Hear the word of God.
All I'm doing is spreading the truth, the word of God.
Who's ready to hear?
If anyone wants God today, come and profess Jesus Christ as your Lord.
Does anyone want to make a stand for Jesus to-
>> I ask you today,
would you have stood for Christ on that day?
If you were in that gym on that moment, would you have stood for Christ?
Coz no one did.
>> You know what, I've heard of lifting bros
feeling like the gym is a spiritual place or a place of worship, but not like this.
So that's Christian influencer, Ryan Folly, yelling at people who are minding
their business, just getting their workout in for the day.
And if he looks familiar to you, it's probably because he is.
Watch this.
>> I was watching gradually as I watched over the years upon years,
it just kind of got darker and darker, and the wax stuff.
I never thought I'd be watching transgenders having sex with chicks,
and why am I watching this stuff?
Well, because I'm opening myself up to spirits and spirits the more I watched
porn and I don't even realize it, as it gradually goes, it gets darker.
And I was watching transgenders having sex with transgenders,
and then dudes, and I'm, why am I watching this stuff?
Eventually, the porn is not gonna be enough.
Just like Ted Bundy, eventually the porn wasn't enough for Ted Bundy, and
he started actually doing the acts and I started doing the acts.
Never, ever thought I'd be doing something like that, you know what I'm saying?
>> All right, I hope he got on a couple lists, after that comparing himself and
his habits to Ted Bundy, but back to the gym video,
people had some mixed reactions.
Itsdavidplanes said, man, this honestly takes so much courage, respect.
Then, Aariasvangg said, we love God, but sweetie, this is embarrassed.
Then, we had someone else say, so when people say that the LGBT community
is trying to shove gay stuff down their throats, is this what they mean?
Because I promise you, nobody wants to hear that, go repent for
having that trans woman put you in fishnets and make you get on your knees.
[LAUGH] So diverse range of reactions there.
I just think people should mind their business in the gym, of all places,
but this discourse is rich, Cenk.
>> My tweet on it was, I think he came to look at sweaty hot men work out,
but I'm a cynic.
[LAUGH] Look, that guy has got issues, okay?
He said he tried being with trans folks, you don't accidentally do that,
you do that if you want to do that, okay?
So, I don't know, but maybe I'm wrong.
I mean, I was listening to the, I think it's fair to ask this great, I hadn't
heard of him, but he's this great comic, and I was watching a special on Netflix.
And he said, look, when I was 13, I tried making out with a boy and
I didn't like it.
And I was like, interesting, I hadn't heard it that way before, right?
So maybe some people do try, maybe he did try and
then decided that he didn't like it.
But my guess is that, no, he's in the LGBTQ community.
And by the way, that confessional look like the beginning of gay porn,
if you ask me.
And then since he's repressed it, he's got all these feelings.
So he goes to the gym and acts out in these asinine ways, yeah, I'm the most pro
Jesus dude, I'm not looking at your abs, I'm here for Jesus, okay?
Well, if you say so, if you say so.
But look, to Jessica's point, why are we acting out like this?
What's going on?
So, I'm an atheist, imagine if I went to the gym and I was, all right,
who here recognizes that we're all just in the ape family, and
that we're incredibly similar genetically to bonobos and chimpanzees.
People will be like, dude, that's weird, this is not the place for it,
take it somewhere else.
And obviously that's the case here too.
So this to me, bet, he might as well just be just shouting
the entire time, I'm repressed, I'm repressed.
That's why I'm acting out like this.
>> Yeah, and it's a whole onion, right?
It's a whole onion of repression, coz there's so many layers.
So first and foremost, we gotta rip this band aid off really quick, okay?
If you're a man and you find transgender women attractive,
you're straight, congratulations.
You're a straight man.
I know, surprising.
If you are Christian, I need you to understand something, right?
Cuz I was really religious when I grew up, and I read the bible cover to cover,
which is something that most Republicans can't say for themselves,
I got good news for, right?
If you're gay and you're Christian, right, literally, it says, and there's no man or
woman before God, right, you're all God's children.
It literally says it right there, okay?
So good news for you, if you're gay and you're Christian,
take a sigh of relief, it doesn't matter, right?
Congratulations.
If you're using your Christianity in this weird way, where you're
like doing this public displays of, you should all stand up for Jesus.
You're not asking people to stand up for Jesus,
you're asking people to stand up for you, right?
And you really just need to sit down and understand that, because there's just so
many layers of repression here, and it's coz it's sad, right?
It's really, really sad.
And it's also really dangerous, because,
obviously this person compared himself to Ted Bundy, right?
Especially cis gender men who sleep with trans women and
then decide after the fact they were like, wait, no,
I have to pretend that I'm not interested in trans women, for whatever reason.
Those people commit a huge amount of violence against trans women.
They're literally one of the highest causes of death for
trans women across the country.
So let's be really clear about how dangerous this mentality is.
But then it's also sad for this person too, because, whether they're gay and
they're into men, I thought it was a little bit unclear as to whether or
not they were sleeping with men or sleeping with trans women.
But all of that aside, it's this weird repression where, look,
it's okay to sleep with trans women, okay?
I hate to break, it's okay, right?
And it's okay to be gay, all of these things are okay.
They're perfectly fine.
