Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 01, 2022


Ep 671 | Fake Racism, Fake Oppression, Fake Science, Fake Love


Episode Stats

Length

45 minutes

Words per Minute

160.85031

Word Count

7,327

Sentence Count

442

Misogynist Sentences

17

Hate Speech Sentences

18


Summary

A race hoax at Brigham Young University proves our country s demand for oppression far outpaces its supply. Speaking of faux oppression, Meghan Markle compares her marriage to Harry to the heroism of Nelson Mandela, the AMA is lying about masks on kids again, and the girls at Barstool Sports think if you don t want your husband getting a lap dance at a strip club, you re the problem. This is an episode about truth and lies, and why it s important to know the difference.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 A race hoax at Brigham Young University proves our country's demand for oppression far outpaces
00:00:06.380 its supply. Speaking of faux oppression, Meghan Markle compares her marriage to Harry
00:00:12.140 to the heroism of Nelson Mandela. The American Academy of Pediatrics is lying about masks on
00:00:19.320 kids again. And the girls at Barstool Sports think if you don't want your husband getting
00:00:25.180 a lap dance at a strip club, you're the problem. This is an episode about truth versus lies and
00:00:31.820 why it is important to know the difference. This episode is brought to you by our friends
00:00:37.140 at Good Ranchers. Go to goodranchers.com slash Allie for a discount. That's goodranchers.com
00:00:41.820 slash Allie. Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Thursday.
00:00:55.180 We have almost made it through the week. If you haven't listened to yesterday's spontaneous
00:00:59.180 episode with Allie and friends where we talk about a bunch of ridiculous things, you should.
00:01:04.880 I realized as I was listening back to the episode yesterday, how much when I'm in casual conversation,
00:01:10.340 not when I'm delivering monologues to you guys, but when I am in casual conversation,
00:01:15.500 I say like so much. Oh my gosh. It's like I'm a millennial girl or something. So apologize for that.
00:01:24.260 Also, some of you pushed back a little bit on me saying I'm not sure that dinosaurs are real saying
00:01:32.340 that, okay, they're in the book of Job. They're described in different parts of the Bible.
00:01:36.580 Perhaps they could have also just been really big animals or dragons. I'm not even really saying that
00:01:44.080 dinosaurs didn't exist. I don't really care one way or the other. I just think it is a little odd how
00:01:51.360 all of these scientists say that they know what a pterodactyl sounds like and exactly what their
00:01:57.120 skin looked like, the pattern of their scales. That's just a little bit hard for me to believe.
00:02:04.440 Hey, if that's just part of your imagination, awesome. Like maybe we should ask Ross from
00:02:09.340 Friends or something how exactly the science of paleontology happens. I'm just saying I got some
00:02:16.340 questions. All right. Speaking of things that are just not true, let's talk about this volleyball
00:02:22.980 story of this girl who said that she was called a racial slur while she was playing volleyball at
00:02:31.040 Brigham Young University. This has caused an uproar on social media. There were several
00:02:38.060 news outlets that were reporting this saying that this poor young girl was called the N-word
00:02:44.960 by a student at BYU in the student section. What's his name? Stephen Smith. He's a commentator and
00:02:56.680 he's a sportscaster and he went on TV saying how awful this is and now how BYU is going to be held
00:03:04.580 accountable. People aren't going to want to go there anymore because apparently this young black
00:03:09.320 girl was called an N-word by someone at Brigham Young. Well, it turns out that this story, like
00:03:19.400 so many stories like this recently that we don't even have time to talk about on this podcast when
00:03:24.520 they happen, it's a hoax. It didn't actually happen. So let's back up. Let me break this down.
00:03:30.400 This is according to the Washington Post. On August 26th, the spectator at Brigham Young's
00:03:35.080 Smith Fieldhouse allegedly, at least they said allegedly, yelled a racial slur at a black player
00:03:41.880 on Duke University's volleyball team. The player said the threats caused us to feel unsafe and their
00:03:47.240 match on Saturday was relocated. The player, Rachel Richardson, said on Twitter, my fellow African
00:03:52.340 American teammates and I were targeted and racially, racially heckled throughout the entirety of the
00:03:56.940 match. The slurs and comments grew into threats, which caused us to feel unsafe. Both the officials
00:04:01.740 and BYU coaching staff were made aware of the incident during the game, but failed to take the
00:04:05.600 necessary steps to stop the unacceptable behavior and create a safe environment. So right away, I'm
00:04:11.920 thinking, OK, if I didn't know anything else about this, if I didn't know what I was about to explain to
00:04:16.620 you and how we know that this didn't actually happen, I wouldn't have assumed that this person made
00:04:21.740 it up. I mean, why would you make up something like this? Like, why would you tell this kind of
00:04:26.900 lie? I don't want to impugn her motives. I don't know why she made this comment. Honestly, my knee
00:04:32.040 jerk reaction would be to think, even based on the history of fake race crimes over the past couple of
00:04:39.220 years, starting with Jussie Smollett, I would still think, OK, well, I don't think that she made this
00:04:45.420 up. And that's pretty awful that someone would have the audacity to say something like that and that
