Jason Evert： Attacked by Witches, Fake News, and Tomato Soup
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After Jason Everett was attacked by a group of witches in Australia, Our Lady stepped in to save the day and gave him a chance to speak at a Catholic school. He talks about how she stepped up to the plate and did just that.
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She showed up at the talk, heard the chastity talk, and she said during Eucharistic adoration,
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God just poured in all these graces. She went to the sacrament of reconciliation. She's now
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recommitted herself to chastity, and she's even coming on the podcast next week to talk about
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this whole miracle. You might have seen a really viral story because Jason Everett, one of the,
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not one of the, I'm sorry to say in my opinion, the greatest speaker on chastity, the church's
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teaching on chastity in the world, just was in Australia, and he was attacked by witches. A
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group of witches got together. Yeah, they call themselves witches, by the way. They got together
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to try and take down his talks. They called them all sorts of names, and they were successful in
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one school. But as Jason will tell you, Our Lady intervened because she was the scheduler of this
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trip, the Blessed Virgin Mary. So they had all sorts of miraculous things happen with amazing results.
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Jason Everett is here to talk to us about all of that right now. Stay tuned.
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No, it's a joy to be with you. Let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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Jason, you were just in Australia. Tell us about that and what took place.
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Yeah, it was quite an adventure. I've been out there six times before, so this is my seventh visit, and
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everything's run smoothly in the past. But the day before I was heading out there, I started to get some
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news headlines that people sent to me of like, hey, there's some protests on the ground out there of
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some people that are trying to ban you from getting into that couple of the Catholic schools. And I
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said, you know, okay, you know, I just started praying and do it a little bit. And I, before I
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went to the airport, I visited a church and did mass. Then before a statue of Our Lady, did nine
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memoraries and kind of just consecrated the whole trip to Our Lady. Like this thing's yours, whatever
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you want to have happen. This is your trip, not mine. Let's go. And so I went to the airport, flew
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down. By the time I landed, things had really blown into quite a kerfuffle where there was a group of
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self-professed witches that were trying to pressure these schools, flooding the school with
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phone calls. You know, some of them actually parents of the school saying, we don't want this
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happening now. Some of these quote unquote witches are just political activists that call themselves
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witches, but they're not actually involved in the occult. But then some people that we saw were
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messaging were actually involved in, you know, witchcraft and things like that, the messages that
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we were getting. But they were calling the hotels where I was supposed to speak, trying to get the
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hotels to ban me. They were, one of the events was ticketed. The tickets were free for this young
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adult event. And, but we only had a thousand tickets. So they were calling and reserving all
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the tickets and getting online, booking all the tickets so that young adults wouldn't have a chance
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to go. But they were catching on to this and they kept putting them back for sale. The witches kept
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trying to claim them. So the younger, I mean, it was just nonstop opposition to the whole thing.
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So, wow. You know, I, uh, three of the schools ended up canceling their events in person and
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instead turn them into opt in, uh, like a live stream event where the girls who want the boys
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who wanted to see the chastity talk and get permission from their parents. And then the
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school would let them see this presentation. Meanwhile, this is getting picked up on their
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mainstream news station, all over their newspapers, these claims, this, this, this homophobic
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right-wing traveling chastity, misogynistic preacher is going to come. And, you know,
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it was, I mean, it was just nuts to say, I mean, and I, I said, look, if the stuff in me and these
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petitions was true, I'd sign the petition myself. I wouldn't let my kid go to one of those talks
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either. Um, and so three of the schools got cold feet, like, we don't want to deal with this.
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We'll make it just live stream to whoever wants to show. And then one of the schools like, okay,
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well, we're going to pipe it out to eight different high schools and let those kids opt in too.
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And so we ended up being able to hit more schools in terms of the total number. I don't know, but
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the empty spots were filled in by a couple of other schools. I was like, Hey, if you don't want
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to have them, we'll have them. And so, uh, in the end, the whole thing got capped off with, um,
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me on stage in front of a thousand young adults. I finished the presentation and one of the
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protesters got by security and dumped a can of tomato soup on my head in front of everybody.
