Ep 1202 ｜ Ohana Means... Foster Care？ Why the 'Lilo & Stitch' Remake Is So Controversial
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Summary
In this episode of Relatable, Brie and Allie react to the new Lilo and Stitch movie and the new Disney doll theme park. What does this say about not just how Disney sees family, but also how our culture in general sees family? We ve got all of this and more on today s episode of RELatable.
Transcript
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Progressive propaganda is everywhere, especially on TikTok, and we cannot let it go unrebutted.
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So Brie and I are responding to a lot of the nonsense that we are seeing on social media.
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We are also talking about the new version of the Lilo and Stitch movie.
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What does this say about not just how Disney sees family, but also how our culture in general
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We've got all of this and more on today's episode of Relatable.
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It's brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.
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Hoping everyone is having a wonderful week so far.
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All right, we've got a fun, more lighthearted episode today.
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We might be answering some more serious questions and reacting to some content that needs a
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serious response, but instead of going topic by topic or explaining one topic today, we'll
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be reacting to some trends that we're seeing on social media.
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It's good to know what the other side is up to, what's going on in their heads.
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Okay, so Brie has given me all of this reaction content.
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And you know, sometimes for some reason, my team likes to give me things that I'm very
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disturbed by, like doll content, doll conference content where adults bring their dolls and pretend
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I don't know if we have that kind of content here.
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I have not watched these, so I am reacting in real time with all of you.
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Maybe we will try to peer into the disturbed mind of Brie to know why she has tormented
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Is there anyone that you think that we should start with to react?
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Well, since you said that, I feel like we should start with reaction 23.
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I am a Disney adult, and I know this may be a weird turnoff for a lot of people, and
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they don't understand why I do what I do, but that's okay.
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I'm no stranger to feeling sad for days at a time and barely being able to make it out
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of bed or feeling so anxious and overstimulated just by going outside that I feel nauseous
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My parents raised me with Disneyland, so it's grown to be a very comforting space for me,
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and sometimes all I want when I'm having a bad set of days is to go to this safe space
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Every day is a challenge, and we're all just trying to get through it as much as we can.
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This is just how I cope, so I sometimes get really sad when people make fun of me for
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Here's a reminder to try and be as kind as much as you are able and that you are so loved.
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So it's not like we're peering into this person's diary.
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This person wants to publicize this, and so it's totally justified for us to comment on it.
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Is that there is something, seriously, dark going on here.
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There's something really wrong, I think, in someone's psyche for them to not only,
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I think that there is a problem with being like a pathological Disney adult.
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This is a theme park that can be fun for parents, for sure.
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But to have this kind of identity wrapped around Disney, a company that makes entertainment and
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rides for children, there is something going on there.
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But to pretend to have a child that you're bringing to the park that is not a real child,
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there is something very deeply disturbing going on there.
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And I will not accept this as this is just an outlet for this person to feel happy.
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She doesn't seem like mentally incapacitated at all.
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She seems like a smart, normal, functioning person who deals with sadness in the range of
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And I do not accept that this is like a neutral or moral or amoral outlet for someone's depression
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Life, I mean, in part, is about cultivating and making the world around you better, not
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just serving yourself with like unlimited hits of dopamine.
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She says, I'm a Disney adult who goes to Disney with my reborn doll because I'm in reborn therapy.
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So that's what I think triggers me the most because I'm just like, that's, first of all,
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But also, it is so inconvenient for everyone around you also.
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I know there are tons of strollers at Disneyland and there should be because kids go there.
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But like you see the shot of her walking around with a full stroller for this doll.
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I'm like, that's, that's just inconvenient for everyone around you.
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And it's also uncomfortable for everyone around you.
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This is the same thing as people like identifying as a they, them.
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You are forcing others to bend reality, to bend the laws of grammar, to bend everything for
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And so when people see this grown woman who is not special needs that I can see walking
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around with a doll in a stroller, are you supposed to be like, oh, yes, ma'am, you can cut in line.
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Oh, do you need to get right here because you've got your stroller?
