The Pope & The Kicker

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Time to bury the tired narrative,tired narrative and uncover these stories not typically
heard, but stories that need tobe heard, right or wrong, life
or death. This isn't your typicallaw show. This is Big Angry Law

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with Charles Big Angry Adams on KPRCnine now Charles Adams, Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen. Lots of stuffgoing on tonight, but I want to

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start with a clip of the Popefrom yesterday. Pope Francis being interviewed about
his thoughts on America. Extraordinary Conversationwith Pope Francis the first ever interview of
a pope with an American TV network. They spoke about a lot of different
things, including the migrant crisis herein these United States. I grew up

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in Texas, and I don't knowif you've heard, but the State of
Texas is attempting to shut down aCatholic charity on the border with Mexico that
offers undocumented migrants humanitarian assistance. Whatdo you think of that? That is
madness, sheer madness to close theborder and leave them there, That is

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madness. The migrant has to bereceived there after. You see how you're
going to deal with them. Maybeyou have to send him back. I
don't know, but each case oughtto be considered humanely right. So that
is the Pope saying that Texas righthere must receive migrants. The Pope obviously

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lives in the Holy See. TheVatican City, often referred to as the
Vatican City state two acres a populationof seven hundred and sixty four non incredibly
dense. It's a walled city,heavily guarded. And yet I mean,

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I don't know if they've received anyundocumented migrants in the Holy See despite having
ample space. Now, I wentto Catholic school towards the end of my
high school career in Central Louisiana.I have plenty of Catholic friends, and

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I don't have any desire to beantagonistic to their individual religion or faith.
However, I find the hypocrisy ofthis current pope to be absolutely absurd,

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and there are criticisms right valid criticisms. The exponential growth of HIV and AIDS
in the African continent because of theCatholic Church's refusal to concede that contraception in
the forms of a prophylactic would probablysave a whole lot of lives. I

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obviously the centuries old molestation scandal wherepriests would rape children and then be hidden
by their church, oftentimes to putin situation time and time again to reoffend.
But this preening lecture on what Americamust do by the head of the

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wealthiest organization in the world. Eventhe church sets up shell entities to limit
its legal exposure. But taken asa collective, is worth well over a
trillion dollars, many trillions of dollars. And it's mean, it's hard to

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fathom, it's hard to quantify.But despite all of these resources and continually
demanding more resources without the delivery ofa product other than faith, he sits
down for an interview and it wasa you know, it was a softball,

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you know, the the journalist.Oh, I'm from Texas. Oh
my god, how horrible the Texasgovernment is. I mean, of course,
no one cared. We were toldby the Biden administration over and over,
there's no problem, there's no problem. There's no problem. As public
school systems, public health care systemshave just been overwhelmed in South Texas for
for decades, but reached its priorcrescendo during the bomb administration, and then

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you know it's just the Biden administrationhas just done a horrible and a horribly
dishonest job to the point where they'refinally Abiden had a little Freudian slipping,
admitted that he is importing voters andthen corrected himself. But it's it's absurd.

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The Vatican has walls to keep peopleout of it, to protect its
contents, to protect its citizens.The Pope is always heavily guarded. We
have to stop listening to the wealthyand the privileged. Tell those of us

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that get up and pay taxes everydamn day what we must tolerate on how
we must live, and of coursewe are on the precipice of World War
three. We keep We got anew new warning from the EPA about cyber
attacks acts of American water systems.I saw an interesting interview of a landowner

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in southern California who was just findingscores of Chinese identification cards by people that
are abandoning them as they crossed intothese United States. I'll tell you it's
it's despicable. It's despicable hypocrisy.It is basically the popes let them eat
cake moment by telling the everyday peoplethat have to deal with the cost and

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the calamity of having an open borderthat they must continue to deal with it.
And the problem with these charities isthese charities are largely set up to
facilitate the oligarchs wants, which ismore market participants, both as consumers and
as cheap labor. But for someonethat lives in a heavily guarded walled city

