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Bad Bunny Delivers Deportation-Worthy Halftime Show | The Mark Driscoll Show | Ep 17 · The Mark Driscoll Show

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Well, howdy and welcome to the Mark Driscoll show guys.
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We have an awesome show in store for you today.
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We talk about Bad Bunny, we talk about TPUSAS halftime show, that
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was awesome. We talk about adoption and we
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talk about the Olympics. It is going to be a good time.
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You're going to want to stay and listen through the whole thing.
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Pastor Mark has a great word at the very end for you guys.
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So buckle up, it's going to be an awesome show.
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Well, bastard, Mark. Super Bowl halftime show, At
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least they were standing. You, you, you had to watch it.
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We forced you to watch it. Everyone online was like, why is
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Pastor Mark watching this? Because the Real Faith team
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forced him. Because maybe I was over in the
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side yard playing with my grandkids.
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You know, that's exactly what I was doing.
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You were like, oh, we got to go play, you know, the Bad Bunny
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clip. I was like, Dang it.
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Anyways, and how does eating cookies with grandkids?
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I know, I know. So for everyone online, we
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forced Pastor Mark to watch it. He was not happy about it, but
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yeah. And you weren't, you weren't a
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huge fan of it. Well, it was stupid.
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I mean, it was stupid. And part of it is you're in the
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United States of America. This is a masculine sport where
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men are committing violent acts against one another.
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I don't need some queer guy dancing around.
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It's off brand. It's weird, it's off putting.
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This is kind of a, a national event where everybody gets
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together and has fun and it's a, it's a family kind of day.
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I mean, here at the ranch, you know, real faith.
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We had families here and I was outside running the nursery.
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I'd rather play with the kids. And I mean, the game was over in
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the 1st 30 seconds. The Seahawks defense, it was
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like, it was wild. It was like it was like an adult
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attacking a toddler. It was what it was an assault.
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And so, you know, praying for Drake made a damn sure he feels
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like he got run over and backed up over a second time.
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He has to. Tell his kids and grandkids
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about that for like the next 50. Years of his life, Yeah.
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Well, he's young. He's going to make a comeback.
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He's going to win a Super Bowl. He'll be OK.
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But I I was not playing with the grandkids.
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But, you know, even here there was a lot of kids of all ages.
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We had a bouncy house up. And for a lot of people, it's
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kind of a Family Day. Everybody gets together.
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And with the halftime entertainment, you don't want to
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be taking a lot of risks because if you've got minors and
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children involved, you need to know, like, is this going to be
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something that is really, really inappropriate for family and for
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children? And so, you know, when you bring
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in an entertainer who is, you know, avant-garde gay and.
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He's kissed a lot of men. He's.
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Kissed a well, I would say 1 is a lot. 1 is a lot, Yeah.
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And so, but, but also too part of it is from a nationalism
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perspective, this is, you know, kind of America's sport now.
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I mean, the Super Bowl is bigger than, bigger than basketball,
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bigger than I love baseball. But you know, this is now the
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the big sporting event, kind of the national sporting moment in
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America. 134 million people tuned in.
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Yeah. And so, you know, for us, it's
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like this is this is America. I mean, this is bigger than the
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Olympics. The Olympics is going on right
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now. I'm assuming this is
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significantly bigger than the Olympics.
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And so this is an American moment.
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And it's like, well then speak English because you're in the
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United States of America, you know, And so to be, you know,
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overtly queer during a masculine event and to be overtly
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non-english during an American event, it's like, well, this is
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a masculine American event. This isn't a queer Spanish
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event. And I know that's offensive.
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And just let me say it was offensive to me as a
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heterosexual male American. And so, you know, you don't see
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this in other nations where they educate their citizens to hate
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their nation. Like right now in Iran, they're
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not trying to figure out, I don't know, you know, how to
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platform, you know, I don't know, Europe or Great Britain.
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They're not trying right now in Russia to figure out how during
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whatever their big sporting event is, how to have their
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entertainment, you know, platforming American values and
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speaking English. I mean, you know, once you start
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having pride in your nation, you start to undermine and cause the
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decline of your nation. And that's like sitting on a
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tree and sawing off the branch. You're sitting on it.
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It's stupid and it's self-destructive.
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Why is something like the NFL become so woke?
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Is it? Is it?
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Because of advertisers and it's all, it's all you just follow
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the money. And so you follow the money.
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And so the the woke agenda of certain companies is always
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promoting, you know, woke agenda through advertising.
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And so did the players want, you know, this?
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No. Do the consumers want it?
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Does the average guy sitting there drinking a Budweiser
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eating a chicken wings, you know, saying I hope the gay guy
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comes out in a dress and he's dancing to Spanish because I
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need me some of that. I doubt it, you know, well, he's
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got his chicken wings sitting on his gut because that's what he
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uses for his coffee table. I doubt it.
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Does the family sitting there watching it hope?
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Are they anticipating with with Glee that the child that they're
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watching it with would be exposed to that?
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No. So it comes from it comes from
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out of touch advertisers and companies that are out of touch
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with reality, but because they have money, they are forcing it
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onto consumers. Yeah, it's, it's majorly
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disappointing. And as a response to that, we
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saw Turning Point USA this year. Provide an alternative.
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They wanted to provide an alternative when they heard it
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was Bad Bunny and they heard that it was going to be in all
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Spanish because he said you need to learn Spanish to enjoy the
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show, which is like. We're in the United States of
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America. Yeah.
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If you if you know Spanish, that's fine, that's great.
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But since you're in the United States of America, learn
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English. Yeah, that's just like, just
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because we have pride in America doesn't mean we hate other
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countries. It's OK to have pride in your
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country. Your wife is trilingual.
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Yeah, she's yeah. She speaks Spanish, she speaks
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Portuguese, she speaks English. Great.
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It's awesome, but it doesn't make us love America less.
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And we shouldn't apologize for America either.
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So we saw A Turning Point, put together an awesome show, and
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wanted to turn it over to Andrew Clovette to tell us how it went.
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Andrew, I watched your show, was great.
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How did you do? Do you have a sense of how many
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people? Watched.
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Yeah, it was a kind of blew our minds actually a little bit,
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Brian. And we, you know, we saw at one
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point across all the different social channels, we saw over 10
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million concurrent views. So that was adding up all of
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Rumble and all of our partners just on the social side.
