WEBVTT - The Tudor Dixon Podcast: How was Harrison Butker Wrong? 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.400 Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. This is our quick 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.720 weekend update, and I would be remiss if I did 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:11.360 not talk about Harrison Butker, who is a kicker for 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:14.520 the Kansas City Chiefs, and anyone who knows me knows 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.120 I don't really watch a lot of Kansas City Chiefs football, 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:21.640 so this was a whole new world for me. I 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:25.959 think it's fantastic because people are just freaking out about 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:28.240 the speech that he gave. It gave a commencement speech 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:34.440 at a college in Kansas called Benedictine College, and well, 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.360 change dot org got a hold of it. I didn't 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.560 actually really pay much attention to them before this either, 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:44.040 so everybody's kind of peaking each other's attention, right, So 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:48.239 Change puts out this petition. First off, I'll let you 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:49.879 I will read this to you so you know what 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.159 it says. Because they are just wild about this, and 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.880 you've probably heard of it. They say, Okay, a change 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.680 dot org petition is calling on the Chiefs to dismiss 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:04.480 kicker Harrison Butker for making several dehumanizing remarks during his 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.720 commencement speech at Benedictine College on May eleventh. Here's what 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:13.000 the Three Times Super Bowl champion said about women, pride month, COVID, 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:18.280 abortion and more. Okay, folks, he was at a Catholic 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:23.200 college doing the commencement speech as a person of faith, 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.160 and there's outrage. So I wanted to play you a 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.800 little bit of the video that they connected to this tweet. 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.080 Here it is I think it is you, the women 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.560 who have had the most diabolical lives told to you. 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.160 How many of you are sitting here now about to 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.280 cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.200 and titles you are going to get in your career. 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.959 Some of you may go on to lead successful careers 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.120 in the world, but I would venture to guess that 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.280 the majority of you are most excited about your marriage 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.240 and the children you will bring into this world. I 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.720 can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabelle would be 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.640 the first to say that her life truly started when 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.520 she began living her vocation as a wife and as 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.840 a mother. By making it to this moment, through all 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.600 the adversity thrown your way from COVID, I hope you 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.960 learned the important lessons that suffering in this life is 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:13.880 only temporary. As a group, you witnessed firsthand how bad 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.360 leaders who don't stay in their lane can have a 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.600 negative impact on society. While COVID might have played a 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.960 large role throughout your formative years, it is not unique. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:28.119 Bad policies and poor leadership have negatively impacted major life issues. 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:33.440 Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.760 growing support for degenerate cultural values in media, all stem 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.880 from the pervasiveness of disorder. Our own nation is led 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.400 by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith, 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.600 but at the same time is delusional enough to make 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.480 the sign of the Cross during a pro abortion rally. 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.799 He has been so vocal in his support for the 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.400 murder of innocent babies that I'm sure to many people 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.080 it appears that you can be both Catholic and pro choice. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:04.000 I find it interesting that after watching that, the world erupts. 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.799 And I find it interesting because he's not a politician, 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.360 and he doesn't tell you how to vote. He is 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:14.040 telling you this is what biblical values are. I am 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:18.760 someone who follows God. He clearly lives his life vertically. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.320 He looks up to the Lord, and he doesn't look 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.519 too around him, to the masses who are going to criticize, 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.880 because let's face it, this guy, he's got a pretty 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:31.280 impressive career and now these people are calling to get 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.400 him fired, and that kind of puts the kaibash on 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.800 his whole, like, my wife can stay home and take 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:38.760 care of my kids and we can have this happy 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.400 family because then all of a sudden, you're looking for 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.400 what your career is, so you know, the average person 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.559 wouldn't take that risk. He is not living for society. 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.320 He is living for the Lord. But people took this 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:56.040 as oh my goodness, he came out and he trashed abortion, 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.160 and he said that his wife found her place as 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.320 being his wife, that that was what she looked forward 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:06.520 to in life, and they just went crazy. He's just 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:11.360 speaking truth, though, and if you're listening to what he's saying, 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.040 or you listen to the left, who says, well, you 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.520 can speak your truth, and why are they so mad? 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.240 But I find it funny that everybody has come out 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:24.599 and talked about this as this controversial speech, because I 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.800 ask you, what's controversial about a man of faith going 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:34.320 to a Catholic college and speaking about biblical values. It 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.400 would be a controversial speech if it had been a 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:41.640 drag queen at a college campus giving the commencement speech 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.799 and talking about giving up all of your biblical values. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.000 But it wasn't. But society today can't take this, and 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.040 to me, I sort of love it because I look 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.560 at this and I say, this is what I've been saying. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.679 Stops saying that politicians are the only ones that should 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.080 stand for things that go back to having value in 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:05.919 your life. Instead other people in culture, we the people, 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.719 or even dare I say, the people of God the 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:16.039 church can come around and speak real truths. And for 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.719 all the people who are complaining about the way he 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.880 spoke about his wife, which was incredibly loving and he 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.320 got great praise for it. I want to play another 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.520 clip here in a second, but I want to play 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.279 this clip because he was not speaking down about his wife. