Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1371 ｜ Ms. Rachel Praises Hijabs on Kindergarteners – Ignores This Dark Truth ｜ Bri Schrader

00:00:00.520 Miss Rachel praises kindergarten girls wearing hijabs in Minnesota, but there's a huge injustice

00:00:06.720 happening to these kids in these communities that Miss Rachel, for some reason, will not call out.

00:00:12.900 Also, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are married. We've got someone who is going to give us

00:00:17.940 insight on that in today's Lifestyle Pitter-Patter segment. We've got all of this and more on today's

00:00:23.420 episode of Relatable.

00:00:30.000 hey guys welcome to relatable happy wednesday hope everyone has had a wonderful week so far

00:00:39.640 we've got your favorite guest i think she is your all-time favorite guest she is a recurring guest

00:00:45.380 and that is producer brie she is back for a lifestyle pitter patter at the end of this

00:00:50.760 episode so you have that to look forward to and then we'll get into all of the craziness of course

00:00:55.440 that's going on in the world. But first, before we start, I just want to give this shout out to

00:01:00.620 a precious family that I got to meet when I was traveling. When we travel across the country,

00:01:04.860 we always run into related girls and related bros and different people who come up and every

00:01:10.080 interaction has always been so positive and kind. And some people ask me, is it weird having people

00:01:16.160 come up? It's really not. As long as it is a kind interaction, a sweet interaction. And as long as

00:01:23.060 I'm not trying to like wrangle my kids at the Atlanta airport, which this has happened

00:01:27.620 before, that I am totally happy, always happy to stop and talk.

00:01:31.900 And I just had this super meaningful conversation with someone who came up to my husband and

00:01:39.120 me and he was holding his little two-year-old girl and he was just telling us about how

00:01:45.360 through Relatable the Lord was able to change his heart when it came to the issue of life.

00:01:50.680 And he told us his story with his wife and their marriage and their faith and just how

00:01:54.920 the Lord has grown that so much.

00:01:56.460 And then he told me that his little girl that he was holding was named Allie.

00:02:01.860 And y'all, I just broke down and started crying.

00:02:05.600 I just wept for the meaning and the purpose that the Lord has graciously allowed me to

00:02:13.100 see through y'all and through the conversations that we have.

00:02:16.080 And there is no credit of mine or our team's to be taken.

00:02:19.860 It is just a constant reminder to me how the Lord uses imperfect vessels to accomplish his will and

00:02:28.260 to advance his kingdom. And let me tell y'all literally the moment that this person came up to

00:02:33.840 me, um, I was looking down at my phone and I was reading some comments on Instagram that were

00:02:39.940 negative, that were saying the most ridiculous things because of my perspective on the, uh, 0.65

00:02:46.500 Tyler Robinson trial, just absolute ridiculousness and slander. And it's so easy to get quickly 0.78

00:02:52.960 discouraged by people who try to malign your motives or just say things about you that aren't

00:02:57.740 true because they disagree with you. And then literally, as soon as I am kind of like wallowing

00:03:02.840 in that negativity, this person comes up with the most encouraging story. And I don't even want to

00:03:07.760 get into all the details for the sake of privacy. And this little sweet girl that was, um, that was 0.91

00:03:16.280 named Allie. The Lord always is very kind in sending encouragement at just the right time.

00:03:23.080 And I just want to thank y'all for the moments that you guys have sent that encouragement and

00:03:27.680 sent those prayers. That is what keeps this going. Yes, the Lord, yes, support of family and friends

00:03:34.460 and all of that, but this would not exist if you guys weren't consistently communicating with me

00:03:41.080 and just letting me know that this is something that has been fruitful in your lives. Because as

00:03:46.080 you know, there's a lot of craziness, a lot of negativity that goes on in the world. And it's

00:03:51.060 easy to just feel sometimes demoralized and to wonder, okay, is there any purpose in this?

00:03:57.240 Like, is everyone just going to lose their minds? Should we just, should we keep going? Should we

00:04:01.580 throw in the towel? And then it seems like the Lord just provides encouragement, not just to me,

00:04:06.520 but to all members of the body of Christ in the different directions that we're going to say,

00:04:11.320 keep slugging keep going and so just thank you for that and um it was so wonderful to meet you

00:04:17.480 out there you know who you are and all of you that i get to interact with in person in real life

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00:04:44.140 going to be on stage. We'll have Kosti Hinn who is speaking. We'll have Shane and Shane who are

00:04:48.440 leading worship. Um, but everyone in attendance will be a relate a woman. We've got Elisa Childers, 0.94

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00:05:42.560 into the craziness going on in the world. First, we've got Miss Rachel. Okay. I know a lot of you 0.99

00:05:46.920 love Miss Rachel and for good reason. Okay. I'm not saying Miss Rachel is all bad. I think that

00:05:52.920 she puts out a lot of content. I personally never have watched her YouTube. My kids have never

00:05:57.860 watched her YouTube. And this was even before she had said some politically questionable things 0.63

00:06:04.020 before I even knew that she had someone who identified as non-binary who would use pronouns

00:06:08.960 like they, them on the videos. It just wasn't, it just wasn't really our thing. But I know for a lot 0.74

00:06:14.180 of you that Ms. Rachel has really helped your child learn speech and articulation and different,

00:06:20.180 you know, social cues and different things like that. So I don't want to take that away from you,

00:06:24.340 but she has also become more outspokenly political. And she is a huge purveyor of

00:06:31.440 something called cultural and moral relativism in her efforts to be all inclusive. She glosses

00:06:39.660 over the very real moral differences and moral problems with ideologies like Islam. And this 0.95

00:06:46.980 really came out recently when she praises the wearing of hijabs for kindergartners in

00:06:54.560 Minnesota. And I'll get into why I think that is problematic. Um, she's got more than 20 million

00:07:00.700 subscribers on YouTube. She's got more than 5 million followers on Instagram, huge platform,

00:07:05.260 really big influence, especially when it comes to young families. I believe she truly has a heart

00:07:11.060 for children. I think that she's very misguided and actually this misguidedness, what I would

00:07:17.240 call toxic empathy is not innocent. It actually has a negative impact. Ms. Rachel posted something

00:07:24.960 about kindergartners in Minnesota wearing hijabs and how that's great and it should be celebrated,

