Ep 1318 ｜ My Parents’ Marriage, Oscars Shock, & Satanic Fashion with a Special Guest
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In this episode of Relatable, we have a special guest to talk about the Oscars, Paris Fashion Week, and much more! We are so thankful for the steadiness and joy that we have in Jesus Christ!
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Your marriage is the foundation of your children's and your grandchildren's lives.
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My parents have now been married for 46 years, and I want to explain three of the greatest
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gifts they've given me in that time and how they've shaped me forever.
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Also, the Oscars were last night, and one message we heard might actually come as a
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We have a special guest here today to break down the Oscars and Paris Fashion Week.
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We've got all of this and much more on today's episode of Relatable.
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We have a full and very fun show for you today.
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We don't have time to talk about one of the most pressing issues and one of the most pressing
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and depressing news events going on right now, and that is the repeated Islamic attacks that
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have occurred in various parts of the United States over the past few weeks.
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I've got a lot of commentary, but we will be talking about that more fully on Wednesday.
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I know today is typically our theology episode, which we will be talking about theology, and
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we will be talking certainly about an evergreen topic, especially at the top and a little bit
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Number one, God's eternal plan of redemption is definitely 100% going off without a hitch.
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He's not wondering what Iran's next move is.
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He's not wondering what the Trump administration is going to decide.
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He's not sitting back and thinking what the consequences could be to all of this.
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There are no maverick molecules in all of creation.
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He is not traveling along the same linear timeline as we are.
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He sees the crucifixion just as clearly as he sees this moment, just as clearly as he sees
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He knows everything that is going to happen in his eternal plan of redemption to bring
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his people to himself, to claim victory once and for all in complete and total dominion
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He knows the day and the hour, unlike anyone else, that Jesus is coming back to defeat the
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enemy once and for all and to live in perfect peace forever and ever.
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I think probably there will be no more podcasts.
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I'm not totally sure, but there will be no more disagreement because we, God's people who
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have been claimed as his people through Christ, our Messiah will live in perfect peace under
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And so Christians, because we are sure of that victory, because we have that hope to
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Yes, we pay attention to what's going on in the news because what's going on in the news
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has an impact on our neighbor, has an impact on our lives, has an impact on the country in
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which God has providentially and purposely placed us.
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We care about politics simply because we care about people and politics affects policy.
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Policy affects people and people matter to God and to us.
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Yes, we might have expressions of righteous anger and righteous outrage, but our joy and
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our steadiness and our hope, our calmness remains the same because we have a sure and steadfast
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And Hebrews 13, 8 tells us that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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The algorithm is constantly moving, but Jesus Christ is the same forever.
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Psalm 16 reminds us that in his presence is pleasure forevermore.
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We have fullness of joy at his right hand, not anywhere else, not in the future, not in
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a promotion, not in that thing that we hope to buy or hope to have, not in the next election,
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And because of God's grace through Christ, we have access to God's presence in total confidence.
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And so no matter what's going on in your life, no matter what's going on in the world, no
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matter what's going on in social media, that is the hope that we have.
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And I'm just so thankful for it, as I know all of you are too.
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That was first reminder, the reminder that we give every Monday.
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There's going to be some of you out there that are like, I don't like the changes.
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And you will get used to it, just like you got used to this new set.
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And we've had different lighting and coloring changes over the years.
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And, you know, some have been better than others.
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We got an upgrade in camera and lighting and all of that.
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And hopefully you feel that this is even more engaging than it was before.
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Very thankful to the team for setting this all up.
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And we will even have some more improvements and changes.
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As you can see behind me, I've got a new guest set up too,
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As of yesterday, my parents have been married 46 years.
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My mom had this resolution that she told me about a long time ago.
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It was a resolution for herself that she would not get married as a teenager.
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And her reason for that was that her parents had gotten pregnant with her and then married as teenagers.
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And even though that had technically worked out for them, she also saw that it caused a lot of turbulence in their lives.
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So one month after she turned 20, and while my dad was still 19, they got married in El Dorado, Arkansas.
