Ep 1279 | Charlie Kirk Trial Details, Bondi & Brown Attacks & Living to 100
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Ron Simmons joins me to talk about the Charlie Kirk case, the Brown University shooting, the midterms, and Dick Van Dyke's secret to living a long and fulfilling life. Plus, we take a look at what the future holds for the right.
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There are some developments in the Charlie Kirk case that we will get into today. Also,
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tragedy strikes in Australia, as well as here in the United States, with senseless acts of evil
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and terror victimizing so many. We will get into the details on that, as well as looking at the future.
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What do the midterms hold? What does 2028 hold? Can the right actually come together?
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Inform a coalition. We've also got a sweet look at the life of Dick Van Dyke, who just turned 100.
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What is his secrets to living a long and fulfilling life? My dad is here today,
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day so far. I've
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got a very special co-host with me today. My dad, your favorite guest host, Ron Simmons.
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I'm glad to be here. Thank you for having me. You looked confused about my introduction.
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I was thinking guest versus co-host. I wasn't sure. Yeah, no, this is going to be a co-host
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situation. I like that. I got promoted. You got promoted. All right. Because you've taken over
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a few times. And you've doubled my pay from zero to double zero. Yes, exactly. Just feeling very
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generous this time of year. And worth every penny, by the way. Yes. Okay, we've got a lot to talk about.
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We'll get to some audience questions at the end. We've got some sad stuff to talk about today.
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I know. I know. Sure. And, but we'll also talk about some more lighthearted stuff at the end,
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and we'll try to be as encouraging as we can. But I want to talk first about some tragedies that
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happened over the weekend. First, we've got this Brown University shooting. The suspect is still at
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large. They thought that they had a person of interest, or they did have a person of interest,
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but then he was released. And so we do not know who did this, but the shooter, according to the AP,
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reportedly fired more than 40 rounds. This happened in an engineering building.
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One of two of the victims was a young woman named Ella Cook. We'll put up her picture.
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Looks like a sweet young woman, reportedly Christian, conservative woman, head of the
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vice president of the Brown University College Republicans. Brown University, as people can
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imagine, is not a conservative place. I think this was the only conservative group on campus. I think
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they had about 50 members, and she was a very enthusiastic and organized leader of that. And gosh,
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I just think about how parents feel when their kids go off to college. She's a young, young woman,
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and how her parents must be feeling right now. Just sent their baby off to college. I can't imagine.
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Christmas will never be the same for them, ever. Because they'll associate it with this from
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now on. And Brown University, just so your people know, it's not just a liberal college. It's probably
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one of the most radical liberal colleges out there. I believe it's in Rhode Island. And it's not a huge
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university, but it seems really ironic that of all the people that would be killed in this would be
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one of the 50 conservatives on campus. And it'll be interesting to see what comes out of this. And
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also, actually pretty lucky that no more people were killed, considering he shot 40 rounds in a very
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closed area. Because I think it was in like a classroom or something like that. So just, and you know,
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and Brown University is going to downplay anything that might be related to violence against a
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conservative for sure. Yeah. I mean, I know that they didn't wish her to die. I'm not saying that.
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I'm just saying that they're going to shape the messaging that it won't, they won't, they won't
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ever acknowledge that it possibly could be some anti-conservative backlash. Yeah. Or anti-Christian,
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we just don't know. There were some assumptions and some reporting at the beginning, because this was
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happening right when the Bondi Beach tragedy in Australia was happening, which we'll get to in a little bit,
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that this was targeting like Jewish professors. That doesn't seem to be the case. We don't know
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who it is. We don't know exactly what the motive is. Here is Providence PD telling us what they
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knew at the time, obviously not giving a whole lot of detail, but here they are. It's that one.
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The mayor stated we have detained someone of interest, but I respect them to protect the
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integrity of the investigation. I would only be limited in my, in my details.
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Okay. So basically they're not going to say anything else right now. Apparently he yelled
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something before he shot. We don't know what that is. Um, Fox is reporting a little bit more. Here's
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that too. But this individual went to a specific classroom that was, uh, essentially in a study
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session for an exam, um, on economics and chose that classroom. And we know from a witness inside
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that this gunman yelled something. We don't know what this individual yelled and then began shooting.
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Okay. Here's what Brown president had to say. Sock three.
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You see when it happened and flew right back and I'm catching up right now.
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President with all due respect, six hours after the shooting and you said,
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you don't know what was going on in that classroom. How does that happen? Were they
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taking an exam? Were they for a club? I don't know. I don't know. Six hours later and you're
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the president and you don't know. I do not know. Well, that's kind of concerning.
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Do you believe that? No, no. She'd been briefed by somebody on her team. What was going on in
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there? That would be if other than that, she needs to be fired. Right. I mean, cause I would have,
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the first question she should ask after, you know, what are the safety situation is,
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okay, what, what's, what, whose class was it? What was going on in there? Why were they there?
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That type of thing. I mean, that'd be the normal thing to ask. So crazy.
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I mean, because that actually matters. That's pertinent. Okay. If it was an informal study group,
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then maybe it's less likely that she was targeted. She just happened to be wrong place, wrong time.
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But if it was a college Republicans meeting, if it was a Bible study, if it had something to do with
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that, okay, that's pertinent. Now I do want to know, how did she get killed? Like you were saying
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earlier, and the other people in the classroom did not. That's why it seems targeted as well.
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I don't really know. It's kind of a, especially cause it's gotta be a relatively small area. You
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know what I'm saying? It doesn't sound like it was in a big hall. It was in a small area. I don't,
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I don't, it's, it's a strange thing. And how did that person get off campus without being
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apprehended? Yeah. Apprehended. Where is campus security in that? Right? Right.
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Cause I, I don't, I didn't hear any reports that there was a silencer. So I assume there was a lot
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of noise and I assume there are other people in the building that was just a classroom or a room
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in the building. So it's a lot of questions unanswered. You can bet. And, you know, as you
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know, the first thing a lot of people start doing these situations, cover up, cover up, cover up.
