Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - October 13, 2025


Ep 1253 ｜ Israel-Hamas Conflict Is Coming to an End ｜ Ron Simmons


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53 minutes

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169.50632

Word Count

9,060

Sentence Count

655

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

On today's episode of Relatable, Allie's dad fills in for her to talk about the government shutdown and the non-essential employees that are still working. Allie talks about how important it is to remember that the government will get back to work once the shutdown is over.


Transcript

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00:00:30.360 My dad is here today filling in on today's episode of Relatable.
00:00:34.660 We are post share the arrows, so we are kind of in recovery mode.
00:00:38.580 And my dad is going to take you through some really important news items and break it down
00:00:43.700 in the very understandable and calming way that he does.
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00:00:55.420 Well, good afternoon, everyone.
00:01:07.620 Of course, as you can tell, it's not Allie Beth.
00:01:09.820 It's her dad, Ron.
00:01:10.980 Thank you so much for joining us, either you're on YouTube or on, uh, just listening to the
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00:01:18.420 And just remember, you can get this podcast anywhere you listen to, uh, you know, your
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00:01:36.340 And then remember to, to put in a, uh, comment and give us a five-star rating if you would.
00:01:41.800 Now, again, only judge these podcasts based on Allie's performance, not mine.
00:01:46.440 I don't want you to rate it based on mine because that might hurt hers, but, uh, I enjoy, uh,
00:01:51.320 the times that, uh, Allie allows me to host.
00:01:53.540 And, uh, actually miss, we haven't had one together in a while cause she's been traveling.
00:01:57.480 I've been traveling.
00:01:58.940 And of course this past week has been super busy, uh, having her share the arrows conference,
00:02:04.620 which awesome.
00:02:05.880 Uh, those of you that attended that know how great it was.
00:02:09.540 And, uh, it's very exciting that we had, uh, so many women from all 48 states and I think
00:02:16.560 six or seven countries, uh, that came to attend and just incredibly grateful, uh, to each
00:02:23.480 of you that were able to attend.
00:02:25.040 And we're obviously grateful to God for the blessing that he put upon that.
00:02:28.960 But anyway, we're going to talk today more, a little bit more about some current events.
00:02:32.760 And one of the big events that we're going to talk about is the government shutdown, which
00:02:38.960 just like everything with government, it's not exactly what it says.
00:02:43.360 Uh, there are a lot of still, uh, agencies and, uh, government related organizations that
00:02:50.240 are working.
00:02:51.420 For example, I went through, uh, there's a list of them that I came up with that I found.
00:02:55.280 Uh, and here's the ones that are still working.
00:02:57.960 All right.
00:02:58.760 Uh, active duty military and their support team, uh, federal law enforcement, uh, disaster
00:03:05.440 response.
00:03:06.160 If there was a disaster, those people are still available.
00:03:09.100 Border patrol and ice.
00:03:10.400 Of course, we know that's still in the news.
00:03:11.960 They're still working food inspectors for the FDA, which is important.
00:03:15.700 We have all this food that comes through our ports and through processing plants.
00:03:20.300 And those have to be, uh, continue to be reviewed as well.
00:03:23.660 The treasury, uh, some of the treasury employees that work for the treasury, those are the ones
00:03:28.580 that cut the social security checks.
00:03:30.500 They also collect all the taxes, pay tax rebates.
00:03:33.680 If you filed your tax returns.
00:03:35.160 So those people are still working.
00:03:37.220 Uh, the judges, the court system still working as well as their security.
00:03:41.520 And then the U S attorneys and the federal law enforcement, the federal prosecutors are
00:03:46.820 still working as well.
00:03:47.800 Now, the interesting thing about this is that those people don't get paid as they normally
00:03:56.500 would, you know, every two weeks or however the government pays them during a shutdown,
00:04:00.700 they will get all of that money and back pay once the government reopens, but they, they're
00:04:06.180 not getting all of their check.
00:04:08.140 They may have gotten a little bit of it.
00:04:09.720 And I think the next, when it comes around the next payday, they won't get any pay, but
00:04:14.140 when the government opens back up, they'll get all that back pay.
00:04:17.100 So don't, don't worry about that.
00:04:19.120 Now, hopefully those people have saved some money and we're going to talk about that, uh,
00:04:23.320 a little bit later, but the non-essential non-essential that, in other words, the, the government employees
00:04:30.640 that are not talked about on the list that I just gave you, those are non-essential and
00:04:36.640 they're going to also get back pay, but, uh, they do not, uh, they don't, they do, they're
00:04:42.780 not allowed to go to work.
00:04:44.080 They can't even go into the office.
00:04:45.740 So it's really an interesting thing.
00:04:47.540 One of the organizations though, agencies that has been under a lot of scrutiny.
00:04:53.320 And there's been a lot of publicity about it.
00:04:55.140 That is not, that are not working are the air traffic controllers.
00:05:01.040 And that has created quite the mess.
00:05:04.680 In fact, my wife was, Ali's mom was coming home a few days ago from Nashville and she
00:05:11.260 called me from the plane and she said, they're shutting down the airport at 7 PM and we're
00:05:18.400 on the runway, not yet taking off for number four or five in line.
00:05:22.420 And it was maybe six or seven minutes before 7 PM.
00:05:26.280 And it looks like we're going to have to go.
00:05:28.620 They're going to take us back to the gate and I'm going to be stuck here for the night.
00:05:33.120 And we're like, Oh my goodness.
00:05:35.380 Uh, well, as the things happen, sometimes they were the very last plane that got out and the
00:05:42.120 planes behind them turned around, went back to the gate.
00:05:45.280 And I've assumed those people were stuck in Nashville for another night.
00:05:48.680 Now though, a lot of you won't remember this.
00:05:51.780 Uh, but those of you that are my age and, uh, maybe a little younger, a little older,
00:05:57.140 remember that in 1981, the air traffic controllers went on strike.
