July 15, 2025 • 46 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
The California Mama Bears have been forced out of hibernation.
Fierce guardians of our future. Mama Bear's fight for parents' rights,
defense of the family, and God given freedoms everywhere. You're
listening to Mama Bears Radio with your host, the New Normal,
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Kristin Hurley.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Safe and Effective Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Welcome back to Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley Here one
more hours this afternoon, keeping my claws out, and then
I transition into School's Out drivetime show coming up after
Mama Bear's Radio here on KOMY Schoolhouse Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
After that, surf Skates City at six.
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Henry Michelle is out and about. In fact, he's really
out and about. He's overseas and so Isaiah Guzman is
taking the show again today. That will be awesome, super
fun show as a total Hurly sidebar. Here, things are
rolling along at am thirteen forty ko m Y. We're
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putting things together at you know, sometimes things move slower
than mud, and then sometimes you have like just a
leap of progress and so fits and starts. Here of
us building a new radio station. We're having a good
time as we go. More shows coming online as we
as we get our stuff together here, and we have
so many great ideas.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
The great ideas are endless.
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It's just a matter of one foot in front of
the other to put build it all and put it together.
So we're excited to keep rolling. All that to be said,
I will be on Drivetime for two hours today, so
I'll be probably like all horse and sick of talking,
but I will join my compatriots down in the bomb
shelter for two more hours of really wonderful, compelling radio. Okay, well,
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back to the matter at hand, which is Mama Bear's Radio.
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you want to catch up in all my infinite babbling
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I love live radio. That's the exciting part. Four year
anniversary for Mama Bear's Radio in a couple of weeks technically,
but I'm just going to celebrate all of July I
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can't believe it. It's been a heck of a last
four years.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Holy cow.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
So I was musing on that a little bit the
first hour. I thought for a long time we were
going to get just back on the other train that
I fell off of. We all fell off of it,
and it never came back for us. So we're now
continuing the new normal, goody goody, goody good times.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Okay, So.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Again I could cry, you could cry, you could puke,
but we have to just keep our heads on straight
and keep on keeping on. So in that spirit, because
this is Mama Bear's radio, and in the endeavor to
not just be just straight up political here whatever that means.
Life is politics, I suppose at this point everything's divided
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and kind of nutty. But in the guys or in
the under the vision of being here and running this
radio station as a positive force for our future, for
our kids' future, and being involved in civics and civic
life and self governance to lift up our kids, to
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do the best we can to run the show here,
provide a future for them and help build them, as
I say, they're internal tool belt, so that they can
raise themselves up in a whole and complete way, embrace
the future, go and do great things, love one another,
have families, prosper the nation, and keep things moving forward
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and not be a total lord of the flies s show.
Sometimes it feels like we're devolving into that, but we
got to. We got to keep our heads on straight
and keep on for our kids. And so it's really
sort of with this lift one another up, find great
resources for our kids, talk about education, talk about good
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things to do with them. I really am endeavoring to
pepper that forward thinking, positive outlook into this show as
opposed to just sort of give a new some and bashing,
which has been the me and potatoes of Mama Bear's
Radio for four years now. But you know, because we
are schoolhouse Radio, I really endeavor to keep just the straight.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Up Trump politics out of it.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I want to I want to talk about the good
stuff and the positive stuff for the most part. But
I do Pepper in reality, as Rush used to say,
you know, he lives in Truthville or whatever. We have
to face facts, especially here in California. The whole world
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is out to get families. It seems there are bogees
and land mines at every turn, and it behooves parents
to have this on your radar, to be aware of
what's going on which your government is doing. If you
can call it representative government, definitely not a democracy, which
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is a code word for something else. But we have
a very very very very tiny legislature, representative government in
the state making this decisions for the rest of us,
for your children, your ability to parent your children. And
it's out of this concern. Furthermore, that most of the
things that I'm talking about are like ninety nine slash
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one percent issues. I don't like the eighty twenty thing thing.
It's like if you took a poll. Parents are united
in thinking that a lot of this stuff is just garbage.
It's happening in Sacramento. It's an overt it's an overt
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act to subvert parents, to separate children from families ideologically
maybe or even physically. So it's a tangled web that
we've woven for ourselves here and it behooves everyone to
pay attention to what's going on in Sacramento. The bill
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frenzy season is not over, and the legislature is still
voting on these bills, so specifically coming up a hearing
before the Senate Education Committee, this Wednesday, July ninth. You
need to be aware. I have talked about this before,
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the Trevor Project.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
What is it? What isn't it? Well? Eighty seven twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Would require this is a bill would require the Trevor
Project lgbtqquirty plus suicide Hotline to be printed on all
public school student ID cards for grades seven through college.
The bill is authored by Assemblyman Mark Gonzalez from Los Angeles,
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is scheduled for key hearing, like I said, in the
Senate Education Committee this Wednesday, July ninth. Now, while the
bill's authors claim the measure is about suicide prevention, why
do kids want to kill themselves in the first place.
That's a whole other topic for another day on Mama
Bear's radio coming soon. But law enforcement professionals and family
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advocates say that the real danger lies beneath the surface
in the online ecosystem connected to the Trevor Project, known
as Trevor Space.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Okay, so everybody, what is the Trevor Project? Well google it,
look on the website, and then listen to this. So
in recent then.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
This is all from the California Family Council. This is
a piece.
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On their blog on their website.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
In a recently submitted opposition letter, both the Riverside County
Sheriff's Office and Live's Worth Saving, which is a nonprofit
specializing in the recovery of child sex trafficking victims, exposed
how easily predators can infiltrate trevor Space by posing as children.
Both organizations conducted undercover tests and found that adults were
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able to create accounts bypass age verification and immediately begin
private conversations with miners in chat room clubs organized around
sexually charged topics without any real time.
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Monitoring or oversight.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Sheriff Chad Bianco of the Riverside County Sheriff's Office stated
quote to underscore this risk, a member of our department
in his forties was able to register on Trevor's Space
simply by posing as a thirteen year old. Alarmingly, he
was prevented from using his real name, not because it
violated policy, but because the name was already taken. This
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forces both miners and adults to create false or obscured
identities as a prerequisite to access, further reducing transparency and accountability.
Once he logged in, he was able to initiate private
chats with other users immediately without restriction or review. He
also had access to profile photos and chat images.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Posted by users.
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Many comments included flirtatious language and a excessive flattery, which
raised red flags given his understanding of predatory behavior. Remember
this is someone from the Sheriff's department. Many conversations on
the platform had nothing to do with lgbtqquardy plus identity,
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or suicide prevention, instead covered video games, random topics, or
personal anecdotes. While seemingly benign, this unstructured engagement makes it
easy for adults to build rapport with isolated or emotionally
vulnerable youth, a classic setup for grooming or trafficking. I'm
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going to finish this article before I go to break.
Kevin Brown, a former police officer and founder of Lives
Worth Saving, a nonprofit in Santa Ana, California dedicated to identifying, locating,
and recovering victims of human trafficking, added an equally dire
warning based on his own.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Undercover operation quote.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I created an account I'm seventy years old posing as
a fifteen year old boy. Within minutes, I was able
to connect with several others via a club that is
actually a chat room. One person was of particular interest
as he wanted to take our chat from Trevor Space
and move it to Discord, another social media item familiar with.
