Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - April 17, 2023


Ep 789 ｜ Did Anime Turn MrBeast’s Sidekick 'Trans'？


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1 hour

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162.79636

Word Count

9,824

Sentence Count

667

Misogynist Sentences

25

Hate Speech Sentences

38


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Chris Tyson of the incredibly popular Mr. Beast YouTube channel announced his transition recently.
00:00:07.320 This has prompted an investigation into his past, which includes a seeming obsession with
00:00:12.380 anime, particularly anime with depictions of sexualized young girls. Chris once appeared to
00:00:19.460 be a normal masculine husband and father with a Christian background. So what happened? Why does
00:00:26.420 it matter? And what should we take away from all of this? Then at the end, a poignant reminder of God's
00:00:32.080 faithfulness out of Nashville last week. This episode is brought to you by our friends at
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00:00:41.960 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. We are happily back in the studio this week. And so
00:00:58.240 it sounds and looks like regular old relatable. All right, let's just go ahead and get right into it.
00:01:06.180 I won't even do a preamble or an introduction. I've got the happy story at the end of this episode,
00:01:13.120 which you're not going to want to miss. Just a reminder of what we need to be reminded of right
00:01:17.960 now. But let's get into the let's get into the crazy and the unfortunately a little bit dark right
00:01:23.900 off the bat. I want to talk about Chris Tyson. And you probably don't know that name if you're a
00:01:32.180 to this podcast, because if you're anything like me, which a lot of you are, you're not really big
00:01:37.260 on YouTube, but maybe your kids are big on YouTube. Maybe you're familiar with who this is. I had no
00:01:42.160 idea. I had no idea who this person Chris Tyson was. I didn't know about his presence on YouTube or
00:01:50.480 why he had a million followers on Twitter. But now I know and I realize that this story that we're
00:01:56.520 talking about today is very significant. And we are going to explain exactly why, as well as some of
00:02:02.660 the strange background in all of this. So Chris Tyson is known as the as the sidekick to the insanely
00:02:12.360 popular YouTuber named Jimmy Donaldson. He's also known as or better known as Mr. Beast. He recently
00:02:20.320 announced his transition, Chris Tyson did, into womanhood or what someone would call womanhood. And
00:02:28.220 the Internet has uncovered some past tweets of Chris's that make his quote unquote journey really
00:02:35.500 especially disturbing and curious. The reason why this matters is because the Mr. Beast channel that
00:02:43.580 Chris Tyson is a part of has 146 million subscribers. Like it is hard to even understand
00:02:51.480 the impact and the reach that a single channel like that has. That makes Jimmy Donaldson, Mr. Beast,
00:02:58.940 the most followed individual on YouTube. So there are some channels that are bigger, like the Cocomelon
00:03:04.300 channel is bigger. But as an individual YouTuber, he has the biggest channel, which is insane that I
00:03:10.780 hadn't even heard of him until recently. So he makes videos for a younger audience, early 20s,
00:03:17.580 younger than that, even some young children. I've seen some parents come out and say, oh, my kids love
00:03:22.300 watching Mr. Beast. Now, you probably heard of him recently, maybe for the first time, a lot of you
00:03:30.020 during a controversy that kind of bubbled up, especially on Twitter. So Jimmy, Mr. Beast, paid for vision
00:03:38.720 corrective surgery for a thousand people, made a video about it, gave them some extra gifts and
00:03:45.060 things like that. So basically just videoing his charity, his altruism. Now, what the controversy was,
00:03:51.500 was that progressives criticized him for being ableist, for being classist, for exploiting these
00:03:58.800 people. Others said that he's using people's disabilities for clicks, which I can kind of
00:04:06.880 understand the latter argument a little bit. I mean, he is making lots and lots of money from the ads
00:04:14.280 that are on these videos. So I understand in a sense what they're saying. But do I think the altruism
00:04:21.440 itself, the charity itself, is wrong or exploiting in any way? No. And I also think the good outweighs
00:04:28.700 the bad. These are a thousand people that can now see. And so even if Mr. Beast does make money off
00:04:34.960 of that, these people still benefited for the rest of their lives. So I thought the controversy was
00:04:39.680 silly. But honestly, that was the first time that I had even heard of the Mr. Beast YouTube channel.
00:04:45.040 He does a lot of this kind of stuff, makes a lot of this kind of content, helping strangers who
00:04:48.660 need it, which is why they've got a lot of young viewers whose parents are thinking,
00:04:55.600 okay, this channel is wholesome. It's appropriate for children. They're just doing good deeds. Sometimes
00:05:00.180 they're being goofy. And that is one reason why the seeming wholesomeness of this channel and brand
00:05:07.660 is one reason why the transition of Chris Tyson, who is a mainstay in Mr. Beast videos,
00:05:15.180 is seen as so bizarre and troubling. If this were just a progressive channel, I don't think anyone
00:05:21.260 would even really notice this. Maybe they talk about it, but it would be like, yeah, that's kind
00:05:25.520 of expected. That's not expected for this channel and this particular person. And I'll talk about why.
00:05:34.140 Up until recently, Chris looked and sounded like your stereotypical guy. Guy clothes,
00:05:41.800 guy mannerisms, beard, all that. Chris is also a father to a toddler boy. We'll get more into that
00:05:49.180 in a minute. Until recently, was married to a beautiful woman. We'll put the picture up so you
00:05:56.120 can see that baby's face covered. Over the past few months, fans started noticing a drastic change in
00:06:04.540 Chris's appearance. So Chris has been on the Mr. Beast channel, I think since 2017. So they were used to
00:06:09.780 what he looked like, how he dressed, how he acted. And then over the past couple of months,
00:06:13.080 he has seemed more feminine in the things that he is wearing and just kind of how he's acting.
00:06:22.320 He posted a tweet of himself in March getting his nails painted, which people thought, okay,
00:06:27.840 that's a little different from the guy that we're used to. And then he tweeted or someone else
00:06:34.020 tweeted, a Twitter user tweeted on April 4th, bro, WTF happened. And it's a picture of Chris on one
00:06:41.620 side. We'll put it up on YouTube. If you're watching rather than listening, it's a picture
00:06:46.800 of, I guess you would say old Chris on one side and new Chris on the other side. So in the old
00:06:51.220 picture, he's wearing like a baggy t-shirt. He's got a beard, facial hair, obviously short hair.
00:06:58.340 I mean, honestly, like if I can say, he just looks like a handsome guy. He looks like a handsome,
00:07:03.700 normal guy. And then in the second picture, he doesn't. He doesn't. Okay. It's actually crazy
00:07:11.940 how these men want to turn into very unattractive versions of women after being attractive males.
