Rick Green [00:00:07] Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's the WallBuilders Show on Friday, which means it's Good News Friday, including right after Thanksgiving. So, I'm just going to assume that David ate cold turkey today. I warmed mine up. I'm just saying I didn't take his word for it and eat it cold. Anyway, hey, hope you had a great Thanksgiving yesterday. We had a great time doing the Thanksgiving program yesterday. If you missed it, go back and listen to it at some point over the weekend and be thankful, not only for all the good stuff that's happening, but I learned yesterday to be thankful even for the tough times, thankful for some of the bad things that are happening, because you know God's using it to make you persevere, make you perfect and complete, lacking nothing. Love that chapter in James. Okay, Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton, and I'm looking forward to some good news. Y'all, we had a good news program in a way yesterday, but today you got some specific good news stories for us. 

David Barton [00:00:52] I do and this this first one is it's gonna be almost like a comedy good news when I go through the title of this thing. It's like that can't be on a good news Friday, but it's good news and so I I'll ha I'll have to explain it 'cause I had to read the article to see all the stuff in it that was good. But it says the Trump administration unveils the first advanced female crash test dummy after forty-five years. So, we now we've had crash test. Yeah. 

Rick Green [00:01:19] I thought it was a Babylon Bee headline. I really did I didn't know it was real. This is real, 

David Barton [00:01:24] It is it is real. Mm-hmm. I told you you're gonna laugh at it. There no question. Yeah. I don't know. It's a crazy story I know.

Tim Barton [00:01:32]  I know. I am so supportive of this for lots of reasons, and I don't want to take away your good news, but I am I am super supportive of this and I'll let you run with your good news so I don't I don't take away why I support it. So 

David Barton [00:01:46] This is Trump saying, hey, there are biological differences between the sexes. Yes. There are two genders. Makes sense. And we've had a genderless crash dummy for 45 years. So okay. Do you really have to go that far to make the point? And then I read the rest of the article and said, Oh, there's really a good point in here. Yes. Because it turns out that women, clearly, God made them very different from men, including the physical structure of their body, which there are thirteen hundred more deaths a year with females than males when it comes to car crashes. 

Tim Barton [00:02:21] Don't comment on driving ability because of this. I just I'm telling you, you better be careful right now. 

David Barton [00:02:28] I'm not going there. 

Tim Barton [00:02:29] I'm just saying 

Rick Green [00:02:30] That's how this one turned from a g it was a Good News Friday, it became Black Friday very quickly. 

Tim Barton [00:02:36] Oh, you know what? That's actually yes. Good connection there. 

Rick Green [00:02:41] All three guys hosting the program will have black eyes if we go there. So we're not going there. 

Tim Barton [00:02:46] It's gonna be one of those social media memes where the guy goes to his wife and then it shows him at his funeral playing, you know, this music in the background. Like, yeah, that's that would be the problem. 

David Barton [00:02:56] So this thing with the crash dummies, here's where it got interesting to me from a science standpoint is there's for example a study here from the University of Virginia, the Center for Applied Biomechanics found that women are 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a head on car crash when compared to men in the very same accident. So female drivers and front seat passengers are also at a higher fatality risk than their male counterparts. So, when you put male and female in exactly the same crash, you have a lot higher mortality rate with women, a lot higher injuries. And that's because of the physical difference in the way that God made us. And so, they now have this new crash dummy, and it's got like what they say, that it's got several dozen different types of sensors. It's a new advanced one, and it's got sensors in all the joints and areas so that when they have a crash, it's really configured for how a woman is built so that you can tell where the impact is, where the pressure is, where the tension is, which will lead to how they build cars and construct cars and construct seats. And so, there's gonna be a lot of good safety stuff that comes out of this. But I do have to say that was a pretty funny one to read it, that you have this advanced crash female crash dummy after 40. You guys remember, I don't know. I may be the only one old enough to remember you remember the commercials with the crash dummies? 

