1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,199 Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I'm Danielle Gill. Welcome back to the Danielle 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: Gill Show. Today we are going to be talking about 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:10,320 Speaker 1: two roads. You can take the road of happiness, the 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: road that is one of a fulfilling marriage, or the 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: road of the sadness and loneliness as is actually being 6 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 1: reported as a data statistic we're going to talk about today. 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: We're also going to talk about Iran and what has 8 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: been happening over there. Stay with us. This is the 9 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: Danielle Gill Show. Two Roads Diverged in a yellow Wood 10 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: begins the famous Robert Frost poem The Road Not Taken. 11 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 1: The stanza continues and sorry, I could not travel both 12 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: and be one traveler. Long I stood and looked down 13 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 1: one as far as I could, to where it bent 14 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: in the undergrowth. The general idea behind the poem is 15 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: that choices are an unavoidable part of life. Like the 16 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: two roads in Frost yellow Wood, choices frequently present a 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: binary where paths mutually exclude each other. You can't go 18 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: down one path at the same time as you go 19 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: down the other path. Though the speaker chooses the path 20 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: less traveled by a careful reading of the poem, reveals 21 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: the speaker isn't certain whether or not he made the 22 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 1: right choice. Choice is a universal human experience. All of 23 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: us are constantly making choices. Some are mundane, while others 24 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: are extremely important, with permanent and lasting effects that will 25 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: forever alter our fate in this life. Sometimes we don't 26 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: realize how important our choices are that we're making. Many 27 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: people don't like to think about the reality of choices 28 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: or their effects. They hope to hold off on making 29 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: them as long as possible. But if you're honest, you 30 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 1: understand that this too is a choice. Big choices in 31 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: early adulthood include whether or not to go to college, 32 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: whether to go to trade school, whether to not go 33 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: to college, who you marry, who you date. Those are 34 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: very huge life fork in the road decisions. Depending on 35 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: what you decide to do. You have to choose a 36 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: major to study in, a trade to master. But there's 37 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: probably no bigger choice than what you are going to 38 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: do with your life as far as what you're going 39 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: to believe, what religion you're going to be. That is 40 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: the biggest choice of all you can make. And then 41 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: after that is whether you choose to get married. We 42 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 1: all know that marriage is a huge commitment, and commitments 43 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: require sacrifice, and sacrifices mean less time taking, endless selfies 44 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 1: or spawn camping nubes for fortnite friends, less time at work, 45 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: less free time to go back to school, and of course, 46 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: with marriage comes having children, which is in itself a 47 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 1: sacrifice and certainly orders the home. But research shows that 48 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: marriage is ultimately a key to happiness that lasts throughout 49 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: your life. According to an article but the Institute of 50 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 1: Family studies, marriage plays mental health and dividends throughout your 51 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: life regardless of the married person generation. Surprisingly, the beneficial 52 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 1: effects of marriage are more pronounced for younger, millennial and 53 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: Gen Z couples. The article states, quote More importantly, marriage's 54 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,839 Speaker 1: mental health benefits appear to matter most for the youngest Americans. 55 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: The mental health gap between the married and unmarried is 56 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: five point two percent for the Silent generation, eleven point 57 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: four percent for boomers, fifteen percent for Gen xers, sixteen 58 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: point four percent for millennials, and fifteen point seven percent 59 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: for Gen Z years. Not only that, but marriage improves 60 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: mental health regardless of the political ideology, race, or education 61 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: level of those surveyed. The article refers to this mental 62 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: health dividend as quote the marriage advantage, saying the marriage 63 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: marriage advantage for mental health is invariant with respect to 64 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: j gender, age, education, income, church attendance, race, political ideology 65 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: of parental status. The size of this advantage within groups 66 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: is typically large, and with a few small exceptions, remains 67 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: statistically SIKS magnificant. Even in a multivariate analysis incorporating a 68 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: full range of