Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1004 ｜ Harrison Butker Calls Out IVF, Abortion & Feminism ｜ Guest： Ron Simmons

00:00:00.580 Pro-life advocates have been sentenced to federal prison for opposing the murder of

00:00:06.620 babies.

00:00:07.320 Also, Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker told the truth in a commencement address, and he is

00:00:11.920 getting so much blowback for it.

00:00:14.920 And also, we've got my dad here to break down everything that's going on in the political

00:00:20.080 world and also answer some of your questions.

00:00:24.320 We've got all that and a big announcement on today's episode of Relatable.

00:00:30.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable.

00:00:41.420 Happy Thursday.

00:00:42.920 Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.

00:00:45.100 Oh my goodness, we finally made our big announcement last night.

00:00:49.640 We posted the announcement video everywhere on every channel that we have.

00:00:54.120 The response has just completely exceeded my expectations and goals.

00:01:00.680 I am so excited for this event.

00:01:04.500 If this is the first time that you are hearing me announce it, let me tell you what's going

00:01:09.400 on.

00:01:10.200 It is in Dallas, Texas on September 28th.

00:01:14.760 But you know what?

00:01:15.780 Instead of just telling you all of the details right here, I am going to play you the video

00:01:22.600 that we put together that explains why exactly I'm hosting this event.

00:01:27.740 Like most moms, I find myself worrying about the world my children will grow up in.

00:01:36.260 The America of my childhood was patriotic, hardworking, and family-focused.

00:01:42.600 Yes, we had our challenges, but nothing like what we face today.

00:01:46.920 There was no confusion over whether boys can become girls.

00:01:50.280 We could visit the library and go to school without worrying about being force-fed politics

00:01:56.100 or sexual themes.

00:01:58.220 Our cities were safer and more vibrant.

00:02:01.900 We were moving into a world in which people prioritized the content of someone's character

00:02:06.500 over the color of their skin, their class, or their political affiliation.

00:02:12.060 But we don't live in that world anymore.

00:02:15.020 The age we occupy now is wrought with confusion and chaos.

00:02:23.400 We face threats to security everywhere we look.

00:02:26.480 War, lawlessness, depraved indoctrination, bloodthirst, division.

00:02:33.300 And there are moments when we just want to go back.

00:02:37.560 Back to the days of our childhood, when things were simpler, better.

00:02:42.540 But there's no going back.

00:02:44.180 There's only four.

00:02:47.580 We have no choice but to face the challenges of our day head-on.

00:02:51.400 And we can.

00:02:52.680 Because we serve a God who placed us here, right now, on purpose.

00:02:57.140 God knew the exact obstacles you and I would face.

00:02:59.960 And just as He has for every generation of Christians, He will equip us.

00:03:04.340 Jesus has given us not a spirit of fear, but of power and courage.

00:03:08.540 Courage to stand up against the enemy and to share the arrows with other Christians 1.00

00:03:13.060 who serve as a refuge of clarity and courage in an age of chaos, cowardice, and confusion.

00:03:19.200 If you're a Christian woman, you're invited to my Share the Arrows event,

00:03:29.620 where you will be emboldened by some of the most important Christian voices of our day.

00:03:33.440 Rosaria Butterfield, Elisa Childers, and Abby Halberstadt.

00:03:36.520 You'll get to worship with Grammy Award-winning artist Francesca Battistelli

00:03:40.120 and fellowship with like-minded Christian conservative women from all walks of life.

00:03:45.160 By God's grace, we can take on this battle.

00:03:48.980 Sharing the arrows our opponents aim at us.

00:03:51.560 Together.

00:03:51.980 Okay, there it is.

00:04:05.160 It is the Share the Arrows event.

00:04:07.680 It is hosted, of course, by me, by Blaze TV.

00:04:10.980 It is sponsored by Carly Jean Los Angeles.

00:04:14.460 And gosh, I'm so excited for the speakers too.

00:04:17.040 And there is actually one more speaker that we are trying to get.

00:04:21.240 That will be a whole other announcement.

00:04:23.700 If we can get her, I can't tell you who it is.

00:04:26.400 Go to sharethearrows.com.

00:04:28.060 We do have early bird pricing.

00:04:30.520 A lot of you had questions about live streaming and different things like that.

00:04:34.180 A lot of great questions.

00:04:35.520 I've answered a lot of those on my Instagram stories.

00:04:39.020 And I will make a highlight of that because those are frequently asked questions

00:04:42.300 that I would love to answer for you.

00:04:44.160 But come on, either come by yourself.

00:04:46.400 That's totally fine.

00:04:47.700 Or come with a group of friends.

00:04:49.500 We tried to make it as easy as possible to get to.

00:04:53.600 We have a lot of related gals, related pals in Dallas. 1.00

00:04:57.760 And so we wanted it to be in a place that's really a hub for a lot of you.

00:05:03.600 But I'm super, super excited about it.

00:05:06.460 It is going to be amazing.

00:05:09.560 So go ahead, snag that early bird pricing at sharethearrows.com.

00:05:15.280 And just a warning, I'm going to be talking about this event a lot from now until September.

00:05:20.280 I will try not to make you weary from talking about it, but I'm really just like so amped about it.

00:05:26.260 This is the first ever event that I've hosted.

00:05:29.300 And also, if you don't know, we say that term, share the arrows a lot.

00:05:33.000 And it just means that we're not going to allow a fellow believer to stand alone and standing up against the progressive onslaught, the progressive assault that we are seeing on our culture, on our children.

00:05:45.720 We're not going to allow them to take the arrows from the enemy alone.

00:05:51.620 We are going to stand up with them and we are going to share the arrows that the opposition throws at us because we have been given the strength and the power to do so.

00:05:59.640 So that's why this is called Share the Arrows.

00:06:02.400 You are going to be equipped, encouraged, empowered, all of those good things.

00:06:07.300 All right.

00:06:08.220 We've just got one more announcement, and that is we are announcing the winners of the giveaway that we initiated with the thousandth episode last Thursday.

00:06:19.980 You will have a message.

00:06:21.300 That's right, Brie.

00:06:21.860 Will they be messaged?

00:06:23.700 They'll be messaged.

00:06:24.900 So, Gabrielle, Tara, Hannah, you related bells, make sure that you check your messages.

00:06:32.120 I won't say the last names.

00:06:33.580 I don't know.

00:06:33.900 Maybe you don't want your last names publicized on the show.

00:06:36.800 And so if your name is one of those three names and you entered this giveaway, make sure to check your messages.

00:06:45.340 And you have won all of the amazing prizes included in the giveaway.

00:06:50.160 All right.

00:06:51.080 Before we get into a conversation with my dad, which, gosh, you're going to love.

00:06:54.920 Y'all always love the segments with my dad.

00:06:57.120 He just gives so much peaceful insight into the craziness and the chaos that's going on.

00:07:02.260 And even though, I mean, the scariness and the depravity of this world is still waging, he has a way of making us feel like it's going to be okay.

00:07:14.360 And that's why I love having him on the show, and that's why y'all love it, too.

00:07:17.660 But let's get into some of that craziness that's going on that signifies just how far we've fallen.

00:07:24.280 But also, I don't want it to just discourage you, because as Christians, we do shine brightest in the darkness.

00:07:31.940 It's what we do.

00:07:32.960 The church has traditionally been on the margins of society, and we read that the gates of hell will not even prevail against the church.

00:07:42.720 Even the gates of hell will not prevail against the church.

00:07:45.880 In Hebrews 13, 8, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

00:07:50.400 So our call as Christians to glorify him, to advance his kingdom, to share his gospel, to defend the most vulnerable, namely children, it still stands.

00:07:59.680 It has been our purpose since the very beginning of the church 2,000 years ago.

00:08:03.620 It is still our purpose today.

00:08:05.300 And what we see in this evil society that we live in is we see a government that is punishing those who do good and celebrating those who do evil.

00:08:15.500 And these pro-life advocates who were just sentenced for protesting against the murder of children is a perfect symbol of just the upside-down, morally-backwards world that we live in now.

00:08:31.640 So let me give you a summary of what I'm talking about.

00:08:34.760 In 2023, several members of the pro-life advocacy group Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, P-A-A-U.

00:08:42.000 So let me just say, like, this is an organization that I don't agree with in a lot of ways.

00:08:46.620 They are pro-LGBTQ.

00:08:48.820 We don't see eye-to-eye in a lot of ways, but they are anti-abortion, and I thank them for that.

00:08:53.440 They were convicted of the freedom of access to clinic entrances, also known as the FACE Act, violations for supposedly blocking access on October 22, 2020 to the Washington Surgery Clinic, operated by the late-term abortionist Cesar Santangelo.

00:09:13.260 You might remember a few years ago that the five babies that were actually found in the trash outside of this clinic, they were viable babies in that they were clearly late-term.

00:09:31.000 They were between probably 20 and 28 weeks at that point.

00:09:35.240 Like, the mother can feel the babies kicking inside the womb.

00:09:38.860 They were found, in a lot of cases, dismembered, and I don't know how else to say it except for brutally tortured and torn apart.

00:09:46.740 The skull caved in, which indicates that that late-term baby probably died by a DNX abortion, in which this is very graphic, but you have to know what many of these babies every year are going through.

