Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - February 04, 2025


Ep 1134 ｜ World Relief, USAID & the Nefarious Network of Humanitarian Aid


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 14 minutes

Words per Minute

155.6987

Word Count

11,650

Sentence Count

933

Misogynist Sentences

18

Hate Speech Sentences

48


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The Trump administration is reorganizing and dismantling the United States Agency of International Development and has also frozen the funds of an evangelical nonprofit organization called World Relief.
00:00:17.140 This has a lot of people in a tizzy, but what are these entities really? Are they truly serving their mission? Are they advancing the interests of the American people and the taxpayers that are funding them?
00:00:30.540 We've got the answer to that, and we are also getting into some Grammys moments with producer Brie, who was actually there.
00:00:40.060 Yes, this is a long episode, but it is a good and a thorough one.
00:00:45.720 So without further ado, here's today's episode of Relatable.
00:00:58.160 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.
00:01:03.680 I hope everyone is staying healthy. It seems like everyone is getting sick, and whatever bug is floating around has hit my family.
00:01:11.760 Chief Relatable and I are safe right now, but our kids were hit with it, and I'm sure a lot of you have experienced it.
00:01:19.520 It's maybe the flu. It's also similar to COVID.
00:01:24.540 I remember when we got COVID for the first time at the beginning of 2021. It's kind of like that.
00:01:29.520 If you are in the thick of it, I will try to tell you from almost the other side that, at least for us and the families I know, it was a good five-day virus.
00:01:40.540 Five days is a long time to have a virus. I'm thinking like 48 hours, maybe a little more than that for your typical virus.
00:01:48.960 This seems to last a while. I'm sure it depends on the person and all of that, but my kids very rarely get sick,
00:01:56.740 and this has dragged on longer than I anticipated, and for us, the symptoms so far have really just been fever, kind of achy, like a headache,
00:02:08.860 but it may be a little bit of congestion, but not a whole lot of respiratory symptoms, not anything crazy,
00:02:16.180 just like feeling really bad and that kind of just like feverish chills,
00:02:20.900 which is always really pitiful for kids and really just sad to watch.
00:02:27.340 But my recommendations are not anything novel, but as much, you know, vitamin C, vitamin D as you can possibly get.
00:02:36.240 The weather has actually been really good where we are, and so trying to get outside as much as we possibly can,
00:02:44.280 while, you know, liquids and rest and all of that good stuff to try to rejuvenate them, restore their energy.
00:02:52.180 For me, I have been taking this, in addition to my WeHeart Nutrition,
00:02:58.140 which I really do think just helps maintain my immune system year-round.
00:03:03.700 I've been also taking this CMOS gel. Have you guys seen this?
00:03:08.280 I saw it at the grocery store, and I don't know, it looked interesting.
00:03:13.540 It's supposed to be good for your immune system. I'll tell you right now, it doesn't taste good, okay?
00:03:17.980 And that's, I think, how I know that it's working, is that it tastes like kelp.
00:03:23.360 And I guess that's kind of what it is. It's CMOS, and it's in like this gel form,
00:03:28.440 and you just scoop it up with a spoon, and you eat it, and it's supposed to be good for you.
00:03:32.920 I've also been taking my daily dose of local elderberry, which I hope helps.
00:03:39.500 It doesn't help also that we've got like some new allergens in the area,
00:03:43.720 and we've been spending more time outside since we're having like a fake spring right now,
00:03:48.500 and that has also just exacerbated allergies. So there's just a lot going on.
00:03:53.340 And also, I've heard some of you out there say that you've been hit with the stomach bug,
00:03:58.480 which is actually the worst. Maybe one of the worst consequences of the fall of man is stomach bug.
00:04:05.160 And so I am sorry for you. I am hoping that all the related gals and the related bros out there
00:04:10.320 are staying as healthy as they possibly can, because it is no joke, especially when you're sick
00:04:18.280 and your kids are sick. And so we're almost out of the thick of winter, though. So things should
00:04:23.640 start getting better soon. Speaking of health, I want to give you an update before we get into the
00:04:28.960 bulk of our episode on RFK Jr. It has now been announced that he will advance to the next step
00:04:36.560 in his effort to become Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary. The 27-member panel of 14
00:04:43.100 Republicans and 13 Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee approved Kennedy's advancement by a party
00:04:48.680 line vote of 14 to 13. That means all Republicans fell in line. The spotlight has been for the past
00:04:55.160 few days on Senator Bill Cassidy, who issued a last minute endorsement indicating a party line vote for
00:05:02.020 Kennedy. He has also said that he is now comfortable with supporting Tulsi Gabbard. He was a Republican
00:05:08.160 that was really on the fence about both of these nominations. And there's been a whole lot of
00:05:14.260 pressure, especially from the Maha movement, to get these Republicans to support Trump's nominees.
00:05:20.700 I think the Republicans should support Trump's nominees, although I do think it is fair for some
00:05:26.580 of these conservatives to have some questions about lifelong Democrats like Tulsi Gabbard and like
00:05:33.740 RFK Jr. Now, I think both of them are going to do a good job. They're very rational and reasonable
00:05:39.480 people. But I also think it is rational and reasonable for Republicans who are serving the
00:05:45.460 interests of their own constituents and who are trying to stand on conservative principles
00:05:50.460 to ask some questions about their history and about their past positions. But Senator Cassidy did vote
00:05:58.080 for Kennedy and will support Tulsi Gabbard. So the nomination now moves to the full Senate for a vote.
00:06:05.220 And then there, all 100 senators will have the opportunity to debate and then vote on whether
00:06:11.020 to confirm RFK Jr. for the position. So we're going to have a lot of showmanship. You just know
00:06:16.080 that all of these senators, especially the Democrats, are getting so excited about their monologues and
00:06:22.020 about their clickbait viral videos that are going to go around and we get to laugh at them and respond
00:06:27.800 to them soon. Kennedy can only afford to lose the support of three GOP senators. So if Democrats
00:06:34.500 unite against his confirmation, which is almost certain that they will, on the floor of the
00:06:40.880 chamber, he can only lose three GOP senators. There's going to be a lot of pressure. And it is
00:06:46.680 possible that he could lose the support of four GOP senators. It is not likely, I would say. I think it
00:06:54.820 is very likely at this point that he is going to be confirmed. Nicole Shanahan, his previous running
00:07:00.860 mate who is a billionaire, has said, yeah, I'm going to come after you if you do not support the
00:07:08.040 nomination of RFK Jr. And while you might say, well, that's not fair. We don't want billionaires
00:07:14.100 affecting our political process. That is the way that has been for a very long time. People with money
00:07:21.360 have power. They have influence. And they do put their thumb on the scale of the process to get done
00:07:28.620 what they want to get done. It seems like Democrats have a problem with that only now. Only now,
00:07:36.300 Democrats are saying, whoa, this is an oligarchy. Elon Musk, Nicole Shanahan, all of these rich people
00:07:43.260 trying to influence politics. They had no problem with that when it was and is George Soros or Jeff
00:07:51.200 Bezos and McKenzie Bezos and Zuckerberg and all of these people who, for a very long time, were not
00:07:58.740 only funding the Democrat Party, but were also ensuring that non-left-wing ideas could not circulate
00:08:06.980 with the same accessibility and rapidity as left-wing ideas. And so they're okay with that kind of
00:08:16.660 oligarchy. They're not okay when billionaires who are not on the left, I wouldn't even call Elon Musk
00:08:22.660 or Nicole Shanahan on the right, but who are not on the left try to use their own influence to get done
00:08:30.800 what they would like to get done. But it also happens to be what a lot of Americans want to get done as
00:08:37.600 well. So you can hate the game, but it's not really the fault of the players. This is just kind of the
00:08:45.900 system that we've got set up right now. All right. Speaking of money influencing our elections and
00:08:55.440 speaking of Democrats getting money from places where they really shouldn't be getting money and
00:09:02.140 then getting mad about it when people call that out, we got to talk about what's happening with
00:09:07.780 USAID or some people might say USAID or USAID, lots of different ways to say it. This is the
00:09:17.600 international aid department of the government that is now basically being dismantled under Donald
00:09:24.340 Trump. And this is also affecting some Christian so-called charities. And you've got a lot of mushy
00:09:30.900 middle evangelicals and a lot of so-called progressive Christians saying, oh, this is so bad. This is so
00:09:36.940 terrible. How could any Christian support this? Well, we're going to break down why this is actually
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00:11:02.360 Well, let's back up a little bit. Let's first talk about why we're talking about it, and then we'll
00:11:06.940 get into what it really is and where our taxpayer dollars that fund this entity are actually going.
