Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - April 17, 2023


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


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour

Words per Minute

162.79636

Word Count

9,824

Sentence Count

667

Misogynist Sentences

25

Hate Speech Sentences

38


Summary

Chris Tyson of the wildly popular Mr. Beast YouTube channel announced his transition recently. This has prompted an investigation into his past which includes a seeming obsession with anime, particularly anime with depictions of sexualized young girls. Chris once appeared to be a normal masculine husband and father with a Christian background. So what happened? Why does it matter? And what should we take away from all of this?


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.