00:07:19.420 It's very confusing. But anyway, we'll analyze that more in a second. So he's wearing this tight
00:07:25.120 black t-shirt that doesn't fit, that doesn't look good, accentuates all the wrong things.
00:07:30.200 And then he's wearing these tight, what look like women's pants. And also this like charm necklace.
00:07:36.520 He's got longer, very straight hair. It looks like he is attempting to wear makeup. So it looks
00:07:41.360 very different. There's a marked difference between who he was just recently and who he is now.
00:07:49.240 So Chris responded to that tweet asking what happened and comparing the two pictures and said
00:07:56.580 HRT. And it's only been two months. HRT stands for hormone replacement therapy. So that means that
00:08:05.220 he is taking estrogen to try to look more like a woman. And this is kind of a mentality that I see a
00:08:12.440 lot because I follow accounts that will share Reddit threads or subreddits of men who are trying
00:08:18.560 to transition to be a woman or appear feminine. And they will post before and after pictures
00:08:27.380 and they will say something like, wow, I've only been on HRT for two months and look at this
00:08:33.060 transformation. Or even I've been on HRT for seven years and look how much I've changed.
00:08:39.100 And the rest of us are looking at it and we're like, dude, you just grew your hair out. You don't
00:08:43.540 look like a woman at all. You look like a man who is wearing this. It's very obvious that
00:08:48.520 there is such a delusional part of this that they are unable to see things as they are because
00:08:55.840 this person, I would not say, takes estrogen. I would just assume grew his hair out and started
00:09:01.340 wearing tighter clothes. But he seems very proud in this response. HRT, and it's only been two months.
00:09:06.100 So this was the announcement that has, at least as of now, 188,000 likes on Twitter. Remember,
00:09:14.020 he has a million followers on Twitter. This was the announcement that he's been on hormone
00:09:18.200 replacement therapy, which I guess a lot of people kind of had guessed that maybe he was transitioning
00:09:23.060 or maybe he was just, maybe they thought he was just changing his personality. So then he talks even
00:09:28.940 more about this. On April 5th, he tweeted, informed consent, HRT, saved my and many others' lives.
00:09:36.260 The hurdles GNC, that's gender non-conforming. We're learning a lot today. GNC people have to jump
00:09:42.920 through to get life-saving, gender-affirming health care in a first-world country is wild to me.
00:09:50.420 Just let people make informed decisions about their own bodies. But you see, using hormones that your
00:09:57.920 body does not naturally make because you have testes is not gender-affirming. That might be gender
00:10:05.820 contradicting. That might be sex contradicting. But it's not affirming. And I think a lot of people
00:10:11.060 are understandably asking, is this, this is life-saving for you? This saved your life to
00:10:17.140 try to transition into something that you are absolutely not. And so he is affirming that he
00:10:25.460 is trying to transition. Now, it's a little confusing about what he is trying to transition
00:10:29.980 into. I mean, I'm guessing if you're on estrogen, you're trying to be a woman. Obviously, we don't
00:10:35.760 believe that transition is a reality at all. You can change your name and change your appearance. It
00:10:40.580 doesn't change if you are male or female. But it's unclear what pronouns he is trying to use. Some
00:10:47.240 people are using they, them. Some people, like Jimmy, his boss, Mr. Beast, is still using he. So it's a
00:10:54.960 little confusing. But he is saying, yes, I'm on HRT. It's saving my life. It's changing my life.
00:11:01.520 And I want to show you, just so you can see for yourself, if you were unfamiliar like me,
00:11:07.500 what the before and after of this person looked like, and why this is so jarring for so many people,
00:11:15.380 why this is going to be so confusing and disconcerting, especially for his young
00:11:20.300 audience that has been following him, following Mr. Beast for so long.
00:11:31.520 Okay, I'm going to play you these clips, and I'll just play them right in a row. So the first two
00:11:40.780 clips are who he was before. This is like 2019. And then there was another one. So you'll see just
00:11:50.920 kind of like what kind of guy he was, kind of what kind of character, I guess, he put on or presented
00:11:57.480 for the Mr. Beast channel. And also this video that you'll see of him mocking the idea of being
00:12:03.540 able to change your gender and having gender identities. And then there will be a recent one
00:12:08.540 that you will see. And if you're listening with kids, by the way, there is like a little
00:12:11.720 inappropriate joke, sexual joke that's made in the third clip that's going to be played. But this is
00:12:18.080 just from the other day, April 8th. And you'll see how this person is presenting himself today. So
00:12:23.240 here are those clips.
00:12:24.240 No one's focusing on my fire. What do we need to start a fire? You just want me to say the thing
00:12:30.400 again, don't you? Fuel, flame, and oxygen. I'm sunburned. I forgot sunscreen. I know, and I'm a
00:12:37.660 Boy Scout. Cub Scout. That's the first rule of Boy Scout. Cub Scouts. Sunscreen? No, be prepared.
00:12:42.720 All right, time to see if they've updated the gender list.
00:12:48.820 They have 63 genders up there, but they can't have my gender.
00:12:53.240 Bro, what are you doing? Bro? Did you just assume my gender? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to
00:13:09.520 misgender you. You're such a heliphone. Get out!
00:13:15.640 I sexually identify as an attack helicopter. Ever since I was a boy, I dreamed of soaring over the
00:13:21.800 oil fields, dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting foreigners. People say to me that a person being
00:13:27.620 a helicopter is impossible. I'm having a plastic surgeon install rotary blades, 30 millimeter
00:13:33.260 cannons, and AMG-114 Hellfire missiles on my body. From now on, I want you guys to call me a potty.
00:13:40.400 It's tough to do with no trucks. There you go. There you go. It's tough to do with no trucks.
00:13:47.000 It wasn't tough to do your mom. Oh, frick! Viciously! Viciously!
00:13:53.060 There. You had to prove something. I had to do it. I had to do it so that way you could do it.
00:13:57.460 Okay, so did you catch all that? He was obviously in the second clip, and I know if you're listening
00:14:05.060 to this, you might not be able to distinguish what it looks like. So I do encourage you to watch
00:14:09.900 this one on YouTube. There's a lot that we are showing you that we can't exactly tell you. But
00:14:14.560 as I said, he's making fun of this whole idea. And he says over and over again, I'm a Boy Scout. And so
00:14:20.360 this is a very, like I said, typical guy who now is dressing up as, and if we have another picture,
00:14:27.680 we can put it up right now, maybe of a selfie that he took. I saw someone comment on this that
00:14:33.120 now he's dressing not just as a woman, but as we have seen so many times before, he is dressing like
00:14:38.120 almost a girl. There was a picture that, and like I said, if we have it, we can put it up. But he was
00:14:45.260 wearing this like little crop top black sweater and this big charm necklace and this headband.