Tim Barton [00:04:18] Absolutely! Yeah. 

David Barton [00:04:18] Yeah. 

Tim Barton [00:04:19] That was back when commercials were good and they were funny. And entertaining. 

David Barton [00:04:23] Yeah. Yep. Well now we we've got a female crash dummy, so after forty five years there's not a unisex crash dummy. We now have male and female crash dummies. 

Rick Green [00:04:33] Well, I know y'all are gonna find this very hard to believe, but I get speeding tickets once in a while. 

Tim Barton [00:04:38] No. 

Rick Green [00:04:39] I think I've taken defensive driving probably more than any human being on the planet. And you know, the videos in defensive driving, sometimes they have the crash dummies hosting these videos. So, I want to know if they're gonna go redo them. And now they can do like male, female crash dummy humor while they're making the videos because they try so hard to make defensive driving not so boring. And now that I've admitted that, if any there's any attorneys out there that want to help me get out of tickets in the future, let me know. Okay, so did I I'm not admitting to breaking the law. That's just that, you know, sometimes I don't see the speed limit sign. Maybe that's it. Tim, what's our next piece of good news? 

Tim Barton [00:05:17] Rick, you're just in such a hurry to tell people the good news of how to save America. Okay. Don't slow it down. 

Rick Green [00:05:22] It's kind of like Peter chopping the ear off. I'm just in a hurry to do what I think I anyway, I'm probably not living like I should in some of those scenarios. 

Tim Barton [00:05:32] Well speaking of outlawing bad things, so this headline says Texas governor designates CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations. Now 

Rick Green [00:05:43] Oh yes. 

Tim Barton [00:05:44] I know that there's gonna be some good news from Trump on this, it's just not in my stack yet. Then and really, if this was my dad's, he would have combined like 13 of these headlines and just read them all to you as one. But in this one, Governor Abbott on November 18th acknowledged and designated that the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood, he designated them as foreign terrorist and as trans-national criminal organizations. Now, this is important for lots and lots of reasons. And we'll actually bring up some interesting constitutional questions and challenges because if you're a terrorist organization, you don't have the right to have property and some of the holdings in America. And so, it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting what might come of this and how it goes. The article certainly goes through some of the details with Texas penal and property codes, what that's gonna mean. If, with CAIR described as a successor organization of the Muslim Brotherhood, neither the CAIR nor the Muslim Brotherhood are designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. Government. Now, that's what this headline says before President Trump got involved. And so, or excuse me, that's what this article said. So, the article is maybe a little out of date for what has now happened with President Trump, but guys, it's really good that we are seeing some governors take active steps. We saw, for example, some states say that we're gonna let China own farmland. And own land by military bases. That this is crazy. What are we doing with groups that we know are antithetical to America, to the American ideals, to American vision that actually don't want America to succeed, that want America to be harmed. And this is certainly what we have seen with the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR, with them promoting and funding terrorism around the world. And so, this idea of what's going on in America doesn't make sense. The article highlights Marco Rubio and some of his positions on this as well. So overall, it is really good news. Again, there's still a lot that's going to be unfolding and yet to be determined from some of this. How it will all happen with some of the land that's already owned or some of the things they're already doing in America, what will be the limitations of what can and can't be done legally in Texas, but now also with what President Trump's doing. But at least, guys, this is good news that we have governors or states and now even a president recognizing that Muslim terrorists shouldn't be able to have free reign and access, whether there was an open border under President Biden or however they got here, that there should be limitations and there should be laws and laws enforced in America. So, this is really good news. 

Rick Green [00:08:22] Yes, a positive steps in in a direction that you know, I think actually in Trump's first term, he talked about the possibility of doing this, but never went there. Same with the cartels. I think he was gonna do, you know, designate the cartels. I think he did designate the cartels earlier this year. Maybe I'm misremembering that. 