controls. As is always the case of correlation, 69 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: it's not clear if there is a causal effect here, 70 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: or what that causal effect might be. Does marriage improve 71 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: mental well being or do the mentally well prefer to 72 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: get married, or do both causal relationships exist to some degree. Furthermore, 73 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: considering this document a Relationship between Marriage and Happiness alongside 74 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: a recent study by Pew raises a few eyebrows. The 75 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,679 Speaker 1: study compared the attitudes of twelfth graders in nineteen ninety 76 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: three and twenty twenty three and reveals that the number 77 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 1: of students who plan on getting married has fallen from 78 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: eighty percent to sixty seven percent, while the number of 79 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:45,799 Speaker 1: students who say they do not plan to get married 80 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 1: has risen from five to nine percent. The percentage of 81 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,239 Speaker 1: young people who aren't even thinking about marriage has almost 82 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: doubled in thirty years. We need to ask ourselves why 83 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: is this? What is driving this change? Well, there's more 84 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 1: data then meets the eye. That's because among male students, 85 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: the number of boys who plan on getting married remains 86 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,799 Speaker 1: virtually unchanged, dropping from seventy six to seventy four percent 87 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: over the last thirty years. Practically a statistical anomaly, This 88 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: real drop in marriage and desiring marriage is driven almost 89 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 1: entirely by female students. Twenty twenty three represents an inversion 90 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: of the previous numbers. We look at nineteen ninety three, 91 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 1: we see eighty three percent of female twelfth graders or 92 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: planning on getting married, So that's a lot. In twenty 93 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: twenty three, that number dropped a sixty one percent. In 94 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: other words, the number of girls in their senior year 95 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 1: of high school who plan to get married fell to 96 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: almost half. So what happened here? Marriage used to be 97 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: considered a common life goal among women, especially young women. 98 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: You know a lot of girls talk about dating and 99 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: talk about who they might want to meet someday, especially 100 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: as a senior in high school. And you know, maybe 101 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: someone that age has already met their met their life 102 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 1: long partner that they're going to get married too. So 103 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: now girls desire to get married is on par with 104 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: their desire to avoid marriage. This is a huge shift 105 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 1: in our culture. The choice to get married is now 106 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: even less common among young women than is among young men, 107 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 1: according to the study. So what does this mean for 108 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 1: the road not traveled? Of course, in the past, the 109 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: most common was to get married, and the road not 110 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: traveled would have been not getting married. But now we 111 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: are seeing a difference in that. Today the road is different. Now, 112 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: if you're a young woman who wants to get married 113 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: wants to have children, does that you are the unusual one? 114 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: Now you are the one who is taking the road 115 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: less traveled by You are the countercultural one. This has 116 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: huge impacts on our society. Men have it hard enough 117 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 1: these days with being constantly blamed for perpetuating the much 118 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: maligned patriarchy, and on top of that, it's widely reported 119 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: that the younger generation has struggled more with mental health 120 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: than their older counterparts. They've only ever known growing up 121 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: with technology. If the correlation between mental health and marriage 122 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 1: is indeed causal or synergistic in our society's about to 123 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: see a massive increase in lonely, mentally unwell and disgruntled women, 124 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 1: And no, I did not just mean to describe the 125 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: Democrat Party. Well, at least one person is placing the 126 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: blame for the shift among young women towards marriage on Hollywood. 127 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: An article on Fox News, JP Degance, who founded and 128 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: runs the Marriage Ministry Communio, pointed out that movies, particularly 129 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 1: Disney movies, have done away with the traditional storybook ending 130 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: with the prince wins and the princess he wins her 131 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: and the two get married as the standard happily ever after. 