00:04:50.680 the coaches wouldn't do anything about it. At the same time, though, at the same time, even though
00:04:55.740 I wouldn't want to disbelieve someone and just think that someone would make this up, it is really
00:05:00.920 difficult to believe. I mean, in this day and age, you're telling me that someone is going to have
00:05:08.100 the someone's going to have the audacity to say something like that in front of a black player and
00:05:15.720 also in front of black fans that were in the audience, you're telling me that someone in 2022
00:05:22.020 would do that? That that part is hard to believe. But still, still, I wonder, would someone make that
00:05:30.740 up? Well, we're going to we're we're going to dig into that in just a second. Well, BYU, they came out
00:05:37.280 with their statement. It's pretty long, so I'll just I'll just read some of it. All of God's children
00:05:43.620 deserve love and respect. And BYU Athletics is completely committed to leading out and abandoning
00:05:49.020 leading out in abandoning interesting attitudes and actions of prejudice and of any kind and rooting
00:05:57.320 out racism. When a student athlete or a fan comes to a BYU sporting event, we expect that they will be
00:06:01.720 treated with love and respect and feel safe on our campus. We're extremely disheartened. We have a
00:06:07.880 zero tolerance approach to this behavior. We wholeheartedly apologize to Duke University,
00:06:11.500 especially its student athletes competing last night for what they experienced. And so we want
00:06:18.520 this to be a safe environment for everyone. Duke University made their own statement on August 28th.
00:06:25.200 Duke volleyball experience targeted racism this past weekend during our match at the Smith Fieldhouse
00:06:30.320 on the campus of BYU. So zero skepticism, by the way, in either of these statements, just taking her
00:06:36.280 word for it and saying, oh, yeah, this absolutely happened. We stand against any form of racism,
00:06:41.000 bigotry or hatred. As a program, we have worked extensively to create an inclusive and safe
00:06:44.940 environment where our student athletes feel heard and supported, but are not naive to the fact that
00:06:48.360 there is always work to be done. All 18 members of our team, our four Black student athletes in
00:06:54.620 particular, have shown tremendous camaraderie and leadership and are to be commended for their
00:06:58.940 perseverance. We are grateful for the support of Duke Athletics and Duke University as we move forward.
00:07:04.500 So all of this is not just based on the student statement, but also her godmother. Her name is
00:07:12.800 Lisa Pamplin. She is an attorney in Fort Worth, and she tweeted that her goddaughter, Rachel Richardson,
00:07:21.160 was called this racial slur every time she served. So she is the one, one of the people who claimed that.
00:07:29.580 Now, what's interesting is that if you look at Lisa Pamplin's Twitter, she is running for a county
00:07:38.820 criminal court judgeship in Fort Worth, Texas. Now, she is like pretty obsessed based on her Twitter
00:07:46.060 history, this Lisa Pamplin person with white people and how bad white people are. Some of her tweets
00:07:53.220 say, I knew she was married to a white boy just by reading this tweet, being married to a white woman.
00:07:58.680 He thinks he can talk this stupid A nonsense. Clarence 2.0. Why people being white? Why does
00:08:09.200 CNN consistently interview these dumb white women? Bernie Sanders rallies are so white. If you're
00:08:13.980 white, you totally wouldn't understand. Would expect nothing less from a pale white chick. Sit down,
00:08:19.360 Becky. You poor white MFers can't take it. White women and men always disappoint. So this is this girl
00:08:26.700 who made this statement. This is her godmother who was at the game who claims that she heard someone
00:08:34.020 saying the N-word to her goddaughter. She also has a tweet saying, I went to vote and these white people,
00:08:43.540 this is spelled W-H-Y-P-I-P-O-E, I think that's supposed to be white people, asking me all these
00:08:50.520 questions about my jacket. No, I'm not in the military or a militia. I feel like I'm at war with
00:08:57.260 them though. So this is a person that does not like white people and she is the godmother of this
00:09:05.040 student who alleges that she was called the N-word at this game at a BYU volleyball game and they insist
00:09:13.340 that it happened. BYU apologizes. Duke makes this statement. However, a video of the entire game
00:09:22.460 was posted on YouTube and shows, you can go, we'll link it in the description of this episode,
00:09:29.300 it shows that there was no one that anyone could hear unless it was like some sort of whisper and
00:09:34.980 there was just zero reaction from the student athlete or anyone in the crowd. There is not
00:09:42.220 any indication whatsoever that someone was yelling racial slurs. The video does not show
00:09:51.340 some of the things that this athlete alleges happened. Like she said that there was like a
00:09:57.040 police officer like near the bench and that he didn't do anything about it. Well, the video shows
00:10:05.940 that that's not true. So based on all available evidence, this did not actually happen. This didn't
00:10:14.560 actually happen. And based on these allegations, BYU ended up like taking a student out of the student
00:10:22.420 section and banning him. And then after they reviewed all of this footage, they realized that the guy that
00:10:27.940 they removed from the game wasn't even there during the time that this girl says that she was called
00:10:38.780 these names. She says that she was called these names while she was serving. This guy wasn't even