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Like the crowd was like, and I said, okay, everybody let's pray for this gentleman right
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now to join me. Hail Mary. If we all started praying to hail Mary over the guy and he did
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not appreciate that. And security took him, dragged them off the grounds. And then he came
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back with two other guys with a hoodie and like a ski mask bandana over his face, trying
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to get in. But our security buddy was in the special ops there of the Australian military,
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tackled them to the ground and eventually was able to get these guys just to get lost.
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Wow. It's not every day that you get to suffer for the faith. Um, and, but react to it immediately.
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It is incredible. You, you have the opportunity to share the faith, which is totally beautiful.
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You also had an opportunity that you weren't expecting in that you had the opportunity to
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witness to receiving some persecution for the faith, accepting it without animosity,
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but with beauty. When you pray the hail Mary, you, you've, you've taken that scriptural, uh,
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you know, pray for your enemies. That's like heaping coals, fiery coals on their heads.
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Yeah. The young adults came up afterwards. Like, I'm so sorry that that happened. I'm like,
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look, I have eight kids. I've had food thrown at me for 20 years straight. I'm like,
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this is what I typically look like at the end of the day. Anyway, dinner with eight kids. Like
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it's so, but they said, you know, they were really blessed to see, you know, how I responded just by
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praying for the guy. It was funny, literally two seconds before it landed on my head. I thought in
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my head, I'm like, wow, the talks are over. Nothing really happened. And then, you know,
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then the whole thing gets dumped on me, but I mean, it could have been worse, right? I mean,
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it's to me, it could have been like broccoli, you know, cream soup. Like, so it could have been
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worse, but, um, you know, but it was such an opportunity for us to intercede for that guy,
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because what you see from him is just anger, but anger is there's something always under that,
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which is hurt. And under hurt is a wound that Christ hasn't been invited into. And so I think
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with all of our intercession for that man's brokenness, um, God willing, we can see him in
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heaven one day and then we'll just tease him like, Hey, Hey, tomato guy, I remember you, you know,
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so love always wins. Indeed. Indeed. Now let's get into some of the specifics because I think
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they're rather amazing here. The name of the, um, Twitter page and the pages that these people deal
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with is MF witches, uh, MFW for short. Uh, they call themselves granddaughters of the witches you
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couldn't burn. Um, so very much self-professed witches yet in Australia, the mainstream media
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tried to paint you as calling these women witches. Is that not the case?
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Yeah. So there were people involved with this, which Twitter site that were opposing it. There
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were also just parents involved, moms involved saying like, Oh my goodness, if these are reports
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are true, we can't have this misogynistic hate monger come into our school and just basically
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blame girls for a lack of male self-control. And so there was this parental outlash that was
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started and the witches said, you know, we're behind this whole thing. We're the ones kind of pushing
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this and yay. We're the ones who got the schools to cancel. And what was interesting is, uh, I had a
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little clip on Instagram when all this stuff started happening. I said, Hey, just want to reach out to
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all around the world. If you could just please pray for this. There's a group of kind of
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self-professed witches that are trying to come against this. And I said, look, you don't need
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to worry because I consecrated this whole trip to our lady and thinking that some witches are going
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to ruin our lady's plans is like thinking, you know, some house cats can overcome some Siberian
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tiger. You know, it's really no match. And so that's what I said. So media took that and said
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that some parents are concerned about Jason speaking to their daughters, but Jason is calling
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these moms witches watch here. And then it just jumps in the middle of my click. Yes. So these witches,
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blah, blah, blah. So they're trying to paint me. Like I'm calling these women witches and I'm a
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Siberian tiger. Cause this, their parents are just little house cats. And it's like, wait a minute.
