Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - May 09, 2024


Ep 1000 | 1,000th Episode Celebration!!!!


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 9 minutes

Words per Minute

168.5008

Word Count

11,744

Sentence Count

927

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

It's the 1,000th episode of Relatable, and we're celebrating by taking a trip down memory lane with the team that has been with us for the last 1000 episodes. We talk to the team about how the show has grown over the years, answer some of your questions, and have a giveaway!


Transcript

00:00:00.700 1,000 episodes of Relatable. We've got a really fun episode for you today. We are going to talk
00:00:09.380 to the Relatable team. We're going to take a trip down memory lane. We are also going to listen to
00:00:14.240 some amazing voicemails. You've got to stick around for that. They're so encouraging, just
00:00:19.780 incredible. But also we've got some fun would-you-rathers and a few more questions about
00:00:26.000 dinosaurs on today's 1,000th episode of Relatable.
00:00:40.240 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Thursday. Today is the 1,000th episode of Relatable. You
00:00:48.480 see our cute balloons? You got to watch this one on YouTube. If you're typically a person who
00:00:53.320 listens to it, then watch it because we've got a lot of things that we are going to be showing
00:00:58.140 to our audience today. We're going to take a trip down memory lane. This is going to be a fun episode.
00:01:05.000 We're not going to talk about any of the serious stuff that we typically talk about. We are going
00:01:11.620 to just show our gratitude to you. I'm going to show my gratitude to not just the team that works
00:01:18.140 on Relatable now, but the different team members that we've had over the years. And most of all,
00:01:24.400 I'm just grateful to God. I am so grateful to the Lord for giving me this opportunity and this
00:01:30.320 privilege to be able to host and help produce 1,000 Relatable episodes. So before we go back to
00:01:39.760 how this all started, a lot of you have heard that story before. Those of you who have been here since
00:01:44.140 the beginning, thank you, by the way. But many of you don't. You have no idea why I started Relatable,
00:01:49.740 how this all began. And so I'm going to give you at least a synopsis of that. I won't go into every
00:01:55.860 detail since it's a little monotonous for those of you who have heard it multiple times. And then
00:02:01.360 we'll just look at how the show has grown and changed over the years. Before we get into it,
00:02:06.680 let me tell you a really fun announcement. We've got limited edition merchandise for the 1,000
00:02:14.120 episode. So we'll put that up on the screen. We've got the t-shirt on the back. It says 1,000
00:02:20.560 episodes. And we've got a few different designs that we've had over the years on our t-shirts,
00:02:25.860 on our merch. We've got our most common phrases, raise a respectful ruckus. We've got our little
00:02:31.560 dinosaur there, our question everything dinosaur who is placing his American flag on the moon. If you
00:02:37.200 know, you know. Do everything in faith or do the next right thing. I just got my motto wrong.
00:02:44.120 Do the next right thing. And faith with excellence and for the glory of God. You can put it back up,
00:02:48.060 George. And then you're not enough, but Jesus is. Be a salmon, which means swim upstream. Self-love
00:02:55.160 won't save you. Share the arrows. All that is on the back of our limited edition t-shirt that's
00:03:00.800 available on AllieMerch.com. On the front, we've got our cute little r. We've got crew next, too.
00:03:05.380 So it's not just the t-shirts. I'm personally excited for mine, too.
00:03:09.500 So come in. And so check that out. If you're a real one, especially if you've been like a
00:03:15.440 related gal or related bro from the beginning, then you need to get yourself a 1,000 episodes
00:03:22.840 t-shirt. But also, we've got a giveaway, okay? We've got a giveaway. And we just want to thank
00:03:29.500 y'all who have allowed this show to be alive for 1,000 episodes and what we are giving away. This
00:03:37.820 is huge. This is like a huge giveaway, which is perfectly appropriate for 1,000 episodes. I'm
00:03:44.620 going to tell you how to enter. But first, let me tell you what is in this prize. So you get a
00:03:51.800 relatable merch package. And so you get some of our merchandise. You also get one signed copy of my book,
00:03:57.400 you're not enough, and that's okay. You get an ESV study Bible, which is just an amazing gift,
00:04:05.520 if I do say so myself. I was gifted that when I was in college, and the Lord used it to change my life
00:04:11.920 and to stir in me a love for theology. And so we're going to give you an ESV study Bible,
00:04:17.280 and then $1,000 worth of products from our sponsors. Amazing. Adele Natural Cosmetics,
00:04:23.280 they're going to send you a gift package of some of their most popular items. Carly Jean Los Angeles
00:04:27.860 is giving you a $250 gift card. You can get so much good stuff for that. Cozy Earth, a set of
00:04:33.420 sheets. Oh my goodness. That's a really big value. We love our Cozy Earth sheets. Holy Pals, a pair of
00:04:40.440 biblical pajamas. So this is pajamas with like a Bible story depicted on them, like David and Goliath,
00:04:48.780 or like for Christmas, they've got nativity scene pajamas. Super cute. Range leather, a belt bag,
00:04:54.760 seven weeks coffee. They'll send you bags of coffee. We Heart Nutrition, a one year supply of
00:05:01.040 vitamins that will be customized based on who wins this. A one year supply of supplements from We
00:05:06.980 Heart Nutrition. Thank you so much to my sponsors. I just want to say that you are so generous and have
00:05:13.880 been so faithful to the show. I'm so thankful. We would not be able to do this without our sponsors.
00:05:19.520 You guys would not be getting free episodes without our sponsors. Our sponsors, the advertisements that
00:05:26.000 I read every episode, that is how we have a show, that we're able to pay a team to produce the show.
00:05:34.660 That's how we are able to afford to give you all of these episodes for free. And so without our
00:05:41.020 sponsors, we wouldn't be able to do what we do. So I'm so thankful, especially to the sponsors that
00:05:46.080 contributed to this giveaway. Okay, so here is how you enter all of that awesome stuff. You go to the
00:05:53.440 giveaway post on the Relatable Show page. So Relatable with ABS, and I'll repost it on my
00:06:00.420 Ali B. Stucky Instagram page. Tag three friends in the post, okay? And then follow Relatable with ABS
00:06:08.280 and Ali B. Stucky if you don't already on Instagram. And then also follow each of our six sponsors
00:06:14.640 tagged in the post. Okay, so we'll put that up. If you're watching on YouTube, we've got the graphic
00:06:21.540 up there telling you exactly how to do it. We can also put it in the description of this episode if
00:06:26.440 you're listening. So you won't miss out on that. Three winners will be announced on Thursday, May 16th.
00:06:32.600 So that's a week from today. Three winners will be announced next week. And so make sure that you
00:06:38.620 do all of that as soon as possible. And then you can enter to win all of this awesome stuff.
00:06:46.980 All right, we're gonna take a little stroll down memory lane.
00:07:02.600 Okay, so let me introduce the team. That's something I'm going to do real quickly before we
00:07:09.140 look back at where we've been since 2018. So most of you already know producer Brie.
00:07:17.680 She has been on the show several times. And you guys always give me such great feedback about my
00:07:25.300 episodes with Brie. And you love her commentary and her soothing voice. And you guys,
00:07:32.400 may not know this, but she has been in her past, a musical theater extraordinaire,
00:07:39.480 which has contributed to her ability to perform well on this show. It contributes to her camera
00:07:46.120 and stage presence. Chief Related Bro, aka my husband, always says that he loves when Brie comes
00:07:52.520 on the show. My dad also says that and they can, you know, my dad, he can be a tough critic.