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In an undercover capacity, I have made contact with people
on Discord who sell and distribute child sexual abuse materials.
This experience further confirms to me that a child on
Trevor Space could easily be taken to a site Discord
where they could become victimized by a predator. Trevor Space
is not monitored. Brown continued, anyone can create an account
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regardless of their age. The site does not have a
way to verify the age of the person making the account.
That leaves vulnerable individuals exposed to victimization by predators. He emphasized,
Trevor Space is a breeding ground for grooming, the process
used by predators to gain the trust of a victim
for future sexual exploitation. And even because they're hidden in
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plain sight, listen to this. Trevor Space guidelines state the following.
It's important that you know Trevor Space is not designed
to provide individualized suicide prevention, therapy or crisis intervention.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
That's what it says.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
This is a very clear statement that it is up
to the child to defend themselves from a predator who's
posing as a child on Trevor Space.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
So the upshot is Trevor Space, which is connected to
the Trevor Project. You can get to it on the
Trevor Project website. Bill let's see. Greg Burt, vice president
of the California Family Council, says, this bill doesn't just
put a phone number on the back of the student ID.
It opens a digital doorway into Trevor Space, a so
called safe space that law enforcement now confirms as being
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exploited by predators. We've been warning about this bill for months.
Now sheriffs and trafficking experts are echoating those same warnings.
When law enforcem and pro family advocates agree, it's time
for legislators to listen. Trevor Space is described by the
Trevor Project's own twenty twenty three annual report as quote
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integral to its mental health strategy. Boasting over eighty one
thousand users in more than one hundred and sixty countries.
The platform encourages LGBT forty plus youth ages thirteen to
twenty four to connect and share personal stories. However, there's
no meaningful age verification and direct messaging between strangers, including
adults and children, is enabled by default.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
In its annual.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Report, the Trevor Project admits that Trevor Space is used
to create quote invaluable personal relationships and connections, including with
supportive peers. Yeah, critics argue this strategy is ripe for grooming,
not guidance.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
This is to be put on the back of every
student id and of students and public schools in California. Oh,
here are kids thinking of killing yourselves. Here's a really
great resource Trevor Project, which is bad enough. But this
Trevor Space online chat and grooming app is just is
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a hopskipp and a tap away. Anyways, It's not mental
health support. It's ideological and doctrination wrapped in rainbow packaging
and pushed to emotionally vulnerable kids without parental consent or
accountability from California Family Council. Heads up, if you feel
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compelled little Mama Bear people to contact your legislator. This
is ABE seven twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Again.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
It's going to be heard in the Senate Education Committee
on Wednesday. You can log in and listen to these hearings.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
If you so chose to.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Goody, goody, goody gum drops, Thank you California Legislature. Okay, everybody,
we're gonna go take a break a little behind schedule
on that when.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I come back.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Really cool piece by Ian Hercy Ali about everybody's up
in arms about this guy in New York, Mom Dobby
or whatever his name is, the child wonder who is
now the Democrat nominee for mayor. Lots of ten weird
tentacles in that whole story. So I want to reference
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a few things that she talks about with respect to universities,
right being kid centric here, and what is going on
in our universities and how are we just completely twisting
the brains, brains and lives of our young people, which
obviously this guy is caught up in. Okay, everybody, Kristin
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Hurley here, this is Mama Bear's Radio. I'll be back
in just a minute.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Mama Bear's Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Welcome back to Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley here, just
plowing my way through all.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Of the ills of the day.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I hope everybody had a good Fourth of July. We
talked about that a little bit earlier.
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It is really sort of the pinnacle.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
The summer season and now the slow decline into back
to school and fall is my favorite season. So whatever,
I'm stoked, I'm stoked year around. I love weather, I
love rain. I'll take it all. So I love the fog.
Shock and horror to everyone else out here is like, eh,
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the FuG.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I love the fog. I love it all. Happy to
be alive.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
But yes, back to the business at hand, of at
least just touching on.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
All of the issues.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
There's never enough time to go around equally for everything.
But I really do again, as I was saying, I
think last hour, we have to keep the conversation going
about all of this.
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Weather.
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It's been a long road, but it ain't over yet.
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And maybe it never will be.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I think the more I think about all this and
read about history and.
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Really embrace what.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
It means to be a citizen of the country, this
is my country, It's all of ours. Nation doesn't belong
to the government, doesn't belong to Trump, doesn't belong to
any one of those. Excuse me, mofos for spending our
money unlessly out there. But we find ourselves with a
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really complicated situation. So my role here and behind the
microphone Mama Bears radio. While I really want to integrate
the positive things that we're gonna do to prosper our kids,
we are kind of stuck with unraveling what went wrong?
Why are things the way they are? What have we
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done to ourselves? And you have to have of clear
thinking and really embrace the truth, as painful as it
may be. We've dropped the ball on a number of
levels in order to fix correct things and move forward.
And we're not out of the woods. We're definitely not
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out of the woods. I want a couple this article
that I mentioned about, you know, the Marxist mania in
New York City. It's not Mom Dobby, it's mom don
What's Oh shoot, I'm not gonna say Mom Donnie Goodness.
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As the potential Democrat mayor in New York, a young
guy fresh out of African studies major in college, Ian
Hersy Ali, has a few interesting things to say about
the university system that is breeding the the type of
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person and young adult that subscribes to the just overt
socialist and communist views this guy has.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I kind of want to couple that with.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
A report on the the ANYA, the National Education Association's
resolutions passed at their annual convention this year. This is
by a guy, according to Angelists reporting on this, and
he got a glimpse of the nation's largest teachers union.
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And they've adopted a number of agenda items or their
resolutions or whatever at their convention. And it's shocking. And
it has nothing to do with kids. It's all political.
It's all overt overt political action, has nothing to do
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with education or like talking about how do we do
better for our kids.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
So I want to kind of couple this. This is
what is happening.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
This is what passes for education, Your teachers, Your teachers
money that's going into the ANYA in your little hometown school.
Some of that money trickles up and some of them,
excuse me, a lot of the ANYA agenda trickles down
into your classrooms.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Let's look at this.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
The ANYA adopted a business item to quote defend against
Trump's embrace of fascism by using the term fascism in
any a materials correctly characterize to correctly characterize Donald Trump's
program in actions. So they're like, are they talking about education, No,
They're talking about their tds problems. So adopted new business
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Item sixty ANY a pledge this is the actual text
of the resolution, pledges to defend democracy against Trump's embrace
of fascism by using the from fascism in any materials
to correctly characterize Donald Trump's program and actions. The members
and material resources of ANYA must be committed to the
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defense of the democratic and educational conditions required by our
hopes for just society and the survival of civilization itself
by stating the truth. Okay, And they passed another business
item to quote oppose any move to eliminate the US
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Department of Education as an illegal, anti democratic, and racist
attempt to destroy public education and privatize it in the
interests of the billionaires.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Okay, so this.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Is Business Item sixty six. ANY will use existing media
channels to oppose any move to eliminate the US Department
of Educational of Education as an illegal, anti democratic, and
racist attempt to destroy public education and privatize it in
the interests of billionaires. Oh my gosh, here we go.
