Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1188 ｜ Trump's Most Successful Weekend Ever ｜ Guest： Ron Simmons

00:00:00.000 Trump just had the most successful weekend of his presidency, maybe of any presidency ever.

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00:03:14.760 Dad, welcome back to the show.

00:03:16.260 It's been a little while.

00:03:17.440 It has been.

00:03:18.200 Thanks for having me back.

00:03:19.660 Yeah.

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00:03:20.380 So Trump had a really good weekend this weekend.

00:03:23.260 A lot of things accomplished, right?

00:03:25.560 No question.

00:03:26.260 In fact, our mutual friend, Mr. Florence, says it's probably the best weekend in the history

00:03:31.320 of President Weekend.

00:03:32.940 So it was a really, really good weekend on all the stuff that he got done.

00:03:36.900 You know, they negotiated the China thing for 90 days where they're going to reduce the 0.75

00:03:42.640 tariffs on U.S. goods from, I mean, we're going to do 145 down to 30%.

00:03:49.560 And then China's reducing ours from 125% down to 10%.

00:03:54.400 I mean, that's a big deal.

00:03:56.440 So that's a good deal for us.

00:03:58.400 A better deal for us than it is for them.

00:04:00.480 Yeah.

00:04:00.700 Which means that Trump negotiated well.

00:04:02.760 But we, yeah.

00:04:03.320 And we buy a lot of stuff from them, as you know.

00:04:05.500 Yeah.

00:04:05.620 So this will help a lot of the retail outlets that bring products over for Americans to

00:04:12.360 buy.

00:04:12.760 So that'll, yeah.

00:04:13.280 And I think that the more you can have good trade deals, the less likely there will be

00:04:19.600 military or other types of conflicts between those two countries.

00:04:24.760 And Trump has always understood that, right?

00:04:27.700 Correct.

00:04:28.180 Absolutely.

00:04:28.640 And so do you think that the fact that he got China to come down to 10% on our goods,

00:04:35.700 that it indicates that everyone who fear-mongered about the tariffs and said this will never

00:04:42.000 work, that they were wrong?

00:04:43.660 Oh, I absolutely think they were wrong.

00:04:44.980 And I've thought they were wrong since day one.

00:04:46.620 If you look at what's going on right now, I wrote this down, so I looked through it.

00:04:50.860 But initially, China and Canada retaliated, you know, they raised their tariffs.

00:04:58.980 Now, Canada's the only one left, and they're not going to last on that, as you know.

00:05:03.160 14 other countries are already in negotiations with the U.S.

00:05:06.920 And these are the major countries, okay, on working a deal out.

00:05:09.920 They're in negotiation.

00:05:12.720 Seven have already, seven additional ones have offered concessions already from the tariffs

00:05:18.780 that they put on our goods.

00:05:20.720 And Mexico, oddly enough, even though we've raised tariffs on them, have never retaliated

00:05:26.360 against us on that.

00:05:27.340 So that's really kind of entry.

00:05:28.480 So I think the ball is moving.

00:05:30.040 As I said, I think the last time I was on the show, Allie, that I believe most all of

00:05:34.580 this will be settled by the end of the summer.

00:05:36.660 Okay.

00:05:37.020 And we'll have deals that, you know, maybe not as good as everybody wants them, but there'll

00:05:41.840 be better deals than we have today.

00:05:44.040 Um, do you think that, and for people who don't remember, we did a whole episode about

00:05:52.660 tariffs, I think a couple episodes about tariffs, but Trump raised tariffs on all of these countries

00:05:57.240 to try to make our deals more equitable for both sides, because he has always said that

00:06:03.460 America is getting the short end of the stick.

00:06:06.100 That is part of why we don't have as much American manufacturing as we did before, because we've

00:06:11.980 sold out to China and all of these other countries.

00:06:14.940 Trump just sees this as making it fair and to kind of make a political point, progressive

00:06:20.260 Canada, as you said, they said, well, we're not backing down.

00:06:23.720 You're not going to bully us.

00:06:24.860 We're going to raise our tariffs too.

00:06:26.920 And it's become this whole thing.

00:06:28.440 And you had progressives here saying, oh, well, this is just horrible.

00:06:31.380 It's going to be horrible for our economy.

00:06:33.280 Well, as we just said, Trump is proving all of them wrong.

00:06:36.980 However, Trump's poll numbers are pretty low right now.

00:06:41.200 How do you think that he is dealing with that?

00:06:44.560 Well, I don't think there's been any new poll numbers that have come out since the weekend.

00:06:48.340 So we'll see how they come out this week.

00:06:50.140 I think that most second term presidents don't put much emphasis on polls because it's their

00:06:55.920 last time around.

00:06:56.980 They're going to do what they think is right.

00:06:58.920 Most second term presidents, to the extent they can, have done that.

00:07:02.320 Now, we may disagree with a lot of that, but that's what they've done.

00:07:04.800 So I don't think they think about polls too much.

00:07:07.080 Now, the people that are running for office again in 26 and 28 certainly do.

00:07:11.540 And they're the ones that are nervous about things like this.

00:07:14.640 I think all that will come out.

00:07:15.680 Now, remember, you're always going to have 40 plus percent of the people that are going

00:07:19.860 to be against Trump on everything he does.

00:07:22.000 They start with an anti-Trump base of at least 40 percent.

00:07:25.440 And then any fluctuation that people get nervous about, and certainly people have been nervous

00:07:29.700 about their investments, then that will bring that number up to close to 50 percent.

00:07:36.520 Going back to the trade deal, though, if you look at what happened with the UK, with the

00:07:40.100 United Kingdom's trade deal, that is a model for what I think will happen.

00:07:45.700 They have got reciprocal 10 percent tariffs on goods.

00:07:52.160 So if they sell Scotch whiskey over here, we put a 10 percent tariff over them.

00:07:56.880 If we sell bourbon over there, they put a 10 percent tariff on us.

00:08:00.680 So that's all he's ever asked for.

00:08:02.840 They also reduced tariffs from 25 percent to 10 percent on automobiles, the first 100,000

00:08:09.180 automobiles.

00:08:09.960 It used to be a 25 percent tariff.

00:08:11.880 So if you bought a $50,000 car, all right, that was a, let's say, a Tahoe, and you bought

00:08:18.500 that or, you know, you did that in London or in England, then that was going to cost you

00:08:22.820 another, what is that, $12,500.

00:08:27.660 And so now that's going to be just 10 percent.

00:08:31.120 And we'll do the same thing, I'm sure, for their land rovers and things like that that

00:08:34.480 come over here.

