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E81: Best 2023 Moments of the Lila Rose Podcast · The Lila Rose Show

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This is a bit of a year in review.
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We're going to focus more in 2024 on the.
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Love commitment of marriage goes so much deeper than just the
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emotional feeling of happiness. Growing up, I had kind of
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offensive sense of humor. Did you have a favorite joke?
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I like. It's pretty hilarious.
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The faith in Jesus, I think there there becomes a heart
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change. Our friends who were Christian,
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they were happy. We thought, wait, what's going
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on here? Every knee shall bend at the
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name of Jesus. That name is powerful.
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How do you see the landscape changing in media?
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The market filters all the robots out.
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This is not easy what you're doing.
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I told her my husband was diagnosed with cancer.
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Her saying to me that I must worry.
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I thought, wait a minute, must I?
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You have an opportunity to try to repair things with your child
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at any point, as long as they're still under your roof. 81% of
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blind people see for the first time when they're clinically
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dead. Hey guys, Merry Christmas and
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almost Happy New Year. Welcome back to the Lila Rose
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podcast. It's been a wonderful year.
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This is a bit of a year in review episode.
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I want to share what I think were the highlights of this year
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and why. We're going to actually share a
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couple clips that were viral or that were really impactful.
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And I also wanted to share just some of the behind the scenes
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about why I'm doing this podcast.
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I've talked about this a little bit, but there's some more that
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haven't shared. And what 2024 holds.
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O yes. First of all, a huge shout out
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to everyone who listens to the Lila Rose podcast, to everyone
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who supports it. You support it by subscribing,
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by listening, you listen to my sponsorship ads and you buy, you
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know, good ranchers and every life and all these great
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companies that are supporting the podcast and then those that
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are on Patreon and now we have a locals.
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All of this makes the show possible.
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So thank you. This is 100% independent show.
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GTB Media is the group, my group that is hosting it, running it.
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That's goodness, Truth Beauty Media, and I'm just thrilled to
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get to create this content for you guys.
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We have amazingly thoughtful listeners.
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I get emails and comments from you.
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You are people that really love life and care about people and
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God and growing as human beings. So thank you so much for being
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on this journey with me. I've shared this a little bit,
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but I wanted to give more insight on it.
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So GTB Media is this company I started in the past year first
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to publish this podcast, to produce this podcast.
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But the heart behind it is I see every day I've seen for the last
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decade that media can really help or hurt people.
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And I particularly see this in the pro-life space where there
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are so many lies being told about human life and dignity and
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people are just confused. And we live in now what has
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become in many ways, a suicidal culture where many people
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suicide rates are at their highest.
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Many people don't see the value of their own lives, and they're
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confused about how to live. They're unhappy in their
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relationships. And I don't think any of that
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needs to be the case. I think that life is beautiful
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and good and this amazing gift from God who loves us.
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And I want you. I want myself to be fully alive,
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to be at peace and living with joy, and be primarily at peace
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with our Creator, with Jesus Christ, who I believe is is our
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Lord. You guys know, my faith is the
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most important thing to me. And so that animates the content
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we're creating. And it comes as an overflow from
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the questions that I am exploring, from the important
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wisdom that I think needs to be shared from other experts.
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Tackling bioethical issues, tackling important issues about
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relationships and parenting and health like this is what
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animates me and animates this show.
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So thank you for being on the journey with me.
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It has been a really fun year. Honestly.
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I leave my interviews in this little studio and I always feel
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so energized. Usually I'm leaving and I go
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right back to my boys because, you know, they are my priority
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and I'm hanging out with them. I'm just like smiling and so
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happy because I just had this opportunity to sit down with
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someone and have a incredibly, for me at least, uplifting or
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encouraging or informational conversation.
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So in the last year, we launched the show last spring, the first
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episode we put out was I think towards the end of March.
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We were doing weekly episodes. Then we're doing AA week
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episodes 2 twice a week. I think we've done now over 50
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episodes this year. The channel has over 25 million
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views on it, which is awesome. Thank you guys.
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And we're at, I think, almost 110 subscribers on YouTube,
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which is also awesome. I also want to shout out
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especially Franco, who is a one man army behind the scenes on
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the podcast. And we've got others working on
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the show too. We've got a really great small
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but great team who make the podcast possible.
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But in this last year, there were a couple episodes that
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really meant a lot to me and I wanted to share about that.
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One of them was very recent. Some of you have seen it or
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heard it already, but the episode with Erica Commissar,
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who came on the show from New York to talk about the
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importance of motherhood, especially of young children.
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And it definitely helped clarify more even for me because, you
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know, I'm very busy. I lead live action.
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I have got this podcast. I have a lot of other demands on
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my time. I'm married, obviously my
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husband, like, you know, my faith is first.
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I have friends, family and quality and quantity time is
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everything with your very young kids, with your kids period.
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And mother herds the most incredible privilege that I have
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been given. So this show flows out of it.
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And you know, people sometimes say, well, Lila, you know, you
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started this media company like you want to produce other
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podcasts. You know, when are you going to
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do all this? When are you going to, you know,
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your, your team is so small, you're going to hire more
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people, you're going to raise more money.
