Ep 845 ｜ Tori Kelly & Other Young Stars Suddenly Collapse： What's Going On？
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Bradley Pierce and I had a great conversation about abortion, abolitionism and pro-life. Both of our views are at odds in many ways, and yet they are in conflict in other ways. Today's episode is dedicated to a woman who had an abortion back in 2003, and who still regrets it.
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Over the past few weeks, there has been a wave of young and healthy people suffering from very
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serious adverse events, including cardiac events. What is really going on here and what may not be
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going on here? Also, history is being made at the FIFA World Cup as the first out quote-unquote
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transgender quote-unquote non-binary player is playing for the Canadian women's team. I'll tell
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you why I find it just a little bit funny. And then in some very not funny, very serious, but
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non-surprising news, the first ever so-called transgender state representative from New Hampshire
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has just been arrested on child sex abuse material charges. We will get into that very disturbing but
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone's having a wonderful week so far.
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You guys had a lot of interesting thoughts on yesterday's episode, on the conversation that I
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had with Bradley Pierce. So go back, listen to it, watch it if you haven't already. We talked about
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abolitionism versus being pro-life. Those are two different things. Both say that they believe that
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abortion is murder, that babies are made in the image of God, that they have value, and yet they
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are at odds in different ways. So really interesting, I think, discussion. I learned a lot from him.
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Still interested to hear what you think. And I also just wanted to give you a little bit of
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encouragement. Based on yesterday's conversation, I got a message. I posted it anonymously on Instagram
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from this sweet woman who sadly got an abortion back in 2003. And she actually says she wishes that
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she would have faced criminal charges or that she would have had a fear of criminal charges
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for the abortion that she had. And something else that she said, because, you know, she thinks that
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that would have actually deterred her from making this decision that has haunted her ever since.
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But something else that she said, she said that if just one person, like if there had been one
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obstacle in her way to getting an abortion, if there had been one form of difficulty or one person who
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came to her and said, it's going to be OK, there are other options. I will support you. You don't have
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to do this. This is going to haunt you. This is going to hurt you. That she wouldn't have done it.
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She said that there was no one in her life, nothing in her life to deter her from making
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this choice. And still, after so many years, it still haunts her. It still hurts her. It's still
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harming her in many ways. And while from our conversation, I can tell that she understands
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the love and the grace of Christ, which is the beautiful thing about the gospel that it redeems,
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there's still that regret there. Of course, we all have regrets over sin, especially such a destructive
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and harmful sin like abortion. And so I just want to remind you that you can be that person.
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This is not even about what I'm saying, abolitionism versus being mainstream, pro-life.
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Go back to yesterday's episode to get those definitions. But just someone who believes that
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abortion is a travesty, who believes that that baby's life matters, that that mom's life matters,
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your words may be the deterrent. They may be the obstacle. They may be the encouragement. And
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maybe you'll never know. Maybe you'll never know what your social media posted. Maybe you'll never
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know what that conversation did that you had with that woman that you could tell was a need. Maybe
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you'll never know what your donation to a pregnancy center did to deter someone from going through with
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an abortion. Maybe you'll never know the effects of your courage and of the sacrifice that you have
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made and being on the side of life. But you can be that one person. I know it's easy to look at the
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evil, the wickedness that is so pervasive in our world and think that it's impossible to make a
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difference, that nothing good ever happens. But remember, as we always say, God's work doesn't always
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make headlines. A lot of times it's behind the scenes or behind the Twitter or Instagram algorithm.
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It's not trending. It doesn't go viral. It's not what people are sharing or people are talking about.
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And yet God's eternal plan of redemption is always going off without a hitch. He is always using his
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followers, his disciples as vessels for his own glory, as ambassadors of Christ, as a sweet fragrance to
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those who are being saved. So remember that that's still our job. It's always been the church's job.
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We have the same responsibility, the same duty, the same obligations that we have had since the
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formation of the church 2000 years ago. The same God that was alive and working then is alive and
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working now. Hebrews 13, 8 says that God is the same. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today,
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and forever. So we still have that same power. He can still work through you and he is working
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through you simply by your obedience in both word and deed. So just remember that we're going to talk
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about some disturbing things today, some chaotic things today, as we always do, trying to make sense
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of the chaos of our culture from as humbly as we can, a Christian biblical perspective. But remember that
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it's always enough for you to simply obey and to, as we always say, do the next right thing in faith
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with excellence and for the glory of God. You could literally save someone's life or God could save
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someone's life through your seemingly small and private act of obedience. All right. So that was a
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bit of encouragement before we dive into the depths of depravity that we are about to look at in our first
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story. But it's important. It's important for us to do so because we need to know. We need to know the
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darkness that's going on. We need to understand what's really happening here. We need to be reminded
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that these culture wars matter. They have an effect on people. And more specifically,
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they have an effect on children, the most vulnerable in our society.
