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Erick Stakelbeck: August 21, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

August 21, 2025 | S25 E821 | 25:5

From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: August 21, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | August 21, 2025

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck and they said it was fascism,
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Tyranny and authoritarian takeover of our nation's
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Capital, soon to spread to every city in the united states.
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The end of democracy and freedom or not.
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President trump's announcement last week
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That the federal government
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Would now take control of law enforcement
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In crime ridden, chaotic washington, d.c.,
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Caused a collective meltdown among left wing
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Democrats and their partners in the mainstream media.
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How dare he fight crime and make our capital safer,
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To make it a symbol
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Of national pride rather than a national embarrassment
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Of murders, carjackings and homeless encampments?
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Not exactly the kind of takeaway you want
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Visiting world leaders to have when they leave d.c.
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But remember, the left is very big on defending
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And excusing the criminal and ignoring and mocking the victim.
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So of course, they oppose trump's efforts
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To get a handle on the d.c.
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Crime wave.
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Take a look at any democrat run city from l.a.
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To chicago, philly, baltimore, portland, seattle
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And of course, new york city, which may soon
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Have a self-proclaimed socialist muslim mayor in charge.
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And you'll see
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The same patterns, rampant crime and lawlessness.
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Folks, i've lived in
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And around blue cities for most of my life.
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Born and raised in northeast philadelphia.
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Watched it go downhill in real time.
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Lived in new york city.
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Moved to washington, d.c.
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And worked there for 17 years until leaving in 2020.
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I can tell you firsthand the decline of d.c.
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Was obvious.
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As with many of our nation's problems, it took president
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Trump to come along and say, enough is enough.
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And right the ship.
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In just the past nine days alone, since federal forces
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Took control in d.c., we've seen a 35% reduction
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In violent crime and a 50% reduction in robberies.
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And it will only get better from here, just in time
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For our nation's 250th birthday in 2026.
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Here was vice president jd vance,
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Along with defense secretary pete hegseth and white house
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Adviser stephen miller at dc's union station yesterday.
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I want to thank all the people, the guardsmen here
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And the police officers who work very hard for actually
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Keeping this place safe.
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If you look at what's happened
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In washington, d.c., in just the past nine
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Days, we've seen a 35% reduction in violent crime.
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We've seen over a 50% reduction in robberies.
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We are seeing really substantial effects.
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So i want to come here,
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Highlight what they're doing, say thank you in person.
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Obviously pass out a few burgers.
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But most of all,
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We do not allow our cities to be taken over by violence.
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And you can actually bring law and order to communities.
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You've just got to have the
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Political willpower to do it, because we want our people
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To be able to enjoy our beautiful cities.
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And the last thing i'll say is to the american people.
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D.c. is already safer than it was nine days ago.
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But we're going to make. it safer still to come.
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This is your city.
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It's about time, folks.
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It's a new day in washington, d.c.,
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And it's a new day in america.
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Law and order are returning,
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And that's a good thing for you and your family.
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That's what strong leadership does.
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It creates peace and prosperity.
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But none of that comes without putting god first.
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God is moving and great things are happening in our nation.
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But remember, we are still locked
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In a spiritual battle for the soul of our nation.
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Up next, we'll break down how to turn back the modern day
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Pagan threat.
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And it all starts now.
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The church is under siege
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Not only from the outside, but also from within.
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Pagan practices like witchcraft, crystals,
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And even reincarnation are creeping into the pews.
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And pastor
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Lucas miles says it's time to draw a line in the sand.
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His brand new book, pagan threat confronting america's godless
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Uprising, is a wake up call to believers
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To stand firm against a culture of compromise.
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Lucas is the senior director of tp, usa, faith,
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A pastor and a bestselling author.
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And he joins us tonight with a powerful warning for the church.
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Lucas, always great to see you.
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I hate when people think of paganism
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And threats to the church.
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They say, of course it's the atheistic secular left.
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But you say within the church we've got this threat rising.
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That may be hard to believe for some people,
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But it's very real. you lay it out in the book.
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Tell us about
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Some of the troubling trends that you've seen again
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Within the church.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So we have about 1.5 million people in the country
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That consider themselves pagan today,
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And that number is expected to triple.