00:10:43.380 there while she was serving. So this is according to the Washington Examiner, media go all in on
00:10:51.920 apparent volleyball racism hoax at BYU. BYU police reviewed footage of the fan who was banned and determined
00:10:58.640 that he did not yell any slurs when Richardson was serving. The fan wasn't even present when Richardson
00:11:03.680 was serving the first time and he was on his phone during Richardson's second serve. There were the those
00:11:09.300 were the only two times she served in front of the BYU student section. A BYU student newspaper reached
00:11:13.600 out to several people in the student section, none of whom said that they heard none of whom had heard
00:11:18.320 any slurs. Not a single person has come forward to report to BYU police that they heard the alleged
00:11:23.980 slur. Black members of BYU's basketball team were also in the student section, yet they did not react
00:11:29.380 according to what we see on the footage and have not come forward to say that they heard anything. And
00:11:34.480 yet the story was picked up by professional race baiters, Jamel Hill in the Atlantic, Mike Freeman, USA Today,
00:11:42.180 ESPN got into it. As I mentioned earlier, it was also picked up completely uncritically by
00:11:47.960 by NPR, by ABC, by NBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. And so not only is there no
00:11:57.060 evidence that this actually happened, there is actually abundant evidence that it did not happen.
00:12:04.760 The demand for hate, the demand for racism in this country far outpaces the supply.
00:12:11.760 If this were truly a country that is systemically oppressing, black and brown people, people would
00:12:21.600 not have to make up their oppression. It would be so abundant. It would be so ubiquitous that we
00:12:28.520 wouldn't have these race hoax hoaxes. I mean, several times over the last couple of years, Andy Ngo
00:12:34.620 is an account. He's a journalist that chronicles a lot of this. At different campuses across the
00:12:40.620 country, there have been swastikas painted. There have been anti-black statements made. There have
00:12:47.620 been different symbols placed around campuses that are supposed to be intimidating black and brown
00:12:54.840 students. And it's turned out that none of those have actually been true. They were not planted or
00:12:59.380 placed there by white students. They were planted and placed there by black and brown students trying to
00:13:04.140 say that this is a place of racial discrimination. I don't know what it's for. Probably activists to
00:13:09.320 try to pressure the campus to do the things that they, you know, want them to do in response to this
00:13:14.880 allegedly, you know, racist act. But look, if this country were as oppressive and as terrible for non-white
00:13:23.660 people as the race baiters and the activists and even some professing Christians say that it is, you
00:13:29.040 wouldn't have people making up instances of racism because it would not be necessary. But oppression
00:13:37.020 and victimhood have become currencies. Now, you get some sort of cultural and social capital if you can
00:13:43.460 say that you are oppressed, that you are a victim, that you have been marginalized. The fact of the matter
00:13:48.860 is, there is no better country in the world, there is no country in the world that allows for racial and
00:13:58.100 ethnic minorities to be as prosperous as they are. No other country besides America. There is no other
00:14:06.720 country where the ethnic and religious and the racial minorities can accomplish the things that they have
00:14:15.280 been able to accomplish in the United States of America. It just does not exist. And this is the
00:14:22.100 problem with social justice. This is also the problem with this idea that empathy has to take
00:14:30.860 over all of our mental faculties. This is the problem with saying, oh, we always have to lead with
00:14:35.960 empathy. We always have to think with empathy. We have to look at every circumstance first with
00:14:42.160 empathy. Well, look, empathy can blind you to the truth. In this situation, if empathy were your only
00:14:48.480 guiding light, you would just uncritically believe this person because we have to believe all victims
00:14:53.940 because that's what we've been trained to do. The right and the empathetic thing to do is to just
00:14:59.380 believe someone when they claim something. Look, you can be compassionate without forsaking the
00:15:06.400 rational capacity that the Lord has given you in your brain. Just because you want to be
00:15:11.840 compassionate, you want to be loving, you want to be accepting of someone doesn't mean that you
00:15:16.180 should stop critically thinking. It doesn't mean that the truth does not matter. Empathy without
00:15:21.920 love is a lie and lying is not love. So I hate that we are in a situation where we have to approach
00:15:29.980 these kinds of situations with skepticism. I don't want to have to be skeptical to people's claims.
00:15:35.160 Like I want to just be able to believe someone if they say, hey, this person acted in a bigoted way
00:15:40.540 towards me. Like I just want to be able to link arms with them and say, I'm so sorry that that
00:15:44.680 happened. What can I do to help? How can I combat against this? That's that's what I want my reaction
00:15:50.340 to be. But unfortunately, when this happens over and over again, your initial reaction starts to just
00:15:56.740 be, well, that probably didn't happen. And that sucks. That sucks for the people who have legitimate
00:16:02.100 claims of bigotry or discrimination. Their story is true. They actually are victims because there are
00:16:10.400 victims of all kinds of hate in this country. I want us to just be able to believe them because,
