Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1076 ｜ Hurricane Aftermath： Christians Step Up While Biden Vacations ｜ Guest： Ron Simmons

00:00:00.660 Tonight is the first vice presidential debate between Tim Walls and J.D. Vance.

00:00:06.500 What can we expect?

00:00:08.460 My dad and I have some advice for the Republican vice presidential candidate.

00:00:14.780 Also, Hurricane Helene has devastated the southeast of the United States.

00:00:19.360 We're going to look at some really amazing stories of the goodness and generosity of

00:00:25.660 the American people and especially of the church and Christian charities.

00:00:29.560 But we're also going to ask the question, like, where's the Biden-Harris administration?

00:00:36.000 Why have they seemingly abandoned this part of the country that they are supposed to be leading?

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00:01:12.740 Hey, guys.

00:01:13.640 Welcome to Relatable.

00:01:15.260 Happy Tuesday.

00:01:16.420 Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.

00:01:19.880 Before we get into it with my dad, and this is just an amazing conversation with him.

00:01:23.760 You're going to love it, especially towards the end because it's so encouraging.

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00:02:35.440 All right.

00:02:36.180 Without further ado, here's my dad.

00:02:38.100 Dad, welcome back to the program.

00:02:43.400 Oh, thank you.

00:02:44.180 Good to be here.

00:02:45.580 Okay, we've got a lot to get through.

00:02:47.060 First, we've got to talk about the devastating effects of Hurricane Helene.

00:02:52.020 You know, when I first heard about this, I knew that it was headed that way.

00:02:55.980 I thought that it was mostly going to affect Florida.

00:02:58.100 I did not realize that the Carolinas would be hit as badly as they have been.

00:03:03.260 Yeah, I know.

00:03:04.360 It's one of those hurricanes that usually when a hurricane hits the shore, it slows down and often breaks up.

00:03:13.480 You still have a lot of rain, and occasionally it'll spin off a tornado or something.

00:03:17.780 But this one kept it speed up way after it got inland.

00:03:22.840 And it went through quick.

00:03:25.100 Now, that's part of the good news.

00:03:27.160 But the challenge that the Carolinas and North Georgia had was it had rained for a couple days before that.

00:03:33.400 In fact, some parts of Western Carolina got 21 inches of rain.

00:03:37.700 And so the trees that fell over weren't all about the wind.

00:03:42.240 It was about the soil sometimes, and they just toppled over.

00:03:46.360 In fact, we have some friends in that part of the world, and I got a text from him yesterday saying that Asheville,

00:03:53.180 that he had 20 trees that looked like pixie sticks lined up in his yard.

00:03:58.840 Oh, my goodness.

00:03:59.560 In fact, even one of your fellow Blaze hosts lives up there.

00:04:06.060 But Al Robertson and his wife were up there headed to an event.

00:04:09.980 They got stuck up there.

00:04:11.260 Oh, my goodness.

00:04:12.060 They're all okay.

00:04:13.720 But they got stuck up there and couldn't get out trying to get over to their event because all the areas were blocked off.

00:04:20.960 He said it was incredible.

00:04:22.400 Yeah, I was talking to Zach Dasher.

00:04:23.880 He's a part of the Unashamed podcast.

00:04:25.460 He's part of the Robertson family, and their church is working really hard to get people the resources that they need.

00:04:31.880 But he told me that one particular organization, Black Mountain Children's Home, Black Mountain Children's Home, has been especially hard hit.

00:04:39.760 They are taking donations.

00:04:41.320 We can put the link in the description here so you can easily find that.

00:04:46.140 But those are already vulnerable kids, and now they've been kind of—they're not hurt.

00:04:49.940 None of the children were hurt, praise God.

00:04:51.460 But they've been made a lot more vulnerable, which is, of course, true of a lot of children, elderly people in that area.

00:04:59.840 And, you know, and the other thing I think we learned from that, Allie, a couple things.

00:05:03.320 One of these is a good lesson for your young listeners, which I reminded your brother of last night,

00:05:09.040 is that you need to keep cash hidden away somewhere in your wallet or billfold.

00:05:17.080 Because if you didn't have cash, you couldn't go to the store and buy anything because all the Internet and stuff was down.

00:05:24.160 And, in fact, I heard Zach tell a story that he happened to have cash,

00:05:28.640 and so he was able to help a lot of other people because a lot of people don't carry cash anymore.

00:05:32.780 Yeah.

00:05:33.020 You need to carry some cash stuck away in your billfold.

00:05:36.200 Never use it unless it's an emergency.

00:05:37.700 But that is very good advice, if I have to say so.

00:05:42.940 Yeah.

00:05:43.340 I was talking to a mom yesterday, and we were kind of joking about if there was some apocalyptic situation,

00:05:50.540 what skills we would be able to bring to the table.

00:05:53.320 And we were both joking about the fact that neither of us have great apocalyptic skills.

00:05:59.360 Most of the skills that we have rely on the existence of the Internet.

00:06:03.300 So I'm going to have to cultivate something.

00:06:05.100 Actually, I disagree with that.

00:06:06.460 And I don't know this other lady, but with you, I think your thinking skills themselves are pretty good. 0.99

00:06:12.180 You would just transfer into where we are.

00:06:15.280 But you might want to work on some others, too.

00:06:17.600 She has a background in speech pathology.

00:06:20.240 I told her, I don't know, if we need a spy to act like they have a particular accent to go into another part of the world.

00:06:28.000 It's a little far-fetched, but I'm here to give everyone a job.

00:06:34.900 So anyway, that's a good piece of advice.

00:06:36.880 I also think you're always telling people that it's important to know how to read a map, which is probably important in times like these.

00:06:45.500 Yes.

00:06:46.120 Yes.

00:06:46.480 In fact, everybody should buy a map of their home state and just put it in the glove compartment, which is that little thing that you open up in your car, which nobody puts gloves in.

00:06:57.340 You know what you should do, Dad?

00:06:59.080 You should have a YouTube video of, like, go through step-by-step reading an atlas for dummies.

00:07:06.860 That would be a good one.

00:07:07.960 Yeah, that's a good idea.

00:07:08.760 I mean, that's a good idea.

00:07:09.920 You have to, like, put it in millennial language so you can really understand.

00:07:13.520 So, unfortunately, in North Carolina, there are hundreds of people that remain unaccounted for.

00:07:19.180 Also, don't want to forget about eastern Tennessee.

00:07:21.560 Eastern Tennessee has also been hit very hard.

00:07:25.240 Over 50 hospital staff workers along with patients are stranded on top of a hospital roof in Irwin, Tennessee due to life-threatening flood, a flood emergency.

00:07:36.120 As you said, Asheville, the pictures, we have a picture of houses in Asheville.

00:07:40.500 I mean, literally, you can only see the roofs on top of there.

00:07:47.300 And what happens in those situations, Allie, that part of the country, people up there are familiar with it, is that the rain comes and the mountains, you know, it goes down the mountain and it ends up in a river somewhere, creeks and rivers.

00:08:03.560 And that's where all the issues are caused.

00:08:05.520 The Asheville's on, I think it's the Suwannee River and the Broad River, all kind of close to that.

00:08:11.560 And those are the ones that flood and cause all of this issue.

00:08:14.340 And a lot of it's caused to the water coming, because it doesn't stay on the mountain, right?

00:08:17.340 It comes down the mountain.

00:08:19.860 Yeah.

00:08:20.300 And flood water itself carries so much bacteria, potential for illnesses and all of that.

00:08:25.920 People are criticizing the response or lack of response from the Biden-Harris administration.

00:08:32.040 President Biden spent the weekend at his beach house in Delaware.

00:08:36.100 He defended two reporters on Monday, saying that he was commanding the situation via telephone.

00:08:41.460 Here's thought, too.

00:08:42.560 He was in that front to retaliate.

00:08:44.980 On the hurricane, Mr. President, why weren't you and Vice President Harris here in Washington commanding this this weekend?

00:08:51.240 I was commanding.

00:08:51.640 I was on the phone for at least two hours yesterday and the day before as well.

00:08:57.500 I commanded to call the telephone to all my security people.

00:09:00.800 It's a non-important for the country to see.

00:09:04.740 Thoughts?

00:09:06.000 Well, it reminds me of Hurricane Katrina when President George W. Bush, he, instead of landing in New Orleans, flew over it to look at the damage,

00:09:17.000 because he was concerned that landing there would cause more confusion or hassle than would, you know, to take people to divert.

00:09:25.240 And he was criticized.

00:09:27.120 I mean, in fact, he never recovered from it because it looked like he didn't care.

00:09:30.920 Now, this was in his second term, so he wasn't going to run for re-election again.

00:09:34.940 But he was criticized.

00:09:36.160 And I'll notice the media hasn't criticized, other than that one brave reporter who will probably never get another question again.

00:09:42.380 It's crazy.

00:09:43.160 It is optics, okay?

00:09:44.780 I don't question that President Biden, there was phone calls that he was on talking about it.

00:09:50.540 But optics are important in the world that we live in.

00:09:53.960 And, you know, with Harris being out in Las Vegas or Los Angeles, wherever she was, in some big, you know, swanky fundraiser, that certainly didn't look good.

00:10:04.100 And for President Trump to be into the disaster area before either one of them?

00:10:09.420 Yeah.

00:10:09.920 That is.

00:10:10.620 It looks awful.

00:10:11.300 And, of course, I believe it was the New York Times.

00:10:14.480 No, it was Politico.

00:10:15.920 Politico said that Trump dragged Hurricane Helena into the election and politicized it.

00:10:24.480 And so, of course, they blamed him for making it political when really he was just doing what any leader should do.

00:10:31.780 Yeah.

00:10:32.380 And these are the same kinds of people that called not only called George W. Bush apathetic, but said he was a racist because a disproportionate number of the victims of Hurricane Katrina were black.

00:10:44.440 Kanye West famously was on the news saying George W. Bush doesn't care about black people.

00:10:49.400 And that was in 2006.

00:10:51.060 Yeah.

00:10:51.220 And so, I mean, it's the same way today.

00:10:53.540 But, no, they're not criticized.

00:10:55.280 They're just, I don't know.

00:10:56.680 Yeah.

00:10:56.780 Do they not care about mountain people or they don't care about the people in Georgia or Tennessee or what have you?

00:11:01.900 Yeah.

00:11:02.080 They need to go back and read Hillbilly Elegy because that's exactly the way Trump won in 2016.

00:11:06.640 Somehow I don't think that's on their Audible book list.