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But what we also have is we have a lot of soft paganism.
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That is what i call it, that has entered into the church
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In a lot of different ways.
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For instance, a lot of people don't know
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That the enneagram, a popular sort of personality profile,
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The founder of it, says that he developed it
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By what is known as automatic writing, basically contacting
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A spirit guide or some sort of,
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You know, demonic figure in order to get the information
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And to make that personality profile.
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We also have a lot of christians that are using things
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Like burning sage in order to clean spaces of evil
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Spirits and, and, you know, participating in things
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Like horoscopes.
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I was recently on the strip
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In vegas doing man on the street videos,
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And about half the people that told me they were a christian.
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When i asked him, what happens after you die?
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About half of them said they also believe in reincarnation.
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So this is the state of the church.
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And i'll tell you, it's a major problem.
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Lucas, you're a pastor. you do a great job.
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How did this happen?
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How do we get to this point
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Where, again, people you write in the book,
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Even using tarot cards, reincarnation, as you mentioned,
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How do we get to this point
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As the body of christ where people are so misled?
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Is it just a sign of the times?
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You know, this is a major factor, especially for gen
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Z, which also known as zoomers and millennials.
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And, you know, really,
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If you think about this in many ways,
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There's sort of the harry potter generation.
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They grew up playing dungeons and dragons.
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We had, you know, netflix shows that really,
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You know, pushed a lot of these ideas.
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They also went through
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A lot of trauma, school
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Shootings were massively on the rise for this generation.
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They kind of lived through,
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Especially the older, you know, millennials.
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They lived through september 11th.
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And i think that all of that
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Combined has caused them to start seeking alternative,
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Sources for truth, maybe outside of
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Of what they felt like were some of these western norms
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And so they were kind of trading
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Their crosses and bible studies, for seances and crystals.
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And, you know, i think we were seeing the,
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The trauma of that continue.
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And, and really this become a rising issue.
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Well, and, lucas, you make a great point.
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The supernatural themes
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Of so many tv shows and movies today, even music.
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It's everywhere. for younger generations.
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Generation z is is an interesting test case
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Because on one hand, as you said, they've
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They're all some components of that generation off the rails
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And dabbling in what you're laying out.
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But also we see some encouraging signs that generation
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Z may be having a sort of mini revival buying bibles.
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What's your take on that? are you encouraged by that?
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Yeah,
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So i am encouraged and also cautious at the same time.
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So, you know, my work
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With charlie kirk and turning point usa and tp, usa faith.
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You know, we are seeing especially young men, you know,
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Come back to the church in tremendous numbers.
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The, you know, the comparison between young men today
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And their boomer counterparts is the first time that young men
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Have been more conservative than their boomer counterparts.
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But there's a concern there, especially among young women.
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And this is not to say that all women fall into this category.
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But when you think about the,
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The role models that are available for young men today,
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There's a lot of conservative figures.
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It's the joe rogan's, it's the jordan peterson's.
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The ben shapiro is the charlie kirks that are out there.
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When you look at young women, it's beyoncé,
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It's lady gaga. it's
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Some of the political figures like aoc and kamala harris.
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And i think it's sabrina carpenter and others, and many,
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Especially these,
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These female pop figures, which i go into the book
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In detail, have identified with witchcraft.
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They talk about carrying tarot cards in their purses.
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They talk about, you know, their utilization of crystals.
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Many of these female pop stars
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Have boasted about how they have an alter ego
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That takes over their personality,
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Kind of describing sort of this inner spirit
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That they have when they go on stage.
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So much
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So that that one of them actually
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Has a name for that individual and says she is an eight year
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Old boy stuck inside of her body
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That takes over when she steps into the spotlight.
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This these are the role models that young women have had,
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Unfortunately, and i think that that is having
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An effect on this generation in many ways.
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Yeah. great point.
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We live in a popular culture where good is called
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Evil, and evil is called good in many cases.
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We are in bible times, no doubt.
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And after the break, more with pastor lucas myles.
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What about wokeness and paganism?
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Is there a connection there?
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Author of the pagan threat,
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Lucas myles is back with us after the break.
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Don't move.
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Don't move.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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The book is pagan threat
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Confronting america's godless uprising.
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Folks, you can pick it up right now.
