Ep. 548 - Netflix Sexualizes Children (again)
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Summary
The sexualization of children in our culture continues with a horrifying Netflix film about twerking 11-year-olds, and five headlines including last night s DNC convention finale, and a school system that wants parents to pledge in writing that they will not eavesdrop on their children s virtual classes.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the sexualization of children in our culture continues with a
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horrifying Netflix film about twerking 11-year-olds and five headlines, including last night's DNC
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convention finale and a school system that wants parents to pledge in writing that they will not
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eavesdrop on their children's virtual classes. What could go wrong there? And in our daily
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cancellation, we're going to cancel a Christian publisher for its exceedingly cringy attempt to
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connect with today's youth. All of that on the way. But starting here, September 9th,
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streaming behemoth Netflix will debut a new film on its platform titled Cuties, the movie by French
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writer and director. I'm not even going to try to pronounce the name, but French writer and director
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follows the exploits of 11-year-old Amy, who hopes to break free from her conservative Senegalese
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upbringing by joining a twerking dance troupe. The official synopsis tells us that Amy, through her
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quote, sensual dancing, will quote, ignite awareness of her burgeoning femininity. But will the girls
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successfully quote, twerk their way to stardom? You'll have to watch to find out. That is, if you're
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on a registry somewhere and interested in watching that kind of content. Now, probably, though probably
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not on registries, many film critics are indeed apparently interested in that kind of content.
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The film currently has a depressing, around 80% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics tell us that
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the story of pubescent children dancing sensually is a, quote, compelling crowd pleaser that, quote,
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heralds an indelible directorial voice and must be, quote, respected for its audacity. Now, much of
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the backlash and discussion about this movie has been centered around the horrific promotional image
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that Netflix put together and was, until a couple days ago, using on their site. Now, here it is right
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here. You can see it. As you can see, 11-year-old girls scantily clad, striking their, quote, unquote,
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sensual poses, one of them on all fours. As people became aware of the movie and a petition was formed
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to get it tossed from the platform and outrage grew, Netflix decided to change the synopsis of the film
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and get rid of this image. And they issued also an apology. Here's their apology. You tell me if it
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really gets to the heart of the matter or not. It says, we're deeply sorry for the inappropriate
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artwork that we used for cuties. It was not okay, nor was it representative of this French film,
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which premiered at Sundance. We've now updated the pictures and description. Okay. By the way,
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the fact that it's a French film that premiered at Sundance in no way indicates that it's not
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horrible and exploitative. Sundance was co-founded by a man who's now in prison for raping children,
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after all. But you notice how Netflix offers no apology for the content of the film itself,
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nor do they promise to get rid of it. Instead, they just put up a different poster.
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Defenders of the movie, and yes, it has defenders, it does, say that while you can't judge a book by
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its cover, it's not fair to condemn a movie you haven't seen. What they don't understand is that
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normal, well-adjusted, non-creepy adults have no interest in watching a movie that features 11-year-olds
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twerking in any capacity or context, even if it was just one scene, much less a central plot point.
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In fact, you can judge a book by its cover sometimes, and this is one of those times.
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Other defenders, including some of those film critics mentioned before, claim that the film
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is a commentary on the sexualization of children. Now, even if you're inclined to buy that rather,
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in my opinion, dubious excuse, doesn't change how Netflix chose to promote the film through its
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marketing material. I don't care if this is a movie about kids at a lemonade stand or something.
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If the company distributing it is trying to sell it as quote-unquote sensual, that's a huge problem
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in and of itself. But is the commentary excuse credible? Well, take note of the fact that according
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to an interview in Variety with the Cutie's producer, they filled the lead role with an 11-year-old
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actress. If they're looking to give critical commentary on the sexualization of children,
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it's hard to understand why they would want 11-year-olds to provide the demonstration.