00:11:08.240 I don't think it's on their top of the book list.

00:11:10.980 Yeah.

00:11:11.140 And Harris out there eating, what did I see?

00:11:14.380 It was blueberry balls and lobster rolls.

00:11:17.480 That was on the menu for their fundraiser with all the big swanky things.

00:11:22.060 Yeah.

00:11:22.140 And then they have a picture of her, of course, sitting on an airplane.

00:11:25.720 Oh, yeah.

00:11:25.760 We've got that picture.

00:11:27.200 Yeah.

00:11:27.480 I think she's working on her next word salad.

00:11:29.600 Yeah.

00:11:29.780 She was saying, how can I say holistical?

00:11:33.020 Holistical. 0.59

00:11:33.460 As many times as possible.

00:11:34.660 Yeah.

00:11:34.800 She's got this picture.

00:11:35.880 It was going viral.

00:11:36.840 And the tweet says, I was just briefed by FEMA, Deanne Criswell, on the developments about the ongoing impacts of Hurricane Helene.

00:11:48.280 We also discussed our administration's continued actions to support emergency response recovery, blah, blah, blah.

00:11:54.760 And she's sitting there, you know, on her plane.

00:11:58.220 She's got her headphones in.

00:12:00.660 She's writing.

00:12:01.900 But people are pointing out that the piece of paper she's writing on is completely blank.

00:12:05.840 And her headphones are not plugged into her phone because the phone is sitting right there on the table in front of her.

00:12:13.280 And there's nothing plugged into the jack.

00:12:15.420 So, obviously, this was just a post picture to try to feign concern.

00:12:20.100 I mean, like you said, optics matter.

00:12:22.180 Yeah.

00:12:22.460 But they didn't even get the optics right.

00:12:23.960 They didn't get the optics right.

00:12:24.620 It's like the optics at the border.

00:12:25.900 They didn't get those right either.

00:12:26.920 Yeah.

00:12:27.300 And we'll talk about that.

00:12:28.360 But I do have one question about Joe Biden.

00:12:31.680 He's in Delaware.

00:12:32.560 I mean, he spends a lot of time at the beach.

00:12:34.520 Yeah.

00:12:34.700 I mean, he is basically out of the picture.

00:12:38.020 Who do you think is running the country?

00:12:40.520 I think his chief of staff and his wife.

00:12:42.820 Yeah.

00:12:43.200 That's my best guess.

00:12:45.080 There may be a few other people around.

00:12:47.080 And they'll bring him in.

00:12:48.440 I don't have any doubt that he was sitting there when the phone call was going on.

00:12:51.520 Now, what he was doing, I don't know.

00:12:53.500 Could have been napping.

00:12:54.740 Could have been reading a book.

00:12:56.860 Who knows?

00:12:57.380 But I definitely don't think he, and they're just trying to, you know, they're, you notice

00:13:02.340 they're trying to separate Biden and Harris as much as possible.

00:13:05.500 You never, hardly ever, I shouldn't say never, hardly ever see them together.

00:13:09.700 Yeah.

00:13:10.000 And that's a campaign choice.

00:13:11.260 That's a campaign strategy.

00:13:12.480 Just like, just like the whole strategy behind the June debate was orchestrated by his campaign

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00:14:39.540 Now, even if we were to look at this from a kind of a cynical, just political perspective,

00:14:49.400 the fact that Harris, just from a campaign viewpoint, didn't land on the ground in a swing

00:14:57.460 state like North Carolina, what do you think is behind that?

00:15:02.060 I mean, surely, strategically.

00:15:03.440 I can tell you exactly what's behind it.

00:15:04.820 What?

00:15:05.720 Because her campaign is afraid if they put her down there in a live situation that's not 0.99

00:15:11.440 scripted at all.

00:15:12.800 Remember, they're probably not going to be able to fly in their supporters like they do

00:15:15.780 in the restaurant things and all that type of stuff, right?

00:15:18.380 Then they are afraid of what she's going to say.

00:15:20.760 Yeah.

00:15:21.220 Not that she's going to say something negative or derogatory, like a Hillary Clinton would

00:15:28.440 be afraid of, that she's going to say things that don't make any sense.

00:15:32.120 Yeah.

00:15:32.360 And that's what they're afraid of.

00:15:33.420 They do not want her in any, even these basic scripted interviews she's had with very kind

00:15:40.280 reporters to her have not really gone well.

00:15:43.320 Yeah.

00:15:43.660 I mean, the one with Stephanie Ruhle, I don't know if you heard any of that one, but that

00:15:47.720 was just awful.

00:15:49.380 I've seen a lot of videos recently where she's talking, like she had one where she was talking

00:15:54.240 to these two guys.

00:15:55.540 I think they were NBA stars.

00:15:58.700 And they ask, you know, what are we going to do about people not being able to pay their

00:16:02.180 rent and afford groceries?

00:16:03.460 And she launched into the same thing that I thought surely she wouldn't because she's

00:16:06.760 been so made fun of this recently.

00:16:08.640 But she launched into the same monologue about, well, you know, I grew up in a middle class

00:16:13.600 family and I was raised by a single mom.

00:16:16.320 She never got to the answer of what she's going to do.

00:16:19.240 But that's the world we heard in 2020, lived experience, lived experience.

00:16:24.400 They believe that your lived experience matters more than policy or fact.

00:16:28.080 Well, lived experience is not going to lower people's costs.

00:16:31.400 And that's what she brings to the table.

00:16:32.880 And unfortunately, people seem to be kind of do.

00:16:35.240 People have aspirations, Allie.

00:16:36.940 They aspire to be better.

00:16:39.960 And then that's it.

00:16:40.620 That's all she said.

00:16:41.260 I don't even know what else.

00:16:42.060 Okay.

00:16:42.360 I get that.

00:16:42.980 I agree with you on that one.

00:16:43.940 But what does that mean?

00:16:45.120 Well, if people would just be unburdened by what has been and realize that yesterday

00:16:52.620 is not today and today is not tomorrow.

00:16:54.260 Oh gosh, you're rolling my eyes already.

00:16:56.160 But it is also the present and not the past, then people would finally just, inflation would

00:17:02.620 go away. 0.82

00:17:03.460 Don't you know, Dad?

00:17:04.820 Okay.

00:17:05.320 Before we get into actually the good response from Americans, and this is what America really

00:17:10.840 is when it comes to the disaster that's happening, I do just want to like keep going on that

00:17:16.460 point of just the horrible optics.

00:17:18.660 When they put her in a situation, the contrast between the situation that she's in and her

00:17:24.040 is awful.

00:17:25.020 And I want to show the picture of her at the border.

00:17:27.520 She finally, even though she's been the border czar for three and a half years, and she's supposed

00:17:32.320 to be in charge of the border, she's never visited.

00:17:34.760 But now that people are talking about in the campaign she visited, people are making fun

00:17:39.500 of this picture because she looks ridiculous. 0.98

00:17:41.100 She's got high heels on.

00:17:42.620 She's got a $62,000 Tiffany necklace on.

00:17:46.920 Again, I'm just wondering, does she not have better strategy, better people in her campaign 1.00

00:17:51.800 to say, okay, we at least have to make this look legit?

00:17:54.100 I don't think she takes advice well based on the fact that she has a history of not being

00:18:01.440 able to keep staff.

00:18:02.480 So what happens in campaigns is people that get around the, uh, candidate want their career

00:18:12.180 to be prolonged.

00:18:12.980 So they are mostly yes people.

00:18:14.900 It's very rare to find someone in a campaign, tell you the truth.

00:18:18.280 Yeah.

00:18:18.800 And I think that's probably what, what's happened.

00:18:20.880 And they probably said, you look beautiful.

00:18:22.460 You look elegant.

00:18:23.380 Everybody will love it.

00:18:24.480 And you know, whatever.

00:18:26.080 And then she claimed that she was the one that got the raise for the border agents.

00:18:30.660 Yeah.

00:18:31.160 Which, which they came out right after that and said she had nothing to do with that. 0.99

00:18:34.720 Yeah.

00:18:35.220 You know, just.

00:18:36.320 And the border, I mean, the border union, the border patrol union is saying we literally,

00:18:41.240 the border, we cannot survive four years of Kamala Harris.

00:18:44.480 We can't do it.

00:18:45.220 It's already an untenable situation.

00:18:46.480 I don't think America can survive it, Allie, with 450,000. 1.00

00:18:50.520 Now these came out from the Homeland Security office themselves, 450,000 illegal aliens with

00:19:00.400 criminal records are on the streets in the United States.

00:19:06.360 Maybe a few of them are, have been arrested by now, but can you believe that 450,000?

00:19:11.720 That's what I want to talk to my friends about that are actually Republicans, but have such,

00:19:16.500 you know, Trump derangement syndrome that they can't vote for him.

00:19:20.040 That this, because this is what you're going to get.

00:19:23.740 This is what you got in the last four years.

00:19:25.300 It's already proven.

00:19:26.500 And you're going to get another 400 or 500,000 to, to do that.

00:19:31.180 And plus the 10 million that are already here.

00:19:33.400 And their whole goal is to, they know that it was a certain number of people here that

00:19:38.860 some of them will slip through the cracks and be able to vote.

00:19:41.720 Okay.

00:19:42.160 And then eventually they're going to say, Hey, we can't send all these people back, but

00:19:46.200 so we just need to give them amnesty.

00:19:48.360 Yeah.

00:19:48.720 And I mean, that's the whole game plan.

00:19:51.060 They just, you know, Bill Malugan, who reports on the border for Fox news, he just released

00:19:56.240 a bunch of data saying that there are tens of thousands of these illegal aliens who have

00:20:01.460 been convicted of rape.

00:20:03.080 Yeah.

00:20:03.580 Even child sexual assault.

00:20:05.320 Yes, absolutely.

00:20:06.360 Murder.

00:20:07.680 Assault.

00:20:08.360 And I mean, just the videos I see, it just becomes overwhelming and you just feel so helpless.

00:20:13.320 These are men.

00:20:14.040 They don't look destitute, not saying that that would justify it.

00:20:17.260 They don't look starving.

00:20:18.820 Just 20 year old men coming on over.

00:20:23.100 And we're not, apparently none of us are allowed to ask why we don't have a right to say, no,

00:20:29.480 I don't want those people in my country growing up next to my daughter or not growing up, but

00:20:34.520 being around, you know, being around my daughters and we're not allowed to say that you're accused

00:20:39.760 of racism or whatever.

