1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Life Audio. 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 2: You are listening to The Beckett Cook Show with your 3 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 2: host Beckett Cook. For more information about Beckett and his ministry, 4 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 2: visit his website at Beckettcook dot com. To help support 5 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 2: the podcast, visit Patreon dot com slash the Beckett Cook Show. 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 2: Please consider subscribing to the podcast and leaving a five 7 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 2: star rating. 8 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to the show today. I want to 9 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: discuss a new TV series called Heated Rivalry and the 10 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: reason it's on HBO Max, which I don't have. I 11 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: haven't seen the show, but the reason I know about 12 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: this show is because The New York Times not only 13 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: did one article on it, but three and probably there's 14 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: more coming. But first award from our sponsor. I also 15 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: wanted to address this this TV show because in one 16 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: of the articles it says that in one of the 17 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: op ed pieces, it says that this new show, Heated 18 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: Rivalry is revolutionary quote unquote because in my in what 19 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 1: I in, these are my words, it takes LGBTQ indoctrination 20 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 1: to the next level. And you'll you'll see why. I'll 21 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: explain why so Heated Rivalry has become a breakout hit. 22 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: This is from one of the op ed pieces. It's 23 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: a hockey drama uh In Can't and set in Canada, 24 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: adapted from an erotic romance novel for the Canadian streaming 25 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: service Crave. It's also on HBO and it has this 26 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: is what the op ed pieces. It has quote left 27 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: gay men crying at watch parties that feel more like 28 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: nineteenth century religious revivals. So this show apparently is so 29 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:15,399 Speaker 1: mind blowing. And you'll see why we get into it later, 30 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: but it's so mind blowing that there are these watch 31 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 1: parties and gay men are weeping because it's so intense. 32 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: It's like a religious experience. It's a Catharsis. So by 33 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: the way, I just I always say this, and I 34 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: just want to say upfront, there, but for the grace 35 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 1: of God, go I. I used to live this life, 36 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: and I used I pitch TV shows that were gay 37 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: themed to Hollywood producers. So I just wanted to clarify 38 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: that that these as I talk about I've talked about 39 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: so many times. It's like Plato's cave. These guys not 40 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,399 Speaker 1: only in the New York Times, but the guys who 41 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: created the show and who are acting in the show 42 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: and producing the show, they are all in the dark. 43 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: They are in Plato's cave. They don't understand the truth, 44 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,959 Speaker 1: so of course they're just wandering, wandering around in the dark, 45 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: trying to figure things out. And they think this is good. 46 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: And The New York Times, of course loves what is 47 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: evil and hates what is good all the time. I mean, 48 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 1: they breathlessly publish these these various articles on this show 49 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: because they want They they always want to to somehow, 50 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: you know their Their Marxist agenda is to destroy the family, 51 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: is to destroy civilization, is to destroy culture. The New 52 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: York Times is a pure Marxist propaganda machine. So the 53 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 1: article goes on to say, if you want to understand 54 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: why this show has become our our communities equivalent of 55 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: a cultural earthquake, the answer is that watching a gay 56 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: couple being mildly boring and in love is still radical. 57 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: So what makes this show revolutionary as opposed to like 58 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: Will and Grace and all of the other like Modern 59 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: Family and those shows, is this is your This is 60 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: a show about a gay couple, and apparently the couple 61 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: is boring and the love is quote still radical. So 62 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: it's not like Will and Grace where it's like slapped 63 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: stick comedy and we're gonna get into more about why 64 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: what the difference is between those kinds of shows and 65 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 1: this ago. The article goes on to say it during 66 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: the season, two major Major league hockey stars Shane Hollander 67 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 1: and Ilia Rosenoff fall for each other, moving from adversaries 68 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: to soulmates. So basically, two guys on two different hockey 69 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: teams end up in love with each other. It says. 70 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:06,039 Speaker 1: There are plenty of steamy locker room encounters and charged 71 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: rendezvous in luxury penthouses, but in the season finale, which 72 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:13,919 Speaker 1: landed last week, the two men are secluded in an 73 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: intimate cottage, grilling burgers, lying by firelight, taking daytime swims, 74 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: scrolling through their phones on the sofa. Most chips are poisoned. 