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No, no, no, no, no. The media actually reached out to me. Like, do you have any response to these
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things? And I said, yes, parents are the primary sex educators of their children. And parents always
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have a right to opt out their child. If they think that a message wouldn't be appropriate for them,
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you know, and I said these things and I gave all these paragraphs of explanation.
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And then the article was run, at least in the newspaper had all these accusations. And then
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it said, we reached out to Jason Everett for comment, but they didn't include any comments,
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like not a single sentence. Cause if they had the whole, the whole narrative that they're trying
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to spin would be thrown off. So they just said, they reached out for me for comment,
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but let's just not include the comments that might actually clarify something.
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Unbelievable. And that leaves the impression that you didn't, you didn't answer because that's
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typical news speak for, we reached out for comment and there was no reply. Let's have to actually
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play that clip from the media so we can see the fake news in action.
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The Chastity Project founder took to social media this morning,
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biting back at parents who have rallied against him.
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Thinking a bunch of witches are going to overturn our ladies. Wishes is kind of like thinking a bunch
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of house cats are going to defeat some, you know, Siberian tiger.
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Joseph's Catholic College say they've lost confidence in the school while parents are taking
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What's challenging is that the school is under directive of, of the Broken Bay, uh,
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diocese. And I think fundamentally that's where the problem lies.
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Catholic schools, Broken Bay and Jason Evatt have been contacted for comment. Amber Griffin,
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So that's the fake news. Watch what it really was. This is where they actually took it from.
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Hey, good morning, everybody. It's early in the morning here out in Sydney, Australia,
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day two of my trip. Wanted to give you an important update and prayer request.
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Uh, it's gotten pretty interesting since we got here. Uh, three of the chastity talks in the high
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school have been canceled by parents and the ones who are taking credit for it.
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No kidding. Not making this up are actually a group of witches and they are celebrating the
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fact that three high schools were able to cancel the presentation. But you know what happens when
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you consecrate a trip to our lady, uh, she takes care of things. And so thinking a bunch of witches
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are going to overturn our ladies wishes is kind of like thinking a bunch of house cats are going to
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defeat some, you know, Siberian tiger, you know, not much of a match. And so three schools have
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already jumped in, filled in the empty spots. And one of them is live streaming it to eight
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additional high schools. So as a result of all the chaos and protests, um, we're gonna reach more
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souls than ever. And so I would ask you to double up on your prayers and intercession. If you would,
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we've got, uh, three more high schools today, an evening presentation, more schools tomorrow,
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and then some young adults in the evening. So please keep those prayers coming and know you
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have my prayers as well. God bless. You know, Jason, it's really nice every once in a while to
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blow the lid off fake news and just, but to see that this is from Australia's national news
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television stations. Uh, it's sad. It's, it's really sad. Uh, they can't come up with an honest
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story, uh, and they have to distort it. Um, wanted to talk to you about your actual talks. What is going
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on in the minds of young people today? Because despite this news, which, which brings us, you know,
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you right now, because it, it did make the headlines, which is great. The central thing about you,
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your calling, well, is actually your own family and your eight children, of course, and your spouse.
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But God has blessed you in a very, very particular way. He has called you to spread the truth of Jesus
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Christ, of the Catholic Church, with regard to chastity. One of, it's, it's like a central battle, uh, of,
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of Satan. In fact, our lady warned at Fatima that more souls go to hell, she said, for sins of the
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flesh than for any other reason. So you're called in a very special way. You've been gifted in a very,
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very special way to deal in this battle, this central battle for our time, for our age.
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And really, you've been gifted. I say gifted, because I honestly believe you, you, you speak
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on it so powerfully. What are the most burning questions that young people have? You've been
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with them now for, well, for many, many years, but you've been steeped in this just now. What are
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young people asking about more than anything else?
