Ep 850 ｜ Dennis Quaid on Faith, Addiction & 'The Parent Trap'
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Dennis Quaid is here on Relatable to talk about his latest gospel album and so much more! We ll also hear about his faith journey, and yes, of course, we ll talk about Parent Trap. And then we ll get into some more stories about ChatGPT writing fake Bible passages, where Jesus is affirming transgenderism, and we ve got an update on Chris Tyson, the assistant sidekick of Mr. Beast, and his so-called transition.
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Dennis Quaid is here on Relatable to talk about his latest gospel album and so much more. We'll
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talk about his faith journey. And yes, of course, we will talk about Parent Trap. Would I be a
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millennial woman if we didn't? And then we'll get into some more stories. We'll talk about
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ChatGPT writing fake Bible passages where Jesus is affirming transgenderism.
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What? And then we've got an update on Chris Tyson, the assistant sidekick of Mr. Beast and his so-called
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transition. So covering all of that today on Relatable, this episode is brought to you by
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Hey, guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Thursday. Hope everyone's having a wonderful week.
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So if you guessed Dennis Quaid on Instagram through my hint, you were correct. Today we are talking to
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Dennis Quaid. I'm so excited about that. Then after the interview, we've got quite a few things
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to talk about, as you heard in the introduction. And so this is a fun, wide-ranging episode.
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But okay, ladies, before we start, to my millennial-related gals, before we start this conversation
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with Dennis Quaid, can we just go back for a second? Can we just go back to 1998 when many a
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millennial woman developed her first crush ever? Here we go.
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Oh, I hope you had a lousy time at head camp, because you are not going back. I missed you
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Is that not the cutest ever? Like, one of the sweetest movies? One of the first
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movies that I remember? Yes, that, Dennis Quaid, is on Relatable today. So without further ado,
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Dennis Quaid, thanks so much for taking the time to join us. This is the second time,
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I don't know if you remember, you might not, second time meeting. We met the first time on
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an airplane, I think, maybe from Nashville to Dallas.
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Yes, and so I looked into this. You have a special relationship with your dog. Tell me a little bit
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Yeah, she goes everywhere with me. She's a service dog, and she goes everywhere. She's my constant
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companion. She was sweet, and I was very impressed, because she did not have a leash on, and you did
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not hear a peep from that sweet dog the entire flight. Well, she was like, I think I was on a tour
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one time, when she was a puppy, and we did like 14 cities in 10 days, and about the eighth time we got
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out of the car at the airport, she just went, please don't put that leash on me, I'll do anything you say.
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Yeah, well, it was a pleasure meeting you both. Okay, so I'm excited to talk about your gospel
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album, and I was just, obviously, I've known who you are for a very long time, probably since
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Parent Trap, but I didn't realize that we were both born and raised Texas Baptists. So I was born
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and raised in Dallas, raised a Baptist. You were from Houston, raised a Baptist.
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Yeah, tell me a little bit about your faith upbringing.
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You know, we went to Sunday school, starting, I think, about four or five years old, and
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would sit with parents for the service afterwards. I remember sitting in the pews, and you can't
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see over anybody's head or anything like that. You know, you almost kind of lay down in the
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pews a lot of times, too. But the singing is what really, but everybody stands up for
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that. And, you know, I love that part, and always have. And I included a lot of those
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songs that were very personal to me in the record.