75 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: They have artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, additives, and seed oils 76 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 1: which are so toxic. My favorite chips in the world 77 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: are Massa chips. They have three simple ingredients organic corn, 78 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: grass fed beef, tallow and sea salt. That's it. 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This 89 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 1: is real delicious food, so good, I'm gonna eat the 90 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 1: rest of this bag. I think the reason this is 91 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 1: so revolutionary and such an earthquake, as it says, is 92 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: this is kind of a quotidian portrait of gay men's lives, 93 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: like a boring, mundane portrait of to gay men and love. 94 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: And that's why it's so revolutionary, because I don't think 95 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 1: this has ever been done on TV or even I'm 96 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: not even sure if it's been done in movies. It's 97 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: just like we are just the same as heterosexual couples. 98 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: We are boring, we grill burgers, we scroll through our phones. 99 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: Once again, this is normalizing homosexual behavior even more in 100 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: the culture. And you know, obviously this is what happens 101 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: is and we've seen this over the past ten years, 102 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: if not twenty, is the culture embraces this, and then 103 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: the church embraces this. And there are so many churches, 104 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: so many Christians who are falling for this lie because 105 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: the culture. I say this all the time. The culture 106 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: is so powerful and it overwhelms Christians, even Christians, even 107 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: solid Christians, and they end up caving to this lie 108 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: that homosexual behavior is okay. And I've seen it happen 109 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: over and over and over again. Pastors are falling for it. 110 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: I know of a church right now in Los Angeles 111 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: where half the congregants are gay affirming and half or not. 112 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: But this is just the kind of the fallout of 113 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: this kind of indoctrination. And that's why it's so important 114 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: not only to be in the Word of God all 115 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: the time. By the way, I just got this new 116 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: Bible for Christmas and it's beautiful, it's real leather. I 117 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 1: love it. But not only to be sorry to be 118 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: in the Bible, but also pastors and Christian leaders need 119 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: to Pastors need to shepherd the flock, and they are 120 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 1: not doing many are, but a lot most I would 121 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: say most pastors are not doing this job. And when 122 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: the culture is coming out to you one hundred miles 123 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: per hour, you need your pastor to speak on this issue. 124 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: Otherwise you're going to be devoured by the lie. And 125 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: so if you're I just urge you to talk to 126 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: your pastor and urge him to discuss this issue and 127 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: to do a sermon on this issue, or do several 128 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: a sermon series on this issue and on LGBTQ issue 129 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: in general. Okay, anyway, So it goes on to say 130 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: culture has not kept up with queer people despite major 131 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: political strides. Now that doesn't ring true. I see I 132 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: live in Los Angeles and I see rainbow flags on 133 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 1: every building in the city and all over the country. 134 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: I'm sure. So it says culture has not kept up 135 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: with queer people despite major political strides. Yeah, gay marriage. 136 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know where else you can go 137 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: besides that. We'll be right back after this short break. 138 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: It says legal victories, including marriage equality and growing social acceptance. 139 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: Stories in art explicitly about queer life are being made, 140 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: but they rarely find a wide gay audience. They're not 141 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: typically embraced the way heated rivalry. This news TV show 142 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: has been, and it goes on to talk about that 143 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: movie Bros. Which was a I never saw it, but 144 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,959 Speaker 1: it was a movie by Billy Eichner that came out 145 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, and it was about two gay men. 146 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: Kind of there. It was a rom com. That's what 147 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: that's what the big deal was. It was a rom 148 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: com with two gay men, which was kind of the 149 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: first of its kind. And the writer of this article 150 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 1: says early in the film, his character responds to someone 151 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:45,559 Speaker 1: who asserts that quote, gay and straight relationships are the same. 152 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: Love is love is love. He snaps, quote love is 153 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: love is love. No, it's not. It's a clarifying moment. 