Bad Bunny, Kid Rock, and the Great White North

 Welcome to another episode of the Carpefeide Podcast where if the shoe fits you wear it and if the truth hurts you bear it. I am Justin Gruber and I am Jesse Gruber and today we hope you will seize the faith. Hey everybody welcome episode 217 of the Carpefeide Podcast. How you doing Jesse? I am recovering from illness and I still sick, Remy is still sick. I was going to tell you you look kind of gross. 2026 maybe the year of the rooster or whatever but it's the year of viral illness in this household. I'm just saying it's a good thing this is an audio medium. Anyway I'm always thankful to God for that. Yeah and amen and all two of us said amen. That works bags under my eyes and shop right in the 2000s. Yes seriously I don't have bags under my eyes. I don't have bags under my eyes I have duffles. I've got full on duffles under my eyes. I've got rocks. It's like the giant trunk that James Stewart was given in its wonderful life. The giant one. That's what I have on each one of my eyes. I've got a tartus under each eye. A tartus it's bigger on the inside. Alright, alright. So hey Jesse did you hear because of California's tax code the players, the Super Bowl, the literal players in the game, spent more to be in the Super Bowl than almost everyone that attended the Super Bowl. It's almost anyone that you could have attended the Super Bowl, watched the game, paid for your hotel, flight out, flight back, you could have done all that and spent less than the actual players being paid to play the game in California. Quotum quote, it's a quote unquote paid. Yeah, they spent more to play that game than most people did to attend the game. Hey, did you hear that our governor signed executive orders today to open up a ice portal and to shield legal immigrants from ice agents on state property? Yeah, here's what I think about that. My thought is that that's going to seriously decrease the amount of federal dollars New Jersey gets. And since New Jersey is awful, I'm all about them not getting any federal money at all. So until they repent of their many sins, we will be forced to feel the weight of the federal government. And that is both scary and yet somehow just I feel Mickey Mickey Cheryl can go ahead and feel the full force and weight of it. I'm fine with it. You know who doesn't care? Donald Trump doesn't care. Yeah, he's not like, oh no, but Jesse's not going to be this white lady or producers. He's got a lot of bad ideas. If only she knew what money was, she's going to know now. Anyway, you think with her time spent in Congress, she should know the power of the federal government and how Donald Trump's very easy to do. Donald Trump's very willing to yield it against states. Since a lot of the people in New Jersey didn't know she was in Congress, it's a surprise to her that she was there as well. Hey man. She flies a helicopter. She flew a helicopter allegedly allegedly. Well, I'm kidding. Thank you for your. A lot of weird insider trading on the stock market, but white collar crime. Nobody cares about that. And she helped those students pass their exams at West Point. That was helpful. You know who learned a little something about white collar crime? Bob Minentes. Oh boy, did he? Just everybody when you're in bed, don't stack your gold up inside your home. It's a state. There's another New Jersey congressman named Robert Minentes. And I was going to comment on his post saying why would we listen to anything that is raised. Bob Minentes has to say and then I realized it's a completely different guy and that is very unfortunate for him, but also very telling that a man got elected with the very same name as a disgusting pervert embezzler. So he does have a son that I think is a junior is it that my that was involved in politics. Is it related? Was he involved with the hookers and Puerto Rico or wherever? No, no, no, I mean it could also be his son. Anyway, it doesn't matter regardless. The dress is accessible. It is it is the most isolated of of politics. You know what? It's not a spandid. There's other place New York's really bad. It's kind of the right now. Kind of just kind of imploding. Oh, yes, we're going to talk about that. Before we get there, the Super Bowl happened. And then the payers played California. Here's paid California to play football, which is I'm sorry. That's too delicious. Seriously. Why it like if you were an athlete and you played for a team of any sport, wouldn't you just say, yep, I'm injured. I'm not playing in this game. Why would you spend money? Like regardless, talk about slavery, right? They're like all about the fact that they did it. So now you have a black person playing football professionally, meaning they're one of the best human beings in the world at doing the thing they're doing. And they're making money off of their work. Why would you make them pay? It's the whole thing is absolutely ridiculous. Like it applies in the face of taxes, I guess. Well, it's a tax. Yes, it's called a jock tax, which is because there are sports athletes, you know, mostly because California needs money. So if you play a sport in California, your tax per diem every day you're there. So it's a tax that accrues per day. So because the Super