00:16:15.960 well, who would make that up? But unfortunately, some people would. And in this case, at least with
00:16:21.060 the information that we have right now, this looks entirely made up. It is disservice to actual victims
00:16:27.340 of any kind of hate. It's a disservice to yourselves. And it just makes people not take any claim
00:16:34.640 like this seriously. And that's a bummer, because as I said, sometimes they're real. But this is the
00:16:40.820 problem with the culture that we have created of condoning partial justice, which is social justice,
00:16:48.300 bias justice, basing our verdicts based on just the color of someone's skin rather than what is
00:16:53.980 actually true. Thankfully, as Christians, as we used to say so much when we did like a whole year
00:16:59.180 of episodes on like so-called social and racial justice, God's justice, according to scripture,
00:17:05.660 specifically according to God's law giving in Israel is direct. It is truthful. It is proportional
00:17:11.320 and it is impartial. He doesn't defer to the poor. He doesn't defer to the great. He does not look at
00:17:18.740 a person's skin color or a person's station in life to determine what is true and what is right and who
00:17:23.700 is guilty and who is innocent. We look at the facts of the case, truthful, impartial, direct,
00:17:30.540 and proportional. That is God's definition of justice. It has to be ours too, which means we
00:17:35.620 cannot abandon truth when we are hearing about these kinds of situations.
00:17:39.740 All right. Speaking of perpetual and faux victims, Megan Markle has a new podcast that she is promoting
00:18:00.480 in a stunning interview with an outlet called The Cut. So in this article, of course, which is very
00:18:09.640 gushy about her and who she is and what she has accomplished, she makes this incredible statement
00:18:15.860 that has now been picked up by the media that a lot of people are making fun of. The article says
00:18:20.940 she recalls a moment from the 2019 London premiere of the live action version of The Lion King.
00:18:26.040 I just had Archie. It was such a cruel chapter. I was scared to go out. A cast member from South
00:18:30.640 Africa pulled her aside. He looked at me and he's just like light. He said, I just need you to know
00:18:35.580 when you married into this family, we rejoiced in the streets the same as we did when Mandela was
00:18:41.600 freed from prison. Of course, she knows she's no Mandela, but perhaps even telling me the story is
00:18:46.580 a mode of defense, the journalist says, because if you are a symbol for all that is good and charitable,
00:18:51.620 how can anybody find you objectionable? How can anybody hate you? Now, apparently, according to
00:18:59.640 the Daily Wire, Nelson Mandela's grandson slammed Meghan Markle for even drawing this comparison at
00:19:07.300 all. Now, maybe Meghan Markle would say, well, hey, I didn't say it. Someone else said it, but you're
00:19:11.900 bringing it up in an interview. You know that it's on the record. What you want is for this reporter to
00:19:17.740 make public that you marrying into a royal family is in any way comparable or should elicit the same
00:19:25.600 reaction at all to Nelson Mandela being released from prison. And this is kind of what she does.
00:19:33.600 I know that there are probably some Meghan Markle defenders out there. I'm not trying to say that she
00:19:37.920 is, you know, an irredeemable person, that she hasn't had a hard time, that it hasn't been, you know,
00:19:43.820 somewhat of a difficult adjustment. But it just seems like you should be able to kind of reckon with
00:19:50.400 yourself at some point and say, you know what, I have not had a difficult life. I've had a very
00:19:55.820 charmed life. I made it in Hollywood there for a little bit. I literally married a prince. And now
00:20:02.860 I have the privilege of being a part of the royal family. With that privilege comes some responsibilities
00:20:08.640 and some expectations of respect of the history and the legacy and the customs, the traditions
00:20:14.440 of this family and of the UK. I understand I'm an outsider. I'm an American. And I just I need to
00:20:23.880 respect that. And I need to help my husband and help this family uphold this institution. That
00:20:31.520 doesn't mean she's not allowed to have her independence or her disagreements or whatever
00:20:36.440 it is. But look, doesn't it kind of come with the territory of being a duchess that you have to
00:20:43.200 abide by certain behaviors and live up to certain standards? That's what it seems like she's
00:20:49.760 resisting and what she constantly acts like she is a victim to. Not that she is just a victim of,
00:20:56.280 you know, what she would say, you know, probably racial oppression, which I'm not saying that
00:21:00.420 at no time in her life has she experienced any discrimination. But it seems like she thinks that
00:21:06.040 she is a victim of the expectations of being a part of the royal family. And like, didn't you
00:21:15.720 understand that that what that's what was going to happen when you married into this family when you
00:21:21.100 married Harry? Now, I think that a lot of Brits have even harsher words to say about her. What I don't
00:21:27.280 like about her is that she is constantly getting people to feel bad for her while simultaneously
00:21:34.320 casting herself as this kind of like martyr like hero. And I'm just not sure there are very many
00:21:42.080 people in the world who really regard her as that. Maybe there are a few. I don't think that there are
00:21:48.100 very many. Apparently on the podcast called Archetypes that she is promoting in this interview with