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So and now we, the numbers keep trickling in.
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I mean, right now as I'm sitting here, YouTube's numbers keep
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updating, keep updating. And so we're we're trying to put
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it all together. What I can safely say is that we
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are now over 20 million viewers across just social.
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So we haven't even gotten our, our partner broadcasters, their
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analytics. As you know, sometimes the
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ratings take a little while, but that's 20 million viewers and we
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don't know how many people were gathered together 3410 in a room
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watching together. So we're we're going to try and
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put our a final number on that when we can.
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What we can safely say is over 20 million Americans tuned into
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the All American Halftime Show tonight.
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And realistically, that's probably 40 to 60.
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Oh yeah, these are viewer parties, large groups.
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Yeah, I mean, in the church world, we count on about 2 1/2
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people per streamer for a church service.
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So this is bigger than a church service.
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Unfortunately, America celebrates sports a lot more
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than they do the church. But that's incredible.
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And why, why do you see the need for an alternative like that?
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Do you agree with what Turning Point did?
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Do you think it was helpful? Yeah, absolutely.
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And also this too, I know Andrew and I appreciate him.
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I love him. I like him.
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He's a he's a good man. And so I am grateful for the
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attempt that they made. And to do something like this,
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it takes a lot of courage and risk because if you have any
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technical difficulties, you're just lambasted online.
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If the response is not great, you're lambasted online.
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You're putting a lot of effort from your team and a lot of
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money into an experiment because in the history of an event like
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this, really nobody's gone up against Goliath.
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Nobody's really taken out their three smooth stones and said,
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I'm going to give it a shot. I mean, the halftime of the
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Super Bowl, that's your highest ad dollars.
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Nobody competes with it. Nobody even tries.
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So this took a lot of courage and this was an experiment.
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And so kudos to them for taking a run at it.
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I, I appreciate it and I, I value their effort.
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And it was wildly successful by any, you know, measurement.
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And so when you can peel away, I don't know what it is, you know,
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20% of the eyeballs or whatever it is.
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If I'm an advertiser or I am, you know, one of the major
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outlets distributing the game, I'm thinking that is a big loss
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of market share. You've just taken the ad dollars
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and you've taken the profitability and you've just
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cut into it. And what that does is, well,
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that encourages others to try and do the same.
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So now you're looking at competition in the market
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because? Next year we're going to see a
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lot more of these. My first thought, I mean, like,
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you know, we're not, we're not anywhere near the level of
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TPUSA. My first thought was how much of
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that market share can we go for? I mean, that was my first
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thought. It was like, well, if, if
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there's something there, let's go for it.
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I mean, and there's going to be others that are going to be
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thinking the same thing. And what could you do to provide
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family based, faith friendly content that would provide an
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alternative? And as you know, if you're
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evangelistic, you love Jesus, you want people to meet Christ,
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there's an opportunity here because there's a lot of
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eyeballs. So with culture getting darker
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and more woke and disgusting and the complete lack of pride in
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America, you believe Christian should engage more than just
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complaining, we should do something.
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Yeah, rather than just protesting, provide an
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alternative. And if it's a turd sandwich,
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make a different sandwich, yeah? Yeah, that's great.
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Yeah, I think, I think frustration with conservatives
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named Christians is we're we're quick to critique, but we don't
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do anything like that. The average church or pastor
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Christian, they, they want to complain on the Internet and get
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in the social media comments, but they don't want to do
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anything. And I think Turning Point did
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something. There is something and there's
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other conservative, you know, platforms that could do the
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same. There's Christian denominations
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that have the technology and have the wherewithal to do the
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same. There could be live streaming
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worship events, there could be instead of commercials, there
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could be actually evangelistic presentations.
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There could be interesting documentary films that are
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played. There could be all kinds of
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different media. And wouldn't it be great even if
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the Christians were able to pull together a menu of options to
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where you had some sort of, you know, super place, almost like
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going to a Netflix. We've got a lot of options.
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And they were all faith-based and Christ centered and, and
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whatever you got was better than what was being offered.
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And I think it was 20. It's been 20 plus years since
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country music was platformed at the Super Bowl.
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And it's like they've sort of cut out the one genre that is
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pro America, pro faith, pro family, pro freedom, the one
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genre that still talks about Christ.
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You're not going to get that in rap, you're not going to get
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that in cop. And so it seems to me like there
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is a profound bias and and it hates its own market.
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That's what's so weird to me. Like we saw Post Malone this
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year, Morgan Wall and all these guys blown up number one hits.
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They're driving old trucks and they're singing about America
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and. And Jesus like, like Morgan
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Wallin is talking about Jesus. And he, I know for a fact, like
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Morgan Wallin and certain country stars, they're getting
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trained in deep end of the pool Bible teaching.
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And I, I know who's training them.
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I know for a fact. And so some of these people are
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not just token Christians, they're they're deepening their
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faith. Yeah, 100%.
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And we saw that actually at the Turning Point viewing at the at
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the concert. And we're going to roll that
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clip of Kid Rock getting up and he changed the lyrics of the
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song till you can't. When you would, if you would
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have told me Kid Rock is going to be talking about Jesus, I
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would have thought the end of the world is officially coming.
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Jesus is already back. We could be close.
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Well, Sunday morning all So Jesus is starting to be a
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little trendy. And so I've been in this long
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enough dealing with politicians, business leaders, entertainments
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and athletes. Sometimes it's just tokenism and
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it is just manufactured branding.
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I've met some people who I thought were devout Christians
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and once I got to know them, it, it was nothing but just branding
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and marketing. It was, it was fakery and
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forgery and, and who they presented themselves to be
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publicly is not who they were privately.
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And and that's disingenuous. And that's what happens when
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Christianity or Christ starts to become more popular.
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In addition, there are some people that are saved, meet
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Jesus born again and they're kind of shocking and you
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wouldn't have anticipated that Jesus was going to pick them for
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the team. And as soon as they get saved,
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there are people that that are continually going back to their
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past and saying, but they said this or they did that.
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Therefore how could they possibly speak for Jesus?
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Well, the whole point of Christianity is you're forgiven
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for your sin and you repent of your sin and you get a new life
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in Christ, which means your old life was bad and wrong.
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Yeah, and we see conversions like Paul's, and I think most of
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the church would reject Paul full stop.
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How could he come and preach? He murdered a guy who was a
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leader in a church. Yeah.
