Ep 1107 ｜ Daystar Scandal： Alleged Cover-Ups, Family Betrayal & Blackmail
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On today's episode of Relatable: Happy Holidays! Producer Brie joins us to talk about all things thanksgiving. She talks about what she made for her family's thanksgiving meal plans, the controversy surrounding green bean casserole, and how she managed to make her first sourdough. Plus, we look at some beautiful family centered pro-life pro-parenting ads from very unexpected companies.
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charismatic christian tv network day star is embroiled in a scandal having to do with
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allegations of sexual abuse of a child and a cover-up we've got all the details on this today
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as well as some details about joe biden's pardoning of his son hunter biden and we will end
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on a happy note as we are looking at some beautiful family-centered pro-life pro-parenting
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good ranchers.com code ally hey guys welcome to relatable happy monday hope everyone had a
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wonderful thanksgiving a wonderful break i hope it was peaceful and joyous and fun um before we get
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producer brie in just to tell us about her thanksgiving um experience was it a good one brie
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yeah it was a good one yeah it's very relaxing i made my first sourdough yes i saw that on instagram
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tell us all about it pioneer woman yeah i know i'm becoming so trad you are um i don't know it
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turned out pretty well i think i got some good feedback from lots of ladies who are into sourdough
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and it looked good yeah it was like a little bit like we'll get into the details it was edible
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it was edible it was edible okay it looked fine and it was edible um yeah and i made uh homemade
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pretzels for thanksgiving oh yeah out of the sourdough yep dough yeah yep okay good and what
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else did did you make anything else or was that that was your contribution which is great that's
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my contribution that's a great contribution and what else did you eat yeah we had we had the
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classics turkey and potatoes and no ham no ham i don't really like ham wow also i know there's
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controversy about green bean casserole is there yeah i don't know this controversy have you had it
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well i don't really i don't really love it so and we didn't have it this year we just had green
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beans we had sweet potato casserole which is basically like another dessert yeah it's amazing
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but what's the controversy where is this oh i think people just hate it no i've heard people talk about
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it here oh yeah i don't know there's there's just it's controversial i guess it's okay so green bean
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casserole if i understand correctly it's like cream of mushroom soup and like funyuns basically
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on the top right it's like fried onions yeah on top of green beans i think if you like green beans
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i guess it sounds okay yeah uh what else did you have any any other favorites what other desserts
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oh cherry pie always cherry pie okay i love cherry pie yeah i feel like cherry pie is more of a summer
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pastry myself i know i've heard that i've that's also controversial but that's our family's go-to we love
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cherry pie yeah and um and pumpkin pie which is not my favorite but yeah i saw that you made one
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from scratch is that true i did well i've made pumpkin pies before this was not my favorite pumpkin pie i was
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kind of in a rush and so i just used the first recipe that i saw and it called for uh condensed milk i
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don't know if every pumpkin pie recipe calls for this but to me it made the texture a little bit
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too uh moist a little bit too mushy for my taste and so because i wasn't sure how it would turn out
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i bought a store like just like a store bought pre-made one that was excellent it was excellent so
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i ran into someone in public by the way who saw my instagram story and asked me about my
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asked me about my pumpkin pie because i had posted it i said it didn't look great but it tasted and i
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used one of these and i realized that people interpret that as meaning great excellent i really
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meant okay like it literally tasted okay and so when i was talking to someone in person about how the
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pumpkin pie turned out i was like yeah it tasted okay and they were like oh i thought you said it
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tasted great it's like oh i'm such a boomer i take i take the emojis too literally but chief related bro
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cr for short he says it should be crb i say it's just cr i think cr works okay yeah i agree he made a
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brisket that was amazing but he's really really good he's just a good cook in general but i mean he
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nursed that thing all night he had to wake up multiple times to check the temperature