132 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: This was, of course, the classic Disney closing scene. He 133 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: points out that a happily ever after ending used to 134 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: be standard through the nineties, but the idea has all 135 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: but disappeared from movies in subsequent decades. Now the endings 136 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: are things like you've found yourself, or you learned a 137 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: different lesson or whatever. It is the most common storyteller 138 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: for young people historically has been Disney, he said. Happy 139 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: endings where the lead character gets the girl or the 140 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: guy where wants a staple of Disney's classics. The article continues, 141 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: since then, the traditional happily ever after ending has been 142 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: replaced by stories focused on independence and self discovery. One 143 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: recent example of this was twenty twenty five's live action 144 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: snow White remake, which does away with the Prince character 145 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 1: and downplays the love story angle from the original animated film. 146 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: The infamous snow White remake. Among its many bemoaned flaws 147 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: is the change in storyline that recasts snow White as 148 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: a fully independent and highly opinionated girl boss. Gone from 149 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,719 Speaker 1: that movie is the nightly male hero who rescues her 150 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 1: from eternal sleep with a gentle kiss. He's been replaced 151 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: by a male lead who is more of an afterthought 152 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 1: than even the worst movie sidekick. The movie was panned 153 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: to recognize as one of the biggest flops of the year, 154 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:06,959 Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty five, the year that broke Hollywood, 155 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: that is quite the accomplishment. The fact of the matter 156 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: is the disappearance of romantic happily ever after endings from 157 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: the American silver screen isn't limited to Disney, and it 158 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:21,559 Speaker 1: isn't limited to recent times. We're called the anti romance 159 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 1: movie La La Land, which is now almost ten years old. 160 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: That movie features a romantic couple whose spoiler alert, don't 161 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,439 Speaker 1: end up together in the end. About ten years ago 162 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:35,359 Speaker 1: is when numerous outlets and industry trades noticed the disappearance 163 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 1: of the happy ending, each with its own theory as 164 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 1: to where it went. In twenty seventeen, The Cut opined 165 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: that it had something to do with the advent of 166 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 1: dating apps and young people being presented with a constant, 167 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: yet overwhelming stream of choices, only to find themselves perpetually disappointed. 168 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 1: But anyone who's gone on even one hinge date knows 169 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: the chasm between the promise of dating apps and the 170 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: reality can be staggering, and the search itself can be 171 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 1: deeply disguided. So when you combine these cultural shifts, the 172 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: freedom to marry are exceedingly high expectations for who we 173 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: choose the angst with online dating, this can generate a 174 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:16,719 Speaker 1: not only discombobulating end result, but really lead you to 175 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: wonder is there even a happy ending after all. In 176 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, The New York Times, on the other hand, 177 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: noted that it isn't just the happily ever afters that 178 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:28,439 Speaker 1: have disappeared, but the very idea of endings in themselves. 179 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: You see, the ending stops the story, and a lot 180 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 1: of modern people today they don't like the idea of 181 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: something ending. They like to keep things lingering because that 182 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 1: allows them to keep continuing in the haze and the 183 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,199 Speaker 1: fog with which they're in and makes it seem like 184 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: they're not making choices, to make them feel like they're 185 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 1: not creating a definite ending, when actually they are. Time 186 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: moves forward. Time doesn't stop just because we want it to. 187 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: You see, an ending stops the story, and that's a 188 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:02,679 Speaker 1: good waste of IP, which can be farmed for content indefinitely. 189 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: It's reflective of the infosphere of the Internet, or content not. 190 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: The story is king and everything is on an endless stream. 191 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: Everything is on an endless loop. The Times explains the 192 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: novel's bounded story was a technological innovation as much as 193 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: a formal one. A novel must end because the physical 194 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: object of the book will eventually run out of pages. 195 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,439 Speaker 1: But news wires and radio reports just keep coming and 196 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: has one author put it by now, almost nothing that 197 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: happens benefits storytelling. Almost everything benefits information. Isn't this so 198 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 1: true today? It's like people create content. They don't write books. 