00:07:30.880 but she didn't just randomly say that. She seems to be responding to a post by President Trump who

00:07:37.900 reposted another account pointing out that all of these kindergartners in this video of a

00:07:42.180 kindergarten graduation in St. Paul, Minnesota, all of the girls were wearing hijab. So here's

00:07:47.600 what the post looks like. And he originally, okay, so it's a lot of retweets. Okay, here is

00:07:53.040 a lot of reposts. So first actually we have Donald Trump's post and it's a video and they're at a

00:07:58.020 kindergarten graduation and you've got a bunch of girls who are wearing hijab. So it's the

00:08:03.220 Islamic head covering where you can only see their sweet little faces and their ears and their hair 1.00

00:08:09.680 is completely covered up. And then in wokeness's commentary is public school in St. Paul,

00:08:14.960 Minnesota, every girl in the classes in a hijab in kindergarten, Donald Trump reposts that. I don't

00:08:22.760 even think we need to play the video because we already put up the picture. And so you can see

00:08:27.260 what's going on here. And there are a couple of concerns I think that people have. One is just

00:08:33.320 the rapidly changing demographics, ideologies, the worldviews of America that someone that a place

00:08:41.640 like St. Paul, Minnesota doesn't look like St. Paul, Minnesota. It looks like Somalia. And people

00:08:47.600 say you're not allowed to care about that. We're supposed to just be totally fine with the complete

00:08:53.440 re-engineering and rearranging of the culture, the belief system of America, the demographics

00:09:00.800 of America. We are all supposed to praise mass migration and pretend like it never has

00:09:05.420 any negative consequences whatsoever. And I just don't believe that. I don't believe that. I think

00:09:11.180 that you are allowed to care that the city in which you were raised looks very different,

00:09:15.820 that the values, that the politics, that the patriotism of the community in which you were

00:09:20.880 raised is no longer there. I think it's okay to say, I want to live and raise my children in an

00:09:27.380 American city around people who are American, who love America, who celebrate the things that

00:09:33.100 traditionally America does. If you wanted to live in Somalia, if you wanted to live in Afghanistan,

00:09:38.540 you could live in those places, but you have chosen to live in America. And so I think that 0.90

00:09:45.020 is okay to care about your changing culture. Like if you read about patriotism in CS Lewis's book,

00:09:52.860 the four loves, he talks about patriotism as being the love of people that have a great deal

00:10:00.340 in common with yourself and how that is actually a natural love that is good and can lead us to 0.75

00:10:05.540 the higher supernatural love of loving the body of Christ, which includes people that don't look

00:10:10.320 like us, that don't sound like us and loving God, the God who created us. But when we try to

00:10:17.680 change the order of Morris, when we try to change the order of our loves or pretend like we are not

00:10:25.640 supposed to love our culture as Americans, like we are not supposed to love Christianity, like we are

00:10:30.480 not supposed to love the American way. And you guilt people out of that. You get all kinds of

00:10:36.120 chaos and confusion. It's not about hatred of these people. It's not about judging a whole

00:10:40.620 group of people by what they look like, but it's this kind of discomfort that a lot of people feel

00:10:45.780 of like, am I allowed to care about this? Like, is it okay for me to want my child to have

00:10:52.700 classmates that celebrate Christmas or does that suddenly make me a bad person? And by the way,

00:10:57.980 it only makes the like the Western Christian a bad person when they start to care about things 0.97

00:11:02.720 like that. It never makes anyone else from any African country or Asian country bad if they

00:11:08.740 want to live around people that believe the way that they do and share the same values that they

00:11:14.040 do. So that is kind of the underneath of what is going on in the thoughts of a lot of Americans

00:11:23.000 that I think a lot of people are scared to say, but it's just true. That and the fact that Islam 1.00

00:11:28.960 is not neutral. It's not neutral. Not all belief systems are the same. Not all rules and regulations

00:11:35.760 of every religion are the same. The fruit of every religion is not the same. And I think it's okay

00:11:42.180 for people to say, hmm, why would a five and six-year-old be required according to their

00:11:49.000 religion to abide by a modesty standard that forces them to cover up their hair for fear of

00:11:57.160 lust from a male. That's disturbing. That's disturbing for a lot of people, understandably

00:12:04.860 so. And it's okay for people to be uncomfortable and to ask questions about that. Why would little

00:12:10.900 girls have to abide by that kind of standard? What exactly are they being protected from in 0.95

00:12:18.300 their religion? What is wrong or immodest about their beautiful hair, especially when they're 0.98

00:12:24.520 five and six years old. That's a disturbing thing that people are noticing and worried about.

00:12:30.160 So before we get into what Ms. Rachel specifically said, let me pause. Let me tell you about our

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00:14:02.200 said, I saw some of you wore a hijab to your graduation. This is kind of an open letter to 0.99

00:14:06.280 these kindergartners. I am glad you wore something meaningful and special to you and your family.

00:14:10.340 I think hijabs are beautiful. Different kids wear different things that are a part of their

00:14:14.200 cultures and religions such as hijabs, kippahs, or necklaces with a cross. Some kids don't wear

00:14:18.580 anything that is from their religion or are not religious. No matter what we wear, we all belong.

00:14:24.020 It's wonderful to learn about each other's traditions and we can all be proud of our

00:14:27.400 family and our tradition. Last year I attended a Hanukkah celebration. This year I attended

00:14:31.240 Eid brunch and every year my family celebrates Christmas and Easter. People can try to divide

00:14:37.280 us and turn us against each other and say things that aren't true, but we know what's right and

00:14:41.700 that we should treat every person with kindness and respect. Some of this stuff is absolutely

00:14:46.880 true. We should treat every person with kindness and respect. And I don't think that little

00:14:52.620 children are the target for this. Like little children are not the ones that are choosing to

00:14:58.420 wear the hijab. I believe little children and especially little girls are victims of Islamic 1.00

00:15:04.820 ideology. I don't think that they should be the target of our ire. I don't think that they should

00:15:09.500 be made fun of. However, seeing a five-year-old girl wearing this forced modesty garb to cover 0.82

00:15:16.840 up her hair is shocking to the senses. And it is not enough to say, oh, you're wearing something 0.51

00:15:22.740 meaningful. It's not meaningful to them. This is something that they are forced to wear because of