00:20:41.140 And it just seems like there's not enough political will to really do anything about it.

00:20:45.840 See, I think that's where the, I think that's where the people need to keep saying it, right?

00:20:51.800 The people, you and me and all of your audience, we need to keep saying it.

00:20:55.680 We can't, we do not need to be afraid of that.

00:20:58.400 Otherwise we'll fall right into what happened under Stalin and Hitler. 0.91

00:21:02.860 I mean, that's what happened is they, you know, good people, when good people do nothing,

00:21:08.140 bad things happen.

00:21:09.100 There's never a vacuum.

00:21:10.860 All right.

00:21:11.520 There's never a vacuum.

00:21:12.740 Either good or evil fills up the vacuum.

00:21:15.400 Yep.

00:21:16.020 Always.

00:21:16.820 Yep.

00:21:17.100 And there's a lot of good filling up the vacuum right now when it comes to the disaster

00:21:23.040 that's happening, as is very often the case, the Christian powered organizations, the churches,

00:21:31.360 the individuals are showing up.

00:21:33.860 Glenn Beck's charity, Mercury One, he founded that over 10 years ago.

00:21:38.300 They're in Asheville, North Carolina right now.

00:21:40.880 There are lots of pictures of that.

00:21:42.320 It's really amazing.

00:21:43.300 I mean, they are transporting with helicopters, water bottles, diapers, all kinds of resources.

00:21:52.320 They've partnered with several churches in the area to make this happen.

00:21:56.700 As you said, Trump made a stop in Valdosta, Georgia, to receive a briefing on the devastation,

00:22:02.600 assist with relief distribution, deliver remarks.

00:22:06.160 He said, I've come to Valdosta with large semi trucks, many of them filled with relief aid,

00:22:11.720 a tanker truck filled with gasoline, a couple of big tanker trucks filled with gasoline,

00:22:16.920 which they can't get now, and we'll be working to distribute it throughout the day.

00:22:21.080 Country music superstar Morgan Wallen donated over $500,000 to the Red Cross via the Morgan

00:22:26.840 Wallen Foundation.

00:22:28.580 I thought this was really sweet.

00:22:30.260 I saw this on X.

00:22:31.820 This reporter took this picture of this line of women that apparently had been there for 1.00

00:22:39.620 hours.

00:22:40.340 Oh, yeah.

00:22:40.960 And it says, see this line?

00:22:42.820 All these ladies waited in line tonight to take loads of linemen's laundry home. 1.00

00:22:47.260 One lineman asked me what those ladies were standing in line for. 1.00

00:22:50.920 And when I told him they were waiting to be given laundry, with a look of sheer disbelief,

00:22:54.980 he said, you've got to be kidding me.

00:22:57.140 And so, I mean, that's really the heart of America.

00:22:59.240 That's what makes America different, I think, the way that we rallied together despite political

00:23:03.540 differences or socioeconomic differences to try to relieve one another's burdens.

00:23:09.340 And, you know, there's a great song related to linemen that work on the electrical lines.

00:23:14.460 We're not talking about offensive, defensive linemen folks.

00:23:17.200 The first one I read that, I thought, why would they be?

00:23:19.320 Football was the first thing on my mind because we're in the fall football season.

00:23:22.060 But Glen Campbell had a great song.

00:23:24.260 Glen Campbell, the late Glen Campbell, which some of your audience will remember, had a song out

00:23:29.080 there called, I'm a lineman for the county.

00:23:32.220 It's a great song.

00:23:33.060 People should look it up and listen to it.

00:23:34.620 It'll make us appreciate people like that.

00:23:37.120 I mean, they run to disaster, right?

00:23:38.980 Right.

00:23:39.440 Just like our first responders run to disaster when there's a tragedy and stuff like that.

00:23:44.280 So that's, yeah, I think, you know, I looked at those lists of people.

00:23:47.760 The first thing that came to my mind was what you said is mostly Christian faith-based organizations.

00:23:52.200 I didn't see one, Black Lives Matter, okay? 1.00

00:23:55.420 I didn't see any reports of Kamala giving money to help these people, like she gave money

00:24:02.220 to help people get out of jail that went out and murdered somebody, right?

00:24:05.960 I didn't see any of the George Ford Foundation giving, I didn't see any of that, okay?

00:24:10.480 And so who really, really cares about America?

00:24:16.200 It's pretty clear.

00:24:17.020 Even the New York Times has had to report, when you look at a map of where the most charitable

00:24:23.340 giving happens, it's always the red counties.

00:24:26.300 And it's funny because they tried to excuse it by saying, well, most religious people are

00:24:32.000 more charitable and most religious people are a large number of religious people, but Republicans,

00:24:37.140 so that's why it is that way.

00:24:38.500 And I'm like, yeah, I know.

00:24:41.220 That's exactly right.

00:24:42.040 I know.

00:24:42.360 I remember a few years ago, it was when Beto O'Rourke was running because there was a report

00:24:47.260 on how much of their salary each year, all of the Democratic candidates in 2020 were, you

00:24:54.820 know, donated to charity.

00:24:55.960 And I mean, it was like less than 1% for all of them because, and that's what I say to those 0.99

00:25:01.780 who are Christians who vote Democrat because of what I call that they're manipulated by that 0.81

00:25:06.540 toxic empathy, thinking these are the compassionate approaches.

00:25:09.520 You're outsourcing the compassion that God is calling you to, to the government.

00:25:14.080 That's not the government's job.

00:25:15.600 Not primarily.

00:25:16.540 There may be times for that, but they are not a charity organization.

00:25:21.720 They're not the church.

00:25:23.060 They're not stewarding our funds well.

00:25:25.580 Do not outsource your compassion, your love to the state.

00:25:30.300 That's not actually loving.

00:25:32.140 That's lazy.

00:25:32.660 No, and the government should only be the very bottom last safety net.

00:25:38.220 That's the way it should.

00:25:39.900 But, you know, a lot of churches, a lot of organizations, a lot of people have just kind

00:25:45.400 of advocated all of that to the government, which is a mistake.

00:25:50.160 And that's a big trade-off.

00:25:52.180 Anytime you're taking money from the government, there's going to be a trade-off.

00:25:55.540 There's always a string attached.

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00:27:08.340 Okay, speaking of this presidential debate or presidential race, let's talk about the

00:27:13.160 vice presidential debate tonight between J.D. Vance and Tim Walls.

00:27:17.340 Okay, let's just hear it.

00:27:18.620 What do you think is going to happen?

00:27:19.680 Well, here's what I think Coach Tim's going to do, right?

00:27:24.320 Which he's about as much a coach as anybody.

00:27:26.800 But he is going to attack Trump the entire time.

00:27:32.500 Okay?

00:27:32.900 And he's going to poor mouth himself that, hey, I didn't go to Yale like you.

00:27:37.460 I went to yada, yada, yada.

00:27:38.960 And the moderators are going to go right along with him.

00:27:44.280 Okay?

00:27:44.400 There's no question they're going to do that.

00:27:45.920 Who's moderating tonight?

00:27:47.880 Margaret Brennan and Nora O'Donnell.

00:27:51.200 Okay.

00:27:52.000 Got it.

00:27:52.680 Both left-wingers, of course.

00:27:54.460 But I think J.D. Vance is such a good speaker and communicator that he will, it will, I think

00:28:09.080 at the end of the night, on the D side, they'll think that Tim's lovable.

00:28:14.160 But for independents, I think that they'll realize that you want the smarter, more capable

00:28:24.500 person to be one heartbeat away from the presidency.

00:28:29.100 And I don't think J.W. Vance will take any bait.

00:28:32.220 J.D. Vance.

00:28:33.120 Yeah.

00:28:33.760 Will take any bait at all.

00:28:36.080 Yeah.

00:28:36.580 No, I don't think he'll take any bait.

00:28:38.840 I think that he is definitely disciplined.

00:28:41.580 I have no doubt about how smart he is, that he's going to have good answers, that he's

00:28:45.340 going to be able to turn the questions around.

00:28:47.960 And that was a weakness of Trump, is that he wants to answer every single bit of the

00:28:53.560 question and justify himself.

00:28:55.060 I don't think J.D. Vance will do that.

00:28:57.100 I wish it had been a J.D. Vance versus Kamala Harris.

00:29:01.060 Oh, me too.

00:29:01.480 That is part of the reason.

00:29:02.940 It wasn't just that Biden and Trump, that it was so obvious that Trump was going to win,

00:29:07.460 and I think Biden had basically a 0% chance to beat Trump.

00:29:10.700 But they also did not want Kamala Harris to debate J.D. Vance, because that would have 0.73

00:29:16.000 been just a slaughter.

00:29:17.480 Oh, it would have been.

00:29:18.320 And we wanted that so bad.

00:29:20.220 Yes.

00:29:20.420 I know.

00:29:20.920 And we can't underestimate Tim Walls.

00:29:23.340 I hope that you're right and that I'm wrong, because Tim Walls, as radical as he is, because

00:29:29.040 he is radical, he's going to, because they're gunning for the same people tonight.

00:29:32.880 They're gunning for the middle.

00:29:35.200 They're gunning for those independents.

00:29:36.000 He's going to try to come across as a good old boy.

00:29:37.940 Oh, yeah, and he does, and he will do that, and he will say, you know, I'm a Christian,

00:29:43.020 X, Y, Z, and all of these things.

00:29:45.020 And he's really good at that.

00:29:46.820 He is likable.

00:29:47.360 I hope J.D. confronts him in his answers.

00:29:52.280 In other words, when it's his name to turn, I hope he talks directly to J.D., to Tim Walls.

00:29:58.080 And I also think J.D., a few times, will push back on the moderators.

00:30:04.040 Yeah, I think so, too.

00:30:05.420 Here's what I think is best case scenario, because Tim Walls, and it's hard for us to

00:30:09.060 say because we don't like him at all.

00:30:10.740 I see it, though.

00:30:11.600 He's likable.

00:30:12.400 He's likable.

00:30:13.080 He has a good stage presence.

00:30:14.180 He has great comedic timing.

00:30:16.200 And that's unfortunate.

00:30:17.500 But that's why they chose him.

00:30:18.600 He's way better than Josh Shapiro.

00:30:20.240 I see that now.

00:30:21.280 At first, I didn't.

00:30:22.100 At first, I thought this was a gift to us because he's so radical in Minnesota, is run

00:30:27.840 so terribly now.

00:30:29.000 But now I see it.