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Business Item number fifty nine adopted. ANYA defends birthrights citizenship
and opposes the attempt to revert to pre civil rights
movement Jim Crow legal concepts of States rights in order
to deny citizenship to the children of immigrants. We will
use existing media platforms to organize and joint actions with
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other unions, communities, immigrants rights and civil rights organization in
opposition to the Trump administration's attack on it. Okay, so
that's uh they're going Jim Crow on us. Does that
have anything to do with your children.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
And their education?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
No? New Business Item number sixty three adopted. ANYA opposes
Immigration and Customs of Enforcement ICE kidnapping of student leaders,
not just students, but student leaders, and supports student's right
to organize against ICE raids and deportations. We will protect
our students' right to free speech and defend their right
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to dissent and organize against Trump's policies, including attacks against
LGDB I can't even say it, Q Plusquarity Students, and
against racism ANY. Will use existing media platforms to organize
and joint actions with other unions, communities, immigrant rights, and
civil rights organizations, and support of defending students right to protest.
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So basically, they're going to organize your kids to go protest.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
That's your dollars at work, right?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Is that your tax dollars, or at the very least
that's your union dues at work. Let me see if
there's another one. Oh. The nation's largest teachers union adopted
a business item in response to Ma Mood versus Taylor.
We just talked about that, a new Supreme Court ruling
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allowing parents to opt out of their kids, off their
kids out of gender ideology. They will send out a
know your Rights document and hold quote speak up, speak out, LGBTQ,
cordy preferences, conferences. You know, it's at the almost end
of the two hours. I can't talk anymore. Okay, more politics,
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and one more. The nation's largest teachers union adopted a
business item to support quote affiliates and states where legislative
bodies have taken or are taking actions that silence educators.
They list Arkansas and South Carolina estates with extreme need
whoops any A will, at the request of state affiliates,
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facilitate targeted assistance using existing personnel and media channels to
provide support for affiliates and states where legislative bodies have
taken or are taking actions that silence educators, restrict collective bargaining,
remove fair dismissal protections, or other actions that negatively affect
public education educators, or potential voter suppression laws that seek
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to underline public education. Gosh, um, let's see one more.
Anya declares, so this is new business side. In fifty eight,
Anya declares that support for and participation in the mass
democratic movement against Trump's authoritarianism and violation of human rights.
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We support the No King's movement and the Los Angeles
based movement to defend, defeat Trump's attempts to use federal
forces against the state of California and other states and communities.
We stand with millions of activists and protesters of this
movement in their defense of democracy and unity of the country.
Free speech, civil rights, labor, independent trade unions, do process,
and the popular democratic norms of a constitution securing the
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sovereignty of we the people. Ohs are dramatic. Okay, I
need to take a break. But you get the gist.
That's the NEA. And like I said, the teachers in
your schools, their money trickles up, and then the ideology
and agenda that you just heard about adopted at their
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meetings their conferences, that trickles down into your classroom.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
God help us all.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Okay, anyways, Uh, Mama Beir's Radio, Kristin Hurley here, Safe
and effective radio.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I gotta take a break. I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Mama Bear's Radio. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Negative missions to get with your don't guy, just like you,
don't stop until we drive crazy, bond.
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And nice this line, get your right, get your got
to keep.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Welcome back to Mama of Air's Radio. Kristin Hurley here,
and I'm going to continu you with just a little
bit from this article. It's poignant.
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We can all relate to it.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I have not one, but two now college students.
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College. We used to make super fun of it.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
My son, my first one, I just thought that was
for the birds and did not pursue college instead went
straight to straight to work. Well, it was a semester
or two at Cabrio during the COVID disaster years, so
forget that.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
But my other two ones in school and one is
heading to.
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School this fall, and it's a crap.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
It's a bit of a crap. Shoot.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Honestly, I am sending them off with a what I
think is a decent foundation for them in critical thinking
and fortitude, and as have learned to depend on my
husband and I for some clear thinking.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Ability and.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Eyes wide open perspective about the world and hopefully just
you know, a decent foundation for themselves so that they
are less readily captured, shall we say, by what is
a really prevalent mood and thought on campus?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
It's undeniable.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Our universities have for ages now really turned into ideology factories.
Not all you know, I can't speak like one hundred
percent ubiquitously, but it's a danger zone. And I suppose
the jury is still out about my children, but h
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I think it's something that you have to continuously make
aware of for yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
And for them. And in a way we go if
Colin and I.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Am not a major go to college kind of a person,
kind of a parent, never have been at all. We
invested in private high school for the kids, and I
used to tell them, this is your college education, kids,
because it's like definitely your college education money.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
And then you know, good luck go with you when.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
You get out of high school. And for whatever reasons,
you know, the daughters are on their paths and in
a way we go. But fact to the matter is
this is under the umbrella of.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
How did we get here?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
And we have a very large young person population in
this country that has learned to despise and hate our nation. Now,
as I said earlier in the in the show, and
I want to end with this, the gen Zers are
it's going to be the generation that tack back the
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pendulum a little bit.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
But they've got a very very.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Stiff uphill climb in front of them because so many
of them have been compromised by liberal teachings in the classroom. Again,
all the way from kindergarten and up. You just heard
me repeat what the National Education Association, the Teachers' union,
the largest teachers union in the country, has to say
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about what their agenda is. It is not to prosper
and benefit and educate your kids. It's to fight Trump.
So there goes that idea.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
But even all the.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Way at the university level, this is a jan Hersya
Lee writes this, and she's talking about Mom Donnie, who
has just an avowed socialist slash communist running around New
York and capturing the inspiration.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Of the young vote of the young.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
The Columbia University types that we saw like the Queers
for Palestine crew that was burning down their schools all
these last couple of years that crowd likes this guy,
and why we have to beg to wonder so, she
says in this article, universities didn't accidentally produce socialists while
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teaching legitimate scholarship. They built ideology assembly lines, ideological assembly
lines disguised as academic departments. This subversion began many years ago,
long before university education became largely unaffordable. This was a
time when students were grounded in math, science, English, history, civics,
and geography. These are real disciplines, tools for building knowledge,
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not dismantling it in pursuit of truth. Today we don't
have disciplines.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
We have quote unquote studies.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
The curriculum itself serves as in doctrination infrastructure. Walk through
any gender studies classroom and count the minutes before oppression
becomes the central theme. Track how many elections end without
a combin nation of the patriarchy, white supremacy, or Western norms.
The readings are curated for grievance, the discussions are steered
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towards activism, and critical thinking is welcome only if it
critiques the approved targets. The same structure exists across ethnic
studies postcolonial studies, queer theory, and of course African studies,
which was she pointed out earlier on the article Mom
Donnie's major. Mom Donnie's plan to target whier neighborhoods with
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higher taxes stems from l I'm missing a sentence there,
something rebranded as liberation. It's not economic theory, but ideology
made actionable. As the classroom spills into city hall, she says,
today many professors are former activists, granted tenure and power
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not for their ideas, but for their politics. The hiring
process doesn't reward intellectual rigor as much as it rewards
ideological loyalty, with dissenting voices filtered out early as radical
professors higher in their own image building echo chambers propped
up by credentials and public funding. Six figure loans for
degrees create the perfect breeding gown ground for resentment. When
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broke graduates need someone to blame, they remember the answer
proffered by the professors. The system has failed them. The
result is political militancy. Trust fund students arrive at the
same conclusions with graduates of elite prep schools, chanting the
same slogans. Wealth doesn't shield against indoctrination because the belief
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system is deeper than economic frustration. The programming transcends class.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Friedberg. So Ayan started.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
The article talking about the All In podcast. David Friedberg
in the All In Podcast was talking about how student
debt creates desperate graduates, financial stress drives political ra radicalism,
and young Americans embrace socialism because capitalism failed them economically.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
So he started out.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
She started out the article talking about that. So she
ends saying this Friedbergsy's.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Part of the picture.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
He's right about the debt, but misdiagnoses the disease. The
primary crisis is in financial, it's intellectual. This is brazen, brazen, sorry,
betrayal on a national scale. America gave its universities a
vital responsibility to shape young minds at their most impressionable stage.