00:21:53.280 the cut. She has a conversation with Mariah Carey and Mariah Carey called her a diva.
00:21:59.420 Now, if the diva of all divas who is Mariah Carey, if she is calling you a diva, then perhaps
00:22:06.200 that is something that you need to take to heart. And maybe that comes with the territory, too.
00:22:10.960 Maybe if you were a duchess, like you get to be a little bit of a diva, but you can't be a diva
00:22:15.560 and a victim at the same time. That just that doesn't that doesn't really work. Also, I've talked about
00:22:21.500 before they live, I think, in Malibu. They live in California in this huge McMansion. Meanwhile,
00:22:27.800 they're preaching to other people about the importance of preserving the environment of
00:22:34.300 lessening your carbon footprint. Look, the guy who lives in, you know, rural Oklahoma, who is driving
00:22:42.500 45 minutes every day in his diesel truck and is using 16 plastic straws every hour, has a smaller
00:22:53.260 carbon footprint than these pseudo environmentalists Harry and Meghan do because of their private travel
00:23:03.060 and jets because of the mansion that they live in and all of the energy that requires to like air
00:23:08.940 condition, a home like that. So that's what bothers me about her. I don't know about all the other
00:23:14.600 stuff. I don't really get into the royal drama. But she just seems like a hypocrite who wants to be
00:23:20.700 seen both as the strong and empowering hero and also wants people to feel very, very bad for her.
00:23:27.780 And I just don't have I don't have either feeling towards her.
00:23:38.940 All right. So just keeping in the theme of this episode, speaking of hoaxes, things that are just
00:23:47.800 not true and things that are fake, the American Academy of Pediatrics is out here saying, still
00:23:53.560 saying in the year of our Lord, 2022, that kids need to be wearing masks in schools. I mean, how many
00:24:02.700 times over the past year, especially the end of 2020 and 2021 did we go over charts and data set after
00:24:11.920 data set and peer reviewed study after peer reviewed study showing that there is no evidence that exists
00:24:21.020 on this planet that mask mandates for kids in any way lowers mortality or even has any kind of effect
00:24:29.780 on the case rate. I mean, the CDC study that came out that said, oh, look, there actually is a big
00:24:36.200 difference. It was completely demolished, completely debunked by David Zwick, as we talked about at the
00:24:41.900 time, the American Academy of Pediatrics. I really thought that they would have dropped this by now.
00:24:48.060 Last year, there was this whole kerfuffle, this whole kind of mini scandal, at least among conservatives,
00:24:53.800 when the American Academy of Pediatrics came out and said, oh, there's there's no indication or data
00:24:59.680 or evidence whatsoever that caretakers wearing masks around toddlers or babies is going to impede
00:25:05.340 their development or speech whatsoever. As they said that they quietly went to their website and
00:25:10.280 they deleted a portion of their website that showed that showed the the data in a study
00:25:17.480 demonstrating that young babies and toddlers watch their caretakers mouths, not just for smiles and
00:25:24.580 to understand emotional reactions and to feel safe, but also watch the formation of words in order to
00:25:32.420 understand how to pronounce those words themselves. And a lot of people called them out. I thought maybe
00:25:38.320 they have a little shame. Maybe they're a little embarrassed. Maybe they won't outwardly, you know,
00:25:43.680 publicly backtrack, but inwardly, internally, they will be embarrassed and they'll take this back.
00:25:49.520 They have not taken it back. They are now doubling down. They tweeted just a few days ago that there is no
00:25:56.120 indication that wearing masks around kids is going to impede a child's development at all.
00:26:01.280 They say during a child's first few years, they rapidly develop communication skills. Parents and other
00:26:05.400 caregivers help by reading, talking, singing and playing. The more words a child hears, the better. If
00:26:12.140 caregivers are wearing masks, does that harm kids language development? No, there is no evidence of this.
00:26:18.560 And just FYI, there is no evidence of this is not the same thing as there is evidence proving our
00:26:27.880 statement. They're just saying there is no specific explicit study that is showing that people wearing
00:26:37.480 masks, adult wearing masks is the cause of kids not being able to speak and to understand. Well, yeah,
00:26:46.160 because it's only been a couple of years. Can we not employ just a little bit of common sense here?
00:26:52.360 Like, can we not just understand just a little bit about all of human history's understanding of
00:26:59.960 child and baby development? Like we as adults, like when we used to have to wear masks on airplanes,
00:27:05.900 I'd be traveling with my husband and he would say something to me and I would have no idea what he's
00:27:10.560 saying. Because even though I can hear and I would like to think I'm pretty good at exchanges of words
00:27:18.440 and conversations because I couldn't see his mouth and because it was loud in the airplane, I had no
00:27:23.680 idea what he was saying. So if that's true for adults who have hopefully mastered this whole, you know,
00:27:29.020 language thing, think about how much more difficult it is for kids who are especially kids with special
00:27:35.760 needs, especially kids with auditory processing problems, especially kids who already have
00:27:41.260 different kinds of speech impediments. They need to see how the mouth moves in order to know how to
