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- Alright, my friends, A .D. Roblez is deeply troubled. A .D.
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- Ro - A .D - A .Day? My name's not A .Day, it's A .D. Roblez. A .D. Roblez is troubled, and I know
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- I make fun of people when they say that they're troubled, or concerned, or worried, and, you know, it's a
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- Big Eva thing to say, that's for sure. But, uh, but I needed to share this with somebody, so might as well be you.
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- I am deeply troubled. The day started off good. It was a good day.
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- I was thinking about how NASA keeps pretending that they're gonna go to the moon, and they're just not going to do that.
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- Here it is again. It got delayed again! This Artemis moon mission has been getting delayed over and over and over again.
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- I believe on the channel, I did predict that the new date, which was supposed to be right around now, would end up getting pushed back, and here it is, you know, there's a hurricane,
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- I mean, they gotta move it back! It's a hurricane! And so, it's now allegedly gonna happen in November.
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- I will go on a limb right now and predict that this moon landing will not happen in November either.
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- Now, I don't know what excuse they're gonna use, I don't know, maybe some of their diversity hires are gonna, you know, put the wrong pipe in the wrong, you know, bolts or something,
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- I don't know what's gonna happen, but something's gonna happen. And, uh, this moon mission will get delayed yet again.
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- I was enjoying that, it's good news, I think it's funny. But then, something happened that deeply troubled me.
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- Now, if you see here, this is the people that I follow on Twitter. I'm gonna get rid of Twitter soon,
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- I really hate it, I hate it. I do, I hate it very much. Twitter is, you know, no matter what you do, you can't get the degeneracy off your feet, right?
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- Like, I only, at the time, I only followed Gordon Sanchez, the theoretical editor -at -large of Gospel Coalition.
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- Very good follow, by the way. And Woke Preacher Clips, and Woke Preacher Clips is a legend, so I follow him.
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- At the time, those were the only two people I was following. But then,
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- Twitter, you know, they show you what they think you're gonna be interested in, or what they think you should see.
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- And that's why I'm leaving Twitter soon, because I just hate what they show me. Like, I've never ever clicked on anything regarding the new
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- TV show that's coming out, or the new, you know, movie or whatever that's coming out. And they constantly promote this garbage to me all the time.
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- It's awful. I can't take it anymore. In any case, they did promote something to me that I thought was interesting, but it deeply troubled me.
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- It's this site called Americana Aesthetics. And this Twitter page posts pictures about different things from, you know,
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- Americana. American past, or architecture, or, you know, scenery, stuff like that.
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- And most of these pictures are very good. They're very interesting. But this is the one.
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- This one troubled me very much. And I went on a little bit of a rabbit hole looking at some of these
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- Americana Aesthetics pictures, and they just, one after another, just, I'm worried, guys.
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- I'm troubled. I don't know what's what anymore. I just don't know. I don't know, and I need a little help.
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- What do you guys make of this? Because this picture is St. Louis, Missouri, from 1904.
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- And, of course, it's colorized, so this picture used to be black and white. But this is troubling, because look how beautiful this is.
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- Like, if you were to show me this picture and say, AD, where is this picture taken?
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- And you didn't give me any context, right? Like, you gave me no context whatsoever. I would say, oh, this must be from the new
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- Lord of the Rings show or something. Like, this is the new, you know, Riverdale or whatever. I don't even know the names of the places in that thing.
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- But that's what I would think. It's like a fantasy, you know, computer generated image of, you know,
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- Arendelle or whatever. Arendelle, that's from Frozen. Whatever. You see what I'm trying to say. And that's what
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- I would have thought, because it's just so, like, awesome. It's just so fantasy, fantastical, whatever.
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- But it's not. It's from the actual world that exists. So if you told me, AD, it's from the world that exists, though.
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- It's, like, on our planet, in our world. I would have said, oh, it must be
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- Venice or, like, I don't know, Greece or Rome or something like that. Something in Europe where all the architecture is beautiful and whatever.
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- And it's not. It's St. Louis, Missouri. And it's, like, this is troubling, because why does it look like this?
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- It's, like, nothing I know from St. Louis looks this amazing, right? Maybe I just don't know, but this looks unbelievable, right?
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- And then you find out that a lot of this stuff, and I'll just keep going. This is from the World's Fair in 1904.
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- And, again, it's just, like, if you were to take this out of context, I'd be, like, this is another planet.
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- This looks like Naboo, right? But it's not. It's St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis doesn't look like this anymore.
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- Why not? Why not? Like, this architecture is just, it's just otherworldly is what it is.
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- But, no, this is from our world in 1904. This is the part that's troubling. 1904.
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- And then it's, like, you know, this is the World's Fair. And, you know, they put these buildings up in a month or a couple months, you know.
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- And they were made of straw and plaster. And they had this stuff up there. And then they just tore it all down.
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- And, you know, because who cares, right? Who cares? They just tore it down. That's the story that they tell us. But it's just, like, it just doesn't make sense.
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- Like, even assuming that this is all a facade, right?
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- This is all a literal facade. Like, I don't mean, like, it's a trick. I mean, like, this is a facade. This is a building that they put up.
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- It's not supposed to be up there forever. It's just a temporary thing to celebrate or whatever. And then they tear it down.
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- But we don't do this stuff anymore. I mean, when was the last time you went to your county fair? Did it look like this?
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- Like, what does it look like now? It doesn't look like this, that's for sure.