00:08:35.020 And they removed all the tariffs on U.S.

00:08:37.420 steel so that we can sell steel over there and a bunch of other agriculture products.

00:08:41.480 Our people believe that they can have a broader opportunity to market those over there.

00:08:46.460 So that's the model.

00:08:48.160 Now, not every country will be exactly the same, but that'll be the one.

00:08:51.920 The reciprocal part is the part that Trump's been beating on and the part that actually

00:08:56.320 pulls the best.

00:08:57.960 When do you think we will start feeling the fullness of the benefits of these trade deals

00:09:03.160 going our way?

00:09:03.800 I think it's the end of the year before all that comes in.

00:09:06.420 Now, you know, the China and the American 90-day, you know, I guess not pause, but reduction,

00:09:13.660 that starts tomorrow, Wednesday.

00:09:16.700 And so it's, I think we'll start feeling those right away.

00:09:20.240 You know, the companies that are buying those products will start feeling those right away.

00:09:23.280 Yeah.

00:09:23.500 And do you think that will translate really quickly to lower prices in retail shops?

00:09:28.500 Well, you hope so.

00:09:29.560 But, you know, what happens is a retailer that does it will probably drive the market.

00:09:35.700 But the ones that don't, they'll hold back as long as people are willing to buy.

00:09:39.980 Yeah.

00:09:40.300 It's a supply and demand issue.

00:09:42.180 It doesn't necessarily mean they're going to lower prices.

00:09:44.920 They'll only lower prices if people haven't been buying their stuff.

00:09:48.240 Yeah.

00:09:48.420 And if another retailer does, let's say Walmart lowers theirs, well, on the same items, other

00:09:55.400 places like Target and others will have to do that.

00:09:57.580 Yeah.

00:09:57.740 So we'll see who blinks first. 0.89

00:09:59.760 Man, I should have stopped shopping over the past few weeks to teach those retailers

00:10:05.240 a lesson.

00:10:05.960 You would have, right?

00:10:06.540 I'm the data point that they're looking at.

00:10:08.800 She'll still buy it even if we raise prices.

00:10:12.180 All right.

00:10:12.800 Anything else we need to know about tariffs?

00:10:15.620 I don't think so.

00:10:16.620 The other thing I think people don't realize is the tariffs that we have had and put on

00:10:22.980 these countries, that has raised revenue for us.

00:10:26.800 And that revenue will go against some of the tax cuts that we want to put in place that

00:10:33.980 helps pay for things like no tax on tips.

00:10:36.180 It helps pay for things like extending the tax cuts that President Trump did in 2017.

00:10:42.860 So there is revenue coming in.

00:10:44.400 And I haven't seen the exact numbers as to how much that is, but there's revenue coming

00:10:48.240 in from that.

00:10:49.580 Okay.

00:10:50.080 So Trump's numbers right now are historically compared to past presidents and their second

00:10:56.580 term really low.

00:10:58.360 It might be one of the lowest.

00:11:00.400 I know you said that he doesn't care as much because this is his second term, but obviously

00:11:04.900 someone like J.D.

00:11:05.800 Vance is looking at this.

00:11:07.100 People who are up for election soon are looking at this.

00:11:10.500 The other accomplishments that happened over the weekend, we can talk about those.

00:11:16.280 And also, I want to know if you think those will help bump his numbers up at all.

00:11:22.140 Well, I think they will.

00:11:23.260 I think it'll bump his numbers up, especially if they continue.

00:11:26.220 It'll be interesting to see if any new polling comes out in the next week or so when things

00:11:30.460 continue to get better.

00:11:31.800 I think, you know, he's over in Saudi Arabia right now trying to get them to move from

00:11:36.900 a $600 billion investment in the U.S. to a trillion dollar investment.

00:11:42.180 And the leverage we have is they want to buy our military equipment.

00:11:45.520 Yeah.

00:11:45.720 And so that's the leverage.

00:11:47.100 So those types of things will be positively reflected in the polls.

00:11:50.820 Do we want to sell our military equipment?

00:11:52.160 Yeah, because they're against Iran.

00:11:54.240 Okay.

00:11:54.840 They're anti-Iran.

00:11:56.400 So we have to, you know, it's the enemy of my enemy of my friend.

00:12:00.160 Okay.

00:12:00.580 And again, that's a whole tribal thing, right?

00:12:04.520 And I forget what, you know, Iran is, of course, Persian, but Saudi Arabia is not a friend 1.00

00:12:09.820 of Iran.

00:12:10.660 But some of the other things that happened over the weekend, you know, he signed, well,

00:12:13.720 Monday, he signed a executive order saying that the U.S. will have most favored nation

00:12:19.980 status in the purchase of prescription drugs.

00:12:23.320 Yeah.

00:12:23.760 That only applies to Medicare and Medicaid, things that the federal government can control.

00:12:28.700 He can't force private companies.

00:12:30.720 But that is a huge deal.

00:12:32.380 Now, it doesn't mean that, let's say that for a pill in UK, they're paying a dollar and

00:12:40.160 we're paying a dollar 50.

00:12:41.720 It doesn't mean we're going to pay a dollar.

00:12:43.660 It probably means that we're both going to pay a dollar 25.

00:12:46.720 Okay.

00:12:47.120 That's what will happen because they won't, the drug companies can't go all the way down

00:12:52.520 to that because we've been funding a lot of their research and development expense.

00:12:57.580 So they're going to have to, all President Trump is saying, again, reciprocal, let's spread

00:13:01.340 that all over the world.

00:13:02.380 Don't make us pay for all of it.

00:13:03.900 Right?

00:13:04.280 Right.

00:13:04.500 And so that is going to be a big deal for seniors.

00:13:07.580 There's no question about that are people that are on disability, people that are poor.

00:13:11.580 That is a huge, huge deal.

00:13:13.780 And the average taxpayer, because it reduces the cost that the rest of the taxpayers have

00:13:18.940 to put in for Medicare and Medicaid.

00:13:20.800 That is a big, big deal.

00:13:22.640 And if you can just do that by executive order, why haven't past presidents done that?

00:13:26.440 Well, I don't know why we haven't done that.

00:13:27.860 And I don't know all the steps to make that happen, but what I think he is saying to those

00:13:32.940 drug companies, you know, you better pay attention.

00:13:35.140 And it's interesting because when he announced that initially, the prices on drug stocks tanked

00:13:40.580 yesterday.

00:13:41.240 But then by the end of the day, when everybody kind of realized as to how it would work,

00:13:45.940 then they went back up.

00:13:48.100 Yeah.

00:13:48.480 So as you've always said, like the market is an indicator of what is psychologically going

00:13:53.260 on with people.