In return, those institutions turned those minds against the very
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civilization that made their education possible. Mom, Donnie's victory is
not an anomaly. If anything, it proves the system is
working exactly as intended. Only now is the country waking
up to what it's set in motion long ago. Ruin
born of trading reason for radicalism?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Whoops? Are we headed for ruin? Yikes?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Well, it's true, and we know we've we've see clearly
now that the rain is gone or whatever that lyric is.
You know this is not unbeknownst to us that this
is happening at the university level. But what do we
do is the hefty, hard question. And we are pretty
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damn far down the road. So just leaving that with you,
it's cannot drop the ball any further on this. It
feels like it's too big of a beast for us
to actually.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Win the battle against. I just I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I agree, I agree it is a super entrenched, deep
underground problem, but you know you can't look the other way.
All right, everybody, I'm taking my last break of the
day here. I will be back in just a minute.
This is Kristen Hurley, Mama Bears Radio. I'll take my
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break and be right back.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Mama Bear's Radio.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
But then, just behind the bridge, he lays the down
Browns to my Life's upon am I.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
A young.
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Kiss the bad look his friend accuse babys.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
To you in.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Awast the ba.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Welcome back to Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley, here, safe
and effective radio for just another short few minutes after
this school's out, drivetime show coming up, and then skirts
the skirts. Oh my gosh, Surf Skate City say that
five times fast, I dare you, and I've been talking
for two hours straight, so I'm compromised.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
But at any rate.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Gen Z is rebelling by getting religion, I want to
end my show on this note of encouragement, not necessarily
the Christian thing, but that gen Z it just might
be they may just have had just enough of all
of the mania.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
And I think.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Not just because my kids are that generation, but they've
they've got the opportunity to look what's the cultural sludge
that they've been raised in, look at in the eye,
and decide for themselves that that's not working out. They're
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the generation where that has broken real quick after decades
of steady decline. This is from the actually published through
City Journal, John Hurshower, author, After steady After decades of
steady decline, the share of Americans identifying as Christian has stabilized.
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One reason is the unexpected religiosity of Generation Z, young
adults born after two thousand, who are not abandoning religion
at the rate their parents did. For some faith has
become a form of rebellion against a culture that rejects
traditional values. According to the Pew Research Center's latest Religious
Landscapes STUF twenty, sixty three percent of Americans now identifies Christian,
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a slight increase from the twenty twenty to low of
thirty sorry of sixty percent, and part of a five
year trend of relative stability following nearly two decades of decline.
The study analyzed respondents by birth decade and found that
every twentieth century cohort showed a drop in Christian identification
compared with the previous one. For example, eighty percent of
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the group born in the forties and earlier identifies Christian,
compared with just forty six percent of those born in
the nineteen nineties. But among those born in the two thousands,
the rate held steady at the nineteen nineties level, suggesting
that the generational decline may have plateaued. I want to
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skip ahead just for a minute. So the article talks
a little bit about cultural losses Christians have suffered over
the years.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
He goes on to say, yet.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
These cultural losses may have laid the groundwork for a
revival public Christianity in the United States. Receded in part
because arising counterculture successfully challenged its restrictions on individual conduct.
Advocates of cultural liberalization gained support by portraying mid century
Christian institutions as rigid and outdated. But today that once
rebellious counterculture dominates the spaces that Americans in habit, schools, workplaces,
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in popular media, and young people always drawn to rebellion
appear to be pushing back. Many are rejecting a culture
that exalts personal autonomy and denigrates self sacrifice. Perhaps as
a result, a surprising number of young adults who might
otherwise have left religion at even at higher rates than
their parents did, are for the first time in decades,
choosings to stay. One reason for this turn may be that,
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despite its victories, the counterculture still draws heavily on Christianity.
This is a curly sidebar. This is a very interesting perspective.
Aggressives may be wary of institutional religion, but they're ideals
uplifting the poor, welcoming the stranger, protecting the marginalized, or
rooted in Christian moral tradition. These causes retain moral weight
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precisely because Christianity remains culturally resonant, even if unacknowledged. It's
too soon to say whether Christianity is only decline in
America has bottomed out, or if a genuine revival is
taking shape. Either way, much will hinge on the choices
of the young. Teenagers have a potency for sacrifice which
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is far greater than adults realize. This is an archbitchop
from the nineteen fifties. They want to make a surrender,
a commitment and engagement, something that's worth dying for. Christianity
still offers that, something that counterculture never truly could.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
So poignant and true.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
And if you know, if you're anywhere in and about
the Internet or whatever I mean, you see that there
are major revivals happening on college campuses.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
There is a movement, and it's joyful to see.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
I think that you know, these gen zers have seen
a complete collapse of truth.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
They're like, can we think clearly?
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Hear people the crap that they've been fed. Mutilate your body,
Go ahead, it's cool, change yourself.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
You're not your real safe.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
For being told like, oh well, disassociate from what you
thought who you were, and you have to invent your
real self. Pick a gender out of seventy two and
ascribe to it pronouns that like zer and ze that
are made up words that doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
I mean, I think.
Speaker 3 (43:48):
We all appreciate a power higher than ourselves. You know,
as a kid, you've got your own you've got your
own teen goggles on. You're super short sighted. I was,
everybody is think super immediately. But there's this juxtaposition. At
the same time, you do want parental authority figure to
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help guide you, give you advice, inspire you, keep you on,
you know, keep you on a directed path, give you
a purpose and you you know, teens need an outlet.
But I don't know, but you know that I think
the outlet, the current culture outlet, that what passes for
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an outlet is violence and hate and tear it all down.
It's like the you know, the occupations the other year
of universities right here at uc s E.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Encampments.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
That's not free love, that's not like make love, not war.
Counter culture. That's like violence and hate overt and mixed
with the most bizarre world trends and social contagions. So
I just think that they've gone they've gone a little
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bit too far. Somebody took it just a little one
step too far, and there's some kids out there that
are seeking an actual reality for themselves and an actual
way forward and guidance and purpose in life that's not
just like pierce something or removed body parts to be cool.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
So with that said, we are.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Done with this week's episode of Mama Bear's Radio. I'm
going to disappear for about five minutes here and reappear
down in the bomb shelter here at AM thirteen forty
KO and Y we'll do schools Out Drivetime show and
Mama Bear's will be back next week. Everybody keep your
claws out. Four years of Mama Bear's Radio hard to believe,
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but here we are all right, everybody, thanks for listening.
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I'll see you on the other side.
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miracle and wonder.
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This is a long fall.
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The California Mama Bears have been forced out of hibernation.