00:10:01.920 That the base of the skull is actually cut open, and the abortionist sucks the brain out of the baby as he is taking the baby out of the womb, out of the vaginal canal.

00:10:15.240 Yes, that still happens in America today.

00:10:19.060 That is a living, squirming baby that is being killed by having their brains sucked out.

00:10:25.260 And we saw these pictures of these babies that were discarded.

00:10:29.260 That is what these people are protesting against.

00:10:32.320 That is what these people are opposing.

00:10:35.060 These people who are a part of progressive anti-abortion uprising, they see the brutality of these babies being murdered, and they're saying, we're going to do something about it.

00:10:45.600 We're going to try to stand against it.

00:10:48.200 That's why they were supposedly blocking the entrance of this horrific murder mill.

00:10:55.720 And then on Tuesday of this week, a U.S. district court judge today sentenced three of 10 defendants who had been convicted of federal civil rights conspiracy and face act offenses.

00:11:08.620 It prohibits anyone from obstructing the entrance to an abortion clinic or intimidating or interfering with a woman attempting to have her unborn baby exterminated.

00:11:18.880 Now, this is a very obscure act.

00:11:20.880 It is very rarely enforced, but we've got new management.

00:11:24.700 We've got the Biden administration.

00:11:26.240 We've got a DOJ who is bloodthirsty. 1.00

00:11:29.220 They simply are. 0.99

00:11:30.260 They're evil. 1.00

00:11:30.860 They're wicked. 0.97

00:11:31.820 They are going to punish those who do good, and they are going to celebrate those, again, who do wickedly.

00:11:39.840 Lauren Hardy, 30 years old, was sentenced to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release.

00:11:47.240 John Hinshaw, 69, received 69 years old, received 21 months incarceration and three years of supervised release.

00:11:57.160 William Goodman, 54, was sentenced to 27 months in prison and three years of supervised release.

00:12:04.920 Then just yesterday, four additional defendants were sentenced for both federal civil rights conspiracy and face act offenses.

00:12:22.860 This is according to Christian Post.

00:12:25.260 Herb Garrity.

00:12:26.100 Now, we had Herb on our show.

00:12:28.300 Now, at the time, I did not realize that Herb is actually a woman, and the only reason I point that out is because I use pronouns that correspond with someone's biological reality.

00:12:39.900 Because God made us, in his image, male and female, it is wonderful to be a woman.

00:12:44.040 It is wonderful to be a man.

00:12:45.600 And I'm not going to lie, because God created Herb a woman, and that is a beautiful reality.

00:12:51.280 And I don't want to deny that by calling her him, even though that is her preferred pronoun.

00:12:59.840 So, she is a pro-life atheist, and she is very brave.

00:13:05.840 Again, she was on our show. 0.88

00:13:07.420 We can put the description, or we can put the link to that show in the description.

00:13:11.720 You can hear from her yourself.

00:13:13.380 She was also sentenced to 27 months in federal prison.

00:13:16.380 You talk to these people, you see these people, they are gentle people.

00:13:19.320 They are kind, they are loving people, they are brave people.

00:13:22.840 They are not these kind of violent left-wing activists that you see literally burning down cities and desecrating college campuses and federal property in these major Democrat-run cities.

00:13:38.980 They're not.

00:13:39.640 You can tell that they are on the right side of this.

00:13:42.420 And I just remember from the conversation that I had with Herb that when she said, you know what, I can endure prison because these kids are enduring much worse than that.

00:13:55.940 What she has to go through, she said, what she has to go through as a prisoner is nothing compared to the pain that these babies are having to go through.

00:14:05.920 Guys, this is an atheist saying this.

00:14:08.260 This is someone who doesn't believe in God, and she is showing more courage, more Christ-like courage than many of the outspoken evangelicals I know, who, by the way, say that they are social justice-minded.

00:14:25.560 They have Micah 6-8 in their bios.

00:14:28.060 They had so much to say in the summer of 2020 about George Floyd and pushed false narratives about systemic racism in this country.

00:14:35.820 In the name of Christian justice, they will have nothing to say about this. 0.94

00:14:40.780 They had nothing positive to say about the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

00:14:44.240 The literal systemic slaughter of unborn children is less important to them than perceived racism.

00:14:51.840 That's just the truth.

00:14:53.060 Joan Bell, 76 years old, 76 years old, received 27 months incarceration and three years of supervised release.

00:15:02.980 Jonathan Darnell, 42, was sentenced to 34 months and three years of supervised release.

00:15:08.540 Jean Marshall, 74 years old, was sentenced to 24 months and three years of supervised release.

00:15:15.860 So we're talking about grandparents here.

00:15:18.260 We're talking about people who are almost 80 years old are going to be placed in prison.

00:15:22.600 For supposedly blocking entrance to a clinic, which, like, by the way, blocking entrance to a clinic where they are murdering babies.

00:15:32.520 Like, what actually deserves to be punished there?

00:15:36.020 So Lauren Handy, one of the women who was sentenced, was one of those who found the remains of these poor babies.

00:15:44.980 And, of course, they publicized it, and it turned into a story.

00:15:50.140 It understandably caused a visceral reaction in a lot of people.

00:15:54.240 Again, as we saw that they were performing, clearly, these DNX abortions, which are actually illegal.

00:16:01.540 It's illegal to suck the brain out of a baby in an abortion. 1.00

00:16:05.480 Now, all abortions are brutal and evil and painful. 0.98

00:16:08.060 But that particular type of abortion was actually supposed to be banned a long time ago.

00:16:14.280 It used to be more common than it was, like with Leroy Carhartt.

00:16:18.220 But they banned it.

00:16:20.020 However, it does seem to be happening at this clinic.

00:16:24.000 And there was an undercover video that Live Action did all the way back in 2013 with this particular abortionist at this clinic,

00:16:32.180 which led PAAU to believe that illegal activity was happening here.

00:16:40.040 And they were hoping to hold this abortionist accountable. 1.00

00:16:43.480 Here's thought two.

00:16:44.080 So that is the abortionist at Washington Surgery Clinic saying,

00:17:13.040 yeah, you know, when a baby survives abortion, we just don't help it.

00:17:16.140 So you allow the baby to die.

00:17:17.680 You know that that's common, right?

00:17:19.060 Like, we saw, what was it, Ralph Northam, the then governor of Virginia a few years ago,

00:17:24.580 literally say on air, on a radio station,

00:17:28.700 oh, yeah, if a baby survives abortion, you put it off to the side,

00:17:31.480 and the parents get to decide what to do.

00:17:33.300 Like, I want you to think about how horrific that is.

00:17:36.620 How horrific that is.

00:17:38.020 Jill Stanak was a nurse who she's testified before Congress.

00:17:40.800 And she said that when she was a nurse, she went into a utility closet,

00:17:45.780 and there was a little baby, 22 weeks old, with Down syndrome, who had been aborted,

00:17:50.000 who had literally been placed in the utility closet at this clinic to die,

00:17:54.280 but was still breathing in her arms.

00:17:56.720 Those are just the stories we know.

00:17:59.060 So you can't tell me that anything that this group did to protest or to oppose this evil,

00:18:05.020 barbaric practice is too much or deserves to be punished by the state.

00:18:15.040 And so that's where we are.

00:18:16.480 That's where we are as a country.

00:18:18.960 There's no justice for the DC Five, those five little babies who were brutally murdered

00:18:24.640 by this evil abortionist. 1.00

00:18:27.140 But there is so-called justice, again, against those who opposed it.

00:18:34.660 And the only thing that gives me comfort, just as disheartening as it is,

00:18:40.520 the only thing that gives me comfort is the knowledge that one day Jesus is going to make

00:18:46.880 all things right.

00:18:48.000 Now, I hope for justice in this life.

00:18:51.780 I hope that we win an election this November, and not to say that that will change everything

00:18:59.000 for the better, because as I'll talk about with my dad, we don't have a fully pro-life

00:19:04.300 candidate.

00:19:05.220 But I do hope that when we get better people in place in the DOJ, better people in the White

00:19:10.940 House, better policymakers at the top, and now I think that conservatives have woken up to

00:19:17.260 the fact of how hard we have to push for the things that we want, the things that will

00:19:22.060 turn our country around.

00:19:23.320 Like, I am hopeful that we will see better definitions of justice coming from the federal

00:19:29.060 government, hopefully.

00:19:30.800 That's what I hope.

00:19:32.360 And because we have to hope for that, right?

00:19:34.100 Because politics matter, because policy matters, because people matter.

00:19:36.820 Like, these babies torn apart, that is a policy decision. 0.74

00:19:41.360 It's a policy decision that we allow babies to be murdered. 0.98

00:19:44.680 That is a choice that we have made, that voters have made, not you and I, but that voters

00:19:52.060 have made.

00:19:54.060 Policy matters because people matter.

00:19:56.920 Policy affects people, and people matter.

00:19:59.620 That's why we have to care about elections. 1.00

00:20:01.320 It's not enough to just say Jesus is coming back.

00:20:04.160 But as I said, that is a supreme comfort.

00:20:07.280 Psalm 37, go read that.

00:20:09.020 The evildoers will not last.

00:20:10.980 Wickedness will not last.

00:20:12.600 Injustice will not last.