00:07:57.780 And so he says that he loves the segments with Brie. And Brie has been, you don't have to keep Brie
00:08:05.680 up there for this because she might feel awkward. But so Brie came on the show. Let's see. Wait,
00:08:12.020 Brie, was it 2022? Everything has been so blurry. It was 2022. And it was right. Okay. Yes. I was
00:08:22.000 trying to remember what it was like, what years have I had babies over the past few years? That's why
00:08:25.900 everything is blurry. But so Brie came on the scene 2022. And my previous producer told me that she
00:08:34.900 was leaving and she was giving us like three weeks. And I was like, oh my goodness, it's so difficult
00:08:39.960 to find the right person who has the right personality, the right experience, the right
00:08:45.480 attitude, is able to be here locally, who can be trained quickly. I didn't even really know what I
00:08:52.100 was looking for in a producer because I really hadn't had, I hadn't had much experience with a
00:09:01.280 producer. When I started this show in 2018, it was just me. I didn't have a producer. I didn't have a
00:09:07.100 producer really at all until, gosh, I guess it was 2021, maybe like the fall of 2021. Before that,
00:09:15.420 I just had editors. So I had people who helped me with the technical side of things. Although when I
00:09:20.360 first started this and it was just audio, I was doing, I was doing a lot of that too. But I didn't
00:09:25.760 have a producer of the show for the first several years. And so I really didn't know what exactly I
00:09:34.040 needed. And we were getting all of these resumes when we posted and I just didn't find the right
00:09:39.820 person. But then my assistant at the time found Brie's email in my inbox and she had emailed,
00:09:48.780 reached out about something else. I had put like another job I'd posted. Do you remember what I
00:09:55.780 reached out about? Yeah. I actually didn't even see that you posted something. Oh, I just emailed
00:10:00.780 saying any chance you're looking for a producer. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yes. And I guess I hadn't seen the
00:10:08.040 email because yeah, my assistant sent it to me and was like, Hey, you know, I know y'all are hiring.
00:10:15.040 And I looked at it and I was like, okay, okay. She's in the area. She has some relevant experience.
00:10:24.520 I think that she's worth interviewing. And then as soon as we interviewed her, I was like, yeah,
00:10:30.380 that's it. I just totally, I just knew because she exuded competence and confidence. And the amazing
00:10:37.040 thing is, is that she didn't really, she didn't have producing experience, at least not for something
00:10:43.560 like this, at least not for a podcast. Like this was pretty new to her. She had experience that helped
00:10:49.720 her, but it's not like she had been working at the daily wire or something like that. That's kind of
00:10:54.120 typically what happens in this world. She was pretty fresh. And yet, as soon as she came in, I was like,
00:11:00.420 Oh, this is what it's supposed to be like. Oh, this is what it's like to have someone who took charge
00:11:08.120 and immediately understood what was going on and became a leader of our team. And she has just
00:11:13.860 brought so much order, so much peace of mind to the show and has helped so much in giving me the
00:11:20.320 margin to be more creative and strategic. Because what y'all don't know is there's so much that goes
00:11:27.940 into every single episode. There's so much that goes on behind the scenes. There's so much organization,
00:11:33.980 so much preparation, so much management, so many details that have to be put in order for every
00:11:40.480 episode. Some episodes are easier than the other than the others before the episode, during the
00:11:45.600 episode. And after the episode, there's so much work that has to be done, not to mention all the extra
00:11:50.160 stuff like organizing a giveaway, corresponding with all of the sponsors, talking to the ad team,
00:11:55.740 the people who manage the sponsors. Like there's just so much that goes into it. And Brie makes sure
00:12:01.860 that everything that is going on behind the scenes runs smoothly and everyone is doing what they need
00:12:08.680 to do. And she's a very good leader of people. And she has a lot of different talents and skills
00:12:14.300 that come together to be a really good producer for Relatable. So I'm just thankful. I feel like the
00:12:19.260 Lord brought her exactly at the right time. When I was so stressed that summer, I was like,
00:12:24.620 we're not going to find a producer in three weeks. There's just no way that's going to happen. And it
00:12:28.680 was like just in the nick of time. And so anyway, very thankful for Brie. And she probably doesn't
00:12:36.240 want to hear any of this and probably feels awkward about it, but it is all true. And so
00:12:43.300 none of this, this wouldn't be the same. I'll say that it wouldn't be the same without Brie. So
00:12:47.700 thankful for producer Brie. And then we've also got Lily. I don't, she might not want to be on camera,
00:12:54.460 which is fine, but you can be on camera if you want to. Yes, you can wave. Okay. So this is Lily
00:13:01.360 and she's a newer addition to our show. Very thankful for Lily and her research capabilities
00:13:06.520 and how she has helped Brie so much in the past few weeks. Brie just always tells me how great it's
00:13:14.080 been to have someone else who can handle all of the craziness and the stress and the chaos
00:13:20.920 of preparing for the show. So she's made things a lot easier and a lot smoother around here.
00:13:26.700 And then we have Vince who is our, he, the audio doesn't work back there. So he's just going to
00:13:32.340 have to wave. Vince is our awesome editor. So editing this show is not for the faint of heart
00:13:39.980 because there's, especially on YouTube, there are just a lot of elements and there are a lot of
00:13:46.160 different things that you have to do to make sure that everything looks nice, that everything sounds
00:13:51.020 good. And so he spends a lot of time every day doing that. And he is also a fairly recent addition
00:14:01.100 to our show. And Vince is just like an extremely joyful person. His attitude and his energy, his ability
00:14:08.840 to take and apply feedback is just, you want someone like Vince, um, on your team because he
00:14:15.680 just makes things easier. And then we have George back there. I don't know if you can see George,
00:14:20.600 but George is the one who is running the cameras. There's George back there. He's running the cameras,
00:14:25.780 making sure that everything looks good and all, uh, the shots look good. And I specifically requested
00:14:32.200 that George work on our show because he worked on our show a couple of times when he was kind of
00:14:37.920 substituting. And I was like, Oh, I really like him again, just an amazing attitude, extremely
00:14:44.900 competent, good at his job. And it makes it, that makes a big difference when someone is just
00:14:51.300 confident, they know what they're doing. And again, they just have such a good attitude and I loved his
00:14:56.460 energy. And so I'm so glad that we have George working on our show. And then we've got some people
00:15:00.660 who are working remotely. We've got Debbie. She is our researcher. And Oh my goodness. I know that
00:15:07.700 Brie could also speak to just like what a gift Debbie has been to this show and how she also
00:15:15.180 took a lot off of Brie's plate when she came on, because I mean, she just took the job of researcher
00:15:21.900 and ran with it. She is so thorough and there's stuff that she has researched that sadly you guys
00:15:28.300 will never even hear or know about because with every subject, she is so detailed and she is so
00:15:34.780 thorough because I've said from the beginning, I want more, not less. And she takes that very
00:15:40.180 seriously. And so there's even work and dedication that she's put into every episode that you guys
00:15:45.740 won't see, but it's still valuable and very appreciated by me. And so I get a lot of compliments
00:15:52.420 from you guys that, you know, the show is well-researched. Well, that's Debbie. Debbie is awesome.
00:15:58.980 And then we also have Kyra. Kyra has helped us with our social media. She has helped us over the
00:16:04.020 past several months, take our social media to the next level. She has an amazing attitude. As you can
00:16:09.500 tell, that's something that I really care about. I love people's enthusiasm and a great attitude.
00:16:14.520 She has an awesome attitude and she's been super creative in helping us ensure that we are doing all
00:16:22.440 of the most visually aesthetic and most creative things on our Instagram account in particular. So
00:16:29.200 I'm thankful for that. And then we've got a lot of other people who are working behind the scenes.
