#197 Exploring Cultural Shifts: Are We Growing or Declining in the Social Media Age?

There seemed to be much momentum as Trump announced his 3rd run for presidency. Many scandals had taken place and been forgotten: Russia Gate, Election Gate, Assassination Gate...etc. Even more, culturally, we descended into a place humanity had never been historically. Women were no longer women, but men could compete against them, also, men could become women so long as we admit there is no such thing as a woman. Christians defended these things and churches were split. All of this was taking place underneath the surface level culture divide of ethnic hatred and so on. 

Today, some momentum seems to have been lost. There is ethnic fatigue, there is Trump fatigue, there is feminism fatigue, there is church fatigue...what is going on?!

So, Brandon and Daren ask the question, "where are we now"? What does social media reveal to us as we peruse the internet to see where American culture is today? This is quite possibly a bold task, but a task worth completing. Tell us what you think below!

Transcript

Hey, guys. Welcome back to another episode of Black and Blur. This is going to be a live stream that we did a few days ago. And so obviously the best way to enjoy this content is on YouTube. But we also put it in podcast form for those who are just habitual podcasters. We love you. Thank you. And we tried to do a good job describing things to you, but feel free to yell at us in the comments if we didn't. But yeah, enjoy. 

It's been a while since we've done one of. Yes. Yeah. I mean it's necessary I think to do it often because the world moves so fast, information, everything else but. I think we need to do like a plan view of the culture. I lose track. Of all the stuff that happens.

Yeah, it'll be like 30 things a day.

Very significant things, yeah. But today, did you hear that? Uh. Malcolm Jamal Warner died.

Malcolm Jamal Warner.

Yo Huxtable, yeah. Ohh, how yeah, it's actually I don't know the the full story, but the headline was that he drowned during a family vacation.

My little world.

It's devastating. That's that's quite devastating. But hey guys, thank you guys for joining us here. Black and Blur is back. Join us as we look through the interwebs, we want to get you guys's thoughts. What I'm going to do is on our YouTube. I'm going to post a link and do this for the first time. You can actually join us in conversation. You can join us on screen if you're so bold. And talk about any given thing. That we discuss, it's here on the screen. Let me start, I guess I don't know how to pin it. But it's there on the screen. And you can join us via that link and engage in discussion on screen with us. We'll do about 15 minutes for a person just in case any others want to join in and jump on. But yeah. Let's let's get started. What do we want to start with first, I think we should start with. What I just had up. On. Screen, shouldn't we? Yeah. OK, let's do that. Let's go. Here. So for context, this is now. This is not Michelle and Barack Obama's podcast right.

I don't think it is.

OK, this is Michelle's podcast and Barack Obama is on it now. The headlines that we saw and I saw a video of it too, I saw it on Instagram of him saying that boys need, you know, different types of men in their lives, like a gay man. I think if you're familiar with our podcast, you're familiar with us and our values, you know that. That's. Not necessarily true. Now, here's the interesting thing. I think that. They need other men. In their lives and the last thing they need is to know who that man prefers to have sex with. But most certainly they don't need men guiding them in that direction. So yes, I think gay men can add a lot of value to young boys, but it's not their sexual attractiveness or attraction.

All right.

Yeah. That does that. It's it it. It's not that. But let's listen to in context to anything else he had to say and less comment on it.

Hi Michelle and Craig. I have three younger brothers and I'm a new mom to a one year old little boy. What can we do to change the fact that we raise our girls and we love our boys? There's so much dialogue on raising strong, independent women. But how can we raise emotionally intelligent, competent men? I am.

What does that even mean?

Are you tracking?

With me, right? Now let's let's.

The first sentence. Had to be a.

Fragment. Yeah. Let. Let's let's let it play out for the listeners. I'm sorry we cause I can't hear that. I mean, what is that? Let's just start it over. I'm gonna play it out, and we'll comment at the end of it before. We even let Barack talk.

Hi Michelle and. I have three younger brothers and I'm a new mom. The one year. Little boy, what can we do to change the fact that we raise our girls and we love our boys? There's so much dialogue on raising strong, independent women. But how can we raise emotionally intelligent, competent men? I am deeply concerned by the ideology promoted to my younger brothers online. I want to raise a young man who sees through those ideas. How can we energize the discussion around raising young men that want to change? These oppressive and even violent dynamics.

I do think though.

What are you getting from this?

She she wasn't specific enough. I mean, it's so open, yeah.

That. What?

What dynamic is she talking about? What is the? What are these ideas about raising boys that she's hearing online?

What dynamic? Yeah, because how can Barack actually answer the question if she hasn't asked one?

Right.

It's not specific enough, so now.

Assumed that they already believe that young boys are raised in some toxic way that we don't know that they already know about.

Yeah.

What was she talking about?

Let's see what he says. Hate it.

Thinking about raising boys in the same way you're thinking about raising daughters, which is how do you? Make them good, responsible people. Who know how to function and know how to? Understand themselves well enough that they can navigate this really complicated world and setting high expectations. So there are a lot of these things that apply to boys and girls. I do think that there are some particular issues with boys that as a society we're not address. I do think as a society we have to create more structures for boys.

Now this kind of like monologue right here is not edited by me. I did skip ahead because Michelle Obama's brother was talking about how they've raised beautiful daughters and stuff like that before we started talking, and I and I edited that out for the sake of the video. This is not edited.

Yeah.

He did not talk about what issues are we failing with with regarding boys? Yeah, let's name them.

Yeah.

Are we? Can we start with telling? Them that they're girls. Is that an issue?

No.

And men to have. Guidance, rituals, frameworks, encouragement to to be able to meet a wide range of role models so that whatever their inclinations, they can see a path to success that isn't just sports or money. You make a lot of money and and and so that's on on all of us.

Mm-hmm.

Together, what I would say Emma would be in. Your community if. Even if you have a wonderful male partner who's in the house, I think it still would be good to find.

Hmm.

Assets in the Community, people in the Community, friends in your community. You know, places of worship, community organizations, what have you, where there are a bunch of men.

We're interesting, but we get the game right. The game is that this word that he's giving is some type of Caesar salad. And then when you open up the word salad, you'll look and say, oh, wait, there's no. Nuts in this at all. This is ridiculous. I mean, do I agree with the stuff he's saying? Yes, but it's so vague that when you get to the specifics, you'll realize, oh, I don't agree with anything he said.

Alright.

Because we would agree that, yeah, boys need to be around men and they need to be around places of worship. Now, what does that mean to us? It means that they need to be around men who love and know Jesus Christ. The one who made men and women.

MHM.

Right.

To teach them how to be men. How to value women?

For.

I think that one way that we failed is by being able to just talk about boys and men. The moment you talk about boys or men, someone screams as. But what about the girls? We're just we're just talking about boys and men right now. We're not saying that women will never get to do anything or say anything.