00:06:01.920 And when that happened, then president Reagan fired every one of them and brought in the
00:06:08.220 military air traffic control system to run it.
00:06:11.440 And of course they rehired some of them, but air traffic controllers are forbidden to go
00:06:17.500 on strike as, uh, it was outlined in their contract.
00:06:21.220 Now what's happened here is a lot of them have taken sick days or off days and what have you.
00:06:28.200 So that's created some huge problems.
00:06:30.360 But again, I mean, they're not getting all their paycheck now, but they're going to get
00:06:34.340 all their back pay.
00:06:35.360 They're just creating havoc to create havoc sake.
00:06:38.920 There's no good reason for them to do that.
00:06:41.060 What they should be doing if they are taking sick pay is be on the phone to Chuck Schumer,
00:06:45.220 who is the number one reason that this government is shut down.
00:06:50.200 There's no other reason.
00:06:51.300 We'll talk about that in a minute, but let's look at a little bit about the air traffic
00:06:55.060 controller strike and look at what the head of the FAA has to say on SOT one.
00:06:59.820 We're having maybe a bit of a rebellion by air traffic controllers caused by the shutdown.
00:07:04.160 But my message to them, they work for me.
00:07:06.180 They got to go to work, show up, control the airspace.
00:07:08.920 And eventually you're going to get paid.
00:07:11.320 Show up for work.
00:07:13.720 I mean, come on guys and gals, you're putting people's lives at risk.
00:07:18.540 You know what your job is.
00:07:19.960 You know that you make a pretty good salary and in fact, a very good salary,
00:07:24.560 and you're causing havoc throughout the country.
00:07:28.660 And that is just inappropriate.
00:07:32.180 Uh, here's the, you've heard the term thrown around quite a bit called CR continuing resolution.
00:07:39.440 Well, what a continuing resolution means is that the government will be funded in the
00:07:46.220 same manner that it has been funded before up until now.
00:07:50.820 Now, because what happens is because we haven't passed a two year budget in years, because
00:07:56.580 it can't seem to get through the, both the house and the Senate, they have these ongoing
00:08:00.600 continuous resolutions that basically says, okay, we're just going to fund the government
00:08:05.500 like it has been over the last several months.
00:08:07.740 And the house of representatives, some people say, well, why isn't the house of representatives
00:08:11.920 working?
00:08:12.340 Well, they've already done their job.
00:08:14.100 They passed a clean continuing resolution.
00:08:17.800 They didn't add any pork to it or take anything away from it.
00:08:20.940 Just said, it's going to stay the same as it has been since, uh, since it was funded prior
00:08:27.060 to this particular budget scenario.
00:08:29.120 So the house has done its work.
00:08:31.680 There's nothing they can do until the Senate decide, the Senate passes some type of resolution.
00:08:36.500 Now, what, what the Senate has put forth is the clean resolution, meaning there's no add
00:08:42.120 ons to it, but the sticking point is the Democrats want to add 1.5.
00:08:50.100 Listen to me.
00:08:51.020 This is over the next decade, $1.5 trillion of additional spending.
00:08:56.080 And you know, where spending comes from.
00:08:59.580 Remember the government doesn't produce anything.
00:09:02.560 Every single dime that the government takes in comes out of some taxpayer's pocket, either
00:09:10.100 through fees or direct taxes.
00:09:13.060 So remember when any money that they say they want to increase, that's coming from you and
00:09:18.500 me, no other place for it to come from.
00:09:21.060 They don't make widgets.
00:09:22.540 They don't, you know, they don't do anything else.
00:09:25.560 They simply collect the money from you and me, and then they spend it on whatever it is
00:09:30.920 they're spending it on.
00:09:31.660 In fact, they've actually overspent by $37 trillion.
00:09:36.800 Now that, you know, goes over a lot of administrations, including the Biden administration, the Obama
00:09:42.680 administration.
00:09:43.460 In fact, the budget has not been balanced since 1994 or something like that.
00:09:48.720 And so for the last, what would that be, 31 years, we've created deficits.
00:09:54.080 Some of those have been necessary due to like the pandemic, due to wartime, what have you.
00:10:00.720 But a lot of it has just been extra spending that didn't need to happen.
00:10:05.180 And now the Democrats want to put another $1.5 trillion.
00:10:08.260 And the main part of that is extending Obamacare subsidies.
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00:11:35.600 Now, I don't know if you all remember when Obamacare first got started.
00:11:44.960 Some of you were probably not thinking about that because you were teenagers and what have you.
00:11:49.200 But when Obamacare finally went into play, the selling point that President Obama at the time told us
00:11:55.920 and all the Democrats told us, it's going to make health costs go down.
00:12:00.620 If it's going to make everything less expensive, more efficient.
00:12:06.660 Well, if that's the case, why in the world are Democrats so concerned about continuing subsidies
00:12:13.180 and doesn't want people's health insurance costs, you know, their out-of-pocket costs to go up?
00:12:19.440 It's because health costs have continued to soar since Obamacare came into play.
00:12:26.060 In fact, it's only gotten worse than what it was beforehand as far as the rate of increase is concerned.
00:12:32.020 It's been an absolute disaster.
00:12:34.560 So what happened is, is when Obamacare first started, there were these, how much you paid was dependent on your income.
00:12:45.200 And, okay, we understood that based on how much money you made was how much you could buy an insurance policy for
00:12:51.920 through what they called the marketplace, which is basically Obamacare.
00:12:55.520 If you had a company plan or you were eligible for Medicare or anything like that, you weren't eligible for these.
00:13:01.960 But if you were just an individual without insurance, you could buy a plan through Obamacare.
00:13:06.740 And based on how much money you made, determine how much you paid.
00:13:10.340 And so the less money you made, if you were under the federal poverty limit, you paid very little money.
00:13:15.140 If you made a lot of money, you paid more money, okay?
00:13:17.580 Even though you're both getting the same coverage.
00:13:19.540 So it's socialism at its best.