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And a year and a half later, they had my oldest brother.
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Three years after that, they had my other brother.
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They moved states, they moved cities, they changed jobs, and they have, over 46 years, overcome many, many challenges.
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Staying married for almost half a century is a huge accomplishment that they would say has been made possible by the grace of God
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and the resolve that they had that marriage is for life.
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Both of them, I think, my mom and dad craved stability.
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So they worked really hard to ensure that my brothers and I enjoyed a level of peace in our home that they didn't really have as much growing up.
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And I want to honor all of that, their 46 years, by highlighting three of the greatest gifts that my parents have given me.
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And I hope that these things are an encouragement to you, whether you are looking for your future spouse, whether you are married,
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and especially if you've been married just a little while, maybe you're on the cusp of raising children, you're in a tough season.
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I just hope that this gives you the spirit of endurance and perseverance that my parents really instilled in me.
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So the first gift, the first greatest gift that my parents gave me was faith in Christ.
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My parents, my grandmother, who lived with us throughout my life, taught me about Jesus from the earliest stages possible.
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Hymns, Bible stories, prayer were a normal part of our routines.
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And the reason I know so many hymns, why their lyrics have been etched into my heart is because of the hymns my mom and I would sing before bed at night,
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that she was taught going to church growing up.
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My mom has always been a diligent prayer and a studier of God's word.
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She probably has hundreds of journals of her prayers and thoughts about scripture that I watched her fill over the years in her morning routine with her coffee and her journal and her Bible and her Bible study.
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And my dad made sure as the leader of our family that we were in church every week and ensured that my brothers and I had a Christ-centered education.
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So my love for scripture, my passion to understand it, to defend it, was instilled in me because as a baby, I was taught the word of God.
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I was taught the truth of the gospel because I lived in a home where Jesus's authority was just a given.
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And nowadays, this phrase, I was raised in a Christian home, is usually accompanied by a story of trauma or of what's called church hurt or abuse or hypocrisy.
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And then it's followed by a narrative of leaving the faith and finding true identity and happiness and liberation inside themselves.
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If you watch documentaries or you see on social media or in Hollywood, there are virtually no positive depictions of Christian parents raising their children to go to church, to memorize scripture, to pray, to get baptized, to help others and to love Jesus.
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It's all cast in this very harsh light of so-called fundamentalism or extremism or hyper-patriarchy, repression or legalism.
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And you never really see depicted in the mainstream other kinds of religious homes that are represented in this negative way.
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It's only ever Christian homes that are displayed like this.
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And while that may be accurate for a sliver of families that identify as Christian, that kind of repressive, hyper-strict home, that is not representative of most Christian families in America.
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And it's certainly not representative of the one that I grew up with.
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Many pieces of my upbringing are echoed in so many stories of deconstruction and apostasy today.
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I was taught about Jesus from the earliest ages.
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I went to a Southern Baptist church at least twice a week, my entire upbringing.
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I attended youth group where sexual purity was emphasized.
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I attended a conservative Christian private school, kindergarten through 12th grade.
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And the popular conclusion to that story is, well, now I resent it.
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We hear a lot of people say, I wish I had had more experiences growing up.
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Now I see the ignorance of my pastor and my parents.
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And now I've gone out into the world and found what it has to offer me.
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And it's so much better and so much more freeing than the myopic worldview that I was raised in.
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And let me tell you, I am so thankful for how I was raised, for the faith and the sincerity and the consistency and the perseverance of faith that my parents gave me.
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What a tremendous gift, the gift of salvation, eternal salvation by grace through faith in Christ, the gift of wisdom, the gift of biblical clarity, the gift of seeing all of that walked out in parenting and marriage and business.
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And I know not everyone listening or watching has that foundation.
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And maybe you're thinking, gosh, is everything lost because I wasn't raised that way?
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But ultimately, your salvation is secure in Jesus.
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Jesus is the true author and perfecter of our faith.
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But what an incredible blessing it is to not be able to even recall one day that I didn't hear about him.
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My parents would be the first to tell you that they weren't perfect because no one is.