00:30:30.000 I see exactly why they chose him.

00:30:32.100 And so don't underestimate him.

00:30:34.080 But I think of J.D. Vance, and he can make him nervous, make him stutter, make him start,

00:30:41.240 as you said, start answering for some of those policies that he put in place.

00:30:45.300 And like the moderators, if we had good moderators, they could do this.

00:30:48.820 Say, ask him about that lunch plan that he put in place that everyone is praising him

00:30:54.440 for.

00:30:54.840 How much food waste?

00:30:56.140 How much money waste?

00:30:57.820 Basically subsidizing lunches for rich kids in public schools as the poor kids are forced

00:31:05.100 to eat this crap that has no nutrition and is a tiny portion size.

00:31:10.680 Put him on his toes on those things.

00:31:13.560 Make him look like he's sweating a little bit.

00:31:16.120 And I think that J.D. Vance can come out on top.

00:31:18.480 But if J.D. Vance looks like a bully, then that's going to be a problem.

00:31:22.640 I don't think people will buy into a bully between two guys like that.

00:31:27.280 Yeah.

00:31:27.560 I don't think so.

00:31:27.980 Definitely not as much.

00:31:28.620 I also think J.D. Vance ought to say, I'll tell you one thing I didn't do, Nora.

00:31:32.560 I didn't lie about my military career.

00:31:35.060 Yeah, that's great.

00:31:35.940 Like my opponent.

00:31:37.720 Mm-hmm.

00:31:39.660 Pregnant pause right there.

00:31:41.180 Pregnant pause.

00:31:42.440 Leave it at that.

00:31:43.720 And I think he will.

00:31:44.880 There's another thing with J.D. Vance.

00:31:46.300 Because you let Tim Walls, you let him make his own mistakes and trip him up.

00:31:52.500 Because moderators are going to be saving him.

00:31:54.540 Don't interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake.

00:31:57.100 No, that's right.

00:31:57.880 Even though the mics are going to be live, I hope J.D. Vance stays quiet when it's not his turn.

00:32:02.740 They're going to be live when the other person is talking.

00:32:05.460 Yeah, we'll see.

00:32:06.160 And here's my other piece of advice.

00:32:08.200 Because it's still, I think the jury is still out on whether the whole Haitian migrants eating cats thing was a net positive or negative for Trump.

00:32:16.160 It's gone back and forth.

00:32:18.380 Remember that most people watching this debate are not internet meme people.

00:32:22.680 Like, I wouldn't bring all the dialogue that happens on X into this debate.

00:32:28.760 These are different people.

00:32:30.220 These are undecided people.

00:32:32.180 Don't choose the most fantastical stories of the problem of immigration to make your point.

00:32:37.640 Use Lake and Riley. 0.96

00:32:38.700 Use Molly Tibbetts. 1.00

00:32:39.560 I hope she does.

00:32:40.200 Use Kate Steinbeck.

00:32:41.020 I hope so.

00:32:41.220 I agree.

00:32:41.600 Focus on those things.

00:32:44.680 And remember, Tim Walls said that he was more pro-choice than Nancy Pelosi.

00:32:50.040 At least eight babies have died because they survived abortions.

00:32:54.320 And under Tim Walls' law that he signed, you can't give health care to those babies. 0.97

00:32:59.880 Or you don't have to give health care to those babies. 1.00

00:33:02.400 I mean, that's who he is.

00:33:04.060 I would not really probably touch the Somali refugee population issue in Minnesota.

00:33:14.860 I probably wouldn't go there.

00:33:16.780 Well, it could come up.

00:33:18.800 Yeah.

00:33:18.960 You know, from the...

00:33:19.960 If I were J.D. Vance.

00:33:21.000 Yeah.

00:33:21.460 I mean, I think...

00:33:22.360 But I think that Tim Walls' whole plan is to try to make Vance answer for Trump.

00:33:31.000 And I would stop it right off the bat, right there.

00:33:34.380 I would stop that right off the bat.

00:33:36.000 I would say, you know what?

00:33:37.460 These are questions that you could ask.

00:33:39.880 You can ask President Trump.

00:33:41.400 Tim, I can arrange that sit down if you need to.

00:33:43.740 I said, but why don't you and I talk about real policy or about our own selves?

00:33:48.820 Yeah.

00:33:50.540 Another mic drop.

00:33:51.920 Another pregnant pause.

00:33:53.120 Another pregnant pause.

00:33:54.440 Now, Vance is a little bit more polished, or he comes across as more polished.

00:34:00.160 As the Tim Walls.

00:34:02.380 And you already brought that up.

00:34:03.340 He's going to draw the contrast.

00:34:04.360 I'm just a high school football coach.

00:34:06.880 And Vance, oh, you went to Yale.

00:34:08.760 All this stuff.

00:34:10.020 Yeah.

00:34:10.480 How do you think J.D. Vance should play that?

00:34:14.340 I'd say, I'll tell you what, Tim.

00:34:15.800 Let's talk about our backgrounds.

00:34:17.680 Yeah.

00:34:18.140 I don't know if you...

00:34:18.780 I brought a...

00:34:19.420 I've got an extra book in the back here.

00:34:21.980 I can give it to you if you haven't read it yet.

00:34:23.660 Because I grew up in a home that was a home that was full of abuse, full of addiction.

00:34:30.240 And I really juggled between living at my grandmother's house and my mom's house.

00:34:35.420 And I love my mother and grandmother.

00:34:36.880 And my mom's, you know, she's recovered and what have you.

00:34:39.880 And my grandmother saved me, you know, literally.

00:34:42.980 But I will tell you, I don't think you want to compare backgrounds on how we grew up.

00:34:47.540 I went to the Marines.

00:34:48.780 I went to serve my country, okay, first.

00:34:52.120 And then I was fortunate enough to be able to get into a very fine school.

00:34:58.220 I mean, that's how I would do it.

00:34:59.740 Yeah.

00:35:00.160 And it's probably going to...

00:35:01.980 Wallace is probably going to attack him about, you know, because Vance was against Trump in 2015.

00:35:06.520 What happened over time?

00:35:08.100 And I would say, well, Tim...

00:35:09.400 Vance handles that well.

00:35:10.280 Yeah, and what I would say to him is, of course, I'm kind of more sarcastic.

00:35:13.900 I'd say, well, Tim, actually, I learned some of that from you and your running mate on how you can just change positions, okay?

00:35:21.380 Yeah.

00:35:21.620 He probably shouldn't say that.

00:35:22.580 Probably shouldn't say that because he didn't change positions.

00:35:25.000 He handles that question really well.

00:35:27.700 You know, I was against Trump, but I did not see what I see now.

00:35:32.020 Yeah.

00:35:32.200 And he owns it.

00:35:33.160 He says, I was wrong.

00:35:34.640 Yeah.

00:35:34.860 That's all you do.

00:35:35.920 That's the easiest thing to do.

00:35:37.180 People appreciate that, right?

00:35:37.760 Yeah.

00:35:37.980 They hate when you try to dodge that.

00:35:39.800 They appreciate just being honest.

00:35:41.500 That's right.

00:35:41.620 And there's really no loss in that.

00:35:43.020 I was wrong because a lot of people voting for Trump this year did not vote for him in 2016 or 2020.

00:35:47.820 That's right.

00:35:48.120 And so they're on the same trajectory.

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00:36:56.020 Do you think this debate matters?

00:36:59.680 VP debates, I'm not sure that they usually do.

00:37:02.500 Oh, I think it does matter this time only because I think people are tired of Harris and Trump.

00:37:10.840 And so I think this brings some new life, something to talk about and what have you.

00:37:14.580 Yeah.

00:37:14.980 Do you think it can change people's votes?

00:37:17.020 Uh, I think on the margin, if they're totally undecided, I think knowing who the set, we just already saw a president that really couldn't function as president.

00:37:27.840 And so that second in charge, you know, can be very important.

00:37:33.300 So Vance is going into this with a little bit of a disadvantage, according to this CBS poll.

00:37:38.180 So this is it.

00:37:39.680 Well, it's a YouGov poll and YouGov.

00:37:42.240 Which is an internet poll.

00:37:43.380 That doesn't even, those are awful.

00:37:45.180 Okay.

00:37:45.500 So you don't think that, so here's what the internet poll says.

00:37:49.000 Do you think they, and then it goes through these questions, are competent, Tim Walls, 57% versus Vance, 55.

00:37:57.560 Are authentic, 52% versus 48.

00:38:00.760 Tell the truth, 49% versus 45.

00:38:03.480 Share your values, 45% versus 43.

00:38:06.680 If needed, are they qualified to be president?

00:38:09.260 This is among registered voters.

00:38:10.740 Qualified, Tim Walls, 49%, J.D. Vance, 44%.

00:38:17.460 Not qualified, 51%, Tim Walls, 56%, J.D. Vance.

00:38:22.980 Okay.

00:38:23.480 So let me tell your audience something about polling for the next few weeks.

00:38:27.700 Don't pay any attention to polling for the next few weeks because both sides are going to be trying to show polling that favors them one way or another.

00:38:36.320 And you can find polls that are opposite of that right there.

00:38:39.380 So these are, these are more, these are called push polls, right?

00:38:44.040 And they're trying to push an answer.

00:38:46.460 You know, if, if, if I could tell you, Madam Voter, that J.D. Vance had stolen three cars when he was a teenager, would that make, would that make you not vote for him?

00:38:58.020 That's how they do it.

00:38:58.900 Now, he's not saying he did steal three cars, but if I told you that, you know what I'm saying?

00:39:02.000 Yeah.

00:39:02.160 And so I'd be very careful about these.

00:39:04.920 What, what, what your audience should do.

00:39:08.200 Okay.

00:39:08.600 Other than make sure they vote is get five friends to vote.

00:39:12.800 That's what they should do.

00:39:13.760 Don't focus on the news.

00:39:14.920 Quit watching the news.

00:39:15.900 Quit watching the political stuff.

00:39:17.220 You know, if you want to watch a debate tonight, great.

00:39:19.000 I think that'll be fun.

00:39:19.880 But I'm telling you, the media is going to get worse and worse.

00:39:23.600 Okay.

00:39:23.860 Because if they believe that Trump Vance has a chance, they're going to double down.

00:39:28.520 They've already said that all the rules are different now when it comes to Trump.

00:39:32.940 We don't have to be fair.

00:39:34.500 Right.

00:39:34.920 I mean, the former general, what was his name?