00:13:53.960 It's not necessarily an indicator of where, how much money we have or where money is

00:13:58.640 going, right?

00:13:59.440 Yep.

00:14:00.220 And then there was India, Pakistan.

00:14:02.340 They were getting ready to fight each other and Trump stepped in and helped them.

00:14:07.120 In fact, they'd already had a little bit of that going on.

00:14:09.500 You know, I think Pakistan had, had, there had been a suicide bombing or some type of bombing

00:14:16.480 that had killed like 20 people.

00:14:18.400 And then India did some retaliation.

00:14:21.180 Pakistan, although Pakistan said they shot down all their drones.

00:14:24.160 I don't know if that's true or not, but then over the weekend, Trump called them both and

00:14:28.440 basically said, cut it out.

00:14:30.080 You know, I'm sure there were a lot of other things going on, but he negotiated a ceasefire.

00:14:35.440 Now those countries have never liked each other, but so what's so important about that is that

00:14:39.840 both of those countries are nuclear powers and they all have the ability to push the button

00:14:45.060 right now.

00:14:45.680 They don't push the button because they know it's mutual destruction, right?

00:14:48.800 I mean, there'll, there'll be no India or no Pakistan left, but, uh, but yeah, he did that. 0.59

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00:16:40.120 Let's move to immigration, where Trump is doing better than past administrations, obviously

00:16:52.160 a deportation and cracking down on that.

00:16:54.600 Before we get to the whole refugee scandal of the South African refugees, how do you think 1.00

00:17:01.020 Trump is doing when it comes to deportations and following through on his promises?

00:17:05.060 95% down from 2024, month by month.

00:17:10.200 So I would say he is.

00:17:11.040 94% down what?

00:17:13.700 Illegal crossings.

00:17:14.600 Illegal crossings.

00:17:15.280 Yeah.

00:17:15.560 And then, so that also, I think, not only, that's the biggest thing, okay?

00:17:19.900 The biggest thing is, you know, the first thing you do when you don't want a hole is

00:17:23.980 you stop digging.

00:17:25.240 So he stopped the digging, so to speak.

00:17:28.140 And then what you do is then you, you know, you try to clean it up.

00:17:31.800 And that's what Tom Holloman and his people are doing.

00:17:34.200 And I think he's done a really good job with that.

00:17:36.340 The challenges that we have is that we do, unfortunately, in some ways, I hate to say

00:17:43.740 this, but unfortunately, there are protections for people that are even here illegally, all

00:17:49.260 right?

00:17:50.080 And if we don't follow those processes, okay, then the courts are going to stop us.

00:17:56.660 They're bound to stop us because of the way the law works.

00:17:59.440 Now, you can change the law, but that's not happening right now.

00:18:02.300 So I think we have to be, we have to be aggressively careful, all right?

00:18:06.560 We have to be aggressive, but we have to be careful that we don't create problems of our

00:18:12.600 own because the majority of the people still do not want illegal immigrants here.

00:18:17.820 Yeah.

00:18:18.260 They want them to come through the system legally.

00:18:20.280 And so I think he's doing a good job on that.

00:18:23.420 I think a lot of people on the left, they might not even realize that they've started to conflate

00:18:28.120 illegal immigrants with immigrants because you hear them say the right is anti-immigration

00:18:33.980 or anti-immigrant or whatever.

00:18:37.120 And some of that is purposeful.

00:18:39.040 Some people, I think, might not really think about the difference of someone cutting the line,

00:18:45.320 getting here illegally, but all people, I think, want those who are committing crimes 0.99

00:18:51.580 and are here illegally deported.

00:18:53.660 This is one of those 95-5 issues that Trump is absolutely right on.

00:18:59.380 Think about this.

00:19:00.180 Think about if you were at Disney World and one of those lines that they have in the queue

00:19:05.080 and somebody just walked way up in front of you and got in front of you.

00:19:09.600 The left, if that's a liberal person standing in the back of the line, they would not like that.

00:19:13.760 But that's exactly what's happening to even something even more important.

00:19:17.780 Yes.

00:19:18.240 And plus the fact the money, the taxpayer dollars that are spent on illegal immigrants is astounding. 0.91

00:19:26.580 Even for states, especially for border states like Texas, where they have to be in our education

00:19:31.080 system, the federal law says that we must educate them if they're here.

00:19:35.960 I mean, that's super, super.

00:19:37.420 It's $17,000 per child.

00:19:39.960 All right.

00:19:40.660 $17,000 per year per child.

00:19:42.880 And then also our health care system.

00:19:45.200 And all that money comes right back to you and me and other taxpayers that we have to pay.

00:19:50.140 This is the propaganda that the Trump administration and a lot of conservatives are fighting against.

00:19:55.380 For example, there were some ice raids in Nashville, Tennessee over the past few days.

00:20:02.740 And the Nashville banner cites someone comparing these ice raids to what happened in Nazi Germany.

00:20:11.380 And actually, I saw this all over X as ice is going into these communities.

00:20:16.200 They're getting out the people who are not supposed to be there, getting them ready for deportation.

00:20:21.120 Sometimes this does include children because they don't want to separate the families.

00:20:26.540 Right.

00:20:26.700 Yeah.

00:20:26.860 Which do you want?

00:20:27.940 I know.

00:20:28.220 They're trying to keep the families together.

00:20:29.980 It's not that they think this three-year-old poses a threat, but they don't want the three-year-old separated from the mom, which is it's better for them to be together in Mexico than to be separated.

00:20:38.760 And so you've got a lot of people comparing this to Nazi Germany.

00:20:42.720 And that's what I'm saying when I think people, some people are genuinely confused, but they're being manipulated by this.

00:20:48.640 Because if you don't believe that ice has a right to deport people, then you don't believe we have a right to have a country.

00:20:54.240 I mean, there's no such thing as citizenship if you can't get people out who are here illegally. 1.00

00:20:59.060 And the Jewish people in Germany were German citizens.

00:21:01.620 Remember that.

00:21:02.200 They were German citizens.

00:21:03.220 They were not invading that country like a lot of these illegal immigrants are. 1.00

00:21:09.500 You know, the other thing that happened is that when in these countries like Venezuela, Nicaragua, a couple of more where where Biden put this rule in that said, hey, if you're if you're a citizen there and you want to come here, you can come.

00:21:24.160 OK, because those are bad countries, which is true.

00:21:27.280 But he didn't vet anybody.

00:21:29.100 That's the problem.

00:21:30.080 He didn't vet anybody.

00:21:30.980 The idea is maybe noble.