00:14:53.280 Again, this is not something that you see grown women wearing. Like you don't see a 30-year-old
00:14:58.720 wearing, yes, this is, this works. You don't, you don't see a 30-year-old woman wearing something
00:15:03.540 like this. He looks like a juvenile. And this is, again, a pattern that we see in a lot of men who
00:15:10.960 transition into women, they don't seem to be transitioning into women. They seem to be
00:15:16.280 trying to transition into little girls. Women who are my age, when's the last time you've worn
00:15:22.020 something like that? That little sweater, the tight, I mean, the tight jeans, whatever, I guess women wear
00:15:28.120 that. The headband, the necklace, this looks like something that a 10-year-old would wear, which is
00:15:35.940 very disturbing. Now, he says that his friends are supportive of this. Someone asked him on April 6th,
00:15:44.420 has this changed the relationship with any of your family or friends? He says, all my friends have been
00:15:49.600 so supportive. My family, however, is still learning and trying to understand slash accept because for
00:15:55.660 them, like many people, this was a shock. But the people who know me have been silently cheering me on
00:16:01.500 the whole way. Now, his friends, who are apparently supportive of this, that includes Jimmy, the owner
00:16:08.900 of the Mr. Beast channel. Jimmy tweeted in response to a video by popular YouTuber Sunny V2, who assessed
00:16:16.900 the situation. He argued that Chris's transition will be trouble for the Mr. Beast channel and brand.
00:16:22.400 So Jimmy responded to that and said, yeah, this is getting absurd. Chris isn't my quote-unquote
00:16:27.700 nightmare, which I guess is something that was said in the video. He's my effing friend and things are
00:16:34.460 fine. All this transphobia is starting to piss me off. All right. So apparently Mr. Beast, who creates
00:16:42.260 content for mostly minors, is cool with this. And he apparently thinks this is great. Now, there were
00:16:50.280 some rumors that there were some texts leaked by Jimmy saying that he's not supportive of this, that he's
00:16:57.380 worried about this, that he doesn't know what to do, that he's stuck between a rock and a hard place,
00:17:01.620 because on the one hand, he's going to be accused of transphobia if he kicks Chris off his channel.
00:17:06.500 On the other hand, this is going to be very difficult for his brand. But I didn't find, I don't know if
00:17:13.280 that's true. Some people were saying that that is really what's going on behind the scenes. I haven't
00:17:18.060 seen any objective, like, verification that that's true. Who knows? Who knows? I can imagine that he
00:17:25.420 might, even if he is genuinely his friend, and maybe he's genuinely super supportive of this
00:17:29.920 whole process. Like, I could see how this would be a little bit difficult. Some people are pointing
00:17:34.840 out that in that live stream that we, that we put up just a second ago, that he looked visibly
00:17:41.440 uncomfortable. Again, I think a lot of people reach on the internet. Maybe he did look uncomfortable,
00:17:46.780 but maybe not. Maybe he's totally cool with it. And he's known for a long time that this was the
00:17:50.280 direction that his friend was going. But we did read in Chris's tweet that his family isn't so
00:17:55.620 understanding of what's going on. By his family, I am deducing that he doesn't just mean his wife,
00:18:02.600 who, as we will point out in a second, he is actually separated from now, but also his parents,
00:18:07.120 maybe his siblings. Even though his friends are understanding, he says his family, they have some
00:18:12.860 catching up to do. So let's dig a little bit more into that. So this is from the Mr. Beast fandom page.
00:18:18.720 Chris describes himself apparently as a country boy who grew up as a Boy Scout. We heard him say
00:18:24.400 that. He grew up in North Carolina. His dad is a farmer. His mom, a real estate agent. He has two
00:18:30.340 older sisters. According to a Twitter user who says that they grew up with him, their families
00:18:38.380 attended church together. They were friends. This person says this goes against every value his parents
00:18:45.420 instilled in him. I know they love him unconditionally. We'll take that with a grain
00:18:48.940 of salt because we can't verify whether or not this person really grew up with them. I don't think
00:18:52.960 that they would necessarily lie about that. He doesn't seem to be saying anything salacious about
00:18:57.560 Chris, but we just don't know for sure. But he is saying that this was, you know, your normal
00:19:03.160 Southern church going family who raised normal kids. And we do know that Chris has talked about
00:19:10.280 being raised with two older sisters and kind of being angry about the fact that he had to do like
00:19:15.300 manual labor with his dad as a farmer while they were doing easier stuff, which I also think in all
00:19:21.860 of my studies of these transitions and stuff that that seems to be a theme, the resentment against
00:19:27.040 females in your family. So that's interesting. He also grew up with Jimmy Donaldson, who is Mr.
00:19:34.120 Beast. Jimmy attended Greenville Christian Academy. Some have reported that Chris attended
00:19:38.420 there as well. Not sure. Some people have reported that, but they did grow up together.
00:19:45.800 Now, here's the part that we mentioned at the beginning of this, which is making a lot of people
00:19:50.000 scratch their heads and also just saddened, which I think is understandable. Chris was married to Katie
00:19:57.220 Tyson. In 2018, they welcomed their first child together in June of 2020. She doesn't appear on many
00:20:05.240 of the videos, but there are pictures we put up earlier. Redux reported. Redux has done a lot of
00:20:10.960 excellent reporting on this entire situation. Reported that Katie is a devout Christian. Her bio has on
00:20:18.180 Instagram has the following Christian song lyrics. There's no shadow. You won't light up mountain. You
00:20:22.400 won't climb up coming after me. I know the tune to that. I will spare you my singing. But that is indeed a
00:20:29.620 Christian song. The last picture she posted with Chris was December of 2020. And then on November 5th
00:20:37.660 of 2020. So I guess right before that, he came out as bisexual on his Twitter account, which is just a
00:20:43.300 strange thing to do, especially if you are married to a woman. And then Redux also reported that at the
00:20:53.560 end of March 2023. So this is still when I'm totally oblivious to who Mr. Beast or Chris is. He posted on
00:21:00.620 his alternate Twitter account. So he has his main Twitter account, which is just Chris that has a million
00:21:05.640 followers in this alternate Twitter account. And he posted this on there that says for a little over a year
00:21:11.980 now, me and Katie have been separated. We are finalizing things soon. But these things take time. We like to keep
00:21:17.740 our personal lives private, which a lot of people don't understand because we share so much. But this is the
00:21:22.800 only time I want to discuss it, which is just really sad. But and we don't know everything that's gone on
00:21:29.340 behind the scenes. But my guess is if he was starting this transition, if he decided to announce to the
00:21:33.780 world that he's bisexual, and he told her, hey, I'm gender nonconforming, I want to live this life that
00:21:38.700 is totally different than what you signed up for. I'm a completely different person than the one that
00:21:44.240 you married. I don't even think I'm a man. That would be a form of betrayal that even the most devout
00:21:49.800 Christian would say, I can't, I can't do this because it would actually be causing the wife of
00:21:57.600 someone who is transitioning into or thinks they're transitioning into the opposite gender and wants
00:22:03.620 to be called she, her, wants to be referred to as a woman. You are forcing your spouse to sin
00:22:07.460 by lying. You are putting a God before the only God that exists. You are affirming something that you
00:22:15.160 know is not true that is covered in the very first chapter of the first book of the Bible. And so this to
00:22:21.400 me does seem like it would be understandable and even biblical grounds for separation. Now, I'm sure
00:22:28.980 that there is a hope for repentance and restoration and stuff there. But I can imagine how heartbroken,
00:22:34.320 how heartbreaking, how disappointing, how strange this whole thing was behind the scenes. And then there's the
00:22:41.540 point about his son that a lot of people are bringing up that this guy has a toddler son and how
00:22:47.500 in the world is he going to deal with that? I actually tweeted when I was first learning about
00:22:52.400 this whole thing, his poor son, I feel so terrible for him. I feel terrible for his wife too. Gosh,
00:22:57.800 we should be praying for her. Like, please do. But I feel terrible for his son who is going to be
00:23:04.680 a part of his life forever and is no longer going to have a normal father to look to. And if you don't
00:23:12.780 see this, this whole transition, so-called, as traumatizing for a young child, then you know
00:23:20.580 nothing. You know nothing about reality. You know nothing about psychology. You know nothing about child
00:23:27.420 development. You know nothing about the need for a child to place people in understandable categories
00:23:34.120 including gender categories. You have no understanding of the need for a child to have
00:23:40.260 both the strong masculine and the strong feminine in their life, a masculine father and a feminine
00:23:46.460 mother. Also, seeing your parent radically change their appearance, change their behavior, change their
00:23:54.800 mannerisms, and attempt to change their identity at such a formative age, yes, that is traumatizing.