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And I say, listen, it's a seasonal thing.
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It's a timing thing because my priority right now are my boys
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and seem to be little baby girl, and I love what I get to do
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alongside them with some of this work.
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But you know, being gone to film and podcast for an hour or two
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and going back with them, that is a privilege that I have and a
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responsibility, an amazing responsibility that I have.
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So yes, I have big vision for where I want GTB to go.
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And you know, the team at Live Action is crushing it.
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So thankfully, I've got an amazing organization built out,
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but I'm really careful with my time and how I use it because
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every hour I'm away from my boys, I count and I try to
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ensure that I am their primary person, you know, throughout the
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day. They're not just with a
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babysitter or even a family member, but they're with me
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primarily. And so, you know, I am working a
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lot in the evenings. I do work a lot late into the
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night. That's not always a good habit,
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but that's, you know, I love what I get to do.
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I love the pro-life cause of course that's a key way that I
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do it. Obviously utilizing nap times,
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utilizing moments throughout the day.
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But ultimately it is such a privilege to be a mother.
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And I think Erica really gave permission in that interview to
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women to want to put motherhood first because the culture is
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often telling us it's not enough in a way to be a mother.
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You need to be really educated and really successful and a boss
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babe. And you need to do all this
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other stuff as a woman. And it's not enough to just be
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that person for your baby. But that is more than enough.
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And it was such a beautiful message.
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It's challenging too, because in the modern world with all of the
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challenges that people face, you know, families that feel they
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need both incomes or they do need both incomes and you know,
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single moms and all the complications, it can be really
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hard. But I think having that goal of
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I want to be there for my kids first and I'm going to sacrifice
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other things as as needed, even if that's extra income or extra
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lifestyle, you know, a certain wealthier lifestyle, whatever,
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I'm going to make those sacrifices to be there with my
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kids. There were some amazing
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comments, by the way, in that episode from people saying that,
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you know, we live on one income in California on 50,000 a year.
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And you know, it's super tight, but I'm not working so that I
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can be with my kids. You know, and I'm not saying
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that that's sustainable long term for a family.
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But the point is, the comments were full of people who are
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saying we're really working hard to do whatever we can with the
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way we structure our family so that the priority is the mom can
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be there with her very young kids.
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So love that interview with Erica, couple others.
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I wanted to every time I do an interview, I'm like, this is my
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favorite interview yet. And last week I did an interview
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with Father Robert Spitzer and that just came out.
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So I'm getting your reactions on that.
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I'll be getting your reactions on that.
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But honestly, I was just engrossed.
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I mean, he was talking about how, you know, talking about
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evolution and the Bible and how faith and reason, of course,
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don't contradict faith and science and just fascinating
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stuff. The guy is a gold mine of
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knowledge. So we're going to have him back.
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Love Father Robert Spitzer and his stuff on faith, evolution,
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the dinosaurs, Adam and Eve, all of it.
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I also love Father Ambrose, Chris, he's phenomenal.
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You remember him? We did an episode on Angels and
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Demons on Halloween that was really popular.
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In fact, our most viral episode this year was on Angels and
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Demons with Father Ambrose because angels are real, demons
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are real. So anyways, check that out.
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We're going to play a clip. Couple others do want to shout
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out to the interview with Chloe Cole.
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She also was very popular. She's a young woman, one of the
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first D transitioners to really be public with her story, who
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thought she was a boy when she was a young woman, had a double
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mastectomy at Kaiser Permanente in California and is now suing
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them because she's embracing her womanhood.
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But she went through this life altering surgery and drugs that
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she received. Incredibly articulate and brave
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young woman. She's leading a campaign with
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others. Her story is powerful.
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Listen to that interview. It's very timely, of course,
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with what's happening with promoting transgenderism to kids
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today and the confusion around sex and gender.
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So check that out. To others, I just want to shout
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out that were really powerful this year.
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I really enjoyed talking with Kendra Turney.
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That's a more recent interview too.
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She's a widow of and a mother of ten kids, and she recently lost
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her husband. But her faith is rock solid and
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she talks practically about how she lives her life with 10
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children, including a toddler, and how she does that.
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So if you want to be edified and encouraged, Kendra Turney's your
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girl. You can listen to that episode.
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I really enjoyed talking to Kendra.
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We had Ruslan on the show a couple times.
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A big shout out to Ruslan. He is actually kind of local.
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He's in Southern California too, and he's got a heart of gold,
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got a beautiful family and, you know, just puts marriage and
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kids first and his faith and, you know, has a great channel.
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You know, he, you know, I'm Catholic, he's evangelical, but
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we have so much common ground on a lot of theological things as
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well as, of course, morality. And I just think his contents
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were really great and he had some great commentary on red
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pill stuff and men and women and relationships.
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And so check him out and his work because I'm a big fan of
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what he's doing in the voice that he's putting out into the
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world. So yeah, lots of other stuff.
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We interviewed, you know, presidential candidates this
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year and you know, we interviewed, you know, our first
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interview with this year was with my friend Seth Dillon, who
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it was really fun talking about his love story with his wife.