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Okay, let's get into the story about our sweet, sweet, precious and dainty Stacy. Stacy Lofton. I think
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that's how you pronounce his last name. And you're thinking, what? Stacy? Stacy, a name for a man?
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Why, yes, because sweet, beautiful, dainty, as we will show you on YouTube if you're watching,
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just the height of femininity, this Stacy. He was born Barry Charles Lofton Jr. And he made history
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as the first openly transgender, quote unquote, state representative. And surprisingly, I mean,
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just complete and total shock. I never expect something like this. I've never, ever seen
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something like this. There's certainly no pattern of any kind of behavior like this. But shock of all
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shocks, the first openly transgender state representative was arrested on child pornography
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charges recently, or child sex abuse material, as I think is the appropriate name for so-called
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child pornography charges. This story is extremely disturbing. So I'm just warning you about that. So
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this is the what I'm about to how I'm about to summarize it. It's from several different outlets.
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It's from Redux, which we cite a lot. It's also from Fox News, Mainwire, AP. So former New Hampshire
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state representative Stacy Lofton, who is a man who pretends to be a female, was arrested in June
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for alleged distribution of pornographic material depicting children. He was initially elected to
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the New Hampshire legislature in 2012, but was unable to serve due to being on probation
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for a 2008 felony conviction of credit card fraud. So just like a standup guy, this Barry. His criminal
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history dates back to 2002, with police confirming that he was arrested for domestic violence slash
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criminal mischief in 2002 and in 2003 for sexually assaulting a woman. Again, just a great representative
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of our representative democracy. Back then, he still went by his real name, Barry Charles Lofton. He
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officially changed his name in December 2010 to Stacy. He was then arrested in 2015 for making bomb
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threats to the Southern New Hampshire Medical Center and then again in 2021 on charges related
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to the misuse of the state's 911 texting system. Despite Lofton's criminal past, the candidate was
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elected in 2020 and again in 2022 for a second term to represent Nashua, New Hampshire, but was never
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seated for the second term after being jailed again for multiple stalking-related charges.
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So clearly, this guy is just trying to make a name for himself, a new name for himself, Stacy,
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by transitioning. Because if you transition, you are absolved of all of your immorality, all of your
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depravity, and all of your past crimes. You become, rather than the oppressor, which he obviously
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is the oppressed. And you get a lot of social and political capital simply from wearing a skirt
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and lipstick and changing your name from Barry to Stacy. On June 22, 2023, he was charged again,
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this time with four counts of disturbing images portraying child sex abuse. He now faces federal
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charges of sexual exploitation of children and aiding and abetting for allegedly using a connection
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with a daycare worker to collect explicit images of children. So this also involves a woman by the
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name of Lindsay Groves, who is just as culpable here, should face, I think, just as serious charges
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and sentencing as Barry. Lindsay Groves, the former intimate partner of the state representative,
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was arrested on June 22, 2023, on one count of sexual exploitation of children and one count of
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distribution of child pornography, child sex abuse material. She told investigators that she and
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Lofton were previously in a relationship and that Lofton had asked her to capture nude images
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of children from the daycare center at which she worked. She also told police that Lofton had
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directed her to inappropriately touch one of the male children while taking a picture and that she sent
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the images to Lofton. According to the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney's Office, a preliminary forensic
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review of Groves' cell phone allegedly revealed over 10,000 text messages between Lofton and Groves
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that included the discussion and transfer of explicit photographs of children at the Creative
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Minds Daycare in Tingsboro, Massachusetts. Four of the sexually explicit images were of children who
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appeared to be approximately three to five years old. This makes me sick. I've read some of the text
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messages. Unfortunately, extremely disturbing. I don't have to tell you the details of all of them,
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but basically she would change diapers or take these kids to the bathroom. She would instruct the kids
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to put their shirt or put their dress or whatever over their heads. So awful. So awful. And then take a
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picture of them and their genitalia while naked and then send these pictures to her disgusting
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pedophile boyfriend that I guess she considered a girlfriend. And he would send things back like,
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oh, that's hot. Do you think that he, she would let me do X, Y, Z? And then also explicitly said,
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oh, yeah, I like that picture of, again, I know this is disturbing. He would say, I like that picture of
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the nude boy, but I'm really in to young girls. Do you think that we could do this with her? Do you think
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we could abuse her? It's my language in this way. And even in some text messages back and forth,
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he asked the question, like, do you think that we're still going to go to heaven? Do you think
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that God is okay with this? I know he doesn't say anything against this in the Bible, but do you
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think it's okay? And she would say things, Lindsay would say things like, oh, yeah, I think it's fine.