00:24:01.140 Of course, that child is not going to be able to articulate that now. Of course, that child loves
00:24:05.740 his dad. That's not a question. I'm sure. I'm sure that child loves his dad, still wants to spend time
00:24:10.240 with his dad, wants to be around his dad, admires his dad, but he wants a dad. All right? He wants and
00:24:16.200 needs a father, especially as a boy. You cannot tell me that he will not be messed up by this in some way,
00:24:22.840 sadly. And that breaks my heart to say. And that is one reason why this whole process is so incredibly
00:24:30.980 selfish. And for anyone to say, well, you know, the most important thing is for someone to be happy.
00:24:36.400 The most important thing is for them to feel like they're being themselves. First of all, he's not
00:24:40.200 being himself. He's not being himself. He's a man. And so he's trying to be something that he's not.
00:24:46.600 And also, the most important thing in life is not for you to be happy. That's not the most
00:24:53.280 important thing in life. There are far more important things in life than your momentary
00:24:58.680 happiness. If your happiness comes at the expense of and the well-being of your child, your family,
00:25:07.820 then you're just being selfish. There's nothing noble about that. There's nothing virtuous about
00:25:13.580 that to put your fleeting feelings first. That is the definition of narcissism and immaturity.
00:25:20.340 And you think that there's not going to be a repercussion for that in this child's life? Of
00:25:25.880 course, there will be. Of course. And we haven't even seen these chickens come home to roost yet
00:25:31.300 because there are now children, definitely more children than we've ever seen in history,
00:25:38.800 who have parents who are deciding that they are the opposite sex. Like, we don't even fully know
00:25:44.040 the consequences of that, but there will be consequences and they will be ugly. Individually
00:25:49.260 and societally. And my heart goes out to this entire family. Yes, including Chris, because there is a lot
00:25:54.880 of depravity and confusion and deceit that is being taken in here. And it's even darker than all of this.
00:26:01.220 It's even darker than all of this. Before I get into the darkness part, let me also show you
00:26:06.460 this pic. Well, I'm not going to show you the picture because I just don't want to perpetuate
00:26:12.860 what I think is like the exploitation of a child for content. But Chris posted a picture on Snapchat,
00:26:20.460 which is now circulated on Twitter, of his son, like laying on his stomach and then wearing high
00:26:32.380 heels. Okay, so he's a boy, he's wearing high heels. And then the caption on Snapchat that Chris
00:26:38.600 posted is, Tucker chose to slay this morning. Tucker chose to slay this morning. And then he tweeted it
00:26:45.100 because I guess he got some backlash. And he said, I posted this on my Snap and saw some pretty rude
00:26:50.100 comments. Say anything you want about me. I don't care. But anything towards his son's name
00:26:54.600 will be an immediate block. Okay, you put that out there. You didn't have to post that picture of
00:27:01.320 your kid wearing heels. You knew exactly what you were doing. You are not just using your kid as
00:27:07.620 content. You're using your kid as a political ideological statement. Look, these heels that his
00:27:13.660 little son is wearing are his son's size. So someone bought him these shoes. It's not like he
00:27:20.680 went into his dad's or his mom's closet and got some adult heels and decided to put them on because
00:27:26.240 kids do that. And that's funny. You bought him high heels. These are also they look like heels that you
00:27:31.480 have to actually like you have to strap the top of it like the little strap on. So I highly doubt that
00:27:38.000 he put these on himself. So you bought these for him. You put these on him. You posted a picture of
00:27:45.100 this publicly. And now you're mad that people are saying, oh, maybe this isn't the best decision.
00:27:50.540 We've got lots of indicators of the narcissism here. It's really, really disturbing. I again,
00:27:57.240 I just feel so badly for the people that are involved in this, especially this child who has no idea what is
00:28:03.240 going on. All right. So there was a tweet circulating by Chris over the weekend that I saw some people
00:28:23.780 tweet out. I tweeted it out myself. That really disturbed me. And he said this. And if you don't
00:28:30.480 know what this is, I didn't either until a couple months ago, I saw something that was reported by
00:28:35.020 Redux. And I asked one of the journalists at Redux, what is this that you're talking about?
00:28:39.340 And I'm really glad that I asked rather than searched for it because it's really disturbing.
00:28:43.940 So Chris says this. Nothing gets my knob a cranking like some lolly. So he is apparently alluding to the
00:28:52.140 fact that he gets sexually aroused by something called lolly. You might see it referred to as lollycon.