Bowl is a required week long media, they have been there for seven days. So they've accrued the per diem each day of the jock tax. But like if you're like NBA players don't play a lot anyway. So like why would you ever play a game in California? You're like, yeah, I can't play tonight. I'm sorry, can't play because why would you play? No coach, I'm just gonna sit this one out. Right, because they actually like tax a portion of your salary and anything you make in the game. I think it's it's the most dumb stupid. California is dumb. They're just so dumb. New Jersey doesn't have the ability to get a lot of money from things like that. But if they did, maybe that dumb, but California Super Dumb. I don't know. We've got we're making all those, I don't know, isn't Netflix or something partnering with New Jersey? Doesn't there like a film industry, I guess or whatever? I don't know. I don't know. If you're filming a film in New Jersey, then you've really sunk to the bottom. Like way down like to the bottom. Well, North Jersey is close to New York. So I guess that's kind of like a destination. Well, and we have like you have mountains and rural. Like you have all the things in New Jersey. You could film any season. Seasonal most. Yes, seasons. Wow, we've digressed. There was a Super Bowl halftime show. I'm just buying barons. Yeah, you can't film out there that you end up getting shot by a piney. You got to watch out. Did I really loud all of a sudden? Am I too loud? I didn't feel that you were too loud. Am I too quiet? No, no, no, no, no, I thought it was. I think it's me. I don't know. You sound great on my end. You know, I appreciate that. I'm going to take that as a couple of. It's a good reminder. We record live. So whenever you're listening, this was recorded live. And we don't edit. So well, we did do a bike. But I feel like there's demons in my mic. Demons. The demons on the mark. There was a halftime show. Do you see the halftime show? I saw a halftime show. Yeah, it's funny because I'm like, well, are we about to talk about a halftime show that in reality neither of us have seen. I think we need to watch that. I'm one of the few Americans I'm proud to say I have never heard a bad bunny song ever in my life. No, no, no. I didn't even know that he exists. He she. We don't know. Legitimately, I thought it was a woman. This whole like the whole time they were talking about it. He does dress and dress. So it does make you question. It's six months ago. I'm like, oh, so they're having a check to do with the halftime show. No, it's a dude. Yep, it's a dude. So he's Puerto Rican and Puerto Rican is an American territory. I don't know a lot of Puerto Ricans that are like, I'm an American. Like, it's weird when he says that. But like most Puerto Ricans are very proud to be Puerto Rican. Nonetheless, nonetheless is he edited show with like the display of all the flags from these other countries that were not even all actually Latin American in any way. Some of them were very much not Latin American, but they're all the country. So they're mostly like Canada. Well, it's all the countries that were in quote that are quote unquote American because they're either in North America or South America. And I'm like, cool bro, but you didn't announce the United States of America. And then have that like come out. So like, I guess not all the countries of North America. The flag was there. I mean, it was there, but it wasn't like he announced the United States of America. He didn't do that when he had all the. Yeah, because they hate America. Yeah, that was kind of the interesting weird subtle job. It's like, really? Well, I mean, I've already mentioned if he hates it. Also in in Spanish, he said some very. Oh, it was. It was not great. The problem is is that like everyone. So a lot of people were either happy or at least apathetic to what happened. And the crystal responses, while some of the crystal responses were like, well, if only he knew it. They were saying in English. And it's like, I don't think so. I think a lot of people let their kids listen to really disgusting trash. And I don't think it would have surprised anybody. But you know who did care? The FCC cared. And that's something. And 100% people do let themselves listen to let their kids listen to trash. I mean, it's it's bad. It's not good. Yeah, I believe I believe I've mentioned before that like. Christian parents are like by not teaching their daughter's modesty and self-respect because they're made in the image of God. Like they groomed just as much as the teachers unions and you know, all of these other disgusting organizations. You know, like you are at grooming your child towards perverted sexuality. If you do not teach them modesty and self-respect. And Christians do that with music all the time. Christian parents do. And that's a big red flag. Big red flag. Definitely a red flag. Cut like a neon sign flashing, flashing brightly. So that's the thing that happened. But I watched a different halftime show. That was very interesting. Yeah, I watched most of that too. I thought the beginning was cool with like the chain and the. Did his mic with the brass. The brass knuckles. Yeah, that was cool. I don't know. I don't listen to any of that