Mm-hmm.

But I think church is a really acquiesced to that. They have really cowered at the fact that God made men strong for a reason. He made them dominant for a reason. Go ahead.

And and and. I mean the simple answer, I don't know why they're asking this to them. They don't have boys.

Right.

UM. And. Why they asking it to them?

Yeah.

What? Like what you're saying? Why is? Why does Barack Obama have this answer? To how to raise children properly? Why Barack Obama and Michelle Obama know the question is not actually to Barack Obama is actually to Michelle and her.

But.

Co her brother.

Oh, is it? Ohh was it? Oh, that's true. That's true. That's true.

Just as she said at the beginning. Right. So I guess Barack Obama just there as a guest answering this question. But it's like, what qualifies you to answer this question? I mean and secondly, I mean the easy answer is to train them up in the discipline of the Lord, like Ephesian says.

MHM.

That's how you raise children. Now if we crack open this shell. It's like. I mean this this kind of question is very vague. Open question. It presupposes that you should raise boys and girls kind of question is very. And that goes against our ideology already.

Yeah.

You know, why should you raise boys and girls differently? Are they wired differently biologically? You know, do they have different proclivities? You know, like is that what is that a discussion we're getting into because? And why just boys and girls? Why didn't he mention the other ones? Yeah. The Simpsons and the they thems.

Right, right. Because that's when they whip that out of the top hat. Right, like, uh voila. Boy actually means a bunch of things.

Right, right.

Like, yeah, that I think people are fatigued by this type of stuff. We know that it's too exhausting to actually listen to the plain English he's speaking, but know that he's speaking a completely different language or it's exhausting. We've seen it now. And not only that. You've seen it in churches. Mm-hmm. You've seen this double speak in churches where people know how to speak up front and then behind the scene, they pull something out of the hat. Voila. This is actually what I meant. This is what I mean. And and they check all the boxes with their upfront speech, you know? Yeah. So on the surface, yeah. Is he saying stuff that we agree with? Yes, of course. But no, I doubt it. I I 100% doubt we agree on what boys need. Umm. On on what boys need? I mean her question is so layered with 2025I I feel like I need to wash my hands.

Right, right.

We were late recording because I was late brushing the boys teeth tonight. Why was I late brushing? The boys teeth. Tonight, because I knew we had to fight before they go to sleep. I gotta fight with him. We gotta box. We gotta wrestle. I gotta slam them around. Teach them aggression because also naturally, what's coming along with their being raised and reared in the knowledge of the Lord is what to do with that aggression.

MHM.

And when not to utilize that aggression and how to channel it and how to discipline it? That's a very specific thing that they would never talk about now and then we can't find it on this clip here, but obviously we know the clip where he talks about one of the best things about, I guess his childhood was that he had a gay man. A professor who was gay? Yeah, it's like, if you're talking about boys and girls, then how does their sexual proclivity come into the conversation?

Mm-hmm.

How does that get there? OK next thing. We got anything else? Let's just look around. There was something. Let me see. I'm just gonna click on some stuff and and see what comes out of the bag.

If we continue abortion, you might not be here.

Oh, I know what this is. I remember what this was. Let's go here. So this was sent to me by somebody who follows us on Instagram.

MHM.

Let's just watch it.

If we continue abortion, you might not be here right now and your race is especially under attack because of abortion. That's statistically true.

Did you know that my mom is actually? A white woman. Now I know I look one way and I know that we have the one drop rule still, but my mother's actually a white woman from Wisconsin. Just one throw that out.

OK.

There.

What you got? That's interesting. That's an interesting clip in a lot of ways.

I wanna. I wanna hear what she was gonna say.

They didn't, because the whole point of that clip.

What's the mic dropper?

Yeah, he they the mic dropped her because look at you, you nasty white woman. Assuming I'm.

Black.

Look at you, you nasty white woman, you know. What's very interesting about that?

When is it? When is.

It's what the IT sort.

That.

Of in this guy black what? Is he black, Mr. representative?

What?

That's what I'm saying. Like, since when is it? The status quo. You're white, white parents.

Yeah. If we continue abortion, yeah.

I mean, like uh, you supposed to disown them.

Well.

Right now it's beneficial for him to claim his white mother.

Right, right. It doesn't destroy it. It doesn't destroy it. He never even addressed what she was putting before him.

It doesn't destroy her argument about abortion. Let's make it working good. Exactly. What about your father?

She's there in earnest. And here's the thing. Like, that's the goal post, right? The only reason. She would even feel confident addressing his identity that way as a black man is because what she has learned just over the course of the five years that if she calls him anything, she's going to be a racist, then the conversation. Is going to be over. If she says anything about his ethnicity, like Michael Scott. You're.

What did he say you.

You're really exotic looking. Yeah, you're.

Really exotic looking. Was your dad a? GI.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But yeah, so now it's beneficial. To be biracial. Yeah, by ethnic, I like to say. Meanwhile, we've said it all the time on this podcast. It's like this entire BLM movements for the last 10 years for whatever it is, has always denied by ethnic people. All of the all the superstars Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, anybody else who's by ethnic they're black. And now he wants to talk about the one drop rule we were talking about. How that's a white supremacist ideology, alright. Right. We were saying that and now it's beneficial because the conversation is about abortion. And so she he he just he.

Flight.

Michael spotted her. With the mic drop on Oscar right, remember that.

That was, uh, what was I watching where somebody did that? Ohh. The Candice Owens verse 20 feminists. It felt like that.

Ohh, let's find that.

You have.

Move to go pull.

So far away and then say something and get up and start clapping and she's like, did you win like?

Let let me let me let me find that. Let me I'm sorry, bear with us. We're also. Looking for producers, anybody, anybody want to produce? So you says Candace on Jubilee, right?

Hmm. It was like 20, it was Candace Owens versus 20 feminists. I think that's what it's called. Well, 20.

Yeah, I got.

I think it was like, yeah.

I got it. I mean, this is a long thing we just have. To maybe we can just watch one.

Yeah, it was a. It was a. It was like a a Latino girl. There was one with a. Guy too, yeah. Just real fast talking. Not let her get any words in missing. Misunderstanding her on purpose. Bunch of gotcha moments and then they get up. Not disproving anything, she said. Just just say it.

OK. Time out the first person. I click on is a dude.

I know it's a lot. It's like 4 or five dudes there.

That's interesting. What is feminism? That would be my question today. What? What exactly is feminism? But. Let's share it. Let's go over there. And let's see what it is we're actually dealing with here.

Hi, Candace, how are you?

Hi, nice to meet. You whoops.

Nice to meet you. I'm John. OK, so I feel like a lot of your arguments today are very rooted in a sort of.

Mike tripping.

Old school perspective. I have to be honest. Like I think. And I'm not trying to be insulting whatsoever. I feel as though most people would identify that claim. It's pretty extreme and pretty like.