00:27:47.400 pronounce the words. It also brings a sense of security. It is really hard to tell someone's
00:27:53.440 emotions, their reactions when you can't see half of their face. The emotions don't just come from the
00:27:59.400 eyes. Kids want to know that you're smiling. Kids want to know if you're angry. Kids want to know if
00:28:03.920 you're sad. Half of your face conveys that. So it can actually create a lot of anxiety. And man,
00:28:11.040 like in order to say this, you have to have not talked to any rational parents at all over the past
00:28:16.560 two years. There's this family doctor on Twitter. She has, let's see, 45,000 followers. Of course,
00:28:23.940 she's got her pronouns in her profile. So that pretty much tells you all that you need to know. But she
00:28:29.780 retweeted and this got about 3,000 likes. If you want to ensure safe in-person learning without
00:28:34.900 disruption, mandate masks in schools. So that's the kind of extortion that we're seeing from these
00:28:44.800 kinds of people, these activists. And of course, that we're going to see from the teachers unions.
00:28:48.080 Okay, if you want an education, if you don't want your kid to slip into loneliness and isolation
00:28:55.720 and purposelessness and do suicide, then you better let us mandate masks. If you want your kids to come
00:29:03.300 to school and not sit in front of a computer at home for eight hours a day, you better let us mandate
00:29:07.720 masks, even though there's no evidence. There's no evidence whatsoever that they work. There's far more
00:29:13.280 ample evidence that they hurt, not just for the reasons that I just listed, if we're talking about
00:29:19.380 cognitive and language development, but also when you're covering up half your face because of those
00:29:28.160 things, it damages your ability to relate to one another. It damages how you see other people,
00:29:34.020 either as primarily as vectors of a virus or as human beings. There is no evidence, no good data that this
00:29:41.080 helps more than it hurts. And there was this article. This is from last year, ABC News out of Palm Beach
00:29:50.440 saying that therapists there have seen a 364% patient increase in babies and toddlers over the past two
00:29:59.980 years. You're telling me that that's just random, that there's no correlation whatsoever to the fact
00:30:07.400 that the adults around them are covering their mouths? You're telling me that that's just a coincidence?
00:30:16.320 I'm not sure about that. And I've talked to a lot of you who are speech therapists, especially in
00:30:22.060 liberal areas, and you are forced for your job to be wearing masks. And I've talked to a lot of parents,
00:30:28.440 those of you out there who are parents of kids with special needs, whether it's autism, whether it's
00:30:33.080 down syndrome, or whether they just have some kind of speech impediment, and who have been trying to
00:30:38.420 go to therapy and how difficult, how discouraging, how disheartening it has been for you because your
00:30:44.280 child has struggled so much. I know kids that have gone backwards when it goes to when it comes to
00:30:49.140 reading comprehension. Maybe they were doing well before COVID and before these restrictions went into
00:30:55.440 place when it comes to speech therapy, when it comes to their development and reading and learning
00:30:59.880 and speaking. And now they've backtracked because of these restrictions. So the AAP is, as far as I am
00:31:07.000 concerned, has lost all credibility. They've lost all credibility, not just for this, but also because
00:31:11.580 they are for the gender mutilation, the genital mutilation in the name of gender affirmation
00:31:18.040 for children. And so, and this is like a very dire crisis that we're in that we cannot trust our
00:31:25.320 medical institutions that I would love to be able to trust the CDC. I'd love to be able to trust the
00:31:31.160 AAP. I would love that. I'd love to have a go-to source to be able to ask all of my mom health
00:31:37.300 questions too, and to be assured that there are people of goodwill who care about the science and
00:31:44.120 who care about the truth and not at all about politics giving me my answers. But we don't have that.
00:31:50.000 That's a problem. I mean, really, I guess the theme of this episode in general is the crisis of
00:31:55.760 credibility in our institutions, whether it's our media or whether it's the CDC or the AAP or whether
00:32:02.680 it's the government. We just can't trust the people that we are told are supposed to be our purveyors,
00:32:10.340 our givers of accurate and solid information. And yet anyone who asks these questions over the past
00:32:15.960 two years have been censored. They've been deplatformed. They've been called conspiracy
00:32:19.820 theorists and kooks. It's wild. And there's an actual consequence to that. There's a consequence
00:32:25.960 to these experts being so unwilling to admit that they're wrong. I also, on NBC News, this is a 2012
00:32:35.060 article that I dug up a couple weeks ago. 2012. A 2012 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy
00:32:41.500 of Sciences shows that babies are using lip reading to acquire language. So this is 2012. You think the AAP
00:32:48.640 10 years later doesn't know about this study? The results showed that at four months of age, babies
00:32:53.740 focused almost solely on a speaker's eyes. But by between six to eight months, the infant entered the
00:33:00.180 babbling state of language and they directed their attention to the speaker's mouth. And they continue
00:33:04.540 to lip read even through 10 to 12 months old. And of course, as I already mentioned, we do that
