Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 850 ｜ Dennis Quaid on Faith, Addiction & 'The Parent Trap'

00:00:00.380 Dennis Quaid is here on Relatable to talk about his latest gospel album and so much more. We'll

00:00:07.880 talk about his faith journey. And yes, of course, we will talk about Parent Trap. Would I be a

00:00:13.660 millennial woman if we didn't? And then we'll get into some more stories. We'll talk about

00:00:18.860 ChatGPT writing fake Bible passages where Jesus is affirming transgenderism. 0.52

00:00:26.680 What? And then we've got an update on Chris Tyson, the assistant sidekick of Mr. Beast and his so-called

00:00:34.840 transition. So covering all of that today on Relatable, this episode is brought to you by

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00:00:45.860 Hey, guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Thursday. Hope everyone's having a wonderful week.

00:01:01.420 So if you guessed Dennis Quaid on Instagram through my hint, you were correct. Today we are talking to

00:01:10.480 Dennis Quaid. I'm so excited about that. Then after the interview, we've got quite a few things

00:01:16.080 to talk about, as you heard in the introduction. And so this is a fun, wide-ranging episode.

00:01:23.380 But okay, ladies, before we start, to my millennial-related gals, before we start this conversation 1.00

00:01:30.160 with Dennis Quaid, can we just go back for a second? Can we just go back to 1998 when many a

00:01:38.480 millennial woman developed her first crush ever? Here we go. 0.92

00:01:43.680 Oh, gosh. It's him.

00:01:47.400 Hey, Hal! 1.00

00:01:49.900 Fuck him home, kiddo. 1.00

00:01:56.380 Get into these arms, you little punk. 1.00

00:01:59.000 Dad. Finally!

00:02:01.080 Oh, I hope you had a lousy time at head camp, because you are not going back. I missed you

00:02:12.580 too much.

00:02:15.120 What happened to you, Hal?

00:02:17.780 Something's changed.

00:02:19.920 Are you getting taller?

00:02:20.860 Is that not the cutest ever? Like, one of the sweetest movies? One of the first

00:02:27.320 movies that I remember? Yes, that, Dennis Quaid, is on Relatable today. So without further ado,

00:02:36.480 here he is.

00:02:41.320 Dennis Quaid, thanks so much for taking the time to join us. This is the second time,

00:02:46.660 I don't know if you remember, you might not, second time meeting. We met the first time on

00:02:52.020 an airplane, I think, maybe from Nashville to Dallas.

00:02:56.660 Yes, with your dog, Peaches.

00:03:00.360 Yes, and so I looked into this. You have a special relationship with your dog. Tell me a little bit

00:03:05.340 about that.

00:03:05.760 Yeah, she goes everywhere with me. She's a service dog, and she goes everywhere. She's my constant 0.99

00:03:13.440 companion. She was sweet, and I was very impressed, because she did not have a leash on, and you did

00:03:20.060 not hear a peep from that sweet dog the entire flight. Well, she was like, I think I was on a tour

00:03:27.780 one time, when she was a puppy, and we did like 14 cities in 10 days, and about the eighth time we got

00:03:38.420 out of the car at the airport, she just went, please don't put that leash on me, I'll do anything you say.

00:03:42.500 And she just sticks right with me. 0.65

00:03:47.320 Yeah, well, she's sweet. 1.00

00:03:49.460 She's cool.

00:03:50.460 Yeah, well, it was a pleasure meeting you both. Okay, so I'm excited to talk about your gospel

00:03:58.020 album, and I was just, obviously, I've known who you are for a very long time, probably since

00:04:04.720 Parent Trap, but I didn't realize that we were both born and raised Texas Baptists. So I was born

00:04:12.460 and raised in Dallas, raised a Baptist. You were from Houston, raised a Baptist. 0.76

00:04:18.140 Yeah, I was Baptist in Bel Air.

00:04:20.420 Yeah, tell me a little bit about your faith upbringing.

00:04:24.000 You know, we went to Sunday school, starting, I think, about four or five years old, and

00:04:36.340 would sit with parents for the service afterwards. I remember sitting in the pews, and you can't

00:04:43.880 see over anybody's head or anything like that. You know, you almost kind of lay down in the

00:04:48.020 pews a lot of times, too. But the singing is what really, but everybody stands up for

00:04:53.600 that. And, you know, I love that part, and always have. And I included a lot of those

00:05:03.360 songs that were very personal to me in the record.