00:20:14.000 That he is going to make all things right.

00:20:16.260 That he's not just sitting on his proverbial hands, letting everything happen.

00:20:21.860 It's not, that's not what's going on here.

00:20:25.460 His anger is kindling.

00:20:27.540 His wrath is being stored up, and it will be poured out. 0.98

00:20:32.100 The evil one, Satan, will be destroyed forever. 0.67

00:20:35.140 There will be perfect peace. 0.89

00:20:36.820 There will be vindication for every single baby that has been murdered.

00:20:41.460 They will be vindicated.

00:20:43.380 God will avenge.

00:20:47.100 So that's what we have to trust, that God hates murder, that he hates, scripture tells

00:20:52.960 us, the shedding of innocent blood.

00:20:55.100 He hates the injustice, the evil partiality that is going on here.

00:21:00.260 He hates it.

00:21:01.400 And shame on every single social justice activist, so-called Christian who stands up against every 1.00

00:21:12.160 single example of perceived discrimination or perceived injustice or perceived racism, and

00:21:24.540 not against this.

00:21:26.320 That just shows me, you want to go with the popular narratives, you want to go with whatever

00:21:32.020 is going to get you approval by the left, whatever is going to get you an opportunity to write an

00:21:37.780 op-ed in the New York Times, whatever is going to get you applause from the world, that's what

00:21:44.260 you're for.

00:21:44.840 And I can't say that I respect you at all.

00:21:49.920 And honestly, pastors, you got to be talking about this.

00:21:53.900 It's okay to get political when politics intersects with theology, right?

00:21:58.960 Like, this is a theological issue.

00:22:01.400 This is a biblical issue.

00:22:02.720 We are talking about the slaughter of children.

00:22:04.880 It's not primarily political for us.

00:22:07.140 For us, it is biblical.

00:22:08.560 I think that you should read this story from the pulpit, and you absolutely have every right

00:22:15.320 in the office of pastor with your platform of the pulpit to condemn this administration,

00:22:21.980 to condemn at the very least this action, and say that this is a perfect example of calling

00:22:27.300 good evil and evil good.

00:22:29.000 And I just pray for regeneration and revival and a reawakening in this country.

00:22:36.960 I really do.

00:22:37.820 I pray for God's mercy in that way.

00:22:40.860 And again, I just pray for the courage of Christians, that this would embolden us.

00:22:46.100 I know that what the administration desires to do through this is to actually scare us,

00:22:51.980 is to say, see, if you stand up against murder, we'll come after you too.

00:22:56.620 We'll take everything away from you too.

00:23:01.280 But we can't allow it to have that effect.

00:23:04.160 We actually have to allow it to embolden us because these people, even some of them who

00:23:10.920 don't believe in God, they counted the cost and they decided that it was worth it, standing

00:23:18.180 up for these babies.

00:23:19.940 And one thing that I just want to say too is that, and I should have said this probably

00:23:24.340 at the beginning, but these people who have been arrested, they were nonviolent.

00:23:29.440 Okay, this was a nonviolent sit-in.

00:23:31.320 This is according to Lila Rose, who has been reporting on this story closely.

00:23:35.340 She said, while Lauren, this is Lauren Handy, has passed out roses and offered counseling

00:23:39.160 and resources at many abortion facilities, Lauren and fellow defendants were convicted of

00:23:43.120 violating the FACE Act, a law that has primarily been used to penalize pro-life activism for their

00:23:47.800 participation in a nonviolent sit-in at Santangelo's Washington, D.C. late-term abortion facility.

00:23:55.220 The mangled bodies of five nearly full-term infants were found at the same facility, as

00:23:59.020 we've already talked about two years later.

00:24:00.480 Many had injuries consistent with illegal activity, as we talked about the DNX, such as

00:24:04.720 partial birth abortion and infanticide.

00:24:06.840 This conviction and sentence is completely unjust and will be appealed.

00:24:10.800 So praying for justice for them, pray for them, pray for Herb, please, and all of these people

00:24:16.180 who don't know Christ, pray for them that he would soften their hearts, that they would

00:24:21.320 come to know the Lord.

00:24:23.320 And this is also just an incredible quote from the testimony of the 69-year-old pro-life activist

00:24:29.860 John Hinshaw, who was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison, who has spent his life serving

00:24:36.700 the homeless, the addicted, the disabled.

00:24:39.540 He said this, oh, this makes me want to cry.

00:24:42.380 He said, my wife knows that she carries our children from their beginning through eternity,

00:24:46.280 but she knows that I cannot share the same bond because I am a man.

00:24:50.340 There's a special maternal bond between child and mother.

00:24:53.600 My granddaughter was born at 32 weeks gestation. 0.92

00:24:56.780 He then goes on to say, how is it that my granddaughter is a treasure and the others are trash?

00:25:02.460 There is a reason why today's gospel reading is to lay down one's life for his friends.

00:25:08.000 This is not a coincidence.

00:25:10.620 I am sorry that I have failed in my vocation as a father to protect children.

00:25:14.900 I am sorry to this court that it has failed in its vocation to protect its nation's children.

00:25:20.100 So he is just saying, I wish I could have done more.

00:25:25.240 The bravery and the courage and the love of these people, just pray for them and pray for

00:25:31.620 justice.

00:25:42.820 All right, we don't have time to get into the whole next story that I wanted to discuss,

00:25:47.180 and that is the kicker for the Chiefs, Harrison Butker.

00:25:51.880 He gave a graduation speech at Benedictine College over the weekend.

00:25:55.420 He is getting absolutely reamed for it because he is calling out Joe Biden, for example, for

00:26:04.180 not living up to Catholic doctrines on things like abortion.

00:26:09.840 Here's top 3.5.

00:26:13.420 Our own nation is led by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith, but

00:26:18.900 at the same time is delusional enough to make the sign of the cross during a pro-abortion

00:26:23.740 rally.

00:26:24.980 He has been so vocal in his support for the murder of innocent babies that I'm sure to

00:26:29.300 many people, it appears that you can be both Catholic and pro-choice.

00:26:33.860 He is not alone.

00:26:35.400 From the man behind the COVID lockdowns to the people pushing dangerous gender ideologies 0.51

00:26:41.040 onto the youth of America, they all have a glaring thing in common.

00:26:44.560 They are Catholic.

00:26:47.300 This is an important reminder that being Catholic alone doesn't cut it.

00:26:51.320 But if we are going to be men and women for this time in history, we need to stop pretending

00:26:56.180 that the Church of Nice is a winning proposition.

00:27:01.020 Wow, wow, wow.

00:27:02.320 I mean, a lot of good things said there.

00:27:04.280 Obviously, I'm not Catholic, but I appreciate how he is describing the discrepancy between what

00:27:13.820 some Catholics do, especially in the highest levels of government and what the Catholic

00:27:18.780 Church actually teaches.

00:27:20.580 Obviously, as a Protestant, there are many people on my side who call themselves Christians,

00:27:25.340 and yet they are pro-choice.

00:27:28.240 Now, what's interesting is that even though the Catholic Church itself has been solid on

00:27:32.820 this, according to Pew Research, only 42% of Catholics believe that abortion should be

00:27:40.540 illegal in most or all cases versus 55% of Protestants.

00:27:45.460 Now, I believe both of those numbers are too low, but I appreciate that Butker, as a Catholic

00:27:51.860 himself, is saying, oh, there's a problem that is going on here.

00:27:56.440 He also included a call to masculinity.

00:27:59.640 He said, as men, we set the tone of the culture when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction,

00:28:04.800 and chaos set in.

00:28:07.240 This absence of men in the home is what plays a large role in the violence that we see all

00:28:11.540 around the nation.

00:28:12.720 He is right about that.

00:28:14.280 Then he addresses women.

00:28:15.660 You, the women who have had the most diabolical lies told to you. 1.00

00:28:20.200 How many of you are sitting here about to cross this stage and thinking about all the promotions

00:28:24.800 and titles you're going to get in your career?

00:28:26.960 But he talks about the importance and the beauty of motherhood.

00:28:30.620 Well, people are very, very upset about this.

00:28:33.020 On Monday, May 13th, the petition was created on change.org, demanding that the Kansas City

00:28:37.320 Chiefs dismiss Hurricane Bucker for discriminatory remarks. 0.97

00:28:41.280 Dumb. 0.99

00:28:42.020 The petition had 97,448 signatures. 1.00

00:28:45.320 As of earlier, apparently it was homophobic, anti-trans, anti-abortion, and racist.

00:28:52.700 You don't have to keep selling me on it.

00:28:55.600 I was already for the speech.

00:28:58.580 You don't have to keep trying to convince me.

00:29:01.420 I already liked it.

00:29:02.760 Um, he says, or the, um, the petition goes on to say that we demand accountability from

00:29:11.580 our sports figures who should be role models, promoting respect for all people.

00:29:17.060 He didn't say anything disrespectful.

00:29:19.920 I mean, maybe he did.

00:29:21.020 He disrespected your ideology, but I loved it because what he said was true. 1.00

00:29:25.360 Besides the one prominent petition on change.org calling for the Chiefs to dismiss Bucker,

00:29:29.920 there are nine petitions that have been created to support him.

00:29:33.320 That is good.