Fierce guardians of our future. Mama Bear's fight for parents' rights,
defense of the family, and God given freedoms everywhere. You're
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Kristin Hurley.
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Safe and Effective Radio.
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Welcome back to Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley Here one
more hours this afternoon, keeping my claws out, and then
I transition into School's Out drivetime show coming up after
Mama Bear's Radio here on KOMY Schoolhouse Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
After that, surf Skates City at six.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Henry Michelle is out and about. In fact, he's really
out and about. He's overseas and so Isaiah Guzman is
taking the show again today. That will be awesome, super
fun show as a total Hurly sidebar. Here, things are
rolling along at am thirteen forty ko m Y. We're
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putting things together at you know, sometimes things move slower
than mud, and then sometimes you have like just a
leap of progress and so fits and starts. Here of
us building a new radio station. We're having a good
time as we go. More shows coming online as we
as we get our stuff together here, and we have
so many great ideas.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
The great ideas are endless.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
It's just a matter of one foot in front of
the other to put build it all and put it together.
So we're excited to keep rolling. All that to be said,
I will be on Drivetime for two hours today, so
I'll be probably like all horse and sick of talking,
but I will join my compatriots down in the bomb
shelter for two more hours of really wonderful, compelling radio. Okay, well,
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back to the matter at hand, which is Mama Bear's Radio.
As I was saying first hour. If you just start
catching me now, you can always email me Mama Bears
Radio at gmail dot com. That's Mma Bears Radio at Gmail.
And the shows are always posted to podcast a day
or so later. I get them up just in case
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you want to catch up in all my infinite babbling
and occasional maybe juicy bits. But it's up there for
the heck of it. Even though it's not live radio.
I love live radio. That's the exciting part. Four year
anniversary for Mama Bear's Radio in a couple of weeks technically,
but I'm just going to celebrate all of July I
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can't believe it. It's been a heck of a last
four years.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Holy cow.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
So I was musing on that a little bit the
first hour. I thought for a long time we were
going to get just back on the other train that
I fell off of. We all fell off of it,
and it never came back for us. So we're now
continuing the new normal, goody goody, goody good times.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Okay, So.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Again I could cry, you could cry, you could puke,
but we have to just keep our heads on straight
and keep on keeping on. So in that spirit, because
this is Mama Bear's radio, and in the endeavor to
not just be just straight up political here whatever that means.
Life is politics, I suppose at this point everything's divided
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and kind of nutty. But in the guys or in
the under the vision of being here and running this
radio station as a positive force for our future, for
our kids' future, and being involved in civics and civic
life and self governance to lift up our kids, to
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do the best we can to run the show here,
provide a future for them and help build them, as
I say, they're internal tool belt, so that they can
raise themselves up in a whole and complete way, embrace
the future, go and do great things, love one another,
have families, prosper the nation, and keep things moving forward
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and not be a total lord of the flies s show.
Sometimes it feels like we're devolving into that, but we
got to. We got to keep our heads on straight
and keep on for our kids. And so it's really
sort of with this lift one another up, find great
resources for our kids, talk about education, talk about good
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things to do with them. I really am endeavoring to
pepper that forward thinking, positive outlook into this show as
opposed to just sort of give a new some and bashing,
which has been the me and potatoes of Mama Bear's
Radio for four years now. But you know, because we
are schoolhouse Radio, I really endeavor to keep just the straight.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Up Trump politics out of it.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I want to I want to talk about the good
stuff and the positive stuff for the most part. But
I do Pepper in reality, as Rush used to say,
you know, he lives in Truthville or whatever. We have
to face facts, especially here in California. The whole world
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is out to get families. It seems there are bogees
and land mines at every turn, and it behooves parents
to have this on your radar, to be aware of
what's going on which your government is doing. If you
can call it representative government, definitely not a democracy, which
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is a code word for something else. But we have
a very very very very tiny legislature, representative government in
the state making this decisions for the rest of us,
for your children, your ability to parent your children. And
it's out of this concern. Furthermore, that most of the
things that I'm talking about are like ninety nine slash
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one percent issues. I don't like the eighty twenty thing thing.
It's like if you took a poll. Parents are united
in thinking that a lot of this stuff is just garbage.
It's happening in Sacramento. It's an overt it's an overt
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act to subvert parents, to separate children from families ideologically
maybe or even physically. So it's a tangled web that
we've woven for ourselves here and it behooves everyone to
pay attention to what's going on in Sacramento. The bill
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frenzy season is not over, and the legislature is still
voting on these bills, so specifically coming up a hearing
before the Senate Education Committee, this Wednesday, July ninth. You
need to be aware. I have talked about this before,
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the Trevor Project.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
What is it? What isn't it? Well? Eighty seven twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Would require this is a bill would require the Trevor
Project lgbtqquirty plus suicide Hotline to be printed on all
public school student ID cards for grades seven through college.
The bill is authored by Assemblyman Mark Gonzalez from Los Angeles,
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is scheduled for key hearing, like I said, in the
Senate Education Committee this Wednesday, July ninth. Now, while the
bill's authors claim the measure is about suicide prevention, why
do kids want to kill themselves in the first place.
That's a whole other topic for another day on Mama
Bear's radio coming soon. But law enforcement professionals and family
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advocates say that the real danger lies beneath the surface
in the online ecosystem connected to the Trevor Project, known
as Trevor Space.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Okay, so everybody, what is the Trevor Project? Well google it,
look on the website, and then listen to this. So
in recent then.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
This is all from the California Family Council. This is
a piece.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
On their blog on their website.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
In a recently submitted opposition letter, both the Riverside County
Sheriff's Office and Live's Worth Saving, which is a nonprofit
specializing in the recovery of child sex trafficking victims, exposed
how easily predators can infiltrate trevor Space by posing as children.
Both organizations conducted undercover tests and found that adults were
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able to create accounts bypass age verification and immediately begin
private conversations with miners in chat room clubs organized around
sexually charged topics without any real time.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Monitoring or oversight.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Sheriff Chad Bianco of the Riverside County Sheriff's Office stated
quote to underscore this risk, a member of our department
in his forties was able to register on Trevor's Space
simply by posing as a thirteen year old. Alarmingly, he
was prevented from using his real name, not because it
violated policy, but because the name was already taken. This
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forces both miners and adults to create false or obscured
identities as a prerequisite to access, further reducing transparency and accountability.
Once he logged in, he was able to initiate private
chats with other users immediately without restriction or review. He
also had access to profile photos and chat images.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Posted by users.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Many comments included flirtatious language and a excessive flattery, which
raised red flags given his understanding of predatory behavior. Remember
this is someone from the Sheriff's department. Many conversations on
the platform had nothing to do with lgbtqquardy plus identity,
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or suicide prevention, instead covered video games, random topics, or
personal anecdotes. While seemingly benign, this unstructured engagement makes it
easy for adults to build rapport with isolated or emotionally
vulnerable youth, a classic setup for grooming or trafficking. I'm
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going to finish this article before I go to break.
Kevin Brown, a former police officer and founder of Lives
Worth Saving, a nonprofit in Santa Ana, California dedicated to identifying, locating,
and recovering victims of human trafficking, added an equally dire
warning based on his own.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Undercover operation quote.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I created an account I'm seventy years old posing as
a fifteen year old boy. Within minutes, I was able
to connect with several others via a club that is
actually a chat room. One person was of particular interest
as he wanted to take our chat from Trevor Space
and move it to Discord, another social media item familiar with.
