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The petrodollar is no more thanks to Mr. Robinette’s administration and domestic climate alarmism.

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0:00 - 15:00. John 15:11. Fullness of joy is only found within obedience to Jesus Christ. 15:00 - 31:00. The petrodollar is no more thanks to Mr. Robinette’s administration and domestic climate alarmism. 31:00 - 48:00. It was once said that the WNBA wanted to grow women’s basketball. Excluding Caitlyn Clark from the women’s U.S. olympic team is a great way to do that… right? Video Clip Links No U-Turn traffic sign Saudi Arabia Ends 50-year Petrodollar Deal

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    Darkness is not an affirmative force. It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio. It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite. Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media. And the philosophies of this world. God has called you and me to be his ambassador. Even in this dark moment. Let's not miss our moment. And now the Hamilton Corner. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton, the third here. Back from the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, where I was last week. Thanks be to God that we were able to get there. Do what needed to be done in return safely. I'm grateful to be in studio with you. This is going to be one of those shows where you are going to want to to A, tune in, B, share with your friends and family members, because some very significant things have transpired and unsurprisingly, our American Provid Media is not too interested in bringing it to your attention. But before we get to any of that, let's begin the program. As I mentioned Abraham Hamilton, III is my name. I am joined by the full corner contingent. well, including Mr. Rich. Right across from me, my man, 100 grand, Mr. Bobby. R-R-R-Rosa is in studio and in the screening room, we have produced extraordinary, often imitated, never duplicated, not even duplicated when he's in Virginia, introducing Virginians to his biceps, producing extraordinary real-day Mac ladies and gentlemen that we have Richie Rich in the screening room as well. And we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program. At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you are making your daily transition from your part time jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome. As you make that transition, I want to encourage you to do so with intentionality, understanding the primacy that God places on the family. It is of utmost importance that we understand that what goes on in your house is far more important what goes on in the White House even when the White House is occupied by a man who is clearly and I want to be kind demonstrably declining, demonstrably declining. What goes on in your house is far more important than that primarily because you are accountable to God for what you do with the time he has given you and the context in which he has placed you regarding what he She has commanded you and me to be first and secondarily to do.

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    It is a voice desire for the Lord's desire for all that we do in terms of living a life before Him, living the lifestyle of worship that it be done in obedience. Worship is not limited to a particular activity. Worship is a lifestyle and includes all kinds of things, singing songs in worship, studying the Lord's word, sharing his gospel, loving your neighbor, loving your enemies, obeying the commands and includes all of that. But at the pinnacle of this lifestyle, the worship obedience is at the pinnacle. We cannot claim to love God while simultaneously living in perpetual habitual disobedience to what he has commanded us. He said it very plainly, if you love me, obey me. This is our privilege. This is our mandate. This is our opportunity. So as you are making your transition to your full time job, let today be the day. If you haven't started before, let today be the day where you lead your families in worship. I'm talking to fathers. You celebrated Father's Day, Goddess ordained fathers and who are husbands to be the heads of our families that include spiritual leadership in our own. doesn't have any prerequisite of a particular gift set. You might say, I'm not a Bible teacher. I'm not this. I'm not that. Listen, you don't have to have any particular giftings or abilities in order to lead your family spiritually. It could be as simple as gathering your family, singing a Psalm or him of worship unto the Lord and reading a bit of his word together, praying for your children with a brief prayer. And that be the conclusion of your daily investment in leading your family in worship. but we are accountable to God for what we do with his heritage that he's entrusted to our care. If you have been doing this, do not become weary and well doing, but continue to do so.