00:29:34.780 I also saw some people from example, or from, for example, like Barstool Sports calling out

00:29:40.920 some of the other athletes who are supporting him and are cheering him on. 0.99

00:29:45.660 That's because they are all silly, silly people who have not thought through anything of consequence 1.00

00:29:52.700 at all. 0.99

00:29:53.660 Even if I like some of their like sports and funny commentary, like most people in this world

00:29:59.160 just go for the easiest thing.

00:30:01.340 What is most popular?

00:30:02.760 And this is an example of someone who has chosen not to do that.

00:30:05.660 He did not have to stand up here and say all of this.

00:30:08.100 He knew that there would be backlash.

00:30:09.620 He knew that he's making a sacrifice.

00:30:11.280 He knew that it's unpopular.

00:30:12.780 He knew that there would be people calling for the end of his career, threatening him.

00:30:16.400 He knew that.

00:30:17.260 And yet he has continued to make these unpopular remarks in the name of truth and good for him.

00:30:23.420 Good for him.

00:30:24.100 We need more men, more dads willing to stand up and do the same thing.

00:30:28.040 So kudos to him.

00:30:29.380 I'm very, very thankful for that.

00:30:32.220 I'm also thankful to have a dad myself who embodied and who symbolizes, I think, a lot

00:30:39.780 of just what is needed in this world today when it comes to strong dads and strong leaders

00:30:45.780 and men.

00:30:46.500 I am married also to Chief Related Bro who embodies all of this so well, and I'm so thankful for

00:30:53.660 that.

00:30:53.920 I know all of you are very thankful for the strong men in your life who, like Harrison

00:30:59.720 Bucker, are willing to stand up in a variety of different ways in all their different spheres

00:31:04.420 and do and say the right thing.

00:31:07.420 Today, we do have my dad on, and he is here to explain and break down so much of what is

00:31:13.720 going on.

00:31:14.300 So without further ado, here he is.

00:31:20.080 Dad, thanks so much for joining us again.

00:31:22.580 I appreciate it.

00:31:23.500 We're glad to have you.

00:31:24.960 You know, is this show, what, 1,003 or 4 now?

00:31:28.440 Yep.

00:31:29.180 1,003 or 4.

00:31:30.860 I actually don't know which one either, but 1,004, Vince says.

00:31:34.680 1,004, good.

00:31:35.220 Well, congratulations, by the way.

00:31:36.860 Thank you.

00:31:37.700 Thank you very much.

00:31:38.560 That is awesome.

00:31:39.020 I'm not surprised that you had 1,000 things to talk about.

00:31:42.120 At least.

00:31:42.760 I know, but I am very, very proud of you.

00:31:45.260 Thank you so much.

00:31:46.320 Okay.

00:31:46.640 People love my segments with my dad.

00:31:49.120 Actually, in the 1,000th episode, one of the voicemails we played was from our related

00:31:52.900 bro who was like, as a girl dad, I love seeing y'all's relationship.

00:31:57.320 So that's always sweet.

00:31:58.360 But we're talking about politics today.

00:31:59.900 Let's first talk about the polling that we've seen.

00:32:02.780 According to the New York Times, they were probably very sad to report this.

00:32:07.300 Trump is leading in five key states right now.

00:32:11.800 Nearly 70% of voters say that the country's political and economic systems need major changes

00:32:17.360 or even need to be torn down entirely.

00:32:22.400 Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden are essentially tied among 18 to 29-year-olds and Hispanic voters,

00:32:27.460 even though each group gave Mr. Biden more than 60% of their vote in 2020.

00:32:34.300 Now, Trump does have some vulnerabilities, even though in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan,

00:32:40.180 Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, he is winning.

00:32:43.480 For example, these vulnerabilities are 64% of voters in battleground states said that abortion

00:32:48.340 should be always or mostly legal, including 44% of Mr. Trump's own supporters.

00:32:54.900 13% of the voters who say they voted for Mr. Biden last time do not plan to do so, or they

00:33:02.100 don't plan to do so.

00:33:03.160 Again, it's because of the war in Israel and Palestine.

00:33:08.060 So lots of information there.

00:33:09.780 What do you make of it?

00:33:11.200 Well, again, it's kind of like I've said before.

00:33:14.200 I see these, and it is, this is not a, it's not a national election.

00:33:19.180 I have to remind people that it's a 50-state election.

00:33:21.820 But it does still concern me that even when you go through all of the things that Biden

00:33:27.840 is upside down on, that when you, when you put everything together and look at a national

00:33:33.080 poll, that it's very, very close in a, in a race that should not be close.

00:33:40.060 Okay.

00:33:40.780 And that Biden should be way further behind.

00:33:44.240 Oh, he should be way further behind.

00:33:46.300 Do you think just because of the state of the economy?

00:33:48.200 Yeah, just, just because of, if you, if you look at individual policies like immigration,

00:33:53.220 the economy, those types of things, he is, Trump is way ahead of him on those issues.

00:34:00.360 Got it.

00:34:00.860 Yeah.

00:34:01.040 And so if, and if those issues are important to Americans, which I think they are, all

00:34:05.360 right, then he should be further ahead.

00:34:07.380 But the reason he's not is because in spite of those issues, there are people that would

00:34:12.920 agree with him on the issues, but don't like him personally for whatever reason, whether

00:34:18.580 it's their, their own personal knowledge or just what they've heard through the media,

00:34:22.260 that they're still willing to hold their nose essentially and vote for Biden, which is very,

00:34:28.040 very, very scary.

00:34:29.100 Now, I do think it's encouraging though, that states that Trump lost in 2020, that he's significantly

00:34:37.800 ahead in Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, that's a big deal.

00:34:42.920 If he wins those three states, he will be the president of the United States.

00:34:46.740 Yeah.

00:34:46.940 There's no question about that because not because those three states will make all the

00:34:51.220 difference, but because if he's winning those three states there, it's going to, it's going

00:34:55.480 to go across the country.

00:34:56.520 That's what, that's what happens.

00:34:57.720 Right now he may not win Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, but if he wins Georgia, Nevada and

00:35:03.720 Arizona, he'll win at least one of those.

00:35:05.280 Yeah.

00:35:05.820 It's only Wisconsin.

00:35:07.300 That's the only swing state where Biden is ahead right now.

00:35:10.200 Which doesn't really make any sense because those are really pretty conservative people.

00:35:13.920 Yeah.

00:35:14.080 I mean, I've, I've had friends there.

00:35:16.400 I've been up there multiple times.

00:35:17.720 Those are pretty red, white, and blue Americans.

00:35:19.980 Your brother and I went to the Ryder Cup there a couple of years ago and it was incredible.

00:35:25.620 You know, it was just, so it's like, it's a weird scenario.

00:35:28.640 Now the abortion thing, I do want to touch on that just a second, because I do believe that

00:35:33.260 it's a true statement that most people in America would say that abortion up to some

00:35:41.280 point in time should be legal.

00:35:43.720 Okay.

00:35:44.120 I disagree with that.

00:35:45.240 You disagree with that, but I do believe, cause that's what, that's just the way it makes

00:35:50.100 people feel comfortable that they're kind of balancing it out a little bit right now.

00:35:53.620 When you narrowed it down and you got all the facts in front of them as to what time that

00:35:58.280 should be, I don't, I don't think there's any agreement on that whatsoever.

00:36:03.420 And so that question that was in that poll you just talked about, it should be nearly

00:36:07.680 or what that people don't even say.

00:36:09.620 So what one person is doing saying, well, yeah, if it's at, if it's at six weeks, then

00:36:13.980 I'm okay with it.

00:36:14.760 Well, the other person's that answered the question is, well, if it's at 35 weeks, I'm

00:36:18.480 okay with it.

00:36:19.160 And they're all lumped in the same.

00:36:20.560 They're all lumped in the same answer.

00:36:22.340 It's very misleading.

00:36:23.180 When it says most people believe that abortion should be legal in some or all cases, like

00:36:29.560 you said, some might be six weeks, it could be 40 weeks.

00:36:34.180 And so, yeah, you've got, I really think that when you look at it, when you go down to it,

00:36:39.660 most people are most comfortable only in the first trimester.

00:36:43.820 Now I still disagree with that, but I think that's actually where most people are.

00:36:47.180 And I think that if given the facts, most people would move to six weeks being the limitation.

00:36:53.180 Right.

00:36:53.880 The heartbeat.

00:36:54.680 I really do believe the heartbeat does make a difference to people.

00:36:57.460 And before that, they might be easier to justify it.

00:37:00.220 You and I don't agree with that at all.

00:37:01.700 But so that question is very misleading.

00:37:04.920 Yeah.

00:37:05.200 All right.

00:37:05.540 But I do think the Democrats will try to make hay on that.

00:37:08.480 And now Trump and Carrie Lake and some other Republicans, that's why they're kind of coming

00:37:12.220 out and equivocating and saying, okay, look, we got to be moderate on this.

00:37:16.520 16 weeks, he's even saying for a federal ban, which is way, way, way too late for me.

00:37:22.100 Of course, I think it's all wrong.

00:37:23.480 But that's the stance that he's trying to take right now, because he understands this

00:37:28.720 is a hot button issue that, according to the New York Times, even 44 percent of people who

00:37:33.440 vote for Trump, they don't want it to be completely banned.

