Ep 1239 ｜ Epstein Files Released, Snoop Dogg Criticizes Gay Movie & Media Ignores Charlotte Murder
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Is justice coming for Epstein s victims, or are they just pieces in a political game of chess? Also, a horrific murder in Charlotte has people online reeling while the media is silent. And we will be responding to the controversy over Snoop Dogg s comments about gay characters in the new lightyear movie. We ve got all of this and more on today s episode of Relatable.
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Is justice really coming for Epstein's victims, or are they just pieces in a political game of chess?
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Also, a horrific murder in Charlotte has people online reeling while the media is silent.
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Not only the media, but also some key actors in the evangelical world.
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And we will be responding to the controversy over Snoop Dogg's comments about gay characters in the new Lightyear movie.
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We've got all of this and more on today's episode of Relatable.
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Hey, y'all. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.
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All right. Today is the day. We are talking about Jeffrey Epstein, the latest developments in that very disturbing story,
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why we should care about it, and what to think about the political response to everything that has gone on.
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First, before we get into all of that, I've got a personal request to make of my audience.
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And because y'all are the best and most thoughtful and most caring and most encouraging and generous audience in the world,
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I know that when I ask this, I can trust without a doubt that you guys are going to do it.
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And what I'm asking for is prayer, not just for me and Chief Relatable and our family,
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but also our team and all of the people that make Relatable happen and that make Share the Arrows happen.
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But there are some other things that are coming down the pipeline for me, some really incredible God-ordained opportunities for me to share the gospel in a very public way.
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But if you could just pray for us and pray for wisdom and pray for effectiveness, too, that would just mean so much.
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And just a reminder, I am so thankful for all of you.
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Again, I know I've already said it, but best, best audience in the world.
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And I am grateful every single day for all of you.
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Now that I've gotten off that soapbox, let's get into the first story of the day.
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You guys have been asking me to talk about this for a while.
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I will get into the timing of why I'm talking about this now and haven't spent several episodes talking about it so far.
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And I will explain why at the end of this segment.
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But first, let us just talk about what is going on.
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So on September 2nd, 2025, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, this is a Republican from Kentucky,
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released 33,000 pages of DOJ subpoenaed documents about Jeffrey Epstein.
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He is, of course, as most of you know, a convicted sex offender who died by suicide, allegedly, in 2019,
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awaiting trial for the sex trafficking of minors.
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So the House of Representatives passed a resolution on September 3rd with a 212 to 208 vote.
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So very split authorizing the committee's ongoing probe into the Epstein case and permitting the release of unclassified records from the DOJ, Treasury and Epstein's estate.
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So, as many of you have followed over the years, you probably know that there are a lot of theories,
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a lot of questions surrounding Epstein's death and the different connections that he had,
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especially when it came to the trafficking of minors.
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This vote in the House had zero Democratic support.
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It sparked debate over its effectiveness, this resolution's effectiveness,
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in providing transparency and justice to the victims.
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Oversight Committee Democrats pointed out that there was little new information in the files that have been released so far.
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The 33,000 pages of Epstein documents James Comer has decided to release were already mostly public information.
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After careful review, Oversight Democrats have found that 97% of the documents received from the Department of Justice were already public.
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There is no mention of any client list or anything that improves transparency or justice for victims.
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Now, I, of course, would ask, though, if that is the case, if there's no new information, then what is the harm in releasing it?
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I could see how someone could say maybe this is political posturing.
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This isn't actually advancing the ball down the field.
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However, however, if that is the case, is it a negative?
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Representative Thomas Massey, however, a Republican from Kentucky, also opposed the resolution.
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He said during a news conference on September 3rd that it, quote, does absolutely nothing.
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He also said, I appreciate the efforts of my colleague, James Comer, who is leading the Oversight Committee.
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They may find some information, but they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them.
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He and Democratic Representative Ro Khanna are promoting a separate bill to release all DOJ records.
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Massey is urging his colleagues to listen to the victims during the news conference.