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I think we're still good people. I mean, absolutely delusional. I mean, God can absolutely
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redeem anyone. By grace, all of us are saved. That's true. But look, you guys, without that
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repentance, without the blood of Christ, you're going to hell. I mean, there's no question about
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that. So you can just, I hope you lay in bed at night unless and until you repent, God redeems you,
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which again is totally possible. I hope you are tortured by that. And then for all of eternity,
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unless you are saved by grace, I hope you are tortured by the sins that you have committed by
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the pain that you have inflicted on these children and on these parents. What sick, sick individuals.
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And thank God for law enforcement. I know we talk, you know, joke about the feds and how our
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intelligence agencies have been totally captured, that they don't take this kind of stuff seriously.
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But I am very thankful that they're facing federal charges, that they have been caught. I'm very
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thankful for the investigation, for all of the law enforcement that has been involved in making
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sure that these people are being charged. This is absolutely disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.
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Here are two pictures that Libs of TikTok uncovered, one with Beto O'Rourke, one with Eric Swalwell,
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this man pretending to be a woman, standing with them. Now, some people are saying that this is from
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his campaign for the New Hampshire state rep that Eric Swalwell and Beto O'Rourke were campaigning
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with him. I don't know that for sure. And so I can't I can't verify that we don't have that fact
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checked. We just have the pictures that they have together. And to be perfectly fair, I know these
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clips are or I know these pictures are going around. But to be perfectly fair, like this guy may have
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shown up at their campaign events. They didn't know who he was. They just took a picture. A lot
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of people like even in even in my position, like people may ask to take a picture with me. I have
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no idea who they are, but you're just nice. And you say, yeah, so I'm not necessarily saying that
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Beto O'Rourke and Eric Swalwell knew everything about this guy's criminal history and then like went
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to bat for him. These are just some examples of him associating with high profile Democrats.
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And he did gain a name for himself, making history as the first openly transgender
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New Hampshire, New Hampshire state representative, whatever. Very, very disturbing stuff.
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The fact of the matter is, is that this is a pattern. It is a pattern. I know we don't want to
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talk about that. You're not allowed to notice patterns. It's like literally the worst form of
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bigotry apparently that you can do is notice that there is a pattern. Anytime I say this,
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that there seems to be a pattern, there seems to be consistent reporting of predation and specifically
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child exploitation when it comes to men identifying as women. I'll get pushback from progressives and say,
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no, it's cis men. It's cis men who typically do this, who make up the majority of these kinds of abuse
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cases. True. It is typically men, but there's no such thing as a cis man. Can you get that through
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your head? There's no such thing as a cis man. There's no such thing as a transgender woman.
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The reason why there is a pattern here is yes, because the majority of people committing these
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crimes are men. That's the common thread there. Like what's the commonality between a so-called cis man
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and a transgender woman, so-called, they're both men. They're both men. And yet I do think that it is
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even more pronounced, it seems like, even more prevalent among the men who identify as women
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because it is from a place of sexual perversion that they are even identifying as the opposite sex.
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It's not coming from a place of gender dysphoria. It's not because they were born in the wrong body.
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It's not even because they're really struggling with their identity. I think the vast majority of
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cases today of men identifying as women is because of sexual perversion and porn addiction.
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We've had Genevieve Gluck, who is one of the founders of Redux, on this show several times.
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She's done a lot of research. This is not just a theory that I have. She's done a lot of research,
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and I don't want to say unfortunately, but kind of unfortunately for her because the things that she
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is uncovered are so dark, and we'll link some of those past episodes, but looking into different
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organizations, their foundations, this ideology, it really does come from a place of sexual
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paraphilias. And unfortunately, tragically, disgustingly, a form of porn called, again,
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disturbing sissy porn, where the submissiveness of women or acting like women is central. And these
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men, I mean, this is even talked about among some men who identify as women. Addiction to this form of
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porn, seeing themselves in their minds portrayed in this form of porn, actually getting addicted to
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the submissiveness of the female identity or what they think is the submissiveness of the female
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identity. And that's actually what tricks them into thinking that maybe they're really women because
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they have this kind of sexual fetish. You can call it autogynephilia. I'm not even sure it's
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necessarily that, although I do think a lot of these men just get turned on thinking of themselves as
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women, looking at themselves as women. So I think that that is certainly part of it, but I think a lot
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of it is just straight up perversion. That's something that we would have known 20 years ago.
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Like if you had a man riding his bike around town and he had, you know, he was balding and had a beard
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and wore a dress, like you wouldn't let that man come read books to your children at the library.