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Who would that be like today if they got converted, I mean.
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It would be like a jihadist. Yeah, it would be like a
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terrorist. And he wrote like a good
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majority of the Bible. Yeah, he's the number one by
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sheer number of books contributed to the New
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Testament. But he he was a murderer.
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So this would be like a jihadist or a terrorist.
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And so you know, what happens sometimes is it's like, well,
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you know, like Jelly Roll right now is a he's a wild,
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fascinating journey. I mean, he starts off as an
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obese guy married to a prostitute, you know, who is not
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a believer. And then we're all watching his
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journey and early on, you've got like some faith-based elements
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to his songs and some sort of echoes of Christianity.
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And now he's like overtly talking about Jesus.
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And we're seeing him get physically and spiritually and
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mentally and emotionally more healthy before our very eyes.
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Like we're seeing we're seeing his salvation process as a whole
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total person. And everybody's watching it, and
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it's radical and he attributes it to Jesus Christ.
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Yeah, there's a beauty in it. There's a genuineness about it.
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You're like, I can see that something happened to this guy
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for sure, because he's literally half the man that he used to be.
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He's. 1/2 a Jelly roll. Yeah, I can't handle the name.
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Yeah. We got to get him a new a new
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name, yeah. Protein bar.
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Yeah, we got to get him a new name.
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But but when? But but isn't it beautiful
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though, that Jesus would take a guy who has so much attention
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and then we get to watch the transformation and we get to see
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God do his work in and through a man.
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And in the end you're like, I'm so I'm so happy for him.
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I'm so happy for his family. I'm so happy for his daughter.
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And I hope that other people that sort of identify with him
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with addiction or trauma or incarceration or, and in some
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way he was self destructing. I hope that they they follow in
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his example and I hope they experienced the same sort of
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life in Christ that he is. But you could also look at him
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and be like, well, he was in prison and he was a glutton and
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he was married to a prostitute and, and we could just shame the
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rest of his life. It's like, no, by all accounts,
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he's met Jesus and he's a new man and he gets a new future and
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he's got a new identity. So, you know, those religious
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people who would be throwing stones because of the past,
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they, they don't realize that sometimes being self-righteous
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and religious and proud, those are the worst sins of all.
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So has Kid Rock met Jesus? I don't know, but could he?
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Sure. I mean, Jesus can save anybody,
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save me. I wake up every day, I look in
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the mirror and I'm like, I'm shocked that this guy's on the
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team. Yeah, and so that all came to
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him, the song at least post Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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And so we're almost I guess we're just about 6 months out
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from the horrific event that took took a good friend and
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we're seeing some men still activated.
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And I think there's that initial everyone's like revival and
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there's this wave of people getting saved and guys getting
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activated and talking about their faith.
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Six months later, it's pretty good to still be.
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All right. In the wake of that, we're still
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getting activated, we're still showing up.
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And are you seeing much of that in in the church, at your church
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in culture right now? Yeah.
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I mean, so with anything, there's always a surge.
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And then the question is, is the surge sustained?
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And, and what we're seeing at least at Trinity, especially in
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the men's ministry is, yeah, it's overflowing.
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I need more space. That's why we're going to build
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out, as you know, a new building.
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Part of the problem is for a lot of young men who were activated
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by Charlie. And honestly, I still, I still
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get choked up. I still bothers me.
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I was at AI, was at AI, was at a burger joint with Grace.
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We're standing in line to order a burger.
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And there was a couple and there was a grandma and a mom and a
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grandchild in front of us and they, they podcast and they said
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hi, they were from out of state. And she took out her credit card
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to buy her burger and had Charlie's face on it.
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And it said, I am Charlie. I just, I started choking up
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like I, I love him. I miss him.
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He's irreplaceable. But for a lot of the young men
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who were activated by Charlie, they were, they had a hard time
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finding a church because the pastors were soft and they were
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weak and they were soft woke, and they wouldn't talk about
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Charlie's death and they won't talk about cultural or political
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issues. So there was a lot of young men
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who were activated, but they couldn't find a home.
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And so for a lot of those men, they're struggling because
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there's not a place for them. And so, you know, shame on the
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churches that the men showed up and they're like, OK, pastor,
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they shot my Big Brother. What do you have to say about
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that? And the pastor's like, I don't
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do controversy or conflict. It's like.
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Well, it's divisive. Then you're not a man because
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men do controversy and conflict and and saying, hey, we love our
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brother who was martyred and murdered and we're praying for
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his family. That's not controversial at all.
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That's just Christianity one-on-one.
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Yeah, yeah, it feels like at least in the Valley here in
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Arizona, there's there's only been a couple churches, one of
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them Ryan Visconti that that that search happened in the
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growth sustained because they were they were met with
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courageous Bible teaching in a man so trained.
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Leadership. Ryan Visconti So yeah, it's,
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it's good to see men lead, but there shouldn't be stronger men
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out in culture than within the church.
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And, and you bring it up and, and Ryan's awesome, by the way,
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but it is wild when at, you know, Charlie's memorial, you
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see political leaders proclaiming Christ.
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And now you're seeing entertainers proclaiming Christ,
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sometimes with more courage and clarity than pastors and
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pulpits. And that's rather wild.
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That's rather wild. But could it be that God is
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bypassing the pulpits because the men there, they just lack
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the testicular fortitude to do the job?
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Yep. I, I think you may be completely
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correct and you talked about it a couple weeks ago, just the
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fear of the Lord and how important it is.
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And I think a lot of pastors have No Fear of the Lord, and
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they're more fearful of the people on their border and their
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congregation than actually pleasing the Lord and everyone's
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welcome but the Lord in their church.
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Well, and honestly, what I'm seeing is most people are to the
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right of their pastor in the church and most people, they're
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not going to oppose their pastor for being a courageous leader.
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They want a courageous leader. They are longing for a
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courageous leader. To me, it's just like most
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Christian wives are like, I wish my husband would lead like it's
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not like she's going to like I'm going to fight him.
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She's like, please, please lead this family.
24:10
Please have convictions, please have courage, please have a
24:14
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Speaking of fighting, Pastor Mark, the opening ceremonies of
25:32
the Olympics happened. I know you really wanted to make
25:34
that transition. Yep.
25:36
And by the way, we don't use the word transition here.
25:41
Segway, Yeah. So we saw the opening ceremonies
25:45
of the Olympics and honestly a huge step up from last year, no?