00:39:38.060 McQueenie, whatever, McChrystal, General McChrystal came out and said, policies don't matter.

00:39:45.800 I vote for character.

00:39:47.580 However, policies don't matter at all.

00:39:50.260 As if those two things are separate.

00:39:51.380 Well, the, the, the guy is, you know, he's on MSNBC now.

00:39:55.620 Yeah.

00:39:55.880 Right.

00:39:56.340 He got, he got, he got basically got fired by Obama because he, when, when there was supposed

00:40:03.020 to be a call coming in from Joe Biden, he said, oh, is that Joe bite me?

00:40:06.820 And so, so Obama calls him in his office.

00:40:10.200 He brings him back from Afghanistan, calls him in his office and said, did you say that?

00:40:13.500 And he said, yes, I did.

00:40:14.640 And relieved him.

00:40:16.780 What?

00:40:17.580 You hadn't heard that story?

00:40:18.600 That's weird.

00:40:19.040 No.

00:40:19.200 Oh, no.

00:40:19.860 That's a true story.

00:40:21.400 That's weird.

00:40:22.360 Yeah.

00:40:22.480 Okay.

00:40:22.640 Well, this is another push pull.

00:40:25.080 Enthusiastic about the VP pick.

00:40:27.160 65% among Democrats.

00:40:30.140 Yeah.

00:40:30.640 Are 65% are excited about walls.

00:40:33.060 Only 49% of Republicans are excited about Vance.

00:40:38.220 Oh, yeah.

00:40:38.540 I can see that.

00:40:39.440 Yeah.

00:40:39.900 Because Trump is a very strong personality.

00:40:44.240 So people, they're not, they're not certain the Republicans aren't voting.

00:40:47.000 They're voting for Trump.

00:40:47.920 Okay.

00:40:49.080 The other side might be thinking, well, heck, I'm excited about walls because it's not

00:40:53.880 Harris.

00:40:54.340 So if, you know, something happened, he might be just as good as she is.

00:40:57.780 I don't really know about it.

00:40:59.080 And again, I just don't, these YouGov, those are, those are internet.

00:41:02.760 It's registered voters, not likely voters.

00:41:05.020 I mean, I don't.

00:41:05.600 The Democrats, though, do seem to be more unified in their enthusiasm around their candidates.

00:41:11.060 They always are, though.

00:41:12.020 Yeah.

00:41:12.480 That's normal.

00:41:12.920 They were that way with Hillary.

00:41:14.560 I mean, obviously, they were that way with Obama, but they're that way with everybody.

00:41:17.260 They're very good at that because Democrats are told not to be independent thinkers.

00:41:21.620 They're told to be, you do what I tell you.

00:41:23.220 That's like the Senate race in Texas, right?

00:41:25.740 Colin Allred, who's running against Ted Cruz.

00:41:28.620 Now, Colin Allred comes across as a pretty nice guy.

00:41:30.980 Somebody you'd not probably like to sit down and, you know, have, share a meal with and

00:41:34.580 what have you.

00:41:35.120 He went to Baylor and all that type of stuff.

00:41:37.400 But the challenge with all of that is when he got into the house, okay, he voted straight

00:41:43.660 in line with Nancy Pelosi.

00:41:45.280 He voted, he voted against, you know, protecting girls sports.

00:41:49.800 He voted against any pro-life measure.

00:41:53.040 He voted against all of that.

00:41:54.260 He voted against border stuff.

00:41:55.940 And so, but now he wants to say he's so moderate.

00:42:00.120 Unfortunately, you might be that way, you know, when you're home, but your voting is

00:42:04.200 what your record is.

00:42:05.540 Yeah.

00:42:05.960 How did Democrats not see that?

00:42:11.200 Well, I mean, I get on both ends, on the politician end, but also on the voter end.

00:42:15.360 Obviously, all these Democrats right now are running to the right of Joe Biden and Kamala

00:42:20.680 Harris.

00:42:21.080 Yes.

00:42:21.360 But they don't vote that way.

00:42:23.180 But if you're a Democrat who is, or if you're someone who is thinking about voting for All

00:42:28.520 Red or any of these Democrats, and you fancy yourself a moderate or you fancy yourself an

00:42:33.500 independent, how do they not see what you're talking about?

00:42:36.360 That all of this is just rhetoric.

00:42:38.100 Kamala Harris is never going to care about the border.

00:42:40.260 She's never going to care about the grocery prices.

00:42:42.860 She's never going to do anything positive about those things.

00:42:45.560 The guys that are running for Senate on the Democrat ticket who say that they're just

00:42:50.960 middle of the road.

00:42:51.900 Tim Wall, same way.

00:42:53.340 How do you not see that that's not what their policy aligns with?

00:42:56.820 How do you not see that?

00:42:57.880 Well, I think that most of them do see that.

00:43:01.380 In this particular election, most of it comes down to I hate Donald Trump or not.

00:43:07.740 Yeah.

00:43:08.280 That's what it comes down to.

00:43:09.780 And that's why I said that, I mean, I hope President Trump wins.

00:43:13.360 I really do, but I also think he is the only qualified Republican that could lose.

00:43:19.760 Yeah.

00:43:20.920 I absolutely think Ron DeSantis would have mopped the floor with this and probably some others

00:43:26.280 too.

00:43:26.560 Maybe Nikki Haley would have too. 0.99

00:43:27.920 Who knows?

00:43:28.620 Okay.

00:43:29.240 Maybe.

00:43:30.040 Yeah.

00:43:30.400 I think it would have been, I think it would have been hard for any candidate, but yeah.

00:43:35.460 Well, he's just not going to make the mistakes.

00:43:37.060 Now he's not going to make the mistakes that President Trump makes.

00:43:39.980 Now he also is not going to have the enthusiasm on the Republican side.

00:43:43.620 So it's a little bit of a trade-off.

00:43:46.220 But it would be easier for someone like me who's trying to mobilize suburban moms who 1.00

00:43:50.740 I understand, we understand that we don't like this about many suburban women that they 1.00

00:43:56.600 are, you know, they just don't like his personality or they don't like his character or things

00:44:00.780 like that.

00:44:01.020 But that is what it is.

00:44:02.280 And so we wouldn't have to be apologizing for those things with someone like Ron DeSantis.

00:44:08.460 It would just be like, really, are you going to vote for the guy who voted for the heartbeat

00:44:12.980 bill in Florida or the woman who voted against the Born Alive Infant Survivors Protection Act?

00:44:18.400 Right.

00:44:19.440 And are you going to vote for the sweet dad who loves his wife and loves his little kids?

00:44:25.640 Or are you going to vote for the woman who sold her body for her career when she was talking 1.00

00:44:32.020 about, which one are you going to do, Christian?

00:44:33.920 This makes it a little bit more complicated.

00:44:36.580 But at the end of the day, it is about policies.

00:44:39.200 That is what it's about.

00:44:39.940 That's what's going to affect your life.

00:44:41.420 It should be, yeah, what are the policies?

00:44:43.700 What are the stance?

00:44:44.320 It's kind of like they, you know, they're probably going to talk about the Project 2025.

00:44:48.560 I would just encourage people to go online.

00:44:53.140 They are definitely going to do that.

00:44:54.260 That's a good point.

00:44:54.840 And look it up.

00:44:56.040 And just look at, see which of those policies you have heartburn over.

00:45:00.920 Now, maybe there are some that you would disagree on, whatever.

00:45:03.860 But look it up.

00:45:04.660 Just tell me if it's as draconian as you think it is.

00:45:07.080 Do not listen to the other side on that.

00:45:09.680 I know the people personally who put that together.

00:45:12.860 And I'm telling you, they're people just like your audience.

00:45:15.900 They're good, American-loving, God-fearing people that want what's best for everybody.

00:45:22.460 And even the ones that are as conservative as we are, they didn't even put everything

00:45:27.400 in Project 2025 that they personally might want.

00:45:30.680 No question about that.

00:45:32.060 Like there might be some people who created Project 2025 who personally, like me, are against

00:45:38.380 the ethics of a large part of IVF.

00:45:41.900 Yeah.

00:45:42.120 But there is nothing in Project 2025 that says we're banning IVF.

00:45:46.280 And yet that's what you hear from the Democrats.

00:45:48.280 No, of course.

00:45:48.380 Yeah.

00:45:48.680 I know.

00:45:49.340 And so I just think just policy, policy, policy.

00:45:52.960 Go out and talk to people.

00:45:54.220 It's going to be okay.

00:45:55.280 All right?

00:45:55.640 It's going to be okay.

00:45:57.040 I don't know what's going to happen.

00:45:58.460 This is a razor, razor-tight race.

00:46:00.680 I just heard this morning Atlas.com has some polling.

00:46:06.140 And they're probably the, they were the one that was the most accurate in 2020.

00:46:10.800 And, you know, they got, the funny thing is, is they got, they got Trump up in Arizona,

00:46:17.940 tied in Nevada, up in Michigan by four points.

00:46:22.760 Yeah.

00:46:23.200 And up in Pennsylvania.

00:46:24.960 Yeah.

00:46:25.760 But losing North Carolina, which is hard for me to believe, you know.

00:46:29.200 We'll see after this.

00:46:30.360 This could have an effect on that.

00:46:33.540 And what is it?

00:46:35.300 Wisconsin's basically tied, I think, something like that.

00:46:37.740 So it's going to be razor, razor thin.

00:46:41.400 Which means you're about to see the media double down like they never have before.

00:46:45.040 That's exactly what I was saying.

00:46:45.260 They're going to double down.

00:46:46.300 They are going to, it'll all, it'll be all of these things.

00:46:49.260 Remember the October surprises we always hear about?

00:46:51.780 It'll be all these things that can't, that won't have time to be refuted.

00:46:55.440 Yeah.

00:46:56.520 Watch out for that women. 1.00

00:46:58.400 They are going to be using that toxic empathy to manipulate you into believing that voting

00:47:04.320 for Harris is protecting miscarriage care.

00:47:06.580 It's protecting these gender confused kids that just want to be loved and to protecting

00:47:12.140 the same sex couple that just wants to raise children, protecting the woman that's fleeing 0.98

00:47:18.160 Colombian gang violence, protecting the young black man that is a victim of systemic racism.

00:47:23.980 They are going to convince you through toxic empathy that it is your moral duty to vote

00:47:29.660 Democrat on behalf of the marginalized and the most vulnerable.

