Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 988 ｜ Mark Driscoll Calls Out Christian Strip Tease

00:00:00.560 Mark Driscoll was called off the stage at a men's conference over the weekend when he

00:00:05.440 criticized the conference for hosting what kind of looked like a strip tease on stage.

00:00:11.440 Also, the golden bachelor and his new woman have called it quits.

00:00:16.500 They are getting a divorce.

00:00:18.380 We've also got a pit bull update and a few more things to discuss on today's episode

00:00:24.540 of Relatable.

00:00:30.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable.

00:00:37.440 Happy Thursday.

00:00:39.220 Hope everyone is having a wonderful week.

00:00:41.420 All right, you guys have been asking me to talk about this Mark Driscoll situation, and

00:00:47.780 I'm sorry that I have kept you waiting for as long as I have, but I've got a take on

00:00:53.960 it.

00:00:54.080 If you have no idea what I'm talking about, don't worry.

00:00:56.600 I will break it all down for you.

00:00:58.880 Those of you who kind of know what I'm talking about, you've probably just seen the names

00:01:04.180 like Mark Driscoll, Stripper, Church, kicked off stage, and you're like, do I even want

00:01:12.760 to know?

00:01:13.540 Do I even want to know?

00:01:15.240 But you do want to know.

00:01:16.800 It's not as bad, and also it's simultaneously worse than you might be thinking.

00:01:21.680 So let me explain all of this.

00:01:24.080 This is summarized from Newsweek as well as Western Journal.

00:01:27.400 So Pastor Mark Driscoll, you probably know him from rising to prominence several years

00:01:35.800 ago, probably between 15 and 20 years ago when he was a pastor of Mars Hill, and that

00:01:44.440 was a big church out of Seattle that he was the head of.

00:01:49.740 Of course, there was a lot of controversy surrounding his leadership and some of the things that he

00:01:56.120 taught at the time.

00:01:57.700 But he is a pastor, again, not at Mars Hill, but at a different church, and he has kind

00:02:03.300 of been reintroduced into the public sphere recently.

00:02:07.440 I would call him definitely a conservative Christian.

00:02:10.360 I would not call him reformed.

00:02:12.380 He might identify more as evangelical.

00:02:15.520 So I'm sure that there are plenty of things that he and I agree on.

00:02:19.600 I know that there is because I follow him and I see that, but then there are also theological

00:02:24.040 things that we diverge on.

00:02:27.080 And this particular instance involving Mark Driscoll is going viral, and I think for good

00:02:35.680 reason.

00:02:36.520 And I kind of, I think, have a different take on it than what I've seen on the internet

00:02:41.140 over the past few days.

00:02:42.500 So first, let me finish my summary, and then I'll get to that.

00:02:45.300 So he was kicked off stage at a Christian men's conference after criticizing a sword-swallowing

00:02:51.580 performance that appeared like something from a strip club.

00:02:55.360 So that's an interesting sentence right there.

00:02:58.460 The Stronger Men's Conference that was held at the Great Southern Bank Arena in Springfield,

00:03:03.520 Missouri on April 12th and 13th.

00:03:06.040 There, Mark Driscoll began his talk by criticizing an earlier performance at the conference by

00:03:12.660 sword-swallower Alex Magala.

00:03:15.620 All right.

00:03:16.820 So there were over 10,000 men there.

00:03:20.160 It often includes big names like Louis Giglio, Kirk Cousins, other people that maybe you've

00:03:28.720 heard of.

00:03:29.540 And then the host of the conference is John Lindell.

00:03:32.200 I hadn't heard about John Lindell from some of the messages that you've sent me.

00:03:36.840 You guys have heard about him.

00:03:38.240 I would say the feeling from my audience, just from the messages that I've received, is not

00:03:43.820 a positive opinion of him.

00:03:47.680 And after seeing kind of this whole interaction in this conference, I would probably be on

00:03:51.820 the same page as you.

00:03:52.840 One of the most anticipated features of the event is the Friday night entertainment, which

00:04:00.740 is included in the past, professional bull riding, motocross, BMX competition, and professional

00:04:06.280 boxing.

00:04:07.960 All right.

00:04:08.800 During the Friday night performance of this year's conference, Alex Magala, I think that's

00:04:14.460 how you pronounce his name, took off his shirt, climbed a pole on stage, and swallowed 0.87

00:04:18.980 a sword.

00:04:19.640 Here is Sot One.

00:04:22.840 Here is Sot One.

00:04:52.820 Daily Mail also noted that he is, he was a finalist on America's Got Talent, and when

00:05:01.820 he was not doing like sword swallowing and scaling poles, he is a stripper.

00:05:07.620 Okay.

00:05:08.260 So he is a stripper.

00:05:10.140 That is who this Christian conference decided to hire for their Friday night entertainment.

00:05:15.620 Now, Mark Driscoll, when it was his turn to give his talk at this conference, he decided

00:05:24.840 that he was going to call out what he called the Jezebel spirit of this performance.

00:05:31.900 Here's Sot Two.

00:05:32.500 In front of that was a man who ripped his shirt off, like a woman does in front of a pole 1.00

00:05:40.620 at a strip club.

00:05:41.860 That man then ascended.

00:05:46.860 See, our God is not arrogant.

00:05:50.860 He doesn't us and our God is humble.

00:05:52.540 He descends.

00:05:53.120 And then he swallowed a sword, and Jesus cried.

00:06:01.120 Okay, Pastor John, I'll receive that.

00:06:04.780 Thank you.

00:06:05.500 All right.

00:06:08.420 So if you can't hear everything that was happening there, there is a voice, it sounds like from

00:06:13.120 the crowd saying, you're done, you're done.

00:06:15.920 So that was John Lindell, the host of this conference.

00:06:19.320 And that's why Pastor Mark said, okay, I received that.

00:06:23.840 And then he picked up his Bible, he got off stage.

00:06:26.020 And then I saw another club that was going around that there was like a huge ruckus after

00:06:29.680 that.

00:06:29.980 I don't know exactly what the men in the audience were responding to, but there was a lot of yelling.

00:06:35.160 There was a lot of like, getting up, it looks like some people were leaving, people were

00:06:39.520 angry about this.

00:06:40.720 Now, maybe some people were angry at Mark Driscoll.

00:06:43.060 Maybe some people were angry at John Lindell.

00:06:45.400 John Lindell ended up going on stage to try to defend himself, like why he called Mark off

00:06:51.000 stage.

00:06:51.800 He said, he said, I talked to Mark for a half hour.

00:06:56.680 He's on stage.

