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Apparently, it's not enough to throw you in prison over a Facebook comment. These days, the UK is cracking down even more on free expression. Arresting grandmas for silently standing nearby abortion facilities, blocking the download of a Bible app. But you can still get the Quran and potentially introducing digital id. Are you guys okay over there across the pond? Blink twice if you need our help. We're breaking it all down here on the Isabel Brown show. Plus, it's fat Bear week, so stick around to help us vote for our favorite bear. My concerns about our brethren across the pond are continuing to amplify with every passing day. So, Brits, if you're watching this episode, can you just comment to let us know that you are in fact still alive? Or like, maybe if you can't comment because you'll probably end up in prison. As we will learn from today's episode, blink twice. Call a friend. Phone one of us in America. Do you need to become the 51st state? There's a lot of conversation about this happening. Obviously, you guys know we cover all of the insane crusade against free speech, and I don't use that word ironically here in the United Kingdom a lot on our show because I have a huge heart for our British brothers and sisters, but honestly, I just continue to not be able to understand the lengths that your government will go to to violence any sort of political discourse or opposition of thought whatsoever. And it's getting crazier by the day. So we have some updates for you on the saga of Orwellian manifestation happening in today's insane United Kingdom and on the notes of George Orwell coming to life and 1984 being an instruction manual rather than a wonderful fiction novel that is required reading if you're going to watch the Isabel Brown Show. I. I just want to say this before we jump into how insane the British government really is. Kudos to the actual citizens of the United Kingdom because you guys are getting more and more creative with every passing day, finding new ways to fight back against censorship. I saw this clip this morning on Twitter and just died laughing. Could not help myself. Someone has officially renamed their pub in the UK after George Orwell and projected.
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Some new things on the wall.
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Big Brother is watching you. Freedom is slavery.
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War is peace.
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The whole nine.
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And they renamed their pub the Ministry of Truth, which I absolutely love.
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I say this all the time. I do not understand how George Orwell wrote some of the greatest fiction novels of all time from within the United Kingdom. You guys all read these books, presumably? I mean, it's required reading in America. So I imagine it's required reading in the United Kingdom to read animal farm in 1984, I would hope. And yet, here's where your government is Absolute insanity. Shout out to you all the George Orwell Pub. The Ministry of Truth Pub. Thank you for making people aware of.
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How bad things actually are.
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But actually, this isn't even an exaggeration, truly, because the war on free expression is this bad. It is as if they used 1984 as an instruction manual for 2025. And every day seems to be getting crazier and crazier and crazier. First and foremost, I don't know what the National Health Service is doing these days. Certainly they're not really providing health care meaningfully in any way, shape or form to people. I was feeling really optimistic about the future of the NHS when about a year ago they said they were going to stop and halt all trans treatment for children. Treatment, using that word a bit subjectively there. And I'm thinking, okay, great, we're, we're moving in the right direction. But it seems multiculturalism has taken over the UK so intensely that this week the National Health Service in the United Kingdom actually put out a statement supportive of first cousins getting married, notably because many immigrants from certain countries coming into the United Kingdom in the midst of the migrant crisis are culturally marrying their first cousins. And their statement actually says, the NHS says first. First cousin marriage is linked to stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages. So it's, it's horrible, it's just not cool. If the Royal Family marries their cousins, that's really bad and we should move on from that in society, rightfully so. But if migrants into the United Kingdom marry their first cousin, it's just a cultural difference and actually, you're going to have a lot more support in the process because both sides of the family are the same side of the family.
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What are we doing?
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They got so much backlash for this so, so quickly, especially from Brits who were upset about this, that they ended up taking down that statement off the NHS website. But I was, for one, floored that backlash to this was even allowed to be posted on the Internet. You guys know, over the past few weeks, we've been really, really intensely covering the very draconian, insanely dystopian Digital Services act in the EU and the similar legislation that exists in the uk, basically saying anything that whoever the powers that be deemed to be misinformation and hate speech cannot be accessed inside the UK or the EU at large. These laws are what is allowing all of these horrifying government officials to start putting you in prison for comments on Facebook, for posting something on Twitter, for retweeting somebody else. Because don't you know, disagreeing with how the government is handling something today is inherently incitement to violence. Also this week a new story was emerging from the UK that blew my mind. A man has been sentenced because of laws like this to two years in prison for this comment on Facebook. Listen to this. Judge read this sentence to a post.