00:11:13.820 So on Monday, Elon Musk, who has been in charge of overhauling the federal government, mentioned
00:11:19.920 in a live act space that President Trump has agreed that the U.S. Agency for International
00:11:26.400 Development, that's USAID, needs to be shut down. USAID is an independent agency of the
00:11:33.400 U.S. federal government primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and
00:11:39.140 development assistance in other countries. That might sound not only innocuous, but very
00:11:45.180 beneficial. Why would someone ever want to get in the way of that? So this announcement came
00:11:51.340 after USAID funding was frozen by a Trump executive order last week, and dozens of its employees were
00:11:58.040 put on leave. That freeze also affected world relief. Maybe you're seeing some chatter about
00:12:03.100 that among the Christians that you follow, which is an evangelical Christian humanitarian
00:12:07.520 group, or that's what they call themselves, that receives a significant majority of its funding
00:12:13.700 from USAID. So this Christian humanitarian group, which calls itself a non-governmental association,
00:12:23.040 an NGO, or a non-profit, calls itself a charity, is actually getting a huge portion of its funding
00:12:29.160 from American taxpayers. Now, it does seem like progressives would have a problem with that,
00:12:36.380 right? But actually, we're seeing people on the Democrat side, Christian and non-Christian,
00:12:42.880 say that this is just an absolute travesty and cruel. Shortly after Elon Musk's announcement,
00:12:49.040 Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he is now the acting administrator of USAID
00:12:54.280 because the agency has been, quote, completely unresponsive. Just as a note, you probably remember
00:13:00.780 the name Samantha Power. She has been in the center of a lot of controversy over the last 10 plus years.
00:13:05.520 She is the former UN ambassador under Obama. She was also the administrator of USAID before
00:13:12.280 Marco Rubio was appointed as the acting administrator. So she, if you just research Samantha Power,
00:13:20.520 we don't have that much time to get into her right now. She is extremely corrupt. So it's not surprising
00:13:26.060 at all the direction that USAID has been going, as we'll get into in a second, in particular under her
00:13:33.180 leadership. So Rubio said in a press conference in El Salvador yesterday that USAID is supposed to
00:13:40.100 respond to the policy directive of the State Department, but it is refusing to do so. Here's
00:13:45.560 that one.
00:13:46.180 I said very clearly when we, during my confirmation hearing, that every dollar we spend and every
00:13:52.020 program we fund, that will be aligned with the national interest of the United States.
00:13:56.520 And USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that there's somehow a global charity
00:14:02.560 separate from the national interest. These are taxpayer dollars. These are not donor dollars. These
00:14:06.500 are taxpayer dollars. And we owe the American people the assurances that every dollar we are spending
00:14:13.380 abroad is being spent on something that furthers our national interest.
00:14:17.140 Just to know, I've been super impressed with Senator Rubio or, sorry, Secretary Rubio
00:14:22.760 so far in his, in his position, just championing the America first agenda completely unapologetically.
00:14:30.100 And all of the appointees have done so thus far, which is just really exciting to see.
00:14:35.940 He makes this point in another interview too, where he says, look, this is USAID is not
00:14:42.120 a charity. These are not people who are giving their money voluntarily to this organization
00:14:49.280 to accomplish the mission that USAID is trying to accomplish throughout the world, which again,
00:14:57.460 we'll detail in just a second. I mean, these taxpayers are forced to give their hard earned
00:15:04.020 dollars to this organization. And that means that this organization has to be held accountable
00:15:09.620 to the leadership that was voted for by the American people. They need to be accountable to us. But
00:15:16.960 we've elected these representatives, President Trump, that has then appointed Marco Rubio to
00:15:24.800 make sure that our dollars and that our government is truly championing our interests, both here and
00:15:33.880 abroad. And they have been completely non-compliant since Trump took office.
00:15:39.100 And so basically they said, okay, well, you're not going to exist anymore. And Elon Musk said in
00:15:45.860 that X space, it became apparent that it's not an apple with a worm in it, USAID. What we have is
00:15:52.620 just a ball of worms. You've got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It's beyond repair. We're
00:15:57.460 shutting it down. Musk's comments during the X space's conversation came after two top security
00:16:02.760 officials at USAID were put on administrative leave Saturday night for refusing members of the
00:16:08.380 Department Government of Efficiency. That's the Doge entity that Elon Musk is a part of, which is
00:16:16.920 responsible for cleaning out all of the mess of the federal bureaucracy that is just bloat and
00:16:23.160 incompetence. So they refused members of Doge access to systems at the agency, even when Doge
00:16:30.000 personnel threatened to call law enforcement. Around 60 senior USAID staff were put on leave last week on
00:16:36.900 accusations of attempting to circumvent Trump's executive order to freeze foreign aid for 90
00:16:41.220 days. On Monday, USAID staffers were instructed to stay out of the agency's DC headquarters. And then
00:16:48.180 on Monday afternoon, so yesterday, the Department of State posted an update on its X page saying this,
00:16:54.320 the United States Agency for International Development has long strayed from its original
00:16:59.040 mission of responsibly advancing American interests abroad. It is now abundantly clear that significant
00:17:04.900 portions of USAID funding are not aligned with the core national interests of the United States.
00:17:10.700 As an interim step toward gaining control and better understanding over the agency's activity,
00:17:16.200 President Donald J. Trump appointed Secretary Marco Rubio as acting administrator. Secretary Rubio has
00:17:23.040 also now notified Congress that a review of USAID's foreign assistance activities is underway with an eye
00:17:30.000 towards potential reorganization. As we evaluate USAID to ensure it is in alignment with an America
00:17:36.900 First agenda and the efforts of the State Department, we will continue to protect the American people's
00:17:41.940 interests and ensure their tax dollars are not wasted. I mean, thank the Lord, that is just responsible
00:17:48.040 governance. And there's so much propaganda surrounding this. And it's really easy to just look at the name of
00:17:55.880 the organization and say, well, they're probably doing good work. They're helping these poor countries
00:18:01.180 develop and to be safe and to make sure that they are prosperous. And don't we want our tax dollars going
00:18:08.460 toward that? But the truth is that who they say they are, which I'll describe, and what they actually do
00:18:16.180 are extremely disparate. The USAID describes itself as leading in international development and disaster
00:18:26.940 assistance programs. They say they're responsible for dispensing dollars for foreign aid. They are a funder of
00:18:36.920 global humanitarian assistance. The aid agency dispersed over $70 billion in 2023, employs over 10 million
00:18:46.180 people. The countries that received the most funds from USAID in 2023 were Ukraine, $16 billion,
00:18:56.100 Ethiopia over $1 billion, Jordan over $1 billion, Afghanistan over $1 billion, and Somalia over $1 billion.