25:49
No queer the last time we had the Queer Last Supper.
25:52
It was very demonic and disgusting.
25:55
Completely blasphemous. It was and it was very hard to
25:58
watch without throwing up. It was much better this year.
26:01
There was art and it was in Italy, and my wife really
26:06
appreciated it and I watched with her.
26:09
So, but there's a lot of protest violence happening in Italy as a
26:14
result of like, allowing Israel to participate in the Olympics,
26:18
while countries like Russia are not.
26:21
So we want to roll a clip of what is happening there.
27:12
Yeah, so this, the only way this would fly is on the 4th of July
27:16
in America. If that was happening in our
27:18
streets, feels like it would get handled.
27:22
Well, so this is all theater. So part of this is this is the
27:26
social media theater. And so they're doing it at
27:32
night, and they're doing it for the camera.
27:35
So this is all theater and this is all fireworks.
27:39
I mean, you know, if you're just an average person, you're like,
27:41
oh, my gosh, this looks like Armageddon.
27:43
These are fireworks. Now, fireworks are still
27:46
dangerous. You can hurt people.
27:47
But this is not the same as active, you know, gunfire.
27:50
These are not 50 caliber rounds. But yeah, you pull this off in
27:55
America. I mean, cops are not going to
27:59
endure this. No.
28:01
But if what this goes to show is this is what the streets of
28:06
America will look like if we don't enforce law and order, if
28:11
you just let Minneapolis go, if you let Portland go, if you let
28:15
Seattle go, this is what it looks like.
28:18
And the question is, how many families are going to live
28:21
there? Yeah.
28:23
How many sane human beings are going to live there?
28:26
They're going to empty out. And you know, who wants to have
28:30
major urban centers in America look like this?
28:33
And this is what it looks like. Because evil never stops itself.
28:37
And so if you don't stop it, it escalates.
28:40
But this is, it is a it is a reprehensible thing when it it
28:45
is like Israel has no right to exist or be in the Olympics.
28:50
I mean this we used to call it anti-Semitism.
28:52
Now they call it anti Zionism. It's just anti-Semitism
28:56
rebranded. Yeah, yeah.
28:58
It's, it just feels like, yeah, the the answer to the left is
29:03
just to violently protest wherever they disagree with.
29:07
It's just, yeah, they hate countries they hate.
29:10
They want to be very exclusive, but they hate when we're
29:13
exclusive. So it it, it none of it really
29:16
makes very much sense. We're seeing quite a bit of it
29:20
there. And probably the grosser thing,
29:22
and I think the bigger discussion at the at the
29:25
Olympics right now is just the lack of pride in our country.
29:28
In America. We're seeing all of the athletes
29:32
actually denounce America and apologize for America and JD
29:37
Vance and his wife were were met with loud boos there and people
29:41
just very disrespectful to the US and we're going to roll, roll
29:45
one of the clips of the USA skiing team and what they had to
29:50
say. I feel heartbroken about what's
29:53
happened in the United States when in, you know, I'm pretty
29:56
sure you're referencing ICE and some of the protests and things
29:58
like that. I think that as a country, we
30:02
need to focus on respecting everybody's rights and making
30:06
sure that we're treating our citizens as well as anybody with
30:09
love and respect. And I hope that when people look
30:13
at athletes compete in the Olympics, they realize that
30:16
that's the America that we're trying to represent.
30:18
It brings up mixed emotions to represent the US right now.
30:21
I think it's a little hard, and there's obviously a lot going on
30:26
that I'm not the biggest fan of, and I think a lot of people
30:28
aren't. If it aligns with my moral
30:31
values, I feel like I'm representing it.
30:34
Just because I'm wearing the flag doesn't mean I represent
30:36
everything that's going on in the US So yeah, I just kind of
30:40
want to do it for my friends and my family and the people that
30:42
support me getting here. So the entire point of the
30:46
Olympics is nationalism. I know different people from
30:51
different nations competing to represent their nation.
30:55
That's the that's the point of the Olympics.
30:57
It's nationalism. This is the bankruptcy of
31:02
Western education. We're one of the few nations
31:05
that actually doesn't teach our children our history.
31:10
And when we do teach it, we teach it in such a way that they
31:14
hate their nation and history. We stole this land, Yeah.
31:18
We're not proud of it at all. I mean, I feel like guys like
31:21
that should get taken out behind a bar in a shot.
31:24
Well, how about at least sign? You know, I, I, I pledge to love
31:29
and serve my country and at the very least, if I win the medal,
31:34
I will shut up. That is like.
31:37
I because there's in the world there's positive negatives and
31:40
neutrals the, you know, so there's this continuum.
31:43
If you can't be positive, at least be neutral and at the very
31:47
least don't be negative because you know, as far as negative
31:51
goes, like Iran, China, North Korea, Russia, like negative is
31:56
covered. We don't need, we don't need you
31:58
to wear the flag and be negative.
31:59
We have that covered. At least be neutral and just
32:02
shut up. But part of it is to just
32:06
because you're a subject matter expert in one lane doesn't mean
32:09
you are in another. This is why your mechanic also
32:13
isn't your doctor. You know I'm saying your
32:17
accountant isn't also your surgeon.
32:20
So just because you're a good ski jumper doesn't mean you're
32:23
good at understanding. I don't know law enforcement.
32:27
Yeah, I mean, these guys like if you, if you made it to the
32:29
Olympics, your your family has invested everything in you your
32:33
entire life. And I just looked him up.
32:35
He's from Bend, OR His mom started him in skiing lessons
32:39
when he was three. They moved to Salt Lake City for
32:42
his skiing career as a child. So they're very wealthy family
32:46
and just American wealth poured into a child so that he can have
32:51
the privilege to play games for a living.
32:55
Yeah. And you're going to complain
32:56
about America. Yeah.
32:57
You're in the land of the free. Like go go live somewhere else
33:00
and figure this out. Well, and, and at the end of the
33:03
day, do you really, do you really think that a guy in his
33:06
early 20s who spent his entire life in white neighborhoods with
33:12
ski slopes getting lessons that are highly expensive,
33:17
understands the political events that are going on with illegal
33:22
immigration in urban neighborhoods that are being
33:25
overtaken by cartels and drug leaders?