00:47:33.000 But the policies that they are proposing, the ideas that they put forth to manipulate

00:47:36.840 you are obscuring the fact that all of their policies are harmful, both to the people they

00:47:41.100 are telling you are victims and to everyone else.

00:47:43.840 Christians are called to be led by the truth in love approach, which means we actually love

00:47:51.000 people best when we are guided by truth.

00:47:54.080 That doesn't mean we can't have good faith disagreements as Christians on certain things,

00:47:58.820 although there are some things that we just can't have disagreements on, like marriage

00:48:02.300 and gender and all of that. 0.75

00:48:04.120 There are disagreements to be had, but we have to be led by what is factually true, what is

00:48:08.960 historically true, what is scientifically true, and most importantly, what is biblically true.

00:48:13.620 Don't be manipulated by this toxic empathy stuff and buy my book on this because this

00:48:19.460 is, I've, I've equipped you.

00:48:21.060 It comes out October 15th with all of the arguments for all five subjects that I just listed so

00:48:26.420 that by the time you finish that, you will be like, oh, no, there's no propaganda that they

00:48:31.060 can send me that will manipulate me.

00:48:32.800 And not only that, but you will be able to go to all of your friends, all of your mom

00:48:37.500 friends, all of your friends in your church and say, okay, you might not know this about

00:48:42.920 this subject, so let's talk about it.

00:48:45.660 Yeah.

00:48:46.180 So.

00:48:46.740 And they should pre-order that book.

00:48:47.940 Pre-order that book.

00:48:49.260 That way they'll get it just after the 15th.

00:48:51.680 It'll be.

00:48:51.960 Yes.

00:48:52.360 And, and let me tell you too, like, this is really important because Amazon pretty much

00:48:56.720 controls, like they sell most of the books for any, for any author.

00:49:01.440 And Amazon only buys as many books as they think will sell quickly after.

00:49:08.180 And so how many books Amazon buys is based on my pre-order numbers.

00:49:12.920 Right.

00:49:13.160 Good point.

00:49:13.700 And so I really need as many pre-orders as possible so that Amazon will buy enough books

00:49:20.000 because otherwise, if they only buy a certain number of books and we sell, they sell out because

00:49:26.060 they didn't buy enough books after October 15th, then for a good amount of time, could be

00:49:30.840 a week, could be two weeks.

00:49:31.960 It'll say out of stock.

00:49:33.240 And then people aren't going to be able to buy from Amazon.

00:49:35.660 And then that, I want as many women as equipped as possible. 1.00

00:49:39.060 So please pre-order if you can, you can go to toxicempathy.com.

00:49:42.180 You can go to Amazon.

00:49:43.340 We'll put the links in the description of this episode, but it's really just because I want

00:49:47.280 to help.

00:49:47.860 Yeah.

00:49:48.220 I want to help as many women as possible. 1.00

00:49:50.220 Well, speaking of help, uh, your event this past weekend.

00:49:53.640 And we're going to do a little recap on that, um, that was incredible.

00:49:57.780 I just want you to know how, how proud mom and I were for that and, um, how it, man,

00:50:03.880 it was just, it was just mind blowing to me as to having all those women there and your

00:50:08.320 speakers and, and everybody was so kind and the venue was great.

00:50:13.220 It was, it was really, really, really good.

00:50:15.680 Well, praise the Lord.

00:50:16.940 And you said that you couldn't walk out into the sanctuary and look at all the women.

00:50:20.500 Every time I walked out, I wanted to tear up because I was thinking about, wow, you talk

00:50:24.820 about fishes and loaves.

00:50:26.520 Yeah.

00:50:26.820 You know, this is feeding the 5,000.

00:50:28.700 I mean, you know, and it came from the fishes and loaves of, of, you know, of where you started

00:50:34.780 long time ago, you know, with grandma and her feeding into you and mom feeding into you.

00:50:40.940 I mean, those were, that's where it all started.

00:50:43.220 Yeah.

00:50:43.580 And just praise God for that.

00:50:45.180 It's all the Lord.

00:50:46.040 And, you know, I didn't even realize when I started really singing and thinking about

00:50:50.200 and singing to my girls, this is my father's world.

00:50:53.420 It's, we sang it there and it was just beautiful hearing 4,000 female voices singing that and

00:50:59.740 so comforting.

00:51:00.560 But I didn't even realize until a couple of years ago when mom said, you know, that was

00:51:04.260 grandma's favorite hymn.

00:51:05.640 And she sang that to you.

00:51:07.020 Yeah.

00:51:07.720 And I didn't, you know, I didn't even remember that, but that's also encouragement to you,

00:51:11.680 grandmothers and mothers that the seeds of what you were singing and saying to your

00:51:15.880 kids will take root and will be watered and grow in a way that you can't even see right

00:51:20.540 now.

00:51:20.940 You know, that's, it's funny that you say that I'm giving a talk in a couple of days and

00:51:25.120 it's mostly going to be ladies that are probably around my age. 1.00

00:51:29.220 And the talk that I'm going to give is it's never too late to make a difference.

00:51:34.680 And sometimes the difference is something that they do that's huge, like Mother Teresa

00:51:40.240 and all of those people that did great things after age 60.

00:51:43.960 But sometimes, especially for us that are grandparents, it's just planting the seed

00:51:48.860 that you may or may not see develop fully.

00:51:52.760 Right.

00:51:52.980 And so that's what's good.

00:51:55.140 Yep.

00:51:55.540 And that's what the Lord does.

00:51:56.880 He waters, he gives growth and you never, it might not be for another 50 years that

00:52:03.020 those seeds are flowered, but that's all Christians are called to do is sow the seeds of obedience.

00:52:09.140 So thank you so much.

00:52:10.820 You bet.

00:52:11.280 Dad.

00:52:11.840 Don't forget about my book here.

00:52:13.220 It's going to be awesome.

00:52:13.760 I was about to say, I was about to segue you.

00:52:15.940 I know, I know, but you're slow.

00:52:17.340 So speaking of 50 years, there is a speech in this book by Ronald Reagan that's over

00:52:24.880 50 years old now.

00:52:25.880 It's about 50 years when he did it.

00:52:28.080 And if you want to listen to it in his voice, buy the book and then also get the audible

00:52:33.080 version because that's going to be pretty cool.

00:52:35.040 You can just go to my website, ronsimmons.com, and I'll give you a discount on the book and

00:52:39.320 I'll sign it for you.

00:52:40.220 Or you can buy it on Amazon or anywhere else that you find books.

00:52:43.060 And you should get this for the Related Bro in your life, especially. 0.83

00:52:47.340 I mean, it's good for women, too. 0.51

00:52:48.500 It's got all kinds of wisdom and fun little trinkets about our upbringing and my dad's

00:52:53.080 upbringing.

00:52:53.640 But for Christmas, too, for your husband, for your boyfriend, for your brother, for your

00:52:58.920 dad, it's just I think that a lot of men don't have mentors.

00:53:05.800 They don't.

00:53:06.360 And it's hard.

00:53:07.240 Maybe it's harder for men.

00:53:08.240 You could tell me to seek out those mentors because they really want to feel like I've got

00:53:12.200 it together.

00:53:12.820 I'm taking care of my family.

00:53:14.360 I know what I'm doing.

00:53:15.580 And to reach out to someone and say, I need help, is basically a confession that I don't

00:53:19.520 know everything.

00:53:20.440 And that can be hard.

00:53:22.200 Which is actually the strongest sense of self-confidence is admitting I don't know everything.

00:53:27.540 And I talk about that in the book about the whole idea of the wagon, Allie, is there are

00:53:32.720 different parts of the wagon, right?

00:53:34.560 And mostly we, especially men, we just want to have the handle and pull everything, right?

00:53:42.300 Yeah.

00:53:42.700 And sometimes we need to be inside the wagon with somebody else.

00:53:47.720 Or we need to just be pushing, following somebody.

00:53:50.420 Some of the greatest accomplishments that I ever were a part of that were when I was helping

00:53:58.500 somebody else, right?

00:53:59.980 They were leading a particular deal, but they couldn't have gotten up the mountain without

00:54:05.260 those of us that were the wheels that were pushing.

00:54:09.120 I always remember that quote by Ronald Reagan.

00:54:11.340 And I really tried to remember it and apply it because it can be so hard.

00:54:14.880 But he said, there's no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the

00:54:18.780 credit.

00:54:19.140 I'm into that.

00:54:19.780 That is so hard.

00:54:20.860 And there's a C.S. Lewis quote, too, and Screwtape Letters where the demon is talking

00:54:27.340 about the enemy, which is God.

00:54:28.700 And he said, the enemy wants to get his children to a place where they do not care who is glorifying

00:54:35.880 God as long as it's getting done.

00:54:38.620 And gosh, all of us can apply that to our lives.

00:54:41.440 Yeah, isn't that the truth?

00:54:42.360 It's so hard.

00:54:43.020 But this book is about that, about helping others succeed as much as it is succeeding in

00:54:49.900 a way that is glorifying to God.

00:54:52.120 You know, you never know.

00:54:53.520 Sometimes after our greatest defeat becomes our greatest blessings.

00:54:57.720 Yeah.

00:54:58.140 There's always a blessing around the corner if you're willing to look.

00:55:01.120 And what Satan means for evil, God turns to good.

00:55:03.240 Amen to that.

00:55:04.160 Thank you so much, Dad.

00:55:05.300 Enjoyed it very much.

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00:56:29.400 All right.

00:56:30.420 I just wanted to give a recap of Share the Arrows this weekend.

00:56:34.200 You heard a little bit from my dad.

00:56:35.700 And to those of you who were there, thank you so much.

00:56:39.260 Some of you came all the way from Canada.

00:56:41.640 We had Portland.

00:56:42.700 We had California, very much represented.

00:56:45.200 We had Minnesota.

00:56:47.060 We even had from the southeast, which obviously, as we talked about, has been so impacted by

00:56:52.940 the hurricane.

00:56:53.700 And yet so many of you were able to still get a flight and fly out to Texas.

00:56:59.480 We had Jersey Shore.

00:57:01.960 We had New York.

00:57:03.320 We had Florida.

00:57:04.480 We really had all over.

00:57:06.380 And I'm just so thankful for the effort that you guys made to go because I understand all

00:57:13.780 of the logistics, especially if you're a mom or maybe you had to take off work to be

00:57:19.680 there and you guys made it happen.

00:57:21.860 And it was such a beautiful crowd and a beautiful day.

00:57:26.060 You know, I didn't know exactly how it would go.