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all the tickets are gone. We'll see you in Wisconsin. Yeah, and right before we dive into
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that, I do want to mention one more thing on the news cycle that was even worse in their last
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egregious mischaracterization. They had a press conference at one of the Catholic high schools
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over there, where they put a couple of girls in front of the microphone, and basically said,
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you know, this guy's coming to our school, and he's going to preach this message of, you know,
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homophobia and bigotry and hatred and misogyny. Like, this is dangerous. You shouldn't be exposed
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this. Can you say that at the mic? So, these girls are at the microphone, and they're like, yeah, we
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need to be safe to not have to see and hear these messages of these kinds of things, because this
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isn't good. And they're doing this press conference, these high school girls who've never seen the
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presentation at all, and they're spouting off how dangerous it is to them. And to me, this is this,
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I saw a little meme on Facebook or Instagram, where there's a dad holding the little baby,
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and he says, watch this, and he bumps the wall, you know, with his own shoulder, and then he's like,
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oh, oh, and the baby starts crying, although the baby didn't even get touched. And then it flips
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and shows a mom, and a little baby falls, like bumps the head on the little pole, and the baby
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looks up to the mom, like, did that hurt? And mom's like, haha, and then the baby starts laughing.
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And he said, there's so much power in how we train children to react to thing, as opposed to just
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letting kids see the talk and have their own intellectual abilities to discern, is this guy a
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misogynistic creep? Or is this the truth my heart is burning for? And so when we actually got to speak
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to the kids in person, one boy came up to me after the talk, he gave me a big handshake. He's like,
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man, the media is bull. And I'm like, well, I'm glad you learned that. That's a lesson you're not
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going to want to forget. And they did surveys of the kid. And one kid, you know, they only gave me
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like two surveys. And I look at the first one, it's like 10 out of 10, 10 out of 10. And it said,
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everything they said bad about Jason was false. Thank you, Jason. One girl even messaged me on
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Instagram. She said, coming into your talk, I was really nervous and afraid of what the message
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would be. She said, I don't know what point it was your talk. She said, I felt disgusted. And I
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wanted to cry because I realized that everything they said about this presentation was completely
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wrong. She said, you have the most pure heart. Thank you so much. This is really going to change the
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way I look at myself. Thanks so much. And put a little heart emoji. And so the kids actually got to see it
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responded in that way. They loved it. They're coming after work for hugs and selfies and pictures
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because I'm not there to shame. For those students who struggle with same-sex attractions,
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I extend the invitation. Hey, we're all called to chastity. And here's what this can look like in
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your life. And the kids universally responded like they did in the last past six trips to Australia.
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They're starving for this message. And you know what? They haven't gotten it, unfortunately,
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in the last 40, 50 years of the Catholic education out there. Now they hear it for once. It's like,
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wow, this is the message we've been hungering for. So at the schools, you know, one of them,
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we just invited students to come. They did like a Q&A. They gave us a room and twice as many students
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showed up that could even fit into the room. And we just sat there for an hour and 15 minutes.
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And they asked questions like, well, how do I know when it's rolled up? You know, how do I know that
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this guy is the one? And he's not just saying it. You know, one girl even said, is it possible
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to find a relationship where the guy just won't want you for sex? And so we spent time with these
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students. Afterwards, they just bombarded us with questions. And, you know, how do I start over?
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How do I break free from porn? How do I solve this situation? So their hearts are made for love.
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Their minds are made for the truth. And chastity offers them both.
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Yeah. It's amazing. That it's very, I mean, I've experienced the same thing. I also gave talks.
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I remember being in New Zealand. Same thing. Tons of kids, a lot of trepidation before they get there.
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And then after, you're stuck there for hours answering questions because they're supposed
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to go to class, but they're just too interested and stick around. It's amazing. The hunger
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is unbelievable. The falsehoods that they're fed is also unbelievable. And I think for a lot of our
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listeners, we've got to get the message out. The message that Jason gives, which is the message
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of the church on these things, it's truly beautiful. And it works, by the way. And so
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the young people are hungering for this, like nothing else. So Jason, if you could tell us,
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what are some of the main questions today that are burning in the hearts of young people?