00:33:11.400 throughout our lives. So we know that. That was reported on 10 years ago. And that just confirmed
00:33:16.560 what most people already understood about how we communicate to each other and especially
00:33:20.760 to young kids. In the AAP, because they're a political arm of the progressive medical bureaucratic
00:33:29.080 state, they are just repeating these talking points that, again, will have real consequences on
00:33:34.680 people. Speaking of consequences, there was an article that I just saw, but it came out a few months ago.
00:33:40.860 In Nature magazine, titanium dioxide particles frequently present in face masks intended for
00:33:49.680 general use, and it should require regulatory control, the authors of this article say.
00:33:56.340 The study tested several batches of face masks intended to be put on sale as PPE. 70% of the masks
00:34:04.380 contained titanium dioxide in high quantities. In animal experiments, toxic effects were reported
00:34:11.600 when the particles were inhaled and ingested orally. In 2017, the Risk Assessment Committee of the European
00:34:18.440 Chemical Agency classified titanium dioxide as a suspected human carcinogen. Further toxicity and
00:34:26.440 epidemiological research is needed to assess the risk of vulnerable populations, especially children.
00:34:33.280 And yet, we've got the CDC and the AAP saying, oh, no, you should definitely just put these little
00:34:39.920 face masks made in China, by the way. You should just put these little face masks on your sons and
00:34:47.200 daughters. When they're five years old, they'll be totally fine. I mean, we have not even started to see
00:34:52.920 the repercussions of COVID policy that were not based in science, that were not based in rationality,
00:35:00.660 they were not based in compassion, they were based in a need for identity, and a need for meaning, a need for
00:35:07.040 purpose, a need for virtue signaling. And so people could not let go of their masks, they could not let go of
00:35:15.660 their 15 vaccines, they could not let go of Dr. Fauci, they could not let go of their virtual learning and their
00:35:22.140 lockdowns. They could not let go of their lockdowns because it became for them an identity. It became for
00:35:27.240 them a very easy and outward way to say, see, I'm a loving person, I'm a good person, without ever having to get
00:35:35.160 off their couch. Sad. It's sad. And we will continue to see the consequences of our stupidity. And in some
00:35:45.980 cases, when it comes to the government are corruption for a very long time. And if you're just now waking
00:35:52.780 up to this, welcome. It's time to continue to speak up because unfortunately, there are kids across the
00:35:59.260 country that are facing these mask mandates. So you need to get organized, you need to get active, you
00:36:04.700 need to get involved, and you need to push back against this for the sake of your kids. What do we
00:36:08.800 always say? That children are the unconsenting subjects of progressive social experiments.
00:36:15.720 Whether it's unscientific mask mandates and COVID restrictions, whether it's abortion, whether
00:36:22.620 it's genital mutilation in the name of so-called gender affirmation, whether it's, as we've talked
00:36:29.880 about, the destructive comprehensive sex education that is in schools, kids are always the unconsenting
00:36:37.580 subjects of progressive social experiments. And there is only one group that can hold them back
00:36:44.140 from that. And that is parents. And so that's our role. It matters for masks. It matters for all the
00:36:50.580 other cultural issues that we're talking about. So make sure that you are staying on top of this
00:36:56.760 in your area. All right. There is only one more thing I want to talk about. There's a reaction that I
00:37:04.280 want to do to this crazy, crazy video out there that just really makes me sad. It doesn't really
00:37:12.040 have to do with anything that we have talked about so far. It's not really on theme, except I could kind
00:37:17.240 of make it on theme. This is like what I'm about to play you after this ad is a fake version of love
00:37:27.080 and acceptance. All right. So this, um, this is a clip that was played on, um, the mean girl pod,
00:37:47.220 which is a podcast of barstool sports. And they're talking, I saw it, I saw it going around on social
00:37:55.660 media and they're talking about, um, strip clubs and it just really made me sad. So I'll give my
00:38:00.240 reaction to this after we play this. Opinions on your boyfriend going to a strip club. And let's
00:38:05.360 change that to boyfriend, partner, spouse, husband, anything. I say, let them go. Why not? And trust
00:38:13.580 them like bachelor parties. We're going to strip clubs. Um, I think there is no issue and be a good
00:38:21.720 boy, whatever that definition is that fits you. Yeah. I don't have an issue with that at all. I
00:38:25.960 personally love strip clubs. Um, I truly think if you have a problem, it might be because you don't
00:38:31.660 trust your partner. Also, I view strip club as like a place of entertainment where they're the
00:38:38.480 people who are stripping are doing their job. Like they're not just going to be on your boyfriend
00:38:41.640 making out with him. I mean, I don't know if that's a problem then, but you don't even mean like
00:38:45.700 when I think of strip clubs, I'm like, yeah, get the lap dance. Like that's part of the
00:38:49.220 entertainment of the show. That is so sad that these girls have such a warped view of what love
00:38:57.880 is, what a relationship should be, what loyalty looks like, what fidelity and faithfulness and
00:39:04.760 actual purity looks like. Like I'm sure that those things are not crossing their minds at all,