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Amazon.com, barnes and noble, wherever books are sold.
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The author is lucas myles.
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Be sure to follow him, of course, on x
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And across social media.
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Lucas, you
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And i sat down about two years ago,
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I believe, and talked about
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One of your great books called woke jesus.
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Well, in pagan thread
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You write about the direct correlation between wokeness,
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This insane ideology we see right now
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Sweeping across the western world, and paganism.
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Break that down for us a bit.
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Yeah.
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Anytime we talk about wokeism, it's it's really it's
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Really just another way of saying a marxist framework
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And that critical theory, marxist worldview,
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Has attached itself to so many areas of our society.
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You know,
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I've spent the last several years
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Really looking at detail at the effects
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Of wokeism on christianity.
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I've written two different books about it, as you mentioned.
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But what i think we're seeing is that
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Christianity is not a long term vehicle for the parasite
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That is marxism.
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Eventually you're either going to push into marxism more
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And take on that anti-god framework
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And leave christianity, or you're going
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To push into christianity more and you're going to recognize
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That marxism and the gospel are antithetical to one another.
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But what is happening is that marxism has found
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That parasite of marxism has found a new host,
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And that host is this neo pagan revival that's taking place.
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There's not a lot of conflicts between marx's worldview
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And, say,
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Witchcraft or marxist worldview and wicca or marx's worldview.
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In some sort of,
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You know, theosophy or some other,
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You know, esoteric new faith that's popping up.
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And so what we're seeing is that marxism and things
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Like the lgbt movement
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Have attached themselves to where we have now.
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You know, you can pick up books on, queer witchcraft
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Or some sort of critical framework to paganism.
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And so i have unfortunately spent
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About the last year
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Reading a lot of these books. it
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Was some of the most impressive reading i've ever done.
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And i my nightstand was had a lot of scary titles on it.
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But this is this is massive.
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And i think a lot of people are not aware of it.
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They're not talking about it.
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You open up tiktok live,
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And you will find this intersection between paganism
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And marxism happening very strongly,
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And it has deeply influenced our younger generation.
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And i think that we have to be aware
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That wokeism has shown its true colors,
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And they are in fact, pagan.
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Yeah, it's evil.
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And you write about this in great detail in pagan threat.
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Lucas two things before we closed number one,
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Optimism with president trump in office.
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Look, he's speaking openly about faith.
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We've got a faith office in the white house.
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And number two, real quick prescriptions to turn back
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This pagan threat.
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You've got it throughout the book, but
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Share some real quick for us.
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Look, i've been to the
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White house a couple times this year, and i can tell you
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There's a lot of movement when it comes to faith.
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And i'm very encouraged and very optimistic
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About where the nation is heading as a whole.
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But on an individual level, within our local communities,
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We still have a lot of work to do.
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And so what i recommend in this book,
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I actually have
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A seven fold strategy for the church in america.
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At the end of the book.
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But i'll give you just a snippet of that.
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First off, i think that we have to return to primary doctrine.
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There's so many christians that have just forgotten
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The basic tenets of the faith or never learn them.
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We need to come back to really understanding
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The core tenets of the faith.
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So there's no confusion about what christianity is.
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I think also we need to leverage technology.
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It is easier today to do evangelism than ever before.
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All i have to do is pick up my phone
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And go out on the street and say, hey, i'm a content creator.
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I make videos about spirituality.
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Can i interview and talk to you a little bit?
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And you would not believe the type of open doors
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That can happen is you're creating content
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That you can share with millions of people,
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And also ministering to somebody individually one on one.
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The church has a lot of work to do,
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But there's more opportunity than ever.
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But we have to be very aware of what this,
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What this, you know, real,
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You know, confrontation that we have between goodness
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And evil in the form of paganism today,
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If we're going to be ready for. it, no doubt. lucas.
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Well said.
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It is a spiritual battle,
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But there is a great harvest out there right now.
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And you're at the forefront of that, my friend.
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Again, the book is called
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Pagan threat and you can pick it up
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Amazon.com wherever books are sold. lucas.
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Great job.
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God bless. we'll see you again soon.
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Coming up after the break,
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We've been talking about making america godly again.
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What about making america healthy again?