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Yeah, I think some of the main ones we get are, you know, well, how far is too far? Can I do this
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with a guy? Can I act with a girl? Questions? I found that the guys, it's more questions about me.
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Like, can I still do this? Can we, how far can we go? With the girls, it tends to be more we,
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you know, how do I know that this guy is the right one for me? Or how do I know he loves me and he's
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not just saying it? And so those are the types of most burning questions I think we get. How far is
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too far? And how do I know this person's right for me? Or they authentically love me?
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And how do you answer that then with, with, with guys? How, well, typically guys, I guess,
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how far is too far? Yeah. Well, I mean, first thing you want to point out is this is kind of
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the wrong question to ask. It's almost like asking like, well, how close can I come to hitting oncoming
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traffic in my car without actually hitting oncoming traffic? It's like, well, if you value your car or
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your life, that's not really a question you're asking. You're more asking, okay, how much can I
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just kind of drive safe? Because what's here is valuable. And so we're starting with the wrong
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question. It's almost this attitude of, well, like if it's a mortal sin, I don't want to do it.
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But if it's a venial sin, well, I don't want to miss it. It's like, okay, that's the wrong attitude
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to have towards sin altogether. And so we've got to relook at our intentions. And so I want to wake
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up their conscience instead of just giving them a line in the sand, like on this side, it's bad.
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On this side, it's good. I ask them questions like, okay, you want to get married one day?
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Imagine your future spouse out there right now. Like how far would you want them going with someone
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else tonight? Set the same standard on yourself to really think that through. I bet your future spouse is
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out there and they probably prefer you not doing this with another person. Just give them that gift
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of your innocence. And even if you've messed up and you can start over. And I really try to drive home
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that look, especially the women who think they're like damaged goods, if they've gone too far, like
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your value as a woman does not come from your virginity. Like your sexuality has value because
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of you. You are the gift. You still have yourself to give. Even if you've made mistakes before,
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anybody can start over. And so we need to really make sure to pour in that message of hope to them.
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But when it comes to how far is too far, I mean, we're clear that like deliberate sexual arousal
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belongs in the sacrament of marriage. And as that, is that a demanding thing? It is. But look,
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if I can't say no to my sexual impulses, then saying yes to them means nothing. And so it's this
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virtue of chastity that frees us to love, but then it also frees us to know if we're being loved.
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And this works especially in the favor for many young women and some guys with how they're getting
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pressured from girls. A girl came to me at a public high school in Texas, and she's dating this
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controlling, possessive, abusive older guy. And I said, look, he treated her like garbage. I said,
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just break up. You deserve better. And she said, I can't just break up with him. I've given him
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everything, my virginity, my reputation. I can't let go of it all. And I said, look, I know it's tough,
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but tell him no more sex. Just watch what happens. She said, okay. She took off her necklace and gave it to
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me. She said, he makes me wear this. He's so controlling. I said, okay, I'll throw it away
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for you. And she left. And five minutes later, she came back happy as can be. She's like, I dumped
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him. And I said, well, that was quick. She said, yeah, I told them no more sex. He slammed his locker
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shut. He threw a book at me. He said, where's your necklace? She said, I gave it to the chastity guy.
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And so you see what happens is she's just tested his love. Like, do you love me? Do you want me?
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Or do you only want the pleasure that you're getting from me? And so that virtue of chastity
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brings a person's intentions up to the surface. Cause do you love me? Or do you just love the
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pleasure you're trying to extract from me? And I think if we can explain it in this way to the
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young people, they go for it. Cause they're like, yeah, I want to be loved authentically and good
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people want to authentically love others. And I think these young people are good. They've just
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been marinated in a culture of lies and sensuality when their hearts are made for pure love.
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Amazing. Have you noticed, you've been doing this now for many years. Um, have you noticed a change
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and what's the change and what are the new questions being asked or what are the new concerns?
