Ep 758 ｜ Sorry, Ohio. Biden’s Busy in Ukraine
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In this episode, Allie talks about her sunburn, the dangers of wearing sunscreen in the sun, and how to deal with a sunburn. Plus, Biden visits Ukraine and pledges the country 500 million more dollars in military support, even as his own constituents in Ohio are reeling from disaster. And a new survey about dating preferences tells us a lot about the future of our country.
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Biden visits Ukraine and pledges the country 500 million more dollars in military support,
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even as his own constituents in Ohio are reeling from disaster.
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And a new survey about dating preferences tells us a lot about the younger generations
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The future of our country is the theme of today's episode,
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If you haven't listened to yesterday's episode with Jennifer Say,
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former executive at Levi's, reacting to the recent meta-analysis and the recent study
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proving that many of us have been right about COVID and masks and natural immunity for a very long time,
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And when there's so much bad news today, there's so much to just be discouraged about.
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And quite frankly, we're going to talk about some of that stuff today.
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When we get to Ohio and Ukraine and the threat of nuclear war,
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it's really good to be reminded that sometimes pushing for that which is good and right and true
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People still lost their jobs over those lies, over that propaganda, over the bullying that we saw.
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Not just from individuals, but I mean, social media giants, bosses, CEOs, all kinds of employers,
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firing people, taking away their livelihoods because of the vaccine and all of that.
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So I'm not saying all of the consequences have just gone away because science has finally caught up to common sense.
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But it is nice and sometimes reassuring to see the truth actually come to light in a relatively quick manner.
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Again, I don't want it to sound like I'm diminishing the consequences that people have had to deal with
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because of the COVID restrictions, but the truth is coming to light.
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And there will be a day when people will be embarrassed to have defended all the things that they defended
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A couple of you, before we get into our first segment, a couple of you, few of you, several of you,
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messaged me, commented on YouTube about my poor, poor sunburn that you saw yesterday.
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If you go back and you listen to yesterday or you watch yesterday's episode on YouTube, rather,
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you will see what looked like a pink, a pink shirt that I was wearing under my sweatshirt.
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And then when I finally said during one of the ads, no, this is a sunburn.
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You were taken aback by how bad of a sunburn I got.
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And I meant to talk about this at the start of yesterday's show, and I just forgot.
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And the reason I wanted to mention it is because I actually kind of look different.
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And you guys might not notice because I've got the lights, I've got makeup on.
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But underneath this miraculous, magical makeup that I am wearing is my worst sunburn that I have
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As I said on Instagram, as I think I mentioned yesterday, my husband and I, we went to South
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We stayed at a really nice hotel and it was really fun.
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But on Saturday, that was our only full day there.
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And so we kind of felt like we weren't really getting sun a lot of the day or a lot of the
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So we did put sunscreen on, but we just didn't put enough sunscreen on.
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We didn't think that the UV rays are as strong behind the clouds and all of that.
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And the mistake was not to put on SPF 70 while we were in the sun for like six hours.
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And so both my husband and I are suffering from the worst sunburns that we've ever gotten.
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And let me tell you how bad the sunburn is for me.
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I think it's worse for me than it is for him because on my face, it's so bad.
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Underneath this, you would be able to see how red it is.
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I've got all the remedies and everything like that.
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But it's not only that, it has also caused my face to swell.
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I'm looking at myself right now on a monitor how different I look than when I walked into
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I told the makeup artist, I said, I need you to work a miracle today because it is causing
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And I guess like, you know, your blood fluids rush to the place where the bad sunburn is to
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try to, you know, heal it, help it, whatever it is, just like any other injury, it is causing
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like the bridge of my nose and even my eyelids to swell.
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So it makes my eyes look farther apart than they actually are.
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And it makes them look smaller than they actually are.
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And that is not a good thing when you have a job that requires you to be in front of a
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I'm not able to come in because I look like a beady eyed monster.
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I look like some kind of creature from Narnia, but I did the ice roller.
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But if I were to take my makeup off, you would be like, oh yes, what is wrong with your eyes?
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And so then I'll have to take it off and put my aloe vera on and all that kind of stuff.
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But for you guys in service to the relatable audience that is watching this on YouTube,
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And let me just tell you, let me give you some advice, people out there,
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Maybe it's even difficult for you to get burned.
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My skin hasn't really seen the hot sun in like five months.
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So for those of you, you're going on spring break.
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You're going on some kind of snowbird vacation.
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I know, I know, and you know, I'm a part of sometimes I follow the crunchy world on Instagram
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I do think it's important to get unmitigated vitamin D for a certain period of time every
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But I'm telling you, it is not good to get like second degree burns on your skin.
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If you're going to Mexico, you're going to California, you're going to Florida, you're
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Wear your sunscreen when you go on your vacations.
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That was really, that wasn't a very important way to start the show, but it was how I wanted
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If I save one person from getting like second degree sunburn on their nose and forehead,
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the way that I did, it will have been, my PSA will have been worth it.
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I first want to talk before we get into like the most serious stuff, we're going to get
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into Ohio and Ukraine, but we're going to wait on that a little bit because Biden, President
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Biden actually right now, as I'm recording, this is giving some kind of speech about where
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I want to make sure to get some of his words and to be able to put it into this episode
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so I'm going to let him talk as I am talking, as I'm recording the first couple parts of
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this episode, and then we'll get into that and we'll be able to have some more context
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So first, we're going to talk about this really fascinating dating study that I saw and what
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I think it means and some things to consider, because I know there are a lot of moms, I
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would say probably mostly married women who listen to this podcast, but there are a lot
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And I think that this is probably like a very unique, a unique female podcast because most
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female podcasts are about marriage and kids, or they're like from a totally secular perspective
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and they're from like, they're about like secular forms of dating and sex and things like that.