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Like everyone would know, okay, that person is weird. You know, you don't have to be unkind to them.
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You don't have to mistreat them, but that is a man. We all know that's a man. And that person is probably
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not someone that we're going to invite to babysit our children or to elect to an elected position, a state
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office. As I said, this is a pattern. You can look at several headlines from Redux that show this
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transgender predator caught in pedophile sting while trying to meet 13-year-old claimed gender identity
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made him lonely. U.S. transgender sex offender and drag queen charged after teaching a dance to
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children. And we're talking about very sexually suggestive dances. Redux, teacher who railed against
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TERFs, arrested on child sexual exploitation charges. Also Redux, transgender pedophile abused girl
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eight while living with her non-binary polyamorous family. Australian serial pedophile who later
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identified as transgender had his sentence relaxed following his transition told to self-manage risk
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of offending. Okay. Another one, UK trans-identified man pleads guilty to possessing pornographic images
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of children. So I'm not saying that this is only transgender people or all transgender people. I'm not
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saying that at all or people who call themselves transgender. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just
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saying we seem to hear these stories a lot. A lot. There seems to be a pattern here that of course men
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who are attracted to what they think is the submissiveness in the female identity are also
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going to be attracted to what they see as the submissiveness in adolescent identity. Of course there
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is going to be a connection there. And like you also see this kind of apologist stance from a lot of
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these activist people that children need to be liberated from sexual norms. They need to be
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liberated from the protection of their parents. And it's the same logic that they apply to children
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getting chemically castrated, getting double mastectomies, getting puberty blockers, that they
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believe a child is mature enough to consent to these kinds of procedures on their genitalia. They
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believe that they should be talked to about sexually explicit subjects in school from a very young age.
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And so it's really not that difficult to see where this is coming from. There's a defense of
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sexualizing children. Like don't tell me it's innocuous for a grown man and fishnets and fake cleavage
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to read stories to children and to dance in front of children. Don't tell me there's not something
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nefarious behind that. It is all connected. And yeah, I know the pushback that I get is that while
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there are pedophiles and predators within the Catholic church, within the Baptist church, yeah,
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of course, I'm not saying that these are the only people who are preying upon children.
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There are all kinds of people of all different backgrounds, of all different forms of evil that
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prey upon children. It's all equally wicked. It's all equally wrong. But everyone on both sides
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knows that it's wrong and evil when we hear about a priest molesting a little boy. Like we all know
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that. And yet when it's a grown man twerking in front of a toddler in a thong, some people in our
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society call it tolerance. Like when you're reading books about masturbation to 10-year-olds in school
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that apparently is a form of inclusion. When we are encouraging young children to trap their bodies
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in a permanent state of adolescence, just think about what class of people likes that through
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purity blockers, that's called love. That's called compassion. That's called empathy. And so I do think
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that there is a distinction here. One form of child predation is very often tolerated. It's brushed under
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the rug or it's even glorified as a virtue. It's not even called child exploitation. It's not called
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tearing away the innocence of a child. It's called inclusion, love, empathy, compassion in the name
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of sex education and openness. When it comes from other forms, pastors, priests, stepdads, whatever it is,
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everyone knows that's wrong. But the progressive form of child predation, we're all supposed to pretend
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either doesn't happen or isn't really exploitation at all. That's the danger in it, is that it's Satan
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masquerading as an angel of light. So that's why we have to talk about it. That's why we have to talk
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about it frankly. That's why we have to talk about patterns. That's why we have to talk about
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why men are identifying as women. What's really behind it? I know there are a lot of Christians
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who really want to think it is a genuine struggle with gender dysphoria that needs to just be treated with
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understanding. And that is true for some people. That is true for a tiny, tiny percentage of people.
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But yes, we can speak with compassion to those people. And of course, all people, no matter what,
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are made in the image of God. All people, no matter what, can absolutely be redeemed and saved and
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changed 100%. That's what we should want. That's what we should pray for. We should preach the gospel to
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these people. But absolutely, you should be harsh and you should be truthful and you should be
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completely clear-eyed and sober-minded when it comes to the sexual perversion and the fetishes that are
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underneath this trend of men identifying as women. Don't be afraid to notice the pattern.
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Okay, I don't know if y'all follow soccer. I don't really. I'm not that much of a sports gal. My husband
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is very much a sports guy. He could probably tell you anything that's going on in the sports world
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at any given time, even though I never really see him watching TV. You know how, I don't know,
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some people just intuitively know what's going on in Hollywood. They know what's going on in pop
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culture. I think a lot of women are like that. I think a lot of guys, like my husband, it's just
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like, I don't know, osmosis. They just get knowledge about sports in their heads somehow.