00:15:27.700 Islamic standards of modesty saying that a woman showing her hair is indecent and not just a woman

00:15:34.620 showing her hair, but a little girl showing her hair. And just as a reminder that the prophet 0.96

00:15:40.580 Muhammad that started Islam married a six-year-old girl. Okay. That's what all of this comes back to. 0.54

00:15:46.960 He married a six-year-old girl and reportedly consummated the marriage when she was nine years

00:15:52.360 old. Okay. That is the person who founded Islam. So for us to whitewash that and to say, it's the

00:15:57.740 same thing as wearing a cross. Like you see how wearing a cross, like a symbol of Jesus's victory

00:16:04.980 over death is not the same thing as a little five-year-old girl being forced to wear a modesty

00:16:12.980 garb over her hair. Like we see on its face that it's not the same thing, but it doesn't even

00:16:17.640 represent the same thing. It seems like a kind message and I'm sure she means to be kind. I think

00:16:22.800 that is her intention. She is a professing Christian, but this kind of philosophy reflects

00:16:30.240 the cultural relativism, the moral relativism that I actually think is very dangerous has led 0.83

00:16:36.960 us to a really bad place and has led us to this toxic empathy, this feeling, this guilt that we

00:16:44.740 have to allow on the same footing, every single ideology into our country or else you're a bad

00:16:51.200 person. No other nation thinks that way, except for like Canada and France, only the Western

00:16:56.380 nations. No other nation believes that every ideology, every belief system, no matter how

00:17:02.920 hostile, no matter its tenants deserve to have equal footing and equal honor in its country and

00:17:09.140 culture. Cultural relativism, if you don't know, is this philosophical framework that holds that

00:17:14.000 a culture's beliefs and practices should be understood and evaluated within the context of

00:17:18.060 that culture's own values and norms rather than judged according to the moral standards of another

00:17:22.560 culture. So even that definition is culturally relativistic. How I would say it is that

00:17:27.400 there is a denial of objective truth and goodness, a denial that as a Christian, you know, we believe

00:17:34.820 that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, that he is the source of truth. He is the source

00:17:38.180 of goodness. He is the source of logic and everything has to be judged according to that

00:17:43.220 standard. Here you see that Rachel denies that, that she believes that every culture has its own

00:17:51.920 same level of validity. It's based on the idea of moral relativism, that there is no absolute truth.

00:17:59.300 There is no objective morality, that it's really that what's good and bad is relative to each

00:18:05.620 individual, to each culture, to each different time. And there is part of that where we are

00:18:11.220 judging people based on the time that they were in, that there was no understanding of certain

00:18:16.800 things being right or wrong, but that doesn't change objective morality and objective truth.

00:18:22.640 God doesn't change. That standard doesn't change over time. People change, culture changes,

00:18:27.440 the standard of truth and justice and goodness and righteousness does not change because God

00:18:32.700 doesn't change. Hebrews 13.8. And so we reject moral relativism. Again, going back to C.S. Lewis

00:18:38.820 and mere Christianity, he talks about this so brilliantly. And just to kind of paraphrase

00:18:44.040 his points, like he talks about the reality of an objective truth and everyone understands

00:18:49.920 objective truth when it comes to like the physical sense. Like if I were to draw you a picture

00:18:56.340 of New York city, I'm just based on my drawing abilities, you would be like, well, that's not

00:19:02.040 New York city. It's not, it doesn't look anything like New York city, but if an artist drew you a

00:19:07.480 picture of New York city, you would say, yes, that is very close to what Manhattan actually

00:19:11.960 looks like because there is a real New York city. And some people are closer to what it actually

00:19:17.560 looks like. And some people are far away, um, from what it actually looks like. And so you

00:19:23.380 were judging the goodness and the rightness of someone's drawing based on the reality of Manhattan

00:19:31.180 based on the reality of New York city. And, um, CS Lewis makes this point that truth is the same

00:19:37.280 way. Everyone knows it. You can feel it instinctively. You can say that you're a moral

00:19:42.780 relativist until someone steals your bike. And then when someone steals your bike, suddenly

00:19:48.840 theft is wrong. Someone has wronged you. You know that that action that was against you is far away

00:19:55.180 from what objective rightness and goodness is. And so it's a nice theory until you are the victim of

00:20:02.360 an injustice. You're the victim of an assault. You're the victim of murder. You're the victim

00:20:05.900 of rape. You're the victim of theft. Then suddenly there really is immorality and immorality needs to

00:20:13.240 be punished. So we reject cultural relativism. We reject moral relativism. We know that there

00:20:20.280 is a real biblical standard of truth. And some people might brush this off as well. We're you're

00:20:26.140 not supposed to judge. You just shouldn't judge. No, you shouldn't judge hypocritically. John 7

00:20:30.720 24 actually tells us how we should judge. We don't judge by appearances. We judge with right

00:20:35.500 judgment. So we are not judging this group by the appearance of what they have, but we are judging

00:20:42.380 right from wrong based on what the Bible actually says. And we can look at what the hijab actually 0.83

00:20:50.060 represents. Um, and we can look at the fact that it goes all the way back to Muhammad,

00:20:56.640 Muhammad marrying Aisha when she was only six years old. And then we can also look at the other

00:21:03.180 very real issues that come from this idea that little children and little girls somehow hold

00:21:09.440 the power of sexuality over men and therefore have to be covered up we can look at what is

00:21:16.680 happening with female genital mutilation in places like somalia to little girls just like this

00:21:23.980 little girls who are muslim and it's not just happening in africa there's also a problem with

00:21:29.480 it happening here in these kinds of communities. And I just think it's interesting that Miss

00:21:35.100 Rachel, she is incensed by people pointing out that, huh, it's strange that little girls are

00:21:41.400 forced to wear hijabs and we're expected to celebrate it. But I've never seen her talk about

00:21:46.560 the very real abusive practices that can happen in these kinds of communities to these little

00:21:52.960 girls. Like if you really care about kids, this should be a big one. I haven't seen her bring up

00:21:57.580 this practice of female genital mutilation. It's the non-medical removal or alteration of female

00:22:04.000 genitals in Minnesota, especially in the Twin Cities. So in St. Paul, where this video was

00:22:10.400 taken, this is a problem. This is a problem that the Minnesota Department of Health, state lawmakers

00:22:15.780 and several nonprofits are actively trying to address. According to a 2016 analysis by the

00:22:22.520 Population Reference Bureau using U.S. Census Bureau data and prevalence estimates, 37,417

00:22:29.740 girls and women in the Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington metro area were estimated to be at

00:22:36.180 risk of female genital mutilation based on 2013 data. The number includes both those who may have

00:22:42.660 already undergone the procedure and those who might be at risk in the future. We don't know

00:22:47.560 the precise actual number as the practice is illegal in the United States. It's very secretive.