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it was done at like 3 a.m so he was all worried on thanksgiving morning that it was going to have
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rested too long and it wasn't going to be good by the time we ate it but it was perfect i highly
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recommend brisket on thanksgiving i think that should be a new tradition yeah i would love that
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so good um my aunt makes something called well this is a controversy within our family
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is it chocolate delight is it mississippi mud this is the controversy i don't really know the
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difference i'm just happy to eat it but it's like this homemade pretzel type crust this it's almost i
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know this sounds weird but it's almost like a chocolate pudding but it's really like a chocolate
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pie filling and then this homemade like meringue situation on top it is so good i could eat an entire
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tub of that that sounds amazing i've never had anything like that but amazing it was amazing
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and we did have cherry pie actually really good and sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes mashed potatoes
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that could be they could be in their own food group for me i love mashed potatoes i've loved them my
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whole life specifically mashed specifically yes like compared to other types of preparations of potatoes
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yes specifically i mean i love all kinds of potatoes yeah i'm not a child children for some reason they're
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like i love french fries and you're like okay here's some like scalloped potatoes like oh i hate potatoes
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no i do love all potatoes but specifically mashed potatoes with like milk and butter whipped in oh it's so good
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yeah so what's one thing you're thankful for oh my gosh wow i wasn't expecting this um i'm thankful
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i'm thankful that i live in a place now where i can see family i used to not be able to do that
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yes even though when you're at your parents house you have to view your neighbor's decorations which you
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are morally against i guess yeah now i gotta put up a picture yeah you're gonna have to put a picture
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which might i'm just warning you might offend some of you this could be your house this could be
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our relatable fans house i know i've thought about that i was wondering if that's one of the reasons
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they took down some of the ones i keep posting oh my gosh she is she judges her parents neighbors
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like blow up christmas decorations and you know i am not we don't do blow up christmas decorations
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but when you have kids you kind of appreciate that other people have them because your kids enjoy
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looking at them and so i don't know i i don't i don't mind i don't but it's not people's christmas
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decorations it's not just christmas they had a gigantic skeleton it was really scary in their
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front lawn and then there's thanksgiving ones and it's just too much if it's just christmas maybe i
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would let it slide yeah but i find them really tacky you know what but you're like me you're a cowardly
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karen because you won't you won't go up to their front door and say something you'll just secretly
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stew that's what i would do not about christmas decorations but about anything else about people
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taking their shoes off on the airplane unless i'm sitting right next to them i don't think i would
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say anything people parking in their driveway so that they're blocking the sidewalk so that those
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of those of us who are pedestrians can't walk past i won't say anything i saw a woman do that the
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other day on my walk and i literally was standing right there as she was getting out of her car
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and going to the front door all this driveway ahead of her no one could get out people were
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like oh maybe she didn't want to block people no no one could get out anyway she's just blocking i
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didn't say a word but i took to instagram and said something about it just like you but if someone had
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come out of the bushes some blonde spiky haired lady named karen and started wagging her finger at
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this lady i would have said go go go karen courageous karen um okay well anything okay you said you're
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thankful to live in a place with family i i think enough that you asked but i am thankful what are
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you thankful for um i am also very thankful to live close to my parents that's that's a blessing i wish
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we lived close to our entire family i love timothy's family too and his parents and his sisters and all
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the cousins that we have over there so i wish we all lived in one place but it is such a game changer
