Ep 1305 ļ½ Is Trump Targeting Talaricoļ¼ Colbertās Lie Exposed
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On today's episode of Relatable: I celebrate my birthday, James Tallarico is lying about his recent interview with Stephen Colbert, and the adult doll people are back with a message for ICE. All of this and more on today s episode of RELatable.
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Progressive preacher and politician James Tallarico seems to be lying about his recent
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interview with Stephen Colbert, and he makes even more claims about Jesus and Christianity
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that just aren't true. Also, I got to host the Republican Attorney's General Debate last night.
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We've got a fun recap for you, and the adult doll people are back. This time, they've got
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a message for ICE, but I also have a message for them. All of this and more on today's
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episode of Relatable. Hey, guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone
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is having a wonderful week so far. We've got a lot to cover on today's episode, but first up,
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I just want to say that it's my birthday, and I am turning 34 today, and I am so thankful that I get
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to spend part of my birthday with you guys, but I just want to give a shout out to my team
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because if I could pan the camera around, you would see many of them, not all of them, but many of them
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are wearing dinosaur party hats to celebrate, to honor a key part of Relatable, which is that we
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don't really believe that the modern depictions of dinosaurs are accurate, so it's become a running
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joke, but they gave me an incredible present. You actually can't see it because it's up here. I don't
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know if we can pan the camera up, if that's going to mess everything up. It's okay if it will, but
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they gave me this beautiful picture right here that says Commissar of MAGA Morality, and it's these,
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yeah, you see it right there, right next to C.S. Lewis, and right next to this beautiful picture.
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We've got Commissar of MAGA Morality. You'll remember that Hillary Clinton gave me that wonderful
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nickname, and then up there we have our Media Matters nickname, which is Pastel Hate Influencer,
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and oh, oh, we're going up. There we go. Pastel Hate Influencer right next to our blue bonnets, and so
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thank you to Hillary Clinton for giving me that wonderful moniker, and thank you to my team
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for celebrating with super fun and very thoughtful gifts. They're so sweet. Best team ever. Best audience
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ever. I really am so glad to be here today with you, and I've got a request for you. The reason I have
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the best audience ever. One of the reasons is because I have the most generous audience ever.
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Whenever I ask you guys, hey, can you support this person? Share the arrows with this person
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who is getting persecuted, lambasted for standing up for what is good, right, and true, or hey,
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this pregnancy center needs our help, or this organization needs our support, y'all pray.
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You donate items. You donate money. You send words of encouragement. You stand up for those people,
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and I have the sharing, heroist, most generous, most charitable, kindest audience out there,
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and so in honor of my birthday, this is how you can help me celebrate my birthday, is by donating to
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this really special organization called Scarlet Hope. So on my previous birthdays, we've donated to
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these pregnancy centers, and this is not a pregnancy center, but they are doing incredible work in a
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different segment of society that is really underserved. So I met the founder of Scarlet Hope
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a couple weeks ago in California. Her name is Rochelle Starr, and she told me that several years
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ago, she was driving to work. She passed by a strip club that she drove by many days when she was on her
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commute, and she just felt this conviction that she needs to share the gospel with the women who are
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working in this building, who are working at the strip club, and so she did. She started to go there
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and started to deliver meals to these women, started building relationships with these women who are in
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the adult entertainment industry. She started sharing the gospel with them, and that started Scarlet Hope,
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and so this is an outreach organization to exploited women, to trafficked women, women who work in the
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adult entertainment industry. They're in 11 major cities. They go to these places. They find these
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women who are being exploited, who are sometimes by choice objectifying themselves, sometimes not by
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choice of being objectified. They bring them meals. They bring them hope. They share the gospel with them.
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They try to get them out of this industry and into a life of dignified work, actually being able to
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provide for themselves and to provide for their kids, and this is fully empowered by the love of
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Christ, and I just love Rochelle's story. Her story is one of following God into unknown places, not
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knowing what the outcome is going to be, not knowing if she is equipped, not knowing anything about this
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world, but Rochelle and her husband just obeyed the Lord and obeyed His voice, and now they're in 11
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different cities across the country, and they are loving these women sharing the gospel and giving
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the material resources that they need to survive, and so I would really encourage you to go to
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scarlethope.org. Go to scarlethope.org. You can find out more information about them, what they do,
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and how your money will support these women who are made in the image of God but have maybe been told
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their entire lives that they're worth nothing, that they're unlovable. We want these women to know the
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good news of the gospel, so if you want to help me celebrate my birthday, that's how I would love for you
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to celebrate. Go to scarlethope.org to donate. Also, if you would like to come to Share the Arrows,
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our Christian Women's Conference happening on October 10th in Dallas, Texas, then make sure to get your
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tickets. Go to sharethearrows.com. We've got an incredible speaker lineup. This is our gospel-centered,
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worship-filled, no-fluff Christian Women's Conference. You will not get this kind of lineup
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anywhere else. It's such a special day, and I'm thankful to the Lord that we get to do it the third
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year in a row. Go to sharethearrows.com. Get your tickets today, and then last little announcement
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before we get into the topics for today, and that is, if you love this show, please like this video
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on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever you listen. All right, let's get into the craziness of what's
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going on in the world and try to do what we always do, bring as much clarity as possible and meet this
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crazy, chaotic culture with as much courage as we can. So let's talk about none other than State
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Representative James Tallarico. Now, if you have been listening to the show for any amount of time,
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you probably know who James Tallarico is, and I would love one day to have an in-person discussion
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with him, but until that comes to fruition, I am left with responding to the things that he says
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about Christianity and politics on this show. That is an intersection I'm so interested in,