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Oh yeah. Just to cover their own, you know, uh, backsides. Yep. Um, another victim, Muhammad
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Aziz Emrzikov. Um, he has died, pray for his family as well. Kendall Turner is a student who
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has been identified as, um, one of the, one of the victims, um, just a wounded victim. So we'll just
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keep tabs on this and we'll see what happens. And hopefully we'll, let's just pray for truth
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and justice and definitely for this suspect, uh, to be apprehended and to be brought to the
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fullness of justice and just, you know, pray for this young woman's family. As my dad said,
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All right. So now in Bondi Beach, Australia, we do have what seems to be by all appearances,
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a targeted attack against the Jewish community there in Australia by a Muslim assailant.
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This was the first day of Hanukkah. There was a celebration going on there. At least 15 lives
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were claimed at this celebration. Many more have been wounded after a gunman opened fire
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in this outdoor area there. A 41-year-old bystander, also seemingly Muslim, we don't know for sure his
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religion, but his name is Ahmed Al Ahmed, wrestled and disarmed the first shooter. That was actually
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amazing. Yeah. Some people are saying that he's clearly Muslim, but I don't think we can tell that
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by his name. Probably Middle Eastern of some sort, but we don't know his worldview. Regardless,
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extremely thankful for that act of heroism. So one of the shooters identified as 24-year-old
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Muslim man of Pakistani origin. He remains hospitalized and in a coma, reportedly linked to ISIS, to an ISIS
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cell in Sydney. His 50-year-old father, another suspect, father-son situation here, was shot and
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killed by the police. The father has been in permanent residency in Australia since 1998
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via a visa. Wow. Just absolutely crazy. I mean, the father and son told their family they were going
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on a fishing trip. And then they go to this walking bridge and that's where they start shooting from.
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So they have, looks like to me, from what I understand, it's an elevated position, which gives
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you, that's probably why so many people were killed. Because there's not anything to shoot through,
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they're shooting down. At least that's the way I understood it. I mean, it could be wrong on that.
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I don't have all the details. But, you know, it just goes to what we talk about all the time,
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is that, you know, there are sects of the Muslim religion that absolutely have nothing but a death
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wish on Jewish people and in some ways on Christian people as well. I mean, we're both seen as we're not
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a Zionist, we're, you know, we're the devil. So it's just sad. And the saddest thing for me,
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and all the deaths are sad, but one of them evidently was a Holocaust survivor. Now, can you
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imagine going through Holocaust, getting out of that, living your life for the next multiple,
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multiple decades, and then dying again from another, you know, Jew hater? I mean, it's just incredible.
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So many years later. And in Australia, of all places. And then a 10-year-old boy, too. I saw that.
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It's just awful. And certainly, the problem, really, it's because Christians and Jews and Muslims,
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no matter where you are, if you have a Muslim majority, you're going to be persecuted.
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You are probably going to be subject, at the very least, to discrimination, at the very worst,
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to torture, arbitrary imprisonment, and death. But the fact of the matter is, because I'm going to
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take it a step further than what you said, it is absolutely true that not all individual Muslims,
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of course, are going to do something like this. But it is inherent in Islamic ideology,
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in Islamic texts. Islam means submission. And so it's not a religion of evangelism the way that
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ours are. It's a religion of conquest and of territorial domination. And they truly see it
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as their God-given right and responsibility to kill the infidel. They hate Jews. They hate Christians.
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The tactics look different. We're at different stages of Islamic domination all around in the world.
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But that is just the truth of the matter. And people really have to wake up about that.
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And Charlie Kirk was so right about this. He wasn't afraid to criticize when he felt that Israel was
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doing something wrong politically. But he was so crystal clear about the threat of Islamic ideology
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to Western civilization. There's a couple of clips that I have that I saw going around. Here's top five.
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The spiritual battle is coming to the West. And the enemies are, wokeism or Marxism,
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combining with Islamism to go after what we call the American way of life. If you are Christian and
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Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior, these two threats are combining forces to come after us.
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And it's time that the church stands and rises up against it.
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Yep. Yeah, he was right about that. Yep. Okay, here's top six.
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We don't talk enough about Islam. There is a red-green axis that is trying to suffocate this country.
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We talk a lot about the red, which is the Marxist. We don't talk nearly enough about the Islamist.
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We don't talk nearly enough about the hundreds of thousands of Muslims that we have voluntarily
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imported into our country that build mosques, implement Sharia law. They court. I don't know if you
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guys have this problem in South Carolina or not, but it's a, I'm thankfully no, but you go to
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Minneapolis, you even go to Dallas, you go to, to New York and it will metastasize. It will spread.
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You know why? Because the women of the West, they get cats. The women of Muslims, they have eight kids.
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Eventually it doesn't work very well. Gosh, he was right. And I thought he was going to go in the
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direction of toxic empathy because it's toxic empathy that has made us say, no, Christians are the bad
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ones. Muslims are the great ones. And we just need to accept unfettered anyone into our country.
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I mean, immigration is a part of this. It is, it is a part of this in mass migration. And
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this idea that we have to accept absolutely anyone who wants to come to our country, no matter what,
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Yeah, it really has. Now I think it unintentionally, it got us here. I don't think anybody had that
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intention. Hey, we want to, you know, let Islam take over the country. But what happens is, is when
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we didn't promote assimilation and when we teach English as a second language, those are just the,
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the kind of the underpinnings of how things like that start. See, we assumed that what would happen
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with like the Somalians in Minnesota and, and, and all the other, uh, uh, immigrants that we let in,
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we assumed they would assimilate like it did through Ellis Island, right? Like the Italians
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and the Irish. Now, even then they lived in separate parts of the city, but they assimilated
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to be Americans, right? They were American first. And we just, we just have not done a good job at
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that at all. So therefore I think that we need to, until we figure that out, we need to really,
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really, really slow down immigration. We really need to slow down immigration.