00:37:37.260 So he's trying to reach those people.

00:37:41.100 I would rather maybe this is too idealistic for me.

00:37:44.160 I would rather us simply do a better job as Republicans making our case.

00:37:49.340 I mean, Democrats are not afraid.

00:37:51.320 And we'll get into this in a second with RFK.

00:37:53.980 They're not afraid to say, no, I think it should all be legal.

00:37:57.540 And yet on the other side, there's no Republican almost who's willing to say, well, I think it

00:38:01.560 should all be illegal.

00:38:03.220 And so I just wish that we would do a better job of saying, no, you're the extremist for

00:38:09.100 believing in baby murder, not me.

00:38:10.840 I think that's right.

00:38:12.580 I think what they have to turn the discussion away from women's rights to genocide.

00:38:21.340 Right.

00:38:21.820 And probably not using that term, but you understand what I mean.

00:38:25.140 I mean, we care.

00:38:26.000 I mean, as you know, we care more about puppies than we do about unborn babies.

00:38:30.360 And I also believe in that poll that some people would say that I'm against all abortion

00:38:35.060 other than rape and incest.

00:38:36.660 OK.

00:38:36.920 And so they're included in the group that says, I still believe in some of it.

00:38:41.180 So it's very misleading.

00:38:43.560 And your listeners should not be disheartened if they have the same positions that you and

00:38:48.340 I have.

00:38:49.120 That's the position to have.

00:38:50.680 Don't think that you're way out of the mainstream, because I don't really think that you're that

00:38:55.420 far out of the mainstream at all.

00:38:56.740 I think it's getting closer to us than it is to them.

00:38:58.800 And even if you are outside of the mainstream or you're swimming upstream, that is an OK

00:39:04.760 place to be, because most people haven't really thought through most of these issues fully.

00:39:10.660 And those of us who really have and have really considered it from a biblical perspective, we

00:39:16.120 will always be different than most of the world.

00:39:18.320 And that's OK.

00:39:19.660 The fact of the matter is, though, is that Trump is the most pro-life candidate that we've

00:39:25.300 got.

00:39:25.560 His actions have proven that.

00:39:27.240 His words aren't as good, but his actions of who he's nominated and the policies that

00:39:33.020 he has, there's no question.

00:39:34.920 As soon as he's elected, I promise you, in my opinion, that he'll take all the stuff that

00:39:39.980 the military's been doing relating to that.

00:39:41.920 I think all that will be gone.

00:39:43.320 Yeah.

00:39:43.740 Day one.

00:39:44.560 And I think most people have probably seen Biden is the most extreme, because he believes

00:39:49.900 in through all nine months subsidized by the taxpayer for any reason without any apology.

00:39:54.340 And then RFK is kind of a middle ground on that, because at one point he did say, I think

00:39:59.820 it was almost a year ago now.

00:40:01.940 Oh, I believe that it should be restricted after the first three months, which is probably

00:40:06.240 what he really believes.

00:40:07.540 But his campaign manager after that said, oh, no, no, no.

00:40:10.280 He misspoke.

00:40:11.360 He doesn't really believe that.

00:40:12.540 So now he's going on a media tour saying, yeah, I actually think that it should be legal

00:40:18.400 always.

00:40:19.000 Here's top three.

00:40:20.480 There's no woman who gets pregnant, carries that baby for eight months, and then decides 1.00

00:40:30.260 to have an abortion for some frivolous reason.

00:40:33.380 They're in that kind of case, and nobody in their right mind would do that.

00:40:40.040 In those kind of cases, there's some kind of very, very rare cases where that happens.

00:40:45.380 There's always some kind of extenuating circumstances, and I don't feel prepared to turn that over

00:40:53.200 to the government.

00:40:55.400 So that's his case for making even late-term abortion legal, even though it happens at least

00:41:01.900 10,000 times a year for a variety of reasons.

00:41:04.900 Before I'll get your comments, let's go ahead and play Sot 5, where he's saying this again.

00:41:10.140 So in other words, keeping it as is, with Roe v. Wade having been overturned and leaving

00:41:15.300 it up to the states to determine if and when a woman can have an abortion? 1.00

00:41:20.180 No, I wouldn't leave it to the states.

00:41:22.240 Right.

00:41:22.840 I would.

00:41:23.960 You would say completely, it's up to the woman. 1.00

00:41:26.660 My belief is we should leave it to the woman. 1.00

00:41:28.820 We shouldn't have government involved.

00:41:30.920 Even if it's full term?

00:41:33.440 Even if it's full term.

00:41:35.680 Okay.

00:41:36.080 Okay, so that's Biden's position.

00:41:40.140 No matter what, all nine months aborting a 40, I was pregnant for 42 weeks. 0.84

00:41:47.660 At that point, he thinks abortion should be legal. 0.89

00:41:52.160 That is, I know he doesn't believe that personally.

00:41:54.900 If you just look at the history of his family, first of all, he's got like seven or eight brothers

00:41:58.200 and sisters.

00:41:59.060 Yeah.

00:41:59.320 That are strong.

00:41:59.960 His mother, one of the strongest Catholics in that family, Rose.

00:42:03.100 And so I just believe he's pandering, you know, because he doesn't want the women against

00:42:09.100 him.

00:42:09.400 And it's just, I mean, it's murder.

00:42:11.440 I mean, it's just nothing but how anybody couldn't see that as murder is just, is just

00:42:16.600 incredible.

00:42:17.020 And so, yeah, he's right in line with Biden on that issue.

00:42:19.620 Now, I think he's tried to walk it back a little bit, but does it matter now?

00:42:23.220 Yeah.

00:42:23.420 Once it's out there, you've said it.

00:42:24.680 That's going to be, that's just a big mistake on his part.

00:42:28.020 He was, he got afraid as a politician, as opposed to being a, a brave policymaker.

00:42:36.000 Right.

00:42:36.680 What do you think RFK's play is?

00:42:39.360 Because I thought at one point that he was trying to appeal more to the conservative moms

00:42:44.140 who just really don't like the vaccine, the COVID vaccine and the COVID policy.

00:42:50.160 He seemed like the kind of guy who didn't care what the polls said.

00:42:53.680 He was just going to do what he believed, do what's right.

00:42:56.720 But with his VP pick, with his comments about abortion, I'm wondering who he is going for.

00:43:03.320 I guess he's going for the liberal woman.

00:43:04.940 Do you think that's going to work?

00:43:06.200 Well, I think he believes that the true anti-vaxxers, that that's their number one issue and they

00:43:11.880 may vote for him anyway.

00:43:13.960 Okay.

00:43:14.420 Cause they're probably more, they're probably more libertarian than they are conservative.

00:43:19.360 All right.

00:43:20.460 And then he's got to fill up the rest, which is actually for those of us that want the,

00:43:25.680 uh, Republican to win.

00:43:27.520 That's actually good for us.

00:43:28.480 Cause he's going to fill up the rest with progressives.

00:43:31.620 Right.

00:43:32.400 And that's why Biden and them don't want him involved in anything.

00:43:35.980 Right.

00:43:36.400 At all.

00:43:37.260 So I think that's probably where he's getting out.

00:43:39.140 He knows, he knows he's not going to win.

00:43:41.180 And he's trying to make a big statement about, you know, there are, there are a large group

00:43:47.380 of people kind of like Ross Perot did that don't agree with either side on some important

00:43:51.860 issues.

00:43:52.600 Yeah.

00:43:53.120 And he would have chose, he would have preferred not getting into the abortion issue, but you're

00:43:58.460 not going to avoid it in this election.

00:43:59.900 Yeah.

00:44:00.300 Which is one reason I think he won't come on this show.

00:44:03.240 Um, he said, but then I learned I, he, so as you said, he tried to walk it back a little

00:44:07.160 bit, but then I learned, I was wrong that there are actually a huge amount of people

00:44:11.180 out comparatively of elective abortions in the third trimester, which is just an absolute

00:44:17.200 tragedy.

00:44:17.980 I'm sure he already knew that, but in my belief at that time is that at that time you have

00:44:23.280 a wholly formed viable child and the state has some interest in protecting that baby.

00:44:28.540 Well, he is trying hard to like thread the needle, but yeah, you've already said it.

00:44:34.780 Typical, typical politician. 0.56

00:44:36.440 And it is baby murder. 0.91

00:44:41.180 Okay.

00:44:49.800 Let's get into some of these other issues before we talk about the debate that's coming

00:44:53.420 up.

00:44:53.760 So we've got abortion where each candidate is on that. 0.56

00:44:56.960 We'll see how that plays out.

00:44:58.560 What about immigration?

00:44:59.620 This is a big issue for both sides of the aisle.

00:45:02.100 Well, this is really, if it wasn't so, if it wasn't so important and serious, it'd be

00:45:06.280 funny watching the Biden administration, you know, because what, you know, they, they, uh,

00:45:11.200 they, of course they've had open borders.

00:45:12.740 There's been what I just, I just wrote this down 3.2 million crossed illegally that they

00:45:19.480 know about.

00:45:20.700 Okay.

00:45:21.180 In 2023, 3.2 million.

00:45:25.440 All right.

00:45:27.060 And, and that's all under Biden's policies.