music. I have no idea who any of those people are. But I thought that he had the coolest outfit at least. And I thought he'd sound cool. Yeah, his mic was awesome. It was it was nice. I mean, they're the great part about it was there wasn't a lot of butts. And all the women were clothes. So it was kind of a. That was extremely wild. It was a wild halftime show from that perspective. Just like, oh, look at this. Having had one of those in my lifetime. Right. There's been a lot made about Kid Rock. And just to be clear, like, I don't know where Kid Rock is in his relationship with God. But if you missed the amazing artistry of. Of him coming out as Kid Rock. And singing the song that he sang. Where he basically, which basically starts. And this is funny to bond about. Right. That's that's that's the song which you know as far as nostalgia as far as the Stalgico's. I remember that song as a young teenager. So like it was very nostalgic. But when he says, this is for he then lists a bunch of people that live in sin. And then cut the song off. Right after like the first maybe two thirds of the first verse he just cut the song off. And then he came back out under his other stage name, which is Robert Richie, Bob Richie. And sang a song that explicitly told people not to waste time. And gave an explicit gospel in the song. So if you missed the artistry there, he was saying, hey, for all of you sinners, you need Jesus. Which is really cool when you actually think about it from the artistic artistic standpoint. The artistic the artistic our our our like a pirate like a pirate our artistic standpoint. So I really I did I enjoyed that that dichotomy, which apparently plays on throughout like in lots of other clips and videos where he plays off like. This is a kid rock would react. This is how Bob Richie would react. So I don't know. People were like, oh, he's horrible human being. Congratulations. You're also a horrible human being like. Well, horrible human beings like you're not saying anything new there. But the message was pretty stark. It was a it was a pretty good pretty good message. Anyway, that's our half time show analysis. Good job. TPSA for drawing people away from a but filled, weird, you know, and if you spoke Spanish, explicit. They have time to show. I mean, I'm glad they had like don't get me wrong. I'm glad they had like a wedding. I heard there was a whole like heterosexual wedding that they depicted, which is great. Like that's that's great. They also had like two dudes grind for a second, which are like, oh, that wasn't the real deal. But it was on the camera. Like we also like it was there. Yeah. It was it was gross. It's like the only image that I actually got to see from the video. Thanks to the internet. I'm like, oh, that was cool. Obviously like, oh, it was just a small part of the like, you know, okay. And yet there it was. And there it was in the middle of our football game. You can't I'd see it, right? Like and I get it. I think we're always trying to blow it out of proportion. Like Roger Cadel, some sort of mastermind like he hates America or something. But Roger Cadel wants money. He wants the international communities to watch the NFL. But what he seems to fail to understand is that it makes money because of America. That's why he makes so much. And bad money makes money because of America. He was like nobody a few years ago, right? I remember well, I know he's still nobody. If not for the money he's making, which is probably just an indictment of our culture. And that's really what we want to do tonight in our culture. So, just like weighing into our first thing to talk about. Coming from America's hat. Canada. We got a message. We saw a message pop across Twitter. And Jesse, why don't you enter the intro of this segment? Because you did a good job saying like, wait, what? Yeah. So Tim Stevens on Facebook. I was kind of taking it back. For those of you for some reason who don't know Tim Stevens is. Tim Stevens of Fairview Baptist Church. What's arrested in Canada for having church in COVID. Tim Stevens and James Coates were both arrested for, you know, just worshipping. And that's where you would know Tim Stevens from. If you didn't know, now you do. Thank you. Yeah, he posted the other day saying that eight churches in British Columbia were removed from the fellowship. We're going to the coalition of F eb February for maintaining that the past oral office is reserved for Biblically qualified men. They have been unjustly treated. But the Lord season he will vindicate the righteous. Our church is likely to be next. But that happened on the last Saturday, February 7th, which when I saw that, I was like, first off, I was in a flu coma or whatever I had coma. And I was like, wait, more people were arrested. And then I finally realized I actually read the words with my eyes and my brain. And I realized, no, they weren't arrested. They were thrown out of their denomination or however you would consider that coalition for believing what the Bible says about things. And that's just the Haths just Canadian. That's like one of the most Canadian things I've ever heard. But one of the comments that I had following that was like, that's, I was like, well, when I realized that people