David Barton [00:08:36] He did, okay. Yeah, as a matter of fact, just this week a hundred and forty-three Tren de Aragua terrorists were arrested in Texas, just in Texas alone. So yeah, he's designated several of those groups and they're trying to round up those they can find. I've gotta tell ya, I don't like having a hundred and forty-three terrorists in my state, especially since I didn't know they were there, and especially since they came here legally under Biden's policies. It's just it's crazy. 

Tim Barton [00:09:04] Well. If 143 bothers you, you'd be really shocked by how many are probably actually in Texas right now. Oh yeah. Under the Biden policies. But the fact that there's 143 less, that's great news. 

Rick Green [00:09:15] Yeah. And remember under Biden policies and actions, right, that's that same gang, a cartel was able to take over hotels and apartment complexes in Colorado and virtually nothing when was done. And so President Trump's obviously taking a very different approach to this. So, it is a very positive development and yeah, and for a governor to take that position, very, very good news. 

David Barton [00:09:37] And by the way, just to be real real blunt on this, I was talking to our buddy who's so high in the intelligence community, counter terrorism, and the problem you have with both CAIR and with Muslim Brotherhood is they are pledged and committed individually and corporately to overthrowing the Western world. So why would you allow a group into your country Whose purpose, whose stated purpose, whose written purpose, whose verbal purpose is to overthrow that country. I mean, that makes no sense at all. And they've had a great foothold here and we've been giving them access to all sorts of stuff. And so, this is now starting to get rid of those people out of our country. If they want to have that view, go back to their country. But don't try to blow America up just because you hate us and we let you in legally. That's crazy. 

Tim Barton [00:10:24] Now, Dad, you're saying it's crazy, but it's not like Europe hasn't been doing this for years. 

[00:10:30] Like, how's that working out for you? 

[00:10:31] Totally. One of the things I saw a clip from Elon Musk. He was on with Joe Rogan, and he was talking about how crazy it is that we've changed the definition of asylum in America. That asylum used to be if your life was threatened by your nation, you would come to America so that your life could be saved. And now we have changed the definition to say if you were in a nation that has economic hardship, you can seek asylum here so that you don't have economic hardship. And the reason I bring this up is Elon Musk was telling Joe Rogan, he said, here's what's crazy is people that have come here under asylum status, they were granted asylum status. They're taking vacations back to the nation where they were seeking asylum from. 

Rick Green [00:11:11] Wow. 

Tim Barton [00:11:11] Like you can't be here on asylum and then take a vacation back to the nation you left. But Dad, to your point, right? The fact that there are people here that hate this nation that want to see it overthrown, that want to see the destruction of the nation as it is, and they were legally allowed to enter. That is absolutely insane. That would only be done by people that were wanting the nation to ultimately commit suicide, that want the downfall of the nation, that abide into some Marxist ideology, or that are so short-sighted, they only want to allow these people in because they think it'll help them win the next election, and they're not thinking about the future for their kids or grandkids or anybody else. 

Rick Green [00:11:48] Man, talk about selling the whole country out for that power like you're talking about. 

David Barton [00:11:52] When you take a group who publicly chants" Death to America, Death to America, Death to America" and we say, Come on in 

Rick Green [00:12:03] What happened to the expression when they tell you who they are, believe them. 

David Barton [00:12:05] Yeah. That's right! 

[00:12:06] They have not tried to hide this. They've been you know, even though they some of them do, I guess, because that's part of their deal is being able to lie to get to ingratiate themselves and to and to get in those positions of power. But yeah, you're so right, David. I mean, they made it very, very clear. So very, very good, positive step by Governor Abbott in in Texas. Hopefully you see some more governors do that. And then of course the president, and hopefully even stronger. I think the President's order is a little bit it's directed specifically at pieces of the Muslim Brotherhood around the world that have taken specific steps. So it hopefully will get even stronger. But man, huge step in the right direction for sure. Quick break, guys, we'll be right back. We got more good news. Folks, stay with us if you're listening to the WallBuilders Show. 