00:39:09.240 but they have been so inundated by the lies and the propaganda of this culture that they actually
00:39:16.820 believe that it can be healthy, that it can be good, that it can be okay for their boyfriend,
00:39:23.820 spouse, whatever, whatever other words she used, partner to go to a strip club and get a lap dance
00:39:32.300 by a stripper. And it's not just that I think that they have a completely unhealthy view of what a
00:39:38.440 relationship should look like. It's also, of course, that strip clubs are immoral and people say,
00:39:43.960 oh no, they're not immoral. Those women are going out and they're choosing to be a stripper.
00:39:49.940 They are, they're deciding to, you know, slide down that pole and dance for money. That's what
00:39:55.880 they want to do. They're consenting to it. So who are you to judge? Of course, I'm going to say
00:40:01.360 if something is immoral or moral, self-objectification is still objectification. I don't care if those
00:40:08.400 women have known since they were six years old that they wanted to, you know, give gross men lap dances
00:40:14.820 for money. I don't care. I don't care if they are consenting to it. It's still wrong. It's still
00:40:22.940 disgusting. And the culture that we have of objectification or self-objectification
00:40:28.520 leads to all kinds of warped and destructive views of the human body, views of sex, views of women,
00:40:39.940 views of men, views of dynamics, of power. This culture that we've created where consent is the
00:40:48.080 only standard that we have of morality and decency and virtue is wrong. It's wrong. Consent,
00:40:55.200 of course, is an aspect of whether an act or an interaction is morally okay, but it is not the
00:41:04.440 only standard. It's not the only standard of decency. That is like the absolute bare minimum.
00:41:13.000 The question should be, is this good for the soul? Is this good for the heart? Is this good for
00:41:18.980 relationships? Is this good for society? Is this good for productivity? Is this good for the family?
00:41:24.300 Not just does this feel good in this moment? I mean, this is one of the most perverse examples of
00:41:31.900 instant gratification that exists that is an absolute cancer in our society. Not to mention,
00:41:41.540 of course, that, I mean, all of it is disgustingly sinful. That, of course, Christians are not just to
00:41:49.920 not cheat on their spouse, but not even to look at a woman lustfully. That's what Jesus tells us,
00:41:57.060 that it's not enough not to commit adultery, but you're already committing adultery if you look at
00:42:02.900 a woman lustfully. So, I mean, just disgusting and just depraved and just sad. Like, I'm just sad.
00:42:11.720 Girls, I want you to know that there are men that exist who will only have eyes for you,
00:42:18.700 who will do everything that they can for you and your family and to be faithful to you, who will
00:42:24.840 want no other and will pursue no other sexual interaction except for the sexual relationship
00:42:30.900 that they have with you within marriage. That's how it's supposed to be. That exists. And that is like
00:42:37.080 the best form of relationship that you could possibly find. Do not aspire for anything less
00:42:43.960 than that. Do not settle. Do not believe the lie. Well, all guys look at porn. All guys go to strip
00:42:50.020 clubs. All guys look girls up and down. Of course, all guys are going to think about and talk about
00:42:55.260 other girls. No, that might be a temptation that's always there, but that is not. That might be normal.
00:43:01.560 That might be common. It's not godly. It's not right. You don't have to settle for it.
00:43:07.640 So anyway, girls at Barstool, not really surprised. Barstool is like that. But I'm sad for them that
00:43:16.900 they think people who are not okay with their husbands going to strip clubs are the ones who are
00:43:23.360 unhealthy. Look, I mean, I wouldn't trade matrimony, holy matrimony, a monogamous marriage for whatever
00:43:33.300 they got going on with their boyfriends any day of the week. All right.
00:43:38.200 Okay. I hope everyone has a wonderful Labor Day weekend. We will have a short episode on Monday.
00:43:54.440 It'll be a Q&A episode. Lots of good questions that I got from you guys. So I will be answering
00:43:58.880 that. And it is our it is my husband's and my anniversary over the weekend. Actually,
00:44:07.980 I think it's on Tuesday. I'm forgetting like which day it actually is. We will be married for
00:44:11.860 seven years. I can't believe it, man. It goes by so fast. And we have lived like so much life,
00:44:18.240 lived in different places. We got two kids. I mean, different jobs, all kinds of journeys. And
00:44:25.000 as I said a few minutes ago, don't settle. Like don't settle. Marriage is awesome. Exclusivity,
00:44:34.020 monogamy, faithfulness. Like it is awesome. It is worth waiting for. It is worth working for.
00:44:42.640 You don't have to settle for the just disgusting and objectifying definition of love and sexuality
00:44:51.580 that this world offers. As always, the God who created us and who created our bodies, who created
00:44:58.600 sex, who created male and female, and created marriage knows better. And just to like wrap up
00:45:05.740 this episode with a nice little bow, basically the theme was fake things. And we want to be
00:45:12.500 people who are of the truth. We want to be people who love and pursue that which is good and right
00:45:19.740 and true. And that's what I hope to help us do on this podcast, not just in the factual sense,
00:45:25.280 but also in the biblical sense as well. So thank you guys so much for coming along that journey with me.
00:45:31.020 We will be back here on Monday.