154 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: The slogan that helped win us marriage equality also sanded 155 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: down the edges of queer intimacy until it looks safe 156 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: two straight eyes. So what this, what the writer is saying, 157 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,320 Speaker 1: is what this idea of love is love is love 158 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: is not helpful because it sands down the edges. It 159 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: kind of makes it safe and sands down the edges 160 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: of quote queer intimacy. So it doesn't really show the 161 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: kind of raw, gritty realness of homosexuality, which no one 162 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: wants to see. So it goes on to say, for years, 163 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: queer representation in mainstream culture was driven by a political imperative. 164 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: We needed to be palatable, monogamous, and mortgage ready to 165 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: be tolerated. So that's that's what he's saying. He's saying 166 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: that Bros. That that movie Bros. Was kind of showing 167 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: a gay couple as palatable, monogamous, and mortgage ready so 168 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: they could be tolerated. And it goes on to say, 169 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 1: you could see the impulse in Will and Grace, where 170 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: queerness was By the way, can we just stop with 171 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:14,559 Speaker 1: the word queerness. It's so ugly. It's such an ugly word. 172 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: It doesn't even make any sense why the gay community 173 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: would adopt this word queer. Anyway. You could see this 174 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: impulse in Will and Grace, where queerness was domesticated through 175 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: friendship and slapstick, and later in Modern Family, where the 176 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: suburban gay couple were beloved precisely because they reassured straight 177 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: viewers that nothing about them was too strange, too erotic, 178 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 1: or too much. A lot of what is being produced 179 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: about gay men even now replicates a straight world in 180 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: rainbow colors. I don't know about I don't know about 181 00:12:56,520 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: this assessment. I mean, we've been flooded, not stop with 182 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: gay TV and movies, with LGBTQ television programming. So it's 183 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: basically it's again, it's saying that these shows like Will 184 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: and Grace and Modern Family have have not really shown 185 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 1: what real gay men are like. And again, I don't 186 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:28,319 Speaker 1: think the world wants to see that because I know 187 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 1: what that world is and it's very dark. And if 188 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 1: I think if if the world really saw that, that 189 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 1: world of hookups and grinder and bathhouses, et cetera, they 190 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: would be revolted. So it goes on to say, maybe 191 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: what we ache for now is not culture built to 192 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: serve a political end, but a focus on the intimate 193 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 1: someone on top of us breaking down in tears as 194 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: he confesses his love. What is turning us on is 195 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: not the thrill of naked bodies, but the shock of 196 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 1: being emotionally known. That is what some of us have 197 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: been missing. I don't really know how that's been missing 198 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: in the culture. I mean, it's just I mean, just 199 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: watch Broke Back Mountain or The Manifold, other shows or movies, 200 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: and it goes on to say that The literary critic 201 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: Richard Ka has argued that flirtation has long been central 202 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: to Western literature. A series a serious erotic mode in 203 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: novels from Jane Austin to and Forrester. Seeing that tradition 204 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: evolve on screen between two men, not as subtext but 205 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: as text feels like a revolution. So this show Heated 206 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: Rivalry is heated rivalry. It's hard to say that is 207 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: based on a novel from a woman. And it's saying 208 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: that seeing because like in the Ian Forrester Ian Forster novels, 209 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: or Jane Austin novels, but especially Ian Forrester, and those 210 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: were turned into movies in the eighties, a lot of them, 211 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: and I'm thinking of Morris as one prime example, But 212 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: it was kind of this like and even Evelyn Waugh's 213 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: novel Brides Had Revisited was turned into a TV series 214 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: and it was kind of like not quite clear if 215 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 1: they were actually if the two guys were actually romantically involved, 216 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: or if it was just like a college kind of 217 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: crush or and and in Morris it was it was 218 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: all kind of like it was all furtive and sort 219 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: of surreptitious, and so it was never like explicit in 220 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: these novels or movies or TV shows what was going on. 221 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: So what what this guy, what the writer of this 222 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: article is saying, is seeing the edition of this kind 223 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: of novel turned into a TV show on screen between 224 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: two men, seeing it as you know, as kind of 225 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: just totally in your face and reel is feels like 226 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: a revolution. And he goes on to say what feels 227 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 1: especially new is the way that flirtation becomes true intimacy 228 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: when another player in the league comes out by kissing 229 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 1: his partner on the ice, a game changer in every sense. 