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It seems rather counterproductive to decry something by actually doing the thing you are
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decrying. There was an interview in The Wrap with the director of the film, and she explained her
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reasons for making the film. I'm going to read now from The Wrap. It says, the director explained how
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growing up in France with traditional parents from Senegal made her want to explore in Cuties the
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question of whether we should, quote, have the right to choose which women we can be in this
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world. In our culture, even today, I can say I'm not totally free, because I love to wear short
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dresses, and at the same time, when I go to a religious ceremony, I wear a veil. Just choose as a
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woman. What do you want to be? Okay, that was her reason that she gave. The point, as explained by the
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director, seems quite different from calling attention to child sexual exploitation. This would seem to be
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much more a display of that sexualization than a commentary on it. So perhaps Cuties will comment
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on the sexualization of children in the same way that a film like The Purge comments on violence,
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namely by going out of its way to appeal to the sorts of people who want to see the thing that the film
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is allegedly criticizing. That's not commentary at all. It's exhibition. And here's the main thing we
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have to understand. This is not an isolated incident. This movie is not happening in a vacuum
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or out of the blue. This is part of a long-running trend in our culture towards the sexualization of
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children and the normalization of pedophilia. It is a trend. Even just in the universe of Netflix,
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it's a trend. For years now, the streaming platform has aired a cartoon aimed at teens called Big Mouth
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that advocates masturbation, pornography, and things even more graphic than that. So they've
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been down this road before. Plenty of times. Also, this isn't Netflix, but another example bears
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mentioning. Just a few weeks ago, a film called Yes, God, Yes, another masterpiece, according to
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critics anyway, was released to streaming and on-demand viewing. And according to The Stylist,
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it, quote unquote, here's the quote, explores the joys and shame of female masturbation
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through the adventures of its 16-year-old protagonist. The writer and director, Karen Main,
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says that she's hoping the film helps her younger audience feel less weird about discovering their
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sexuality. But really, the most egregious form of child exploitation and sexualization in our culture
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has nothing to do with films about twerking. In fact, in this vein, Netflix aired something even
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more objectionable not long ago. The reboot of The Babysitter's Club recently featured a storyline
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about a nine-year-old trans girl, i.e. a boy who has been told by his parents that he's a girl.
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And let's just look at, here's just one short scene from that episode. Look at this.
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Okay, took a while, but we finally found a file for a Bailey Del Vecchio.
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Is 32 Burnhill Road still the current address? Yeah. Have you been giving him fluids? If he's dehydrated,
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we'll need to place an IV. Have him change into this. I don't want the blue one. Um, well...
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I hear someone's not feeling well. Let's take a look at the little man.
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I know that you guys are busy, but as you would see, if you looked at her and not her chart,
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Bailey is not a boy. And by treating her like one, you are completely ignoring who she is.
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You're making her feel insignificant and humiliated. And that's not going to help her feel good or safe
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or calm. So, from here on out, please recognize her for who she is. And if at all possible,
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Now, of course, leaving all the other issues aside here, there are many excellent reasons why
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doctors might need to know your actual biological sex. It can affect what treatment they use,
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because as it turns out, boys and girls are different, very different. But more to the point
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here, um, this is a storyline normalizing the idea that young children can choose their own gender.
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And you should know that the actor who goes by the name Kai is a biological boy who identifies as a
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girl. According to his mother, he started showing signs of being a girl at 18 months. Yes, 18 months.
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This mother believes that an 18-month-old baby has some sort of insight into his own gender,
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which, of course, is stark raving lunacy. Kai completed his transition at four. Four. Now,
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I have an almost four-year-old plus two other kids who were four at one time. Um, and I can report
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unequivocally that four-year-olds have no idea what gender is, have no idea what boys and girls are,
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really. If you don't believe me, just ask a four-year-old, what's a boy, what's a girl? They
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won't be able to tell you. They have indeed no idea what anything is. They have no grasp on reality
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whatsoever. There's a reason you can tell these kids that a giant fat man flies through the air at the
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speed of light, climbs down their chimneys and brings them presents, and they won't even question
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the claim or bat an eye. They accept it implicitly like they accept everything else because they don't
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have the psychological capacity to distinguish between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy.
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By accepting and promoting and imposing this absurd, grotesque, mind-boggling lie that four-year-olds
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can choose their own gender, that they have somehow the maturity and agency and insight and
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understanding and competency to make life-altering decisions for themselves at that age. We are
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sending the message that, well, four-year-olds have maturity, agency, understanding, and competency.
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We are sending the message that four-year-olds have enough psychological, neurological, and emotional
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development to choose their sex, which is to say, according to this theory, they have quite a
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significant amount of psychological, neurological, and emotional development.
