Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - April 03, 2023


Ep 781 | NHL Christians Stand Up, Trump Indictment, Trans Vengeance


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 4 minutes

Words per Minute

172.66568

Word Count

11,078

Sentence Count

410

Misogynist Sentences

32

Hate Speech Sentences

45


Summary

In this episode, Allie talks about the trans day of visibility, the Trump Indictment, and the Taylor Swift concert. Allie also gives you some Monday Encouragement and a review of Taylor Swift's performance in Nashville.


Transcript

00:00:00.260 Christians often despair for the state of our country and the future that is being created for our children.
00:00:07.240 We feel like this is the worst it's ever been.
00:00:09.880 So what are Christians supposed to do?
00:00:11.660 My answer is the same thing that we have been doing for 2,000 years.
00:00:15.700 I will detail that encouragement for you today.
00:00:19.160 But first, we're going to talk about some craziness.
00:00:21.640 We're going to talk about the Trans Day of Visibility slash Vengeance.
00:00:26.180 That was supposed to happen this weekend.
00:00:29.400 In some places, it did happen and it was violent.
00:00:31.640 In other places, it didn't end up happening.
00:00:34.100 What really went on?
00:00:35.340 What does it mean?
00:00:36.520 What did our presidential administration have to say about all of it?
00:00:41.920 And also, we're going to talk a little bit about the Trump indictment.
00:00:45.400 My analysis as a Christian female Republican voter and the impact that I think it will or will not have on the election.
00:00:54.380 And also, we'll talk about some good stuff that's happening in our culture.
00:00:58.500 People effectively pushing back against the progressive chaos that we see going on.
00:01:04.820 So lots today, lots today, and then a special segment at the end.
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00:01:16.080 Hey, guys.
00:01:25.860 Happy Monday.
00:01:27.100 Welcome to Relatable.
00:01:28.200 Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.
00:01:31.040 All right.
00:01:31.420 We've got a few things to get through today.
00:01:33.240 Some things I'm just going to go through quickly because I just want to talk about them, mention them.
00:01:38.240 I don't want anyone to say, why haven't you talked about this yet?
00:01:41.600 So I'm going to talk about some things that we don't have time to get in depth on.
00:01:46.220 And then I also just want to give you some Monday encouragement.
00:01:49.160 I asked you guys on Instagram, what do you want to hear about?
00:01:52.800 And a lot of you said, oh, I need to be reminded of who God is and his faithfulness.
00:01:57.420 And so we will certainly talk about that.
00:01:59.120 I'll talk a little bit about a speech or kind of repurpose a speech that I gave this weekend in Kentucky at the Answers in Genesis conference.
00:02:07.740 It was a women's conference, and I don't know if you've ever been to the Ark Encounter that has a replica of the Ark.
00:02:15.720 It is incredible.
00:02:17.120 The facility is just absolutely amazing.
00:02:19.760 They've done a top-notch job.
00:02:21.420 The experience is so cool.
00:02:23.200 And so I got to speak alongside a lot of amazing Christians and met a lot of you there.
00:02:28.800 Thank you for those of you who came out and who stopped by to meet me and get me to sign your book.
00:02:36.440 It was really just such a fun experience.
00:02:38.520 But I gave some encouragement there, and that is also what I want to give you today.
00:02:42.580 So let's look at the craziness, some of the craziness that's happening.
00:02:46.020 I want to talk about one cool thing that I've seen happen and just the reform or the form of resistance against the progressive zeitgeist of today.
00:02:56.620 And then I'll get into that encouragement.
00:02:58.360 And then the most important part of our show is producer Bree is going to summarize her experience at the Taylor Swift concert.
00:03:05.760 Now, some of you curmudgeons out there are going to be like, I don't care about Taylor Swift.
00:03:11.320 I don't want to hear about it.
00:03:12.820 That's fine.
00:03:13.480 You can dip out early.
00:03:14.540 You don't have to hear it.
00:03:15.360 But some of you do.
00:03:16.840 I do.
00:03:17.340 I want to hear a review of the Taylor Swift concert.
00:03:20.080 And so we're going to get to that at the end.
00:03:22.220 All right.
00:03:22.620 Let's get started with the Trump indictment.
00:03:25.520 And this is one of those subjects that I was referencing that I just don't want to hear.
00:03:29.700 Why haven't you talked about this?
00:03:31.000 You don't think this is important?
00:03:32.340 You've been anti-magic since the beginning.
00:03:34.720 Whatever it is, whatever y'all are about to say on YouTube because I haven't talked about this enough, I'm just going to mention it.
00:03:40.820 I'm not going to go into detail because there are lots of details about this.
00:03:44.360 And also, that's not really why you guys come to me.
00:03:48.460 When I asked you on Instagram yesterday, what do you want me to talk about tomorrow?
00:03:53.240 I got either zero or maybe one.
00:03:56.740 I don't know.
00:03:57.500 I'll say that maybe there was one person who said, I want you to talk about the Trump indictment.
00:04:01.440 The truth is, there are a lot of people out there talking about this.
00:04:04.560 There are a lot of people who have been following this story very deeply for a long time.
00:04:09.980 We mentioned it, I believe it was last week or it was a couple weeks ago.
00:04:13.500 I lose track of time.
00:04:14.400 When I talked to my dad and he was talking about whether there would be a perp walk and all that.
00:04:19.440 So you can go back and you can listen to our summary of it.
00:04:22.700 There have been some developments.
00:04:24.640 And so I'll tell you a little bit about that right now.
00:04:27.240 If you want a detailed analysis of this, you should go to the many, many conservative podcasts that will be talking about this today.
00:04:35.320 But because a lot of you follow this show exclusively for your news, I do just want to make sure that you know what's going on.
00:04:41.680 So here's a summary. Trump was indicted on Thursday.
00:04:44.960 This is a big deal. You probably saw a lot of headlines.
00:04:47.140 I think it was the cover of the New York Times magazine that I saw at the airport.
00:04:50.600 He will surrender to law enforcement on Tuesday.
00:04:53.120 So tomorrow, he's also giving a speech tomorrow.
00:04:55.780 I'm a little unsure about that timeline.
00:04:58.000 Maybe someone can clear that up for us.
00:05:00.140 The charges were not made public, but he supposedly is facing over two dozen counts related to business fraud.
00:05:05.720 His lawyer claims he does not expect him to do a perp walk or get a mug shot.
00:05:11.080 That's what we talked about with my dad a couple of weeks ago.
00:05:13.140 And he is planning to motion to dismiss all charges.
00:05:18.560 This is the first ever criminal case against a former U.S. president.
00:05:25.420 And obviously, as people are saying, as I agree with, this is a political witch hunt.
00:05:31.220 We're talking about misdemeanors here, trying to make it a felony.
00:05:38.200 And so the fact that Alvin Bragg is trying, is wasting his time on Donald Trump's case,
00:05:47.180 rather than focusing on the crime that is rampant in his own district, shows you the motivations.
00:05:53.080 This is obviously not the first DA to try to do this against Trump.
00:05:58.480 And so we know what the play is here.
00:06:01.280 We know that this is politics.
00:06:03.300 And this marks a really dark and a really sad turn in our nation's history.
00:06:08.960 And the fact that there doesn't seem to be any really prominent, loud voices on the left saying,
00:06:14.780 you know what, I don't like Trump, but I think that this is too far.
00:06:18.600 This is a very weak legal case.
00:06:20.540 I don't think that we should set this kind of precedent.
00:06:22.920 Look, if you haven't noticed, the left is not interested in whether or not something is hypocrisy
00:06:26.480 or whether or not something sets a bad precedent.
00:06:29.920 They are playing to win.
00:06:30.980 It's really only the right that thinks about that and cares about that.
00:06:34.180 Oh, we don't want to do this because it sets a bad precedent.
00:06:36.900 We don't want to do this because maybe it's unfair.
00:06:39.360 How would we like it if the other side did that?
00:06:41.560 The right thinks about that.
00:06:42.760 And I'm not saying that's a morally bad thing.
00:06:45.200 It's because there are far more principled people, far more heterodox people also on the
00:06:49.960 right than there are on the left.
