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Mark & Amber Archer: Spiritual Warfare An Intensifying Sign Of The Times · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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Welcome to Worldview Matters, discussing controversial issues, discerning current events, defending
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biblical Christianity.
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No topic off limits.
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And now, here's your host, David Firazzo.
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Welcome friends, family and Christ.
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Thank you.
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Before I bring in today's guests, fearless, a fearless man and woman of God, before we
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start, I just happened to glance at our mug.
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I'm not selling this mug, because I think we're out.
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But it says, Worldview Matters on one side, and it says, keep speaking truth about things
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that matter.
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That's my tagline on the other side.
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I'm thinking, okay, I'm going to turn that side to the camera.
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I don't know if you guys can see that, but we are committed to continue to speak the truth
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of Christ and glorify God, stand on the biblical world view, and try to wake up the church,
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try to save souls and be all about the gospel, and of course, trying to impact culture
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for Christ.
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So let's bring in Mark and Amber Archer with fearless features, can't wait to hear about
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Mark's new book, and also a new project they're working on.
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But we've got some conversation to take place before that.
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Mother and sister, thank you so much for your time.
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Hi, it's going to be back with you, David.
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Good to see you.
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So I was going to say, where do you want to start, but we will get to the book.
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Let's just put it up there right now.
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This is due out next month, November, next month, it's called Compromised, a prodigal's
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journey home.
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This is from Mark Archer, and I'm sure Amber is going to have something to say about
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this as well.
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I know the creative process and the work of writing a book, it's when you finally birth
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that, you know, get it, you know, published, and then print it, oh my goodness.
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And it is, a lot goes into that.
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So I know your heart went into this project.
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So first of all, can they get it on your website and on Amazon, or please share.
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Yeah, it's only available right now on the website for pre-order, and so that's where
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you can get it.
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Okay, so it's due out the week before Thanksgiving, is when officially you will get that, they
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will start sending those out.
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So congrats on the book, Compromised, I love the title, a prodigal's journey home.
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So before we get to that, a lot to talk about you guys, since we've had you on, this,
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first of all, the Charlie Kirk assassination, the trans violence, your subject matter
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in a lot of your films, all of your films and documentaries have touched on biblical
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and biological realities and truth, which a lot of people, unfortunately, on the left,
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and even ignorant people, they just hear the talking points, they call it hate speech,
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as you are saying, there is a God, and he created two genders, male, female, and it's
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God, male, female, marriage between one man and one woman, family, civil government.
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That's the structure that God set up.
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So please talk to us about what started you on this path.
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You could have been doing films about anything.
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But you decided to work on this controversial topic, but we know it's so important because
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it is true, biblically true, and biologically true, and it's just insane where we're at
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right now, the delusion in our culture, whatever you want to say about that, go ahead.
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Well, I think you were asking, you know, how did you get started in this?
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And I think one of the things, as believers and prayer warriors, when you ask the Lord,
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these break our hearts for what breaks yours, you better be ready because he's going to
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ask you to do something.
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It's sort of like we have seen all over Charlie Kirk saying, here am I, send me, well, it's
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exactly the same kind of moment that we had.
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It's not something, like you said, we could have been doing any sort of films that we wanted.
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We didn't have to be doing documentaries and exposing these things, but honestly, when
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you look at it and see people who are just trapped by these lies, it does break your heart.
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It breaks our hearts because we know that it breaks the Lord's heart.
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We are all created in the image of God.
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And for people to be led so astray from what is true, it drives us every day to our knees
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and to help reach people.
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So Mark, I know you probably wrote some of this in your book, your brand new book, compromised,
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but what makes you tick?
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What is your why to do what you're doing?
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Share your heart on this, please.
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Well, leading into that, I think somebody who read an early copy of the book, she said,
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when she got done, she said, you know, if I were to describe this book in one sentence,
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it's one big apology letter to the Lord.
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And I think that's a good description for it because it's, you know, you know how it
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is when you're writing something and especially if it's an autobiographical thing, there's always
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that part of you that goes, nobody cares, they don't know who you are, they don't care.
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But it's what I've been prompted to write about because a journey that I've been on, I
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know it's not unique, but some parts of it are unique.