199 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: They don't come up with something with a clear beginning, middle, 200 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 1: and ends, a thing that has cohesion. It's just stream 201 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: of consciousness. Yet still another British outlet, The tab bemoaned 202 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 1: the traditional Disney ending in twenty sixteen. The writer of 203 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: that piece loved the idea of Disney princesses, just not 204 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:03,199 Speaker 1: Disney princes. She saw the idea of finding one's sweetheart 205 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: and marrying them quote unrealistic. The only myth about princess 206 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 1: culture I believe to be truly detrimental is the myth 207 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: of happily ever after, she writes, films always end on 208 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: a her more harmonious note, with victorious music, a royal wedding, 209 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: a villain defeated, and the mending of affected relationships. The 210 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: truth is, life is so imperfect, and while I wish dating, 211 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: courtship or romance could be like the movies, love is flawed. 212 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: There isn't one marriage or relationship that hasn't had its 213 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: fair share of arguments, fights or frustrations. Humans mess up, 214 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: and the perfect endings of these characters do not reflect 215 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: the inevitable failures and disappointments life will bring young women. 216 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: I think it's only fair young girls be presented with 217 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 1: a realistic portrayal of life. She says, Wow, can anything 218 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:52,719 Speaker 1: be more misleading? I think what she is reading incorrectly. 219 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 1: Is that these people and these Disney movies are perfect. 220 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: First of all, we see that, Let's say we look 221 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: at the Lion King. We see symbols perfect. We see 222 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,319 Speaker 1: that he didn't know what to do when his father 223 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 1: was killed. We see that he, you know, he kind 224 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 1: of lazed around. He had his days of being a 225 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: bachelor and so on, and then he realized he needed 226 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: to kind of become a man and move forward. You know, 227 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: I think we see a lot of these growing up stories. 228 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: It's not just oh, everything it over and perfect. This 229 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 1: isn't how life really is. I think what's sad about 230 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: some of these young people and a lot of these 231 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: disgruntled women is they don't think that there's real romance. 232 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: They don't think there's real happily ever after. They don't 233 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,959 Speaker 1: think that there are any real love stories, when in 234 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: fact we know that there are. And of course, you know, 235 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 1: a lot of these Disney movies are of course like 236 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 1: cartoons there for kids, and so it's not meant to 237 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: be literal. But absolutely there is true love, and there 238 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: is real good and evil. There are real villains, there 239 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: is real spiritual warfare in this world, and of course 240 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: when we see this play out in a children's movie, 241 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 1: it's it's a little bit different. But the behind it, 242 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 1: the theme of love, the theme of friendship, the theme 243 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 1: of good and evil. Those are real, are just as 244 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:10,559 Speaker 1: real as the table in front of me. So maybe 245 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: perhaps actually even more real, I would argue. But I 246 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 1: think it's easy to see that since this article was published, 247 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: that attitude has become the prevailing mindset amongst especially a 248 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: lot of feminist women. But I don't think it was 249 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: entirely driven by the hopeless mindset of your average modern, 250 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: modern liberal. The fuller picture is one where the technology 251 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: of dating apps, desire to create endless streamable content, and 252 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: a generally disparaging view towards marriage and men come together 253 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: in a tripartite union, one part ideology, one part greed, 254 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: one part that irksome aspect of human nature that spawned 255 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: the phrase misery loves company. What's strange is how long 256 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: this has been going on in Hollywood. The industry has 257 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: been so deeply invested in this strategy that, now, according 258 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: to the outlet No Film School, the majority of US 259 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: film executives predict a complete end to movie going in 260 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: about twenty years. This revelation was the result of a 261 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: poll of two hundred and forty six industry professionals and 262 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: concluded quote over half of the US exhibition executives surveyed, specifically, 263 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: fifty five percent believe that the current cinema model has 264 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: less than two decades left as a sustainable business. Isn't 265 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: Hollywood full of lefties who only think about sustainability? And 266 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: this is, after all, their industry. They're the ones who 267 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: run it. Why are they continuing on this path. It's 268 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: not good for Hollywood, it's not good for the country. 