230 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: Shane's phone rings, Ilia tells him he's coming to Shane's 231 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: secluded lakeside cottage. Not for a night, not for a 232 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: post game hookup. He's choosing to step into Shane's life, 233 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: transforming their years long relationship into something with a future. 234 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 1: And again I've talked about this, the idea of gay 235 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: especially gay male monogamy, is a fiction. I'm sure it 236 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 1: happens in some small circles. I'm sure it happens. You know, 237 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 1: there's a tiny percentage of gay male relationships that are monogamous. 238 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: But from my experience, from others, friends of mine, experiences, 239 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: et cetera, gay men, there is constant infidelity constant hookups 240 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 1: even while in relationships. I've referenced this before, but I 241 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 1: have an old friend of mine is married to a 242 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 1: man and they have kids, and they have an open relationship. 243 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: I know for a fact that one of the guys 244 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 1: in the relationship literally, I mean, this isn't the seventies, 245 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: this is twenty twenty six. One of the guys in 246 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: the relationship literally goes to bath houses. I don't even know. 247 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: I didn't know they still existed, but I guess they do. 248 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: Still goes to bath houses to hook up with strain, 249 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 1: like multiple times a week. So again, this idea of 250 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 1: kind of a year's long relationship and this kind of 251 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: monogamy idea is a fiction. And then it goes on 252 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: to say heated rivalry resonates because it embodies our lives. 253 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: After the religious rite pathologized us during the HIV AIDS crisis, 254 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: we reclaim the sex story by reviving bathhouses and sex parties, 255 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 1: by unapologetically embracing hookup culture on apps like Grinder, by 256 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: celebrating eroticism in our fashion and nightlife, and slowly we 257 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: became more visible in family and life, family life, and work. 258 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: There are queer politicians and lawyers, olympians and celebrities. But 259 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,399 Speaker 1: representation is not the same thing as intimacy. We still 260 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: need more stories about us, our relationships, our romances, our desires, 261 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: and so of course this op ed piece attacks Christians, 262 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 1: or the religious right as they call it, for pathologizing 263 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: gays during the HIV AIDS crisis. No, there wasn't a 264 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: pathologizing of it. It was just I've talked about this before, 265 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:26,440 Speaker 1: and I lived through that crisis. I was in high 266 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: school when it started, and I just remember, I remember 267 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: that gay men. And even when the AIDS crisis was 268 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: first discovered, when it was discovered what the disease was 269 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: in nineteen I think it was nineteen eighty one eighty two, 270 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,239 Speaker 1: it was called GRID Gay related Immune deficiency, and they 271 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:55,479 Speaker 1: changed it to AIDS. Even after that and still to 272 00:19:55,560 --> 00:20:02,120 Speaker 1: this day, there is absolutely a disregard for safe sex. 273 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 1: So the idea of like the religious right pathologizing HIV, 274 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 1: pathologizing gays during HIV AIDS crisis, it's like, no, you 275 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 1: were pathologizing yourselves, like you were pathologically going out and 276 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:28,680 Speaker 1: continuing this behavior that was clearly ending in horrendous deaths. 277 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,679 Speaker 1: It's not the religious right that is pathologizing it. And 278 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: again I remember during that time, gays, that's when Act UP, 279 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: that gay radical group, activist group organized and it was 280 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: led by Larry Kramer, and they were, you know, furious 281 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:55,920 Speaker 1: at Ronald Reagan for not addressing HIV AIDS. And I 282 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: just remember as at that time, when I was living 283 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,959 Speaker 1: at that time, I remember thinking, why are the gays 284 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: blaming Ronald Reagan for their behavior? I don't understand. I mean, 285 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: it's like, take responsibility for your behavior and don't go 286 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: to bath houses and have sex with strangers. Like it's 287 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:21,359 Speaker 1: it's very obvious, but they wanted to blame Ronald Reagan 288 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 1: for that. And then the last thing he says in 289 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,400 Speaker 1: this op ed piece is we do not need more 290 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,679 Speaker 1: stories to prove that we exist. True, we know that 291 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 1: you exist. We're very well aware of that. We need 292 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: stories that capture how we live in the touch, the embrace, 293 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:44,239 Speaker 1: the everyday, if boring intimacies that we never meant to 294 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: be translated. And this is the last line of the article. 