Ep 125 ｜ Things We Just Don't Get
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In this episode of Relatable, I give you a quick update on my pregnancy, talk about a few things you just don't get about pregnancy, and talk a little bit about a bunch of other things you don't understand.
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Hey guys, happy Friday. Welcome to Relatable. We are going to go over a bunch of stuff today.
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I'm going to give you a little personal updates. Then we're going to talk about some things that
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happened this week, some bad takes of the week. I think that goes hand in hand with some things
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that happened this week in the public sphere. And we're going to do some things that you just
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don't get. If you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you know that I've been
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doing things that I don't get for a little bit. But today I asked things that you don't get,
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things that you don't understand. And if you don't know what I'm talking about by that segment,
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that's okay. I'm going to explain it before we actually get into it. So first for the personal
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update, I am 38 weeks pregnant tomorrow. That means I am full term. I made it. That means that
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she can come at any day and she will be totally fine and fully formed and fully functioning.
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Now, of course, some people go into labor before 38 weeks and that's great too. But 38 weeks is
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technically considered full term. If you are confused by that, like if you're someone who
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hasn't been pregnant before and you don't understand pregnancy timing, know that I was
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the exact same way before I was pregnant and you are not crazy. Like you hear that pregnancy is nine
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months. So you think nine months, 36 weeks, that's, you know, four times nine, I think if my math is
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correct. But really it's 40 weeks, which is over what you think of as nine months because months
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aren't exactly four weeks each. It's really confusing when you get there. So 38 weeks is
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technically full term, but 40 weeks is like when the doctor says that your due date is, but only,
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I think it's fewer than 5% of pregnancies or 5% of babies are actually born on their due date.
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So my technical due date is June 29th. She might come before that and she wouldn't be considered
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early. You would say, oh yeah, she came early, but not really. Like she would be full term baby,
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but, uh, or she could be past that. Some people go all the way to 42 weeks. I hope that that's not
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the case, but I kind of just have like this feeling. I have a feeling that she is going to be
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later rather than earlier. A lot of people say your first baby, um, is usually later than your
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other babies or first babies have a tendency to go past their due date. I asked my doctor about that
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and I did some research. He said, statistically, that's not, that's not true. Although I do hear
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that all the time. I hear it from so many moms that I have to believe there's something to it that the
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first baby typically goes past the due date, but maybe not. Maybe it just seems that way, but
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also some people maybe have their first babies early. I'm not totally sure. I just have this
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feeling in my intuition that she is going to be later rather than earlier, but who knows? We'll
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see. All that to say, uh, next week is going to be my last week actually recording the podcast.
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After that, they're going to be the prerecorded episodes that I've been telling you guys about
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that. I'm so excited for you guys to listen to. And so there's not going to be a break. You guys are
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still going to listen to me three times a week. I think on the week of July 4th, we're probably
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going to take one day off, but you are going to still be hearing from me. But these are all
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episodes that I recorded back in May. So you don't have to worry. Oh, she's not taking a maternity
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break. Yes, I am taking a maternity break, but I just prerecorded these for you guys so that you
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would have some really valuable material while I am resting. And while my husband and I are enjoying
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being parents for the first time, we're going to be covering topics like predestination. We're
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going to be talking about women teaching and preaching in the church, why Christians should
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care about politics. But we're also going to be talking about non-theological and non-church
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related topics like healthcare and Medicare for all the constitution, things like that. And so these
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are topics that if you're curious about them, which I know a lot of you guys are, because I get
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questions about these topics a lot. If you're curious about them, you are really going to love
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these. And these are going to be episodes that I think especially you'll want to share with people
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who maybe don't know a lot about these topics and really just kind of need a fundamental understanding
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of what they are. That's what these episodes are going to be. I'm really excited. I'm really excited
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for you guys to listen to them. So Mondays are going to be a theological topic. Wednesdays are going to
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be a news topic. Friday or a news topic, I guess, more a political topic, not a news topic. Friday
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will be interviews. So I have interviews that I've already done with Dan Crenshaw, with Jeff Durbin,
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with Ben Shapiro, with Dave Rubin, lots of other people. We're talking about lots of hot topics that
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I know you guys are curious about and I wanted to get their insight on. You are going to love it.