00:05:07.740 Yes. And tell me about this gospel album. I recognize most of the songs, Born and Raised

00:05:14.200 Baptist Myself. I love hymns, Just As I Am. Classic, classic Baptist hymn. And then you

00:05:21.040 also have parts of these songs also that you have written originally. So just tell us a

00:05:25.160 little bit more about it.

00:05:27.840 It's, I guess it turns out to be really a story of my own personal spiritual journey,

00:05:34.540 as it turns out. I didn't realize that at the time, until, you know, I finished the

00:05:39.280 record. And then my wife said, I want to do the order of it, of the songs. And it

00:05:47.520 really does turn out to be that, starting with Fallen, which is the title track, which

00:05:52.980 is really kind of a prodigal son story. And, you know, kind of where I was, have been

00:06:00.200 in life, some, you know, ride with the devil, to the end, on my way to heaven, and I'll fly

00:06:07.800 away.

00:06:08.840 Yeah, that's beautiful. I love that she said, let me do the order of it. And then only then

00:06:14.740 did you kind of realize this is your timeline, this is your journey. Tell us, I know you've

00:06:20.380 talked about before, you've talked about struggling from addiction, you were raised a Christian,

00:06:24.620 raised a Baptist, but you just said kind of riding with the devil, and that kind of prodigal

00:06:29.960 season of your life. So tell us about that.

00:06:32.940 Yeah. Well, you know, I think we all go to different things in our lives to kind of fill

00:06:43.820 that hole inside us, that we all feel are unanswered questions, or even questions that

00:06:51.660 we don't have words for. And, you know, we do that through our ego, or through accomplishments,

00:06:59.300 through drugs, or alcohol, or sex, or money, or, you know, we're worshiping something. And

00:07:12.700 we feel that that's the answer to what we've been looking for. And of course, we all want

00:07:22.480 to do it ourselves. And so I, you know, I wound up kind of addicted to cocaine and went

00:07:29.080 to rehab for it back in 1990. Because I saw myself that I was going to, I had one of those

00:07:35.100 white light experiences where I was lucky that I saw myself as either dead or in jail or losing

00:07:42.360 everything I had that was really important to me. And so I did get myself straight with

00:07:49.780 that. But that did still didn't fill the hole that was there. In fact, it was very deep hole

00:07:56.520 after that. And I read the Bible again. And I also read the Dhammapada and Bhagavad Gita and

00:08:06.420 the Quran. But it was the red words of Jesus in the New Testament that really hit me this

00:08:14.780 time. And that really started my personal relationship with Jesus.

00:08:23.680 Yeah, you're absolutely...

00:08:24.500 Which I never had before. I'd heard about it. But I really kind of passed over that part.

00:08:30.460 And then I'm not saying that it all happened at once. It's a deepening as time goes by. But

00:08:36.280 it's really important.

00:08:38.800 Of course. I think a lot of people who are raised Christian, it happens later in life that you kind

00:08:45.440 of realize the gospel, that you kind of realize the gravity of the words that Jesus said, and you

00:08:53.000 actually apply it to your own lives. And it's not a journey from A to B. It's not, oh, you realize

00:08:59.880 the truth about scripture. And then it's just an easy, you know, downhill slide from there.

00:09:06.140 It is still a struggle and a wrestling with questions. And I mean, this album, I think,

00:09:11.780 even speaks to that. I mean, there's hymns of praise and there's hymns of gratitude and all of

00:09:16.900 that. But there's also, I mean, I hear, especially like in your original writing, just like repentance

00:09:23.000 and the humility and the back and forth that comes through the Christian faith and just being

00:09:28.840 thankful for the grace of God that he allows us to be imperfect and covers our sins, even

00:09:33.860 when we fall short.

00:09:36.560 Yeah. A lot of self-examination in it as well. That you're so right that the journey is never

00:09:49.340 done. And, you know, still, sometimes there's the silence that I met with, you know, with God,

00:09:58.860 but there is a relationship there that I think that we all need to have in life. And because

00:10:07.480 it does, it's about the joy of life. Really, that's what the good news is about.

00:10:12.640 That's what it came out of. It's not just about the promise of heaven, but it's really teaching

00:10:21.460 us how to have heaven on earth, in a sense, and to live by. It's the joy of being alive.