00:22:52.700 It is not systematically reported. There was a big news story about this, um, happening just

00:22:58.340 a couple of years ago where it was being reported that these girls would go to a Somalian,

00:23:02.880 not even real doctor, but in some cases, maybe a Somalian doctor, but a Somalian

00:23:08.260 healer or another woman, um, who is, it's the removal of the clitoris just to be 0.72

00:23:15.100 very clear. That is what is going on in these little girls. Okay. This is happening around 1.00

00:23:21.360 the world today in these Islamic communities. This is happening in the United States and these 0.99

00:23:27.040 Islamic communities as has been reported by these official sources. And I don't see those who claim

00:23:33.920 to care about the feelings and the protection of these kids talking about this. This is according

00:23:40.040 to an article in pbs from 2017 an investigation by the fbi is now highlighting the extent of

00:23:46.960 female genital mutilation in the united states in april the agency opened its first ever federal

00:23:52.100 case against two michigan doctors for performing the procedure on dozens of girls over more than

00:23:57.120 a decade federal agents announced earlier this month that they are also investigating newly

00:24:01.240 identified targets in los angeles chicago new york dr jumana nargawala a 44 year old emergency

00:24:08.460 room doctor is charged with performing female genital mutilation on at least eight girls in

00:24:13.120 the Barani Medical Clinic, a facility run by Dr. Fakruddin Attar. His wife, Farida, was also

00:24:22.980 arrested, accused of holding at least two patients' hands during the procedure to keep them from

00:24:27.220 squirming and calm them. A federal prosecutor said in court last month that the three were

00:24:32.040 responsible for cutting the genitals of nearly 100 girls over a 12-year period, and the estimate

00:24:37.620 is conservative. Okay. This has been happening for several years in these Somalian communities

00:24:44.880 and these Muslim communities. So I'm just saying, if you are going to care about the feelings and

00:24:50.960 the emotions of these kids, um, you should also maybe care about what they're physically going

00:24:56.960 through. But again, if you believe in cultural relativism, then you'll look at a heinous practice

00:25:01.140 like this. And it makes you unable to say this is objectively wrong because, well, it's just

00:25:08.300 their culture. It's just what they feel is right. We maybe don't understand it. That makes you a bad

00:25:16.000 advocate. That makes you a really bad decision maker. You don't have discernment. You don't

00:25:25.460 have wisdom. You don't even have true compassion because that is what I mean by toxic empathy.

00:25:30.340 it's not that all empathy is toxic it's empathy that blinds you to reality and morality

00:25:36.260 um this is something that is very widely practiced in Somalian culture according to the BBC the most

00:25:44.480 frequently cited reasons for carrying out FGM acceptance religion misconceptions about hygiene

00:25:49.240 a means of preserving a girl or woman's virginity making the woman marriageable enhancing male

00:25:54.360 sexual pleasure. They're also sewing up these girls. Um, and so it's even smaller because they 0.98

00:26:01.100 think that this is better for men. It is just so awful. And it also speaks to how Islam regards

00:26:07.300 women as objects. I mean, think about what paradise is in Islam. It is literally a fleet

00:26:13.560 of virgins. It's a brothel, like the future for us, for like heaven, for the Christian is that 0.78

00:26:20.700 we get to be with Jesus. We get to be with our savior. There's no more sin anymore. We could

00:26:25.660 spend forever and ever with him and with the body of Christ. And for Islam, it's a brothel. 1.00

00:26:30.080 Like that's the future. And that is manifested here on earth and how women are treated and also 1.00

00:26:35.500 how these little girls are treated and how they are regarded. And so I just can't go along with,

00:26:40.800 oh, well, you know, it's all just fine. It's the same thing as wearing a cross. No, it actually 0.91

00:26:44.260 represents something very dark and very dangerous that so many of these little girls are going

00:26:49.520 through. So if you're going to speak up, Ms. Rachel, about something, about an injustice

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00:26:59.260 at the very least, if not in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in the very places where these little girls 1.00

00:27:06.060 live here in America. All right. We've got a little bit more on this in just a second. Let 0.84

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00:28:09.080 Code Alley. Modesty is a biblical virtue, but the Bible places the responsibility for resisting lust

00:28:20.920 on the person experiencing it. That is one huge difference, again, between Christianity and

00:28:26.420 between something like Islam. The responsibility is not on the object of their desire, the object 0.99

00:28:34.520 of their lust. We do have a responsibility separately as women to dress with modesty

00:28:39.500 and to dress with dignity. Um, we are not supposed to dress in a way that is unbecoming

00:28:44.600 of our dignity and honor as women. And there's not a strict rule in the Bible about what exactly

00:28:53.180 that looks like. Modesty. When you break that verse down, which we have before really is a

00:28:57.980 matter of the posture of the heart. Are you dressing in a way that says lust after me,

00:29:03.080 look at me, desire me, or are you dressed in a way that enhances your face and that enhances

00:29:10.560 the natural beauty that God has given you? And I can't give you a strict set of rules for what

00:29:15.840 that looks like, but I think that all of us can take stock of like what our heart is when we're

00:29:20.240 getting dressed in the morning and try to glorify God in the things that we wear. But it does not

00:29:25.780 mean being ashamed of being a woman. It does not mean wearing a burlap sack. It does not mean that

00:29:31.840 our body is something to be embarrassed about or that our hair is something that has to be

00:29:36.740 covered up because if we don't cover up our mouth and our hands and our hair,

00:29:41.040 then we are responsible for another person's sin. Matthew 5, 27 through 28, you have heard that it

00:29:47.980 was said you should not commit adultery, but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman

00:29:51.560 with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. People say,

00:29:55.520 oh, Jesus didn't care about the rules or he didn't care about the law. No, no, no.