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So this is going to happen for about eight weeks. Now, there is a possibility that over the next
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couple of weeks or after next week, after I say, OK, peace out, there's a possibility that if my baby
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is not born yet, I will come in and I will record a podcast about something that I just really want
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to talk about. Like if something happens in the news and my baby hasn't come yet, there might be a
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possibility that I could record a new podcast and say, OK, I just had to talk about this. And the same
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goes probably for while I'm on maternity leave. Now, it just depends on how I feel and how everything's
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going. But if there is a day where something happens and I'm like, oh, my gosh, I've got to
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talk to relatable listeners about this. I just can't let this pass by. And I have the time and
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energy to do it. Then I will record for you guys a 30 minute podcast talking about that particular
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subject and you won't get the evergreen topic that day. That's definitely a possibility. But
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the plan is for the eight weeks, eight or so weeks, I guess it would be less than that since I
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probably. OK, so whatever, eight or so weeks after the baby is born, you guys are going to get
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these evergreen topics that I know that you guys are really going to like. So something that you
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could do for me if you are interested in it, this is totally your prerogative. Some of you don't do
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social media. Some of you don't like sharing political stuff on social media. And I totally get
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it. This is just for those of you who do like sharing stuff and are interested in sharing
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podcasts. So because I am going to try really hard during this time to stay off social media,
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it's going to be really difficult. Well, maybe it won't be. Maybe I'll just be so
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consumed with what I'm doing that I won't even think about social media. But I'm going
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to try really hard to stay off of social media. So for those of you who are willing, those
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of you who are interested, who want to, if you could just share about my podcast when
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the podcast episodes come out, that would mean a whole lot to me. So that could just be
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sharing on your Instagram story. That could be texting it to your friend. That could be
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talking about it with your family, your boyfriend, your husband, whoever. Sharing it as much
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as possible, as much as you want to. Of course, that would be awesome. That would help me out
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a lot because I typically try to post on social media, like on Twitter, Instagram, a promotion
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of a particular episode. And I'm not going to be doing that or I'm going to try not to
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do that. So if you guys could do that, then that would help out a whole lot just to make
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sure that, you know, the podcast is still doing well, even while I am out, that would just
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make me feel so loved and so cared for. If that's not for you and you just want to listen
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to the podcast, that's okay too. And I love you just the same. Uh, also there are contentious
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topics that we're going to talk about this summer. And I know that all of you don't agree
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with every single one of my theological views and that's fine. Some of you don't agree with
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every single one of my political views. And we're talking about some contentious things.
