Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 125 ｜ Things We Just Don't Get

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, happy Friday. Welcome to Relatable. We are going to go over a bunch of stuff today.

00:00:06.920 I'm going to give you a little personal updates. Then we're going to talk about some things that

00:00:11.240 happened this week, some bad takes of the week. I think that goes hand in hand with some things

00:00:16.080 that happened this week in the public sphere. And we're going to do some things that you just

00:00:22.400 don't get. If you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you know that I've been

00:00:26.340 doing things that I don't get for a little bit. But today I asked things that you don't get,

00:00:33.540 things that you don't understand. And if you don't know what I'm talking about by that segment,

00:00:36.500 that's okay. I'm going to explain it before we actually get into it. So first for the personal

00:00:41.960 update, I am 38 weeks pregnant tomorrow. That means I am full term. I made it. That means that

00:00:48.460 she can come at any day and she will be totally fine and fully formed and fully functioning.

00:00:55.420 Now, of course, some people go into labor before 38 weeks and that's great too. But 38 weeks is 1.00

00:01:00.560 technically considered full term. If you are confused by that, like if you're someone who

00:01:05.120 hasn't been pregnant before and you don't understand pregnancy timing, know that I was

00:01:09.560 the exact same way before I was pregnant and you are not crazy. Like you hear that pregnancy is nine

00:01:14.260 months. So you think nine months, 36 weeks, that's, you know, four times nine, I think if my math is

00:01:19.080 correct. But really it's 40 weeks, which is over what you think of as nine months because months

00:01:25.760 aren't exactly four weeks each. It's really confusing when you get there. So 38 weeks is

00:01:32.100 technically full term, but 40 weeks is like when the doctor says that your due date is, but only,

00:01:37.620 I think it's fewer than 5% of pregnancies or 5% of babies are actually born on their due date.

00:01:42.860 So my technical due date is June 29th. She might come before that and she wouldn't be considered

00:01:48.600 early. You would say, oh yeah, she came early, but not really. Like she would be full term baby,

00:01:54.160 but, uh, or she could be past that. Some people go all the way to 42 weeks. I hope that that's not

00:02:01.380 the case, but I kind of just have like this feeling. I have a feeling that she is going to be

00:02:05.800 later rather than earlier. A lot of people say your first baby, um, is usually later than your

00:02:13.380 other babies or first babies have a tendency to go past their due date. I asked my doctor about that

00:02:19.100 and I did some research. He said, statistically, that's not, that's not true. Although I do hear

00:02:24.120 that all the time. I hear it from so many moms that I have to believe there's something to it that the

00:02:29.080 first baby typically goes past the due date, but maybe not. Maybe it just seems that way, but

00:02:34.140 also some people maybe have their first babies early. I'm not totally sure. I just have this

00:02:40.200 feeling in my intuition that she is going to be later rather than earlier, but who knows? We'll

00:02:46.280 see. All that to say, uh, next week is going to be my last week actually recording the podcast.

00:02:54.820 After that, they're going to be the prerecorded episodes that I've been telling you guys about

00:02:59.260 that. I'm so excited for you guys to listen to. And so there's not going to be a break. You guys are

00:03:03.140 still going to listen to me three times a week. I think on the week of July 4th, we're probably

00:03:07.820 going to take one day off, but you are going to still be hearing from me. But these are all

00:03:12.780 episodes that I recorded back in May. So you don't have to worry. Oh, she's not taking a maternity 1.00

00:03:18.500 break. Yes, I am taking a maternity break, but I just prerecorded these for you guys so that you

00:03:23.880 would have some really valuable material while I am resting. And while my husband and I are enjoying

00:03:29.180 being parents for the first time, we're going to be covering topics like predestination. We're

00:03:34.720 going to be talking about women teaching and preaching in the church, why Christians should 1.00

00:03:38.340 care about politics. But we're also going to be talking about non-theological and non-church

00:03:44.260 related topics like healthcare and Medicare for all the constitution, things like that. And so these

00:03:51.340 are topics that if you're curious about them, which I know a lot of you guys are, because I get

00:03:55.920 questions about these topics a lot. If you're curious about them, you are really going to love

00:03:59.940 these. And these are going to be episodes that I think especially you'll want to share with people

00:04:04.640 who maybe don't know a lot about these topics and really just kind of need a fundamental understanding

00:04:09.340 of what they are. That's what these episodes are going to be. I'm really excited. I'm really excited

00:04:15.080 for you guys to listen to them. So Mondays are going to be a theological topic. Wednesdays are going to

00:04:20.580 be a news topic. Friday or a news topic, I guess, more a political topic, not a news topic. Friday

00:04:26.800 will be interviews. So I have interviews that I've already done with Dan Crenshaw, with Jeff Durbin,

00:04:31.640 with Ben Shapiro, with Dave Rubin, lots of other people. We're talking about lots of hot topics that

00:04:36.980 I know you guys are curious about and I wanted to get their insight on. You are going to love it.