00:06:51.340 But the left plays to win.
00:06:52.480 And that's also why we are where we are in any of this mess that we're talking about.
00:06:57.920 So rather than get into all the details of it, which again, you can go and read, we can
00:07:02.740 even link some sources in the description.
00:07:04.700 If you want to go read it, you can go listen to the many analyses out there of what's going
00:07:09.600 on.
00:07:09.820 Here's my assessment.
00:07:11.260 Just based on the demographic that I represent, the audience that I have, the conversations
00:07:15.960 that I have with you guys, demographic I represent, the vast majority of this podcast,
00:07:20.500 it's a very unique, conservative, political podcast audience, just because of the nature
00:07:27.180 of what we talk about.
00:07:28.140 It's not straight news.
00:07:29.220 We talk about so many things.
00:07:31.100 It is women ages about 25 to 45.
00:07:34.740 There are people who fall outside of that.
00:07:36.100 There's plenty of related bros out there.
00:07:38.120 There are people who, women who are in college, there are older women, there are all different
00:07:43.100 kinds of people who listen to the show, but that's the largest chunk.
00:07:46.340 That's the vast majority of our audience, women ages 25 to 45.
00:07:50.560 And because I interact with you guys so much, because I really pay attention to what you
00:07:54.680 guys say, the feedback that you give me, I have a pretty good, not a perfect by any
00:07:59.640 means, but a pretty good finger on the pulse of what the evangelical, the conservative evangelical
00:08:05.020 woman is thinking.
00:08:06.440 And here's what I keep hearing over and over again, that this seals the deal for the Trump
00:08:11.320 Republican nomination.
00:08:12.720 He will absolutely be our next president now because this happened.
00:08:17.020 And this is going to rile people up more than anything that you've ever seen before.
00:08:21.760 This is going to mobilize so many people.
00:08:24.820 It's going to gain so much enthusiasm for the cause of Donald Trump.
00:08:28.900 There's just no way he could lose.
00:08:30.700 Now, this is the biggest long-term political favor.
00:08:34.040 The Democrats could be giving the Republican Party or specifically Donald Trump.
00:08:38.000 I think people are overestimating how much people are paying attention to this and how
00:08:47.160 much people care about this.
00:08:48.940 I'm not saying that they shouldn't care.
00:08:50.620 I'm not saying that it is not important.
00:08:52.520 I'm just saying, I don't think the average conservative who is going about her day-to-day
00:08:59.180 life focused on the day-to-day things is really paying that much attention to what is happening
00:09:05.780 to Donald Trump right now, believe it or not.
00:09:08.280 I think we who are online, and I'm online a lot less than a lot of other conservative
00:09:13.560 commentators are.
00:09:14.520 I'm a lot less on Twitter than a lot of them are.
00:09:18.960 I think that being on Twitter so much and being so sucked into the media can really warp
00:09:24.080 how you see other people and public opinion.
00:09:29.580 I don't think that most conservatives would say they're excited about it.
00:09:32.940 I think most conservative women would say, yeah, that's really bad.
00:09:35.960 That scares me.
00:09:37.320 It scares me for the future of our country.
00:09:39.780 It scares me for really even the future of my family.
00:09:43.500 These kind of political witch hunts.
00:09:46.120 But I do not think it puts this determination in most average conservatives to make sure
00:09:52.740 that Donald Trump becomes president again.
00:09:56.100 I just don't think so.
00:09:57.180 I think actually a lot of people are thinking, look, I don't really want a president who just
00:10:02.280 wants to be president because he has a personal vendetta.
00:10:05.340 Again, I'm not saying whether or not I disagree with any of this.
00:10:08.920 I'm just telling you from my observations what I think is going through the minds of a lot
00:10:13.260 of people.
00:10:14.240 Yeah, that's scary.
00:10:15.200 But this has been a witch hunt against Donald Trump for a long time.
00:10:17.940 Maybe they're thinking, I'm not really that surprised by that.
00:10:21.220 I guarantee you this does not change what that demographic, what this voting demographic
00:10:27.080 thinks about Donald Trump.
00:10:29.240 Which is, I think, look, they liked Donald Trump as president.
00:10:32.760 They can look past a lot of the things that people said that we should care about.
00:10:36.840 The tweets and the accusations of racism and things like that, which most people think
00:10:42.920 are just, or most people on this side just think are silly and hypocritical at this point.
00:10:49.380 But I think that most of them feel, look, we're still tired of Trump.
00:10:54.720 I think most of them feel, yeah, he did his part.
00:11:00.460 He played his role.
00:11:02.020 We're very thankful for that.
00:11:04.000 And I'm sorry about what's happening to him.
00:11:07.320 And I'm scared about what's happening right now in our country.
00:11:11.140 But they still don't want him to be president.
00:11:14.560 They still want someone younger.
00:11:16.260 They still want someone fresher.
00:11:17.840 They still want someone who would have handled COVID differently.
00:11:23.180 They still want someone who is more morally and culturally aligned, who is not supporting
00:11:29.000 the right-wing LGBTQ caucus, which Donald Trump does.
00:11:34.000 They still want someone with a little bit more tact.
00:11:37.260 And so I think people on our side, commentators, are overestimating how impactful this is going
00:11:44.200 to be on Donald Trump's political future.
00:11:48.680 I don't think it's going to have nearly as much influence on the average Republican voter,
00:11:54.160 on the average conservative, as people think.
00:11:57.440 Like I said, I mean, we've got a very, thankfully, by the grace of God and the hard work of a lot
00:12:03.040 of people, we've got a very large audience here at Relatable.
00:12:06.300 Most of them are women.
00:12:07.740 Most of them are Christian conservatives.
00:12:09.580 That's a large voting bloc.
00:12:11.560 Will they vote for Trump if he's the nominee?
00:12:13.360 Yeah, they will.
00:12:14.860 They're tired of all of the leftist nonsense.
00:12:17.240 Will they vote for him in the primaries?
00:12:19.680 Mostly not.
00:12:20.600 And this arrest doesn't change that.
00:12:22.620 So that's my only analysis.
00:12:23.920 Just from my perspective, you can hate me for that.
00:12:26.140 You can get angry.
00:12:27.520 Whatever.
00:12:28.060 I don't really care.
00:12:29.020 I'm just telling you.
00:12:30.040 I'm just telling you as someone who probably has a better idea of what conservative women
00:12:35.920 are thinking than anyone else in the conservative commentator space, because I'm so constantly
00:12:42.020 interacting with those people, that that is probably, probably where the majority lie.
00:12:48.960 If you're outside of what I just described, that's fine.
00:12:51.840 I think you're an exception to the rule.
00:12:54.460 But yeah, I think that's where we are.
00:12:55.920 So that's my only analysis.
00:12:57.340 That's my only analysis of that.
00:12:58.860 And then we'll talk about it more.
00:13:00.080 We've got Steve Dace coming on the show on Wednesday, and you know that his analysis
00:13:03.420 is just always incredible and spot on.
00:13:05.220 And so he will talk a little bit more about the impact and the implications of all of
00:13:08.940 this, what it means for the future of our country, and specifically Christians then.
00:13:12.360 So let's move on, though, to the rest of the craziness.
00:13:14.900 We talked about political craziness.
00:13:16.220 Let's talk about the cultural and moral craziness that's going on in our country, as we so often
00:13:22.400 do.
00:13:22.720 This weekend was supposed to be a Trans Day of Visibility slash a Trans Day of Vengeance.
00:13:41.580 So we talked about this last week.
00:13:44.100 This was scheduled before the horrific Nashville shooting happened last week, the Trans Day
00:13:49.800 of Vengeance.
00:13:50.640 So this was supposed to be some big protest, some big demonstration in Washington, D.C.
00:13:56.340 And the reason for it was because there has been, in their words, anti-trans or anti-LGBTQ
00:14:04.020 legislation passed in all of these states.
00:14:06.780 Again, just to break down what they mean by that, because the left loves to use euphemisms
00:14:11.440 to make their sound moral and compassionate.
00:14:14.620 What they're talking about is the legislation in various conservative states that are either protecting
00:14:19.880 women's sports and privacy.
00:14:21.920 So, for example, in the state of Arkansas, a law was passed that said, look, girls get