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And so he probably already knows the story. Maybe he saw it on Twitter or something like that.
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Not that he's like a very big soccer fan, but like I said, he just somehow knows everything
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that's going on in sports all the time. I don't. So someone had to send me the story and I had to
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look and I had to even understand what was being talked about because I don't even know what FIFA
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World Cup is. So, okay, Rebecca Quinn is a female professional soccer player who is currently playing
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for the Canadian team at the 2023 FIFA, Federation Internationale de Football Association.
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Football is another name for soccer outside of the US, if you didn't know that. World Cup held in
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Australia and New Zealand. She came out as non-binary, which is impossible. You cannot be
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non-binary, in September 2020, dropping her first name and asking only to be known by her last name,
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Quinn. She also uses they, them pronouns, just like Legion in the Bible. Now she is making headlines
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as the first transgender player at the FIFA World Cup. This is not her first World Cup. She was on
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the 2019 Canadian team, but this was her prior to coming out. FIFA's rules first published in 2011
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say that the only, the only men are eligible to play in men's competitions and the same for women.
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FIFA is reviewing the rules because of course they are, but has no set timeline for any updated
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guidelines. Also, she was previously the first ever transgender Olympian representing Canada on the
00:27:03.840
women's national team at the COVID-delayed 2020 games in Japan. She said that she does not plan to
00:27:11.100
increase her testosterone levels nor medically transition through other methods while playing
00:27:15.880
professionally. The team's roster includes pronouns for every teammate, of course. And staff member,
00:27:22.940
Quinn is the only player who does not go by she, her. Wow. Okay. So if this person, I wonder why this
00:27:33.960
person continues to play with women. I mean, I guess according to the rules, she has to, but if she did
00:27:40.980
decide to go on testosterone, if she decided to make any other kind of transition, would she try to play
00:27:47.300
with the men? I wonder why she's so comfortable with continuing to play with women. If she's truly
00:27:52.880
non-binary, why does she, I mean, who's to say what team she should play on, right? She's not a man.
00:28:00.780
She's not a woman. I wonder why conveniently she continues to play with women. She will never
00:28:06.320
advocate playing on the men's team. She will never try to do that. There will be no effort. There will be
00:28:11.980
no protest. There will be no big push. The men's team will not want her on the team. There won't be
00:28:19.640
this big uproar like there was when what's his face, Will Thomas, you know, was competing against
00:28:28.680
women, the cyclists that we see, the weightlifters that we see, all of these men identifying as women,
00:28:35.720
trying to compete against women because why? Because yes, there are sexual inclinations,
00:28:40.700
but also because it's easier. It's easier. And as we saw in that last story, you get some fame.
00:28:46.620
You get some headlines. You get some pats on the back. So it doesn't matter what a scumbag you were
00:28:50.800
when you identified as your actual sex. You can become a woman and then all of that is erased.
00:28:56.060
And then you become this super competitive star when you were number 300 in the world. Now you can be
00:29:02.220
number one. It's an amazing, amazing tale of the resilience of the patriarchy, right?
00:29:09.520
And so this person is going to continue to play against women like she can call herself non-binary,
00:29:15.020
whatever that even means, as much as she wants. Look, she is a woman who likes to have short hair
00:29:22.340
and wear baggy clothes. Like she is a woman who probably likes to wear pants, maybe doesn't like
00:29:27.020
to wear a dress. She's what we maybe would have called a tomboy or just a soccer player 10 years
00:29:33.200
ago. And that's fine. To be a woman, you don't have to like frilly things. Like you don't have to love
00:29:39.080
the color pink. You don't have to want to live in Barbie land. You don't have to want to watch The
00:29:45.620
Bachelor every week with your girlfriends. Like you don't have to want those things. I'm really,
00:29:50.240
I mean, I like dresses and I'm definitely a feminine woman, but I don't like those things.
00:29:54.680
I never have. From a young age, my mom being the first girl in my family, the only girl in my
00:29:59.480
family, she wanted me to want to wear dresses and bows and all that stuff. I never did growing up.
00:30:05.100
I only wanted to wear jeans and a white t-shirt. And I went through the stage in my life where I
00:30:11.400
really wanted to read books about snakes. And my parents were really disturbed because I would come
00:30:15.720
home from the school library in second grade with books about snakes. But thankfully they were patient
00:30:21.840
and they waited for me to get through that very strange stage in my life. And there was no thought
00:30:26.900
at any point from any teacher or anyone in my life that, hmm, maybe she's confused about her gender.
00:30:32.260
Maybe she's not a male or a female. There was no confusion about that. It was, I had brothers.
00:30:37.480
I thought it was embarrassing to wear frills. I still kind of do today. I'm still not like a ruffle,
00:30:42.480
like bright color pattern person. I'm a simple gal.