00:04:42.440 So this is going to happen for about eight weeks. Now, there is a possibility that over the next

00:04:47.020 couple of weeks or after next week, after I say, OK, peace out, there's a possibility that if my baby

00:04:53.760 is not born yet, I will come in and I will record a podcast about something that I just really want

00:04:58.960 to talk about. Like if something happens in the news and my baby hasn't come yet, there might be a

00:05:02.920 possibility that I could record a new podcast and say, OK, I just had to talk about this. And the same

00:05:07.580 goes probably for while I'm on maternity leave. Now, it just depends on how I feel and how everything's

00:05:12.320 going. But if there is a day where something happens and I'm like, oh, my gosh, I've got to

00:05:17.460 talk to relatable listeners about this. I just can't let this pass by. And I have the time and

00:05:22.140 energy to do it. Then I will record for you guys a 30 minute podcast talking about that particular

00:05:27.040 subject and you won't get the evergreen topic that day. That's definitely a possibility. But

00:05:31.760 the plan is for the eight weeks, eight or so weeks, I guess it would be less than that since I

00:05:36.980 probably. OK, so whatever, eight or so weeks after the baby is born, you guys are going to get

00:05:42.680 these evergreen topics that I know that you guys are really going to like. So something that you

00:05:47.380 could do for me if you are interested in it, this is totally your prerogative. Some of you don't do

00:05:53.080 social media. Some of you don't like sharing political stuff on social media. And I totally get

00:05:57.080 it. This is just for those of you who do like sharing stuff and are interested in sharing

00:06:01.040 podcasts. So because I am going to try really hard during this time to stay off social media,

00:06:06.040 it's going to be really difficult. Well, maybe it won't be. Maybe I'll just be so

00:06:09.900 consumed with what I'm doing that I won't even think about social media. But I'm going

00:06:13.180 to try really hard to stay off of social media. So for those of you who are willing, those

00:06:17.100 of you who are interested, who want to, if you could just share about my podcast when

00:06:22.660 the podcast episodes come out, that would mean a whole lot to me. So that could just be

00:06:26.980 sharing on your Instagram story. That could be texting it to your friend. That could be

00:06:31.160 talking about it with your family, your boyfriend, your husband, whoever. Sharing it as much

00:06:35.880 as possible, as much as you want to. Of course, that would be awesome. That would help me out

00:06:40.720 a lot because I typically try to post on social media, like on Twitter, Instagram, a promotion

00:06:47.640 of a particular episode. And I'm not going to be doing that or I'm going to try not to

00:06:51.440 do that. So if you guys could do that, then that would help out a whole lot just to make

00:06:55.840 sure that, you know, the podcast is still doing well, even while I am out, that would just

00:07:00.540 make me feel so loved and so cared for. If that's not for you and you just want to listen

00:07:04.900 to the podcast, that's okay too. And I love you just the same. Uh, also there are contentious

00:07:10.660 topics that we're going to talk about this summer. And I know that all of you don't agree

00:07:15.260 with every single one of my theological views and that's fine. Some of you don't agree with

00:07:19.160 every single one of my political views. And we're talking about some contentious things.

00:07:22.780 We're talking about women teaching in the church. We're talking about predestination, 0.99

00:07:25.880 the five points of Calvinism. Like we're talking about race. We're talking about Medicare for

00:07:29.560 all. We might disagree on these things. I just hope that, um, even though I'm not able

00:07:34.160 to like engage with you immediately when some of you have concerns or feedback that you

00:07:37.980 come to these episodes and say, okay, this is just a point of discussion. And this is

00:07:43.820 making me think about something. I don't agree with her, uh, views on Calvinism or whatever

00:07:48.460 it is, but I can still respect her. I hope that no one while I'm away gets this feeling

00:07:54.220 of like, wow, I really disagree with Allie on this. And you know, I'm angry or upset, or I'm

00:07:59.360 going to leave her a bad review because I can't believe that she thinks that about 0.97

00:08:02.480 predestination or whatever it is, or the end times, whatever it is. I hope that you still

00:08:08.060 see it and that they still come across as just kind of discussion points and what I have learned

00:08:13.440 from my own research. But as always, I'm looking forward to you guys' feedback. I'm looking forward

00:08:17.820 to the conversations that we're going to have about these interesting topics. And so please

00:08:22.440 always feel free to, uh, to email me, Allie at the conservative millennial blog.com. You can send

00:08:26.760 me Instagram messages. I might not see them right away, but it doesn't bother me at all for you to

00:08:30.820 reach out to me and I can respond to you when, and if I can. So that covers, that covers things

00:08:37.560 that are happening or things that are going to happen in a couple of weeks, or I guess in about

00:08:42.600 a week from now. Um, okay. Moving on past that things that happened this week. First, I just want

00:08:48.560 to say, and I know this is switching tone gears a lot, but I have been watching some of you have asked

00:08:53.300 me about this. I have been watching the things that are going on in Sudan. Uh, the military run

00:08:58.200 government there has really cracked down on pro-democracy protesters and they have gone on a murder and

00:09:04.900 rape rampage. There have been dozens and dozens, maybe hundreds of people who have been murdered and

00:09:09.580 raped, uh, by the military run government there. It is truly terrible. It is demonic. Uh, and we need to

00:09:16.800 pray for them. I'm, I'm considering doing Monday's episode on this, not just on Sudan, but, um, how we in

00:09:22.860 America and how Christians around the world can be praying for these people and what we can do for

00:09:27.000 them and why we should care about it and pay attention to it. It's really easy in our world

00:09:31.420 to just kind of get caught up in the dramatics of the political sphere or the things that are