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In an undercover capacity, I have made contact with people
on Discord who sell and distribute child sexual abuse materials.
This experience further confirms to me that a child on
Trevor Space could easily be taken to a site Discord
where they could become victimized by a predator. Trevor Space
is not monitored. Brown continued, anyone can create an account
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regardless of their age. The site does not have a
way to verify the age of the person making the account.
That leaves vulnerable individuals exposed to victimization by predators. He emphasized,
Trevor Space is a breeding ground for grooming, the process
used by predators to gain the trust of a victim
for future sexual exploitation. And even because they're hidden in
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plain sight, listen to this. Trevor Space guidelines state the following.
It's important that you know Trevor Space is not designed
to provide individualized suicide prevention, therapy or crisis intervention.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
That's what it says.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
This is a very clear statement that it is up
to the child to defend themselves from a predator who's
posing as a child on Trevor Space.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
So the upshot is Trevor Space, which is connected to
the Trevor Project. You can get to it on the
Trevor Project website. Bill let's see. Greg Burt, vice president
of the California Family Council, says, this bill doesn't just
put a phone number on the back of the student ID.
It opens a digital doorway into Trevor Space, a so
called safe space that law enforcement now confirms as being
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exploited by predators. We've been warning about this bill for months.
Now sheriffs and trafficking experts are echoating those same warnings.
When law enforcem and pro family advocates agree, it's time
for legislators to listen. Trevor Space is described by the
Trevor Project's own twenty twenty three annual report as quote
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integral to its mental health strategy. Boasting over eighty one
thousand users in more than one hundred and sixty countries.
The platform encourages LGBT forty plus youth ages thirteen to
twenty four to connect and share personal stories. However, there's
no meaningful age verification and direct messaging between strangers, including
adults and children, is enabled by default.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
In its annual.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Report, the Trevor Project admits that Trevor Space is used
to create quote invaluable personal relationships and connections, including with
supportive peers. Yeah, critics argue this strategy is ripe for grooming,
not guidance.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
This is to be put on the back of every
student id and of students and public schools in California. Oh,
here are kids thinking of killing yourselves. Here's a really
great resource Trevor Project, which is bad enough. But this
Trevor Space online chat and grooming app is just is
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a hopskipp and a tap away. Anyways, It's not mental
health support. It's ideological and doctrination wrapped in rainbow packaging
and pushed to emotionally vulnerable kids without parental consent or
accountability from California Family Council. Heads up, if you feel
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compelled little Mama Bear people to contact your legislator. This
is ABE seven twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Again.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
It's going to be heard in the Senate Education Committee
on Wednesday. You can log in and listen to these hearings.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
If you so chose to.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Goody, goody, goody gum drops, Thank you California Legislature. Okay, everybody,
we're gonna go take a break a little behind schedule
on that when.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I come back.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Really cool piece by Ian Hercy Ali about everybody's up
in arms about this guy in New York, Mom Dobby
or whatever his name is, the child wonder who is
now the Democrat nominee for mayor. Lots of ten weird
tentacles in that whole story. So I want to reference
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a few things that she talks about with respect to universities,
right being kid centric here, and what is going on
in our universities and how are we just completely twisting
the brains, brains and lives of our young people, which
obviously this guy is caught up in. Okay, everybody, Kristin
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Hurley here, this is Mama Bear's Radio. I'll be back
in just a minute.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Mama Bear's Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Welcome back to Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley here, just
plowing my way through all.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Of the ills of the day.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I hope everybody had a good Fourth of July. We
talked about that a little bit earlier.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It is really sort of the pinnacle.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
The summer season and now the slow decline into back
to school and fall is my favorite season. So whatever,
I'm stoked, I'm stoked year around. I love weather, I
love rain. I'll take it all. So I love the fog.
Shock and horror to everyone else out here is like, eh,
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the FuG.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I love the fog. I love it all. Happy to
be alive.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
But yes, back to the business at hand, of at
least just touching on.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
All of the issues.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
There's never enough time to go around equally for everything.
But I really do again, as I was saying, I
think last hour, we have to keep the conversation going
about all of this.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Weather.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
It's been a long road, but it ain't over yet.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
And maybe it never will be.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I think the more I think about all this and
read about history and.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Really embrace what.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
It means to be a citizen of the country, this
is my country, It's all of ours. Nation doesn't belong
to the government, doesn't belong to Trump, doesn't belong to
any one of those. Excuse me, mofos for spending our
money unlessly out there. But we find ourselves with a
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really complicated situation. So my role here and behind the
microphone Mama Bears radio. While I really want to integrate
the positive things that we're gonna do to prosper our kids,
we are kind of stuck with unraveling what went wrong?
Why are things the way they are? What have we
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done to ourselves? And you have to have of clear
thinking and really embrace the truth, as painful as it
may be. We've dropped the ball on a number of
levels in order to fix correct things and move forward.
And we're not out of the woods. We're definitely not
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out of the woods. I want a couple this article
that I mentioned about, you know, the Marxist mania in
New York City. It's not Mom Dobby, it's mom don
What's Oh shoot, I'm not gonna say Mom Donnie Goodness.
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As the potential Democrat mayor in New York, a young
guy fresh out of African studies major in college, Ian
Hersy Ali, has a few interesting things to say about
the university system that is breeding the the type of
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person and young adult that subscribes to the just overt
socialist and communist views this guy has.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I kind of want to couple that with.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
A report on the the ANYA, the National Education Association's
resolutions passed at their annual convention this year. This is
by a guy, according to Angelists reporting on this, and
he got a glimpse of the nation's largest teachers union.
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And they've adopted a number of agenda items or their
resolutions or whatever at their convention. And it's shocking. And
it has nothing to do with kids. It's all political.
It's all overt overt political action, has nothing to do
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with education or like talking about how do we do
better for our kids.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
So I want to kind of couple this. This is
what is happening.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
This is what passes for education, Your teachers, Your teachers
money that's going into the ANYA in your little hometown school.
Some of that money trickles up and some of them,
excuse me, a lot of the ANYA agenda trickles down
into your classrooms.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Let's look at this.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
The ANYA adopted a business item to quote defend against
Trump's embrace of fascism by using the term fascism in
any a materials correctly characterize to correctly characterize Donald Trump's
program in actions. So they're like, are they talking about education, No,
They're talking about their tds problems. So adopted new business
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Item sixty ANY a pledge this is the actual text
of the resolution, pledges to defend democracy against Trump's embrace
of fascism by using the from fascism in any materials
to correctly characterize Donald Trump's program and actions. The members
and material resources of ANYA must be committed to the
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defense of the democratic and educational conditions required by our
hopes for just society and the survival of civilization itself
by stating the truth. Okay, And they passed another business
item to quote oppose any move to eliminate the US
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Department of Education as an illegal, anti democratic, and racist
attempt to destroy public education and privatize it in the
interests of the billionaires.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Okay, so this.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Is Business Item sixty six. ANY will use existing media
channels to oppose any move to eliminate the US Department
of Educational of Education as an illegal, anti democratic, and
racist attempt to destroy public education and privatize it in
the interests of billionaires. Oh my gosh, here we go.