00:29:58.700 he actually cared about the law even more than the pharisees did because they were paying lip 0.97

00:30:03.020 service to the law he said no no it goes all the way down to the heart if you've even thought in 0.93

00:30:07.800 this way you've already broken the law first thessalonians 4 3 through 5 for this is the

00:30:12.660 will of god your sanctification that you abstain from sexual immorality that each of you know how 0.99

00:30:17.760 to control his own body and holiness and honor not in the passion of lust like the gentiles 0.73

00:30:22.640 who do not know god the bible also teaches that the human body created by god possesses an 0.71

00:30:28.340 inherent value and dignity and should not be unnecessarily harmed or desecrated. And by the

00:30:34.360 way, like God created our anatomy. He created it not only for procreation. He also created it for

00:30:41.640 within the context of marriage, sexual pleasure. Like that is a gift that has been given to us by

00:30:46.660 God. It is not something that needs to be taken away from girls and women to maximize male

00:30:53.440 satisfaction, the way that God has already created it naturally maximizes satisfaction for both men

00:31:00.460 and women. That is why marriage is beautiful. That is why sex is a gift. First Corinthians 6,

00:31:05.340 19 through 20. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy spirit within you,

00:31:09.960 whom you have from God, you are not your own for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in

00:31:14.600 your body. That is the mentality. When we are getting dressed every morning, we want to glorify

00:31:19.000 God with our body, not draw attention to ourselves, not try to be objects of people's desire, not

00:31:25.920 again, that that's our responsibility, their sin, but to try to glorify God in our body and

00:31:31.180 the things that we wear. Psalm 139, 13 through 14, for you formed my inward parts. You knitted

00:31:36.660 me together in my mother's womb. Every single part of us was knitted together in our mother's

00:31:41.880 womb. It's not to be desecrated. It's not to be mutilated. I praise you for I am fearfully and

00:31:47.340 wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works. My soul knows it very well. Finally, Jesus emphasizes

00:31:53.140 the importance of protecting children from harm while scripture instructs parents to nurture and

00:31:57.580 care for them rather than exploit them. Matthew 18, six, but whoever causes one of these little

00:32:02.260 ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around

00:32:07.800 his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. And the interpretation of little ones who

00:32:12.780 believes in me. Many have said, essentially, it does mean Christians, but we see elsewhere

00:32:19.320 in scripture when Jesus says, let the little children come to me for such as these belong

00:32:25.100 the kingdom of heaven, that Jesus was radical and revolutionary at the time in the way that

00:32:30.040 he regarded vulnerable children in a culture that really didn't honor them, especially in

00:32:34.540 the pagan culture, who really regarded them as subhuman, as we've talked about many times.

00:32:38.900 Owen Backey wrote the book, When Children Became People. And he talks about children going from

00:32:44.700 being subhuman, being regarded as having no rights, to being regarded as this special class

00:32:50.760 of people entitled to our compassion and our special care. And it's all because of Christianity. 0.96

00:32:56.060 It is still true today. That's why moral relativism doesn't work. When you look throughout history,

00:33:01.460 the ab the aberration the exception to child sacrifice to child exploitation to child 1.00

00:33:10.480 objectification and prostitution all of those exceptions have existed not because of islam 0.72

00:33:16.620 not because of hinduism not because of paganism but because of christianity everywhere that

00:33:23.140 christians have gone throughout history we have said the child sacrifice ends now the child

00:33:27.860 objectification ends now. Okay. It's not the same as these other religions. The fruit of Christianity

00:33:34.080 has been orphanages, have been the organizations that have advanced the protection of children. 1.00

00:33:38.560 That's not to say that those who have identified as Christians have not committed atrocities 1.00

00:33:45.000 against children. Unfortunately, that has been true and that is always sinful and always wrong, 1.00

00:33:50.660 but the doctrines of Christianity produced the fruit of child protection and still must today. 0.63

00:33:55.720 That's why i'm not going to say oh, yeah

00:33:58.220 All of these religions equal wearing a hijab wearing a cross all the same thing for kindergartners that great 0.52

00:34:03.700 That's great because there's too much underneath that that we know and we have to say this is right 1.00

00:34:09.080 This is wrong. This is light. This is darkness. What fellowship does light have with darkness none

00:34:14.180 Treat everyone with respect treat everyone with dignity have compassion for every single child

00:34:20.180 but having compassion for every single child does not mean accepting every ideology especially those

00:34:25.440 that harm them all right i know that was heavy and that was a lot and that was a lot to read

00:34:32.340 into a miss rachel post but i just want you to know that satan disguises himself as an angel of

00:34:37.380 life that even things that seem casual that seem nice that seem simple that there's something

00:34:43.380 underneath there's a worldview beneath statements like that that christians have to be really

00:34:48.160 thoughtful in, in analyzing. All right. Now we were going to talk about like two other stories,

00:34:54.540 but now we don't have time to do that because I got so into that particular subject. And so

00:34:58.920 we're going to go ahead and skip to lifestyle pitter patter with your favorite guest. And that

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00:36:25.700 Okay, Brie, thanks so much for joining us, our Taylor Swift pop culture celebrity liaison.

00:36:32.320 on um were you invited to taylor swift's wedding that's yes that's my first question were you

00:36:39.700 invited i signed an ironclad nda i can't say anything about it okay okay so all of this

00:36:48.640 we'll just have to pretend is hypothetical we don't know she could have been there she may not

00:36:54.320 have been there but in order to honor your nda you'll at least have to just pretend like you

00:37:01.640 don't really know what went on i'm speculating yeah okay so hypothetically let's look at this

00:37:09.940 invitation um we've got the t and t together in the intertwined hearts you're invited july 3rd

00:37:19.460 2026 manhattan love taylor and travis one night only early evening black tie apparently this is

00:37:25.680 the invitation that was leaked. Do you think it is the real invitation? And what do you think about

00:37:31.680 it? I think it is. There were rumors before the wedding that all of the invitations would be

00:37:38.920 watermarked with the guest name. And you can see this one is watermarked with the guest name

00:37:43.980 so that you would know if they leaked them. And that is the little logo that's been on

00:37:51.440 everything that's been leaked. So I think it's real. And she's probably not thrilled that it

00:37:56.440 was leaked. Okay. Ashish Ferguson decided, I'm just going to risk it all. And I don't really

00:38:05.820 care because people are going to want to see this. And maybe he got paid some money by some

00:38:10.100 outlet to leak this. Are there any Easter eggs in this invitation that you noticed?

