The John-Henry Westen Show - Jason Evert： Attacked by Witches, Fake News, and Tomato Soup

00:00:00.000 She showed up at the talk, heard the chastity talk, and she said during Eucharistic adoration,

00:00:04.580 God just poured in all these graces. She went to the sacrament of reconciliation. She's now

00:00:09.240 recommitted herself to chastity, and she's even coming on the podcast next week to talk about

00:00:13.420 this whole miracle. You might have seen a really viral story because Jason Everett, one of the,

00:00:26.760 not one of the, I'm sorry to say in my opinion, the greatest speaker on chastity, the church's

00:00:31.780 teaching on chastity in the world, just was in Australia, and he was attacked by witches. A

00:00:38.480 group of witches got together. Yeah, they call themselves witches, by the way. They got together

00:00:42.600 to try and take down his talks. They called them all sorts of names, and they were successful in

00:00:51.460 one school. But as Jason will tell you, Our Lady intervened because she was the scheduler of this

00:00:59.260 trip, the Blessed Virgin Mary. So they had all sorts of miraculous things happen with amazing results.

00:01:06.920 Jason Everett is here to talk to us about all of that right now. Stay tuned.

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00:02:25.960 No, it's a joy to be with you. Let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross.

00:02:30.460 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

00:02:37.080 Jason, you were just in Australia. Tell us about that and what took place.

00:02:43.100 Yeah, it was quite an adventure. I've been out there six times before, so this is my seventh visit, and

00:02:47.900 everything's run smoothly in the past. But the day before I was heading out there, I started to get some

00:02:52.520 news headlines that people sent to me of like, hey, there's some protests on the ground out there of

00:02:57.020 some people that are trying to ban you from getting into that couple of the Catholic schools. And I

00:03:01.140 said, you know, okay, you know, I just started praying and do it a little bit. And I, before I

00:03:04.420 went to the airport, I visited a church and did mass. Then before a statue of Our Lady, did nine

00:03:09.480 memoraries and kind of just consecrated the whole trip to Our Lady. Like this thing's yours, whatever

00:03:13.180 you want to have happen. This is your trip, not mine. Let's go. And so I went to the airport, flew

00:03:17.100 down. By the time I landed, things had really blown into quite a kerfuffle where there was a group of

00:03:23.100 self-professed witches that were trying to pressure these schools, flooding the school with

00:03:28.800 phone calls. You know, some of them actually parents of the school saying, we don't want this

00:03:32.840 happening now. Some of these quote unquote witches are just political activists that call themselves

00:03:37.880 witches, but they're not actually involved in the occult. But then some people that we saw were

00:03:41.980 messaging were actually involved in, you know, witchcraft and things like that, the messages that

00:03:45.880 we were getting. But they were calling the hotels where I was supposed to speak, trying to get the

00:03:50.400 hotels to ban me. They were, one of the events was ticketed. The tickets were free for this young

00:03:55.300 adult event. And, but we only had a thousand tickets. So they were calling and reserving all

00:03:59.800 the tickets and getting online, booking all the tickets so that young adults wouldn't have a chance

00:04:03.960 to go. But they were catching on to this and they kept putting them back for sale. The witches kept

00:04:08.060 trying to claim them. So the younger, I mean, it was just nonstop opposition to the whole thing.

00:04:13.140 So, wow. You know, I, uh, three of the schools ended up canceling their events in person and

00:04:19.820 instead turn them into opt in, uh, like a live stream event where the girls who want the boys 1.00

00:04:26.220 who wanted to see the chastity talk and get permission from their parents. And then the

00:04:30.300 school would let them see this presentation. Meanwhile, this is getting picked up on their

00:04:34.520 mainstream news station, all over their newspapers, these claims, this, this, this homophobic 0.90

00:04:40.480 right-wing traveling chastity, misogynistic preacher is going to come. And, you know, 0.82

00:04:45.740 it was, I mean, it was just nuts to say, I mean, and I, I said, look, if the stuff in me and these

00:04:50.340 petitions was true, I'd sign the petition myself. I wouldn't let my kid go to one of those talks

00:04:54.820 either. Um, and so three of the schools got cold feet, like, we don't want to deal with this.