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We're talking about women teaching in the church. We're talking about predestination,
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the five points of Calvinism. Like we're talking about race. We're talking about Medicare for
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all. We might disagree on these things. I just hope that, um, even though I'm not able
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to like engage with you immediately when some of you have concerns or feedback that you
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come to these episodes and say, okay, this is just a point of discussion. And this is
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making me think about something. I don't agree with her, uh, views on Calvinism or whatever
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it is, but I can still respect her. I hope that no one while I'm away gets this feeling
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of like, wow, I really disagree with Allie on this. And you know, I'm angry or upset, or I'm
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going to leave her a bad review because I can't believe that she thinks that about
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predestination or whatever it is, or the end times, whatever it is. I hope that you still
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see it and that they still come across as just kind of discussion points and what I have learned
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from my own research. But as always, I'm looking forward to you guys' feedback. I'm looking forward
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to the conversations that we're going to have about these interesting topics. And so please
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always feel free to, uh, to email me, Allie at the conservative millennial blog.com. You can send
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me Instagram messages. I might not see them right away, but it doesn't bother me at all for you to
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reach out to me and I can respond to you when, and if I can. So that covers, that covers things
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that are happening or things that are going to happen in a couple of weeks, or I guess in about
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a week from now. Um, okay. Moving on past that things that happened this week. First, I just want
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to say, and I know this is switching tone gears a lot, but I have been watching some of you have asked
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me about this. I have been watching the things that are going on in Sudan. Uh, the military run
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government there has really cracked down on pro-democracy protesters and they have gone on a murder and
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rape rampage. There have been dozens and dozens, maybe hundreds of people who have been murdered and
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raped, uh, by the military run government there. It is truly terrible. It is demonic. Uh, and we need to
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pray for them. I'm, I'm considering doing Monday's episode on this, not just on Sudan, but, um, how we in
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America and how Christians around the world can be praying for these people and what we can do for
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them and why we should care about it and pay attention to it. It's really easy in our world
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to just kind of get caught up in the dramatics of the political sphere or the things that are
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happening right now, or the things that are happening. And for example, the Southern Baptist
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convention, where there's a lot of theological contention, and maybe we'll talk about that on
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Monday. I'm not sure. Um, it's easy to just get caught up in that and forget that people are really
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suffering around the world. And so, um, uh, the only reason I might hesitate to do my entire podcast
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episode on it on Monday is because there's a lot of background knowledge that needs to be had in
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order to talk about this in a really wise way. Maybe I can get an expert to come on and talk about it
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with me, but there's a lot of knowledge that I lack when it comes to the background about Sudan and
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their people. But I've been reading a lot about it and I have read, for example, George Clooney. I mean,
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you know, we don't go to celebrities for opinions on everything, but George Clooney had a really,
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what I thought was an informative and a pretty bipartisan letter to Congress saying, okay,
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here's what you can do to help the Sudanese people. And here's how Congress can take action.
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And so I think that it would maybe be encouraging for you to Google that the, the George, uh, the
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George Clooney letter about Sudan and just kind of read up about what's going on there. And of course,
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pray for them, pray for their safety, pray that they would know the love of Christ, pray that
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Christians over there would be able to stand strong and to share the gospel. Any missionaries that are
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there, uh, pray for their protection and also pray that they're able to stand strong and persevere in
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the faith and still be bold in sharing the truth of the gospel that saves. Um, so I just wanted you to
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know that I am not ignoring that, that I am paying attention to that, that I'm still trying to
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gather as much information as possible before. And if we end up talking about it exclusively on this
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podcast now, switching gears, once again, that's, what's happening around the world. Things that are
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happening right here, as you know, the 2020 election is ramping up. I mean, I feel like we just got out
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of 2016. I really do. And I'm like still tired from it. I think I was talking about this on Monday
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in the unbearable episode. It's like, I there's, or maybe it was before that just the vitriol that
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surrounded the 2016 election. You probably lost friends. You probably deleted, maybe deactivated
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your Facebook account. Cause you were like, I just can't do this anymore. And it feels like,
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it feels like we are, it feels like it was just yesterday. And now we're going into it again. If
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you, okay, this is kind of an inappropriate metaphor. I'm just using it as a metaphor. Again,
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if you have kids in the car, maybe you don't want them to hear this, but it feels like, okay,
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if you had your crazy time in college and you went on some kind of drinking rampage and, oh,
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my cat's in my, my cat's in my podcast. Get down. It was sweatpants. Um, if you went on some kind of
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drinking rampage when you were in college and you woke up the next day and you still felt awful,
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and then you decided to go out the next night and do it again, that's what it feels like we are
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ramping up to do. I feel like we are still in some ways hung over from 2016 and we are about to do it
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all again in 2020. Uh, that's, I don't know how else to say it. That's just what it feels like,
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but I'm hoping, I'm hoping that because we had that experience in 2016, we're able to kind of take
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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.