00:10:30.920 When you look at Hollywood, obviously something that you've been a part of for a very long

00:10:49.440 time. I mean, from the outside, someone who doesn't know the inner workings of Hollywood,

00:10:54.440 I don't know all the celebrities that I see on the screen. But of course, from an outsider's

00:10:59.120 perspective looking in, there's a lot of commentary about the emptiness, the corruption, the depravity,

00:11:04.960 the sadness of Hollywood. I mean, the prevalence of addiction that seems to come from, you know,

00:11:10.300 trying and failing to find happiness in all of the wrong places. So like, tell me just, I mean,

00:11:16.020 you could talk about this for hours, I'm sure, but like, tell me a little bit about, especially in

00:11:21.240 these recent years, what it's been like looking back at your career in Hollywood, looking into

00:11:27.860 Hollywood and seeing a lot of the lostness and the sadness that you once experienced,

00:11:31.860 and then contrasting that to kind of the fulfillment that you've now found in Christ.

00:11:38.320 Well, I don't think it's just Hollywood. I think Hollywood is just a reflection of

00:11:46.060 our whole society or of the world, really. It just gets magnified. And of course,

00:11:53.560 it's publicized because we feel we know those people, but it, you know, everything we're talking

00:12:00.840 about, it happens in the world. That's just, and always has been part of the world. It's just not

00:12:07.660 publicized that people are seeking and, you know, different things. And I, you know, Hollywood is

00:12:14.620 about, I think for a lot of people about seeking, seeking fame and fortune. Yeah. And for me, it was

00:12:22.800 also more importantly, it was about, uh, the craft of acting and, uh, you know, something I love to do

00:12:31.700 and which was a, you know, uh, the ability to be able to do that was a gift from God and, you know,

00:12:39.140 trying to add a reflection and trying to, to show, put a, uh, uh, a mirror up into life and to,

00:12:47.480 to that people, a fellowship in a way. It's, it's, it's not, I wouldn't say it was Hollywood. I would

00:12:55.140 say it was how it's used, you know, uh, what message it's putting out. And, um, that's what

00:13:04.000 I myself can be in control of. Right. And, um, I've, you know, I, I, I like doing uplifting stories

00:13:14.860 that uplift human spirit. And recently I've even got into, uh, what they call faith movies,

00:13:22.840 but, uh, you know, I think there are just really uplifting stories that, uh, I think we need,

00:13:30.260 uh, in life. Yeah. Would you say that that has the feel for the need for uplifting stories? Would

00:13:39.140 you say that that's impacted the projects and the movies that you've chosen, particularly over the

00:13:44.020 past few years? Oh, always. Yeah. And, uh, I mean, when I read a script, that's the only time I ever get

00:13:52.580 to be an audience member with a first time experience of that. And, uh, I'm attracted to

00:13:59.840 true stories and, um, there's so much depressing stuff out there that, uh, you know, we, that's

00:14:09.160 going on in the world, uh, you know, and I'm, I'm attracted to true stories as well, because

00:14:15.540 they're, uh, if they were fictions, no one would believe them sometimes that, uh, the things that

00:14:25.000 people are able to accomplish. Yeah. Like Blue Miracle, I thought was a really great story. The

00:14:30.600 Rookie is a fantastic story. Oh, yeah. You know, and, um, these are aspirational movies. Yeah.

00:14:39.720 And faith movies, too. Mm-hmm. Definitely. Definitely. What would be, like, looking back over

00:14:46.580 the very impressive and long span of your acting career, what movie was, would you say, this might

00:14:53.140 be difficult, what movie was the most fun to make? Like, looking back, you're like, wow.

00:14:58.260 The right stuff. Oh, go ahead. What'd you say? The right stuff. It was the most, the right stuff.

00:15:02.880 There's no contest. Because I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston

00:15:07.660 and it was, you know, that was Space City. My favorite astronaut was Gordo Cooper. And then

00:15:13.180 I'm, all of a sudden I'm playing him. I met him. He lived three miles from me in LA, it turned

00:15:18.560 out. And, uh, he turned me on to a flight instructor and I got my pilot's license. It was just, I

00:15:26.600 never wanted it to end. It was, it was just so much fun to do. Yeah. That's so fun. So

00:15:32.300 because I am a millennial woman, most of my audience are millennial women and most of us

00:15:39.320 still, our favorite film that we've seen you in is The Parent Trap. Do you get that all

00:15:45.980 the time? Yeah. Cause you're my parent trap girls. And, uh, you know, thing was is that, 0.77

00:15:52.600 uh, I used to be a babysitter because your parents have put on that movie on the VCR and then they go

00:15:58.420 do what they wanted to do in the other room. And you probably saw it about 40 times. And, uh, that

00:16:03.120 was actually, uh, uh, it, uh, reinvented my career. Did it? So I love it. Yeah. What do you mean by

00:16:11.720 that? Well, it was opened up a new audience for me, you know, it's like, I think you have

00:16:18.440 to kind of, you get older or whatever things change. You can't keep playing the same kind

00:16:24.560 of parts. You have to reinvent yourself, uh, in a way in this business every seven years.