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The problem here, well, one of the countless problems is that the whole reason, you know,
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what is the whole reason we say that adulthood starts at 18 and that, for example, a sexual
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relationship between an adult and a minor is not a relationship at all but abuse? The reason we
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give is that children are not psychologically, neurologically, and emotionally developed. The entire
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basis for the laws that allow us to put adults who prey on children in jail is that children quite
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literally cannot consent to sexual relationships because they don't understand what they're doing
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or what the consequences are or what it means, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And yet now we're
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saying, oh, never mind. In fact, children even at the age of four actually are enormously mature and
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developed, so much so that they can choose to alter their entire identity and make decisions that will have a
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profound impact on their lives forever, even to the point of taking drugs that will chemically castrate
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them. So you see where this leads, hopefully. What we have here is a developing narrative about
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childhood and childhood psychology and the capacities of children that is extraordinarily dangerous
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and can only lead to terrible things. And that is, we should emphasize, completely wrong on every
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level. And contrary to science, common sense, morality, and basic human decency. So yes,
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the movie about the twerking girls is bad, but it's a lot worse than that out there for our children,
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which is all the more reason, if you're a parent, to keep your kids close and remain vigilant.
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B-A-M-B-E-E.com slash Walsh. All right, let's go to, um, see what headlines we got here. Number one,
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the DNC convention last night, we did our all access watch party for that. Hopefully you were
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able to join. It was the worst thing that's ever happened to me personally. Um, I maintain though,
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and I survived for three hours in one of the great feats of human endurance of all time.
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The big headline from the convention, I suppose, is that there was no real headline. They successfully
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avoided headlines, which I think is part of the point here. Certainly that's, that is the,
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the strategy of the Joe Biden campaign is to not make it into the headlines. And, uh, I think they
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basically did that last night. Anyway, the entire focus of the convention really was, uh, or at least
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last night seemed to be that Joe Biden is a really nice guy, right? And that's why they told us he's
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a nice guy again and again, and again, and again, and again, by my count, there were approximately 75
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slow motion video montages, or at least felt like 75 slow motion video montages, piano music, uh, you
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know, and it just telling us that Joe's a nice guy. At one point, his grandchildren showed up to talk
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about his favorite flavor of ice cream and what toppings he likes. I'm not kidding. That's how vacuous
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this thing was. And then Joe Biden got up there at the end. Uh, and when I was half dead at that
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point, delivered a speech, um, all I could say is that the DNC is thanking God or, or Gaia or whoever
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the divine spirits. Actually, they had their, their, uh, their nun, their fake nun give, uh, an invocation.
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And she, she prayed to the divine spirit, but anyway, uh, whoever they're thanking someone that
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the speech didn't have to be live. So I don't know how many takes it took to nail the speech,
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but the final product was not bad much to my chagrin, you know, no flubs, no gaffes,
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just a, just a fine speech. I don't think anyone's going to remember it. I don't think anyone remembers
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it now, but, uh, uh, it was, it was okay. There was, there were a few moments of cringe though.
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Uh, and I think probably the most extreme cringe came from this. So what did you think about Kamala
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Harris's speech last night? It was tremendous. I was so happy for her. I know me too. She was
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fabulous. I cannot wait to see her debate. Our current vice president, Mika Pints, or, uh,
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is it Paints? It's pronounced Ponce, I believe. Oh, some kind of weird foreign name?
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Yeah. Not very American sounding. Yeah. That's what people are saying strongly.
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Well, uh, thank you, Andrew. And please give my regards to the gang.
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I will. They're right in the next room. Have a great night, Julia. Thank you so much.