weren't arrested. I was happy that people weren't arrested. I was like, why would they need to arrest people? The private sector is doing everything the government would want anyway. Like, they are ostracizing normal people for believing normal things that are very, very clear in the Bible as long as you can read and have comprehension. So it's just, it's just absolutely wild up there. That place is like wild west. From my understanding, the British Columbia is like super liberal. If I remember correctly, like the farther west you go, it's kind of like the worse you get. Except for, except for Alberta somehow. Alberta's kind of like in the middle like, hey, let's not do that. It's not like the middle. In Canada, it was hard to pin down. Alberta's to the left. Alberta is literally right next to British Columbia. There are one province in. Well, they have like four provinces. They're massive. They're huge. Five, there's five provinces. Five, four, five, six, seven. Do you count Newfoundland? I don't know. Nobody counts Newfoundland. Come on. Oh wait, there's Yukon up there. Oh, and then you have the territories. Anyway, it's cold. It's just really cold. Territories are kind of like the wilderness. Like when it says that, you know, the, it's really, it's wandered around in the wilderness. It's the territory. Not even a proper name. It's just the territories. Well, he would have gone today. I'm going to check through up through the territories. It's going to take me 14 days to drive through it. Yeah, so what's intriguing? And Tim Stevens wrote a wonderful in-depth. It's like the body of water. The body of water. Okay. It's just called the north-western passages. Okay. Yes, the north-western. You forgot that there's a little part, two death. You forgot the last part. Which is because the northwest territories are actually on the northwest. But northwest passages are up above the Hudson Bay. But they lead to the northwest death. Oh, they're the passages to the northwest. I guess it depends on which direction you're going though. Wow, the Hudson Bay is big. I never realized. Yeah. So back to the article. So Tim Stevens wrote a nice in-depth article communicating kind of how this has come about. And inside the fellowship of evangelical Baptist churches of Canada, which they just refer to as the FEB, the fellowship of evangelical Baptist. So their bylaws are clear. The 1997 position referred to the Dan Ristatement from the Council of the Local Manhood of Womenhood, which set pretty clear guidelines of manhood, womanhood, and what the title of pastor Bimbele refers to. It's ultimately this issue where the actual leadership board is not adhering to what's in its documents. And because of the progressive lean in some of these provinces, they're moving towards more and more progressive practices, which is just universally the death knell for a church, for a religious organization to move away from biblical doctrine. And towards progressive ideology, it doesn't actually strengthen you to be a Christian. As it turns out, doesn't really strengthen your faith. And it seems to be interesting because the FEB has churches everywhere. Like literally he then talks about the reasons of the FEB, he talks about the fellowship of this church of Timbuck II, and how that's now like, what? Turns out Timbuck II, they're not super concerned about what progressive ideology is. This whole thing stems from a lack of understanding that we don't know anything if God, like we have no, there is no morality if God doesn't say so. Man's morality is simply objective, fodder. It's not in any way helpful or real. It's constantly changing and morphing because man is sinful and has no basis for morality. So the only way we know what is true and right and good is what God says. And the further you get from that, the more, the only the more confusion do you cause because you don't have a standard. You have no basis. And that this organization would stray that far is just sad to remove churches that are actually being faithful to the Bible because they desire progressive ideology is such a sad, it's just a sad state of reality for the church. I mean, Canada, it's all interesting to me because of what Canada is doing with its hate laws right now. It's crack down on evil hatred. And I know I share it with you, the article, but the culture minister in what would be the cabinet in Canada, Mark Miller, expressed a support for removing religious exemptions on hate speech in the criminal code. So this bill, this bill, C9, where is it? What's it referred to? They refer to it as something. The hate crime bill. Yeah, I mean, it's hate crime. They have like a cute name for it, but it's about hate crimes. And he actually told reporters that he doesn't quote, think people should be using the Bible, the Quran, or the Torah to escape from committing a hate crime, or claim that what would otherwise be a hate crime is done in the name of a religious text. Basically, if you say what the Bible says, and it offends someone in the LGBTQ plus community, it's hate speech. That's what this guy is literally driving at. And the only way they're even able to pass the C9 bill is if they would purposefully ensure that there was protection. And now immediately they're