00:05:00.180 We'll make it just live stream to whoever wants to show. And then one of the schools like, okay,

00:05:04.860 well, we're going to pipe it out to eight different high schools and let those kids opt in too.

00:05:09.160 And so we ended up being able to hit more schools in terms of the total number. I don't know, but

00:05:14.000 the empty spots were filled in by a couple of other schools. I was like, Hey, if you don't want

00:05:18.340 to have them, we'll have them. And so, uh, in the end, the whole thing got capped off with, um,

00:05:23.760 me on stage in front of a thousand young adults. I finished the presentation and one of the

00:05:29.580 protesters got by security and dumped a can of tomato soup on my head in front of everybody.

00:05:36.000 Like the crowd was like, and I said, okay, everybody let's pray for this gentleman right

00:05:40.660 now to join me. Hail Mary. If we all started praying to hail Mary over the guy and he did

00:05:44.420 not appreciate that. And security took him, dragged them off the grounds. And then he came

00:05:49.700 back with two other guys with a hoodie and like a ski mask bandana over his face, trying

00:05:54.840 to get in. But our security buddy was in the special ops there of the Australian military,

00:05:59.920 tackled them to the ground and eventually was able to get these guys just to get lost.

00:06:04.020 But man, quite an adventure to say the least.

00:06:07.520 Wow. It's not every day that you get to suffer for the faith. Um, and, but react to it immediately.

00:06:20.020 It is incredible. You, you have the opportunity to share the faith, which is totally beautiful.

00:06:26.460 You also had an opportunity that you weren't expecting in that you had the opportunity to

00:06:31.500 witness to receiving some persecution for the faith, accepting it without animosity,

00:06:39.720 but with beauty. When you pray the hail Mary, you, you've, you've taken that scriptural, uh,

00:06:44.900 you know, pray for your enemies. That's like heaping coals, fiery coals on their heads.

00:06:49.260 You did that live. That's just beautiful.

00:06:52.440 Yeah. The young adults came up afterwards. Like, I'm so sorry that that happened. I'm like,

00:06:56.460 look, I have eight kids. I've had food thrown at me for 20 years straight. I'm like,

00:07:01.340 this is what I typically look like at the end of the day. Anyway, dinner with eight kids. Like

00:07:05.520 it's so, but they said, you know, they were really blessed to see, you know, how I responded just by

00:07:10.540 praying for the guy. It was funny, literally two seconds before it landed on my head. I thought in

00:07:15.520 my head, I'm like, wow, the talks are over. Nothing really happened. And then, you know,

00:07:19.680 then the whole thing gets dumped on me, but I mean, it could have been worse, right? I mean,

00:07:22.900 it's to me, it could have been like broccoli, you know, cream soup. Like, so it could have been

00:07:26.140 worse, but, um, you know, but it was such an opportunity for us to intercede for that guy,

00:07:31.780 because what you see from him is just anger, but anger is there's something always under that,

00:07:37.040 which is hurt. And under hurt is a wound that Christ hasn't been invited into. And so I think

00:07:42.520 with all of our intercession for that man's brokenness, um, God willing, we can see him in

00:07:46.820 heaven one day and then we'll just tease him like, Hey, Hey, tomato guy, I remember you, you know,

00:07:50.720 so love always wins. Indeed. Indeed. Now let's get into some of the specifics because I think

00:07:56.900 they're rather amazing here. The name of the, um, Twitter page and the pages that these people deal

00:08:04.040 with is MF witches, uh, MFW for short. Uh, they call themselves granddaughters of the witches you 0.96

00:08:13.000 couldn't burn. Um, so very much self-professed witches yet in Australia, the mainstream media

00:08:21.640 tried to paint you as calling these women witches. Is that not the case?