00:06:57.420 He's got a microphone talking to the crowd.

00:06:59.440 There was not one word of that.

00:07:01.040 He is out of line.

00:07:02.380 If he wants to say it, he can say it to me.

00:07:04.480 You may not agree with me.

00:07:06.080 You may not agree with him, but we are brothers in Christ.

00:07:08.620 And there's a right way to handle this.

00:07:10.380 Of course, he cited Matthew 18, which basically says, look, if you've got a problem with a

00:07:16.040 brother in Christ, you need to go to that brother first.

00:07:18.780 And so that's what he's saying.

00:07:20.300 That's why he said that Mark Driscoll was out of line.

00:07:22.620 He should have come to him first.

00:07:23.860 He should have handled it correctly, whether you agree with the content of either of their

00:07:29.600 arguments or not.

00:07:30.620 So I've got my thoughts on all of this.

00:07:45.060 Okay.

00:07:45.560 So later in the conference, John Lindell and Mark Driscoll returned to the stage to discuss

00:07:49.920 the conflict.

00:07:50.660 Driscoll apologized and said he should have talked to Lindell first.

00:07:54.440 It's kind of difficult to hear the audio that we saw.

00:07:57.420 So we're kind of like summarizing what was happening.

00:07:59.900 Lindell, he praises on Driscoll.

00:08:02.120 He said, you want to know what John the Baptist was like?

00:08:04.260 Mark is a prophetic voice of our generation.

00:08:06.600 Driscoll apologizes for calling out the way he did and should have gotten permission from

00:08:10.280 the spiritual father.

00:08:11.800 His words of the event, Mark describes what he was thinking as he got on stage.

00:08:15.800 When I was teaching, I just kept seeing it.

00:08:17.220 Maybe it was the Lord.

00:08:18.100 Maybe it's just me and I'm peculiar.

00:08:19.960 At this point, someone from the crowd yelled, Mark, you're right.

00:08:23.300 Mark interjects saying, no, no, no, no.

00:08:24.840 We're not going to have the vision.

00:08:26.220 What we're going to do is model how brothers in the Lord do reconciliation.

00:08:31.140 So I know that there are a lot of disagreements and a lot of complaints that people have about

00:08:36.840 Mark Driscoll.

00:08:37.500 We're not going to get into all of those right now.

00:08:39.800 I just want to focus on what happened here and kind of what people are saying and then

00:08:46.220 what my perspective is.

00:08:47.620 So some people are saying that this was all scripted.

00:08:50.180 This was just a way for Mark Driscoll to grift and to get attention and to make it seem

00:08:56.280 like he has this like sincere, godly posture and that he saw this as an opportunity to

00:09:04.380 go viral on social media.

00:09:06.620 Some people are saying that it's staged between the two to try to go viral on social media.

00:09:12.560 I saw some takes saying that there's no way that Mark Driscoll wouldn't have already known

00:09:17.380 going into the conference that this guy was going to be ascending, um, uh, ascending a

00:09:24.980 pole and swallowing a sword and all of that.

00:09:27.560 And so he must have approved of that.

00:09:31.940 And then he saw it as an opportunity to, you know, present himself as the prophetic voice

00:09:37.800 speaking against evil in his own camp.

00:09:40.620 Here's what I think happened.

00:09:42.140 And I don't have any inside information, but I've spoken at a lot of conferences, a lot

00:09:48.080 of events and a lot of churches as, as someone who also speaks a lot, I can almost guarantee

00:09:57.200 that Mark Driscoll did not know that there was going to be that kind of entertainment on

00:10:02.780 the Friday night.

00:10:03.700 There would have really been no reason for him to know that.

00:10:07.000 He probably has either a speaking agent or, uh, an assistant or a team of people who handles

00:10:13.700 his speaking engagements.

00:10:15.160 He knows John Lindell.

00:10:16.480 He knows this conference.

00:10:17.720 He knows who's spoken there in the past.

00:10:19.300 He probably knew who was speaking and he probably did approve of all of those things, or he entrusted

00:10:24.920 his team with the responsibility to check all those things out.

00:10:28.560 There would have really been, and maybe I'm wrong on this, but again, just speaking from

00:10:32.280 my own personal experience, there would have really been no reason for John Lindell or any

00:10:37.860 other person at the conference to run by the Friday night entertainment, uh, or run by Mark

00:10:44.500 Driscoll, the Friday night entertainment.

00:10:46.200 I don't see why he would have known that.

00:10:49.240 Personally, I think that he was genuine in the moment calling out something that he saw as

00:10:57.220 wicked, which I agree with that, by the way.

00:10:59.420 There was no reason to get a stripper. 1.00

00:11:02.920 It is apparently very publicly known that he was a local stripper.

00:11:06.980 There was no reason to get a stripper to come on stage, to take off part of his clothes and 1.00

00:11:13.960 to ascend a pole.

00:11:17.140 Like, there's just no reason for that.

00:11:19.200 There's all kinds of entertainment that you could do and then swallow a sword.

00:11:23.240 It's just very weird.

00:11:25.180 It has sexual undertones.

00:11:27.200 And there's no place for that at a church conference.

00:11:31.880 I mean, we can kind of have our disagreements about whether a church conference should even

00:11:36.900 have like Friday night entertainment anyway.

00:11:39.760 I think that's a secondary issue.

00:11:41.920 I think as long as the entertainment is glorifying to God and is relevant, okay, but this wasn't.

00:11:49.240 It's not glorifying to God to basically do some kind of strange form of a striptease at

00:11:54.760 a Christian conference.

00:11:55.660 And so I agree with what Mark Driscoll said that was wrong.

00:11:59.440 Now, I do take issue and maybe in context, if he and I were talking about this, I wouldn't

00:12:04.700 disagree.

00:12:05.280 But he said, like, our God didn't ascend.

00:12:07.180 He descended.

00:12:08.680 Well, that's true.

00:12:09.760 He did descend.

00:12:10.660 He did humble himself.

00:12:11.720 But of course, he then ascended.

00:12:13.900 And he led a host of captives, as we read, for example, in Ephesians 4, 8.

00:12:20.680 And so that part, like, I kind of take issue with.

00:12:23.320 But he was in the moment trying to explain that this is not a representation of the humility

00:12:29.260 that Jesus showed and that we are also supposed to humiliate.

00:12:33.800 And also, like I said, there is like this weird sexual stripper-like aspect to it.

00:12:37.640 So I agree with him.

00:12:38.840 And I happen to think, like, this is the more charitable reading, and I don't know Mark

00:12:43.440 Driscoll at all.