00:13:21.340 Unbelievable.
00:13:21.760 What happened was during the pandemic, actually, while Biden was president, they, what he called the Inflation Reduction Act,
00:13:33.360 which was the biggest joke of a name of any legislation I've ever heard of, okay, is that they enhanced those subsidies.
00:13:41.380 And so they made it even less expensive for people to get insurance.
00:13:46.840 In fact, I printed some stuff off here today.
00:13:49.740 I'm going to pull it out here if I can find it.
00:13:51.840 Yeah.
00:13:52.440 And what the Democrats want to do is continue those because those were supposed to be temporary and they were scheduled to end at the end of 2025.
00:14:00.820 We're not in the pandemic anymore.
00:14:03.040 Everybody that wants to work is going back to work.
00:14:05.000 And everybody that hasn't gone back to work, that's able-bodied, should go back to work.
00:14:09.820 There's no reason would people be sitting around the house not going back to work.
00:14:14.800 So anyway, here's what the enhanced incentives would provide, all right?
00:14:22.640 If the federal poverty limit for a family of four is $31,000 a year, which it's no question.
00:14:29.140 That would be very hard to make it on that.
00:14:31.520 If you made between $31,000 and $47,000 a year, you basically didn't have to pay any premiums for an Obamacare plan, all right?
00:14:40.680 Zero.
00:14:41.160 It cost you nothing.
00:14:42.700 If you made between $47,000 a year and $62,000 a year, so that's above the poverty level, up to 200%,
00:14:50.620 you would pay only about 2% of your income.
00:14:56.620 So if you made $60,000 a year, you would pay 2%, which would be $1,200 a year or about, what's that, 60, 50, what would that be?
00:15:06.780 About a little over $100 a month, okay?
00:15:08.580 Be $100 a month.
00:15:10.060 If you made between $62,000 and $78,000 a year, you paid 4%, which again, the maximum for somebody that made, say, $80,000, that would be, what, $3,200 a year?
00:15:22.200 That would be somewhere around $200 or $300 a month, okay?
00:15:26.440 Very inexpensive.
00:15:27.700 Those plans themselves generally would cost a family $2,000 or $3,000 a month.
00:15:33.120 And then if you made 300% of poverty level, you'd pay 6%.
00:15:37.380 If you made 400% of poverty level, which was between $93,000 and $125,000, you would pay 8%.
00:15:45.660 Well, those are supposed to go back to the original subsidies, okay?
00:15:52.420 We're not getting rid of all the subsidies.
00:15:54.040 It just goes back to the original non-enhanced subsidies, which cut these about in half.
00:15:59.920 And for anybody making over 400%, there wouldn't be any type of subsidy out there.
00:16:05.560 So that's what they want.
00:16:07.360 Now, again, all the Democrats are trying to do is give away your money so that they can get somebody else's vote.
00:16:15.940 That's what they're trying to do.
00:16:17.160 I hope that the Republicans will not compromise on that.
00:16:22.440 But my best guess is they're going to come up with some type of compromise.
00:16:26.940 That's my best guess.
00:16:28.460 It won't be certainly what probably you and I want, and it probably won't even be what Chuck Schumer totally wants.
00:16:34.880 But they've got to figure out what people generally do in legislation like that is figure out a way where both of them can go back to their constituents and say they won, even if it's not the truth.
00:16:46.560 They'll make it just enough so that they'll say, okay, well, we held firm or, hey, we got them to do this.
00:16:53.220 That's what's likely will happen.
00:16:54.600 I don't have any real inside information on that right now, but the people I'm talking to, I think that's the most likely scenario because nobody wants the government shutdown to continue as long as it's already continued.
00:17:09.280 And hopefully when the Senate gets back into session tomorrow, they will have come up with a solution.
00:17:17.400 Now, I know that they were off over the weekend, but I guarantee you they've been talking.
00:17:21.900 That's what happens.
00:17:23.420 There's been seven failed votes so far in the Senate.
00:17:27.260 You've got to get to 60 in the Senate.
00:17:29.340 And some people have said, well, why don't we put the nuclear option where you only have to have 51?
00:17:33.720 I would disagree with that because here's what happens.
00:17:36.800 I use the term sometimes that gun kicks just as hard as it shoots, meaning that sometimes when you do those things that seem good when you're in charge, you're not going to want those when the other side's in charge.
00:17:48.000 Because when the other side's in charge, we want them to have to get 60 votes to pass some stuff that we don't like.
00:17:53.960 So I would not put a nuclear option on this.
00:17:56.700 Now, pretty interesting on all of this stuff, on this clean resolution and Chuck Schumer, you know, talking about we're not going to do it and all this type of stuff.
00:18:05.820 But in 2013, in 2018, in 2019, in 2021, Chuck Schumer went before the Senate floor and on media and says, we have to pass a clean resolution.
00:18:18.720 That's what we need to do to keep the government open.
00:18:21.180 And then once we do that, we can talk about all these other things.
00:18:24.320 Now, he's totally changed his tune, right?
00:18:27.220 It's the hypocrisy of liberals that drives me the most crazy, is that they are just so hypocritical when it suits them to be.
00:18:41.060 And we'll just have to see what happens.
00:18:43.760 Now, I want to tell you this, though.
00:18:46.620 Don't panic about it, okay?
00:18:48.400 It's going to be okay.
00:18:49.620 Everything will adjust as it has in the past.
00:18:54.660 I do think that we'll come out of this with probably less federal employees.
00:18:58.480 I do think some agencies will use this as a chance, as an opportunity to trim their staff some, which is a good thing.
00:19:05.820 I always used to tell people, when you see companies that have a pretty good balance sheet and they're laying off people, that's a pretty good time to invest in their stock.
00:19:15.620 Now, I'm not giving you personal investment advice.
00:19:17.520 I'm just saying what I've looked at in the past.
00:19:20.260 So that, because that means they're tightening the ship.
00:19:22.780 And hopefully the federal government will do that as well.