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Whereas this is a female podcast, we do talk a lot about motherhood and the importance of
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marriage and all of that. But it is also a place where single women I know and single
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people are, they feel welcome because we're talking about the issues that affect all of
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us. We're talking about how any kind of person, any kind of Christian is wading through the
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chaos of our culture wars in a way that is hopefully and humbly biblical and Christ centered.
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And so I wanted to look at this dating study. For those of you who are single out there,
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you can kind of tell me if you think that this is true, if this is true in your own life,
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if this is true of your feelings. And those of you who are engaged, married, whatever,
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I think it's important for us to know about this stuff too. Things have changed. I got married in 2015.
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Things have changed since then. I am not envious of those trying to navigate the dating world today
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because it seems ultra complicated and just really burdensome with all of the different complexities
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of social media and politics and all of that. So I'm going to get into that study. I think it's
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important for us all to know. Just really fascinating findings. All right. This was a study conducted by
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the Survey Center on American Life that was published February 9th, 2023, titled From Swiping to Sexting,
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the Enduring Gender Divide in American Dating and Relationships. This was a survey of more than
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5,000 adults age 18 and older, including nearly 800 single adults. Okay. So they talked to a large
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number of single adults, but also people who were dating, who were engaged, who were in relationships
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and just talked about or asked them about what are deal breakers for you? What are you looking for
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in a relationship? What did you look for in a relationship? And they found that people have
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really strong dating preferences. They have really strong opinions when it comes to the people that
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they want to date, especially when it comes to things like living at home, being unemployed and smoking.
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These are especially salient considerations, this survey says, for women. And now politics is another
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important consideration for many Americans, especially committed partisans. Most Republicans and Democrats
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say that they would be much less interested in dating those of the opposite political persuasion.
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You know, I think some people think that that's sad. Oh, we're so polarized as a country.
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Yeah, it is what it is. We can talk about polarization and how we got there. We've talked about that several
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times, actually, over the past, how we've gotten there over the past 10 years. But that's what it is.
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I mean, at this point, if you are Republican, you are a conservative Republican, not just a moderate
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Republican or even maybe a liberal Republican, but if you are a conservative Republican, it is going to
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be hard to square your core values with a liberal Democrat, even a moderate Democrat. It's just going
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to be really difficult. That doesn't mean that you can't be friends. It doesn't mean that you can't be
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co-workers, that you can't be colleagues or peers and get along fine or that you can't respect them.
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But when you're talking about sharing your life with someone, when you're talking about potentially marrying
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someone, becoming one with someone, raising kids with someone, I would say that you really need to be on the
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same page when it comes to those things. I know that it's possible for Republicans and Democrats to get
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together and to, you know, get married and maybe have a happy life. I would say that is very rare. That's very rare,
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especially if both of you are very strong in your positions, because it comes down to not just policy
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differences. It comes down to theological differences. One of you probably believes that human beings are made in
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the image of God and therefore life shouldn't be snuffed out in the womb. One of you might not believe that life
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really has value until the mother decides that the life has value and that they should be killed. I mean, that's a
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theological debate. That's a really big difference in how you view human beings and how you view morality.
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And so that chasm really only grows when you have children. Unless there's some kind of about face from
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one of the people in their relationship, I totally understand why this is such a strong consideration
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among people who are trying to find a mate. There is also a consideration of the potential of infidelity
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because the survey says infidelity is a disquietingly common experience, especially for women. So
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obviously that's something that women are looking out for. You know, it's also interesting. This is
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another just commentary that I have that I feel like for a long time, not just recently, for decades
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at least, there has been this push against monogamy. The monogamy isn't natural. We don't see it
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other places in nature. Why are we trying to put humans in a box? And then of course, recently there's been
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this popularization of polyamory where you're in these relationships where you have a girlfriend
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and a boyfriend who both have a girlfriend and a boyfriend. I mean, you're just talking about
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basically a constellation of chlamydia. And yet we're glorifying this as it's, you know, as if it's
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supposed to be something beautiful. And then these people are trying to raise children in this kind of
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chaotic environment. But the reality is, is that most people are actually looking for a faithful
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partner. Most people are looking for monogamy. You can say that it's not natural, but I think it goes
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back to the beginning of creation and Genesis 1, when God made them one male and one female. He set that
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up as the ideal and our human nature longs for it. Of course, humans try to pervert through sin
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all kinds of things, including relationships and marriage by trying to redefine things that really
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cannot be redefined because we didn't define them in the first place. We didn't create them.
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God did. But it just leads ultimately to misery. And that is why even non-Christian people, I think,
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are very often looking for that monogamous faithful relationship. Nearly half of women, the survey says,
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say that a partner or spouse has been unfaithful. That is just tragic, including more than six in 10
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black women. Now, that's interesting. So that's higher, apparently, according to the survey,
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than other demographics of women, white women, Hispanic women, that almost 70% of black women,
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wow, say that their partner or spouse, I'm guessing mostly male partner or spouse, has been unfaithful.
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To them. I mean, of course, you're going to be hesitant to get into another relationship.
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Even as online dating has made it easier than ever to become romantically involved with a complete
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stranger, younger Americans appear increasingly interested in dating people they already know.