00:16:34.460 We've got people who have worked for Relatable over the years and I don't have time to go through
00:16:40.820 every single person, but there are so many contributors to the success of this show at Blaze TV and even
00:16:48.240 outside Blaze TV. And, um, I'm just very grateful for that. This is not a one woman show. It started
00:16:54.560 out that way. Um, but it's not a one woman show. We have so many people working together to make this
00:17:01.420 happen four times a week for y'all. And so just wherever you are out there, give it up for the
00:17:07.480 Relatable team. All right. I just wanted to honor them because again, this just wouldn't happen without
00:17:12.220 them. Now we are going to take a look back just a little bit over the years of, um, of Relatable.
00:17:31.440 Okay. Y'all 1000 episodes, 1000 episodes. Do we have a picture of my, like one of my first episodes
00:17:41.860 we can put one up. Um, the first episode you put on YouTube is episode 84. Yes. Um, not episode one,
00:17:50.240 unfortunately. So we don't have a picture of that. No, because, and the reason is, okay, so I'll,
00:17:55.640 I'll give some insider information on that. But if you're watching on YouTube, we can put up
00:18:00.220 like what the first episode looked like that was on YouTube. Um, so when, so I started at the Blaze
00:18:07.420 in 2017 and I can like give the story of that maybe in a little bit after we, uh, show our montage of
00:18:17.940 some shows over the years. But then, um, I left the Blaze in 2000 at the end of 2017. So it wasn't even
00:18:27.560 very long. And I was poached by CRTV, conservative review TV. And I went there. That's actually where I
00:18:35.760 started the podcast. That's first, if it, it was just like, I forget what it was called. It was
00:18:40.920 like Allie on TV or just Allie or something like that. It was a cute little brand. So this was the
00:18:46.260 beginning of 2018 and it was just for CRTV subscribers. There was nothing on YouTube.
00:18:51.740 Didn't have a YouTube presence. Um, again, as I'll get into, I had started kind of doing a lot of this
00:18:58.260 in 2015. And so in 2018, I started this, uh, I started just like behind the scenes stuff. And it
00:19:06.160 was where I had, for example, like that's where I started most misused. Um, I believe I was going
00:19:12.580 through, uh, often used Bible verses like Jeremiah 29, 11, and I was breaking down what they actually
00:19:19.980 mean versus the popular and wrong usage of them. I was going through subjects like the error in the
00:19:26.840 prosperity gospel. But then I would also do like little shorts on, um, like immigration and things
00:19:32.980 like that. And so it was all supposed to be from a millennial perspective because everyone wanted to
00:19:37.880 know if there were any sane millennials back then. Like we were the subject of every like Fox news
00:19:43.160 segment of like, Oh, millennials are awful liberal still living with their parents. And so everyone to
00:19:49.720 see a conservative millennial was kind of shocked back then. And there were a few of us of course doing
00:19:54.480 that, but then CRTV merged with blaze TV. Was that, when was that? Was it the end of 2018 or no, it was
00:20:04.300 the blaze. So CRTV merged with the blaze. I think it was the end of 2018, if I remember correctly. And so
00:20:12.080 then it turned into blaze TV and then, um, yeah. And, and then this continued, I think I need to back up a
00:20:20.200 little bit because, okay. Relatable started at like in March of 2018. So it started on CRTV just
00:20:28.820 behind the scenes, just for subscribers. Then I asked, I was like, can I please put this on YouTube
00:20:33.840 and can it turn into a podcast? And so I did. That's how we came up with a relatable. And I still
00:20:38.100 remember like trying to go through names. I made like the podcast art. We can put that up. The original
00:20:43.680 podcast art too. I made that like, I think on Canva myself and, um, I, I don't think anyone else helped me
00:20:53.140 come up with the name. I think I went through like relevance or I just, yeah. And then I landed on
00:21:00.120 relatable because it's relatable at least to like-minded people like me. And over the years, it's just been
00:21:06.780 affirmed and confirmed that that was in fact the right name. Because for those of us who have these
00:21:12.980 values and live in this fear, it has, thank the Lord helped you feel like you are not alone. And
00:21:19.300 someone is thinking through things the same way that you are, or is coming to the same conclusions
00:21:25.280 that you are, has the same fears and concerns and hopes as you do. Uh, so that was, uh, March,
00:21:32.660 2018. And then it was started as once a week and then it moved to two times a week and then it moved
00:21:38.700 to three. And then of course, eventually it moved to four, which is what it is now. So yeah, merge CRTV,
00:21:45.400 the blaze merged end of 2018 to become blaze TV. And here I am. I think I am the only host. I think
00:21:53.420 I'm the only host that has been in like all three that has been here the longest. So see that,
00:22:01.100 that it was the blaze and then it was CRTV and then it was blaze TV. I think I'm the only one that has
00:22:07.300 been through all three of those iterations. So I'm basically an OG, basically an OG for all of these
00:22:15.920 things. Um, all right, I'll tell you the story of how this all started in a second, but first I want to
00:22:21.780 play this montage that my team put together of just some podcast moments, uh, since 2018. Here it
00:22:31.720 is. Top one. Hey guys, welcome to relatable. Happy Monday. Happy Tuesday. Happy Wednesday. Happy
00:22:39.180 Thursday. You raise a respectful ruckus for the things that matter and you share the arrows with
00:22:44.920 other people who are voicing an unpopular opinion. His eternal plan of redemption is always going off
00:22:51.020 without a hitch. Politics matter because policy matters because people matter. Kids are always
00:22:57.380 the unconsenting subjects of progressive social experiments. My call to share the gospel, to raise
00:23:04.100 my kids, to do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God does not change.
00:23:10.880 I learned that God's going to judge me by his standard of goodness and not the world's standard
00:23:14.500 of goodness. I'm on fire for Jesus. Like I, I don't plan on this dimming out. Like it took
00:23:20.880 me so many years to, um, realize that God was a good and loving heavenly father, not waiting to punish
00:23:26.920 me at every turn for some sin. Maybe I forgot to confess. The Jesus of the gospels never demonstrated
00:23:33.860 truth in one place and love in another. It was always love and truth. But it was the red words of
00:23:39.820 Jesus in the new Testament that really hit me. That really started my personal relationship with Jesus.
00:23:46.080 The real question in life is what are you going to do when this life ends? If I ever have a daughter,
00:23:52.120 I want her to have the opportunity to win a world title without competing against males.
00:23:57.840 Parents feel that they can't send their kid to school because they're worried about the kids
00:24:03.540 coming back with having an agenda shoved down their throat. I don't think any other president's
00:24:09.100 ever gone through anything like this where it was hoaxes and they impeached me twice for no reason.
00:24:14.100 This is, this is a theory. Okay. I'm just going to say this. Dinosaurs never existed. Some of this has
00:24:21.940 been constructed by a bunch of nerds who were like, Oh, Jurassic Park. That would be so cool, man.
00:24:29.700 I started this interview as a man, but will I finish it as a man?
00:24:35.740 The wing dysphoria is...
00:24:38.100 Everyone in this room is laughing.
00:24:40.920 This is so funny to me. It might not be funny to you. That's all we got for this week. We will be
00:24:51.900 back here on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. We will be back here on Friday and I'll see you then.
00:24:57.800 Okay. What I love to think about most, I think, when it comes to Relatable is the guests that we've
00:25:07.840 had on. I mean, I've, I've had some of the most amazing guests and not just the ones that we played,
00:25:13.860 not even like the big names that, you know, like Kat Von D, Candace Cameron, Bure. We've had Kurt
00:25:19.620 Cameron on. We have had Al Mohler on, John MacArthur on, Ron DeSantis on. I, I do think that my,
00:25:29.940 the one that I was nervous about, the only one that I was nervous about and the one that still
00:25:35.060 kind of blows my mind that it happened is Donald Trump. Um, that was like, I mean, you know, I have
00:25:41.940 my criticisms of Donald Trump and the things that he says, but that really was so cool and such an
00:25:48.000 honor to have him on. That was actually before Bree's time. Um, but I was very grateful. I was
00:25:53.400 very grateful that he took the time to come on my show. He didn't have to, he had much bigger and
00:25:58.480 better things to do, but he did come on my show. And so I'm very thankful of that for that. That's a
00:26:03.300 very like high moment for me, big moment, highlight of, uh, of relatable. Uh, let's see. I've got some
00:26:10.900 questions that my team has asked me to answer. Well, let me go through some of the most watched.