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We had on, you know, Daily Wire personalities like Michael
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Knowles. It was really fun.
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We talked with other Youtubers who are are doing amazing stuff
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like Patrick, Beth, David. So it was just a good year.
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It was a good year and I loved getting to do it.
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OK, Next year, my announcement for next year is we are going to
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continue the podcast in 2024 and we're going to continue to be
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doing 2 episodes a week on average.
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We might some weeks do less or do a live stream depending on
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scheduling stuff. And we're going to focus more in
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2024 on spirituality, on faith as well as relationships,
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parenting, wisdom, life advice. But I think faith and wisdom are
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really important and not in some ways I think explored enough,
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especially in the YouTube space. You know, there's a lot about
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politics. There's a lot of like do it DYI
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stuff and entertainment. But you know, at the end of the
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day, I think what is more important than our life with God
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and discovering God and living to serve him, and then having
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the wisdom and growing in the virtue so we can live that rock
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star life of service to him and others.
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So the podcast is really going to be focused on that kind of
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content next year. I love getting your comments and
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your advice and your ideas. Keep it coming.
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And don't forget to check out our new Locals community.
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We're going to be transitioning our Patreon to Locals, Locals as
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an independent free speech platform, unlike Patreon, and
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I'd love your support there. You know, 999 a month will help
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us build the podcast and we'll be doing more on the locals page
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coming up soon. I think we already have 100
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friends over at Locals. Thank you guys.
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There will be a lot more to come there, so check it out at the
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link in the bio. But again, thank you guys so
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much for your support this year. And I just hope you're blessed
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and full of really peace, especially this end of the year.
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Look at this last year of 2023 and you can just think, oh, you
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know, what were the lessons learned, the blessings given,
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and what can we do going into 2024 to grow and to deepen our
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love and our faith? That's really what life is
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about. So thanks again, guys.
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And here we go for top clips for 2023 or the Lila Rose Podcast.
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Yeah. OK.
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So what do you have to say to married men who may be
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listening? You kind of said something
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really good already, which is try to be like, focus on being a
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good husband instead of trying to change things external, you
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know, the other person. What would be like, how many
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years you married now? How many?
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12 years. That's a long time, yeah.
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What's 1 of the biggest lessons you've learned in those 12
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years? You know, ultimately, no
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relationship is perfect. And I don't think that I think
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so much of the time everybody gets focused on, you know, like
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happiness needs to be, am I happy?
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Yeah. Do I feel good right now?
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Do I feel good? Am I personally happy?
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And you lose sight of the fact that you know there's so much
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more to like the the love commitment of marriage goes so
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much deeper than just the the emotional feeling of happiness.
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So. Good.
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And there's like, there's going to be a lot of like, and a
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marriage relationship, especially most kids are in the
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picture and life gets really complicated and there's, and
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there's like challenges and hardships and losses.
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And you know, you're going to have these emotional ups and
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downs where you don't even necessarily feel like you like
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the other person that you're in this relationship with, right?
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But and you and think like, I remember one of the couples that
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did like counseling with my husband and I, Joe, before we
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got married. And they're like, we guarantee
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you there will be a day in the future after you marry when you
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will consider divorce or you'll not that you like seriously
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consider it. But when you'll think like, oh,
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if I wasn't married to this person and you're like, no, we
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would never, you know, like I crack, you know, But that's
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just, that's just being human. Yeah, the difficult things and
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the emotions that come into play where, you know, you may not
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even feel like you like this person.
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You know, it's like even in those moments, you still need to
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act like you love the person you do, you do love them.
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You know, underneath all of that, there's still love there.
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And when you when you act like you love them, even in those
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moments that are difficult, you will come back to those feelings
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of love, those emotions. They're not, you know, it's you
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can't let it get buried under all of that hardship, right?
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So there's a lot of a lot of a lot of I think, you know, the
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marriage relationship is, is that that quieter love?
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That's the the persistence of just keeping the promise of
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being loyal and the loving and kind to this person who were
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even though we're having these challenges, you know, that is
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how you get through those things is by keeping that in in focus.
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It's not a very specific thing. That's a general idea, but.
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That's beautiful and it's so needed for people to hear that
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that tough things happen and to stay the course and realize it.
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Your emotions will change, yeah. Love is a choice, yeah.
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It's a promise too. It's a promise.
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Chloe, thanks for coming on the podcast.
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Yeah, thank you for having me. So were you looking to fit in
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somewhere? Yeah, absolutely.
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And you thought I have a better shot of fitting in with the boys
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than the girls? Yeah, I mean, I also struggle to
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socialize with boys a little bit, but sometimes I found it
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easier to relate to like boys sense sense of humor and love
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their interests and even the way that we've we felt about about
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the world. Yeah, I think boys in a way can
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be easier to get along. I remember growing up, I mean,
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obviously there's a lot of differences, but I had a lot of
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brothers and it was like, for a while I didn't feel like I knew
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how to interact with girls. And yeah, I kind of figured it
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out, but because I didn't grow up with sisters, I didn't have a
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sister till I was nine years old, so.