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There are probably things they would have done differently.
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But there is no question that they purposely and intentionally ensured that all three of us, my brothers and I, knew where to find the answers to our questions.
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So that is the first greatest gift that my parents gave me that I am so thankful for.
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The second gift, the second wonderful gift that my parents have given me in their 46 years of marriage that I've been around for 34 of,
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That is the second greatest gift, their marriage.
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I knew that my parents would never get a divorce, and you might hear that and be skeptical and ask,
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They had seasons that were more tense than others, I'm sure, but I never, ever felt that their future or that my future was unsure.
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You read op-ed after op-ed in the New York Times and the Atlantic and the New Yorker, glorifying divorce, divorcing your spouse when things get tough,
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when the person turns out to be different than what you thought, when you feel like you've lost yourself,
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when you fall into the lie that your children would be happier if you were able to pursue your happiness outside of the confines of marriage.
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It's glamorized, it's this kind of like exciting stop in a person's journey of self-love and self-discovery.
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And not only is this very rosy depiction of divorce just completely inaccurate for most people,
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it also totally negates the negative effect divorce has on kids.
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Unless a marriage is rife with abuse and is wildly tumultuous, divorce really does not bring peace.
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It doesn't bring peace for people, especially not children.
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It brings confusion, it brings chaos, a loss in a child's sense of belonging and acceptance and stability in their future.
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And more than anything else in the world, this married mother-father structure is the most protective, stabilizing force for kids.
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It is the greatest predictor of a child's success and their soundness in mind.
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And I am so thankful that both my husband and I have been given this gift from our parents.
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We do not take for granted that both of our parents are still married.
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His parents are on year 47, I believe, this year.
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We both grew up in homes where divorce was just never an option.
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And that has set us up so well and we are just both really grateful for it.
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And it wasn't just that the cohesion of my parents' marriage was clearly important growing up.
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It was also that character to my parents was and is really important.
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Integrity was a really big deal in our home, even outside of just marriage.
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I knew my dad and my mom, but specifically my dad when it came to business and things like that, to be a man of integrity.
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A big value in our family was telling the truth.
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We would get in trouble, yes, for disobeying, going against the rules, but we would get in way more trouble if we lied about it.
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Telling the truth, even when it is hard, was something that was just, it was emphasized so much growing up.
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And it still informs not only how I do the show, but also how I hope to live my life, how I do business, how I navigate friendships, how I'm a mom myself.
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Don't lie. Don't be sneaky. If you ding someone's car and no one saw you do it, you write a note with your contact information and you put it on their windshield.
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You don't go back on your word. You don't betray someone. You go out of your way to be above reproach, to be the bigger person.
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You communicate clearly so that there's no hidden tension or misunderstandings with a friend or a business partner.
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You take ownership of what you're doing, even beyond what's expected for you.
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And I haven't always met that standard in every single stage of my life, but that is the standard that was set for me.
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That is the standard that I am always trying to strive toward.
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And so in addition to seeing my parents' workout conflict stick together, even when times were hard,
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I think this was one of the biggest reasons that I knew I could trust my parents to be faithful to each other and to us.
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I never saw them say one thing to our friends or teachers or our pastor and then act another way in another setting or in private.
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Even in my teenage years, when I didn't always agree with them, I did always know that I could trust them, that they were never going to betray me.
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They were never going to walk out. They were never going to betray each other.
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I mean, what an incredible gift. That is very rare. And I'm just so thankful that my parents gave that to me.
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And the third gift that my parents gave me that you've heard me talk about a lot is Christian education.
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My dad always said that he would do whatever it took, however many hours he had to work, however many shifts he had to work,
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to make sure my brothers and I attended a Christian school.
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My grandmother, my grandfather, my mom all worked in the public school system.
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They didn't have a specific bias against public school.
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My parents are products of the public school system of yore.
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And certainly it would have been easier and cheaper to send us all to public school,
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especially if we lived in a good area, which we did.
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But that is something my parents never even considered compromising on.
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I went to the same Christian school, kindergarten through 12th grade.