00:12:45.200 But it just seemed to me that in the moment, he really was deciding whether or not he was

00:12:52.620 going to say this.

00:12:54.240 So while it may be true that he should have talked to the conference host first, I think

00:13:00.680 that probably would have been the better way to go.

00:13:03.400 I don't think that it was intentional.

00:13:05.180 I don't think that he got up there and thought, I'm going to create this viral moment, and

00:13:10.200 I'm going to pull one over on John Lindell.

00:13:14.220 It doesn't come across like that.

00:13:16.500 It doesn't.

00:13:17.080 It comes across as, should I say this?

00:13:20.900 Should I not say this?

00:13:22.620 Should I correct this?

00:13:24.720 And I think it just, in his mind in that moment, it was just too much for him not to address

00:13:31.160 or he felt like it would be hypocritical for him to talk about, you know, a Jezebel spirit

00:13:36.640 and sexual immorality and the kind of degeneracy that has taken over our culture and has even

00:13:43.340 deceived many men and women in the church without calling out the fact that a portion of that

00:13:48.980 was at the very conference where he is speaking.

00:13:52.420 I think he was trying to be consistent and to be honest in this moment.

00:13:57.000 Um, now, again, I don't know the background.

00:14:00.480 That's how it came across to me.

00:14:02.840 And whatever disagreements I have with both of them and this conference, I do think them

00:14:08.700 coming back up there and having some form of reconciliation and showing people how to

00:14:14.680 do it was good.

00:14:15.660 But I kind of, I wish the host would have had the humility to say, you know what?

00:14:22.940 Not only do I admire him in general, I admire him in this specific moment because he was

00:14:27.500 right.

00:14:28.120 We messed up.

00:14:29.300 We shouldn't have had that Friday night entertainment.

00:14:31.040 We have no business hiring a stripper. 1.00

00:14:33.160 Maybe he didn't know he was a stripper.

00:14:34.580 I don't know.

00:14:35.740 He stripped like he knew what he was doing on the stage of this Christian conference.

00:14:40.100 So he probably should have known that.

00:14:41.500 He should have gotten up like during the Friday night entertainment and been like, that's

00:14:46.920 enough.

00:14:47.160 So here's what I'll say.

00:14:49.280 So it wasn't that John Lindell was willing to stop Mark Driscoll from telling the truth

00:14:57.880 about the pseudo striptease, but he was not willing to stop the pseudo striptease.

00:15:04.120 So Mark Driscoll had to get off the stage for speaking that truth, but the stripper didn't

00:15:09.340 have to get off the stage for stripping. 0.94

00:15:11.500 So it's just a little weird, I think, like what the what the standard is.

00:15:16.240 You're willing to kind of, I don't know, equivocate, it seems like, on a display of

00:15:23.220 sexual immorality. 0.64

00:15:24.400 But when it comes to being criticized or called out in what he considered to be an imperfect

00:15:30.080 way, that's too much.

00:15:32.700 That's too far.

00:15:34.140 I think our priorities are out of order.

00:15:36.600 And I think when we demand, this is a bigger issue, when we demand to be entertained by

00:15:44.060 all of the flashing lights and all of the glittery splendor and the overstimulation that

00:15:54.540 we are used to when we're watching a movie or scrolling on our phones.

00:15:57.380 We demand all of that in church.

00:16:00.220 That is when I think that we are going to start to see compromise, because you've got

00:16:03.960 to get bigger and better every Sunday, every year.

00:16:06.800 That's what we see at Elevation Churches, what we see at Mike Todd's Church.

00:16:10.100 So what we see at a lot of like prosperity-centric churches is that expositing the word and simple

00:16:18.540 verse-by-verse exegetical preaching isn't, they think it's not enough for people.

00:16:24.180 It's not exciting for people.

00:16:26.640 If you've ever gone to John MacArthur's church, I personally haven't before.

00:16:30.660 Of course, he preaches exegetically, verse-by-verse, but I have friends who attend that church.

00:16:35.920 I have friends who have visited that church recently.

00:16:38.080 It is bursting at the seams.

00:16:40.500 It is also one of the most ethnically and economically diverse churches, I would say,

00:16:47.920 in the country, and they don't pander at all.

00:16:50.800 All he does is every Sunday preach verse-by-verse, and it is overflowing with Christians who just 0.99

00:16:58.680 want truth.

00:16:59.800 They just want scripture.

00:17:01.900 They don't want every sermon to be about them, to be about their feelings, to sit around them.

00:17:06.860 They're not looking to be stars of the show.

00:17:08.320 And some preachers, like the ones I listed, you know, like Furtick and the like, they think

00:17:18.820 that their audience has to be entertained, and then maybe one day they will be entertained

00:17:24.220 into entertaining the gospel.

00:17:27.100 And that's just not how it works.

00:17:28.740 What is that phrase?

00:17:29.880 Whatever you win people with, you win them too.

00:17:33.780 And so I know the argument is, well, if we make things flashy and exciting, at least

00:17:39.060 people will come into church.

00:17:41.460 But they are coming into church to see the flashy and exciting, not to hear the gospel.

00:17:47.640 And so they want the flashy and exciting.

00:17:50.600 They don't necessarily desire Christ.

00:17:53.060 So we win people to church with the aroma of Christ.

00:17:56.440 That doesn't mean that we can't have wonderful artistic performances.

00:17:59.900 That can't mean that we can't allow people within the church who have those giftings to

00:18:04.440 use them at Sunday service for the glory of God.

00:18:07.040 I think the music should be high quality.

00:18:09.020 I think the instruments should be incredible.

00:18:10.920 I think the graphic design and whatever technology is used should be used in an excellent way to

00:18:18.560 the absolute best of our ability.

00:18:21.620 But it should all be pointing to the gospel.

00:18:25.700 It should all be pointing to Christ, not trying to overshadow the gospel in the hopes that

00:18:32.000 someone will be able to pull back the curtain one day and see the truth of Jesus.

00:18:38.180 That's just not how it works.

00:18:40.220 And so that's just a problem in general.

00:18:43.540 And I also want to say, this is something that I meant to say when we talked about Stephen

00:18:47.120 Furtick on Monday or whenever it was, Tuesday, that I do think that pastors, as I said, should

00:18:57.340 be understated in their appearance when they're on stage.

00:19:00.320 I also think that goes for like all the pyrotechnics and like all of that.

00:19:05.040 I do believe it should be understated.

00:19:06.720 I'm not a legalist on that.