00:08:29.140 Yeah. So there were people involved with this, which Twitter site that were opposing it. There

00:08:33.960 were also just parents involved, moms involved saying like, Oh my goodness, if these are reports

00:08:38.180 are true, we can't have this misogynistic hate monger come into our school and just basically

00:08:42.900 blame girls for a lack of male self-control. And so there was this parental outlash that was

00:08:48.540 started and the witches said, you know, we're behind this whole thing. We're the ones kind of pushing

00:08:52.720 this and yay. We're the ones who got the schools to cancel. And what was interesting is, uh, I had a

00:08:58.840 little clip on Instagram when all this stuff started happening. I said, Hey, just want to reach out to

00:09:02.900 all around the world. If you could just please pray for this. There's a group of kind of

00:09:06.180 self-professed witches that are trying to come against this. And I said, look, you don't need

00:09:10.380 to worry because I consecrated this whole trip to our lady and thinking that some witches are going

00:09:15.140 to ruin our lady's plans is like thinking, you know, some house cats can overcome some Siberian 1.00

00:09:20.580 tiger. You know, it's really no match. And so that's what I said. So media took that and said

00:09:26.400 that some parents are concerned about Jason speaking to their daughters, but Jason is calling

00:09:30.560 these moms witches watch here. And then it just jumps in the middle of my click. Yes. So these witches, 0.90

00:09:35.080 blah, blah, blah. So they're trying to paint me. Like I'm calling these women witches and I'm a 0.96

00:09:40.200 Siberian tiger. Cause this, their parents are just little house cats. And it's like, wait a minute. 0.99

00:09:44.460 No, no, no, no, no. The media actually reached out to me. Like, do you have any response to these

00:09:48.320 things? And I said, yes, parents are the primary sex educators of their children. And parents always

00:09:53.780 have a right to opt out their child. If they think that a message wouldn't be appropriate for them,

00:09:58.080 you know, and I said these things and I gave all these paragraphs of explanation.

00:10:01.600 And then the article was run, at least in the newspaper had all these accusations. And then

00:10:06.020 it said, we reached out to Jason Everett for comment, but they didn't include any comments,

00:10:11.240 like not a single sentence. Cause if they had the whole, the whole narrative that they're trying

00:10:15.560 to spin would be thrown off. So they just said, they reached out for me for comment,

00:10:18.740 but let's just not include the comments that might actually clarify something.

00:10:23.040 Unbelievable. And that leaves the impression that you didn't, you didn't answer because that's

00:10:27.240 typical news speak for, we reached out for comment and there was no reply. Let's have to actually

00:10:33.140 play that clip from the media so we can see the fake news in action.

00:10:36.720 The Chastity Project founder took to social media this morning,

00:10:40.780 biting back at parents who have rallied against him.

00:10:44.240 Thinking a bunch of witches are going to overturn our ladies. Wishes is kind of like thinking a bunch 0.82

00:10:48.760 of house cats are going to defeat some, you know, Siberian tiger.

00:10:53.660 Some students at St.

00:10:54.980 Joseph's Catholic College say they've lost confidence in the school while parents are taking

00:11:00.660 aim elsewhere.

00:11:01.660 What's challenging is that the school is under directive of, of the Broken Bay, uh,

00:11:07.660 diocese. And I think fundamentally that's where the problem lies.

00:11:11.040 Catholic schools, Broken Bay and Jason Evatt have been contacted for comment. Amber Griffin,

00:11:17.660 NBN news.

00:11:19.320 So that's the fake news. Watch what it really was. This is where they actually took it from.

00:11:24.480 Here's what he actually said.

00:11:25.940 Hey, good morning, everybody. It's early in the morning here out in Sydney, Australia,

00:11:28.960 day two of my trip. Wanted to give you an important update and prayer request.

00:11:32.540 Uh, it's gotten pretty interesting since we got here. Uh, three of the chastity talks in the high

00:11:36.460 school have been canceled by parents and the ones who are taking credit for it.