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    Disciples are not made in a microwave. One of the foremost ingredients of disciple-making is that it takes time. By prioritizing this, you are not only making the affirmative communications or what you convey or what you read, but you are also demonstrating what is foremost in priority. We all have the same amount of time. What I have found is that the things that are valuable to us, we make time for it. All right. To the word of God, we go John chapter 15. John chapter 15, verse 11 is one primary verse that I want to present to you. John chapter 15, this is a part of the upper room discourse that is in the same chapter where Jesus talks about, Him being the true vine and we being his branches and there it's a profound Revelation and blessing for us here in God's word John chapter 15 Verse 11 Jesus is presenting this as a Accumulative statement following the things that he stated in the verse that precedes this verse says that proceed this verse This is the Apostle John recording Jesus's statements and he says this This is Jesus speaking these things I have spoken to you So that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be made for. Read it again. These things I have spoken to you so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be made for. This follows Jesus saying all manner of things. For example, in verse 10, if you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love. Just as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love. You know, verse seven, he says, if you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. You know, these kind of things, if you are a person who is not tethered to the King of glory, the focus will probably be on, we ask what if I wish?

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    When the true crux of that verse, the true invitation in that verse is abide in me, By abiding in the Lord, He transforms not merely our conduct, but He transforms our desires. He transforms our appetites. He transforms the things that we would wish, the things that we would ask. And it is because of that that He can say with the surety that for those who abide in Him, your supplications, your requests will be a reflection of a heart that is anchored and resting and abiding in Him. So it will fortify us against what the Apostle James describes as asking a miss, because your requests are laden and are engendered by the flesh. What are biting in him is the fulcrum of that verse. So as accumulation of all of the statements made previously, Jesus says, these things I spoken to you so that my joy may be in you. Have you ever stopped to consider that you, if you are a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ and for those who are listening to me who are not yet followers of Jesus Christ, do you know that Jesus is explaining that his joy can be in you? His joy can be in me. Have we ever considered when the scripture talks about the joy of the the Lord that literally is Jesus' joy, have you stopped to ponder, to meditate on, to consider the fact that Jesus is explaining to us that His joy is available to us? Oh, what an idea, what an opportunity. And then He adds to that, not only is His joy available to us, but He says so that your joy may be made full, fullness of joy, Joy never to be misconstrued or conflated with the idea of happiness, because happiness is based on happenstance.

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    You know, happiness is something that is a product of circumstances. The external environment determines whether or not you are happy, but joy is an internal disposition that persists and endures regardless of external circumstance. is, shout out to the climate zealots, it's a non-environmental phenomenon. Even though it might be smoggy on the outside, guess what's on the inside? Though it may be fairly proudly cloudy with a chance of meatballs on the outside, guess what's on the inside. I love it when I was young, the season saints would say, the joy of the Lord is in me. The world didn't give it to me and the world can't take it away. When I was a nice guy, I used to think, What are they talking about? Oh, what do I understand now? Do I understand now? And Jesus is explaining very simply, fullness of joy, which is available to every one of us, is contained within obedience to the Lord. Fullness of joy. Oh God, help us. Fullness of joy is contained within obedience to the Christ. This is how brothers and sisters, people ask me, someone ask me even today, man, how can you, how are you so optimistic, you're smiling all the time? And I know you know things that are going on, you see this happening around you, yeah, I see it all. But like I just said to you, my joy is not based on what's happening environmentally. My joy is not determined by inflation of the poorest southern border or the overwhelming crime rates and crazy, George Soros, district attorneys that are letting criminals out, downgrading felonies, unless your name is Trump, by the way.

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    Yeah, see all of that. But those things don't dictate my internal reality. Fullness of joy is contained with an obedience to the Christ. The question is very simply, if you're in a position where you say, man, I don't know, you tell my joy. I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about. I responding question to you would simply be, are you walking in obedience? Let me say it more clearly. Is your life characterized by consistent obedience to Jesus' teachings? Very simply. One of the major things at the end of the year in December, Christmas season, people are far more generous and considerate of others than they normally are. My simple question is, if you get so much gratification of being such a generous person, And the consideration is why would you limit that to December? Why can't you be January generous? Why you can't be June and July generous? It's hot outside and I'm generous on the inside. August generous, you know, some are vacation generous. Nobody says it has to be just in December. If some of you ain't even in December, but that's another story. Why not all year long? See, fullness of joy, not just joy to the 25% mark, not just joy to the 50% mark. Fullness of joy, cups that run over in joy. One of the not so secret secrets to Christ following and contending as joy filled warriors. One of the features of abiding in Christ is that the joy of the Lord truly is our strength. You have bloodied and beaten and battered, Paul and Silas unlawfully incarcerated, yet they're singing.