00:21:33.380 OK, but unless you vet people and and Clinton administration didn't do that very well, either with all the people from Somalia, you know, which which happened, which is going on in Minnesota and all those other places. 0.99

00:21:45.360 And so it's one thing to have noble ideas.

00:21:48.940 But if you don't have the process to make sure the people coming in are the people that are good for the country, then it creates havoc.

00:21:55.720 That's why you never judge a policy by its stated intentions.

00:21:59.040 No.

00:21:59.140 OK, I think this kind of reveals where a lot of the far left progressives actually are when it comes to their motives behind wanting illegal immigration.

00:22:10.480 This South African refugee story.

00:22:13.340 This is according to the Associated Press, obviously not a right wing outlet.

00:22:18.880 The Trump administration admitted 59 white South Africans known as Afrikaners.

00:22:24.180 They had to make sure that they put that in there into the U.S. 0.82

00:22:27.440 as refugees yesterday, citing claims of persecution and violence in post-apartheid South Africa.

00:22:32.480 The move was welcomed by some U.S.

00:22:34.660 officials, but sparked international criticism and concerns over inconsistency with broader refugee policy.

00:22:41.260 So we'll put up some pictures.

00:22:43.100 But the Afrikaners arrived at Dulles Airport on May 12th.

00:22:48.200 President Trump claimed that they were fleeing genocide in South Africa, that white farmers are being killed.

00:22:55.600 And all of this is true, by the way.

00:22:59.020 In 2022, there were over 300 attacks on white owned farms, resulting in 50 murders.

00:23:04.400 Torture is common in these attacks with Afrikaans, their Bibles being left open on their dismembered bodies. 0.99

00:23:12.580 There's actually this highway in South Africa with all of these crosses that are honoring all of the white farmers that have been murdered.

00:23:20.740 And they're very open about this.

00:23:37.060 Some members of the South African government at an economic freedom fighters rally in May 2024, 0.99

00:23:43.220 you had crowds of the black South Africans saying, kill the boar, kill the boar. 0.88

00:23:48.020 And the boar is the term that they use to describe the descendants of Dutch, German, French settlers who arrived in South Africa. 0.97

00:23:57.260 Here's thought for.

00:24:02.140 Okay, so they're screaming, kill the boar. 0.98

00:24:08.400 And this is what is happening to a lot of these white farmers. 0.97

00:24:11.200 And Trump is bringing them in as refugees. 0.96

00:24:13.580 And yet, you had people on the left, as we'll talk about in a second, very upset about this. 0.88

00:24:19.600 Well, it's totally hypocrisy.

00:24:21.240 I've been to South Africa a couple of times. 0.83

00:24:23.740 And it's, you know, the population is about 90 to 95 percent black and about, you know, 5 percent white.

00:24:32.340 So apartheid was awful, as we both would agree. 0.96

00:24:35.940 However, what's happened since that time is the government in a lot of these countries, not only South Africa, the country, but next door neighboring countries like Zimbabwe and Tanzania, they have nationalized a lot of the land.

00:24:51.820 So they've basically taken the land away from the farmers or they've been run off by violence, like you've said.

00:24:57.380 And so they're, I mean, they are absolutely at risk.

00:25:00.680 There's no question about that.

00:25:02.240 They do not live in a country where they can be safe, in my opinion.

00:25:06.780 And so this is no different than people that are truly being brutalized in Venezuela or Nicaragua or whatever the others we're talking about.

00:25:16.560 It's all because of the color of their skin, partly, but mostly because it's Donald Trump that's doing it or it's a Republican that's doing it.

00:25:24.880 Yeah. The Episcopal Church, through its Episcopal Migration Ministries, terminated on on Monday, May 12th, terminated its 40 year long refugee resettlement program with the U.S.

00:25:38.340 government due to, quote, moral objections to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

00:25:44.560 The church's decision stemmed from its commitment to racial justice and its historical ties to the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, which opposed apartheid.

00:25:54.880 So this speaks to the ideology that BLM has here because something bad happened to some black people a long time ago.

00:26:04.360 The people who are alive today, the white people alive today, who might not even be related to the white people who own slaves, they have to pay the price for it through reparations, through unequal justice system, different kinds of sentencing that disproportionately hurts white people and rewards black people based on the color of their skin. 0.69

00:26:25.160 And that's the same thing that is happening in South Africa.

00:26:28.460 The same thing happened in Zimbabwe.

00:26:30.720 It never leads to liberation or equality or justice.

00:26:34.640 It leads to chaos and it leads to injustice and murder.

00:26:38.620 And this supposedly Christian institution is saying we can't offer the same compassion to these people because they're white and something bad happened in South Africa decades ago. 1.00

00:26:49.100 Yeah, it's just totally ridiculous. 0.97

00:26:50.640 But again, I applaud Trump again for stepping out and doing something that nobody else has done. 0.80

00:26:57.080 You know, this was going on in earlier administrations as well.

00:27:00.880 This has been going on since 1992 when when apartheid was defeated, which was the right thing to do. 1.00

00:27:07.660 And and and, you know, it became black controlled for the government and what have you, which was which, you know, it's majority control. 0.93

00:27:16.400 That's fine.

00:27:17.220 But a lot of these things have been happening to these farmers since then.

00:27:22.020 And no administration has really done anything about it.

00:27:24.800 So I applaud him for stepping up and not being afraid of the left on something like this.

00:27:29.680 And I think we should, you know, be open to doing this.

00:27:32.380 You you and I both know a guy named Chuck Bentley, Chuck and his ministry there in Africa a lot.

00:27:42.160 And I've heard testimonies from some of the people that were farmers over there on how they got run off their land.

00:27:49.340 And I mean, it's just unbelievable.

00:27:51.420 And, you know, it's it's something that I think I think that we have to participate in.

00:27:56.960 And I'm actually very surprised that maybe they have, but like the UK should be doing this.

00:28:02.300 A lot of those people came from the UK, UK ran South Africa and a lot of those South African countries for a long time.

00:28:08.380 What are they doing about this?

00:28:09.740 Right.

00:28:10.020 Yeah.

00:28:10.340 What is what is Holland doing about this?

00:28:12.860 It is also the belief that Western countries or people who even come from Western countries, that they need to pay the price for colonialism.

00:28:23.340 Yeah.

00:28:23.980 Today, like this, you know, Episcopalian organization, the president said, we can't in good conscience facilitate the resettlement of those whose communities upheld apartheid. 0.88

00:28:33.840 So these people directly did not uphold apartheid.

00:28:36.880 He's not even saying that. He's not even trying to say that.