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Like you said, it's not a healthy way to cope, not making fun of mental health struggles at
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all or whatever trauma maybe she endured, but there are healthy ways to go through that.
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This is, I think, very self-serving and you're trying to justify it.
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And another frame of this says going to Disney with my support dolly group.
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So you see a shot of like a couple of them in a row.
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Um, these are like women who are enabling each other to do this.
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So it's just probably a never ending cycle of feeding that.
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What happened to have this perpetual adolescence that we have today?
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Like, I feel like there's so many manifestations of this.
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I hear today that a lot of teens don't want to drive.
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Whereas I don't know about you, but I couldn't wait to get my driver's license just to be able
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But what is it that childhood and immaturity is lasting so long today?
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Because I remember also the day I got my license was like the best day ever.
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But Disney, I mean, I think Disney adults, their appeal is just that like,
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this is a place where they can, you know, forget about, try to forget about adult problems.
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And again, it's like, it's just not a healthy coping mechanism.
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I do think you can go to Disneyland as an adult by yourself or with adult friends and have fun.
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But when your identity is Disney, when your identity is being a Disney adult,
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Like there's something that's missing for you, I feel like.
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And I do think it should be that adults are the secondary customer.
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I still think all of the theme parks should primarily cater to adolescents and to kids.
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And if adults also have fun doing that, I think that's okay.
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Like my brother and his wife, before they had kids and when I was in college,
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they lived in Orlando and I visited them when I was a freshman in college.
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But I do think that Disney, it seems like, is shifting to really primarily cater to adults.
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When it's become that big of a trend and that big of a societal shift,
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at the same time that people are rejecting children,
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So maybe we have, but as far as I know, we haven't.
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Speaking of Disney, the Lilo and Stitch live-action remake.
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So Lilo and Stitch, the original, I don't really remember it that much.
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But like all Disney movies, it starts out with parents dying.
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Literally everyone that I can think of, there is a dead parent.
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Lilo, in the original cartoon, she is adopted by her sister after her parents die.
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And her sister sacrifices a lot of things to take her in.
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Well, in this live-action remake, first of all, why do we need a live-action remake of
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But in this one, the older sister gives Lilo, Lilo's the girl, right?
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Lilo up to foster care and says, no, I'm going to college.
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And so, like, girl bossed so close to the son that her poor sister was sacrificed.
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So not only are, like, you are remaking a story about dead parents even worse, even sadder.
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And that's what I'm saying about, like, Disney now targeting adults.
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Like, do I want my child, my five-year-old, to be watching a movie like that?
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And also, I feel like that I know they were not trying to make a scene-for-scene depiction
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And it's also not live-action because Stitch is not a human.
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But the thing I saw side-by-side scene in the animated movie, there's a scene where Lilo,
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What would our parents think of, you know, whatever situation they're in?
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And in the live-action one, Nani, the sister, says, Well, our parents abandoned us.
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And it's so much more pessimistic than an animated one.
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I'm like, Lilo and Stitch is one of my favorite animated movies because it's so sweet.
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And because the themes of it are so consistent.
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Yeah, it is probably the thinking is probably representation.
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And representation is a horrible justification for including all kinds of depravity in books
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Well, what about the kid that's in foster care?
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What about the kid who grows up with two dads or two moms or whatever?
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Representation is not the most important thing, especially when it comes to kids' entertainment.
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And so this is just including too close to the sun and poor.
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And I don't know why Disney would decide to go in that direction.
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I guess we can make no more, like, good, original, creative movies.
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You know, the one that gets me is when they made a live-action remake of The Lion King.
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It's like there aren't humans in that movie, so all of them are still animated.
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Yeah, it's just like better animated The Lion King.
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They're just hamstrung, I guess, by their progressive policies.
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I'm sure that we will get a live-action remake of Frozen at some point.
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We carry the largest trans pride flag to ever be flown in a national park and unfurled it
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on the side of El Cap to prove a point, that trans is natural.
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The Trump administration and transphobes would love to have you believe that being trans is
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But species that can transition sexes can be found on every continent and in every ocean
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They try to erase us from government websites and education systems and libraries.