33:28
No, because I'll tell you right now, Trenda Wagwa is not running
33:31
things on the slopes in Utah. No, it's very safe and there's a
33:37
lot of security and. Yeah, no, everybody there is
33:40
white and off white. Those are.
33:42
Those are your. Bend, OR Yeah.
33:44
Salt Lake City, Yeah. I mean, so that's what I'm
33:46
saying like you, you live a very privileged lifestyle and then
33:50
you have a lot of opinions on things that you don't actually
33:53
ever have to deal with. And, and this is, this is the
33:57
problem in America is we don't teach people the actual history
34:03
of the country. And that is that it was pilgrims
34:05
and it was Puritans who came here as a, an experiment in
34:08
religious freedom. We actually don't teach people
34:11
that a lot of the founding principles like our, our rights
34:15
come from our creator. They come from God, not our
34:17
government. That we have religious freedom,
34:20
we have freedom of assembly, we have freedom of speech.
34:23
We, we have, we have an amendment to protect those by
34:26
bearing arms to, to defend ourselves when the government
34:30
raises up in a tyrannical way. That that all of what is, is an
34:34
experiment that the rest of the world does not enjoy.
34:38
And if you've traveled the world, I've been to a couple
34:41
dozen countries, it's not like this.
34:45
The prosperity is not there, the freedom is not there.
34:48
And even the ability to get on television and speak negatively
34:52
against your nation, if you do that, in most nations, the
34:56
government, they mercerate you. For sure they.
35:00
Make a public example of you. I mean, if you do that in Iran,
35:04
if you do that, I mean, if you do that in Iran, they hang you
35:06
off a bridge if you. Take an example of.
35:08
Regime. They make an example of you if
35:10
you do that in Russia. They make a public example of
35:13
you if you do that in North Korea.
35:15
They make a public example of you in a lot of the nations, if
35:18
you speak out against the government, you you are you are
35:23
treated as as a traitor, committing treason against the.
35:26
Gun that's how I felt when I watched it and it's probably too
35:28
extreme to say take him out behind a barn.
35:30
But like to hate your country and to be representing it.
35:34
There's soldiers dying yes, for your freedom to do that right
35:38
now and you're as much of A representative as they are and
35:41
they don't get a microphone to talk about it.
35:43
You do and that's it's, it's reprehensible to come after a
35:47
nation that the only reason you can do what you do is because of
35:52
the people that are dying for your freedom and protecting the
35:55
borders. And yeah, bend OR you don't
35:58
really get it, but you're not. If you're in Portland, you'd
36:01
actually feel unsafe because there's riots and a lot of
36:04
illegals living there and they protect them over the the
36:07
citizens. Yeah, and, and let's be honest,
36:10
of the, you know, 10 + 1,000,000 people that enter the country
36:12
illegally during the Biden administration, let's say, yeah,
36:16
there was some decent people that could be good citizens.
36:19
Great. Then get in line, apply and come
36:21
into the country legally and add value.
36:23
But in addition, there's, you know, 300,000 children that are
36:27
minors that are missing. We have no idea what happened to
36:30
them. If we could find some of them
36:31
and rescue them from slavery or sex trafficking.
36:34
Let's please try and do so. In addition, there are a lot of
36:38
criminal actors, cartel members. There are drug dealers and sex
36:42
traffickers and could we please remove them from the country as
36:46
soon as possible because they are dangerous and deadly and
36:50
they are a net loss. And then there are some people
36:52
that are coming into the country that are complete criminals and
36:56
they are just trying to game the system.
36:58
We have gotten a clear picture of what that looks like in
37:01
Minneapolis. And this is just the beginning
37:04
of the unfolding of all of the fraud.
37:06
And the question is, is that do we not have a right to say, hey,
37:10
if you're going to come into the country illegally with the
37:12
express intent of committing fraud and taking dollars from
37:16
those who are hard working citizens, Do we not have a right
37:20
as a nation to say you need to now be arrested and deported
37:24
because what you are is you are a threat to the well-being in
37:28
the future of our entire nation? And then to say, you know, I
37:32
don't like everything that is going on.
37:34
What do you, what do you not like?
37:35
Do you not like all the fraud in Minneapolis?
37:36
Do you not like all the fentanyl?
37:38
Do you not like the sex trafficking?
37:39
Do you not like the 600 people that were arrested in a major
37:43
sex trafficking sting operation in LA last week, many of which
37:47
were children and minors? Some under the age of 14.
37:50
What do you not like? Well, and I don't like yeah, the
37:55
the the guy that's saying that is walking around with the
37:57
security team like you, you. In a white puffy jacket and he's
38:02
got somebody else cooking his meals at an Olympic village
38:06
while everyone takes his photo. And the only skill you have is
38:09
knowing how to ski. If the end of the world comes,
38:12
you're not going to be very helpful.
38:14
Yeah, it it feels like a lot of privilege.
38:16
And I, I think you're nailing it and it it's disgusting.
38:21
And one of the guys, he said if you can't represent the flag
38:25
hand in the jersey, you don't get a platform and reject what
38:28
it gives you like. You get all the benefits of
38:31
America and then you get to be a critic of it.
38:34
I I don't think we see a lot of nations doing that to
38:36
themselves. We're we're cannibalizing
38:37
ourselves. This is like a trust fund kid
38:39
who then cashes in their dad's check and spends their time
38:43
criticizing their dad. Well, they're not working.
38:46
It's like, well, either criticize your dad or take his
38:48
money, but don't do both. Yeah.
38:50
So what's the solution for young men?
38:52
Like, it just feels like we need to do something.
38:54
Young men need to get activated for first their faith and then
38:57
they're for the Lord. Well, for the Lord and then for
39:01
the country to be, to be patriots.
39:04
And where, where do you stand on being a patriot?
39:07
Are you? Are you proud to be an American?
39:08
The older I get, the more proud I am, and the more I've traveled
39:11
the world, the more grateful I am.
39:13
And the more I study the founding of the nation and the
39:16
principles it was founded on and the people it was founded by,
39:20
the more I realized not everybody was a Christian.
39:22
But the principles are deeply influenced by the basic
39:26
principles of the Scriptures. Like I'm in the 10 commandments
39:29
right now and private property ownership.
39:32
Thou shalt not steal. That means the government
39:33
doesn't own everything. Basic principles from the Bible,
39:39
they are undergirding what were the framers intent of the
39:44
creation of the nation. And you can't deny that.