00:19:08.140 I'm not saying that you can have like a little bit of fog machine, but not too much.

00:19:12.000 I'm not saying that there are hard and fast rules about that.

00:19:14.540 But I do think things should be beautiful, yet understated.

00:19:18.220 And that includes how the pastor addresses himself.

00:19:21.820 I think it should be respectful, but I think it should communicate humility and dignity,

00:19:27.440 not look at me.

00:19:28.820 And I think that also the mentality should be, I want to do everything in my power to not

00:19:38.000 tempt anyone in my congregation to covetousness or to envy or to greed.

00:19:45.860 Now, everyone's sins are their own responsibility through the power of the Spirit to fight.

00:19:51.140 But in the same way that we are to dress modestly just to do everything that we can within our

00:19:56.820 power, not to provoke someone to lust, even though that lust is ultimately their responsibility.

00:20:03.300 So I think we also dress ourselves with the desire to display humility rather than the

00:20:10.160 desire to have someone be jealous of us, of what we can afford and what we can wear.

00:20:16.800 And it is an irresponsible act, I think, as a pastor.

00:20:20.760 I'm thinking of the ones that we've talked about, like with preachers and sneakers, to wear

00:20:25.640 these kinds of flashy clothes so that people will look at them and say, I want that.

00:20:31.660 You are not shepherding them.

00:20:36.000 You are leading them as sheep to the slaughter.

00:20:40.200 You are not protecting them from the wolves of greed and covetousness.

00:20:44.880 And that is a really scary prospect when you consider, as the book of James tells us, that

00:20:50.340 teachers are going to be judged more harshly than everyone else.

00:20:55.260 So I just think that's something to consider whenever we are looking at all of this flashy

00:21:01.320 entertainment.

00:21:02.080 It's not enough to just say, well, it might meet some people where they are and be seeker

00:21:07.360 sensitive.

00:21:08.260 There's a way we can be excellent and beautiful and entertaining and still point to Christ rather

00:21:13.560 than draw people away from him like through a freaking striptease at a men's conference.

00:21:18.580 Craziness.

00:21:19.520 All right.

00:21:19.800 So that's my take on that.

00:21:21.900 There's a lot more probably that we could say about it, but that's all I got.

00:21:27.980 Again, I know there's a larger conversation to have about that people, you know, want to

00:21:33.080 hear about Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill and all of that.

00:21:35.680 And, you know, maybe we can talk about that one day.

00:21:39.020 But that's my take on that specific situation.

00:21:54.400 Okay, y'all, I'm super sad.

00:21:56.160 The Golden Bachelor and his woman have already called it quits.

00:22:01.360 They're already getting a divorce.

00:22:03.660 What in the world?

00:22:05.200 At this point, okay, Golden Bachelor, you just need to write it out.

00:22:08.040 Okay, like, what is the point of getting a divorce?

00:22:12.080 Like, are you going to go through the process and get like you went through all of this?

00:22:17.060 You broke all of those women's hearts and you chose this woman, Teresa, which from the 0.99

00:22:23.660 beginning, my friend and I were like, not that lady.

00:22:27.420 And you chose her.

00:22:29.080 You should have listened to us and you might not be in this situation.

00:22:33.180 I don't remember the lady's name that you should have chosen, but I also knew from the

00:22:36.360 beginning, I think she's the one that like, played the guitar or something.

00:22:39.560 I honestly only watched like the first three or so episodes because the friend that I was

00:22:43.400 watching it with, she ended up having her baby, rude. 0.91

00:22:48.020 And then we didn't, we couldn't, well, I didn't want to watch it by myself.

00:22:52.240 So I stopped after like a third episode, but I knew from the beginning it shouldn't have

00:22:56.780 been Teresa.

00:22:57.340 Here they are, Jerry and Teresa announcing their divorce.

00:23:03.180 And we've kind of come to the conclusion mutually that it's probably time for us to

00:23:09.820 dissolve our marriage.

00:23:12.620 Get a divorce.

00:23:14.540 Yes.

00:23:15.380 Yes.

00:23:15.860 Three months after getting married.

00:23:18.100 Yes.

00:23:18.420 I think we just feel like it's best for the happiness of each of us to, to live apart.

00:23:28.520 What a weird way to say that.

00:23:31.200 I like how the journalist had to be like, get a divorce, dissolve your marriage.

00:23:35.900 What in the world are you talking about?

00:23:37.100 Give it a divorce. 1.00

00:23:38.180 You think it's better for the happiness of both of you.

00:23:41.180 So what they found out after they got married on television in January, after a whirlwind

00:23:45.640 romance through the golden bachelors, that they don't like each other.

00:23:49.240 That's it.

00:23:50.000 I mean, if you find out after a couple months, we made a mistake.

00:23:53.480 You don't like each other.

00:23:54.420 You don't love each other.

00:23:55.440 You weren't willing to put the work in.

00:23:57.920 And she says that she hopes it doesn't, um, the hope that it's given people that that

00:24:03.720 doesn't change.

00:24:05.020 Of course it's going to change because it, it, you are showing people this romance that

00:24:13.640 everyone thought was real, that everyone thought was sincere and so wonderful that people who

00:24:19.280 the world may have counted out as past their prime can date and fall in love and be attracted

00:24:25.880 to one another.

00:24:26.740 And it wasn't real.

00:24:28.440 If you are getting a divorce this early on, I don't think that any of it was real.

00:24:32.660 Maybe you had some feelings for each other, but you didn't have that kind of real, solid,

00:24:40.180 sacrificial commitment level love.

00:24:43.340 If the marriage is already quote unquote dissolving, or they are just very superficial

00:24:49.440 people and nothing went actually wrong after marriage.

00:24:53.560 And they just didn't, you know, they were just used to living by themselves and they

00:24:57.620 realized, okay, we don't really want to do this.

00:25:00.280 It also, I feel like when marriage is in this quickly, it's like one person ended up being

00:25:06.740 way different than the other person thought.

00:25:10.640 And my assessment is, you know, I don't know.

00:25:14.760 I don't know which, I don't know which person it was.

00:25:17.480 I will say that Jerry had a very different background than what was portrayed.

00:25:24.880 It was portrayed that he was like a restaurateur, that he was a rich, successful entrepreneur,

00:25:30.560 and he just really wanted someone to share his wealth and share his life with.

00:25:36.940 That wasn't true at all.

00:25:38.320 That was not true about him.

00:25:39.620 He was not a restaurateur.

00:25:40.980 He was not a wealthy or successful entrepreneur.

00:25:43.360 He owned like a fast food franchise in 1985.