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The Washington establishment is asking the American public to believe something that is not believable.
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They're asking you to believe that two individuals created hundreds of victims and they acted alone and that the DOJ has no idea of who else might have been involved,
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that nobody else did anything that rose to a criminal enterprise.
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Now, the Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues.
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They're going to vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing.
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The survivors announced during this press conference that they know the names of the abusers who were involved in Epstein's sex trafficking ring
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and that they are planning to independently compile their own list.
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Several of us Epstein survivors have been discussing creating our own list of names.
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Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know were regularly in the Epstein world.
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Okay, I just find this whole thing very strange.
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I know that there's been a lot of energy on the right and criticizing this administration.
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We'll get into some of that in just a minute and criticizing the DOJ.
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Look, I still think that the DOJ and Pam Bondi, that they're doing a good job on a lot of different issues.
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I think that there's a lot of political capital in saying, no, I'm the real person.
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I'm the real side that's going to champion transparency.
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But there's also, there's just a lot of politics within this.
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I think that, personally, I think that Pam Bondi and the DOJ have been unfairly maligned when it comes to this.
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I think that we don't know all of the different layers of what is going on here.
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While we also acknowledge that we should want transparency, that we should want truth, that we should want justice, 100% yes and amen.
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But I have questions about all of the different politicians and the spokespeople that are getting themselves involved in this.
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Okay, let's talk about who Jeffrey Epstein is because you might know a lot.
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I listened to this very interesting podcast on the Interesting Times podcast with Ross Douthit.
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I really appreciated the conversation that we had there.
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But he had a very interesting discussion with Julie K. Brown, who is an investigator who has
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And she told Ross in this interview who Jeffrey Epstein was and why he matters.
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He's a convicted sex offender who mingled with elites like Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, billionaire
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She also said to Ross, he was very wealthy, but there was no real indicator of how he made
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Brown credits Epstein's wealth to his intelligence, his cleverness, his ability to exploit others'
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weaknesses, his networking power, his charisma.
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I think the key to Epstein's real success is the fact that he would find the weak point
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that anybody had, whatever they needed or wanted, and he would exploit that.
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And I don't know what he had on Les Wexner, who became one of his primary clients.
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Les Wexner is a billionaire who owned Victoria's Secret and also the limited retail stores at
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As a result of that, she says, Epstein's wealth just ballooned.
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He presented himself, though, as some kind of philanthropist, just like the helper of all
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of these people, donated to universities, funding research, as well as hosting intellectual salons
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on his island where he would fly in scientists to give talks on different topics, such as
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It's too on the nose that all of these elites want to talk about transhumanism.
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We just had this episode about Peter Thiel, and then I saw this really funny bit that
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Tim Dillon did on Joe Rogan's show, and he was basically, like, about Peter Thiel.
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Look, you can't have your three interests being, like, autonomous drones for war zones, surveillance
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technology that we use on our friends and neighbors, and the Antichrist.
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Like, you can't have all three of those at the same time.
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Like, you got to pick tennis as your third one, or, like, fishing.
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But he, Peter Thiel, also very interested in transhumanism.
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Hmm, it's just strange in all of these people, maybe not Peter Thiel, but certainly in the
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Bill Gates world, very concerned about overpopulation.
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It's just a little bit too on the nose, too cartoon villain-ish.
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Julie Brown said he was interested in all kinds of things involving babies, in how they form
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intelligence, and eugenics, and gene research, and things like that.
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So back in the 1990s, Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, they also briefly dated,
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began allegedly recruiting young girls for him.
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Epstein had helped Maxwell's family financially after her father had raided their family company,
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And then he died in a very mysterious way, left the family in financial ruins.
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There were a lot of rumors, Julie Brown says, at the time that maybe they would get married,
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but she realized as she got older that she was not going to satisfy him because he wanted
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So apparently she made herself useful in finding him these younger girls and made herself basically
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It sounds like from what Julie said that she was really in love with him, really attached
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And so she kind of put herself in this position that he would need her.