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So we raise this flag higher than ever before so every trans person knows that they have people
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He didn't say transition gender because for a long time the ridiculous and false assertion
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That gender is how you identify and how you manifest your feelings about who you are.
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Now they're just saying you can actually transition your sex.
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But you can't because sex is determined by your chromosomes, by your gametes, and also by
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But on a more fundamental level, it's your gametes.
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So even if it is true that other species can transition sex, the question is, can humans
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It is actually the least natural thing in the world.
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It is not possible for you to become a man or become a woman.
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It is not even possible for someone who says that they are intersex to be both sexes or
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They have some kind of sexual anomaly or disorder that doesn't negate the rule of the gender
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And gender and sex, by the way, are interchangeable.
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I don't buy this idea that this dualistic idea that how you feel on the inside can oppose
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biological reality and that trumps biological reality.
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That's a like a religious, philosophical idea that is just not true.
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So it doesn't matter how high you fly, your massive trans flag.
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If something is natural and obvious and observable, you don't have to declare it with a giant flag
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And he has been used as a mascot, I think, it was like the North Face, ironically, not Patagonia.
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So somehow this person has become a spokesperson for the outdoors.
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All those hikers are going to see that flag and feel very seen.
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We all exist because of the existence of male and female, by the way.
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Okay, let's move on to, let's do some relationships.
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Just because a man sleeps with another woman does not mean he doesn't still respect you.
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And if you think I'm going to give up my life for a man that loves me and respects me
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So why am I going to leave over someone that doesn't mean anything?
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My soon-to-be husband, like, he treats me well.
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But at the same time, I also do what I'm supposed to do with a woman.
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I cook, I clean, I fuck, I fuck, I shut the fuck up.
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I just want to tell you, woman, that you are a full person made in the image of God.
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And because of that, you should be in a relationship where you are honored and you are truly respected.
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Respect doesn't just mean that you are given an allowance or that you're given a roof over your head.
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That might be part of what it means for a man to be a provider for you.
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That means he is not going to risk giving you an STD.
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He's not going to risk breaking your heart by satisfying his lust in other women.
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Not only can you not trust him with your body or your heart, you cannot trust him to continue to provide all of the things that you feel that you deserve.
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He is a man who cannot control his most carnal desires.
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Because as a woman, you are a full person, made in God's image, and I'm sorry that you have been taught to value yourself so little.
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I just, I don't know if she, this could be like tongue-in-cheek, but I don't think it is.
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She said that she's about to get married to him.
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I'm jealous of the way that many of these right-wing evangelical people seem so happy.
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And I think that they are, because they live in this bubble of, we all are chosen by God because of the way we vote.
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And when honestly, the way you're treating other people through your vote is the least like Jesus thing of all time in the history of people who didn't act like Jesus.
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So there are days that, because I struggle with being an empathetic person and being like, how are more people not upset that we are just deporting people and treating poor people this way and taking away resources from the people who need it the most?
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I wish I could just sit back and be like, God's got it, and I have what I have because I'm blessed.
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Okay, well, I have some good news about your wish.
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You're like, that was just so not articulate at all.
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No one believes that we are chosen by God because of our vote.
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We have disagreement on what the allocation of resources and allocation of tax dollars should look like and what the role and the scope of the government should be.
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And, yes, we do believe in the deportation of illegal aliens.
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In fact, all Democrats believed that until Trump ran for office back in 2015 because we believe in citizenship.
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We believe in sovereignty, which is necessary to protect the rights of a country's citizens, which means you need to have borders because without borders, you're not a sovereign country.
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If you're not a sovereign country, you don't have citizenship.
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And if you don't have citizenship, then you really have no rights that you are entitled to.
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And so, yes, we are of the radical belief that we should have a country.
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This person started, I remember this clip, by saying, like, oh, I'm going to lose followers or I might lose or gain followers.
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A liberal white woman in her kitchen talking about how she doesn't like conservative evangelicals.
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And to articulate it with that much intelligence was really something.