00:14:27.220 to play against girls.
00:14:28.680 Boys don't get to play against girls in sports.
00:14:31.040 And also, boys who think they're girls don't get to go into girls' locker rooms.
00:14:34.960 They don't get to go into girls' bathrooms.
00:14:37.960 So this is protecting girls' rights, their privacy, their fairness in competition, their safety,
00:14:44.580 their well-being.
00:14:46.340 Identifying as something doesn't change what you are.
00:14:49.320 Your biology, your body is still a man.
00:14:52.140 And look, identities aren't what is a threat to sports and to privacy and fairness for girls.
00:15:00.900 Bodies are.
00:15:01.700 So identities don't compete in track and volleyball and basketball.
00:15:07.080 Bodies do.
00:15:07.800 So it doesn't really matter that so-called Leah Thomas says that he's a woman.
00:15:12.900 He still went through male puberty.
00:15:14.660 Period.
00:15:15.260 End of story.
00:15:16.820 And so bodies are competing here.
00:15:19.480 Bodies that are male should not have a right to compete against women in sex-exclusive sports.
00:15:27.220 And so that's what these trans activists are talking about, that women's rights and privacy
00:15:32.520 and fairness are all being protected in these states.
00:15:34.980 And not only that, they're talking about the legislation in states that are protecting children
00:15:39.840 from things like chemical castration, from puberty blockers, from double mastectomies.
00:15:45.180 That is happening in states across the country.
00:15:49.020 It's happening in California.
00:15:50.900 It's happening in Washington.
00:15:52.740 It's even happened in states that you wouldn't expect.
00:15:58.360 It's happening in even red states.
00:16:01.080 We saw that whistleblower who was working at a gender clinic in St. Louis who came out
00:16:07.640 and talked about all of the horrific things happening to minors who can't even fully comprehend
00:16:12.640 what they say that they want to go through, which is this process of switching their gender,
00:16:16.900 the cross-sex hormones, the puberty blockers, and how that's damaging their mind and their bodies
00:16:21.420 and their emotions forever, rendering them permanently sterile.
00:16:25.200 And so these laws are saying, look, we understand that kids can't consent to sexual activity with
00:16:30.320 adults.
00:16:30.780 Minors cannot consent.
00:16:32.320 Their brains aren't fully developed.
00:16:34.620 It's wrong.
00:16:35.800 We're going to bar legally that kind of activity.
00:16:38.760 And look, these things, these processes, which are just as damaging long-term, that maim their
00:16:46.820 bodies forever, they can't consent to those things.
00:16:51.680 It's wrong.
00:16:53.120 It's all more than that, more than the consent argument, because I also argue against trying
00:16:57.980 to argue morality simply based on consent, because I think it's flimsy.
00:17:03.160 That's only one part of the measure of morality and virtue.
00:17:06.880 It's not the primary part or the largest part.
00:17:11.420 It's one factor in that equation.
00:17:14.520 It's also built on a lie.
00:17:17.080 That's the most important thing.
00:17:18.620 Like, it's built on a lie.
00:17:19.500 It's not just that it's harmful to their bodies.
00:17:21.060 It's not just that they can't consent.
00:17:22.680 It's that it's built on a lie.
00:17:24.220 Like, you shouldn't allow cross-sex hormones and you shouldn't allow puberty blockers.
00:17:29.040 You shouldn't allow these procedures for this population, for these minors, because it's
00:17:36.100 built on a lie.
00:17:36.860 It's always a lie, by the way.
00:17:37.980 It doesn't matter if they're an adult or a child, but it's built on a lie.
00:17:40.980 You can't change your gender.
00:17:42.420 You can't change your sex.
00:17:43.680 And yes, those terms, those ideas are interchangeable.
00:17:46.980 They're not, in any real biological sense, two separate categories.
00:17:51.620 And so this trans day of visibility, this trans day of vengeance that they're talking
00:17:57.620 about is because of these laws.
00:17:59.820 These laws that are protecting the bodies, the health, the fertility long-term of these
00:18:06.840 minors undergoing these very lucrative procedures.
00:18:10.740 It's protecting women.
00:18:12.880 It's protecting girls.
00:18:14.540 And some states are also saying, look, you can't take, you can't have a drag show that
00:18:21.080 targets kids in attendance.
00:18:23.620 I'm sorry.
00:18:24.600 You can't.
00:18:25.680 Boo hoo if you want to cry about that.
00:18:27.880 You know what's incredible about the left is that they never cease to amaze me.
00:18:31.680 I should stop being surprised.
00:18:33.520 A few months ago, when all of these videos started circulating of these drag queens dancing
00:18:38.340 for kids, and I know you could think it's so innocent.
00:18:40.620 It's so inclusive.
00:18:41.640 There's nothing sexual about that.
00:18:43.720 Man, I don't want to encourage you to go on Twitter.
00:18:46.860 I certainly won't encourage you to download TikTok, but it doesn't take that long to look
00:18:54.020 at the sexual nature of a lot of these drag shows.
00:18:57.960 You can follow Libs of TikTok.
00:19:00.320 She's got example after example.
00:19:02.060 She's not creating or fabricating these clips.
00:19:05.000 I mean, there are literally videos, and I don't want to play them because they're so perverse,
00:19:10.600 of drag queens giving lap dances to minors.
00:19:13.900 We're talking about men dressed up in prosthetic breasts, and thongs, and corsets, and fishnet
00:19:24.280 tights, and high heels dancing and twerking for kids.
00:19:29.880 And you're telling me the law shouldn't protect kids against this?
00:19:33.160 This has nothing to do with inclusion or tolerance, or maybe it does, and those things are actually
00:19:38.740 bad when it comes to evil.
00:19:40.300 But there's nothing virtuous, nothing good about that at all.
00:19:44.480 And I'm actually just very concerned in general that there is any parent that exists that would
00:19:49.900 want to take their kid to something like that.
00:19:52.580 But just a reminder also, there is no non-predatory reason for a grown man to want to dress up like
00:20:00.020 a sexualized character of a woman and dance for children.
00:20:03.380 There's no innocent reason for that.
00:20:05.420 If a man has a desire to dance that way, to dress that way, to perform that way in front
00:20:10.100 of a child, there is something very perverse and wrong with that man.
00:20:13.940 We are talking about grown men.
00:20:16.380 Like, we're talking about grown men twerking for children.
00:20:19.560 And the fact that there are people on the left who are okay with that, who celebrate that,
00:20:26.180 and that's, I think I didn't complete my thought.
00:20:27.940 A few months ago, when all of this was starting to come out, and I said, you know what, this
00:20:33.660 is, now we'll have to, you know, put the left on the spot.
00:20:39.400 And now they'll have to defend these drag shows for children.
00:20:42.960 They'll never be able to do that.
00:20:44.460 There's no way they're going to be able to defend themselves.
00:20:46.120 I mean, they just did it.
00:20:47.540 They just did it.
00:20:48.680 Like, they were just like, yeah, we're good with that.
00:20:52.080 We're cool with that.
00:20:53.080 I haven't seen any prominent voice on the left say, oh no, man, for kids, like, even
00:21:00.480 if you're someone that's okay with drag, and you think drag is cool, you think trans is
00:21:03.860 cool, like, I haven't seen any prominent voice in the media on the left say, oh no, for kids
00:21:09.560 though, like, there's no even remotely rational voice that I'm seeing platformed on the left
00:21:15.800 say that kind of thing.
00:21:16.600 Like, they are so much more uniform in their messaging than the right is, because they are
00:21:24.040 all just, like, uniformly depraved in that way.
00:21:28.600 And so that's what the Trans Day of Vengeance was about.
00:21:32.040 It was supposed to be this past weekend, and they are going to show vengeance to the world
00:21:38.060 and vengeance to these politicians and vengeance to these so-called transphobes because of
00:21:42.960 these very logical and common sense laws that are being passed.
00:21:49.640 And of course, this is happening less than a week.
00:21:52.320 It was planned to happen less than a week after a person who identified as the opposite
00:21:58.940 sex, a woman who identified as a man, killed six people.
00:22:04.020 Killed six people at a Christian school, including three nine-year-olds.
00:22:08.920 And so what has been the response to all of this?
00:22:13.100 Because the Trans Day of Vengeance, also I meant to know, it didn't actually end up happening,