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A lot of women have come forward, and I speak with the attorneys that represent these women
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I was speaking with one who said that he had a client.
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She was of age, but she was on the younger side, and she was trafficked to a very powerful
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Now, a lot of people think, for whatever reason, that this is all some right-wing QAnon conspiracy.
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I just want to remind you that this is being reported by the New York Times, not that they
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I'm just saying this is not some conservative conspiracy theory going on.
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In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor in Florida serving 13 months in lenient
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Brown said they manipulated and downplayed the scope of his crime.
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She said it was clear that he had done this, this trafficking, to many, many girls, but
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was only charged for soliciting one underage girl.
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And Brown adds that an older girl was chosen so that the crime didn't look as bad.
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She talks about a lot of the collusion that was going on there between his team and the
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other actors at play there, the other people involved in this case to make sure that he
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wasn't charged with everything that he could be charged for.
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In 2019, however, Epstein was rearrested for sex trafficking, but he then reportedly died
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There's also some interesting conversation that people are having about his apparent connection
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Now, there is no, you've probably heard this, some people saying that this is a definitive
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However, there's not really definitive evidence confirming or refuting Epstein's ties to intelligence
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And I don't think anybody really knows except the people in the government that have these
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A secondhand quote attributed to Alex Acosta, claiming he was told to back off Epstein because
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he was, he, quote, belonged to intelligence, has not been publicly corroborated by Acosta
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himself, leaving this a significant unresolved question.
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There were also, there's also some speculation about Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell's father
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and his connections to Israeli intelligence, but we just don't know.
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So if anyone tells you that we know absolutely for sure that there's concrete evidence of
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this, maybe it is somewhere out there, but we don't know it quite yet.
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Now we have to talk about the elephant in the room here, which is Donald Trump, because
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So according to Julie Brown to The New York Times, she says there was no evidence right
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now that Trump was involved in Jeffrey Epstein's businesses or his sex trafficking or his crimes.
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Now, you may have seen some pictures going around where it looks like they're at the same party
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or they're hanging out or they're posing for a picture together.
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And while, of course, that's not a good look, no one wants to be in a picture with him or
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Harvey Weinstein or anyone that is obviously sketchy.
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However, Jeffrey Epstein hung out with a lot of really important people, a lot of really
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That does not mean that they were all his clients or that they all went to his private
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island or that they had any kind of like serious ties.
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So it's not evidence enough to say, you know, they were at the same party or even that they
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Jeffrey Epstein was friends with like every rich and powerful person at the time and probably
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had all different levels of friendships and relationships with them.
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In June 2024, Fox News' Rachel Campos Duffy asked Trump if he would declassify the Epstein
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files, along with the JFK and MLK assassination files during an interview, he said that he
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In September 2024, Trump reiterated his willingness to do this in a podcast with Lex Freeman.
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However, a couple months ago, July 2025, he kind of reversed course after the DOJ and the
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FBI released a memo stating that a thorough review of Jeffrey Epstein's files found no evidence
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of incriminating client lists or blackmail involving prominent individuals.
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You're asking, we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things.
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And are people still talking about this guy, this creep?
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So obviously people had a reaction to what Trump said.
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The truth is we could spend weeks of episodes talking about Epstein, talking about all of
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his connections, all of the theories, some very legitimate, some probably less legitimate
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surrounding him, the true circumstances surrounding his death, the layers of coverup and sexual exploitation
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and institutional corruption that this story involves.
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And I'm sure we will be talking more about this in coming years.
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The reason that I had not gone in depth on this yet is because I was waiting for the pieces
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A few years ago, I felt the same way about the whole Russian collusion hoax story.
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I wanted to have as much as possible before doing my own deep dive into what was true and
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But the frustrating thing with this story, with this Epstein story, is that it looks like
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It feels to many Republican voters like Kabuki Theater, like political posturing.
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So many people voted for Donald Trump because they saw him as the enemy of political corruption,
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the outsider who had his own bone to pick, rightfully so, with the Washington establishment.