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In many ways, the school is not the same today as it was when I was growing up.
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But I would not trade my education for anything.
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In addition to the Holy Spirit and my parents, my kindergarten through 12th grade education
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is responsible for instilling in me the Word of God, the ability to memorize it,
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to defend it, to think logically, to reason, to read, to write, to argue.
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Despite the fact that I've been reading the ESV, the English Standard Version of the Bible,
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for 12 plus years since I was in college, almost all of my scripture memory in my mind
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because that is the version that we read in church and in school growing up.
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And that just goes to show how crucial it is to disciple your kids from an early age,
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because what they learn now, they will keep with them as adults,
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even more than the things they learn as adults.
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That Jubilee debate, every time now, since that came out, I think in October,
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every time I go speak, I always have several people come up to me and say,
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Oh my goodness, I love that Jubilee debate, which I'm so thankful for, by the way.
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Yes, it took a lot of practice and preparation and skill, experience.
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Yes, my parents in so many ways prepared me for that just by how they raised me,
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but also 13 years of Christian education, a decade of Awana, eight years of youth group,
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You just can't beat the evangelical upbringing when it comes to knowing the Bible.
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I use it every single day, not just in this podcast, but as a parent.
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And I'm so thankful for 13 years of hiding God's word in my heart
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There are a lot of people who insist that it really doesn't make a difference.
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Whether your child goes to public school or to Christian school,
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you know, they'll say that God is sovereign over their salvation.
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And it is true that there are Christian school graduates who are now apostates.
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It is true that there are public school graduates who are missionaries
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But how we raise our kids, what we teach them, what we allow others to teach them
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We have a choice between 13 years, eight hours a day, five days a week of our children being
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discipled by, at best, an unbiblical worldview, at worst, an anti-biblical worldview,
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or our kids being discipled for 13 years, five days a week, eight hours a day by a biblical worldview.
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Which one do you think will give them a better grasp of the scriptures?
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The hours of discipleship that you give your children at night and on the weekend,
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They absolutely help lay a wonderful foundation.
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But when you compare the time spent at home versus the time spent at school, those hours
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at night and on the weekend, even if all of them are dedicated to discipleship, which
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let's be honest, most of them are not, they really pale in comparison to the influence
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Now, I understand, as I say that, that there are a few nuances to that conversation.
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And depending on your situation, there may be some exceptions, but to me, as a rule, there
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really is no question that parents have to do everything possible to ensure their kids
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at home or in school have an education that is explicitly Christ-centered.
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Because two plus two equals four only because God made the world.
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And people kind of like are taken aback when I say that.
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First of all, I'm not the first person to say that.
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Anyone who understands logic and who understands basic fundamental theology recognizes that
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Two plus two equals four because God made the world because he is the creator of it.
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He is the maker of the universe in every number, every data point, every molecule that
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So if you have the option, don't let your child go through their entire upbringing without
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learning that, which is really the foundation of the Christian worldview.
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Like so many Christian children are raised not knowing that, not believing that, not understanding
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And then we wonder why today we look at all of the studies that we have and so many even
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professing Christians don't know the basics of Christianity.
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If we don't know where truth comes from, like who the author of history is, who created
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languages, who is the source of all mathematic and scientific truth, it's going to be very
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difficult to navigate a world who is constantly assaulting biblical reality.
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So I just want to say thank you to my mom and dad, uh, for not only allowing me to have that
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education, but for bringing me to church, maybe even when I didn't want to, when I was
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little, um, and for staying married and for loving each other through a lot of highs and
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a lot of lows and giving me an example of what persevering in Christian marriage looks like.
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It is a great and wonderful gift that will pay off for the rest of my life.
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And not only my life, but my children's lives and my grandchildren's lives.
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So thank you mom and dad and happy anniversary.
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We are going to get into a segment with a special guest, a guest that you guys have been missing
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Now we're going to be talking about a lot more lighthearted things in this next segment.
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Um, some of you love this segment that, that we're about to do, that we're about to bring
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back from the past that we haven't done in a while.
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And some of you are like, I don't really care about that stuff.