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    Lord, I bless you. I will. They're singing because fullness of joy is contained within obedience to the Christ. And as you follow him and begin to obey him, what you'll find is that his word is true, that his commandments are not burdensome. They're life-giving. His rules are guardrails. They're not rigid. Just to keep you from enjoying what you find is that the things that you used to enjoy actually was cancer. Actually was making you sick. These things I have spoken to you so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be made for. If you are in Christ, embrace Jesus' joy if you've not yet come to saving faith in the Lord above. What are you waiting for, man? Because there's joy on this side, my boy. There's joy over here. Shining light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton, III. Here we had a wonderful time in Denver, Colorado. Thank you to the Christian home educators of Colorado, brother Dalton Lockman for inviting me and Stephen Craig and his wonderful wife and all of the people there. We had an amazing time, but I'm glad to be back in studio with you July 18th through the 20th in Bartlett, Tennessee. I'll be joining some wonderful Godly people for the Culture Proof Conference, where the theme is resist. You, I'm telling you, you don't want to miss it. Dr. Renton Rathbun, I've been talking about him and his profound articulation of a biblical worldview.

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    Israel Wayne, author of the book, Education does God have an opinion as well as a host of other resources that have been a blessing to my family that we use daily In our efforts to disciple our children Dr. Jason Lyle one of my favorites one of my children's favorites a Christian astrophysicist who Exalts God and his word At every turn it's He's simply amazing, you know simply amazing will and Mickey Addison will be there They will be hosting the conference is gonna be an amazing time go to culture proof net to register. I will be participating My wife will be directing Children's apologetics track culture proof kids is gonna be fantastic July 18th through the 20th in Bartlett, Tennessee go to culture proof net to register for it. All right now going to delve into which is just amazing to me because this story came out while I was traveling and I noticed it first because people that are following that offer insights on global financial markets and things of that nature, they were all talking about this last week. Then when I got home, I noticed I haven't had much conversation about this in our mainstream media outlets, which is terribly terribly terribly sad. Last week, we saw the end of a long standing agreement, a previously standing agreement, between nations as it concerned the purchase and sales of oil on the global markets. Many of you may be familiar with the concept of the petro dollar. What it simply means is that for people to purchase oil or to sell oil, I'm saying more specifically, for nations to purchase oil or to sell oil, they had to do so in US dollars.

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    So that would mean if Russia wanted to buy oil, the Chinese wanted to buy oil, any of the African nations wanted to buy oil, they would have to convert their domestic currency into US dollars in order to make said purchase, which for all intents and purposes made America beneficiaries of all oil transactions, which was a major component of the US dollar serving as the world's reserve currency. That status has dwindled some in recent years, but still to this day, more than half of the countries around the world have the US dollar as its reserve, as their reserve currencies. Well, last week, a major step toward the end of that status took place because the petrodollar standard is no more. Thank you to the Mr. Robinette administration that has demonstrated over hostility, by the way toward what they call fossil fuels. It kind of makes you wonder, what is this intentional? Now on the global markets, oil will no longer be bought and sold in US dollars. I want you to listen to and watch clip number two go. Saudi Arabia has officially ended its 50 year Petro-Dolo agreement with the United States shifting to a multi-currency system for oil sales. This transition allows Saudi Arabia to sell oil in various currencies. This move coincides with Saudi Arabia's participation as a guest nation at the BRICS Outreach Ministerial Meeting in Russia will BRICS now comprising 10 full members including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, UAE and Ethiopia and they all are pushing for greater use of local currencies in foreign trade and financial transactions.