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I'm still going to care about it. I'm still going to be informed, but I am able to take a step back
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and say, you know what? I know what matters. What doesn't, I know how to find, uh, the truth
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behind the headlines. And I know what might be exaggerated fake news. And I'm going to try my
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best to maintain my relationships and friendships despite disagreements. Maybe we'll be better
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prepared now. Maybe it won't be quite as crazy or just quite as dark as 2016 was, but we do still
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have to pay attention. So Biden is the front runner right now, which is crazy because he hasn't really
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been campaigning at all. Uh, here is his latest pitch. If I'm elect the president, you're going
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to see the single most important thing that changes in America is we're going to cure cancer.
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So Biden lost a son to brain cancer. This is obviously something that is personal to him.
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This is obviously something that is close to his heart. And I don't want to trivialize that at all.
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I truly believe that he wants, he wants a cure to cancer. We all do. Every single person that I know
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would love a cure to cancer. However, this is just not something that can be promised by a politician.
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It's just absurd to promise it. You can say that you want cancer to be cured, that you believe that
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maybe we should fund it even more, even though there are billions and billions of dollars going
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into cancer research right now. Uh, sure you can make that pitch, but to say that while you are
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president, cancer is going to be cured. I mean, it's just, it's absurd. It's an absurd promise to
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be able to make because you cannot deliver on it, but that's the nature of politics. It seems like
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especially in 2020 that, uh, politicians, and maybe it's always been like this. Maybe it's not
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a 2019, 2020 thing, uh, that politicians seem to over promise and under deliver. Yeah. I think that's
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probably just been a forever thing over promise and under deliver. But when I was in PR, we were always
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told under promise and over deliver. People are much happier that way. Of course, that's not how
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politicians win campaigns. They have to kind of promise these ridiculous things, but come on. I
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mean, come on. I think even Democrats who like Joe Biden kind of roll their eyes at this and they're
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like, there is no way there is no way that he's going to be able to cure cancer because he doesn't
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have any control over that. Uh, the reason not being able to cure cancer, it's not a lack of funding
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issue. It's not because presidents in the past haven't cared about it. It's just because I guess
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because scientists have not figured it out yet. And I just don't think Joe Biden or anyone else in
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office is going to be able to change that unless there's this huge roadblock put in by previous
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presidents that I don't know about, but it's just a ridiculous promise. And it's just another
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example of politicians, uh, guaranteeing things that they cannot guarantee because they are desperate
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to win. Uh, another ridiculous thing that was said by a politician this week, our very own,
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our very favorite freshman Congresswoman from the Bronx, AOC, she says a lot of things. Now,
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lately she has said some things that I don't completely disagree with. I kind of forget, wait,
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what did she say? She said something about how solitary confinement is, uh, you know, it's not
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humanitarian that, uh, who is it that Paul Manafort, that he shouldn't be sent to Rikers. I think she
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even might've said that Rikers was shut down because of all of the human rights violations
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that are there. And I'm like, okay, that's not the craziest thing that you've ever said. We would
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probably be able to have a logical conversation about that. So she's not always completely off her
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rocker. I would say about 99% of the times, uh, percent of the time. Yes, but not all the times now
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here, here, she goes back here. She reverts back to the AOC that we know and love. Here's what she
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says. So she's agreeing with some quote tweet, but, or she quote tweet someone. And she says,
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yep, uh, voting against cost of living increases for members of Congress may sound nice, but doing
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so only increases pressure on them to keep dark money loopholes open. This makes campaign finance
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reform harder. All workers deserve cost of living increases, including minimum wage workers. So what
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she's saying is that we need to use more tax dollars to pay members of Congress more money,
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uh, because they need cost of living increases. Now I understand they live in DC. DC is extremely
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expensive. Apartments in DC are extremely expensive. It is difficult to raise a family in DC unless you
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already have a lot of money, uh, going into Congress. I understand that, but there's a lot of people who
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would say, Hey, I don't want more of my tax dollars being spent to support Congress when they already
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make a six figure salary. Again, I'm not saying that's a whole lot of money in DC, but it's a lot
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more money than a lot of people are making in other parts of the country and, and equally expensive parts
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in the country as well. And so there's a lot of people who say, no, politicians do not need to be
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paid even more or Congress people don't need to be paid even more than they already do.