00:19:25.740 You're still going to get your Social Security check.
00:19:27.720 You're still going to, if you're on Medicare, you're still going to get Medicare.
00:19:30.320 If you're on Medicaid, you're still going to have your claims paid and what have you.
00:19:33.820 So don't worry about that.
00:19:35.980 They'll get it worked out.
00:19:38.000 Probably will not be exactly what any of us want, but they'll get it worked out.
00:19:41.320 So that's another good reason, though, to talk about this real quick.
00:19:46.140 Every one of us should have at least 90 days in reserve, 90 days of our expenses.
00:19:52.180 So if your expenses are $3,000 a month, you should have at least $9,000 in savings in a money market type fund that you can access without any risk of the principal being lost.
00:20:05.320 And no matter what you're doing, that should be the first savings you set aside.
00:20:09.820 You build that $9,000 up if that's what your deal is, $3,000 a month, and don't do anything else until you do that.
00:20:19.360 You know, I think that's very, very important.
00:20:22.140 Now, do I think you should still give to your church and to charities?
00:20:25.220 Yes.
00:20:25.480 Do I still think, you know, that you should pay your bills?
00:20:27.740 Yes.
00:20:28.340 But before you do any other expenses, you need to be putting that money away so that you're ready in case something happens to your particular job,
00:20:36.560 or maybe you work for the federal government, and, you know, you need to – there'll be another shutdown in the future.
00:20:42.640 I promise you that.
00:20:43.500 If it's not this year, not next year, in the future, it'll happen.
00:20:46.400 So make sure that you're prepared for that so your family doesn't suffer or you don't have to do something that's unwise.
00:20:52.920 So anyway, government shutdown, it happens.
00:20:56.060 It's happened many times in the past, and it will all get worked out.
00:20:59.560 And I hope you'll pay attention, but it's not something to really be panicked about.
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00:22:19.440 Next thing I want to talk about, though, is we want to talk about Israel and Hamas, what went on in Gaza.
00:22:33.140 Not really talking about the politics of it, but we're talking about the fact that they have agreed on a ceasefire,
00:22:40.640 and not just a ceasefire, but they've agreed on what's the beginnings of a peace plan,
00:22:48.300 and everybody's pretty excited about it.
00:22:52.180 Let's go to Sot 2.
00:22:54.080 Similar moments of joy unfolding inside Gaza as crowds of Palestinians cheered and chanted.
00:22:59.460 After two years of war, an influx of aid and relief will make it to residents there.
00:23:06.200 Honestly, these are indescribable feelings.
00:23:09.040 We can't believe it, but thank God the war has ended, and we are alive.
00:23:15.160 Honestly, we hope the war does not come back, and for this to be really the end, with no death and destruction afterwards.
00:23:23.540 That, I mean, that's exciting.
00:23:26.060 I mean, that is exciting.
00:23:28.100 We're having to record this a little bit early today, so all the hostage scenario and what's released and all that have not been totally done yet.
00:23:35.240 It's supposed to be starting today, and I think it will be.
00:23:39.040 It's really good.
00:23:41.820 There's somewhere, we don't know the exact number, between 20 and 40 hostages that Hamas has that are still alive that they're going to send back,
00:23:51.760 and then also the remains of 28 people that have passed away.
00:23:55.440 And then Israel is releasing 250 Palestinian prisoners that are serving a life sentence and 1,700 others that are detained.
00:24:07.620 They haven't been sentenced yet.
00:24:09.000 They're detained.
00:24:09.800 So hopefully it's something that is going to work.
00:24:13.260 Israel is going to pull back from some of the urban areas.
00:24:17.320 The U.S. government's sending it.
00:24:19.000 We're sending 200 of our troops to help coordinate to make sure this stays in place.
00:24:25.040 Now, there's like a 20-point peace plan, and everything hasn't been totally agreed upon, but it seems like this is a really, really good start.
00:24:34.820 There's going to be 170,000 tons, which I don't even know what that number comes to, 34-something, 34 million pounds or whatever that comes to,
00:24:45.280 of food, medicine, and supplies.
00:24:48.660 It's going to be coordinated by the U.N. so that it's not just taken over by some of the leaders in Gaza and used to keep their people at bay,
00:25:01.080 because that's what's happened a lot of times.
00:25:02.580 We've tried to send humanitarian aid in there, and then the terrorists and stuff have been the ones that have taken it, controlled it,
00:25:10.740 to keep the citizens under control.
00:25:13.140 And hopefully that's not going to happen this time.
00:25:17.020 Let's pull up thought three.
00:25:20.560 The hostages will be coming back Monday or Tuesday.
00:25:24.380 I'll probably be there.
00:25:27.160 I hope to be there.
00:25:28.620 And we're planning on leaving sometime Sunday, and I look forward to it.
00:25:35.340 And everybody I see is celebrating in Israel, but they're celebrating in many other countries too.
00:25:40.220 A lot of the Muslim and Arab countries, they're celebrating.
00:25:43.680 Everybody's celebrating.
00:25:44.760 Everybody loves the deal.
00:25:46.380 So it's a great honor to have been working on it.
00:25:50.320 So obviously that was a few days ago.
00:25:52.480 And the reason I showed that is because of the work that President Trump and his team have done.
00:25:57.120 One thing that's been a little bit underreported, I only saw it in one publication,
00:26:01.520 is if you remember President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner,
00:26:07.120 that was very involved in the first Trump administration and actually set up the Abraham Accords,
00:26:12.660 which was a relationship that America put together in the Middle East with some of the Middle East countries over there.
00:26:20.260 He's been involved in the last few days with these negotiations and is obviously very talented at doing that.
00:26:26.860 So I appreciate him as a fellow American that's willing to leave his private business for a while and get involved with this.
00:26:35.060 And I think that's a really good thing.
00:26:38.220 Now, one of the things that you have seen, heard, anyway, talked about in this is whether or not President Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize for this.