00:16:31.700 And, uh, along came The Parent Trap and, uh, that's when, uh, things started to change for

00:16:39.700 me and get good again. Yes. Well, man, fond memories of watching The Parent Trap. You're

00:16:45.620 absolutely right. I probably have the VHS lying around somewhere, but just, yeah. Shout out to

00:16:52.500 all the probably smells like sour milk. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. It's so funny how, I mean,

00:16:58.820 most of us, my audience, you know, we haven't seen it in a long time, but everyone knew exactly

00:17:03.340 who it was. When I said, I said on Instagram, I said, I have a hint for who's going to come

00:17:07.640 on my podcast and all I said was Hallie and everyone knew that it was Dennis Quaid, not

00:17:13.480 Lindsay Lohan, but yes, Dennis Quaid. Well, thank you so much, Dennis. This has been so

00:17:19.420 fun. You're playing at the Opry as this is coming out. You're playing at the Opry tonight,

00:17:23.520 Thursday night, right? Yeah. Thursday. Yes. Okay. How are you feeling about that?

00:17:28.560 I've, I've done the Opry before and it's always like, um, it's such an honor to play there.

00:17:34.140 And you know, you get, you get those butterflies, uh, even more so. I just love doing it. Do you get

00:17:41.020 butterflies more when you're on stage performing music than you do when you're in front of the

00:17:47.000 camera filming the movie? Probably more performing music, but I like, see, I like that. I like stage

00:17:54.640 fright is to me is a useful tool because it's fear and there's no greater motivator than fear.

00:18:03.520 Yeah, that's true. Healthy fear. Healthy fear can be a ball and use it. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Well,

00:18:12.260 I'm excited for you and your album came out last Friday. Everyone can get it on, I guess on,

00:18:20.300 well, I don't want to say everyone can download it. Where?

00:18:24.780 Uh, anywhere that there's streaming. It's okay. Spotify, all that. I just wanted to make sure.

00:18:30.240 Spotify, iTunes, wherever you want to, wherever you can download music, you can find it. You can buy it

00:18:36.140 on Amazon. Perfect. Perfect. Yeah. Well, like you said, there's a lot of depressing stuff that goes

00:18:42.340 on in the world and hymns for me have always been such a solace, such a comfort. I love that you've

00:18:48.060 added your original words to this. And so many of us can relate to at least the trajectory of your

00:18:54.460 faith journey. So, um, thank you so much for doing this. And I know that everyone who is listening

00:18:59.400 and watching is going to go out and listen immediately. So thank you very much. I love

00:19:04.760 that. Thank you very much. God bless you. You too. Okay, guys, what'd you think? I thought that

00:19:22.620 was a super fun conversation. Very appreciative to Dennis Quaid for coming on the show. Lots and

00:19:28.580 lots I could have asked him. We only had a brief amount of time. Maybe if we cross paths again,

00:19:34.860 I'll be able to have another conversation with him. I can ask him all the things that you guys

00:19:39.800 want me to ask. I want to play you a snippet from one of the songs on his album called Fallen. Here it

00:19:46.040 is.

00:19:48.320 I went for a joy ride down the devil's highway. My eternal soul hanging by a thread. I was

00:19:59.320 determined that the world was going my way. Wound up beside the road, love for dead. Now I'm

00:20:08.540 falling. I'm falling. I'm falling. I'm falling. Feeling so low. All I want to do is go back home.

00:20:26.340 Okay, that was his song Fallen. So there's more of that and a lot more on the album. You've got

00:20:32.220 things like Amazing Grace and also What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Just As I Am. A lot of the

00:20:38.520 hymns that you guys are familiar with that I'm familiar with as well. So make sure that you go

00:20:44.000 check that out. All right, let's get into some other stories that I wanted to cover. Nothing to

00:20:49.340 do with Dennis Quaid or Hollywood or anything like that. Just a bunch of stuff going on that I wanted

00:20:53.680 to make sure that I commented on. One of them is this Reddit post that's been going around.