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and I think State Representative Tallarico represents the exact wrong version and deadly and actually
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demonic version of what a Christian in politics should look like. He is a progressive seminarian
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who is running for U.S. Senate. He's actually running for the primary seat right now against
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Jasmine Crockett, and that if he wins the primary in a few weeks, he will be going up against
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John Cornyn. And he suggested recently that during an interview that the FCC, prompted by President
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Trump, was actually trying to silence him, that he didn't want, that President Trump didn't want the
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world to see James Tallarico on Colbert. So he personally intervened using the FCC and shut his
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One quick correction that I want to say is that Tallarico, if he wins this primary,
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won't necessarily be going against Cornyn because the senator in Texas, one of the senators in Texas,
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John Cornyn does have primary opponents. He's got Wesley Hunt. He's got Ken Paxton. So it will only
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be John Cornyn if John Cornyn wins the primary. We'll see. Whoever it is, James Tallarico, if he
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wins, will be going against the Republican candidate for that Senate position. So we'll see what happens
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there. But he is getting a lot of good press. And this moment, this quote unquote forbidden interview
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that he had with Stephen Colbert is working really well for him. So here's what happened
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on Monday night, February 16th, during a segment of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert told his audience
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that the show's parent company, CBS, was stopping him from airing this prerecorded interview that he
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had done with Tallarico due to pressure from the FCC. Then he told his audience to watch the interview
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on YouTube. So say, this is a big forbidden interview. Trump doesn't want you to see this.
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It's brilliant marketing. Both in the actual interview and in the promotion afterward, Colbert
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and Tallarico reinforce that narrative saying that, hey, Trump really, really doesn't want you to hear
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what this guy has to say. Saw one. This is the party that ran against cancel culture. And now they're
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trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read. And this is the most dangerous kind of
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cancel culture. The kind that comes from the top. They they went after The View because I went on
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there. They went after Jimmy Kimmel for telling a joke they didn't like. They went after you for
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telling the truth about Paramount's bribe to Donald Trump. OK, like I just want to clarify something
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really fast and everything that he says. You know, he talks quickly like a politician in these kind of
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like vague terms. And you might hear it and say, wow, yeah, that's really bad. When any Democrat
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references, oh, Republicans want you to stop from stop you from reading certain things. We're not
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talking about, oh, yeah, we don't want an adult to read To Kill a Mockingbird. We're talking about we
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don't want kids to be forced to read pornographic material in schools. We don't want school libraries
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to have basically pornographic books that are encouraging them to think about different forms
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of sexuality or convincing them that they might be born in the wrong body. So that's the kind of so
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called censorship that they are calling cancel culture. And also when they're talking about
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Jimmy Kimmel making a joke. Yeah, he made an absolutely disgusting joke that made light of Charlie
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Kirk getting slaughtered in front of thousands of people. And so I just want to be clear about exactly
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what he's referencing on X. He said, this is the interview Donald Trump didn't want you to see
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his FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we're about to flip Texas,
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which is also something that he said to very loud applause to Stephen Colbert's audience. So that
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YouTube video has more than five million views. And a lot of the commenters were saying the only reason
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they're watching it is because they heard that Trump doesn't want them to watch that.
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Tallarico's campaign also announced that it raised $2.5 million in the 24 hours after the interview
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aired on YouTube. So this is the single largest fundraising period of the campaign. But the problem
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is it's fiction. It's not true. The FCC, what they're doing, this has nothing to do with Trump.
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They're enforcing a rule that has existed for a long time that's been around for almost a century
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that says that you have to give equal airtime to a politician who is running to their opponent.
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Colbert and Tallarico made it sound like the Trump administration is controlling free speech.
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But what the FCC is actually doing is just encouraging the networks, requiring that the networks
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actually give equal opportunity to all candidates. So specifically via Axios, this is what the equal
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time rule is that the FCC is enforcing. It requires U.S. radio and television broadcasters
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to provide equivalent airtime in terms to all legally qualified political candidates for the same
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office if one candidate uses the station's facilities. So in this case, it's not that the FCC is actually
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saying, hey, you've got to get Kim Paxton or another Republican on here. They're saying in this case that he
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needs to have Jasmine Crockett on and Jasmine Crockett needs to have an equivalent time to also promote
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her campaign. So this doesn't even really have to do with Republican versus Democrat. The rule originated in
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Section 18 of the Radio Act of 1927. So 99 years ago, it was later incorporated into Section 315 of the
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Communications Act of 1934. And it was driven by concerns that broadcasters could manipulate an
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election and election outcome by favoring certain candidates or viewpoints. And then later in 1959,
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Congress added four exemptions to the rule, bona fide newscasts, news interviews, news documentaries,
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on the spot coverage. But of course, Colbert doesn't fall into any of those. And so that's what the FCC is
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doing here. It's not a Trump versus Tallarico thing. I highly doubt that Trump knew anything about this or that
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the FCC even cares about this. Here's what Brian Stelter posted on X. He's quoting the CBS statement in
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response to all of this. The late show was not prohibited by CBS. So the late show is on CBS. This is the network
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saying what Colbert is saying is not true, was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview
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with Representative James Tallarico. The show has provided legal guidance that the broadcast could
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trigger the FCC equal time rule for two other candidates, including Representative Jasmine Crockett,
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and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled. And so actually,
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what it sounds like CBS is saying, they're saying that the FCC didn't actually do anything. The FCC
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didn't say anything. This is CBS's guidance saying, hey, just so you know, we have this 99-year rule
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that could be enforced by the FCC if you air this interview and don't air the other interview. CBS is
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saying this is the guidance they gave to Stephen Colbert's show, which means that Stephen Colbert knows this.