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Isn't that an interesting development, too? You know, I think that's actually why. Now,
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I was not on dating apps, and I praise the Lord for that. I know people who have met their
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spouses through dating apps, and so I'm not saying that it's all bad. I just imagine it's very
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exhausting, a very difficult way to meet people. So I met my husband when we were working out
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at a gym. So I don't really know that much about dating apps, but friends who are single or who have
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been singled over the past 10 years, they tell me, like, what's the difference in all these apps? And I
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know, I think Hinge is the one where you actually have to have some mutuals. So I wonder if that kind
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of thing is more popular or if people are just kind of abandoning dating apps in general because of what
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I just said. It's so tiring. It's so exhausting to just be swiping and swiping. And it is necessarily
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objectifying. I mean, it is. You're looking at a two-dimensional version of someone. It's not like
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you're hearing their laugh, or you heard their personality, or you interacted with them, and you
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were kind of attracted to that three-dimensional part of them. But you have to just kind of look at
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their appearance, and maybe not even their genuine appearance, but the appearance that they want you
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to see on the app and the qualities that they are listing on their profile, and you're just kind of
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hoping it's sincere. I imagine that that can be a very difficult process. So I am heartened by the
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news that apparently, according to the survey, young people are saying, eh, I actually would like to
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know this person. So meeting them at church, meeting them in some kind of community event,
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meeting them through friends, meeting them, you know, through different organizations, through work,
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or whatever, I feel like that is probably a better and in some ways easier way to make a connection.
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Again, I don't want it to sound like I'm knocking on all use of dating apps because I know people who
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have been able to use it effectively. That doesn't invalidate your relationship at all
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that you've been able to build from that. But I could definitely see why people are graduating from
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that, moving on from that, and saying, you know what, that was just too much. I've been doing that
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for the past seven years. It hasn't worked. I'm just going to go back to the olden days when people
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actually met in person and had to put themselves out there and say hi to someone and possibly face
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in-person rejection. I understand why that's harder, but I think it's also a lot more satisfying
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when you really meet the person. So they also analyzed marriage, and we're going to get into
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some of the polls that they have that I think are really interesting, but this is just from the
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article itself that is explaining the survey. So about marriage, no social changes alter the fabric
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of American life so profoundly as the decline of marriage. That is absolutely true. It is tragically
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true. It is tragically true. It doesn't just go back to Obergefell. It goes all the way back to
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no-fault divorce. It goes all the way back to the disintegration of the institution of marriage
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that really has been going on. It has been precipitating for the last several decades.
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And so this is not new, but it's definitely gotten worse. The popularity of choosing not to marry
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and seeing marriage as something that is simply archaic, that is an inconvenience, that is an
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impediment to happiness and satisfaction. That is certainly, I think, a more widespread feeling
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and belief than it was even 10 years ago. Marriage is facing increasing competition from other types
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of social arrangements, such as cohabitation. The number of Americans cohabitating with their
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romantic partner has more than doubled over the past three decades. It has become a widely
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acceptable practice, particularly among younger Americans. Nearly six in 10 younger Americans
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report having cohabitated with a romantic partner. Statistically, you are much more likely to get a
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divorce if you cohabitate before you get married. That's just true. You're more likely to have all
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kinds of relationship problems if you cohabitate before you get married. Not saying that's everyone.
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I didn't say it's 100%. I didn't say that no one who doesn't live together and then gets married,
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gets divorced. That's not what I said. But statistically, it is simply true that you are
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more likely to get a divorce. You are more likely to simply fall out of love, not end up together,
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even with the person that you thought was your soulmate, if you decide to live together before
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getting married. Again, it's almost like God knew what he was talking about when he instructed us
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in how to order our lives, that it wasn't just for rules, it wasn't just for restrictions,
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but that he actually cares about our well-being and us having an abundant life. He actually cares
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about our joy and about our protection. So the regulations that he puts in place,
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the parameters that we see him put in place throughout scripture, especially when it comes
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to sexuality and our relationships, are actually for our physical and emotional, mental, spiritual
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good, not for our harm. And it seems like science and surveys are always trying to catch up to what
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God has been saying since the beginning of time. The survey says nowhere is the decline of marriage
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more evident than in the lives of young adults. Overall, more than one in three Americans have
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never been married. Only 25% of younger adults aged 18 to 34 are currently married. A dramatic decline
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over the past few decades. In 1978, younger adults were almost twice as likely to be married.
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Right. Society is worse off for it. We're worse off for it. I promise. And I know a lot of young
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people, they want to be married. Okay. So there's a lot of girls, women who are listening to this
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podcast, you're in that age bracket and you're not the kind of person who's like, yeah, I just don't
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want commitment. I don't want to be tied down to a husband. I just want to travel and work and have
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fun. So I don't want it to sound like I'm talking to you when I say this, but there are a lot of young
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people, probably a lot of young men in that demographic who just don't want to commit yet.
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They just don't want to settle down. They think that they need to pursue their career. They need
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to make a certain amount of money. They need to check all of these boxes before they look
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for someone to share their life with. That has long-term consequences, not just on an individual's
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life, but also on society as a whole. The later you get married, the later you have kids, the more
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difficult it is to then replace the older generations. The less influence parents and grandparents
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have on those kids because you simply have less time with them the later that you have those kids.
