Protect the Children Ep 116: News for the Children, 764 & more!

I just love that song. I don't know about y'all, but I get hyped up. Thank y'all for coming tonight. I gotta pause that. Thank y'all for coming. So very much tonight. It is a blessing to have y'all here and have someone to talk to and share these things because I'll tell you what, it gets so dark sometimes. And I wanna say hello to Shell and Tom. Marilyn, I was wondering where that was another person a minute ago. Stephen, Christian, Constervative, Darryl, Mary, Penny. Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us. I never get to do that. So I'm doing it real fast before it fills up. Lots of been happening in the background. We'll be making a statement about a lot of things that I know y'all have been seeing online here lately. But tonight, not gonna do that. Definitely gonna roll into what we want to talk about tonight. And I have seen a lot of articles coming out that I wanna touch on. Like I said, the beginning of the, we've changed it up a little bit tonight. Our lineup got switched around a little. Tonight, I'm going to share the first part, probably the first hour, maybe a little less. Gonna share some articles that I have found that we really need to talk about. I wanna get people up here to really discuss it. Not just have y'all listen to us talk about it. I wanna hear your thoughts. I wanna hear what you think we might be able to do to help some of these situations we're seeing. And actually what's funny too is Mary Talley Bowden is one of my plan on speaking about an S.E. Tom in here. We both love her dearly. She has an awesome, amazing lady. But first, I wanna go over to my co-host and say hello to 10 foil if you will let me know when you see Missed. How are you tonight, brother? I'm surviving. Just had the storms go through. That's why the lineup kinda got messed up. I was texting Brandy showing a radar. We just had some severe storms roll through here. And I was like, I don't know if I'm gonna have power in the next few minutes, but thankfully I have power. And I will admit, listen that song inheriting the thunder outside my window. The thunder just adds an isolate to it. So it just makes the song even more awesome. But I'm hanging in there tonight. And tomorrow I may have tornadoes. Yay, so I'm the fun filled week. But I'll be here. Awesome, Will. If you need to hide and take cover, please do not feel like you have to tell us, just do it. Cause I did see that radar and it is pretty crazy. Here we go, there is Miss. Let me send him the co-host. All right, so I am going to be, and I have to log in under the other account. I am going to be putting the articles that I share about in the post below. I just couldn't do it while I was playing the music or it was gonna give us feedback. So let me log in, here we go. All right, so the first one that I wanna talk about is going to be, hold on. Ah, this is so hard for me. Okay, can I say hello to Mr. Quick? I need somebody to take over while I figure this out of my brain real fast. I got to see the device. This is going. Oh boy. Yeah, sorry, I was a little late tonight. Just getting home from the work stuff and excited to be here going through kind of just your articles. And then I've got a couple things myself to share just as a quick little intro to the room. Hello everybody, thanks for coming. If it wasn't said already, please like and quote, tweet to share. And then I'm gonna kind of go through some of the digital threats in terms of grooming online. And then the threat of influence. And I'll explain more about that after we kind of get there. But these are online threats. And it's a little bit of a different perspective. Like we're not necessarily, while the grooming we'll be looking at from an angle of helping the kids. But then we also have to defend ourselves online. You know, we are susceptible to things like, you know, dark influencers or the causes that they, you know, are the effects that they have. I think we've all kind of been there where these people can totally mess up a community through their negative actions. And so the better that we can identify the mechanisms that they use, whether they're conscious of it or not, the more we can be hold defensible space online. So yeah, are you back with us, Brandy? I am. I am putting things in the bubble. And then I was like, oh my gosh, I just screamed. So I'm glad I had my mic closed because I just saw Margot want to podcast and it showed up in my feet and I got excited. So I'm glad I did have my mic closed. So I was like, oh my God, there's Margot. And I was like, oh, I'm in a space. So all right guys, so the first one. And thank you for that, Miss. Yeah, it's gonna be pretty much. And again, if you hear something that you feel called to come up and share about it, please do. This is a topic that nothing looks the same at any given point. If something has happened to maybe something around your child or you heard a story and you wanna share it, please do. But one thing we don't do when we have these spaces and I just wanna say it ahead of time, just so we're all aware, if you are a survivor, please don't just come up here and share your story. That is a personal thing. And we like to make sure that we reserve time for those when we do have those. So I don't want anyone else as well who may have been through something in the space to get triggered not knowing that that was going to come out, right? So I just wanna make sure I share that. I did put one down below that I'm gonna let you all actually go look at yourself. But the next one is something that we can definitely talk about. And I know that a lot of people have a lot of thoughts about this in this space and that's why I'm gonna put it out. So here in the last week, you have seen that Texas Children's