00:11:40.140 No kidding. Not making this up are actually a group of witches and they are celebrating the

00:11:44.800 fact that three high schools were able to cancel the presentation. But you know what happens when

00:11:49.440 you consecrate a trip to our lady, uh, she takes care of things. And so thinking a bunch of witches 1.00

00:11:54.740 are going to overturn our ladies wishes is kind of like thinking a bunch of house cats are going to

00:11:59.500 defeat some, you know, Siberian tiger, you know, not much of a match. And so three schools have

00:12:04.780 already jumped in, filled in the empty spots. And one of them is live streaming it to eight

00:12:08.220 additional high schools. So as a result of all the chaos and protests, um, we're gonna reach more

00:12:13.000 souls than ever. And so I would ask you to double up on your prayers and intercession. If you would,

00:12:17.880 we've got, uh, three more high schools today, an evening presentation, more schools tomorrow,

00:12:22.540 and then some young adults in the evening. So please keep those prayers coming and know you

00:12:25.940 have my prayers as well. God bless. You know, Jason, it's really nice every once in a while to

00:12:29.860 blow the lid off fake news and just, but to see that this is from Australia's national news

00:12:36.420 television stations. Uh, it's sad. It's, it's really sad. Uh, they can't come up with an honest

00:12:42.960 story, uh, and they have to distort it. Um, wanted to talk to you about your actual talks. What is going

00:12:51.420 on in the minds of young people today? Because despite this news, which, which brings us, you know,

00:12:57.560 you right now, because it, it did make the headlines, which is great. The central thing about you,

00:13:03.820 your calling, well, is actually your own family and your eight children, of course, and your spouse.

00:13:08.540 But God has blessed you in a very, very particular way. He has called you to spread the truth of Jesus

00:13:17.920 Christ, of the Catholic Church, with regard to chastity. One of, it's, it's like a central battle, uh, of, 0.68

00:13:25.320 of Satan. In fact, our lady warned at Fatima that more souls go to hell, she said, for sins of the

00:13:32.440 flesh than for any other reason. So you're called in a very special way. You've been gifted in a very,

00:13:38.480 very special way to deal in this battle, this central battle for our time, for our age.

00:13:45.400 And really, you've been gifted. I say gifted, because I honestly believe you, you, you speak

00:13:51.640 on it so powerfully. What are the most burning questions that young people have? You've been

00:13:56.500 with them now for, well, for many, many years, but you've been steeped in this just now. What are

00:14:02.500 young people asking about more than anything else?

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00:14:29.400 all the tickets are gone. We'll see you in Wisconsin. Yeah, and right before we dive into

00:14:36.320 that, I do want to mention one more thing on the news cycle that was even worse in their last

00:14:40.860 egregious mischaracterization. They had a press conference at one of the Catholic high schools

00:14:46.560 over there, where they put a couple of girls in front of the microphone, and basically said, 1.00

00:14:51.060 you know, this guy's coming to our school, and he's going to preach this message of, you know,

00:14:54.480 homophobia and bigotry and hatred and misogyny. Like, this is dangerous. You shouldn't be exposed

00:14:59.300 this. Can you say that at the mic? So, these girls are at the microphone, and they're like, yeah, we 1.00

00:15:02.940 need to be safe to not have to see and hear these messages of these kinds of things, because this

00:15:07.460 isn't good. And they're doing this press conference, these high school girls who've never seen the

00:15:11.360 presentation at all, and they're spouting off how dangerous it is to them. And to me, this is this,

00:15:16.920 I saw a little meme on Facebook or Instagram, where there's a dad holding the little baby,

00:15:22.560 and he says, watch this, and he bumps the wall, you know, with his own shoulder, and then he's like,

00:15:26.560 oh, oh, and the baby starts crying, although the baby didn't even get touched. And then it flips

00:15:31.920 and shows a mom, and a little baby falls, like bumps the head on the little pole, and the baby

00:15:36.480 looks up to the mom, like, did that hurt? And mom's like, haha, and then the baby starts laughing.