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Business Item number fifty nine adopted. ANYA defends birthrights citizenship
and opposes the attempt to revert to pre civil rights
movement Jim Crow legal concepts of States rights in order
to deny citizenship to the children of immigrants. We will
use existing media platforms to organize and joint actions with
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other unions, communities, immigrants rights and civil rights organization in
opposition to the Trump administration's attack on it. Okay, so
that's uh they're going Jim Crow on us. Does that
have anything to do with your children.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
And their education?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
No? New Business Item number sixty three adopted. ANYA opposes
Immigration and Customs of Enforcement ICE kidnapping of student leaders,
not just students, but student leaders, and supports student's right
to organize against ICE raids and deportations. We will protect
our students' right to free speech and defend their right
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to dissent and organize against Trump's policies, including attacks against
LGDB I can't even say it, Q Plusquarity Students, and
against racism ANY. Will use existing media platforms to organize
and joint actions with other unions, communities, immigrant rights, and
civil rights organizations, and support of defending students right to protest.
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So basically, they're going to organize your kids to go protest.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
That's your dollars at work, right?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Is that your tax dollars, or at the very least
that's your union dues at work. Let me see if
there's another one. Oh. The nation's largest teachers union adopted
a business item in response to Ma Mood versus Taylor.
We just talked about that, a new Supreme Court ruling
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allowing parents to opt out of their kids, off their
kids out of gender ideology. They will send out a
know your Rights document and hold quote speak up, speak out, LGBTQ,
cordy preferences, conferences. You know, it's at the almost end
of the two hours. I can't talk anymore. Okay, more politics,
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and one more. The nation's largest teachers union adopted a
business item to support quote affiliates and states where legislative
bodies have taken or are taking actions that silence educators.
They list Arkansas and South Carolina estates with extreme need
whoops any A will, at the request of state affiliates,
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facilitate targeted assistance using existing personnel and media channels to
provide support for affiliates and states where legislative bodies have
taken or are taking actions that silence educators, restrict collective bargaining,
remove fair dismissal protections, or other actions that negatively affect
public education educators, or potential voter suppression laws that seek
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to underline public education. Gosh, um, let's see one more.
Anya declares, so this is new business side. In fifty eight,
Anya declares that support for and participation in the mass
democratic movement against Trump's authoritarianism and violation of human rights.
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We support the No King's movement and the Los Angeles
based movement to defend, defeat Trump's attempts to use federal
forces against the state of California and other states and communities.
We stand with millions of activists and protesters of this
movement in their defense of democracy and unity of the country.
Free speech, civil rights, labor, independent trade unions, do process,
and the popular democratic norms of a constitution securing the
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sovereignty of we the people. Ohs are dramatic. Okay, I
need to take a break. But you get the gist.
That's the NEA. And like I said, the teachers in
your schools, their money trickles up, and then the ideology
and agenda that you just heard about adopted at their
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meetings their conferences, that trickles down into your classroom.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
God help us all.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Okay, anyways, Uh, Mama Beir's Radio, Kristin Hurley here, Safe
and effective radio.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I gotta take a break. I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
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Speaker 1 (27:38):
Negative missions to get with your don't guy, just like you,
don't stop until we drive crazy, bond.
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And nice this line, get your right, get your got
to keep.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Welcome back to Mama of Air's Radio. Kristin Hurley here,
and I'm going to continu you with just a little
bit from this article. It's poignant.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
We can all relate to it.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I have not one, but two now college students.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
College. We used to make super fun of it.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
My son, my first one, I just thought that was
for the birds and did not pursue college instead went
straight to straight to work. Well, it was a semester
or two at Cabrio during the COVID disaster years, so
forget that.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
But my other two ones in school and one is
heading to.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
School this fall, and it's a crap.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
It's a bit of a crap. Shoot.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Honestly, I am sending them off with a what I
think is a decent foundation for them in critical thinking
and fortitude, and as have learned to depend on my
husband and I for some clear thinking.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Ability and.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Eyes wide open perspective about the world and hopefully just
you know, a decent foundation for themselves so that they
are less readily captured, shall we say, by what is
a really prevalent mood and thought on campus?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
It's undeniable.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Our universities have for ages now really turned into ideology factories.
Not all you know, I can't speak like one hundred
percent ubiquitously, but it's a danger zone. And I suppose
the jury is still out about my children, but h
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I think it's something that you have to continuously make
aware of for yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
And for them. And in a way we go if
Colin and I.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Am not a major go to college kind of a person,
kind of a parent, never have been at all. We
invested in private high school for the kids, and I
used to tell them, this is your college education, kids,
because it's like definitely your college education money.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
And then you know, good luck go with you when.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
You get out of high school. And for whatever reasons,
you know, the daughters are on their paths and in
a way we go. But fact to the matter is
this is under the umbrella of.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
How did we get here?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
And we have a very large young person population in
this country that has learned to despise and hate our nation. Now,
as I said earlier in the in the show, and
I want to end with this, the gen Zers are
it's going to be the generation that tack back the
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pendulum a little bit.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
But they've got a very very.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Stiff uphill climb in front of them because so many
of them have been compromised by liberal teachings in the classroom. Again,
all the way from kindergarten and up. You just heard
me repeat what the National Education Association, the Teachers' union,
the largest teachers union in the country, has to say
(31:27):
about what their agenda is. It is not to prosper
and benefit and educate your kids. It's to fight Trump.
So there goes that idea.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
But even all the.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Way at the university level, this is a jan Hersya
Lee writes this, and she's talking about Mom Donnie, who
has just an avowed socialist slash communist running around New
York and capturing the inspiration.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Of the young vote of the young.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
The Columbia University types that we saw like the Queers
for Palestine crew that was burning down their schools all
these last couple of years that crowd likes this guy,
and why we have to beg to wonder so, she
says in this article, universities didn't accidentally produce socialists while
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teaching legitimate scholarship. They built ideology assembly lines, ideological assembly
lines disguised as academic departments. This subversion began many years ago,
long before university education became largely unaffordable. This was a
time when students were grounded in math, science, English, history, civics,
and geography. These are real disciplines, tools for building knowledge,
(32:42):
not dismantling it in pursuit of truth. Today we don't
have disciplines.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
We have quote unquote studies.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
The curriculum itself serves as in doctrination infrastructure. Walk through
any gender studies classroom and count the minutes before oppression
becomes the central theme. Track how many elections end without
a combin nation of the patriarchy, white supremacy, or Western norms.
The readings are curated for grievance, the discussions are steered
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towards activism, and critical thinking is welcome only if it
critiques the approved targets. The same structure exists across ethnic
studies postcolonial studies, queer theory, and of course African studies,
which was she pointed out earlier on the article Mom
Donnie's major. Mom Donnie's plan to target whier neighborhoods with
(33:31):
higher taxes stems from l I'm missing a sentence there,
something rebranded as liberation. It's not economic theory, but ideology
made actionable. As the classroom spills into city hall, she says,
today many professors are former activists, granted tenure and power
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not for their ideas, but for their politics. The hiring
process doesn't reward intellectual rigor as much as it rewards
ideological loyalty, with dissenting voices filtered out early as radical
professors higher in their own image building echo chambers propped
up by credentials and public funding. Six figure loans for
degrees create the perfect breeding gown ground for resentment. When
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broke graduates need someone to blame, they remember the answer
proffered by the professors. The system has failed them. The
result is political militancy. Trust fund students arrive at the
same conclusions with graduates of elite prep schools, chanting the
same slogans. Wealth doesn't shield against indoctrination because the belief
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system is deeper than economic frustration. The programming transcends class.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Friedberg. So Ayan started.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
The article talking about the All In podcast. David Friedberg
in the All In Podcast was talking about how student
debt creates desperate graduates, financial stress drives political ra radicalism,
and young Americans embrace socialism because capitalism failed them economically.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
So he started out.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
She started out the article talking about that. So she
ends saying this Friedbergsy's.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Part of the picture.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
He's right about the debt, but misdiagnoses the disease. The
primary crisis is in financial, it's intellectual. This is brazen, brazen, sorry,
betrayal on a national scale. America gave its universities a
vital responsibility to shape young minds at their most impressionable stage.
