Ep. 381 - Miracle Baby
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Summary
On today's show, Matt talks about the lack of stampedes and tramplings on Black Friday, and why he thinks it's a little disturbing. Plus, Matt shares a story about the first time he committed a crime, and how he almost got away with it.
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Well, I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and you enjoyed the time with your family.
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I did actually this year take over the turkey duty, so I cooked the turkey for the Thanksgiving
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Might have slightly undercooked it, if I'm being totally honest with you.
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Not the whole turkey, but just around the sides, around the thighs and everything.
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And anyway, rare turkey is a delicacy in some parts of the world, I assume.
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Um, and I know that, that if you listen to this show on, on Wednesday, the day, the day
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before the holiday started, uh, you might say that, well, Hey Matt, you, you went on this
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whole spiel on Wednesday about the proper way to prepare a Thanksgiving meal.
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And you said that if you're a dictator of the world, you're going to execute people who
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don't properly, you know, incorrectly make a Thanksgiving meal.
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Well, yes, but again, as I always stress, and I'm very clear about this.
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There is one rule for me and another rule for everybody else.
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I do not hold myself to the same standard that I hold other people to.
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I do have one other thing I wanted to say in reference to the holiday, uh, before we move
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And because I'm a little, I'm, I'm a little, uh, upset about something and you could call
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You could call me old fashioned, guilty as charged.
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But I am very troubled by the fact that there were hardly any stampedes or tramplings on Black
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We're talking about one of the great American traditions.
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One of the great American traditions is, as you know, people descending upon big box retailers
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at 5am the day after Thanksgiving to beat each other to each other to death over cheap
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It's something that back in my day, growing up as a kid, it's something that you did as
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I'll never forget the first time I saw my grandmother dropkick a woman over a food processor
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Um, growing up, and we all have a special memory of the first time that we ourselves
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And in fact, kind of a sweet story for me, uh, and I tell this all the time, but I, I remember
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my first time I strangled a man to death with an extension cord, um, and did get the TV out
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of his hands after that, did nine years in prison for it.
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It was a tradition, it was a, you know what it was?
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It was a tradition that helps you kind of recalibrate, refocus after all the stuff about
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gratitude on Thanksgiving and all of that, being content and happy.
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You were able to, to, to get that out of your system and remember that the accumulation
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of material things is the point of life and it's what gives life meaning.
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It was, it was, there was something real behind it, you know, but in recent years, there's
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And then this year there was a brawl here and there.
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I saw a few videos, but, um, a few arrests, but it's just, it's not like it used to be.
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And so, yeah, you still have the materialism that's alive and well, and that's good, but
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we totally miss out on the bloodlust and the violence.
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And, uh, I'm sorry, maybe I'm stuck in the past, but it's just not the same.
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I guess all we could do though is, uh, is move on.
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Much to discuss on this Monday, including a surprising and inspiring, actually inspiring.
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So now we're into, um, there's a, there's a actually inspiring moment in a college football
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game on Saturday, an inspiring moment that of course also, uh, upset plenty of people
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on the left as they tend to get upset about things, especially good things.
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The great Ohio state running back, uh, JK Dobbins had another big game on Saturday against
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And then, uh, towards the end of the game, wasn't a very interesting game.
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It was, it was kind of a blowout, but the most interesting thing that happened was towards
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the end of the game, the announcer, Gus Johnson surprised everybody with an anecdote, the kind
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of anecdote you don't hear very often at football games.
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Well, just take a listen to this 211 yards rushing.
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He's churning the clock out in between the tackles and then bam lightning on the outside,
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the explosiveness to go down and then up and over the top to put that ball over the goal
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What a day for JK Dobbins, absolute dominant performance from Dobbins.
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And this offensive line, JK Dobbins, his mom, Maya, became pregnant when she was 18 years
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She went to the doctor because she was thinking about aborting the baby, but changed her mind.
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That baby turned out to be that young man, JK Dobbins, who she calls her miracle baby.
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Now, as you might expect, some people on the left were, uh, watching this game and didn't
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like that that story was shared and they expressed frustration on social media.
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And that's actually how I first heard about it was people complaining about it.