00:26:16.840 You guys might think that this is interesting. Um, episode 902 Kat Von D most watched episode by far,
00:26:25.540 like by a whole lot. And I'm so thankful to Kat for coming on the show. That's like a cool story of
00:26:32.500 how that happened. We didn't even ask her to come on. She asked if she could come on the show,
00:26:37.180 which was also a really big moment to me. It just made me grateful for the platform that we've
00:26:41.840 built and that she was able to trust me, um, to have her on and to share her testimony. And then
00:26:47.180 we've got a ginger Duggar Volo. We did her first like podcast on air interview where she shared her
00:26:55.860 story. And so that was the second most popular. And then we've got Ross Johnston who doesn't have
00:27:02.220 like this same prominent platform as ginger and Kat, but has such an amazing story. He was donor
00:27:08.880 conceived, raised by lesbians, and then he became a Christian and he got to know his true father,
00:27:14.800 uh, through Christ. And then most listened to Brie and I were just talking about how like random this
00:27:20.560 is to me, at least, um, episode eight 38, Andrew Tate, Margot Robbie, and the danger of the red pill.
00:27:28.340 And Brie and Debbie had been up like all night, uh, putting together research for that episode.
00:27:34.820 And we didn't even get to everything that we were going to. I was out of town, so I was doing it
00:27:38.940 remotely. I just remember being like very stressed about that episode and not feeling like I delivered
00:27:44.380 the information that well. And then somehow it is like our, our most popular episode, at least on
00:27:51.000 the listening side. And then president Donald Trump still comes in second. And then interestingly,
00:27:57.260 an episode about Kyle Rittenhouse with Elijah Schaefer is number three. And then number four,
00:28:04.180 Kat Von D most listened to, um, yep, that's number four. And then I think number five, I don't have it on
00:28:10.900 here. I think it's Ginger Duggar as well. Very first episode on YouTube was episode 84, the privilege
00:28:17.240 of ignorance. I don't remember what I was talking about. It's very painful for me to go back and
00:28:21.400 listen to or watch those first episodes. I don't have a hard time listening to my voice now because
00:28:26.400 I'm so used to it, but going back and listening to those is really tough for me because I just had
00:28:33.360 like a different cadence, a different voice. I'd like to think that I have grown and matured as a
00:28:38.500 host. And so it's better now than it used to be. And I was writing out back then I was writing out
00:28:44.700 all of my episodes, like the entire script verbatim. And I was reading them because I just was so afraid
00:28:51.580 to say something wrong. I didn't want to do anything extemporaneously. And that was before I had kids.
00:28:56.680 And so I guess I had time to do that, to sit down. It literally took me like five hours to write
00:29:01.820 out every episode and I was doing it and I was reading it and I was putting together and I was doing my
00:29:07.460 like audio with everything on my own. And so if I messed up, I would like stop as literally garage
00:29:13.060 band on my computer. And I was doing all of that on my own. So we've come a long way. That was March
00:29:19.820 19th. It says March 19th, 2024. I don't think that was correct. I think it's 2018. Was it 2018?
00:29:28.420 2019? Yeah. No, no. Or 2019. It started in 2019. Yeah, it was 2019. 2019 that it started on YouTube.
00:29:35.260 Okay, guys, I had to really ask for the show to like to go on YouTube and not just be
00:29:41.300 behind the paywall. And I'm glad that worked out. It's such a different landscape back then.
00:29:46.380 And then we've got an in memoriam, RIPIP to episode 630 on YouTube for getting us a strike.
00:29:55.920 We have a strike on YouTube because of the episode with Julie Kelly titled January 6th,
00:30:01.640 What They're Not Telling Us. So that is the one strike that we have. What does that tell you?
00:30:06.500 I don't know. Something to think about. Something to think about. All right. I guess I should,
00:30:12.760 before we get into the voicemails and the would you rathers, which are going to be super fun,
00:30:16.100 I guess I can just give like a brief summary of how this all started. Okay. So back in 20,
00:30:26.400 let's see, how far do I go back? I could go back to birth in some ways, but I'll go back to 2015.
00:30:31.840 So I had just gotten married. It was a year after I graduated from college. My husband and I lived in
00:30:36.340 Athens, Georgia. That's where we met in 2014. That's where we got married in 2015. And I was working a
00:30:43.060 full-time job in PR and social media. It was a great first job out of college. And I met some of
00:30:49.260 my lifelong friends there. And one of those friends is named Mary Ashley. We still send each other
00:30:54.280 podcast-long voice messages every week. And as I was working at this PR and social media firm
00:31:03.280 in Athens, I just had this desire to do something else. I had always loved public speaking. I'd always
00:31:11.960 loved communicating. Really, that's like the only thing that I am good at is writing and speaking and
00:31:20.420 talking and communicating and explaining things. And that has been my entire life. Both my mom and
00:31:26.200 grandmother were teachers. And so from a very early age, like toddlers, they were toddler age. They
00:31:31.820 were teaching me phonics and how to read. And so all of that stuff came naturally to me. And I also
00:31:37.220 loved it. And when I was graduating from college, I delivered the commencement speech, not because I
00:31:43.600 was valedictorian, but because we all got to submit a speech and then anonymously. And then a group of
00:31:51.220 teachers picked the final speeches. And then we got to perform our speeches in front of a portion of
00:31:58.580 the student body. And then they voted on who won and who was going to deliver the speech. And the other
00:32:05.260 people who were the finalists for delivering the speech, they had way better grades than me. They were
00:32:10.260 way more involved than I was. But for whatever reason, I was selected. And so I got to deliver the
00:32:18.360 commencement speech at our college graduation. And I just remember there was this moment, it almost
00:32:23.440 felt like an out-of-body experience, where I was looking out into the crowd. And I just had this,
00:32:28.180 it was almost a physical feeling in my heart that I want to do this. This is what I want to do.
00:32:34.440 This is what I want to do for the rest of my life. I've never felt this energized. I've never felt this
00:32:38.980 shirt. I've never felt this just like fire in me that, yes, this right here is what I want to do.
00:32:46.280 And so I didn't know what that was going to look like. And so I took the job, NPR. But then 2015
00:32:55.800 rolls around. It's that crazy election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that's starting
00:33:01.540 up. It's still the primary season. And I lived in this fairly conservative, what was kind of seen
00:33:07.000 as conservative, at least back then, it's not now, college town. And I realized that all of these
00:33:12.240 young women around me, these college students, they didn't know what was going on. They didn't
00:33:17.740 really care. And what really concerned me, because I was leading this precious Bible study at the time,
00:33:22.020 still keep in touch with a lot of these women, I almost said girls. And one of the girls in the
00:33:29.080 Bible study, so she was a freshman, I was one year out of college. She is this sweet Christian girl,
00:33:34.260 so smart. She tells me that she loves Bernie Sanders. And I'm like, I'm sorry? What? And so
00:33:42.480 we start like going through the issues. And I'm like, wait, wait, wait, this is a problem. This is
00:33:47.340 a problem. And by the way, she is extremely conservative now. But that kind of like inspired
00:33:54.220 me. Okay, I need to be talking to young women about these issues. They're not thinking through it
00:33:58.680 and the way that I think that they should as Christians. And so I actually started speaking
00:34:03.180 at sorority chapter meetings, I would reach out to sororities and say, can I come give a
00:34:09.820 presentation at your chapter meeting? And some said yes, some said no. And I did that a few times.