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And the fact that speaking of why we do these films, this book really is the why for
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why we do fearless features because it starts with me as a teenager and running from the
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Lord for 26 years and then, and then being just having my heart broken for what I, why
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was I, I couldn't find any meaning in what I was doing.
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I've spent plenty of time doing the meaningless drivel projects and, you know, the big movies
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and that.
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And to be honest, it's, it's empty, you know, you finally get to the mountain, you realize
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there's nobody there.
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There's another peak over there, oh, you're supposed to go there now.
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And it's just an endless cycle of, of want and waste.
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So why we do what we do is because we know the Lord has called us to do his work and it's
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not always easy, but, but the effect and the change that you can have for the kingdom is
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staggering when, when you're using your gifts and talents in the, in the creative arts.
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That's right.
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It's all the stories to reach people to, to, to inform them.
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Hmm.
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And when you're fully surrendered, when you're seeking God's approval, not man's, he will
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use you, he will use that.
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So I want you to talk about, I'm looking at the titles of the films again and, you know,
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it's interesting.
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My books are the same as your films in a way, thematically, and what's just the content
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is what you read about.
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I read about culture and, and the, my recent book, the assault on the image of God.
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So you understand what that was about them.
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My first book was eradicate, blotting out God in America.
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And then here's yours, your titles on your DVDs, on your projects, Inwood Drive, which
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the attack on life, the mind polluters, the attack on innocence, dysphoria, the attack
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on identity, title nine, the attack on justice and language.
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And the one you're working on now, principalities, the attack on truth itself.
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And I know you're going to get into spiritual warfare and that one.
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So because you're writing about these topics and you can share whatever you'd like.
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So Amber, let's go with start with you.
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When you started this, I know you got some pushback, even from the church, some would call
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it friendly fire.
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Why do you guys talk tackling controversial issues like this?
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But I'm sure you also have had some threats to some very serious hate directed at you guys.
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So start with you, Amber.
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Yeah.
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Well, much like what you see, especially if you're in the conservative movement, it was
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really sad over after Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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And then I was reading, people were coming out and close friends of his, even saying about
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how he walked away from donors because they told him he needed to tone down all of the
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Jesus stuff and get away from all of the religious speak and they'd be happy to fund him.
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That's the really incredible sad thing is we have run into the same problems over and
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over again.
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When we got the Mind Polluter's done, we were asked by two national Christian organizations
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to remove all references of Jesus.
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Wait, wait a minute, back up, back up.
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Did you say Christian organizations, but I think you meant to say Christian organizations?
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Yes.
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Correct.
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Christian, yes.
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And so.
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And so when we got done with dysphoria, again, those who have viewed the film and we're
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looking for distribution and hey, can we bring these into your church?
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Can we put these on your platform?
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Oh, it comes back with, oh, you know, can you just remove all references to Satan from
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the film?
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That's too harsh for people.
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They're not going to understand.
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I'm sorry.
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You obviously don't understand our ministry and what we're about.
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We're here to speak truth because that's what helps set people free is the truth.
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So, you know, it's, it's when you walk into this because you don't expect that, right?
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As Christians, especially if you're a Christian, you don't expect people to, especially from
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another Christian organization or from churches to say, we can't tell people, no, you're
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supposed to be telling people.
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That's what they need to know about.
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We've had screenings where we've had death threats, you know, at, on college campuses,
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actually just happen to be one of the TPUSA events that we were asked to come to.
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I mean, it's just, it's bizarre.
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People don't actually think that these things are happening and everybody wants to turn
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a blind eye, you know, stick their hand, because of fear.
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We cannot live in fear.
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The Lord does not care to fear.
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Let's talk about that.
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Then I want to toss it over to you, Mark.
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First of all, we, you said, you weren't expecting, I think we need to start expecting this
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or at least we ready for it as a possibility because it's not going to change.
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And again, I hope I'm wrong, quote me on that.
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But because of what we're seeing in the public schools, government schools, the radicalism
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K through 12, their ideology is so twisted and it starts with the mothership, the U.S.
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Department of Education, then the teachers unions and what they're being taught, the textbook
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publishers.
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I could go on and on.
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I'm running out of time.
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I don't want to just, I want to focus back on you guys.