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Questioning why you wrote because they're over here given life of Riley off the tax us hard working people earn when it could be put to better use. Come over here with no work visa, no trade to their name and sit down and doss. And then there's more people being put out homeless each year. They get top band priority on housing. You went on to say that you did not want your money going to immigrants who quote, rape our kids and get priority, end quote. Although you said that you had no intention of carrying out any act of violence, there can be no doubt that you were inciting others to do so.
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There can be no doubt that you were inciting violence for literally just saying objectively true statements. My friend Graham Allen really started his career as a commentator with the tagline because you can't, I'll say it for you. So borrowing Graham's phrase because you all can't over there across the pond, we will gladly say it for you. It is objectively true that there is a migrant crisis happening in United Kingdom where people who have no work visas, who are not contributing to the economy and who are taking a whole lot of taxpayer money are showing up and fundamentally changing the fabric of both the economy and UK society. That's just an objective statement. And on the latter half comment there, that really nailed the coffin for this guy being sentenced to two years in prison. He commented on Facebook, I don't want to my hard earned tax money going towards people who are raping children in the United Kingdom and then they have no punishment for these things whatsoever. Of course if you post about it and just point out that it's happening, you are inciting violence and need to be locked up in prison. The people actually violently raping your children are not inciting violence. You are. But let's say it for you because you guys can't. In the year ending in June 2024, there were 70,000 rape offense in England and Wales. 70,000. A massive increase from the previous year. Rape offenses are accounting for almost 35% of all recorded sexual offenses in the United Kingdom. And when you break down demographically, it's pretty obvious that there is a migrant crisis fueling a rape crisis, especially of children in the United Kingdom. But you can't talk about it, can't post about it, can't point out that it's happening in your own community. Only actual violence is allowed to happen in the United Kingdom, not the hate speech that so clearly is fueling violence. And maybe this is the part. Me as an American, I just can't really understand. And hopefully you Brits will start to understand more as to why something like 1776 happened in the first place. But when you start comparing the speech related arrests in the UK compared to the rest of the world, it's the most insane authoritarian thing I've ever seen. I think I've showed this to you guys on my my content before, but I think it bears repeating again. Let's pull up this number. Tommy Robinson shared the arrest numbers for countries all over the world related to freedom of speech for the year 2023. It's the year that we have the most data available. The United Kingdom tops the list at almost 13,000 offenses arrested for speech related offenses in the year 2023. Uh, Iran had a hundred, Iran had 100 speech related arrests and the United Kingdom had almost 13,000. As you just heard, these arrests are not happening from people saying light things on fire, like passing the fire in a theater test like we have here in the United States. It's not people saying people deserve to be violently attacked in any capacity. It's literally people commenting on matters of current events and public policy and the news on their own social media pages, or not even saying anything at all. Hang on, Isabel. How can you have hate speech? How can you be inciting violence with your speech when you are saying nothing? Here's how. In Scotland this week, an elderly grandmother, an old woman, was arrested using a massive gaggle of police officers for standing inside the buffer zone near an abortion facility. We've covered this law with you guys on the show before. I think it hit the books about a year ago, if I'm remembering correctly. But if you are within a certain number of feet of an abortion facility, you cannot speak, you cannot offer help, you cannot be a shoulder to cry on. And most shockingly, you cannot pray silently in Scotland today because you may be influencing someone's decision to have an abortion. This woman was standing outside within the buffer zone, not saying anything, not praying, not trying to convince anyone to do something or not, but simply holding a sign to say, I Am here if you need to talk to someone or if you need any help. This was the response from this woman's decision to stand there. I'm just here with my sign offering conversation. Right, so what part of the buffer zone legislation I'm breaching then?
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Do you want me to read it to you?
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Yes.
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So in terms of behaviours that breach the legislation, where there's intent or recklessness, or may include approaching someone to try and persuade them not to access abortion services, surrounding people as they try to go in and out of the clinic or the hospital, this is the hospital here within the buffer zone, handing out leaflets, religious preaching and silent vigils. Okay, I'm arresting you under section 1 of the Criminal Justice Scotland Act.
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They end up bringing multiple police officers, I think there was five or six later on in that clip, to put her in handcuffs, very forcibly arrest her and drag her away. Probably to be imprisoned in some capacity for a long, long time. And did you read her sign?