00:25:47.640 They just found him because they felt like we could give him a makeover, make him look like

00:25:53.020 and present him as some like wealthy, got it together guy when really he might not be.

00:25:58.180 Maybe he is a sweetheart and I don't know, this just didn't work out, which is a terrible

00:26:04.480 way to think about marriage.

00:26:07.160 Or maybe they ended up being completely different people.

00:26:13.220 Teresa posted, don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

00:26:17.400 Dr. Seuss.

00:26:18.840 What?

00:26:20.880 That is so dumb.

00:26:23.340 You're talking about marriage and you are like grandparents here.

00:26:29.020 Come on.

00:26:29.720 This is like teenage level juvenility.

00:26:33.580 This is not how we think about natrimony.

00:26:36.840 This is not what we think about a covenant of marriage.

00:26:40.880 It does reflect, though, the popular notion about marriage.

00:26:44.660 I saw another couple that I followed one of them on Instagram saying, you know, we've just

00:26:49.560 decided to end our marriage, basically irreconcilable differences.

00:26:53.280 And while you never know what's really going on, of course, if there's like abuse happening

00:26:57.100 there, that's one thing.

00:26:58.340 But irreconcilable differences, not being happy, not having the same feelings, having a difficult

00:27:06.200 time working out the disagreements that you have, trying to get used to living together.

00:27:11.200 None of these reasons come anywhere close to a justification for divorce.

00:27:16.560 And, you know, I was just thinking the other day about how growing up, and of course, when

00:27:21.180 our parents were growing up, there was such a stigma around divorce, whether you were Christian

00:27:26.380 or not.

00:27:27.780 And there can be goods and bads of stigma, but we've moved into this age when all stigma

00:27:34.080 is demonized.

00:27:35.420 We're trying to remove stigma from everything.

00:27:37.720 Well, some things need to be stigmatized.

00:27:39.540 We've actually inherited stigma, I think, from our ancestors, not like in an evolutionary

00:27:47.260 way, but we've just been taught that over time, that there should be stigma around certain

00:27:54.080 things, because when something becomes prevalent, it's bad for you, and it's bad for society.

00:28:00.160 It doesn't lead to strong societies.

00:28:01.520 It leads to weak societies.

00:28:03.000 And that is true about divorce.

00:28:04.400 Of course, there are some biblical exceptions, some biblical reasons for divorce.

00:28:10.240 They're very, very rare.

00:28:11.800 And God still hates divorce, because what God brought together, let no man separate, the

00:28:17.520 husband and wife become one flesh.

00:28:20.160 Again, I'm not talking about abuse, but in the vast majority of situations, marriage is

00:28:25.640 something that is supposed to be held onto, held together for life.

00:28:31.840 And this flippant Dr. Seuss quote, to react to a divorce is such the perfect description

00:28:41.840 of how America has destigmatized divorce, example of how we've destigmatized divorce, how we've

00:28:48.860 normalized it, how we even celebrate it, because we will lay absolutely anything down on the

00:28:55.180 altar of our happiness.

00:28:56.520 We will lay our friendships down.

00:28:58.040 We will lay our membership in church down.

00:29:02.300 We will lay our marriages down.

00:29:04.220 We will lay our kids down.

00:29:06.240 We will get an abortion. 1.00

00:29:08.220 We will leave the church that told us that something that was sin.

00:29:11.380 We will leave the marriage that was a little bit hard.

00:29:14.580 We will reject the friendships that were no longer convenient and comfortable for us.

00:29:21.080 We will stop doing all of the things that require discipline and self-control and self-assessment.

00:29:28.180 And instead, we will pursue only that which is convenient and comfortable and serves us and

00:29:34.060 our feelings in the moment.

00:29:35.980 And we are absolutely filled to the brim with our own happiness.

00:29:44.920 And we are still miserable.

00:29:46.460 Isn't that interesting that we choose the easy way out and it makes us happy in the moment

00:29:52.400 and then we end up lonely, miserable, and suffering?

00:29:57.120 And this is the whole lie of like this self-love happiness is the utmost goal trend that has

00:30:06.440 completely taken over our culture over the past several decades, that we are constantly told

00:30:14.960 that if you just pursue what you want in any given moment, finally, you will be liberated from all

00:30:22.740 that ails you.

00:30:24.080 Everything will start making sense.

00:30:26.060 Everything will start falling into place.

00:30:28.180 You will finally succeed and be fulfilled.

00:30:30.600 And it's just a lie because what have we always said since I wrote my, wrote my book about this

00:30:37.420 in 2019, um, the self can't be both the problem and the solution.

00:30:43.040 So if inside yourself, you are finding depression, misery, anxiety, dissatisfaction, discontentment,

00:30:52.420 you are not going to find the solution to those things in the same place that you are finding

00:30:57.380 all of your problems.

00:30:59.080 You are not the solution to, you are not the answer to everything that you are looking for.

00:31:06.640 All of that is found outside of ourselves, namely in our creator, who alone can tell us who we are

00:31:13.040 and what we are worth, who alone is the source of happiness and fulfillment for which we long

00:31:20.660 and that we are trying and failing to find, uh, everywhere except for where it actually exists

00:31:28.520 in Jesus.

00:31:29.500 And so when that happens, when we all worship the God of self, we end up normalizing and celebrating

00:31:37.060 things like divorce, adultery, um, even a surrogacy, reproductive technology, abortion,

00:31:45.260 anything that serves our wants, and it doesn't matter what we sacrifice in the way.

00:31:52.200 And so, I mean, this is sad for a lot of reasons.

00:31:54.720 It's ridiculous and darkly funny.

00:31:59.060 I mean, I don't know if I want to say funny, but like, oh my gosh, I can't believe the golden

00:32:03.120 bachelor has already gotten a divorce, but it also is just like a sad commentary on how

00:32:09.040 we view marriage and the family and relationships, um, in the United States and probably not,

00:32:15.920 um, the most surprising.

00:32:17.820 Also, like when you look at the fact that there was a lot of money involved in this, you kind

00:32:25.160 of see that there were probably some superficial motivations behind getting engaged and getting

00:32:29.480 married.

00:32:30.180 And then when it no longer served them financially, they got a divorce.

00:32:33.940 This is according to Slate.

00:32:35.320 Um, as the series lead, he may have been, uh, Jerry, it says, may have been paid north

00:32:42.020 of a hundred thousand dollars for the season, which I actually would have thought that it

00:32:46.260 was, um, more than that.

