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To the year of our Lord 2026, where Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc is being portrayed as a woman on stage in Scotland. What? I'm sorry, how is this any different from Ryan Gosling playing Barack Obama? Okay, honestly, we have got to stop. This is getting insane in Scotland. George Bernard Shaw's original play called Saint Joan is taking to the stage this year and of all people, I'm sure she's wildly talented and she's really beautiful, but they have cast Mandeepa Cabana, a young black actress, to play Joan of Arc on stage. You may think it's no big deal, it's totally fine. Make no mistake about it. This is very intentional. This is a very intentional rewriting of history and on social media. The Herald in Scotland, a publication is defending this, saying the classic tale of war, duplicity, power and wealth is getting a fresh new treatment by making sure we race swap throughout history. This is just the latest example in a string of Hollywood race swapping. Some of our favorite stories, and honestly, some people tend to exaggerate and get a little crazy when it's our favorite fictional stories. Was it annoying that the Little Mermaid eventually became black when Ariel actually is a white girl with red hair? Yeah, it was annoying and not great and the movie kind of flopped as a result. Is it annoying that Helen of Troy described throughout countless Greek mythology pieces and Greek historic literature as a blonde woman with blue eyes, the proverbial daughter of Zeus is being portrayed this year in Christopher Nolan's the Odyssey by Lupita Nyong'. O. Yeah, it's frustrating. Even though Lupita is absolutely stunning and one of the most talented actresses of our time in Hollywood. So I get it. That's annoying. But this is a real person who is one of the most iconic people throughout human history that they are intentionally trying to distort to rewrite her story and to fit it into whatever the woke mob is demanding right now, right here in the west in 2026. Honestly, I shouldn't even really be surprised in the first place because this is just yet another example of how they always go after Catholic saints. And Joan of Arc herself has been on the Receiving end of the let's rewrite her whole history treatment for the last couple of years. In 20, the Shakespeare Globe Theater, as in the Shakespeare Globe Theater just down the road from Scotland in England, tried to portray Joan of Arc on stage as someone with they them pronouns, brother. A non binary person putting on this play called I Joan. The same publication defending the race swapping of St. Joan of Arc, the Herald in Scotland defended this. Then in 2022 with this headline issue of the day, Wok Row as new play portrays Joan of Arc as non binary. The author of the play, I Joan, his name was Charlie. Josephine said of the production this it's going to be this big sweaty queer revolution rebellion festival of like joy. It's a big story on a big stage. Joan of Arc was this incredible historical figure. Joan was this working class young person who was transgressing gender at a time when it really dangerous. And that just felt instantly relatable to me. I was assigned female at birth. Excuse me? I used the wrong pronouns on this person. I called him a man, mistakenly thinking Charlie was inevitably a man. Nope, she was assigned female at birth. I'm non binary. I'm from a working class background. I've often felt like I had something to say and haven't been given permission to say it. I'm sorry, why were we not more outraged about this in 2022? A non binary playwright has to insert their non binariness, the they them ness, the queerness of themselves into some of the greatest true historical nonfiction stories of all time. My girl, St. Joan of Arc, one of my favorite saints in the world, by the way, did not lead France to victory, to save her country in the Hundred Years War, then be burned at the stake, then be canonized as an official saint of the Catholic Church for us to turn her into a black or non binary person. I'm sorry. I think people just really underestimate how truly badass and complete unequivocally devoted to God Saint Joan of Arc actually was. But maybe I shouldn't be surprised that we're not upset about this in the first place, actually, because it turns out we're all just stupid. We're all morons. Someone uncovered a Pew Research survey that was released recently that found this 12%. 12% of Americans are under the impression that Noah of Noah and the ark and Joan, St. Joan of Arc, were married. You guys, that's like 5,000 years of history between, between those two people. And we think they're married because they both reference an ark. Are you serious? The Lack of proper historical education and religious catechesis of American Christians. I swear, 12% of our country actually thinks that. Not the least of which reasoning, because Noah's Ark is ark and Joan of Arc is Arc. But you know, and honestly, maybe it's just me, but is it not more racist to be telling people from minority communities that the only great stories worthy of bringing to the stage or the screen are putting black actors and actresses in white? Historically accurate stories. That to me feels really pathetic when there are countless fascinating, incredible stories of actual black people throughout history worthy of being told. There are more than 1,000 saints in the Catholic church of African descent. And instead of highlighting any one of their stories, like, I don't know, St. Augustine, one of the greatest saints throughout all of human history, from Algeria originally. Instead, you have to portray. Portray Joan of Arc as black or as non binary. Maybe it's me. You just don't see this the other way around. You never see Ryan Gosling being cast to portray Barack Obama, or as I said the other day when we were talking about Helen of Troy, Sydney Sweeney cast to portray Rosa Parks. But you are always seeing this happen with white characters on stage and on screen who are real people throughout history. These people are honestly sick. And all of this is preventable when you think about it, because we can just make better stories of actual minorities and minority communities instead of replacing white stories with black actors. And on the note of preventable health, back to everything in just a second. But first, I want to talk to you guys about something that has hit me so much harder. 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Check out the link in today's show notes for 20% off at Jevoty using Code Isabel because investing in your health now means so much more time with the people who matter the most. Ironically, at a time that the radical left is also trying to tell you that whiteness isn't even really a thing to begin with. AOC said as much this week. There's a very big difference between whiteness and national, like your actual culture, right? Whiteness is an imaginary thing. Being German is real. Being Italian is real, you know, being English. These are rich cultural heritages that are based on values, and they are so much a part of what make our our. Our cultures and our societies what they are. AKA whiteness just doesn't exist. Could you imagine if she had said that about blackness or about being Latino or about being Asian? Asians don't exist. It's just Japanese and Chinese and Taiwanese. I mean, really. And interestingly, she's kind of got an interesting point. There is a rich cultural heritage associated with tradition. European customs like the ballet and the opera and classical music and amazing food and the church and the university system and so many other amazing things that we have allowed to be completely rewritten or just swept under the rug because everyone is afraid to acknowledge the ridiculous erasure of white heritage throughout all of human history. Joan of Arc would never is all I have to say about that. And if I may, Saint Joan of Arc, please pray for us to have the courage to fight for our culture the way that you did laying your life down for it. Sam.