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Two top experts joining us after the break.
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You won't want to miss this. stick around.
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You won't want to miss this. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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Is your diet making you sick and spiritually drained?
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With so many food fads promising health and happiness, keto.
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Paleo plant-based carnivore,
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It's easy to feel overwhelmed and confused.
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But what if science and scripture
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Are saying the same thing and we've just missed it?
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Tonight we're joined by pearl barrett
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And serene allison, founders of the trim healthy mama
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Movement and authors of the new e-book trim healthy wellness
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A biblical guide their mission to dismantle the food fads
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And rebuild our understanding of nutrition through the lens
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Of god's word and science, a great combination.
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Pearl, serene, welcome back to the show.
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Great to have you.
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Thank you. it's a pleasure to be here.
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Yeah. we want to unpack these diets.
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I just mentioned keto etc.
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They've got some pluses and minuses.
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So let's start with keto.
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What should we know about that diet?
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Well keto clearly demonized is a food group
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That god calls good.
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I mean, complex carbohydrates.
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We need them.
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He created them for a reason.
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We need them for our brain.
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Actually,
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Our brain thrives on glucose from complex carbohydrates.
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We need it for our hormones.
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We need it for our fibroid to nurture our thyroid.
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And we need it for our adrenals.
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Complex carbohydrates like sweet potatoes and ancient
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Grains and berries and fruit.
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They actually sing lullabies to stressed out adrenals.
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And we also need carbohydrates for our microbiome.
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And these foods that are fiber rich and filled with fat
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And nutrients, they actually the catalysts to build large,
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Robust families of good bacteria in our gut.
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And you know, you cannot have like a healthy human
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Without a healthy gut, right?
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It's the basis of all of our health.
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And, you know, jesus, he multiplied the loaves.
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And that just says it to me.
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He's like, why would he multiply something
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That is so devastating for our health?
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Of course
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It would have been made of ancient grains,
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Not the white fluffy bread.
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Sure, it seems that you need carbs to live basically.
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And, pearl, the paleo diet, that's another one.
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Now, that's kind of the caveman diet, i guess you would say.
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Tell us more about that.
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Well, i think it's another case of what man thinks
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It's best versus what god thinks is best.
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Because when you turn to the scriptures,
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You can
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Clearly eat and enjoy grains and dairy.
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And those are the two things
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That the paleo diet says, well, that's not good for us.
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They're inflammatory.
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But the bible, when it talks about forms of dairy,
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It actually says for the maintenance
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Of our health, which means the freshening.
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And so we're clearly designed to ingest these things.
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And look, god calls israel the promised land, a land
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Flowing with milk.
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Yes. dairy. honey.
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I think we can just get so confused
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Because man's wisdom is kind of like, you know,
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The winds of doctrine, you know, talks like that.
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But but we can just turn to the scripture and say, well, god,
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Do you have anything to say about this?
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And then, you know, dairy is mentioned over 70 times,
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Grains of mentioned over 300 times in the scriptures.
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And a positive ways. yeah.
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I like you said, it's fads.
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It seems it's something new.
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Every week i'm hearing about a new diet.
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One is plant based.
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Three now plant based seems good on the surface.
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Look you think of vegetables,
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But what about any drawbacks there?
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Yeah, because a healthy diet needs a surplus of veggies.
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We are all about it.
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But when you just kind of restrict
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Other food groups and you be exclusive
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And you become just exclusive
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To the plant kingdom, only it has a drawback.
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Because we need meat.
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Meat has essential nutrients, essential peptides
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That actually lower blood pressure, lower blood sugar,
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Help with better body composition, and actually meat.
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It's healthy for our gut.
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It it balances the colon.
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And we need we need animal foods,
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Especially the critical fats the dhea,
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The vitamin b12, the vitamin d3, creatine foods.
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These animal foods, they have these essential
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Nutrients that you cannot find in the plant kingdom.
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You know, in the resurrected christ, he he ate fish.
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So if it's good enough for the resurrected
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Christ is good enough for me. so a lot. of chicken and fish.
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I mean, grilled chicken.
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Still a good prescription for a good diet.
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Oh yeah. we need the balance.
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The balance of both clean sources too.
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Just seeking clean, pure sources of these things.