Children are extreme.

Well, no, that that women would get more happiness inherently from raising kids than having a job or deciding what they want to. Do with their lives.

Why is that? I'm. I'm just curious. Why would having children, which is just? A natural biological conclusion be something that sounds extremely inherently extreme. Yeah, it's inherent because it's biological. So I think what we think about things that are inherent, I think biology is a good thing to start with, right? So biologically speaking, men and women come together, they form families. And that's the reason why you're sitting here.

I just said inherently apparent, that's the inherent expectation that's better for.

The reason that I'm sitting here is because biology is inherent, so saying.

Well, I was childish.

Just it's just natural order that we're speaking.

About right. OK, let's break it down. So why do? Why do you believe that? Why do you believe that?

Why do I believe that?

Why do you inherently, inherently are happier? Yeah.

Was. You keep stressing this word. Inherent. Yeah, I think because it speaks to natural order and every piece of life I think is enriched by children.

You don't think it's natural for women to get to decide what?

They want to do with their lives. Do not think that saying women can decide whether or not they want to go to work or have children is problematic. What I'm saying to you is that women will get the most fulfillment from having a family.

Because it's not.

It's natural, but also children are wonderful and beautiful and spiritually divine creatures. I mean, they're just, they're amazing. There's everything about having a child it. Yes, it's a lot of work. It's just. It's beautiful. Yeah.

OK, I hear that. Well, OK, what if what if there's a a little girl born and it's her dream her entire life to be an author or to be, you know, on TV or any of these things. And having children is very expensive. It takes.

So help me out real quick. What are they arguing or what? Is he arguing?

Well, I mean, her initial state.

Is he arguing that it's not fulfilling to raise?

Because what they're hearing her say, and that's what they keep repeating what they're hearing her say is that women should not work. They should stay home with their kids. That's what they keep hearing her say. But what she is saying is that it's more fulfilling and she's about to say it right now. Actually, when he makes his point. That it's more fulfilling. Then AJ. Job for a woman to stay home with their kids. If a woman is on her deathbed and she just has a job and no kids. Or maybe she said, if a woman's on her deathbed and she has a a beautiful career with kids and she spent more time in her career with her kids, she's gonna go out. Man, I'm going to miss my job so much.

Yeah.

Or is she going to say, man, I wish I could spend more time with my children?

Alright. Listening.

Long time. So how is it better for that like? And I understand this hypothetical, but that hypothetical little girl to have children than to pursue these things that would make her happy. As she gets older.

I just think that what if she publishes the book and she has a child? She would agree with me that the child was more fulfilling and made her happy. That's what I'm happier than the book did, is what I'm saying, and I say this as a published author of The New York Times. I I would choose my children over my best selling book, and I was that little girl who had a dream that like it would be really great if I could.

So.

Share my thoughts and ideas in a book. But it is. This is utter insanity for me to reflect on that and say that I would have rather published black out than to have my three children.

Well, why is it rather you see what I'm saying?

It's it's, it's not rather, I'm just saying that it will. It will. No, it will. It will be.

Well, that's your claim. That's your claim is that it's. Better.

Fulfilled, yes.

So rather.

Well, if it's an either or if you're saying it's either or, I'm just saying that if these two things are happening have happened in your life, the thing that will bring you more spiritual fulfillment will be children. And so women who are neglecting that who are neglecting the pathway to, you know, strive toward family because they think their career is going to hug them at night or they think that when they're on their deathbed, their career. Is gonna come up next to them and say you you were so great to me. I think that they've stepped into a delusion and I'm hopeful that they wake up from it before it's. Too late. Alright Paul.

That means.

I mean.

I think that I guess I'm pessimistic. I don't know. You watched that whole thing. How did it go?

It went like. That OK. Uh, not really. Nobody really provided. A reason why it wouldn't be fulfilling? Mm-hmm. They all just disagreed. I disagree because you're telling women how to live. That was the entire stance I see. Women should be free to do everything, and the couple and Candace makes a couple good points. By saying that women can't have it all like men can't either. You can't have. I know this. They're painting feminists. Wanna have this utopia where you can do whatever you want. Yeah.

MHM.

And all of it you can have children, you can work. Uh, you can be a sex worker and you can still be valued by men, and you can have abortions, and you can also love your children like you can't do all those things. You have to pick who you wanna be. And she's pretty transparent saying that there's a lot of days.

Hmm.

Where I pour myself into my work and I don't feel fulfilled.

Hmm.

You know, I get home when I go. I should have spent. More time with. My kids? Yeah, because they kept saying. Well, Candice, you're doing it. You're living the dream. And she said, well. She said. Well, yeah, women, what I'm saying is that most women aren't able to stay home and do what I do. Average people are working 9:00 to fives and pouring themselves into a career, and I'm telling you not to do what I'm doing. I'm saying that. It's, but if you're going to feel more fulfilled, having children and spending time with them than pouring yourself into a career. That will ultimately give you nothing when your deathbed.

Every pastoral retreat I've been on with fellow pastors and we sit and listen to the wisdom of an older pastor that is the ubiquitous sentiment. The amount of time that you ought to spend with your family versus pouring out yourself in ministry. As far as I'm not saying that they say don't do that, yo, it's a waste of time. Don't do ministry. They're saying no, you're serving the Lord. Ultimately pull yourself out. But you're pouring out of yourself. Happens primarily for your family. And and the temptation for Pastor because he wants to make a name for himself. He'll utilize the church in order to do that. And he will neglect his family for the sake of the church, and he'll have justification for doing it because of how awesome ministry is, right. And so that sentiment, I think it transcends gender, though it's still also in Candace's argument, it's gender specific, you know, real quick, Kim said. What would being a producer require? I think for this it would require really just kind of like organizing videos and sound bites for us in a folder. Or something like that, maybe kind of managing social media just a little bit for like things that people send us finding things for us to help us do things like this and and when we're doing episodes full blown episodes on podcasts, I don't know, it's something that we could really make up and adjust. Hit me up, Kim. OK, let's look at another. Let's look at another. We actually are gonna be doing an episode on Candace Owens and the, I guess public perception of her. It's a real fascinating thing to look at in real time, like over the course of what, 2025? Over the course of last 10 years, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's a pretty, pretty fascinating thing. We're going to be doing an episode.

OK.

Let's look. Let's see something else here. What? This is.

Alright folks, James Bond is a black guy. Pretty exciting. I'm sure the Internet was cool about this.

Wait a second. Ohh boy, let's take a look at this again. OK, so we got. I don't even know. I've not seen this. So this says Aaron Pierre, is now tipped. I guess that says as the next James Bond, it's all so tiresome. And I think that.

I was gonna be Idris.

Elba I thought so too. Is this too British? Yeah, he's British. OK, everybody's British. I'm tired of that. Tell you that much.