00:38:15.300 um people speculated that it was like painted by her it matches like the painting in I forget what

00:38:25.280 it is off the top of my head but some other thing that she made like a poem or something she

00:38:29.300 published um but other than that I don't I don't know if there's anything any easter eggs why do

00:38:36.300 they care if their invitation gets out so yeah well to back up i think the biggest drama surrounding

00:38:45.960 the wedding in general was it being at madison square garden that was speculated weeks before

00:38:53.900 the wedding and it caused a lot of drama because people said that's tacky i am on record saying

00:39:01.820 i know taylor swift and taylor swift would never have her wedding at madison square garden

00:39:05.960 It just didn't seem very in character.

00:39:09.160 So that was one thing people were like,

00:39:13.080 why would she want to be right in the middle of Manhattan to get married 1.00

00:39:16.460 when all of the attention would be on her?

00:39:18.820 I think now looking back, I still think it's an odd choice,

00:39:22.840 but I kind of see the desire for control over privacy.

00:39:27.900 I think it's different from secrecy.

00:39:29.880 I don't think she wanted it to be a secret, clearly.

00:39:32.400 I think she wanted it to be private.

00:39:34.460 And when you're in a place like that with high security, it can be private.

00:39:38.000 I think she wanted to release some of these things on her own terms.

00:39:41.200 We still don't have pictures of her in her wedding dress or what it actually looked like

00:39:45.720 inside in detail.

00:39:47.940 And I think that's on purpose.

00:39:49.740 I think she wanted to be the one to release that in her own time.

00:39:52.840 And I respect that.

00:39:54.360 So she probably just, one, didn't want these invitations leaked because she didn't want 0.55

00:39:58.320 people to show up and know in advance that that was happening for sure.

00:40:04.020 But two, I think just all the details were under wraps for privacy.

00:40:08.380 So that's my guess.

00:40:11.000 Where would you have predicted that she would have had her wedding?

00:40:18.420 I would have thought she, I mean, she has all the money in the world, right? 1.00

00:40:21.740 I would have thought that she would have like rented a private island or something, 0.99

00:40:26.440 you know, somewhere completely off the grid. 0.99

00:40:28.460 Yeah.

00:40:28.700 um i i feel like when you have enough money you could make anything you could find somewhere

00:40:34.820 private but i guess that wasn't the goal here i guess the goal wasn't to go get married on an

00:40:40.900 island i also i know we haven't gotten here yet but as soon as she did get married madison square

00:40:47.180 garden showed like an image on this on the outside screens that said just married said just tnt

00:40:54.400 she married, um, which maybe she could have workshopped a little bit, but, um, but yeah,

00:41:00.340 that's what showed right after they got married apparently. And, um, and I saw a lot of people

00:41:06.640 who are Taylor Swift fans saying that that was for us, which I think is a little parasocial,

00:41:12.040 but to be honest, maybe it was, maybe she just really wanted people to know as soon as it

00:41:17.220 happened. Cause obviously, you know, Taylor Swift fans weren't invited. So, um, I think it was kind

00:41:22.580 of a fun thing for people who love her. And, um, and I think that was always her plan was for people

00:41:29.100 to know when it happened. So that sign that we just put up the just TNT married, it's just like

00:41:35.780 black text with a white background. It's giving Dwight, it is your birthday period, which is kind

00:41:42.500 of surprising. Yeah. She probably, she's a writer. She probably could have thought of something a

00:41:46.620 little a little flashier but yeah whatever no one expected anything not bad not bad but

00:41:52.700 that's true okay so we have these pictures that are leaked allegedly by daily mail the first one

00:42:02.900 is full screen seven and i want you to tell us like what you think exactly is going on so this

00:42:09.880 is inside madison square garden i've never been to madison square garden so i don't really know

00:42:14.400 what it typically looks like i mean i'm sure i've seen pictures and videos of concerts and things

00:42:18.260 like that i know it's a huge concert venue um it looks like a created world that you would see at

00:42:25.460 like disney world or like on broadway or something like that it looks like they have

00:42:31.120 fashioned some kind of fake castle they've covered all of the chairs in beige there are a bunch of

00:42:40.020 curtains everywhere. They've got some kind of greenery. And then you've got the very well-dressed

00:42:46.460 attendees, guests filing in this like giant door. This also, Brie, is a surprising aesthetic for me

00:42:56.860 when it comes to her wedding. It's almost like a concert, you know, like something that she would

00:43:01.620 do at one of her performances. What did you think about it? Yeah, it's hard to say without seeing

00:43:07.740 the details but I mean I think her goal she said since she got engaged that she wanted to have a

00:43:15.680 big wedding supposedly there were a thousand people there um approximately um so one I'm like

00:43:24.040 well that automatically you can fit those people in there I don't know if it looked tacky or not

00:43:29.920 I can't really tell from that picture but I feel like it is kind of on brand from what I'm seeing

00:43:36.340 Like, her building herself, like, a little garden castle to get married in, that's, like, very Taylor Swift to me.

00:43:44.080 And I'm sure it did look beautiful.

00:43:46.280 I think there was some leaked descriptions of it from someone who attended, just, like, a written description of it that was, like, they built a whole garden and kind of, like, describing the experience for guests.

00:43:59.660 Another thing is, when you have enough money, you can transform any venue into anything you want.

00:44:05.520 So I think people were envisioning like, oh, she's getting married on a basketball court at Madison Square Garden.

00:44:11.540 But she could have made it look like anything in there and apparently did.

00:44:15.200 So I'm sure it was beautiful.

00:44:17.060 And when pictures come out, I think it will be – I think it will look a lot nicer than that leaked photo too.

00:44:22.960 So I don't know.

00:44:25.520 Just seeing her heiress tour, I'm like she has capacity to design something really cool.

00:44:30.160 So I'm sure she did.