00:09:35.840 happening right now, or the things that are happening. And for example, the Southern Baptist

00:09:39.240 convention, where there's a lot of theological contention, and maybe we'll talk about that on

00:09:43.380 Monday. I'm not sure. Um, it's easy to just get caught up in that and forget that people are really

00:09:48.260 suffering around the world. And so, um, uh, the only reason I might hesitate to do my entire podcast

00:09:54.720 episode on it on Monday is because there's a lot of background knowledge that needs to be had in

00:10:01.400 order to talk about this in a really wise way. Maybe I can get an expert to come on and talk about it

00:10:05.620 with me, but there's a lot of knowledge that I lack when it comes to the background about Sudan and

00:10:09.740 their people. But I've been reading a lot about it and I have read, for example, George Clooney. I mean,

00:10:15.500 you know, we don't go to celebrities for opinions on everything, but George Clooney had a really,

00:10:21.000 what I thought was an informative and a pretty bipartisan letter to Congress saying, okay,

00:10:26.700 here's what you can do to help the Sudanese people. And here's how Congress can take action.

00:10:33.040 And so I think that it would maybe be encouraging for you to Google that the, the George, uh, the

00:10:38.080 George Clooney letter about Sudan and just kind of read up about what's going on there. And of course,

00:10:43.160 pray for them, pray for their safety, pray that they would know the love of Christ, pray that

00:10:47.740 Christians over there would be able to stand strong and to share the gospel. Any missionaries that are

00:10:53.080 there, uh, pray for their protection and also pray that they're able to stand strong and persevere in

00:10:58.460 the faith and still be bold in sharing the truth of the gospel that saves. Um, so I just wanted you to

00:11:04.860 know that I am not ignoring that, that I am paying attention to that, that I'm still trying to

00:11:08.540 gather as much information as possible before. And if we end up talking about it exclusively on this

00:11:14.140 podcast now, switching gears, once again, that's, what's happening around the world. Things that are

00:11:19.660 happening right here, as you know, the 2020 election is ramping up. I mean, I feel like we just got out

00:11:25.940 of 2016. I really do. And I'm like still tired from it. I think I was talking about this on Monday

00:11:32.060 in the unbearable episode. It's like, I there's, or maybe it was before that just the vitriol that

00:11:37.920 surrounded the 2016 election. You probably lost friends. You probably deleted, maybe deactivated

00:11:43.120 your Facebook account. Cause you were like, I just can't do this anymore. And it feels like,

00:11:48.140 it feels like we are, it feels like it was just yesterday. And now we're going into it again. If

00:11:54.740 you, okay, this is kind of an inappropriate metaphor. I'm just using it as a metaphor. Again,

00:11:59.580 if you have kids in the car, maybe you don't want them to hear this, but it feels like, okay,

00:12:03.020 if you had your crazy time in college and you went on some kind of drinking rampage and, oh,

00:12:09.600 my cat's in my, my cat's in my podcast. Get down. It was sweatpants. Um, if you went on some kind of

00:12:16.920 drinking rampage when you were in college and you woke up the next day and you still felt awful,

00:12:21.020 and then you decided to go out the next night and do it again, that's what it feels like we are

00:12:25.820 ramping up to do. I feel like we are still in some ways hung over from 2016 and we are about to do it

00:12:35.160 all again in 2020. Uh, that's, I don't know how else to say it. That's just what it feels like,

00:12:40.240 but I'm hoping, I'm hoping that because we had that experience in 2016, we're able to kind of take

00:12:46.840 a step back and say, okay, I'm not going to, I'm not going to get as worked up as I did last time.

00:12:51.640 I'm still going to care about it. I'm still going to be informed, but I am able to take a step back

00:12:56.140 and say, you know what? I know what matters. What doesn't, I know how to find, uh, the truth

00:13:00.960 behind the headlines. And I know what might be exaggerated fake news. And I'm going to try my

00:13:05.800 best to maintain my relationships and friendships despite disagreements. Maybe we'll be better

00:13:10.560 prepared now. Maybe it won't be quite as crazy or just quite as dark as 2016 was, but we do still

00:13:16.720 have to pay attention. So Biden is the front runner right now, which is crazy because he hasn't really

00:13:21.920 been campaigning at all. Uh, here is his latest pitch. If I'm elect the president, you're going

00:13:28.040 to see the single most important thing that changes in America is we're going to cure cancer.

00:13:33.100 So Biden lost a son to brain cancer. This is obviously something that is personal to him.

00:13:38.120 This is obviously something that is close to his heart. And I don't want to trivialize that at all.

00:13:41.860 I truly believe that he wants, he wants a cure to cancer. We all do. Every single person that I know

00:13:47.560 would love a cure to cancer. However, this is just not something that can be promised by a politician.