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Bree, does this person, does she seem happy and whole to you?
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Well, what I thought was funny was I think she, maybe as teenage sons, you see people crossing in the background and they're not even reacting, which means she's doing this a lot.
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Yeah, they're just used to her, just ranting at her phone screen.
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Yeah, she does, I think, have quite a few followers.
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Yeah, well, if she's consistent, then I guess it's, if that makes sense.
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But this is just like a brand, it's so funny because on the one hand, they'll be like, oh, conservatives are so mean.
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They're so angry all the time, just about everything.
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But there's a popular podcast that's hosted by two liberal women.
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And they remind me of this and like, they are so, so bitter and like, so resentful, so angry.
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Like, even if you disagreed and I'm like, okay, you're just passionate about that subject.
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Just like people, just like everything people do.
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They like, basic, they did like some segment about like, I, I hate hugs.
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Can you not connect that to the political ideas that you have?
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You got to commend this woman a little bit for just like saying the quiet part out loud.
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That she's miserable and that we look like the happier people who have joy in our lives.
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And, uh, and that's really kind of what the, all those, you know, that podcast and all those
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Our joy actually does not have to do with politics at all.
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It has to do with our faith, but our politics aren't out.
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And if you want an understanding of why we vote the way we do and how we connect that to
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our faith, even though you say it's the least like Jesus, you can listen to podcast
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Now you might still disagree, but we're not stupid.
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We have a reason for why we vote the way that we do and why we think these policies are better
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and more aligned with our, uh, with our worldview.
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That's why Jesus said, let the little children come to me for such as these belong, the kingdom
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You're not to that point yet to where you feel awkwardness and you want people to think
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So that little, I think a little girl was just saying what was on her heart.
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I don't like putting kids on social media, but I'm glad that I saw that, that little
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Opposite of the first one that we looked at Disneyland.
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Is this if you can't put your feet on the ground?
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No, I think people just like to put their feet up and she just wants to put her feet
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Oh, it would be so comfortable, uncomfortable for the person, the chair in front of you.
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And it would probably like pull your seat back a little bit.
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I was going to say, what are your thoughts on the no shoes?
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I mean, socks are better than bare feet, but it still probably stinks.
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Now, if you have your socked feet under a blanket and I can't see them, then okay, pass.
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I mean, I'm not saying that I would allow it if I saw it, but if I don't see it and
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for a long flight, like I will say on my flight to Hawaii, I had socks on.
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I had special wool socks for my flight, but under my blanket, I did take my shoes off.
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Okay, so if you don't see it, then it's like if a tree falls in a forest.
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If you take your shoes off under a blanket, did it really happen?
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Is there any, are there any others that we really want to see?
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I think you'll probably like, um, reaction eight.
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Like is an interesting way to describe what this looks like it might be.
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As many of you saw, I had an abhor abhor earlier this year, not only because I don't want children
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right now, but you want to know the real reason?
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And he cost me a lot of time and energy and money.
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And if I had to choose between a human baby's needs and this one, I'm choosing this one
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That's why this fall, there's only one candidate protecting our reproductive freedoms.
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And if she doesn't win, don't make me choose between a human baby and this one, because
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My political ideology is whatever makes that illegal.
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Actually, there are so many things in that clip that I think should be illegal.
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But this really just goes to show like disordered priorities and disordered desires just put
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It's like if you don't have the spokes of a wheel like properly placed in the hub, they're
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When you worship the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever, amen, as
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Romans 1 tells us, then everything gets distorted and disordered.
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And when we see from the beginning that God is a God of order, and we see what that order
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looks like, in part that means being made in God's image as male and female.
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When you start denying all of that, everything just gets out of whack.
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And as Chesterton said, wherever you see animal worship, you also see child sacrifice.
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And your politics should be whatever is the opposite of this person's.
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Like if you cannot see how absolutely depraved and backwards and dark that is, that this is
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like a spiritual issue, a demonic problem here, then you need to be reading your Bible
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It could be that you have a seared conscience and you aren't able to determine what is right
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Is there anything else I need to know about that clip, Brie?