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Yeah. Change for the good and change for the bad. I think the good is getting bad or the good is
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getting better and the bad is getting worse. So in terms of the good news, teen sexual activity
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rates, they've been studying it for 30 years and they're constantly going down. Last year is the
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lowest they've ever seen before. So about 20% of high school students in America
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are currently sexually active. 30% have ever had sex, meaning most high school students in the,
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in the country are virgins. And the majority who have become sexually active admit they wish they
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waited longer. It was kind of a disappointment. And so, but unfortunately an increase in abstinence
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does not always an increase in virtue. And some of these girls are even calling themselves asexual
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now, some of the guys, but more of the girls, because what they've seen of human sexuality on their
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phones and in pornography is so violent and degrading that they've come to the conclusion
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that if that's what I'm expected to be and to do, call me out. I am an asexual being I'm out of this
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whole thing. And so we can't necessarily look at the number of increase in abstinence and just assume
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things are getting better. Now, there are things that have gone remarkably worse from the pornography
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addiction, not just for the guys, but even for the young girls. One girl wrote me a letter and she said,
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you know, I was addicted to really bad hardcore internet porn and I finally got rid of it and I
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haven't looked at it in two years. And I'm hoping I can stay strong because she said next year, I'm
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going to be going into high school. And I know the temptations are going to be even worse there.
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I mean, this is a Catholic girl struggling with hardcore pornography since elementary school.
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And so this has all come through the phones when it comes to the confusion in terms of what it even
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means to be human, the gender ideology, things like that. So many of that, much of that has been
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accelerated from Instagram, TikTok, and these kids, the anxiety levels going through the roof,
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pretty much paired with how much time they're spending on social media. One more bit of bad
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news that they now the number one perpetrator of sexual abuse against kids isn't live in boyfriends
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or clergy or some creepy guy in his car down the street. It's 11 to 15 year old boys who've been
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exposed to pornography are the number one perpetrators of sexual abuse against children because they're
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seeing it on their phones with no filters and then acting it out when their little sister has a
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slumber party with their cousin. I mean, it's heartbreaking stuff. And so in the midst of the
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mess, at least we know God wins. And when you give the kids the truth of hope and chastity,
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I find they go for it. I mean, Steve Jobs said people don't know what they want until you show it to
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them. But how can these young people know what they want if we never give them the fullness of the
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Catholic faith? Indeed, indeed. One of the things that struck me, though, in what you were saying
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with regard to the good news, is that the measurement on the studies that show more abstinence
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are measuring sexual activity male to female rather than or male to male or female to female.
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In other words, in couples, they're not measuring self-abuse or masturbation, if you will,
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when it comes to pornography. And I think that's exploded so much so that I've had a couple priests
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tell me, gosh, I wish they would go back to having sex again just because they are dead.
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What do you make of that? And do you think that applies to the study?
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Yeah, it certainly does. And I think a lot of this was accelerated by the isolation caused by COVID
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of these kids disconnected from each other, locked in their room for hours on end on these screens
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without supervision. I mean, it's just a matter of moments and you get on any screen without any
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filter. If junk is just going to start showing up, I mean, because the algorithms and now the AI
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behind these social media platforms that are designed to trigger your dopamine. So you're just
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going back for a hit and a hit and a hit and a hit and find this consolation and this distraction.