00:21:00.580 This Reddit post on the subreddit r slash trans. I'm not familiar with Reddit, but I guess this is like

00:21:07.300 a channel, subreddit, a page, chat room, whatever, where people are posting. People are posting their

00:21:16.000 thoughts and then people are able to comment on it. And very often these posts will circulate on

00:21:22.260 Twitter and on Instagram to make a particular kind of point. And a lot of you had sent me this one and

00:21:28.500 I want to give you my commentary on it. So this is from someone, I guess, who identifies as transgender

00:21:34.120 themselves. It says, I was feeling sad today. So I asked chat GPT to write a fake biblical passage

00:21:41.840 about Jesus accepting trans people. Now, most of you know what chat GPT is, but in case you don't,

00:21:47.700 it's artificial intelligence. It's basically an AI program that you can ask it a question or you can

00:21:53.420 give it a prompt and then artificial intelligence will come up with an answer or an example of what

00:21:59.420 you're talking about. So this person asked, uh, chat GPT to write this fake biblical passage about

00:22:07.940 Jesus accepting trans people. So right off the bat, like we've got a problem here because they're 1.00

00:22:14.060 adding to scripture. So at least they're admitting that they, when they go into scripture, they can't

00:22:19.280 find the comfort that they're looking for because the comfort that they're looking for is not gospel

00:22:24.340 comfort. It's not comfort, um, in God's actual character or in his love, which is always coupled

00:22:32.180 with truth. Uh, but that it has to be something that's not in scripture because this person is

00:22:37.460 looking for affirmation. They're not looking for the truth. They're not looking for something that

00:22:42.680 would lead them to repentance. They're not looking for something that may be uncomfortable. They're

00:22:46.820 looking for something that would just affirm their feelings and make them feel better about

00:22:50.780 themselves. So at least they know that they can't go to the actual Bible, that they have to create 0.92

00:22:56.120 a fake biblical passage in order to find the affirmation of their sin that they are longing for

00:23:02.480 because pretending to be the opposite sex is lying and is therefore a sin and for other reasons as

00:23:09.800 well. So here's what chat GPT came up with. And a woman whose heart was divided between spirit and

00:23:17.480 body came before him and quiet despair. She asked the Lord, I come to you a strange for my spirit

00:23:23.480 and body are not one. How shall I hope to enter the kingdom of God? Jesus looked upon her with

00:23:29.740 kindness replying, my child blessed are those who strive for unity within themselves for they shall

00:23:35.080 know the deepest truths of my father's creation. Be not afraid for in the kingdom of God, there's no

00:23:40.560 man nor woman as all are one in spirit. The gates of my father's kingdom will open for those 1.00

00:23:44.840 who love and are loved for God looks not upon the body, but the heart. Wow. Satan disguises himself

00:23:53.360 as an angel of light. Like as I'm reading this, I just feel the satanic power of a message like this.

00:24:01.840 It is so similar to the messages that you see in Genesis in the garden. And did God really say,

00:24:09.380 but didn't he actually say this, a twisted version of what he actually said? And then when you look in the

00:24:14.680 wilderness, Jesus in the wilderness being tempted by Satan, where Satan uses the word of God, he uses

00:24:21.220 biblical passages and then twists them, manipulates them in order to try to trick and tempt Jesus.

00:24:27.780 This is the same thing going on here because we do hear some things that we read in scripture that in

00:24:33.760 Christ there is neither male nor female and that God looks not on the outward appearance, but looks at

00:24:40.880 the heart. But of course, none of these things, uh, affirm the idea that a man can become a woman or

00:24:48.180 vice versa. Actually in the first line of this fake biblical passage, you see the philosophical,

00:24:55.740 like presuppositions, uh, of this answer that chat GPT gave that there is a division between spirit and

00:25:04.700 body. Well, that's dualism as Nancy Piercy, very clearly eloquently explains in love thy body. Uh,

00:25:12.720 this idea of dualism that there is spirit and there is body and that the body is somehow lesser than

00:25:20.840 the spirit and that the spirit is defined not by your soul, but what you feel on the inside and that

00:25:28.180 how you feel on the inside must dominate and dictate, um, the body. And so if your body doesn't match

00:25:36.240 your spirit in this philosophy of dualism, which goes back hundreds and hundreds of years, then you

00:25:42.480 have to change your body in order to affirm your internal feelings or your so-called spirit, but

00:25:49.460 that's not Christianity. Christianity doesn't present that kind of dualism, even though there is a

00:25:55.540 difference. Yes. Between the spirit and the body. What we read is that the body is extremely important

00:26:01.520 throughout scripture. We see all the way in Genesis one, that God made us male and female. There is no

00:26:07.000 biblical or scientific, but certainly no biblical category for gender that is independent from sex.