00:32:48.760 Uh, Teresa, as the winner, made off with a princess cut diamond engagement ring worth, 0.97

00:32:54.160 worth an estimated $40,000.

00:32:57.660 Um, the first ever televised bachelor reunion way back in 2003 was a 3.6.

00:33:05.320 7, 7 million dollar wedding.

00:33:08.060 That is unbelievable between Trista and Ryan.

00:33:11.380 And they were also paid a million dollars, uh, to get married on camera.

00:33:17.640 Wow.

00:33:18.060 That is incredible.

00:33:18.760 I think Trista and Ryan are actually still, still together.

00:33:23.040 Um, and so we just don't know how much they were paid.

00:33:25.600 They could have gone through with the wedding because they were paid for it.

00:33:29.120 And then they got a divorce because it wasn't, it wasn't helpful anymore.

00:33:33.500 All right.

00:33:34.120 So that's kind of sad.

00:33:35.300 That's the goal in a bachelor.

00:33:48.100 Okay.

00:33:49.340 Brie, should we talk about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner and their childs?

00:33:55.840 Yeah.

00:33:57.720 Okay.

00:33:58.500 Or should we talk about pit bulls?

00:34:00.540 Oh.

00:34:01.200 Because we might only have time for one more.

00:34:04.540 Which one?

00:34:05.380 Which one?

00:34:05.920 Which one?

00:34:06.420 Or we can talk about both quickly.

00:34:08.460 I think we should hit both quickly.

00:34:10.460 Okay.

00:34:10.720 Um, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, they're one of many celebrities that have a child now,

00:34:21.000 a daughter, 15 years old, Serafina Rose, uh, who has come out as quote unquote trans.

00:34:28.760 So this, uh, she, we were going to use she, but there are some outlets that will use he,

00:34:37.100 um, came out, like introduced herself by her new name, Finn.

00:34:41.780 When she spoke at her grandfather's memorial service in early April, this was recorded.

00:34:47.940 Um, and so the video has been making the rounds.

00:34:50.440 She says, hello, my name is Finn Affleck.

00:34:52.880 Then read chapter 16, verse eight from the book of Proverbs.

00:34:55.220 Better is a little with righteousness than a large income with injustice.

00:34:59.160 Okay.

00:35:00.080 Um, so you probably know Jennifer Garner and Affleck.

00:35:04.940 Um, they have, uh, three kids together and they split in 2015.

00:35:12.240 They finalized their divorce in 2018 and 2022.

00:35:16.580 Affleck married singer Jennifer Lopez.

00:35:18.840 They dated like 20 years ago.

00:35:21.660 Whose 16 year old daughter also uses gender neutral pronouns and has become close to Finn

00:35:29.460 as a step sibling.

00:35:30.880 And this girl calls herself, uh, non-binary.

00:35:35.140 JLo first publicly introduced her daughter's pronouns to a crowd at the Ellie Dodgers Foundation's

00:35:40.700 Blue Diamond Gala, where they both performed in June, 2022.

00:35:43.860 It's just awful.

00:35:44.620 And it's so obvious that this is a social contagion.

00:35:47.980 Do you have anything else to say about that, Brie?

00:35:50.500 Any thoughts?

00:35:50.980 No, I think it's just like so convenient that both Jennifer Lopez's daughter and Ben Affleck's

00:35:59.580 daughter have the same identities.

00:36:02.340 Same identity.

00:36:03.120 It's totally organic.

00:36:04.660 Yeah.

00:36:05.040 They were just born that way.

00:36:06.420 It was by chance that they found each other.

00:36:08.200 Yes, absolutely.

00:36:09.800 And it's also just a coincidence that all of these celebrities, all these other celebrities

00:36:15.640 have children who are very confused and deceived about their gender.

00:36:20.120 We've got Jamie Lee Curtis.

00:36:22.860 This is Jamie Lee Curtis and her daughter, Ruby.

00:36:28.420 Yeah.

00:36:29.580 I dare you to look at this person and say she, her, um, who as an adult decided that

00:36:37.020 he was, um, a woman and Jamie Lee Curtis has been very defensive of him as, uh, as a woman.

00:36:44.620 And then we've got Charlize Theron, who I think is one of the most, was maybe one of the first

00:36:49.680 celebrities that I saw, um, dressing up her adopted sons that she adopted from Africa in

00:36:58.400 girls' clothing.

00:36:59.040 Like, how is this not a bigger deal?

00:37:01.540 How was this not a bigger deal when this was first happening?

00:37:05.540 Like, is there not some, like, I don't know, someone out there who is, like, a racial activist

00:37:13.380 who can at least say that it's crazy to adopt boys from Africa and then turn them into girls, 0.90

00:37:21.780 try to turn them into girls? 1.00

00:37:23.040 How can anyone say that that's not evil?

00:37:27.000 Theron announced this, uh, announced publicly that, uh, her son, Jackson, is actually a girl

00:37:35.540 at seven years old, claiming he had told her three years prior that he was really a girl.

00:37:42.060 So, when he was four years old, okay, four-year-olds can be really smart.

00:37:50.240 They can also not know anything.

00:37:54.560 Like, as a mother of a four-year-old, a brilliant four-year-old, I know that they're, like, let

00:38:01.620 me tell you this cute story.

00:38:03.280 It's adorable.

00:38:03.900 My mom has this plant in her backyard, and my mom was telling my four-year-old, this is

00:38:11.900 a mosquito plant, and that, of course, it keeps mosquitoes away. 0.99

00:38:16.500 Well, my four-year-old, the next day, was explaining the plants to my two-year-old and

00:38:22.940 was going around and explaining all the different plants and what they do, and she pointed to

00:38:28.640 the mosquito plant and said, and this one's going to turn into a mosquito. 0.97

00:38:31.760 You know, that's adorable.

00:38:34.060 That is adorable.

00:38:35.460 But she did not understand that that is not what my mom meant when she was saying this

00:38:40.740 was a mosquito plant.

00:38:42.080 So, at the same time, kids are, like, brilliant and awesome and learning so much, and they also

00:38:47.860 don't understand so many things.

00:38:50.280 And so, when Charlize Theron's son said, I'm a girl, he probably was just saying something

00:38:56.620 that he saw at preschool.

00:38:58.320 He probably was saying something that he saw in a movie.

00:39:01.760 In a book, if he even said it, by the way, that is the more charitable reading.

00:39:06.400 The less charitable reading is that she is a sick freak with Munchausen by proxy who just 0.99

00:39:13.020 wants the attention and the satisfaction of kind of, like, being oppressed and having a

00:39:18.100 kid who identifies as the opposite sex.