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to say that you as a nationcannot detect your borders, that she was
a nation must allow your country tobe invaded. And as we see the
reality of what's going on in Europe, and this is not to sound Islamophobic
or xenophobic, but when people areopenly saying, hey, you know,

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we're not here. I saw thata mom going on about how five hundred
Christian churches in London have been replacedwith mosques, and you know, I
listen to another one talk about howthey're there to conquer and implement Sharia law.
There. You know, this deathcult that is Shia. And I'm
talking about the Muslim faith generally.I'm talking about the evil Islamist bastards that

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run it on. I mean it'sjust hypocrisy. It's the hypocrisy of the
wealth, the privileged in the garden. That's why the billionaire class and the
pope, it's all the same noise. We'll be back, how big angry
walk with Charles Adams on kPr CN start tearing the old man down from

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past the heather down to the oldroad and start turning the grain and sup
cram over new leaf over in themiddle of the night. There's an old
man shredding around in the gallo range. Mist if you're gonna walk on water,
Oh to travel nine my way lotsomewhere Middle America, right to the

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heart of matters. So hot didmatters long single beds are not some money
back at the dark man, stopreuss fast and shut out sides through the

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cold room, and start turning theworld across the wire. So I began
this Charles Anaspiger and Radio. Ibegan this this show tonight and last week
I was on a generator from Thursdayevening on right around six and it's outside.

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The generator sits in my backyard,very near the room that I have
as a studio, and it ranuntil yesterday evening, So there was no
chance for radio on Thursday or Friday, but we are back in service.
A lot of stories that I missedthat I didn't get to talk about,
I think, and and why Catholicismare the Pope's comments on Sunday with the

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focus of the show, not becauseI thought there were shattering, groundbreaking,
but I think it's going to bea Catholic centric show because I'm going to
be about Harrison. Butkert's speech iscommencement speech at a Benedictine College, Catholic
based college, a liberal arts schoolin Kansas that has caused a title wave

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of uproar and approval, And ofcourse the uproar is centered on the position
of many on the left that itwas misogynistic, and the approval is that
it is a return to trad valuesthat some see as desperately needed in America.

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You know, there were it wasa very it was it was a
little over twenty minutes, but it'sa much longer speech than Twitter clips would
give you to think. And youknow, the the anti toxic masculinity crowd
was triggered by the quotes like unapologytelling men that should be unapologetic in your

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masculinity, fighting against the cultural emasculationof men, which is just him reducing
to America to these basic left righttropes. He talked about his wife that
her existence, there's a quote,really started when she began living her vocation

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as a wife and as a mother, isabell Or. Isabel's dream of having
a career might not have come true. But if you ask her today if
she has any regrets on her decisions, she would laugh out loud without hesitation
and say, heck no, Idon't think there's anything at all wrong with
that. But he did belabor thediabolical lies that have been force fed on

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women to convince them that the homemaker'slife is somehow not acceptable. He gave
himself a whole lot of credit inthe Catholic Church. He gave a lot
of it being kind of counter cultural. But let's go through and maybe we'll

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spend a good bit of this showgoing through this, and just an actual
transcript that I think that many,many people don't take the time to do
right. We just hear little clipsand we get these opinions, and we

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get all fussy. He had givena speech at his alma mater, Georgia
Tech, and then was asked bythis small Catholic liberal arts school to follow
that. He initially declined, butthen was swayed, according to the beginning
of his speech, swayed by thepresident of the university. So let's begin

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with some of it. While COVIDmight have played a large role through about
your formative years, you're speaking tothe class of twenty twenty four. It
is not unique. Bad policies andpoor leadership have negatively impacted major life issues.
Things like abortion, IVF, sergacy, euthanasia, as well as a
growing support for degenerate cultural values inmedia, all stem from the pervasiveness of

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disorder. Now, when I hearabout IVF people that are critical of especially
people that easily procreated, apparently likeHarrison. When I hear people critical of
surrogacy, again most often by peoplethat had no problem having a baby,