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to be able to live close to really any family but especially one set of parents i'm very great very very
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grateful for that um all right let's get into the more serious stuff hunter biden someone we haven't
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talked a lot about uh on the show someone that you definitely uh definitely don't want to invite
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unconditional pardon which covers offenses against the united states which he has committed or may
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have committed or taken part in during the period from january 1st 2014 through december 1st 2024
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for hunter biden was convicted in two separate federal cases earlier this year president biden
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previously gave statements declaring that he would not pardon his son uh he said in fact may 31st
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2024 he just wrote this of course he is referencing alluding to very passive aggressively donald trump
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he says no one is above the law but of course the community note that has recently been added now
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says on this x post on december 1st 2024 president joe biden pardoned his son hunter biden for crimes
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covering nearly 11 years of offenses etc etc that we just read and so joe biden said over and over again
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that he would not be pardoning his son that he would stay out of this process and he even said that
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he acknowledged that that's what he had said so far but basically that he thinks that this was
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a witch hunt just as a reminder in june of this year hunter biden was found guilty on three felony
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firearm offenses making a false statement and the purchase of a gun making a false statement related
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to information required to be kept by a federally licensed gun dealer and possession of a gun by a
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person who was on an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance in july hunter faced another
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trial regarding three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses regarding the failure to pay
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at least 1.4 million dollars in taxes his sentencing was scheduled for december 16th of course
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these are not the only legal woes that hunter biden is facing there is a reason why joe biden didn't
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just say okay i'm pardoning him for these crimes that he was convicted of maybe that would be one thing
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those on the president's side are saying these were bogus charges in the first place they're just going
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after hunter biden because he is the president's son these were really low level crimes etc whatever excuses
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they would make but you'll notice that the pardon goes all the way back to 2014 isn't that strange
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doesn't that seem very random to say we're going to cover this 10-year period what other crimes would
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he need to be pardoned for this is what newsweek notes several maga figures have noted that 2014 is
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the year the younger biden hunter biden joined the board at ukrainian energy company
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barisma republicans have frequently accused biden of personally benefiting from and influencing his
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son's foreign business deals in ukraine and china while he was vice president so that does seem to be
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the reason so don't investigate any pay-for-play schemes that were happening then don't investigate
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anything that went on between ukraine and china vice president biden and hunter biden don't worry about
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that he has been pardoned completely and some people are arguing well of course this is what any father
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would do for his son maybe you could see that in some cases in some ways but to save your adult son
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your 50 something adult son from the consequences of all of his illicit actions for a decade of his
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adult life no i don't think any good father would do that i actually don't think that that's
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the compassionate thing again of course you would try to help your son however you possibly could and
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you would probably flex any connections that you had if you felt like you could save him from
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an unjust fate but again this is a grown adult who seems to have made decisions that not only
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endangered himself but also endangered those around him and um i don't think that it's right i don't
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think that it's right for the president to curtail justice or potential justice and so i don't really
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buy that argument that oh he's just being a good dad and doing what any dad would do no i think this
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pardon goes well beyond that biden wrote in the pardon from the day i took office i said i would not
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interfere with the justice department's decision making and i kept my word even as i watched my son