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Again, I'm not talking to the people who are involuntarily not married yet. I am talking to
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the people who are personally putting that off for the sake of convenience and for the sake of just
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irresponsibility and selfish gain. If you are able to find a husband or wife, a man or woman to spend the
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rest of your life with and commit to and have children with, I'll just say that's the better
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option. That's the better option than just doing what you want to do, doing what feels good at any
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given moment, chasing your own temporary definition of happiness. All of the things that you think that
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you can't do in a married relationship, you absolutely can. And hey, I will also just say,
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I know this is controversial, but if you are married, if you are a Christian, and I'm just kind
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of implying that I'm talking to Christians here, but if you are in a marriage, I think that you should
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have children. I think that the Bible is very clear on that, that children are a blessing, that they're not
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an impediment to our happiness. They're not an impediment to our satisfaction. They're not a
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burden. I think if you can have children, not everyone can have children. That's not God's plan
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for everyone. I think if you can have children, unless God is calling you to a very intense and
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very specific form of ministry that precludes having children, I do think every married couple who can have
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children should have children. I don't think you have to have 25 children. I think that there is
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wisdom and discernment and counsel and seeking and all of that. But my husband and I even made the
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mistake of thinking there has to be a perfect time to have kids before we even try having kids. So I
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can empathize with that feeling, but really there is no biblical support for that idea. There's no
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biblical support for putting off kids until you, you know, have traveled the world or until you've
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checked off, you know, boxes on your checklist. And the same is true. The same is true in a sense
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for marriage. Obviously there are some like more stipulations there. You want to make sure that
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you're finding a solid person and you don't want to add, you know, instability to your life by
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wedding yourself to an already unstable person. So of course there's wisdom there,
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but in general commitment, responsibility, the exclusivity, the fidelity, the support
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that comes from marriage and children is not just good for the individual. It is good for society
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as a whole. This hyper individualism that comes from the fragmentation of the family
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and basically all of us just living in our own little personalized world. It's not good. It's not good
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for the individual. And again, it's not good for society as a whole. Now, maybe some of the reason
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why so many people are single today is because they have so many peculiarities and liabilities when it
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comes to dating. And I'm not saying you shouldn't have standards. I think that you should have high
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standards when it comes to dating. But I think sometimes, especially social media, I just wonder if
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it's added to this, we have too many, like too many qualifications that someone has to reach before
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we consider giving them the time of day. I mean, I know people, like I know people like that, that
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their qualifications for their future husband are not about their godliness or not about their
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character, but they're about like random attributes that have nothing to do with how good of a husband
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or wife that person will be. And I think that could possibly be a problem here. I am sure the like
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rise of Tinder and dating apps has exacerbated that. Okay, so here are a few things that I thought was
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interesting. Just a few things that I that I wanted to point out to you that they kind of put in graph
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form. So college educated Americans report more dating liability. So basically more reasons why
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they wouldn't date someone than non college educated Americans. So interesting. So smoke cigarettes,
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90% of college graduates say, nope, I wouldn't date you because of that. Honestly, I understand like
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that would be would have been a dating liability for me if my husband would have smoked cigarettes.
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You know, as much I look back, though, I was so, you know, was am but I'm just thinking back to
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seven, eight years. Like I loved him so much. And I enjoyed him so much. And I was so attracted to him
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that I honestly, I don't know if he had smoked cigarettes, if that would have been. I don't know
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that that would have been a deal breaker. I would have really not liked it. And I would have really,
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really, really, really wanted him to stop. And I think he would have because he's a very disciplined
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person. But as much as I loved him, and wanted to marry him, I don't know that cigarettes would
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have been like, no, I absolutely cannot marry you. It would have had to stop. But you know what I'm
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saying? So I don't even know if I could 100% say that as much as I hate cigarettes. But that's
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something that you kind of know in hindsight, once you realize like how much you just love, love,
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love the person that you end up marrying. 77% of college graduates say being unemployed. That's
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a deal breaker. 62% of high school or less say that's a deal breaker. That's interesting. Again,
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what do you mean by unemployed? Are you in between jobs? Are you like an entrepreneur? Are you chronically
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unemployed? That would be a deal breaker for me. Lives in another state. 74% of college grads,
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64% of high school grads or less say that that is a liability. Again, I don't know if that would
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have been a liability for me. That would have made it a lot more difficult. But if you meet the right
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person, the long distance thing is doable. It's workable. Oh, this is funny. College graduates,
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67% said that they would not date someone who does not trust vaccines. 67% of college grads said that
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they would not date someone who does not trust vaccines. Okay, so they just want the people who
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nod along to everything that big pharma says that don't question the COVID vaccine at all. That's
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pretty incredible, especially considering yesterday's episode. So these are people who just want someone
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who regurgitates mainstream talking points. Interesting. That is true. Okay, so 67% of college
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grads say that only 33% of high school or less says that. Like I see all these polls all the time,
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like the difference in the politics and the cultural views of PhDs, college grads, high school
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or less. Like, it seems like you have like your common sense wanes the more degrees you have. And I
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say that as someone who has a college degree. And I hope that's not true. Like I hope I've retained my
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common sense to the point to where I'm still conservative. And I wouldn't say stupid stuff
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like this. But man, you just get so brainwashed. It seems like at so many of these institutions,
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you start just saying and believing really stupid stuff. 65% of college grads say that being a Trump
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supporter is a liability. They wouldn't date someone who is a Trump supporter. Only 41% of high school or
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less say that. Really? 65%? The large, I mean, a pretty large majority of college grads are saying
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that? Wow, that's pretty incredible. 60% of college grads say that they would not date someone who lives
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with their parents. 54% say that they would not date someone who has children. 52% of college grads say
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that they would not date someone who is very religious. 52%. 49% say that they wouldn't date
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someone who did not go to college. Half of college grads wouldn't date someone who didn't go to
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college. At least like half would, but that's crazy. This is interesting. 49. Okay. So 45% of college
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grads say that not believing in God would be a liability. 49% of high school or less say that
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it would be a liability. So basically the majority of college grads think it's fine for their person,
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the person that they want to date to be an atheist. A slight majority of high school or less people
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think that. Also very troubling, very troubling. Like people don't understand where morality comes from
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people not understand where right and wrong comes from. You just think that you're going to marry
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some moral relativist and that things are going to turn out fine. It might, it might, but only because
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that person probably has a very strong moral compass who doesn't, they don't even realize that they are
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actually getting their morality from the creator of the universe. But like marrying a moral relativist,
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I promise you will always end in heartbreak. Wow. People are so silly.