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Absolutely. Just so that it doesn't have to be a complete stop of immigration. Although I think
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a moratorium for a period of time would be fine, but you want the, you want to make sure that the
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quality of people that you're letting in are people like we know immigrants from Kenya, Zimbabwe. We
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know a lot of people like that, that are super hardworking, that are Christians, that are really
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good neighbors and friends and church members and all of that. But I mean, they are like the model
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people that you want to live next door to, but you know, they have family members that are just like
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them who have been trying to come legally and can't. I know. But I do think that one of the
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things that we ought to do is we should get rid of chain migration, automatic chain migration. I agree.
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I don't mind giving a preference to vetting a fellow family member. Okay. Early. I get that. But
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chain migration, and that's a Chuck Schumer thing. He was the one that pushed that through.
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Now, shame on us for letting it happen. But chain migration is a problem. And that's where a lot
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of the Somalian issues in Minnesota came from, chain migration. And we just, that needs to be
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eliminated. That needs to be, somebody needs to be talking about that in the Republican Party. And
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I've heard very little about that. That also affects housing prices, I would think. I mean,
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just the more people that you bring in in general. Oh yeah, more demand. No question about it.
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And yeah, I mean, multi-generational homes, they can just afford a bigger down payment than the
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average, you know, couple coming out of college with the wife wants to be a stay-at-home mom,
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and the dad has a $60,000 a year job. Like, that's hard to compete against the chain migration
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family that lives next door that's got three generations of income owners. That's tough
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for the American family. No question about it. And we see, I see, the thing that's worrying me the most
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is not the taking over of our cities, it's the taking over of our suburbs.
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Yeah, totally. Big time taking over. I see that all around the country.
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And what's happening is they're doing, you know, multi-generational people living in the same
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house, multi-generational incomes. And they, you know, even in the neighborhood that I live in,
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I walk a lot, right? And it's so interesting is that I will pass people that I know have immigrated
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here, you know, meet them, and they won't even make eye contact. Nope. It's just really strange,
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right? Yep. I mean, I'll say hi to almost everybody. Hello, you know, that type of deal.
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They won't even make eye contact. And I'm thinking, that's not right. That's not the America that I
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grew up in or believe in. No. And that's one thing, you know, we heard so much, especially the
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past few years, diversity is our strength, diversity is our strength. Well, statistically,
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that's not true. It can be a strength if you have something bigger than that uniting you.
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So it can bring different perspectives and things like that. But at the end of the day,
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you have to say, okay, but this is what we have in common. But if you don't have that,
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There's this book called Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam. I'm sure you've heard of it. It's old. It's,
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you know, 25 years old. But he talked about this, that the more diverse a neighborhood is,
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the less you trust your neighbors. And it's not because any one individual is racist. It's just
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human nature. It's just, we are trying to force multiculturalism upon people without any shared
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underneath values. And that has worked zero places throughout history.
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And it's never about multiculturalism where they adopt our culture. It's about us tolerance of their
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Yeah. It's tough. Okay. Just one thing I want to finish on, on this. A lot of people are talking
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about the gun aspect of this. Australia has really, really tough gun laws. And now they're talking
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about getting even tougher gun laws, which I don't even know how you do. Like, how would people like
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And it's the way it is. I mean, it could have been sent over on some ship in some crate that said,
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you know, peaches on it or something. You know what I'm saying? I mean, they don't check every
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single crate or, or anything like that. Who knows how they got it. But remember, criminals
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are always going to have guns. And the stricter the gun control simply means that criminals will
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have them and the government will have them. And individual law abiding citizens will be the
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Yep. There was a terrible attack in Australia, the Port Arthur attack that people point to
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because they really, like, they really locked down on gun ownership after I think 1997. And
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people will, they'll show a graph of 1997 to today that gun deaths went down. What they
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don't show you is if you expand the graph before 1997, gun deaths were already going down in Australia
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before they changed that policy at the exact same rate. So whatever it was, whatever else was
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happening that made gun deaths go down, it wasn't actually them stopping gun ownership that stopped
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that. This just made it to where very few civilians had the ability to protect themselves.
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Right. Yeah. It's not good. This, evidently, this person, what I read was that this person had
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bought these guns legally. Um, but I, I don't know that that's true or not, but I'd, I'd read that,
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that he had, there's some way you can get like a hunting. I don't think these were hunting rifles
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though, that they were shooting. I'm not exactly sure what they were, but in order to kill that
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many people, they had to be, feel like they would need to be semi-automatic at least.
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Yeah. There is a video of the police taking these guys down and then, you know, arresting them.
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Cause I guess at least one of the guys is alive. And then, you know, some Australian guy,
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you hear all the Australians in the background, like cheering on the police. It's morbid, but
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like you want the good guy to go down. So you find yourself like watching it and cheering along
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with them or the bad guy to go down. I don't remember if I said that right or wrong, but then
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this good guy comes up and I saw people saying this should be the next prime minister of Australia.
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He just curb stomps the like suspect's head into the ground. He did. He got arrested.
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Of course he did. So yeah. What do you think about that?
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Well, I hope there's not a jury in Australia that would ever convict that man.
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I think we, I mean, I'm sorry. We celebrate that guy. He just killed 15 people.
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Okay. So Charlie Kirk's killer, and we've tried on this show not to say his name. It's hard to do.
00:25:15.200
And I don't even know if it's always the right thing. I just feel like people like this always
00:25:20.700
They want to be known. So I just try not to say his name, but it's getting harder and harder to do.
00:25:25.540
So he made his first in-person court appearance on Thursday, December 11th
00:25:29.780
in Provo, Utah after previous appearances via video from the Utah County Jail,
00:25:35.400
where he has been held since his arrest in September.
00:25:39.080
People will remember that his parents saw him on the security footage, said,
00:25:44.200
that's my son. They did the right thing. The very, very difficult thing I can imagine.
00:25:49.700
Turned their son in. He has been in jail. He is being charged with aggravated murder.
00:25:55.280
So this is known as first-degree murder in other states. It's an elevated charge carrying the death
00:26:00.520
penalty or life without parole. Now, we'll get into kind of what happened on Thursday,
00:26:06.420
but apparently the trial might not even start until 2027, Dad.