00:45:29.700 No question about, and that's just through the ones that they could, you know, that got,

00:45:33.820 that went through the border patrol as opposed, supposedly.

00:45:37.080 And so what they're trying to do now is that, well, we're going to do an executive order.

00:45:43.080 So that we can, you know, send people back quicker that obviously don't qualify for asylum.

00:45:50.600 Well, they don't need an executive order to do that. 0.52

00:45:52.980 They could, they could do all of that and they, they could, they could do the remain in

00:45:56.720 Mexico and then they come through as their asylum, you know, date comes up.

00:46:01.160 That's how, that's how they overturned or they reversed the remain in Mexico policy.

00:46:06.420 Right.

00:46:06.840 Absolutely did.

00:46:07.520 And then they're, they said, well, we had this bipartisan bill, which is how, which

00:46:11.900 is how Republicans get suckered in sometimes because you got one or two Republicans that

00:46:16.560 voted for it and probably had really, really good intentions.

00:46:20.000 I believe James Langford is a good person, uh, and trying to come to a good answer to something.

00:46:26.300 But, and now all they're doing is using that as a political stunt against the Republicans

00:46:33.720 because that bill itself even said, we're going to let 5,000, we're not going to do anything

00:46:37.580 until 5,000 people a day come in.

00:46:41.540 And that's, again, those are the 5,000 that come through that they see.

00:46:44.980 Yeah.

00:46:45.500 Not the 5,000 or 20,000 they don't see.

00:46:48.400 So I want people to understand that the Biden administration doesn't want to do anything

00:46:53.460 about this.

00:46:53.980 In fact, if they really did, HR2 passed the house and that is a much more restrictive,

00:46:59.920 uh, you know, close the border first and then revamp our laws on how we allow people to come 1.00

00:47:06.240 in for work visas and things like that.

00:47:08.260 HR2 is sitting on Senator Schumer's bill on his desk and he will not bring it up.

00:47:12.820 Yeah.

00:47:13.340 Okay.

00:47:13.640 He will not bring it up.

00:47:14.920 So don't say that the Republicans aren't interested in doing and doing something about it.

00:47:19.600 But I still think when you go, when I talk to people that are running for office, no matter

00:47:23.100 where they are in the country alley, the number one issue is immigration.

00:47:26.480 It doesn't matter what state they're in, which is really kind of interesting.

00:47:29.560 It's not just the border states.

00:47:30.840 Yeah.

00:47:31.040 It's everywhere.

00:47:31.660 So that's the Republican issue, that and the economy that they have to run on.

00:47:36.360 I mean, what is the solution though?

00:47:38.800 Because like, I, I find myself getting more, I don't know, intense on immigration than I

00:47:47.560 was a few years ago when Trump started talking about the wall.

00:47:51.320 I was kind of one of those people that was like, eh, you know, is that the right approach?

00:47:56.000 I wish I could see how some of his rhetoric is a little harsh.

00:47:59.280 Maybe the wall isn't exactly right.

00:48:01.380 And I'm like, now do whatever you have to do. 0.98

00:48:04.100 Deport them all. 0.98

00:48:05.180 I don't care. 0.99

00:48:06.480 One crime committed by an illegal alien is one crime too many. 0.99

00:48:10.200 All crimes committed by illegal immigrants are preventable crimes, unlike crimes committed 1.00

00:48:14.720 by citizens.

00:48:15.780 So I'm like, I don't care what you do.

00:48:18.300 Barbed wire, buoys.

00:48:19.980 But the Biden administration is literally coming to the border, removing even the least

00:48:25.260 restrictive boundaries that we have in place, and then saying, well, we're trying to do

00:48:31.180 something about it.

00:48:32.100 And Republicans are just getting in our way.

00:48:34.380 When their efforts to do something are counterproductive, they're actually just allowing more people

00:48:40.300 So their goal is, and they've seen it in a few states and cities, their goal is, is that

00:48:45.260 they know that if they can persist long enough, that eventually there could be an acquiescence

00:48:51.720 on either giving them amnesty or just allowing them to vote since they live here.

00:48:57.380 And some cities, you know, are already doing that.

00:49:00.200 The answer is secure the border first.

00:49:02.940 So, you know, it's kind of like, uh, when you're, when you're, uh, digging a hole and

00:49:07.980 you're afraid it's getting to eat, the first thing to do is stop digging.

00:49:10.440 So the first thing to do is secure the border, but at the same time, and you can do two things

00:49:14.620 at once, come up with a, a work visa program that allows people, because we need some of

00:49:20.400 these people to come work on a temporary basis.

00:49:23.060 Like we used to do this all the time, six months, right?

00:49:25.280 They'd come and work in the, in the, in the, uh, produce out in California, or they would

00:49:30.380 come like, uh, the person that does a lot of our landscape at our house, the company

00:49:34.580 that does that, his stonemason people.

00:49:38.040 Okay.

00:49:38.460 They only come up here for six months and then they go home to Mexico and work in six months.

00:49:42.500 That's what they want to do.

00:49:43.440 That's the, they can make the most money doing that.

00:49:45.580 That's their homeland.

00:49:46.400 They like that.

00:49:47.260 And then also have a path to be here legally from a long-term standpoint that it's not so

00:49:54.720 complicated.

00:49:55.340 It shouldn't take 16, 17 years to do that.

00:49:58.200 If you meet the qualifications that we, that we put in place.

00:50:01.980 So, but you can do both of it.

00:50:03.860 But the first thing is always secure the border.

00:50:05.600 Stop digging.

00:50:06.700 Yeah.

00:50:07.200 If you're worried about the hole.

00:50:08.260 Right.

00:50:08.600 So that's the, that's the first thing, but I want people to understand that don't, whatever

00:50:13.620 the Biden administration says, just remember 3.2 million in 2023.

00:50:18.260 My gosh, it's crazy.

00:50:20.120 Okay.

00:50:20.540 Let's move on to the economy because this is another one that both sides of the aisle, they 0.83

00:50:25.560 care about a lot and they're feeling it.

00:50:27.200 Well, I wish you had the, uh, the clip where Biden says that when he took over, he was

00:50:31.640 at 9% inflation that Trump left him with 9% annualized inflation when even his own white

00:50:37.080 house has said, no, that wasn't, he misspoke on that one or people misunderstood.

00:50:41.060 It was 1.4% when Biden took office.

00:50:44.200 Okay.

00:50:44.480 The most recent inflation number was 1.4%.

00:50:46.780 Now it was going to go up because people coming out of COVID.

00:50:49.660 I get all of that.

00:50:50.460 However, just a couple of things that people I'm sure are feeling already.

00:50:53.860 I know that, uh, we feel it.

00:50:56.260 We go the store and I'm sure you guys do too.

00:50:58.320 Is that like, for example, a dozen eggs in 2020 dollar 51 right now, average $3.

00:51:07.620 Doubled the price doubled it.

00:51:10.580 Bread.

00:51:10.860 Okay.

00:51:11.500 Buying a loaf of bread.

00:51:12.460 That's up 36% for the cost of bread, cost of gasoline up 50%.

00:51:18.720 Mortgage, a home mortgage, usually the largest purchase, uh, anybody in America makes the

00:51:24.960 mortgage rates are up 250%.

00:51:27.540 They were 2.6% when Trump left office.

00:51:30.980 Now they're average 6.4% mortgage.

00:51:33.500 So do an inflation or economics for dummies, what causes inflation?

00:51:38.780 How is Biden affecting inflation?

00:51:41.280 Cause that's what I hear from the Democrat side.

00:51:42.900 Well, it has nothing to do with Biden and his policies.

00:51:45.320 Oh yeah.

00:51:45.640 It's all the money.

00:51:46.640 When you dump more money into a society, which remember we, and Trump started some of this,

00:51:51.220 there's no question about that, but then he quit it and Biden kept putting more money

00:51:55.400 into the, you know, into the economy.

00:51:57.640 Right.

00:51:57.860 And so either, either through, uh, increased tax deductions for the, for people that were,

00:52:04.220 you know, middle-class and lower or, and actually everybody or actual checks that came out.

00:52:09.380 Okay.

00:52:09.920 Or, uh, student loan forgiveness, all of those types of things.

00:52:13.580 And where he's spending money, when you put more money into an economy, people have more

00:52:18.100 to spend.

00:52:18.620 So if I'm selling you something, if I'm selling, you know, widgets, then I can raise the price

00:52:25.040 on widgets.

00:52:25.520 Cause I know you're willing to pay it.

00:52:28.160 Right.

00:52:28.720 That's what happens.

00:52:29.780 And that's, that's, it's exactly what happened.

00:52:32.080 Cause the people that, the people that are making eggs today, okay.

00:52:35.780 That are, that sell eggs and whatever, they are, their costs have not gone up $3, you know,

00:52:42.320 double their costs haven't doubled, but because, because there's more demand because people

00:52:47.780 have the more money instead of buying, you know, a dozen eggs every two weeks, they can

00:52:51.440 now buy them every week.

00:52:52.620 You know, that's, that's what causes it.

00:52:55.060 Yeah.

00:52:55.540 It's amazing to me that there is so much animosity towards Trump as a person that that would,

00:53:02.580 that that animosity would trump people's concerns about something like the economy and immigration.

00:53:07.800 Their own family's well-being.

