Hey everyone in today's episode I want to share with you a great discussion I had with

Marlon Williams of the Gospel Truth Channel and Dr. Jordan Cooper who is a Lutheran

scholar on the red pill and how it harms young men and how it relates to things like my recent debate with Pearl Davis.

So check it out.

So if you don't mind, Trent,

take us through some of the thought process

that you were gathering

as you were interacting with Pearl on the subject matter.

Sure I'll do that and I think it also might be helpful to give our listeners a background on what we mean by Red Pill and that kind of can take us into a little bit what happened with Pearl.

So the terms red pill and blue pill go back to the film The Matrix.

So in the Matrix, Kiana Reeves, it plays Neo, just an average guy at the office, who learns that his universe is actually just a compete. It's just a simulation created by robots that had conquered humanity and use humans as batteries and they keep the humans in a dopified sleep in these cocoons and make them

think they're living in the real world when they're just little sacks of

flesh and these batteries and their world is a simulation. The universe is a

simulation. So in the film he's presented a choice by Morpheus, take the blue pill, go

back to you forget all of this and you live life thinking that it's a normal world but it's not you the blue pill is ignorance of the truth

taking the red pill is learning the startling truth waking up from the simulation and escaping the matrix. So those are the terms.

Later in the early 2000s the blue and red pill were used as political metaphors to the idea of someone escaping a widely accepted comfortable falsehood.

One of the earliest uses of it, liberal people argued that democracy is actually bad, even though you raised your whole life to think it's good.

Here's 10 reasons to think that's not true.

Be red-pilled on it.

Those are earliest uses of it.

So later on in the 2010s and 2015s we see this being applied to dating and

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