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He's been in television for a long time, and he still ran with this false narrative, which is
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brilliant marketing, but it's a lie. CBS goes on to say, the late show decided to present the interview
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through its YouTube channel with on-air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing
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the equal time options. Of course, Colbert wants Tallarico to win, and we'll get into why their
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brand of so-called Christianity matches. Now, University of Houston poll released February 9th,
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showed that Crockett is actually leading Tallarico with 47% of the Democratic primary support compared
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to his 39% Texas Tribune. Just a side note, that is good, good news for Republicans, okay?
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We do want Jasmine Crockett to win. Like, we do. I think that she is more defeatable than Tallarico is.
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Plus, I just believe that his brand of Christianity actually sends people to hell, if you believe it.
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And, you know, I don't think she claims to be a beacon of Christian morality. And yeah, I just think
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that she would be more entertaining to watch in a debate between any of the Republican candidates.
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And I think that the Republican is more likely to win if she wins the primary. So it looks to me like
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Colbert is trying to boost his ratings as much as possible. But let's talk a little bit about the
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content of what the conversation was. And Tallarico loves these same talking points about Christianity
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that we've debunked before, but it never gets old. And you never know who is watching, who needs to
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hear what the Bible actually says about these issues versus what Tallarico has to say. We'll get into
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Now, this is my favorite line from Tallarico when he tells you that, oh, you know, God never really
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said anything about abortion or homosexuality, so why do these darn conservatives care about it so much?
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It's not 16. They convinced a lot of our fellow Christians that the most important issues were
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abortion and gay marriage. Two issues that aren't mentioned in the Bible, two issues that Jesus
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never talked about. Jesus in Matthew 25 tells us exactly how you and I and every one of our fellow
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believers, how we're going to be judged and how we're going to be saved. By feeding the hungry,
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by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger, nothing about going to church, nothing about
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voting Republican. It was all about how you treat other people.
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By grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing. It is a gift of God,
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not a result of work so that no one may boast. I don't know how many times God through Paul has to
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tell us, hey, you don't contribute to your salvation. Works cannot save you. You can never
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be good enough. We read that over and over again in the book of Romans, in the book of Galatians,
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that actually, if you are going to try to earn your salvation through good works, you better be ready
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to keep the entirety of the law. If you are saying that your own righteousness is what contributes to
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your salvation, you better be perfectly righteous because it is only perfection that God will and can
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accept. And because none of us can be perfect, he sent his own son to die for us, to be perfect,
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to be our perfect sacrifice, to sacrifice himself on our behalf so that by grace, which is a free gift
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through faith, we might be saved. So I just wanted to address that gospel level false teaching first,
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because that's the most important thing. Your soul hangs on you understanding that correctly.
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But then I want to get to the other part that he says that, oh, the right cares so much about
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homosexuality and abortion. And the Bible never talks about these things, which is actually insane.
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You know, like the big 10 rules that God sets out that are reiterated, reemphasized in the New
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Testament. Jesus actually doubles down on the 10 commandments in every way. One of those commandments
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is found in Exodus 2013. You shall not murder. What is murder? It's not all form of killing.
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It is defined as the purposeful killing of an innocent person, a legally innocent person. So
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it's not self-defense. It's not war. It's not even the death penalty. It is the intentional killing.
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It's not even manslaughter. The intentional killing of a legally innocent person. Abortion fits that bill
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because a baby inside the womb is a human being. If he or she is not a human being, you're going to
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have to tell me what she is. Is she a summer squash? Is she a bullfrog? She's not a potential human
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being. She is living. She's a human being and abortion intentionally kills her. So you shall
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not murder. Really, really easy. Of course, homosexuality is forbidden in the Old Testament,
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but we also see in the New Testament very explicitly in Romans 1, 26 through 28. Not only is homosexuality
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listed, but the behavior itself is condemned as ungodly, as immoral, as depraved. We read in 1 Corinthians
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6, 9 through 10 that the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice
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homosexuality will be able to inherit the kingdom of God. It goes on to say, such were some of you.
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But of course, all of us can be saved by God's grace. And we use this alliteration so much.
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And it's a reminder that as Christians, we don't just look at the Bible and say, ooh, what can we get
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away with? Because God doesn't really mention it the way that we think he should mention it.
