Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. This is our quick
Speaker 1: weekend update, and I would be remiss if I did
Speaker 1: not talk about Harrison Butker, who is a kicker for
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, and anyone who knows me knows
Speaker 1: I don't really watch a lot of Kansas City Chiefs football,
Speaker 1: so this was a whole new world for me. I
Speaker 1: think it's fantastic because people are just freaking out about
Speaker 1: the speech that he gave. It gave a commencement speech
Speaker 1: at a college in Kansas called Benedictine College, and well,
Speaker 1: change dot org got a hold of it. I didn't
Speaker 1: actually really pay much attention to them before this either,
Speaker 1: so everybody's kind of peaking each other's attention, right, So
Speaker 1: Change puts out this petition. First off, I'll let you
Speaker 1: I will read this to you so you know what
Speaker 1: it says. Because they are just wild about this, and
Speaker 1: you've probably heard of it. They say, Okay, a change
Speaker 1: dot org petition is calling on the Chiefs to dismiss
Speaker 1: kicker Harrison Butker for making several dehumanizing remarks during his
Speaker 1: commencement speech at Benedictine College on May eleventh. Here's what
Speaker 1: the Three Times Super Bowl champion said about women, pride month, COVID,
Speaker 1: abortion and more. Okay, folks, he was at a Catholic
Speaker 1: college doing the commencement speech as a person of faith,
Speaker 1: and there's outrage. So I wanted to play you a
Speaker 1: little bit of the video that they connected to this tweet.
Speaker 2: Here it is I think it is you, the women
Speaker 2: who have had the most diabolical lives told to you.
Speaker 2: How many of you are sitting here now about to
Speaker 2: cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions
Speaker 2: and titles you are going to get in your career.
Speaker 2: Some of you may go on to lead successful careers
Speaker 2: in the world, but I would venture to guess that
Speaker 2: the majority of you are most excited about your marriage
Speaker 2: and the children you will bring into this world. I
Speaker 2: can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabelle would be
Speaker 2: the first to say that her life truly started when
Speaker 2: she began living her vocation as a wife and as
Speaker 2: a mother. By making it to this moment, through all
Speaker 2: the adversity thrown your way from COVID, I hope you
Speaker 2: learned the important lessons that suffering in this life is
Speaker 2: only temporary. As a group, you witnessed firsthand how bad
Speaker 2: leaders who don't stay in their lane can have a
Speaker 2: negative impact on society. While COVID might have played a
Speaker 2: large role throughout your formative years, it is not unique.
Speaker 2: Bad policies and poor leadership have negatively impacted major life issues.
Speaker 2: Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a
Speaker 2: growing support for degenerate cultural values in media, all stem
Speaker 2: from the pervasiveness of disorder. Our own nation is led
Speaker 2: by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith,
Speaker 2: but at the same time is delusional enough to make
Speaker 2: the sign of the Cross during a pro abortion rally.
Speaker 2: He has been so vocal in his support for the
Speaker 2: murder of innocent babies that I'm sure to many people
Speaker 2: it appears that you can be both Catholic and pro choice.
Speaker 1: I find it interesting that after watching that, the world erupts.
Speaker 1: And I find it interesting because he's not a politician,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't tell you how to vote. He is
Speaker 1: telling you this is what biblical values are. I am
Speaker 1: someone who follows God. He clearly lives his life vertically.
Speaker 1: He looks up to the Lord, and he doesn't look
Speaker 1: too around him, to the masses who are going to criticize,
Speaker 1: because let's face it, this guy, he's got a pretty
Speaker 1: impressive career and now these people are calling to get
Speaker 1: him fired, and that kind of puts the kaibash on
Speaker 1: his whole, like, my wife can stay home and take
Speaker 1: care of my kids and we can have this happy
Speaker 1: family because then all of a sudden, you're looking for
Speaker 1: what your career is, so you know, the average person
Speaker 1: wouldn't take that risk. He is not living for society.