Yeah.

Yeah, you know, look, here's the thing. I don't know what it's like to be a white American in in this, in this era, there are certain things I'm definitely fatigued by, and then certain things where it's like, oh, I get how that can be added to the fatigue. But I also don't see things that way. So I don't have any strong connection to James Bond. As this fictitious. Pinned white guy? Yeah, I just know they're all. They've all been white. They've all been white. Now I think what people are tired of is they know that the only point of doing this is not because Aaron Pierre is so fascinatingly, I guess. That's what I'm looking for. A, you know, a good fit as James Bond. UM. I think it's because that's what we're doing today. Doesn't matter what it is. Just make it black.

Holly trying to. Hide. Does that seem a? Lot, right? Yeah. I mean, and of course it's him, right? It's, you know, I mean he's. The He's the IT. Guy right now, right. I know he looks mixed.

Yeah. Is he? Black. He looks he looks. Let's listen to. It.

Naggers don't come with orange eyes, you mean?

Alright folks, James Bond is. A black guy. Pretty exciting. I'm sure the Internet was cool.

No.

What were you saying?

Ohh, can you hear me?

Yeah.

Ohh yeah, I was just saying that. Yeah, of course it's him. And basically let let me just you know.

Ohhh my gosh bro if these comments.

Look, let me go. No, I'm not done. No. Let me just uh. Spoil this for white Americans? It's over. You're done. You're not getting any more lead roles in movies. Anyone who was reportedly white will be black or.

Oh my God.

Uh, minority of some sort? Yeah. And then it's on purpose to put your foot on the throat and say. This is for all of the fake slavery that you people today in 2025 did.

But you know, it transcends the ethnic divide. They're just trying to stoke flames wherever it is, so even if. It's a male role. If it's a male.

Any. Any division?

Role. They're gonna put a woman there. What? You what you got? What you got, Shorty? Playing Assling right in. The in the line of the witch and the wardrobe.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It transcends that. It's just that the ethnic one. Yeah, we're gonna have a woman playing a lion. But yeah, that's that's what it is. But look at these comments, bro. This is what I was saying. Like the fatigue is real, where there are people who are just like, just like a child when they're tired, they're really to push the envelope, throwing toys across the house. Are you crazy?

Yeah.

But now people out here throwing racist tantrums in the comments section.

Shane Gillis ain't help.

No, man, no he didn't. No, Mr. Bond, you may not ask me a question.

No.

Ohh my goodness.

That's crazy bro. That's wild, man. This dude got 37 K lights on it.

No, the names bond. Bail bond. That's wild. The first bond to hold his pistol sideways and miss every shot.

What's the Internet?

Guys, our society has created this. This is despicable and hilarious at the same time. Let's see more comments.

This oh boy.

Oh my goodness.

That's wow. Yeah, all the stereotypes coming out to see they've been quiet.

They've been quiet.

Yeah, they've been anxious for while not in here. For your egg.

Ohh my goodness. 007 credit score. Oh man.

No.

What malt liquor stolen? Not bought. Bro, this is rough because so all jokes aside.

Have you driven?

What will the world? Be for our sons and daughters.

Right.

Right.

Now I get it. It The Internet has always been a great mask for people. We've known that since back in the day when we would play like a first shooter.

MHM.

Was it called? Call of Duty. And you get on Call of Duty and every all of a sudden now everybody's comfortable calling you a I'm just like.

Everybody's. Everybody's tough, yeah.

Yeah. So the Internet. Has always been a mask for people.

But like.

This mask you saw that Uber video. I'm not gonna pull it up on this stream, but that Uber video where there was a black woman, a white Uber driver, and they were driving on the ways. And she said that she forgot something. Can they go back? And he said, well, ma'am, we've driven a long way.

Ohh I see yeah.

I'm going to. Need you to cancel. I'll be. I'll be willing to take you home. But if you want me to take you again, you have to re you know up because I'll basically be doing 3 trips now for free. Rather than the picking you up and taking you on a trip so you have to cancel and then. Reorder the Uber.

You ordered the Uber right?

And then she starts complaining, like that's going to be a whole. So you be you petty and starts cussing at him and calling him names. And so he pulls over and says, alright, get the F out. I mean, obviously he's not a.

Right.

You know, but not being a kind dude, but he's like, get the F out and then. He says you want to act like a night. Here. Then I'll treat you like a nagger is what. He says, hmm, yeah. It's like this is out in the. Open and he published it. Yeah, he uploaded that, yeah.

Because that was his car Cam, right? Yeah.

What was this dash Cam? Yeah. So the flames have been stoked, and that's been on purpose. Now the Christian ought to know this isn't surprising, which is why you have people like us and so many others who wanted to try to wake people up to stop this stupid nonsense you were doing, were marching around talking about all this nonsense, promoting lies and stocking the flames because you're about to see sin. Say, hey, hold my beer.

Mm-hmm.

Hold my beer. But here we are. Here we are. What else do we? Have.

In my opinion, gender ideology had a purse and we're watching.

This sounds interesting.

In my opinion, gender ideology had a purpose and we're watching it play out in front of our very eyes. It was never anything to do with transgender rights. It was a solidifying of a cult that needed to retrain societies. Understanding of truth and reality. I believe the sole aim was to get millions of people to accept something they knew to be false and to train an army of people to protest and fight for something they knew to be untrue. Once you have got a large part of society to comply with this, you've won the war on freedom of thought. You've produced an army that will repeat any line they are told to. Without even questioning it importantly, they also tried to train us into believing certain punishments were acceptable for going against the lie and speaking the truth. Losing 1's income, friends or family were deemed acceptable punishment, and this was needed to scare other people who considered speaking out to keep silent.

So he's he's spitting some bars right now. I don't know who this video is. I just kind of downloaded a bunch of stuff that people had sent to us. Now you know what? I think that Alyssa sent me this. Yeah, I think this is the one Alisa sent me. This is important to remember because in the same way. That there are a bunch of narratives that we have about what it was like to be black in America, what the civil rights movement was, all that stuff. And then you have people like Chad Jackson who are digging in the crates and showing you, hey, this is what life was actually like. And though there is some truth to the narratives you're familiar with, this is the way they use that to spend. Lies and make you believe lies. We're we're going to need to do the same thing. For this stuff. Like and we. We already are people. People aren't familiar with Alfred Kinsey. Yeah, and John money. They're not familiar with these men, who are the progenitors of these ideologies, and the reason why they're being found in textbooks. And there's Alfred Kinsey statue. What you got to say?