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The irony here is beyond, beyond anything.
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My brain can begin to process. First line, coercion is a crime. Who exactly was she coercing? From what I saw, there was only one direction of coercion happening there and it is a totalitarian police state that is trying to take away any semblance of free expression whatsoever. Especially since becoming a mom, my skin has needed all the help it can possibly get. It's been looking tired and dull, mainly from all of those sleepless nights, hello, four month sleep regression and the non stop work that our team is doing constantly to keep this show up and running for you guys. I was honestly starting to get really frustrated and trying tons of different products that just weren't working for my skin When I finally discovered Bon Charge and their amazing red light face mask. And it has been a total game changer. Bon Charge is an amazing wellness brand that creates science backed products using both ancestral wisdom and cutting edge research. Their red light face mask has become my favorite sacred self care me time. I use it for just 10 to 20 minutes at night when I'm watching the news, I'm doing show research or just putting Isla to sleep in her crib at night. It is super lightweight, it doesn't get hot and it uses both red light and near infrared to boost collagen production and elastin production as well. And don't let him tell you I told you so, but my husband has been known to steal it for himself.
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Every once in a while too.
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Go to boncharge.com and use coupon code isabel to save 15% that's b o n c h a r g e dot com coupon code isabel for 15% off the great irony about all of this, especially as it relates to George Orwell, is that Orwell was so worried about a dystopian society in the Future in 1984 and in Animal Farm that not only prevented your ability to speak freely but also made you self censor to the point that we had something called group think where you literally could not even begin to make up your own opinions, your own values, your own perspectives, your own thoughts about the world because it was a crime thought crime to challenge your own ideas in your own head, going against the narrative of the state. Just in the last few days it's become obvious that thought crime is the next crusade from the UK government against their own citizens. Because of draconian laws like the dsa, the Digital Services act in the EU and the comparable legislation in the uk, it became obvious to people on social media that people in the UK and EU can't even download the world's most popular Bible app, the Bible Gateway app, which has been banned in the UK under this legislation. I saw this tweet about it and was immediately floored. The Bible Gateway App. I use the Bible Gateway website all the time by the way, for my homework in my theology program at Notre Dame. I use it literally every day. The Bible Gateway app is the most popular online Bible website and app in the world. It is used by millions upon millions of Christians around the world to find Bible verses and it has been removed in the UK due to the Online Safety Act. You can see the screenshots of their explanation as to why this is taken down. They say it is because of this legislation. We don't know when it's going to be restored. If you're paying for a subscription to help our app succeed, you're going to be refunded for that. It's just about online safety, protecting people from misinformation and hate speech. Of course good people did the due diligence to then uncover that you can indeed download the Quran in the UK and the eu. No Bible, but yes, you can download the Quran. That's totally safe. No misinformation or hate speech whatsoever. Is it not obvious to people that they are trying to police what you think? It started with what you say out loud and then that evolved into what you post online because it's no longer safe to speak out loud on a street corner. And the only really true public square that we have today exists here. It exists in our social media platforms. Then when that started to get arrested, arrest warranty and worthy of locking you in prison for Facebook comments, for retweets, certainly for making content of your own. Why do you think there's not a massive realm of British content creators the same way that there is here in America? It's because they will go to prison for it. Winston Marshall, our very dear friend on the show, has spoken about this repeatedly. That then evolved into silently voicing your opinions by like holding a sign outside saying coercion is a crime. I'm here if you need any help. And silently praying in your home. Like this buffer zone legislation related to abortion facilities. And now they don't even want you to get to the point where you could even want to pray because you can't read the Bible to learn about Christianity in the first place. At least not from this one app. But I see the snowball rolling down the hill faster and faster and faster and faster again. You guys probably can't ask for help, but like blink twice, we will gladly come help you. It has gotten so far beyond the pale, I can't even believe that this is the world we're living in for so many people. And by the grace of God, America was saved from very, very similar legislation with the reelection of Donald Trump last November. But we can't stop fighting now. If anything, we have to keep fighting harder. Because what we had as a win last November is stopping one domino from falling that will immediately cascade into stripping all of our God given rights in the process. And believe it or not, it's only getting crazier now moving forward into the rest of the week for our British friends. I hope it's obvious from today's episode that legitimate journalism, the one where you can criticize the government, has never been more important than it is right now. And it's totally shocking to me that more people haven't heard of YAF's National Journalism Center. There is not a