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Yeah, I growing up, I had a kind of offensive sense of humor that
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a lot of girls just didn't really like it all.
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Meaning just jokes that were not.
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Yeah, little off colored. That's very funny from like
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being five years old off colored joke were there, you know, did
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you have a favorite joke? Not a particular favorite joke,
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but I remember in kindergarten up to like first or second
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grade, we would have assignments where we would learn about
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important historical figures and we'd have to like, color them
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in. I'd like, I'd draw like band
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aids on their faces and like give them notes, give.
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Them noise? What?
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Give them like give them like running makeup, blushing,
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Nosebleed. Oh no, just ran.
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Just random stuff just like your.
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Teacher's like, she's definitely a boy.
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Did you save any of that artwork?
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It's probably somewhere in my closet.
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It's pretty hilarious. OK, so you're just a very funny,
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quirky girl who's like tough and figuring out and smart and
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figuring out our place in the world.
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And then you end up with this therapist.
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Well, you went to the psychiatrist, you gave you the
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meds as an 8 year old because you don't like to sit in your
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chair all day in this boring school.
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And then you end up, I'm not making fun of it.
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I'm just it. There's an absurdity to the way
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that our systems don't make space for.
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Father Ambrose, thank you for sitting down with me.
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Thank you, Lila for the invitation.
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So, so if someone's listening who is Protestant or
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evangelical, we've got a lot of listeners who are and they're
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saying, well, they've had experience over in the name of
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Jesus Christ. I bind this evil thought.
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And I think Catholics do that, can do this too, because there
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are certain prayers that you can pray on exorcism prayers.
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You can pray as a just, you know, not as a religious person,
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right? And people listening who are
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evangelical would say, well I can.
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The Lord I feel has given me. Maybe they have this own
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experience in their life. I know friends of mine who they
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felt that they were in experiences where there was,
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they thought demonic oppression perhaps, or activity of some
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kind. And by saying the words of, you
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know, Scripture and by calling on the Lord, they felt they were
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able to free themselves from that.
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And there may be even in prayer ministries where they help other
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people and they pray prayers over other people.
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Is that all? How do you see that as a
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Catholic priest? I see that that's the Lord's
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work through. His.
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Through his believers, Christians are Christians, you
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know, right. So even if someone in in, in
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from the perspective of a Catholic priest, they don't have
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the fullness of the Sacramento order, you know, but they're
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Christians and they call upon the name of the Lord Jesus and
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he hears their prayers. You know, we, we have a lot in
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common. We have a lot in common in a
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certain respect, a lot more in common than we don't have in
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common. That's a great, that's a great
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consolation, isn't it? So yes, of course the prayers of
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the faithful, the prayers of Christian believers are
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powerful. We know that we have that great
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confidence as believers. That's a beautiful thing.
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And so if we call upon the name of the Lord Jesus, if one of
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your evangelical or Protestant, you know, followers is doing
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that and it's effective in their life, that's because Jesus wants
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it to be effective in their life.
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Thanks be to God. Thanks be to God.
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It's very consoling to know that he's available for all of us to
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call on him, even if you're not even a believer yet and you're
23:12
saying, help me believe, you know, the Lord, the Lord wants
23:15
to come here at the name of Jesus.
23:17
Every knee shall bend under heaven, right?
23:22
Every knee shall bend at the name of Jesus.
23:24
That name is powerful. Words are so powerful.
23:28
So powerful. Names are so powerful.
23:32
Thanks. For having me, yeah.
23:34
What is your message like that man you were talking about
23:37
earlier that they're hurting. I think you said, which is true,
23:40
they're hurting. And that's like the guy from my
23:42
speech the other night, like I think he was hurting and I hope
23:45
I don't know how how I was trying to be kind, but at the
23:49
same time I was like wanting to be firm with him because I feel
23:51
like he's getting all this tough love from like the Andrew Tate's
23:53
of the world. I'm like, can I give you some
23:55
gentle but tough love from a different perspective?
23:57
But what do you what do you think is the right thing to say?
23:59
Well, I would say foundationally the the Christian is at an
24:03
advantage because I think something supernatural happens
24:06
when when the Spirit of God comes and lives at.
24:08
Us. Amen.
24:09
Philippians says workout your own salvation with fear and
24:11
trembling for it is God that does the work in you to follow
24:15
him keep his decrees right. So it's this beautiful picture
24:17
of like we're responsible, but we, we have the Spirit of God.
24:22
That's, that's working out these things.
24:24
Ezekiel talks about, I'll take away your heart of stone, give
24:27
you a heart of flesh, right. Jeremiah talks about I'll give
24:30
you, I'll give you the desires to keep my precepts and my laws.
24:34
So I think 1 foundationally, like place your faith in Jesus.
24:36
Go examine the resurrection. It happened.
24:39
It really it that that is a historical event.
24:41
And I think the faith in Jesus, I think there, there becomes a
24:44
heart change, something changes and I can't, it's hard to, but
24:47
like no one told me porn was wrong when I got saved.