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    Did you hear that? Now I have a really, really important question. Why wasn't this, why wasn't this the top news story? All last week, it still should be the news story today. There better be a question about this in the upcoming debate between Mr. Robinette and Mr. Trump. This is kind of a big deal, guys. Kind of a big deal. The United States of America is the world's number one producer of oil, guys. Did you know that? And a lot of Americans don't even know that because we think oil would think Saudi Arabia. We produce more oil than any other nation. Saudi Arabia is number two, but four. Oh, man. This is kind of a big deal, guys. Kind of a big deal. This would mean going forward if US oil companies want to sell oil to other nations, they would have to purchase a different currency in order to do so. Kind of a big deal. This is more important than the sham trial in New York. This is more important or at a minimum equally as important. It's more important than, you know, crack 8 hunters trial. It's kind of a big deal. But the reason why, and this is what I'm talking about, the American problem. This is why I'm talking about the American problem. You didn't hear Nary a peep in our domestic media about this. You want to know why? Because of the prioritizing of climate zealotry in our country.

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    If you want to make herculean efforts to move your own nation and the world away from the big bad and impossible fuels. you think you want your domestic currency to remain, the exclusive mechanism for trading in that commodity? And oh, by the way, in case you're wondering, for the meantime, what the Saudis are going to require, so anybody's gonna purchase oil for them, they're gonna have to buy the domestic Saudi realt to do so. So if we, you know, because we have the wonderful administration that we have, we don't wanna, oh, you know, we can't drill in our own nation, We're gonna import oil though. We though we have more than anybody's this that's that I'm sorry That's that's just that's just that's this that's foolish It's foolish, but if we're gonna purchase we're gonna have to purchase Saudi reals in the process and in in my IR is twofold one that we've reached this point because if you witness the the Biden administration and the the prevalence of of sycophantic, climate alarmism in America, if you are Saudi and other oil-consuming nations, you would have a little bit of uncertainty about the US dollar, wouldn't you? So the fact that we've reached that point is one side of the coin of my reactions. But in addition to that, look at our national media. I'm looking at people commenting, no, I didn't even hear of this, Abe. Why? You know why? because they want to give cover to Mr. Robinette in the short term. And in the long term, we have people in positions of power and influence in our country that are doing this, that are pursuing, and I'm using this as a metaphor guys, the suicidal course of abandoning some of the most reliable, the most inexpensive and the most enduring energy resources the world has ever seen.

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    The proverbial big bad boogie man of fossil fuels is responsible for lifting the largest number of people in the history of the world out of poverty. We don't care about that. This is what Thomas Sowell called narratives. We have people that are committed to narratives regardless of the practicality of them, regardless of them. This is a huge step to move our nation and the world, frankly, but the rest of the world is not buying it. While we are shutting down Copeland's China's building way more. They're building more. And at the exact same time, China's courting the market on all the materials that's necessary to produce electric vehicle batteries. And these, these people who want to stop me if you heard this before, must fundamentally transform the United States of America. You remember that? Guys, it is happening. It is happening. These are people who want to make it harder for you to drive your car, make it harder for you to get gas, harder for you to have oil. But guess what's happening at the exact same time? Our chief existential rival is courting the market and all things green energy. So what does that do boys and girls? It is a formula to do what? Eliminate the middle class, expand the ranks of the impoverished and limit wealth to a select few. Does that sound familiar? If you ever wondered why, if you ever wondered how Venezuela, you know, a no shade of people that say Venezuela, if you ever wondered how Venezuela currency became no more useful than toilet paper. Remember, Venezuela was once one of the, still is one of the largest oil-producing nations in the world. Yet what happened?

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    Say it with me, communism, Marxism, even Bernie Sanders has to say, well, their elections were less than free and fair. You think? You think less than free and fair. It's just, It is absurd guys. It is absurd. It is absurd. It is absurd. It is absurd. So you have our own government saying, well, we'll just preside over the elimination of the petro dollar. And then we have our own media who said nothing to the American people. What you think inflation is bad now, just wait to you to nations no longer are purchasing US dollars in order to acquire petrol. That's right. So Merle says Venezuela was the fourth wealthiest nation in the world. World. Guys in the world. And in about a generation, you now have people that were on government imposed diets. They were raiding zoos so they could eat. And that was last week, guys, that this happened. That was last week. I mean, we have news stations on in the studio right now. You have all kind of stories. They're covering. They ain't saying anything about this. and anything about this. This does not automatically mean the US dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency for the majority of nations in the world, but it is a huge step in that direction. And I've already told you that China's behind the scenes, Russia's behind the scenes, agitating nations around the world to encourage them to abandon the US dollar. What do you think this is going to do toward influencing decisions in that regard?