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being selectively and unfairly prosecuted he said that this is part of his son's battle with
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addiction blamed raw politics i think that that is empathy mongering i don't think that that is a
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good excuse for the crimes committed and the crimes potentially committed there has been an effort to
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break hunter who has been five and a half years sober even in the face of unrelenting attacks and
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selective prosecution and trying to break hunter they've tried to break me and there's no reason to
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believe it will stop here enough is enough i hope americans will understand why a father and a
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president would come to this decision again it would be one thing to pardon hunter from the specific crimes
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that he was convicted for earlier this year if you felt like it was unfair prosecution i don't think
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that that is a good justification for pardoning all crimes that may have been committed for the past
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decade so i'm sure we'll have more on that in the days to come but we've got to move on to another
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scandal this time having to do with daystar which is a large christian tv network there are people
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involved in daystar that have been embroiled in a controversy that has to do with sexual abuse
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allegations and new information has recently come to light so we'll get into that in just a second
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jonathan lamb the son of daystar president joni lamb and jonathan's wife susie are alleging in recent
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interviews that a family member and employee of daystar only identified as quote-unquote pete
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is suspected of sexually abusing their daughter and that joni and other higher-ups at daystar
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covered up the allegations however jonathan lamb claims that the cover-up allegations are part of a
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smear and blackmail campaign and a power struggle for leadership in the wake of his jonathan's recent
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firing so why now because these allegations have actually come to light in the past so why are we now
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talking about this jonathan and susie brought their story to an investigative journalist in august 2024
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this decision came after years of growing disagreements with the family and daystar namely
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joni's remarriage to a recently divorced man and susie being let go from daystar also the police reopened
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the investigation into the sexual abuse claim in late 2023 early 2024 and this recent report talking
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about these allegations then triggered new media attention surrounding the story jonathan and susie
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made a video on november 29th just a few days ago posted it to ask to answer any questions and to tell
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their own story of what really happened so before we get into more details about that i want to give
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you a little bit of a background on daystar if you don't know who they are this is according to
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christianity today in new york post it is one of the world's largest christian tv networks with
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approximately 100 channels it was founded by jonie and marcus lamb is reportedly worth a billion dollars
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employs about 300 staff turns over approximately 100 million dollars annually marcus lamb served as
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the company's ceo until he passed away from covet in 2021 his widow joni became ceo of the television
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network after his death all of the children of the lambs have a significant role in the network marcus lamb
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was an ordained bishop in the pentecostal church of god so something might be ringing a bell there daystar
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is very charismatic in the um people that it promotes and it also promotes largely the
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heretical prosperity gospel lamb started by traveling the country leading a holy spirit crusade as a young
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college graduate that's where he met his wife and he later claimed it was his assignment from god to
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build television stations so that we can reach the most people in the least amount of time i don't think
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that that is um a bad thing i think it's great to use all kinds of technology to reach as many people
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as possible on new year's eve 1997 they they launched daystar and they broadcast an inaugural sermon by
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preacher t.d jakes he is one of the biggest proponents of the uh heretical prosperity gospel this idea that
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when you become a christian you are entitled through jesus to health and wealth and prosperity and that
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these are all signs and signals of god's love for you and faithfulness to you of course we know that
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that is in opposition to jesus's teachings who says in this world you will have trouble but take heart