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Yes. And tell me about this gospel album. I recognize most of the songs, Born and Raised
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Baptist Myself. I love hymns, Just As I Am. Classic, classic Baptist hymn. And then you
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also have parts of these songs also that you have written originally. So just tell us a
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It's, I guess it turns out to be really a story of my own personal spiritual journey,
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as it turns out. I didn't realize that at the time, until, you know, I finished the
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record. And then my wife said, I want to do the order of it, of the songs. And it
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really does turn out to be that, starting with Fallen, which is the title track, which
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is really kind of a prodigal son story. And, you know, kind of where I was, have been
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in life, some, you know, ride with the devil, to the end, on my way to heaven, and I'll fly
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Yeah, that's beautiful. I love that she said, let me do the order of it. And then only then
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did you kind of realize this is your timeline, this is your journey. Tell us, I know you've
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talked about before, you've talked about struggling from addiction, you were raised a Christian,
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raised a Baptist, but you just said kind of riding with the devil, and that kind of prodigal
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Yeah. Well, you know, I think we all go to different things in our lives to kind of fill
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that hole inside us, that we all feel are unanswered questions, or even questions that
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we don't have words for. And, you know, we do that through our ego, or through accomplishments,
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through drugs, or alcohol, or sex, or money, or, you know, we're worshiping something. And
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we feel that that's the answer to what we've been looking for. And of course, we all want
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to do it ourselves. And so I, you know, I wound up kind of addicted to cocaine and went
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to rehab for it back in 1990. Because I saw myself that I was going to, I had one of those
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white light experiences where I was lucky that I saw myself as either dead or in jail or losing
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everything I had that was really important to me. And so I did get myself straight with
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that. But that did still didn't fill the hole that was there. In fact, it was very deep hole
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after that. And I read the Bible again. And I also read the Dhammapada and Bhagavad Gita and
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the Quran. But it was the red words of Jesus in the New Testament that really hit me this
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time. And that really started my personal relationship with Jesus.
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Which I never had before. I'd heard about it. But I really kind of passed over that part.
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And then I'm not saying that it all happened at once. It's a deepening as time goes by. But
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Of course. I think a lot of people who are raised Christian, it happens later in life that you kind
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of realize the gospel, that you kind of realize the gravity of the words that Jesus said, and you
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actually apply it to your own lives. And it's not a journey from A to B. It's not, oh, you realize
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the truth about scripture. And then it's just an easy, you know, downhill slide from there.
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It is still a struggle and a wrestling with questions. And I mean, this album, I think,
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even speaks to that. I mean, there's hymns of praise and there's hymns of gratitude and all of
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that. But there's also, I mean, I hear, especially like in your original writing, just like repentance
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and the humility and the back and forth that comes through the Christian faith and just being
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thankful for the grace of God that he allows us to be imperfect and covers our sins, even
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Yeah. A lot of self-examination in it as well. That you're so right that the journey is never
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done. And, you know, still, sometimes there's the silence that I met with, you know, with God,
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but there is a relationship there that I think that we all need to have in life. And because
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it does, it's about the joy of life. Really, that's what the good news is about.
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That's what it came out of. It's not just about the promise of heaven, but it's really teaching
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us how to have heaven on earth, in a sense, and to live by. It's the joy of being alive.
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When you look at Hollywood, obviously something that you've been a part of for a very long
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time. I mean, from the outside, someone who doesn't know the inner workings of Hollywood,
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I don't know all the celebrities that I see on the screen. But of course, from an outsider's
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perspective looking in, there's a lot of commentary about the emptiness, the corruption, the depravity,
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the sadness of Hollywood. I mean, the prevalence of addiction that seems to come from, you know,
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trying and failing to find happiness in all of the wrong places. So like, tell me just, I mean,
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you could talk about this for hours, I'm sure, but like, tell me a little bit about, especially in
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these recent years, what it's been like looking back at your career in Hollywood, looking into
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Hollywood and seeing a lot of the lostness and the sadness that you once experienced,
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and then contrasting that to kind of the fulfillment that you've now found in Christ.