00:15:40.700 And he said, there's so much power in how we train children to react to thing, as opposed to just

00:15:46.520 letting kids see the talk and have their own intellectual abilities to discern, is this guy a

00:15:51.380 misogynistic creep? Or is this the truth my heart is burning for? And so when we actually got to speak

00:15:56.780 to the kids in person, one boy came up to me after the talk, he gave me a big handshake. He's like,

00:16:01.960 man, the media is bull. And I'm like, well, I'm glad you learned that. That's a lesson you're not

00:16:06.580 going to want to forget. And they did surveys of the kid. And one kid, you know, they only gave me

00:16:10.280 like two surveys. And I look at the first one, it's like 10 out of 10, 10 out of 10. And it said,

00:16:14.580 everything they said bad about Jason was false. Thank you, Jason. One girl even messaged me on

00:16:19.700 Instagram. She said, coming into your talk, I was really nervous and afraid of what the message

00:16:23.420 would be. She said, I don't know what point it was your talk. She said, I felt disgusted. And I

00:16:28.320 wanted to cry because I realized that everything they said about this presentation was completely

00:16:33.240 wrong. She said, you have the most pure heart. Thank you so much. This is really going to change the

00:16:37.340 way I look at myself. Thanks so much. And put a little heart emoji. And so the kids actually got to see it

00:16:42.360 responded in that way. They loved it. They're coming after work for hugs and selfies and pictures

00:16:46.740 because I'm not there to shame. For those students who struggle with same-sex attractions,

00:16:51.760 I extend the invitation. Hey, we're all called to chastity. And here's what this can look like in

00:16:55.780 your life. And the kids universally responded like they did in the last past six trips to Australia.

00:17:01.600 They're starving for this message. And you know what? They haven't gotten it, unfortunately,

00:17:05.460 in the last 40, 50 years of the Catholic education out there. Now they hear it for once. It's like,

00:17:11.540 wow, this is the message we've been hungering for. So at the schools, you know, one of them,

00:17:15.800 we just invited students to come. They did like a Q&A. They gave us a room and twice as many students

00:17:21.380 showed up that could even fit into the room. And we just sat there for an hour and 15 minutes.

00:17:25.660 And they asked questions like, well, how do I know when it's rolled up? You know, how do I know that

00:17:29.880 this guy is the one? And he's not just saying it. You know, one girl even said, is it possible

00:17:34.220 to find a relationship where the guy just won't want you for sex? And so we spent time with these

00:17:40.280 students. Afterwards, they just bombarded us with questions. And, you know, how do I start over?

00:17:44.680 How do I break free from porn? How do I solve this situation? So their hearts are made for love.

00:17:49.760 Their minds are made for the truth. And chastity offers them both.

00:17:53.900 Yeah. It's amazing. That it's very, I mean, I've experienced the same thing. I also gave talks.

00:18:02.620 I remember being in New Zealand. Same thing. Tons of kids, a lot of trepidation before they get there.

00:18:10.820 And then after, you're stuck there for hours answering questions because they're supposed

00:18:15.180 to go to class, but they're just too interested and stick around. It's amazing. The hunger

00:18:19.740 is unbelievable. The falsehoods that they're fed is also unbelievable. And I think for a lot of our

00:18:26.560 listeners, we've got to get the message out. The message that Jason gives, which is the message

00:18:32.880 of the church on these things, it's truly beautiful. And it works, by the way. And so

00:18:38.860 the young people are hungering for this, like nothing else. So Jason, if you could tell us,

00:18:45.260 what are some of the main questions today that are burning in the hearts of young people?

00:18:50.260 Yeah, I think some of the main ones we get are, you know, well, how far is too far? Can I do this

00:18:54.000 with a guy? Can I act with a girl? Questions? I found that the guys, it's more questions about me.

00:18:59.120 Like, can I still do this? Can we, how far can we go? With the girls, it tends to be more we,

00:19:03.400 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

00:19:06.940 not just saying it? And so those are the types of most burning questions I think we get. How far is

00:19:11.800 too far? And how do I know this person's right for me? Or they authentically love me?