In return, those institutions turned those minds against the very
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civilization that made their education possible. Mom, Donnie's victory is
not an anomaly. If anything, it proves the system is
working exactly as intended. Only now is the country waking
up to what it's set in motion long ago. Ruin
born of trading reason for radicalism?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Whoops? Are we headed for ruin? Yikes?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Well, it's true, and we know we've we've see clearly
now that the rain is gone or whatever that lyric is.
You know this is not unbeknownst to us that this
is happening at the university level. But what do we
do is the hefty, hard question. And we are pretty
(36:26):
damn far down the road. So just leaving that with you,
it's cannot drop the ball any further on this. It
feels like it's too big of a beast for us
to actually.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Win the battle against. I just I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I agree, I agree it is a super entrenched, deep
underground problem, but you know you can't look the other way.
All right, everybody, I'm taking my last break of the
day here. I will be back in just a minute.
This is Kristen Hurley, Mama Bears Radio. I'll take my
(37:07):
break and be right back.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Mama Bear's Radio.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
But then, just behind the bridge, he lays the down
Browns to my Life's upon am I.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
A young.
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Kiss the bad look his friend accuse babys.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
To you in.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Awast the ba.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Welcome back to Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley, here, safe
and effective radio for just another short few minutes after
this school's out, drivetime show coming up, and then skirts
the skirts. Oh my gosh, Surf Skate City say that
five times fast, I dare you, and I've been talking
for two hours straight, so I'm compromised.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
But at any rate.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Gen Z is rebelling by getting religion, I want to
end my show on this note of encouragement, not necessarily
the Christian thing, but that gen Z it just might
be they may just have had just enough of all
of the mania.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
And I think.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Not just because my kids are that generation, but they've
they've got the opportunity to look what's the cultural sludge
that they've been raised in, look at in the eye,
and decide for themselves that that's not working out. They're
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the generation where that has broken real quick after decades
of steady decline. This is from the actually published through
City Journal, John Hurshower, author, After steady After decades of
steady decline, the share of Americans identifying as Christian has stabilized.
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One reason is the unexpected religiosity of Generation Z, young
adults born after two thousand, who are not abandoning religion
at the rate their parents did. For some faith has
become a form of rebellion against a culture that rejects
traditional values. According to the Pew Research Center's latest Religious
Landscapes STUF twenty, sixty three percent of Americans now identifies Christian,
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a slight increase from the twenty twenty to low of
thirty sorry of sixty percent, and part of a five
year trend of relative stability following nearly two decades of decline.
The study analyzed respondents by birth decade and found that
every twentieth century cohort showed a drop in Christian identification
compared with the previous one. For example, eighty percent of
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the group born in the forties and earlier identifies Christian,
compared with just forty six percent of those born in
the nineteen nineties. But among those born in the two thousands,
the rate held steady at the nineteen nineties level, suggesting
that the generational decline may have plateaued. I want to
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skip ahead just for a minute. So the article talks
a little bit about cultural losses Christians have suffered over
the years.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
He goes on to say, yet.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
These cultural losses may have laid the groundwork for a
revival public Christianity in the United States. Receded in part
because arising counterculture successfully challenged its restrictions on individual conduct.
Advocates of cultural liberalization gained support by portraying mid century
Christian institutions as rigid and outdated. But today that once
rebellious counterculture dominates the spaces that Americans in habit, schools, workplaces,
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in popular media, and young people always drawn to rebellion
appear to be pushing back. Many are rejecting a culture
that exalts personal autonomy and denigrates self sacrifice. Perhaps as
a result, a surprising number of young adults who might
otherwise have left religion at even at higher rates than
their parents did, are for the first time in decades,
choosings to stay. One reason for this turn may be that,
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despite its victories, the counterculture still draws heavily on Christianity.
This is a curly sidebar. This is a very interesting perspective.
Aggressives may be wary of institutional religion, but they're ideals
uplifting the poor, welcoming the stranger, protecting the marginalized, or
rooted in Christian moral tradition. These causes retain moral weight
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precisely because Christianity remains culturally resonant, even if unacknowledged. It's
too soon to say whether Christianity is only decline in
America has bottomed out, or if a genuine revival is
taking shape. Either way, much will hinge on the choices
of the young. Teenagers have a potency for sacrifice which
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is far greater than adults realize. This is an archbitchop
from the nineteen fifties. They want to make a surrender,
a commitment and engagement, something that's worth dying for. Christianity
still offers that, something that counterculture never truly could.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
So poignant and true.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
And if you know, if you're anywhere in and about
the Internet or whatever I mean, you see that there
are major revivals happening on college campuses.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
There is a movement, and it's joyful to see.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
I think that you know, these gen zers have seen
a complete collapse of truth.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
They're like, can we think clearly?
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Hear people the crap that they've been fed. Mutilate your body,
Go ahead, it's cool, change yourself.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
You're not your real safe.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
For being told like, oh well, disassociate from what you
thought who you were, and you have to invent your
real self. Pick a gender out of seventy two and
ascribe to it pronouns that like zer and ze that
are made up words that doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
I mean, I think.
Speaker 3 (43:48):
We all appreciate a power higher than ourselves. You know,
as a kid, you've got your own you've got your
own teen goggles on. You're super short sighted. I was,
everybody is think super immediately. But there's this juxtaposition. At
the same time, you do want parental authority figure to
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help guide you, give you advice, inspire you, keep you on,
you know, keep you on a directed path, give you
a purpose and you you know, teens need an outlet.
But I don't know, but you know that I think
the outlet, the current culture outlet, that what passes for
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an outlet is violence and hate and tear it all down.
It's like the you know, the occupations the other year
of universities right here at uc s E.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Encampments.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
That's not free love, that's not like make love, not war.
Counter culture. That's like violence and hate overt and mixed
with the most bizarre world trends and social contagions. So
I just think that they've gone they've gone a little
(45:11):
bit too far. Somebody took it just a little one
step too far, and there's some kids out there that
are seeking an actual reality for themselves and an actual
way forward and guidance and purpose in life that's not
just like pierce something or removed body parts to be cool.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
So with that said, we are.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Done with this week's episode of Mama Bear's Radio. I'm
going to disappear for about five minutes here and reappear
down in the bomb shelter here at AM thirteen forty
KO and Y we'll do schools Out Drivetime show and
Mama Bear's will be back next week. Everybody keep your
claws out. Four years of Mama Bear's Radio hard to believe,
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but here we are all right, everybody, thanks for listening.
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