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not hey i'm gonna give you a lot of money but take heart i have overcome the world it's not to mean that
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we have to be poor or that it is bad to have wealth but god gives god takes away and he is not promising
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christians earthly prosperity material wealth and there are plenty of evil people who have
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abundant wealth and who are very healthy who of course are not faithful to god and who don't have
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god's favor in their lives and so it's just a false gospel and it has led people to be burdened with a
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message that is just not true there have been other controversies surrounding daystar in 2010
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marcus lamb went on air with his wife to confess to a sexual relationship with a woman who worked in
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hr at daystar he described it as an affair he said he takes full responsibility and that he is
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reconciled with his wife according to christianity today lamb went public with the confession because
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three former employees sued daystar for lying about the moral climate of the company when hiring new
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staff lamb countersued claiming the employees conspired to extort money from him the lawsuits
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were eventually dropped there have also been some financial questions about daystar when covid hit
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daystar applied for the federal paycheck protection program uh to pay its employees received 3.9
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million dollars two weeks after the loan was approved daystar bought a multi-million dollar jet so there
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are just some questions about that but this current controversy has to do with something i think is even
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more serious far more serious certainly than any financial questions and that is uh allegations of child
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sexual abuse and cover-up so according to the video that jonathan and suzy lamb posted on x and as a
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reminder jonathan the son of joanie lamb who is the president slash ceo of daystar who helped found
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daystar so uh jonathan and his wife alleged in recent interviews that a family member and employee of daystar
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only identified as pete is suspected of sexually abusing their daughter pete has denied abusing the child
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according to a letter from pete's attorney this is the timeline that they have articulated on x so
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jonathan and suzy said they first reported allegations of abuse against their daughter to
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police in collieville texas in november 2020 suzy said their daughter told her in november 2020 that
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she had been molested using graphic details this is so sad and disturbing so just be warned uh suzy said
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that her daughter said the molester was quote taller than daddy suzy contacted her daughter's school but
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was told there were no adult males working there from there they filed a report with the police according
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to the department the case was closed shortly after jonathan and suzy said they believed the case was
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closed because their daughter was too terrified and traumatized to talk to the police at that time
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and just for context it does appear that um the daughter was four years old at the time that she
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was talking to her parents about being molested by someone uh then in 2021 jonathan and suzy claimed that
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after their initial complaint was made another alleged incident involving their daughter occurred jonathan
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and suzy lamb alleged that in the summer of 2021 they caught pete alone with their unclothed daughter
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in a room at a beach house day star rented for its annual executive retreat in miramar beach florida and
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confronted him about it i have a lot of questions about how in the world that happened when suzy lamb
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reported this to jonie lamb uh suzy claimed that she was told not to report it to the police jonathan and
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suzy claimed that jonie and marcus told them that pete had been cleared of any wrongdoing by a forensic
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psychologist who had interviewed and examined him here's top one a few days later my father calls me
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and my brother-in-law into his office he tells us that pete has been cleared by this forensic examiner
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and that we need to submit and move forward yeah and and all we ever knew in our lives all we had
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ever done is obey and submit we had never questioned yeah so even though i i had big strong doubts i i was
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angry i'm not gonna just lie and say that you know i i moved on at the end of the day i trusted that my
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dad had actually gone through the process of clearing pete with this examiner and we moved forward
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okay so very strange this was obviously right before marcus his dad had died because he died later