00:19:16.580 And how do you answer that then with, with, with guys? How, well, typically guys, I guess,

00:19:21.300 how far is too far? Yeah. Well, I mean, first thing you want to point out is this is kind of

00:19:24.840 the wrong question to ask. It's almost like asking like, well, how close can I come to hitting oncoming

00:19:29.800 traffic in my car without actually hitting oncoming traffic? It's like, well, if you value your car or

00:19:35.380 your life, that's not really a question you're asking. You're more asking, okay, how much can I

00:19:39.220 just kind of drive safe? Because what's here is valuable. And so we're starting with the wrong

00:19:43.400 question. It's almost this attitude of, well, like if it's a mortal sin, I don't want to do it.

00:19:47.620 But if it's a venial sin, well, I don't want to miss it. It's like, okay, that's the wrong attitude

00:19:51.820 to have towards sin altogether. And so we've got to relook at our intentions. And so I want to wake

00:19:56.720 up their conscience instead of just giving them a line in the sand, like on this side, it's bad.

00:20:00.860 On this side, it's good. I ask them questions like, okay, you want to get married one day?

00:20:05.520 Imagine your future spouse out there right now. Like how far would you want them going with someone 0.99

00:20:10.380 else tonight? Set the same standard on yourself to really think that through. I bet your future spouse is

00:20:16.080 out there and they probably prefer you not doing this with another person. Just give them that gift

00:20:21.140 of your innocence. And even if you've messed up and you can start over. And I really try to drive home

00:20:26.060 that look, especially the women who think they're like damaged goods, if they've gone too far, like 1.00

00:20:30.280 your value as a woman does not come from your virginity. Like your sexuality has value because 0.99

00:20:36.260 of you. You are the gift. You still have yourself to give. Even if you've made mistakes before,

00:20:41.440 anybody can start over. And so we need to really make sure to pour in that message of hope to them.

00:20:46.500 But when it comes to how far is too far, I mean, we're clear that like deliberate sexual arousal

00:20:50.720 belongs in the sacrament of marriage. And as that, is that a demanding thing? It is. But look,

00:20:56.140 if I can't say no to my sexual impulses, then saying yes to them means nothing. And so it's this

00:21:02.820 virtue of chastity that frees us to love, but then it also frees us to know if we're being loved.

00:21:08.320 And this works especially in the favor for many young women and some guys with how they're getting

00:21:12.800 pressured from girls. A girl came to me at a public high school in Texas, and she's dating this

00:21:18.020 controlling, possessive, abusive older guy. And I said, look, he treated her like garbage. I said, 1.00

00:21:23.280 just break up. You deserve better. And she said, I can't just break up with him. I've given him

00:21:26.980 everything, my virginity, my reputation. I can't let go of it all. And I said, look, I know it's tough,

00:21:31.940 but tell him no more sex. Just watch what happens. She said, okay. She took off her necklace and gave it to 0.78

00:21:36.280 me. She said, he makes me wear this. He's so controlling. I said, okay, I'll throw it away

00:21:39.980 for you. And she left. And five minutes later, she came back happy as can be. She's like, I dumped

00:21:44.140 him. And I said, well, that was quick. She said, yeah, I told them no more sex. He slammed his locker

00:21:48.320 shut. He threw a book at me. He said, where's your necklace? She said, I gave it to the chastity guy.

00:21:53.820 And so you see what happens is she's just tested his love. Like, do you love me? Do you want me?

00:21:58.640 Or do you only want the pleasure that you're getting from me? And so that virtue of chastity

00:22:02.980 brings a person's intentions up to the surface. Cause do you love me? Or do you just love the

00:22:08.040 pleasure you're trying to extract from me? And I think if we can explain it in this way to the

00:22:11.820 young people, they go for it. Cause they're like, yeah, I want to be loved authentically and good

00:22:17.080 people want to authentically love others. And I think these young people are good. They've just

00:22:21.780 been marinated in a culture of lies and sensuality when their hearts are made for pure love.

00:22:26.460 Amazing. Have you noticed, you've been doing this now for many years. Um, have you noticed a change

00:22:34.540 and what's the change and what are the new questions being asked or what are the new concerns?