00:28:38.020 He doesn't even know if their ancestors did, but someone who had the color of their skin decades ago might have participated in that.

00:28:46.840 So they have to be punished today.

00:28:48.660 But we don't hold people from Pakistan or Iran or Iraq who want to immigrate or Afghanistan who want to go to the UK.

00:28:57.320 They never have to pay the price for what Al Qaeda did or what other terrorist organizations did.

00:29:03.880 And if we checked his ancestry closely, we'd probably find something on him.

00:29:09.220 Exactly.

00:29:09.820 You know what I'm saying? I mean, we probably all have people in our backgrounds that didn't conduct themselves in the way they should.

00:29:16.260 Yeah, that is true. The history of the world is the oppressed versus the oppressor.

00:29:20.360 If you go down far enough in your ancestry, you will find enslaved and enslavers, oppressed and oppressors, poor and rich.

00:29:28.160 No question.

00:29:28.700 That's the truth of it. And that's why the gospel is so beautiful, by the way, because all of us are responsible for our own sin.

00:29:34.240 We're dead in our sin apart from Christ and can be made alive by grace through faith in him.

00:29:38.560 That is the radical message that gets rid of all of this tribal resentment there.

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00:31:37.820 Okay, speaking of tribal resentment, we've got Jasmine Crockett, who operates out of a worldview of truly tribal resentment. 1.00

00:31:53.980 We know that she hates Donald Trump.

00:31:56.240 At a House Oversight Committee's Department of Government Efficiency Doge subcommittee, this was about the trans sports issue. 0.59

00:32:04.180 She accused Republicans of using the hearing to target trans athletes.

00:32:10.800 Okay, so here's what she's got to say.

00:32:13.140 Stop one.

00:32:13.980 I just learned today at 44 years old that the Republicans are going to be the ones to save women.

00:32:20.920 The same Republicans that have been saved for women's reproductive acts. 0.73

00:32:25.520 Or the same Republicans that have stood for the Equal Rights Act, which would hopefully get women to equal pay.

00:32:32.260 Or the same Republicans that just this Congress voted for the SAVE Act, which we know would disenfranchise women from even being able to vote.

00:32:40.060 But let me tell you, they are our saviors.

00:32:42.600 And so I am so happy to be here today because otherwise I would not have an idea that I had a savior in the Republicans.

00:32:49.940 Okay, so if anyone didn't detect that, it's sarcasm. 0.97

00:32:56.580 Well, yeah, it's not always idiotic sarcasm. 1.00

00:33:00.740 You know, first of all, she's probably the most racist person in the entire legislature. 1.00

00:33:06.440 If not, she's in the top five for sure. 0.59

00:33:08.580 And she's never going to get anything done.

00:33:09.980 She didn't get anything done in the Texas House.

00:33:12.500 She's not going to get anything done in the U.S. Congress.

00:33:14.280 But if you think about what she just said, okay, now she talks about reproductive rights, but yet she's alive. 0.87

00:33:22.560 I bet she's thankful her mom didn't abort her, right? 0.99

00:33:25.220 She talked about the SAVE Act.

00:33:27.860 She talked that, you know, women aren't going to be able to vote. 1.00

00:33:31.480 I mean, it's just...

00:33:32.280 That's just not true.

00:33:33.040 We've debunked that, by the way.

00:33:33.960 Totally, it's just unbelievably not true.

00:33:37.520 But yet, she gets all... 0.95

00:33:39.960 She's a darling of the left-wing media and just...

00:33:45.220 She's one of those... 1.00

00:33:46.540 The Democrats now, they're all cussing.

00:33:48.580 Have you noticed that? 0.87

00:33:49.300 Oh, yeah.

00:33:49.680 Oh, yeah.

00:33:50.020 They've been told to do that.

00:33:51.980 I've been reading about that.

00:33:52.920 They've been...

00:33:53.180 That's kind of their consultants are telling them to be more real, more like the average American.

00:33:58.380 Is that attractive to people?

00:34:00.080 No, it's not attractive to most people.

00:34:02.280 Maybe to some Democrats, but...

00:34:04.200 Now, you can tell me about your generation.

00:34:05.880 It's not attractive to my generation.

00:34:07.460 Well, it's...

00:34:08.320 I don't think so.

00:34:10.140 I mean, it's not attractive to me, but I also, you know, vote their worldview.

00:34:14.460 I expect for people in those positions to be more professional.

00:34:17.940 Yes.

00:34:18.520 I mean, that's what we expect.

00:34:19.880 I mean, we had that...

00:34:20.700 Those are...

00:34:21.340 We've elected them, right?

00:34:22.440 Those are our leaders.

00:34:23.120 They're supposed to have some type of dignity.

00:34:25.440 Yeah.

00:34:25.720 And what have you, and...

00:34:27.240 Trump called her low IQ, which is just obviously true. 1.00

00:34:31.260 It's just obviously true.

00:34:32.260 True, although I'm not sure you should say that either.

00:34:34.360 He should say that either.

00:34:35.520 Really?

00:34:36.080 Doesn't do any good. 1.00

00:34:36.960 You just said that what she said was idiotic. 1.00

00:34:39.220 Yeah, but I'm not the president of the United States. 0.99

00:34:41.700 Okay, but sometimes true things need to be said.

00:34:45.700 And he should leave that to you and me.

00:34:47.340 Yeah, he could leave that to you and me.

00:34:49.280 That is true.

00:34:50.400 But when it comes to crassness, no, I don't want someone on the Republican side to do that.

00:34:55.600 Like, I hate abortion.

00:34:57.240 Would I want a Republican to go out there and say, I effing hate abortion? 1.00

00:35:01.100 No, I would say that's unnecessary.

00:35:03.860 You know, it's just not necessary, and it's very classless.

00:35:06.840 Okay, speaking of Congress, what is going on with the budget bill?

00:35:10.700 They released...

00:35:11.320 The Republicans released some details Sunday, May 11th.

00:35:14.920 It's referred to as Trump's big, beautiful bill.

00:35:17.540 Includes over $4 trillion in tax cuts and $1.5 trillion in spending reductions over a decade, according to Bloomberg.

00:35:22.920 Yeah, well, my good friend in Congress that just got up there is on the Energy and Commerce Committee, which most of this goes through.

00:35:32.340 So it's a big part of this goes through there.

00:35:35.180 And in fact, one of the parts that's in there that's controversial is the defunding of Planned Parenthood, which I don't know if that's going to make it all the way through or not.

00:35:43.280 But I think we're getting to the end of the road on this.