And part of me feels this is the pessimist in me. A little bit of a realist. Because. Once again, my entire clinging about all of this is that people don't care about people. They don't care about real issues. People don't really care about trafficking humans and like some of those crimes committed against human beings, people don't care as long as they're allowed to continue in their sin. Yeah. And so, even if they do know about. My money? And who's gonna be like ohh what? That happened. Yeah. Now I change my entire ideology and worldview. Like at this point people are so. Uh. Their hearts are so hardened and they love their sin and debauchery so much that even not even those stories and those very real things that affect it, very real people. Tragedies, crimes against humanity. Which would alter their perspectives. We could prove to them that Martin Luther King Rosa Parks, all these people were assigned activists, and they still wouldn't care. Yeah, they would move the goal posts to something else. And that's to me, I mean it, it sounds you know, pessimistic, but it seems like the reality there isn't evidence that so many people dropping evidence nowadays. Yeah, black people. If you're black, then you ain't black enough. You start dropping this kind of evidence. You know, if you're a white person, you're just missed it. Like this guy. He's dismissed.

Yeah.

Nobody cares about what he. Has to say.

No.

Because that's what they've done. If you're not gay, who are you to speak about gay politics? And if you're not arguing?

You are.

You're gay or formerly gay. You're still dismissed.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're excommunicated.

Well, that's why. The the culture war is fought by the people in the middle.

Right, yeah.

And that's really who content creators and podcasters are trying to win, but actually not really. I think that a lot of content creators and and podcasters just placate to their grown fan bases, but.

Audience.

You need to convince the people who are eagerly watching and have questions, right. You need to be mindful of them in your comments section that if they ask a question, you can't just jump on them with a with a clap back in the comments like, who cares? You idiot. Like you need to engage people. Who are genuinely trying to understand and learn because it's those people who will either be won over by the wrong side or they'll be just scared into silence, which is what the the goal is, right. You want people to scare them into silence. And I have a heart for those people. They you know, they they don't know how to engage and they want to learn it. I really have anger for the cowards. Now some would say to people I just referenced to college, there is an aspect of cowardice of that as well. But I think that the fact that you're engaging at all in asking questions, you have more courage than the cowards I have in mind. The cowards I have in mind, they sit up in front of your face and tell you lies and they know they're not telling what they really believe.

Yeah.

Hmm.

Those are cowards. They know they're not telling the truth. They just don't want anything bad to happen to them. And the only time you see passion in their eyes is when they're slandering people like us. Yeah. Cowards. You're a coward. You need to change. OK, let's get back to a little bit of what he's saying.

And justice slip their pronouns into their e-mail signature. The human species is not as strong as we think. Our brains will persuade us something is true if our safety is threatened and being isolated from the herd is one of the biggest threats there is. We now have huge swathes of the population talking absolute lies and given the foundation gender ideology. Paid. It doesn't matter that it's not true. Neuroplasticity means our brains literally have the ability to change overtime. And as you see in cults and abusive relationships, people can end up in a false reality without even knowing it.

I think they call that TikTok. Don't.

They yeah, that's exactly what that is.

I think that's what that is. He's he's he's spitting bars. Hats off to you, Sir. Thank you. It's 100% true and we'll need to recount how this happened. Like down the line when there is a, you know, more and more the transgender day, this Rainbow Day and everything else, and that you can get thrown in prison for not supporting your child over this and that. You need to remember how we got there. We got there by lies and bullying. That's how we got there. Lies. Even the hate crime. The quintessential hate crime was built on a lie. The fact that we have that phrase hate crime was built on a lie, a lie about a homosexual man being wrongfully murdered because of his sexual orientation was at the lie, we were told. And from it came hate crime. A lie. Complete lie. And now here we are. We have hate crimes. And so many people jockeying for the opportunity of a hate crime happening to them. Juicy smellier.

Well, yeah.

Yeah.

Lies. The devil. The father of lies. At work, currently in the Sons of disobedience, as Paul says in Ephesians 2. UM. Let's look at another. Or let's look at some more what do we got here? Ohh. Yeah, let's let's do this here. Let's see. Oh, I know what? I can do. This is, you know, while I'm while we're doing this, let me talk about Jubilee. So Jubilee, that Candace Owens thing that we saw and. There's another one, I think that's coming out. Let me see if I can find it. Let's look at UM. Is it this? Yeah. Let's look at the right winged angels page. Because. I think that you get a good glimpse of the culture and looking at this page. Because. They show things that are happening in the culture, but. They also show. Like things that are happening on both sides but from at 1 sided view I would say a conservative view AA secularly conservative view. Mm-hmm. And so here's one that I saw another jubilee thing.

Room full of I don't know what to call you anymore. Conservative Republicans. Fascists. I don't know. One of you's family said that one of us proudly. Ohh. Yeah, correct. I mean the room.

Correct. You can call us, correct. That's what you can call us.

Full of correct. People. But do any of you actually care about wages?

Because. They actually do, right?

For example, do you support raising the minimum wage? Great. That's not the reason the Republican Party blocks the middle way. You think.

Absolutely. And you can't do that when you bring all these people coming. Into our country. Yes, it is.

Republican politicians. Don't vote for an increase in wage cause worry about immigration that he is not against.

That's 100 Republicans. Did I say?

We've not. Well, I'm gonna show that was called 25. Far right? Doesn't mean I'm good. So you and I. Good. So you and I, you and I, let's agree. We both support raising the minimum.

Report every single Republican candidate, right? Yeah, don't support. I don't.

100 percent $7.25 since 2009, it's lost 30% of its value. If you care about wages, we should be raising the minimum wage in this country, not scapegoating migrants who aren't the cause of their wages. You know who's causing low wages? Billionaires, millionaires. Yeah, and people who won't pay fair wages to their wages, regardless of whether.

Like 100%.

Well, an immigrant or a native born American, you had one with your with your one study that have .5%.

I I I get the monologue right now, let me respond. Right. You had. No. No. Yeah, but.

In and what's interesting about wages is go.

Yeah. And your study like, suck that you didn't even know who wrote. It right. So like let's get back.

To.

The point right and there.

Because because I. Don't need to. You go study the majority of studies say that wages are not impacted by migration over time.

The majority of your studies are flawed. That's what I'm telling. Like, right?

Telling you he studies neither of us economists is the Economist studies.

Don't, don't. Don't assume who I am.

Are you an economist?

I could be by you accuse me. I'm not gonna tell you. I'm gonna major in economics, right? No, not.

Right. How are you? How are? Are you an economist? Right now, when I said neither was economist, I was correct to use your favorite.

Just don't assume. Things dude. Words. Nothing of substance. You look at the.

And that's correct. Yeah, it's nothing of substance. You can go. You can go on the right wing it or, yes, Jubilee. That's jubilee. You can go on Jubilee and watch that. But the point that I wanted to highlight was this. The point. The point that I wanted to highlight was that jubilee, though we were talking about this, where where we talk about this.

That's right.

Yeah, we were. We were talking about. Though the titles and on the surface, it looks like they're bringing people together to have these discussions. No, they're not. They're bringing social media screens face to face that that's all they're doing.