00:26:14.080 There is no affirmation of the idea that what you feel on the inside, um, is supreme, that,

00:26:22.120 that, uh, overpowers your biological reality or overpowers your body. You see the secular dualism

00:26:30.180 really denigrates the body. It really degrades your biology as something that's arbitrary,

00:26:35.660 something that's not really meaningful, something that doesn't tell you anything about who you are,

00:26:40.520 your identity, your purpose, your strengths, your weaknesses, your capabilities. It's just kind of

00:26:46.100 like flesh sack that you accidentally were given. And what you are on the inside is who you authentically

00:26:54.620 really are. That's not biblical. Uh, the biblical reality is that the body matters. I mean, Jesus is

00:27:04.860 the word who became flesh. He is Emmanuel, God with us. He took on human form. That's how much he cares

00:27:12.880 about the body and this material world. Uh, we see in creation that the first thing that God calls

00:27:21.700 very good is his creation of male and female. He had made so many wonderful things before that

00:27:26.360 the plants, the animals, the stars, I mean, the solar systems, how incredible. And yet he says that

00:27:32.020 these things are good, but the creation of male and female in his image with those non-arbitrary,

00:27:38.900 but very purposeful gender distinctions, sex distinctions. Those words are interchangeable

00:27:45.400 was very good. That tells us not just about the reality of the gender binary, but also the definition

00:27:52.520 of marriage upon which this entire, uh, the entire, uh, world population is founded. It's founded upon

00:28:03.280 that complimentary relationship between male and female. We read that there's going to be a

00:28:10.040 resurrection of the bodies one day, not just of the spirit, but of the body. God cares very much

00:28:18.080 about the body. In first Corinthians six, we read that the body for the believer is a dwelling place

00:28:23.860 for the Holy spirit. So glorify God with your body. One way that we glorify God is that we honor the

00:28:32.420 body that God purposely gave us that he specifically, particularly gave us knitted together in our

00:28:39.620 mother's womb rather than denying it by saying it's not male. It's not female. It is whatever I feel

00:28:48.160 that it is. If we really read the words of Jesus, you can go to Matthew 19. He affirms the gender binary. 0.99

00:28:55.620 Have you not read that in the beginning God made them male and female? Now in context, he's talking

00:29:03.700 about divorce. He is being asked and trying to answer this trick question that the Pharisees gave

00:29:11.220 him about divorce. But right there we see that he affirms the creation account, um, that we were

00:29:19.240 created male and female. And by the way, Jesus is God. So everything that God says, every way that

00:29:25.600 God defines something, every parameter or rule that God puts up, Jesus does too. So this concept of

00:29:33.720 dualism, secular dualism doesn't just separate the spirit from the body. You also see it try to

00:29:38.720 separate Jesus from God, the old Testament from the new Testament. Well, these separations aren't real.

00:29:44.220 They're not founded in truth. And this is what happens when you exchange the God of scripture for the 0.97

00:29:49.160 God of self. As we say so often, you seek affirmation, you seek comfort in the word of God by

00:29:57.000 looking for some kind of celebration of your sin. And because you won't be able to find it in the real

00:30:05.640 word of God, you have to go to artificial intelligence to tell you a lie. And while it may feel good in the

00:30:14.380 moment, maybe it'll give you a little twinge of happiness, ultimately, it won't satisfy you. You will not

00:30:20.660 find the satisfaction that you are longing for the identity and the fulfillment that you are longing for

00:30:26.760 outside of your creator, who made you at the moment of conception, either male or female. You won't find

00:30:36.600 satisfaction outside of him outside of his call to die to yourself, to take up your cross and follow him.

00:30:43.940 That's the call for all Christians, by the way. Not just people who are trying to identify as the opposite

00:30:49.480 sex. We are all called to die to ourselves. And it's not just that you won't find happiness in trying to be

00:30:55.280 something that you're not when it comes to your gender. You will never find happiness. As we just talked about

00:31:00.980 with Dennis, in all of the things that the world tells you, you'll find happiness in your relationships, in your

00:31:06.720 fitness level, in your appearance, in your success, in your status, you won't find fulfillment in any of these

00:31:13.520 things. You'll only find fulfillment in Christ who bids you come and die. And who purposely and

00:31:21.080 specifically made you and your body exactly how he wanted to make you in your mother's womb. Keep 1.00

00:31:29.740 rejecting that. You will keep on finding the desperation, the destitution that has now come to characterize your

00:31:36.500 every day.

