine way.
00:15:16.340Some reports say that all of them actually present themselves as female.
00:15:20.320Now, and she also said this, she said, I know it sounds crazy, like I'm a lunatic, but I've made some really good decisions based on what the higher self is telling me to do.
00:15:34.300This baby, she's talking about the baby that she was pregnant with previously.
00:15:38.360This baby wanted me to live somewhere else.
00:15:40.280So we're moving to a whole different place in Los Angeles.
00:15:43.260I feel like that's where this baby wants to be raised.
00:15:45.940I also feel like this baby is telling me it's kind of like an Elon Musk, a super genius.
00:15:54.380Okay, so this was about her third son because the first time she was talking about her oldest son, Noah, and then she has a two-year-old, and then she was pregnant with this third that she was saying, this baby is telling me that we need to move elsewhere.
00:16:10.520And now she is saying that this baby that she is currently pregnant with is the same baby, the same soul that she was once pregnant with earlier.
00:16:20.360And, you know, I first heard this a few years ago when I was watching a video about a woman who claims to be a Christian talking about the abortion that she chose to have.
00:16:30.760And she said that the reason that she doesn't have guilt about this abortion is because she felt like this baby was telling her it's not time yet and I can come back, but it's not time and all you have to do is send me back.
00:16:49.160And I've also seen it, of course, not in the context of abortion, saying, oh, this baby chose me, chose us as her parents, chose to come into our lives at this time.
00:17:03.360Seeing these babies as these kind of autonomous individuals that have almost a higher sense of wisdom and a special transcendent power that we don't have.
00:17:19.360And I looked into where this comes from.
00:17:22.320Like, what is the philosophy behind this?
00:17:26.520That's really just kind of an umbrella term for paganism from Eastern religions.
00:17:32.440We talk a lot about it in my first book, You're Not Enough and That's Okay.
00:17:36.480This idea of the god of self or the goddess of self that she's deep down inside you and that actually you are perfect before you enter the world.
00:17:48.320But as soon as you enter the world, then your perfect inner goddess gets weighed down or gets hidden, gets covered up with the muck and the mire of the patriarchy or capitalism or other people's unfair expectations, your negative dad or your toxic mom,
00:18:12.360or all of these people who didn't understand you or all of these systems and these people outside of you have all been working since the time that you were born to inhibit your inner self, your true goddess.
00:18:29.160And you have to then go on this journey of self-discovery and self-liberation to dig past all of these people's unfair expectations and all of these systems that have held you down to find your inner goddess again.
00:18:44.420And how you do that is learning how to truly love yourself.
00:18:48.460And once you truly love yourself and put yourself first and find what makes you happy, no matter what you have to sacrifice or whom you have to sacrifice to get to her and fulfill her, then you will finally be free.
00:19:02.700Then once you get there, everything will fall into place.
00:19:05.380You'll find the true love of your life.
00:19:07.920You'll start manifesting all of the goals and ambitions and successes that you've been dreaming of for so long and everything will finally feel right.
00:19:17.340Now, you'll notice that the people who have claimed to have gone down that journey, who claim to be able to sell you the scheme that they followed to get there,
00:19:31.940or that they have found the hidden secrets of the universe or the divine higher self in their program.
00:19:41.980Like, you'll notice that those people are rarely truly happy.
00:19:50.100Those people typically have one plus divorces in their past.
00:19:55.400You will notice that they are very dependent upon you buying their program or you liking their posts or you giving them validation and affirmation for them to be okay.
00:20:12.740Or they are constantly seeking the next thing, this mode of meditation or this kind of self-care or this mode of self-empowerment.
00:20:26.180This will be the thing that finally helps you reach that higher plane.
00:20:30.480It's like what scripture says in 2 Timothy 3, 7, always learning and never able to arrive at the knowledge of truth.
00:20:41.820Actually, let me read this passage because in this culture, what I call the toxic culture of self-love,
00:20:50.200self-love is seen as the highest virtue, the greatest thing that you can attain.
00:20:59.440Once you reach that, everything else will fall into place.
00:21:02.600Once you have full empathy for yourself, then you can have empathy for other people and you will be the most virtuous and compassionate and confident and successful person.
00:22:06.340This is the only time self-love is talked about in Scripture.
00:22:10.480And Scripture is actually saying that this is an indication of the times of tribulation and difficulty.
00:22:16.540For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
00:22:28.180treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness but denying its power.
00:22:38.040Avoid such people, for among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women,
00:22:43.840burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
00:22:54.140These are the women who are seeking the validation and the freedom and the liberation and the fulfillment from people like Glennon Doyle,
00:23:02.360from people like Rachel Hollis, from people like Jen Hatmaker, who worship at the altar of the God of self
00:23:09.920and are convincing women that if they do the same, they will be happy.
00:23:14.300Just toss off the rules and regulations of religion.
00:23:18.040Don't worry about what God says is right or wrong.
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00:26:03.000So I apologize for the tangent, but I'm going to do like Donald Trump, and I'm going to weave it all the way, all the way back to the original question, the original point.
00:26:16.700So I was searching, like, where does this come from, this idea that if you abort your child or if you miscarry your child, then their soul is going to come back to you?
00:26:31.080And as I was searching, of course, the first website that came up was Cosmic Cradle, Cosmic Cradle.com.
00:26:42.920And while it's not that sophisticated, it did kind of give me some idea of where this comes from.
00:26:49.400So how they describe it is that these babies that come back to us in the womb are a soul reincarnated.
00:26:59.420So reincarnated means like the same soul, it comes back in a new form, so in a new body.
00:27:06.100Of course, there are Eastern religions, Indian religions, that believe that you can come back as an animal and you just keep being reincarnated.
00:27:13.600Of course, that is not a Christian belief at all.
00:27:18.680Now, Jesus came in the body of a man, but we do not believe that human beings are reincarnated because we read in Scripture that once we die, we meet judgment.
00:27:34.340And, of course, Jesus on the cross, when he is talking to the thief and the thief believes in faith, the salvation of Christ,
00:27:41.100Jesus says, today you will be with me in paradise.
00:27:45.860That is also one reason why we as Protestants do not believe in purgatory, that you meet your eternal fate after you die.
00:27:56.740But this idea of reincarnation, yes, we see it in pagan religions and we see it in different kinds of Eastern sects, but we also see it in the occult.
00:28:09.080We see it in something called spiritism.
00:28:17.080Because this reincarnation idea really, at least how it manifests itself here in the West, in the language we hear about babies being reincarnated,
00:28:28.520that really seems to derive from spiritism.
00:28:32.440So it was founded by someone named Allan Kardec.
00:28:35.580It's described as a science dedicated to the relationship between incorporeal beings and human beings.
00:28:47.800Like, you'll notice that much of the occult, many different of the occultic sects were founded in the 19th century.
00:28:59.400So that's just something to think about, that the belief systems that all came up in this very strange time, they were all kind of feeding on each other.