00:13:54.540 It's just absurd to promise it. You can say that you want cancer to be cured, that you believe that

00:14:00.260 maybe we should fund it even more, even though there are billions and billions of dollars going

00:14:04.700 into cancer research right now. Uh, sure you can make that pitch, but to say that while you are

00:14:09.900 president, cancer is going to be cured. I mean, it's just, it's absurd. It's an absurd promise to

00:14:15.480 be able to make because you cannot deliver on it, but that's the nature of politics. It seems like

00:14:19.920 especially in 2020 that, uh, politicians, and maybe it's always been like this. Maybe it's not

00:14:25.420 a 2019, 2020 thing, uh, that politicians seem to over promise and under deliver. Yeah. I think that's

00:14:32.680 probably just been a forever thing over promise and under deliver. But when I was in PR, we were always

00:14:37.780 told under promise and over deliver. People are much happier that way. Of course, that's not how

00:14:43.440 politicians win campaigns. They have to kind of promise these ridiculous things, but come on. I 0.89

00:14:49.340 mean, come on. I think even Democrats who like Joe Biden kind of roll their eyes at this and they're

00:14:54.860 like, there is no way there is no way that he's going to be able to cure cancer because he doesn't

00:15:00.800 have any control over that. Uh, the reason not being able to cure cancer, it's not a lack of funding

00:15:08.420 issue. It's not because presidents in the past haven't cared about it. It's just because I guess

00:15:12.900 because scientists have not figured it out yet. And I just don't think Joe Biden or anyone else in

00:15:18.960 office is going to be able to change that unless there's this huge roadblock put in by previous 0.85

00:15:24.420 presidents that I don't know about, but it's just a ridiculous promise. And it's just another

00:15:28.620 example of politicians, uh, guaranteeing things that they cannot guarantee because they are desperate

00:15:34.480 to win. Uh, another ridiculous thing that was said by a politician this week, our very own, 0.94

00:15:41.180 our very favorite freshman Congresswoman from the Bronx, AOC, she says a lot of things. Now, 0.92

00:15:47.840 lately she has said some things that I don't completely disagree with. I kind of forget, wait,

00:15:52.360 what did she say? She said something about how solitary confinement is, uh, you know, it's not

00:15:57.740 humanitarian that, uh, who is it that Paul Manafort, that he shouldn't be sent to Rikers. I think she

00:16:03.880 even might've said that Rikers was shut down because of all of the human rights violations

00:16:07.360 that are there. And I'm like, okay, that's not the craziest thing that you've ever said. We would

00:16:11.840 probably be able to have a logical conversation about that. So she's not always completely off her

00:16:17.000 rocker. I would say about 99% of the times, uh, percent of the time. Yes, but not all the times now

00:16:23.280 here, here, she goes back here. She reverts back to the AOC that we know and love. Here's what she

00:16:28.480 says. So she's agreeing with some quote tweet, but, or she quote tweet someone. And she says,

00:16:33.040 yep, uh, voting against cost of living increases for members of Congress may sound nice, but doing

00:16:38.440 so only increases pressure on them to keep dark money loopholes open. This makes campaign finance

00:16:43.880 reform harder. All workers deserve cost of living increases, including minimum wage workers. So what

00:16:50.200 she's saying is that we need to use more tax dollars to pay members of Congress more money,

00:16:56.000 uh, because they need cost of living increases. Now I understand they live in DC. DC is extremely

00:17:03.240 expensive. Apartments in DC are extremely expensive. It is difficult to raise a family in DC unless you

00:17:09.720 already have a lot of money, uh, going into Congress. I understand that, but there's a lot of people who

00:17:15.360 would say, Hey, I don't want more of my tax dollars being spent to support Congress when they already

00:17:21.360 make a six figure salary. Again, I'm not saying that's a whole lot of money in DC, but it's a lot

00:17:26.020 more money than a lot of people are making in other parts of the country and, and equally expensive parts

00:17:31.320 in the country as well. And so there's a lot of people who say, no, politicians do not need to be

00:17:36.560 paid even more or Congress people don't need to be paid even more than they already do.

00:17:40.400 There's a conversation to be had about that. I, I, I do think that there's a conversation and a

00:17:45.840 logical, insane conversation to be had about that. There are probably good reasons on both sides,

00:17:50.080 but what is not a good reason? What is not a good reason is that we should pay Congress people more

00:17:55.560 because if we don't, they're going to keep dark money loopholes open. So basically they're going

00:18:00.880 to be taking dark money. They're going to be engaging in illicit behavior, uh, to gain money

00:18:08.100 because we don't pay them more. So basically what she's saying, increase, increase my, uh, cost of

00:18:14.440 living, uh, or increase the money that I get for a cost of living, increase my pay or else I'm going

00:18:20.760 to start taking bribes, uh, increase how much I get paid or else I'm going to start taking dark money.

00:18:26.300 So basically she's bribing people. She's like, if you don't give me what I want, then I am going to

00:18:32.440 get money another way. I mean, she's not talking about herself necessarily, but that's not how morality

00:18:36.960 works. Like, does she understand that? Well, if you don't give me what I want, I'm just going to

00:18:40.820 find an illegal way to get it. That doesn't make any sense. So can I say, uh, if you don't drop my

00:18:47.920 tax rate to zero, I'm just going to stop paying taxes. Or, uh, if you don't drop my tax rate to

00:18:55.080 zero, I'm going to start engaging in some kind of illegal behavior. I mean, that's basically bribery.

00:18:59.520 You're basically saying, um, give me more money or else I am going to break the law. That's just

00:19:05.300 not how it works. That's not how morality functions. And she's saying it's our fault.