So you can relax, I think more people really need to hear this and
let this sink in.
And I know that family can be crummy, and
I know that it would be difficult to workplaces and discrimination,
all that stuff, but ultimately at the end of the day, let yourself be happy, right?
Literally just let yourself be happy, because when you repress stuff like this,
right, you turn in to really, really like, I mean, it leads to literal violence.
And so, that's what's really, really important to understand, is that we just
need to live in a society where people are comfortable being themselves.
Because when people are repressed like that, not only is it sad for
those people who are repressed, but it's also dangerous for everybody that isn't.
>> Yeah, you become someone that nobody, literally, wants to be around.
I remember the subway used to be a place where people were generally minding their
business.
Now it is a place for announcements and dancing and performances, and
I really don't want that to happen to the gym.
But this guy, Ryan Foley, he hasn't just been doing this at gyms,
he's also been doing this around a mall in Mexico.
Let's watch this.
>> My name is Ryan, I did not plan on speaking here today,
I was actually on my way to Phoenix, Arizona, and
the Lord told me to stop and go to Albuquerque, New Mexico.
I did not want to come here but the spirit convicted me hard and said,
you're coming here because somebody in this room needs to hear this message.
We could deny Jesus by the way we live, by the way we talk, and with our mouth.
In order to obtain salvation, set yourself apart, do not be like the world.
Liberal ages, do not be like the world.
If there's anyone in there with terminal illness,
anyone in there with any injury, come up here and I will heal you.
And I will show what God could do.
You will see what God can do, in the name of Jesus.
Is there anyone in here with cancer or anything, you won't be laughing.
I want you to know, when I was in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in that mall,
and I was preaching, when I got done and I shut the camera off,
glory be to God, because they all started clapping.
>> Sure, yeah.
All right, so he was in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I said Mexico,
he was in the United States, in Albuquerque.
So him going off on this rant and giving this speech in the middle of the food
court, then saying he can heal you if you're terminally ill, through God,
this is someone who is delusional and I'm afraid, dangerous.
I mean, not only did he compare himself to Ted Bundy, but
if you think that you're someone who has the ability to heal terminal illness,
that is not someone that I think should be allowed in public [LAUGH] in this way.
I think he's just a recipe for disaster.
I don't know, what do y'all think?
>> Yeah, if Jesus told you to go speak in front of a serborrow in Albuquerque-
>> [LAUGH]
>> It's the most
curious thing Jesus has ever said.
[LAUGH] Okay, really?
I mean, he was that specific, go to this small in Albuquerque, there's a couple of
people in front of us in that you're gonna wanna yell in front of, and
you're yelling will be incredibly effective.
Really?
Okay, but as usual, I'll double down on a lot of what Ben said, as well.
So number one, [COUGH] excellent point on the difference between being
attracted to gay men and trans women, I love that you clarified that.
So, if you're that guy, just give yourself a goddamn break instead of
trying to take all that stuff that you've got bottled up inside you and
then do something super unhealthy with it.
[COUGH] Excuse me.
And I love that quote you had, Ben, let yourself be happy, because otherwise,
you're gonna turn into this fool in a mall or in a gym somewhere.
And the people I'm most angry at are not him,
they're the people who taught him this self hatred, for no reason at all.
You know what Jesus said about trans people?
Nothing, nothing at all.
Zero, literally never said anything.
The quote that Bed read to you is correct about the Bible,
the Bible is nothing like what they tell you.
By the way, and if you're worried about restrictions, I'm gonna say for
the billionth time.
In the same part of Leviticus that says that man shall not lie with a man,
it says, you shall not eat shellfish, it is an abomination, the same exact words.
So is he there because there's a red lobster in that mall and
he's going, don't eat the shellfish, I could save you.
No, because they didn't teach him to hate lobster, they taught him to
hate people in the LGBTQ community, and that's why he hates himself.
And that's what this is, and it's really sad.
Look, if you're gonna use Jesus in a gym, do it like I did, I bought this shirt, no,
it actually was given to me by a reporter who did a story about it back in Miami.
There was this Christian gym in, of all places, South Beach,
[LAUGH] it was called the Lord's gym, and
their T-shirt had Jesus Christ doing push ups, with the crucifix on his back.
And it said, his pain, your gain.
>> [LAUGH] >> Jesus died on the cross for your gains.
>> [LAUGH] Exactly, and by the way, I gave that T-shirt later to Hoss, and
he's worn it on Asana V stream, etc.
So we got good mileage out of the T-shirt.
But the reason I bring it up but is that, hey, that's a Christian gym,
go to the Christian gym and you'll see a lot of people that agree with you.
You don't have to accost people in a place
where they're not asking you to come yell at them.
>> Yeah, and it's really curious, right?
It's really, really curious how Jesus is always telling people to run around and
invade public spaces and yell at random people.
Instead of giving money to homeless people or
volunteering in a soup kitchen or something like that.
It's just so curious how these these right wing evangelicals,
God is always calling them to yell slurs at queer people, but
never, never, to actually do anything to help poor people.
Literally what Jesus supposedly did in the Bible, right?
That I think is probably the funniest part about all this, is, it's never helpful.
It's never anything that's helpful to anybody else, except for, I guess,
their views on TikTok.