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in 2021 from covid complications 2023 uh jonathan and suzy took their daughter to a counselor who
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reported the suspected abuse to texas child protective services the couple says the police
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investigation was reopened and their video posted to x jonathan and suzy claimed that the forensic
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psychology reports which were claimed to have cleared pete of any wrongdoing were never complete i
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don't really understand how a psychology report would have cleared anyone of wrongdoing i don't really
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understand how that was ever considered part of a proper process to see if someone really molested a
00:28:55.720
child that just doesn't even make any sense to me that's very strange um a spokesperson for the
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collieville police told the new york post that the department couldn't release further information
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as it is an open investigation no charges against anyone have been brought at this time
00:29:12.600
jonathan and suzy lamb claim that jonathan's late father marcus and mother worked to protect pete
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and day star's image rather than their own granddaughter now joni lamb has a response to all of these
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investigated the claims internally found no evidence of wrongdoing they also point out that the allegation
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became public only days after joni had fired jonathan from the network earlier in november so
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she's basically claiming joni is basically claiming no that's not true we didn't cover this up
00:31:01.780
this is just retaliation because jonathan is mad that he was never made ceo and president
00:31:08.060
and that he has been fired now he says that he was actually fired after these new reports of the
00:31:20.920
allegations uh resurfaced or surfaced he says that he was officially fired on the saturday after
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the story was published an unusual move when most firings happen during the work week joni vehemently
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denies all allegations of a cover-up or dissuading her son and daughter-in-law from going to the police
00:31:41.580
saying that they are completely false now in 2023 jonathan refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement
00:31:48.160
an nda from the company according to jonathan two days following his refusal he was demoted from
00:31:54.580
vice president to manager placed on a personal improvement plan and went from being on screen to
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running the cafe day star pointed out in nda's standard industry document they require all employees
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to sign ndas do not stop or interfere with any person reporting a crime to authorities jonathan was
00:32:12.960
then fired in november this past november last month for not meeting the terms of his improvement
00:32:18.760
plan including insubordination and failure to show leadership joni issued a public statement about all
00:32:26.140
of this on november 25th here's sought to rather than take any steps to improve his performance at day
00:32:31.840
star it seems clear now that jonathan was focused on fabricating a smear campaign you see jonathan was
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extremely disappointed that he was not named the future president of day star following the death
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of his father and my husband marcus lamb despite the fact that marcus had given a clear directive to
00:32:50.740
the family and to the board that i would succeed him as president i want to assure you that all the
00:32:57.200
allegations that are circulating against myself and my late husband are completely false we have already
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begun to take legal steps to defend ourselves and we will address the accusations in a god-honoring way
00:33:11.600
okay so that's her response she does not deny that he was terminated for allegedly not stepping up to
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the plate and doing a good job i also didn't hear her deny that he was demoted after he refused to sign
00:33:32.040
an nda now there is nothing immoral about an nda it actually is very necessary to make sure that people
00:33:39.780
working for a company aren't going to go and share trade secrets or if you learn something personal
00:33:46.540
about another employee or something about the ceo of a company when you're working somewhere that you
00:33:52.940
don't go out and publicize that like that is very normal it doesn't stop someone from going to the
00:33:58.920
police if a crime was committed however it does seem strange in light of everything else that
00:34:06.900
appeared to be going on there that allegedly was going on there that he was demoted because he refused
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to sign that um he says she says that basically this is blackmail this is revenge because he didn't
00:34:22.300
become ceo and so now he's just trying to get back at us i have gotten a lot of questions about this
00:34:30.660
i've been asked to talk about it um i'm sure that there will be more details revealed sometimes even as
00:34:36.480
i'm explaining these things there are more details that we may have missed although we of course try our
00:34:41.900
very hardest not to do that there could be some things coming out right now as i am even talking and so
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of course i will add any clarification that is needed um but unfortunately this is a story that
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we hear that we have heard over and over again even among those who consider themselves a part of the
00:35:05.060
church and so we need to pray here for true transparency for truth to win and for justice to win and i just
00:35:12.700
think about this little girl who either is a true victim of sexual abuse and her sexual abuser is
00:35:19.380
walking around out there unscathed and potentially protected or she is being used in an internal power