00:53:09.260 That's the part that's crazy.

00:53:10.160 It's so tangible.

00:53:11.100 Yeah.

00:53:11.540 And it's so immediate, which tells me, and you know, there's no reason in looking backwards.

00:53:16.440 It is what it is, but we picked the wrong person in the primary.

00:53:20.800 Cause I do think if you would have chosen a less polarizing person who aligned with Trump

00:53:25.100 on most of these issues, they would be far and away.

00:53:27.880 This race would be so over.

00:53:29.160 It's not even funny in my opinion as well.

00:53:31.200 I know other people that are listening won't agree with us on that one.

00:53:33.760 It's just true though.

00:53:34.600 But it is just true.

00:53:35.700 Now I do, I do think we have to credit Trump as a conservative movement for being willing

00:53:40.300 to stand up and say things that a lot of people in the past 50 years haven't been willing

00:53:44.660 to say.

00:53:45.460 Yeah.

00:53:45.780 And you know what?

00:53:46.420 He didn't have to do any of that.

00:53:47.740 Yeah.

00:53:48.120 His life could have been pretty darn easy.

00:53:50.300 It's true.

00:53:50.740 But I do give him credit for doing it for whatever reason.

00:53:53.480 Maybe it may be all misogynistic for all I know, but he did it.

00:53:57.520 Right.

00:53:57.820 I know.

00:53:58.160 I don't, I don't think so.

00:53:59.160 I mean, especially about immigration.

00:54:00.620 He started a new conversation about immigration that wasn't being had.

00:54:04.620 And I do appreciate that about him.

00:54:07.200 Legal issues.

00:54:08.400 There's a lot going on this week for him.

00:54:11.200 Can you tell us a little bit about that?

00:54:13.000 Well, you know, they've all the prosecutions going to probably wrap up their case in the next

00:54:17.440 few days.

00:54:17.960 They had the big Stormy Daniels interview and Michael Cohen and, you know, not as a

00:54:23.500 interview, they had to put them on the stand.

00:54:26.160 And that's probably the strongest point that the other people made.

00:54:29.100 But the problem is, here's the problem the prosecution has, is that the facts are pretty

00:54:35.320 true.

00:54:35.800 Stormy Daniels got money, right?

00:54:38.660 Right.

00:54:39.040 But there's no evidence, nothing out there other than Cohen, who is a convicted felon,

00:54:45.660 by the way, says that that was about the political race.

00:54:52.320 There's reasonable doubt, at least, that he did that to protect his family or his business

00:54:57.960 reputation, right?

00:54:59.100 Because that happens all the time.

00:55:00.460 And there's nothing illegal about that.

00:55:01.980 The only way it becomes illegal, if there's a fact that he did that only for the political

00:55:06.860 race, and that's a federal election law violation, which, by the way, he's not even

00:55:10.860 being charged of, which is crazy on top of that.

00:55:13.160 So we'll see how that goes.

00:55:14.820 I still think the chance of him being convicted in that is greater than 50-50 because of where

00:55:18.900 it is and who the judge is and who the jury is.

00:55:21.480 But on the appeals, I think it'll be thrown out.

00:55:24.020 The good news is, is on the documents case that Jack Smith, I think, is the prosecutor,

00:55:30.740 about having the documents, you know, he and Biden both had them.

00:55:33.560 They decided not to even charge Biden because he was a dawdling old man.

00:55:37.280 Remember the investigator, the inspector's report?

00:55:39.520 Uh, that's not, I don't think that's going to come up before the election.

00:55:42.540 If not, it'll be way late.

00:55:44.360 And the one in Georgia has turned out to be a disaster for the prosecution, and they've

00:55:48.680 kind of delayed that one as well.

00:55:50.100 So, uh, I think the one in New York is the main one that, uh, you know, that the media

00:55:54.940 will hold on to for a while.

00:55:56.720 Do you think that's going to have any effect on how people vote?

00:55:59.100 I don't.

00:55:59.940 I think a hundred percent of the people know how they're going to vote already on that issue.

00:56:05.940 Yeah, I think so, too.

00:56:14.380 All right.

00:56:19.940 You want to get to some questions that people sent?

00:56:22.040 There's a ton, and I'm sorry, we're not going to be able to, um, get through all of them.

00:56:26.220 And some of them, and some of them, we already, we already answered.

00:56:30.560 We can do it another time, too.

00:56:31.700 That's right.

00:56:31.980 Um, let's see.

00:56:34.720 Yeah, we can definitely keep some of these and answer some of them later.

00:56:40.220 Um, here's one.

00:56:41.720 Try to, try to answer concisely, because it's a big question.

00:56:44.380 Israel, Ukraine, why do we fund them? 0.95

00:56:47.940 This is what this person asked.

00:56:49.640 We fund them because we don't want to fund, we don't want to fight.

00:56:52.860 We don't want to have war on our shores, so therefore we help hold on to democracy across

00:56:59.440 the world.

00:57:01.500 Okay.

00:57:03.120 That's it.

00:57:04.080 If we can have democracy in other places and those strongholds, we'd rather have that than

00:57:09.260 them landing on the shores of North Carolina.

00:57:11.260 Do you think that there's a limit to how much we should be involved and how much we should

00:57:17.900 fund other countries, especially when there seems to be things like our border that don't

00:57:24.120 get as much, um, excitement from our Congress?

00:57:27.600 Like when we passed the last package to send more funding to Ukraine, you had all these people,

00:57:32.540 uh, in Congress, on the floor, waving the Ukrainian flags.

00:57:37.100 Why isn't there that vigor for protecting our own border?

00:57:40.100 Well, because the Ukrainian thing has very little effect on their next election.

00:57:45.680 Okay.

00:57:46.320 Yeah.

00:57:46.600 And our border does.

00:57:47.760 So that's easy.

00:57:48.700 But I do think the limit alley is all based on what that country itself is willing to put

00:57:55.380 into place, right?

00:57:56.440 What are they willing to do?

00:57:57.940 It's kind of what Trump has said about NATO that time.

00:58:00.120 Right.

00:58:00.380 And I mean, he, he's changed all that about, look, if you're going to be in NATO, you got

00:58:04.000 to put your own money up because we were funding almost the whole thing.

00:58:06.640 So I think we should look at, okay, how committed is Ukraine?

00:58:12.140 Okay.

00:58:13.040 And how important is, it's not so much helping them as it is stopping Russia. 0.84

00:58:16.640 Right.

00:58:17.440 And Israel, I think that we have an obligation.

00:58:21.300 And I think for a lot of people, that's a moral obligation.

00:58:23.980 Even our politicians would, I'd say a lot of them believe it's a moral obligation to protect

00:58:29.320 them and they are the only democracy in the Middle East, real democracy.

00:58:36.960 Okay.

00:58:37.620 One person asked this and we forgot to get to it.

00:58:40.320 What you think about the upcoming debate, CNN will host it on June 27th.

00:58:47.620 It is Trump and it is Biden.

00:58:51.340 Trump's campaign is also pushing for two more debates in July and August.

00:58:56.200 Um, here is our commander in chief, Biden, challenging Trump.

00:59:02.740 This is SOT6.

00:59:04.380 Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020.

00:59:07.000 And since then, he hadn't shown up for debate.

00:59:08.760 Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again.

00:59:11.120 Well, make my day, pal.

00:59:12.780 I'll even do it twice.

00:59:14.660 So let's pick the dates, Donald.

00:59:16.200 I hear you're free on Wednesdays.

00:59:18.660 Well, first of all, I do like the sarcasm.

00:59:20.740 It's pretty funny.

00:59:21.500 It is.

00:59:21.800 Uh, but he, he lies in there multiple times.

00:59:24.920 He, he didn't, Donald Trump didn't lose two debates to him.

00:59:28.060 And I do think in the first debate, Donald, Donald Trump overstepped when he shouldn't

00:59:31.840 have.

00:59:32.120 I think so too.

00:59:32.700 That made him look really bad.

00:59:34.080 But in the second debate, he was very strong.

00:59:36.780 Also, he hasn't tried to avoid debating Donald Trump.

00:59:40.280 So to say that he hadn't shown up, I'm not sure what he's talking about.

00:59:43.720 He hasn't avoided debating.

00:59:45.580 Abating Biden.

00:59:46.500 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:59:48.420 But I don't, you know, I'll still be surprised if Biden shows up.

00:59:52.100 Oh, me too.

00:59:52.820 I really will.

00:59:53.640 Now, who knows how many uppers they're going to have to put on? 0.99

00:59:55.560 They put a bunch of restrictions on this whole thing, which could blow it up, right?

00:59:59.660 Oh, right.

01:00:00.420 The stipulations.

01:00:01.700 They want the Trump people to blow it up.

01:00:04.200 So that's why they put all these restrictions, right?

01:00:06.300 Where it can only be CNN, ABC, or NBC.

01:00:10.080 Right.

01:00:10.660 You can't have an audience.

01:00:12.180 No audience, which I think is hilarious.

01:00:13.380 The limited news outlets, candidate mics must mute after time expires, which might help Trump,

01:00:20.840 by the way.

01:00:21.520 It might help Trump because that first debate, I knew it was over because even though I don't

01:00:26.600 care about hurting Biden's feelings, I know how it was perceived.