Rick Green [00:13:49] We're back on the WallBuilders Show. It's Good News Friday. Hope you're enjoying your Thanksgiving weekend. I know Tim is ready to get done with the good news so he can get back to the deer stand. But it's David's turn. So, David, next piece of good news. Hopefully that Tim will bring home some deer meat before the weekend's over. 

David Barton [00:14:03] Well, I started with a piece of good news that had a headline that we could laugh at, although it had a really good story to it. I got another one, and this is Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. The headline is he's asking people, please don't wear slippers at the airport and don't wear pajamas to the airport. So that's a national headline is please don't wear pajamas and slippers to the airport. You go, Oh 

David Barton [00:14:27] Wait a minute, who who's this? What what's going on? 

Tim Barton [00:14:29] Well what if their pajamas are their nice clothes, right? Like what if their pajamas were more expensive? Then their other clothes? 

David Barton [00:14:38] Don't let them out in public. 

Rick Green [00:14:40] I saw I think it was Nick Adams had an article on this and he and I don't remember and Nick's younger than I am, so he can't possibly remember, but he was talking about the days when being able to get into a big old metal tube and go, you know, hundreds of miles an hour and enjoy this incredible invention, people got dressed up to go do it. Like it was a special thing. Now my whole life it hasn't been. So, we've just kind of been spoiled and used to it. But that was one of his points was trying to restore a little bit of that, I guess. I mean, 'cause it is now, it's like, oh my goodness, the yoga pants and the pajamas and the and the slippers literally. So, Duffy really put that out though? I didn't realize that. So, he actually had a statement on it. 

Tim Barton [00:15:21] Well, and, Dad, I know you're gonna jump in on this, but it's I think it's worth maybe acknowledging. And this is probably for another podcast, another show, but it's interesting that if we're talking about the way people dress up for airports, it's kind of the same thing for church in a lot of ways, right? 

Rick Green [00:15:37] Oh, good point. We have to get them a kitchen now. 

Tim Barton [00:15:40] Right. A lot of things that we used to show reverence and respect for have been lost. And it might be an interesting conversation of why have we lost respect for things and where did that respect originate in the first place? And I think that's that could be a very really interesting, fascinating, and longer conversation. But Dad, back to you. Yeah, I remember I saw that on social media, I saw a lot of articles about it. I'm glad you chose one for good news. 

David Barton [00:16:05] Well, take it further is okay, with that same mentality, why is it that private schools that have uniforms and require kids to dress up behave differently than schools that don't? And why is it that when if you're on the street and there's two guys in a tux, they're less likely to get in a fight than two guys that are wearing jeans and a t shirt. I mean, it there's no question there's a correlation. And even for guys that would wear jeans and a t shirt, if they get in a tux, they behave differently. And they're in something, and this is what Sean Duffy points out. He says, with it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to dress a little better, which encourages us to behave a little better. He said, Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport. And so he's talking about what he calls a degradation of civility among plane passengers, and they go through all the stats, the number of confrontations and really attacking the flight attendants, others. The it's amazing the stats on that. It went up really high and it went up really high during COVID and then it plummeted after COVID, but where it has stopped and leveled out now is so many times higher than what it was before COVID. So, we've defaulted to kind of just really not good stuff. And so going back to what you were talking about, he says it's time for us to go back to the golden age of travel. And so that's what he's calling this golden age of travel. And in the golden age of travel, which was in the 1940s and 50s, when you got on a plane, you got in a suit. I mean, it was a big deal. You were going somewhere and you dressed up for it and you traveled that way and the way you behaved. And so, he's just trying to get some civility back, you know, and it's so interesting too, because this reminds me of the great emphasis the founding fathers put on manners and how that manners were so important. And George Washington as a nine-year-old kid, that book of civility that he wrote out with all those rules of civility. I mean, this is something we used to instill from the very beginning. And I am a firm believer that it is super important that kids and others be raised with yes, ma'am, and no ma'am, and please and thank you and no, sir, and yes, sir. And well, what's it matter? Well, it matters because you're showing respect. And when you show respect, it changes the way you think, which changes the way you behave. And so even with me with all my white hair, I'm still gonna say yes, ma'am and no, sir, even when it's somebody younger than me, older than me, doesn't matter. You show respect and you show manners, and that's something the founding fathers emphasized so hard was manners. I think we got to get back to that. 