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But Charlie Kirk, when he was asked to keep it more political and keep the Jesus part out
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of it.
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I remember one of his responses was, well, thanks guys, you can give your money to someone
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else.
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Yeah.
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So that could be tied.
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Yeah.
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It's all about Jesus.
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And go ahead, Mark.
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Now you share whatever you'd like.
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Yeah, well, on that, the people that were so critical of dysphoria, they hadn't even watched
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the film, right?
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They had heard about it.
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So our reputation had preceded us and they were asking preemptively, can you make a secular
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version, a secular cut of the film?
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And I said, maybe you guys ought to watch the film, the opening sequence of the film is
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me reading Romans one, putting visuals to it, right?
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And it was like this blank stare.
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I said, you know, I said, so let me put it to you this way.
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I didn't write the script.
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I can't just change it.
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And they were not comprehending it.
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It's scripture guys.
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I can't rewrite the scripture.
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That's what the world tries to do.
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And there's just a, an intentional disconnect with a lot of these guys.
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And they were definitely, they, you know, they were offering the world.
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They, we got million dollars, we want to bring you guys in on this, but, you know, you
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just got to compromise a little bit more.
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So Mark, we are going to get to your book, I promise.
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But this is just too fascinating.
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And in light of where we're at as a culture, and Christians who are out on the front lines,
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trying to recruit more soldiers for Christ and battle, you know, ready believers.
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This is, this is hard and this is very relevant.
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So when you're writing, now you're working on principalities, I know one of that, the
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aspect of that is spiritual warfare.
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I know you've got some more stories to tell.
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And I'm sure what happened with Charlie Kirk is, is just part of this overall battle.
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Go ahead and share a little bit about that.
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And then we'll dive into compromised.
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Go ahead.
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Well, I was going to say sadly about two weeks before the attack on Charlie and everything
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happened.
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And Mark and I actually released a podcast through, you know, Fearless with Mark and Amber.
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It's part of our platform and what we do.
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But we literally just, we made a podcast that said the most violent generation question
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mark because we're talking about all the trans violence.
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Because there is a pattern, a repeat pattern that is happening in America.
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And it's, it's festering in the schools.
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You look at the ages of these, these, they're kids.
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They are kids who are committing these violent crimes.
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You have to see it for what it is.
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And I wish people, you know, I don't know how else, I don't know how else to reach people
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with it because people are fearful.
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They don't want to acknowledge that it's actually happening.
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And most people sit and say, well, what can I do about it?
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And that's really where we're at is, is, you know, not understanding that, hey, I can
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get involved and use my voice at the voting booth.
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And hey, I can speak up at church, hey, I can educate my friends and family with these
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various resources that are available, Christian resources to point you to the truth.
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Yes.
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As they say on the air, while the truth is out there, it's funny, but people don't want
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to hear.
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I just had a conversation in the green room before we came out to do this podcast about
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the fact that we've lost in the American Christian church or too many churches, the
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application of, when Jesus said, you are the light of the world or you are salt.
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We are ambassadors for Christ.
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We are to make disciples, well, people go, well, even how am I supposed to do that on
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Sunday morning?
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You know what I mean?
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We've lost this application of we're supposed to be out in the world, not of the world,
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but, you know, in the world.
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So really quick, and I've got to get to some of this, these polls are coming out now,
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and this is just to warn us all that there's a shift, and it is all about worldview in
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America.
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Rutgers, 55% of Americans on the left believe a assassinating president Trump would be at
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least somewhat justified.
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So in other words, left-wing extremism is not just fringe anymore.
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ABC News, 87% of Democrats view Trump as a fascist.
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That's what they call Charlie Kirkman.
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Look what happened, friends.
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It's just a warning to where we're at.
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NPR, 47% of Dems say the rise of fascism is their top political concern.
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And then you go, and I'll let you guys respond, a full quarter of very liberal Americans say
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it can be justified to use violence to achieve political goals.
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And we should not be surprised by this, but this is where we are, unfortunately, in America.
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And we are not to back down.
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Mark and Amber, your quick thoughts.