00:28:59.580 And I'm just letting you know that what we are about to talk about is very disturbing. As if what we have
00:29:05.260 talked about already isn't disturbing enough. This is very disturbing. Lolly is a form of anime in which
00:29:13.800 the female characters are depicted as children or even babies. Now you'll see gaslighting in this and
00:29:21.600 like from anime apologists saying, well, yeah, sure. Lolly, the characters, they may look young. They may
00:29:29.440 look like 13 year old girls. There was one. Yes. That was the screenshot was retweeted. Someone saying
00:29:37.660 that he was super turned on by a form of lolly in which the female character literally was dressed as
00:29:44.860 a baby. All right. So we're talking about animation. But still, these are depictions of
00:29:50.900 sometimes baby, toddler, childlike women. Now, sometimes in lolly, they will have some exaggerated
00:30:00.320 female physical characteristics, but it will still be obvious that they are supposed to look
00:30:06.100 like a minor. And the content isn't always sexually explicit. But the line between regular
00:30:15.440 anime, if you want to call it that, or regular lolly and like sexually explicit content with
00:30:20.940 these very, very young looking girls. It's a very, very fine line. So Chris, whether he is joking or
00:30:29.200 not, I mean, it's still a weird thing to joke about. He is talking about being interested and
00:30:33.940 specifically sexually interested in this thing called lolly. So let me tell you a little bit more
00:30:41.980 about that. And this is, again, reported by Redux. Using his official Mr. Beast Twitter account in
00:30:48.600 December 2016, Tyson said, nothing gets my knob cranking like some lolly. Lolly is a term which
00:30:55.120 refers to female childlike characters popularized by Japanese animation, but has become synonymous with
00:31:00.980 pedophilic depictions of sexualized young girls and animated pornography. This is also from
00:31:07.580 medium.com. It is short for lolly con, a Japanese term that is derived from the English phrase Lolita
00:31:13.160 complex. This term referring to an underage girl who is seductive early came from the novel called Lolita
00:31:19.540 by Vladimir Novakov, which follows the narrator's sexual obsession with and subsequent rape of a 12
00:31:27.100 year old girl named Dolores, nicknamed Lolita. So anyone who tells you that lolly is a form of
00:31:35.920 anime, that is fine. That is sweet. Because they'll also say, they'll use this disgusting
00:31:42.500 justification for it. They'll say, well, they look like babies, but really in the series, they're really
00:31:49.860 700 years old. They're really like a century old witch. They just always look young. Okay. That doesn't
00:31:59.040 help anything. When it translates into the real world, what you are being attracted to,
00:32:03.300 what you are being sexually aroused by is the figure of a child. Sick pervert. So lollies can
00:32:10.880 be identified by four characteristics. Look like a child, behave like a child, smaller bus size,
00:32:16.340 has a cute more, has a cute aesthetic slash cute slash mo aesthetic. Mo is a Japanese word that
00:32:23.680 embodies the qualities of being youthful, innocent, and feminine. Now, when this tweet started circulating
00:32:28.900 on April 12th, he deleted it. And that's not his only connection to very dark parts of anime. Now,
00:32:39.060 it has been well documented on Chris's Twitter that he loves anime, that he is obsessed with anime,
00:32:45.320 I would say, talking about all different kinds of series that he likes. Now, not all anime is sexually
00:32:51.520 explicit. Not all anime is the perverse, dark type that we're talking about. But it does seem,
00:32:59.700 as we have talked about many times, and as we'll talk about even more after we go through some of
00:33:04.760 these examples, there does seem to be a very distinct connection between those who watch anime,
00:33:12.580 especially certain parts of anime, forms of anime, and gender confusion, and transgenderism.
00:33:20.800 That I am not saying that everyone who watches anime or everyone who likes anime is in that world,
00:33:26.400 or is dark or perverse or gender confused in any way. I'm just saying those who are gender confused,
00:33:32.640 it seems like a crazy majority of them, a crazy percentage of them are also obsessed with anime.
00:33:40.440 So there is definitely a connection there. But when it comes to Chris, it's not just his anime
00:33:44.560 obsession, which is like, whenever you see that when someone transitions, and you go back into
00:33:48.400 their history, and you're like, oh, anime, expected that it's become just so predictable.
00:33:52.860 At this point, he also is very into very dark, very sexual, and I would say pedophilic
00:33:59.220 forms of anime, which unfortunately, is pretty prevalent in the anime world. So this again,
00:34:04.460 is reported by Redux. In a now deleted tweet from July 2017, Tyson posted a photo showing artwork,
00:34:10.180 which appeared to depict a sexualized young girl. The photo showed the artwork laying upon a carpet
00:34:15.300 and surrounded by fidget spinners. Tyson captioned the photo, bonus fidget spinners to really throw in
00:34:20.920 some extra autism. Okay, he also tagged the account Shadbase, which belonged to the artist known as
00:34:27.940 Shadman, the online persona of Shadai Prajeen. Again, I had never heard of this person. But let me before
00:34:33.860 I even talk about who Shadai Prajeen is, which is a really disturbing part of this, let me tell you
00:34:38.680 just about this image. And it's, gosh, it's awful. So this, it's a cartoon of a girl. She's obviously
00:34:48.560 young because she's got braces on. So she's obviously supposed to be seen as young. And that
00:34:54.040 her hat that she is wearing says, please be patient. I have autism. The tattoo on her thigh that
00:35:00.660 you see is intended to signify a white female who likes to have, this is disturbing. I mean,
00:35:07.240 it's just disturbing that this is being like, this is being portrayed and put on a young girl to have
00:35:12.940 sex with black men. This is known as the queen of spades in the kink community, displaying a spade
00:35:18.580 with the letters BBC, according to Urban Dictionary. Okay, I can't even say what that stands for. You can
00:35:24.160 probably pick up on that. Shadman was one of the early celebrities of YouTube and Tumblr,
00:35:29.680 the guy who created this and apparently, maybe reportedly gifted this poster to Chris,
00:35:36.120 whether he did or not, though, Chris is definitely posting it and saying that it's great. Gosh,
00:35:40.080 so freaking weird. But Shadman was one of the early celebrities of YouTube and Tumblr,
00:35:44.220 who became known for his highly pornographic cartoon drawings, many of which depicted underage
00:35:49.080 girls called lollies. And that's L-O-L-I-S. While many of Shadman's drawings were fictional child
00:35:58.060 characters, he did get caught in a number of incidents in which he was creating sexual artwork
00:36:02.180 of real children or real people he depicted as sexualized children. In 2016, Shadman drew a
00:36:08.480 suggestive picture of the seven-year-old daughter of internet commentator Keemstar. During the 2016
00:36:15.420 elections, he also created pornographic artwork intended to represent Donald Trump and Hillary
00:36:19.520 Clinton as little girls. In 2017, he prompted outrage after drawing pieces of pornographic
00:36:24.900 art depicting a 12-year-old female character from the film Logan. He has also been known to draw art
00:36:30.900 portraying rape, assault, racism, and other disturbing themes. He was arrested in 2021 for
00:36:36.320 assault with a deadly weapon. It is unclear the extent to which Tyson and Shadman knew each other,
00:36:41.200 but the July 2017 tweet says Redux did suggest that the artwork was either gifted or purchased
00:36:48.340 directly from Shadman. So that is disturbing. So he is apparently very into these explicit pedophilic
00:36:58.560 forms of anime and has been for a long time, even before and during he was married to his beautiful
00:37:05.780 wife. So when he says that this has been a long time coming or this has been a process of
00:37:11.200 at least in the sense that he has been obsessed with really weird forms of anime that seem to almost
00:37:17.560 always lead to a form of like confusion and sexual fetishization of women and young girls.