like, yeah, but you know what, that's probably not okay. You know, it's probably not okay. We should probably get rid of that too. It's like, what? And this is where like, so you have no standard. You're getting rid of any standard. Yeah, I'm just removing it. As an American, the concept of not free speech just bogged with my mind. Well, the concept of not being allowed to speak yet, like to communicate with the Bible says, like to verbatim, quote the Bible and someone say, aww, we're going to take you to jail now because you just said hate speech. No, I was, I was just reading from Leviticus. I was just quoting Romans one. Like, what are you talking about? This isn't hate speech. This is God's word. Ooh, there you said another thing that's kind of hateful. You said, God, yeah, we don't do that here. It's like, what are you guys doing up there? Yeah, it's kind of wild. It is. It's hard. It's hard for, like, you're right, Jesse. It's hard for us to relate to. Maybe necessarily. But it's not to lump the Bible in with something like Nazi rhetoric against Jews. Like, that's not the same. That's not even close. What do you think that law is going to do about the Quran? Well, I mean, at least Mark Miller was consistent. I think he knew he couldn't say the Bible without, you know, also mentioning the Quran and Torah. But they get the same time. I mean, you can't say that about the Quran because you know what those people do. I mean, like, I'm sorry, Mark, you might not be long on this earth. If you keep pushing like that on the Quran, I'm just saying, bro. Better duck. Check your food, bro. Dude, we could do a whole episode just pronouncing names from like... Bath and Island. Are you still a piece us? Are you still on the geography of Canada right now? Kickerton? I'm like, I know Jesse has thoughts. Why is he saying that? Because he's reading names from back in Ireland. Dude, this name is spelled Q-I-K-I-Q-T-A-R-J-U-A-Q. That's a lot of consonants in there. That's a lot of consonants. Dude, I know they're like native names, but I feel like... I feel like no one could take that seriously. Quick kick. How do you... how do you even know? Just give it a go. Go ahead. We're all listening now at this point. I got to zoom in to make sure I can see all the letters. Kick, kick, tar, juak. You know what, desk... great attempt. Is it a paladrant? No, it's not even a paladrant. You're racist, and I want to tell you, under... under Belsie 9, we're going to have to get you arrested now. Sorry. Pad, loping. Sorry. This is definitely hate speech. There's a national park called I-U-Took-A-U-Y-U-Y-T-T-U-Q. Lots of things ended in Q up there. Well, it amuses me. You might think that's a little queer, if you will. Oh, pinging it. Anyway, the connection being... it's just intriguing that this church organization finds its... The church organization finds itself conforming to what are obviously gross, evil laws of man. By attempting to undo what the scripture says in its own bylaws. And it could just be coincidental. This is a direction they've been moving for a while. But it turns out this whole hate code is also the way Canada has been moving for a while. So to find the church, like speaking in concert in Canada, to find an organization like the Evangelical Baptist Church, to find that organization moving in concert with Canada, trying to tone down their rhetoric around men, women, the pastorate, the biblical qualifications. I mean, I know correlation isn't causation, but at the same time, it's looking a lot more like what they're doing really is just trying to head off any potential issues. Right? As they trim down God's word to more rightly conform with progressive ideology, that the same time that their government is literally saying that the Bible sounds like hate speech. You know, and just because you say the Bible doesn't mean you can actually say these things. Like, it's just... it's very gross. It's very gross. To have a ecumenical group sound more like your absolute God-hating government than the Bible is a big problem. Are we not old enough to remember COVID? It happened. We understand. Like, we understand what God's word says. We all had to dive into it to know what it says. Why would you continue to run headlong into destruction? And away from what God has given you. It's... it's a mistake. It's a huge mistake. Regardless, I don't even know what it would mean. To lose your connection to the fellowship of evangelical Baptist churches in Canada. Like, I don't know what that would mean. And it doesn't necessarily say that there's any sort of issue that that would mean for the churches here. I declare bankruptcy. I mean, right. Like, at this point, it's like maybe all the churches that are being asked to leave should... for their own ecumenical group that actually says, hey, this is what the Bible says. If they do, they should come up with an acronym that is another month of the year. I'm already thinking about it now. I can't... I can't... I can't... I can't... We have to think it. We'll pitch it to Tim. We'll get it done. Yes. I'm sure Tim will have to hear what we have to say on this. But it is generally a shame and dear goodness. If we do not have the truth of God's word, we don't have anything. It's just... it's