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Um, but for those of you who like our fashion ratings, you'll want to stick around with our
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And who better to try it out first than producer Brie, y'all?
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So many of y'all have been asking how she's doing, what she's up to.
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And of course, we're going to talk about all things fashion when it comes to the Oscars and Paris Fashion Week.
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But first, I thought y'all would like to get an update just about how you're doing, how your new job is.
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And a lot of people have asked me directly, too, which is really sweet.
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I feel like a lot of people who know me know that Global Missions is something I'm super passionate about.
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And so, especially in the areas of the world that are spiritually darkest.
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And it was tough to leave here and all of you guys.
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Gosh, I was thinking about everything that happened in the world and in relation to this show as soon as you left.
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It was a couple days after that, September 5th, yeah.
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So, September 5th, that's five days before Charlie was murdered.
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We had so much that has gone on over the past few months after you left.
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And I don't know exactly what God was doing with all of that.
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And I'm so thankful for the team that we have that just stepped right up and we were able to move forward seamlessly.
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But, man, so much has just happened over the past few months.
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Okay, have you ever thought, even while you're, like, loving your job and so fulfilled there, about some of these things and thinking,
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hmm, like, how would I, what would we be talking about on Relatable?
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I do think that now I'm a little bit just naturally more unplugged from some things.
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There are a lot of stories on X that I scroll past.
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And to be honest, I'm just like, that's none of my business.
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And you're like, I'm so glad that it doesn't have to be my business anymore.
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And so that I think for certain things that are happening has been good for me to be able
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to, like, unplug and detach and not pay as much attention to.
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But yeah, a lot of stories I come across, I'm like, that would be one.
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You also talked about Alyssa Liu and her upbringing and all of that.
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So sometimes Relatable and Bree's thoughts and her postings do still coincide.
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I'm telling you, I tell people when I worked on the show, I was like, I just align with
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But ultimately, she was fired for being a Swifty.
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Hopefully, maybe you'll be at Share the Arrows again, maybe this next year.
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But I'm so glad that we have you here for your update.
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As you know, the Relatable audience is the best.
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So continue doing that and just send her some encouragement.
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But now we are into much more important things.
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We don't have any representation in Hollywood for Relatable because I don't watch these award shows.
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So first, I want you to tell us before we get into the fashion ratings, what went on last night?
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Yeah, I will say I was less annoyed at this Oscars overall than I typically am.
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So some of them, I think, have toned it down a little bit because I think they understood how annoying they were starting to be.
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He had some jokes that I thought were not great.
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He had some jokes about Trump that didn't land for me.
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But for the most part, and there were some political speeches.
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But for the most part, I felt like it was fine.
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One thing I've noticed about the Oscars now is that all of the movies are not movies that the average person would watch.
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So I saw posts that were like, I didn't even know the Oscars were happening.
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It's because you didn't see any of the movies that are nominated.
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I was going to say, had you seen any of the movies nominated?
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Life is too short, I feel like, to watch movies that I think are going to suck.
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I used to be like, if I start a book, I've got to finish it just as a matter of principle.
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But I started reading it, and it was just a bunch.
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All of the reviews in it had like five F-bombs in the first two pages.
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I went to the airport bookstore, and I got my $22 back.
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I've heard some of the movies, like with Timothy Chamolet, who I don't think won anything.
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But yeah, I mean, it got nominated a lot, I think.
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We have a lot that we could play, but I don't want to exhaust our audience with the idiocies
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Jimmy Kimmel, he was serving as a presenter rather than a host.
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He took a jab at CBS over its decision to cancel the late show with Stephen Colbert.
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As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don't support free speech.
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So I think he's talking about canceling Stephen Colbert, but also talking about the whole James
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Tallarico thing, which we talked about on our show.
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I don't know if this was one of the stories where you're like, that's none of my business,
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but James Tallarico was supposed to be on the Stephen Colbert show, but then CBS was
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And Tallarico and Stephen Colbert was like, this is censorship.