00:35:46.640 Now, what's happening is, and you're going to hear people talk about this, I want your audience to understand, a lot of the spending that's going on now is spending that was approved by Biden in the last Congress, okay?

00:35:59.160 So we don't have the ability to control that.

00:36:02.200 It has to...

00:36:03.140 Mechanisms have to work itself out.

00:36:04.960 Until this bill passes and we eliminate some of those things, that's why the deficit continues to grow, all right?

00:36:12.280 Is a lot of this program that was under the so-called Inflation Reduction Act and all that, a bunch of spending that we can't cut off until we get this bill passed.

00:36:24.780 And also what's not included in there, although I think Trump is trying to get them to put it in there, is the money that we're getting from the tariffs is to have the scoring people to make sure that they include that as well.

00:36:39.360 And I think we're getting through to the end of that.

00:36:41.500 I absolutely think it's going to pass the House, and then the Senate will be able to pass it with only 51 votes because this is called budget reconciliation.

00:36:50.580 Now, whether or not the House is...

00:36:52.060 I think the goal is for the House to vote on that this month in May.

00:36:56.920 Whether that gets pushed a few days or not, I don't know, but that would be the goal to get it.

00:37:01.560 Because they want to have this passed when they go back home for their summer recess later in the summer to be able to talk to their folks about.

00:37:09.500 Yeah, Mike Johnson, Speaker Mike Johnson said he wants this done by Memorial Day, which I'm sure that they're all hoping for.

00:37:17.400 So the Congressional Budget Office, they are pointing out that 8.6 million people may no longer have Medicaid coverage by 2034 if this whole proposal passes.

00:37:31.160 What do you think about that?

00:37:32.220 Well, first of all, I think that it might be that there are some people that are on Medicaid that shouldn't be on Medicaid.

00:37:39.320 So there may be some of that, that there are loopholes in all of the entitlement bills that allows people that weren't intended to be receiving benefits receive benefits.

00:37:51.220 So I think that could be some of it.

00:37:52.660 Some of that, though, is going to be determined by the states because Medicaid is essentially run by each state and every state does it differently.

00:38:01.840 And so what I believe they're probably saying is that, well, if if we try to reduce our funding for Medicare, that means states are going to have to cut people off the rolls.

00:38:12.160 And that's not necessarily true.

00:38:13.720 So, again, it's a supposition.

00:38:16.480 OK, so we're hopeful.

00:38:18.980 Yeah. Oh, absolutely.

00:38:19.980 I think it's going to pass.

00:38:20.840 I don't think there's any question it'll it'll pass.

00:38:22.880 There'll be some more negotiations.

00:38:24.080 And listen, folks, it will not be everything you want or everything I want, but it will be much better than what we've had.

00:38:32.340 OK, that's true of everything that just about.

00:38:36.160 OK, let us talk about let's go to the state level, state legislature.

00:38:40.420 I had a conversation yesterday about what's going on in the Texas legislature when it comes to abortion.

00:38:47.060 And you've got some people who are upset that it seems like some in the Texas legislature don't want to take up a bill, have a bill move forward that would allow for equal protection of babies inside the womb.

00:39:03.860 And what is meant by that is having the woman have legal responsibility or legal accountability for the action that she has knowingly taken.

00:39:13.520 And we're not getting into a debate about that philosophically today because I've done that and we'll link past episodes and you can kind of hear the back and forth on that.

00:39:21.860 But when it comes to this kind of thing, a bill that would punish women for knowingly have abortions, having abortions that we know could be very unpopular, like how does this kind of thing work?

00:39:34.800 Like, how does a bill like this get passed?

00:39:37.000 Well, let me let me remind people of what Texas has done.

00:39:41.560 OK, 2013, my first year in the legislature, we had a 20 hour public hearing, 20 hours.

00:39:48.240 And I'll just tell you, all our pro-life friends, the majority of the witnesses, the public witnesses were against the bill.

00:39:58.720 OK, so pro-life friends.

00:40:01.140 What was the bill?

00:40:01.860 The bill was to stop abortions after 20 weeks, because before that it was you could you could wait till longer in Texas.

00:40:08.820 OK, so we passed the bill.

00:40:10.120 So pre-2013, you could have an abortion through probably 24 weeks.

00:40:14.280 At least 24 weeks.

00:40:15.500 Wow.

00:40:15.600 So we put that at 20 weeks.

00:40:17.480 OK, which wasn't as much as we wanted, but it was what we could get at the time.

00:40:21.780 And then in 2021, two things happened, which were really brilliant.

00:40:29.980 One was passing the heartbeat bill.

00:40:32.000 And that was put forth and supported by a really good friend of mine who's a doctor down there, Dr. Greg Bonin.

00:40:40.380 And he got on the front mic and explained how babies at that age can feel pain.

00:40:46.180 He's a he's a neurosurgeon.

00:40:47.660 So he knows about pain.

00:40:49.080 And it was very moving, very moving.

00:40:51.480 And then also that year, which people didn't realize, is they passed something called a trigger bill, which was super smart.

00:41:01.040 And a lot of states have followed that, that said if Roe v. Wade was ever overturned, then this bill automatically becomes effective and that no abortions in Texas.

00:41:10.700 You know what?

00:41:11.040 They were the first state to do that.

00:41:12.680 Texas has been the leader in these issues from day one.

00:41:16.740 Now, there's a lot of states that do just as well and maybe even better in some ways.

00:41:21.060 But what what happens is, is that any legislator can file a bill and there is a bill filed relating to that.

00:41:30.480 What is that that's called equal protection. 0.85

00:41:32.560 Now, what it would have done is if a lady in Texas has an abortion and she's found out in whatever way she would be subject to the same penalties that someone that had, you know,

00:41:44.700 that had committed murder against someone who was already born that in Texas, that could be up to the death penalty, up to including the death penalty.

00:41:54.240 And so this bill bills were filed to do that.

00:41:57.360 But the challenge is, is that if you're the author of the bill and you really want your bill to pass, you've got to go work that bill and you've got to have 76 other people in the House and at least 16 in the Senate to say yes.

00:42:09.540 And if you don't have that, the bill's not going to pass.

00:42:14.480 And so in this particular situation, this bill did not even have the votes in the committee that it was assigned to.

00:42:23.260 I talked to the chairman of that committee this morning.

00:42:25.560 He's a good friend of mine, John Smithy.

00:42:27.120 We served together.

00:42:27.940 He's been in the House for a long time from Amarillo, as pro-life, as conservative as you would want somebody to be.

00:42:33.480 But he said, Ron, we didn't have the votes and we were getting physical threats against us on both from both sides, from the pro-life people and pro-abortion people.