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We ask, how can I be holy? How can I glorify God the most? So not just what does God tell me not to
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do, but what does God tell me to do? And the Bible only positively defines sexuality and marriage in
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one way, between one man and one woman. It's rooted in creation, Genesis 1, reiterated throughout
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Scripture, honor your father and mother, repeated by Jesus himself, Matthew 19, 4 through 5. It is
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representative of Christ and the church, Ephesians 5, and it is reflective of the gospel. The Bible
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starts with the marriage and ends with the marriage. That is how important it is. And that's
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why when you have someone like James Tallarico, who doesn't believe that, he doesn't believe in
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Genesis 1, 27. He doesn't believe in Ephesians 5. He doesn't believe in the earthly representation of
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the spiritual marriage between Christ and his bride, the church. He doesn't believe in Matthew 19,
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4 through 5. So he actually rejects so many of the red letters of Jesus. When you have people like
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that who deny this fundamental tenet of Christianity that has an eternal reflection in heaven, they also
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end up denying the central tenet of Christianity, which is John 14, 6, that Jesus is the way, the truth,
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the life, that no one comes to the Father except through him. He has said on other podcasts that
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there are multiple ways to get to heaven. There are multiple ways to be a good person. And he
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learns more about his faith through Islam and Buddhism and secularism and all of these other
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worldviews. The man is not a Christian by any definition of what a Christian is. It's not enough
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to just believe that Jesus said some good things. It's not enough to just feed the poor. It's not
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enough to just have this list of good works. It's certainly not enough to be a progressive.
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Do you believe the gospel? Do you believe that Jesus is God? Do you believe that he sacrificed
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himself for your sins? Do you, by grace through faith, believe in his death, burial, and resurrection?
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Do you believe that all of your righteousness only comes from him and not from yourself? If you don't
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believe those things, which I think James Tallarico has been extremely clear that he does not,
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then you're not a Christian. And quite frankly, if you are for the slaughter of children inside the womb,
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if you are for the brutalizing of the bodies of kids outside of the womb, because they believe
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they're born in the wrong body, if you believe in outsourcing all of the compassion that we see
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modeled for us in Matthew 25 to the government, I don't care at all what your theology is. I'm not
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He sounds smooth, and he is. He's a smooth operator because he's a politician, but he's not a
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Okay. Satu, Tallarico loves the separation of church and state, apparently.
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Because we are called to love all of our neighbors, including our Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu,
00:27:19.180
Sikh, agnostic, atheist neighbors. And forcing our religion down their throats is not love.
00:27:25.580
And it's why I have fought. It's why I fought so hard for that sacred separation in our First
00:27:36.500
Amendment. Because my granddad, he raised me to believe that that boundary between church and
00:27:40.980
state doesn't just benefit the state or our democracy, although it certainly does. But it
00:27:45.540
also benefits the church. Oh, so many things. First of all, God is love, 1 John 4, 8. So we cannot
00:27:53.000
love other people without loving them through his truth and through his gospel. And evangelizing
00:27:59.880
to people and sharing the gospel with people and showing people the love of Christ and telling them
00:28:05.260
what can save their souls from condemnation is a form of love. That's not forcing anyone to do
00:28:12.180
anything. I don't believe that. I don't believe in living in some kind of tyrannical theocracy where
00:28:17.100
people are forced to go to a Baptist church. I don't know anyone who believes that actually. But
00:28:22.600
of course, we believe that a great way, the best way to love someone is to share the gospel with them
00:28:28.060
and, yes, meet their material needs. We are called to do that as Christians. And again, that's not the
00:28:33.360
government's primary job. That's the church's primary job. And Tallarico seems to confuse that there.
00:28:39.560
But I also just want to note about the separation of church and state. Remember, this is a letter to
00:28:45.220
the Danbury Baptist from Thomas Jefferson, where he is comforting them by saying, look, the state is
00:28:50.200
not going to interfere in your affairs. This is not really as much about the protection of the state,
00:28:56.180
although he is right in the First Amendment. We don't want an establishment of a state religion,
00:29:01.180
and that separation does exist there. But remember, the separation of church and state
00:29:05.500
is not the separation of God in law. That is impossible. You can't separate morality from
00:29:10.580
law. Law is morality. You can't separate your worldview from your vote. You shouldn't. And by
00:29:15.720
the way, Tallarico doesn't. He is sitting here saying, I don't want to shove my faith down anyone's
00:29:21.100
throat. But by the way, you're a bad Christian if you don't believe the same things I do. Oh,
00:29:24.940
separation of church and state. But Matthew 25 says how we are supposed to treat the poor through our
00:29:30.140
taxpayer dollars. So this is just their form of Christian nationalism. They are
00:29:35.340