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Well, when you say, when you talk about fascism, and when people, this is, for us, this
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is why when this happened with Charlie Kirk, and we both, we both spent several days just
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being angry, because we're looking at, literally, we've been making movies about this, trying
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to explain this to people.
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And dysphoria, and title 9, in particular, are still suppressed.
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Even the faith-based film distribution companies won't touch them.
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And we're still pushing those out.
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But in dysphoria, especially, we talk about antifa.
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If you want to understand why they keep talking about fascism, antifa is the antifascists
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that, so they're the communists.
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And they're the ones who have, they're, they're the violent denomination of leftism,
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right?
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They are communists.
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They're anarcho-communists, so they want chaos.
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Accelerationism, they want to create chaos to bring about the great reset, if you will.
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And so that is what they're talking about.
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Every time they're accusing someone of being a fascist, antifa goes all the way back
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to the communists rising up against the Nazis in World War II Germany.
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So you got, you got the communists fighting against the Nazis, you know, the communists
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and the socialists, so that's really two denominations of almost the same thing, totalitarianism
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fighting.
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And it was really interesting when you saw Trump just a few days after the assassination
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come out and say, and label antifa as an organized terrorist organization.
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Domestic terror.
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Domestic.
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I mean, to finally see what happened is incredible.
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Yeah.
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So Mark, how did your book compromise?
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You mentioned it earlier.
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How did that become the fuel for fearless features?
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And by the way, friends, the website fearlessfeatures.org.
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How did that become the fuel for what you guys are doing now?
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Yeah, I think what you're seeing today and what really drives us and when I talk through
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my story of how I got to where the two of us now are making these films that are nothing
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like the stories that I described in my early days of trying to break into Hollywood.
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But I saw it early on, I mean, in one of the early chapters I described doing my first
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feature length film and shooting a rated R-sexy.
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And I had justified it in my mind that it was okay and went along with it, but just how
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dirty I felt doing that, not more than about a year after that doing my next film.
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I was propositioned by a Playboy TV producer.
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They wanted to fund me, you know, because a lot of people don't realize how much of the
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content that you see that maybe even as family-friendly is actually funded by porn dollars because
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they have so much money that it's like the cartels.
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They have so much money, they have to put it somewhere.
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They want to return on it and they know that faith-based movies make money.
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There are faith-based films that are indirectly funded by porn.
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The filmmakers, I'm not saying that they all get into it knowing that, but it does exist
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and I attest to that.
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So to what we're seeing now in the way that bold Christians in the arts and broadcast
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and that need to stand up on this is because nobody can be more accurate in knowing how
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to fight back against these things than people who have been in it and come out of it.
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And so when I see people who have a story about coming out of Hollywood, coming out of
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the music industry, things like that, and turning their lives over to Christ and I identify
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with them because I go, that was me.
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And I've been a Christian since I was very young, tried to start off with good intentions
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to do my work for the Lord, but the lure of Hollywood lights took me off.
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And I ran after all of that and I actually quit filmmaking for three years and tried
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to give it all up.
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And then the Lord called us together back to this to do what we're doing with realist
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features.
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It's the same skills, but with the right mindset and when I came back into it, I told the
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Lord, I said, I am not doing this unless it's 100% for you because I know what happens
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when Mark chases Mark's dream.
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Right.
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Just follow your heart.
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Yeah.
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Exactly.
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I just told about dealing with the playboy people, right?
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That's where it goes when Mark's in charge.
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So, Amber, you guys get a lot of donations or a lot.
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Let's just say you run on donations and I know people can donate to you guys, fearlessfeatures.org.
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How is the funding for the new one, principalities?
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Well, right now all of, we're using all of the pre-sales to go towards principalities
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and also people can, this is the first film that we're actually giving the option for
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people to put their name on it.
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If you want to sign up and say, hey, you know what?
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It's like signing a petition saying, yes, I believe in standing for the truth and taking
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a bold stand in culture.
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This is actually the first one that we're letting people partner with us in putting their
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name on it.
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And so, we're just excited for anyone and everyone who's saying enough is enough because
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the thing is that we know is, especially for films, books and films, these are going
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to outlast us.
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They're going to go on for generations to come.
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Long after we're gone, there at least will be a testimony and testament to those who actually
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stood up and said, enough is enough.