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Um, uh, let's see, 43%, 43% of college grads say wouldn't date a Republican, uh, 38%. This is
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interesting. Like 38% of college grads say that, um, dating someone who is much shorter than you is a
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liability. So most college grads would say that's not a liability. Um, 30. So the majority,
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the majority of college grads would say that being a feminist is not a liability. Only 34% of college
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grads say that being a feminist is a reason not to date someone. Again, huge mistake, huge mistake.
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Only 23% say that being a Democrat is a liability. Wow. Again, mistake, mistake. Um, so that's interesting.
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Roughly two thirds of Democrats who were pulled in this say that they would be less likely to date a
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Republican. More than six in 10 self-identified Republicans report that they'd be less likely
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to date a Democrat. And so that's pretty, that's pretty even there. 84% of Democrats say that they
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would be less likely to date a Trump supporter, including nearly three quarters who say they,
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they would make them, they would make them, this would make them a lot less likely to consider
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dating someone. 39% of women compared to 55% of men would be less likely to date a feminist.
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While 21% say they'd be more likely to date someone who identifies this way. So 55% of men
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say that they would be less likely to date a feminist. Honestly, I don't, I don't blame them.
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Um, so I thought that that was so interesting that we're seeing the decline of marriage and
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we're seeing a lot of, I would say, dissatisfaction with being single at the same time. And a lot
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of loneliness, a lot of feelings of purposelessness. We talked about a couple of weeks ago that,
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um, that new CDC study that shows the precipitous rise of depression and thoughts of suicide among
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teenage girls. And so like, I think that among women, like there's a lot of loneliness,
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there's a lot of discontentment, there's a lot of insecurity, even as they are constantly telling
00:34:14.340
themselves and each other how awesome and enough and beautiful and perfect they are. And I think
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that that combination is manifesting itself in some of these ridiculous standards that apparently
00:34:26.760
people have for their potential dating partner. Not all of them are bad standards, but some of them
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are very arbitrary and some of them are just bad. Like you don't care if the person that you're
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going to date doesn't believe in God. The majority of college grads don't believe that. Like some of
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it is just a total lack of wisdom is total foolishness. And we wonder why so many young people
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aren't getting married, aren't committed and just don't really understand how the world works.
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And it's also like, I think marriage and having kids, it's not absolutely necessary to caring for future
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generations. It's not necessary to having an investment in your community and what happens to
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your country. I know that there are plenty of single people and plenty of people without kids who really
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care about the future and what's going to happen to the country. They really care about freedom and our
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rights and all of that, but it absolutely helps. It absolutely helps for you to be able to see in the
00:35:26.260
faces of the people that you love more than life itself, that you love more than anything in the
00:35:32.920
world, the future of the country. And to consider how your policy decisions today, how your politics,
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the things that you choose to stand up for today, how they will affect your children and
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grandchildren. Yeah, that gives you a bigger and better perspective of what really matters and why.
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Again, not everyone has to have that in order to be able to really care about the future, but it really
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helps. Most people can't. Like, I mean, I think about when I was single and when I didn't have kids, the
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things that I thought that I understood about children, about marriage, about the world, how things work, the
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things that I thought that I cared about, the things that I straight up didn't care about, because they
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simply did not affect me. And they didn't really puncture my bubble that I had been able to create
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for myself as just like a single working woman. And now that bubble is so punctured by marriage and by
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family and just community and all of the commitments that are going by the wayside today, that I care a lot
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more. Like, I have a lot more compassion. I have a lot more understanding. I have a much bigger
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investment, a much bigger stake in the future than I would have as a just a single person. That's just
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a fact. OK, that's just a fact, because now I am looking at people who represent that future. And so
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I say that to say, like, what is the future of the country when you have a lot of people, not all single
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people, but when you have a lot of people who seem to be as represented in this survey, chiefly
00:37:08.500
concerned with themselves and their happiness and how they feel and having their needs being met and
00:37:14.460
believing that the most important thing in life is to simply love themselves and to pursue their own
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happiness. Like, what do you think that kind of country will look like? It's very different than the
00:37:25.020
country that we've had in years past that has been marked by generosity and sacrifice and commitment,
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even when it's hard. I mean, I don't think you really have a country after that. I mean, you have
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no will probably to survive or to even preserve what your country was founded upon and pair that
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with the propaganda that people have been getting in schools and certainly in universities for so long
00:37:51.560
to say that the founding of America of America is evil and not worth preserving. I do worry. I worry
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about the future of the country. I worry about the future of the country policy wise when it's
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run by people who don't have kids putting policies in place that greatly affect kids telling us
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that they know better. I mean, I think about some people right now, like AOC, people who think that
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they can make policy when it comes to education, when it comes to poverty, when it comes to the
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genital mutilation of children in the name of gender affirmation. And I'm like, you don't even know
00:38:25.040
what it's like to love a child more than you love yourself. Like you, you have, you have no investment.
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You have no stake. You don't know. And so like the country run by all kinds of people like that
00:38:39.420
puts us in a bad place. That's what I think. And not to mention these people who have these
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arbitrary standards, like you will end up unhappy. I think you can be single and happy for your whole
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life. I think that singleness can be an absolute gift. I think that's biblical. But it depends on
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what the motivation is, right? Single for the sake of the Lord. Single for the sake of obedience. Single
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for the sake of purity. Single for the sake of mission. Single for the sake of just simply being in
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the place where God has you. Yeah, that's all one thing. Single for the sake of narcissism. Single for
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the sake of just doing you. Yeah, that's going to lead you into a sad place, no matter what Chelsea
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Handler says. All right. Let's get into the more serious stuff. We'll spend a little bit on that. And we
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will talk about what's happening in Ohio and what is happening in Ukraine.