01:00:29.860 It was perceived like Trump was a bully and that Joe Biden, who is not this compassionate

01:00:35.140 person, came across that way.

01:00:37.540 Here's what Donald Trump said.

01:00:38.620 And you know what?

01:00:39.220 I've just learned to laugh at this kind of stuff.

01:00:41.100 It's just funny.

01:00:41.900 Crooked Joe Biden is, because remember it was Crooked Hillary, now it's Crooked Joe Biden,

01:00:46.440 which is fair, is the worst debater I've ever faced.

01:00:49.460 He can't put two sentences together.

01:00:51.220 Crooked is also, just Crooked, is also the worst president in the history of the United

01:00:56.060 States by far.

01:00:57.180 That's probably true.

01:00:58.640 It's time for a debate so that he can explain to the American people his highly destructive

01:01:02.500 open border policy, new and ridiculous EV mandates, that's the electric vehicle mandate,

01:01:07.680 the allowance of crushing inflation, high taxes, and his really weak foreign policy, which is

01:01:12.900 allowing the world to, quote unquote, catch on fire.

01:01:16.620 I am ready and willing to debate Crooked Joe.

01:01:18.840 At the two proposed times in June and September, I would strongly recommend more than two debates

01:01:23.300 and for excitement purposes, a very large venue.

01:01:26.020 Although Biden is supposedly afraid of crowds.

01:01:28.200 That's only because he doesn't get them.

01:01:29.700 Just tell me when.

01:01:30.820 I'll be there.

01:01:32.060 Quote unquote.

01:01:32.740 Quote, let's get ready to rumble. 0.97

01:01:36.760 I think you should have it in Yankee Stadium, in one of those boxing ring things, right?

01:01:41.740 Let's do it.

01:01:42.420 Yeah.

01:01:42.560 Oh, man.

01:01:44.140 It will probably be the most watched debate in history.

01:01:47.440 I'm excited for it.

01:01:48.680 I'm pumped.

01:01:49.420 It will be interesting.

01:01:51.260 Now, if I'm Trump's people, I don't take everything they put in there as those criteria.

01:01:57.100 I'm going to fight back on that.

01:01:58.840 Yeah.

01:01:59.080 I'm going to get whatever it is that's important to him to get back on that.

01:02:03.040 Yeah.

01:02:03.860 Okay.

01:02:04.420 Switching gears a little bit.

01:02:06.380 Well, okay.

01:02:06.940 Let's do one political one and one nonpolitical one.

01:02:10.740 How do you hold faith, this person asks, in our country when it feels like all the candidates

01:02:16.500 are a joke?

01:02:19.620 Well, you have to have faith that in Daniel 2, 21 and 22, where it says that God sets

01:02:26.220 up the kings when they're up and when they're down.

01:02:28.700 And I remember when I was running for political office my first time, my friend Scott Turner

01:02:34.000 and I, when we would meet for breakfast, that would be our verse that we would remind each

01:02:37.980 other of, that we do the work, but at the end of the day, it's God.

01:02:41.520 And so God has used many, many, many non-believers in him for his good and for the good of his people.

01:02:50.120 And he's also had many people that supposedly believed in him that failed him.

01:02:56.380 And so just God is in control.

01:02:59.400 And we, it's our obligation to stay engaged though.

01:03:02.420 We cannot lose so much hope that we refuse to engage.

01:03:07.820 That's what Satan always wants.

01:03:09.800 Remember in screw tape letters, he didn't really want them to commit a bunch of sins.

01:03:14.680 He just didn't want them to do anything.

01:03:16.700 Right.

01:03:16.920 And that's where Satan lives.

01:03:19.440 What do you think are some different challenges that, this is another question, that parents

01:03:25.600 face today that you and mom didn't face?

01:03:29.540 And what do you think about that?

01:03:32.880 Scary because I have kids and grandkids, obviously.

01:03:37.120 And, but I do think that we face things that our parents didn't face.

01:03:42.060 So every generation is like that, all right?

01:03:45.260 The answer to that is always making sure that you're grounded in your faith because the biblical

01:03:52.480 truths have stayed the same.

01:03:54.380 It's the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

01:03:57.020 Now, how they relate to, how you can relate that to what you're going through, like social

01:04:01.940 media or whatever it is with your child, or then you have to be able to, you know, dig

01:04:07.820 deep and there'll be, there'll be theologians that can, you know, like what you're doing

01:04:11.800 here, Allie, a lot of days is helping people understand how that relates to today.

01:04:15.860 And so what, what I do in my world and what like, like people in my generation that have

01:04:21.280 kids and grandkids that are going through this, first of all, you know, the first thing

01:04:24.840 we do is have to get on our knees because there's a limited amount that we can do temporally

01:04:30.320 here on earth.

01:04:31.440 Uh, we have to make sure that, you know, we help our children raise their children up

01:04:38.240 in the way that they should go by providing that, you know, assistance when we can and

01:04:43.140 examples when we can.

01:04:44.640 And, you know, whether it's for your girls or Justin's boys, the grandparents still have

01:04:48.980 a big role in that, right?

01:04:50.280 They have an, well, I say a big role, an important role, put it that way, an important role in

01:04:53.880 that.

01:04:54.280 Yeah.

01:04:54.500 And, uh, so I think you just, it's, it's all about making sure that you believe that

01:05:00.320 the Bible is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

01:05:03.160 Yeah.

01:05:03.940 Um, we'll do this last question and I'll ask it because I got two of basically the same

01:05:09.940 questions from two different people back to back.

01:05:12.480 Both of these women said that they grew up with an absent dad, but they want their life,

01:05:19.700 how they parent to be different, but they don't really have a good example.

01:05:24.500 That's actually something that you talk about some in your book.

01:05:27.680 It wasn't the exact same situation for you, but you have some empathy for that, for people

01:05:33.100 who find themselves in that position.

01:05:34.700 So what would you say to them?

01:05:36.540 So these are late, Timmy, these are ladies that grew up without a dad at home, right? 1.00

01:05:40.760 Yes.

01:05:41.320 But now they're married.

01:05:42.800 With kids.

01:05:43.400 With kids.

01:05:44.020 And so they, they're really not totally sure how even their husband should be because they

01:05:49.460 don't, didn't have that example, right?

01:05:51.260 Yeah.

01:05:51.440 That's kind of what you're saying.

01:05:52.400 Well, I think what you have to do is assuming that their husbands are godly people, okay,

01:05:58.260 that you have to believe that God will shape and mold that person, okay?

01:06:02.640 Because you can't be your husband's father, right?

01:06:05.280 But I also believe that it, that your kid's father, your kid's father, right?

01:06:10.140 You, you have to realize that you're the mom, okay?

01:06:15.940 Even though your mom was the mom and the dad, you're the mom, you're not the dad, okay?

01:06:21.500 And so don't try to be the dad, you're, you just be the mom.

01:06:27.000 And then you just, you just pray and allow God to work for the dad.

01:06:32.900 But what you should expect is what the Bible says.

01:06:36.000 You should expect your husband not to provoke your children.

01:06:38.740 You should expect your husband to, to yes, discipline, okay?

01:06:42.760 And y'all should talk about that and agree on that.

01:06:45.800 And then you should encourage your kids, okay?

01:06:48.920 To make sure that they are respecting their father and that they're utilizing as they grow

01:06:55.540 older, some wisdom and experience that he might have, right?

01:06:59.680 And something that she never, she never knew to experience.

01:07:02.380 I didn't, I, I had similar challenges, okay?

01:07:05.700 What I finally had to realize is that for me and for these ladies, the father in heaven

01:07:13.160 has told us that he cares more about us than anybody here on earth could.

01:07:18.300 So I had to start addressing him in my prayers when I would write them down as father.

01:07:23.940 And that was important to me.

01:07:26.500 And that's a beautiful thing about God is that he does say that he is the father to

01:07:30.440 the fatherless.

01:07:32.580 And that is just a beautiful-

01:07:34.600 But I feel for them because it's hard.

01:07:36.240 Yes, it is.

01:07:37.480 It is.

01:07:38.020 But God does offer that redemption and I'm thankful for that.

01:07:41.300 So thank you so much as always for your political insight.

01:07:46.480 And I know you, you know, you didn't ask me to talk about this, but he does talk about

01:07:52.080 his life and growing up, but then also his adulthood and his journey in the

01:08:00.340 business world in his book, Life Lessons from the Little Red Wagon.

01:08:05.420 And we can put a link in the description of this episode if you want to check that out.

01:08:10.840 It's really, really good.

01:08:11.740 And just encouraging for all the related bros out there, like this could be a really good

01:08:15.260 Father's Day gift too.

01:08:16.980 It's just encouraging to hear someone's story, the challenge, the obstacles.

01:08:20.140 I think it's easy to see someone else's life and think, oh, everything went fine for

01:08:24.380 them.

01:08:24.640 It was a straight line from A to B.

01:08:26.500 No one's story is really like that.

01:08:28.880 And so I encourage you to check that out.

01:08:31.160 And again, we'll link it.

01:08:32.140 Thanks so much, Dad.

01:08:33.240 Thank you, Allie.

01:08:33.840 Great job.

01:08:34.520 Okay.

01:08:34.660 Thank you.

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