more important and consequential pipeline from college into conservative media than the NJC. They boast a 12 week internship training program that is fully paid and gives you access to the best reporters and personalities in the business. It also sticks you right in a working newsroom in your first week. You want to be at the center of the nation's biggest political stories. The NJC is the fastest way to do it. We've had reporters from right here at the Daily Wire who are graduates of NJC and launched their professional careers immediately. Our NJC alumni have pursued stories relentlessly like taking pictures from helicopters to cover community development with illegal immigrants and so, so, so much more. Their reporting was also featured on Ben Shapiro's podcast, Fox News and tons of other prominent media outlets. This reporting from Daily Wire's NJC alum has created real, tangible change and put concrete wins on the board for all American Patriots. It all traces back to NJC's internship journalism bootcamp which covers everything you need to know to break into media, whether you're interested in podcasting like me, video production, print reporting or independent journalism. Most importantly, if you are tired of the fake news liberal media and you want to win, you can get off the sidelines and into the game. Submit your application to the National Journalism center today. I guess Keir Starmer's government isn't busy enough just locking people in prison for several years for Facebook comments. Just this week they decided to announce a new initiative from the British government that's maybe even more dystopian than anything else. We just talked about a new mandatory digital id. Listen to the PM explain this new.
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Initiative why today I am announcing this government will make a new free of charge digital ID mandatory for the right to work by the end of this Parliament. Let me spell that out. You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital id. It's as simple as that.
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Oh, don't like that, don't like that.
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Nope. Immediately.
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No.
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I've seen what I needed to see. That's not going to be it for me.
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And amazingly, even Brits are having the capacity to stand up and say nope. That's the line. We're not going any further. One of my favorite followers on social media is news daddy Dylan Page, who had this to say about Digital id.
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Okay guys, breaking news.
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It's actually happening. So every adult in the UK will now be required to have a new government issued digital id. Why, you may ask? Well, apparently immigration is the reason. So this announcement is supposed to be made official tomorrow by Keir Starmer and anyone starting A a new job in the UK will be soon required to present that digital id. Now this is all because it's said to be helping illegal immigration, because those digital IDs would then be automatically checked against a central database that will see if you are legally allowed to work in the UK or not. Now it probably should be noted that this has been a talking point in the UK for many years, but no government before has done this one because it of massive public hesitancy around digital IDs, but also because of the big questions of whether this would even help the problem it's intended to help in the first place. There's also a lot of other concerns about privacy, about civil liberties, about potential cyber attacks, having access to all of that data. And then also the big question is, is that if it doesn't have the intended effect that it does so it doesn't drop that UK small boat crisis, then will it be abolished? Will it be taken away? And if not, then why? So let me know what you guys think. Are you a fan of digital IDs or not?
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It's an interesting distinction and I'm glad he paints it and and creates this narrative behind it as to what's it allegedly intending to fix because that's the defense that the UK government has had in the last few days. Well, you guys have been screaming at us about migrant insanity, so we're trying to make sure that migrants don't take your jobs. That's a very worthy, incredibly noble cause. A good hill for us to be dying on. But if we've learned anything in the United States, just friend to friend, American.
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To Brit, who might be watching this.
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Reacting with extreme ideas of government takeover in the midst of a crisis has literally never panned out well in our nation or any nation's best example of which is probably the Patriot act, which had incredibly worthy, noble goals and ambitions in the wake of the 911 terror attacks that fundamentally changed the world forever, but now have stripped American citizens of some of our most basic liberties and is something we're constantly fighting about every single day to the point that as an American citizen we warned about this repeatedly under the Biden administration's regime here for the last few years in America, as an American citizen, you could be stripped of your citizenship and treated as a literal terrorist threat to the country, locked in prison for the rest of your life if the government deems you to be threatening to the interest of national security. Under the Biden admin, as we've now learned, they were labeling Catholics as domestic terrorists. For going to Latin Mass. They were labeling Turning Point USA student activists handing out socialism sucks buttons as literal terrorists. The Department of Homeland Security under Biden actually labeled students for life, which I do a lot of work with, and.
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They'Re the sweetest, nicest, mostly homeschooled kids.