00:34:15.000 And it was really kind of a nonpartisan presentation, just like, here are the issues.
00:34:19.200 Here's why you should vote. It wasn't necessarily from a Christian conservative perspective yet,
00:34:23.200 because I knew that they probably wouldn't let me give my presentation if that was the case.
00:34:27.100 But as I was doing this, like, chief related bro, my husband was like in the back, like videoing
00:34:32.680 with my phone. And it was just like a really fun hobby that gave me so much energy. And I,
00:34:40.500 so I kept doing that. And I kept looking for opportunities to speak. I started a blog called
00:34:46.180 the conservative millennial. It was really more of like a Facebook page where I was trying to give
00:34:50.400 commentary on things. I started making videos. And back in that day, there wasn't really a lot of
00:34:55.720 censorship. Like you could post a video and if people liked it, it could go viral. And so at
00:35:00.680 first, it wasn't like that at all. I was only getting a few views on my videos. But then eventually,
00:35:04.800 I started making videos that just took off, that were getting hundreds of thousands and millions
00:35:10.280 of views, whether it was about Trump or how Christians should vote or about feminism, the
00:35:15.100 Women's March, abortion, things like that. Again, a lot of them weren't doing well at all. But some of them
00:35:20.180 were doing super well. And that's, that was the end by, at this point, it was like the end of 2016.
00:35:26.640 And I was like, yeah, I really want to find a way to do this. And then my husband got a job
00:35:32.060 somewhere else that, that moved us. And I was like, okay, I really want to try to do this full
00:35:38.280 time. I know zero people in media. So I didn't have any connections. I don't have like any funders.
00:35:44.140 I didn't have anyone that discovered me and was like, I'm going to make you famous and give you a
00:35:49.480 brand. I've never had a branding strategist. I only recently, for the first time, like hired a
00:35:54.640 publicist to help me navigate things. I've never had a social media strategist. I've never had a
00:35:58.660 brand strategist, never had like some kind of advanced marketing team or anything like that.
00:36:04.440 I was just saying what I feel and hoping that it works. But anyway, back to the friend that I,
00:36:10.260 Mary Ashley, I think I forgot about her for a second, that worked with me at the PR firm,
00:36:15.620 she was the only person I knew in media. And you know what she did? She read traffic and weather for
00:36:22.240 the, like a local radio station in Athens, Georgia, that was the media connection that I had. And I was
00:36:28.980 like, do you know anyone? And she introduced me to her boss at this local radio station, Pete. And Pete,
00:36:36.380 I met with him. And he really was like, I don't know anyone in like large scale conservative media.
00:36:44.240 The only conservative woman that I can think of in radio is, is Dana Lash. And at that point, I was so
00:36:52.380 fresh, I didn't really know anything about conservative media. So I didn't, I didn't even know who that was
00:36:57.640 at the time. But he was like, but I do have a friend in Nashville, his name is Steve, and he's better
00:37:03.100 connected to like national radio stations, I'll connect you to Steve. And we were I remember we
00:37:08.860 were like moving out of our apartment about to move cities. And I'm in like our empty apartment.
00:37:15.640 And I have this conversation with Steve, who was still I think of him and I'm like, you were like
00:37:19.700 the sweetest, just nicest person who had no reason to talk to me at all. No reason to spend an hour of
00:37:25.720 his time just encouraging me and helping me. He was like, you know, I don't really know very many
00:37:31.200 people specifically in conservative media. But I do know Dana Lash's executive producer and his name
00:37:38.180 is Kane. And I can introduce you to him. And he can give you a tour maybe, maybe of Blaze Studios.
00:37:45.840 And so I was just excited about that to like take a tour. That's going to be so exciting. I can see,
00:37:51.240 you know, some, you know, Glenn Beck and some of the people and conservative media. And so he was
00:37:57.540 kind enough. Kane was kind enough to meet me and to give me a tour. But then when I was there,
00:38:02.860 one of the producers that worked at the Blaze at the time was like, hey, I've seen your videos.
00:38:07.420 Do you want to come here and do like some Facebook lives with us or something or like do some social
00:38:13.620 media videos? And so I did. And that's basically what started it. And I continued to speak at
00:38:18.940 different places. And then Fox News asked me to come on and be a guest several times. And then it just
00:38:24.960 kind of grew and grew. The videos that I was doing for the Blaze really worked. They performed really
00:38:30.220 well. And then so it just kind of grew. And then, like I said, I went to CRTV where I started my own
00:38:35.780 thing, where I started Relatable, merged, became Blaze TV. And here I am today. So, so many different
00:38:42.140 points that I didn't even list, but so much evidence, at least to me, of God's providence and how
00:38:47.260 he works all things together according to his goodwill. And there are so many moments and
00:38:55.160 connections and things and even feelings of failure and rejection when things didn't seem to be going
00:39:02.720 well or didn't seem to be succeeding or I didn't get the opportunity that I wanted to get. For example,
00:39:09.980 I filmed in 2018, I filmed a pilot with CNN. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, 2018, I filmed a pilot with CNN. It was
00:39:18.580 going to be like, kind of like The View. It was with Anna Navarro and Mary Catherine Hamm and then Dana Bash.
00:39:28.360 I forget who all it was. It was an interesting group. But MK and I were the only conservatives. And yeah, we filmed
00:39:35.200 a pilot and it didn't take off. It didn't get picked up. And I was disappointed in that. I thought
00:39:40.240 it'd be so cool to like live in DC or to travel to DC and to like have this TV job. This is going to be
00:39:47.320 my really big break. But then it didn't work out. And just a few weeks later, we got pregnant with my
00:39:55.520 first. And that was so obviously God's plan. And it was so much better. It was so much better. And I was
00:40:02.860 just telling someone this this morning. This is something that I remember hearing from author
00:40:06.640 Mary and Jordan a long time ago is that man's rejection is God's protection. And when I look
00:40:12.380 over the past few years of my life, I see that that is absolutely true. And of course, most of all,
00:40:18.440 in addition to the Lord, I could not do any of this without my husband, who is such a hard worker,
00:40:24.600 does so much that you guys don't know and don't see. None of this would be possible without him.
00:40:29.880 And we work together so well. He has been such a loving encouragement to me, such a supporter of
00:40:36.940 me, has believed in me from the time that we were dating. And I him, but also believed in him and
00:40:44.380 supported anything that he wants to do. And we just work together so well. My parents, huge fans and
00:40:50.100 supporters of what I do. It helps to just have so many amazing, godly, prayerful people in my corner,
00:40:57.080 including my in-laws, so many people and so many friends that just help make all of this happen.
00:41:03.460 So anyway, so there we go. I hope that you draw some lessons from that. I know that our lives look
00:41:10.080 different, that you are on a different journey than I am and the opportunities and spaces and
00:41:15.260 sphere of influence that God has for you is going to be different. But all of us are placed on these
00:41:20.220 tiny, tiny spots of eternity, these tiny specks of the universe, and all of us are called to the
00:41:26.000 same thing. Yes, to do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God,
00:41:30.440 but just to maximize and beautify and to cultivate and to make better the people around us through
00:41:36.660 the power of the Holy Spirit, but also the spaces where we work and where we interact with others.
00:41:44.500 All of us are called to do that. All of us are called to use and steward our talents to their fullest.