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I find it to be repugnant.And when they tie it to scripture and
suggest that that scripture should be usedto deny people they access an opportunity,
I think that's just an example ofpeople using their religion as a vehicle for
hate. It talks about euthanasia.I agree that euthanasia, especially in Canada

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and parts of Europe, and therehas been a pushback by Canadian doctors that
improving what is basically suicide for sadness, Oh oh, I'm depressed. I
need to kill myself. In theStates like, oh yeah, sure,
that's just one less mouth to feed, one less person to care for,
and it's gross. We've heard timeand time again, generation after generation about

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degenerate cultural values, and maybe becauseI'm in my early fifties, I see
a lot of degenerate cultural values,and I think that we could all benefit
from a modernization of old values.Right. Take out the racism and the

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incredibly polarized wealth of yesteryear, butreinject the sense of self reliance and hard
work and opportunity that America was builtupon. So at the beginning, I
find it. I find using religionas a tool to advocate for making ivf
insurrogacy unlawful. I find it abit repugnant. I find abortion to be

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a bit problematic in that I don'tsee it as an appropriate solution. But
I recognize that I see that asan inappropriate solution based solely upon my own
religious beliefs that I don't think theyshould be imposed on others. Period.
Now we move on our own.Nation is led by a man who publicly
and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith,but at the same time as delusional enough

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to make the sign of the Crossduring a pro abortion rally. He has
been so vocal in his support forthe murder of innocent babies that I'm sure
to many people it appears that youcan be both Catholic and pro choice.
Now that paragraph sounds incredibly judging.I'm no fan of Joe Biden, and
I would agree with him that theCatholic Church has been very clear that it

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is and that a once a womanis egg has been inseminated, that that
is a life, and that killingthat in an abortion is a violation of
the base tenants of the Catholic Church. Okay, but another based tenant is
judged, not lest they be judged, and saying things like vocal support for

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the murder of Edison babies is particularlyjudgy. Now he talks about the COVID
lockdowns. I mean, I agreewith his rhetoric on that, and he
can do These are the sort ofthings we are told in polite society to
not bring up, you know,the difficult and unpleasant things. But if

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we are going to be men andwomen for this time in history, we
need to stop pretending that the Churchof Nice is a winning proposition. We
must always speak and act and charity, but never a mistake charity for cowardice.
Now I like that portion of aspeech. I do think that we
are being beat down by an authoritarian, politically correct mindset to refrain from difficult

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conversations or expressing viewpoints that contradict thehiveh my narrative. And I do think
it does require some steal, somecourage to say, hey, no,
I'm going to say what I thinkperiod, I don't care. He then

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becomes very self laudatary. It issafe to say that over the past few
years I have gained quite the reputationfor speaking my mind. Yeah, I
mean, it's not when someone surroundsthemselves by by the religious conservative crowd that
he clearly does. It's not dangerousthough, And you should never be impressed

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with yourself because you're having a willingnessto talk or in this case, in
my opinion, a willingness to pander, will be right back. You're listening
or listening to a big angry lawon KPRC nine. We woke up in

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mid afternoon, because that's when itall hurts the most. A dream.
I've never known anyone at the party, and I'm always the hope. If
dreams are like movies, then memoriesare films about those you can't never escape.

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You can't a movie. You satdown, coats laming, idiot,
walking against aerobe of fortune, anything. All right, This is big a

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Radio nine amkpr Creal, Texas,Real Talk. We are talking about the
Kansas City Chiefs. Phenomenal kicker andhe is very much that Harrison is an
incredible talent and may very well evolveinto being coming the all time goat at
the position and a very well spoken, intelligent man who has some very strident

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positions on his faith in the waythings should be. And it is getting
a lot of there are a lotof There was a lot of twitter uproar
by women who felt as if hehad dove into a pool of misogyny.
And while I have some criticism,I do think that it makes sense to