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00:45:52.560 I say this as someone who doesn't know anything about Taylor Swift. And like you said, I'm sure

00:45:57.020 it is going to look very beautiful and very cool when we see the professional photos and all of

00:46:02.260 that. And I'm sure absolutely none of it was cheaply or thoughtlessly done, but definitely

00:46:07.140 I would have been picturing something like remote somewhere in the world that maybe like no one even

00:46:13.780 knew. I think I would have pictured it more intimate. I don't know why. Again, I'm not

00:46:19.380 someone who like knows her personality, but also like we don't know, and this would be a question

00:46:24.820 just for what you think, but how much Travis contributed his thoughts. Like, do you think

00:46:30.740 any part of this is his personality? Did he want to go big? Like, do you think that he had opinions

00:46:37.880 that were weighed at all? Or do you think that this was Taylor Swift's moment and her thing?

00:46:43.120 And she basically drove all of these decisions. She's probably thought about this her entire life.

00:46:51.260 so I'm sure she drove most of these decisions um he is now I know that I now that I know who he is

00:47:00.380 I know that he I mean his whole personality is like go big so I'm sure he was totally on board

00:47:07.380 with inviting a thousand people and making it as big of a spectacle as possible um I'm sure he

00:47:14.060 didn't shy away from that at all outside of that I don't know that he had any I don't know that he

00:47:19.560 cared but i don't know that he had any say in any of this this seems to be all her

00:47:23.500 now they did get the marriage was a or the wedding was officiated by um adam sandler which again odd

00:47:31.240 choice um pretty sure that was his decision if i had to guess i feel like she gave him something

00:47:37.760 and he was like okay that's it so that's my guess okay so this is another thing and i had texted you

00:47:46.820 about this adam sandler i don't know if he is actually religiously jewish probably like secular

00:47:52.980 in most ways but whatever he's not a christian and i think that taylor swift at least nominally

00:48:00.540 has called herself a christian i assume that the kelseys were probably raised like in a christian

00:48:06.700 home i have no idea if travis identifies as that but i thought that that like choosing adam sandler

00:48:13.000 as the officiant was a signifier that, okay, there's probably no faith aspects or Christian

00:48:19.760 faith aspects interwoven in the ceremony at all, which I just think is interesting because typically

00:48:25.020 when you have people, even if they are kind of secular, but they say that they're Christian,

00:48:29.580 the wedding is the time that they would have Christian elements, that they would have a

00:48:34.020 Christian officiant, that you would have someone that would pray to Jesus, that would like read

00:48:37.940 a bible verse but to me choosing adam sandler who seems like a super funny guy and probably did a

00:48:43.400 great job of officiating then like it was probably hilarious and fun and all of that stuff like that's

00:48:49.320 just a symbol to me of this was probably a completely secular ceremony what do you think

00:48:54.620 about that yeah no it absolutely was but i mean those of us who have followed her for a while

00:49:01.160 have known like she's not a christian she's always been maybe maybe nominally christian at best and

00:49:08.640 that's only from a couple comments she's made politically like um from her documentary when she

00:49:14.660 um was upset that some politician was doing something and she was like i'm a christian

00:49:19.520 i don't and she's from tennessee and pennsylvania um and so those are just things that they say

00:49:26.580 you know she's never said anything to indicate that she actually is a believer and i don't think

00:49:32.560 she cares too so i don't i don't think either of them were interested in putting on appearances

00:49:38.120 in that regard and probably almost every guest who was there would have thought that that was

00:49:43.500 weird anyway so you know yeah i'm i'm assuming it was completely secular and yeah adam sandler

00:49:50.260 is jewish so i don't think he would have done a christian wedding anyway so yeah yeah do you

00:49:56.560 think that they played welcome to new york as people were entering i don't i don't know but i

00:50:03.420 do know that she walked down the well okay this is a legend she walked down the aisle to love story

00:50:10.220 so i thought that was kind of funny also there i know also she handed out that's like

00:50:19.860 it's i mean again it's very taylor swift i feel like she quotes herself a lot it's very cringy

00:50:28.420 i have to admit um she also handed out like favors i think they were like handkerchiefs that

00:50:33.740 had her lyrics on them i forget the lyric off the top of my head yes we have a picture of that

00:50:40.400 so it's gonna be forever yeah okay also interesting obviously taylor swift knows

00:50:47.540 her lyrics better than I do but the second half of that sentence so it's gonna be forever or it's

00:50:54.740 gonna go down in flames not great to put the ellipses after that like okay interesting choice

00:51:04.480 of all the lyrics she could have chosen yeah I don't know that I would have picked that one but

00:51:08.680 of all I know and assuming everyone knows that too right if I know it then everyone else knows

00:51:17.520 too um i do like the handkerchief i think that's really pretty um and then we have someone who was

00:51:27.520 apparently an attendee who wrote this long thing on x about it but he deleted it which i'm like

00:51:34.340 did you not read that part of the nda that you weren't supposed to be describing what happened

00:51:40.600 so just a little bit i won't read the entire thing because it's long but he says it did not

00:51:46.360 look like madison square garden immediately upon entry everything floors walls ceilings

00:51:50.300 was draped in peach and white large blown up pictures of taylor and travis at each age year

00:51:55.460 by year from one year old to late teenagerhood were on display somehow magically someone created

00:52:02.200 an outdoor garden at a lush countryside retreat everything draped off this time in green and white

00:52:07.320 real flowers and i think artificial trees i think artificial trees welcomed 15 rows of maybe 75 or

00:52:14.100 no chairs they say there were around 1000 attendees but surprisingly it all felt intimate and small

00:52:19.920 yeah it seems like inside that little castle thing i guess maybe friends and family were all kind of

00:52:26.340 sitting there in those 75 seats and then the seats around the venue were also occupied by people

00:52:33.920 right then the party an even larger stage set of a secret garden that was just exquisite with five

00:52:40.840 story tall lit tree superb food and drink i bet the food and drink was amazing that's what i'm

00:52:45.580 most interested about i want to know what food and drink was served an a-list audience uh music

00:52:52.700 music music um and then we also have this statement after the wedding from taylor's

00:52:58.880 publicist the bride and groom's wedding ceremony uh looks have been created by christian dior

00:53:04.840 hot couture they are designed by Jonathan Anderson creative director of Dior women's

00:53:09.900 men's and hot couture uh collections in close collaboration with the bride and groom

00:53:17.440 Cartier jewelry I can't wait to see all of that I know yeah they okay tell me your prediction for