Speaker 1: He is living for the Lord. But people took this
Speaker 1: as oh my goodness, he came out and he trashed abortion,
Speaker 1: and he said that his wife found her place as
Speaker 1: being his wife, that that was what she looked forward
Speaker 1: to in life, and they just went crazy. He's just
Speaker 1: speaking truth, though, and if you're listening to what he's saying,
Speaker 1: or you listen to the left, who says, well, you
Speaker 1: can speak your truth, and why are they so mad?
Speaker 1: But I find it funny that everybody has come out
Speaker 1: and talked about this as this controversial speech, because I
Speaker 1: ask you, what's controversial about a man of faith going
Speaker 1: to a Catholic college and speaking about biblical values. It
Speaker 1: would be a controversial speech if it had been a
Speaker 1: drag queen at a college campus giving the commencement speech
Speaker 1: and talking about giving up all of your biblical values.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't. But society today can't take this, and
Speaker 1: to me, I sort of love it because I look
Speaker 1: at this and I say, this is what I've been saying.
Speaker 1: Stops saying that politicians are the only ones that should
Speaker 1: stand for things that go back to having value in
Speaker 1: your life. Instead other people in culture, we the people,
Speaker 1: or even dare I say, the people of God the
Speaker 1: church can come around and speak real truths. And for
Speaker 1: all the people who are complaining about the way he
Speaker 1: spoke about his wife, which was incredibly loving and he
Speaker 1: got great praise for it. I want to play another
Speaker 1: clip here in a second, but I want to play
Speaker 1: this clip because he was not speaking down about his wife.
Speaker 1: And to make it clear, he never said women shouldn't
Speaker 1: have jobs. He said, you may be thinking about all
Speaker 1: the positions you'll hold in the promotions, and many of
Speaker 1: you will go on to do great things in work.
Speaker 1: But he didn't say you can't have the other. He
Speaker 1: made it very clear that there is something that women
Speaker 1: look forward to, and if you're not looking forward to this,
Speaker 1: the majority of you are lying, because when I was
Speaker 1: a child, I remember quite clearly thinking about what it
Speaker 1: would be like to be a mother. I had dolls,
Speaker 1: I played with them, I put them in their cribs.
Speaker 1: I loved when we would visit my mom's mom and
Speaker 1: dad's friends who had babies and I could hold them.
Speaker 1: When I was a very little girl, I thought about
Speaker 1: what it would be like to be a mom and
Speaker 1: with that a wife. So this idea that it was
Speaker 1: so controversial that he said to these women, you're probably
Speaker 1: most excited about being a wife and a mother. Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't you have been. It's something that you innately feel.
Speaker 1: Most of you, I'm not saying all of you, but heck,
Speaker 1: probably every little girl, when she's at home by herself
Speaker 1: as a child, is thinking about what she can do
Speaker 1: to be like mommy one day. Yet that was not acceptable,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't a cutdown of women. Listen to what
Speaker 1: else he said that.
Speaker 2: All of my success is made possible as a girl
Speaker 2: I met in being class back in middle school, would
Speaker 2: convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one
Speaker 2: of the most important titles of all. Holemaker. She's a
Speaker 2: primary educator to our children. She's the one who ensures
Speaker 2: I never let football or my business become a distraction
Speaker 2: from that of a husband and father. She is a
Speaker 2: person that knows me best at my core. And it
Speaker 2: is through our marriage that Lord willing, we will both
Speaker 2: attain salvation.
Speaker 1: The most important thing in his life is the next
Speaker 1: life is salvation, and he believes it. Together they form
Speaker 1: three strands, he and his wife and God together and
Speaker 1: they will achieve salvation together as a couple who is
Speaker 1: led by faith. I left all the clapping in there.
Speaker 1: You heard it. It went on for a long time.
Speaker 1: I left that in there because all of the outraged
Speaker 1: people should understand that the audience for this speech understood it.