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And so Trump orchestrated this, but really it was just that it violated the rule that
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So not his Republican opponent, but his Democrat opponent, Jasmine Crockett, and they weren't
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So they just had to cancel it and air it on YouTube.
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He, Tallarico was able to raise like $2 million.
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This is just like a longstanding since like 1936 rule that the FAA has had.
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Also, I will just say he was announcing, I think, short documentary and the one that
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But basically saying like Trump is going to be so mad.
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Anyone who's like really into history, the history of like the presidents, um, will find
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He made a joke about like, oh, it's a lot of her trying on shoes.
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It is a lot about like her fashion and design and stuff like that.
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So I loved it, but I get why, you know, Jimmy Kimmel maybe wouldn't like it.
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So did you learn anything about Melania that you didn't know?
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I mean, there were some things I would have done differently.
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There were some things that they spent a lot of time on that I was like, okay, we get
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And it's just a lot of like really good blowouts.
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I was wondering if they did her hair and makeup on camera because I want to see that how they
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Another moment that I thought was a really sweet moment that you don't usually see at
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This is an actress that I've, I've never heard of because I've never watched Hamnet and I
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don't know what Hamnet is, but people keep telling me that I need to watch it.
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So there's a reason why it's so similar to the word Hamlet.
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I'm like, okay, we need to come up with some new words.
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She won for best actress in Hamnet and she dedicated her speech to motherhood.
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And I want to have 20,000 more babies with you.
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And Isla, my little girl who is eight months, who has absolutely no idea what's going on
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So I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother's heart.
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I know that the movie is about them losing their son, who I believe is named Hamnet.
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But she says in that speech, she's like, this collided, me doing this role collided with
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And so she was able to really glean a lot from that.
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I don't know all Oscar speeches, but I've never heard a speech dedicated to motherhood.
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I don't know if I've seen people think their kids.
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But dedicating it to motherhood as an institution and saying something to your husband,
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He said something similar to his wife when he was winning.
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But, you know, a lot of times you see someone like Michelle Williams or whoever it is, someone
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going up there and being like, if I hadn't had an abortion, I wouldn't have been able
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Well, obviously being a mom and accomplishing these things is possible at the same time.
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Maybe I want to read it first and then watch it.
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It just feels like I can't talk when I say Hamnet.
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But have you seen that bit by Nate Bregazzi where he's at Walmart and he is looking for
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Now we have to move on to the important conversation about fashion.
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I purposely don't see them before, but you sent a list of outfits that you thought stood
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Although I will say, I posted one of my stories last night that I thought was amazing, and
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I just wanted to give you a taste of the disagreement that we were going to have.
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Just sometimes I just like to throw people off.
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And she's been in, she used to play like the kid version of every actress ever.
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Or is that a sash that she's kind of wearing around her back?
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I would say that this is maybe in her color season.
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Um, I'll give it, you know, I'll give it a seven and a half.
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I don't like it when actresses don't wear things that fit them nicely.
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Um, let's do our fave girl, Jessie Buckley.
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You'll probably see a theme as we go through these.
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I mean, it could be so much worse, but I would give it probably a four.
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You know, I feel like that takes away from the dress.
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I feel that the dress underneath it would probably fit, like be pretty and fit nicely.
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I want the underneath dress to be a fitted red dress, or I want her to do the pink taffeta
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So I'm sorry, Jesse, I really like you, but yeah, I probably would rate it maybe a little
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She don't, you don't think she sings for Moana?
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I don't know why we needed to put roses over the boobs, you know?
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And the hip thing going on, it's like three different wedding dresses into one, and it
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Not everyone can pull off this cream color, but yeah, now the shape and everything, it's
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Um, I mean, like objectively, no, it's objectively, no, but she can pull it off.
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I mean, she looks amazing, but the outfit I think is awful.
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And I will say she wears things like this all the time and frustrates me because she's
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And I know she's catching strays because she's not even an actress.
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No, she's probably one of the only people like this body type can pull off the low rise
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You, Gracie Abrams, you would have loved the early two thousands, but objectively, no.
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That was like 15 years ago when that movie came out.