295 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 1: Our next frontier is not mere acceptance but depth. So, okay, 296 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: there's not enough acceptance of there's not an enough LGBTQ 297 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: acceptance and culture now we need to go to depth. 298 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: This is just absurd, it's absolutely insane. Before I get 299 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 1: into the next couple articles, which I'm just going to 300 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,719 Speaker 1: briefly touch briefly touch on, I just want to remind 301 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: you I've talked about that. I've done an episode on 302 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: this book called After the Ball. The subtitle is How 303 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: America Will Conquer America, How America Will conquer its fear 304 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,879 Speaker 1: and hatred of gays in the nineties. And I just 305 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: want to read you just to remind you because this manifesto, 306 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: it's a very thick book, this manifesto, everything in it 307 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: has come true. It was published in nineteen eighty nine, 308 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 1: I believe, and every single thing has come Yeah, nineteen 309 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 1: eighty nine has come true. So I just want to 310 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 1: remind you of a couple of quotes from this book. 311 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 1: Gay must launch a large scale campaign. We've called it 312 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: the Waging Peace Campaign to reach straight through the mainstream media. 313 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: We're talking about propaganda. Okay, well that's true. Second, he says, 314 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: he goes on to say, and by the way, the 315 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: authors of this book are Hunter Matson and Marshall Kirk, 316 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:33,679 Speaker 1: and they're both Harvard grads, both homosexuals. And another quote 317 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 1: is first propaganda relies more. This is very important because 318 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,959 Speaker 1: this is where Christians are falling for this. They're falling 319 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 1: for it because of the emotional manipulation. He says, first 320 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: propaganda relies more upon emotional manipulation than upon logic, since 321 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 1: its goal is in fact, to bring about a change 322 00:23:55,119 --> 00:24:00,080 Speaker 1: in the public's feelings. So notice they even admit that 323 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: that this it has to be emotional manipulation. You can't 324 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: just kind of go out and give a statement of 325 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: facts or a manifesto. You have to manipulate people through 326 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: their emotions. And that has happened so dramatically in the 327 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,919 Speaker 1: last fifteen twenty years through TV and movies even longer 328 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 1: maybe if they're twenty five years and it is and 329 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,959 Speaker 1: it's worked. I don't know what the percentage is, but 330 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 1: I'm sure over half the country has a good view, 331 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 1: has a high view or good view of homosexual homosexuality. 332 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: And I don't know about in the Christian world with 333 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: the percentages, but I'm sure it's very high. I'm sure 334 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: there are many people in my church who are gay 335 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: firming and don't even know why they are, because we 336 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: just we're just swimming in this. We're swimming in the 337 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: gay solt water of the ocean and or just absorbing 338 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: it by osmosis, and we don't understand. And then we 339 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 1: don't understand, like, whoa, why why is everyone falling for 340 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 1: this lie? Well, because it's all around us and it's constant, 341 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: so and the emotional manipulation is real. So then they 342 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 1: go on to say, the main thing is to talk 343 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: about gayness until the issue becomes thoroughly tiresome. Are you 344 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: guys tired, I'm pretty tired of this issue? Okay? And 345 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: then it goes on to say, in any campaign to 346 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:50,199 Speaker 1: win over the public, gays must be portrayed as victims 347 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: in need of protection, so that straits will be inclined 348 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: by reflex to adopt the role of protector. Now, this 349 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: is big with women because women are naturally nurturers. They 350 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: naturally want to protect, and so I think a lot 351 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: of women. I don't know, I don't know what the 352 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: percentage is again, but I think more women fall for 353 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 1: this than men, or cave to this than men do 354 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 1: because they see a movie, they see a TV show, 355 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,160 Speaker 1: or or their child comes out as gay or whatever, 356 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:31,119 Speaker 1: and they're so emotionally tied up into it that they 357 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 1: adopt the role as protector and then become gay affirming. 358 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: I've seen it happen over and over and over again. 