00:53:26.900 her dress oh I don't know here's the thing I've always loved almost everything she's worn I just

00:53:34.800 really love her style. Whoever her stylist is, I love. So I anticipate it being pretty elaborate

00:53:42.960 and pretty clitzy. I don't think she would have ever gone with the simple route. But again,

00:53:48.500 I'm like questioning everything because I also said she'd never get married at Madison Square

00:53:53.020 Garden. So who am I to say? Who am I to say? I don't know. She also didn't have bridesmaids,

00:53:57.940 which surprised me. And, um, I like, I really, I really thought that she would have. So there's a

00:54:05.060 lot that is different than when I had her brother, right? Her brother was like her best man kind of

00:54:11.720 yeah. Her like man of honor. And then Jason Kelsey was Travis's best man. And it was just the two of

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00:55:42.420 celebrities who were snubbed and did not get an invitation there are rumors that blake lively

00:55:50.220 was not invited um i don't know if that's true or not i know she wasn't at the rehearsal dinner

00:55:55.660 because she was photographed elsewhere um and that was surprising for people because they

00:56:01.960 historically have been really close friends but all the justin baldoni stuff maybe caused a rift

00:56:07.920 I don't know. Um, and I think that there were some other notable ones too, who are like married to

00:56:14.700 her friends who weren't there, but I think that says more about the marriages than it does her

00:56:19.580 being friends with them. So I don't know. I'm sure, I'm sure someone had to get cut out of a

00:56:25.360 thousand, right? She knows a lot of people. Um, but I think Blake Lively was the most dramatic

00:56:30.740 one probably. Yeah. Interesting. I wonder why they would have had a falling out after the

00:56:37.520 Justin Baldoni think because somehow Taylor Swift got looped into that drama yeah her texts got

00:56:45.020 well leaked is the wrong word they got released um and uh and so I'm sure she wasn't thrilled

00:56:51.200 about that but I don't know that that's Blake's fault maybe it is probably not for starting at

00:56:56.720 all yikes I don't know I don't know um okay at a press conference uh Zoran Mamdani said that

00:57:04.820 Taylor has paid New York city back for over $160,000 in police overtime. Okay. That's great.

00:57:12.800 Travis and Taylor donate $26 million to charities before the wedding. Among the recipients are

00:57:18.980 several food banks in New York, Los Angeles, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Missouri. Um, I think

00:57:23.440 that's interesting. I wonder why they decided that they were going to make those huge donations

00:57:28.780 right before the wedding. If it was correlated at all with the wedding, the space that they were

00:57:33.100 using, the resources they were using, or if that's just something that they decided to do

00:57:36.980 before they got married? So all of those locations are places that they have, well,

00:57:42.580 that Taylor has a house, she has many houses. And then Missouri is where Travis plays. And so I

00:57:48.620 think they selected places where they've lived or know to donate to. And I'm pretty sure there

00:57:54.920 hasn't been an official statement, but I'm pretty sure that 26 million was kind of like their

00:58:00.540 making a wedding gift, essentially, to these places. I thought it was a really sweet gesture.

00:58:08.000 I thought it was nice that they didn't donate to anything absolutely insane. I'm sure some of

00:58:12.980 these organizations don't do much and are actually kind of corrupt, I'm sure. But I also heard that

00:58:20.020 some of them, some of the smaller ones that they donated to, were given such a huge amount that

00:58:25.660 they were able to... Now they're changing the whole structure of how they operate because of

00:58:29.940 how much money they gave which i think is just really cool so um yeah yeah a lot of like cancer

00:58:35.580 programs and children's hospitals and stuff like that so i thought it was a nice gesture and yeah

00:58:41.920 maybe it was for appearances but still you know it's nice it's nice okay brie what else do we

00:58:50.640 need to know what else do we need to know about taylor swift and this whole era and everything

00:58:55.860 that's happening right now she's gone pretty quiet to be honest i don't know what she's cooking up

00:59:03.860 but um she had that toy story five song and that's yeah yeah and that's what we're hoping for

00:59:12.020 is a taylor travis baby she has a whole song about wanting a bunch of kids with him so i say it's

00:59:19.200 time and i think it'll be nice it'll be a nice change of pace that they're getting married

00:59:23.420 and then after that they're having kids it just is like for someone like her it feels traditional

00:59:29.780 and I think that that's kind of nice so hopefully this year we'll see yeah yeah yes we shall see

00:59:39.580 um all right anything else going on I know that you've been following the world cup

00:59:44.800 closely because I've been following your stories and your stories are really my only connection

00:59:50.520 to the World Cup. So that shows you how loose my connection is, because I don't know that you are

00:59:56.380 a tried and true soccer fan either. No, I was not interested at all when the World Cup started. And

01:00:03.560 then the team USA started winning games. And then I got more excited and into it every time they

01:00:10.440 won a game. But they lost. They lost to Belgium, I think. So my interest immediately went back down

01:00:18.640 to zero um i'm pretty sure france is in there i really now i'm like i'm not invested anymore

01:00:27.740 because america lost so that's where we're at yeah okay that's where we're at that's good to

01:00:34.140 know i don't think i even knew that america was no longer in the world cup so thank you for that

01:00:40.420 update also our sports correspondent um yes okay brie are you going to be at share the arrows this

01:00:46.840 year yeah i'm planning on it okay good just making sure that everyone's prepared share the arrows

01:00:55.120 october 10th you heard it here brie is going to be here yep there we go we got the graphic and

01:01:00.720 everything share the arrows.com and brie you have you have some important travel coming up

01:01:06.480 and so everyone pray for brie pray for safety and effectiveness with everything that she's doing

01:01:13.080 that the organization that she works with is doing.

01:01:15.740 Brie, thank you so much for lending your insight today.

01:01:19.200 Thanks for having me.

01:01:20.520 I love coming back.

01:01:26.780 All right.

01:01:27.460 I know we had a wide range of things today on Relatable.

01:01:31.020 We will be back here on Friday.

01:01:32.180 We will be talking to a criminal defense attorney

01:01:35.060 about the Tyler Robinson case,

01:01:37.660 what he saw in the pretrial hearing

01:01:39.680 that was kind of strange to him

01:01:41.940 and what it actually means, what we can expect in the future.

01:01:45.440 We'll see you guys then.

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