00:22:39.180 Yeah. Change for the good and change for the bad. I think the good is getting bad or the good is

00:22:42.700 getting better and the bad is getting worse. So in terms of the good news, teen sexual activity

00:22:46.580 rates, they've been studying it for 30 years and they're constantly going down. Last year is the

00:22:51.760 lowest they've ever seen before. So about 20% of high school students in America

00:22:55.900 are currently sexually active. 30% have ever had sex, meaning most high school students in the,

00:23:01.360 in the country are virgins. And the majority who have become sexually active admit they wish they

00:23:06.620 waited longer. It was kind of a disappointment. And so, but unfortunately an increase in abstinence

00:23:11.940 does not always an increase in virtue. And some of these girls are even calling themselves asexual 0.99

00:23:17.440 now, some of the guys, but more of the girls, because what they've seen of human sexuality on their

00:23:21.900 phones and in pornography is so violent and degrading that they've come to the conclusion

00:23:26.540 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

00:23:32.660 whole thing. And so we can't necessarily look at the number of increase in abstinence and just assume

00:23:37.540 things are getting better. Now, there are things that have gone remarkably worse from the pornography

00:23:42.940 addiction, not just for the guys, but even for the young girls. One girl wrote me a letter and she said,

00:23:47.740 you know, I was addicted to really bad hardcore internet porn and I finally got rid of it and I

00:23:53.260 haven't looked at it in two years. And I'm hoping I can stay strong because she said next year, I'm

00:23:57.420 going to be going into high school. And I know the temptations are going to be even worse there.

00:24:01.480 I mean, this is a Catholic girl struggling with hardcore pornography since elementary school.

00:24:06.700 And so this has all come through the phones when it comes to the confusion in terms of what it even

00:24:11.880 means to be human, the gender ideology, things like that. So many of that, much of that has been

00:24:16.700 accelerated from Instagram, TikTok, and these kids, the anxiety levels going through the roof,

00:24:22.760 pretty much paired with how much time they're spending on social media. One more bit of bad

00:24:27.580 news that they now the number one perpetrator of sexual abuse against kids isn't live in boyfriends

00:24:33.720 or clergy or some creepy guy in his car down the street. It's 11 to 15 year old boys who've been

00:24:39.760 exposed to pornography are the number one perpetrators of sexual abuse against children because they're

00:24:44.920 seeing it on their phones with no filters and then acting it out when their little sister has a

00:24:50.040 slumber party with their cousin. I mean, it's heartbreaking stuff. And so in the midst of the

00:24:54.960 mess, at least we know God wins. And when you give the kids the truth of hope and chastity,

00:25:00.300 I find they go for it. I mean, Steve Jobs said people don't know what they want until you show it to

00:25:04.160 them. But how can these young people know what they want if we never give them the fullness of the

00:25:08.040 Catholic faith? Indeed, indeed. One of the things that struck me, though, in what you were saying

00:25:13.340 with regard to the good news, is that the measurement on the studies that show more abstinence

00:25:19.680 are measuring sexual activity male to female rather than or male to male or female to female.

00:25:26.960 In other words, in couples, they're not measuring self-abuse or masturbation, if you will,

00:25:31.940 when it comes to pornography. And I think that's exploded so much so that I've had a couple priests 0.53

00:25:40.520 tell me, gosh, I wish they would go back to having sex again just because they are dead. 0.95

00:25:49.980 What do you make of that? And do you think that applies to the study? 0.93

00:25:53.640 Yeah, it certainly does. And I think a lot of this was accelerated by the isolation caused by COVID

00:25:58.300 of these kids disconnected from each other, locked in their room for hours on end on these screens

00:26:04.600 without supervision. I mean, it's just a matter of moments and you get on any screen without any

00:26:08.840 filter. If junk is just going to start showing up, I mean, because the algorithms and now the AI

00:26:14.120 behind these social media platforms that are designed to trigger your dopamine. So you're just

00:26:19.940 going back for a hit and a hit and a hit and a hit and find this consolation and this distraction.