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Uh, I watched part of the game as it aired, but I missed that moment originally when it,
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And there was an accusation that Gus Johnson was intruding on the privacy of Dobbins and
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his mother sharing something that wasn't meant to be shared, wasn't his place to share.
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But I think we can be pretty sure that if guns, Gus Johnson knows about this detail, it's because
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she shares it openly and isn't embarrassed about it.
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And why should she be, why should she be embarrassed?
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She chose life and now her son has grown into a man that she's extremely proud of.
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And this really shows, I think, when you look at this and the, uh, two different reactions
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to it from the pro-abortion pro-life side, it shows the, the poverty of the pro-abortion
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I mean, the intellectual and moral poverty because pro-lifers, what we're saying is simply
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And one of the reasons why that right must be protected, especially as it concerns baby
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and babies in the womb is that babies deserve a chance.
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They deserve a chance to live and to grow and to make choices and to become the kind of person
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Dobbins was given that chance, took that chance and that was granted to him.
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And he became one of the best college athletes in the country.
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And it would have been a tragedy for him to have been deprived of that chance.
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It would have been a tragedy and also just incorrect, as it turns out, to assume that
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he'll amount to nothing, that his life will be a pointless waste because he was born in
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You can't close the book on a whole human life when you haven't even read a page yet.
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They are people with potential, as the pro-life slogan goes.
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But I'm almost tempted to say that the distinction doesn't matter.
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But for the sake of argument, I'm almost tempted to say, fine.
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Every great athlete, every great leader, every scientist, doctor, poet, humanitarian, civil rights, crusader, and so on.
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All of these people were at one point, quote unquote, fetuses.
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Before they did those great things, before they made something of themselves, they had only the potential for them.
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If you want to say that they were potential rather than they had potential, I don't see how that changes anything.
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Now, the poverty of the pro-abortion side is in saying that all of that potential doesn't mean anything.
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Like, we shouldn't even take it into consideration.
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The poverty is in seeing this life with potential, and yet considering it to be neither life nor potential.
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That's how the pro-abortion side would look at somebody like J.K. Dobbins.
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They would say that in the womb, he was a problem to be solved.
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Not a person, and certainly not a person with this incredible potential to do extraordinary things.
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It's such an empty and bleak and superficial view of human life.
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So I'm glad that we have a guy like Dobbins around to demonstrate that.
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The analogy that I've made before in a lot of the talks that I give on pro-life issues,
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maybe I've made this analogy on the show before, I don't know, probably have.
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But imagine for a moment, we talk about potential, right?
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Well, imagine for a moment that you had a winning lottery ticket for $50 million.
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And so you know that this is going to be $50 million, but it's not yet.
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Right now, it is the potential for $50 million.
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But what if on the way to the lottery office to cash in that ticket,
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which, again, it's just the potential for $50 million.
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What if on the way, I were to run up and grab that ticket from you and destroy it?
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Let's say I ate it right in front of you for no reason, because I'm insane.
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Would you react as though you just lost a receipt paper, which is technically all it was?
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Or would you react as though you just lost $50 million?
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If you, if you, now that I've taken that ticket from you and destroyed it, what do I owe you?
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Like, can I just grab a crumpled up Rite Aid receipt from my pocket and give it to you?
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Because my point is, when it comes to something like money and a lottery ticket,
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you would see no distinction between the potential for $50 million and $50 million.
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It would do no good for me to try to do this reductive, absurd, materialistic thing with the lottery ticket,
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And for me to say, ah, technically, it's just potential.
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Because in your mind, you would say, so same, what difference does that make?
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And so if we can make that calculation when it comes to a lottery ticket,
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So my point is, this argument about, is it a potential person or an actual person,
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maybe, either way, I mean, even if you could demonstrate,
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which you can't, because the unborn child is a human person.
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But, sake of argument, even if you could somehow demonstrate or prove or convince me
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that the unborn human is not a person, but is just a potential person,
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that it would be okay or moral or should be legal
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that the unborn child is not a person, but a potential person,
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You've really still got all your work in front of you,
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that it's therefore okay to kill that potential person.
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Because, to me, they don't seem to logically follow.
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Just because you can prove something isn't a person
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of things, of living creatures that are not people,