Hospital and you all heard Michelle, so I'll see if she can come in and talk about it. Oh, there we go. I wasn't gonna throw Ali a mic unless she wanted one. I don't like throwing them at people. You have heard Texas Children's Hospital actually did have to end up settling with Ken Paxton, our attorney general here in Texas for the first time. It is a historic $10 million settlement after a nurse by the name of she and she was at Texas Children's Hospital. So keep these names and thoughts in your mind. She was a nurse there. Her name is Vanessa Savage, Savage, Savage. And she was the whistle blower on a alleged Medicare fraud linked to gender affirming treatments on minors. So that actually was rolled out here in the last week. But Tom just grabbed a mic. Hopefully he can talk on that too because he is in Houston, which he's closer to Texas Children's Hospital than I am now, physically there. But this was a historic situation. I'm so glad this happened. And I'm actually trying to, well, we'll keep that under wraps for now. But Tom, go right ahead. How are you tonight? They have to get it. Can you hear me? Yes, sir. Yeah, so this woman, I just heard her interview on Michael Berry's radio show. If y'all listen to Michael, then y'all heard it. If y'all didn't, then y'all can go back and listen. Posted later this evening. In fact, I suggest we all listen to it tomorrow. But if you give Michael Berry's podcast, it'll probably be uploaded like, first thing in the morning or something. I don't know, something like that. You're like six hours behind usually. But he interviewed her just now. And she technically, the whistleblower, and he made the point, which all reiterate, that most times whistleblowers nothing comes of anything. And they go home with their tell between their legs, beaten, and maybe even attacked and gone after thrown into the garbage bin. And that's not what's happening with harder. And in fact, it happened downtown Stunner or Texas Children's and the big one down here. And it happened in the suburbs. So there's only so many Texas Children's and the suburbs around Houston. So you can look at it. I mean, you can kind of probably figure it out, which one had happened. But she noticed it and she reported it and the attorney general acted on it. And it's just a massive victory. This alone should really get compact and elected. What Kenjus did was set the precedent and for the rest of America. Of course, we have state law to back us up on this. But full state legislators should get busy passing laws like we passed if they haven't already. And they need an attorney general that's willing to enforce that law. And there's a lot of conservatives that talks about Ken. But the fact is, is that we passed this law. So Kenpaxson could go out and enforce it on Texas Children's Hospital and any other hospital in Texas. And they knew what they were doing was against the law. And they chose to do it anyways. So this is a major W in Texas. And I hope events like this drive batshit crazy communist liberals out of the state of Texas. If they don't like it, they pack their shit and get the hell out of here. I hope things like this keep Texas red, to be honest. And these people have to learn their lesson. And this is one of the most derivative things the state of Texas has ever done in the legislature and through the attorney general's office. I don't know if Florida's done anything like this before. It wouldn't have happened if Kenpaxson would not have been there. I can almost guarantee you that. Mace Middleton is going to be our new attorney general. He's going to win in November. Hopefully he's going to do great. And he'll back up everything we're doing here. I don't see a problem with Mace. But if the attorney general would have been George P. Bush, who Kenpaxson had to run against four years ago, I doubt George P. Bush would have done a damn thing. He would not have been there. He wouldn't have. So there's a huge difference between these old Neocon conservative idiots. They're not conservative at all. They're just Neocon establishment fools, running most states in America. And it would have held the attorney general's office in Texas would George P. Bush. If it wouldn't have been for Kenpaxson defeating him. And if it wouldn't have been for Kenpaxson surviving his impeachment trial and making it to this point to where we can continue on and continue on. I promise you, there's a lot of people in the state of Texas that are happy that the Kins became a US senator because he's not going to be an attorney general anymore, because he has been so damn successful. There's not going to be another person ever, ever to break his records as attorney general. It would take a damn near miracle to have anybody even close to Kenpaxson he's had since he's taken office as attorney general. That's how good he's been. That's awesome he's been when it comes to suing Democrat administrations. And even when the Republican won, too, when needed. And so I'm thrilled that we passed the law, that we got it signed, that the governor signed it. Everybody passed somehow passed the house. I'm happy that Kenpaxson is there and willing to enforce it. And God put this woman in the position she was to witness this. And God put it on her heart to do the right thing. And she did. And blessed her. And Michael said when he was getting off the radio, whether that he was going to send her $1,000, which I don't think I've ever heard Michael tell anyone he's going to send them $1,000. But she lives in the suburbs with her husband. And I believe in, I don't know much about her at all. But she has more principles and morals and is knowledgeable. How many people work at that hospital that have no idea that that's even the law? Thousands. Because hospitals don't want them to know that's the law.