00:26:11.880
Well, these things, and again, our system is set up. Our system is, remember how our system came
00:26:18.340
out of, we came out of a place where a king could say, you're arrested without any proof or trial or
00:26:25.060
anything like that. So our system is set up to favor the accused. That's right. And there,
00:26:32.300
our system allows, the way it's set up, people that are guilty to get off. There's no question
00:26:38.020
about it. All right. The burden of proof is heavily, heavily on the prosecution, which is the
00:26:42.860
government in this case. And so there are many steps to go through that can delay. And the reason
00:26:49.160
that defense generally likes to delay is they want it, the emotion to have passed through what could be
00:26:56.280
their jury pool. Okay. Yeah. Now my prediction is that there'll never end up being a prosecutorial
00:27:07.980
conviction, meaning it won't go to trial and be convicted. Some point in time, he is going to
00:27:13.920
take a plea bargain to take life in prison. That's what I think. So you won't even have a trial?
00:27:19.020
It's going to be much later. You may start the trial, but before the sentencing or somewhere in
00:27:24.880
there, I believe that they'll, that he'll try to cut a deal and the government will probably give
00:27:29.660
him the deal. And why do you think that? Well, just because it allows him to live because they're
00:27:34.460
going to, they're going after the death penalty, right? There's no question. But you shouldn't be
00:27:38.680
allowed to just plea that down. If the death penalty is just, then it's just. I know, but you can
00:27:44.020
because it's a two-way street and what the government, their calculus, I think would be
00:27:49.620
is that we don't want to take any risk of this guy getting off or there being an appeal that would,
00:27:58.100
you know, that type of thing. And so. Yeah. So they see it kind of as a win-win. That's,
00:28:03.140
that's what they would see. Now, maybe that'll be different in this particular case. I don't know,
00:28:07.400
but that's what I see. Now there is going to be, you know, the next hearing is January 16th,
00:28:12.260
but it's really just on media, how much they're going to allow the media in. And then
00:28:16.400
there's several pre-trial hearings that have to happen in this. We need to be praying for this
00:28:23.420
judge. He's in a tough spot. Judge Graff. Yeah. Is it Travis Graff or something like that? Or
00:28:29.400
if I remember right. But anyway, we need it because it's tough. Those things are tough.
00:28:34.820
Tony Graff. Tony Graff. Yeah. We need to be praying for him. Those are tough scenarios. He'll be under a lot
00:28:39.660
of pressure and you know, just scumbag dude. I, again, it's still hard for me to believe it
00:28:47.600
happened, honestly. Yeah. I know. I know. We should have pictures of him in the courtroom,
00:28:55.000
smiling, things like that. It was very, just very disturbing. Oh, you just wanted to slap him.
00:29:00.460
I know. And people were also pointing out, we should put up a picture of this, that he was
00:29:05.880
wearing like baby blue and baby pink, a baby pink tie. And people pointed out, those are the colors
00:29:14.300
of the transgender flag. Oh, I didn't notice that. And we don't, we don't know if that is purposeful
00:29:20.180
or not, but it's a little on the nose. I'm just going to say, I'm just going to say that it was.
00:29:24.840
Yeah. I mean, it's a little on the nose. So this guy, Judge Tony Graff, he says that he's got
00:29:33.100
1,409 cases that are assigned to him, which I don't even understand, Dad, how that works,
00:29:40.980
how these judges have so many cases assigned to them. How do they even get through all of this?
00:29:44.860
Why is it set up that way? Well, probably 80% of them will never go to trial.
00:29:48.920
They'll be pled out. And I don't know if his is just a criminal court or he also has civil cases
00:29:53.600
as well. I'm not sure how the Utah system works. And again, this is a state, murder is a state
00:30:00.420
crime. There may be federal felonies related to guns and stuff like that, that are also associated
00:30:07.760
with this, but the actual murder is a state crime. And so these are state, the state of Utah.
00:30:15.380
It's this accused person versus the state of Utah versus this accused person.
00:30:21.580
And so the state judges, if he's in an area that is growing population-wise, which I think
00:30:29.440
it's Provo, isn't it, is where they're having this trial, is that they may need to increase
00:30:36.020
the number of judges. Texas does that all the time as our population grows, but it takes a
00:30:40.540
while to get that done. The governor has to appoint somebody and then the legislature has
00:30:45.900
to approve the funding for it. So it just may be that the judges there right now are pretty
00:30:50.860
Yeah. So last week they kind of talked about a variety of things like media access. It does
00:30:58.720
seem right now that during the trial, they are going to allow cameras. Now his team doesn't
00:31:05.900
like that because they're afraid that it opens it up to conspiracy theory, sensationalism, that
00:31:10.600
he's going to be over scrutinized, that the jury is then not going to be able to be objective.
00:31:16.640
The prosecution, and I've heard Erica say this, she wants transparency. People want to be able
00:31:23.600
to see. For a similar reason, they think it could cause conspiracy and speculation if people
00:31:31.120
can't actually see what's going on. To that end, the judge also clarified some things like
00:31:37.140
allowing him to wear street clothes. So like he was wearing a, you know, a shirt and a tie rather
00:31:44.220
than a prison jumpsuit. So that doesn't taint the jury pool. Also, I get that the media aren't
00:31:54.080
Yes. I did read that. Yeah. Yeah. Again. And I get that because he is innocent until proving
00:32:01.360
Yeah. And we do like, we want as fair as possible. And that's why when I see people say like,
00:32:10.340
oh, well, why isn't the FBI or why isn't law enforcement asking this, talking to this person,
00:32:15.520
doing this. And I've been so confused about that because I'm like, how, how do we know that they're
00:32:21.680
not? Am I not on the email chain that the DOJ is sending out and saying like, here's the witness
00:32:27.940
that we're talking to today. I've just been very confused about that. And genuinely, like,
00:32:33.000
do I not understand how this goes? But I mean, they keep these things.
00:32:36.480
They don't have a duty. They don't have a duty to report that.
00:32:39.180
Yeah. And they probably shouldn't, right? Like that probably wouldn't be fair. To your point,
00:32:44.920
the accused also has their rights in this. And we want it to be that way as much as we might
00:32:50.160
loathe the person who did something we want our system to be.