00:19:05.240 Congo, Syria, Nigeria, Yemen, South Sudan also received between $740 million and $936 million in aid.
00:19:13.320 And if you're thinking, well, that's great. These are poor countries. They need our help. You should ask
00:19:17.800 yourself, how long have we been sending millions and billions of dollars and have these countries
00:19:22.700 gotten better? Have the poorest and the weakest people in those countries actually benefited from
00:19:29.580 our billions of dollars of taxpayers going over there? Or has the corrupt and the dangerous leadership
00:19:37.160 of these countries just gotten richer and more equipped to oppress their own people? You would
00:19:43.120 think that that would just be a common sense question that we should ask about our own money
00:19:47.380 going into these countries because they're not just poor. They're also extremely violent and corrupt
00:19:53.820 when you look at their government. Does it seem like we would want to be funding policy that is
00:19:58.900 actually oppressing the poor people in those countries, right? So we would just need to make sure that
00:20:04.080 that's not what we're doing. A little bit of background about USAID. When did it start? Why
00:20:10.040 did it start? It started in 1961. President JFK signed the Foreign Assistance Act into law, which
00:20:16.500 restructured U.S. foreign aid policy and programs. He established the USAID by executive order to lead
00:20:22.760 the government's global development and humanitarian efforts. It was also in the height of the Cold War
00:20:28.700 used to diminish the threat of communism by helping countries prosper economically, socially and
00:20:35.540 politically or else that's what they said that they were trying to do. So USAID was created by executive
00:20:42.280 order. However, it cannot be dissolved by executive order because it was established as its own independent
00:20:49.360 agency by statute in Congress in 1998. And so if it is truly going to be dissolved, then that would have
00:20:57.580 to go through Congress. But right now, Secretary Rubio is saying, no, we are just reorganizing it. We are
00:21:04.160 taking it over and we are going to examine what they are actually doing. So what do they actually do?
00:21:11.980 Even though they characterize themselves as trying to end poverty and promoting democracy and civil society
00:21:20.740 around the world, when you look into the programs that are actually being funded around the world,
00:21:28.820 what you see is that they are pushing transgenderism. They're pushing promiscuity. They are promoting
00:21:35.740 abortion. They are promoting all forms of sexual degeneracy and confusion and death and progressive
00:21:44.460 causes in these poor, helpless countries that depend upon the money of U.S. taxpayers to survive. And so
00:21:55.920 this is a form, we've said this many times, that progressives love imperialism and colonialism as long as it
00:22:04.900 involves pushing things like gay sex and transgenderism. They say that they're anti-colonialism. No, they love
00:22:12.240 colonialism as long as they are forcing poor countries to conform to their ideas. They loved when the Biden
00:22:18.700 administration threatened to take money away from Uganda when Uganda passed a law criminalizing
00:22:24.860 homosexual behavior. And so don't believe them when they say, oh, colonialism has been so bad. That's just
00:22:31.920 another euphemism for their hatred of white people, hatred of America, hatred of Western civilization. They
00:22:39.620 don't hate colonialism. They love forcing their ideas upon institutions, upon people of different
00:22:46.580 backgrounds and religions, of people of different countries. And USAID was basically the arm of left-wing
00:22:53.900 colonialism funded by taxpayer dollars. And that is exactly why it needs to be dismantled and remade into
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00:24:12.480 relatable. Okay, according to the Daily Wire, this is just a little bit about the political makeup of
00:24:22.120 USAID. 97% of political contributions from USAID employees went to Democrats this last election
00:24:31.300 cycle. In the 2024 election cycle, USAID staff made a total of $406,790 in political contributions.
00:24:40.320 More than half of that went to Kamala Harris. Almost all of the rest of it went to other Democrat
00:24:45.220 politicians. Only $1,000, a quarter of percent of that went to Donald Trump. 97% went to Democrats in
00:24:53.860 general. Only about $12,000 went to any Republicans. And so we see the political makeup, the bias of
00:25:02.040 USAID, which is why their direction and their mission across the world makes a lot of sense,
00:25:11.040 as sad as it is. Here is Caroline Leavitt, the press secretary, giving some examples of where our
00:25:17.200 tax dollars are going through USAID. Here's that too. These are some of the insane priorities that
00:25:23.600 that organization has been spending money on. $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces.
00:25:31.420 $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland. $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia.
00:25:39.280 $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. I don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer,
00:25:45.980 I don't want my dollars going towards this crap. And I know the American people don't either. And
00:25:49.560 that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do, to get the fraud,
00:25:54.140 waste and abuse out of our federal government. Thank you guys.
00:25:57.520 Okay. That's exactly what it is. It's crap. And we fact-checked all of this just to make sure,
00:26:03.660 okay, is what she's reading, is that actually true? And we were able to fact-check all of that.
00:26:08.960 Yes, it is actually true. For example, the advancement of DEI in a Serbian workplace. This
00:26:16.820 was a three-year grant that was awarded in 2022. The Daily Mail reported this funding was for a
00:26:23.520 pro-LGBTQ NGO whose Serbian name translates to group come out. So this NGO received $1.5 million
00:26:31.800 from Biden's administration through the USAID to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in Serbia's
00:26:39.460 workplaces and businesses' communities by promoting economic empowerment of an opportunity of LGBTQI
00:26:46.740 plus people in Serbia. So all of that that the press secretary just listed is true. And we have
00:26:55.060 more. It's not just LGBTQ causes, although we have even further examples of that, but it's also things
00:27:00.760 like climate change. For example, a $1.5 million grant was given in 2024 for studies on climate change
00:27:08.200 and gender equity in Pakistan. So American and Pakistani higher education institutions have the
00:27:15.540 potential to be central actors in advancing Pakistan's climate resilience and gender equity,
00:27:21.660 whatever that means. So over a million dollars of our taxes going towards that in Pakistan. Also in 2024,
00:27:30.720 USAID launched a, quote, health for trans campaign to raise awareness of health care services for so-called
00:27:37.340 transgender women in Vietnam. This is part of what their website says. Although Vietnam has made great
00:27:45.020 progress over the past two decades stemming HIV and AIDS, the epidemic persists among the most at-risk
00:27:51.280 populations, including men who have sex with men, transgender women, female sex workers, and people who use
00:27:59.880 injectable drugs. Like have we thought about just not doing any of those things? I don't know. USAID in
00:28:09.300 collaboration with Vietnamese health clinics and social enterprises recently launched the Health for
00:28:14.480 Trans campaign campaign. So there are your tax dollars yet again. They also promoted LGBTQ intersex rights in
00:28:31.500 Latin America and Caribbean countries. USAID, this is according to Washington Blade, has invested in programs
00:28:39.460 that fight violence against LGBTQ and intersex people in Honduras and Guatemala. USAID's senior LGBTQI
00:28:48.380 plus coordinator, that is a thing, Jay Gilliam announced that USAID would donate an additional
00:28:54.640 $2 million for economic programs for transgender women. Now, if you are against that, that doesn't mean that
00:29:02.240 you are for violence against these people. It just means that that is not in the interest of the United States
00:29:07.780 to be going to Guatemala and giving them millions of tax dollars to protect so-called transgender community
00:29:13.740 in South America. I mean, come on. In 2022, USAID was providing so-called transgender services.