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Talks about having abortions and voting Democrats.
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Like if you're not ready to have kids, don't have unprotected sex.
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Like people act like that is the most difficult thing in the world.
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If you don't want to digest food, don't eat your dinner.
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Okay, um, this, the description for this just says also screaming.
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This is the gayborhood and you are not welcome.
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God can give you a new heart so that you love what God loves.
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If I'm ever on Jubilee, that's what I'm going to do.
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I'm just going to scream at the top of my lungs.
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I don't know where or how, but I definitely feel like I've heard gayborhood.
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Not welcome, but good for him for preaching Jesus.
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And, um, I, she might be demonically possessed actually.
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How come every time somebody says it's better to wait until you're married before you have
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kids, people are always like, well, he can still leave you even if you're married.
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The same way you can still die in a car accident, even if you have your seatbelt on, but it's
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probably still a good idea to put that seatbelt on when you get in the car, right?
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Marriage protects you and gives you benefits that being a baby mama does not.
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I ran into a couple that were boyfriend girlfriend when we were in Hawaii.
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And I was just thinking about how many people fall into that category of basically living
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like you are married and you are just like chronic boyfriend girlfriend and how in their
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minds they're like, well, marriage is just a piece of paper.
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It's not really going to change anything once we get married.
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There is a lot that changes once you get married.
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Just the sheer hassle of going through a divorce versus breaking up is a barrier to separating.
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Like it should be way more of a hassle to get a divorce than to break up because marriage
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But even just that commitment, that covenant you're making should be very difficult to
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When you get married, there will be arguments that you have that would have broken you up
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But when you're married, because you're committed to one another, you say, OK, I've got to figure
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And now I'm wondering, wow, I can't, you know, I can't believe you did that.
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All of those things that when you're dating someone, even for a long time, might lead you
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When you're married, of course, you could still have that thought.
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But because it's a lot more difficult, because you have intertwined your life with that person
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and you've made this legal and biblical commitment to them, you are more apt to think of how you're
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going to work through this disagreement and difference than just like abandon ship.
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It is a commitment that really protects women and children more than anything else.
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And like the stigma against unwed motherhood that was hard fought by our ancestors for
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It was actually protective of women and children.
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I know I felt like this before, but then I feel it even more, because it came from me.
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Then I open up and see the person falling hears me.
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OK, if you were just listening to that, let me explain.
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These are two gay men showing their IVF journey.
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So and they're using like chicken nuggets to represent.
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So they both start with 20 donor eggs, so 40 total.
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And just a reminder of like how difficult it is for the female body to, it says donate,
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And so for you to have to for them to retrieve 20 eggs from one female, you have to be injected
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with all these drugs that increase the rate of breast cancer and other kinds of cancers
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to hyperovulate, to take those eggs in a very painful process.
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We don't even know the effect fully that it has on children.
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OK, so they fertilized those 40 eggs with their sperm and they got 28 embryos.
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Of those 28 embryos, only 10 were deemed viable.
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So all of the other ones had some kind of fetal anomaly.
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It could be something like Down syndrome that you can test the chromosomes for.
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So they selected 10 that they thought were the best, the brightest.
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They could have even selected by eye color if they wanted to.
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And many of these IVF processes, especially when it comes to gay couples.
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And then after those 10 strongest ones were selected, three were transferred to surrogate.
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So it sounds like they still have seven left over.
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Three were transferred to two different surrogates.
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The transfer process is very risky for these embryos.
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We've got 18 embryos, human beings alive, made in the image of God that were discarded
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That is the normal process for IVF, especially when it comes to two men that have to buy the
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eggs of one woman and rent the egg of another woman.
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Here we're talking about four separate women, two who gave their eggs and two who rented out
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Like, isn't that some kind of indication that maybe two men weren't supposed to be making
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Like, if you need four women to conduct this process of reproduction, don't you think the
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science is telling you something that you need a man and a woman?
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And these poor children who made it through this very gruesome process, whose siblings
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were killed and their siblings who are still frozen.