39:46
You just can't. I mean, and at the end of the
39:49
day, there is no perfect government because even if you
39:51
have a perfect system, it's going to be implemented by
39:54
imperfect people. And so you can sit back all day
39:57
and you can critique the system or you can involve yourself in
40:01
it to try and improve it. And and it's easy to sit back
40:04
and to critique and it's hard to get involved.
40:06
But I would say for young men. Invest yourself in doing the
40:11
best you can for your family and your legacy and your kids and
40:15
your grandkids. And if you are worshipping God,
40:18
you are working your job. You're trying to build
40:20
generational legacy and wealth. You're staying faithful to your
40:24
wife. You're investing in your
40:25
children. You're raising them up to love
40:27
and serve God. At the end of the day, you and
40:30
your family are going to be positive contributors to your
40:33
nation and as a result, your legacy is going to be blessed by
40:39
God. And to me, the best way to be a
40:43
nationalist is to worship Jesus Christ and to obey the Bible.
40:47
And you'll be a blessing to your nation and you'll be a
40:50
contributor to future generations for your nation.
40:53
Yeah, 100 percent, 100%. I think young men need to solve
40:57
problems. I was reading about 5
41:00
generations ago in my family, there was someone named Sam and
41:03
P Chase. And he, he ended up putting the
41:07
entire currency system together and that's why and God we trust
41:10
is on all the bills. So he was the son of a minister
41:13
and he was just so he really hated slavery.
41:17
He was trying to go on the road and just speak and try to
41:21
advocate against where the nation was at that point.
41:26
And he went and got a law degree, had great mentors, grew
41:30
in his faith. He never missed Sunday at
41:32
church. But he went out and did
41:34
something and fixed something. And the currency system was
41:36
completely broken. So he wanted to be president.
41:38
He ran for president two or three times, never made it.
41:41
And Abraham Lincoln actually put him in as secretary treasurer
41:43
because the currency system was just broken.
41:46
So he jumped in and solved a problem and was able to
41:50
influence a lot and actually help with the slavery issue in
41:54
in America at that time. But I think we underestimate how
41:58
much just being faithful to our Lord and helping solve problems
42:02
can be over the long term, and I'm grateful.
42:04
I bet he didn't realize that a couple 100 years later we we'd
42:08
still have those bills with in God we trust on it.
42:10
Yeah, that's a that is a cool story.
42:14
So at some point, yeah, that's got to be all captured for Indy
42:18
and for your kids now, grandkids, there's got to be a
42:20
little documentary, something about.
42:21
That if they ever try to remove and God we trust, we're going to
42:24
have to go to war. We're going.
42:25
To have to go to war for that. Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a cool
42:28
piece of history. I'm I'm reading his biography
42:30
right now. Just came out.
42:31
Just is cool. But that's what I love about
42:34
Abraham Lincoln. He surrounded himself with
42:36
people that actually ran against him, but they had good ideas.
42:38
So is the books called Team Arrivals?
42:41
I've got that book, yeah. Yeah, so very cool, but I think
42:45
young men just need to solve problems and stop talking about
42:47
them. And it's easy to critique what
42:49
other people are doing. It's really hard to do things.
42:54
As like all the liberal young women and and some men online
42:58
getting mad at ice. Well, what's your solution?
43:00
Yeah. What what, what would you like
43:02
to do with cartels? Yeah, solve that problem, Yeah,
43:06
because look at the evil. Dealing with cartels on X is a
43:10
lot easier than dealing with cartels on streets.
43:14
Yeah, yeah. It's like everyone's mad about
43:16
what happened in Venezuela. No, it's excellent.
43:20
Those people are liberated. Ashley used to teach refugees
43:22
from Venezuela, and they're thrilled that they're.
43:25
Very happy. We've never lived under a
43:28
dictator. People call Trump a dictator.
43:30
No, if he was a dictator, that guy would lose his head for
43:33
saying that about US1. Way you know a guy is not a
43:35
dictator is you call him a dictator and you're still
43:37
breathing. Exactly.
43:39
You ridicule your nation on live TV and you're still able to ski
43:43
the next day. Yeah, we are giving away a truck
43:47
AK-5 Blazer and it ends this month.
43:52
If you text truck to 99383, we will send you a link to get into
43:58
the giveaway. So I think that's that's a good
44:00
place to end the Olympics. Another thing that came out of
44:04
the Super Bowl, obviously there's lots of ads and
44:07
commercials and very cool to see a pro-life adoption ad role and
44:13
wanted to show you that and kind of get your take on it.
44:39
I know you envisioned things differently.
44:47
They're telling you that you've only got 2 choices, but the
44:52
truth is there's three. Are these options difficult?
45:01
Of course they are, but you deserve to know.
45:12
Adoption is an option. We got very polarized.
45:18
Right now it's either pro-life, pro-choice, killing babies,
45:23
saving babies. What do you think about the the
45:26
third option? It's beautiful.
45:27
And I think even from a branding standpoint, adoption is an
45:30
option. I think that's really clever.
45:33
I appreciate the tone of it, and it appeals to the young woman
45:37
who's in a difficult place. And we know statistically, if a
45:41
woman sees the child, you know, through an ultrasound, she tends
45:46
to want to have the child because she sees this is
45:48
actually a human life. And statistically, if the father
45:51
raises his hand and says, I want to help raise this baby, she has
45:55
the baby. So, So for many women, if
45:59
they're able to see the baby and, or have support for the
46:01
baby, they're willing to choose life for the baby.
46:04
And so, yeah, I mean, I, I think it's great because it, it gives
46:08
some empathy, some compassion, some some support to a young
46:12
woman who's got a difficult choice to make, at least in her
46:15
understanding in my as a pro-life man, like there is no
46:19
choice. You choose life.
46:22
And for as a Christian, Christians really pioneered
46:25
adoption. So in the early Roman Empire,
46:27
the days of the New Testament, infanticide was incredibly
46:30
common. If you had a child with any
46:33
birth defect, you would literally put them out with the
46:35
garbage. I mean, and girls were less
46:39
desirable than boys because boys could go, you know, grow up and
46:43
work in the farm or the business.
46:45
And so it was very common for children to be left out with the
46:49
trash. And then the most despicable
46:51
people would come along and they would pick up those children.
46:53
And a lot of those sons were raised to be slaves or
46:56
gladiators. A lot of those girls were raised
46:59
to be prostitutes. Just horrifying.