00:26:50.660 Well, if this thing goes through like it's scheduled to go through and everything is agreed upon,
00:26:57.000 I don't see how you couldn't do that.
00:26:59.200 Now, they don't always give the Nobel Peace Prize to people that are deserving.
00:27:02.860 In fact, they've given it to people that have been non-deserving.
00:27:05.820 But I really think President Trump has taken the right stance on this.
00:27:10.900 And he talked about that recently in Sot 5.
00:27:14.240 Everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize for each one of these achievements.
00:27:18.880 But for me, the real prize will be the sons and daughters who live to grow up with their mothers and fathers
00:27:26.760 because millions of people are no longer being killed in endless and unglorious wars.
00:27:33.480 All I care about is not winning prizes, it's saving lives.
00:27:38.240 We save millions and millions of lives with the seven wars.
00:27:42.760 And we have others that we're working on, and you know that.
00:27:45.440 That's awesome.
00:27:48.660 That is exactly the right tone to take.
00:27:53.480 Obviously, there was a teleprompter up there, but he's the one that approves all the speeches that he does.
00:27:59.440 So that's the right tone to take.
00:28:01.000 It's not about his prize or my prize or your prize, whatever we're talking about.
00:28:05.040 It's really about saving the lives of people and people in the future that would have died in a conflict like this.
00:28:11.040 Same thing's going on in Ukraine.
00:28:12.880 I wish Putin and Zelensky would be able to get together and come to some type of agreement.
00:28:19.140 You know, I know what my personal feelings are, but I just want them to come to an agreement
00:28:23.540 because it's not going to get any better.
00:28:26.220 And I'm hopeful that this works.
00:28:28.040 And if it happens to work, I sincerely hope that President Trump deservedly wins the Nobel Peace Prize for that.
00:28:35.020 So that's what's going on with that.
00:28:36.920 We'll monitor that as well.
00:28:39.000 Again, no matter which side of the political spectrum you're on, you want to have peace in that particular area.
00:28:45.540 And that'll be a big positive for the Middle East for sure.
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00:30:04.780 Now, let's talk about some of the questions that you have.
00:30:13.120 You guys are awesome at answering questions for us.
00:30:15.800 It's just giving questions to us and giving us the opportunity to answer them.
00:30:19.980 I want to tell you, though, that if you have—I've told you in the past that if you have a question
00:30:24.220 that I don't answer on here and you would like for me to answer personally,
00:30:27.920 just email me, ron at ronsimmons.com.
00:30:30.840 Now, if you've sent me an email and I haven't answered you because I get a bunch of emails
00:30:35.780 on the other stuff that I have going on, please resend it to me.
00:30:38.900 I apologize that I haven't gotten back to you.
00:30:41.480 We have gotten a good response on this, and I really enjoy doing that.
00:30:44.920 Allie and I talk about it all the time.
00:30:46.780 Sometimes I'll get my wife involved in it and say,
00:30:48.660 how would you answer this?
00:30:49.580 Because she has much more wisdom than I do on a lot of subjects.
00:30:53.540 And so I appreciate you all doing that.
00:30:55.540 We've got a bunch of good ones today, too.
00:30:57.060 I'm going to try to go through as many as I can in the time we have left.
00:30:59.960 And if I don't get to yours and you're still interested in having it answered,
00:31:03.520 please just shoot me an email and I'll do my best to answer it.
00:31:07.280 Okay, I've got them on my phone here.
00:31:09.040 All right, thoughts on Taylor and Travis getting married.
00:31:11.620 I have no thoughts on them getting married.
00:31:14.260 Okay, I do think if you're dating and you're serious,
00:31:17.640 then you should move that on to being married.
00:31:20.360 Okay, that's what I think.
00:31:21.480 But other than that, I have no thoughts on that.
00:31:23.560 Although I did take one of my grandsons to a Kansas City Chiefs game.
00:31:27.540 He's a big Kansas City Chiefs fan.
00:31:29.340 A couple of weeks ago in Kansas City.
00:31:31.860 And I'd never even looked up to see if Taylor Swift was there,
00:31:35.460 although I'm sure she was.
00:31:37.020 But it was a great experience.
00:31:38.260 Kansas City is a great place to go to a game.
00:31:40.240 Very family-oriented.
00:31:42.720 We really enjoyed doing that.
00:31:45.100 All right.
00:31:45.380 So somebody asked about the traveling that Lisa and Daniel and I have done.
00:31:51.580 Daniel's Allie's brother.
00:31:53.520 And we've had a great time.
00:31:55.560 We went on a nice cruise around the British Isles.
00:31:57.880 Daniel is our son, you know, with autism.
00:32:00.620 And he likes everything British.
00:32:02.380 So for his 40th birthday, we took him on a cruise from London,
00:32:06.380 around Ireland and Scotland.
00:32:08.000 We really had a great time.
00:32:09.440 And for the three of us, I think that probably was one of his best trips.
00:32:15.600 For Lisa and I, last summer we went on the footsteps of Paul on a cruise
00:32:20.980 with about 100 other of us on this small ship into Greece.
00:32:26.740 And we went to Athens.
00:32:28.280 We went to Thessaloniki.
00:32:30.200 We went to Patmos.
00:32:32.300 It was fantastic.
00:32:33.960 We also went to Ephesus, which is actually over in Turkey.
00:32:36.720 But one of the cool things that we did in Ephesus is we went to an amphitheater
00:32:42.340 that's still there from ancient times.
00:32:45.440 And we had the Christian singer C.C.
00:32:48.360 Winans came in and did a private concert for the 100 of us that were there.
00:32:53.540 It was fantastic.
00:32:55.240 In fact, Lisa said when we were sitting there, she looks up at the –
00:32:59.760 I always kind of choke up when I think about this.
00:33:01.440 She looks up at the top of the theater, and she just says,
00:33:05.460 I can see Paul sitting up there just smiling on what had happened from his ministry
00:33:12.180 and from Jesus' ministry.
00:33:14.400 So anyway, it was a very cool experience.