00:29:21.500 And I say so-called if you're new here because there's no such thing as transgender. You can't
00:29:25.540 transfer from one gender to the other. It's impossible. You might be able to declare that in your mind,
00:29:31.820 but it's not a physical reality. So we say so-called or quote unquote services to the residents of an
00:29:38.060 impoverished squatter camp outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Okay, I just got to repeat that
00:29:43.960 because it reads like a Mad Lib. Okay, USAID was providing so-called transgender services to the
00:29:50.420 residents of an impoverished squatter camp outside Johannesburg, South Africa.
00:29:54.720 What are transgender services, Brie? Do we know what transgender services are?
00:30:03.180 Come get your pronouns.
00:30:05.300 Yeah, they're handing out pronouns.
00:30:08.620 What is that?
00:30:09.320 I couldn't tell you, actually. I don't know. I don't know the specifics.
00:30:13.360 But this is according to the Christian Post. We don't need to know because it is over now.
00:30:19.380 In 2013, as part of an AIDS prevention program in Kenya, USAID funded an ad which told women to
00:30:26.340 use a condom when having an affair.
00:30:31.600 Okay, the ad was pulled after public outcry, including from the Anglican Church of Kenya.
00:30:39.000 Sexual and so-called reproductive health programs, again, abortion, funded by USAID and developing
00:30:46.200 countries have often been criticized for sexualizing traditional cultures. It's just
00:30:52.960 all so strange. All so strange. And remember, these are your tax dollars. This is your money
00:30:59.400 that you are earning at your job. Also, they have had their hand in censorship in the United States
00:31:06.540 and elsewhere. The USAID Center on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance, that's like the Ministry of
00:31:12.160 Truth in 1984, promoted an internal disinformation primer dated February 2021 that has been quietly
00:31:22.200 pushing private sector technology companies, media organizations, education ministries, national
00:31:27.700 governments, and funding bodies to adopt social media censorship practices. The USAID censorship
00:31:34.760 guidebook characterizes increased online competition and increasing distrust against traditional media as
00:31:40.760 problematic. So it's bad that Jim Acosta no longer works at CNN. We need to be listening to CNN more. We
00:31:49.020 need to be watching NBC more. You don't need to be listening to and following these independent
00:31:54.440 journalists. They say that this reduces traditional media's power to shape local and national dialogue.
00:32:00.960 Well, yeah, that's kind of the whole point. That's kind of the whole point. That's why we like the
00:32:05.360 democratization of information, like what's happening on X. Also, if you look at USAID's history with the
00:32:13.080 dealing of COVID-19, the USAID and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, that
00:32:20.460 was the agency that was headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci. They gave $41 million from 2014 to 2019 in grants to
00:32:29.540 researchers at the Wuhan Institute for Virology for Risky Gain of Function Research in 2019.
00:32:36.680 Okay? Like that is the entity that is being dismantled right now who helped fund the research
00:32:43.300 at Wuhan lab that probably caused the COVID pandemic. Hmm. One of the researchers who was awarded for the
00:32:52.220 grants, Ben Hu, was also among the first patients believed to have contracted COVID-19, further
00:32:57.180 supporting the theory that COVID-19 originated in a lab. No, no, no, no. It came from bat soup.
00:33:02.960 I remember, I still remember a meme. And at the time I was too scared to share it, but it was
00:33:07.580 really funny. It was like a picture of a skeleton and they were dying and they were like leaving a
00:33:14.600 five-star review for the bat soup so people don't think I'm racist. That was back when people thought
00:33:20.480 that it originated from some kind of bat stew in China, but we know better. We know better than
00:33:27.160 that now. Um, it's also worth noting that the funding documents acquired through the Freedom of
00:33:31.640 Information Act FOIA by the White Coat Waste Project, a nonprofit that opposes taxpayer funded
00:33:37.200 research on animals showed that USAID provided the majority of that funding to that Wuhan lab.
00:33:44.500 That's according to the Intercept in the Wall Street Journal, $38 million. You can see it right
00:33:51.020 there if you're watching on YouTube. Gosh, there is just so, there's so much here. Also, when we look
00:33:58.660 at Afghanistan, you remember what happened in 2021, 2022 with Joe Biden and the disastrous just calamity
00:34:09.600 that occurred when U.S. troops pulled out of Afghanistan, left all of our, uh, weaponry behind
00:34:16.520 to be used by the Taliban. Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. It's just horrible, horrible, horrible.
00:34:22.820 According to reports from the oversight group appointed by Congress to audit the $145 billion
00:34:28.640 provided by the U.S. for reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. After that debacle, the group concluded
00:34:35.660 that at least $19 billion, okay, almost a third was lost to waste, fraud, and abuse. So that's
00:34:43.640 according to CNN and ProPublica. ProPublica is a very left-wing organization, and you already know
00:34:49.200 that about CNN. So this is what they are reporting about the funding that went through USAID to
00:34:56.040 Afghanistan after the Taliban took over, that almost a third of that funding was lost to waste,
00:35:02.300 fraud, and abuse. Again, that is your hard-earned money. I guarantee you would have used that money
00:35:09.200 more efficiently yourself. USAID spent $335 million on a diesel-fueled power plant that cost
00:35:18.200 an estimated $245 million for fuel. It is not being used because Afghans can't afford to import diesel.
00:35:24.660 Good job. Good job, guys. USAID spent $249 million on a road system around Afghanistan,
00:35:33.060 but only 15% of the road was ever completed. By 2017, even what had been built deteriorated.
00:35:40.320 Hmm. And then a 2015 report into USAID's funding of healthcare facilities in Afghanistan. So
00:35:47.020 obviously, so some of this stuff that I'm talking about is before, before Biden, but also before
00:35:54.200 the debacle that we just described when the U.S. troops left Afghanistan. So a 2015 report into USAID's
00:36:02.680 funding of healthcare facilities in Afghanistan said that over a third of the 510 projects did not exist
00:36:08.180 at their claimed location or anywhere close by, leading auditors to conclude that USAID was not
00:36:14.800 providing oversight if they did not know where the facilities were. One healthcare site gave
00:36:19.920 coordinates located in the Mediterranean Sea. Nearly half of the reported coordinates showed no physical
00:36:27.540 structure within half a mile. Hmm. USAID gave no comment about these things to CNN. So that's
00:36:36.700 hundreds of millions, hundreds of millions, billions of our tax dollars not only going to programs that are
00:36:43.820 degenerate, that are evil, that are harmful on every level, but also wasted completely, gone nowhere.
00:36:54.280 And they basically function like they are not accountable to the taxpayer or to the executive
00:37:01.480 branch. And that's just not true. So it is not only understandable that Trump and Marco Rubio and
00:37:09.900 Elon Musk are trying to take over and restructure and reorganize and reorient this entity, it is again
00:37:18.460 righteous and good. Trump understands the mandate. He understands the mandate. I know a lot of you have
00:37:24.780 questions about tariffs, specifically that part of what Trump is doing. Tomorrow we are going to talk
00:37:30.700 about that. I will have my dad on and we will talk about tariffs and what it actually means and
00:37:36.540 what the media is saying and is it working. It seems to be working. I know a lot of people in your life are like
00:37:42.880 mad about what Trump is doing for a variety of reasons. I am happy about all of it. I and I just want you to be
00:37:50.600 unapologetic about that. Like you don't have to caveat it. I know a lot of your friends out there, they're
00:37:55.440 telling you stories about, oh, cutting funding to USAID or cutting funding to World Relief or these
00:38:00.760 deportations. I'm telling you so far, it's all good. And I will tell you if I think that it's not.