00:35:27.140
struggle and either way she seems to be a victim here if she was truly molested then we need to pray
00:35:36.800
um that her abuser would be brought to justice and that everyone who covered up this abuse
00:35:43.180
and refused accountability and refused to go the proper route which is through civic authorities
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um that they are also brought to justice now daystar again has platformed for years heretical teachings
00:35:57.400
of health and wealth uh prosperity gospel messaging and so um i cannot say that i am praying for the success
00:36:09.100
and the preservation of a platform like that but i am praying for everyone involved to be humbled to
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bring themselves before the lord and for god to somehow be glorified as the truth and justice prevail
00:36:24.140
that is what i am praying for here for true honesty for true repentance from all applicable parties
00:36:31.880
and um it if all of these claims are true it is good that they are coming to light and for comfort for
00:36:39.900
that poor girl however she is being used or possibly abused there is also a lesson to be learned here
00:36:47.060
about nepotism um i think it can be really beautiful to have a family business and to have a family mission in
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which all different family members are involved and are striving toward one goal it can also be
00:37:00.180
extremely messy when familial ties are interwoven with professional ties when professional
00:37:07.680
ambition crosses over into personal familial relationships or when those two things are competing against each
00:37:15.860
other rather it can be a recipe for disaster because accountability is so often compromised
00:37:23.540
integrity is so often compromised and actually i would say that is also the story when it comes to
00:37:30.000
biden um objectivity and a blind lady justice is very difficult when the people that you love and have a
00:37:40.000
relationship with are involved doesn't mean that there can't be any family endeavors again i think that
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they can be very good but everything must be in submission to a higher loyalty and that is to
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god the creator of truth and justice and certainly those who claim to be christians like the ones at day
00:37:59.240
star should know this so pray for the situation and for truth to prevail and for god to somehow be
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glorified even as he is so clearly and publicly refining his church all right we've got just a couple more
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okay let's end on a happy note let's end with some non-woke ads so i don't know if you guys saw
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jaguar jaguar the car brand they came out with new branding and they said copy nothing i think that's
00:39:35.760
what it was was a copy no one copy nothing something like that and it was ironic i thought it was a joke
00:39:41.520
because it actually seems like so many other brands like we'll put up a picture but the the new logo of
00:39:47.840
jaguar gets rid of what made the jaguar brand so unique and luxurious and sleek and it's just ugly now
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very bland very modern and so people were upset about that also in the reveal of their new logo
00:40:06.940
it was a bunch of gender bending woke very gross nonsense and so it just made i think the jaguar brand
00:40:17.020
look extremely cheap and imitative but then you've got these other brands that are coming out with
00:40:23.520
very sweet ads i think very original ads and they show kind of where the culture is going there was
00:40:31.240
this volvo ad and i'll give you kind of a summary especially for those of you who are listening and you
00:40:36.040
can't watch what's being depicted but a young couple my only beef with this is that they're an unmarried
00:40:43.160
couple having a child but i will take what i can get it's still really sweet an unmarried couple
00:40:48.540
shares the news of being pregnant with their uh with their loved ones so they're sharing the news
00:40:53.640
with their loved ones of being pregnant the young man shares the news with his mother with both
00:40:58.080
excitement and nervousness about the responsibilities and the joy that come with parenting he adds that
00:41:05.300
this will encourage them to get married the rest of the ad shows videos of their future as a family
00:41:11.000
in the moments that he looks forward to it's really sweet like it's a very pro-life it's a very pro-life
00:41:16.780
message and actually the fact that they're unmarried and having a child is probably even more of a pro-life
00:41:22.720
message because that's often used as a reason for a couple to have an abortion because of all of the
00:41:29.620
fear that comes with making another commitment and the expenses and it's just really sweet they show the
00:41:37.520
beauty and the joy of the sacrifice and the fear but the excitement and purpose that comes with having a
00:41:45.860
child and then at the very end it says for life as it depicts this mom and dad and their newborn baby
00:42:11.820
why are you scared about it all you know the night's responsibility we're gonna need a bigger
00:42:19.360
place i know bless you i'm so sweet i've got this feeling that we're gonna have a daughter
00:42:28.040
what if i don't do good in class i just want to say and do the right things you know
00:42:34.340
i want to see a world with her also be happy staying home doing nothing letting her be a kid
00:42:47.200
so we had to cut that down a little bit but it's just so sweet such a sweet message and especially in
00:43:04.100
this anti-natalist culture that we live in now where babies are seen as brats and burdens rather than
00:43:10.020
as blessings and um really credits to the world rather than just uh debits that's how they should
00:43:20.820
be seen that latter description but unfortunately they're very often seen as the former and it's a
00:43:26.040
very self-centered way to think this idea that we shouldn't be bringing kids into the world because
00:43:30.280
oh we live in this scary time people live in much scarier times and much worse times this is how
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humanity keeps going if we live in a scary bad time what does the world need more than strong brave