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Like it's pretty, but I think she could do better.
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And then we've got our boy, Marty Supreme, Timothy Chamolet.
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Um, he is, uh, facial hair looks like Jack Sparrow.
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So the outfit even isn't that, you know, revolutionary.
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A guy cannot go wrong with a well tailored tux.
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So why a man would ever trying to reinvent the wheel?
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This person has taken a lot of flack for her appearance lately.
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I think it would look nice and like a peach or a green, but I mean, she looks pretty.
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And she, I will say when you see videos of her on the red carpet, it is pretty jarring
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because she can't really move her face right now.
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Oh, so that's frustrating for me because she's known as like a really expressive actress.
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And I hope that she's not ruining that for herself, but she does look great in a photo.
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I think it's basic and boring and she could have done so much better.
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She, people are just talking about how thin she is and also talking about her facial work.
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Obviously you don't really know what's going on with someone who has lost a lot of weight.
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So we won't speculate on that, but yeah, she's gotten a lot of work done on her face,
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which is unfortunate because she was so unique looking, like very beautiful, but not typical,
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you know, like Hollywood beauty, which is what I think made her fun and fun to watch.
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And so it does make me sad when people get surgeries to look like everyone else.
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So yeah, I hope that she's not going on Instagram, going down that path.
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Let's see how many more we have because we might need to pick and choose a little bit because
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Let's do, let's do Kevin O'Leary and see what he's up to.
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I, you know, I couldn't tell you about the jacket.
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Also, he's wearing like, um, a sports, some sort of like collector's card or something around his neck.
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I forget the number, but I think it's like $300 million or something.
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It is, you know, I think the best thing you can say about it is that it is a choice.
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That he decided between a standard talks and this, and he chose this.
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I kind of respect it because I don't even know why he's there.
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I think he's, I think he might be in Marty Supreme actually, but yeah, he is.
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Let's, um, I did not know that this was a person.
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I thought it was the name of like, I don't know, um, a bank?
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She is in the movie that won Best Film, which is called, I don't remember what it's called.
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I got to look through the document really fast.
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Oh, some of these people just very, very forgettable.
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I'm curious what you are going to think about Elle Fanning.
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Oh, you can't really see the detail on it from here, but.
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And when you see it up close, it looks even better.
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Um, the feathers by her face, I think are a lot.
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I like the feathers at the bottom more than the feathers at the top.
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I think when you see her move, they're not as in her face.
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And when she walked out, I thought she looked really cool.
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Um, my first, my gut instinct was to hate this.
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But the more, yeah, the more I saw it, I was just like, no, I think it's cool.
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Yeah, I'm going to probably do a 7.2, maybe a 6.8.
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I'm getting a lot of eights, but I feel like people did well this year.
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There are definitely more comments that we could give, but we just don't have the time, Brie.
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But we got to talk about Paris Fashion Week quickly, okay?
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And let's just go ahead and start rolling those voiceovers of Paris Fashion Week.
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They all look like Chapel Rhone and Bad Bunny to me.
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Okay, so for the audience at home, this is coming from Lips of TikTok.
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It is just a compilation of all these celebrities dressed basically like demons.
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I'm not talking about them as people, but I'm just talking about how they're portraying themselves.
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That person has a weird BDSM thing going on.
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And I don't know what kind of statement they're trying to make.
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If it's some kind of critique of society or if they are just the demonic people themselves.
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Now, I don't know enough about Paris Fashion Week to know, is it usually about beauty?
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Or is it about, is it kind of like the Met Gala that's supposed to be weird?
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It's like a time for actual designers to do their actual collections.
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But I think there's also, you know, all these weird things that, you know, they got to have events for people to go to, I guess.
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So they give all these people a platform and I don't know.
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Do you think that like the celebrities who go to shows like that are like sitting there like, wow, this is really good?
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No, I think that they're all thinking about being seen and how the world is interpreting them.
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And what kind of statement they're making and what kind of opportunity or attention this is going to get them.
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Oh, I bet I'm going to be the strangest, most bizarre, most, you know, edgiest person there.