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I mean, these are extremely smart computer engineers, businesses, and AI knowing what do
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we need to show these kids to just sock them into this world? Because the more time they spend on
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our platform, the richer we become. Kids aren't aware of this. They think, oh, they're just showing
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me the things that I like. But it's like, no, no, no. You end up showing what they show you and then
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they lead it to become worse and worse and worse. And so, yeah, I absolutely see a linkage between
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those things. And not only, as I had said, just the guys, even the girls. And then when they're
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in these states of desolation, they go to their phones for consolation. I mean, perfect example
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of God's providence through this whole thing. There was a girl there in Australia visiting from
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the United States and she was coming out there to visit her boyfriend. Now, while she was there,
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she discovered that he's been cheating on her. And when she found that out, she told me she was so
00:27:13.360
desolate and heartbroken and done with it. So sick of Christian guys sending her little
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pornographic things like, like these are the good guys too, apparently. And she just got so sick of
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it. And she said, I'm done. I'm so tired of holding onto my virginity for 25 years. When all these guys
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do is disappoint me. I'm finished. She got on one of these modern dating apps and figured I'm just
00:27:34.000
going to find a guy and I'm just going to hook up with him. I'm done with this. And so she found some
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guys. Then she said, okay, I'm going to do a background check on Instagram on these guys. And while she's
00:27:41.840
doing background checks to decide which guy she wants to lose her virginity to after the mess of
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this failed relationship, guess what shows up on her Instagram feed is my video talking about people
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praying for the witches while I'm in Sydney. And she saw, and she's like, what is this? And she's
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like, wait a minute. I saw that guy when I was in high school back in the United States. And so she
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messaged me on Instagram and she said, your video popped up. And, and I think it came at the right
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moment. I said, Hey, I got to talk tomorrow night to all the young adults. It's open to the public.
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It's free. Why don't you come? And so I gave her the info. She showed up at the talk,
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heard the chastity talk. And she said, during Eucharistic adoration, God just poured in all
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these graces. She went to the sacrament of reconciliation. She's now recommitted herself
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to chastity. And she's even coming on the podcast next week to talk about this whole miracle.
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Now, if the witches didn't start this whole thing, she still would have been on Instagram and that
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dating app looking to hook up and lose her virginity at the age of 25. But because these so-called
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witches launched this whole thing, she was exposed to this message and her soul, she said, was saved.
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Whoa, that is so beautiful. That is, it's exactly what the scriptures say. God uses all of the
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things that the evil one would throw to his good. And it's a beautiful thing to, to realize too,
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that the fulfillment, we don't always get to see, but you sometimes do, of the scripture verse that
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says, you know, all things work for good for those who love him. Horrible situations that happened to
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you have been turned to good. You're just so good that you see them right away and, and you're able
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to revel in them as they're happening. The, the tomato juice thing is, is perfect. Jason, thank you so
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very much for being with us. And I gotta give credit. I just gotta give credit though. This isn't a me
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thing. As soon as this stuff started happening, I started reaching out to the sisters of life,
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to different cloistered convents of nuns. And I'm like, Hey, can you cover us with some prayer?
00:29:36.680
Send them some air support. I reached out to an exorcist friend of mine, Monsignor John Essif,
00:29:41.100
who's just like Yoda. And I'm like, Hey, can you guys cover us? And they came in just big time with
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air support. I mean, we're the group, you know, just little boots on the ground, but these are the
00:29:50.800
A-10s. These are the stealth bombers. They've got the real ammo, the contemplation, the intercession.
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And I think it's a direct result of all of their prayers, that all this unbelievable fruit and fruit yet to
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come that we don't even know is going to happen. It all comes back to grace.
00:30:04.940
Amen to that. Before we let you go, Jason, because I really do want to promote what you do. Where can
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people learn more about you? How can they book you for their own conference or for anything like that?
00:30:15.300
Yeah. The website is just chastity.com. That's where you can go to book events or get our resources.
00:30:20.220
We've got more than 20 different books on everything from chastity, breaking free from pornography,
00:30:24.940
how to help people who are struggling with gender dysphoria, all those resources. You know,
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we're on Instagram. My name is Jason Everett or Twitter, Jason Everett, Facebook, YouTube. So we're
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always just trying to put resources out there to help give the kids something better on their screens
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to discover the love that God has planned for them. Jason Everett, thank you so much. May God
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continue to bless you and work powerfully through you to bring his message of love, of hope, of chastity
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to the world. God bless you. You too. Thanks so much. And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.