00:19:10.860 Like it's our fault. If we don't want to pay more of our taxpayer dollars to pay Congress more than

00:19:16.840 it's our fault. If they engage in this kind of dark money behavior, really where's personal

00:19:23.100 responsibility when it comes to this, where's morality when it comes to this, it just doesn't

00:19:27.580 make any sense at all. It doesn't make any sense at all, but I'm going to try to, I, you know,

00:19:31.800 what, I think this is a good tactic for like a child. It's a really good tactic for a child's

00:19:37.320 like, Hey mom, uh, unless you give me everything that I want, unless you up my allowance to $400

00:19:44.740 a week, I'm just going to steal all your money and buy a bunch of shoes. Okay. That sounds

00:19:50.980 really good. That's basically what she's saying here. So that's one of the crazy, one of the

00:19:55.320 other crazy things that politicians have said this week. Um, here's another, Oh, this is

00:20:00.180 not a politician. This is just something that happened in the media, which was so ridiculous. 0.94

00:20:03.700 So Mel magazine is apparently an online outlet. This was going around. I've never heard of

00:20:08.160 them before, but it's an online outlet and they're telling men to share their abortion

00:20:12.280 experiences. They're saying, okay, well, this is going to be normalized. If men come out and 0.71

00:20:17.280 say, um, you know, their experience with abortion, their girlfriend, their wife, whatever, getting

00:20:22.720 an abortion. Now they had to note though, at the top of it, these are the times that we're

00:20:27.220 living in. We live in such confusing times that we actually have to clarify something

00:20:31.740 like this. So the editors noted at the top of this article, asking men to share their

00:20:36.200 experiences or, uh, the woman in their life, uh, her experiences with abortion. Here's the

00:20:40.860 editors note on top of this. It says for brevity's sake, we're using the word women to describe 1.00

00:20:45.480 people who get pregnant and men to describe those who impregnate them, but people of all

00:20:50.200 gender pregnant and, uh, get people pregnant. And this guide is intended to be a useful resource

00:20:56.040 for them as well. So we have to clarify what we mean by women and what we mean by men that

00:21:02.700 yes, in the traditional and the traditional sense, only women can have babies and only

00:21:07.180 men can impregnate women. Um, but we apparently have to clarify that that's not really true.

00:21:12.580 We're just saying that. So people will understand it because, you know, for brevity's sake here,

00:21:17.300 but that's not really true, but men can have babies and women can get men pregnant. Everyone

00:21:23.240 just needs to understand that. Okay. Wake up. No woke up. You need to woke up and realize that

00:21:29.420 every gender is able to get pregnant. You guys, I'm just so excited. I'm so excited to

00:21:34.940 raise my daughter in this world. This is going to be really fun when I have to bring her home

00:21:39.940 one day and say, no, I know that you heard that someone's dad is pregnant at school, but

00:21:45.580 that's not true. That's not true. They're not pregnant. Only women can get pregnant and only 0.99

00:21:50.280 men can impregnate them. I mean, that's going to be a really exciting time. I cannot, I cannot even

00:21:55.880 comprehend what it is like to live in the mind of someone who is this woke. Like how confused

00:22:01.440 possibly, how confused can you possibly be? Like this is not, uh, people who think that, uh, the,

00:22:08.880 it's not just that gender is fluid, but that biological sex is fluid. I just, I don't really

00:22:14.740 understand how you make sense of society. And I know it seems like, okay, that's just this

00:22:19.800 archaic and, and, uh, binary way of looking at things. Well, yes, of course it is because that's

00:22:26.720 how society has thrived since the beginning of time. And every time in every culture, there has

00:22:32.420 been a distinction between men and women, a distinction between husbands and wives in no

00:22:37.240 culture has a man been able to get pregnant and no culture has a woman been able to impregnate a man.

00:22:42.200 And there have been social and gender differences because of the biological distinctions between

00:22:47.920 men and women. That is literally how the entire universe has functioned properly since its very

00:22:55.440 existence. And so for us to come along now and to say, well, I took a class in postmodern gender

00:23:01.220 studies in 2015, and I'm completely changing it up. It's, it's just a little absurd. Like you can see

00:23:08.480 how maybe this is kind of chaotic and confusing for some people. It's, it's, it's amazing. It's

00:23:15.320 amazing. All I'll say is that I'm really glad that I'm not, I'm glad that I'm not on that side. I don't

00:23:19.960 think that my brain, um, my, my brain just must not be smart enough to be able to comprehend all of

00:23:26.100 it. I must just be extremely narrow-minded and extremely ignorant of all of the possibilities of

00:23:31.980 gender and sexuality. Uh, here's another amazing, amazing quote from someone on the left. So Charlotte

00:23:38.860 Clymer, she, um, is a transgender activist. She is just kind of a liberal Twitter person that a lot 0.99

00:23:45.060 of people retweet on the left. She's a leftist blue check mark, as I say. Uh, so she said this tweet,

00:23:51.380 uh, not all opinions are equal. Not all opinions are deserving of our time and consideration. Not all

00:23:57.340 opinions should be given space in the public square. If you push a belief, she says in quotes,

00:24:02.080 that is directly harmful to others. You have moved past opinion and into a threat of, or into threat to

00:24:08.440 public safety. Okay. Okay. I just want you to take a second to take that in. So not all opinions are

00:24:14.720 equal. They're not deserving of time and consideration. They shouldn't be given space in the public square

00:24:19.040 and they might even be a threat to public safety. Oh, okay. And you've got all these people