00:30:45.780
Um, and so I'm just so glad. I'm so glad that I was just affirmed in who God made me to be affirmed
00:30:53.700
in my femininity and for affirmed to being a girl, but also not told that, Hey, in order to be a girl,
00:30:59.220
you have to wear frills and you have to like all of these things that the girls your age like.
00:31:04.840
I'm glad that I was given some ability to just be a girl and to like the things that I liked.
00:31:10.940
And so, I mean, it's not possible. It's not even possible to identify as something that you are
00:31:18.020
not. And so this person in a quest to find herself in a quest for satisfaction and a quest
00:31:24.260
for identity is trying to don a new character. You know, it's, it really is like this very dark
00:31:32.560
parallel, or maybe I would say like foil to what the gospel is, is that like all of us are searching,
00:31:38.760
I think to, for purpose, for identity, to find out who we really are. And Christianity offers that
00:31:47.200
in a very profound sense that you die to yourself and that you're made alive in Christ, that the
00:31:52.960
old person, the old creature passes away and you're given a new identity and a new self made after the
00:32:02.340
likeness of Christ. And I think a lot of people who are transitioning to a new identity, they're like
00:32:07.700
trying to find that purpose and that new name and that newness. And they crave that kind of like
00:32:14.200
redemption story that really only Christ can give. And yet, when you exchange the God of Scripture for
00:32:20.340
the God of self, you become not just self-worshiping, but self-identifying, self-declaring. And so it makes
00:32:29.160
sense that they're kind of rewriting their own parallel like redemption arc, redemption story,
00:32:36.100
the story of the old self passing away and the new self being taken on. But the difference is, is that
00:32:43.200
that one ends in a dead end. That one ends in destruction. That one leads to chaos and confusion.
00:32:49.400
I've talked to too many women in particular, yes men, but women in particular, who have gone down that
00:32:56.380
path of trying to be they, them, trying to be he, him, trying to be something else. They're running away
00:33:01.580
from their past. They're running away from sexual abuse that they experienced. And so they don't
00:33:07.040
want a female body that they see as the center of, of, you know, sexual predation or a target for
00:33:16.360
sexual predation, or they don't want to be objectified anymore. And they just want to be
00:33:22.060
different. They want to be new. They blame their bodies. They blame their femininity. They blame their
00:33:26.860
womanhood for the trauma that they've experienced. And so they try to hide themselves by becoming
00:33:32.040
something else, taking on a new name, new pronouns, new appearance, thinking that that's finally going
00:33:37.860
to protect them, keep them safe, give them a new identity. And it never works because they have this
00:33:43.880
like haunting feeling in the back of their mind that they're not really a man. They're not really a
00:33:50.100
because it's impossible to be that no matter how much testosterone they take, how many surgeries
00:33:57.620
they do, that they will never really be masculine. They'll never really be a man. I mean, it's the same
00:34:03.880
story that I hear over and over again from these women who I think in a lot of cases are just victims
00:34:11.220
of manipulation and also just their own dark thoughts. Almost always they have other mental health
00:34:18.120
issues going on that are not addressed because it's politically incorrect for therapists these
00:34:23.620
days to suggest that their gender confusion is actually based in underlying factors rather than
00:34:29.760
true gender dysphoria. And as a result, you've got a lot of confused girls out there and you've got a lot
00:34:36.960
of people chopping up their bodies, trying to find some kind of wholeness and fulfillment that they will
00:34:42.840
never, ever find in this kind of mutilation. I mean, if there is no, I mean, I don't know a better example
00:34:53.480
of how Satan works. It goes all the way back to the garden. Did God really say, did God really say
00:35:02.100
male or female? Did God really say that you were made in his image? Oh no, he doesn't want you to
00:35:08.240
self-identify. He doesn't want you to try to change your identity because then he knows you will be
00:35:14.640
like God. You will have power. You will have knowledge that transcends your current state.
00:35:21.120
Take a bite of the fruit. We still are today, or a lot of people still are today. It's the same
00:35:27.960
exchange for the God of scripture or from the God of scripture to the God of self. And it just,
00:35:35.740
it ends the same way every time. So this is sad. It's a sad example for women and also ironic because
00:35:42.840
again, I guarantee you that this person will continue to play only on women's soccer teams
00:35:49.020
because no matter what language games we play, we all know the difference. We all know the difference
00:35:55.580
in male and female and it's unavoidable. Okay. So you've probably seen some of these stories
00:36:13.080
that have been circulating online about several young athletes who have been collapsing from cardiac
00:36:21.400
arrest. Now I will say, I don't really like it. I don't really like it when we see these tragic
00:36:27.940
stories and the immediate assumption, immediate assumption is that it's because of the vaccine.