00:41:51.960 And I would say if there has been a fear in my life, it is that I would have skills or talents
00:41:58.940 or abilities or resources that are left unused. That is a very scary prospect for me, and I don't
00:42:07.800 want that. I want to use everything that God has given me as best as I can for His glory and to help
00:42:14.840 other people. All right. I think that's enough of a trip down memory lane. Now let's get to some
00:42:20.080 voicemails that you guys sent me that I'm so excited to listen to. I have not listened to
00:42:23.940 these voicemails, by the way. My team picked them out, and so they will be a surprise to me that I'm
00:42:28.600 very thankful for so many of you who took the time to send those. We obviously can't play all of them
00:42:34.000 because we got hundreds, but we will play a few, and I will respond to them. But thank you to everyone
00:42:40.640 who sent. Okay. Let's listen to some voicemails. I don't know how many I'm going to get through.
00:42:59.440 Let me go through the ones that the bolded ones, and then I'll see if I have time to go through the
00:43:06.520 guys. Okay. Let's listen to voicemail one. Hi, Allie Beth. My name is Molly, and I live in
00:43:14.800 Napa, California, and I wanted to say thank you because your podcast changed my life, and I'm not
00:43:22.120 even exaggerating. Back in 2020, my friend from college turned me on to your podcast. While we were
00:43:30.620 suffering through the injustices of the COVID response, I was a biology major in college,
00:43:36.420 and all of those scientific theories that I was learning had become my religion. But your
00:43:44.500 consistent and truthful commentary on everything that was going on in the world and is going on in
00:43:52.860 the world helped me let go of that false hope and turn towards something so much greater. Back this
00:44:01.860 last September, right around my 32nd birthday, I gave my life to Christ. And I have to say thank you
00:44:11.380 because I feel like your podcast was the catalyst for my salvation.
00:44:17.540 I found a local church that focuses on biblical teaching, and I'm planning to get baptized at the
00:44:26.840 end of the summer. My goodness, the big ones that are going to make me cry. Thank you so much. Thank
00:44:36.780 you for taking the time to share that. I really hope we get to meet one day, and if we don't get to meet
00:44:44.180 in this life, I praise God that we will get to meet each other in heaven. And I'm so thankful that the
00:44:49.880 Holy Spirit used this podcast just as a part of your salvation testimony. I mean, praise God. And I
00:44:56.480 just give him all the glory and all the credit for that because we can help plant seeds, but it's God who
00:45:03.300 gives growth, and it is his word that never returns void. And we are just privileged to be used as vessels
00:45:11.520 of his power. So thank you so much. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord for your testimony, and may he use you to
00:45:19.060 advance his kingdom and to multiply. Thank you so much. All right, let's do the relationship advice voicemail.
00:45:29.220 Hi, Allie. This is Elise. I've been listening since the days you first went on YouTube, the house couch days.
00:45:37.300 I don't have a favorite episode, but the most impactful episode was definitely should a Christian
00:45:45.340 date a non-Christian, which helped me open my eyes to see that I was in denial about the
00:45:51.760 dead-end relationship I was in with an agnostic. And I ended it and learned to trust God in that area
00:45:59.260 of my life. Something you have said a few times now has just been so true for me. A lot can change in a
00:46:06.620 year. I connected with my future husband last June, and we met in person in July, got engaged on
00:46:13.540 September 4th, and got married on October 3rd. I moved two states away from where I'd lived for 32
00:46:19.860 years, and in January, I started a new job at the local pregnancy resource center, which incidentally
00:46:26.740 changed my mind on abortion in the case of rape. It hasn't even been a full year yet, which is crazy,
00:46:34.660 but I'm so thankful for my incredible, amazing, godly husband.
00:46:40.460 Praise God. Praise the Lord. That is awesome. Thank you so much. And I'm so grateful and excited for
00:46:46.980 your marriage, but also what you're doing at the pregnancy resource center. Those women need your
00:46:52.620 love, and they need your testimony, and they need your grace and your wisdom and your help. And so I'm
00:47:00.680 so glad to hear that you are doing that. I hope everyone follows that example. Everyone needs
00:47:05.860 to connect to their local pregnancy center. Thank you so much for sharing that. All right, let's listen
00:47:11.120 to voicemail five.
00:47:16.280 Hey, Allie. Congratulations on your 1,000th episode. My name is Amanda. I live in Portland, Oregon.
00:47:23.480 I've been listening to you since 2020. Long story short, you have changed my mind on abortion and
00:47:30.860 helping mothers and their babies. I used to lobby for Planned Parenthood with my mom, who's atheist, back
00:47:40.080 when I was a 20-year-old. But now, thanks to you, I volunteer at my local pregnancy resource center. So thank
00:47:47.160 you so much for just how you've changed my life and how you stand on biblical truth. I just appreciate
00:47:54.920 you so much and look forward to all your episodes. So congratulations on number 1,000. Okay, bye.
00:48:02.380 I'm really trying not to, like, sob and ruin the episode. I'm just so thankful to the Lord. And I
00:48:08.700 hope that this is encouraging to all of you, because it just goes to show, like, we always hear people's
00:48:15.080 hearts and minds can't change, or unless you have, like, the perfect thing to say, the perfect
00:48:20.060 argument, or the perfect tone, or the perfect approach. Or if you don't, like, skirt around
00:48:25.240 the truth, and if you don't soften the truth to the point of basically not saying anything, then no
00:48:30.380 one's going to listen to you. Or if you don't compromise with the world, then you're not going
00:48:33.960 to win anyone over. And I get these kinds of messages so often from people whose minds and hearts
00:48:40.980 have been changed. And again, I don't take credit for it. It's just, it just goes to show that, as we
00:48:46.520 always say, the Lord's eternal plan of redemption is always going off without a hitch. Like, you hear
00:48:51.940 these voicemails, they don't make headlines. They're not going viral. And yet, this is what the Lord is
00:48:58.520 doing. This is what the Lord has always done through believers. By the way, I am just a common
00:49:03.460 believer. You're just a common believer. This is what God has done since the beginning of the church. He has
00:49:09.020 used his people to change hearts and minds, for him to change hearts and minds, the heart of stone to
00:49:15.520 the heart of flesh. So take that, Planned Parenthood. Okay, let's do voicemail seven.
00:49:25.260 Hey, Allie Beth. This is Andrew from beautiful North Georgia. Been listening and following you since
00:49:33.100 before you even started your podcast, back when it was the conservative millennial. I, too, am an
00:49:39.440 elder millennial. And I appreciate the segments that you have specifically with your father as
00:49:47.100 myself and a father of a young daughter. I appreciate hearing that interaction and wisdom from him
00:49:55.460 and hearing you listen and interact with him on all those things. Would you rather listen to Donald
00:50:06.800 Trump read the message for the rest of your life or Joe Biden read the ESV? Oh, that's good.
00:50:18.840 That's the only versions that you can listen to for the rest of your life. Which one would you rather
00:50:25.800 listen to? Thank you for all you do and God bless. Thank you, Related Bro. Thank you so much. And my
00:50:32.580 dad will love to hear that, too. Okay, first, I'm not an elder millennial. If you were born in 1992,
00:50:40.420 then you were not an elder millennial either. I was born in 92. Now, if you were born in the early 80s,
00:50:45.220 y'all are, it's called geriatric millennial. That's the medical term. And if you're born before 1990,
00:50:51.940 you're geriatric. Do not include me. Do not include me in your late 30s, early 40s era that you are in.
00:51:02.280 But I will give you credit for your, for your would you rather. Okay, so the question was,
00:51:08.540 would you rather listen to Donald Trump read? So I'm picturing this in my Bible app,
00:51:14.640 the only, by the only way that I can read the Bible is to hear Donald Trump read the message
00:51:19.180 version, which the message version is like, instead of, you know, I don't know, I'm trying
00:51:25.740 to think of a verse, of course, like, I can't think of a verse off the top of my head. It's like,
00:51:30.180 by grace, you have been saved through faith, it would be like, it's all good vibes and nothing
00:51:37.220 you can do, man. That's basically what the message is. Or the ESV, which is what I listen to or what I
00:51:46.340 read, the English Standard Version, Joe Biden reading that. Oh, I have to go with Joe Biden
00:51:54.040 reading the ESV. And you know what? If Joe Biden read the whole Bible, I would be thankful for that.