the sum... the sum reality for all of mankind. We were talking about a community group. It's like freaking bad money having that giant sign during his show, right? That, you know, love, conqueror's hate, or whatever it's in. It's so stupid. Like, what love? What hate? Hate is self-love directed against other individuals. That's what hate is. It's pride for yourself displayed against others. You're not making a statement. And it turns out, man's hate is always greater than man's love. That statement is wrong. Love does not defeat hate. Hate is actually man's natural wiring. It's pride in action. That's all hate is. Man is a proud and arrogant people. It's only with God. And what he has actually communicated to us that we know we should not run towards hate. God's love, God's love defeats man's hate. Man's love loses to man's hate all the time, every time, 100%. It's just without the Bible we don't have anything and for a church group to run away from it. Just like the government is at the same time. Like, it's like so. Oh, oh, oh, anyway, if you're looking for a church in Canada and everybody just drives. Fair for you back to your church. Great place. Tim Stevens teaches there. Check that out. Definitely encourage that. Canada is not like New Jersey just and you can't drive there anywhere in the country with didn't you know? But if you leave on Friday, you could make a church on Sunday. It's kind of. Yeah, just take the North. You just go through the Northwest passages. You can get anywhere north west, bussage. Oh, where's you? Concernelia. So you need him. Oh, man. But interestingly enough, this is kind of a callback topic. We talked a little bit about marijuana, particularly marijuana in one of the first states, the legalized marijuana in New England about. Back in November, I think we talked about it a couple of months ago. But it turns out the New York Times has kind of touched on the reality. The New York Times and editorial board has always argued for the legalization of marijuana. But they're big proponents of legalization of marijuana. But just this just as we released some pretty interesting statements. So I want to read them to everybody. It kind of goes back to the reality that God's law is the only standard we truly have. Man's law is broken and stupid. Here's what the editorial board of the New York Times had to say recently about marijuana. Quote, this editorial board has long supported marijuana legalization. In 2014, we published a six-part series that compared the federal marijuana ban to alcohol prohibition and argued for repeal. Much of what we wrote then holds up, but not all of it does. At the time, supporters of legalization predicted that it would bring few downsides. In our editorials, we described marijuana addiction and dependence as relatively minor problems. Many advocates went further and claimed that marijuana was a harmless drug that might even bring net health benefits. They also said that legalization might not lead to greater use. And their statement takes a turn. It is now clear that many of these predictions were wrong, which by the way is kind of a problem when you said in your previous paragraph. Where is it? Oh, I just lost it. Much of what we wrote then holds up, except here's the next sentence. It is now clear that many of these predictions were wrong. Wait, so much of what you wrote didn't hold up. Anyway, it goes on. Legalization has led to much more use. No. What? Surface suggests that about 18 million people in the United States have used marijuana almost daily or about five times a week in recent years. That was up from around six million in 2012, and less than one million in 1992. Yes, that's right. In 30 years, it has gone up 18 times the amount. More Americans now use marijuana daily than alcohol. The wider use has caused a rise in addiction and other problems. Each year nearly 2.8 million people in the United States suffer from cannabinoid hyper remesis syndrome, which causes severe vomiting and stomach pain. More people have also ended up in hospitals with marijuana linked paranoia and chronic psychotic disorders. Bystanders have also been hurt, including the people by included by people driving under the influence of pot. Oh my gosh. My favorite sentence is legalization has led to much more use. No way. This is a great statement because one of the things that abolitionists have consistently communicated is that our laws inform morality. That's what laws do, which is why when God in Romans 13 says that the government is a literally dachiness, a deacon, right, of God. It's to be God's servant against unrighteousness. Therefore, the standard is God's standard of righteousness and unrighteousness. When you make an unrighteous law, it turns out it informs people that unrighteousness is moral. It is the moral landscape of your country. And so when you legalize something, it leads to more use. Of course it does. Of course it does. You have to make laws. You make a law to literally decrease what you're supposed to do. It's decrease unrighteousness in God's standard. That's the whole idea. When you make a law that says this is not illegal, it turns out people do more of that thing because it's legal to do that thing. That's the legal thing to do. This