00:37:26.460 Yeah, sure. I believe that that has been a part of his life, I guess, for several years.
00:37:31.480 Um, there was another tweet, um, in which he said, uh, in, in which Chris was looking for,
00:37:40.620 he says on last year in March, on March 27th, does anyone know where to watch the anime Wandering
00:37:47.660 Sun at? I want to watch it, but can't find it anywhere. So that was in March of 2022.
00:37:55.400 And if you, if you look at a summary of what the anime Wandering Sun is, it says this to date,
00:38:03.380 Wandering Sun remains anime's most explicit exploration of trans identity, taking viewers
00:38:07.480 along Shuichi and Yoshino's journeys from when both of them start to slowly dabble with clothing,
00:38:15.100 not conventionally associated with their assigned sex, all the way to their full on realizations of
00:38:19.420 being a trans female and trans male, respectively. A beautiful story of two youthful souls fumbling and
00:38:24.580 figuring it out. Uh, Shimura's original manga launched all the way back in 2003. And by the
00:38:30.220 end states it all more explicitly. However, it's worth keeping in mind due to the series age,
00:38:34.100 it doesn't always achieve the same vocabulary we've since adopted regarding the gender spectrum. So
00:38:40.260 this seems to be an implicit or explicit theme in a lot of anime, which is, I think, part of why
00:38:48.940 it's so associated with people who identify as transgender. There's a lot of gender bending
00:38:55.220 in anime as well, especially when it comes to the male characters that associated with the sexualization
00:39:01.900 and infantilization of the female characters on anime. I think that we have a very toxic combination
00:39:08.540 that can at least aid and abet this type of, I don't even know if, again, I want to call it confusion,
00:39:14.720 but just depravity, especially, um, especially in men. So I think that the, also the lolly part of
00:39:22.100 this, um, probably indicates that there was a more explicit pornographic, um, addiction here.
00:39:28.820 Not everyone who watches porn, which is always, it's always objectifying. It's always wrong. It's
00:39:35.880 always disgusting. It's always unethical, but not everyone who watches porn is going to become confused
00:39:40.380 about what gender they are. But I guarantee you everyone, every man who is confused about what
00:39:45.400 gender they are is addicted to porn, has been addicted to porn and has probably gotten into
00:39:51.080 the form of pornography that Genevieve Glock has talked about on this show, which is cissification
00:39:55.980 porn in which you get off on being humiliated as a depiction of a woman or even humiliating other
00:40:03.000 women. There are past tweets also by Chris, not just in this nature that we're talking about,
00:40:08.080 but also hating on feminism, hating on women, women wanting rights. And look, I, I don't consider
00:40:15.440 myself a feminist, but it's very clear there as with some of the tweets that he's tweeted about his
00:40:21.200 upbringing and how his sisters were treated differently. Even if he says he's joking that
00:40:25.600 there seems to have been some underlying resentment. So you've got a combination of things. You've got a
00:40:30.240 combination of resentment towards women. Apparently you've got a combination of an, uh, apparently,
00:40:35.460 an obsession with anime, particularly the kind of anime, um, that promotes gender transition and
00:40:43.620 promotes the sexualization of young girls and, uh, probably also an addiction to porn and particularly
00:40:52.260 dark forms of pornography. So that is probably the history and the background in addition to just the
00:41:04.260 lies and the deceit and the temptations of Satan that have led to what seems to a lot of people as a
00:41:13.140 totally bizarre and surprising and a random announcement of trying to become the opposite gender. It's
00:41:20.900 probably has been a long time coming. There probably has been a lot leading to this, but it's been tiny
00:41:28.740 steps along the way that maybe seemed innocuous at the time and now are leading to this total denial of
00:41:36.020 reality that we are seeing today. And he is not alone, as I said, in, um, in the connection between anime and
00:41:49.620 gender transition thing. And I just want to give a little bit more background on that because I think it's
00:41:54.740 important for parents to realize that this is something that is happening on a large scale.
00:42:12.760 So there are people who have admitted that anime made them start questioning their gender,
00:42:18.740 just as there are people who admitted that certain forms of pornography made them question their gender.
00:42:23.800 There is this, um, discussion board, this anime discussion board, and there were different posts
00:42:29.920 on this discussion board saying, like this person said, I used to think I was a cis guy. Cisgender
00:42:34.920 means you are the gender that you were actually born as biologically. It's a stupid word, but they say,
00:42:42.700 I used to think I was a cis guy that just didn't fit in because I didn't like being masculine at all.
00:42:47.260 Then I started to identify with this girl, a character, and it was all downhill from there.
00:42:52.220 Um, and so there are lots of examples of this of people saying that they identify with some kind
00:42:56.860 of anime character and that that makes them start questioning who they are. There's a story that
00:43:02.960 was reported in, uh, in December of 2021 by the daily signal. We also talked about it at the time
00:43:09.560 about a mother who rescued her child from trying to transition into a boy. This mother writes about
00:43:16.520 how her very feminine daughter, her girly girl went from, uh, hobbies like, uh, like art and sewing to
00:43:26.540 anime, cosplaying, uh, dressing like fantastical characters. And she just thought that her daughter
00:43:33.260 was being creative. She's going through, you know, this teenage stage, who cares? So she was supporting
00:43:37.940 her daughter's creative side, but she didn't know that the anime and the cosplaying that her daughter
00:43:42.280 was involved in, um, also involved gender bending themes that the community, uh, cross and that the
00:43:48.500 community crosses into pedophilic and sexual themes. She also said that older cosplay community members
00:43:54.400 groomed the younger cohorts online. This combined with the public school sexual education program
00:44:00.180 called team talk. She began using a whole new language. Her daughter did polyamorous, lesbian,
00:44:05.720 pansexual. Her and her friends all chose labels besides quote unquote, basic, their term for a straight
00:44:11.800 girl. She continued her anime obsession, began making very explicit, weird Tik TOK videos using
00:44:17.920 vulgar language, and then became unrecognizable as she was trying to transition. So this mom,
00:44:23.580 I think would probably say that she was liberal. She was open-minded. She was probably trying to be
00:44:29.320 progressive. She was just trying to embrace who her daughter was changing into. And she was trying to
00:44:35.960 be as supportive as possible. But then the summer before ninth grade, she announced that she was this
00:44:40.880 daughter transgender. Shortly after she began to threaten suicide and dunk and sunk into deep
00:44:46.700 depression. Her mom uncovered her hidden social media accounts, which included online discussions
00:44:51.240 involving fetishistic sexual conversations, older girls telling younger girls how to sell nude photos
00:44:56.700 of themselves and bragging about their mental illnesses and which drugs to take. There were messages from
00:45:02.440 strangers telling her daughter to kick her mom's head in because she was a quote, transphobe. The mom took
00:45:08.100 away every social media app and form of technology that this girl had, reported the pornography to
00:45:13.120 the police, and found an out-of-state psychiatrist because they were in California. You can't find that
00:45:18.420 kind of thing because a psychiatrist that will try to reconcile a person's mind to their body, which is
00:45:23.940 the sane and compassionate thing to do rather than maim your body to try to satisfy this never-ending
00:45:29.180 confusion in your mind. That is called actually doing it the right way in states like California.