359 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,919 Speaker 1: I had I've talked about this before. I had a 360 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 1: friend who whose family was just solid Christian family, super solid, 361 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: and as soon as the sun came out as gay, 362 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: everyone in the family became gay affirming. And they think 363 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: that that's loving, And it's actually the most hateful thing 364 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 1: you can do, because you're leading someone down a path 365 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: of destruction and eternal conscious torm. So it is not 366 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: loving to be gay affirming. Ever, it's the most loving 367 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:13,120 Speaker 1: thing you can do is speak the truth, and speak 368 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 1: the truth in love. Jesus in the Gospels. I talk 369 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: about this before. Jesus in the Gospels always interacted with 370 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: tax collectors and sinners and prostitutes, but he and he 371 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: did it in such a loving way. But he also 372 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 1: spoke truth to the and he he spoke the truth 373 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: to them, and it is they who went away changed, 374 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,719 Speaker 1: not Jesus. It's important to not cave on this issue, 375 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 1: to stand your ground, to hold the line, to be 376 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 1: like Shadrack Mishak in the bed, and to go in 377 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 1: Babylon in a culture that was just like our culture, 378 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,360 Speaker 1: and to be willing to go into a fiery furnace 379 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 1: rather than compromise God's word by one iota. Oh, and 380 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 1: this is the last quote I'm going to use from 381 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: the book. We argue that for all practical purposes, gay 382 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: should be considered to have been born gay, even though 383 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,640 Speaker 1: sexual orientation for most humans seems to be the product 384 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: of a complex interaction between innate predispositions and environmental factors 385 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: during childhood and early adolescens. So do you see how 386 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 1: we've become brainwashed into believing that it's you're born this way? 387 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: That this is a was a concerted effort from nineteen 388 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 1: eighty nine and even before that to convince people that 389 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: gays are born this way. And you know, Lady Gaga 390 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 1: of course chanted that over and over again and her 391 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: hideous song. So so that's a lie. It's a lie. 392 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 1: And I've done episodes with doctor Nicolosi and you can 393 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: watch those about what the truth is behind that. So 394 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: that's after the ball. And now I want to look 395 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 1: at a couple of other articles, just very briefly on 396 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 1: the same TV show called Heated Rivalry on HBO. So 397 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: the next article is called heated rivalry. It's really hard 398 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: to say that word. Heated rivalry scores big with hockey 399 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: and sects adapted from romance novels, This Canadian series has 400 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 1: been a surprise hit for HBO Max. It's been at 401 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 1: the near the top of the most watched series list 402 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 1: on HBO Max and again it says, bars have been 403 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: packed for hosting parties to watch this show, especially the 404 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: season finale. It says this article says a big reason 405 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: the show caught fire is the abundance of furtive and 406 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 1: enthusiastic hookups between its leading characters, the cocky Russian born 407 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 1: Ilia and the collected Canadian Shane. The scenes might be 408 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: considered too hot for streaming TV where not for the 409 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: carefully positioned thighs. Let me just repeat that, because this 410 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 1: is the most absurd sentence I've ever heard in the 411 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 1: history of in writing. The scenes might be considered too 412 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 1: hot for streaming TV were it not for a carefully 413 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: positioned thighs. I'm just going to leave that with you, 414 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: and I'm not going to talk about that because it's 415 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 1: so absurd. So the third, the last article on the show, 416 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: the title is hit show Heated Rivalry became a TV phenomenon, 417 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 1: can it change hockey culture? So this article was actually 418 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: in the sports section of the New York Times, because 419 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 1: of course they're excited about this too. Apparently the hockey 420 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 1: the NHL is very quote unquote homophobic. So this is 421 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 1: what it says. It talks about this guy, Harrison Brown, 422 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 1: who has a minor role on this show, and Harrison 423 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: Brown as transgender in real life. Brown underwent a medical 424 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: transition after playing three seasons in the National Women's Hockey League. 425 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 1: So this woman who was playing in the National Women's 426 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 1: Hockey League became a man apparently and is now on 427 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: this show or appears on the show, has a minor role. 428 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: It talks about the show and the show raises questions 429 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 1: and criticisms about the sports failures when it comes to 430 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:42,480 Speaker 1: the inclusion of LGBTQ plus community. So again, apparently the 431 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 1: National Hockey League believes that a man and a woman 432 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:52,680 Speaker 1: go together. They actually believe just reality. And then it 433 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 1: says mega pop star Miley Cyrus wants to make music 434 00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 1: for the show's next season. What a surprise. Just wickedness 435 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 1: after Wickedness. It goes on to say the NHL banned 436 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 1: Pride Night jerseys and rainbow color tape. In October twenty 437 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 1: twenty three, months after some players opted out of their 438 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: team's Pride Night festivals. Why do these sports teams have 439 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 1: to have Pride Night festivals? It's like, it's so absurd. 