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Now they are being forced to be raised by a motherless couple or in a motherless family.
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And they will always wonder who their mother is and long for that mother.
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Separated from the surrogate, given worse treatment than we give kittens and puppies who have to
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stay with their mom for up to six weeks or more after birth.
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We rip that child away from the only home he or she has ever known and give them to two
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I promise you, that negatively affects those children for the rest of their life.
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And we are willing to lay these children on the altar of adult desire just because gay
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Okay, let's do Reaction 16 and then maybe I'll answer a couple questions.
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She, the text says, she saw bugs in her garden and called upon the name of the Lord.
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The book of James says the prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working and
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there is no shame at all in praying for the things that we want and believing in faith
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that God can do it and knowing that whatever he chooses to do, it is for his glory and for
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All right, we've got a few more minutes so I can go through this long list of questions
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that I have and try to answer a couple of them.
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Ooh, this is a tough one and I want to know what Brie thinks too.
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Okay, if you had to raise your family in another country, so you can either think, Brie, future
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If you had to raise your family in another country, which country would you pick?
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Do you have an idea of where would you live if not in America?
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Well, I mean, I kind of have to go somewhere that speaks English probably, right?
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But I have lived in a place where a lot of people do speak English, but it's not the native
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But I think there's so many like pretty countryside areas there that you wouldn't have to live
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I would say a country, the countryside of England.
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See, I think it would be so hard linguistically, language wise, but I...
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I'm thinking like the Nordic countries, like Scandinavia.
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Now, when I went to the Netherlands, it was probably the hardest to navigate because their
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So many consonants in places that you would never want to find a consonant.
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Whereas I thought that I could kind of understand, not listening, but reading Italian because
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at least I have like a rudimentary understanding of Spanish because I had to take it through
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And so that I could kind of, even like French, like there are just similarities to English.
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But the, oh my goodness, in the Netherlands, I had no clue anything that was being said or
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written at all, but they seem a little secluded from the mass immigration problem.
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The other thing that is good to consider if we were to do this is that little kids like
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So, you know, if you were to go right now, you know, they wouldn't have a problem at all.
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Which would be a problem because we're responsible for our children.
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A Norwegian Sherpa to help us, to guide us through.
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I'm sure it's super expensive to live in all of those places.
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I've heard that there are parts of Poland that are nice.
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I think I would go to Israel because everybody there does speak English for the most part.
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And it's diverse enough that I feel like you could fit in pretty well.
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Macron and Brigitte seem to have such a loving relationship.
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Okay, we haven't even talked about Brigitte pushing Macron's face.
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Whenever this comes out, this is probably a while ago now.
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Oh, I mean, I thought the jokes were really funny.
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The reality is like, I mean, they obviously are brushing it away.
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They're saying that it was, you know, they were just joking around or whatever.
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I mean, in like, horsing around, she's like 80.
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Most people have probably been following Candace's stuff, but like, their relationship, whether
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or not Brigitte is indeed Brigitte, like, is so weird.
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Something like that, when they started flirting, and she was a teacher at his school.
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And so, she might have been grooming him and abusing him forever.
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And I will just like to say, when I moved to France, I started sounding the alarm on this.
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Like, people in France know, but I feel like a lot of Americans didn't know that that was
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I love that she intended for it to only be one episode until they threatened her, and
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Maybe if I finished the series, I would be where you are.
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I was left definitely thinking there's something so weird going on here.
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They're not like some normal couple, normal family.
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I think there's something super sketchy about his background, about her background.
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Because she went through menopause when he was like 18.
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She had a kid older than him, I think, when she met him.
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I don't think she looks like a man, personally.
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But I will say the whole claim that she was like a beauty queen that everyone wanted and
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So I understand the skepticism and I understand why a lot of things aren't checking out.
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Well, thanks to the person who asked that one question about where we would live, now
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we've, I don't know, whatever the French police, what are they called?
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I was going to say they were going to show up at our studio and arrest you.
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I can't remember the special name for it, but yeah.
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No run-ins with the law while you lived in France, I guess.