24:49
I just knew. No one told me sexual immorality
24:52
was wrong. I just knew no one told me
24:54
abortion was wrong. I just knew no one told me these
24:56
things. I just, it's written in the
24:58
heart. Yeah, it's written in the heart,
24:59
the, the, the, the laws and in our hearts.
25:01
So I say foundationally place your faith in Jesus because I
25:04
think there lies the, the, the, the, the will desire change.
25:10
And then I would say get around people that are different than
25:13
you, that are maybe a season of life than you.
25:16
And I say for most men, I think they need to develop and become
25:20
the priest, the provider and protective of their home, right?
25:23
So a priest, provider, protector, if we're looking at
25:27
David, David was a warrior and a worshipper, right?
25:30
So it's not this, I just need to be this, it's all the above.
25:33
Become, yes, be competent, be strong, lift, go work out, go
25:38
fire guns. If you want to learn how to do
25:40
that, like all of that is great. Develop useful skills, be able
25:44
to to earn, be able to provide for your family.
25:48
I this is statistics. And then some people get really
25:50
triggered when I talk about this, but Gallup did a study and
25:52
they surveyed working moms with kids under 18 and they found out
25:57
that working moms with kids under 18, that 56% of them would
26:02
have preferred to stay home and raise their kids had they been
26:05
given an option to 56%. At least, by the way.
26:10
So we scaled that number down to kids attended under 5 and under,
26:13
right? And that's a lot of women that
26:15
are like who are going to have kids that are like, I'd rather
26:17
just be a mom for. A couple years.
26:19
I want to just kind of hang on my babies.
26:22
So if you know, if we know that these are conservative women,
26:25
these are pro-life women, these are Christian women, right?
26:27
These are just women be the type of man that has a useful skill
26:31
set that can provide for your wife so that she can stay home
26:34
with the kids if she chooses to do so.
26:36
And guess what? Most women will probably choose
26:38
to do so if they have the. Opportunity.
26:39
I'll stick in a caveat there 'cause this is my experience and
26:42
a lot of my friends experience is that, you know, not having to
26:46
work, but getting to do some work as a way to contribute, use
26:51
your skills, your talents, but not having the burden of the,
26:55
you know, the 8:00 to 5:00 or the 8:00 to 6:00 and making sure
26:58
that you're the breadwinner. And I think that's a tremendous
27:01
difference where you can have that flourishing home life where
27:05
you still do maybe doing that side house or that job, but it's
27:08
not like you are worried about we're not going to make ends
27:12
meet tomorrow. Like that is a privilege for a
27:15
woman and a family to be in. Unfortunately, it's a privilege
27:17
today because of the way the economy is and most families
27:20
needing to double incomes. But I think that's a beautiful
27:23
thing is like, find a way to be be the primary breadwinner so
27:27
that she's she's not when she's pulling back on her hours or
27:30
taking time off or, you know, turning it down or or quitting
27:33
that full time position. She's not worried about are we
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down. Thank you for having me.
28:22
Once you and Alyssa got married, she was already Catholic.
28:26
Or what was her story? No, she was.
28:28
My wife was raised in a secular kind of environment.
28:32
And but I'll tell you, she asked the priest, she said, do I need
28:38
to convert for the wedding? And our priest in his great
28:41
wisdom, said, no, don't convert if you want to convert, but
28:46
don't do it for the wedding. And so we had those
28:49
conversations later. But so the wedding was not a
28:53
full mass. It's quite beautiful, though.
28:55
It was the Church of Saint Michael, coincidentally in New
28:57
York. And, and then it was something
29:01
else that we were noticing around this time, which is that
29:05
having both been raised largely secular, our friends who were
29:12
living according to secularism, we're all miserable, anxious.
29:17
And, but our friends who were Christian, we're surrounded by a
29:21
lot of Protestants at the time. Protestants are very good at
29:24
seeming happy and everything. They were happy Catholics.
29:27
Sometimes we're a little, we play closer to the vest, but the
29:29
Protestants really kind of wear it on their sleeve a lot of the
29:31
time. We thought, wait, this, what's
29:33
going on here? Why is this group of people,
29:35
these Christians, why are they happy?
29:36
And all of our friends who are atheists are all miserable.
29:39
Does that tell you something? And and that's that's more
29:43
persuasive than many arguments. The joy of the Lord.
29:46
It's a real thing. It's a real thing.
29:49
I remember becoming Catholic in college and when I my day of
29:53
confirmation and 1st Eucharist was not particularly emotional
29:57
to be honest, which kind of surprised me.
29:59
But I also knew I, you know, I think at the headspace I was in
30:02
at the time. But afterwards, the peace, the
30:05
kind of intangible piece that brings joy, it's real.
30:09
It's real and profound and it's never left.
30:11
And thank God for it. It's just the best decision of
30:14
my life. So I'm really excited to have
30:17
you on the podcast. Thanks for joining, Patrick.
30:19
It's great to be on with you. So media is terribly biased.
30:22
I know you see this and it's probably one of the things that
30:25
keeps you up at night about how are we going to fight back
30:27
against the lies coming from the media?