00:24:23.240 saying, yes, queen. Yes. I totally agree with you. This is such a good take, except it's not. It's a

00:24:31.160 terrible take. It's an un-American take. It doesn't even make any sense whatsoever. So not all opinions

00:24:37.160 are equal. They're not deserving of our time and consideration. Some shouldn't even be in the public

00:24:41.080 square and some are harmful to the wellbeing of others. Who gets to decide that? Who gets to decide

00:24:46.680 what opinions are equal and what's not? Who gets to decide what opinions get a fair shake in the public

00:24:52.220 square? Does this, does Charlotte get to decide? Does she get to decide that? Um, I don't, I don't

00:24:58.960 think so. I don't, I don't understand why this person is the arbiter of what is harmful and what

00:25:04.420 is not. What's harmful? Are my biblical views harmful? Are Christian views harmful? Are conservative

00:25:09.360 views harmful? What is harmful? What actually hurts the wellbeing of other people? What is a threat to

00:25:15.180 public safety? What's public safety and who gets to decide all of that? Yes. Uh, opinions are deserving

00:25:21.840 of our time and consideration, or at least in the public square. You don't have to pay attention to

00:25:25.900 them. You don't have to, you can say personally for me, I'm not going to pay attention to that, to that

00:25:30.840 particular opinion. That's totally fine. That's your prerogative. But to say that someone doesn't have a

00:25:34.760 right to share their opinion because you arbitrarily and subjectively think that it's harmful to the

00:25:42.120 wellbeing of other people. That's exactly why we have the first amendment. That's exactly why we have the

00:25:47.420 first amendment. So people like this can't come along and say, sorry, your opinion doesn't matter. Now I said

00:25:52.660 much of this basically on Twitter and she said, I'm talking about anti-vaxxers, anti-vaxxers and their

00:25:59.440 opinions have been proven to kill people. Well, first of all, she didn't say that in her tweet. First of all,

00:26:04.000 that's not what she said in her tweet. And I guarantee you, she is not just talking about

00:26:07.560 vaccinations. I guarantee you, she is talking about people who disagree with her on gender, on

00:26:11.720 transgenderism, on sexuality, probably on healthcare, probably on abortion too. She probably 0.94

00:26:16.900 thinks that those opinions don't deserve to be in the public sphere at all. But she said, no,

00:26:21.520 this is about anti-vaccine. Well, look, even if we agree on vaccinations, even if you agree, even if

00:26:27.980 you are a pro-vaxxer, that does not mean that anti-vaxxers or vax hesitant people don't have a

00:26:34.600 right to share their opinion. Of course they have a right to share their opinion. You don't have to

00:26:37.980 listen to it. You don't have to take their advice. That's perfectly fine. But do they have a right

00:26:43.100 to say their opinion or say their thoughts as much as you disagree with them? They absolutely do.

00:26:49.080 Now, taking their logic, taking their logic, that means that pro-choicers should not be able to have

00:26:54.780 a platform at all, that they shouldn't be able to talk about abortion because they are anti-science.

00:26:59.860 They say, oh, it's not really life inside the womb. It's this clump of cells until you want it to be

00:27:04.660 a life. I mean, it's completely philosophical hogwash. It's total. It's total and absolute

00:27:10.240 nonsense. The pseudo-philosophical, pseudo-science, if you can even call it that, justification that 0.77

00:27:18.440 people make for aborting life inside the womb, it doesn't even make any sense whatsoever. And yet,

00:27:24.620 we're giving them a platform. And I agree with giving them a platform. I think that we should.

00:27:29.820 But even though babies, millions of babies are dying every year, I want people who disagree with

00:27:34.900 me, who I even think are harmful, to be free to share their opinions and say the things that

00:27:39.140 they want to say. But unfortunately, there are too many people, not all, but too many people on the

00:27:43.200 left who do not think that anyone who has a Christian or conservative or opinion that opposes

00:27:49.740 theirs, that they should have a right to speak at all. They really think that the First Amendment

00:27:54.540 should be narrowed to the people that they agree with and that they agree with only. So those are the

00:27:59.200 crazy things. Those are the crazy things that have happened this week. So now we are going to move

00:28:06.780 on to some other things that we don't get because those are basically the things that I don't get

00:28:10.120 that happened this week in the news. But now we're going to talk about some of the things

00:28:13.920 that you guys don't get. Now, if you don't know what the segment is, that things I just don't get,

00:28:19.260 these are basically, I wouldn't call them peeves. They're things that I genuinely have questions

00:28:23.920 about. So this is not judgment. This is not me saying, wow, I just don't understand you.

00:28:28.160 It's me saying, okay, I just have questions about this and I am not totally sure the reason behind

00:28:35.520 them. Like for example, like I want to know why people like anime, like there's nothing wrong with

00:28:39.580 anime, but I just, I want to know like, what's the, what's the thing? What is it? What is interesting

00:28:46.040 about it? Is it like a comic book or why do people like drawing anime? I'm just, I'm wondering.