00:32:56.120
Yes. That's the way you want the system to be. Otherwise, you live in tyranny.
00:33:01.980
Yeah. And I, I really do believe that those closest to Charlie who are working with law
00:33:07.620
enforcement, they're trying to turn over every stone and asking all of the questions.
00:33:13.260
Um, he also talked about the gag order and the judge did, and he just clarified that this is a
00:33:19.740
rule that stops lawyers, witnesses, and others involved from talking publicly about the case
00:33:25.760
outside of court. It's not anyone anywhere that can't talk about it. Cause I saw some people say,
00:33:31.580
Oh, I'm going to violate the gag order. And Charlie, well, you don't have the power to do that.
00:33:38.300
Yeah. It's just the people are involved. Or, or if you might be a witness now, that's where it gets
00:33:42.320
a little gray. Cause people don't always know if they're going to be a witness or not,
00:33:45.980
you know, but somebody like Lee, like his parents shouldn't comment on it. That would apply to them
00:33:51.580
cause they were the ones that turned him in. His ex, uh, boyfriend, whatever he was can't comment.
00:33:59.440
Yeah. The suspect, uh, the suspects, you know, live in whoever that was, uh, probably no school
00:34:06.200
officials, that type of thing. Uh, Charlie's team, you know, probably can't comment specifically on
00:34:14.000
things related to the trial. That's probably what they're talking about, but yeah. Yeah. We just have
00:34:20.460
to keep following it again. Uh, every time I'm sure with Charlie's family, with his wife and kids
00:34:27.920
and with his parents, every time this kind of comes up for another hearing or something that you relive
00:34:34.040
all of that. I mean, it's a painful, painful process I can imagine. Yeah. Um, people talked
00:34:40.500
about like trying to lip read, like what he was saying. People were commenting on just his demeanor,
00:34:47.480
not seeming sad, not seeming afraid at all. There's this body language expert as reported
00:34:52.020
by the independent named Scott Rouse that claims by the body language that he wasn't demonstrating
00:34:57.920
any form of grief. Here's site. These two muscles pull together and this muscle pulls down. I don't
00:35:03.300
see any of that. I don't see any grief muscle. It lets us know he's really, really worried about
00:35:06.840
anything and no concern. Well, yeah, because he's probably sociopathic. And obviously if guilty,
00:35:15.940
an evil person, because I'm, I mean, I don't know. It just seems to me a person, whether you,
00:35:24.660
if you murdered someone and you regret it, you're going to show distress. And if you didn't do it,
00:35:29.580
I mean, you're definitely going to be distressed. Yeah. Like, yeah. What are we missing here?
00:35:34.680
And also as parents, if like, you really don't think that your son did it, like you're going to
00:35:40.020
be sounding the alarms. I assume. Yep. Yeah. No, I would, I would imagine so.
00:35:44.660
You'd be tearing the house down. You're going to be going to the media. You're going to really
00:35:47.880
be trying to do something. This, you know, I think when I looked at it, I don't think there's
00:35:52.440
any question. The guy was smirking. I think he's enjoying the attention. And I think, you know, he
00:35:59.520
either, he doesn't care what happens to him or he hasn't quite processed what all of that means.
00:36:06.600
And maybe the celebrity status of it means more to him. Kind of like that guy that shot
00:36:12.100
the United healthcare guy. Right. Yeah. Um, and they're totally opposite scenarios, but still
00:36:17.820
both of the suspects, you know, just seem, you know, do they have access to social media
00:36:24.000
in jail in any way? I guess he could have people tell him. Well, he could have, yeah. Visitors,
00:36:31.080
but they don't think they can even bring their phones and stuff. So how would he know that he's
00:36:34.380
being hailed as a hero because he is being hailed as a hero. Probably can watch TV and some of the
00:36:39.820
TV reporting says that, that he's being held by a hero, you know, that they report that they
00:36:45.580
didn't necessarily say. Well, actually you really only have to turn on, you know, MSNBC and see
00:36:50.200
Ilhan Omar say that, well, he was a racist and he was a terrible person. So he could feel like a
00:36:57.160
vigilante like that. So we'll see what's going to happen. Pray for truth, pray for justice. People
00:37:03.580
know that I do believe that for a murder like this, that the death penalty should be carried out.
00:37:09.280
I actually think the unjust part about our justice system when it comes to the death penalty is that
00:37:13.960
it's too arbitrary and that it takes too long to do. Genesis nine tells us that the death penalty
00:37:20.000
is the proportionate and just murder or just punishment for murder, not for everything,
00:37:26.460
but after due process for murder, because we are made in God's image. Charlie was made in God's
00:37:32.240
image and you can't replace that. That is so special. It's different than hurting an animal.
00:37:36.740
It's different than doing anything else. We are so special and so sacred that the only just
00:37:41.360
punishment for purposely killing an innocent person is death. That's actually mercy. It's not torture.
00:37:47.500
It's not 30 years in prison. It is the mercy of snuffing the life out of the person who snuffed the
00:37:54.920
life out of the other person. Yeah. Well, our trial system, I think is probably the best there is in
00:38:02.580
the world. Our sentencing system, our putting out punishment leaves out one major factor and it leaves
00:38:12.440
out the victim. And that's what really bothers me. Yeah. Victims not considered near as much
00:38:20.280
as the suspect. Yeah. Right. Punishment phase. And by the way, my opinion is that this is the guy who
00:38:29.000
did it. Now, were there other people involved? I think that, of course, that's always possible.
00:38:34.860
But I just haven't been persuaded. Like, I want to know who did it. I haven't been persuaded by any of
00:38:40.700
the theories or any of the qualms of people saying, well, he couldn't have done this or this
00:38:45.180
bullet couldn't have done this. I'm not a gun expert, but the more I've looked into it, it is
00:38:49.580
possible for that kind of bullet at that angle that killed Charlie to be stopped, like, by Charlie's
00:38:56.740
Charlie's body. And look, I think that there are very violent extremist cells online among left-wing
00:39:05.340
militant groups that want to see Christian conservatives dead because of the things they
00:39:10.920
say. I do believe 100% that's what happened with Charlie Kirk. And I do believe my opinion is that
00:39:18.060
Tyler Robinson was at the center of that. Yep. And those groups are looking for people that are just
00:39:24.600
able to be radicalized. And this is radicalization. That's what it is. Whether it's radicalization to
00:39:29.860
Islam or radicalization to the far left wokeness or radicalization to, you know, white supremacist.