Speaker 1: They got it. They said, that is true, that is
Speaker 1: what I want out of life, and it's okay. I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about this because it is okay to
Speaker 1: feel that way. It is okay to come out and
Speaker 1: say I want to get married, I want to have children,
Speaker 1: and I want a husband who lifts me up and
Speaker 1: says I love the fact that she is embraced to
Speaker 1: being a homemaker. And for all you women out there
Speaker 1: who think I'm not going to be a homemaker, well,
Speaker 1: what is your house going to be? Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're all homemakers. And if you have kids and you worked,
Speaker 1: you are a homemaker. And if you don't have kids
Speaker 1: and you work, you are a homemaker. And if you're married,
Speaker 1: you are a homemaker because you have a home and
Speaker 1: you keep your home in some sort of order. I
Speaker 1: would assume. So the fact that you have decided that
Speaker 1: being a homemaker, which is one role of many, is
Speaker 1: so offensive to you. What did we do in society
Speaker 1: to get to this point, I ask myself, because it
Speaker 1: is something that you can embrace and it is not
Speaker 1: something that you will ever avoid because making your home
Speaker 1: is still your home, is always there, no matter what
Speaker 1: else you're doing. It is one role of many. But
Speaker 1: there was like all these people they believe they're victims.
Speaker 1: I wanted to play you someone's TikTok. I can't play
Speaker 1: all of it for you. She was at the speech.
Speaker 1: I can't play all of it for you because it's
Speaker 1: filled with the F word. But I don't think this
Speaker 1: part has any fwords in it. So listen to what
Speaker 1: she says. She's a terrible victim of this commencement speech.
Speaker 3: Getting married and having kids is not my ideal situation
Speaker 3: right now. Yeah, it was definitely horrible, and it definitely
Speaker 3: made graduation feel a little less special knowing I had
Speaker 3: to sit through that and get told I'm nothing but
Speaker 3: a homemaker. So but thank you all for congratulating me.
Speaker 3: It means a lot. I cried a little bit reading
Speaker 3: all y'all's comments.
Speaker 1: But yeah, oh my gosh, she had to sit through
Speaker 1: her commencement speech and hear that there is a role
Speaker 1: out there for her. She can have a job, and
Speaker 1: she can love her home and love her family. There
Speaker 1: are so many students this year that don't get a commencement.
Speaker 1: They're not getting a speech. She had to sit. There's
Speaker 1: a hum. I think she just wanted somebody to feel
Speaker 1: bad for her. On TikTok. She's looking for the views.
Speaker 1: There's another woman on TikTok and she just goes crazy
Speaker 1: about this that she just can't believe this. She feels
Speaker 1: like she's not even in this time. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to play that video because I don't want to take
Speaker 1: up more of your time with these crazy people. But
Speaker 1: I do want to play one other part because he
Speaker 1: also talked about men. He addressed the men in the audience,
Speaker 1: So what you'll hear is that he addressed women, and
Speaker 1: then he talked about masculinity, and how offensive this is
Speaker 1: because he addressed women and said, you can be something
Speaker 1: great and leave a legacy with your children and see
Speaker 1: salvation one day. But he said this about men.
Speaker 2: The gentleman here today. Part of what plagues our society
Speaker 2: is this lie that has been told to you that
Speaker 2: men are not necessary in the home or in our communities.
Speaker 2: As men, we set the tone of the culture, and
Speaker 2: when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction, and chaos set in.
Speaker 2: This absence of men in the home is what plays
Speaker 2: a large role in the violence we see all around
Speaker 2: the nation. Other countries do not have nearly the same
Speaker 2: absentee father rates as we find here in the US,
Speaker 2: and a correlation could be made in their drastically lower
Speaker 2: violence rates as well. Be unapologetic in your masculinity fighting
Speaker 2: against it's the cultural emasculation of men. Do hard things,
Speaker 2: never settle for what is easy. You might have a
Speaker 2: talent that you don't necessarily enjoy, but if it glorifies God,
Speaker 2: maybe you should lean into that over something that you
Speaker 2: might think suits you better.