00:28:51.360 So that's the thing I don't get is anime personally, never researched it myself. So if you have any

00:28:57.400 insight on that, I also think that I'll get Crocs. Like, I don't know if people like them ironically,

00:29:03.560 or if people are really bringing them back because you know, we've gotten like a lot of ironic foot

00:29:09.780 trends and ironic shoe trends that have happened over the past 10 years. Like I feel like new balance

00:29:14.700 started out as this ironic thing that people started wearing again. And then we started wearing

00:29:18.780 them the same thing with Birkenstocks. And then the same thing with Adidas, for example, like, you

00:29:24.260 know, Adidas with the three stripes really came back. And I think that some people were doing it

00:29:28.000 like ironically at first, and then it became this thing that people are actually wearing. I have

00:29:32.700 those shoes. And so are Crocs ironic? Are they like that? Or do people actually like them? That's

00:29:37.200 a thing I don't get. And I need insight on. Another thing I don't get is why we're ever required

00:29:41.960 to fax something. Someone actually sent me this and I totally agree with you. Why are we ever

00:29:46.540 required to fax something? Is this 1997? Is this 1985? When I'm required to fax something to like

00:29:53.280 some kind of government, like for example, I had to get a medical reason to not go into jury duty

00:30:00.880 this month because I am full term pregnant. And so I had to fax something to them. Well,

00:30:05.240 I don't have a fax machine. I don't know where to go to fax something. When I have to fax something to

00:30:10.380 my doctor's office, why do I have to fax it? I would rather, can I just send you a

00:30:16.440 picture of it? Why do I have to fax something? So that's definitely a thing I don't get. Again,

00:30:20.720 if you have insight into that, I don't get why people don't like chicken fingers. I don't get,

00:30:25.880 or I don't understand why people like kale. If it's just something that we're all like kind

00:30:29.780 of pretending that we need to like it. If it's just some blogger was like, oh, kale is really good.

00:30:35.180 Like we should all like kale and we all just kind of pretended to like it together. I don't know.

00:30:39.760 I've tried. I've tried to like hop on that joke, that big inside joke that we're having about kale.

00:30:44.220 And I just haven't been able to do it. So that's something that I don't get.

00:30:47.340 Another thing that I don't get, which I've talked about many times is people

00:30:50.000 that don't wear headphones when they're watching like a video or something in public on their phone.

00:30:54.860 Don't get that. Don't get talking on speaker phone. I honestly don't get people that have

00:30:59.500 their phones on loud. Now my dad, for example, he always has his phone on loud in public and it's

00:31:05.160 going off dinging every five minutes. And I'm like, this must just be a millennial thing. We always have

00:31:09.560 our phones on silent. So those are things that I don't get. So you guys send me some things that you

00:31:13.560 don't get, which I think are really, really good. Some of them made me really laugh out loud. So

00:31:18.700 one of the things that you said that you don't get is women's pants that have fake pockets. 1.00

00:31:23.760 I don't understand that either. Why? Okay. Actually, I'm going to try to explain it. This is

00:31:29.300 what I'm going to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to give you an explanation on all of

00:31:32.780 these things from my very expert opinion. So the reason why women have fake pockets that are not 1.00

00:31:39.620 real. Okay. Why did I say that? I don't know why I felt like I need to clarify that. We know what

00:31:43.560 fake means, but I think it's because pockets add shape to pants and they can make your legs look

00:31:50.800 better. They can make your physique look better, but you don't want the material that's in real

00:31:56.480 pockets to be all bunchy and then make you look bad where guys don't really care because their pants

00:32:02.180 are baggy. But for women's pants who are, who, uh, that are more fitted than I think that's why. 1.00

00:32:08.440 I think that's why, because the pockets make the lines look different, but the material on the inside

00:32:13.640 could make it look more bulky. So that's going to be my expert opinion on that, but really good

00:32:18.520 question. Um, okay. Uh, people who dumbed down their language or use fake slang to seem cool, like

00:32:25.260 Ote. I've never heard of someone doing that, but that just makes me laugh. I have no idea why someone

00:32:31.360 would do that. Like basically baby talk, why some people use baby talk. I have no idea. Do I,

00:32:36.580 do I do that? Do I use baby talk sometimes? Gosh, I hope not. I hope that someone would have written

00:32:42.000 a review at some point and be like, please stop doing this. I don't, I don't think I've ever heard

00:32:46.660 of that. I think that's kind of weird as well. Um, Oh, this is a good one. This is like a pet peeve,

00:32:52.560 uh, that I think is funny. So someone who needs to explain in depth, uh, something that you made a small

00:33:00.460 complaint about. So for example, I can't believe I have to take this many credit hours of history

00:33:05.880 or what, or whatever, or, uh, I can't believe we have so much rain lately. And this person has to be

00:33:11.160 like, well, actually it's because of this reason. And you just need to know that this is the exact

00:33:16.900 reason why this thing is happening. I totally agree. Sometimes you just want to, you just want

00:33:22.040 to say something, you just want to say the fact about something like, Oh my gosh, I can't believe

00:33:25.600 it's raining. And the person actually has to give you a scientific explanation for it. You're like,

00:33:29.580 you know what, Kathy? I was just saying, I was just making conversation, just making conversation.

00:33:33.860 So I totally get that. Um, okay. This is funny because I think this is like a call out of me.