00:22:17.320 the rally in D.C., because they were scared for their own safety.
00:22:21.600 They were scared for their own safety, and that's something that we talked about a lot
00:22:24.720 last week, that all of the responses by this trans activist community, all of the responses
00:22:30.320 on the left, in the media, even from this administration, as we'll get into again today, has been about,
00:22:37.080 oh, poor trans people.
00:22:39.400 Trans people are at risk.
00:22:40.800 Trans people are so brave.
00:22:42.720 Madonna said that she's going to put on a concert supporting trans people because now they're
00:22:47.200 being targeted in light of the Nashville shooting.
00:22:49.420 Miley Cyrus is doing something similar.
00:22:51.480 So the real victims aren't the people whose blood was shed by a person who happened to
00:22:57.340 be or identify as transgender.
00:22:59.260 The real victims are trans people, the people who believe that they're the opposite sex.
00:23:04.500 It doesn't make any sense.
00:23:05.740 And also, trans people, trans activists, at least, after that, they didn't stop threatening
00:23:10.760 violence.
00:23:11.360 They didn't stop enacting violence.
00:23:13.540 We saw this horrible situation in Vancouver with an advocate, an anti-puberty blockers and
00:23:22.060 child transition advocate, Chris Elson.
00:23:24.460 He goes by Billboard Chris on Twitter.
00:23:26.460 He was in Vancouver, and it was a trans day of visibility rally there, and he was wearing
00:23:34.840 a sign reading, children cannot consent to puberty blockers, which, of course, is true.
00:23:40.700 And again, that's not the only problem with it.
00:23:42.660 The problem is that it's based on a lie, and it's also bad for them.
00:23:46.460 Even if they could consent, it would still be wrong.
00:23:49.000 Um, and so he is, he was then assaulted by a trans person there, um, simply for wearing
00:23:56.860 the sign.
00:23:57.580 He was peaceful.
00:23:58.760 He was trying to inspire a conversation.
00:24:01.120 That's what he does.
00:24:02.100 He travels the country to different places, and he tries to get people to talk to them.
00:24:05.600 He tries to change their mind.
00:24:07.140 And so, of course, he knew he was walking into a lion's den, but guess what?
00:24:10.340 You have the right to do that.
00:24:12.000 He was non-violent.
00:24:13.160 He was peaceful.
00:24:14.480 Children don't have the right to consent to puberty blockers.
00:24:17.560 This is what got him assaulted by these predators.
00:24:20.320 So here's a little clip of that.
00:24:21.880 You suck.
00:24:22.780 You suck.
00:24:24.060 You.
00:24:24.680 You're not wanted.
00:24:26.120 You.
00:24:26.560 You're a idiot.
00:24:28.140 You're a...
00:24:28.660 I don't know what to say.
00:24:29.760 These police are mostly indoctrinated as well.
00:24:32.900 You.
00:24:33.980 You.
00:24:34.900 You.
00:24:36.160 You.
00:24:36.920 You.
00:24:37.720 Hey.
00:24:38.480 Get your...
00:24:39.260 Okay, so if you're not watching, um, there is someone with long hairs, very obviously,
00:24:47.080 identifying as transgender, had makeup on, trying, trying the best, trying the best.
00:24:53.980 But anyway, um, you know, acting like men do when they are, uh, feeling aggressive and
00:25:00.400 when they're not reined in by any virtue or morality or value of peace, uh, this dude who
00:25:08.060 was harassing, uh, harassing Chris was being extremely aggressive, saying, F you, F you,
00:25:15.460 you suck, when he was trying to give an interview.
00:25:17.460 And then you see he tried to push him to the ground and they ended up, um, falling to
00:25:22.400 the ground.
00:25:22.900 In this assault, the police do nothing.
00:25:24.900 And actually, Chris tried to report this to the police, to talk to the police that were
00:25:29.360 standing there and saying, did you not see this person assault me?
00:25:32.000 And the police officer actually told him, and he has this on video, tweeted it out, this
00:25:38.680 female police officer said, oh, no, you provoked that.
00:25:42.120 You provoked that violence.
00:25:43.700 Really, you incited that violence.
00:25:45.200 How did he incite that violence?
00:25:46.680 By wearing a sign that said children can't consent to puberty blockers.
00:25:51.200 I mean, these are some of the most violent and vile, aggressive, masculine activists out
00:25:59.620 there.
00:25:59.960 I mean, it's really incredible for people who, like, are dying for the world to know that
00:26:06.080 or to believe that they are really women, that they're so feminine, that they're so dainty.
00:26:11.100 I'm like, maybe try not to act like a violent male criminal.
00:26:15.400 Like, did you think of that?
00:26:16.920 Like, maybe?
00:26:17.880 I don't know.
00:26:18.720 Maybe try not to act like a, uh, uh, male abuser.
00:26:24.580 I don't know.
00:26:25.920 Maybe that's an idea.
00:26:27.040 But they can't because they still have testosterone pulsing through their veins.
00:26:33.000 And testosterone is great.
00:26:34.960 It's great.
00:26:35.680 Men are awesome.
00:26:37.180 They're, they have an incredible capacity, an incredible strength that can either be used
00:26:42.400 for good or for evil in a way that, quite frankly, like, women don't have.
00:26:47.040 That strength and aggression that is innate and men can be used in incredibly heroic ways.
00:26:53.700 But they can also, as we just saw, be used in incredibly harmful and damaging ways.
00:26:58.440 So again, all of these men who want people to believe that they're women maybe stop acting
00:27:02.820 like the very worst of men that the planet has to offer.
00:27:06.660 So that's what happened to Chris over the week.
00:27:10.600 And I feel really bad for him.
00:27:12.060 And having no help and no support whatsoever from the police, knowing that the police is
00:27:18.180 on their side, is on the side of these violent activists.
00:27:22.600 It's wild.
00:27:23.860 And by the way, like, why do we need a trans day of visibility?
00:27:27.440 We see them everywhere and everything constantly.
00:27:32.860 I cannot scroll without seeing Dylan Mulvaney on my, on my timeline.
00:27:38.980 Now he's doing advertisements for Bud Light.
00:27:42.120 What?
00:27:43.460 Is it, is this the people who drink Bud Light?
00:27:46.960 They want to see Dylan Mulvaney drinking cans of Bud Light in the bathtub?
00:27:54.540 I have a hard time believing that.
00:27:56.040 I have a hard time believing that.
00:27:57.440 But trans people, people who think that they're the opposite sex, that's what we're talking
00:28:01.180 about, are extremely visible.
00:28:03.860 So visible.
00:28:05.260 We actually just watched one kill six people.
00:28:08.860 So I'm not really sure what this day was trying to accomplish, except for showing us once
00:28:13.640 again that they are actually a very, very, at least the activist class.
00:28:18.140 I'm not saying everyone who identifies this way.
00:28:20.200 The activist class is extremely violent and aggressive.
00:28:24.060 They were very visible over the weekend.
00:28:26.100 We saw that.
00:28:26.680 Okay.
00:28:27.100 We're going to get into a couple more examples in just a second.
00:28:29.420 Okay.
00:28:30.420 There were also rallies by leftists and in particular people who called themselves trans at various
00:28:49.540 capitals in red states over the weekend.
00:28:53.960 And at the Kentucky State Capitol, LGBTQ protesters stormed the Kentucky Capitol building and rallied
00:29:00.160 in downtown on Friday.
00:29:01.600 This is two days after the Kentucky General Assembly voted to override a gubernatorial veto
00:29:06.880 on legislation that bans quote unquote gender affirming care for transgender youth.
00:29:14.400 Of course, there's no such thing as gender affirming care that actively tries to change a person's
00:29:19.540 gender.
00:29:19.980 And then also in Kentucky, also in Texas, I believe there was also one in Tennessee where these
00:29:30.120 transgender activists, I think maybe we played that.
00:29:33.360 No, we didn't play it last week, but there is a clip circulating, I believe in the Tennessee
00:29:40.520 Capitol.
00:29:41.320 Where's the one that happened with the guy who looked like, oh, it was Kentucky.
00:29:45.280 It was Kentucky.
00:29:46.060 Okay.
00:29:46.200 Um, yeah, we'll play, we'll play that clip in a second of the ralliers, the protesters,
00:29:52.000 basically, basically staging an insurrection.
00:29:55.820 So I'm told this is, this is called a violent insurrection at the state capitals.
00:30:01.840 Again, again, just a few days after a person who identifies as trans murdered people in Texas,
00:30:09.120 like their biggest concern, their highest concern is their own self-regard.
00:30:15.620 Their highest concern is that kids can still access puberty blockers, rendering themselves