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Okay, so let's get an update on Ohio. We talked about this last week in the same episode that we
00:39:49.840
talked about the craziness that's happening in our skies with the Biden administration shooting down
00:39:54.920
Chinese spy balloons and what that actually means. We also talked about nuclear war in that episode,
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which we will get to in a second. But first, let's talk about what's going on on our own soil
00:40:07.700
within our own shores. Let's talk about what's going on in Ohio, because this is still a disaster
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area. You'll remember from last week's episode that on February 3rd in East Palestine, we didn't
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hear about the story until several days later, but there was a catastrophic train derailment in East
00:40:25.740
Palestine, Ohio that caused a very dangerous explosion. And then there was actually a controlled
00:40:33.960
explosion to release some of these dangerous gases and chemicals that were in some of these railway
00:40:42.340
cars to try to prevent some kind of crazy spontaneous combustion that would have caused even more havoc
00:40:51.980
in the area. We talked about that there are residents there that have said that their animals are dying
00:40:57.900
or sick. A woman reported that all of her chickens had died. Foxes are dying. Dogs are sick. Some people
00:41:06.180
are reporting different kinds of skin conditions that they're having a hard time catching their breath,
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that they're having a hard time even getting health care because the doctors don't know what to
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task for. Governor DeWine is saying that, you know, the municipal water, the water that you're getting
00:41:21.160
should be fine. And the EPA there is saying that the air is fine, that they're testing it,
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that it's okay. And yet the residents there are saying, well, I am still dealing with the side
00:41:33.820
effects of this. And it doesn't seem like the people who are supposed to be doing their job,
00:41:38.280
who are supposed to clean up this mess, who are supposed to make sure the catastrophe like this does
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not happen. It doesn't seem like they actually care. I've gotten several messages from you guys who live
00:41:48.320
in Ohio saying that your local governments and you feel even your state governments are actually very
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corrupt. Now, I don't live in Ohio. I've never lived in Ohio. I can't give a firsthand account to say
00:42:00.400
that that is true. But a lot of you are really disappointed in how your local and state governments
00:42:06.680
are handling this and have handled several things in the past, including things like COVID and all of
00:42:14.920
that. So Governor DeWine, Republican governor of Ohio, he has asked for help from FEMA. Now, FEMA
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government agency that typically helps with natural disasters like hurricanes or like earthquakes.
00:42:29.520
President Biden apparently said, no, we are not going to send FEMA to help you. This is just not
00:42:35.760
something that they are equipped to help with. Some people are criticizing Biden for that, basically
00:42:39.760
saying, you know, that shows he doesn't care. We're giving all this money to all these different
00:42:44.000
causes around the world. And we're not even going to send FEMA to help people in Ohio.
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I think that there's plenty of criticism to be had of President Biden, especially that he has not
00:42:53.980
been there. He hasn't even visited the area of disaster. But not sending FEMA there, I'm not
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totally sure is a legitimate thing to criticize, because apparently FEMA is working with the EPA,
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is even working with the CDC. Not that we necessarily trust those entities. But according to a White
00:43:13.700
House spokesperson, if you want to trust the spokespeople for the White House, they say that
00:43:17.700
FEMA is coordinating with these agencies that are apparently better equipped to deal with the
00:43:22.120
disaster and to deal with the health consequences of of the disaster. Nevertheless, people are
00:43:29.440
criticizing President Biden because he is not not only is he not sending FEMA there, OK, we can debate
00:43:35.460
about whether or not that is the correct move or a move that shows a lack of compassion, but that he
00:43:40.980
hasn't been present, that he's barely talked about it. And where is he instead? He is visiting
00:43:46.560
Ukraine. So that's really kind of the big gripe and always has been the big gripe, by the way,
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about President Biden and his administration, not just when it comes to Ohio, but when it comes to
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the interests of the American people in general. He can talk a big talk when it comes to the State of
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the Union address, saying that he understands that fentanyl overdoses are a really big deal,
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that is killing hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. He can talk about the fact that we
00:44:12.580
have an immigration crisis or that we need a better economy and all of these things. And he can say
00:44:17.720
that he is putting America first and that he cares about the well-being of Americans, but it's not seen
00:44:22.260
in his actions. What's seen in his actions, what has been seen in his actions since the very beginning
00:44:27.120
is that he actually prioritizes the needs and the well-being of other countries before he prioritizes the
00:44:33.920
needs and the security of his own constituents, even the people who voted for him. And as I've said
00:44:39.820
many times, that makes a wicked leader. You can call me a nationalist. You can say that I'm bigoted
00:44:45.560
for caring about America first or that's MAGA or whatever. I really don't care. You're wrong if you
00:44:51.920
believe that a country's leader should care more about the people in another country or even equally
00:44:58.220
that they should care about the people of another country as they care about the people in this
00:45:05.780
country. That is immoral. That is wicked. That is wrong. Countries are like families. You care about
00:45:13.120
your family the most. That doesn't mean you hate your neighbors. That doesn't mean that you don't
00:45:16.600
want them to do well. That doesn't mean that you don't help them when you can help them, but you
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don't do so at the expense of your own children. You don't allow your children to starve and your
00:45:27.660
children to suffer and your children to be vulnerable in order to supply the needs of people
00:45:34.740
whose own parents should be taking care of them. If you can do both, great. The point is, is that
00:45:39.920
President Biden is not doing both. So he decided that he was going to go to Ukraine during the surprise
00:45:48.440
visit. This was reported by the Hill yesterday, and he announces $500 million in new military aid
00:45:56.400
to Ukraine. President Biden on Monday announced the U.S. would be providing $500 million in additional
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military aid to Ukraine during a surprise visit to Kiev, and he teased new sanctions to crack down
00:46:09.160
on entities aiding Russia's war efforts in the country. Together, we've committed nearly 700 takes
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and thousands of armored vehicles, 1,000 artillery systems, more than 2 million rounds of artillery
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ammunition, more than 50 advanced launch rocket systems, anti-ship and air defense systems, all to
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defend Ukraine. The forthcoming announcement, Biden said, includes artillery ammunition for long-range
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weapons and all kinds of different weaponry. And he just wanted to make sure he tweeted that
00:46:37.940
America is behind Ukraine 100%. Mitch McConnell recently said something that he has said several times
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that the most important thing going on in the world right now is the battle between Russia and Ukraine,
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which is quickly growing into a battle between Ukraine and the United States and Russia and China.