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Ever as on par of a terrorist organization with Al Qaeda. So don't overreact in situations of emotional turmoil and national issues happening across the country. If I can teach you anything, and if America can teach you anything, it doesn't really matter what the intention is here. The impact could be disastrous. Digital ID is not just a convenient way to make sure that everybody has their work visa saved to Apple Wallet on their phone. In fact, many of the pioneers of digital ID have been telling you exactly what the purpose of this nefarious technology would be for years. Like him? Hate him. Excited about the Oracle acquisition of TikTok or not? But the CEO of Oracle, Larry Ellison, has been talking about digital ID and exactly what it is intended to accomplish for years. Don't take my word for this dystopian nightmare that is going to ensue if we adapt digital ID in the UK or anywhere else around the world. Listen to one of the champions of digital ID tell you himself.
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Your body cams will be transmitting, that the police will be on their best behavior because we record. We're constantly recording, watching and recording everything that's going on. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on.
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When you come to government and what government's doing there, obviously there are artificial intelligence tools and some of them, I know that Oracle have developed around financial management for government, but also tell us a bit about what, what, because you're right at the forefront of this revolution, what it means for what government should do in terms of its digital infrastructure, you know, digital ID data centers and so on.
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How do you take advantage of these incredible AI models? And the first thing a country needs to do is to unify all of their data so it can be consumed, consumed and used by the AI model. You have to take all of your health care data, your diagnostic data, your electronic health records, your genomic data, and you know, in the Middle east, in the uae, for example, they, they're incredibly rich in data. They have a lot of popular population data. The NHS in the UK has an incredible amount of population data, but it's fragmented.
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It.
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It's not easily accessible by these AI models. We have to take all of this data we have in our country and move it into a single, if you will, unified data platform so that, so we provide context when we want to ask a question. We've provided that AI model with all the data they need to understand our country. So that's the, that's the big step.
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Step.
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That's kind of the missing link. We need to unify all of the national data, put it into a database where it's easily consumable by the AI model, and then ask whatever question you like.
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No, immediate, immediately, no. Lots to go off of there, but you heard the man. Hey. Every single government in the world should be able to, at the drop of one pin, access every single data point about you to make sure it's really you. So it's not just conveniently digitizing your work visa the same way Keir Starmer is trying to tell you this is all about. No. No. The champions of digital ID want every single health record that has ever applied to you, every medication you've ever taken, every diagnosis you've ever received, every scan you've ever gone through at the doctor to be in this digital passport ID of who you are. They'll couple that to your biometric data, like your fingerprint, in order to log into any login ever. Starting with the platforms that are owned by Oracle, which now include TikTok in the United States and around the world, but also your banking information, your financial opportunities, all of your secure passwords. Because it's, it's safer. It's safer. It's so much safer. It's way more secure. Just trust us and give us every single piece of information about yourself yet. No, that's going to be a fat no from me immediately. But you heard Tony Blair there, you heard so many of these people advocate for the fact that this is an opportunity. It's an opportunity to revolutionize government. Saying this at the World Government Summit, you literally can't make this stuff up. So I worry, I worry for the fact that these insane stories we're seeing in the UK are not going to stay isolated to the uk. These ideas about digital ID are not isolated to confronting the migrant crisis, which is a very real crisis. And you guys have to figure out a way to deal with that. We do too, here in America. Luckily, we have someone in office who is dealing with that appropriately. And we've had zero illegal boarding cross border crossings for the last few months as a result of strong leadership. But what problems are we creating in the process? I, I promise you, always here on the Isabel Brown show, we're not just going to identify bad things and then say, wow, that's bad, we actually have to come up with a solution. So point blank, I think it's important for us to say any flourishing society in Western civilization has to be built upon, at the very bare minimum, a foundation of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. If you lack the capacity to freely articulate questions about what's going on in the world, to criticize decisions made by your government officials, to challenge your own perspectives, to look up a difference of opinion, to engage with a podcaster or a tiktoker that might disagree with you, or even to seek out God by reading the Bible, you do not live in a free society. And at the very bare minimum, citizens of of countries in the west. If we want to live in free countries, which I hope we do, need to demand free expression to begin with, and then we should probably throw digital ID away in the process. But if you think things are bad in the UK now, just wait until every single data point and information piece of information about you is put into one government controlled pathway. Just say no immediately. No. I love Scotland and I spend a lot of time there, but you can bet I am not going to stop praying just because that's their law. Currently on the