00:33:15.940 That's probably our favorite trip.
00:33:19.340 What's the favorite thing to do with the grandkids?
00:33:21.460 The favorite thing I like to do with the grandkids is take them kind of one at a time
00:33:25.780 and spend some one-on-one time with them.
00:33:27.460 And as they get older, that's easier and easier to do, like taking my 11-year-old up to Kansas City
00:33:33.800 and, you know, my 14-year-old.
00:33:36.360 He came out to the mountains with us for a couple of weeks this summer.
00:33:39.660 For the little ones, right now the favorite thing to do is just to watch them playing together.
00:33:46.080 Allie's oldest and my son's youngest are about the same age,
00:33:49.960 and they don't see each other that much because they live hundreds of miles apart.
00:33:54.040 But when they do, they're so fun to watch and just see them playing together as cousins
00:34:01.040 that really enjoy being with each other.
00:34:02.940 So that's the fun part.
00:34:06.780 Did you ever think Allie would grow up to be such an amazing influence on women?
00:34:12.020 Honestly, I knew that Allie was going to be an influencer.
00:34:16.500 Now, you hope when they're little that that's for the good,
00:34:20.440 and it certainly turned out to be that way.
00:34:23.180 But I also knew that her mom was setting a great example for that.
00:34:27.080 So you never know.
00:34:28.720 Nobody expects it to be what it is, right?
00:34:32.000 We didn't have any concept to know what it would end up being
00:34:35.440 and what it even will be in the future.
00:34:37.740 But I did know that Allie was someone that was going to be a leader and an influence.
00:34:43.000 She just had that since she was born.
00:34:45.500 She's always been out in front, and I've appreciated that much about her.
00:34:52.260 What do you think about age gap relationships greater than 10 years?
00:34:55.860 Does the Bible speak to this?
00:34:57.240 I don't know if it speaks to it specifically.
00:35:00.360 Here's what I'll tell you.
00:35:01.920 And I know that when we say don't be unequally yoked,
00:35:04.900 that does generally mean about your faith, and I agree with that.
00:35:08.820 But I can also believe it can mean other things as well.
00:35:12.660 If it's the right fit and you believe that's what God has put you all into that relationship,
00:35:19.380 then I'm fine with that.
00:35:20.800 But just know it's going to be different, okay?
00:35:23.820 And if it's so vastly different that's going to cause major issues
00:35:28.320 or could cause major issues, just pray about that
00:35:31.400 and make sure that's what you're supposed to be doing at the time.
00:35:36.500 Favorite Bible verse.
00:35:37.700 My favorite, I got two favorite Bible verses, James 3.17.
00:35:41.120 I'll let you look them up, and Mark 10.45.
00:35:43.960 Those are my two favorite Bible verses, and those speak to me.
00:35:50.800 This is a very good question here.
00:35:52.520 Do I think Charlie Kirk's assassination had an effect on my generation?
00:35:57.360 I think it did, but I think it was primarily because we saw the response.
00:36:04.320 Now, I was fortunate.
00:36:05.460 I knew who Charlie was.
00:36:07.060 As I said on my Facebook post, I had met Charlie through Allie,
00:36:11.760 and so I was maybe more in tune than some people would be my age.
00:36:16.700 But I believe it's primarily the reaction that we've seen by people since then
00:36:22.360 that has been so amazing and in so many ways encouraging to us.
00:36:28.200 When I saw the response in countries like the U.K. and Australia and Korea,
00:36:36.080 that was surprising even to me who did know him a little bit
00:36:40.260 and knew what his ministry was.
00:36:42.060 So I think it's had an effect.
00:36:44.380 I still think some people are trying to catch up with that,
00:36:47.040 including some pastors,
00:36:48.100 but I'm just prayerful that it's going to be a continuous revival
00:36:53.120 that comes about due to that.
00:36:56.160 So I'm hopeful for that.
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00:38:08.960 Is a financial advisor worth the cost?
00:38:11.220 You know, I was in the wealth management business for 30-something years.
00:38:14.880 And what I will tell you is that you never want to hire a financial advisor
00:38:19.000 that gets paid when you buy or sell something.
00:38:21.960 That gets paid on a transaction because their incentives are wrong.
00:38:25.300 You want to have a financial advisor that gets paid a percent of the assets
00:38:30.300 that he's managing for you.
00:38:32.120 So if he's managing $100,000 and his fee is 1% a year, that's $1,000.
00:38:38.900 Good advisors are worth that, right?
00:38:40.940 And also, they have the right incentive.
00:38:43.280 If your money goes up to, say, $200,000,
00:38:46.440 then his 1% fee is now worth $2,000 to him.
00:38:49.380 If your money goes down, then he gets a reduction in his fee as well.
00:38:53.500 So make sure that the incentive is lined up correctly.
00:38:57.800 And, yes, I believe that they're worth it, you know, if you get a good one.
00:39:02.380 But you need to interview them.
00:39:03.480 You need to know what their background is.
00:39:05.960 You need to know what their philosophy is.
00:39:07.380 How are they going to manage your money?
00:39:08.840 How active are they going to be?
00:39:10.540 What type of risk are they going to take?
00:39:12.860 And then, you know, obviously, make sure you understand all the fees
00:39:15.580 because sometimes there are hidden fees.
00:39:16.920 So make sure you understand all of them.
00:39:20.740 Let's see here.
00:39:21.620 Okay.
00:39:23.500 Is it constitutional to ban Sharia law?
00:39:28.940 Sure, that's constitutional.
00:39:30.340 We can ban Sharia law if we want to.
00:39:33.260 There's nothing unconstitutional about that.
00:39:35.160 Any law that's in conflict with the laws of the state or the federal
00:39:38.760 are unconstitutional anyway.
00:39:41.260 So we could do that if that's what we wanted to.
00:39:45.480 All right.
00:39:46.240 Let's see here.
00:39:49.860 What's my greatest priority in the role of a grandparent?