Rick Green [00:18:41] Okay, I have a test question. Well, the test question is this. I saw a post on social media of David Barton in a tuxedo. And I actually was just today talking to our mutual friend, Suzanne Grisham, and I said, Suzanne, you were in a picture with David Barton in a tuxedo. I said, I noticed Tim wasn't wearing a tuxedo. He was wearing a coat and tie. But I said, did you and Tim have to tie David down to get him in the tuxedo? She said no. But my question is for Tim. Did David behave even better because he was in a tuxedo? 

Tim Barton [00:19:13] You know, that's a great question. And first of all, I would like to clarify I was in a Tuxedo. It was I just I wasn't wearing a bow tie 'cause now see that's how little I know about dressing up. Well, you know, my name's Bon Tuxedo. 

David Barton [00:19:30] That explains all your bad manners bro. 

Rick Green [00:19:32] That's it.! Now I'm going to have to start wearing a tie when I'm doing WallBuilders Live. No seriously, so you guys got y'all went to Mar-a- Lago. How cool was that? 

Tim Barton [00:19:41] Yeah, super fun. It's kind of gala season. And so we got to go down there for the AFPI, the America First Policy Institute, their gala. Some really great things they're doing, they're working on. We've been able to connect with several different people with the AFPI and of course, great, great people surrounding and organizations that are partnering in lots of things, especially coming up for the 250th. So we're very excited about that. And we'll actually be down there next week with our friends Suzanne and Mercury One. They're doing a gala down there as well for the American Journey Experience. And so we actually are gonna be there a couple of times this year. 

Rick Green [00:20:17] AFPI is America First Policy Institute. Is that correct? 

Tim Barton [00:20:22] Correct! 

Rick Green [00:20:22] Okay. Okay, gotcha. Right. 

Tim Barton [00:20:23] And by the way, when we were there for the America First Policy Institute Gala, sitting in in the big ballroom at Mar-a-Lago, I looked up and I thought, this is probably the grandeur of it, this is probably what we're gonna see in the new White House ballroom that Trump is doing. Because you look around and you're like, this thing is amazing, right? That when you go to some of the really impressive buildings, especially in DC that were done in previous generations where there was great detail and intricacies in design. And you're going, this is so impressive. Like you go to the Jefferson Library of Congress and you walk in and look around, and you're going, this building is one of the most incredible buildings I've ever been in. That's a little bit like how it felt in Mar-a-Lago. And the idea that that's probably gonna be how the new White House ballroom is -is so exciting. 

Rick Green [00:21:10] I just hope just to troll the media that when they unveil it that there's a sign on the ballroom that says Trump Tower or something like that. I mean even though it won't stay, you know, yeah Trump ballroom, Trump you know, anyway, it could be cool. Okay, I think I think it's Tim's turn. Was it back to Tim? Yeah. Tim's next piece of good news. 

Tim Barton [00:21:29] All right, so this one is really good in that there's a pro-life victory. It's also so revealing. We've talked about this before, but this one that the headline says judge dismisses Satanic Temple's lawsuit against Idaho abortion ban. And the Satanic Temple, when Idaho had an abortion ban, they satanic temple sued because they said that literally, this is their suit. Abortion is a religious ritual under its tenets, and Idaho's ban infringes on its members' First Amendment rights. Yeah. 

Rick Green [00:22:06] The abortion, killing a baby is a religious tenet. 

Tim Barton [00:22:09] Yeah. 