00:39:19.800 I mean, I can't think of anything.

00:39:22.600 There are few things more evil than this.

00:39:24.840 I mean, abortion, yes, because you're murdering them. 0.88

00:39:28.760 But then, okay, if they actually survive the womb, you're going to try to transition them 1.00

00:39:35.000 into the opposite sex, which, of course, is living a lie and leading them down a path of 1.00

00:39:40.340 butchery for their body.

00:39:43.220 I mean, it is just awful.

00:39:44.940 And then we do have Brad Pitt and Angelina.

00:39:48.060 They have a daughter named Shiloh.

00:39:50.000 And then who kind of was, like, looking gender fluid at one point, but who has since publicly

00:39:59.920 dressed a lot more feminine, which is interesting.

00:40:03.520 And then, yeah, we've got several others.

00:40:06.560 You've got several other celebrities whose children just very spontaneously and completely

00:40:15.660 organically have decided to identify as the opposite sex.

00:40:19.880 And, of course, I don't think it is spontaneous.

00:40:22.680 I think that it is when you have parents who are either pushing this on you or who don't

00:40:27.100 supervise what content you are consuming and who think that a child is in charge.

00:40:33.520 And who think that a young child has some kind of, like, special knowing about who they

00:40:38.620 are on the inside.

00:40:39.500 And they don't have a good moral worldview, that the body actually matters and indicates

00:40:44.360 who we are.

00:40:45.900 And it can't be changed by declaration or identity.

00:40:48.720 When you have a parent who is just, like, completely morally lost, and then these children

00:40:55.140 are victims of the culture, which says you can change your gender, that's how this is 0.94

00:40:59.220 going to happen.

00:41:00.660 And it's really sad.

00:41:01.740 It's really sad.

00:41:02.320 I feel for these children.

00:41:04.240 Maybe they will be turned back into the right direction.

00:41:07.340 We should certainly pray for that.

00:41:08.980 But just another example, you should never, ever, ever look to celebrities as your moral

00:41:14.440 exemplars for any reason at all.

00:41:16.980 They are very lost, very confused, very broken.

00:41:20.120 And that's not just recent.

00:41:21.760 Like, that's been like that for hundreds of years.

00:41:23.960 Like, if you look at old Hollywood and you read about some of their lives and how broken

00:41:28.360 and sad and really, like, morally destitute they were, I mean, there's something just

00:41:33.500 very, very dark about Hollywood, probably even beyond what we really know.

00:41:40.160 All right, Brie, I don't know if you have anything else to say about that.

00:41:42.960 Is there any interesting factoid that I missed on this?

00:41:45.300 There's no interesting factoids to add, but I will just say, you already touched on it,

00:41:49.800 but specifically with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Garner, it just, it makes

00:41:57.360 me sad because you can see the pattern of like, like, we know what Ben Affleck did to Jennifer

00:42:02.380 Garner, for example.

00:42:03.540 Well, maybe there's more to the story, but he cheated on her with a nanny and those kids

00:42:08.560 knew that and they see that and, and these are just the repercussions of broken families

00:42:14.900 and that just makes me really sad.

00:42:16.420 On top of all the Hollywood stuff, that probably is just piling on top of it.

00:42:21.000 So.

00:42:21.260 No, that's a really good point.

00:42:22.740 That's a really good point is that that can cause destabilization, trauma, drama that would

00:42:28.620 make a kid try to like figure out who they are.

00:42:33.740 And when you don't really have any guidance on that, I also think that parents who have

00:42:39.060 broken up their marriages, they suffer from some guilt and their thought is and desire

00:42:46.180 is, I just want to do whatever makes them happy.

00:42:48.740 I don't want to fight with them.

00:42:50.180 I don't want to make things worse for them.

00:42:51.760 And if their child comes to them as like, this is what will make me happy.

00:42:54.700 It's really tough for them to push back.

00:42:57.240 Yeah.

00:42:57.400 And I love, I mean, I like Jennifer Garner, at least from what I see.

00:43:00.600 She's so charming.

00:43:01.960 Yeah.

00:43:02.240 And like, seems like a total sweetheart.

00:43:05.320 And I'm sure she, I'm not saying like she is a bad mom, but yeah, it just makes me sad.

00:43:13.180 Makes me sad for the kids who are so clearly lost.

00:43:16.000 Me too.

00:43:17.560 Yeah.

00:43:18.120 Okay.

00:43:19.300 Let us talk about pit bulls.

00:43:21.660 We'll end on that.

00:43:22.940 We'll end the week on that and then people can be upset.

00:43:28.320 Okay.

00:43:40.680 All right.

00:43:41.380 So there are just several more stories of pit bulls, um, mauling people and attacking

00:43:51.620 other dogs, ruining lives as many pit bulls do.

00:43:56.320 And so I'm going to go through that and then I'm going to remind you of why it is the breed. 0.84

00:44:01.800 Okay.

00:44:02.120 So get to the end of this segment for me.

00:44:03.980 Okay.

00:44:05.000 First story is out of Portsmouth, Virginia.

00:44:09.360 And there was a woman who died.

00:44:11.900 This is just last week.

00:44:13.140 Awful.

00:44:13.700 After being mauled by three pit bulls at a house where she was visiting.

00:44:17.660 Apparently these pit bulls had caused several incidents, chasing kids down the street.

00:44:24.640 Um, animal control had been called.

00:44:26.840 Authorities had been called.

00:44:28.260 Nothing had been done because it's very difficult to do anything in these situations.

00:44:33.240 And there are several reasons for that.

00:44:35.900 Um, one, if you live in a more liberal area, many times it's just, um, they believe that

00:44:43.040 they are being compassionate by not taking away dogs from their owners.

00:44:48.600 Also, like this is kind of an awkward thing to say, but you'll see many times it comes down

00:44:54.480 to like this weird social racial justice issue because a disproportionate number of pit bulls

00:45:00.140 are apparently owned statistically by black and brown Americans.

00:45:04.020 And so they will claim like that taking away the dogs or targeting these dogs is also like

00:45:10.540 an attack on particularly quote unquote marginalized groups.

00:45:14.400 And so it becomes this weird, like social justice left, right issue, which it absolutely shouldn't.

00:45:20.580 But politics always comes into play in these issues.

00:45:23.700 It could just also be incompetence.

00:45:25.680 Um, there was also like, you'll remember, remember the, um, woman that I had on, I think

00:45:31.480 it was about a year ago, whose pit bulls, um, attacked and killed her cows.

00:45:38.440 Remember that?