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.480 And to make it clear, he never said women shouldn't 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.800 have jobs. He said, you may be thinking about all 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.880 the positions you'll hold in the promotions, and many of 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.119 you will go on to do great things in work. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.960 But he didn't say you can't have the other. He 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.640 made it very clear that there is something that women 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.039 look forward to, and if you're not looking forward to this, 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:59.240 the majority of you are lying, because when I was 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.600 a child, I remember quite clearly thinking about what it 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.520 would be like to be a mother. I had dolls, 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.080 I played with them, I put them in their cribs. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.800 I loved when we would visit my mom's mom and 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.920 dad's friends who had babies and I could hold them. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.920 When I was a very little girl, I thought about 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.320 what it would be like to be a mom and 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.200 with that a wife. So this idea that it was 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.960 so controversial that he said to these women, you're probably 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:32.520 most excited about being a wife and a mother. Why 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:36.520 wouldn't you have been. It's something that you innately feel. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.480 Most of you, I'm not saying all of you, but heck, 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:44.320 probably every little girl, when she's at home by herself 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.280 as a child, is thinking about what she can do 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:52.200 to be like mommy one day. Yet that was not acceptable, 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.760 but it wasn't a cutdown of women. Listen to what 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:56.640 else he said that. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.400 All of my success is made possible as a girl 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:06.120 I met in being class back in middle school, would 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:10.440 convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:33.560 of the most important titles of all. Holemaker. She's a 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.000 primary educator to our children. She's the one who ensures 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.360 I never let football or my business become a distraction 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.480 from that of a husband and father. She is a 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.680 person that knows me best at my core. And it 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.480 is through our marriage that Lord willing, we will both 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:49.560 attain salvation. 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.480 The most important thing in his life is the next 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:58.440 life is salvation, and he believes it. Together they form 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:03.920 three strands, he and his wife and God together and 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:10.240 they will achieve salvation together as a couple who is 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.840 led by faith. I left all the clapping in there. 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:15.400 You heard it. It went on for a long time. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.800 I left that in there because all of the outraged 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:23.040 people should understand that the audience for this speech understood it. 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.760 They got it. They said, that is true, that is 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.760 what I want out of life, and it's okay. I 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.800 wanted to talk about this because it is okay to 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.560 feel that way. It is okay to come out and 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.480 say I want to get married, I want to have children, 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:41.400 and I want a husband who lifts me up and 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.280 says I love the fact that she is embraced to 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.280 being a homemaker. And for all you women out there 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.960 who think I'm not going to be a homemaker, well, 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.200 what is your house going to be? Like, I mean, 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.640 we're all homemakers. And if you have kids and you worked, 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.040 you are a homemaker. And if you don't have kids 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.800 and you work, you are a homemaker. And if you're married, 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.160 you are a homemaker because you have a home and 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.120 you keep your home in some sort of order. I 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.080 would assume. So the fact that you have decided that 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:14.679 being a homemaker, which is one role of many, is 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.680 so offensive to you. What did we do in society 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:22.160 to get to this point, I ask myself, because it 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.840 is something that you can embrace and it is not 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:30.880 something that you will ever avoid because making your home 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.079 is still your home, is always there, no matter what 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.440 else you're doing. It is one role of many. But 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.800 there was like all these people they believe they're victims. 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.960 I wanted to play you someone's TikTok. I can't play 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.040 all of it for you. She was at the speech. 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:46.559 I can't play all of it for you because it's 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.520 filled with the F word. But I don't think this 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.760 part has any fwords in it. So listen to what 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.440 she says. She's a terrible victim of this commencement speech. 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:58.720 Getting married and having kids is not my ideal situation 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:04.560 right now. Yeah, it was definitely horrible, and it definitely 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:10.560 made graduation feel a little less special knowing I had 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.160 to sit through that and get told I'm nothing but 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:18.360 a homemaker. So but thank you all for congratulating me. 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.079 It means a lot. I cried a little bit reading 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:22.000 all y'all's comments. 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.840 But yeah, oh my gosh, she had to sit through 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.760 her commencement speech and hear that there is a role 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.840 out there for her. She can have a job, and 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:36.120 she can love her home and love her family. There 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.720 are so many students this year that don't get a commencement. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.520 They're not getting a speech. She had to sit. There's 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.760 a hum. I think she just wanted somebody to feel 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.400 bad for her. On TikTok. She's looking for the views. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.160 There's another woman on TikTok and she just goes crazy 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.520 about this that she just can't believe this. She feels 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.080 like she's not even in this time. I'm not going 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:58.800 to play that video because I don't want to take 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.280 up more of your time with these crazy people. But 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.439 I do want to play one other part because he 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.960 also talked about men. He addressed the men in the audience, 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.040 So what you'll hear is that he addressed women, and 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:15.560 then he talked about masculinity, and how offensive this is 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.360 because he addressed women and said, you can be something 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.480 great and leave a legacy with your children and see 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.840 salvation one day. But he said this about men. 