Yes.

They're promoting social media interaction just face to face. This is a comment section. Just put a PAT pitter pat pitter. Pat no one actually cares to actually learn anything, to be honest with you, I don't even think they're talking about the real issue with minimum wage.

No.

You know, they're not even talking about the the real issue with minimum wage, minimum wage, actually harms. People who are impoverished. Yeah, it keeps them in perpetual servitude. They could never own anything.

Alright.

Raising minimum wage or the fact that minimum. Wage exists exists, yeah.

Yes.

The fact the fact that it exists.

It gets rid of competition for employees.

Right. Right. But yeah, it was Milton Milton Friedman. I forget what show he was on it. Was before we. Were alive, but Milton Friedman said that minimum wage would be the most racist policy in the 20th century. And I think people miss that they just hear about more money, more money, Speaking of which. You know, I think that's this is this is a good time to.

Go to this right so. But. Right.

We got the WNBA players. Wearing pay us what you owe. Oh, pay us what you owe us.

Mm-hmm.

T-shirts after league loss 40 million last year. There are so many angles to go at with this. I think that let let's let's not even talk about the WNBA right now. I think when athletes lose their place. Yeah, that they don't realize. That they are expendable.

Yeah.

When when they're in this trajectory to saying I want to be a professional athlete and I want to, in perpetuity, be someone's property. Yeah. And I'm not talking about in the Kaepernick way. I'm just saying that's actually what you are. They have a boss, you have a boss in perpetuity. I want an authority over me. In my work. Yeah. Then you have lost your. Place when you start picketing yourself with T-shirts. And stuff like. That ask leveon bell. Right. What's up, boy? That came to us and was a fumble Bunny. He was the number one back with the Chargers, Melvin. Melvin Gordon? Ask Melvin.

The board.

Jordan. These dudes were top backs in the NFL and they smelled themselves a little bit too much and they said this is how much I want and I'm not gonna play.

And they almost all running backs, right?

The head of.

And I felt like, hey, we didn't. Run it back. Really. No. Yeah.

We can throw the ball.

Yeah, we got receivers like the. Ball here, right?

What?

And they lost their place. Now that is not only the NFL we're talking about, but those were top players in the NFL that were expendable.

Yeah.

And now? This. The WNBA.

Yeah.

Are they crazy?

What are they? Oh.

Did you watch you watch the All Star game?

No, I didn't watch. I didn't know there was an 0.

WNBA.

Was that what?

This is yeah ohh this is the only place it.

Got. Ohh, I see. That's why they're all together. I get it. I see. No, I did not know that.

But although. I mean, I've seen like clips of. You know, I I think I told. You about? This there was. I can't remember her name. But obviously a fan, she had a fan. And you know when players enter the stadium, some fans know where they enter. They're able to be out there. They gotta gate it off and they ask for autographs as the players come in. Yeah, there was a guy who had a binder of this particular. Players. Basketball cards. And was asking her to sign them. And she was just like, seriously dude, like, you think it's a little creepy. You're just waiting out here for our bus.

You gotta pick one, buddy.

And he was like, no, I mean, I just. I'm a fan. I want. Your. Autograph. She's like, I mean, it's a little weird. I mean, it's a little creepy. I mean, I'm. I'm not judging you, but it's weird. And the caption was like. How not to get fans? Yeah, you have.

To pick one.

A what?

The WNBA is amalgam is an amalgamation of all the world's bad ideas.

Right, right. It really is.

It really is all the world's bad ideas.

Yeah.

And and not and one of those ideas is not women playing basketball. That's not a bad idea. The bad idea is trying to profit from.

Yeah.

It right, it's just.

Do something else.

Yeah, that's it's just not going to work.

It's my least favorite part of loving basketball when they get to the WNBA. I don't care about that game that going LA sparks girl go back to USC. Who?

Your college basketball is better. It's just better. But then not only that. We everybody knows this part of the narrative, right? You have this dynamic player right here in Caitlin Clark. But what happens? One of those little cogs and the amalgamation of? That idea is pops out, but she's white, so we gotta hit her with the black against white thing. And now we have to go. You know, we have to try to destroy the WNBA by defending the WNBA. What? What exactly are these athletes who have been gifted an opportunity to play professionally owed? What are they owed that sense of entitlement? Is another cog in the amalgamation of bad ideas from the world?

Britney Griner said in a report. She was like, we're not bluffing. We will sit out. And it's like that's not hurting.

That's not a threat.

Anybody.

Nobody's gonna miss basketball, but you.

Yeah, that's not a threat. Man, that's sad, man. These people are misguided. Now, here's the question. Here's what I want to know. I want to know if. Caitlin Clarke was like you know what? Yeah.

MHM.

Pay us what? You owe us. Or if she was like, man, let me put this on. For they out here. And then I then I find.

People just going on.

To lynch me, I bet you they did.

I bet you they did tried to bully her about not wearing a shirt. Not just her.

Yes.

Not a bunch of women, probably. If you don't wear the shirt, then you're obviously the problem.

Hmm. Yeah, yeah.

If all the all. The you know. You know these women who's a lot of them lesbian is admittingly, so. I can't hear what I was reading, but that's like some of them. That's what they enjoy doing. Turning some of these women into lesbians. But yeah, a lot of them. Just bully the others in the door. Exactly what they want to do, and This is why they're not profitable. Like you said, it's like this. Is it the trajectory of all of pop culture. And that's why all of pop culture is becoming increasingly less desirable. Yeah, people are movies anymore because of this stuff.

Yeah, it really is. People are fatigued by it, yeah.

You know, people don't people don't do anything. They don't go to malls because they don't. They don't go to restaurants anymore because they don't want to see the the pride stuff. People don't go out and do things anymore because they don't want to be inundated with this stuff. Yeah, they really don't. Homosexuality, sexual immorality, everywhere.

Feminism.

People don't want to see.

So I definitely would have known that, Kimberly, it was an interview with Playboy that Milton Friedman did that interview on, OK, on minimum wage. There you go. She just looked it up and gave us the answer. Producer credit.

Oh.

Yeah, people are fatigued. People are genuinely fatigued. I'm going to do something very brave right now. And we're going to head over to the place. Where culture really mellows out a bit.

But real quick, what did they owe? Like what? Did they think?

They're owed. That's what did they go? OK, that's what my question is, bro.

Yeah, $10 million each.

That is what my question is it's like I don't get it y'all what are you talking about? So we got Jamel Hill. UM. She said I'm amazed at the way so many of y'all, endlessly glazed billionaires. I guess that's like championing billionaires. I'm not cool enough to know so many of y'all, endlessly glazed billionaires and stand up for corporations for some reason you think you have more in common with the billionaire than a female. Athlete who was chronically underpaid and undervalued. Instead, you're resentful toward them out of spite and jealousy. So I mean, I guess if somebody wanted to really dialogue with that, then I guess the first thing they would say is I'm not jealous and she. Would say yes you are. And you know, it's just. I think the fatigue is with what I'm experiencing right now. I don't even feel like commenting on that.