00:38:10.220 I promise you that. Now, that's just my perspective. Other people have different perspectives out there.
00:38:17.860 But I'm telling you that everything that is being done right now is in the best interest of the United
00:38:24.040 States and is actually compassionate and wise and righteous and good. Because again, governments are
00:38:30.840 responsible primarily, if not exclusively, to their own people. That is true of every government
00:38:38.040 everywhere. And again, if you want to understand the propaganda that is being pushed with immigration
00:38:45.400 or USAID, you need to read Toxic Empathy. I see that Toxic Empathy has started a lot of some more
00:38:53.080 conversations on social media right now. And it is, you know, by people who are not acting in good
00:39:01.340 faith, it's always going to be misrepresented as a book that is against all empathy or against all
00:39:06.600 compassion. And if you've read it, you know that that is not the case at all. It is an extremely
00:39:11.880 compassionate and even deep feeling book, but it tethers us and submits us to truth, most importantly,
00:39:19.120 biblical truth, but also factual truth when it comes to abortion, when it comes to transgenderism,
00:39:24.760 when it comes to the definition of marriage, and when it comes to immigration and social justice.
00:39:30.420 If you have read the book, please leave me a five-star review on Amazon. You'll notice that the
00:39:36.080 negative reviews, the vast majority of them are not verified purchases. There are people out there
00:39:41.340 that don't want you to read this book, that don't want Christians to read this book. I saw actually this
00:39:46.940 woman that I know a lot of conservative evangelicals follow. She posted on Twitter that, like, internet
00:39:54.120 bullies are preaching about, like, toxic empathy. I mean, these people can't even be bothered to read
00:40:00.700 the book. If they did, they'd probably agree with a lot of it and learn something from it, but it's just
00:40:07.020 easier to be triggered by something and dismiss it than have your assumptions to be challenged at all.
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00:42:05.400 how can Christians possibly support ending any kind of funding to World Relief? Because remember,
00:42:11.160 World Relief takes a lot of its funding from the USAID, even though it calls itself a charity. It is
00:42:17.000 getting a lot of our tax dollars from USAID. So this is a part of the National Association of
00:42:24.800 Evangelicals, and we don't have time to get into the National Association of Evangelicals and their
00:42:29.160 history, but we will at some point because there's a lot there. They are a Christian humanitarian
00:42:36.660 organization. It was funded or founded over 80 years ago, like most organizations. I'm sure it started out
00:42:43.880 with a really good and biblical mission, but anytime you have a nonprofit organization that starts to
00:42:51.340 latch on to the government for power and funding, there's usually going to be some kind of compromise
00:42:56.880 and perverse incentives there. They describe themselves this way, though. World Relief is a
00:43:03.860 global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world's greatest
00:43:08.000 crises in partnership with the church. It started as a way to serve war-torn Europe in the immediate
00:43:18.180 aftermath of World War II, and now they say that they are responding to humanitarian crises in the
00:43:26.560 Middle East alongside local partners delivering emergency aid. The first crisis that the website
00:43:32.980 lists is Israeli forces launching an extensive attack on Hezbollah military assets in Lebanon
00:43:39.320 on September 23rd, 2024. Not the October 7th attacks or the refugees from that. They are noting harms to
00:43:49.480 terrorist assets before they're talking about harms to Israelis, and maybe they have a good reason for
00:43:55.500 that. I don't know. It seems like a purposeful window, though, into their progressive leanings.
00:44:00.940 World Relief also plays a significant role in refugee resettlement and immigration. They work in
00:44:06.160 partnership with the U.S. Department of State. They also work with local churches. They help
00:44:10.920 resettle thousands of refugees referred to the United by the United Nations Refugee Agency to the
00:44:17.300 United States each year. Now, that in itself, helping legitimate refugees resettle and assimilate
00:44:23.740 into the United States, making sure that they are taken care of, that they can get up on their feet
00:44:28.520 and work jobs, that mission in itself, of course, is not wrong and is something that Christians should be a
00:44:35.280 part of. And the United States absolutely has a right, just like every country, to decide which
00:44:40.880 refugees can come in, how many refugees can come in. And then once they're here, I do think that there
00:44:46.200 is a Christian part to play and a Christian obligation to try to help the refugees around us
00:44:52.000 get assimilated and to get to a place of stability with their families. And so if that was all they were
00:45:01.100 doing and they were, as a charity, as a non-governmental association or organization, using their donor funds
00:45:12.200 to simply resettle refugees and teach them the gospel, then I think that would be great. But that's not
00:45:19.200 really all that's going on. So this is according to the Heritage Foundation, who is obviously their
00:45:27.100 Christian organization, but they've done some digging into who World Relief actually is. During
00:45:33.360 the Biden administration, what started out as faith-based organizations, and this is not just
00:45:38.660 World Relief, but organizations like them, supporting the State Department to resettle genuine refugees in
00:45:45.240 the U.S. after a legitimate application process, has evolved into mass illegal immigration, creating an
00:45:51.200 immigration industrial complex worth billions of dollars. So this is kind of the background. Faith-based
00:45:58.000 organizations have been involved with the resettlement of refugees as far back as 1948. After the passage of
00:46:04.640 the Refugee Act of 1980, that was influenced by the crisis of the Vietnam War, faith-based organizations
00:46:13.740 really became integrated into U.S. refugee resettlement. The Biden administration encouraged and released
00:46:20.940 millions of illegal aliens into the country. So not legitimate refugees, not people who have gone
00:46:28.780 through the legal process of claiming asylum and applying for refugee status, but illegal aliens who
00:46:36.080 may have claimed to be seeking asylum, we don't really know. And they use these same NGOs that were
00:46:42.840 responsible for refugee resettlement to receive, process, and transport these illegal aliens.
00:46:50.320 The administration pays these NGOs millions of taxpayer dollars that come from the numerous federal
00:46:55.980 departments and agencies, including the HHS, including USAID. This includes Catholic charities.
00:47:05.860 The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society received more than $40.9 million in grants from the departments of
00:47:12.740 HHS, Homeland Security, compared with only $46 million in contributions.
00:47:18.320 So several different NGOs from different kinds of religious backgrounds receiving billions and
00:47:24.900 billions of dollars from the federal government to resettle specifically illegal aliens. This funding
00:47:31.360 has further incentivized this dangerous travel of these illegal aliens and also has enabled trafficking
00:47:39.460 and the human smuggling that happens so often at our border of these unaccompanied children.
00:47:45.820 World Relief is one of these charities that is receiving so much money from the federal government and
00:47:53.580 seems to be playing a part of this industrial complex, which is enabling, exacerbating illegal
00:48:02.520 immigration. Most of World Relief's funding comes from government grants. In 2022, they received $126 million
00:48:10.720 in government grants compared to only $33.5 million from private donations. That's according to
00:48:17.900 journalist Megan Basham. In its 2021 financial statement, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
00:48:24.320 reported it received more than $93.1 million in U.S. grants compared to only about $20 million from
00:48:32.180 private donors. Then the following year, the Department of Health and Human Services alone issued that
00:48:38.800 Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, a whopping $182.6 million in grants for unaccompanied alien
00:48:45.560 children and refugee services. So there is such a dark underbelly of Christian in-name only organizations
00:48:57.600 funding and fueling some of the most deleterious progressive causes, including illegal mass migration.