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Yeah. All the comedy bits were about as effective as that. The comedy was so lame and bad that I almost
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thought I was at a Republic that I was watching a Republican convention a few times. That's how bad
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it was. But then I remembered that I wasn't because every speaker would carve out some time in their
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remarks. Actually about 75% of their remarks would be allotted to informing us that orange man is
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indeed bad. If you didn't know. Uh, so they did tell us that. So that's what we got. Joe Biden is
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nice. Orange man is bad. That was, that was the message. Let's go on here. Number two, uh,
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reading now from the daily wire says the Chicago police department has banned protesters from
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demonstrating on the block where mayor Lori Lightfoot lives, ordering officers to arrest
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anyone who won't leave. The directive surfaced in a July email from then Shakespeare district
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commander, Melvin Roman to off officers under his command. It did not distinguish between the
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peaceful protest or Lightfoot regularly says she supports and those who might intend to be
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destructive. Chicago police have been blocking access to the area using barricades and police and
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riot gear. Um, and Lightfoot told reporters on Thursday that she and her family have been
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receiving threats daily. She says, I think that residents of the city understand the nature of
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the threats that we are receiving on a daily basis on a daily basis. Understand I have a right. I have a
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right to make sure that my home is secure, right? This is the same woman you may remember who banned
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residents from getting haircuts under threat of imprisonment and then went on and got her own
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haircut. So this is all par for the course. Uh, and, and the reason for getting the haircut, the reason
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she gave was that she needed to look good, which well, no comment on that. But the point is that this
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is one of the biggest hypocrites in the country. And the hypocrisy here really isn't even funny or
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ironic or anything. It's just pure evil. In fact, she lets rioters destroy neighborhoods, terrorize
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residents, uh, do what they want, but Oh no, not her house, not her house. Can't come there. And how
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does she justify the double standard? You know, in her own mind, how do you think she justifies it?
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Well, I'll tell you exactly how she's more important than you. Simple as that. That is what she believes.
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And that's how she governs. Let's go. Number three, uh, back to the daily wire. It says a school
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district in Tennessee is asking parents to sign a form agreeing not to monitor their children's
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virtual classrooms over concerns that, that non-student observers could overhear confidential
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information. The form, a copy of which was sent to the Tennessee star reads a quote, RCS strives to
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present these opportunities in a secure format that, that protects student privacy to the greatest
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extent possible. However, because these meetings will occur virtually RCS is limited in its ability to
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fully control certain factors such as non-student observers that may be present in a home of a
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student participating in the virtual meeting. The agreement goes on to strongly discourage non-student
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observation of online meetings due to the potential of confidential information about a student being
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revealed. Uh, the agreement of course raised parents' interest according to the Tennessee star,
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particularly given that the agreement implied items of interest might be being discussed in
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classrooms without parents' knowledge. In an email to parents sent earlier this week, the
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Rutherford school district said that they, that are taking parents' concerns under advisement.
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Uh, they said, we are aware of the concern that has been raised about the distance learning letter
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that was sent out. The, uh, intent was not to prevent parents from being involved with their
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children during distance learning, but it was intended to protect the academic privacy of other
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students in the classroom who are visible during certain virtual class sessions. Yeah. Um,
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listen, you know, you, you get a letter like that from your school and I don't know how you react in
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any other way than just pulling your kid out plain and simple. They're confidential information.
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No, no, no, there shouldn't be any confidential information being shared in a classroom.
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There shouldn't be any information that you as a teacher know about your students that the parents don't know.
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But like we talked about last, last week and we've talked about before, you know, they're just telling on
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themselves here and what their real agenda is. So you just got to get your kids out of the school. I think it really is
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that simple. Number four, the Washington post reports that Kansas city chiefs said Thursday that
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they will prohibit fans from wearing headdresses and native American themed face paint to home games
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at Arrowhead stadium. The team announced the measures as part of what it calls ongoing dialogue
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with a group of local leaders from diverse American Indian backgrounds and experiences and recent
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consultation with a national organization that works closely on issues affecting American Indian
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people and tribes. Um, so even though they're the Kansas city chiefs and that's their mascot,
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you're not allowed to dress that way for the, for the hungry. Nobody can explain why this is
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offensive. It's just like assumed now that if you were to dress up as native American, it's
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automatically. Why? What's offensive about it? Uh, if, if anything, it's, it's honoring a culture.
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And of course, as many people point out, it's almost nobody worries about this
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on St. Patrick's day. People are dressed up like leprechauns drinking green beer, getting drunk.