00:33:41.380 And some of you, maybe this is what all of this is. Maybe you guys are using this to tell me the

00:33:46.000 things that I need to stop doing a woman who brag about how long it's been since they washed their 1.00

00:33:50.600 hair and how much dry shampoo is on their head. I've seen some influencers say that they're lucky

00:33:55.340 to shower every day. Why? I washed my hair every other day, but I do shower every single day. Why

00:34:02.020 is this such a common thing? LOL. I don't know. That's a good question. I think it'd be actually,

00:34:07.340 I remember in high school, like we would like compete to see who could go the longest without

00:34:13.680 washing their hair. And our parents thought it was disgusting. I don't know why we do this. I don't

00:34:18.320 think I brag though, about not washing my hair. Although it's been a long time since I washed my hair.

00:34:23.420 I don't think I brag about it. I don't know why we do this. I don't know. Maybe it's because it's

00:34:28.760 like, is there like a glorified slobbishness, a glorified laziness in the millennial culture?

00:34:35.160 Like, look how much I don't care, but I still look awesome. Maybe that's what it is. I think

00:34:39.820 that's a really good question. We could probably like do some research into that, into why millennial

00:34:47.260 women brag about not washing their hair. There could probably be some interesting psychoanalysis, 1.00

00:34:52.500 uh, underneath that. Um, someone says that they don't get why people watch music videos. I don't

00:34:59.020 know. Do people watch music videos? I don't watch music videos unless people are talking about it.

00:35:02.920 And I feel like I need to like know something about the culture. Then sometimes I'll watch music

00:35:08.960 videos, but music videos used to be cool when we were like, not even teenagers, I would say like

00:35:13.760 preteens music videos used to be awesome. Uh, why people chew loudly or eat yogurt or bananas

00:35:20.000 in a quiet place? Uh, okay. Chew loudly or eat yogurt or bananas in a quiet place. Wait,

00:35:27.120 why can't you eat bananas in a quiet place? Why can't you eat yogurt in a quiet place? Do you,

00:35:31.760 do you eat those things loudly? I don't, I don't think I eat yogurt loudly. Now I'm not going to like

00:35:37.160 go to the library to eat yogurt, but I don't know if I would think that that was odd if someone did.

00:35:42.860 Maybe, I mean, bananas can kind of have a pungent smell. So maybe I understand. Okay. People,

00:35:48.960 usually women who will literally post multiple selfies a day with irrelevant cliche captions. 1.00

00:35:54.040 Um, Oh, and I got another one similar to this that said people who post selfies multiple times a day

00:35:59.460 that say like feeling down or feeling sad or something. I don't know why people do this.

00:36:04.680 I don't know. I typically like if, I don't know, some people just need affirmation and that's okay.

00:36:11.140 I mean, obviously it's better to get affirmation, not on social media, but I tend to kind of feel bad

00:36:17.120 for people who have to get their accolades and have to get their support and identity and hope

00:36:23.540 from the likes and the comments that they get on social media. So I would guess that that's

00:36:27.500 probably the reason. Um, Oh, this is controversial. This might be the last one. Cause we're way over

00:36:33.920 30 minutes. Uh, dog people thinking, treating, acting like a dog is the same as a person, but assuming,

00:36:39.460 assuming you do too, uh, I'm not totally sure the word and letting it drool and rub all over you

00:36:46.860 or bringing it into my house. Um, you need to ask, wow, if someone's bringing their dog into your house

00:36:52.420 asking you, I do think that that's kind of odd. Now I am an animal person. I love animals. I love

00:36:57.520 cats and dogs, but I do think it's weird when people elevate their animals to the place of a human

00:37:03.700 being. When they let them act like a human being, if dogs can even do that, or when they pretend like

00:37:09.680 they are just as equal in value as a human being, I do think that's really odd. Maybe that's what

00:37:14.620 you're saying now. No, I have to end on this one because I don't know what this one is. And I want

00:37:18.840 this person to tell me the thing that they don't get. They said this in all caps nightmare before

00:37:23.760 Christmas subculture. Is that a subculture? Do people have nightmare before Christmas subculture?

00:37:29.500 That's like a realm on the internet that people just talk about nightmare. I've never seen nightmare

00:37:33.600 before Christmas. Is it Tim Burton? Tim Burton stuff makes me throw up. I know that's really

00:37:38.100 weird. I can't watch Tim Burton. I remember one time I went, I watched Coraline and I actually got

00:37:42.980 physically ill. I don't know what it is about the animation of Tim Burton. It makes me queasy.

00:37:49.780 Like I, I, so I don't think if nightmare before Christmas is Tim Burton, I don't think that I

00:37:54.540 would like it. So I'm definitely not a part of that subculture. I'm totally out on that subculture,

00:37:58.540 but if it is a subculture, maybe it's like anime. Like I just don't know what it is.

00:38:02.700 So you guys can enlighten me on that, man. That's really funny. You guys sent me a lot

00:38:06.820 of funny, funny stuff that you don't get. There's just a lot of things, you know, people,

00:38:12.420 there's a lot of different people in the world and we can get along with most of them. And we

00:38:17.100 probably have a lot more in common with the people that we don't get than we think. And we can just

00:38:23.180 kind of celebrate our quirks and our differences because man, people are into some funny stuff and

00:38:28.240 they do some funny things. Okay. That's how we are going to, in today's episode, we'll be back here

00:38:33.180 on Monday with theology Monday. I haven't decided the topic that we're going to talk about, but

00:38:38.360 it'll be good. Rest assured. Okay. I'll see you guys then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - June 14, 2019

Ep 125 ｜ Things We Just Don't Get

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