00:49:07.480 And I'm sure that World Relief has done some really good work. I'm sure that they have responded to
00:49:13.640 crises around the world in a way that we would applaud. They should do that. But if they are at
00:49:20.660 all enabling illegal immigration, then that is a huge problem. They shouldn't be called Christian.
00:49:26.240 They certainly shouldn't be working in conjunction with the federal government to do that. But the fact
00:49:33.300 alone that they are in cahoots with the government and still call themselves an NGO, that's a problem.
00:49:41.200 And if you look at their website, like you can see their ideology, you can see where they're coming
00:49:47.680 from. So they have this top five immigration myths debunked article, and we can't go through all of them,
00:49:55.020 but I want to go through two of them. So one thing that they say is a myth is that refugees and other
00:50:01.180 immigrants increase crime rates, they say, including undocumented. So again, undocumented,
00:50:08.040 that reveals a lot of their ideology. Instead of saying illegal, you say undocumented, which I find
00:50:14.760 so offensive. And if you are a legal immigrant, you should find that so offensive. Your citizenship
00:50:20.420 doesn't come down to documents. Your citizenship isn't just a piece of paper. Your citizenship is a
00:50:28.520 right that you have. I mean, it is a birthright for many of us, but if you went through the sacrifice
00:50:35.580 of the legal process, it affords to you certain rights that are not and should not be afforded
00:50:42.440 to non-citizens. It's not just a document. I mean, we even see that in Scripture when Paul appeals
00:50:49.960 to his own Roman citizenship. Citizenship matters. It creates order in the world, and it actually protects
00:50:58.020 the most vulnerable by affording them rights that they have simply because they are a person and
00:51:04.280 a citizen of that country. And to call someone documented or undocumented completely negates
00:51:10.720 the idea of citizenship altogether. That is a radical left-wing phrase and position, and this
00:51:16.040 so-called evangelical organization apparently believes that. But if you look at the debunking of
00:51:24.140 this, the debunking of the myth that this is a myth. So they say that refugees and other immigrants
00:51:31.900 increase, don't increase crime rates. They actually say that these undocumented people are less likely
00:51:37.500 to commit crimes than native-born Americans. Before I even get into the stats, like, let me just tell you
00:51:42.520 the logic of that. If someone is undocumented, they, by definition, do not have documents, right? And so we
00:51:53.500 don't know their identity. We are unable to track them. We do not know in many cases where they are really
00:52:02.680 coming from, what their background is, what crimes they have committed. There is really no way for us to
00:52:09.560 track their legal or criminal history in or outside of the United States. Now, sometimes we get the
00:52:18.120 intelligence to be able to do that, but it is very hard to do when someone doesn't have proper legal
00:52:24.200 documents. And so we really do not have the reliable data to show if illegal aliens commit fewer crimes
00:52:33.080 than native-born people. But even if that were true, even if it were true that illegal aliens are less
00:52:39.280 likely to commit crimes, that does not mean that we should accept them. That doesn't mean that we
00:52:46.100 should have, uh, that we shouldn't have borders. And just because we have natural-born citizens who
00:52:53.660 commit crimes doesn't mean that we should add more criminals from illegal aliens, because every crime
00:52:59.720 committed by an illegal alien, unlike the crimes committed by citizens, are totally preventable by just
00:53:05.060 enforcing immigration law. And even if an illegal alien never ever committed a crime, we would still
00:53:12.680 have a right to the sovereignty of our country and the protection of our borders. But the fact of the
00:53:16.960 matter is, is that refugee communities throughout Europe do commit more crimes proportionally than the
00:53:24.400 citizen population. For example, in Sweden, from 2013 to 2017, immigrants were three times more likely to be
00:53:31.680 registered as a suspect for assault, four times for robbery, and five times for rape compared to the
00:53:38.720 native population. Uh, in Denmark, in 2020, crime was 51% higher among male immigrants and 149% higher
00:53:46.720 among male offspring with a non-Western background compared to the entire male population. In Germany, the
00:53:54.160 German Federal Criminal Police Force, um, has reported that in 2022, 31.9% of crime suspects were
00:54:01.640 non-German, while this group constitutes about 16% of the population. In the UK, July 20, uh, this is
00:54:09.400 just also just a story. There are statistics from these places, but to give you a look into what this
00:54:13.860 really looks like, on July 29, 2024, a 17-year-old son of asylum seekers from Rwanda stabbed three girls
00:54:20.380 to death in Southport at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party. There's also someone on trial right now
00:54:27.100 in the UK, uh, refugee who went on a stabbing rampage and tried to kill as many children as
00:54:35.940 possible and actually laughed about it when he was arrested. In France, June 8, 2023, a Syrian asylum
00:54:42.480 seeker stabbed four children at a playground. That's according to the BBC. And those are just a
00:54:50.120 couple of dozens and dozens and dozens of stories that you can find just by searching throughout Europe.
00:54:54.940 And then they also say, this is an immigration. Refugees and other immigrants are taking jobs
00:54:59.420 away from Americans. They say, no, they're not taking jobs away from Americans. They're doing jobs
00:55:03.980 that Americans don't want, like picking our crops for $5. Hmm. I thought we had the 13th Amendment.
00:55:11.220 I don't know. Maybe I'm confused about something, but Stephen Miller was actually just having a
00:55:15.600 conversation with Jake Tapper about something similar to this, where Jake Tapper kind of raises this
00:55:21.340 point as well. And here's what Stephen Miller had to say. I saw six. The Department of Agriculture
00:55:26.300 says that between 2020 and 2022, 42% of crop workers were undocumented immigrants. And in many cases,
00:55:35.320 as you know, these migrants do jobs many Americans do not want to do. So how do you, how does President
00:55:42.580 Trump make sure that the effort to deport people who are not in this country legally doesn't end up
00:55:49.240 hurting Americans who want safe borders? Absolutely. But also don't want to see even more
00:55:55.920 higher prices in groceries. Well, I mean, I'm sure it's not your position, Jake. You're just asking
00:56:01.780 the question that we should supply America's food with exploitative illegal alien labor. I obviously
00:56:09.140 don't think that's what you're implying. Only 1% of alien workers in the entire country work in
00:56:14.420 agriculture. The top destination for illegal aliens are large cities like New York, like Los Angeles,
00:56:20.960 and small industrial towns, of course, all across the heartland, as we've seen with the Biden floods.
00:56:28.100 None of those illegal aliens are doing farm work. There's no universe in which this nation is going
00:56:34.140 to allow the previous president to flood our nation with millions and millions of illegal aliens who just
00:56:39.540 get to stay here. And we are especially not going to allow a subset of those illegal aliens to rape and
00:56:44.980 murder our citizens. So we are going to unapologetically enforce our immigration laws. And as I'm sure you
00:56:50.280 will celebrate, we are going to unleash the power and might of the U.S. government to eradicate the
00:56:54.600 presence of transnational threats on our soil. I love Stephen Miller so much. I mean, he never makes an
00:57:01.940 apology for his immigration position. And he is right on. So is Tom Homan. And I'm just so thankful
00:57:07.860 because, again, it is compassionate policy to prevent more Laken Riley's and Molly Tibbetts's
00:57:13.780 and Kate Steinle's and Jocelyn Nungare's. It is compassionate policy to make sure that it is
00:57:22.540 as impossible as possible for an illegal alien to commit a preventable crime against an innocent
00:57:29.880 citizen. And everyone should be on board with that. And no matter what your background is, if you are
00:57:35.720 here illegally, you do not have a right to be here. It doesn't mean that you're not made in the image
00:57:39.640 of God. It doesn't mean that you don't deserve compassion. It doesn't mean that you don't deserve
00:57:43.540 help. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't try to come here legally. I think all of those things are
00:57:49.340 true. And yet we have a government that has been tasked by God to reward good and to punish evil and
00:57:57.340 to bear the sword and to protect our borders. And again, that's the right and the responsibility,
00:58:02.280 the righteous right and responsibility of every government. Every government should put its needs
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00:59:43.820 Okay. I just want to say one thing, Brie, before we get into the Grammys thing, because I didn't have
00:59:49.020 time. And I've just—I mean, I'm sorry. This is just going to be over an hour, everyone.