00:57:28.260 I had no worries at all about any of the speakers.

00:57:32.100 I knew that Rosaria, Elisa, Abby, Candace, Francesca singing.

00:57:37.640 I knew that they were all going to bring it.

00:57:39.980 And I knew that Prestonwood, the venue, was going to do a great job.

00:57:43.480 I knew the Blaze team was going to do a great job.

00:57:45.720 But bringing it all together, we had so many plans that were talked about in meetings and

00:57:51.140 written down on paper.

00:57:52.560 And yet how things were actually going to tangibly work themselves out when you have 4,000 people

00:58:01.300 going in and out, you know, having to check their bags, go through security, show their

00:58:06.980 ticket and try to buy merchandise and other things and get seated and follow all of the

00:58:14.300 rules and then having to leave for lunch and come back all in time.

00:58:17.740 And we had a limited period of time.

00:58:19.520 We had to be done by four.

00:58:21.120 And I've spoken at enough conferences to know that very often these events are running 30

00:58:25.840 minutes an hour behind.

00:58:27.060 And I know we couldn't do that.

00:58:28.200 And so I was worried about some logistical things.

00:58:31.240 And yet, because of God's grace, the prayers and encouragement that you guys sent me, I really

00:58:36.900 had a peace that passed all understanding.

00:58:38.840 Even just the week leading up to it, I was so joyful and so excited and knew the Lord

00:58:44.160 was going to have His way and do what He wanted to do.

00:58:49.140 And He absolutely did.

00:58:50.760 Everything ran so smoothly.

00:58:53.060 Not perfectly.

00:58:54.360 There are absolutely things that we want to improve on next year.

00:58:58.200 One of them is getting more merchandise because we sold out of our CJLA Share the Arrows merch

00:59:02.800 at like 9 a.m.

00:59:03.820 Whoops.

00:59:04.780 Whoops.

00:59:05.180 We didn't know that 100% of you would want them.

00:59:08.520 Based on calculations, it's typically like 25% of people who attend events like this actually

00:59:13.760 want to buy the merchandise.

00:59:14.740 Well, it was like 100% plus.

00:59:17.380 And so next year, we'll get that taken care of.

00:59:20.020 Some like security lines being long and things like that.

00:59:23.540 But you guys handled it with so much grace.

00:59:26.640 And guys, this is what I always say.

00:59:28.380 My audience, I'm sorry.

00:59:29.660 I'm sorry to brag.

00:59:31.380 I just had to brag a little bit.

00:59:33.120 My audience is the best audience.

00:59:34.480 I would put them up against any audience when it comes to enthusiasm, engagement, kindness,

00:59:40.300 groundedness.

00:59:41.260 If I were to use one sentence to describe my audience, it's that they're the kind of

00:59:46.600 women that you would want to babysit your kids. 1.00

00:59:50.580 They're the kind of women that when you're traveling with your own kids, you are praying 1.00

00:59:53.460 that you sit next to someone like this because you know they'll be kind and gracious and take

00:59:57.200 care of your children.

00:59:57.840 I just have so many stories of the kindness of women at Share the Arrows.

01:00:05.400 And I'll share some of those.

01:00:06.800 But I just want to go through some of the footage and some of the pictures that we have.

01:00:11.660 Maybe my favorite moment, although it's really hard to say because I had so many favorite

01:00:16.160 moments from Share the Arrows.

01:00:17.700 But seeing This Is My Father's World, led by Francesca Battistelli with the voices of thousands

01:00:23.800 of women, was incredible.

01:00:26.420 Here's thought three.

01:00:27.120 This is my father's world.

01:00:33.900 I rest thee in the thaw of rocks and trees, of skies and seas.

01:00:44.140 And the wonder's wrong.

01:00:47.240 Guys, I'm about to start crying right now.

01:00:54.200 It was so beautiful and such a beautiful reminder.

01:00:57.120 And I got to watch some of it on and off last night because it's available for Blaze TV subscribers.

01:01:02.860 If you go to sharethearrows.com slash watch party, the watch party happened last night.

01:01:07.620 And so people were chatting live as they were watching it.

01:01:09.820 But you can still watch it now and whenever if you're a Blaze TV subscriber.

01:01:13.080 If you're not, just use that link, blazetv.com slash watch, or sorry, sharethearrows.com slash

01:01:19.860 watch party.

01:01:20.680 And you could subscribe.

01:01:22.060 It'll give you a really good discount on a subscription and you can watch the whole thing.

01:01:26.600 And I just know that you're going to be impacted by it because of the grace of God, but also

01:01:30.940 just the dynamic wise teachers that we had.

01:01:34.420 It was so good.

01:01:35.960 So many great moments.

01:01:37.120 I loved when after worship, Rosaria Butterfield was the first speaker and it just floats so perfectly

01:01:42.500 and beautifully and everyone gave her a standing ovation when she walked out.

01:01:47.040 She hadn't even said anything yet.

01:01:48.880 They just gave her a standing ovation.

01:01:50.340 Same thing with Elisa Childers because their reputation precedes them, their boldness and 1.00

01:01:55.000 their wisdom precedes them.

01:01:56.120 And so everyone was so excited.

01:01:59.080 Here's this amazing view.

01:02:00.480 This is full screen one.

01:02:01.760 This is a view from above the sanctuary.

01:02:04.320 Look at that jam packed with 4,000 women just completely raptured. 1.00

01:02:13.220 Not that kind of rapture, but just completely.

01:02:16.660 I think that's Elisa attentive to what she was teaching.

01:02:20.020 Elisa's talk was amazing, by the way.

01:02:21.380 I watched that whole thing last night and I was just like gripped.

01:02:24.380 She's an amazing speaker. 0.94

01:02:26.360 And then here's a view of the sanctuary during the Candace Cameron interview.

01:02:31.520 This is Candace Cameron Bure.

01:02:34.620 You can see that and women love she was so she was so vulnerable. 0.99

01:02:39.600 They loved what she had to say, especially just like the marriage advice.

01:02:44.080 And then here's a great shot of the audience worshiping together.

01:02:49.640 Beautiful.

01:02:50.440 Also, just beautiful.

01:02:52.120 I have beautiful audience members.

01:02:55.180 And then I love this view from the balcony.

01:02:57.960 It's just like a gorgeous shot.

01:03:02.960 And gosh, the expanse, the magnitude.

01:03:06.040 When I first walked out first thing in the morning, I mean, I just about lost it.

01:03:13.720 I really didn't want to mess up my makeup, but I almost lost it.

01:03:18.740 Just seeing y'all all standing there and clapping, seeing so many months of work come to fruition.

01:03:25.320 And just the fact that you guys were there, your presence was so powerful.

01:03:30.240 The Holy Spirit, his presence was palpable.

01:03:33.100 I know you guys felt it.

01:03:34.880 And I know you guys even felt it in sharing the stories that I was sharing on Instagram.

01:03:40.380 I got so many messages from y'all saying that you were crying just looking at the pictures and seeing the messages from women.

01:03:47.060 I got so many messages, but my favorite one that I think just sums up the feeling that people had when they left, Share the Arrows.

01:03:56.600 This person said, I walked out of there with zero fear of man.

01:04:02.800 Praise God.

01:04:04.420 And that's, I mean, that's the sentiment that I've heard over and over again that I can't take credit for.

01:04:08.760 It is just the Holy Spirit doing what he does, but I left there with no fear, with no anxiety, confident, encouraged, built up, feeling like I could take on anything that the enemy throws at me.

01:04:22.020 That's exactly what I wanted, sharing the arrows together.

01:04:26.340 And there was also a really funny moment.

01:04:28.720 Brie, I don't know if you saw this.

01:04:29.940 Did you see the moment with Brady?

01:04:31.380 No, I was backstage and I had like the radio on where we were all communicating and a bunch of us backstage only saw what was on screen.

01:04:40.720 So you saw me.

01:04:41.420 Yeah, so they were cutting away from it.

01:04:43.420 So I just heard a bunch of voices like, what's happening?

01:04:45.800 What's happening?

01:04:46.500 Oh, yeah.

01:04:47.000 Well, I think people were a little nervous.

01:04:49.040 So Brady is our videographer and Brady is amazing.

01:04:52.180 Okay.

01:04:52.400 He's so talented.

01:04:53.500 He did the promo video for us.

01:04:55.480 He shot the Candice, the Candice Bure promo too.

01:04:59.560 Like he's a very talented videographer as well as editor.

01:05:04.460 And so, of course, I wanted him to shoot this day.

01:05:07.760 And I can say this because he has said it.

01:05:10.980 So typically when you're a videographer or photographer, you wear all black.

01:05:15.800 Duh.

01:05:16.600 And it was like a very dark sanctuary.

01:05:18.680 And he left Timothy and me a voice message after he was like, guys, I don't know why I decided to dress like I was taking family pictures on the family pictures on the beach in Florida.

01:05:28.420 But he was wearing this like white button down in white pants.

01:05:33.580 So he was literally glowing in the dark.

01:05:36.000 And he got he's so funny.

01:05:38.700 Like he he can take this into stride.

01:05:40.600 He knows that I'm not just calling him out.

01:05:43.120 His Instagram stories on this were really funny.

01:05:44.900 But he wanted to get this amazing shot while I was speaking from the choir loft.

01:05:49.920 OK, so it's like really high up.

01:05:51.980 And we can if you can put up that picture again from the balcony, the full screen for there's a big choir loft behind me.

01:05:59.420 And you can't like really see it because it's really it's dark.

01:06:03.260 It's not lit back there.

01:06:04.620 But he wanted to get that shot behind me so you could see me.

01:06:07.680 You could see the full audience, which was awesome.

01:06:11.520 And I should have pulled that.

01:06:13.060 I should have pulled the shot that he ended up getting, which was really cool.

01:06:15.940 But he is like crouching down, running across the choir loft in his like full on white garb.

01:06:25.200 And ever as I'm making that I'm about to transition into like the beginning of my speech.

01:06:31.320 I'm literally about to start talking about infanticide in ancient Rome.

01:06:34.640 OK, literally, that's what I was about to say.

01:06:37.120 And I look out in the audience and everyone is laughing.

01:06:40.000 And I had just said something that was not funny at all.

01:06:42.920 And I was so confused.

01:06:44.480 It's very disconcerting.

01:06:45.940 When the audience has a reaction that like, you know, that you did not elicit.

01:06:50.400 And so I said, I first I was just going to keep going.