00:39:37.880
Radicalization is radicalization. And this guy is radicalized. And that's why he doesn't have any
00:39:42.380
remorse about it. Yeah, it is. But this is a far more pervasive form of radicalization. We just don't,
00:39:50.360
like, if we had a bunch of radical white supremacists out there, you can bet your bottom dollar we'd be
00:39:54.940
hearing about it on a daily basis. Oh, yeah. We got a lot of left-wing violence. It's a huge,
00:40:00.600
huge problem. Lots of it. All right. We'll end this segment. I thought that Matt Walsh did a great
00:40:06.440
job on his show, just talking about the different, like, theories and why he believes that this guy
00:40:13.360
was in the middle of it. And I think I accidentally violated my rule and said his name. You did. You did.
00:40:18.120
I told you guys, it's difficult. It's really difficult to talk about this without mentioning
00:40:22.520
his name. Didn't mean to do that. But here's thought nine. So we have three confessions here,
00:40:26.740
one to his parents, one to his roommate, and one on Discord. And the confessions were not obtained
00:40:31.300
by the FBI or coerced in an interrogation room or anything like that. Robinson turned himself in at
00:40:37.280
a sheriff's office, not an FBI field office. A retired deputy sheriff and family friend brought him
00:40:43.180
there. Those local sheriffs were the ones who took the first statements from Robinson's parents,
00:40:48.160
which identified Robinson as the shooter and provided the motive. In literally any other case,
00:40:54.580
for literally any other defendant, if there is DNA evidence and a confession,
00:41:01.000
they will be convicted. And to say that this kind of evidence is not enough, indeed to say that this
00:41:06.780
evidence doesn't even point vaguely to the suspect, is to essentially say that guilt
00:41:12.840
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Okay. Let's talk about Gavin Newsom. Do we have thought 11 of Gavin? Okay. Let's talk about his latest
00:42:29.640
declaration that he is the most pro-trans governor. Saw 11. We didn't get into trans sports. That's an
00:42:36.440
issue no one wants to hear about because 80 percent of the people listening disagree with my position
00:42:40.180
on this. But it comes from my heart, not just my head. It wasn't a political evolution.
00:42:47.180
Your position being that? I don't think it's fair. I want to see trans kids. I have a trans godson.
00:42:52.700
There's no governor to sign more pro-trans legislation than I have.
00:42:55.800
Okay. So, do you think that this is going to play with the nation in general for 2028?
00:43:05.260
I think he thinks that the middle position on trans is don't play in the wrong sports from your
00:43:12.160
biological birth, but everything else about it is okay. He thinks that's the middle position.
00:43:18.340
And I don't think if the Republican shape it properly, then I don't think that is it. I mean,
00:43:26.800
especially when you read about, there was an article in one of the papers I read over the weekend about
00:43:32.300
how the medical community admits that they are basically doing junk science. And they said,
00:43:42.920
hey, well, we need to put together a, you know, basically like a chat group so we can talk to
00:43:47.120
each other about it. I mean, it's just crazy. And so I don't think that it will be, but that's what
00:43:52.960
he's trying to put out there. Cause you know, he says no trans in the, you know, no boys in girls
00:43:58.880
sports. And he also said 80% of the people disagree with him on that. That's just not true.
00:44:03.880
No, not 80% of maybe he misspoke. 80% of people agree with him. If not more, I think it's probably
00:44:11.780
close to 90% that say, yeah, we should have separate spaces for boys and girls for the sake
00:44:17.540
of girls. I, it's a completely logically untenable position because you can't say, yes, it's possible
00:44:23.820
for a boy to become a girl, but he can't play with other girls. That doesn't make any sense.
00:44:29.200
I think the Democrats will try not to talk about it at all.
00:44:32.000
Well, yeah, I think they'll try to listen to Jim Carville, who was an old Democrat strategist.
00:44:37.180
They haven't taken that advice so far, but I think when it comes down to it, not a Jasmine
00:44:43.360
Crockett or a AOC, but a Gavin Newsom. Oh yeah. Cause he didn't really have any of his own beliefs.
00:44:50.200
Those aren't, you know, I just want to be elected.
00:44:53.040
So are we gearing up for 2028? Are things already like starting to take shape with people vying
00:44:59.040
Uh, they will take shape more after November of 26. That's when it really starts happening.
00:45:03.600
Yeah. That's when it really starts happening. Uh, but sure. I mean, especially on the Democrat
00:45:07.820
side, he's trying to clear the field, you know, and, um, I don't know who, I mean, I think there'll
00:45:14.620
be some other people, maybe like the guy from Pennsylvania to see can a moderate, the problem
00:45:19.240
with the guy from Pennsylvania and the guy from Kentucky is they cannot win the primary
00:45:25.000
unless, unless they cut some type of deal where they essentially, um, I hate to use the word
00:45:34.620
cheat, but kind of like what they did when they got me and Hillary. Yeah, that's right.
00:45:38.460
That whole type of deal. Uh, that's, that's the only way that could happen.
00:45:47.200
What do we need to be thinking about right now?
00:45:48.980
Well, we need to be thinking about Christmas and our, the birth of our savior.
00:45:55.240
But as soon as that's over, so we turn the calendar, we got to go to work. We got to get
00:46:00.400
to work. We have primaries coming up. Uh, Texas is the first Tuesday in March and all
00:46:06.580
over the country. They'll be primary. So you need to pick the person in your party that
00:46:11.620
you think will best be able to win in November. Yeah. Cause remember folks, politics at the
00:46:20.180
end of the day is a binary choice, right? It's not between, you know, 16 different people.