constantly using their bastardized interpretation of scripture to tell you, to morally extort you
00:29:41.860
into voting for progressive policies. To love your neighbor, you have to affirm transgenderism. To
00:29:47.680
love your neighbor, you have to affirm your neighbor's right to choose to have a doctor slaughter
00:29:53.140
her child. And you'll remember on the Joe Rogan podcast, he used the example of Mary consenting
00:30:00.480
to her pregnancy as his justification for why he is pro the poisoning, starving, and dismemberment of
00:30:09.260
babies inside the womb. And like, by the way, I just want you to read that passage in Luke. That's
00:30:15.740
not actually what goes on. The angel doesn't ask her a question. The angel just says, this is going to
00:30:20.740
happen to you. And she says, okay, that's Allie's standard version. There's no question and consent
00:30:29.960
there. Yes, she does accept the will of God, but that is not any kind of basis for murdering a child
00:30:38.260
inside the womb. Like, how disgusting do you have to be to try to use a passage from the Gospels to try
00:30:46.660
to say that that's the Christian perspective? Okay, then he also says, and we'll end on this one for
00:30:53.000
this segment, that Stephen Colbert is actually the model of Christianity. Sop three. I just want to
00:31:00.380
thank you, Stephen, because I know you're not a politician, but you have really shown people in
00:31:05.400
this country what Christianity should be and what it means to actually live out the teachings of Jesus,
00:31:12.380
even in a talk show. Well, I, I, uh, I'm going to push back a little bit on that. Uh, that's very
00:31:18.480
nice of you to say. Okay. Well, at least he pushed back on that. Um, you know, I don't know Stephen
00:31:25.060
Colbert personally, he might be a nice guy. Um, but you know, he's promoted some of the most dangerous
00:31:32.760
lies of this culture with the, with the rest of the secular progressives. And if James Tallarico is
00:31:39.520
someone who is like the, did God, did God really say of our generation, if he is the one telling you
00:31:48.520
that you're a good Christian, that should cause some major self-evaluation. Like, and I just want
00:31:54.940
to give that as an aside and encouragement to you. It can be really hard to get criticism. It can be
00:32:00.380
really hard to be called names. You know, even though we laugh about Hillary Clinton writing a hit
00:32:06.040
piece about me and the Atlantic, it doesn't feel good for someone to accuse you of things that you
00:32:11.320
know, aren't true to try to malign your character when you know that that's not an accurate description
00:32:16.360
of who you are. But before you mourn, before you get sad about that, assess the character and the faith
00:32:24.480
of the person who is lodging that complaint against you. Before you have any kind of feeling
00:32:31.300
really about a compliment or a criticism, consider the source. And if it's someone who rejects the
00:32:39.080
gospel who is criticizing you, then that's probably a good assessment, probably a good assessment
00:32:45.940
that what you're saying and what you're representing is simply true. Now, speaking of races and speaking
00:32:53.360
of candidates, last night, I had the honor of moderating a debate between the Republican
00:32:59.580
attorneys general candidates in Texas. And so I'm going to give you just a few highlights of that.
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It's really important for us to know what the top law enforcement officer in a state like Texas is
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thinking and is going to do, whether you live in Texas or whether you live in any other state.
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What you might not realize is that the attorneys general in all of the states, especially all the
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Republican states, all work together to advance the cause of conservatism. They're really kind of
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on the front lines of the legal fight when it comes to enforcing laws against abortion, laws against
00:33:36.420
violating women's private spaces, laws against the genital mutilation of children. And Texas has
00:33:44.240
huge population, huge resources that smaller or less populous states like, say, Montana or Louisiana,
00:33:52.240
they really rely on the Texas AG to kind of lead the way in the fight on so many of these important
00:33:59.020
legal battles, defending the constitutional rights of Americans and especially championing the
00:34:04.900
conservative cause. So this was a big deal. I was super honored to be a part of it. And let me just
00:34:11.740
give you some behind the scenes and what happened going into it before we even play you some of the
00:34:16.900
highlights. So this all started because last year I just had this thought of wanting to have the
00:34:22.780
Republican attorney general's attorneys general candidates on the show. I was like, it'd be cool
00:34:27.920
to have them on individually, or maybe we could moderate some sort of debate. Maybe we could put it for
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Blaze TV subscribers or on YouTube. Somehow it evolved into something else. And the Republican
00:34:40.940
Attorney's General Association, known as RAGA, they connected with us and they said, you know,
00:34:46.800
actually we want to host kind of an official debate between the candidates and we would love
00:34:51.040
Ali to moderate it. Now, I was a little nervous about this. I've done a lot of things in front of
00:34:56.700
a lot of people. I've given a lot of speeches. I debated 20 liberals on camera. I have done a lot of
00:35:04.420
different news hits and obviously I do this podcast. But I was nervous about this because it's
00:35:09.600
different. One, I'm not always in the explicitly political sphere and I've never moderated a debate.
00:35:16.400
The closest thing that I've done to moderating a debate is like breaking up an argument between my
00:35:21.660
kids. And so I just didn't know exactly how it was going to be. And we put like, not just me,
00:35:28.680
but my team and I put so much thought and so much work and so much research and so much attention to
00:35:35.820
detail into every single question that we asked. And how we were kind of thinking about it is,
00:35:41.560
we know that we'll have a national audience that's watching this, but we don't want it to just be
00:35:46.020
national. It's got to be, they've got to be subjects that are particular to Texas, but also relevant
00:35:51.760
enough to people outside of Texas so that they will care and understand Texas is kind of leading the
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charge. We want questions that are going to highlight the differences between the candidates.
00:36:01.780
We want questions that could possibly put tension between the candidates and the Trump administration.