David Barton [00:22:10] Rick, they have been in a lot of lawsuits and they say that their religion requires the shedding of blood, which an abortion does. And so, they say they have to have the shedding of live blood as part of their religious ritual. And so, they're arguing that their religious ritual is fulfilled by having abortions. 

Tim Barton [00:22:27] And Dad, not just live blood. Like they're not talking about sacrificing goats, which it used to be. I mean, you can go back a couple decades, and the satanic groups, they like it was also a big deal coming up on Halloween, right? October 31st, where there were satanic groups that were sacrificing goats and animals. And I know some stories, and I have friends in law enforcement, and there's crazy things they did. Well, they've gone now from sacrificing animals or goats to saying no, we we want to sacrifice humans. And that's not the point of right, the good news Friday story. The good news is that the federal judge rejected their claim. Now that is good news. What's kind of crazy about this is the district judge, Judge David C. Nye, he ruled the satanic temple lacked standing. Why do they lack standing? Because he said, you haven't proven that anybody from your satanic temple was pregnant and tried to have an abortion and couldn't have an abortion because of Idaho law, therefore you don't have standing to bring this lawsuit. But that means, according to this judge, if someone was pregnant and wanted an abortion and couldn't get one in Idaho, the satanic temple might be able to come and bring a lawsuit against this because it's part of their religious ritual. And guys, this goes back to some core principles. Dad, your book that you wrote now decades ago, original intent. One of the things you point out is that we have to understand not just what the document says. But why it says what it says and what they were trying to accomplish, one of the things that the Supreme Court determined, I think was the 1892, the case of the Holy Trinity, where the Supreme Court said it when you're trying to evaluate this was a First Amendment case. When you're trying to evaluate why the First Amendment is there, you need to determine the evil which was intended to be remedied by this. And when you know what problem, they were trying to solve, then you'll better understand what these words actually mean. Well, the First Amendment was not written so that people could sacrifice human children. That is one of the most ridiculous propositions you could put forward. And yet that this is one of the things, guys, we have talked about it a lot on this show that we are in the middle of a spiritual war, and we saw it really evident after Charlie Kirk's murder that people were celebrating, that they were posting videos on social media, rejoicing, dancing, singing that Charlie Kirk had been murdered. And we realized, and for a lot of people, this was a first-time glimpse for them into some of this spiritual warfare. And yet again, when you look at the satanic temple, this is clearly a spiritual warfare. Now, the good news again is that Idaho's abortion ban is being upheld. The satanic temple was removed for not having standing. But guys, this is in my mind, should be a major wake-up call for us as believers as Christians, that we have got some major work to do in reaching the lost and discipling the lost and really even sometimes discipling the found, so that we will be able to stand for biblical truth so much better because the idea that there could be a First Amendment case that a judge might say, well, yeah, if it's your if it's your religious belief, we're gonna do it. That's not what the First Amendment was for when it comes to human sacrifice, because that's a violation of the first of the inalienable rights, which is a right to life. Therefore, that should never be allowed in America. But we have to get back to helping people understand that to make sure we preserve and protect that for the future. 

Rick Green [00:25:48] Yeah, David, I remember an original intent you talking about, you know, how far freedom of religion goes and the things that Jefferson said and some of the Supreme Court decisions basically saying you can't use your religion and then subvert the public good. I remember that phrase. I mean that's what like child sacrifice, that's what this would be, right? 

David Barton [00:26:04] Yeah, exactly right. But you have the public good and not as defined by the government, it's defined by the laws of nature, nature's God. So, he had objective standards on that and he was real clear that your religious and that's why the courts said back then you cannot do human sacrifices, you cannot do Dionysian rituals. And they went through all these other religions that had these weird practices and said it absolutely does not cover any of that. And that's back in those days where Jefferson was talking about it. 

Rick Green [00:26:34] Original Intent is the book, folks. If you go to wallbuilders.com, dive into that, you will learn so much. All right, we are out of time. Have a great weekend. We'll be back with you next week. You've been listening to the WallBuilders Show.