00:45:39.440 And how awful that was, uh, in the state of Arkansas.

00:45:42.660 And then the local prosecutor was so corrupt and it ended up being like this weird accusation

00:45:48.840 of like racism thing going on because one of the owners of the pit bulls who had gotten

00:45:54.200 out and mauled the cow, um, was black.

00:45:57.560 And then the prosecutor is black.

00:45:58.740 And so it like ended up being this like weird race thing.

00:46:03.040 And it was so hard for her to get any kind of justice or accountability for her, uh, for

00:46:08.140 her animals because of that.

00:46:09.800 And so who knows that could have been what happened in this story, but authorities didn't

00:46:13.640 do what they needed to do.

00:46:14.900 There was also a pit bull breeder mauled to death by his own dogs in Compton.

00:46:20.120 He was feeding the dogs.

00:46:21.540 This was a couple of weeks ago.

00:46:23.920 And, um, he was, he went into their pen to feed them and then he was taken to the ground

00:46:31.220 and mauled to death, which is absolutely terrifying.

00:46:35.240 I also saw just a story just the other day, award-winning children's author, Rosanna Murray,

00:46:40.800 73, had her arm and ear ripped off after being mauled by three pit bulls in Brazil just the 0.87

00:46:47.720 other day.

00:46:48.840 Also just the other day, Florida pit bulls tore apart a vehicle.

00:46:52.520 This is, I saw a video on Twitter about this, uh, tear apart a vehicle in pursuit of a cat

00:46:59.320 that was like hiding in the undercarriage of the car.

00:47:04.660 And these pit bulls tore this car to shreds to try to get this cat. 0.98

00:47:11.380 And then I saw also just the other day, um, a, a pit bull at a dog show attacked a Siberian

00:47:20.040 husky would not let go.

00:47:22.280 Now here's the thing about this, because I always hear it's the owner.

00:47:25.460 It's the owner.

00:47:26.360 It's not the breed.

00:47:27.540 It's the owner.

00:47:28.180 I guarantee, especially this pit bull at the dog show was well taken care of and well loved

00:47:34.800 and well fed his entire life.

00:47:37.260 That's certainly true.

00:47:38.160 Remember a couple of years ago when the pit bulls in, um, a family home in Nashville mauled

00:47:46.020 two children to death and mauled the mother to the point to where she was in the hospital.

00:47:51.600 I mean, this was a normal family who had these puppies, had these dogs from puppyhood.

00:48:00.860 They were defenders and advocates of pit bulls.

00:48:04.180 These dogs, they said were a part of their family, loved very well, snapped and mauled

00:48:08.860 them to death.

00:48:10.060 It is the breed.

00:48:11.320 It's crazy how people get so irrational about this and believe that pit bulls are the only

00:48:17.980 breed that start with a blank slate.

00:48:19.920 No other breed starts with a, uh, a blank slate like shepherds heard.

00:48:26.320 That is what they are bred to do.

00:48:28.340 Retrievers retrieve.

00:48:29.560 That is what they are bred to do.

00:48:31.300 Labs love water.

00:48:32.920 That's what they were bred to do.

00:48:34.940 There are all different kinds of dogs, terriers, beagles, hounds that are bred to do certain things.

00:48:41.640 They are inclined to do that thing.

00:48:44.000 Not all of them do.

00:48:45.160 Some are better than others, but they are made to do.

00:48:49.920 And have been bred to do over years and years of breeding to do what they are inclined to do.

00:48:56.540 It is innate.

00:48:58.620 Pit bulls were bred to bait bulls.

00:49:01.920 They were bred to bait hogs. 0.98

00:49:04.600 They were bred to hunt hogs and to be able to latch onto a bull and not let go.

00:49:12.240 No, they were not nanny dogs.

00:49:14.840 They were not the dogs that took care of the babies.

00:49:17.420 That is a giant myth.

00:49:19.240 They have been bred for years and years and years to fight.

00:49:23.360 They have been bred to hang on to really strong and really heavy animals to latch onto their jugular and to not let go.

00:49:32.340 Don't tell me your story about how your chihuahua bit you and it really hurt.

00:49:36.880 Don't tell me your story about the one golden retriever that became rabid one day and like nipped at your child.

00:49:44.900 I understand all dogs can bite.

00:49:46.420 All dogs can be dangerous.

00:49:47.720 That is 100% true.

00:49:49.060 I do think that pit bulls have a disproportionate number of irresponsible owners because they can be bred to fight.

00:49:55.940 But it is the breed.

00:49:57.120 I know your pit bull is so sweet and so kind and you allow him to feed oatmeal to your newborn every morning.

00:50:04.660 I know.

00:50:05.320 I know.

00:50:06.040 Your pit bull is really nice.

00:50:08.660 But their breed is bad. 0.98

00:50:11.520 Their breed is aggressive.

00:50:12.900 And not only are they aggressive, but they bite to kill.

00:50:16.160 That's the difference between the pit bull and the chihuahua. 0.99

00:50:18.840 The chihuahua can't maul you to death. 1.00

00:50:20.580 The golden retriever is probably not going to maul you to death.

00:50:23.340 The pit bull, if they bite you, they're not just biting you.

00:50:26.240 They are biting and they will not let go.

00:50:29.040 Remember that skateboarder who had her mouth ripped off by the sweet pit bull a couple years ago? 1.00

00:50:35.220 That was her cousin's pit bull that she knew was really close to.

00:50:38.580 Again, had been raised from puppyhood and was so kind.

00:50:41.600 Latched onto her mouth randomly in the kitchen.

00:50:44.440 Didn't let go.

00:50:45.080 Ripped her mouth off.

00:50:46.280 That's what pit bulls do. 1.00

00:50:47.520 Again, I know there are sweet ones.

00:50:50.380 Don't let your kids around a pit bull. 1.00

00:50:52.040 Don't buy a pit bull.

00:50:52.920 We should not be breeding pit bulls.

00:50:54.420 It should be illegal to breed pit bulls.

00:50:56.580 There has been enough loss of life for us to say, nope, no more.

00:50:59.900 I'm not saying we should euthanize all pit bulls.

00:51:02.060 I'm saying they should not be bred anymore.

00:51:03.580 It should be illegal for the protection of human beings who matter more than animals, right?

00:51:10.180 Hopefully we can get on board with that.

00:51:11.580 All right, let's get out of here.

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00:52:06.280 Okay, guys, that's all we have time for today.

00:52:09.360 And this week, we will be back here on Monday.

00:52:12.240 See you guys then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - April 18, 2024

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