00:36:08.420
We'll get to those, one of those questions that I asked in a little bit. Also, if there is any
00:36:14.520
tension there, any disagreement between any of the candidates and the current attorney general of
00:36:19.700
Texas, which is Ken Paxton. And so we wanted to create those like juicy moments and maybe let the
00:36:26.940
sparks fly a little bit. And my challenge was being able to control the debate to try to keep us on time
00:36:35.400
as much as possible without being a school marm. I got some good advice from Megyn Kelly before this
00:36:42.300
debate. Of course, she has moderated presidential debates in the past and I knew that she would be a
00:36:47.440
great person to go to. And she had some great tips for me. You don't want to come across like a school
00:36:52.740
marm. Like you don't want to be the person that is constantly like nagging them and constantly
00:36:57.960
chastising the audience for applauding at the wrong time, constantly stopping someone if they're even a
00:37:03.440
second over 60 seconds. But at the same time, you don't want to be a pushover and you want to be fair
00:37:08.000
and you want to try to keep things moving along and you want to try to abide by the rules as much as
00:37:13.460
possible. Thankfully, for the most part, the candidates made it really easy. There wasn't a whole lot of
00:37:18.740
trying to talk over the other person or try to go outside the bounds of the rules. And also another
00:37:27.620
thing I did for preparation, which was just like fun. I hadn't done this. I hadn't watched these in
00:37:33.500
10 years. I was like, I'm going to watch some of the Republican primary debates from 2016. Wow,
00:37:40.840
what a different time. I just also have different eyes now for who all of these people are and what
00:37:46.440
they're capable of. But I watched one debate. I think it was a CNN debate and it was John Kasich and
00:37:51.980
then you had Ben Carson and then you had Cruz and you had Rubio and you had Trump and you watch them
00:37:57.280
walk out. This is just kind of an aside. It doesn't have anything to do with this attorney general
00:38:01.380
debate, but it was just funny. It was just funny to remember all of this and all the candidates walk
00:38:06.860
out and you see Trump. And now, of course, hindsight is 2020. And I'm like, it's obviously Trump of
00:38:12.360
these candidates. It's obviously Trump, just how he carries himself and how the room responds to him.
00:38:18.660
But then also all of the candidates give their opening statement. We've got eight years of Barack
00:38:23.200
Obama behind us. Most people are not happy with how the country is going. And yet all of these
00:38:27.840
candidates are giving these flowery opening statements about how amazing America is and how
00:38:33.980
much they love this country. And their grandmother was, I don't know, an immigrant from Czechoslovakia.
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And America is great. And we just need the conservatism of Reagan. And we're going into
00:38:44.880
this bright future. And now I can say, I'm like, oh, my gosh, that is totally disjointed from how
00:38:49.940
America felt. And then Trump comes in and he's just like, our borders are Swiss cheese. We're losing
00:38:55.520
ISIS. Obamacare is failing. And I'm like, oh, 100 percent. That is what people wanted to hear. So
00:39:03.060
anyway, I had kind of it was totally different than the debate that I did last night. But it kind of
00:39:09.680
just it made me think of worst case scenarios, how I would handle a back and forth if there were any
00:39:15.640
personal jabs, which there were a few personal jabs last night and how I would kind of navigate that
00:39:20.720
the moderators did a good job. But it was just good to kind of get in the headspace of like, oh,
00:39:25.920
yeah, this is how candidates talk to each other, how they how they feel about each other.
00:39:30.000
And so I try to ask some tough questions, put their feet to the fire. And so I'm going to give
00:39:34.640
you some highlights of what some of these candidates said about, for example, the Islamification of
00:39:39.540
Texas, about the abortion pill continuing to spill into Texas, much or largely because the Trump
00:39:47.260
administration has refused, at least for now, to do something about that illegal immigration,
00:39:53.360
crime. All the candidates had something interesting to say about these things. So we'll get into that in
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and openly conservative, because all the candidates are conservative, because Raga is conservative,
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I didn't have to pretend to be unbiased when it comes to the issues and how I phrase the questions.
00:41:23.400
Like we all agree on, for example, that the growing influence of Islam is something that's
00:41:29.080
troubling. Like I didn't have to like tiptoe around it. I didn't have to be politically correct.
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I could just say, okay, this is what we all agree on. What are you going to do about it? And so my first
00:41:38.580
question was that basically, I'm kind of paraphrasing what my question was, but what are you going to do
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about to address Texans concerns about the growing influence of organizations like the Muslim
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Brotherhood and planned communities like Epic City? And here is what Mr. Reitz, Aaron Reitz,
00:41:55.160
by the way, just before I play that clip, Aaron Reitz used to work for Attorney General Paxton. He
00:42:00.720
worked in the DOJ. So he is an attorney. He's actually the only one on the stage who is not yet
00:42:06.240
politician. Here is his answer on the Islam question that I gave them.
00:42:12.000
Islam is incompatible with Western civilization. And in spite of that, they've developed a dark,
00:42:18.840
dark network of 501c3s, nonprofits, corporate entities, shell entities, PACs, political candidates,
00:42:25.820
grant-making entities that have formed a network to rise the crescent moon over the Lone Star State.
00:42:32.300
As Attorney General, I'm going to treat the Sharia pushers like the feds treated the mafia
00:42:38.380
in the latter half of the 20th century. How many mob bosses did we get for committing murder? The
00:42:44.240
answer is not many, but we smoked them out like I'm going to smoke out the Sharia pushers by an
00:42:49.860
overwhelming force of investigations on process crimes, financial crimes, investigations, lawsuits.
00:42:56.280
And then on the abortion question, I asked them basically about the problem with the abortion
00:43:02.940
pill. Like we have, Texas has an enforcement framework in place after the Dobbs decision,
00:43:09.200
after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. We have pro-life laws on the books, but thousands of
00:43:15.000
mail-in abortion pills are arriving in Texas every day, are killing unborn Texans. And states like
00:43:22.280
Louisiana have sued the FDA because under the Biden administration, the FDA removed the rule that
00:43:27.500
these abortion pills like Mifepristone have to be dispensed in person at a medical facility.