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    Boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. So there you go. share that with your friends and family members, bring up those conversations. That's what's happening. We are now 10 days away from the June 27th televised President of the big, between Mr. Robin and Mr. Trump, which is amazing the way they're doing it. No live audience. From what I understand, they won't be able to have notes. I wonder if anybody's gonna check for hidden ear pieces. And we'll see, we'll see. But the debate is going to be covered by CNN. I'll be paying attention to the debate in total, but also we will be paying specific attention to whether or not this becomes an issue that is discussed during the debate because it certainly is an issue that is worth a little bit of a presidential attention. And then don't forget that the moderators will have the silence button to cut mics off. So I know there will be a lot of people listening and waiting to see if somebody will be talking, talking when the mic's not on from it. This is over here. This is, this is, this is crazy. This is crazy. And I know, I know people telling me I already, but I'm not watching that. Well, I'm just going to wait for your recap. I'll tell you guys now I am going to watch it. And I'm doing it because I love you all. I'll do it for you all. And whether or not I really want to watch it, I can tell you now my wife doesn't want me to watch it. But I'm going to watch it. and I'll report back to you what all transpires there, things that are important. But this is just, I'm just, I'm mystified, and I shouldn't be, I shouldn't be.

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    I'm mystified, our media is just remarkably incurious about this at all. You are listening to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton is my name, you're watching the show as well, if you're watching the show. When we come back on the other side of the break, Just when you thought it couldn't get crazier, now traffic signs. Certain traffic signs are offensive. If you happen to be a regressive deviant, we are living in strange times, my friend. But thanks be to God, as I started off in the beginning, that joy is not contingent upon environmental circumstances. We can abide in Christ and as a result, have His joy in us. The Hamilton Quarter podcast and one-minute commentaries are available at aFR.net back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton, III here. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Crazy things, crazy things. Well, I'm sure you are excited to learn that it seems that the insanity knows no bounds. The Los Angeles City Council has decided to remove Los Angeles, California, by the way, has decided to remove no U-turn signals because these traffic signs on the street are declared by the Los Angeles City Council to be homophobic. Mm-mm-mm-mm.

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    It's just crazy. Let me let you watch and listen to the clip about it first. It's clip number one. LA City Council members Hugo Soto Martinez and Nithia Ramen were on hand today to help remove the signs. They say they know cruising and know U-turn signs were put up in the 1990s to prevent people in the gay community from meeting up with other gay people. I was also surprised that these U-turn signs were still up. And at first they seem a little oh okay it's just a no U-turn sign but when you learn the history of it and you realize that these were used to profile gay people. It's so important that we have these removed. The L.A. City Council members say the signs were put up after the gay community began to grow and because there was a gay bar in that area. Some should have nothing better to do than the City Council. Nothing more. Guys, this this is just absurd. This is, this is, you know Los Angeles has one of the highest crime rates in all the country right now. But this is what they want to spend their time on. This is what they're doing. And I'm sure the signs there certainly had an outsized negative impact upon people engaging in homosexual behavior in that community, right? Don't you think Bobby? Yeah, yeah. Guys, this is, we, it's like our culture has been slapped upside the head with a stupid stick.