books and this this month, one of my favorite prayer challenges on my personal favorite prayer app, Hallow has returned Saints in Seven Days. The point of the series is very, very simple. The saints are not just distant figures on stained glass windows that we see occasionally when we show up for church on Sunday morning. The saints were real men and women whose lives, with all of their struggles and triumphs, reveal the grace and glory of God. And in discovering their stories, we may begin to see how God is quietly at work in our own lives too. Starting at the beginning of this month, they started with King David, a brought to life by Michael Iskander from the series House of David, which is also great by the way. David's story is one of my favorite in scripture. He was a shepherd, a warrior, a king, a poet. He, like everyone, was flawed but always still returned back to the Lord. His psalms still echo with raw honesty, repentance and trust, and it's why we still sing them today. On September 22, they launched the next round of Saints in Seven Days with Gwen Stefani, telling the story of Esther, the young queen who risked everything standing before power to become God's instrument of salvation for her people. Now we are walking through the next two for this year's Saints in Seven Days with Saint Therese of Lisu, who shows us that holiness in the little way is exactly how we can become more saint. Like making choices of everyday love and trust. And Saint Oscar Romero, who teaches us what it means to stand for truth and justice, even to the point of losing our own lives through martyrdom. Together, these witnesses remind us that holiness is not a one size fits all journey. God writes his story in each individual life in including yours. You can join us anytime for saints in seven days and get 90 days, three months free at Hallow for thousands of prayers, meditations, music.
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They have Gregorian chant playlists, everything you.
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Can possibly imagine@halloween.com isabel okay, I got.
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Several comments from you guys asking if we were going to be covering this this week.
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You.
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You know me so well.
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I often get criticized for just being a government hater and I want anarchy and I hate any sort of government structure whatsoever. That's not true. It's. It's actually really not true. I think the government does serve certain purposes and the government does engage in some important initiatives that are beautiful and we should celebrate every single year, not the least of which is, in my opinion, the single greatest thing that the government does every year.
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It's Fat Bear Week, baby. It is my favorite time of the year.
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Back up. I'm a national parks aficionado. Okay. Right behind me on set is Teddy Roosevelt. Right over here is one of my.
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Favorite parks, Grand Teton National Park.
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I grew up taking family road trips to the national parks instead of Disneyland for our family vacations because my mom didn't believe in standing in line for fake things and spending thousands of dollars in the process for family vacation time, which at the time, as a child, I really underappreciated. I think it was was a little bit of a slap in the face for your friends to say they went to California adventure for the 80th time and you were driving through the middle.
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Of nowhere, Utah, with, like, absolutely no.
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Connection to the outside world. Now, as an adult, I'm so grateful that that's how I was raised. And I cannot wait to eventually move back out west and to raise my kids having the exact same experiences. One of the best things that the National Park Service does every year is a bracket tournament from Katmai national park in Alaska, which has the largest concentration of brown grizzly bears anywhere in the world, which is so cool. I have not yet been to this park. It has been on my bucket list for years and years and years. But I have been to Alaska, and it is one of my favorite places in the world. As they get Closer to winter. Every September, they host a bracket tournament called Fat Bear Week.
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We'll put up the graphic for you right now of the bracket.
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I'm recording this probably before the voting has happened. This is Alaska time. So we may have some semifinal winners at this point and some final winners as well. This is fat bear week 2025. They identify in the park the bears that have gained the most weight from.
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The summer into the late fall because.
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They all hang out at Brooks Falls there in Katmai national park, which, by the way, fun fact, inspired the movie Brother Bear, which is my favorite Disney movie. It is so wildly underrated. Such a great film.
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And they basically have the public vote on how fat the bear gets to see who could be championed. The fat bear winner of every single year. Most of these are repeat contestants. This happens every single year. And the good ones are always the good ones.
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They put on the most weight, they pack a really big punch, and we're down to the semifinals at the time.
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Of me recording this episode today for you.
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So I thought it would be fun to show you the semifinal winners. You guys can go to the National Park Service website and catch cast your.
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Vote for Fat Bear Week as we.
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Do every year, because let's be honest, if government is going to be wasting our tax dollars doing anything, I would so much rather it be championing a fat bear than making ourselves really, really.