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Well, I don't think it's just Hollywood. I think Hollywood is just a reflection of
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our whole society or of the world, really. It just gets magnified. And of course,
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it's publicized because we feel we know those people, but it, you know, everything we're talking
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about, it happens in the world. That's just, and always has been part of the world. It's just not
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publicized that people are seeking and, you know, different things. And I, you know, Hollywood is
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about, I think for a lot of people about seeking, seeking fame and fortune. Yeah. And for me, it was
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also more importantly, it was about, uh, the craft of acting and, uh, you know, something I love to do
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and which was a, you know, uh, the ability to be able to do that was a gift from God and, you know,
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trying to add a reflection and trying to, to show, put a, uh, uh, a mirror up into life and to,
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to that people, a fellowship in a way. It's, it's, it's not, I wouldn't say it was Hollywood. I would
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say it was how it's used, you know, uh, what message it's putting out. And, um, that's what
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I myself can be in control of. Right. And, um, I've, you know, I, I, I like doing uplifting stories
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that uplift human spirit. And recently I've even got into, uh, what they call faith movies,
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but, uh, you know, I think there are just really uplifting stories that, uh, I think we need,
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uh, in life. Yeah. Would you say that that has the feel for the need for uplifting stories? Would
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you say that that's impacted the projects and the movies that you've chosen, particularly over the
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past few years? Oh, always. Yeah. And, uh, I mean, when I read a script, that's the only time I ever get
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to be an audience member with a first time experience of that. And, uh, I'm attracted to
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true stories and, um, there's so much depressing stuff out there that, uh, you know, we, that's
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going on in the world, uh, you know, and I'm, I'm attracted to true stories as well, because
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they're, uh, if they were fictions, no one would believe them sometimes that, uh, the things that
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people are able to accomplish. Yeah. Like Blue Miracle, I thought was a really great story. The
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Rookie is a fantastic story. Oh, yeah. You know, and, um, these are aspirational movies. Yeah.
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And faith movies, too. Mm-hmm. Definitely. Definitely. What would be, like, looking back over
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the very impressive and long span of your acting career, what movie was, would you say, this might
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be difficult, what movie was the most fun to make? Like, looking back, you're like, wow.
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The right stuff. Oh, go ahead. What'd you say? The right stuff. It was the most, the right stuff.
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There's no contest. Because I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston
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and it was, you know, that was Space City. My favorite astronaut was Gordo Cooper. And then
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I'm, all of a sudden I'm playing him. I met him. He lived three miles from me in LA, it turned
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out. And, uh, he turned me on to a flight instructor and I got my pilot's license. It was just, I
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never wanted it to end. It was, it was just so much fun to do. Yeah. That's so fun. So
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because I am a millennial woman, most of my audience are millennial women and most of us
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still, our favorite film that we've seen you in is The Parent Trap. Do you get that all
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the time? Yeah. Cause you're my parent trap girls. And, uh, you know, thing was is that,
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uh, I used to be a babysitter because your parents have put on that movie on the VCR and then they go
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do what they wanted to do in the other room. And you probably saw it about 40 times. And, uh, that
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was actually, uh, uh, it, uh, reinvented my career. Did it? So I love it. Yeah. What do you mean by
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that? Well, it was opened up a new audience for me, you know, it's like, I think you have
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to kind of, you get older or whatever things change. You can't keep playing the same kind
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of parts. You have to reinvent yourself, uh, in a way in this business every seven years.
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And, uh, along came The Parent Trap and, uh, that's when, uh, things started to change for
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me and get good again. Yes. Well, man, fond memories of watching The Parent Trap. You're
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absolutely right. I probably have the VHS lying around somewhere, but just, yeah. Shout out to
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all the probably smells like sour milk. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. It's so funny how, I mean,
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most of us, my audience, you know, we haven't seen it in a long time, but everyone knew exactly
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who it was. When I said, I said on Instagram, I said, I have a hint for who's going to come
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on my podcast and all I said was Hallie and everyone knew that it was Dennis Quaid, not
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Lindsay Lohan, but yes, Dennis Quaid. Well, thank you so much, Dennis. This has been so
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fun. You're playing at the Opry as this is coming out. You're playing at the Opry tonight,
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Thursday night, right? Yeah. Thursday. Yes. Okay. How are you feeling about that?
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I've, I've done the Opry before and it's always like, um, it's such an honor to play there.
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And you know, you get, you get those butterflies, uh, even more so. I just love doing it. Do you get
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butterflies more when you're on stage performing music than you do when you're in front of the
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camera filming the movie? Probably more performing music, but I like, see, I like that. I like stage
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fright is to me is a useful tool because it's fear and there's no greater motivator than fear.