00:45:35.580 And I believe Washington is called conversion therapy, which the exact opposite is true. And so
00:45:41.000 it's very hard to find a sane psychiatrist in places like that. So this mom who lived in California had to
00:45:46.160 go outside of the state to actually help her daughter psychologically. After a year and a half,
00:45:50.800 the mother's daughter is returning to her authentic self. She literally had to detox from all of these
00:45:55.820 terrible influences that were confusing her so much that she started to question who she was as a
00:46:01.200 person. And that is, by the way, like what the left, I believe, at least the leftist activist class
00:46:06.420 wants for every single child to separate their child from their parent, even if that means through
00:46:11.400 suicide. Certainly if that means through estrangement, and even if that means homelessness,
00:46:16.820 trafficking, what typically happens to these young kids who think that their parents don't understand or
00:46:23.200 don't accept their authentic self when really it's not their authentic self at all, they are being
00:46:27.440 influenced by these demonic forces that are manifested through a lot of these apps and these
00:46:33.020 shows and the content that they are consuming. You become what you consume. You become who you hang
00:46:39.840 around. You start believing the things that you are incessantly told. That's why it's so important
00:46:43.940 for parents to disciple their children in truth. That's why I don't want to mess around with sending my
00:46:48.800 kids to a school that is not biblically based. Why would I want to send my kid somewhere to spend 40
00:46:54.980 hours hearing at the very best, like a non-biblical worldview, at worst, a completely anti-biblical
00:47:03.080 worldview, and try to catch up on the weekends when I could be dedicating all the time possible
00:47:12.160 to discipling them in that which is good and right and true? It's just not even a question,
00:47:18.720 especially today. And like, why would I even mess around? Why would we even mess around as parents
00:47:24.860 with these social media apps, which is overwhelmingly a net negative for these kids who just can't,
00:47:32.340 they just can't filter out the truth from alive. They're just not ready for that yet. We as their
00:47:37.580 parents, like that is our responsibility to protect them in that way. And thank God for this mother
00:47:42.380 that she was given wisdom. She was given conviction. And she said, no, like, you know what? We made
00:47:48.040 mistakes in the past. We're not doing this anymore. There also seems to be a kind of violence that is
00:47:53.980 inherent in all of this. And you see that in the activist class, the transgender day of vengeance,
00:47:59.840 like you see the kind of vitriol that, for example, Riley Gaines had to endure last week just for
00:48:04.680 saying that she didn't want to be forced to change in front of a man who identified as a woman in a
00:48:08.840 locker room. And she got titles and opportunities taken away from her because this guy, Will Thomas,
00:48:15.220 all of a sudden decided that he was a woman in college and to compete against women. She got
00:48:19.560 things taken away from her, including her right to privacy and protection against sexual harassment,
00:48:23.920 which is what flashing a woman in a locker room is. You saw that she was mobbed. She was extorted.
00:48:32.440 I mean, she was violated. She was assaulted by this mob of trans activists at San Francisco
00:48:38.280 State last week. So there seems to be just as is true. And I think all delusion and all sin,
00:48:46.140 like a form of violence, it's also just kind of inherent in godlessness. And so you see that,
00:48:52.420 I think, very prevalently with these people whose minds I think are messed up, not just by the ideology
00:48:57.380 and the content that they're consuming, but also with, in many cases, the hormones that they are
00:49:02.460 taking. Like, have we even thought about the repercussions on a person's mind, on a person's
00:49:08.560 frontal lobe when you are introducing your body to hormones that do not align with your biology that
00:49:14.840 your body cannot naturally make? Again, I don't think all of those chickens have even come home to
00:49:20.140 roost yet. But Chris said something which is very typical of violent transgender activism. He actually
00:49:26.380 said it a few hours before the Nashville shooting. So that wasn't intentional, but it just happened to
00:49:32.080 be on the same day. So it didn't age well. He said on March 27th, I did also hate seeing the hate for
00:49:39.720 me turn into just general transphobia. So I'm wanting to make it known. Make fun of me all you want,
00:49:44.380 but mess with the trans homies and dot dot dot, well dot dot dot, gun emoji. All right. Okay. So
00:49:54.460 that's the journey. That's the journey from apparently, I mean, ostensibly a Christian,
00:50:02.060 normal family man, the beautiful wife, precious child, boy scout from a Christian family to this.
00:50:11.540 Um, I think it's a good lesson in humility for everyone, to every parent, but also every individual
00:50:19.020 that sin slowly chips away. You start exchanging the truth of God for a lie. There really is no
00:50:25.660 limit to sin. It all goes back to the garden. It all goes back to the garden. The initial,
00:50:31.780 the initial deceptive question that Satan gave Eve, presented to Eve,
00:50:39.140 did God really say, did God really say? And then with the promise that if you do this, you will be
00:50:49.640 like God. You'll be like God. It wasn't true then. It's not true today. People think that they have
00:50:57.840 God-like powers and to be able, and being able to identify as something other than what they are,
00:51:04.500 to be able to, um, be the God of their own lives, the center of their own universe.
00:51:12.500 Rewrite the rules of reality and biology to try to fit into their feelings, into their delusions.
00:51:20.660 It is exchanging the God of scripture for the God of self, exchanging the truth of God for a lie.
00:51:26.060 It's Romans 1 made manifest. And it will reap destruction in this man's life. It will reap
00:51:35.000 destruction in his family's life. It will reap destruction once this is accepted and celebrated
00:51:41.580 on an even bigger scale, which it already is happening. It will be, is being destructive societally.