30:29
You know, working in the pearly space over the last decade and a
30:31
half, I've just seen the incessant misinformation,
30:35
disinformation that's attacking family values, attacking you
30:39
could call them conservative principles, but ultimately
30:42
attacking human dignity and families.
30:44
And So what? How do you see the landscape
30:47
with all of the, you know, Rolling Stone, Vice, you know,
30:50
the mainstream networks, the big three networks, you know,
30:52
historically have been so biased.
30:54
MSNBCCNNI mean, there's so much bias and quite frankly, nonsense
30:58
coming out of these companies. How do you see the landscape
31:03
changing in media? It has already changed a lot in
31:05
the last decade plus. How do you see it changing in
31:08
the next decade? Listen, media has made it easy
31:11
for us and I'll explain to you why this is the lowest approval
31:15
rating mainstream media and the government has in the history of
31:18
America. Americans trust mainstream media
31:21
and the government the least ever.
31:24
They don't know if the government has the best interest
31:26
and they don't trust mainstream media.
31:27
So all of these, you know, witch hunt lies that they keep
31:31
pitching and then we're like, OK, maybe it's the truth.
31:33
I'll buy three years that you were lying and I'll let's just
31:35
skip the story and go to the next one.
31:37
Wait a minute, you just wasted three years of my life and
31:40
argument with an ex-spouse and an ex best friend and I lost my
31:44
job because of you and you were lying all along.
31:47
You know? What the hell with you.
31:48
I'm not OK with that. I'm going to go follow this guy
31:51
named Joe who is a regular guy who wants to legalize marijuana
31:55
because he thinks it's OK to smoke weed after you turn 40
31:57
years old and after you turn a certain age.
32:00
I'm going to go follow this guy that's questioning everybody and
32:03
willing to interview people from all sides and you know what,
32:06
we're going to get him to beat all of you.
32:08
And that guys name is Joe Rogan. 11 million views he gets while a
32:12
number two guy was 33.2 or 2.6 or 2.1 and all of these guys
32:16
envious people don't you know what?
32:18
But Joe doesn't know what he's talking about.
32:20
But he's not this and he's not that, all because he threatened
32:24
the traditional, you know, establishment way of reading a
32:27
teleprompter and saying as if we can't tell that you're reading
32:31
something, you're a mouthpiece for everybody.
32:33
And then when they go and try to do their own podcast on their
32:36
own, they fail because they realize what you're doing right
32:38
now. This is not easy.
32:40
Easily love what you're doing. You don't have a teleprompter.
32:43
You're asking me questions and we're going back and forth.
32:45
I have to be ready to give an answer to and then the market
32:48
filters all the robots out. So let's filter out the robots
32:52
that are literally just reading something because they went to
32:55
Columbia University or Brown or one of these pro establishment
33:00
places that places people into these companies and they recruit
33:03
from there. And all of a sudden they're
33:05
famous. They're part of the same country
33:06
clubs, they're part of the same groups and places that they go
33:09
to, but they're robots. So let's set aside the robots.
33:11
America has exposed the robots and they prefer listening to the
33:15
Joe Rogan type of guys that are out there that are doing what
33:17
they're doing with Joe being the GOAT.
33:19
Now for everybody else that says I want something to happen about
33:22
this, when a conservative media company starts a company and
33:27
asks for a monthly membership, don't say oh, it's too much
33:31
while you're spending. On average, we're all paying on
33:34
a monthly basis. The average subscription dollar
33:37
amount we spend on a monthly basis is 272 a month, $272 a
33:41
month. The way those families, those
33:44
mothers, those fathers, those concerned citizens that don't
33:47
like the direction Disney, Netflix, all these companies are
33:50
going. When you get a chance to support
33:52
another company that you believe in, that you trust them and they
33:55
need some resources to up raise capital to go produce movies
33:59
that are better stories that are telling a different angle of
34:02
what's going on in America, help support them.
34:04
Don't be the same person that's supporting all the people you
34:08
don't like, yet you're bitching about the fact that the other
34:10
guys are asking for 19 bucks money.
34:12
Like no, no, no, no, no. I'm not going to support that.
34:14
So again, it goes back to the same people that I've hurt.
34:17
America have to kind of get in there and also help support the
34:20
other guys. I want to compete against the
34:22
enemy. Totally.
34:24
I mean, it takes big courage and initiative and risk to go out
34:27
there and start a company and then a tons of sweat, blood and
34:30
tears to go out and build that company.
34:33
And you're doing it for values and you're doing it to offer
34:36
something new in the market. But it's like, what can everyday
34:38
people do who see the problem, who see the bias?
34:40
You see the cultured around us decaying.
34:43
Help those companies grow, you know, be part of those
34:46
companies, but you know, be clients, patrons of those
34:49
companies. Buy from those companies.
34:51
Why are we putting our kids for hours in front of Disney Plus,
34:56
in front of these TV shows and these YouTube shows that are
35:00
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35:03
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joining the podcast. I'm.
36:00
So happy to be here. What was it like finding out
36:03
that Jim had Melanoma? Yeah.