269 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: But JP Deyance is right. The stories we consume contribute 270 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: to how we see ourselves and the ideals we strive 271 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: to embody. If films are sending this message that marriage 272 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: is pointless, or perhaps it's actually a bad thing and 273 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: there are no happily ever afters, what effect is that 274 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 1: going to have on our society. Perhaps it isn't so 275 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 1: bad that the movie industry may be coming to an 276 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: end and people won't be going to the movies, But 277 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: what will they be doing instead? Streaming of content? His 278 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: Marriage Ministry Communio is dedicated to facilitating marriage. The organization 279 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: has documented that marriage reduces feelings of loneliness, a problem 280 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: that's become an epidemic, especially among young people. He knows 281 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: that the experience of marriage even helps those whose spouses 282 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 1: have died. In all, sixty eight percent of never married 283 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: men in their thirties are considered lonely, while sixty four 284 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: percent of the never married women in this age group 285 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: are considered lonely. But this's in perspective. There are ten 286 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: percent more never married men in their thirties who are 287 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: considered lonely than there are widows in their fifties who 288 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: are considered lonely, so actually the widow is less lonely. 289 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: Communio also believes that the generational decline in church attendance 290 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: is directly tied to the dissolution of the nuclear family. 291 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: Issues like fatherlessness and cohabitation living with someone are not 292 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: married to is correlated to greater feelings of loneliness, as 293 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: well as a tendency to forego religious practice. As we've 294 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: discussed before, they are a strong correlation between following traditional 295 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 1: Christian beliefs with both physical and mental health. It's looking 296 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,120 Speaker 1: more and more like our very human nature points us 297 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: towards God, who points us toward the good, the true, 298 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: and the beautiful. It's not a hard conclusion to reach. 299 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 1: We live in a world that rejects a family and faith, 300 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: and the result has been self imposed isolation that eventually 301 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: leads to mental breakdowns and badness. Could it be that 302 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 1: we like happily ever after endings because this speaks to 303 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:35,360 Speaker 1: our soul, and it speaks to us being oriented towards 304 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: something good and something greater than ourselves. We intrinsically recognize 305 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: that it's the best possible way for any story to end, 306 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 1: isn't it? Even those who reject it, Even those who say, oh, 307 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: it's not real, It is real, but it's almost like 308 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: part of them wishes it was true. Who put that 309 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: intrinsic desire within all human hearts? Maybe it's the same 310 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: God who ended his Bible with the Book of Revelation, 311 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,199 Speaker 1: the book depicting the triumphal marriage of Christ to his 312 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: bride the Church. The original happily ever after marriage is 313 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:11,679 Speaker 1: in just a union of one man and one woman. 314 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: It is the part of life where the couple enter 315 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: the storybook and the storybook becomes incarnated in real life 316 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 1: through this couple, and our attitude towards stories impacts how 317 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: we feel about the institution of marriage. Communio notes that 318 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: the secret to more marriages is to prioritize getting married 319 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: over other life goals that orient around the self. This 320 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 1: advice runs counter to the prevalent newer attitude towards marriage, 321 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 1: which is something that scholars call the capstone model. Communitia's 322 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: study explains the capstone model. In the capture model, marriage 323 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 1: is entered into only after getting ahead in life and 324 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:51,360 Speaker 1: after reaching some preset level of financial and personal achievement, 325 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: But individuals who pursue the capture and model often have 326 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: any longer list of requirements before selecting an ideal mate. 327 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: Sex before marriage is common in this model. While some 328 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: celebrate this shift, the explosive and societally dangerous levels of 329 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 1: loneliness among the never married show one major defect in 330 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: a countstone marriage. At the other end of the spectrum 331 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: is the cornerstone model. This is the more biblical reproach. 