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Stop harming our children, stop feeding them lies, stop running this country into the
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ground because that is not what we were founded on.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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I love, by the way, I'm looking at your films page and I hope friends you go to their
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website and check out some of these films if you haven't yet.
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But I love on dysphoria, the truth will ruin the experiment.
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Oh, that's scribbled out.
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The truth will ruin the, and then the truth will set you free.
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Yeah, go ahead.
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There's a whole story behind why that is.
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Go ahead.
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Oh, yeah.
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So, one of the stories that we're telling dysphoria and I should mention too, our first
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two films, Inwood Drive and the Mind polluters are actually available on Prime Video.
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On Amazon Prime.
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On Amazon Prime.
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Okay.
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So, you can watch the first two there.
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dysphoria and title nine, you still have to watch on our website.
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The truth will ruin the experiment is actually a quote from the David Rimer story, which
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we talk about in dysphoria.
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David Rimer was the first patient, if you will, of Dr. John Money, who was pretty much
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the father of the transgender movement.
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He was a disciple of Alfred Kinsey.
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Yep.
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Dr. John Money tried to convince this young boy that he was actually a girl.
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He had gone in for his circumcision when he was just a few days, you know, eight days
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old or so.
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And there was an accident and he was damaged.
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And so they decided that they were going to take him to see Dr. John Money.
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And money said, hey, because they were twin boys, one was damaged, the other wasn't.
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And so this was the grand experiment to see if nature over nurture or nurture over nature.
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What works?
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And so we talk about this story and that line, the truth will ruin the experiment is actually
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directly quoted from Dr. John Money in a letter response to David Rimer's parents, because
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they wrote to him and said, you know, David was getting old enough and he was realizing
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that the truth and they said, shouldn't we just tell him the truth?
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And John Money said, the truth will ruin the experiment.
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That's what that is.
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It's 100 won't true.
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And we talk about it at length and disorder.
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Okay.
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So I know we want to talk about compromised and there's just so much.
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But one of the questions I was going to ask you is, how can the book compromised and
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your films be used by churches as discipleship tools?
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But I think the more accurate question with just two minutes left here, how can we get
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these in more churches to wake up more pastors and Christians?
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So answer that however you want to.
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Go ahead.
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Well, what we found is it's really individuals who take it to their elderboard leadership
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and just say, hey, we would really love to bring this to our church.
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Right now we're in the process of working on Bible studies to go along with these for
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people to sit down and do it in group studies.
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We've got, you know, just one sheet handouts for each of the screenings for each of the
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films that are available when just contact us through our website, through our contact
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page.
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And we would be happy to bring the film to you if you're locally around us or help set
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you up so that you can run a screening yourself and get your community educated and
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involved.
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Or if you're in Colorado, we're bringing dysphoria to Colorado in October.
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October.
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Why do you have to put me on the spot?
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I don't have my calendar.
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Just without.
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But yeah.
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Or 29th.
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Yeah.
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Clown world Colorado.
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We're bringing dysphoria.
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Okay.
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And I think I've seen whenever you guys do get a screening set up for a church, I think
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I've seen that.
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Is it on Instagram or your Facebook page?
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Yes.
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On both.
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We share it through social media.
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Okay.
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So we'll know.
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Okay.
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Guys, I'm so thankful for what you do.
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And I want to just encourage everybody watching and listening to pray for Mark and
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Amber.
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Please pray for Mark and Amber.
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Important work.
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And Charlie Kirk talked about you, male, female, God, the creative order and it's not popular
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today and it is unfortunately framed as hate speech, but we will continue to take the
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hits for the glory of God and to stand on the truth of the biblical world of you guys.
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Thank you for all you do.
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Lord willing.
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We'll do this again.
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Thank you.
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I appreciate it.
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Good success on the book.
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Compromised Mark.
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Again, friends, fearlessfeatures.org.
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Amber, Mark.
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Blessings.
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Both of you.
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Thank you.
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Thanks.
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All right, guys.
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Again, we've got to get these projects.
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Two Christians that can maybe introduce them to their pastor at church later so we can
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get the information out there.
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As you know, it's censored and suppressed in so many ways, but God bless you.
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And as always, keep speaking the truth about things that matter.