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actually go through what he said asopposed to just reading and listening to clips
and then making a decision based onthat. He was critical of Martin Scorsese
in his film Silence, sorrying aboutthe end of it an incredibly boring movie

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with Andrew Garfield, and I rankit as the absolute worst, and I
was excited. You know, theCatholic priests in I Believe Japan, based
on true story of a Jesuit priest. But he spoke, he said,
made the award winning film called Silence, made by a fellow Catholic wearing one

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of the main characters, a Jesuitpriests abandoned the church and as an apostate
when he died, is seen graspinga crucifix, quiet and unknown to anyone
but God. As a friend ofBenedictine College, his Excellency Bishop Robert Baron
said in his review of the film, it was exactly what the cultural elite
wanted to see in Christianity, private, hiden away and harmless. Now I

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would disagree, right, I wouldsay that it was somebody that rejected his
Lord and that returned to the embraceof God before he stepped off the mortal
coil into eternity and how faith persists. Right, that's just me. But

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he follows that with the statement thatI find probably the most just either ignorant
of history, of an inter ignorantof fact, not stupid, but uninformed
or dishonest. He right, hesaid, Our Catholic faith has always been
counter cultural. Our Lord, alongwith countless followers, were all put to

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death for their adherence to our teachings. The world around us say that we
should keep our beliefs to ourselves wheneverthey go against the tyranny of diversity,
equity and inclusion. We fear speakingtruth because now, unfortunately, truth is
in the minority. Congress just passeda bill were stating something as basic as
the biblical teaching of who killed Jesuscould lay into in jail. Now,

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no Congress isn't putting people in jailfor talking about who is responsible for killing
Jesus. That is fear mongering truthwith trying to equate Catholicism as a battle

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against the tyranny of diversity, equityinclusion. Also, and I will tell
you I found Catholicism to be incrediblyexclusionary. I got pulled aside. We
had to go to Mass at SacredHeart Catholic School in phil Platte, Louisiana,
and I got pulled aside very quickly. To be reminded that I wasn't
a member of the Catholic Church andnot to take communion. Now I wasn't

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intending to take communion, but thefact that I had to have a meeting
with a principle and a priest tobe told that I was absolutely not allowed
to seems incredibly contrary to the wonderfullyinclusive words found in the New Testament.

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Right, and of course, youknow, Jesus very clearly a fan of
diversity, equity and an inclusion.Now, I do not believe in the
idea that we should accept a discriminationright just because we're born, that white
people are Asian people should accept discriminationbecause they were born with some sort of

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privilege, or you know, Imean, I find it all to be
just a bit nonsense. And ofcourse, the great, the great Cohn
that if you complain about being discriminatedagainst, it's because you're not anti racist
enough when actually meets your racist.But it began with this grade. Lot
of Catholic faith has always been countercultural. Now, Jesus very clearly countercultural,

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right, Jesus not into temples,not into worshiping objects or possessions, And
I mean that's straight from the mouth, right, The Catholic Church, however,
all about temples and worshiping objects,and I mean it all reconciles within

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the faith. But and most certainlywas not countercultural, right. I mean,
the Catholic Church was the most powerful, influential governmental institution that crossed the
lines of states in Europe for centuries. Centuries. Key regimes were changed based

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on Catholicism. Wars were waged forhundreds of years. It was not countercultural.
It was, in fact the establishment, and it persists as the establishment
in many, many parts of thisworld. So the suggestion that the calclaith
has always been countercultural, well again, this is just being self laudatory.