00:42:44.560 Yeah, we were getting physical threats.

00:42:46.180 Our committee members, we had to call DPS in and our offices to protect us.

00:42:51.280 And so I'll just tell you folks out there, that is no way to get your legislation passed.

00:42:56.640 If you're going to threaten a legislator, all I can tell you is that what's going to happen is they're going to, you know, smile to your face and then behind your back, they're going to work against what you want because people don't like to be threatened.

00:43:08.160 And obviously no one that I know in the pro-life fight would ever do that, whether they're an abolitionist or they say middle of the road pro-life or whatever.

00:43:16.280 No one, we would never do that.

00:43:17.860 But there are extremes on both sides of any issue.

00:43:22.340 And it's just not effective.

00:43:23.960 It's counterproductive.

00:43:24.780 And so that's the reason this particular bill didn't go through.

00:43:28.720 Also, Lieutenant Governor Patrick, who's on the Senate side, has said we're not going to take up a bill that's going to punish women that have an abortion.

00:43:39.500 Now, you and I might disagree with that.

00:43:41.640 There's got to be some balance in here because we believe the unborn is a human being.

00:43:46.900 We know they are.

00:43:47.760 And so they need protection, too, and the legislature has given them a lot of protection, but they haven't been willing to cross that threshold yet.

00:43:56.900 And I understand it.

00:43:58.020 I mean, when you're making public policy in a political environment, it's very, very difficult.

00:44:02.560 It's not as black and white as we want it to be.

00:44:05.980 And, you know, the leader in the House is very conservative.

00:44:09.160 Yeah, I was going to ask about the speaker because I've heard some, you know, criticism about him and, you know, his conservative bona fides.

00:44:17.160 So what do you think about our current speaker?

00:44:18.920 Well, Dustin Burroughs came into the House the session after I did.

00:44:23.800 And so I've known him very well.

00:44:26.160 He and I remain good friends.

00:44:28.420 Super conservative guy.

00:44:30.020 In fact, he was head of what they call the Calendars Committee.

00:44:33.920 And the Calendars Committee determines what gets to the floor of the House for a vote.

00:44:38.900 And he was chair of that in 2021 when the six-week abortion ban and the trigger bill got to the floor.

00:44:44.700 So if he wanted to be anti-abortion, I mean pro-abortion, he would have killed those bills.

00:44:50.260 He could have done it.

00:44:51.460 He's very, very pro-life.

00:44:52.900 And I am quite sure that he agrees with protecting unborn children in the most unique way.

00:44:59.740 I don't know his involvement with this.

00:45:01.220 He probably wasn't involved with this particularly at all.

00:45:04.820 So, you know, he's very conservative.

00:45:07.640 What's happened is the people that didn't get who they wanted for Speaker this time, who's actually, if you look at kind of all the scoring systems, he's much less conservative, Mr. Cook was, than Speaker Burroughs is.

00:45:19.980 They just think everything's bad.

00:45:21.640 And that's what happens.

00:45:22.480 You know that I experienced that when I was in the legislature.

00:45:24.880 You know, I was the 13th most conservative person in the House, as scored by Rice University.

00:45:31.100 But some of these, you know, far fringe groups scored me an F.

00:45:35.400 Yeah.

00:45:35.600 I mean, it's just crazy.

00:45:36.780 And I, you know, I did the school choice bill.

00:45:39.540 I did the, you know, no boys and girls bathrooms bill.

00:45:43.340 But yet I was, you know, not conservative enough.

00:45:45.800 And so politics is tough.

00:45:47.280 It's a tough, it's a tough world.

00:45:48.920 And you can't, you really can't ever please anyone.

00:45:51.800 You make as many friends as you can because you want to get things done.

00:45:55.360 But you also have to know you're never going to be friends with everyone because some people don't want to be your friend.

00:45:59.700 Yeah, and it's a business made up of people.

00:46:03.060 So if you're a legislator and I'm a legislator and you've been trashing me the whole time for something that you don't like about one of the things that I'm doing.

00:46:11.440 Now, not talking to me privately, but I'm talking about publicly.

00:46:14.040 And then you come to me and want me to do something for you.

00:46:17.580 It's going to be very, very hard for me to say yes to that.

00:46:20.640 Now, maybe I should, but, you know, we're human.

00:46:23.820 You're a person.

00:46:24.480 Yeah, that's exactly right.

00:46:25.900 Yep, that is true.

00:46:26.980 And that's true.

00:46:27.660 But I'm proud of the Texas legislature for all the stuff they do do.

00:46:31.320 Yeah, that's true in everything.

00:46:32.840 That's good life advice and everything.

00:46:34.880 That's true in media, too.

00:46:36.680 It is hard to, even if you agree with what someone says, but that person did something to you, it's hard to, you know, publicly, like, praise them.

00:46:46.440 It's just how it goes.

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00:48:05.460 Okay, if someone doesn't like what their legislator is doing, what their legislature is doing in any state, what is the most effective way to communicate with their lawmakers?

00:48:21.280 You know, it's interesting, I had an email over the weekend from a lady in Connecticut who is concerned about Connecticut legislators trying to regulate homeschool because of an incident that happened years ago.

00:48:35.480 And she was telling me about, you know, what do we do, you know, that type of thing, because he's really afraid.

00:48:41.020 And so what my advice to her was the same advice I give today, and that is you should contact your legislator, but you have to do that with respect.

00:48:51.340 Now, the best way to do that is go down and visit with them.

00:48:53.680 If you go to their office, they will see you.

00:48:57.440 All right.

00:48:57.820 They will see you.

00:48:58.980 But if you're going to go in there and threaten them, or you're going to get on social media and threaten and say, we're going to vote you out.

00:49:04.900 I mean, that just doesn't work.

00:49:06.640 Okay.

00:49:07.160 You have to, and you also have to offer a solution.

00:49:10.320 Let's say that there's something you don't like in a piece of legislation.

00:49:13.980 All right.

00:49:15.040 Now, there's other people that like it.

00:49:16.620 So you need to be able to offer a solution.

00:49:18.840 A solution isn't always just no.

00:49:20.520 So it's, hey, well, maybe we could do this.

00:49:22.640 You know, I hear what they're trying to get to.

00:49:24.360 Maybe we could do this or that or what have you.

00:49:26.640 Like for the exhibit in Connecticut, it's not the homeschooling situation that's the problem.

00:49:30.940 It's the Department of Children and Family Services that didn't do their job when these parents were abusing their child. 0.99

00:49:36.520 Yeah.

00:49:36.680 Now, you don't need to regulate homeschool because of that.