00:52:00.880 I'd be thankful for that. And I will say, I'm not completely trashing on the message. Like,
00:52:05.740 okay, if someone really needs that as like their gateway, that's okay. But it can't end there. You
00:52:12.120 need to got to graduate to the ESV or NASB or the KJV, NKJV, I would say. Okay, let's listen to voicemail 10.
00:52:21.460 Hey, this is the Chief Related Bro. I just wanted to call in and say congratulations on a thousand
00:52:31.160 episodes to Allie and the Relatable team. I know the work that goes into the show, and it is so
00:52:38.200 amazing to see how the Lord has blessed the show and Allie and just the talent that you have. I'm so
00:52:44.240 proud of you. And I cannot wait for the next 1,000 episodes and to see how the Lord just uses you
00:52:52.360 and the great talents and abilities that you have. Congratulations again. Love you.
00:52:57.380 Aw, sweet, sweet Related Bro. I didn't know. I had no idea that that was going to be played. That's
00:53:04.160 so sweet. Okay, let's listen to voicemail 9.
00:53:07.240 Hi, Allie. I have been listening to you since early 2020. And the first episode I ever listened
00:53:16.460 to was three myths that a lot of Christian women believe. And I was so offended by it. But I had
00:53:27.220 an eating disorder and just had been fed a lot of self-love therapy. And your episode just helped me
00:53:32.880 come face-to-face with really how unbiblical a lot of it is. And I've been listening to you ever
00:53:38.260 since and just really appreciate what you do and how you hold firm to the Word and just pray that you
00:53:42.820 continue to do so. Thank you so much. That means a lot to me. That was like
00:53:48.600 my first favorite episode. I think it was the most popular episode for a really long time. And it also
00:53:55.140 inspired the book that I wrote, You're Not Enough and That's Okay, where I also talk about how I
00:53:59.840 struggled with an eating disorder and what I really needed to hear to help me get out of that.
00:54:05.520 Okay, let's play voicemail 2.
00:54:11.360 Hey, Allie. Congrats on a thousand episodes. You have changed my mind on multiple things.
00:54:17.960 Pitbulls. Oh my gosh. Also surrogacy and IDF. And this one's going to sound kind of weird, but like
00:54:24.880 I used to vote for Democrats in elections. And I don't do that anymore. You changed my mind about
00:54:33.380 conservative viewpoints most closely aligning with the biblical worldview. So thank you for that. And
00:54:39.200 thank you for keeping me well informed on the issues that really matter. Okay, would you rather?
00:54:45.000 Would you rather be every single time for the rest of your life that you are stuck in line anywhere,
00:54:51.200 you are stuck in line next to AOC and she's like, taking selfies and talking on the phone and
00:54:56.280 complaining? Or every single time you get off the flight and go to get your baggage, you have to
00:55:02.700 race to baggage claim to beat Sam Brinton, who is also racing to steal your luggage. All right.
00:55:09.520 Thank you again. Oh my goodness. Good question. Good question. I hate running. So probably AOC.
00:55:18.300 Probably AOC. And I've always wanted to talk to her because I feel like I could, I feel like I could
00:55:25.640 get through to her. Probably not. That's probably a, uh, just a dream that's too far off, but I think
00:55:34.380 it would, it would be AOC for sure. Okay. Let's play voicemail eight. I wanted to say that I found you
00:55:43.380 on YouTube shorts. In May of 2023, I was a Democrat. I was not married. I was living with my long term,
00:55:54.180 long term boyfriend. Um, and now I can probably say I am married. I am a Christian and I'm a conservative.
00:56:05.600 Um, within the whole year of 2023, so much changed. My husband, um, turned from being a Democrat to
00:56:19.460 being conservative. We got baptized and devoted our lives to Christ in August of 2023. I have a
00:56:29.460 stepbrother then also is a Christ believer now too. And he got baptized a month ago and it wouldn't
00:56:37.920 have happened if I didn't come across your shorts on YouTube. So you have changed my life and everyone
00:56:44.960 around me. So I am so glad I found you. Oh my goodness. Thank you so much. Again, just praise God
00:56:53.460 for what he does and how he works. Thank you so much for sharing that. That's so meaningful. Praise
00:57:00.020 the Lord y'all praise the Lord, how he uses imperfect fallible people to accomplish his purposes. All
00:57:07.020 right. We're going to move on to, um, our next segment. Thank you so much again to everyone who
00:57:11.660 left a, who left a voicemail. We're going to move on to some, would you rather's? We can't go through
00:57:17.780 all of them and I'm going to make people respond. Even if they're not on camera, I'm going to make
00:57:22.300 people in this room respond. Um, and you'll, you can respond in your own home as well. You can comment
00:57:27.140 on YouTube and tell us, uh, what your, what your answer is. Okay. First question. I, again, I have
00:57:37.020 not read these. I didn't want to ruin it. And so I just skimmed this last night and I didn't, I didn't,
00:57:42.900 uh, read them thoroughly. Would I rather always laugh like Kamala Harris or always walk like Joe Biden?
00:57:49.960 Okay. Um, okay. So how does Kamala Harris laugh? Brie, do you have an impersonation?
00:57:57.500 No, I don't have an impersonation. I wish I did.
00:58:00.900 Is it that?
00:58:01.700 Yeah, kind of.
00:58:05.440 Every time you laugh.
00:58:06.520 So every time, even when it's not funny, even it's just like slightly awkward or she says
00:58:12.180 something wrong. What did she say recently? Um, I, I don't even, who, who knows that who
00:58:20.480 doesn't like a bus? Everyone loves a yellow school bus. Remember when she said that a couple
00:58:23.960 of years ago?
00:58:26.540 Okay. Um, or always walk like Joe Biden who, uh, walks like a toddler who pooped in their
00:58:32.620 diaper. Um, sorry, that rude. It's just true. Uh, I think I would, I think, I think, I think I would
00:58:43.840 rather laugh like Kamala. I think I would. Would you rather laugh like Kamala? Yeah. Lily? You'd
00:58:54.160 rather laugh like Kamala? George and Vince?
00:58:56.580 Oh, no one wants to walk like Joe. No one likes to, no one wants to walk like Joe Biden. Okay. Okay.
00:59:06.840 Okay. Would I rather have to finance all of Stephen Furtick's designer clothes or join the
00:59:12.260 Church of Scientology for a year? Okay. I definitely would rather finance Furtick's designer clothes. I
00:59:18.540 would go bankrupt extremely quickly. And then I would just be like, I don't have any money. I don't have
00:59:23.940 any money. Um, so I can't, I can't join this Church of Scientology for a year. That's so scary.
00:59:29.480 Unless I like go in and I like share the gospel with everyone and everyone is like, oh my gosh,
00:59:35.800 this is wrong. And I break apart the cult, but I don't think that would happen. I think that would
00:59:39.900 kill me. Ah, um, let's see. So many Sam Britton ones. Cause he's so scary. Would I rather have Don
00:59:48.660 Limon be the permanent co-host of Relatable or Sam Britton produced Relatable? Um, well,
00:59:55.240 I'm genuinely scared of Sam Britton. Like I'm scared of him. Don Limon, I would just turn his mic off and
01:00:03.020 he wouldn't know. And he would just be talking and he thinks he's making really good points, but like
01:00:10.120 the camera would just be on me and I would just keep talking. And you know what? It would be kind
01:00:14.900 be fun a little bit to, you know, just like slap him around because I don't think that he is the
01:00:23.300 most skilled debater in the world. Um, would I rather own a pit bull or only the parts that only the
01:00:34.380 pants I'm allowed to wear are low rise jeans? Oh, I would rather wear low rise jeans. I mean,
01:00:40.600 I would wear a really long shirt, but I would rather do that than own a pit bull. I can't
01:00:46.900 put my children in danger. I just will have to put all of your eyes in danger by wearing low rise
01:00:53.880 jeans. Um, let's see. Would you rather always speak in Bible verses or always sing in Christian hymns?