00:43:33.280
And so Republican states are trying to get the FDA to change that guidance to say, no,
00:43:37.640
you got to get the abortion pill in person. You can't mail it in from these online providers who are
00:43:42.880
out-of-state providers. And the Trump administration has said that they're reviewing it,
00:43:46.940
but they have not done anything on it yet. And so I wanted to see what the candidates would say
00:43:52.520
about a Republican presidential administration, about the Trump administration, and what they
00:43:58.780
would do to protect unborn Texans, even if doing so actually puts them at odds with Trump's FDA.
00:44:08.160
The sad truth is too many conservatives want to pat themselves on the back for defunding
00:44:13.720
Planned Parenthood. When we have more babies being killed today with a pill than through
00:44:21.820
Planned Parenthood. So we need to act and the states need to pressure the FDA to get it right.
00:44:29.320
Okay. So what he says is correct there. Unfortunately, that's true. We love pro-life law. We want to
00:44:35.400
defund Planned Parenthood. We should be doing all of those things. But if unborn children are continuing
00:44:40.840
to die by the thousands, then obviously something is not right. And so we want an attorney general
00:44:47.180
who is going to do everything they can to fight on behalf of the rights of those unborn children not
00:44:54.280
to be murdered by the abortion pill. Obviously, huge issue in Texas and everywhere, but especially
00:44:59.820
Texas, because Texas has the largest border, is illegal immigration. And so there is this law called
00:45:06.560
SB4 that is in the courts right now, and it's basically been stopped. It can't be enforced.
00:45:12.540
And it was passed in the Texas legislature under the Biden administration because the Biden
00:45:17.620
administration was failing to secure Texas's border, which is also Americans' border.
00:45:22.900
And so the Texas legislature said, okay, well, we want to enforce our own immigration law. We want
00:45:28.740
to protect our own border. We want to be able to deport illegal immigrants if the federal agencies
00:45:33.800
aren't going to do so. And the courts are saying, oh, you can't do that. And right now, it's not
00:45:38.900
really a huge problem because the Trump administration is doing a good job of protecting
00:45:43.100
Texas's border. And so my question was, okay, if you are attorney general under a future presidential
00:45:50.120
administration, which happens to be Democrat, how are you going to make sure that Texas can
00:45:56.140
Anyone that is in the way of President Trump's deportation agenda, blocking ICE, things like you're
00:46:01.120
seeing in Minnesota. Guess what? The AG can sue them for three things, and I will. Number one,
00:46:06.080
civil penalties. Number two, criminal penalties. Number three, removal from office. And that also
00:46:11.020
includes when they're not cooperating with the 287G program, the ICE detainer program, which we require
00:46:21.300
Okay. So we want someone, an attorney general who is going to be super, super strong on that.
00:46:27.560
The attorney general could be, as I said, continue to be attorney general after Trump leaves office.
00:46:34.160
That means hopefully we don't have a Democrat president in a few years, but that's possible.
00:46:38.920
So that means those Republican attorneys general matter even more. Another candidate,
00:46:44.920
State Senator Joan Huffman. Maze Middleton is also, by the way, a state senator in the Texas
00:46:50.140
legislature. Erin Reitz criticized her because Reitz said that district attorneys, he listed the
00:47:01.000
district attorneys that he would go after day one due to their soft on crime policies and possible
00:47:06.900
Soros ties. But Senator Huffman responded saying that she wrote the bill to remove those rogue DAs,
00:47:13.920
but it's more complicated than just taking them out of office on day one. And then Reitz claimed
00:47:19.400
that the attorney general has the tools to do that, that that's a bad mentality. That's a loser
00:47:24.660
mentality. You can do this day one. She says you can't. He says you can. Well, Huffman responded to
00:47:33.520
I just was going to comment on his loser comment saying if it was something that could be done,
00:47:39.720
I would ask the question. It begs the question that why hasn't Paxton already done it?
00:47:44.760
Okay. There were a lot of fiery moments and back and forth, a lot of people going after Congressman
00:47:50.400
Chip Roy, probably because he is at least perceived as the front runner right now. And so you've got
00:47:57.860
Senator Maze Middleton and Mr. Aaron Wright, especially trying to go after Congressman Roy.