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- That's troubling. That's troubling. I just don't understand what to make of that.
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- Look at this one. San Francisco 1915 World's Fair. I've never seen this.
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- Again, it's like a different plane of existence. And this is 1915 where they were doing stuff like this.
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- This is just unbelievable. Let me find another one. This is also 1915 San Francisco World's Fair.
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- I mean, this is, like, when I remember when I used to play video games,
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- I played the game Battlefront, the Star Wars, you know, shooter game. And I remember being in a place that looked like this.
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- And it was on Naboo. It was the palace on Naboo. They created this world that looked so awesome.
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- You were there. But, no, in the old days, they really did it. It wasn't just a computer.
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- In 1915, they would really make these places. But we don't do this anymore. Now, I mean,
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- I don't want to say everything looks bad, but it just doesn't look like this anymore. It looks awful now, to be honest.
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- Look at this one. This is the one that blew my mind. This is when I decided to make this video because this is troubling to me.
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- This is 1893 in Chicago. Tell me this doesn't look like Lord of the
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- Rings. 1893. 1800s in Chicago.
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- And it looks like it would be, like, in a fantasy, you know, movie or in Rome or something like that.
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- And it's just hard to believe that this stuff used to happen. And I scrolled through a bunch of these pictures.
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- Here's another one from 1893, World's Fair. I mean, it looks like, you know, what, like, you go to Disney World and they've got all this stuff set up, except it's like the real version, right?
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- Disney World's like, it's just, it doesn't make any sense. And then you think about, like, your cities, right? I used to live in New York City.
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- And most of it looked like garbage, right? I mean, literally garbage. There was garbage everywhere. And most of it looked awful.
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- The buildings are just utilitarian and ugly and all of that.
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- But then there's, like, little remnants of this beautiful time. You know, you go to Grand Central and, like, the architecture on Grand Central is just unbelievable.
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- And if you weren't looking, you would miss it because everything else looks like literal garbage. And then there's, like, this thing.
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- We don't do anything like that anymore. I'm not saying the old days were better than these days. I'm not, that's not what I'm trying to say.
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- That's not a wise way to look at the world. But I just want to ask, what happened?
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- What happened? Like, why are we the way we are? It's troubling.
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- AD Robles is troubling. I'm not despairing. I promise you, I'm not despairing. But why has this happened?
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- Look at this. This is the world. 1893, Chicago. And then they just tore it all down and said, screw it.
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- We need to make room for the Sears Tower. Are you serious? Even the
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- Sears Tower is better than the stuff they do now. Good gracious. Like, the Freedom Tower is just so ugly.
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- Why do they make things ugly? And I think I know a little bit why they do this, but I don't know.
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- My point is, I want to avoid a despair spiral. I'm just joking.
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- I'm not despairing. But what do you guys make of this? Like, when you see this kind of stuff, what do you make of this?
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- You ever see those movies? I'm sorry, those documentaries where they claim that – and I think this is a claim.
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- I don't think this is really true. But they'll show you something that, I don't know, the Incas made, like, you know, a long time ago.
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- Or, you know, the Mayans or whatever. And then the narrator will be like, we still don't know how they did it.
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- Or the pyramids. Like, we don't know how they made the pyramids. Maybe it was aliens. I think they do know, but they don't do it anymore.
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- So it's like, why does it seem like in some ways we've, like, we've deteriorated, right?
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- Oh, but we have iPhones. I mean, that's great. Like, who cares about iPhones, right? Like, in so many ways, we've gotten worse.
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- But in some ways, we haven't. The story doesn't really make a whole lot of sense.
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- I mean, even going back to the moon landing, right? Because the story they tell you about the moon landing – and again,
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- I'll just leave it at that. But they went to the moon with technology that's probably less complicated than a
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- Game Boy, right? But now they can't figure out how to get there. Now it's like, oh, we've got to do it.
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- We don't know. I mean, it can't really be the diversity hires, can it? Maybe it is.
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- Maybe it is. What do you guys make of this? I'd like to get your input. In the comments section, what do you make of this?
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- Like, in 1893, we were building buildings that just look like they're straight out of fantasy novels, right?
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- They could be in Rome. I mean, it's just – but we just don't do it anymore. We don't do it anymore.
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- Why do we do what we do now when it's so much worse than what we used to do?
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- That's what I want to know. I was talking to my brother about this, and he just sent me a few pictures of cathedrals that were made a long time ago.
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- And it's like, these things are just amazing. These are amazing buildings, and they're just so different than what we do now.
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- What we do now is so much worse. What do you guys make of this?
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- Let me know in the comments section. I'm very interested in what you guys have to say. I feel like this audience is – you know,
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- I think not only are we smarter. I think we're a smart audience. But also, I think this audience in particular is very open -minded.
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- You guys aren't the kind of people – like, if you listen to 80 Robles for any consistent amount of time, and you don't just say,
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- I'm done with this guy, you have a fairly open mind. Because I've said some pretty wild things from time to time.
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- But I'm interested to hear what you guys have to say. Let me know in the comments section below. Tomorrow, I've got some more content.
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- Not really about the Kastihin situation, although it is what got me thinking about it.
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- But more about sort of this – well, I'll leave it for tomorrow. I think you'll enjoy it.
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- But let me know what you guys think of this issue. What is the deal with all of this?
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- How could they have made that in 1893? And now, again, look around at the construction around you.
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- What are they making in your town? I guarantee you it doesn't look like this in any case. Hope you found this video –