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I mean, they tried to impeach him multiple times.
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They indirectly, I would say, stoked the anger that led to his assassination attempt.
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They did everything they possibly could to sabotage him.
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So I think a lot of people saw, OK, he is going to represent our own frustrations with
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their corruption and trying to subvert the will of the people.
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And while the corruption in D.C. and in the intelligence agencies is not limited to this
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Epstein case, many people see Epstein as representative of the corruption because of how incredibly well
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connected he was to people in power, in politics, in tech, in every sphere of influence around
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So the thinking goes, if we get Epstein, we get his client list, we get all of the details
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of the people that he had blackmail on, and then maybe the chips will start falling.
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But not only that, people genuinely want to see people held accountable for sex trafficking
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and pedophilia, especially the powerful people who are doing so, it seems like, in plain sight.
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And we feel this way, not because we're conspiracy theorists, but because we care about justice.
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Like, we care about innocent victims, and we don't want people to be able to get away with
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These victims were and are image bearers of God.
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Even if we don't know their names, even if we never hear their voices or see their faces,
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So that is why people were disappointed in Trump's apparent dismissiveness of this.
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Now, that said, I believe Trump and Bondi are the right people for their jobs.
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I mean, I thank God every day that these are the people in charge, especially instead of
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Like, I want truth and transparency in this area, and I also want it in every area.
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So I think that we can advocate to our elected officials that we want justice.
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We don't want these victims to be treated like chess pieces.
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While we also recognize the incredible improvement of Donald Trump as president versus Joe Biden,
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when it comes to foreign policy, immigration, religious liberty, the recognition of biological
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reality, the affirmation of the power of prayer, all of that stuff, they're not minor things.
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However, I believe that some of the changes that Donald Trump, that the DOJ, that the people
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that he's put in charge are making are so good for the country.
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I don't even want to think the direction that this country would have been going in had it
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So I think we can hold these thoughts in our mind at the same time, because of course, there's
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But what I hope, and I don't see Trump doing this to his credit, but what I hope is that
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when it comes to the Epstein files, that this isn't just a way for any politician, for anyone,
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any activist to get clicks or to go viral or to create some, you know, I don't know, some
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We should treat this with the gravity that it deserves.
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Like I said, we could spend hours and days going into all the different layers of this,
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We can pray for the wisdom and the courage of the people in power for honesty and truth
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All victims matter, but because of just the prominence of this and how many different spheres
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If you follow me on Instagram or on X, you know that I am very worked up about this story
00:31:55.580
coming out of Charlotte, this homeless man with several priors who randomly stabbed a
00:32:06.300
And it's not just that that is the story, but it's also, unfortunately, the media silence about
00:32:14.260
this story, the partiality that we see not only in the media because we expect that, right?
00:32:20.460
Like we expect that from the secular world, but that we see from the Christian world when it comes
00:32:26.100
So let me just tell you the details, then we'll get to the response.
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A homeless man, DeCarlos Brown Jr., with over 14 prior arrests, y'all, stabbed and killed
00:32:35.720
a Ryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, on a Charlotte light rail train on August 22nd,
00:32:44.480
The reason why people are talking about this even more right now is because we just saw
00:32:48.240
the surveillance footage, which is very, very disturbing.
00:32:51.800
It was released on Friday, September 5th, and it shows Brown pulling out a pocket knife,
00:33:13.140
And he just kind of looks at her, takes a knife out of his pocket, stands up and starts
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After the attack, Brown, we see this in the video, Brown left a trail of blood on the train,
00:33:28.580
removed his bloody hoodie, and calmly exited the next station.
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And everyone that you see in this surveillance footage is just standing there, trying so hard
00:33:48.580
And you don't you want to go home to see your family.
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I totally understand that at the same time, seeing all of these men lined up there, standing
00:33:58.620
there in silence when I'm just not sure if that would have happened 25 years ago.