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Like that's what you do. That's how you celebrate Irish culture. They dress up like a leprechaun and
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get drunk. Nobody complains. Uh, and as a person of Irish ancestry, I don't complain either. It just
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doesn't bother me, but this somehow is offensive for reasons that are not explained. Okay. Five,
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finally a big news here. It's being reported that the band BTS has probably broken a record by getting
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10 million views on their latest music video in 20 minutes, 10 million in 20 minutes, 10 million
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people. That's, that's an incredible number for just 20 minutes. Now I have, um, never heard of
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the band BTS. This is my first time ever. I don't, I don't know what they are. I think they're a boy
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band. Uh, but you know, I think back in my back, but go, but go back to the old days, you know,
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way back in ancient times, music videos were, were aired on, and kids don't know this. They were
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aired on something called television. Uh, and there were these things called channels that you would
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go to. And if you wanted to see a video, you had to just sit and watch the channel all day and hope
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that they played it. And there would be these things called commercials in between. And it's,
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it's very similar to the experience you'd have. There was also this thing called a radio that you
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would listen to. And, uh, if you wanted to like make a mixtape, but you couldn't download it on the
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internet cause it didn't exist. So what you do is you take a blank, uh, something called a cassette
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tape and you put it in this thing called a boom box. And then you just listen to the radio all
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day. And those of us who are avid mixtape makers, like I was, um, it was, you know, this, this would
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be a, this would be hours long project. If you want to make a mixtape and get like 10 songs on a,
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on a tape, but you wait for the song to play. You got your fingers on record. Soon as it plays,
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boom, you hit record. Sometimes you get a little bit of the commercial beforehand in the, in the
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recording, but that's fine too. And that's how it worked back then. But now, and so if you want,
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if, if one music video was going to get 10 million views cumulatively, it would take probably about
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19 months for that to happen. And now it happens in a little over 19 minutes. So pretty incredible,
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but congrats to the, uh, to the guys over there at BTS, big fan, big fan of theirs. I just decided
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that right now. Cause that's, I'm in touch with, uh, with the youth of today, of course, speaking of
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which let's get to our daily cancellation. Now for our daily cancellation, this will be a short one
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because I'm, I'm not intending to pile on, but I also can't possibly let this week come to an end
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without mentioning it. And besides, I have no control over the daily cancellations. The cancellations
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come to me as though in a dream and I can only accept them. So today we will be canceling Lifeway,
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which some of you probably know is a major Christian publisher distributor. Uh, they teamed up with a
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group called Sunday cool to put out a devotional for the youngins, the youth Gen Z. And it's called
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the word according to Gen Z. Um, you hear that. And if you've been around the block enough,
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you're probably thinking, Oh no, this is going to be bad. And yes, you're right. Your insight is
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correct. It is. It, it certainly is. Now Lifeway has already pulled down the devotional. Um, they
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aren't selling it anymore after the rather negative reaction to it. And they've apologized. They say that
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what I'm about to read to you was meant to be playful, but they were, they regret it now. And, uh,
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you know, that it was taken the wrong way. And so they pulled it down. And in fairness,
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I'll tell you that this devotional does, or did, I guess, before it was removed from sale,
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seemed to have plenty of perfectly fine sort of normal devotional stuff, meditations, reflections,
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prompts, that kind of thing. And, um, all of that from what I saw, uh, though I didn't read the whole
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thing seems to be unobjectionable and, and, and, you know, even, even some of it's pretty good.
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The issue though, are the Gen Z Bible translations that are at the top of each new chapter.
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Each new day in the devotional. And this is the part that Lifeway says was meant to be playful,
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but let me read a few of these to you and, and, uh, just to give you an idea and you tell me what
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you think. Okay. Hebrews 4.12 originally says for the word of God is alive and active, sharper than any
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double-edged sword. It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit joints and marrow. It judges the
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thoughts and attitudes of the heart. The Gen Z translation, uh, this is, this is the way it's
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translated. It says, Cap G's words are one hundo, straight up slicing and dicing and knowing it all.