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.480 The gentleman here today. Part of what plagues our society 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:30.719 is this lie that has been told to you that 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.040 men are not necessary in the home or in our communities. 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.040 As men, we set the tone of the culture, and 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.880 when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction, and chaos set in. 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.760 This absence of men in the home is what plays 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.120 a large role in the violence we see all around 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.040 the nation. Other countries do not have nearly the same 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.560 absentee father rates as we find here in the US, 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.840 and a correlation could be made in their drastically lower 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:59.679 violence rates as well. Be unapologetic in your masculinity fighting 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.320 against it's the cultural emasculation of men. Do hard things, 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.440 never settle for what is easy. You might have a 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.600 talent that you don't necessarily enjoy, but if it glorifies God, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.600 maybe you should lean into that over something that you 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:13.680 might think suits you better. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.320 It's reminiscent of something when you hear that people want 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.719 to come and take him off that stage and re 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.880 educate him. They want to get rid of him. They 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.400 want to make sure that he doesn't exist anymore. They 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:30.600 don't want him to be anywhere near football because he 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:34.680 has wrong think. I mean, this is nineteen eighty four, 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.600 it's already we've this book has been written, We've read this. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.760 We know exactly what's happening. These kids, they don't know 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.760 that that's what is happening. They don't know that big government, 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.680 schools and big Brother has come in and said, you 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:52.880 have to accept total chaos, that the norm that family values, 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:57.000 that the nuclear family, it's not good. And any man 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.920 who listened to that and God uncomfortable. They got on 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.800 comfortable because they've been lulled into this sense of I 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.200 have to put myself into this room of sadness, and 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.000 I shouldn't try to have a relationship with women. And 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.280 now society has become this place where we have soft 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.880 men and angry women. And that is the response that 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.000 is so clear from this. I've seen a lot of 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.920 conservatives come out and defend him as well. I've seen 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.320 a lot of people who are saying, wait, wait a minute, 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.800 these are biblical teachings. This is Christianity, and I am 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:33.800 defending him as well because what he said was not nasty, 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:39.200 it was not controversial. It did not go after anyone 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:44.440 who did not deserve it. From the government standpoint. Joe Biden, Yeah, 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:48.160 he stood at an abortion rally and did this use 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.920 he had the sign of the Cross. I mean, what 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.040 in the world. I think he made a very good point. 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:58.520 You cannot be certain things. Society wants to tell people 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.920 a girl can be a boy, a Catholic can be 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:06.560 pro choice. Society wants to tell you that men don't 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:10.200 need to be masculine, that women should wear the pants 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.840 in the family, and that people don't need each other. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:18.600 But it's not true. Monogamy is a beautiful thing. Having 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:20.880 someone to live the rest of your life with is 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.640 a wonderful thing. And the reality is that if you 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:28.480 are so science based, there are plenty of studies out 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:33.600 there that will tell you that women and men belong together, 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.920 that people look for a relationship, they need companionship. I mean, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.800 look at what happened during COVID. We found that there 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.120 were people who were in nursing homes who died of 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:50.600 a broken heart. Companionship is not something to be ashamed of. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.040 It's not something to shy away from. Motherhood is not 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:58.240 something to be mocked. And the reality of this is 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.560 that this man spoke from the heart, spook of biblical values, 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.920 and he was mercifully mocked by the left, who is 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.920 desperate for you to say I don't need any of that, 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:13.400 when in reality science would show that you absolutely do, 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.840 and it can be the most beautiful part of life. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.280 And I will say that when I did get married, 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.960 it was the best day because I knew that I 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:28.120 was joining with someone who was going to live life 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.000 with me, who was going to go off on that journey. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.800 All the things that I had learned in my childhood 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.520 home from my parents. Now I had to take that 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.560 and be out on my own and function as a 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.320 human and I had somebody to do that with me. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.680 And then I got to build a family. And that 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:50.920 first day in the hospital with my oldest daughter was incredible. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.280 The fact that we want to belittle that and say 0:15:55.320 --> 0:16:00.200 that it has no value, Wow, that is just It's 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:05.800 not acceptable. So in conclusion, live your faith, live your values, 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.680 do not be shy about them. I'm so glad that 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.240 people like Harrison Butker are out there saying things like this, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.080 because I'm hoping it gives the rest of the church 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.440 the freedom to go out and speak like this as 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.400 well and say, you know what, I'm not okay with this. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.680 I'm not okay with that, and I do think that 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.320 this is the right way to live. So be empowered, 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.400 enjoy your weekend. Thank you for tuning in to the 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:32.120 Tutor Dixon Podcasts. For other episodes, go to the iHeartRadio app, 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.480 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts and come 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.840 back Monday. We'll see you then. Thank you, have a 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:38.560 blessed weekend.