47:02
And so it was the Christians who started taking these children
47:07
into adoption and raising these children.
47:09
And so Christians really pioneered adoption in the early
47:13
Roman Empire, in the days of the New Testament.
47:15
And part of that is based upon two things.
47:19
Jesus Christ was adopted. So Jesus has a biological mother
47:24
and Mary, but he does not have a biological father.
47:27
And so Joseph becomes his adoptive father.
47:31
And so technically God came to the earth and he was adopted.
47:35
So the adoption of Jesus Christ by Joseph sets in motion for the
47:40
Christian that adoption is this incredibly noble high calling in
47:45
ministry. In addition, the language of the
47:48
Bible, particularly in Romans and Galatians, is that God is a
47:52
father, Jesus is a Big Brother, and Christianity is being
47:56
adopted into the family of God, the church.
47:59
And so all Christians see ourselves as adopted.
48:03
Nobody is born into God's family.
48:05
We're all born as sinners and we need to be adopted into God's
48:10
family. And we're we're adopted into
48:13
God's family because God's a father who chooses to adopt us
48:17
into his family. So the whole language of the
48:19
gospel is 1 of adoption. So for Christians, adoption is
48:24
it should be an absolute, you know, hand in glove fit for
48:28
Christian worldview and belief. And so and so for us, it should
48:34
be very easy to say, I can, I can love an adopted child just
48:37
like I would love a biological child because the gospel of
48:41
Jesus Christ and the example of Jesus Christ compels me to.
48:44
And so, yeah, I love this. And and there's people too that
48:48
they struggle with infertility. There's people that want to have
48:52
children but have been unable to do so.
48:54
And so it provides opportunity for family for those who
48:59
otherwise may not have that opportunity.
49:01
And yeah, so I, I think it's beautiful.
49:03
I think it's wonderful. I, I love the tone of it and I
49:07
appreciate the bravery of just sticking your neck out because
49:10
on this issue you could get grief perhaps from both sides,
49:14
but it takes a lot of courage. So I, I'm, I'm grateful for it.
49:17
Yeah. And it's, it's a, it's a very,
49:19
it is very clever marketing and branding around it because it is
49:23
1/3 option, but it is very much a life option like.
49:27
It is a pro-life option. It's a very pro-life one, but
49:29
they're branding themselves to something in the middle, which
49:31
is very helpful for the young woman making the decision of
49:34
like, OK, I either have to kill the baby or keep the baby.
49:37
And it's like, well, no, there, there are people out there that,
49:41
yeah, like you said, our struggle with infertility and
49:44
want, want to have, want to have a child.
49:47
We had, my little brother was adopted from Korea and I can't
49:52
imagine not having him as a little brother.
49:54
And he is, he's a blessing. And Romans, we're we're all
49:57
adopted as sons. And yeah, so you, you, you would
50:01
say for a Christian it is a noble and good thing to adopt A
50:05
child. Yes, but I would say as well
50:09
don't do it because it's faddish or it seems interesting or it's
50:13
a fleeting, you know, interest. It's not a pat.
50:18
This is a lifelong commitment and you need to be called of God
50:22
and you need to be willing to be committed to it because
50:26
sometimes when you, you know, receive a child, you don't know
50:29
what their background is. Maybe you don't know what their
50:31
genetics are. They may have a medical
50:34
condition you're unaware of. They may have experienced some
50:36
trauma or abuse that you're unaware of.
50:38
You, you may not know what you're getting with this child.
50:42
But once you adopt that child, you're their parent and you are
50:46
committed. You need to be committed to them
50:48
as you would be committed to a biological child.
50:51
Otherwise you bring that child into your home.
50:54
Then you realize this is a lot of work.
50:56
And again, some people treat them like pets, and they're
50:58
like, well, this is a lot more than I was bargaining for.
51:01
Yeah, now that child is perhaps bonded with you.
51:04
You've not bonded with them. They bonded with siblings.
51:07
Now they've got aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents.
51:10
And it's like if you're going to commit to it, you need to be
51:13
100% committed for the rest of your life to being devoted to
51:17
that child. Otherwise, don't start something
51:20
you don't plan on finishing. And I, and I've tragically seen
51:24
that on some occasions. Yeah, there's, I think in the in
51:27
the the boomer Christian religious world, there's a lot
51:31
of people that adopt children. They feel a moment of guilt or
51:35
it is a fad. It is movies like Blind Side
51:38
come out and it's like, oh, I should be able to do good.
51:41
And if you weren't called to it, you have no business being
51:43
there. And if God calls you to it and
51:44
he blesses it, it's incredible. We know a lot of families that
51:48
have adopted kids and you wouldn't know that that wasn't
51:51
that wasn't their kid. It's super interesting.
51:55
CBO projects that by 2033, annual deaths in the US will
51:59
exceed annual births. So a lot of Christians are
52:03
asking adoption and all this stuff.
52:05
Does it fulfill the mandate to go forth and multiply like
52:10
adoption and and what should the Christian be doing?
52:12
Should the Christian have a lot of kids with the world getting
52:14
so dark? Yeah.
52:15
So what happens is whoever has children owns the future.
52:24
It really is a, it is a population game.
52:27
Whoever puts people in the future controls the future.
52:32
That's why people who are transgender, gay, they're trying
52:36
to convert your children because they can't make any children.
52:41
So that's why they want to get into government schools and
52:43
entertainment and they want to brainwash your children.
52:48
And so they can't make any children.
52:50
So they're trying to convert your children.
52:52
And so the the one group that is trying to rule the future by
52:57
putting people in the future is the Muslims.
53:00
And that's what's hilarious to me about the Muslims and Islam
53:02
being so aligned with the left right now.
53:04
They're just Co opting and using stupid emotional people because
53:08
they're putting people in the future.
53:10
But they love this whole America stop putting people in the
53:13
future thing. Oh, yeah.
53:15
They're like, hey, if you, you know, if you useful idiots can
53:18
go in and deconstruct, you know, Western values, you know, you're
53:24
all a cul-de-sac of reproduction, you're not going
53:28
anywhere, Then what we will do is we will eat, you know, we'll
53:31
have 10 kids and we'll all raise them to be, you know, jihadists
53:36
and we'll put them in the future and we will rule because you
53:40
won't be there. And so it makes sense, like
53:44
you're using the progressives to deconstruct Western civilization
53:49
and then you will rule the future.