440 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 1: After then, Arizona Coyotes defenseman Travis Dermott defied the band 441 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: by covering his stick and rainbow tape during a game, 442 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 1: the NHL reversed its tape ban. Oh thank god for that, 443 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 1: but special jerseys still can't be worn in commemoration of 444 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: specialty nights, including Pride Night. Wow. I mean, so, the 445 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,239 Speaker 1: whole argument back in the day was for gays was 446 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: you know, we just we just want to be tolerated. 447 00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 1: We just want, you know, to be able to live 448 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:04,080 Speaker 1: our lives, blah blah blah. But that's not that that 449 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:08,960 Speaker 1: is not what the real agenda was. I hate using 450 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 1: that word agenda, But the real agenda was to dominate 451 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:18,320 Speaker 1: the culture and to cancel anyone who speaks out against it. 452 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: To you know, if you're on the team and you 453 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: don't want to participate, if you're on a sports team 454 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 1: and you don't want to participate in this, then you 455 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:37,960 Speaker 1: are fired. Canceled, ridiculed, mocked, slandered. It says there have 456 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:42,960 Speaker 1: never been any openly gay players in the NHL. Why 457 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,600 Speaker 1: does there have to be? I don't understand that. Why 458 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 1: does there have to be? 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That's sport drink dot com. And 476 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 1: when you go to the checkout, put in the code 477 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,759 Speaker 1: Beckett and you'll get ten percent off. That's sport Dash 478 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 1: Drink dot Com. You're gonna love it, and your body's 479 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,120 Speaker 1: gonna love it too. When I was coming of age, 480 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:19,120 Speaker 1: I think that the eighties and the in the early 481 00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:23,400 Speaker 1: nineties was kind of like the perfect balance of what, how, 482 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: how homosexuality should be kind of accepted in the culture. 483 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 1: It was still tab Taboos are good. Taboos keep society together. 484 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:43,080 Speaker 1: Taboos keep civilization together. If you have no taboos, you 485 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:49,279 Speaker 1: you lose your civilization. That's what happened in Rome, and 486 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 1: that's what's happening to the to the West. Now there 487 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,439 Speaker 1: are no more were We almost have no taboos left 488 00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 1: except maybe bestiality. But taboos are very good. And it 489 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 1: says that there were no openly gay guys in the NHL, 490 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,560 Speaker 1: which is a good thing. And I mean, I think 491 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:15,160 Speaker 1: it comes down to this idea of donas don't tell 492 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:21,680 Speaker 1: that that I think is kind of the way I 493 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,440 Speaker 1: think that it should be handled in the culture. Basically 494 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:29,759 Speaker 1: like we're not gonna criminalize it, we're not gonna throw 495 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,960 Speaker 1: you in prison, we're not gonna throw you whatever. But this, 496 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,960 Speaker 1: but just donas don't tell like, let's just not make 497 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 1: a big fuss about this, and let's not paint every 498 00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:48,239 Speaker 1: street walk with a rainbow flag. So I just want 499 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,880 Speaker 1: to end with a couple of passages from the Bible 500 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:56,600 Speaker 1: and relate it to this issue. The most famous verse 501 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,480 Speaker 1: in the Bible, John three to sixteen, for God so 502 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,359 Speaker 1: loved the world that he gave his only on that 503 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,480 Speaker 1: whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 504 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,600 Speaker 1: But just three verses later, it says, and this is 505 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,839 Speaker 1: the judgment. The light has come into the world. And 506 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,120 Speaker 1: people loved the darkness rather than the light because their 507 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:20,080 Speaker 1: works were evil. The New York Times loves the darkness 508 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:24,360 Speaker 1: rather than the light because their works are evil. For 509 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,000 Speaker 1: everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does 510 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,680 Speaker 1: not come to the light lest his work should be exposed. 511 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:34,120 Speaker 1: But whoever does what is true comes to the light, 512 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,400 Speaker 1: so that it may be clearly seen that his works 513 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:41,719 Speaker 1: have been carried out in God. And I just want 514 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:46,360 Speaker 1: to look at Romans one. Yes, the dreaded Romans one 515 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:51,760 Speaker 1: and just kind of just look at the passage briefly. 