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I don't think that they are there to enjoy the art or to enjoy the spectacle.
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I think they are there to be the art and to be the spectacle.
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So, okay, so there are a couple of these designers and that I guess portrayed their fashion in Paris Fashion Week.
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He unveiled the 2026 collection that Vogue Runway described as gloom made tangible because all of us are like, how can I get my hands on some gloom?
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So this person, did we already put up Fullscreen27?
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The soundtrack for the collection was labeled the aural equivalent of a nervous breakdown.
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Again, I have always wanted my nervous breakdowns to become an aura that I could just kind of like swim through.
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I'm tired of these terrible feelings just being out there somewhere.
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Sometimes I scroll and look at all the news and I'm like, I want more terrible aura around me.
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And I want to wear it and I want a gargoyle on my head or I'm done.
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So, next time you are looking to get dressed, don't neglect this.
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You probably have this lying around your house.
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We're laughing about this, but it's actually scary.
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When you are picking out bridesmaids dresses in the future, Brie, I want this to come back
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It's like, I love how all of them have like pants on their head covering half of their face.
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I feel like you could, anyone could be a designer today if you just did really weird stuff.
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You're like, oh, what if we did shoes as glasses?
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The, oh, I'm not going to be able to pronounce this because it's in French.
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His show featured a model chained to a statue of a man's head.
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The brand's inspiration comes from fellow child elites the designer met in rehab as a young man.
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He once said, if you were going, this is, okay, this is actually disturbing.
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If you were going to kill yourself, wouldn't you want to do it with a $7,000 cashmere noose?
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I think people underestimate how many people in Hollywood, the fashion world, movie industry,
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Who are working out their trauma and demonic possession through entertainment and fashion.
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And they feel like they need to share that with the world.
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This is what happened when Ronald Reagan was like, we don't need mental institutions anymore.
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See, again, demonic, ugly, disgusting, morbid.
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Their collection, the 1%, a theatrically morbid collection, fusing body horror prosthetics,
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vampiric couture, and bloodstained luxury.
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The designers say the collection criticizes wealth, power, corruption, and inequality.
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Somehow I just don't feel like that's what it's accomplishing.
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And I guess the point of all of these is not that people would wear this stuff.
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And that's going to haunt you in your sleep at night.
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That's what we, that's the end of, that's literally the end of my document.
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But I mean, there is something just very dark about the glorification of the demonic
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that we see among a lot of people in Hollywood and in the music industry.
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I don't, the amount of times that those descriptions said morbid is kind of crazy, actually.
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But, you know, I think it all is in their heads.
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And it seems like the very same people are, who are like, oh, we need more peace and empathy
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and understanding and coexist in the world or also would brush this stuff off as like,
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Well, we can't be glorifying morbidity and death and gruesomeness and the demonic and
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There's a lot that's going on in Hollywood that I don't know, maybe doesn't really matter,
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but at the same time, it tends to affect culture.
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Um, Brie, thank you so much for rating fashion and talking about, um, Hollywood.
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I'm going to put you a little bit on the spot because we got to end on a, we got to end
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We got to be reminded that God is in control and that Jesus wins and light wins.
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Can you tell the audience, please, specifically one way that we can pray for you and pray also
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for the missions that you are a part of and that you are helping facilitate for Christians
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Um, I think for me, so my role is working a lot with, um, with the missionaries who are
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And because my organization specializes in like the darkest places, um, there are just
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a lot of people in the middle East right now, specifically who, um, are really struggling
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with whether they should leave, whether they should stay.
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And, um, so I think that's one way you can pray for like global missions as a whole is,
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um, yeah, just that part of the world and the local Christians, like not just the Americans
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who are there, but the people, the Christians who like are in Iran, they need a lot of prayer
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Um, and for me, I think, I mean, I'm doing a lot of like communications with those missionaries.
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And so, um, I would just love prayer for, for that and for stamina, I'm going to be traveling
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And, um, so yeah, health and travel safety and for everything that's going on to not affect
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Please keep Brie and all of the missionaries that she works with in her prayers.