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I think that they would have or someone would have been armed 25 years ago and could have,
00:34:13.640
Like, you know, that's what should have happened.
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So he's got convictions dating back to 2014, including a 2014 armed robbery.
00:34:22.980
He, of course, was free when he allegedly committed this murder.
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We have to say allegedly, even though we have it on tape, because he hasn't been convicted yet.
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Charlotte's Democratic mayor, Vi Lyles, thanked the media for not sharing the attack video,
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prompting criticism from Republican leaders like Representative Brad Knot, who condemned her
00:34:43.840
He says the mayor's refusal to condemn senseless, horrific and preventable violence is as telling
00:34:51.560
Violent criminals, regardless of who they are or what they look like, need to be in jail.
00:34:59.100
In her statement, Mayor Lyles did not mention the victim by name or discuss any specific measures
00:35:05.620
that the Charlotte area transit system or police are taking to address safety and public transit.
00:35:12.100
She focused on the suspect and urged others not to demonize homeless people.
00:35:16.800
She said the suspect appeared to have struggled with mental health and suffered a crisis.
00:35:22.380
She said Charlotte and his transit system are, quote, by and large safe,
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but the incident highlights the need for stronger support systems.
00:35:30.140
We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness or mental health,
00:35:36.480
Mental health disease is just that, a disease like any other that needs to be treated with
00:35:43.020
the same compassion, diligence, and commitment as cancer or heart disease.
00:35:48.720
So basically, this person shouldn't be held responsible for his cold-blooded murder because
00:35:56.960
Well, as you guys know, I wrote a book called Toxic Empathy and how Christians are well-meaning,
00:36:05.320
compassion is used against us, is exploited to convince us that progressive and specifically
00:36:11.640
soft on crime policies are the more loving option.
00:36:15.840
And so I posted this on X in response to this story and in response to what the mayor said.
00:36:24.340
Well, you see, this guy was arrested and released a dozen times in the name of social justice and
00:36:31.080
Social justice and racial equity policies are born out of empathy for the marginalized.
00:36:36.460
Bad actors convince well-meaning, compassionate Christians that these empathetic, restorative
00:36:42.440
justice measures are the right way to love our neighbors.
00:36:45.660
In this way, the criminal becomes the victim and society becomes chaotic and disordered.
00:36:50.320
We have to be led by truth, order, love, goodness, and virtue, not by empathy.
00:36:57.540
The last chapter of my book, it was a very difficult one to write because there was so much that I
00:37:04.620
But the last chapter of Toxic Empathy is about justice and crime and how when we are led by
00:37:11.680
empathy for the criminal, we end up making policies that really hurt innocent people.
00:37:18.400
The mainstream media outlets have faced accusations of minimal coverage.
00:37:26.080
Charlotte City Council candidate Edwin Peacock and others called for action to address safety
00:37:34.800
The murder occurred amid President Trump's renewed push for a crime crackdown.
00:37:38.520
Another thing I'm very thankful for when it comes to President Trump, he did exactly the
00:37:44.580
I don't know how anyone could be against cracking down on crime the way that he is.
00:37:48.840
A Trump advisor said that this Charlotte murder, quote, is exactly what he's talking about.
00:37:53.020
And it's going to be an issue Trump is going to highlight.
00:38:07.760
Why is this disgusting, senseless, unprovoked murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee
00:38:12.900
by a man named DeCarlos Brown Jr. on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, not getting more
00:38:19.960
Charlie Kirk also says, dear CNN, WAPO, NYT, ABC, NBC, etc.
00:38:26.640
If you want to know why your ratings are in the tank and no one likes you, look no further
00:38:33.240
Genuinely, Stephen Miller, who works for the Trump administration, the Democrat Party at
00:38:37.560
every level, judges, politicians, academics, nonprofits, is organized around the defense
00:38:42.060
and protection of the criminal, toxic empathy, the monstrous and the depraved.
00:38:47.240
The more vile the threat, the more vociferously the Democrat Party wants to protect and enable
00:38:53.240
And that is so true and so unbelievably disordered.