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Okay, speaking of which, i know a lot of
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Guys are going to like this, and we're in texas right now.
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This is steak, country barbecue, country carnivore, pearl,
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The carnivore diet. tell us more about it.
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There's some drawbacks there.
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Carnivore.
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Well, first of all, we're not a lion or a tiger.
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We're an omnivore.
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Like, even if some health influences
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Says we'll eat like a big cat, but we're humans, and god didn't
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Make us to eat like a big cat.
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So he made us to eat meat.
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And these other food groups.
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And when you restrict those,
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You exclude all those vital nutrients. now,
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The people promoting carnivore like meat is good for you.
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Well, hey, we just agreed with that.
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But they're saying these things in plants
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That are out to kill us.
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You know, maybe you've heard like oxalates and lectins
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And these things, humans aren't designed to eat them.
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And designed, but actually we are,
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Because god designed us with that microbiome.
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Serine talked about it.
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And in it that bacteria takes care of those things.
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So if we eat the plants,
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We take care of those things that are in plants.
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So a beautiful cycle.
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Yeah folks, this is biblical wisdom
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For your diet, for your health.
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Trim healthy mama.com. check it out.
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There's some great products there as well in addition to the
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E-book and also follow serena and pearl across social media.
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We were talking before we started serena.
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It seems a lot of this is plain common sense.
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You know, kind of.
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I'm old school diet and exercise and not a fad diet.
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Just common sense, healthy choices.
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Yeah, it's so simple.
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But most people are educated
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Beyond their common sense now in a way that they just
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They're on insane approaches and, you know, so
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These, these, these fad diets, but also just the sad
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Standard american diet that doesn't work either.
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So what is it that. fries aren't good for it?
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What is the. shake on the side?
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The ancient path is what's left.
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Returning to the simple, returning to the sane.
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Returning to that sound path.
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You know.
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And they're also some tools to make that easier.
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So check out our website.
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We have lots of tools and supplements
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To just help us on our way to hell.
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Yeah, pearl.
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Trimhealthymama.com and the number for the e-book folks.
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1-800-746-3640, you see it there on your screen.
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1-800-746-3640 and of course, trim
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Healthy mama.com for some final thoughts here.
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We've got about a minute left. what's your big message?
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Big takeaway from the e-book in particular.
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The e-book just
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Gives us the knowledge
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And to make this lifestyle of eating basic, sane foods
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Doable in our fast paced, busy world where, yeah, we,
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Bombarded with things like processed foods and sugars.
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And yes, i actually think that's an extreme diet.
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Yeah, but god's calling us to something
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Here's foods and they can be delicious.
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They can be easy.
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It doesn't have to be complicated.
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And we just share that because it's worked in our lives
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And it's worked for millions of people.
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Yeah, that dual plan.
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Yeah.
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You're changing lives. it's amazing.
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And from a biblical perspective, even better folks
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Trimhealthymama.com/tbn trimhealthymama.com/tbn again
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1-800-746-3640 to pick up the great e-book
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Ladies this was great.
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Thank you so much. god bless. keep up the great work.
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We appreciate it.
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Coming up, my final thoughts don't move.
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Coming up, my final thoughts don't move.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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As we wrap up here,
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I've been thinking about this grip that paganism.
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Yes, modern day
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Literal paganism has in many quarters of the west.
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There's really no excuse at this point.
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Jesus has revealed himself to the nations.
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I think of the book of acts, chapter 17, verse 30.
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In the past, god overlooked such ignorance,
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But now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
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Amen. and folks, we can have revival.
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But first comes repentance.
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The good news is i see some very encouraging trends.
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Certainly in america, we hope revival can spread
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To europe, where the gospel used to go out from for centuries.
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But exciting times that we're living in right now.
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God is moving,
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But we need to recognize the dual threats this pagan ism,
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Left wing atheistic worldview, and the rise of radical islam
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In the west.
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Hey, tomorrow night,
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Someone who knows both of those threats
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Very well is our good friend, doctor robert jeffress.
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He's here talking about his brand new, very timely book,
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Jesus revealed in the end times.
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Folks, you won't want to miss that until then.
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God bless you. we'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: August 21, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

August 21, 2025 | S25 E821 | 25:5

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