00:39:52.400 I think our greatest priority role of a grandparent, and it's really the same for parents,
00:39:57.560 is to steward our life in a way that our grandkids can follow that.
00:40:05.120 Not so much what we say, but in what we do and how we conduct ourselves.
00:40:09.280 Okay.
00:40:09.560 Certainly, it can be some things that come out of our mouth.
00:40:12.060 Those can be positive or negative, but it's more so in how they see us steward our life
00:40:18.240 and how we live our life.
00:40:19.880 That's what I believe is the most important thing that we can do.
00:40:24.900 All right.
00:40:25.420 Let's see here.
00:40:26.260 How do you encourage your Christian husband to lead your family spiritually?
00:40:33.100 That's a hard one.
00:40:34.080 I know I probably hadn't done that, did not do that as well as I should have.
00:40:37.840 But I think what you have to understand is that you cannot force another person to do something
00:40:47.160 with their spiritual life.
00:40:48.660 You can encourage them.
00:40:50.520 You can love on them.
00:40:53.540 You can try to get them engaged with people that you might have a good influence,
00:40:59.100 that you think might have a good influence on them,
00:41:01.420 but you cannot force them to do that.
00:41:04.120 So you live your life like you're supposed to, okay?
00:41:09.360 You be the person you're supposed to be and the mother you're supposed to be
00:41:12.960 and the wife you're supposed to be,
00:41:14.420 and you let God worry about taking your husband and changing the changes that he needs to make.
00:41:24.900 It's just not possible to force somebody to do that.
00:41:29.520 The turbo option of Republicans, this is a good question.
00:41:35.700 The president has thousands of nominees that he puts before the Senate to get approved,
00:41:42.560 and the Senate can deny those, all right?
00:41:49.000 But they have something called the turbo option,
00:41:52.040 which instead of getting 60 senators on board with it,
00:41:55.660 they go to the 51 senators.
00:41:58.640 And this is not allowed for every particular nominee,
00:42:03.180 but the Democrats have done it,
00:42:05.380 and the Republicans just did it last week,
00:42:07.240 where they approved over 100 nominees, like in one sitting.
00:42:13.520 And so they do it really quick.
00:42:14.920 They don't have a lot of discussion on any of them.
00:42:16.940 They just go through and approve them.
00:42:18.980 And I think we're going to have to do more of that.
00:42:24.320 We'll do one more.
00:42:27.680 Do you fear for Allie's safety?
00:42:29.620 I think that's a really good question, given everything that's going on.
00:42:33.380 And, of course, as a mom and dad, we're always concerned about our kids' safety for sure.
00:42:39.020 Not only Allie, but she has her older brothers in a position that can cause some concern over that as well.
00:42:46.800 But I will tell you that while we, obviously, as parents, are concerned about those types of things,
00:42:55.420 is that we don't let that change what we believe that God has put on our family.
00:43:03.340 We're very blessed.
00:43:05.420 And we're given an opportunity through Allie.
00:43:08.360 Allie's given an opportunity to do what she's doing.
00:43:11.280 Our oldest son is given an incredible opportunity to do what he's doing.
00:43:15.240 And we can't let the fear of another man or woman stop us.
00:43:22.040 We can take all the precautions, which we do the best that we can in that.
00:43:25.780 And we've certainly increased that over the last several weeks.
00:43:29.960 But we cannot let that stop us.
00:43:32.940 We have to move forward.
00:43:34.400 And we have to let our grandkids and their kids see that we're doing that as well.
00:43:39.040 So it's something you think about for sure.
00:43:42.540 But it's not something that stops any of us on what we're doing.
00:43:46.220 And I hope it wouldn't do that for you either.
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00:45:08.500 I have one more segment that I want to do, and I've called it this before.
00:45:17.700 It's called Wisdom from the Wagon.
00:45:20.180 And if you see behind me the book, my book, Life Lessons from the Little Red Wagon,
00:45:24.880 which you can get anywhere you get your books.
00:45:26.940 You can get it on audio.
00:45:28.100 In fact, if you get it on audio, you'll have Ronald Reagan reading part of my book,
00:45:32.940 which was pretty hard to get considering he passed away, you know, 20-something years ago.
00:45:36.920 But we were able to pull it off.
00:45:38.200 You never know what you're going to be able to get.
00:45:40.040 But I think you'll like the book.
00:45:41.720 It's 15 different lessons that I've learned over the years.
00:45:44.260 And I'll tell you what it is, too.
00:45:46.000 It's a great book of storytelling done by my friend Don Yeager that helped me write the book.
00:45:51.000 And it's very transparent.
00:45:52.540 It lets you see the good, the bad, and the ugly about what I've gone through, some of the ups and the downs.
00:45:58.800 And I think it is one of the biggest comments I get back on that is the transparency of it.
00:46:05.280 And the cool thing about it is, you know, I grew up as a son of public school teachers.
00:46:11.240 Nothing particularly special about me, my background.
00:46:14.220 There was nothing that would have predicted some of the things that we've been able to be a part of
00:46:18.600 and what have you through God's grace.
00:46:20.420 But I do think you'll enjoy it.
00:46:22.540 And I base it on a red wagon because almost all of us have had a red wagon.
00:46:29.680 And as you can see from this picture, not only do you probably have one, but this is Allie Beth.
00:46:36.800 She's holding on to the handle, and she's got her cousin in the wagon, all right?
00:46:43.440 This is back in Arkansas.
00:46:44.800 We were going home for a visit.
00:46:46.340 And that's a radio flyer wagon that we take a look at.
00:46:49.800 And now, it's interesting.
00:46:52.080 This picture is really interesting because one of the things in my book is I describe all the different parts of the wagon.
00:46:58.280 And the wagon has four key parts.
00:47:00.940 It has the handle.
00:47:01.960 It has the front wheels.
00:47:03.520 It has the back wheels.
00:47:04.780 And it has the part that carries something.
00:47:07.960 Well, obviously, the handle is held on to by someone who's leading the wagon.