00:39:11.720
Stop voting for people who advocate for, quote unquote, restorative justice or social justice
00:39:18.400
These are all code words for, I will make sure criminals don't get arrested and if they do,
00:39:25.200
Stop voting for representatives, mayors, governors, and where it applies, judges and district attorneys
00:39:32.740
who do not believe that crime should be punished harshly, who demonize the police, who wholesale
00:39:38.440
condemn the United States justice system, who believe that we need to even out the racial
00:39:51.000
And therefore, more people, when you vote for people like that, more people will be raped,
00:40:04.500
When you understand that all progressive vocabulary is actually just a euphemism for something really
00:40:11.440
awful, like reproductive health care is a euphemism for murdering babies.
00:40:16.760
Restorative justice is a euphemism for allowing violent criminals on the street to murder you
00:40:26.840
You realize that what sounds good when it comes to progressive politicians usually points to evil.
00:40:34.840
Judge policies not by their stated intentions, but by their outcome.
00:40:39.560
If you do that, you will never vote for a progressive again in your life.
00:40:49.540
Politics matters because policy matters because people matter.
00:41:01.000
Number two, once you check that one off, stop voting for stupid, evil people.
00:41:05.640
Once we check that one off, support policies that keep dangerous people away from society.
00:41:14.440
Now, one part of this would be a really big undertaking.
00:41:17.740
But for people who are truly mentally unwell, they need institutions that can help them and
00:41:23.500
keep them away from society for as long as it takes.
00:41:26.780
If my tax dollars are going to go toward anything, I'd be happy to have them go toward that.
00:41:32.960
Now, yes, there are civil liberties parameters we need in place there, but surely there is
00:41:40.900
Also, longer, harsher prison sentences for violent crime and a consistently, speedily applied
00:41:47.000
death penalty for murder and other heinous crimes like child rape.
00:41:51.640
Genesis 9-6 commands the death penalty for murderers.
00:41:55.660
And this role of the government is not just an Old Testament dictate.
00:41:59.400
First of all, it's the Noahic covenant, which is before the establishment of the civilization
00:42:03.300
of Israel, still applies today because its reasoning is rooted in something that is still
00:42:10.940
But it's also reiterated in the New Testament, reemphasized in Romans 13.
00:42:15.440
Again, we can debate what is the threshold that must be reached for the death penalty to
00:42:24.540
I'm open to that, but it should be used much more often than it is and much more quickly.
00:42:30.440
Give a fair trial, unbiased jury, convicted, guilty, a pastor that shares the gospel with
00:42:37.940
He has the opportunity to respond to that gospel and then execution.
00:42:46.660
That is offering the murderer or child rapist far more than he offered his victim.
00:42:53.640
Ecclesiastes 8.11 says this, because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily,
00:43:00.740
the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
00:43:12.860
Number three, stop being afraid to talk about crimes just because of the color of the person
00:43:23.700
And the fact is this, a white person is statistically far more likely to be killed by a black person
00:43:29.860
Despite the fact that white people make up about 60% of the population and black men make
00:43:36.660
Now, we should never condemn any one race and glorify another race.
00:43:46.120
We should never judge people or people groups collectively, but the facts do matter, which
00:43:52.880
is why the opposite collective judgment is also wrong.
00:44:03.600
Assumes that one race is guilty and that the other is completely abdicated of any responsibility.
00:44:12.080
This is what, unfortunately, many evangelicals do and did during 2020.
00:44:17.720
You see, when George Floyd died, all of your favorite apolitical pastors not only expressed
00:44:22.580
outrage about that publicly, but they connected his death to the complicity of all white people,
00:44:27.780
the racism of all police, and the racial injustice embedded in all of America.
00:44:32.900
But never, ever did or do we see the same people talk about a crime like this.
00:44:37.800
One, because this kind of crime happens too often.
00:44:40.980
If you spend any time on X, you'll actually see that.