01:06:54.000 My sweet mother in law saw her in the audience and she was just smiling at me attentively.

01:06:57.760 And I could tell she was communicating like, it's fine.

01:07:00.400 They can just stop laughing and keep going.

01:07:02.020 But I felt like I needed to pause because I was so confused.

01:07:04.880 And I was scared that there was something like on my face.

01:07:07.800 And so I paused and I was like, wait, I feel like people are laughing.

01:07:12.000 Was that funny?

01:07:13.080 And then people started shouting things at me.

01:07:15.080 And I was very confused.

01:07:16.880 And I was like, my hair?

01:07:19.260 Because I thought someone said my hair.

01:07:21.680 And they were like, no, no, no.

01:07:23.880 The something.

01:07:24.840 I don't even remember what they said.

01:07:25.900 The videographer.

01:07:26.720 And I turned around.

01:07:27.340 I said, oh, you're laughing at Brady.

01:07:30.400 And they had been laughing at Brady just because of the movements that he was making.

01:07:34.460 He's very apologetic about it.

01:07:36.320 And he will definitely wear all black in the future.

01:07:38.920 And it will be an amazing highlight video that he comes up with.

01:07:43.520 I have no doubt about that.

01:07:44.760 And it actually made for a very funny moment.

01:07:46.820 And I was like, I'm so glad I took improv in middle school because I was like, how am I going to do this?

01:07:53.960 How do I?

01:07:55.100 Okay, everyone's laughing.

01:07:56.180 I laughed along with people.

01:07:58.100 How do I transition into talking about infanticide in the Roman Empire and how Christians fought against that and that that's our legacy that we are, that we have like that the church has been built on.

01:08:10.160 And we should muster the same courage today because we're not facing coliseums.

01:08:14.220 We're just facing criticism.

01:08:15.940 Anyway, so it was about to be a really awesome point.

01:08:18.840 And I had to pause.

01:08:20.060 And then I tried to bridge the gap by telling like a Roman Empire joke, like, you know, how men are always thinking about the Roman Empire.

01:08:28.500 I tried to transition us into that.

01:08:30.660 And it just didn't work.

01:08:32.140 Everyone was laughing still because my joke was kind of funny.

01:08:35.740 And so then I just had to say, you know what?

01:08:37.620 I'm just going to go into this and you are going to have to stop laughing eventually.

01:08:41.480 And so we did.

01:08:42.340 We got through it.

01:08:42.920 And honestly, I'm like, it is fine.

01:08:45.700 It's more than fine because it turned into a funny inside joke and a funny moment with everyone and added some levity to it.

01:08:52.940 So like I am not frustrated at all.

01:08:55.440 It ended up being really funny and totally fine.

01:08:58.220 But that was a really fun moment.

01:09:00.140 We got to surprise Vanessa Sivage.

01:09:02.260 If you remember Vanessa, she sat on this couch and told her story about how she helped a whistleblower at Texas Children's Hospital blow the whistle on gender transition, quote unquote, practices happening, happening illegal, legally at Texas Children's Hospital.

01:09:19.020 So we gave her our first ever share the arrows award.

01:09:22.720 And that was beautiful.

01:09:24.340 Like her testament of courage is amazing and so encouraging to everyone else.

01:09:29.540 And I just want to take a moment to just to brag on y'all's kindness and your thoughtfulness.

01:09:35.020 Thoughtfulness I have, if I can pull it up, I have some amazing testimonials from people.

01:09:43.940 There was one woman who said that she was trying to sing, but her baby was fussy.

01:09:50.560 And the woman next to her said, why don't you let me, you know, hold your baby and try to shush your fussy baby so you can focus on worship. 1.00

01:09:57.400 She didn't know this woman, but she did.

01:10:00.000 And she was able to focus on the songs being sung.

01:10:03.060 There was a long line for water bottles as women were entering that morning. 1.00

01:10:09.380 And it was really hard for everyone to get the water bottles that they needed before they went in.

01:10:13.400 While a group of women at the front of the line decided to buy all the water bottles for everyone and pass them back to everyone who needed it. 1.00

01:10:22.300 There was one of you who told me that as you were singing, it had just been a really hard year.

01:10:28.600 And there's so many of you who told me the same story.

01:10:31.320 It's amazing.

01:10:31.920 You felt yourself just breaking down in tears because of the hardships that you've been through.

01:10:38.280 So many of you told me that you almost didn't come because of the things that were going on in your life, at home, the difficulties.

01:10:45.940 And you got there anyway.

01:10:47.820 And when you did, you just kind of lost it in the best way possible.

01:10:52.320 There were so many of you who came alone and you were nervous and you left with lifelong friends.

01:11:06.640 I met groups of you who I assumed were friends because of how comfortable you were with each other.

01:11:12.980 And then I was always surprised to hear, oh, yeah, we just met.

01:11:16.560 I'm from Ohio.

01:11:17.520 I'm from Florida.

01:11:18.380 I'm from California.

01:11:19.060 I'm from Minnesota.

01:11:20.260 And here we are.

01:11:21.340 We're best friends.

01:11:21.920 We're going to lunch together.

01:11:23.060 I mean, that's what I wanted.

01:11:25.000 That's exactly what I wanted.

01:11:26.520 That's what that's part of what sharing the arrows is.

01:11:28.600 It's not always about standing with someone when something hard is happening, when they're getting unfairly maligned.

01:11:35.280 It's also just building the friendships, co-belligerence in this battle.

01:11:42.180 And that was accomplished.

01:11:44.180 That was accomplished here.

01:11:45.460 And really, I can't take credit for it.

01:11:47.160 It is just God doing what he does.

01:11:49.140 And we are so privileged to be the vessels of his work.

01:11:53.360 And I am so excited for these women to go back to their homes, their families, their friends, their co-workers, their schools, whatever role they occupy with the boldness that has been won for us in Christ.

01:12:07.500 And that has been shown to us throughout history by the martyrs, by the persecuted, by those who have stood up for truth, stood up for biblical values, whether it's Genesis 127 or John 14, 6, for the last 2,000 years.

01:12:26.500 That's how the world has changed, not through Christian cowardice or compromise, but through Christian courage. 0.74

01:12:32.500 And we need Christian courage.

01:12:34.820 Women need to hear about Christian courage.

01:12:36.440 They don't need to be coddled.

01:12:37.900 They need to be challenged with biblical truth.

01:12:40.080 And that's what they got through Share the Arrows.

01:12:41.920 That's part of why I started Share the Arrows, because not all content geared toward women is coddling and fluffy.

01:12:50.600 I'm not saying that, but a lot of it is.

01:12:53.760 And what wasted talent?

01:12:56.320 What wasted life and a wasted testimony and wasted capacity and wasted capability?

01:13:01.660 If all the nourishment, which is really just spiritual junk food, that women are being fed is about self-love and self-esteem and feelings and emotions. 0.90

01:13:15.060 Not all feelings and emotions are bad.

01:13:17.000 I'm not saying that.

01:13:17.880 But women can handle substance. 1.00

01:13:20.000 We can handle hard truths.

01:13:21.440 We can handle difficult, complex theological topics.

01:13:27.500 Like, we can handle apologetics.

01:13:30.440 We can handle being told the truth about sin and repentance and holiness.

01:13:34.640 We can stand firm on these controversial truths.

01:13:39.060 We don't need superficial coddling.

01:13:43.160 We need God's Word.

01:13:44.520 And I am very thankful to say that that's what women got at Share the Arrows.

01:13:48.620 And I hope and pray that we can do it again next year.

01:13:51.820 If you will help me pray to that end, that's the plan.

01:13:56.620 I wish I had a more excitement and definitive announcement for you.

01:14:01.080 That is the plan.

01:14:02.040 And I really trust that, Lord willing, He brings that to fruition.

01:14:05.660 But if you would help me pray for that, because I know there's a lot of you couldn't make it this

01:14:10.320 year.

01:14:10.720 You got FOMO.

01:14:12.220 You can go watch it online, but there's nothing like being there.

01:14:15.720 And we will do everything we can to bring it to you again next year, because God is in this.

01:14:20.680 And it's all His.

01:14:22.120 And something that I have to remember, because it's so easy to get, you know, like, I love things

01:14:26.040 like this.

01:14:26.600 And there were so many people involved that certainly wasn't me.

01:14:29.240 But the, like, the idea of it, I feel so like, I mean, it's just been my dream for so long.

01:14:37.040 Every single bit of this was just a dream that has been ruminating for so long.

01:14:42.700 It's really easy to get caught up in, well, next year needs to be X, Y, Z.

01:14:47.160 We need to be bigger and better and to think about our success measured in numbers.

01:14:54.720 And I'll remember a pastor at my church a couple of years ago said something that has

01:15:00.400 stuck with me.

01:15:00.980 I try to think about it every day, is that the measure of success in a Christian's life

01:15:05.580 is faithfulness.

01:15:07.060 Not fame, not numbers, not money, not accolades, not popularity, faithfulness.

01:15:15.960 And that is true in anything, but that's certainly how I'm thinking of this event.

01:15:20.160 However many there are, however many people come in the future, I want to think not only

01:15:27.220 how great can it be, because that's important.

01:15:29.480 I want to serve you guys well and excellently, but how faithful can it be?

01:15:35.000 How solid can it be?

01:15:36.540 How substantive can it be?

01:15:38.160 How truthful can it be?

01:15:39.680 How earnest and genuine and honest and biblical and God-glorifying can it be?

01:15:45.160 Those are my measures of success.

01:15:47.960 And as long as we are doing that, I will be, I'll be happy.

01:15:54.500 So thank you guys for being wonderful.

01:15:57.120 And again, just thank everyone for everyone who was involved in so many levels and so many

01:16:01.780 areas of my life.

01:16:03.700 In-laws flew in, high school friends volunteered at the merch table.

01:16:07.260 So many meaningful people to me helped make this happen.

01:16:11.960 So, and just thank the Lord.

01:16:14.040 Really just, I'm still reeling.

01:16:15.620 It was an amazing weekend and you guys have told me you're still on cloud nine too.

01:16:20.300 Praise God.

01:16:21.560 Let's keep that, keep that peace and keep that enthusiasm.

01:16:24.920 All right.

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01:17:26.900 All right.

01:17:27.720 That's all we've got time for today.

01:17:29.180 See you guys back here tomorrow.

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - October 01, 2024

Ep 1076 ｜ Hurricane Aftermath： Christians Step Up While Biden Vacations ｜ Guest： Ron Simmons

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