00:51:48.720 There is no stopping point, no reasonable limiting principle to sin to the point to where like we're
00:51:58.080 at a place where you have people otherwise compassionate and seemingly reasonable people
00:52:05.080 actually legitimizing the idea that a child can identify as the opposite sex and that they should
00:52:12.380 actually stop puberty in order to affirm that lie, that they should be able to carve up their bodies
00:52:17.680 as minors to render themselves permanently sterile because they think that they are the opposite
00:52:23.280 sex. Like that is the top down lie that is being pushed everywhere through every institution,
00:52:30.700 global and national today. You have people, even people who profess to be Christians in the name of
00:52:39.680 empathy and love and tolerance and acceptance, actually pushing something that delusional and destructive.
00:52:46.360 Wow. It is so important for the sake, yes, of truth, but for the sake also just of love and of light
00:52:57.080 and of sanity to not buy into this mess one bit, to not lie. You've probably heard the testimony of
00:53:06.920 Laura Perry. Hopefully we'll have her on the show at some point who, she was raised in a Christian home.
00:53:12.040 She transitioned into, she tried to, you know, so-called transition into being a man and she did
00:53:18.840 the whole thing. She did hormones. She did all of it. She looked like a man. Her parents, Christian
00:53:24.160 parents, her parents' friends at their Christian conservative church refused to go along with it.
00:53:30.360 They refused to call her anything but Laura. They refused to use he, him pronouns.
00:53:34.540 And when she came to, when the Lord captured her heart and pushed her into repentance,
00:53:42.540 the reason why she went back to her parents first, the reason why she returned to that
00:53:48.100 Christian conservative church that the world would have called backwards and hateful and bigoted and
00:53:52.840 the reason why people aren't Christians anymore, the reason why she went back there is because she knew
00:53:57.940 she could trust them. Because why? Because they never lied to her. They refused to affirm deceit in the name of
00:54:07.880 love. It is not loving to lie. As we say so often, we cannot outlove God by lying. The most loving thing that
00:54:15.460 anyone can do in Chris's life is to tell him the truth and I pray that he would repent. I do. I do. I don't want
00:54:20.720 bad things for him. Now, I'm concerned about the things that he is consuming. Very concerned about
00:54:30.340 that. And so, you know, there needs to be, if there's any like illegal activity, obviously there
00:54:39.140 needs to be justice and there needs to be legal recompense for that kind of thing. If there is
00:54:45.040 anything actually, you know, criminal that's being consumed or going on there. But I hope for repentance. I hope
00:54:52.480 for restoration. I hope for him to see the light and for him to be detoxed of all of the toxicity that he has
00:55:00.000 consumed. I hope for repentance for all of these people. But hope for repentance has to be accompanied with a
00:55:07.080 fear of God and a fear of God is always going to be a love for and a submission to his truth. We see the truth of
00:55:15.040 all of this very easily in Genesis 1.
00:55:29.760 Okay, so I just wanted to make sure that we start out the week, ending the episode, but starting out
00:55:34.860 the week with this incredible reminder of God's faithfulness. So Covenant Christian School, who you'll
00:55:41.920 remember, suffered mass shooting by someone who identified as the opposite sex. And apparently,
00:55:49.300 even though we very strangely have not gotten the manifesto yet, was motivated by a particular
00:55:56.560 resentment towards this school, probably because this person didn't feel affirmed in their new found
00:56:03.460 gender identity. And killed three children, three nine-year-olds, including the daughter of the
00:56:11.960 pastor of the church associated with the school. His name is Chad Scruggs, as well as three adults,
00:56:19.640 three people on staff. They're just absolutely tragic. If you need to learn more about that,
00:56:24.860 you can go back and listen to our episode right after, right after it happened. But they all met,
00:56:32.400 the Covenant School family met for the first time for chapel and three weeks after the tragedy
00:56:39.660 happened. And this is what they were met with outside the school.
00:56:44.740 I mean, just incredible, incredible. If you're not, if you're not watching this, it's this amazingly
00:57:06.560 clear rainbow. I don't think I've ever seen a rainbow that clear in my life. And it's actually
00:57:11.620 a double rainbow. And it looks like you can actually see the whole thing. So that is the
00:57:17.900 faithfulness of God. That is the reminder of God that there is nothing that cannot be redeemed. There
00:57:24.540 is no tragedy out of which good cannot come. And I know that's really difficult to say. Maybe it's
00:57:31.040 easier to say for those outside of it, but God is in the business of redemption. He is in the business
00:57:35.280 of bringing beauty from ashes. Satan means things for evil. The Lord means it for good. And all
00:57:41.120 things, Romans 8, Romans 8, 28 tells us, come together for the good of those who love God
00:57:47.480 and are called according to his purpose. Psalm 36, 5 says, your steadfast love, O Lord,
00:57:54.320 extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. I'm also reminded of another passage that
00:58:00.100 I read yesterday, which is Psalm 33, 1. And it says, praise befits the upright. The upright meaning
00:58:06.900 the righteous and the only ones who are righteous are those who have been made righteous by grace
00:58:12.440 through faith in Christ. And praise befits the upright. So not those who are in happy situations,
00:58:18.500 not the lucky, not the fortunate, not the rich, not the ones who have never felt any loss, but the
00:58:24.600 upright. Those who are in Christ, praise is appropriate for you at all times. Praise fits you well. Praise looks
00:58:32.700 perfect on you. Praise is the attire that we should don, the outfit that we should be wearing. Praise
00:58:38.840 should be characteristic of those who are in Christ, no matter our circumstances. That's the
00:58:46.520 incredible part of Christianity, the incredible part of the gospel that even in the darkest times,
00:58:52.820 like there is light on which our hope and our joy hangs. And I'm very thankful for God's display
00:59:00.020 here of faithfulness. It's not lost on me that he used a rainbow, a symbol that has been perverted
00:59:08.280 to mean the exact opposite of what it actually means to remind people of his goodness and his
00:59:18.400 faithfulness. And just a reminder too, God's rainbow has seven colors rather than six. That significance
00:59:24.700 is also not lost on me. So thank you, God, for your goodness, for your reminder of that
00:59:30.900 sovereignty. Remember, God's work doesn't always make headlines. It might seem like the world is
00:59:36.280 exclusively getting worse and worse. Remember, God's eternal plan of redemption is always going
00:59:41.540 off without a hitch. Psalm 37 reminds us that he will one day do away with wickedness forevermore,
00:59:47.840 and his wrath is kindling towards it all. And there will one day be no more sorrow, be no more sadness,
00:59:54.320 be no more sickness, be no more confusion or corruption or abuse or exploitation or all of the
01:00:00.940 things that make life so heavy and this world grown for the redemption of creation. One day,
01:00:09.600 Jesus will rule in totality, in perfect peace. And he is constantly reminding us of that if we would
01:00:17.560 look. All right, that's all we've got for today. We will be back here tomorrow.