332 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: A cornerstone marriage isn't some sort of reward you treat 333 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: yourself with when you finally you reach an older age 334 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: and can finally you know, have finally climbed the corporate 335 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 1: ladder and have time, you know, since you put your 336 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: time into your spreadsheets and the cornerstone model they study 337 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: notes you start with marriage and you build your happiness 338 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 1: around it. Under the cornerstone model, marriage is seen as 339 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,920 Speaker 1: an essential relationship to construct a happy and successful life. 340 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: One accesses marriage and a cornerstone model before fully establishing himself. 341 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: For Christians, it is held up as the most common 342 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: path to grow in life together and to achieve those 343 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:59,400 Speaker 1: goals together. When this model is embraced, chastity as a 344 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: single Christian is much more common. And then waiting to 345 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:08,399 Speaker 1: have sex after marriage. Which of those two models is 346 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 1: more likely to resonate with present day Hollywood. Well, I 347 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 1: think we know the answer to that. However you answer 348 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: that question, it's definitely the cornerstone model that's more analogous 349 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:25,440 Speaker 1: to happily. Ever, after finding a spouse, isn't about the 350 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 1: princess constantly swiping right until she finds this person who 351 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: eventually they meet on a date and then date a 352 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 1: bunch of people. And nor is it about the prince 353 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: rejecting the princess because her kingdom doesn't have access to 354 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: beachfront property. There is something wild and haphazard about cornerstone marriage. 355 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 1: It intrinsically admits that This person you met by chance 356 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 1: on the trail that struck you at the start of 357 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 1: a yellow wood just also happens to be the best 358 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,040 Speaker 1: traveling companion you could find on this adventure called life. 359 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 1: And perhaps it's not about resumes and all of this, 360 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 1: it's about character. Sure of the dating apps want you 361 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: to think differently. After all, if you actually settled down, 362 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 1: you wouldn't need the dating app despite its advertisements. Your 363 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: perpetual solitude is actually their biggest guarantee for an endless 364 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 1: revenue stream. If you look at it this way, that 365 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: dating app is actually the villain of the story. That 366 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: dating app is actually preventing you from meeting the right person. Now, 367 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: I know that there are real people who have met 368 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: on a dating app and are married now, and I 369 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: realize it was peopore of the exception. But I'm just 370 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: talking about the constant loop, the pattern of being on 371 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: the dating app, of swiping and so on, and going 372 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: through different people. All of those elements help the dating 373 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 1: app and keep you on it. The desire for you 374 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:56,439 Speaker 1: to continue having to swipe and so on is it 375 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: helps the dating app to make more money. And so 376 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,120 Speaker 1: in this case, I think the dating app is actually 377 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: the villain in this story. Tho. There are real wicked queens, 378 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: There are real evil stepmothers, steaming sea hags. All of 379 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,359 Speaker 1: these things don't want you to end up with the 380 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: right person. They don't want you to have happily ever after. 381 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:19,120 Speaker 1: I don't want you to fall in love. And Hollywood 382 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: has been telling you that these people are your real friends. 383 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 1: These are the people you should talk to, these people 384 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 1: you should get advice from. You know, maybe it's a 385 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: chatbot on a planned parenthood website. It's all been a lie, 386 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 1: and it's all been evil to perpetuate destruction. The truth 387 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 1: is that your prince or princess may just be that 388 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: person sitting next to you in church. He or she 389 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: may not look like it, but life, just like stories, 390 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: sometimes requires a little bit of something they call suspension 391 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: of disbelief, a little bit of faith and hope. I 392 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 1: highly recommend that you embrace the cap stone or i'm sorry, 393 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: the stone model and not the capstone model, because this 394 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,120 Speaker 1: model is also just more fun and it does lead 395 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,360 Speaker 1: to more happiness. It does lead to more happily ever afters. 396 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: That's not only what the best stories teach us, it's 397 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: also what Robert Frost teaches us those two roads that 398 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: diverge in a yellow wood, they represent life's choices. You 399 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,439 Speaker 1: can only choose one or the other. One path, in 400 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: this case leads to more sadness, emptiness, loneliness, and the 401 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 1: other path leads to far greater happiness and fulfillment. It 402 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: leads to love, the possibility of children community. In other words, 403 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 1: that is your happily ever after, and it is yours 404 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 1: for the taking. But you still have to choose it, 405 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,399 Speaker 1: even though today it would be the road let's travel. 