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    I mean, it's just, this is just, this is just ridiculous. This is ridiculous. That's what the city council is doing. But you know, that's what people in LA, that's what they voting for. That's what they're voting for. I just saw that, I just like, what? That's, that's what's going on. I'm not going to spend too much more time on that. And I wasn't going to talk about this, but I'm going to talk about it now because the, the issue itself and the commentary surrounding this has just reached ridiculous levels. And now I'm talking about the decision makers for the US women's Olympic basketball team, concluding that they are going to exclude Caitlyn Clark from the team. And I wasn't going to make a big deal about it, you know, until, and then I saw their explanation, they were like, yeah, Caitlin Clark, she's just a rookie and then have experience on the international stage. What? She's a rookie in the professional level. Now, I would never profess to be a women's basketball aficionado, but I have followed it from a for I like basketball. So I paid attention to basketball for quite some time. Now, if the argument is, well they had a training camp, but Caitlyn Clark didn't participate. My question is why didn't she participate? Because she was in the final four. That's why she didn't participate. Because her college team was competing for a National Collegiate Championship at the time where they had their camp for the women's basketball team. And it's like, for the first time, let's just be honest about something, right? Let's just be honest about something. The WNBA has never been profitable since it started.

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    You realize, the WNBA is a charity undergirded by the NBA. The other thing people do understand is that basketball is a sport, but it is an entertainment commodity. The revenue that is generated is directly proportionate, not to the skill or abilities of the players, to the interest of the people. Let me explain this better. Sports is entertainment in terms of its consumption. I'm not talking about the athletes, I'm talking about the consumption. Does anybody have any doubt, for example, that figure skating requires great athletic ability and skill, right? How many people follow figure skating year-round? As a result, how much money do figure skaters make from figure skating alone, okay? If you are a great movie maker, You have the greatest film ever to be made, but nobody is spending no money buying tickets and going to see it. Do you think the film would be profitable? No! Case in point, the WNBA. For what, I won't say whatever reason. You can say what you want, the American people have not been interested in the WNBA until Caitlin Clark. Guys, it's not a surprise. The American people weren't interested in the NBA buying large until Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. I don't mean you didn't have great players before then. Dr. J was amazing before then. The Iceman, George Gervin was amazing before then because one thing he can't do is what Bobby? Fangaroo. The Iceman was amazing. Most of his been all amazing. Great basketball players. The league just wasn't popular.

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    So what happened? Two dudes. The hit from French Lake, Indiana and then Magic from Michigan State. They did what? Electrified the nation win in college. And the collegiate excitement provoked between Magic and Larry Bird Then led to what more attention in the NBA It doesn't mean the players before Magic and Bird weren't any good. You had the big old Before Magic and Bird you had Wilk Chamberlain before you had great players before you had Jerry West the logo Who just passed away before Magic and Bird, but the nation wasn't interested why because entertainment is a consumption commodity. I'll really tell y'all the real grief and nobody wanna say it, but y'all two need to show cuz y'all know I'ma tell her like a T.I.E. Eels. So it was the popularity of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson when they came into the NBA that elevated the popularity of the NBA. Before Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, the NBA Finals used to be on tape delay. Magic and Bird. The Vatican Bird changed all of that. What is my point? Enter Caitlyn Clark. Before Caitlyn Clark, nobody was interested in women's basketball by and large. Nobody! Caitlyn Clark has been in the AAVA for five minutes. And it just so happened, all of her games are sold out. Viewer shipping through the roof. Because guess what? When Caitlyn Clark was in college, guess what happened with attendance in Caitlyn Clark's games sold out. Now let's talk a few more facts. Let's go back to the NBA, because people are losing their mind because we allow the world to tell us what to think in the world to set the parameters of the conversation and we converse within the parameters of the world of set.

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    When I was a little boy growing up playing basketball, when you go to the park, what did everybody want to do? When I was playing growing up, everybody wanted to dunk. Everybody wanted to dunk. Why, like Mike, trying to be like me. I mean, they wanted to fly, you wanted to dunk. Then you had this little dude who was a son of a sharpshoot in NBA, Wardell, Stephen Curry III, who starts shooting 40-foot bombs and making them with consistency. And what happened? Young dudes you go to the park now, they're not trying to dunk, what are they trying to do? They're trying to launch them from way downtown. They want to hear it way downtown, bang. Steph Curry changed the NBA. People ask about Caitlyn Clark the first thing, people forget she's home grown from Iowa. Iowa is not known as a hotbed for entertainment. Iowa's games have been sold out since Caitlyn Clark started playing there and she did the female version of what Steph Curry did. There's never been a female basketball player shooting the basketball from the distances that she shoots from and making them consistently. It is the basketball equivalent to the home run. A lot of people are lamenting the lack of popularity of baseball in America and compared to what it used to be. When was baseball at its pinnacle? You can say what you want about the juicing era and all that kind of stuff. Baseball, sorry, baseball had his highest popularity during the Mark McGuire, Sami Sosa, Barry Bonds era. That's just a fact. That's just a fact. Why? Because people say chicks dig the long ball, dudes dig the long ball too. Home runs are exciting to watch. So people watch. You don't have people hitting home runs like that. People ain't watching baseball no more. It's not because you're gonna have skilled baseball players. And you still have some people watching. I'm saying it's not as popular as it was during that time period. Caitlyn Clark has done something that women's basketball has never seen. And the popularity predates her being in the WNBA.