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Yeah, that's true. Healthy fear. Healthy fear can be a ball and use it. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Well,
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I'm excited for you and your album came out last Friday. Everyone can get it on, I guess on,
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well, I don't want to say everyone can download it. Where?
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Uh, anywhere that there's streaming. It's okay. Spotify, all that. I just wanted to make sure.
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Spotify, iTunes, wherever you want to, wherever you can download music, you can find it. You can buy it
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on Amazon. Perfect. Perfect. Yeah. Well, like you said, there's a lot of depressing stuff that goes
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on in the world and hymns for me have always been such a solace, such a comfort. I love that you've
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added your original words to this. And so many of us can relate to at least the trajectory of your
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faith journey. So, um, thank you so much for doing this. And I know that everyone who is listening
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and watching is going to go out and listen immediately. So thank you very much. I love
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that. Thank you very much. God bless you. You too. Okay, guys, what'd you think? I thought that
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was a super fun conversation. Very appreciative to Dennis Quaid for coming on the show. Lots and
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lots I could have asked him. We only had a brief amount of time. Maybe if we cross paths again,
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I'll be able to have another conversation with him. I can ask him all the things that you guys
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want me to ask. I want to play you a snippet from one of the songs on his album called Fallen. Here it
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I went for a joy ride down the devil's highway. My eternal soul hanging by a thread. I was
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determined that the world was going my way. Wound up beside the road, love for dead. Now I'm
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falling. I'm falling. I'm falling. I'm falling. Feeling so low. All I want to do is go back home.
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Okay, that was his song Fallen. So there's more of that and a lot more on the album. You've got
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things like Amazing Grace and also What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Just As I Am. A lot of the
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hymns that you guys are familiar with that I'm familiar with as well. So make sure that you go
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check that out. All right, let's get into some other stories that I wanted to cover. Nothing to
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do with Dennis Quaid or Hollywood or anything like that. Just a bunch of stuff going on that I wanted
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to make sure that I commented on. One of them is this Reddit post that's been going around.
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This Reddit post on the subreddit r slash trans. I'm not familiar with Reddit, but I guess this is like
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a channel, subreddit, a page, chat room, whatever, where people are posting. People are posting their
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thoughts and then people are able to comment on it. And very often these posts will circulate on
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Twitter and on Instagram to make a particular kind of point. And a lot of you had sent me this one and
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I want to give you my commentary on it. So this is from someone, I guess, who identifies as transgender
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themselves. It says, I was feeling sad today. So I asked chat GPT to write a fake biblical passage
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about Jesus accepting trans people. Now, most of you know what chat GPT is, but in case you don't,
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it's artificial intelligence. It's basically an AI program that you can ask it a question or you can
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give it a prompt and then artificial intelligence will come up with an answer or an example of what
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you're talking about. So this person asked, uh, chat GPT to write this fake biblical passage about
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Jesus accepting trans people. So right off the bat, like we've got a problem here because they're
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adding to scripture. So at least they're admitting that they, when they go into scripture, they can't
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find the comfort that they're looking for because the comfort that they're looking for is not gospel
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comfort. It's not comfort, um, in God's actual character or in his love, which is always coupled
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with truth. Uh, but that it has to be something that's not in scripture because this person is
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looking for affirmation. They're not looking for the truth. They're not looking for something that
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would lead them to repentance. They're not looking for something that may be uncomfortable. They're
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looking for something that would just affirm their feelings and make them feel better about
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themselves. So at least they know that they can't go to the actual Bible, that they have to create
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a fake biblical passage in order to find the affirmation of their sin that they are longing for
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because pretending to be the opposite sex is lying and is therefore a sin and for other reasons as
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well. So here's what chat GPT came up with. And a woman whose heart was divided between spirit and
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body came before him and quiet despair. She asked the Lord, I come to you a strange for my spirit
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and body are not one. How shall I hope to enter the kingdom of God? Jesus looked upon her with
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kindness replying, my child blessed are those who strive for unity within themselves for they shall
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know the deepest truths of my father's creation. Be not afraid for in the kingdom of God, there's no
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man nor woman as all are one in spirit. The gates of my father's kingdom will open for those
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who love and are loved for God looks not upon the body, but the heart. Wow. Satan disguises himself
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as an angel of light. Like as I'm reading this, I just feel the satanic power of a message like this.