00:49:40.140 You need to get that part of it fixed.

00:49:41.740 Okay.

00:49:42.000 But we have to go in with solutions and you have to be respectful for it.

00:49:46.480 People are always wanting, they listen to constituents, but you have to be respectful.

00:49:50.180 Most of these, like in Texas, these guys and gals make $600 a month. 1.00

00:49:54.520 All right.

00:49:55.060 They're not doing this for fame or fortune.

00:49:57.720 Most of them are doing it because they truly want to serve their public.

00:50:01.900 Yeah.

00:50:03.160 Is it, is there any point to a Republican voter complaining to or talking with a Democrat legislator who they know is not going to be pro-life and is not going to agree with them?

00:50:18.820 Is there any point to trying to sway them at all?

00:50:22.020 I think the point, and that's a really good question, because the reason you do that is so you can understand their argument.

00:50:28.600 You don't go to them to try to say, I want you to believe me.

00:50:36.560 You go to that person to say, explain to me how you've come to this position.

00:50:41.140 You and I are obviously at different positions.

00:50:43.000 Tell me your argument.

00:50:44.280 What's, what's your argument that would favor, you know, abortions up until birth?

00:50:50.900 And what would be the point of that?

00:50:53.060 Why do you want to know their argument?

00:50:54.020 Once you know the other person's argument, you can argue better against it.

00:50:57.140 But is there any point in trying to persuade them in that moment to plant a seed?

00:51:03.240 Well, I think there's a point in asking them questions that they might go later and think about.

00:51:07.920 Yeah.

00:51:08.700 Okay.

00:51:09.040 So if a Democrat came to you when you are a Republican legislator, that's how you would have wanted them to approach you.

00:51:15.220 Because you would have never agreed with them if they said, hey, we want you to be against this 20-week bill or we want boys and girls' bathrooms. 1.00

00:51:23.400 You never would have been persuaded by them.

00:51:25.440 But maybe you would have appreciated them making the effort.

00:51:28.640 Like if she would have said, let's say a lady came to me that was a Democrat legislature or whatever, and they came and talked to me or a constituent or whatever, and she had had a very traumatic pregnancy experience, whatever that was, rape, whatever. 1.00

00:51:40.920 I would empathize with that.

00:51:42.800 It wouldn't change my ultimate position, but I would empathize with that. 1.00

00:51:46.120 And it's better to know where they're coming from than to just, no, no, no, you're stupid, you're stupid. 1.00

00:51:52.200 Right. 1.00

00:51:52.420 Unless it's Jasmine Crockett and we can do that.

00:51:54.060 Yeah.

00:51:54.660 Okay.

00:51:55.960 All right.

00:51:57.060 Let's close out with, do you, can you give us a life lesson from the little red wagon today?

00:52:01.680 I know I'm putting you on the spot.

00:52:02.880 Oh, no.

00:52:04.120 Well, the lesson from the little red wagon on this one is that it's always make sure that you ask the next uncomfortable question.

00:52:18.260 And that doesn't mean that you demand, but you should ask that question that maybe is going to make you uncomfortable in front of your legislator or whomever it is, but you have to figure out how to do it in the right way with respect and what have you.

00:52:33.640 So that, but don't stop because you're afraid.

00:52:36.720 Most people stop short of what they really want to know because they're afraid to ask the question and how the response might be.

00:52:43.140 Remember, you can never control somebody else's response.

00:52:45.600 You can only control the way in which you conduct yourself, but the only way to get to the other side of things is you have to get out of that comfort zone into an uncomfortable area.

00:52:56.760 And sometimes the uncomfortable question is something you're asking yourself.

00:53:00.240 That's exactly right.

00:53:01.280 Oh, that's even the harder ones.

00:53:02.620 Yeah.

00:53:02.800 You know what I'm saying?

00:53:03.580 Ouch.

00:53:04.140 Am I in this position because I really couldn't control the situation or what did I?

00:53:09.260 Yeah.

00:53:09.460 What did I do?

00:53:10.440 What did I do?

00:53:11.200 That's exactly right.

00:53:11.620 That is tough.

00:53:12.820 Okay, dad.

00:53:13.240 Well, thank you so much.

00:53:14.120 Everyone Should Get Your Book, Life Lessons from the Little Red Wagon.

00:53:17.060 Oh, wait.

00:53:17.520 One last thing.

00:53:18.080 You will give a free book and a free book of mine.

00:53:20.240 I'm going to give away today, Allie.

00:53:22.420 First of all, I want to ask you one question.

00:53:24.300 This is not something for you to answer today unless you know the answer, but I want you to think about it.

00:53:27.460 Okay.

00:53:28.280 Where did the term rest in peace come from?

00:53:31.260 Okay.

00:53:31.660 I don't know.

00:53:32.340 Okay.

00:53:32.700 So let's think about that because it relates to your Catholicism episodes the last few weeks.

00:53:40.140 True.

00:53:40.540 Okay.

00:53:40.920 Yeah, I could see that.

00:53:41.660 I never really thought about it.

00:53:42.720 Think about that one.

00:53:43.360 But even more fun than that is, you'll notice that I have a shirt on with an unusual logo,

00:53:50.660 which most people, in fact, very few people will know what this logo stands for.

00:53:56.580 And now, folks, you cannot look this up on AI and ask them, take a picture of it.

00:54:01.460 It doesn't work like that.

00:54:02.540 Now, I'm going to depend on your honesty.

00:54:04.400 Okay.

00:54:04.560 But the first person that gets back in touch with the show that tells us what this logo stands for will get a free signed copy of Life Lessons from the Little Red Wagon and a free signed copy of Toxic Empathy, courtesy of me.

00:54:21.980 Okay.

00:54:22.660 So let's see who really knows.

00:54:25.660 You cannot look it up.

00:54:26.900 Come on.

00:54:27.540 You just have to know.

00:54:28.400 You just have to know.

00:54:29.120 You have to have seen it before.

00:54:30.280 If you don't know, you probably hadn't been there.

00:54:31.800 If you hadn't been there, you probably don't need to know.

00:54:33.480 Okay.

00:54:33.920 So we'll see how that goes.

00:54:35.020 You can guess.

00:54:35.240 You can put a random guess out there, but you can't look it up.

00:54:36.660 Oh, yeah.

00:54:36.680 Please put a random guess.

00:54:37.800 It's pretty funny.

00:54:38.700 Okay.

00:54:39.260 Well, thank you so much, Dad.

00:54:40.580 Appreciate it.

00:54:41.180 All right.

00:54:41.500 Thank you.

00:54:41.860 Proud of you.

00:54:47.200 All right.

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