00:36:33.680
I just, I don't like that because a lot of people have cardiac events. A lot of people have health
00:36:39.440
problems and have had health problems for a long time, long before we had this vaccine. Now, again,
00:36:44.620
I'm not saying that you shouldn't notice patterns at all. I'm not saying that people can't ask questions,
00:36:49.640
but for people to come to an immediate conclusion, um, that it has to be because of the vaccine,
00:36:56.380
because of political reasons, because that's expedient for you to get clicks or whatever. I
00:37:01.280
don't like that because we really don't know. So I'm saying that up front. We really don't know.
00:37:06.540
I am just reporting on a trend that we've apparently seen a lot of in the past few days
00:37:10.820
that I find really troubling. I don't, it could be because of mRNA or it may not be either way.
00:37:18.980
It's pretty scary. So LeBron James's son, I did not even know he had a son,
00:37:25.100
but he plays basketball for surprise, surprise for the university of Southern California.
00:37:30.140
And he suffered a cardiac arrest during the workout just the other day. So a spokesperson
00:37:36.340
for the James family told TMZ this yesterday while practicing Bronnie James suffered a cardiac
00:37:43.800
arrest. Medical staff were able to treat Bronnie and take him to the hospital. He is now in stable
00:37:47.640
condition and no longer in ICU. Uh, praise God for that. A 911 call was made Monday morning,
00:37:55.140
um, where they were practicing. So of course, a lot of people are going to jump to the conclusion
00:38:00.960
that it's something nefarious or something strange because it is very rare for a young
00:38:05.420
and extremely healthy person to have a heart attack. And it does seem that we have been hearing
00:38:10.480
about that a lot. So for the people who are saying, is this the COVID shot? They're going back
00:38:15.880
and they're asking, you know, what did LeBron say? Or do we know that they have the COVID shot?
00:38:20.680
LeBron is on record saying that he was initially hesitant about getting the COVID vaccine,
00:38:24.860
ultimately decided it was best suited not only for him, but also for his family. At the time,
00:38:29.900
the NBA required the vaccine and he would have been unable to play without it. Now I have seen
00:38:34.840
Jason Whitlock, someone who actually knows a lot about sports, say that he doesn't believe that
00:38:39.120
LeBron James or a lot of these major athletes got the vaccine. He actually believes that they just
00:38:44.100
kind of said it for the purpose of PR to try to cover themselves, but that they didn't actually
00:38:48.820
get it and that there's no way. Well, he didn't say this part. I'm just guessing that he believes
00:38:53.800
there's no way that the NBA would have stopped LeBron from playing just because he didn't get
00:38:59.060
the vaccine. So Dr. Jeanette Neshawatt, she is a medical contributor for Fox News, said that
00:39:11.500
what is more common in someone like Bronny James, meaning an elite athlete, is cardiomyopathy. I
00:39:18.140
think that's how you pronounce it. Not myocarditis. So an enlarged heart is arguably the most cause of
00:39:27.940
sudden cardiac death in athletes. And so I mean, some people disagree with that. And so she's saying
00:39:36.440
that it's probably not myocarditis. But then according to Johns Hopkins, there is research
00:39:41.340
coming out that myocarditis can lead to cardiomyopathy. We do know that the vaccines can
00:39:46.340
cause myocarditis in particular in young men. And even Elon Musk is commenting on this. He says we
00:39:58.260
cannot ascribe everything to the vaccine, but by the same token, we cannot ascribe nothing to the
00:40:03.460
vaccine. Myocarditis is a known side effect. The only question is whether it is rare or common.
00:40:07.920
I do think that that is a good point. So you can make of that story what you will,
00:40:12.700
whatever you think we should be praying for him and his full recovery. Also, we just saw a recent
00:40:18.060
story. This was reported yesterday by the BBC. Grammy winning Tori Kelly being treated in hospital for
00:40:26.020
blood clots. Two time Grammy winner Tori Kelly is being treated in the hospital for blood clots in her
00:40:30.260
lungs and legs after being rushed and a serious condition to a hospital Sunday after collapsing.
00:40:35.800
So again, even though people are talking about the COVID vaccine, I have no idea if she took the
00:40:40.760
COVID vaccine. Also, there is recently there was what's her name? What's Justin Bieber's Haley Bieber?