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Now, tell me why a country that most people, including most politicians, could not point to on a map
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a little over a year ago is worth us possibly being wiped off off the face of the earth through nuclear war
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against China and Russia. It's not. It's not. That's not to say those people aren't made in the image of
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God. That's not to say that they don't have the same innate worth and value that we do. That's not to
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say that we shouldn't hope, you know, them success in Ukraine, whatever. But the way that we have
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upheld Ukraine is some beacon of democracy when it is not that the way that we have said we will stop
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at nothing to defend this country. When you're making calculations, as you have to do as a
00:47:48.460
politician, by the way, as you have to do as the leader of a country, that calculation does not make
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sense unless there is something going on here that personally benefits Biden and those who are making
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these decisions to send all of this money to Ukraine. It just doesn't make any logical or moral sense.
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And people who are saying, oh, that lacks compassion. You don't care about what happens to Ukraine.
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OK, show me how much you care. List every world conflict going on right now.
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List every need that every single person in Africa has, that every single person in Asia has.
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And tell me why you aren't doing more to take care of them. Tell me why you are choosing not to send
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all of your money to the poor people in Zimbabwe. And instead, you're choosing to feed yourself and
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your family. Wow. What a selfish bigot you are. You see how that logic works? We got our problems here
00:48:40.800
in the United States. We got our problems here. All right. We have people who really need help.
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We have students that cannot read because our education system in general is so poor.
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We've got really big problems with employment, with people not being able to put food on the
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table because of the policy decisions that the people in charge have made. We've got people in
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Ohio that don't even know if they can drink their water right now. And by the way, that's a problem
00:49:07.220
in several cities across the country, not just because of the many plane or train derailments
00:49:12.280
that have happened, but just because our local governments are so incompetent. And this is basically a
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cacistocracy, which means that we are run by idiots wedded with a kleptocracy where they're basically
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stealing from the rest of us to line their own pockets. And they're using war as a vessel to do
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that in my opinion. And we might all die because of it. Like that's, that's the deal. That's what's,
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I mean, that's, what's on the table. That's my amateur assessment of what is really going on here.
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No, I do not think what's going on between Russia and Ukraine is the most important priority for
00:49:52.240
Americans. Maybe it is something to care about. Like maybe you should pay attention. Maybe we should pray
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for the innocent people who are involved in all of this, who did not ask for war, who have been forced
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to be refugees in a million different ways and have had to run in the face of danger. I mean, yes, we should
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pray for them. We should care about them. You can send your own aid, but the people that we elected
00:50:13.940
to care about our security and our wellbeing and our stability should be focusing on that, like clean up
00:50:21.800
our water. Stop allowing career criminals to kill people because in the name of criminal and social
00:50:28.180
justice, they're let out of jail. Like, have we considered focusing on those kinds of things?
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The kinds of things that are facing Americans on a daily basis? Like, have we considered just trying
00:50:40.340
to make America a better place? I don't know. I know that's some crazy idea. That's some crazy
00:50:47.060
nationalistic Nazi idea that the people that we elected should actually put their people first, but
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there it is. It's radical. I know. By the way, I believe that every leader of every country should
00:51:03.640
put their people first. Every leader of every country should put their people first because
00:51:09.220
country is like family. I believe that Zambia should put their people first. I think that they should care
00:51:14.120
more about Zambians than they do about Americans or about Spaniards. I believe that Germans should
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care more about Germany and Germans than they do about the French. I believe that the French should
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care more about the interest of the French than they should the interest of people from Albania.
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Canadians should care more about their interests, their wellbeing, their security than they do about
00:51:33.980
Americans. That should be how it goes. That doesn't mean we're hostile to each other. It doesn't mean we
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don't help each other. I'm not saying that I'm an isolationist, but I do believe in putting the
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interests of your country first and stop ignoring the dire needs that your people have in favor of
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freaking Ukraine. Come on. But I didn't give a speech today. I don't even want to get to it.
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But I didn't give a speech today in Poland saying, you know, we are with Ukraine until the end and we're
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just going to keep on hemorrhaging money that we don't have to support this effort. And he says,
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One year ago, the world was bracing for the fall of Keeve. Well, I just come from a visit to Keeve and I
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can report Keeve stands strong. Keeve stands proud. It stands tall. And most important, it stands free.
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When Russia invaded, it wasn't just Ukraine being tested. The whole world faced the test for the
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ages. Okay, the whole world faced a test for the ages. I mean, they really do see this as their like
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Berlin Wall moment. And I just don't see it that way. And I don't think most Americans do. You know,
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I saw this Pew Research poll that showed what Americans feel about support of Ukraine and how
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it has declined. This came out on January 31st, Pew Research. And so in March of 22, when this started
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happening, when Russia invaded Ukraine, most people, let's see, 74% of Americans said, we're sending not
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enough aid to Ukraine, or it's just about right. 74% of Americans. So they were very for it.