is the most basic understanding of law. How did you not see this coming? Why is this a law? We legalize something and where people use it. No, what a positively crazy. We lowered the voting age to 16 and now 16 year olds are voting. What? It's literally the intended consequence of the thing. That's what you planned on. I thought that was the idea. That's why they did it. One of the things they point out that's pretty intriguing. It's the reality that men just try to figure out better ways to sin. Back in like 70s, if you got marijuana confiscated, it might have 4% THC in it, which is the hallucinogen part of marijuana. Now marijuana is sold regularly that has upwards of 90%. This is a huge increase. This is why people that used to smoke marijuana, smoking it today are like, this is not the marijuana that I used to smoke. This is not what I used to smoke because men have developed and created better ways for sinning. So marijuana is even stronger now. It turns out when you legalize something that's even stronger, then more people do it. And then you have more people getting sick, addicted, killing other people. It turns out everybody, it was a really bad idea. It's just a bad idea. Yeah. And by the way, the Neurotimes' editorial board solution is generally not to make it illegal again. No, no, no, no. We just need to regulate it better. We need more government involved. That's going to solve it. Just keep pouring that gasoline on the fire there. Right, right, right, right. Like abortion, we don't need to, you know, make it illegal. We just need to regulate it. Like, we're talking about something that kills babies. You don't need to regulate it. You need to make it illegal. We're talking about a drug. You don't need to regulate it. You need to make it illegal. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know why. I don't know why I get surprised that they're finally surprised that the exact thing. Everyone knew what happened. Happens when they do that thing. I don't know. I don't know why. Like, literally, by regulating it, all you will do is increase big pot. Like, that's all, it's all, it's what happens every time. Big pot will become stronger and make better weed because they're regulated now. And yeah, maybe you'll be able to get rid of some of the, you know, corner salesmen, but you're not going to get rid of the problems that you have when more people are doing the intensely stronger drug, leading to the problems that the intensely strong drug causes. Anyway, big loss for the editorial board. Also, I just, the cognitive dissidents and making a statement like much of what we wrote then holds up, followed by, it is now clear that many of these predictions were wrong. Like, how do you, how do you write that with a straight face? I don't, they, it's so, it lacks self-awareness on an unprecedented level. Like, it really does. This, this is watches must preach God's word and inform and teach and instruct the members of the body so that they can know what the word is, so that they can know and children can be taught. And children's children can be taught and we can hold the word of God up high because this level of insanity is what the world offers. It offers people telling you what we wrote back then is true. Also, all, a lot of the predictions were wrong and they can say both of those things at the same time. They can be surprised that legalizing something led to much more use of that something as if that was going to ever be a question. The fact that more people are smoking pot than drinking bourbon is a crying shame. I don't understand how that happens, but it's happening. That's what's happening now. I don't know, I don't know. There's not much left to be said. It turns out law and form of morality. We need the Bible. We really, really need the Bible. Parents, teach your children the Bible. Churches, open the Bible, pastors, preach the word. That has to be our standard. If not, you are left to all of this level of insanity without the standard of God's word. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Are you still reading names from... No, no, not. I was checking a text from my wife because our heater just turned off again and I need to probably run down on the basement and check it. Are we covering another story? Was there another thing that we were covering? Or was that it? Oh heavens, I hope not. Are we covering another thing? I'm going to vote no so I can go check my heater. Look, here's the deal. You need to check your heater and honestly, we both need to sleep. Or else these bags are only going to get bigger under our eyes. Dear Christian, please pray for Canada because if the Bible becomes illegal, that would be intensely sad for them to worship. That's just bad. Pray for Tim Stevens Church, for every Baptist Church. Pray for the whole FEB ecumenical organization to conform itself to God's word. And just generally speaking avoid pot. Just going to lob that one out there. And if you don't think laws should be biblical, I don't know how to help you. So yeah. Is that about right? That's some of the episode? I think that sums up the episode. Alright, that's great. Well then I think dear listener, we would like to say to you, we hope you this day would seize the faith.