00:31:49.060 All right, I want to move on to this next story, which is very, I mean, it's similar to this. This is a very sad story

00:31:59.420 too. And so we just have to bring ourselves back to like, God is in control and his truth ultimately

00:32:05.240 will prevail and that there are good, wonderful things happening. But then we also have to look at

00:32:10.000 the dark side of things to, so we're not ignorant. So our heads aren't in the sand. So we realize

00:32:14.620 like what we're up against and we're not up against people. We're not up against individuals. We can read

00:32:22.160 in Ephesians six that the battle is actually a spiritual battle. And so we have a lot of compassion

00:32:27.380 and sadness for these people that we're talking about who are so utterly confused, even as we

00:32:32.980 hate their sin. And if there's one story that has just incensed me so much, has just made me so

00:32:38.980 upset and angry is the story of Chris Tyson, who is kind of like the assistant or the sidekick for

00:32:45.140 Mr. Beast. Now, why do we care about this? Because Mr. Beast has millions and millions of subscribers on

00:32:50.720 YouTube, mostly young people. I would say children and teens. They love Mr. Beast. He does a lot of cool

00:32:55.980 videos. I totally understand why he has the big audience that he does. And we did an episode a

00:33:02.420 few months ago now about Chris Tyson and his so-called transition. He is a man who now identifies

00:33:11.700 as, pretends to be a woman. He changed his name from Chris to Chris. So C-H-R-I-S to K-R-I-S. He 1.00

00:33:19.640 announced earlier this year that he was going to, that he is a woman, that he was going to start

00:33:24.580 presenting as a woman. And it's particularly sad for a couple of reasons. One, he has a bunch of 1.00

00:33:30.300 influence because he's in these videos that are being shown to young kids and to adolescents whose

00:33:37.460 minds are still forming. They're still understanding what gender is, what the difference between male

00:33:41.240 and female is, what it means, you know, to live in their own bodies to be male or female. And now

00:33:47.080 they've gotten to know someone. You know, a lot of these YouTube creators, they feel like, I mean,

00:33:52.040 to the people who watch them, they feel like they're friends with them. And so he's almost

00:33:56.800 like formed this kind of like relationship with this young audience. They've seen him as a man

00:34:01.800 for years and years on Mr. B's channel. And now he is dressing as a woman. And in the episode that we 0.92

00:34:09.040 did explaining this, we also talked about some very disturbing tweets where it's obvious that he

00:34:13.540 has an obsession with certain forms of anime, particularly very perverse anime, where

00:34:18.640 the female characters are depicted as babies or as girls in a sexualized way. Go back and listen

00:34:24.920 to that episode if you want to look at some of the reasons I think that he decided that he is going

00:34:31.160 to be the opposite sex. And of course, if you've listened to this podcast for any amount of time,

00:34:35.000 I don't believe that the vast majority of cases of transgenderism are actually gender dysphoria.

00:34:39.280 In men, I think it's a sexual fetish that has been exacerbated by certain forms of very dark 0.57

00:34:43.860 pornography. We can link that past episode explaining that with the guest. And then for

00:34:48.140 women, I think it is typically a running away from sexual objectification and a trauma response from 1.00

00:34:54.220 sexualization and typically from some form of sexual trauma. So I've talked about that many times.

00:35:03.180 So in this case, I don't think from just what we can tell that it's true, like gender confusion,

00:35:08.400 I think that it probably started as some kind of porn addiction and is just has caused a distortion

00:35:16.240 of reality that may be some kind of fetish. Again, go back and listen to that episode. If you think

00:35:22.400 that I'm far off after you finish that episode, you can tell me your opinion. So one reason that

00:35:26.720 it's sad is because of what I just said. He's got that large audience. But the second reason,

00:35:30.440 the real reason that it's like, super, super sad to me is, uh, because he has a, um, uh,

00:35:38.180 he has a family. Like he divorced from his wife. She apparently is, I mean, she's very sweet. There's

00:35:43.600 lots, lots of pictures of them online or sweet looking, you know, uh, lots of pictures of them

00:35:48.460 online. I think she had like a Bible verse in her Instagram bio at one point. They're from the

00:35:53.800 Carolinas. They seem like normal Southern, you know, Christian people, and they have a little son

00:36:00.020 together, a little toddler son who has now seen his dad transition into, um, what looks to be a

00:36:07.940 woman. So he did like this kind of announcement video recently on podcasting. I am a woman. My

00:36:14.360 name is Chris with a K and I go by she, her, he's wearing makeup, he's wearing girl clothing. And he 0.95

00:36:22.440 now has this like strangely feminized voice that I guess he's uncovering for everyone.

00:36:30.020 So here's a clip of that. Oh gosh, we might have to do a couple of takes. That's fine. That's fine.

00:36:35.320 All right. Yeah. All right. Here it goes. Sure.

00:36:42.360 Hey Anthony, congratulations on buying Smosh.