00:40:48.120
Haley. What's her real last name? Or her Baldwin, Haley Baldwin. She also went to the hospital recently
00:40:55.320
for this. Now, something that we do know is that hormonal birth control, that that can cause a lot
00:41:01.340
of blood clots. Again, we don't know what the deal is here. We don't know what's causing it. But people
00:41:09.340
are just pointing out that this is strange that so many young people are suddenly collapsing from these
00:41:14.300
very serious adverse health events that we didn't seem to see a while ago. Let's see. And then we've got
00:41:24.060
ESPN's Shaka Hislop, Shaka Hislop, who just had an on-air collapse just the other day. We actually have
00:41:36.920
The naughty set from VSG. He's not gone on the tour of Japan.
00:41:41.080
What have you missed? What have you seen? Shaka! Shaka!
00:41:43.660
Okay, so that was scary. Poor guy. I bet that was really scary for the co-host Dan Thomas as well.
00:42:01.260
Again, people are pointing out very, like, you know, a young, healthy guy just randomly collapsing
00:42:07.360
is really scary. The U.S. military, though, in the midst of all of this, did confirm a myocarditis
00:42:14.580
spike after COVID vaccine introduction. This is according to the Epoch Times just a couple days
00:42:20.380
ago. It was reported on initially last year. Cases of myocarditis soared among U.S. service
00:42:25.400
members in 2021 after the COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out. A top Pentagon official has confirmed.
00:42:31.580
And so a lot of people are linking this, linking this trend, linking this military report with some
00:42:38.800
of the crazy health stories that we are seeing. It seems like there's been a spike of these stories
00:42:43.680
in the last year and in the last few days. I agree with Elon Musk. That's basically my assessment,
00:42:51.800
too. We just wanted to talk about this because so many people are talking about it, and I've noticed
00:42:56.580
this and wanted to push back a little bit against the vaccine narrative. But I basically agree with
00:43:02.160
what Elon Musk says. We cannot ascribe everything to the vaccine. That can't be our automatic reaction
00:43:09.440
every time, our automatic assumption, because we live in a fallen world. There are a lot of things
00:43:14.840
that can wreck our health. Tiny microbes, things that we don't even know. There are a lot of factors
00:43:19.480
that go on in people's lives that we just we don't know about. But we can also not ascribe. We can't
00:43:26.580
we can't not ascribe some things to it. We can't not wonder. Right. And I think some people are afraid
00:43:34.920
of that. On the other side, the assumption is that the vaccine has no side effects, that there's
00:43:40.040
no danger to it whatsoever, that it's never going to have an ill effect or a consequence on people
00:43:45.460
when we actually know that myocarditis is one of the symptoms. In addition to some other things that
00:43:50.540
people have reported like different forms of paralysis, some people have reported blood clots,
00:43:57.100
like all of these have been reported. So I think it's OK to say possibly. I'm not sure if the right
00:44:02.980
thing is to rush out on Twitter and immediately say this is absolutely because of the vaccine.
00:44:08.760
At the same time, I think it's OK to say, wow, this is strange that we have a lot of healthy,
00:44:14.380
otherwise young people, especially athletes, collapsing and going to the hospital for very
00:44:21.840
serious cardiac events, lung events, things like that. I wonder what could be causing it if it's not
00:44:27.900
if it's not covid or the covid vaccine. What else is it? We should all care. Right. Like we should
00:44:34.800
all be wondering, is it the same thing? Is it different things? Is it a coincidence or not? But I do
00:44:39.820
think we should set aside politics and set aside what we want our preconceived narratives to be and
00:44:44.680
be willing to ask those questions. I think there are going to be too many avid defenders of the
00:44:49.480
vaccine, avid defenders of our medical system in general who will not ask those questions because
00:44:55.940
they're scared of being part of some right wing conspiracy theory. But if we really care about
00:45:00.880
people, if we really care about young people dying from things that young people should not be dying
00:45:05.680
from, then we should be willing to ask those questions. And yes, notice patterns when they
00:45:10.840
exist, not create patterns, but notice patterns. So a lot of people are talking about all of this.
00:45:17.500
I just wanted to point out that we've noticed this, too. I obviously can't come to any
00:45:22.480
medical conclusion about it, but we should be very, very curious about things like this happening
00:45:29.140
on a seemingly consistent basis. All right, guys, that's all we've got time for for today. So much
00:45:47.460
to talk about, so much to think about constantly. Tomorrow, though, is going to be a fun episode.
00:45:53.140
We're going to finally be talking about that Hillsong documentary about Carl Lentz, basically
00:45:58.520
like showing him as some kind of savior, some kind of God. And we're going to be talking
00:46:02.940
to preachers in sneakers. Do you follow that Instagram account? If not, you should. It's going
00:46:10.320
to be a great conversation. His name is Ben Kirby. We're going to be talking about like what's going
00:46:14.980
on in the church, what's going on in evangelicalism. We're going to be talking about all that fun stuff
00:46:20.680
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