00:59:54.660 I think I've just abandoned that goal. I'm not even going to talk about it anymore.
00:59:59.120 So Josh Howerton is a pastor that we've had on before. So he made this comment on X,
01:00:04.640 which I thought was really interesting. This is about USAID. He said,
01:00:08.160 I do not think American Christians realize how perverse our international influence has become.
01:00:12.640 The pastor of the largest church in Chile spoke at Lake Point—that's his church—in Espanol last
01:00:17.340 year. So they have a service that's just for Spanish speakers. They're in Texas,
01:00:21.680 so a lot of Spanish speakers there. He explained that despite having a deeply traditional view of
01:00:26.340 gender and family, they had begun aggressively teaching LGBT ideology in Chilean public schools
01:00:32.040 to the horror of Chilean parents. Why? Because Chile feared losing USAID if they didn't. I didn't
01:00:39.900 understand what he meant until this week. This is according to the USAID website that they have
01:00:47.700 policy programs like LGBTQIA plus inclusive development policy that they literally take into
01:00:54.180 these poor countries that are completely culturally, morally, religiously opposed to this stuff and
01:00:59.180 shove it down their throats and say, look, we're going to take away your food money if you don't go
01:01:04.860 along with this. I mean, this is the same thing that the Biden administration did when they told
01:01:09.220 public schools that take Title IX funding. If you take Title IX funding—or no, it was snap lunches—if
01:01:16.000 you take funding for food for poor kids, then you have to let boys into girls' bathrooms. That literally
01:01:22.620 happened. So I don't want to hear from any mushy evangelicals or any professing Christians who were
01:01:30.560 talking about the so-called injustices of the current Trump administration who had nothing to say about
01:01:35.440 that, nothing to say about the horrors of abortion that were pushed under Biden, nothing to say about the
01:01:40.260 gender transitions that were pushed by Biden on children. And now you're going to be sad because we're
01:01:46.120 cleaning out the corruption in the federal government. Give me a break, please. All right.
01:01:53.000 Other people who need to give me a break. I'm tasking them with giving me a break. And that is
01:01:57.660 celebrities at the Grammys. Now, before we get into some of the cringiest moments at the Grammys,
01:02:03.860 can you just tell me, like, what was the general feeling? First of all, how did you get there?
01:02:08.460 Like, what were you doing there? I just have a friend who's a member. And so he gets tickets.
01:02:14.100 I don't even know what that means. Well, you can only go to the Grammys if you're like a member
01:02:18.580 of the academy. And there are non-voting members and voting members. And he's just a non-voting
01:02:23.180 member. So you then you have the opportunity to buy tickets to go. And he just had a ticket. So I
01:02:27.700 got to go. And was fun? Yeah, it was really fun. Yeah. What did you wear? It was a unique experience.
01:02:33.120 I know. I realized I didn't even take any pictures while I was there, like of myself. But
01:02:37.080 I just wore a dress. Yeah. And it was fun. Nothing super special. Like, was the food good or anything?
01:02:42.980 There wasn't any. Really? You go in there at 1230 for the pre-show and you can't leave until the end,
01:02:50.980 which is at 930. And there was no food? They don't give you anything. You can buy food in the,
01:02:55.020 like, the center that it's in. But the lines are so long that we didn't. Oh, that sounds terrible.
01:03:01.280 It was pretty rough. What was your favorite performance?
01:03:03.340 Um, oh, gosh. I actually, I thought so many of them were really good, which I don't normally think
01:03:10.680 for the Grammys. I thought, like, vocally, they were all really good. Um, I really loved Sabrina
01:03:16.440 Carpenter. I think she just has really good stage presence. Okay. I saw like the, I saw that on
01:03:21.680 Instagram, the beginning of her performance, which was cute and funny. Is her voice good, life?
01:03:27.160 It was at the beginning, but I think she was just moving so much that it, it didn't sound as good
01:03:32.560 toward the end. But I thought Chapel Rhone sounded amazing. Her voice is incredible. Um, and so I
01:03:40.400 thought that performance was really good. Um, there was one that I thought was awful. I thought Charlie
01:03:46.220 XCX was terrible. Oh, what did she, what did she sing?
01:03:50.660 So Julia, that's all I know. I don't know any of her songs, but they all kind of sound the same
01:04:00.860 to me. So, um, she just kind of like hopped around and lip sync to her songs. Cool. Yeah. Um, okay.
01:04:07.940 What about, I have like a, I wouldn't even say it was, it's like a love hate relationship. I would
01:04:14.240 say like tolerate hate relationship with the song. Beautiful. Okay. Me too. And why was
01:04:26.300 he wearing that romper? I don't know what the suit was about. He also adjusted it while he
01:04:31.620 was on stage, which was gross. Um, wait, like it was too tight. Like he grabbed it. Yeah.
01:04:38.280 Yeah. He, yeah. Okay. Rose, he's not gay, right? I don't think so. That outfit was super
01:04:47.020 gay. I don't know. He did backflips, which were cool. I saw that. That was pretty cool
01:04:53.040 in a onesie. Yes. And I actually, I feel the same as you because before he even sang, I turned
01:04:58.900 to my friend and I said, I can't stand this song. And then he performed it and I was like,
01:05:03.220 that was really good actually. I could see that. Yeah. I do think he has a great voice. Yeah.
01:05:08.000 I would never listen to that song though. Like on, you know, Spotify. Okay. I heard
01:05:12.560 a version that was like without the like buildup, it was like an acoustic version and I, it bothered
01:05:20.040 me. I was like, I, I, I just need it to like, I needed to do it. I need to build up. Yeah,
01:05:24.900 I know. Um, okay. So all good performances. I saw that you had posted something. I don't even
01:05:32.400 know who it was. He was like, selfishness is the greatest form of selflessness or something
01:05:36.900 like that. Yeah. That was money long. She won for like R and B performance or something
01:05:42.520 is at the pre-show. So not a lot of people saw it, but yeah, she, she said selfishness
01:05:47.240 is the highest form of, of self-respect. That's what it was. Nice. Yeah. Nice. So I learned
01:05:54.900 that definitely at the Grammys. Yep. Um, okay. Then we had some speeches. Um, which one should
01:06:03.960 we do first? Let's do Lady Gaga. Stop four. Trans people are not invisible. Trans people
01:06:14.720 deserve love. The queer community deserves to be lifted up. Music is love. Thank you.
01:06:25.300 What does that mean? Trans people are not invisible. Oh, we see, we see them. I know they're not
01:06:31.920 invisible. They're there. Also the most vague, like all of these speeches are so vague. Yeah.
01:06:38.860 Music is love. Music connects us. The whole theme of the night was like the LA fires and
01:06:43.180 raising money for that. Um, and I'm just, they're probably all donating to act blue, which just
01:06:49.340 goes to Gavin's campaign. Yeah, no. Yeah. And they all voted for the policies, the environmental
01:06:54.680 policies that made that so much worse than it needed to be. And, um, and so, and then they
01:07:00.160 go up on stage and they're like, this is music is community and it helps. And, you know,
01:07:04.980 there's nothing specific. And everyone there is like, yes. Yes. Yes. So Lady Gaga says music
01:07:10.500 is love. And everyone's like, yes. Okay. Let's just play one of these. Um, let's play Alicia Keys.