00:46:26.860
It's the two, who do you think can win? That's the, that's the person that you should pick who
00:46:32.520
can win in the general election right now in a, in, uh, the, the favorables, unfavorables,
00:46:39.200
Republicans have an advantage kind of nationwide. Uh, the unfavorables for Democrats are, it's
00:46:45.500
really kind of odd. They're way like, you know, you've got like 20% more unfavorable than you do
00:46:51.500
favorable. So it's like 54, 34, something like that. But when you ask for a, this is a weird,
00:46:58.620
this is weird because it says when you ask in a generic ballot, who would you vote for a Republican
00:47:04.340
or Democrat in Congress, Democrats are actually ahead by a little bit. So it's really a weird
00:47:09.860
dynamic, but remember congressional races are local races. They're not national races.
00:47:16.600
Yeah. They're what happens in that locality. And a lot of people say, yeah, I hate all Republicans
00:47:22.160
other than my Republican, or I hate all Democrats other than my Democrat. I think it's going to be a,
00:47:27.860
it usually is in midterms. It's going to be a very tough midterm, uh, for, for Republicans.
00:47:33.800
And so therefore we have to really, really outwork the other side in order to keep our pretty slim
00:47:40.380
margin already. Um, in some cases, Trump will need to engage, but in some cases,
00:47:47.120
President Trump will need to not engage and he needs to respect that. Uh, because look,
00:47:52.860
the MAGA voters in the general election are going to vote, uh,
00:47:57.860
anyway, for the Republican candidate. Now we do need to get the vote out, but we don't need for
00:48:03.840
him to come in, in a situation where he's got a huge negative appeal in a general election.
00:48:10.960
Yeah. We need to not do that. There are some places where we have to win with a moderate Republican.
00:48:19.720
Okay. Talk about that Senate seat in Texas that is up for grabs.
00:48:23.820
Yes. Well, uh, you know, we have Senator Cornyn, the current sitting Senator, and then we have
00:48:30.660
Attorney General Paxton, and then we have Congressman Wesley Hunt, which I don't know
00:48:34.960
why he got in the race because he just gave up his congressional seat to become Senator that he's
00:48:39.460
not going to win, uh, in my opinion. Okay. Uh, he's not a bad person, but I just don't think he has a
00:48:45.000
chance. So that will probably end up, those three, those three people, it'll probably end up down to a
00:48:50.080
runoff. And the Republican primary for that Senate seat, because Cornyn is stepping down.
00:48:55.500
He's not stepping down. No. He's not. Oh, he's running. He's running. Okay. But he has to get,
00:48:59.740
you have to get 50, 50 plus one. Okay. And then, so there'll be a runoff between. So what do you
00:49:04.320
think? Who do you think the Republicans are going to be? I think it'll be Paxton and Cornyn. It'll be
00:49:07.380
the runoff. And then I don't know who will be after that. You don't know. No, I've been very, I've been
00:49:11.600
happy. A lot of, a lot of your listeners may not be, but I know him personally. I've been very happy with
00:49:15.860
Senator Cornyn. A lot of people think he's not conservative enough. I,
00:49:20.080
I don't think the record shows that, but we'll see what happens with that. And then on the,
00:49:25.920
on the Democrat side, that's our good friend, Jasmine Crockett. Good friend. Okay. And, and then
00:49:33.300
Tallarico, James Tallarico. Another one of my good friends. State rep that believes the Bible
00:49:38.480
just is all in favor of abortion. Oh yeah. Actually it is this story that we are celebrating,
00:49:44.340
the Nativity story of Mary, uh, being the mother of Jesus that he thinks affirms bodily autonomy and
00:49:53.920
the pro-choice position, which, you know, I've really tried to actually engage with him. I would
00:49:58.700
like to have a public conversation with him friendly, but I, I want to know where do we get
00:50:05.160
these perspectives, James Tallarico. And then we've got Jasmine Crockett. Um, okay. Let's watch
00:50:10.300
our girl, Jasmine, Jasmine Crockett. She says we need illegal immigrants because she's done picking
00:50:16.720
cotton. So it's top 15. So I had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants
00:50:24.400
do for this country or the fact that we are a country of immigrants. Right. Right. The fact is,
00:50:29.820
ain't none of y'all trying to go and farm right now. Okay. So I'm lying. Raise, raise your hands.
00:50:42.680
You're not, you're not, we done picking cotton.
00:50:49.760
We are, you can't pay us enough to find a plantation. Okay. So she's done picking cotton. So we have to
00:50:57.100
get the guys from Honduras to do it. I don't know. It'll sound a little like her hair may have been,
00:51:01.460
she may have been out in the field that morning because she had a little rough look on that
00:51:05.080
type of deal. I picked more cotton than Jasmine Crockett has because my grandparents were farmers.
00:51:11.220
And I can tell you what, I can tell you, I can tell you who the slaves were. It was their 13 kids
00:51:15.800
and there were grandkids that were old enough to come around and help. And that's a joke, of course,
00:51:19.660
but we were, we were the small farmers. And so she, well, you know what? I'm, I'm going to tell
00:51:27.800
all my Democrat friends, please vote for Jasmine Crockett in the primary. Please vote for Jasmine.
00:51:34.340
She's your choice. I mean, just look at her. She's saying all the right things. Just please vote for
00:51:38.800
her. Yeah. And she's poised. That's what I like about her. And she's, you know, I disagree with her
00:51:44.300
politics, but it's her eloquence that just really, it floors me. And her, yes, her enunciations and
00:51:51.940
all of those types of things. I know we're not supposed to necessarily agree with President
00:51:56.700
Trump when he says people have a low IQ, but I'm just not a big fan of Jasmine's ability to really
00:52:04.580
put good, thoughtful sentences together because she just kind of, all she does is rant. What's her
00:52:11.200
idea? I want to know what's your idea. Maybe her and Tallarico will get together and they'll
00:52:16.300
actually have some policy discussion. Who would be just thought experiment? Who would be more
00:52:21.180
dangerous in that seat? Tallarico or Crockett? Or is it basically the same? Cause they'll just vote
00:52:25.680
the same way. Well, they're all going to vote the same way, but Tallarico is my opinion, a lot more
00:52:31.540
believable in the way he comes across than just cause she's ranting all the time. Right. Yeah. And I'll tell
00:52:38.620
you what, if Tallarico's smart, he will bring up all what appears to be some misuse of funds by her
00:52:46.300
campaign on the things she's spending money on. Even if it's not misuse, it's extravagance for sure.