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That has gone down pretty significantly. By January 23, only 51% believe that we're sending not enough
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or about right. And the amount of aid, 26% actually believe that we are sending too much
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versus only 7% in March of 22. This is very divided among Republicans, Democrats. Isn't that so
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interesting? I mean, it's actually interesting. In March of 22, it was Republicans who were more
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likely to say that we're not sending enough. Democrats believed that it was about right for the
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most part. That's probably some like pro Biden, anti Biden thing going on there. But by January of 23,
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40% of Republicans think it's too much versus only 15% of Democrats, 23% of Democrats think that we need
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to do more to help Ukraine. It's wild just how divided we are on that. But I mean, it is changing.
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People are realizing, wow, we got our own problems that we need to fix. We got our own problems that we
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need to fix here. And it would be just amazing. It'd be amazing to have an administration who
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really cared about that and prioritize that. Again, doesn't mean isolationist. It means priorities,
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right? Like he'd be in Ohio right now, maybe, and not Ukraine, if he really cared about his
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constituents more, don't you think? But like to them, big picture excludes the well-being of America.
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Isn't that crazy? Go back and listen to some of my Great Reset episodes with Justin Haskins if you
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want to learn more about that. So Putin decided, according to USA Today, that he will suspend the
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nuclear arms treaty as US-Russia tensions build amid Ukraine war anniversary. Russian President Vladimir
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Putin announced Tuesday that Russia will pull back from a key nuclear treaty, ratcheting up tensions
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with the United States as President Joe Biden visited the region with a fresh pledge of support
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for Ukraine. He said that he was suspending Moscow's participation in New START, a strategic nuclear
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arms reduction treaty between the US and Russia. He said that this action was being taken because of
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the US and NATO without specifying more. New START is the last remaining nuclear arms reduction deal
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between the US and Russia. It was signed in 2010 and extended for five years. In 2021,
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it limits each side to 1,500 long-range nuclear warheads. I mean, I don't really know what that
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was doing, but this is definitely Putin's way of saying, yeah, it's on. It's on. And China apparently
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is deciding whether or not they are going to send military aid to Russia. This is not looking good.
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Not looking good. And look, I'm not saying that we should just be kowtowing to people like Putin.
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I don't think America should be kowtowing to dictators. And also, again, not saying that we
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shouldn't care about what happens in Ukraine, but this is disproportionate. What America has committed
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to instead of focusing on the well-being and the security and the safety of its own people.
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Now, I'm just going to end with this. I'm going to end with a bit of encouragement because my husband
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and I were talking about this this morning. We saw reported in the Wall Street Journal that Putin
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decided that he was going to pull out of this agreement, this, you know, reduction in nuclear
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weapons. And, you know, people are talking more and more of nuclear war. Again, go back and listen
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to the episode that we did last week on this. It was like oddly comforting, actually, what my guest had
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to say, but also very informative and shows us what the risk is. But let me read you this quote
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that I've read time to time over the past few years from C.S. Lewis as he was living in an atomic age
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when people were talking about the threat of an atomic bomb. And he gave this encouragement,
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which I am just, I always read. I sent it to my husband this morning. I was like, read this,
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remember this. It's so profound and so simple and so brutally honest and true that whenever we face yet
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another existential crisis, which seems to be, I don't know, we're on the clock for about every year,
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every two years at this point. Let us remember what C.S. Lewis said. It's a long quote. Bear with
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me. Maybe I'll bounce around a little bit and not read the whole thing, but I think it's really
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important and it will comfort you. So he says this, in one way, we think a great deal too much of the
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atomic bomb. How are we to live in an atomic age? I'm tempted to reply, why, as you would have lived in
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the 16th century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a
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Viking age, when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night, or indeed,
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as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of
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air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents. In other words, do not let us begin
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by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, you and all whom you love were already
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sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented. And quite a high percentage of us were
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going to die in unpleasant ways. We had indeed one very great advantage over our ancestors,
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anesthetics, but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and
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drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a
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world which already bristled with such chances, and in which death itself was not a chance at all,
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but a certainty. This is the first point to be made, and the first action to be taken is to pull
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ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb,
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when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things, praying, working, teaching, reading,
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listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a
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game of darts, not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our
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bodies. A microbe can do that, but they need not dominate our minds. Man, I love C.S. Lewis. I've
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loved C.S. Lewis since first reading him in, gosh, I don't know, middle school, Lion, the Witch, and the
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wardrobe, and then a renewed love in high school, junior, senior year, reading Mere Christianity and
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Screwtape Letters, and gosh, I never tire of reading his words. How simple and how true is that? The best
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writers, I think, the best teachers tell you things that you already know but didn't realize that you
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knew, and I think C.S. Lewis does that so well. Whenever death comes, whether it be by nuclear war,
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whether it be by another pandemic, whether it be by the cakeistocracy and the incompetence therein
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that runs this place, whether it's contamination of our food and water supplies is happening
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in some places or whatever it may be, let that death, let that catastrophe find us doing the next
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right thing in faith, with joy, and excellence and for the glory of God. Because guess what? Psalm 139 says
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that all of our days were already written for us before any of them came to be, any and all of us.
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So whether we are looking at the threat of nuclear war, or whether you were just looking at maybe a
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really bad date, the point is that God is sovereign, that your life has been planned, and that worrying,
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as Jesus said so poignantly, worrying adds not a single hour, not a single second to your life.
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And so it's important for us to be informed about all of these things. It's important for us to look
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at the bad news, the worrying news, but it's even more important than that for us to be informed
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and equipped and empowered, yes, but move forward in hope and in strength, knowing that God is totally
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in control, that he who sits in the heavens laughs. He holds them in derision, who would mock him and
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mock his power and mock his people. That we can trust. We know who wins in the end. All right,
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that's all we've got time for today. We'll see you back here tomorrow.