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Now, he continued. He criticizedpriests who put their personal desire to be
liked and to have relationships with peopleover their job, and spoke about the
need for priests to only be priestsand not He said, not yield to

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the temptation to imitate lay people,but to be priests through and through.
Now, I will say, rightnow, in my belief, the fact
that men are told that they mustabstain from sex for life is why the
realists that speak about the realities ofthe clergy and Catholicism how it's filled with

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the homosexual relationships that are hidden inplain sight. Obviously we're all aware of
the persistent molestation scandals. I thinkit's all downstream from telling men that they
can't be men and telling men thathave a appetite for sex with other men

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that it's unholy thus must be suppressedto the point where it manifests itself in
some pretty awful ways. And Ithink it's a bit insane. And you
know, I find those comments aboutused to be far more alarming and probably

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far more contributory to future in thatmindset, not him himself, but the
mindset will contribute to the molestation ofkids for centuries to come, until someone
says, hey, this is stupid. Now. Later he moves in to

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me, I mean, it's ait's a long, long speech and says
a lot of nice things about theuniversity and then gets into the meat of
potatoes. Speaking to the class oftwenty twenty four, he says, you
know, you're sitting at the edgeof the rest of your lives. Each

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of you has the potential to leavea legacy that transcends yourself in this era
of human existence, in the smallways by living out your vocation, you
will ensure that God's Church continues andthe world is enlightened by your example.
And then he goes into the women. For the ladies present today, Congratulations
on an amazing accomplishment. You shouldbe proud of all that you've achieved to

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this point in your young lives.I want to speak directly to you briefly
because I think it is you thewomen who have had the most diabolical lies
told to you. How many ofyou are sitting here now about to cross
the stage and are thinking about allthe promotions and the titles you are going
to get in your career. Someof you may go on to lead successful
careers in the world, but Iwould venture to guess that the majority of

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you are most excited about your marriageand the children you will bring into this
world. Now, that may betrue, but to tell a group of
women that just worked hard to geta degree for some purpose after four years,
that basically they exist just to besomeone's husband and to bear children is

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a bit awful. You can spendit, however, you know we'll talk
more when we'll get back to tomorrow. This is big angry law on kp
r. C. Nine fifteen,when I think ever seving me a black

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wing for I think the flyer down, You'll see you hims and fether h
faith that sex thirty god Philia blackwent bird shot, feed me sunder year

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for n serve in the seen longanywhere this morning you see been crying Charles

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Addamsbergery Radio. We are talking aboutHarrison Budkirt's speech to a benedicting college in
Kansas that has a lot of traditionalconsumers of talk radio very elated and cheering
and happy, and a lot ofpeople on social media, both on the
right and left, with a lotto say. And I think most of
the people have failed to actually takethe time to either listen to the entirety

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of his speech or read it.And that is, you know me,
It's conjecture. But I'm pretty confidentthat I'm right, because we do have
this superficial examination in this world todayand talking about that. I found the
speech to be incredibly and authentic.I thought it was superficial. I thought
he relied on some very basic tropes, many that cannot be reconciled between his

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two positions, and I, youknow, I don't think it sounded markedly
misogynist. I think he just believesin a worldview where women are less than
and have a function. And thetruth is women are just different men and
women are different, right, Butthat doesn't mean that women, you will,

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all, universally or for the mostpart of the overwhelming majority, find
their reward in serving a man andraising children, which was the pitch that
he made. And he talked abouthis wife Isabelle, and that he would
be the first to say she would. Apparently her life truly started when she

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began living her vocation as a wifeand as a mother. I'm on the
stage, stay and able to bethe man I am because I have a
wife who leans into her vocation.I'm beyond blessed with the many talents God
has given me. But it cannotbe overstated that all my success is made
possible because a girl I met inbank class. He tees the sweet story
of how they met, right,but he also talks about how she's the

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primary educator of the children and she'sthe person that knows him best. To
aa CO it does sound like theyhave a wonderful marriage and her marriage is
focused around him and raising the kids. Now, lucky him, Good for
him, I think, you know, when my children were very small,
we did not have the financial wherewithal. We both needed to work. My

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wife was a social worker and Iwas a police officer, and I went
back to school in Massachusetts. Shequit her job, just threw it all
in and said, hey, we'rejust going to go do this Harvard thing
and see how it goes. Andthen from that point on she stayed at
home, even when I quit myhigh paying law firm to start my own
job, and it didn't go verywell at first, and you know,