00:47:14.480 And can you imagine Allie Beth being on any other position than holding the handle and leading the wagon?
00:47:22.180 All the people around here are shaking their heads saying, yeah, we understand that.
00:47:26.440 And she's been that way since she was a little girl.
00:47:28.200 But I just love that picture because it's just her as a sweet little one with her cousin and holding on to a radio flyer wagon that we've talked about so many times.
00:47:38.900 But today's wisdom of the wagon is create your own opportunity.
00:47:45.280 You know, a lot of people think, well, I didn't have this or I didn't get this or you were lucky or I wasn't fast enough to be in the NFL or I didn't, you know, hit the golf ball well enough to get on the PGA Tour or I didn't have a rich uncle or a rich daddy or something like that.
00:48:02.840 Okay, I get all of that.
00:48:04.160 All right.
00:48:04.580 Let's just wipe all that from the past.
00:48:06.360 It's up to us, okay, to create our own opportunity.
00:48:11.780 I had lunch with a young man earlier this week or last week, and he's a friend of the family.
00:48:19.020 He's been a really sweet friend to Daniel.
00:48:22.020 And I'll just give you his first name.
00:48:24.220 It's Andrew.
00:48:25.360 And Andrew and I were sitting down for lunch because he asked me business questions on occasion, whatever.
00:48:31.260 And Andrew has always had the desire to be an entrepreneur.
00:48:35.300 He's been very successful in the regular business world working for huge Fortune 500 companies, but he's had that desire to, you know, to be his own boss, to own a company.
00:48:51.040 And so he took a very bold step, and I'm not necessarily recommending it for all of you.
00:48:58.140 He took a bold step and said, look, the only way I'm ever going to get there is I'm going to have to focus all of my attention on that for a period of time.
00:49:04.480 And let's see what I can find that I can be an owner of, whether a part owner or a full owner of.
00:49:10.920 And so he basically left his job, had saved up some money.
00:49:16.360 So, you know, he didn't leave his family destitute because he's got a wife and three kids.
00:49:19.900 And, you know, has spent the last year looking at businesses to buy.
00:49:26.260 And he hasn't found one yet.
00:49:27.700 He's gotten close a couple of times.
00:49:29.440 So he's out there creating his opportunity.
00:49:32.340 All right.
00:49:32.640 He's not waiting for somebody to give it to him.
00:49:35.440 He is creating his opportunity.
00:49:37.780 And it's uncomfortable.
00:49:39.140 Another chapter in my book says take the next uncomfortable step.
00:49:42.340 Well, that's uncomfortable, but you have to do that.
00:49:44.880 You know, when my business got started, some of you might remember if you've read the book that I was in the investment business and we were going to manage money for small company retirement plans.
00:49:56.340 Then I went out and met with this guy that worked for American Airlines and somebody gave me his name to call.
00:50:06.020 So I went to visit with him and, you know, it wasn't kind of in my focus that I was focused on.
00:50:11.720 And so I said, well, you know, yeah, I'll visit with you.
00:50:16.000 We could help you with your money and what have you, an individual.
00:50:18.820 But I was thinking about we're going to manage all this money for these companies.
00:50:22.640 And this guy, we're finishing up the meeting.
00:50:25.320 And just as we're leaving, just as I'm getting ready to leave the meeting, it's a Friday afternoon.
00:50:29.160 I'm ready to get out of there and get home.
00:50:30.620 Got to drive through all the traffic.
00:50:31.760 He goes to the back of his house and he brings me out a list of 1,500 other guys just like him that all had over a million dollars to invest.
00:50:40.340 And I knew exactly then what I was going to be doing for the rest of my business life.
00:50:48.600 And so we created that opportunity.
00:50:51.400 Now, did God grace us with that?
00:50:52.920 Absolutely.
00:50:53.420 He blessed us with that.
00:50:54.340 No question.
00:50:55.000 I'm not talking about me as a person.
00:50:57.320 I'm talking about using what God has given you and going out there and making it happen.
00:51:03.480 And you're going to have to take some risks to do that.
00:51:05.520 No question about it.
00:51:06.620 But don't depend on somebody else to get that.
00:51:10.040 I even think about Allie Beth, okay, as I finish up.
00:51:13.420 The way Allie Beth got involved in all of this speaking and podcast and writing books, I mean, again, she's always been interested in communicating.
00:51:24.240 She's always been a great communicator.
00:51:26.940 And, in fact, where she went to college, the valedictorian doesn't speak.
00:51:31.180 They have a contest for who's going to speak at the graduation.
00:51:35.900 And she won.
00:51:37.500 And, you know, it was a very proud moment for her.
00:51:41.100 Obviously, for Lisa and I, it was a very proud moment.
00:51:44.060 I'll never forget that night as long as I live.
00:51:46.460 You could just tell this was her element.
00:51:48.040 Well, then she got out of college, went off to work in a smaller town and worked for a small PR firm.
00:51:55.200 And this was around the 2016 election before that.
00:51:59.200 And she was really disenchanted by people her age that weren't interested in voting, especially young women.
00:52:05.000 Whether they voted left or right, that wasn't important, although certainly had her conservative views.
00:52:12.160 So what she did for free is she started calling on the sororities around the University of Georgia campus and says,
00:52:18.180 can I come speak to your sorority about why it's important to vote?
00:52:22.720 That's how she got started.
00:52:24.300 She made that happen.
00:52:25.640 She created her own opportunity.
00:52:26.980 She did not know what that was going to turn into, but it won't ever turn into anything if you don't take the first step.
00:52:37.080 So that's what I want to leave you with today.
00:52:39.040 I always enjoy being with you.
00:52:40.480 I really appreciate the time that you've given Allie and the support that you give her.
00:52:45.340 Make sure that you're subscribed to her through the Blaze as well.
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00:52:52.040 And I look forward to seeing you another time.
00:52:53.860 Have a good day.
00:52:56.980 Have a good day.