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There's a conversation to be had about that. I, I, I do think that there's a conversation and a
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logical, insane conversation to be had about that. There are probably good reasons on both sides,
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but what is not a good reason? What is not a good reason is that we should pay Congress people more
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because if we don't, they're going to keep dark money loopholes open. So basically they're going
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to be taking dark money. They're going to be engaging in illicit behavior, uh, to gain money
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because we don't pay them more. So basically what she's saying, increase, increase my, uh, cost of
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living, uh, or increase the money that I get for a cost of living, increase my pay or else I'm going
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to start taking bribes, uh, increase how much I get paid or else I'm going to start taking dark money.
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So basically she's bribing people. She's like, if you don't give me what I want, then I am going to
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get money another way. I mean, she's not talking about herself necessarily, but that's not how morality
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works. Like, does she understand that? Well, if you don't give me what I want, I'm just going to
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find an illegal way to get it. That doesn't make any sense. So can I say, uh, if you don't drop my
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tax rate to zero, I'm just going to stop paying taxes. Or, uh, if you don't drop my tax rate to
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zero, I'm going to start engaging in some kind of illegal behavior. I mean, that's basically bribery.
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You're basically saying, um, give me more money or else I am going to break the law. That's just
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not how it works. That's not how morality functions. And she's saying it's our fault.
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Like it's our fault. If we don't want to pay more of our taxpayer dollars to pay Congress more than
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it's our fault. If they engage in this kind of dark money behavior, really where's personal
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responsibility when it comes to this, where's morality when it comes to this, it just doesn't
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make any sense at all. It doesn't make any sense at all, but I'm going to try to, I, you know,
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what, I think this is a good tactic for like a child. It's a really good tactic for a child's
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like, Hey mom, uh, unless you give me everything that I want, unless you up my allowance to $400
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a week, I'm just going to steal all your money and buy a bunch of shoes. Okay. That sounds
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really good. That's basically what she's saying here. So that's one of the crazy, one of the
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other crazy things that politicians have said this week. Um, here's another, Oh, this is
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not a politician. This is just something that happened in the media, which was so ridiculous.
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So Mel magazine is apparently an online outlet. This was going around. I've never heard of
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them before, but it's an online outlet and they're telling men to share their abortion
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experiences. They're saying, okay, well, this is going to be normalized. If men come out and
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say, um, you know, their experience with abortion, their girlfriend, their wife, whatever, getting
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an abortion. Now they had to note though, at the top of it, these are the times that we're
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living in. We live in such confusing times that we actually have to clarify something
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like this. So the editors noted at the top of this article, asking men to share their
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experiences or, uh, the woman in their life, uh, her experiences with abortion. Here's the
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editors note on top of this. It says for brevity's sake, we're using the word women to describe
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people who get pregnant and men to describe those who impregnate them, but people of all
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gender pregnant and, uh, get people pregnant. And this guide is intended to be a useful resource
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for them as well. So we have to clarify what we mean by women and what we mean by men that
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yes, in the traditional and the traditional sense, only women can have babies and only
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men can impregnate women. Um, but we apparently have to clarify that that's not really true.
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We're just saying that. So people will understand it because, you know, for brevity's sake here,
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but that's not really true, but men can have babies and women can get men pregnant. Everyone
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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
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
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culture has a man been able to get pregnant and no culture has a woman been able to impregnate a man.
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And there have been social and gender differences because of the biological distinctions between
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men and women. That is literally how the entire universe has functioned properly since its very
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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
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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
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Clymer, she, um, is a transgender activist. She is just kind of a liberal Twitter person that a lot
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
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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
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are equal. They're not deserving of our time and consideration. Some shouldn't even be in the public
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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
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
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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
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
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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.
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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.