01:07:18.320 Yes. So true. Preach. So true. You just know what she needed to say after that to emphasize
01:07:37.480 it and make sure no one asks any clarifying questions. Full stop. Full stop. Period. The
01:07:45.620 end. Enough said. All of those. That's what you just need to say at the end of it to make
01:07:50.900 sure. Okay. What do you think about Cowboy Carter making what album of the year and country
01:07:58.180 album of the year? Yeah. Best country album. Um, I don't even listen to country music and
01:08:04.200 I was offended, but I know that a lot of people who do listen to country music were extra offended.
01:08:09.060 Yeah. Um, not because people can't switch genres, but just because that's not her genre
01:08:13.980 at all. Um, I don't know any of the other songs. Yeah. I only know one line of one song.
01:08:22.180 I think everyone's loved my singing voice today. So I just want to give them that one more time.
01:08:27.480 I know. Hold them down. I think that's all I know. So don't be a bad word. Take it to the
01:08:37.160 dance floor. That's all I know. Beautiful. I know. Thank you. I should win. Yeah, I know.
01:08:42.620 At the rate we're going. Um, yeah, yeah, no, I thought it was not great. Okay. I, I don't think
01:08:51.760 we are allowed to go into this. I'll let Jason Whitlock talk about this because I saw him tweet
01:08:56.920 about it and I was like, I've been thinking that for years. Her appearance. That's all I'll say.
01:09:03.660 Yes. Just compare it to her album covers and say 2006. Just compare it to pictures of say,
01:09:11.580 I don't know, 2000 and what she looks like now. Yeah. And what she is trying to look like
01:09:17.800 and what she is trying to do. I'm confused about that. Her hair color. That was new as of
01:09:24.020 Yes. Her hair color. Yep. That's what I was going to say. Yeah. It's just a little confusing.
01:09:31.060 It's just a little confusing, especially, especially based on her, like past activism.
01:09:36.140 I will say her surprise was cute. The like, I thought it was cute. It's like a gif now. Yeah.
01:09:44.320 I know. I thought it was cute when she was like surprised that she got country album of the year.
01:09:49.540 If that's, if it's genuine, I thought it was kind of sweet. And then her daughter being like,
01:09:55.580 mom, like if you watch her daughter's face during it, she's like, mom, get up. Yeah. And I was like,
01:09:59.700 that's such like a cute moment. Like Beyonce's daughter is like, mom, my mom, Beyonce is so
01:10:06.260 embarrassing. Get up. I just thought that was like actually a cute moment. Um, so anything else,
01:10:13.360 like any other, I guess is okay. First, I I'm sorry. There's so much to talk about. And I know
01:10:19.720 that we're already way over. Obviously we're not going to show it, but like Kanye's wife.
01:10:25.240 Oh yeah. Yeah. I have some outfits here too. If you want to look at them before we go, but, um,
01:10:31.200 yeah, I didn't see her thankfully. Um, but she, reports were saying she got kicked out. That's
01:10:39.040 not true. So she was just there and I don't know how that's legal to be honest. I thought they got
01:10:45.280 kicked out. No, they didn't actually get kicked out. Oh, they didn't. Yeah. No, but I think they did
01:10:50.380 kind of sequester them somewhere. Well, I saw a really sad picture. Like some, some people were
01:10:55.840 laughing at it on X, but it was like this little boy, probably eight years old, like looking around
01:11:01.260 a corner, looking at her. Cause she's totally buck naked and like, no, that's not funny. That's not
01:11:07.960 okay. I don't know what's going on there. I said on X that we should be praying for him, but obviously
01:11:13.580 I should have included her in that. Like, I feel like there's something really dark and really
01:11:18.900 demonic going on there. The guy that gave us Jesus is Lord a few years ago. And I know a lot of people
01:11:24.500 were skeptical about that. And I had my own questions, but that is a good album, by the way,
01:11:28.820 it's a really good album. Obviously Satan has attacked him a lot in the past few years. And I
01:11:34.580 think about their poor kids, like Kim and Kanye's kids, like both sides of his family, so much
01:11:40.700 exhibitionism and terrible, terrible examples in so many ways. Like you can't have a healthy
01:11:47.800 mentality about the body and sexuality when that's what you're looking at. Yeah. Agreed.
01:11:53.700 I just found that really dark and sad, really weird vibes. I mean, people kind of assumed this
01:12:00.380 would happen eventually. So yeah, I don't know. Um, okay. Uh, let's see. I want to know what Julia
01:12:07.920 Fox was wearing. Is it appropriate for our eyes? Full screen 17? It's kind of appropriate.
01:12:14.300 We blurred it. We blurred it. Okay. I knew she'd be wearing something. I just find her like very
01:12:19.440 beautiful, but also the captain of Bizarro land. She's wearing like rubber cleaning gloves.
01:12:27.020 Oh, I can't even see that. Okay. Yeah. And she like makes all of her own clothes. And this
01:12:33.200 is who Charlie XCX is talking about. Yeah. So Julia. Okay. Uh, Billie Eilish. I saw her wearing
01:12:40.300 a backwards hat. She had changed into that after this was her red carpet look. Unfortunate.
01:12:47.400 She looks like the mole from Thumbelina. That's way more specific than mine. Do you all know what
01:12:54.600 I'm talking about? We're on like a big Thumbelina kick right now at our house. So that's the first
01:13:00.760 thing that came to mind. Um, okay. I thought Taylor Swift looked amazing. So good. Don't
01:13:07.120 you think? She looks so good. Great color on her. Yeah. She was posing like that all night.
01:13:12.800 Oh yeah. Yeah. She looks great. She's a pro. Um, Sabrina Carpenter, who I think is like one
01:13:18.600 of the prettiest people. Okay. Interesting. I like it. It's very her. Yeah. She's very old
01:13:26.720 Hollywood. That's her style. So it works for her. Uh, I mean, low in the back, not modest,
01:13:32.080 but the, the color is cute. Uh, okay. Jaden Smith, my personal favorite outfit of the night.
01:13:38.360 This is my favorite too. Because obviously. Yeah. What is that? Uh, is that a black castle?
01:13:45.440 Yeah. Around his head? Yeah. Is it supposed to mean something or is it just to get talked about?
01:13:50.580 I think it's just to get talked about. Well, he's kind of kooky. He probably has a reason for it. I,
01:13:55.440 I don't know it though. Okay. Troy Sivan. Who is this? He's a singer. Um, I don't know
01:14:04.760 that you can tell from this picture, but the fabric that he's wearing is like that really
01:14:09.840 cheap, like polyester fabric. That's what it looks like. Oh. And I just thought this was
01:14:14.760 really, really bad. Yeah. It just doesn't fit him. It doesn't fit his body. And I'm sure
01:14:21.920 it costs more than, you know, a lot. Yeah. I'm sure it costs a lot, but it looks like
01:14:26.960 it doesn't. Strange. And I'm also like confused about the tie situation through the jacket.
01:14:35.360 Don't know. Don't know. Okay. Strange times at the Grammys. Those people just like really
01:14:41.360 need Jesus. We all do. We all do. But especially Lady Gaga. Okay. That's all we got time for
01:14:48.260 today. We will be back here tomorrow.