Yeah. It's so off. It's so out of touch with reality.

I don't even.

Feel like commenting on them. Like we're from Baltimore. Angel Reese is from Baltimore. I don't feel like her.

We have more.

Right.

Go ahead, right.

Yeah, I mean you have more in common with billionaires of the irony is that they work for those billionaires and those corporations.

Right.

Voluntarily, they can all quit and do. Something else they.

Could.

They might be more fulfilled if they actually have children. But. This, this whole underpaid and undervalued you know, I mean, because that equals value. Yeah, like as far as. Equity, right, you know, I mean, when they're underpaid, that means I don't respect. You as a. Person. Yeah. No. What it really just means is you don't generate enough money to pay you this. Money. I can't pay you what you aren't earning.

Right.

Yeah, and. And the payment is an investment, is it?

It's an investment, right?

Not.

Right.

You're asking investment for investments. I'm currently raising support. For our church plant here in Baltimore, there are people. Well. I actually haven't been told no yet, but there are people who aren't going to support. That does not then make me say I'm under supported. You need to pay me what I'm owed. People will be like, wait, what? What are you owed? Really. What are you owed? But we are in completely different worlds, though. We're believers. Our worldview is very different. But even if I try to see this from a secular state. Standpoint, this makes no sense.

And all. Yeah, also and more importantly, this isn't a job that adds value to the world. No, this is a a privilege. You, you, you get to make your career playing a sport that you've gotten to practice your entire life and grow to love. Yeah. You get to get paid to do that. Yeah, that's a privilege.

Yeah.

And they're looking at the the men who play it better and they get paid more because they have more fans, more, more, more. What do you call? Advertisement Yeah, all that stuff is what generates income. It generates money for the NBA, and that's why they get paid. It's the same with Megan Rapino and the yeah, the World Cup. Women. Yeah.

It's like Darren do, you know have. You ever watched a minor League Baseball game?

Yeah.

I've been to the Orioles, Orioles, my league game.

Until modeling TV. Like I've been to a minor league game.

Yeah.

Do you regularly watch them?

Regularly, Nah. Heck no. I was thinking it was illegal. It was this.

Yeah.

Do you know of any?

This do you know of any famous minor league teams?

No.

You know of any famous minor league players?

Nah, I don't wanna stay with a superstar and somehow got demoted to the minor leagues. Yeah.

Yeah. Have you seen any? Clips of that? What's that? Georgia Minor league team, Savannah Bananas or whatever.

Yeah, I've seen them on TikTok.

Yeah, you know how that came up. They wanted attention. Yeah. And they were. Uh. What's it called? They used ingenuity. They were creative. And so not only is the WNBA not doing that just like what you said about just women's sports and it's not all women. It's definitely not. This is a this. Is a bad. Batch and unfortunately WNBA is representing themselves with a bad batch. Women's soccer is representing themselves with bad batches. But not only are they not.

Yeah.

And creative to just get people excited for the league, they're spotlighting nasty people.

Right.

These are some entitled people that people just don't even wanna be around. I don't even want to hear from you. For real. I I don't even want to hear your take on stuff. I don't. Want to hear what you have to say? They're they're spotlighting people that if you have a regular spot that you want to go and hang out, you drive by to see if this one person's in there, and if they in there, you're going back home. You gonna spend time with your family.

Because you don't want.

To spend time around those people and the WNBA is spotlighting those voices. You've got to be kidding me. It's almost as if they're PR and marketing team is like people who really hate the WNBA.

Right, right.

You've gotta stop spotlighting those people. You've got to tell them to stop putting people in the spotlight who are temper, tantric little girls who are out here just. And then the the the story that you just gave about a fan coming up to a WNBA professional. But what did she do? She harkened back to the cog of social media and. Communism, she picked that out of the amalgamation of bad ideas and she treated him like a creeper, just like the nasty little girl at the gym who's recording herself and do and her **** exercises just waiting for a man to say anything. Hey, could you pass my water bottle? Could you get away from me? Could you stop? Hitting on me. Why are you always looking at me? Even though I'm working out naked. Eww. That's the WNBA and you think people wanna pay? To watch that.

Alright.

What they did what? They should do is like a little three on three tournament league. Sponsored by top players. Were they coaching the in the that from the NBA? Yeah. If Steph Curry made a three on three team like 6 players and every every superstar in the in the NBA's got a three on three. Team. And they just hyped it up like. A USC fight.

They can't humble themselves to that because that is admitting that men and women are different.

To do something about you.

But they are riding the wave that they aren't different. They're the same. So if you guys really want and I promise you, WNBA because they're obviously listening to our podcast.

Yeah.

If y'all want. 10 million views. Three on three tournament men versus women, right. You can have 10 three on 3/10/10. Teams of three. Find your best 30 women in the WNBA and do a tournament with the NBA so that we can at least find something to watch this entertaining. And then we can also at least start. Chirp chopping at some of these bad ideas. Let's let one sale 1 sale.

Swoop, 11, fell swoop.

But yeah.

You really want.

Views. I guarantee you you'll get those views. Nay, it doesn't have to be NBA.

Don't.

Go, go, go to the the last. Don't even pick the teams. Go to the last. What did I say? 10 teams of three. Mm-hmm. Go to the. Last 10 years of high school state champion. Tips.

Mm-hmm.

I think somebody actually said this but but I don't need them to be state champions now because a high school that was a state champion 10 years ago is probably not good now. Just go to the 1010 years ago of high school state championships and make them pick teams of three. Each of those schools and line them up and play against WNBA players. People will watch that market, it sell it, keep the people with big mouths out of the camera and just let people sell it. People will watch it.

Yeah.

People who watch it.

I mean, people have thrown those ideas out there, but what ball do they play with? How high is the rim where they shoot from, you know?

There's some differences in the sport and if they were smart, this is so simple to just be a kind person. If you were smart and you got demolished, then laugh it up, joke during that tournament, do something to win the fans over. And take that thing that you did and take it to the season of the WNBA and try to bring fans. With you, but no, you know what's going to happen? They're going to be on camera talking about men and women and some type of lies and stuff like that. And you know, I don't even know why I got that far, because they're going to. Play the game, but yeah. But it's such a mess. It's such a mess.

They plan more politics than basketball at this point.

Right, right. They may as well get like.

Nobody. People don't like watching politics, that's for sure.

They seriously, and that's why the the NBA. Is losing viewership.

Yeah. Yeah. Come. On baby, what did the NFL during the the COVID I mean the the Kaepernick era, right? People were like, no, I'm not. They lost a ton of views. People were just.