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    So just like Magic and Bird, the popularity that they guarded in college brought to the NBA, the popularity that Caitlyn Clark guarded in college, she's brought that to the WNBA. What the US Olympic teams have the opportunity to do is to do what the dream team did in 1992 for the NBA. because you had Magic and Bird that brought it to national prominence. What happened to the NBA after the dream team in 92? The NBA became a global sport. You can argue that you don't have Dirk Niewitski. You don't have Lukadamchic. You don't have Nicole Yokich. You don't have Yana Senetan Tikupo today without the dream team in 92. So what Magic and Bird did to make the sport popular nationally, the dream team did to make the sport popular globally. Here you have the women's basketball, having the opportunity to repeat what the dream team did by having the most popular women's basketball player in the world today on the women's national basketball team. And they say, nah, we good on that. She doesn't have enough experience. And I'm like, yo, people are ridiculous. Let me just give you a couple names, because here's what our culture likes to do. They like to make it about skin color, of course. Ooh, Caitlyn Clark's popularity is due to our skin color. Follow me for a moment. Let's talk about rookies who are added to the women's United States Olympic basketball team after playing in college and then becoming pros in America. Let's go back to 1996. Anyone remember Rebecca Lobo? Rebecca Lobo had not played one game in the professional ranks, added to the women's US Olympic team. Why? Because they hoped to elevate the popularity of the women's game in the most robust consumer market in the world which is the United States of America. Let's go further, didn't stop there. Shamika Holesclaw 2000, a rookie added to the US Olympic team. 2004, Diana Turosi never played one time in the professional ranks in America was added to the US team as a rookie. All of these women are great basketball players. And by the way, if you don't know, Diana Turosi's skin color is very similar to Rebecca Lobos and to Caitlyn Clark's 2016.

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    Brianna Stewart, Stewie, great basketball player, never played professionally was added to the U.S. Olympic team as a rookie. Twenty-two and a one, Asia Wilson, great basketball player added to the U.S. Olympic team as a rookie. What am I highlighting all of this? Because the excuse that the U.S. women's team gave is just not true. It's not lack of experience. I'm going to tell you what it is. These people don't want the face of women's basketball to be a non-lesbian, a lesbian-friendly person. That's the bottom line. Caitlyn Clark has a mom and dad and is a heterosexual woman in a league dominated by lesbians. I'm just telling you the truth. In these people, they want to make a statement that they don't want to allow some middle of of America, girl from Iowa, who is not personally celebratory of lesbianism to be the face of women's basketball. That's what this is about, because if they were interested in elevating the popularity of sport, guess what happens? When the sport becomes more popular, all of these women's salaries increases. They've never had charter flights for WNBA teams, but Caitlin Clark enters the WNBA and now for the first time in its history, all the teams have charter flights. That's because of Caitlin Clark. So you have the opportunity to do on the global stage and the National States of Women's Basketball, what you say you want to do, you say you want these women's ability to be elevated, but at the same time when you have the opportunity to say, nah, she don't have enough experience. Y'all are lying. You want the WNBA to be the Lesbian Basketball Association. And you must be a lesbian or celebrate lesbians. Otherwise, we want to curb you, which is dumb if y'all want the league to succeed. So go ahead and sabotage your own wellbeing. If you want to be so committed to ideological politics. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.

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