Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

Let's join this week's conversation.

Thank you. Welcome to Mortification of Spin.

This is Amy Bird.

And today I am here with only one of my co-hosts.

I'm here with Todd Pruitt.

Carl Truman is vacationing, spending some time with his, as he calls it, mum. And, you know, since Carl's not here, Todd, I was thinking,

I was having a conversation with one of my friends, Kelly, and she had listened to our beauty

podcast. And she had a comment. She just said, you know, Carl mentions all these shows and the weathermen are so beautiful in America and, you know, compared to Britain and Europe.

And she goes, maybe he didn't consider the fact that Americans are just better looking.

Well, see, I wanted to break in at that point because, I mean, let's face it, you know,

you compare the average British person, which, you know, let's be honest, it always looks like

somebody crashed a dirt truck into their mouth.

And, you know, I mean, there's just, there is a beauty gap that I think needs to be acknowledged.

Yes, it needs to be acknowledged. And,

you know, we're not being beautist for acknowledging that. It's just the reality. And so, you know,

there's a reason why I am significantly better looking than Carl Truman. It's because I'm American.

It's the beauty gap. Absolutely.

Well, good. We settle that straight. Yeah. I just wanted to thank my friend Kelly for offering that to us. Okay, well, today we wanted to talk about something that is near and dear to my heart.

And it involves a pregnant teenager. And she lives near me. She lives in my state, so it's kind of local. I've

heard, you know, I first read about it in local news and even people who knew the family.

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