00:26:24.480 I mean, these are extremely smart computer engineers, businesses, and AI knowing what do

00:26:30.100 we need to show these kids to just sock them into this world? Because the more time they spend on

00:26:34.520 our platform, the richer we become. Kids aren't aware of this. They think, oh, they're just showing

00:26:38.780 me the things that I like. But it's like, no, no, no. You end up showing what they show you and then

00:26:43.900 they lead it to become worse and worse and worse. And so, yeah, I absolutely see a linkage between

00:26:48.860 those things. And not only, as I had said, just the guys, even the girls. And then when they're

00:26:53.800 in these states of desolation, they go to their phones for consolation. I mean, perfect example

00:26:58.680 of God's providence through this whole thing. There was a girl there in Australia visiting from

00:27:03.640 the United States and she was coming out there to visit her boyfriend. Now, while she was there,

00:27:08.080 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 1.00

00:27:18.960 pornographic things like, like these are the good guys too, apparently. And she just got so sick of 0.87

00:27:23.460 it. And she said, I'm done. I'm so tired of holding onto my virginity for 25 years. When all these guys

00:27:29.420 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 0.85

00:27:37.460 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 0.90

00:27:47.040 this failed relationship, guess what shows up on her Instagram feed is my video talking about people

00:27:52.600 praying for the witches while I'm in Sydney. And she saw, and she's like, what is this? And she's

00:27:56.580 like, wait a minute. I saw that guy when I was in high school back in the United States. And so she

00:28:00.960 messaged me on Instagram and she said, your video popped up. And, and I think it came at the right

00:28:06.040 moment. I said, Hey, I got to talk tomorrow night to all the young adults. It's open to the public.

00:28:09.640 It's free. Why don't you come? And so I gave her the info. She showed up at the talk,

00:28:13.660 heard the chastity talk. And she said, during Eucharistic adoration, God just poured in all

00:28:18.380 these graces. She went to the sacrament of reconciliation. She's now recommitted herself

00:28:22.400 to chastity. And she's even coming on the podcast next week to talk about this whole miracle.

00:28:26.760 Now, if the witches didn't start this whole thing, she still would have been on Instagram and that 0.99

00:28:32.260 dating app looking to hook up and lose her virginity at the age of 25. But because these so-called

00:28:37.540 witches launched this whole thing, she was exposed to this message and her soul, she said, was saved.

00:28:44.580 Whoa, that is so beautiful. That is, it's exactly what the scriptures say. God uses all of the

00:28:52.220 things that the evil one would throw to his good. And it's a beautiful thing to, to realize too,

00:28:58.300 that the fulfillment, we don't always get to see, but you sometimes do, of the scripture verse that

00:29:05.020 says, you know, all things work for good for those who love him. Horrible situations that happened to

00:29:11.280 you have been turned to good. You're just so good that you see them right away and, and you're able

00:29:16.960 to revel in them as they're happening. The, the tomato juice thing is, is perfect. Jason, thank you so

00:29:23.540 very much for being with us. And I gotta give credit. I just gotta give credit though. This isn't a me

00:29:28.420 thing. As soon as this stuff started happening, I started reaching out to the sisters of life,

00:29:32.340 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

00:29:46.720 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.

00:29:55.600 And I think it's a direct result of all of their prayers, that all this unbelievable fruit and fruit yet to

00:30:00.220 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

00:30:09.960 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,

00:30:29.020 we're on Instagram. My name is Jason Everett or Twitter, Jason Everett, Facebook, YouTube. So we're

00:30:33.640 always just trying to put resources out there to help give the kids something better on their screens

00:30:38.180 to discover the love that God has planned for them. Jason Everett, thank you so much. May God

00:30:44.220 continue to bless you and work powerfully through you to bring his message of love, of hope, of chastity

00:30:52.380 to the world. God bless you. You too. Thanks so much. And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.

00:30:59.020 What's the name of God?

00:31:02.000 God bless you.

00:31:03.760 God bless you.

00:31:10.060 God bless you.

The John-Henry Westen Show - May 30, 2024

Jason Evert： Attacked by Witches, Fake News, and Tomato Soup

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