36:06
So if you're. About to be pregnant with your
36:09
4th? Yeah, So what sticks in my mind
36:13
the most, so his his diagnosis was pretty serious right from
36:20
the beginning. He had he had a really big mold
36:22
that was originally misdiagnosed once and and then later when he
36:27
finally did get it biopsied, it came back immediately as it, you
36:31
know, as Melanoma and as metastatic Melanoma.
36:36
So it had already spread and the statistics for that aren't
36:41
great. It's a it's, it's a less than
36:44
50% five year survival rate for, for that diagnosis.
36:48
So immediately it was something that you had to sort of take
36:52
seriously. But I remember going to pick my,
36:58
my son up at his at this little neighborhood Christian preschool
37:01
that he went to a couple days a week.
37:04
His, his teacher said to him and said to me, you know, how was
37:07
your day? And again with my again with my
37:11
awkwardness, I told her what had happened in my day, somebody
37:15
that I don't, didn't particularly know well, but I
37:16
said, you know, my husband was diagnosed with cancer.
37:20
And she said to me, you must be really worried.
37:24
And I guess my, you know, little contrary spirit that you know,
37:31
her saying to me that I must worry.
37:35
I thought, wait a minute, like, must I like do what?
37:38
How are things right now? If I look at if I look at my
37:41
husband, he's seems perfectly healthy right now.
37:44
He has no symptoms of of illness other than just us knowing from
37:51
this piece of paper that you know, that that he has this.
37:55
My kids are are great. We're comfortable financially.
38:00
We have a roof overhead. We have food to eat.
38:03
Do I really need to worry today? And, and so I told what I told
38:08
her is, you know, I've decided I'm going to wait to worry.
38:12
And, and that was sort of my mantra all the way through.
38:16
Is that like, am I, are we OK today?
38:19
And, and really we were. And so I wasn't quite ready to
38:24
commit to the Padre Pio, you know, pray, hope, don't worry.
38:29
I wasn't sure I could manage that, but I could wait.
38:31
I could wait to worry. And and so that's what I did all
38:34
the way throughout his, his illness, as he, you know, he
38:40
went through treatment at at the beginning and surgery and it
38:46
appeared that he was in remission for for 10 years.
38:50
And and then he was it, you know, it was rediscovered.
38:56
So it, it, it means that likely it was just there the whole time
39:00
still, but it spread eventually to his lungs and then to his
39:05
brain. And but throughout, you know,
39:11
throughout the surgeries, hospitalizations, eventually he
39:14
was having seizures. He was unable to drive.
39:21
He, you know, I, he wasn't able to, to do buttons and things and
39:26
it was just this really slow sort of progression of, of him
39:30
requiring more help. But but really, each day it
39:37
didn't seem like that was the day that we needed to worry
39:40
because things were still OK And, and that we had so many
39:46
people praying for us. And, and I believe so strongly
39:52
in the power of intercessory prayer, you know, you know, to
39:56
keep despair at Bay. And I just felt like through
40:00
that whole, through the whole process that that somehow it was
40:04
going to be OK. Either he was going to be
40:06
healed. He was going to continue living
40:09
with with this as he had been for so much longer than than any
40:12
of the doctors thought that he ever would.
40:17
Or. He wouldn't survive and and I
40:20
had to trust that somehow we would be OK even even if that
40:27
happened. Erica, thank you so much for
40:31
joining the podcast and coming in from New York today.
40:33
Thank you for having me. I'm sure there's someone
40:35
listening right now who they have a four or five or six year
40:40
old and those first three years are gone and they're thinking I
40:45
made so many mistakes and my kid seems OK.
40:50
They're not like we have seen, like we have a good
40:52
relationship. What would be your advice to
40:55
them? Well, what I would say is some
40:57
kids are OK. So, but a lot of kids don't show
41:01
the signs that they're not OK until they hit adolescence.
41:04
So there are certain vulnerable points in development where
41:09
children breakdown and one of those points is adolescence.
41:12
So meaning if things happened in the first three years, sometimes
41:18
those issues will submerge and not come out and be repressed
41:22
until adolescence because adolescence is a kind of trauma
41:25
that opens up, you know, vulnerability again.
41:28
And a lot of the things that happened, that's what my second
41:30
book is about, is about adolescence.
41:32
Because adolescence is the second critical window of brain
41:34
development where a lot of the same things are happening that
41:37
happened in zero to three. So you have a second chance.
41:39
So the second book was called Second Chances and they didn't,
41:43
they didn't take that. They didn't take my title for
41:45
that one either. It's called Chicken Little.
41:48
The sky isn't falling. Raising chances is a second.
41:51
Chances, but but the truth is that you have so the brain is
41:57
plastic, meaning you have an opportunity to try to repair
42:02
things with your child at any point as long as they're still
42:05
under your roof. The truth is that the prefrontal
42:08
cortex doesn't stop developing. The emotional regulating part of
42:12
the brain doesn't stop developing till 25 and women
42:14
till 28 and men. So technically you have until
42:17
then to influence your children, but once they move out of the
42:20
house you've lost a lot of your influence.
42:21
I guess you would say don't boot your kid at 18 automatically.
42:24
No, no, absolutely. Again, that could be a whole
42:28
other. That's your third.