00:30:20.480 sterile.
00:30:21.300 So here's Kentucky.
00:30:23.080 Shame!
00:30:24.080 Shame!
00:30:24.920 Shame!
00:30:26.040 Shame!
00:30:26.840 Shame!
00:30:27.760 Shame!
00:30:28.840 Shame!
00:30:29.760 Shame!
00:30:30.720 Shame!
00:30:31.680 Shame!
00:30:32.680 Shame!
00:30:33.200 So that guy looks like the QAnon shaman that we saw on January 6th that was in prison
00:30:40.980 for his insurrection.
00:30:42.720 This guy is only going to get awarded because the people in charge care more about being allies
00:30:52.160 of LGBTQ people than they do justice or fairness or anything like that.
00:30:57.700 Um, okay.
00:31:00.240 Here is, uh, here is Texas, the rally there.
00:31:04.620 Drag queens don't hurt children.
00:31:07.540 Guns hurt children.
00:31:09.960 Protect trans kids!
00:31:12.480 Protect trans kids!
00:31:14.480 Protect trans kids!
00:31:16.500 Protect trans kids!
00:31:18.280 Protect trans kids!
00:31:20.400 Protect trans kids!
00:31:22.020 okay so if you're not watching that they're like laying on the floor of the texas capital i guess
00:31:37.340 in like a diet to try to say you're killing people there's no such thing as a trans kid
00:31:41.820 there's no such thing as a trans kid okay there's there's no such thing i mean there's no such thing
00:31:47.520 you can believe that you're the opposite gender that doesn't make you anything other than a male
00:31:51.820 or female whatever your chromosomes are there was also a vengeance day in los angeles the same kind
00:31:58.580 of thing again very very aggressive people who have no concern whatsoever with the safety or
00:32:04.760 well-being of others who only want the rights to be able to go into the opposite bathroom the
00:32:10.800 opposite locker room to be able to be identified as something that they will never be no matter how
00:32:15.560 many hormones or how much surgery they have they want everyone to celebrate and affirm the lie that
00:32:22.580 they have been deluded to think is true which is very sad like i have a lot of compassion for some
00:32:28.300 of these people now some of these people i have a hard time mustering compassion for because they're
00:32:31.820 very violent they're very mean-spirited but a lot of these people have just bought into a lie
00:32:36.360 they bought into a lie and they have been harmed themselves a lot of these people are survivors of
00:32:42.900 some kind of sexual abuse especially the women who want to become men so i have a lot of sadness
00:32:48.200 for them i have a lot of curiosity about what their parents were doing some of their parents did the
00:32:53.000 best that they could they tried some of their parents just affirmed this madness and so you have
00:32:58.140 to have some compassion that these deceivers have also been deceived themselves and you do have to
00:33:03.980 have some sorrow for that that at one point they were just like innocent kids they were just normal
00:33:09.760 human beings and maybe they felt a little bit different maybe they were bullied maybe they were
00:33:13.500 ostracized in some way and now they've come to believe something about themselves that isn't true
00:33:18.420 and now they are weaponizing that delusion against other people in some ways that is very violent
00:33:24.320 and yet the white house is not interested at all in talking about that they're not interested at all
00:33:29.940 and even questioning the health of some of the procedures that are being pushed on these children and on these
00:33:37.120 people they're they're not even going to mention the pattern of violence that we see from the
00:33:42.380 activist class here instead they are just going to honor this idea that a man can become a woman
00:33:46.780 and vice versa and paint them again less than a week after the nashville shooting happened
00:33:52.380 as unconditional victims so one day before the so-called transgender day of visibility president
00:33:59.940 biden issued an official proclamation declaring that transgender americans shape our nation's soul and
00:34:05.220 established a holiday relating to the group absolutely absurd if you think about what this is
00:34:10.420 why would we need to celebrate people who think that they're the opposite sex how did that become a
00:34:15.460 celebrated or protected class actually we know the answer to that question because we've analyzed the
00:34:20.060 history of that the roots of that ideology for a very long time but it's crazy how quickly this has
00:34:25.520 happened in the past few years so no proclamation went out with the names of the victims in nashville
00:34:32.800 i don't think he's visited nashville i don't think he's talked to these families you can correct me
00:34:37.660 if i'm wrong i wrong i haven't seen that actually the statements that we've seen from the president
00:34:42.160 when it comes to the nashville shooting are very strange the first thing that he said after it when
00:34:46.920 he was supposed to address the crowd you'll remember was talking about um thinking that there was ice
00:34:52.400 cream and the ice cream in his freezer i have not seen him at least not at the same level that he is
00:34:59.740 honoring so-called trans people honor the victims in nashville or even mentioned the fact or the
00:35:05.720 possibility that these people were targeted because they were christians at a christian school instead
00:35:11.480 he has been over backwards or his handlers have to make sure that trans people know that even a member
00:35:18.600 of their activist group committed this crime that they are above reproach that they are going to be
00:35:24.320 protected and honored and celebrated beyond anything any other group can really imagine
00:35:29.820 a lot of people struggled with his statement that transgender people shape our nation's soul
00:35:36.060 and basically they said no they don't no they don't well actually i would say they do they absolutely
00:35:41.320 shape our nation's soul everyone in this country every group every individual shapes our nation's soul
00:35:46.560 but how you answer the question of how they shape our nation's soul really indicates to me
00:35:53.120 everything about what you believe like it indicates to me uh what you believe about god what you believe
00:36:00.520 about the soul what you believe about right and wrong what you believe about reality of course it tells me
00:36:05.240 what you think about the culture wars and politics and all of that if you think that the idea of
00:36:09.680 transgenderism shapes our nation's soul for the better okay then we are on opposite sides if you think
00:36:16.680 that this kind of delusion that is harming human beings breaking apart families and rendering children
00:36:22.040 permanently sterile and introducing children to sexual and confusing topics at an early age if you
00:36:29.280 think all of those things are good then we are diametrically opposed in every way so they do shape
00:36:36.080 our nation's soul our nation's soul though is rotting our nation's soul is really dark our nation's soul
00:36:42.360 is really lost so it's true that transgenderism and so-called transgender people are shaping our nation's soul
00:36:48.980 but i would say in a way that is harmful for everyone including those people that identify
00:36:53.400 as the opposite sex and so he issued this long official proclamation i'm not going to read you
00:36:59.020 the whole thing it ends now therefore i joseph r biden jr president of the united states of america by
00:37:04.900 virtue of authority vested in me by the constitution and the laws of the united states do hereby proclaim
00:37:09.800 march 31st 2023 is the transgender day of visibility again already extremely visible there is no need for a
00:37:18.280 honoring this or declaring this in any way it's insane white house press secretary uh corinne
00:37:25.920 jean pierre declared that transgender people are quote unquote under attack here she is at the podium
00:37:31.700 state saying that our hearts go out to uh those the trans community as they are under attack right now
00:37:38.340 so that's where her priorities lie she also tweeted about this uh she tweeted this year's transgender day
00:37:46.120 of visibility comes in the midst of a historic wave of attacks on transgender kids again no such thing
00:37:52.460 is that there are no attacks on them there are no attacks on kids who are confused about their gender
00:37:57.320 there are people who are willing to stand in their stead there are people who are willing to protect
00:38:01.360 them people who are willing to say no you are not going to go through with that procedure i'm sorry
00:38:05.460 that you're confused let us do everything that we can to try to reconcile your confused mind with the
00:38:10.320 reality of your body but we are not going to allow you at least while you're a minor to maim your body