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Sad and censoring American citizens.
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So here are the final four contestants of Fat Bear Week. First up, we've got number 32, Chunk.
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Who packs quite the Chunk. Look at this bear. He's put on a lot of weight. God bless him. Go Chunk. We're so excited for you. I actually have the descriptions of these bears, so I want to read them to you because they're absolutely hilarious.
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Chunk is number 32. Here we go. Chunk is a large adult male with narrowly set eyes, dark brown fur, and a prominent brown brow ridge. He has a distinctive scar across his muzzle and a broken yet healing jaw. As a very large 1200 pound plus.
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Bear, he uses his size and his confidence to his advantage. They basically write up little dating profiles for these bears, and it's the cutest.
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Thing I've ever seen. All right. Grazer is a familiar face from the last few years. She has, I think, one Fat Bear.
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Week, one of the last few years.
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Or at least been pretty darn close. She's an adult female. She has conspicuously blonde ears and has.
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A grizzled light brown fur. In late summer and fall, she was.
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Introduced to the Brooks river as a Cub in 2000, 2005, 20 years later. That's crazy. She is a highly defensive mother bear who is raising her third litter of babies. That is awesome. Her fearsome nature is respected by other.
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Bears who often choose to give her.
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Space instead of risking a confrontation, which elevates her rank in the bear hierarchy.
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Above almost all bears, except for the largest males.
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You go queen, go off.
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We support bear feminism on this show.
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We've also got bear eight five, six. Eight, five, six. Holy.
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Holy moly. How did this bear pack on that much weight in a few weeks?
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That's the craziest thing I've ever seen. Large adult male. When he stands on all four legs, he is more than five feet tall at his shoulder. Well, there you go.
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Isabelle's a goner.
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She's five foot one. When fishing, he frequently licks his lips, which is a behavioral characteristic expressed by only a few bears. He was classified as a Young adult in 2000. 2006. By his 10th or 11th year of life, he became one of the biggest.
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Bears at the river with an assertive disposition equal to his size.
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Well, you'd have to be to pack on that much weight in, like, the span of a few weeks. Look at that chunk.
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It kind of looks like my dog Libby. I love him. He's so cute.
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And the last of the final four, we've got bear602. Holy.
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How did these bears do that? That's insane. Bear ozempic is not a problem that we have for the bears in the wild.
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Large adult male with uniformly grizzled brown fur. I feel like I'm adopting a pet.
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At the pet store.
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His ears are wide set and the fur on his middle of his forehead.
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Is often neatly parted. He's such a gentleman. What a distinguished gentleman.
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602 has used Brooks river more often in the late summer, despite being observed and knowing that salmon are available in in June and July. So he, like, packed on all this weight in the past few days. That's insane. God bless you, 602. You go king. I hope you win fat bear week. So we're down to the last few days of voting for fat bear Week. It all ends today, actually. I think they're crowning the winner today, which is amazing. This is by far one of my favorite things that the government spends its time wasting everyone's resources on. And please keep wasting the resources. If you're listening, National Park Service, because this is one of the things I look forward to every single year. But you don't have to Wait for Fat Bear Week to get to know the bears in the National Park Service. Katmai national park actually has a live bear cam that runs 24, 7, 365 at Brooks Falls.
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When we used to be working at Turning Point USA years and years ago, I like slowly indoctrinated everyone into getting really into Fat Bear Week. So while we were working, we would throw the Fat Bear Cam up on the screen and just leave it playing all the time.
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I think we have some clips from.
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The Fat Bear Cam here for you today as well. Look at the bears.
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So this literally just loops. And if they don't have anything live right now, they won't probably as we're recording this because it's the middle of the night in Alaska. They'll just show highlights so you can see this clearly inspired Brother Bear. This is real life. They just hang out there.
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They eat fish, they make friends, they.
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Fight each other sometimes. Last year, one of the contestants for Fat Bear Week died in the middle.
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Of Fat Bear Week.
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The drama was intense. Please go metaphorically touch the grass in Alaska and digitally vote for your favorite fat bear today. And then you got to let us.
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Know who you voted for in the comments because.
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Because God bless the National Park Service.
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We could all use a little bit.
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More fat bears and a little bit fewer fed up Brits Dealing with insanity these days, huh? Catch you guys tomorrow.