Watching it, but how much of the nonsense did you see last season? In the NFL, right?

Yeah, they cut it out, nipped it in the bud. And you know the.

Difference between the NFL and the NBA? Diversity, yeah.

Diversity in.

I know the NFL is still majority black players, but it's far more diverse than the NBA, right? It's far more diverse. So I think and and and that's the case in viewership too, I would say I don't know about that. I actually don't know. About. That viewership thing, that's that.

Yeah.

Can't mark that from start that.

Well, the only thing I only thing that would lean to more viewership or more diverse viewership is. The different markets that the NFL is in compared to basketball. NBA I mean. You know, some of the states are just more diverse that football. 'S in, yeah. So.

OK, let's let's look at it. Just a couple more. I think there was something of Speaking of fatigue. There was something.

That we got the Shane Gillis clips.

No, not not loaded, not loaded. Here we go. Did you see this?

I haven't seen that meme. No, yeah.

So this is Babylon B and it's that, you know, what was it? It's that meme. Of the incident with the astronomer CEO.

Hmm.

Umm. And I guess some other woman. I guess that works.

For him, it was a HR at the same company. I think OK.

And you know, you see the clip. And the clip is kind of like shocking, right? Because you see it and then they hide. And I think when you're just looking at it with the naked eye, you're looking like, Oh my gosh, what are they hiding from? Ohh my goodness. Are they doing what it looks like? What they're doing? And that laugh is kind of like a shocking laugh. I think everybody shared that moment. Right. You see that clip you share that moment, but then. The fact. That this took place. People started to seem to relish in it. It seemed. You know, we've talked about it.

It's like expense of their.

Yeah.

Spouses. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That that that's what I'm saying. It's like I made a post about that. I I said, you know, in a sin ridden world. Like, thanks to a SIN ridden world or something like that, the families of this pain stricken tragedy will have to relive this over and over and over. Yeah, I said like, thanks to a sin ridden world and social media or content creators. And I get it. Look, the world is going to roll up. But the reason I made that is because Christian. Content creators. We're doing that. And I'm not saying that. Ohh, you know reposting it is like a terrible thing. I'm just saying that the Christian ought to know. Not saying only the Christian knows, but the Christian ought to know. That what you just witnessed goes far past a little video clip of them hiding and being embarrassed. Right, it goes to broken families. Broken families make broken children. Mm-hmm. It's the effects of sin in this world that content creators who claim to be Christian were relishing in and generating content through. It's like what you see. Marital vials that are completely destroyed. It's an aspect of sin that the seed of which dwells in every single one of our hearts. But that seems to be completely neglected because we're so lost in this really cold hearted. Just do stuff without thinking society. I think we we gotta get better. We. Got to get. Better, but to make things even more convicting. There was a take. By a secular publisher, what was it? Freedom Press or something like that? Freedom of the press. I forget. Let me try to find it. UM. See if I can open them all. Can I?

Nope.

I thought that I could. Open all of them. Let me do it on here. I think I can actually. Yeah, I can. OK. Let's do this. Yeah, take a look at this. And I think we can end here unless you have one more. So this is from the Free Press. That's what it was, the Coldplay couple did something bad. The Internet did something worse. I actually got sent this. Let me try to remember I know who this listener is lean learn. Lean. Love. Learn. I forget I forget the name, but long time listener, great supporter Encourager sent me this. The Free Press, the Coldplay couple, did something bad. The Internet did something worse. The original function of public shaming was to keep the bonds of community strong. Now it's a spectator sport. It was a full board. Public shaming, the author says Kate Rosenfeld is the author. Impaired with an unhinged and vicious Glee that we hadn't experienced since, well, the last time, millions of strangers rallied to the cause of destroying someone's life, but magnified by the fact that everything and everyone involved was a standard menu item at the things you love. To hate buffet. Adultery CEOs, HR representatives, rich people with linen shirts and expensive highlights. Coldplay, for that matter, the resulting cancellation wasn't just energetic, it was inspired. Someone wrote a fake statement from the CEO of Too Good to verify non apology that went instantly viral. At the same time. Mainstream outlets reported inaccurately that the CEO had resigned. Meanwhile, the incident triggered A tidal wave of content that is still rolling in as we. Speak the image of the pair at the moment of discovery. Their spot, their smiles still in place, but their eyes wide with panic, was instantly remixed into a joke means into joke means ranging from the political to the absurd. And as defenders were swift to point out, this is just what people do to each other. Sure, the Jumbotron is a novel twist, but public shaming has been a staple of human society since the dawn of time. Unnecessary correction to the social transgressors in our. Hits the original function of public shaming was to hold people accountable for doing things that tore at the fabric of social trust to keep the bonds of community strong by punishing those who would weaken them. Let me pause real quick. This is Brandon speaking. That type of public shaming is dead. That's called phobia. Now, right? If you see men dressed as women talking to children and. You call it out.

To.

Try and support the weakening bonds of human society. You will in return be publicly shamed.

Right.

If you see adults grooming children and celebrating the grooming of children, may celebrating the mutilation of children may celebrating the unliving of children. And you shame that. Trying to support the weakening bonds of human society, you will in turn be shamed. So while I hear Kate Rosenfeld's thoughts. She might be in support of what she's writing against. I don't know her, though. I don't know her. I'm just that's completely speculative statement. The worst pain of shaming wasn't in being called names or put naked in the stocks and pelt it with dung. It was having to look into the faces. Of people you'd. Hurt people who sat beside you in church, who ate meals at your table, whose children play together with yours? It's not just that it's impossible to replicate that dynamic. On a global scale online, where the people shaming you are faceless, nameless, avatar mask mob, it's that the dynamic morphs into something twisted and poisonous when you free, when you free it from the bonds and bounds of. Community. Forget about how this impacts people like the CEO and his mistress garden variety centers, who, through a combination of terrible luck and atrocious judgment, will be famous and hated for the rest of their lives. You don't have to feel sorry for them, although I admit I kind of do. There are little mass murderers who enjoy more anonymity. And less appropriate than these two. It is a truly compelling reason not to normalize shaming as a global always on public spectator sport. It's not that it degrades the humanity of the shamed. It's not even the trite who among us has not canoodle at the Coldplay concert with his side piece justification. It's simply this when we take. Joy in the distress and rumination of other people. We make monsters of ourselves. Think that is very well said. I think that's very well said, but I think we just have a we have a hard time being consistent with some of the things that we said. That's what it is. So I'd like to see Barack keep those sentiments from the beginning of this with consistency. Boys be around men. Then let them be around men regardless if those men voted, voted for you or not.

Right, I know.

Regardless, if those men call Jesus Lord or not, keep it consistent, Barack. We and we kept that take very PG.

Yeah, I know. I know. We.

Kept the block and Michelle take very peachy. Anything else?

No.

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