406 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: By shifting topics to the war in Iran, the United 407 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: States conducted air strikes and took out the entire upper 408 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 1: echelon of the Iranian regime within a few so, of 409 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 1: course everyone on the internet is now an expert in geopolitics, 410 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:09,119 Speaker 1: covenant theology, just war theory, the ideology of America First, 411 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: and the history of the Islamic regime in Iran. Distressingly, 412 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,160 Speaker 1: quite a few of these newly minted experts, expressing remorse 413 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: over the fall of the brutal, totalitarian Islamist theocracy, are Christian. 414 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: In the first minutes after strikes had commenced, they took 415 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,119 Speaker 1: to the Internet to register their hot takes with all 416 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: of the gustover redditor fresh off of his latest round 417 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: of hormone treatments, I cannot say I expect anything else 418 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 1: from the quizzling corner of the Internet. When news that 419 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 1: the iatola was in fact no more, if the Iranians 420 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,439 Speaker 1: themselves took to the Internet for the first time in 421 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: months to cheer. It was always going to end this way. 422 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 1: The Islamic Republic had the Internet of lockdown in light 423 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 1: of the recent protests, uprisings, and subsequent massacres by the government. 424 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 1: Everyone expected that the day of the tyrant's inevitable demise 425 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: would also be the day the digital fetters were removed 426 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 1: and the Internet would be switched back on, And of 427 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,639 Speaker 1: course it has turned out to be the day. The 428 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: people of the Iranian regime have been dancing in the 429 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,120 Speaker 1: streets with joy. In the words of Lionel Richie, they 430 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: were dancing, dancing all night long. The scenes from across 431 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: cities in Iran and around the world of Iranians rejoicing 432 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 1: reminded me of the end of Star Wars Episode four, 433 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,439 Speaker 1: when the audience was treated to an interplanetary montage as 434 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: the planets across the galaxy celebrated the death of the empire. 435 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 1: All across Iran and Shiraz, Tehran and Galley. People were 436 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: setting off fireworks, tearing down statues of the Ayatola. But 437 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,919 Speaker 1: real life isn't like you know, isn't always like this. 438 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: Sometimes there are a bunch of you know, influencers who 439 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,879 Speaker 1: want to milk the low information moment for more clout. 440 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: Many on x who should have been rejoicing at least 441 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 1: over the fact that a tyrant has been deposed. Instead 442 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:03,400 Speaker 1: of rejoicing, the people were hotily critiquing the operation, even 443 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,880 Speaker 1: though it's barely even been going on. But they don't 444 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: care about the results, the jubilation, and they don't care 445 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,360 Speaker 1: about the fact that Iran is one of America's greatest 446 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 1: enemies and is one of the greatest exporters of terrorism 447 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 1: around the world. Also to the US, this is the 448 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,439 Speaker 1: end of forty nine long years of religious and political terror. 449 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,719 Speaker 1: It is so odd to see accounts hiding behind avatars 450 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: of you know, random things, to see this all of 451 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 1: the Islamist dictatorship that was massacring its own people, sponsoring 452 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: global terror that affects America. What's shocking about this is 453 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: the fact that some people who actually live in the 454 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: Middle East are extremely grateful to the US, including Christians 455 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: who live in the Middle East. We see that this, 456 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 1: you know, this evil regime being toppled is really good 457 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: for them. It's a detail that comes out in stark 458 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: belief when you start talking to actual Middle Eastern Christristians. 459 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 1: They love America, they love Trump. The beautiful sight of 460 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: hundreds of joyous Iranians in LA's Persian Square dancing in 461 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 1: the streets, seeing the praises of the Trump administration as 462 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: they handed out roses to police officers. I want the 463 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 1: critics listen to these people. Why won't they listen to 464 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: Iranians in America or celebrating this to the Christians who 465 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:28,639 Speaker 1: live in the Middle East. Notice those Christians aren't black pilling. 