00:38:16.120 to try to conform to something that is just not true that is logical that is rational that is moral if
00:38:23.120 you disagree with that then you are irrational and you are immoral there's no nuance there there's no
00:38:28.880 gray there if you are trying to change a child's body or even appearance to match something that is just
00:38:35.160 not true a lie that they have in their mind that is immoral that is irrational that is cruel of course
00:38:40.940 the law should have something to say about that but these people they are romans one made manifest
00:38:45.880 they're deluded in the darkness of their minds they have exchanged the truth of god for a lie
00:38:51.840 they worship the god of self rather than the god of scripture the god of self is delusional it is
00:38:57.360 irrational it is illogical that's what sin does to you that's what satan does to you it it is
00:39:03.300 immoral and as i said on twitter there is no use arguing with people who are more worried about
00:39:11.320 transphobia than they are the lives of these children or the lives of these people rather
00:39:18.400 three adults three children that were murdered in nashville there's no there's no use arguing with
00:39:24.820 them because they are so very deluded they've got a brain they've got a mind of mush and a heart of
00:39:32.680 stone and aside from the holy spirit like aside from a god-given awakening and the core of their
00:39:40.780 being they will not be able to understand you if you try to explain to them why that's irrational or
00:39:46.240 immoral it will be like you are speaking mandarin to them it will be like you're speaking a different
00:39:50.260 language because they operate on another plane they operate on a different level and they cannot
00:39:58.700 understand that which is good and right and true no matter how hard you try god has got to change
00:40:04.520 their mind and change their heart and i pray that he does because in the meantime kids people are going
00:40:11.380 to be damaged by this ideology
00:40:13.380 okay so we don't have time to get into all of this i do want to be able to give you the encouragement
00:40:31.280 i want to give you but i just wanted to point out what's happening in the nhl we talked about it a little bit i think
00:40:37.380 a couple weeks ago we talked about ivan proverov a few months ago how the nhl and all these teams are
00:40:43.500 having a pride night where they have to wear these lgbtq flags and their and their hockey sticks have to be
00:40:49.160 decorated in this way and now we've got several we've got several nhl players that are pushing back
00:40:55.420 against this last thursday night florida panthers players eric and mark stall refused to wear the jerseys
00:41:00.880 citing their christian beliefs and they said look we've got we have to follow christianity we have
00:41:08.200 to follow our christian beliefs and one of the guys that we talked about uh a couple weeks ago he said
00:41:13.620 look the bible is the highest authority in my life and so i am not going to do something whether it's for
00:41:21.480 my job or not that is going to go against that and so now a bunch of these teams are saying you know
00:41:26.900 what you no longer have to do this or we're not going to have the pride night anymore because there's
00:41:30.960 too much pushback so i bet there are even more players than what we are reading about in the news
00:41:35.100 just saying no i'm not going to celebrate this and also as we talked about a couple weeks ago now when
00:41:40.040 you celebrate pride when you wear these flags you're not just saying oh it's okay for two men or two women
00:41:45.260 to be together whatever you are now fully endorsing this idea that a man can become a woman and vice versa
00:41:50.640 and that children can be on puberty blockers that it's totally fine so you have even another thing to
00:41:55.840 think about endorsing if you are saying that you're celebrating pride or wearing this pride flag
00:42:01.080 so you're going to have even more people say even people who would have maybe worn the regular rainbow
00:42:07.020 flag a few years ago now saying no i'm not going to do that but then you've got these christians who
00:42:12.120 are saying no i've got to reject all of it because the bible is very clear about this i'm not going to
00:42:15.860 wear something that goes against my beliefs in the highest authority in my life so this shows like even
00:42:21.720 though we're talking about the power structures that are totally dominated by progressive ideology
00:42:26.140 we're talking about like top down delusion i didn't even have time to mention so-called rachel levine
00:42:33.120 our hhs assistant secretary and his statement that he put out saying oh trans kids yay we need this
00:42:40.720 so-called gender affirming care again very very creepy very immoral very evil so this is happening from the
00:42:47.320 top down but you also see when there are men especially i think it's particularly important
00:42:54.520 to have strong men simply stand up and say no no i'm pushing back against this no you're not going to
00:43:01.380 bully me no you're not going to intimidate me no you're going to have to fire me first no i'm not
00:43:07.900 going along with that you see how quickly this topples you see how quickly this goes you see how flimsy it
00:43:13.620 actually is you see how scared they actually are in a lot of ways like we need strong people within
00:43:19.840 these organizations to stand up and say no that doesn't mean there won't be consequences that
00:43:24.520 doesn't mean that sometimes you won't be fired you won't be let go but you have no idea the domino
00:43:29.440 effect that it can have so way to go nhl players and i think this is one example it ties into the
00:43:36.280 encouragement that i gave at the answers in genesis conference over the weekend that i get this question
00:43:42.100 a lot what are christians supposed to do what are we supposed to be doing america's going to hell in
00:43:46.680 a handbasket everything is just getting worse and worse and in some ways that's absolutely true
00:43:51.100 but in some ways it's not in some ways things today are just as dark as they were 2 000 years ago
00:43:56.960 it's different sin has manifested itself differently the threats are different technology poses
00:44:02.100 a different kind of threat and a new kind of maybe more pervasive evil more accessible evil
00:44:08.140 than we saw 2 000 years ago but if you look at pagan greece in rome what was going on there there
00:44:13.920 was gender bending there was rampant prostitution there was rampant child sex abuse and um there was
00:44:20.620 obviously uh tyranny uh in a lot of ways and there was this misconstrued belief that human worth was
00:44:31.000 measured not by anything innate but by something called logos if you look back at some of the
00:44:38.120 ancient scholars during this time in ancient greece and rome they believed that a person's value
00:44:45.000 to the nation state to the cohesion of the nation state was their logos which is the greek word
00:44:50.740 for speech um or for word or for reason and so the belief really was that the adult free male was the only
00:45:02.040 one with full logos power with the full capacity for logos and um only they really could fully contribute
00:45:12.000 to the nation state to the cohesion of society to productivity to the new ideas that would advance us
00:45:19.140 into the future women didn't fully have logos slaves of course didn't barbarians didn't the elderly
00:45:26.200 didn't fully have logos anymore and children certainly didn't children were seen
00:45:30.820 as kind of animals as barbarians and owen backey wrote an incredible book called when children
00:45:37.560 became people several years ago and he analyzes this he looks at why the ancients during this time
00:45:44.400 pre-christianity kind of uh marginalized all of these groups except for the adult free male
00:45:50.640 and especially objectified and exploited children he goes through a variety of reasons for that some of it
00:45:56.460 was practical childhood mortality was really high and some of it was really more moral and philosophical
00:46:03.120 this belief that they just didn't contain logos you could educate them maybe they could inherit your
00:46:08.460 stuff later on maybe they could take care of you later in life but really that was the only value
00:46:13.260 that children had they didn't have any innate value because this idea of innate human worth simply was
00:46:19.480 foreign to these cultures at the time and yet what changed that because now in much of the world
00:46:25.560 not everywhere but in much of the world certainly here in the states we have historically at least