53:51
I mean, it, it's, it's brilliant and it's simple.
53:54
But if you go to places like Berlin, like when I was there,
53:58
it's, I mean, it's, it's Burgas everywhere.
54:00
It's wild. It's, it's, it's high and it's
54:03
large families that are Muslim and, and, and they're not really
54:08
training their boys. They're not really disciplining
54:10
their boys. These boys are pretty, pretty
54:13
wild. They're a bit feral.
54:15
They kind of do what they want. Same thing is happening in
54:18
France. Same thing is happening in
54:20
Dearborn, MI. I mean, you're starting to see
54:23
some even pockets in America where the future looks like it
54:28
is going to be controlled by people that have a worldview
54:32
based upon Islam that is completely incompatible with
54:37
American constitutionalism. And so there is a problem in
54:40
crisis that is coming. So yeah, reproduction,
54:44
conversion to Christianity and adoption, you need all three.
54:47
People need to make babies. Christians need to convert
54:50
people to Jesus Christ, and then adoption.
54:54
People that love Jesus need to adopt kids.
54:56
All three of those things need to happen, otherwise the future
55:00
is going to be Islamic. Yeah, yeah.
55:03
And we heard last week from the Israeli ambassador the the Jews
55:09
and the Jews in Israel are one of the few people groups in the
55:12
world right now that are reproducing faster than the
55:16
decline. And with the war in Israel and
55:20
everything happening, you'd think it'd be a very depressed,
55:23
beaten down nation. They're in the top ten out of
55:26
like 180 countries, happiest countries, most fulfilled in the
55:31
world right now. And they're in war.
55:33
Like if America was literally bombs are going off, I don't
55:36
think we would be thrilled. But they're attributing that to
55:40
children and putting more people in the future.
55:42
So for the for the young man, that's like, should I have kids
55:46
right now? The world is getting dark and
55:49
darker much faster. You you believe it's meaningful
55:54
to to have children and have a lot of children.
55:56
There are three things incontrovertible statistical
56:00
evidence and and the American Family Institute with Bradford
56:08
Wilcox is really the place to go to get the data.
56:13
There are three things that are statistically undeniably proven
56:19
to give your life meaning, purpose, and joy.
56:22
Jesus, a wife, and kids. Those are the three things and
56:27
it's proven statistically and it's proven for 2000 years and
56:31
in my life it's proven for decades and it's proven in the
56:36
lives of 10s of thousands of people that I've had the honor
56:39
of pastoring and Jesus, wife and kids.
56:42
Those are the three, not just things, people that bring life
56:47
joy. I know that my God is over
56:50
everything. I come home to my wife and I've
56:54
got kids and now I've got grandkids.
56:56
And so even today what, what is the highlight of my day?
57:00
Well, I woke up, I know that my sins are forgiven and my Savior
57:04
is over at all. And if I die today, I'm going to
57:06
be with him. So worst case scenario, I'm with
57:08
Jesus. So worst case scenarios, best
57:10
case scenario, I woke up today, my wife held my hand, we prayed
57:14
together and smiled. And when my day's over, we're
57:16
going to go for a walk and we're going to hold hands because
57:18
she's my best friend and I saw a couple of my kids today.
57:22
One's right here. And my grandkids were here, and
57:25
they were running around. And when I pulled up, I mean,
57:27
you saw it. They heard my voice.
57:29
And so they all ran to the window.
57:31
We're here at the ranch. I didn't know they're going to
57:32
be here. Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba.
57:33
You know, like, that's it. Yeah.
57:36
It's, it's, it's not what you have, it's who you're with.
57:40
That's what makes life joyful and meaningful and valuable and
57:43
purposeful. And so, yeah, if you're a young
57:47
man, I'd say if you give your life to Jesus, your wife and
57:50
your kids life, and if you, if you give your life to anything
57:54
else or those priorities are out of order, you will not enjoy
57:59
your life and it won't be the same 100%.
58:02
And I I have learned that having a.
58:04
Wife and now a son like I don't know how to even describe it to
58:09
a young single man or a, or a liberal woman like the depth of
58:14
the joy and purpose you feel when your son says I love you
58:18
and like, like I was leaving and he's like, daddy, I forgot to
58:22
give you a smooch and a hug. And it was like, I mean, you
58:25
can't you can't. There's no crazy angry comments
58:30
you can make on an X or Instagram that'll ever line up
58:34
to a son running up and giving you a hug.
58:37
Like everybody's unhappy in their 40s trying to figure out
58:41
their purpose and they're trying to find it in a job or politics,
58:46
but it's it's in a wife and a kid and a faith in the Lord.
58:50
Well, and and Boris like. God is a family.
58:54
The Father, Son and Spirit are our entire understanding of the
58:57
doctrine of the Trinity is God is a family and and even the
59:01
language of father and son, that's language of family.
59:04
When God made us and his image and likeness and he said it's
59:07
not good to be alone, it's because we were made to be in a
59:10
family. And then God's answer is to give
59:13
Adam a wife and they have kids, they have a family.
59:16
And so God, God's all about family and and when all is said
59:21
and done, God's going to get his family together forever.
59:24
And so the heart of God is a father's heart, and it's for
59:27
family. And so for men, it's like you're
59:30
made to be a father. You're made to be in a family.
59:32
And when you are, honestly, that's what you were created
59:35
for. And once you experience that,
59:37
you're like, oh, now that's your purpose.
59:40
Your purpose is not to be a good call for.
59:43
Your purpose is not to, you know, meet your sales quota.
59:47
Your purpose is not to, I don't know, you know, go viral.
59:52
Your purpose is to be a father and in a family.
59:56
That's your purpose. Yeah, it's really good.
59:58
Yeah. And it's I mean.
59:59
Until you, until you have walked that path and lived into it,
1:00:03
it's really hard to sit on the sidelines and judge it.
1:00:05
And the world wants to tell us those things are awful and
1:00:09
they're a ball and chain and just go have fun, travel the
1:00:13
world, do all these things. So those things will never
1:00:15
fulfil having a wife, a kid, following Jesus.
1:00:19
It is hard until you have done it to describe it.
1:00:22
And it is a great design and it has worked, like you said, for
1:00:26
thousands of years and. So thank you, pastor Mark and I,
1:00:31
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