466 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 1: They are just genuinely happy, and they tend to be 467 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 1: a lot less judgmental because this is what they were 468 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: used to, this horrible regime of terror. I see an 469 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 1: entire country joyful at the news that their dictator has 470 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,359 Speaker 1: been neutralized. I can be happy for them. But what 471 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: do these Middle East and Persian Christians know that so 472 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 1: many in the US don't know. Well, they probably know 473 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: a lot more about evil and have been living under 474 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: very different conditions than people have been living under here. 475 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: They probably have a much more fleshed out view of 476 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: how the regime is operated, how it was being sustained. 477 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: Christian author's speaker and cultural commentator Larry Taunton has talked 478 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,360 Speaker 1: about this. He's been traveling all over the Middle East 479 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,640 Speaker 1: to examine the threads of funding and material support for Hesbela, 480 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 1: Hamas and the Islamic Republic. What he's discovered is frightening. Apparently, 481 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:22,160 Speaker 1: Islamic terror is being heavily bangrled by US, the US taxpayers, 482 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 1: and I'm not even talking about Minnesota money either, although 483 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,679 Speaker 1: that's certainly part of the larger picture. And examining the 484 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: lines of funding tied to terror attacks like the one 485 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: in Israel on October seventh, Tautin has uncovered ties to 486 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: USAID and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Obviously, 487 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: both are funded either directly or indirectly by US. The 488 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: UNRA works with Palestine under the guise of delivering aid, 489 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,360 Speaker 1: and it's supposed to be politically neutral, but Tantin notes 490 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 1: the entire agency has been infiltrated by Hamas. USAID is 491 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: also supposed to be politically neutral, or at the very 492 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: least not anti American organization is highly secretive, operating inside 493 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 1: bunker compounds in places like Cairo under completely opaque conditions 494 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: that are difficult to vet. Trump stopped US support to 495 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 1: UNRUH in twenty eighteen, but Biden turned that money spigot 496 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 1: back on when he stole the White House. The Biden 497 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 1: administration did other things as well, like pressure Israel into 498 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: adopting an American style open border work visa policy with Palestinians. 499 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 1: That move proved fatal because it allowed millions of non 500 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: citizens to scope up the country in the planning for 501 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: the October seven attacks. It's bad enough that USAID has 502 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 1: actually been involved in a lot of this when they 503 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: secretly relocated these illegal immigrants to any town USA. The 504 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 1: Democrats want ballistic against Trump last year when he closed 505 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: down USAID for siphoning tax dollars into efforts meant to 506 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: destroy America, and now the Democrats are once again going 507 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: ballistic over the decapitation of the Iranian regime. Last week 508 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 1: we saw that they couldn't even show mild support for 509 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 1: the concept that elected officials should prioritize our own citizens 510 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 1: over hostile criminal foreigners, yet they are full of enthusiastic 511 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 1: support for a terrorist theocracy. The Democrats being anti American 512 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 1: isn't a pattern, it is a brand. It's an essential 513 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 1: part of their image, a selling point to their supporters, 514 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 1: who all have grievances towards the American flag, American history, 515 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: our ideals, everything we represent. Like those on the right 516 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 1: who are complaining about our ending the iranians forty seven 517 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 1: year nightmare, they seem clueless about what exactly it is 518 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: the left and the iatola is rooming for What does 519 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 1: America really get from allowing a terrorist regime that's been 520 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 1: developing nuclear weapons to continue to do that and to 521 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 1: be tyrants at home and violent, destabilizing agents of destruction? 522 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: What does America get by allowing criminal illegals to cross 523 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 1: into our country by the millions, including terrorists. Trump will 524 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: go down in history as the first president who saw 525 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: our country's ills as problems to be fixed rather than exploited. 526 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 1: We can say that's a part of his greatness, but 527 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: I can't help but think that his can do attitude 528 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 1: should be the norm rather than the exception. Well that 529 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 1: wraps up today's show. If you enjoyed the show, make 530 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 1: sure to follow me on social media. I'm at Danielle 531 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 1: Desusa gil on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, rumble x Truth Social. 532 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: I will see you next time. This is the Danielle 533 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 1: Gill Show.