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It is so similar to the messages that you see in Genesis in the garden. And did God really say,
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but didn't he actually say this, a twisted version of what he actually said? And then when you look in the
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wilderness, Jesus in the wilderness being tempted by Satan, where Satan uses the word of God, he uses
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biblical passages and then twists them, manipulates them in order to try to trick and tempt Jesus.
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This is the same thing going on here because we do hear some things that we read in scripture that in
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Christ there is neither male nor female and that God looks not on the outward appearance, but looks at
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the heart. But of course, none of these things, uh, affirm the idea that a man can become a woman or
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vice versa. Actually in the first line of this fake biblical passage, you see the philosophical,
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like presuppositions, uh, of this answer that chat GPT gave that there is a division between spirit and
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body. Well, that's dualism as Nancy Piercy, very clearly eloquently explains in love thy body. Uh,
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this idea of dualism that there is spirit and there is body and that the body is somehow lesser than
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the spirit and that the spirit is defined not by your soul, but what you feel on the inside and that
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how you feel on the inside must dominate and dictate, um, the body. And so if your body doesn't match
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your spirit in this philosophy of dualism, which goes back hundreds and hundreds of years, then you
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have to change your body in order to affirm your internal feelings or your so-called spirit, but
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that's not Christianity. Christianity doesn't present that kind of dualism, even though there is a
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difference. Yes. Between the spirit and the body. What we read is that the body is extremely important
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throughout scripture. We see all the way in Genesis one, that God made us male and female. There is no
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biblical or scientific, but certainly no biblical category for gender that is independent from sex.
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There is no affirmation of the idea that what you feel on the inside, um, is supreme, that,
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that, uh, overpowers your biological reality or overpowers your body. You see the secular dualism
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really denigrates the body. It really degrades your biology as something that's arbitrary,
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something that's not really meaningful, something that doesn't tell you anything about who you are,
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your identity, your purpose, your strengths, your weaknesses, your capabilities. It's just kind of
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like flesh sack that you accidentally were given. And what you are on the inside is who you authentically
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really are. That's not biblical. Uh, the biblical reality is that the body matters. I mean, Jesus is
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the word who became flesh. He is Emmanuel, God with us. He took on human form. That's how much he cares
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about the body and this material world. Uh, we see in creation that the first thing that God calls
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very good is his creation of male and female. He had made so many wonderful things before that
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the plants, the animals, the stars, I mean, the solar systems, how incredible. And yet he says that
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these things are good, but the creation of male and female in his image with those non-arbitrary,
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but very purposeful gender distinctions, sex distinctions. Those words are interchangeable
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was very good. That tells us not just about the reality of the gender binary, but also the definition
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of marriage upon which this entire, uh, the entire, uh, world population is founded. It's founded upon
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that complimentary relationship between male and female. We read that there's going to be a
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resurrection of the bodies one day, not just of the spirit, but of the body. God cares very much
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about the body. In first Corinthians six, we read that the body for the believer is a dwelling place
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for the Holy spirit. So glorify God with your body. One way that we glorify God is that we honor the
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body that God purposely gave us that he specifically, particularly gave us knitted together in our
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mother's womb rather than denying it by saying it's not male. It's not female. It is whatever I feel
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that it is. If we really read the words of Jesus, you can go to Matthew 19. He affirms the gender binary.
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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
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
00:31:29.740
rejecting that. You will keep on finding the desperation, the destitution that has now come to characterize your
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
00:36:46.360
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.
00:37:19.340
So this person, this guy has been on hormones to try to look more like a woman still like every
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
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.
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
00:37:56.620
woman who goes on testosterone, that can expand your voice box. I hope I'm explaining this correctly
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
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.
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
00:39:29.860
when a man dresses up as a woman. Mrs. Doubtfire is funny for that reason. White chicks is funny for
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.
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,
00:41:56.940
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00:42:03.580
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