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we made sacrifices and we figured itout. And I do think that my
children greatly benefited from her being focusedon them. And I was willing to
do all the work that I neededto do to make sure that everything happened

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that needed to happen financially, soshe could focus on that. And I
think it was a wonderfully symbiotic relationshipthat had led to the significant educational and
of comson career comes that my childrenhave experienced. Their options and their choices
are directly related to my wife makingthe decision that that was her most important

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task. But that was her decision, that was what she wanted. Now
she's having a career renaissance working forthis company I started five six years ago,
and extremely lucrative, extremely successful,and it's wonderful and I think she

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really enjoys that as well, whichcame at the right time, because the
kids were not needing her mentorship orstewarding like they used to do. But
to suggest that you that she asa woman, had to make that choice,
and that she was somehow letting hermarriage down or letting her children down

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for not making a choice, fornot having is incredibly repugnant. But more
importantly, he talked about later abouthow you know, society is suggesting that
men aren't an essential, essential partof the home, and I'm brought out
of time, So I don't feellike digging through and quoting towards the end.
Maybe I will, but he doestalk about the father's need, and

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I agreed with that one hundred percent. You know, say, me and
Kuanelle were talking on our television showthat he was saying that seven out of
ten black men are gone from thehome, and it's horrifying. So it's
a much lower number for Asian andCaucasian, but still far, far too
high. And I did think thatwas a valid criticism, but and and

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great sage advice to men to participatein their families, but he of course
framed it in the manner that it'sbecause society is basically bullying men into not
seeing their function as being is important, which is just nonsense. A lot
of men are just selfish, lazypieces of crap, not all of them,
but way too many. And Idon't get it, And I don't

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get how you procreate and just walk, especially a daughter, and just ghost.
But we do have problems with morality, but those problems is not telling
women that clearly, what he wasdoing is he was telling women that they
are failing their family by striving forcareer goals. And now, of course

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there are women that put their careerover their children and that sucks, just
like men that do the same.But we don't live in an economic time
where one many women can rely onthe father to be there. As I
said, seven out of ten blackfathers aren't in the home, and a
huge percentage of that, I think, like ninety not contributing what they're obligated

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to contribute to the support of theirchildren. And that's disgusting. But it
also puts women in a situation wherethey have to have a career to provide
for their children. But there arealso women that aspire to do things,
aspire to accomplish things, and Iraised one of them in this suggestion that

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my daughter should abandon being a surgeonor I have abandoned which she was aspired
since she was six five six yearsold to be a physician. That she
should abandon it out of some responsibilityis insane. And I do think we

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need more two parent households. Ido think that children benefit the best when
the mom is accessible, but Idon't think a woman is. It's just
it's repugnant what he said, especiallyto a group of women on the the
the when they should be celebrating movingto the next step of life after being

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denied that celebration from when they graduatedfrom high school. It's just awful,
smug, self impressed narcissism. AndI challenge all of the all to read
it through and through and to takeoff your horse blinders of rah rah yeah,
triad wife. Hey, I doI think we need more traditional marriages,

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but I don't think that women havean obligation. I mean, this
is the kind of nonsense. Thisis like Sharia light and it's just insane.
Some of the best police officers Iknow women with children, we need
different perspectives. I know wonderful Iknow wonderful female lawyers, and I know

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female lawyers and much like male lawyers, ignored their children over focused on their
profession and then a lot of theirkids to be grown up, to grow
up to be drug addle monsters themselves. I mean, it's a spectrum.
And if everyone had the money wherethey could just say, oh, yeah,
wife, stay home and my wifesaid, yeah, no, I'd
love to stay home and raise mykids. Hey, great. But the

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suggestion that women should feel this isa vocation is an obligation and that they're
somehow failing their family if they don't. What a smug shmuck. And really,
let's stop looking at the patina,y'all. Let's dig in. And

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the truth is that just because youhave a vagina doesn't mean you can't have
a career. And just say,because you have a penis you get to
walk away from your responsibilities to yourkids Because I was at everything too.
Thanks for listening.