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Cap G is God, in case you were confused. Straight up slicing and dicing is supposed to be, I guess,
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something that kids say. And admittedly, my kids are still young, but I've, I've never heard a
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teenager ever use the phrase straight up slicing and dicing. It sounds like maybe something that
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles might've said in 1996. I don't know. Um, moving on. Okay. This one really
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got a rather negative reaction online. John 1.1, of course, one of the most famous and sacred lines
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in the whole, the whole of scripture says, in the beginning was the word and the word was with God
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and the word was God. Here's the Gen Z translation. Since day uno, there was Cap G. Big J was chilling
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with Cap G and Big J was Cap G. You know, call me crazy, but I think kids are capable of understanding
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a phrase like in the beginning. In fact, I think since day uno would sound as weird to them and as
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confusing to them as it does to us olds. I don't know. Psalm 119.11 originally, and by originally,
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I mean in English, of course, if I was reading the actual original translation, um, of any of these
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verses, I'd be reading in Hebrew or Greek. But anyway, it says, I have hidden your heart in my,
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I've hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Gen Zified, it becomes,
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I got your holy scripts padlocked in my chest thumper. Yes, chest thumper, which sounds like what
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perhaps a man raised in a cave by bears might call a heart. I'm pretty sure that kids just call it a
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heart though. You know, Ephesians 6.17 is, uh, take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the
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spirit, which is the word of God. And now for Gen Z, it's take that noggin guard of Savies and that
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big old knife of Cap G, Cap G's words. Yes, noggin guard. Because you know, kids with their slang,
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like noggin, noggin guard sounds at best, like what maybe the Fonz might've called a helmet in
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an episode of Happy Days. Maybe. One more, just for good measure. Psalm 34.4 says, I sought the Lord
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and he answered me. He delivered me from all my fears. But to connect with the youth of today,
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it is now, I Marco Polo'd Cap G and he didn't leave me on read and snatched up all my scaries.
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I have no idea what any of that means. Okay. So you get the idea. And as I said,
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Lifeway has already retreated from this. They said it was supposed to be playful
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and a parody even. Now you can decide if it makes sense to include parody versions of Bible verses
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in your devotional. Uh, and, and, uh, and again, I, I feel no need to pile on, but an important lesson
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can be found here because even if you want to claim parody or playful or whatever, uh, even so this
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would seem to perfectly encapsulate everything Christians do wrong. We're trying to connect with
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the youth. Um, a real learning opportunity here. One of the biggest mistakes and most common mistakes
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is talking down to them, to younger people. When you assume that kids can't understand the most
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basic words and concepts or that they need it repeated to them in language more appropriate
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for cavemen, all you're doing is insulting the people you're trying to reach. You're also making
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a false assumption. You know, kids, though they, as we discussed at the top of the show are not fully
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developed psychologically, emotionally, or spiritually, they still have an enormous capacity to learn
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and grow. That's all they do actually absorb things. They're like sponges and any, any parent
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knows this. So what do you want them to absorb is the question, banal stupidity or beauty and depth
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and meaning. We often deprive our children of beauty and depth and meaning substituting it for banal
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stupidity on the assumption that they can't handle anything deeper than that, or they'll be bored by it.
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And all that does is train them to reject the very thing we want them to embrace.
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Feed stupidity to kids and they become stupid. Simple equation there. Another mistake is trying
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to mimic what kids can already get out in the world. You know, see, the thing is, if kids want
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irreverence and slang and vulgarity and so on, they can get that anywhere and they'll get a much
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more authentic version of it anywhere else. When you try to give it to them in a church or
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religious setting, it comes off as inauthentic, inauthentic. And by the way, kids have a very
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finely tuned radar for authenticity. Even my seven-year-olds have an impressively sophisticated
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ability to know when someone is being inauthentic with them, which is why kids laugh and roll their
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eyes with the, you know, when the youth counselor turns the hat around backwards, starts using slang and
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so on. Yet the church keeps employing these tactics, no matter how often they fail.
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So look, it's the same thing I have to remember with my own kids. If I want my kids to be a certain
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way, to have a certain characteristic, I have to demonstrate it. I can't expect to see from them
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what I have not demonstrated. For example, when I look at my kids and I'm disappointed at their lack
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of patience, that's when I have to, you know, have this really painful moment of self-reflection
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where I go, oh, right, I'm not patient enough. They don't show patience because they haven't been
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provided with an adequate and consistent demonstration. It's the same thing here. You
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want kids to be reverent, to appreciate beauty, to understand difficult concepts, then they need it
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demonstrated. Like it says in Proverbs, train up a child in the way he should go, and when he's old,
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he will not depart from it. And I don't think we need a Gen Z version of that for the kids either.
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