00:46:30.580 believed children to be a protected class the poor to be a group of people that we need to help
00:46:36.280 the truly actually oppressed even though that word has been co-opted to be people that we need to lend a
00:46:41.800 hand to so what changed because that certainly wasn't what ancient greece and rome believed that's not what
00:46:48.260 the ancient scholars really believed what changed that what changed these groups of people from being
00:46:54.840 marginalized being seen in a lot of ways by many people particularly in the west today as protected
00:47:00.660 classes christianity christianity changed everything christianity made children as owen backey
00:47:09.160 a historian argues people not just these objects not someone that could maybe one day grow into someone
00:47:18.700 valuable but a human being fully that deserves because of their vulnerability protection christianity
00:47:26.520 changed that and here's what i think is interesting and i've been talking about his book and i've been
00:47:30.280 talking about this concept for a long time and how it completely revolutionized how the world saw these
00:47:35.380 groups and it changed the trajectory of the west it changed society it changed cultures it was the
00:47:40.900 foundation of things like the abolition of slavery this is why christians invented public hospitals
00:47:46.700 that's why christians invented orphanages that's why today we still run most disaster relief
00:47:52.520 organizations and most organizations and non-profits that are dedicated to the betterment of
00:47:58.180 the homeless and the poor and children and the abused domestic abuse shelters christians served as
00:48:06.360 the foundation for all of these things because of this radical gospel introduced by jesus who said
00:48:12.240 let the little children come to me who emphasized the already jewish idea that all of us are made in
00:48:19.500 the image of god doubled down on that by saying according to ephesians 2 we are all equally dead in christ
00:48:25.100 because or dead in sin apart from christ we are all equally alive in christ by grace through faith in
00:48:33.060 him so this radical equality this radical innate value that christians brought onto the scene completely
00:48:38.900 revolutionized and disrupted all of the scholarly wisdom of ancient greece and rome and here's what
00:48:46.980 i think is interesting is that these scholars believed that logos was the measure of value for a human being
00:48:54.780 and then what did it take to disrupt that silly idea logos capital l the word made flesh as we read in john
00:49:02.980 one jesus himself logos is the word used there the word became flesh indwelt among us jesus christ the big l logos
00:49:14.440 jesus trumped the little l logos of the greek and roman scholars of the time we read in first corinthians 1
00:49:21.440 that god has shamed the wisdom of the wise and turned it into foolishness and used what is despised and what
00:49:28.260 is weak in the world to shame the wise and the strong that's what he did through the gospel that's
00:49:33.940 what he did through christ and that changed everything so what did christians do during this
00:49:39.540 time yes they were persecuted yes they received pushback yes they faced martyrdom for disrupting
00:49:45.740 this idea of human beings and how society should run and what justice looks like and how we should
00:49:50.760 treat the poor and children and women and all of these things but they continue to persist they
00:49:55.620 continue to persist in their daily lives and their personal lives preaching the gospel how they
00:50:00.200 conducted their marriages how they treated their servants how they treated their spouses and their
00:50:06.080 children how they treated their friends how they took care of each other as communities and churches
00:50:09.800 but not just that they built things they changed the culture they pushed back against the injustices the
00:50:16.800 oppression of leaders they resisted the tyrants this is the history of the church the building of
00:50:22.620 hospitals and universities and schools the education of young people the teaching of virtue this is what
00:50:29.340 christians have done for the past 2 000 years especially post-reformation you are looking at the
00:50:34.660 creation of societies the world uh had the the likes of which the world had never seen before based on
00:50:41.560 this radical and uniquely christian concept of a human right christians have been pushing back against evil
00:50:48.660 and big in small ways and personal and public ways and political and cultural and and um big in small ways for
00:50:56.680 2 000 years
00:50:57.760 and so what do we do today in the face of tyranny in the face of an administration that so clearly hates us what do we do
00:51:05.500 today in the face of delusion what do we do today in the face of immorality and lies and destruction and the
00:51:12.480 threat of real persecution coming to christians here in the west what christians are doing around the
00:51:18.460 world what christians have been doing for 2 000 years speaking the truth and love living and doing
00:51:24.640 the gospel of jesus christ and so that can look a lot of different ways that might look like to you in
00:51:32.360 this stage of life changing the next diaper with joy sharing the gospel with your neighbor um making sure
00:51:40.100 that you are a hard and excellent worker that is operating with integrity and enthusiasm um it can
00:51:48.940 also mean more public stances that you are making it can be pushing back against unjust policies within
00:51:55.900 your workplace it could be maybe in your stage of life running for public office it could be posting
00:52:01.100 something on social media it could be um a variety of things that god could be calling you to it could be
00:52:07.320 planting a church it could be going into ministry it could be starting a non-profit it could just be
00:52:11.480 volunteering at a local non-profit there are many public and private and personal and political ways
00:52:17.420 that christians can build that which is good and right and true refuges of truth and clarity and
00:52:24.440 courage in an age of lies and confusion and chaos and cowardice this is what christians are called to do
00:52:33.380 this is what christians have always been called to do and remember you are fully protected you are fully
00:52:38.680 immortal you are fully emboldened until christ calls you home all of your days have been numbered before
00:52:45.240 any of them came to be you have nothing to fear nothing to fear
00:52:51.060 william tyndale said let his little flock be bold therefore because god is completely sovereign over all of it
00:53:00.180 nothing and no one can touch you unless god wills it and god is faithful and good so he is going to
00:53:07.860 accomplish what he wants to accomplish through you you have every reason to be joyful you have every
00:53:12.240 reason to be hopeful you have every reason to be absolutely emboldened to follow exactly what he has
00:53:19.740 called you to and so we push back against these lies with truth and love we don't mess around with any of
00:53:25.400 these progressive satanic ideologies that would exchange the truth of god for a lie and we represent
00:53:30.920 that truth in love in everything we think say and do if you don't know what that looks like for you as we
00:53:37.400 often say do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of god again that might be
00:53:46.660 washing dishes that might be reading your bible that might be sending an email or maybe it's a bigger leap of
00:53:52.340 faith than all of those things i can't tell you exactly you have to use discernment wisdom from the
00:53:58.560 bible also from others and prayer discernment of the holy spirit but christians today are called to what
00:54:05.020 christians have been called to forever and the same gospel the same strength the same power the same god
00:54:12.320 the same big big l logos that was empowering christians to disrupt depravity two thousand years ago
00:54:21.140 is motivating us today so we have every reason to have hope every reason to have joy be bold therefore
00:54:27.620 all right brie now is the time we want to hear okay so brie as you guys know if you've been watching
00:54:46.940 or listening she is a uh she's a resident swifty and before we get into it because i know that we're
00:54:54.420 going to get some curmudgeons i just want to say we know brie knows that taylor swift would probably
00:55:01.240 do you know this taylor swift would probably hate oh yeah she would not like me and she would hate us
00:55:06.940 because our values are diametrically opposed like we know we know we know we know so i am not hailing
00:55:14.660 her as some kind of moral hero and neither is brie no we like her for only superficial reasons that