Speaker 1: It's reminiscent of something when you hear that people want
Speaker 1: to come and take him off that stage and re
Speaker 1: educate him. They want to get rid of him. They
Speaker 1: want to make sure that he doesn't exist anymore. They
Speaker 1: don't want him to be anywhere near football because he
Speaker 1: has wrong think. I mean, this is nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 1: it's already we've this book has been written, We've read this.
Speaker 1: We know exactly what's happening. These kids, they don't know
Speaker 1: that that's what is happening. They don't know that big government,
Speaker 1: schools and big Brother has come in and said, you
Speaker 1: have to accept total chaos, that the norm that family values,
Speaker 1: that the nuclear family, it's not good. And any man
Speaker 1: who listened to that and God uncomfortable. They got on
Speaker 1: comfortable because they've been lulled into this sense of I
Speaker 1: have to put myself into this room of sadness, and
Speaker 1: I shouldn't try to have a relationship with women. And
Speaker 1: now society has become this place where we have soft
Speaker 1: men and angry women. And that is the response that
Speaker 1: is so clear from this. I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: conservatives come out and defend him as well. I've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of people who are saying, wait, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: these are biblical teachings. This is Christianity, and I am
Speaker 1: defending him as well because what he said was not nasty,
Speaker 1: it was not controversial. It did not go after anyone
Speaker 1: who did not deserve it. From the government standpoint. Joe Biden, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he stood at an abortion rally and did this use
Speaker 1: he had the sign of the Cross. I mean, what
Speaker 1: in the world. I think he made a very good point.
Speaker 1: You cannot be certain things. Society wants to tell people
Speaker 1: a girl can be a boy, a Catholic can be
Speaker 1: pro choice. Society wants to tell you that men don't
Speaker 1: need to be masculine, that women should wear the pants
Speaker 1: in the family, and that people don't need each other.
Speaker 1: But it's not true. Monogamy is a beautiful thing. Having
Speaker 1: someone to live the rest of your life with is
Speaker 1: a wonderful thing. And the reality is that if you
Speaker 1: are so science based, there are plenty of studies out
Speaker 1: there that will tell you that women and men belong together,
Speaker 1: that people look for a relationship, they need companionship. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at what happened during COVID. We found that there
Speaker 1: were people who were in nursing homes who died of
Speaker 1: a broken heart. Companionship is not something to be ashamed of.
Speaker 1: It's not something to shy away from. Motherhood is not
Speaker 1: something to be mocked. And the reality of this is
Speaker 1: that this man spoke from the heart, spook of biblical values,
Speaker 1: and he was mercifully mocked by the left, who is
Speaker 1: desperate for you to say I don't need any of that,
Speaker 1: when in reality science would show that you absolutely do,
Speaker 1: and it can be the most beautiful part of life.
Speaker 1: And I will say that when I did get married,
Speaker 1: it was the best day because I knew that I
Speaker 1: was joining with someone who was going to live life
Speaker 1: with me, who was going to go off on that journey.
Speaker 1: All the things that I had learned in my childhood
Speaker 1: home from my parents. Now I had to take that
Speaker 1: and be out on my own and function as a
Speaker 1: human and I had somebody to do that with me.
Speaker 1: And then I got to build a family. And that
Speaker 1: first day in the hospital with my oldest daughter was incredible.
Speaker 1: The fact that we want to belittle that and say
Speaker 1: that it has no value, Wow, that is just It's
Speaker 1: not acceptable. So in conclusion, live your faith, live your values,
Speaker 1: do not be shy about them. I'm so glad that
Speaker 1: people like Harrison Butker are out there saying things like this,
Speaker 1: because I'm hoping it gives the rest of the church
Speaker 1: the freedom to go out and speak like this as
Speaker 1: well and say, you know what, I'm not okay with this.
Speaker 1: I'm not okay with that, and I do think that
Speaker 1: this is the right way to live. So be empowered,
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Speaker 1: blessed weekend.