00:43:45.980
wise innovative people that can be raised by people like you it is our greatest contribution
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so i loved this by volvo way better than jaguar my first car was a volvo and it was a great car a
00:44:00.220
very safe car um and then we've got this other car ad and this is from chevy just very nostalgic and
00:44:09.120
sweet thought six granddad taught me everything about this truck
00:44:12.900
dear how many rpm that you're meant to measure but i just listen to the sound bring it down too much
00:44:22.840
then it's whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop you used to tell me about you
00:44:36.580
and he loved how curious you were about his work and you wanted to help him build things
00:44:48.180
he built that one too didn't he yeah he'd be the first to tell you about it
00:44:52.120
see that place over there coming yeah i built that
00:45:07.180
so the beginning of that ad and again we couldn't play the whole thing because
00:45:12.180
it's five and a half minutes long but this young boy is being pressured to go to different
00:45:17.080
colleges and to you know aspire to a fancy white collar job but the rest of this ad is showing how he
00:45:25.520
really finds solace with his father in his grandfather's woodworking shop
00:45:29.520
goes for a drive and the grandfather's old chevy truck when the boy tells his dad that he wants to
00:45:35.240
be just like his grandfather his dad says you already are so just the legacy that is being
00:45:42.140
passed down from grandfather to father to son through this chevy that has kind of been an
00:45:48.640
inheritance for him that i think symbolizes a much greater and deeper inheritance that he has
00:45:55.260
been passed down again very sweet very family centered we see the importance and the prominence
00:46:02.300
of fatherhood which is another thing that is so demonized today the best depiction that we get
00:46:08.760
of fatherhood of fatherhood in most of the media in hollywood today is like this dolt dolt of a dad
00:46:16.880
phil dunphy who can't do anything right who has to rely on his girl boss of a wife for everything i mean
00:46:26.440
that's what we've been conditioned to see for so long so to have two ads where you have this sweet
00:46:33.480
strong providing caring wise father is really really something and really sweet and then the last ad and
00:46:43.540
this one made me cry as i watched it for the first time i mean i was just sobbing this is not a car ad
00:46:50.900
this is an apple ad and i know all of these companies they still probably have woke values i'm not saying
00:46:58.600
that you know if you're not supporting these companies that you should change your mind necessarily
00:47:03.340
i'm just using these as as signs that maybe these brands these companies are waking up to the fact
00:47:12.560
that the culture is not shifting in the far left direction that they thought that it was they put all
00:47:18.600
their eggs in the far left transgender basket and i think this election did show people um okay maybe
00:47:27.240
we're not going there quite yet and they are adjusting based on this information here's
00:47:34.700
stop four we got it last week i think i know what it is
00:48:06.500
light the fire you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today
00:48:21.500
i am still i am crying right now that is so sweet that's the thing also about becoming a parent is that
00:48:43.180
you see your own children and every child and so it makes everything so emotional but if you're just
00:48:49.880
listening to this um this is a dad who on christmas day he and his wife gifted their daughter with
00:48:56.460
a new guitar and he's watching this and he's having i'm about to start crying he's having all these
00:49:03.020
flashbacks of her growing up as a little girl and all these sweet memories and then it's revealed at
00:49:09.820
the end when his other daughter gives him these airpods that now work as hearing aids and he puts them
00:49:16.560
in and he turns them up and then he can hear his daughter clearly as she is playing on her new
00:49:23.520
guitar and singing and so that was the reveal of their new airpod product that is also uh is also a
00:49:32.940
hearing aid functions as a hearing aid um oh my goodness that is just so sweet so we've got three
00:49:39.140
pro-fatherhood pro-family pro-children ads and might i just note might i just note because this was a
00:49:49.160
running joke on x for the past several years that you almost never see an ad where it's just all white
00:49:57.560
straight people like you just don't see that anymore it just doesn't fit the dei qualifications
00:50:02.800
and that was the case at least in at least in two of these ads i just think that's interesting i'm just
00:50:10.460
noting that that is interesting it's an interesting direction that these companies are going in that
00:50:16.980
they don't seem to be as concerned with checking all of the intersectional boxes and the power of
00:50:23.640
marketing the power of media we literally are especially in some countries like south korea heading
00:50:30.020
towards societal collapse because people are not having children because people are valuing their
00:50:35.980
pets their plants their professions more than they are contributing to the next generation getting
00:50:44.520
married procreating and we cannot exist if that is the case we don't want to enter this brave new world
00:50:52.920
where our future generations the future workers uh depend upon artificial procreation
00:51:02.220
it's not going to be pretty if dystopia is our future and of course it is an assault on the creation
00:51:10.360
order the mandate that human beings have to be fruitful and multiply i understand that many of you want to
00:51:16.520
be married and want to have kids haven't been able to do that and of course i'm not trying to lecture
00:51:21.820
you we are talking about the people that have that choice that are choosing not to or putting their
00:51:27.320
own selfish desires first even saying that it's for the good of the planet or for the good of children
00:51:34.580
not to have more children but of course that is a farce as i said there have been much harder times
00:51:40.660
than now and there is nothing as sanctifying nor as fulfilling as having children as difficult
00:51:47.740
as the whole parenting process may sometimes be so i just thought that was beautiful and maybe it's
00:51:54.560
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