516 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:56,359 Speaker 1: So it's Paul is talking and he says, and he's 517 00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:01,480 Speaker 1: talking about God's wrath on unrighteousness passage in the second 518 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,720 Speaker 1: part of Roman's Ion. He says, for although they knew God, 519 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,720 Speaker 1: they did not honor him as God or give thanks 520 00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 1: to him. But they became feutile in their thinking, and 521 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,799 Speaker 1: their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they 522 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 1: became fools in exchanged the glory of the immortal God 523 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:20,320 Speaker 1: for images resembling mortal man, birds, blah, blah blah. Therefore, 524 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,480 Speaker 1: God gave them up to the lust of their hearts, 525 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,000 Speaker 1: to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 526 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,640 Speaker 1: because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie, 527 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,240 Speaker 1: and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator 528 00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:36,719 Speaker 1: Who's blessed. Ever, for this reason, God gave them up 529 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,960 Speaker 1: to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for 530 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,960 Speaker 1: those that are contrary to nature. And the men likewise 531 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,080 Speaker 1: gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with 532 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:52,279 Speaker 1: passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men 533 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:56,600 Speaker 1: and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. Now, 534 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,120 Speaker 1: this is the point of this whole. The reason I'm 535 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:03,560 Speaker 1: bringing up this passage is this last part. Since they 536 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,840 Speaker 1: did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them 537 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,920 Speaker 1: up to a debase mine to do what ought not 538 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,920 Speaker 1: to be done. So God not only has God given 539 00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,759 Speaker 1: up homosexuals to a debate mind, but He's also given 540 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,600 Speaker 1: up the world. He's given up the New York Times 541 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,279 Speaker 1: to a debase mind. They were filled with all manner 542 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:30,920 Speaker 1: of unrighteousness, evil, coveteousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. 543 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,200 Speaker 1: Their gossips. By the way, the New York Times, I 544 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:41,120 Speaker 1: literally have counted in the New York Times. I would 545 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:45,439 Speaker 1: say ninety percent or maybe even ninety five percent of 546 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,520 Speaker 1: the articles every day in the New York Times is gossip. 547 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:55,960 Speaker 1: It's literally like some you know, some woman in North 548 00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:00,799 Speaker 1: Carolina lost her doll or what. It's just like, it's like, 549 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,880 Speaker 1: why do why do I need to know this information? 550 00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,319 Speaker 1: This is just God, You're just gossiping or you know 551 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,840 Speaker 1: so and so in Florida was arrested for blah blah blah. 552 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:16,640 Speaker 1: It's like that that's literally gossip. You're gossiping about someone 553 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:20,480 Speaker 1: that it doesn't affect anyone's lives, Why are you talking 554 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 1: about it? So the New York Times is it's just 555 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,799 Speaker 1: a gossip mill. It's basically like the National Inquirer. That's 556 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,520 Speaker 1: what it is, but you know, dressed up to pretend 557 00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:35,400 Speaker 1: it's like it's a it's elite. So they are gossip slanders, 558 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,759 Speaker 1: haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient 559 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,439 Speaker 1: to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. And this is the key. 560 00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:47,520 Speaker 1: Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice 561 00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,680 Speaker 1: such things deserve to die, they not only do them, 562 00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:56,720 Speaker 1: but give approval. They give approval to those who practice them. 563 00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,759 Speaker 1: So the New York Times is very much guilty, and 564 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:07,600 Speaker 1: most cultural institutions are guilty of giving approval to those 565 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:12,839 Speaker 1: who practice such things. Yeah, so I just wanted to 566 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,160 Speaker 1: touch on this new TV show. And I mean, I'm 567 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:20,160 Speaker 1: assuming no one who's watching this show is watching that show, 568 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:26,759 Speaker 1: and I just want to urge everyone who's watching not 569 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:31,399 Speaker 1: to please I know people who watch my show are 570 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,719 Speaker 1: probably not in this, not in danger of this, but 571 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,319 Speaker 1: to please not fall for the lie, the lies of 572 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,520 Speaker 1: the culture. I always say when I speak to young people, 573 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,880 Speaker 1: I say, the world is going to lie to you 574 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,560 Speaker 1: for the rest of your natural life. And you can 575 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,440 Speaker 1: either believe in the world, you believe what the world says, 576 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:56,400 Speaker 1: which leads to death and destruction, or believe the Word, 577 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:01,680 Speaker 1: which leads to life. So we're gonna leave it there. 578 00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:03,680 Speaker 1: Thank you for watching, and we'll see you next time. 579 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,160 Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to this episode of The Beckett 580 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:14,480 Speaker 2: Cook Show. Your support makes this content possible. 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