00:44:43.640
Also, if you just look at the data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics or FBI crime data,
00:44:49.060
But also because this is not the right type of crime to have a public opinion on.
00:44:59.540
Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Proverbs, James all reiterate God's hatred for partiality, showing
00:45:04.120
undue favoritism or condemnation toward one person over the other at the expense of truth and
00:45:09.980
Now, I'm not arguing that this crime was motivated by race because I don't know.
00:45:15.400
I'm not suggesting that we take to the streets like BLM did and post a white square and convince
00:45:22.800
I'm just saying that white lives taken by black people matter just as much.
00:45:31.360
The murderer, by the way, is always the oppressor.
00:45:35.280
No matter what race they are, you're not going to convince me that this guy, just because
00:45:41.700
he was black or just because he was homeless, is also maybe on the side of the oppressed.
00:45:46.940
No, I promise you, God doesn't see it that way.
00:45:50.020
Because God doesn't see it that way, I don't see it that way.
00:45:57.060
At the end of the day, this is a spiritual heart problem.
00:46:00.760
It is for all of us that ultimately Jesus is the answer for.
00:46:10.800
But lawlessness and aggression and bitterness and anger are all celebrated on a spiritual
00:46:18.100
That's a problem that we live in an age of moral relativism where nothing can be considered
00:46:30.580
Like some things are just evil and they have to be punished.
00:46:33.760
And it is actually righteous and compassionate and loving and good to restrain evil.
00:46:39.280
That is why, a huge reason why the government exists.
00:46:43.240
To restrain evil so that the innocent can flourish.
00:46:46.580
So that they can ride bikes in their neighborhood.
00:46:49.300
They can go on a jog in the early hours of the morning or take public transportation at night.
00:46:53.860
And if you find yourself with more pity for the people committing the heinous crimes, thinking
00:47:00.540
about what they've gone through in their lives more, more than you're thinking of the lives
00:47:07.500
and the people left behind by the victims, then I'm afraid your moral compass is out of whack.
00:47:18.700
It doesn't mean that all empathy is bad, but misdirected or disproportionate or blinding
00:47:26.820
To affirm sin, to validate lies, or support destructive policy.
00:47:33.860
And that is why Christians are called not to be led by empathy, which is a very strong feeling
00:47:38.740
that can lead you in a good or a bad direction, but to be led by the truth in love.
00:47:43.620
1 Corinthians 13, 6 says that love never rejoices in wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
00:47:54.720
Is there a place for understanding people's backgrounds and their struggles to ensure that
00:47:59.280
we are seeing them as image bearers of God with souls that live forever, whether they
00:48:03.600
are the criminal or whether they are the victim?
00:48:07.100
But that does not negate our societal or governmental responsibility to restrain evil for the sake
00:48:16.180
That is a part of seeking justice and loving mercy.
00:48:19.440
It's interesting that that verse in Micah is the one that is repeated over and over again
00:48:26.800
Look, I see seeking justice and loving mercy as making sure that those who are doing evil
00:48:43.060
Pray for her loved ones and pray that we have politicians who are courageous enough to do
00:48:56.160
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Now, I have said before, I've talked about Snoop Dogg before, because I think he's just
00:50:35.600
such a strange, like, cultural zeitgeist, almost like he's everywhere.
00:50:43.840
And I'm like, okay, but he did a music video a few years ago where he was pretending to
00:50:51.760
And we've just completely just ignored that and be like, ah, it's just Snoop Dogg.
00:50:55.500
He's friends with Martha Stewart and smokes weed.
00:51:00.840
He sobered up for a second and he said something that was true and I guess instantly regretted
00:51:05.260
He faced backlash after a clip from an August podcast where he criticized children's movies
00:51:14.120
An apology post appearing to be posted on Snoop's social media surfaced, which his team later
00:51:24.940
But he did actually say this about the new Lightyear movie that he saw with his six-year-old
00:51:32.120
I took my grandson to see, uh, what was the movie with, uh, Buzz Lightyear?