42:29
Book that's yeah, but the. Until 2528.
42:32
Well, but, but I mean, some kids aren't ready.
42:34
And you said, just to clarify, you said the girl's, the
42:37
female's brain is not fully developed till 25 and the male's
42:40
20. 8 up to 28, yeah. And so and that's continuing or
42:44
completing the process that was opened up during, right.
42:47
So you really have a decade plus of adolescence.
42:50
You do, but where? When they're under.
42:53
Bonds with the parent can. Yes, Very, very influential.
42:56
Very important and obviously you have more influence when they're
43:00
under your roof. So I would say take advantage of
43:03
up till 18 or 19 when they're still living with you.
43:05
You know, the way our culture is, many move out after that
43:09
either to go to college or get a job or whatever.
43:11
So, you know, take advantage of those 18 years to repair it at
43:15
whatever point you enter in is a good point to enter.
43:20
Better than nothing. Better than nothing and a lot
43:22
can be repaired. You'd be surprised how much can
43:24
be repaired. Thank you so much Father Spitzer
43:28
for joining the podcast. Oh, always great to be with you.
43:31
Thanks for the opportunity. What is the best evidence for
43:36
the unbeliever or the skeptic on the existence of God?
43:41
All right, well, you can break it down into four areas, one
43:45
area today. And by the way, again, if I
43:48
could just talk about my book Science.
43:50
At please do. If you get that book, Science at
43:53
the Recepticon Ignatius Press, just take a look at it and just
43:57
read through that evidence. Number one, those near death
44:01
experiences, we have a lot of medical studies of near death
44:05
experiences where you know, we can see that people's
44:08
consciousness lives on after their physical body is what we
44:13
call clinically dead. Their consciousness lives on
44:16
after their physical body is clinically dead.
44:19
Does this mean the consciousness is not tied necessarily to the
44:22
brain? That is correct.
44:24
And that is so prolific now. The New York Academy of Sciences
44:27
last year in 2022 actually came out with a statement and their
44:31
proceedings where they basically said there is a very credible
44:35
possibility that your consciousness will survive your
44:38
bodily death based solely on peer reviewed medical studies of
44:45
near death experiences, terminal lucidity and intelligence and
44:48
hydrocephalic patients. It's been overwhelming.
44:51
Now, not only that, but there's actually an afterlife that is
44:56
reported too. Not just, you know, like we have
44:59
a Bryant blind kid, Bradley Burrows.
45:01
He's 16 years old, right? And by the way, 81% of blind
45:05
people see for the first time when they're clinically dead.
45:09
So they're sitting there on the operating table, flat EEG.
45:13
That means no electrical activity in the brain, fixed and
45:16
dilated pupils, no gag reflexes. And suddenly, for the first
45:20
time, 81% of blind people start seeing.
45:23
Consciousness can't be located in the physical body because
45:27
there was, of course, their eyes were in some sense defective and
45:31
they couldn't see. And believe me, I know what
45:33
blindness is all about. So the main thing is, OK, what
45:36
do we do here with Bradley Burroughs?
45:38
He's 16 years old. He's been blind from birth.
45:41
He suddenly he has a heart attack.
45:43
He he's, you know, zooms outside of the hospital.
45:45
He doesn't stay in the operating room.
45:47
He goes right outside the hospital and he's elevated right
45:49
at the top of the hospital outside looking down.
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And he says, you know, I saw snow for the first time in my
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life. And then I saw these tracks that
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were grooved into the snow. I knew they had to be tram
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tracks because of course they're, they're so parallel.
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So I said, oh, wow, you know, train tracks in the snow.
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And then of course, he said, I saw a Grove of trees in the
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distance there. And then suddenly a tram came
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by. Could that have just been his
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imagination? That impossible from what people
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have told him about what those things look like?
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Yes, but I'm playing the skeptic here at first.
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Yeah, I mean, how could you report though?
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Oh, on the back of that train there's a sign with an arrow
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pointing to the right and that the train went right down that
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this corridor where the tracks were and went into the Grove of
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trees that was in in the distance.
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So he saw the actual train outside.
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Yes, and trains have. Not his physical eyes, his soul.
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Yeah, his soul, not his physical eyes, his soul, because he
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doesn't have even a physical image in his visual image in his
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brain that he could hallucinate. But he saw all of this.
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He described the train, the tram perfectly, the sign on the back
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of the tram, what the tram did, that it went to the right into
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the Grove of trees, etcetera, etcetera.
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How could you possibly recount that, Florida State if you
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hadn't seen it? But of course, this which wasn't
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in the operating room where his physical body was, it was
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outside the hospital, up and above the hospital.
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So, and by the way, we have really literally thousands of
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these validated cases that we call veridical data for it.
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It's so prolific. The New York Academy of
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Scientists of Sciences, excuse me, basically said, yeah,
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there's a very credible possibility that your your
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consciousness will survive your bodily death.
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So that's one set of studies. I present it in chapters four
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and five of my book Science of Georgia.
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And that's a wrap. Thanks so much for listening to
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the Lila Rose Podcast. Happy New Year's guys, and we'll
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see you in 2024.