01:01:03.720 So does that mean that I am not talking, that I'm only singing? Or does it mean that when I sing,
01:01:11.920 it has to be a Christian hymn? Um, well, if I only spoke in Bible verses, then I would never be wrong.
01:01:20.920 So that would be cool. I would just always be saying something that's true, which is great.
01:01:27.160 Um, but I do love Christian hymns. I would not mind every time I sing singing Christian hymns. And so
01:01:34.200 I guess, but if that means that I can't talk, I don't know. So I'm going to say singing Christian
01:01:40.080 hymns and I'm going to go with like what I want it to be. Uh, would you rather paint your house all
01:01:45.700 black or replace all your carpets with Toy Story ruggable rugs? Good question. Definitely Toy Story
01:01:51.280 ruggable rugs. Because some of them are kind of cute. I, if you know what I'm talking about,
01:01:58.580 you know that you might buy a ruggable Toy Story rug and not even know that Jane and Woody are on
01:02:03.440 them lassoing the designs on there. You might not know. So I'm going to go with Toy Story ruggable
01:02:10.880 rugs. It would look fine. Would I rather walk barefoot through an airport or have Kamala as my mom?
01:02:16.620 Um, definitely barefoot through an airport for sure. It's fine. You can just take a shower.
01:02:26.920 Um, would I rather swim in my snow clothes, which I don't own or play in the snow in a swimsuit? Oh,
01:02:36.160 swim in my snow clothes for sure. Definitely not in the ocean, but like in a pool. Um, okay.
01:02:42.680 Let's listen to voicemail 15.
01:02:46.620 Hi, Allie Beth. This is Christina from Atlanta. One of your biggest fans. I've listened to every
01:02:53.300 single episode. Um, I have the world's hardest. Would you rather question? Okay, here it goes.
01:02:58.780 I'm ready. Would you rather go on a romantic getaway weekend with Joe Biden or a girl's trip to Vegas
01:03:07.260 with AOC? Have fun with that one. Love you so much. Bye.
01:03:11.660 Okay. Love you too. But that's not difficult. That's not difficult at all. One means a romantic
01:03:21.080 trip with Joe Biden. Like, let's think about that for a second. No, in zero circumstances would I be
01:03:28.640 going on a romantic trip with anyone except for Chief Related Bro, but Joe Biden. I mean, maybe you go and
01:03:36.360 he falls asleep at four o'clock every day and you can just enjoy the vacation without him, but romantic
01:03:43.860 getaway? No, no, no. Um, now all of you, no, no, no. I was trying to think like who would answer this
01:03:52.800 question with that one, but no, in zero circumstances ever. It would definitely be a girl's trip with AOC.
01:03:58.040 See, and again, I'm always going to pick the AOC option because I think that I could get through to
01:04:04.040 her. I think that I could change her mind by just asking a few pointed strategic questions that would
01:04:11.780 make her worldview crumble. So yeah, I don't hate AOC. I feel bad for her and I think that she, her,
01:04:20.240 she weaponizes her stupidity for the destruction of the United States, but I think that I could help her
01:04:26.360 out. All right. That's it for the Would You Rathers. I think we had some TikToks to react to. We don't
01:04:31.940 have time for that. Let's go to, gosh, we got, we have some cute good news stories. Um, I want to go
01:04:41.020 through though the, um, the paleo artist drawings of some animals and that's how we're going to end today's
01:04:49.580 episode. Okay. So I want to go through, I want to, I want to go through some of these pictures
01:05:08.620 of animals that have been, uh, drawn by a paleo artist who named CM Kosman. He drew common animals
01:05:19.120 the way that dinosaurs have been depicted, uh, with no layers of fat and an emphasis on teeth.
01:05:25.960 So if we were to have the fossils of these animals or the bones of these animals that I'm about to
01:05:30.760 read and an artist who has traditionally depicted, uh, dinosaurs drew them based on these bones,
01:05:40.520 this is what they would look like, which tells us that how dinosaurs have been depicted
01:05:46.020 is probably not what they've actually looked like. And the reason that we're talking about this,
01:05:50.840 of course, you know, that we have a theory that it's not that dinosaurs didn't exist. I know I
01:05:55.860 kind of said that in my montage, it's that they looked and sounded completely different than what
01:06:01.700 we are told they look and sound like now. And it really is just a bunch of people having a good time
01:06:06.120 and having some kind of fantasy of Jurassic Park. So, okay, can we go through this? This is BuzzFeed news.
01:06:10.440 This is a baboon. So again, this is what a baboon would be depicted as if you didn't draw them with
01:06:19.720 their layers of fat or the right teeth or their fur. Like we are just guessing because we can't know
01:06:29.640 what kind of skin, what kind of hair, and even fully what kind of teeth dinosaurs so-called had.
01:06:35.840 And so these artists that are depicting them are just kind of making things up, assuming
01:06:40.520 there wasn't fat, assuming there wasn't hair, assuming that there wasn't fur. And so this is
01:06:47.640 what a baboon would look like if it were depicted as dinosaurs are depicted. And yet the bones are
01:06:54.200 just a baboon. Okay, here's a zebra. Zebra, guys. Zebra. Like this is what a zebra would look like
01:07:03.020 without fat and without its hair. And so you could see, oh, that looks like a dinosaur.
01:07:08.700 No, that's literally just a zebra. A cow. A cow. Okay. A cow. A cat.
01:07:20.800 If you put a cat and you put spikes on its head, again, things that are being totally made up by these
01:07:28.460 paleontologists artists. The, like, spikes and stuff that are on some, like, the spikes on the
01:07:36.340 triceratops and stuff. I don't think you can see it actually in the shot. That's okay. I'll grab it.
01:07:43.820 See? Made up. No one knows that these spikes existed. And so this cat, if it were drawn as the
01:07:52.000 artists draw dinosaurs, yeah, it would look like that. But it doesn't. It looks like a cat.
01:07:56.240 Swans. Very scary. And yet that's not what they look like. An elephant. If it didn't have, like,
01:08:05.740 it's big head. There are many like this. If you look up the skeleton of an owl, the skeleton of a
01:08:13.680 hippo, you could see how someone would think that looks like a dinosaur. And yet we know what they
01:08:19.640 look like. I'm just saying we don't actually know what these so-called dinosaurs looked like or sounded
01:08:28.240 like. And we are made to believe that this is science. And yes, there are some conspiratorial
01:08:35.260 theories about why. Like, why when you question what dinosaurs looked like or if they existed in the
01:08:41.980 way that they say that they exist as. Like, why people get so angry about this? Why people push back
01:08:48.240 about this? Is it about the age of the earth? Is it about just trusting the science and the
01:08:53.000 scientific institutions that once you start to, like, poke holes in it, you really start to question
01:08:58.260 their authority altogether? I don't know. I'm just saying that the whole thing is pretty sketchy.
01:09:08.700 All right. That's all we got time for today, y'all. We have a few other things to talk about,
01:09:13.980 but maybe we'll save that for a future episode. We've got some good news stories. We can definitely
01:09:18.660 talk about some of those next week because you know what? The world just feels weighty sometimes,
01:09:23.980 but good things are always happening. And remember, in Jesus's presence is fullness of joy. That's what
01:09:30.940 Psalm 16 tells us. And that is always made available to us in Christ. Thank the Lord for that. All right.
01:09:37.920 Thank you guys so much, Relatable Family. We will be back here on Monday.