00:36:46.360 Thank you. That was good. Thank you. The most interesting part about seeing that is it felt

00:36:54.220 like there was like a sparkle in your eyes. Something about it was like you, I could see

00:37:00.180 this feeling of you feeling like yourself. I'm sorry. What? What was that serious? So I

00:37:10.320 don't know if you know this. I didn't know this. Um, but the, uh, hormones that you go on. 1.00

00:37:19.340 So this person, this guy has been on hormones to try to look more like a woman still like every 0.98

00:37:24.740 single grown man who tries to look like a woman. He looks like a man. He is a man. He looks like a

00:37:31.020 man who grew out his hair and has to make up on. He doesn't look like a woman at all. No one would 1.00

00:37:35.360 be fooled. No one's mistaking him for a woman. No one would, no one would see him and be like,

00:37:41.060 oh yeah, that's just a tall female. No, of course, because there's only so much you can change. 0.94

00:37:45.120 And one thing that you can't change even with hormones, if you are a man is your voice because

00:37:50.280 your voice box, if you are a man cannot shrink it, it can't make your voice higher. Now, if you're a 0.93

00:37:56.620 woman who goes on testosterone, that can expand your voice box. I hope I'm explaining this correctly 1.00

00:38:02.080 and that can make you sound more masculine, but you can always tell also when a man or when a woman 0.58

00:38:09.780 who is trying to be a man is on testosterone. Like I think the voice is a giveaway because it sounds

00:38:15.060 almost automated. It doesn't sound like a real voice. This is also so, so sad. So Chris is like

00:38:21.240 going full steam ahead in this. And he was on this podcast and as I said, like made this whole

00:38:28.140 announcement. He also posted this on Instagram. We'll put it up. His transformation after taking

00:38:33.780 hormone replacement therapy, being on estrogen. And again, like there's no like how are we defining

00:38:39.920 transformation in this case? Like I'm seeing all these headlines saying he transformed. He didn't

00:38:46.420 transform. Like his hair is maybe a little bit longer. He's got some makeup on. And I don't say

00:38:53.020 that to be mean. Some people will say, well, that's mean. Look, it's not mean to say that a man looks like

00:38:57.520 a man. It's not that's not mean. It's not mean. It's not mean to say that a man looks like a man or a

00:39:03.280 woman looks like a woman. You know what? I'm sure he was a very normal looking, handsome guy. 0.54

00:39:10.120 And he will always be like a handsome guy that does not make you a beautiful woman. It's OK to say

00:39:19.100 that a man does not make a beautiful woman. That's something that we all knew five years ago.

00:39:23.380 That was like a comedic bit up until 15 minutes ago. We all knew that it looks ridiculous. It's funny 0.98

00:39:29.860 when a man dresses up as a woman. Mrs. Doubtfire is funny for that reason. White chicks is funny for 1.00

00:39:36.900 that reason. Like now we're all supposed to say it's not only not funny, but it's also beautiful

00:39:44.680 and believable. Well, look, we shouldn't be forced to go on with people's delusions. And now what? Like

00:39:51.540 I just have to think about his child and what his former wife is going through. It just breaks my

00:39:59.960 heart. It just breaks my heart because you are putting your desires, no matter how sincere you

00:40:06.560 feel that they are, over the needs of your child. Kids need a mom and a dad. They don't need a dad who

00:40:13.600 is confused about being a dad and thinks that he's a mom. Kids need a mom and a dad. And what we see

00:40:20.920 over and over again, whether it's abortion, whether it's gender ideology, whether it's COVID stuff,

00:40:26.200 is adults putting their own wants and fears over the needs and the priorities, the well-being of kids.

00:40:36.100 And man, if we think that we have mental health issues now, when it comes to teens, when it comes

00:40:41.940 to Gen Z, and we do, just think about these kids who have been perpetually, their needs have been

00:40:49.080 perpetually put to the side by selfish, narcissistic adults who put their own sexuality, their own

00:40:55.000 whims, their own fantasies, their own fetishes, their own wants above the stability of their kids. 0.88

00:41:04.020 It just makes me sad. And anyone who says, no, kids benefit from their parents being their authentic

00:41:09.460 self. No. No. No. If your authentic self is forcing people to accept a delusion and to deny reality,

00:41:21.300 if your authentic self isn't good, then no one's benefiting from that. You might feel better

00:41:26.960 because of it. No one's benefiting from it. All right. Those are the two stories that I wanted

00:41:43.860 to cover today. And there's, I mean, there's a lot more. We could talk about a lot more,

00:41:49.380 but that's all we have time for. And we'll be back here Monday with a lot more next week,

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - August 03, 2023

Ep 850 ｜ Dennis Quaid on Faith, Addiction & 'The Parent Trap'

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