00:55:21.200 she's an excellent artist and i wouldn't consider myself a swifty which is i would argue is not even
00:55:26.760 a superficial reason i think you can respect people for their artistry yes and also think that they have
00:55:33.580 terrible political opinions yeah so the left doesn't believe that it's only the right that's willing to
00:55:38.740 be that tolerant that's so true um so i mean it is amazing i was talking to my dad about this he was
00:55:44.780 like why doesn't he taylor swift he she you know says all these things and believes all these things
00:55:48.620 which i totally understand but like she's been on top for so long which is really impressive yeah
00:55:54.520 yeah i do have a big qualm with her taking talking about how she would be so much more successful if she
00:56:02.800 was a man because i'm like you what she has a whole song about it called the man and i'm like you
00:56:09.500 the reason you're so successful is because you're a woman and you've related to women i don't even know
00:56:16.660 how she could possibly think that i know it's crazy she had a whole song about a whole thing there's a
00:56:21.860 ton of men who have tried to be like ed sheeran not as successful as her yeah maroon five i don't even
00:56:29.240 know who male artists are i know sam smith for various reasons she was a man she would not be
00:56:35.600 selling out these arena tours like she is so yeah okay so tell okay tell us about the concert okay
00:56:42.760 it was the best thing i've ever seen it was the best show i've ever seen in my life
00:56:49.600 and how many concerts have you been to um i don't know maybe 10 10 or 15 you've been to 10 or 15
00:56:57.440 taylor swift concerts no oh taylor swift oh yeah just taylor swift uh three okay and this was the
00:57:03.500 best oh yeah okay but best overall show ever okay tell me um so she performed for three hours and 15
00:57:12.100 minutes straight wow there was no intermission wow the longest break i think she took which was like
00:57:19.300 a costume change was maybe like a minute and a half two minutes yeah everything else was her
00:57:24.140 performing um she performed 44 songs what yeah from 10 different albums she sings the whole song
00:57:32.040 uh some of them were shortened versions okay but the quote i mean i think most of them were full
00:57:38.180 full length um and at the end her voice did not even sound tired so i don't know and she does that
00:57:47.440 back to back so i don't know yeah multiple shows in a weekend right yeah and i yeah i was the first one
00:57:53.980 of the weekend but um i just can't imagine what kind of like regimen you have to be on to preserve
00:58:00.260 your voice like that i know and she danced too right she danced yeah um there were if i counted
00:58:07.060 correctly 16 outfit changes oh wow okay so she didn't change for every song no she didn't change for
00:58:13.640 every song she changed mostly for every like era yeah of her 10 eras yeah um okay so this is the
00:58:20.160 era's tour for that so she's representing all the different eras she's going through her whole
00:58:25.640 career i don't think she sang anything from her first album but every other album is the first
00:58:29.940 album fearless or no no it's just called taylor swift oh um yeah and she sings a song at least one
00:58:38.580 song from every album and the whole like set costume everything changes based on like the theme of
00:58:46.260 the album or like the color of the album so it really was more like a broadway show in terms of
00:58:52.760 production and like sets and stuff than than like a concert yeah it was really crazy they got i brought
00:59:00.500 a prop they gave us all these when we got in what is that's just like these are little wristbands okay
00:59:06.340 and they light up and i guess they're uh they use like little transmitters to know where you are in
00:59:13.420 the stadium and that like lets them light up at the right time so the audience itself becomes part
00:59:21.000 of the show and they light up like with the set and it's it's pretty crazy there's a moment in her
00:59:28.000 reputation part in the where she's singing from her reputation album which has a lot of like snake
00:59:33.000 motifs um when the lights in the stadium like went around like a little snake yeah it was really
00:59:39.880 crazy i wish i had a video but i don't sorry um i do have a uh image of my my view which was kind of
00:59:49.080 behind the stage yeah did you but you felt like it was good though yeah i couldn't see her when she
00:59:54.540 was on that maid stage but you can see the stage is huge it goes across the whole field there yeah
00:59:59.140 and um there's a giant screen so i was watching the screen a lot but oh my goodness and you're going to
01:00:05.520 another concert right i'm going to another one yeah oh my goodness okay what was your favorite
01:00:11.220 era not just your favorite era in general but like of the concert i this is not my favorite taylor
01:00:19.940 swift album but the 1989 part was really cool just like set wise the dancers were great um i thought it
01:00:26.780 was really fun but it was all i mean it was all really good she had me crying at one point because
01:00:31.340 she sang a song that makes me cry all the time i didn't think what song is it um it's called
01:00:36.160 marjorie it's about her grandma and um it's like a lesser known one so i didn't think she'd say it
01:00:42.460 i thought it was about marjorie taylor green it's not believe it or not it's not about that that's
01:00:47.580 from folklore right yes which is your favorite album no it's from evermore uh folklore is my favorite
01:00:54.180 album yeah i saw i think you posted on instagram the all too well yeah which i love that
01:01:01.300 song yeah i would have i would have been singing out i probably like it's crazy because i don't
01:01:06.140 call myself a swifty and i'm really not like i don't follow her closely or anything but i feel
01:01:11.320 like i know most of her songs and would have been there singing them out oh that's so fun you would
01:01:18.380 have had a blast yeah and so if any if i know it was really hard to get tickets so i'm sorry if anyone
01:01:23.660 was not able to and this makes them sad yeah but if you can get cheap enough tickets to justify it
01:01:29.900 worth it yeah i went the only time i've went to taylor swift i've gone to a taylor swift concert
01:01:35.460 was um i think 2015 and i loved it i mean it was really good yeah it was great it was a great
01:01:43.060 concert i remember thinking that was the best concert that i had ever been to yeah and so i would go if
01:01:48.360 anyone wants to like i don't know fly me to where you are and give me a ticket i will not pay but if
01:01:55.920 you just want to take me if you want to kick a friend out of your friend group and say all right
01:02:00.760 teresa you don't get to go to the taylor swift concert anymore ali beth stucky is going to come
01:02:05.820 with us i will consider going so sorry teresa sorry teresa sorry um okay anything else like
01:02:15.580 is there any notable moment did she do anything political say anything no um no she didn't really
01:02:23.900 i mean there's a song that's like
01:02:25.920 kind of about like gay rights but she doesn't say anything about it yeah he needs to calm down
01:02:32.180 and i mean the production of that was really cool like the lights and everything so but no she didn't
01:02:37.600 say anything taylor swift you need to calm down you need to calm down about that you do you know what
01:02:42.520 i watched your little americana documentary where you were literally crying about whatever the
01:02:50.280 who was it uh marcia blackburn literally had tears in your eyes you need to calm down about that that
01:03:00.480 music video was so dumb i'm sorry but basically portraying anyone that has like an issue with
01:03:07.360 lgbtq stuff with like dirty buck teeth and like i don't know like southern hicks or something like that
01:03:15.740 yeah i'm like girl you're from tennessee okay it takes place in a trailer park that is that is like
01:03:23.160 beyond rude that is like so evil so you're a good dancer taylor but i mean
01:03:33.940 i'm yeah i won't say what i'm what i'm what i'm thinking um anyway so okay fun performance fun time
01:03:42.820 yeah it was great and i just will say i was tired standing for three hours and 15 minutes i can't
01:03:50.440 even imagine how exhausted she was like her workout routine to like build up that much endurance yeah
01:03:55.860 and your voice and your body it just must be insane so totally insane um okay thanks so much brie i
01:04:03.600 appreciate the contribution all right that's all we've got time for today um we'll be back here
01:04:08.460 tomorrow see you guys then