00:51:47.320
So we're watching it and the lady, which is Kiki's mama, they move on into the space
00:51:56.080
They're like, man, she had a baby with a woman.
00:52:01.560
Well, my grandson in the middle of the movie, like, Papa Snoop, how'd she have a baby with
00:52:11.540
Okay, so I think, you know, minus the, uh, you know, the vulgar language there, he actually
00:52:22.080
Now, obviously, Christians like you and me, we have a lot, we have much deeper thoughts
00:52:29.120
I don't think that he is probably personally against that.
00:52:32.340
He just doesn't want to have that kind of conversation with a six-year-old grandson when
00:52:36.740
And I think that is actually how a lot of parents, left, right, and center feel.
00:52:44.520
Like, it's not possible for two women or two men to be able to make a child.
00:52:48.900
So there are a lot of different layers and questions to be asked about that.
00:52:52.660
Kids and their intuition of something's not right, it's really good.
00:52:57.540
And it's actually really sad when adults try to purposely take that away from them or gaslight
00:53:03.020
Like, you're crazy for thinking that that's weird or thinking that's different.
00:53:06.160
You have to think that that's good and beautiful.
00:53:11.380
And it's our responsibility to give it to them.
00:53:24.340
Responded to Snoop's comments saying, he sucks.
00:53:27.080
She defended the inclusion of a same-sex couple with a child in the movie, saying, as we wrote
00:53:31.000
early versions of what became Lightyear, a key character needed a partner.
00:53:35.120
And it was so natural to write she instead of he.
00:53:37.920
As small as that detail is in the film, I knew the representational effect it could have.
00:53:51.320
That would have been a great time to say and beyond.
00:53:55.000
Okay, so then people kind of, like, you know, latched on to that and got all mad at Snoop
00:54:04.260
Hollywood unlocked Instagram, shared clips of the TMZ interview.
00:54:07.840
Snoop apparently left a comment to apologize and say that he's not perfect and needed to
00:54:13.780
But then his representative said, no, this is not true.
00:54:16.560
But here is the screenshot that was going around, just so you know what was part of the
00:54:20.260
It looked like he said, I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons.
00:54:28.340
My bad for not knowing the answers for a six-year-old.
00:54:36.100
And I hope that it's not, because you don't need to apologize for saying something that's
00:54:44.220
Especially for someone with as much, like, power and prominence and money as he has.
00:54:51.200
And here's my hard pill to swallow for the day.
00:55:08.700
They say that you're going to ruin your business.
00:55:10.900
And you think, this is what a lot of people think.
00:55:16.460
Maybe if I just apologize for how I said it or where I said it.
00:55:19.800
Or maybe if I just clarify that I really love people, that I don't hate anyone, then that'll
00:55:28.500
And they're going to come after you even harder.
00:55:30.760
They're never going to be satiated with your apology.
00:55:33.320
In fact, they're just waiting for you to recant altogether.
00:55:36.640
That is the only action that they are looking for that they will be satisfied with is you
00:55:41.380
recanting and completely repenting according to their definitions and celebrating what you
00:55:57.640
In response to everyone who is hating me about this, I just want to reiterate that what I
00:56:03.580
I just want to reiterate that I believe in God's word and I'm not going to apologize for
00:56:08.160
When you start apologizing for what God's word objectively says is true, you are casting yourself
00:56:17.460
Now, if you really did something wrong and it was wrong in accordance with God's word,
00:56:24.740
then of course, an apology or a statement could be necessary.
00:56:33.260
You don't have an obligation to say sorry to the people that are looking to sabotage you
00:56:43.400
And that is what matters at the end of the day.
00:56:48.200
We should pray that if he's not, that he gets right with God because he already has a little
00:56:55.920
So maybe this can be like a launching pad for his exploration into truth.
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We've got really interesting episodes coming up for the rest of the week on Wednesday and
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from a really, really interesting and experienced perspective.
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And I can't talk about what we're going to talk about Wednesday yet because you never
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