00:48:02.980
And so they made some fiery claims. We had a little bit of a back and forth there a few times. So I
00:48:08.380
really encourage you to go on YouTube or go on BlazeTV's X and watch this for yourself,
00:48:13.660
especially if you live in the state of Texas. By the way, early voting is open and voting day is
00:48:20.000
on March 3rd in Texas. And here's my advice that I always give you during election time. And I'm
00:48:25.020
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00:48:29.040
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00:48:33.840
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Okay. As usual, there were four other topics that we were going to get to today that we didn't end up
00:50:33.620
getting to, but we are going to cover those on Monday. We've unfortunately got multiple
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shootings committed by people who identify as transgender, but there's like something
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deeper in all of these stories that I want to explore. I will be talking about the Frida baby story
00:50:49.040
and just what we're seeing about the depth of depravity when it comes to the sexualization
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of children. And sometimes it's portrayed in this lighthearted way. And then sometimes with the
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Epstein files, it is like as obviously dark and demonic as you can get. And so we're going to
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explore all of that in Monday's episode. But since we only have a few minutes left, I wanted to talk about
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the shorter story that is somewhat lighthearted. But as you know, I also find the subject extremely
00:51:16.860
disturbing. So you'll probably remember, Brie used to always bring me these stories of adults
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treating their dolls as children. And it was just a form of sick torture that she liked to bring to
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the show. And I would always be so, so disturbed by these women who are trying to fill this void,
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which is a real void and a good desire of wanting to mother, wanting to nurture with this inanimate
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object. As much as I am against trying to replace a child with pets, I am even more so against trying
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to replace a child with a doll. Now, it's one thing to just have appreciation for dolls. I think in some
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ways, like men and women never really grow out of that, but it's just different because men get to
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actually go and fly planes and drive trains. And women don't really have like a version, like an
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adult version of like the things that we like to do as kids. But this is a very dark manifestation of
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that. It means that our priorities and how we are treating adulthood has really gone wrong. There are
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these conferences where these women who treat their dolls as toddlers, feed them, change their diaper,
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take them out. You're laughing out there in this room. It's true. And put them in baby carriers and
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put them in strollers. And like they take videos of them going on vacation with them. There is this
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whole influencer who like shows her day in the life where she's turning on the lights and she's like
00:52:50.720
waking up her children and their dolls. It's very, very, very sad, very sad. Like we need better
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hobbies. We need better ways to spend our time. But now we also have adults using dolls to
00:53:05.000
be progressive activists. And there's something, there's like a lot of crossover here between
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Disney adults, adult doll people, and these left-wing activists. And I think that the through line is
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actually what we call misplaced mothering, is that when your motherhood instinct is not channeled in
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the right healthy direction toward a, toward a child, whether it's your child or a child that
00:53:27.560
you're volunteering to take care of, it manifests itself in like really ugly and bitter and weird
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ways. So now we've got American doll, girl doll influencers. That's a thing that they're using their
00:53:36.540
platforms. This is according to the Rolling Stone to advance left-wing politics, including their
00:53:41.580
disdain for ice. So we've got this one person on Instagram back in time, AG. Okay. And this person,
00:53:49.720
Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the F out of Minnesota. You know what? Kirsten is churning
00:53:55.960
butter. Okay. She doesn't care about ICE. I guarantee you Kirsten and her parents would have supported
00:54:03.400
deporting illegal immigrants. And then you've got Josephine. I had a Josephine doll. ICE needs to get
00:54:09.720
the F out of my country. Josephine, you live in Mexico. Okay. ICE is not in your country.
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Um, there are other types of, um, other types of influencers that are also using their American
00:54:23.220
girl dolls to, uh, to protest what's going on with Trump and ICE. Uh, there's this collector,
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AGTV for life. She runs an Etsy shop selling doll clothes. Okay. So she, if you're not watching this,
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she has all of these dolls, she's got one in a wheelchair that says resist fascism. She says,
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resist. You've got, okay. So she's creating these little protest signs. They're at a no Kings protest.
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You've got way too much time on your hands. Okay. We need a job, girly. We need a hobby.
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We need to go to church. Oh my gosh. These, they have mouths like a sailor, these dolls.
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I just can't imagine finding your purpose in this. Um, oh, and we also have doll ICE agents.
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Oh my goodness. It's too much. It's too much. We're laughing, but think about what has to be going
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on spiritually for a person to spend their time doing this. We also have this other creator who
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is using their doll. Looks like with a fake AR 15 saying F ICE. Very disturbing. Very disturbing.
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I think that at the very least, like you need, you need to be visited. You need to be visited by the
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FBI. Maybe just to chit chat, but just like to check you out. If I found out that that is my neighbor,
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like we've got, we've got issues going on. So there's something simultaneously happening here.
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On the one hand, you've got the infantilizing of adults who use dolls and do a bunch of kids stuff.
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Like, you know, I'm not saying going to Disney as an adult is always bad, but the obsession is weird.
00:56:17.600
Also like adults watching bluey by themselves. Like there's this infantilization of adults going on,
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this extended adolescence that I think arrest the development that you need to actually be a
00:56:29.340
productive and like well-developed, healthy mentally person. But at the same time, there's an
00:56:34.220
adultification of children's stuff. We see that here. We've seen that with that whole, um,
00:56:41.040
scandal a few years ago, Balenciaga when Balenciaga, when they were putting like BDSM gear
00:56:47.700
on kids toys. And so it's the conflation and the confusion of adolescence and childhood and adulthood
00:56:56.120
that is making this very disturbing combination. Okay. And I'm not really sure exactly what the
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answer is, except, I mean, definitely find God, like definitely do that. Um, definitely change
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everything fundamentally about what you're doing, but there is something deeper spiritually going on
00:57:15.740
here that has to do with disorder, the confusion between man and woman, the confusion between right
00:57:21.600
and wrong, and obviously the confusion between adults and child that I'll have to take some more
00:57:25.900
time to analyze. But I just wanted to bring you with me on this very disturbing journey of adults
00:57:31.080
using dolls as left-wing activists. All right. Unfortunately, that's all we have time for today,
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but we've got a great show for you on Friday and then another great show for you on Monday,
00:57:40.060
where we will be focusing on some of the theological aspects of these things.
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And we will see you back here in a couple of days.