00:52:53.620
Shocking. Yeah. Absolutely shocking. Yeah. I'd be more worried about just Tallarico,
00:53:00.740
his brand of Christianity is extremely troubling. And to see that kind of take root,
00:53:06.200
that just total heresy, not good. Not good. I agree with that. So we'll see what it's going
00:53:13.100
to be. But we're going to know the interesting thing in Texas is we're going to know within 90
00:53:16.580
days. Yeah. Really about 75 days. We'll know who the Democrat nominee is. We probably won't know
00:53:24.340
the Republican. It could be a runoff. And that's why I just encourage people. Look, you find your
00:53:28.600
candidates of choice. Get out there and work for them, help them, talk to your neighbors, put signs in
00:53:33.920
your yard, put signs in the neighborhood. You know, don't complain if you're not willing to
00:53:39.340
participate. Yeah. Okay. We've got some listener questions. All right. We got listener questions,
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Uh, okay. Let's see. Who do you, dad? Who do you listen to? Someone said, my dad always listened
00:55:11.880
to Rush and Charlie. Not sure. He does not sure what to listen to now. Who do you listen to? Besides,
00:55:19.080
of course, the wonderful, relatable podcast. Well, I mean, that's number one. Number one. I also
00:55:23.820
listened to, uh, the O'Reilly, uh, what he calls it a newscast. I call it a podcast. It comes out
00:55:30.380
like a podcast. I listened to, I listened to O'Reilly. Uh, and then, um, I will still do some
00:55:38.160
Hannity, you know, if I want opinion type stuff. O'Reilly's much more of a news. Now he has his
00:55:43.580
opinion thrown in there, but he's a lot like in some ways like you, as you throw out the news and
00:55:48.320
you may overlay it with some of your opinion. Uh, if I just want hard opinion, I'll do that. I still
00:55:53.020
like to watch Brett Baer in the afternoons. I think he does a good job. He's a kind of down
00:55:57.860
the middle guy. He's got a pretty good panels on there. And those are the ones that I follow
00:56:02.660
the most. I do read the wall street journal, although their opinion page, their opinion page
00:56:07.800
is pretty conservative. Their news page, not as conservative. So some of their, some of their
00:56:11.960
columns are not as conservative. I think they're a little bit left leaning on that.
00:56:16.460
Yeah. Um, and for Christian stuff, you still listen to the Robertsons. I still listen to
00:56:24.140
the Robertsons, you know, we all miss Phil, but I, I love, I think they do a really good
00:56:28.940
job. If you're interested guys and gals, but guys, especially in a Bible study podcast, they're
00:56:36.040
very good at that. Now they, you know, some, some of their episodes, they'll have 10 minutes
00:56:42.580
of Bible study and 30 minutes of stories, which they're related, but they're, they're also very
00:56:48.240
entertaining. And, and those guys are very knowledgeable. Uh, they believe like you and
00:56:53.460
I do that. We believe the Bible from Genesis to maps as Zig Ziglar would say. And, uh, but
00:56:59.200
I like listening to them for that. Yeah. And I also listened some, uh, to, uh, the Bible in
00:57:06.100
the year with our, my pastor, Jack Graham. And I think that's pretty good as well.
00:57:11.440
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, let's see next question. Okay. This is actually a question that I wanted
00:57:19.940
to ask earlier about, okay. So lots of divisions right now on the right. And I think a lot of
00:57:26.160
us just did not realize how much Charlie Kirk was holding our coalition together and he's
00:57:31.560
gone and it feels extremely fractured. You've got some people over here saying that they don't
00:57:35.920
even care about the midterms. They just, I don't know what they want exactly. They don't
00:57:40.520
care about the midterms. Like Israel is a huge divide right now. It is a huge, huge divide,
00:57:47.320
which, okay. I think it's fine to have disagreements about that, but it has become like the number
00:57:54.100
one form of name calling. Like people will call me last week, the big attack. Allie is just
00:58:00.400
a, she's just a Zionist who doesn't care about like dead gods and children. She's Israel first,
00:58:06.500
which is actually just insane because I very rarely even talk about foreign policy. And I've
00:58:12.760
been very clear about my own theological position that I don't believe that Christians have the
00:58:18.580
political obligation to support the state of Israel. But I do think it's smarter politics if
00:58:24.520
you're going to pick between Hamas and Israel, but I don't think you have an obligation. You can be
00:58:28.920
America first. I'm not a dispensationalist. I've never talked about Zionism, but it's just become
00:58:35.640
this thing that is like the fracturing of the right. And it worries me going into the midterms,
00:58:42.660
going into 28. Do we have, what are we going to rally around as a non-left coalition if we are so
00:58:51.660
fundamentally fractured? Yeah, I think that it's a valid concern. I think what we have to, I think
00:58:58.440
what it'll end up being is we will, if we can rally around anything, it'll be rallying around the
00:59:04.420
economy. Because at the end of the day, the most important thing, assuming there's not some
00:59:10.340
geopolitical event that occurs, is what happens in people's pocketbooks. And that's what the Republicans
00:59:16.660
need to be focusing on, is what happens in people's pocketbooks. And I don't think that necessarily
00:59:21.340
means you got to do a bunch more handouts, okay? I think that's one time our public officials
00:59:25.800
think that, well, every time people are upset about something financial related, we need to
00:59:29.380
give them more money. I don't think they need to do that. I think what they want to see is a plan,
00:59:34.120
which I think President Trump is actually doing a very good job of that. I mean, gas prices are down,
00:59:39.640
you know, 40 or 50 percent, okay? Inflation has stabilized to a historical level of two or three
00:59:48.480
percent. Mortgage rates, and I know nobody likes six percent mortgage rate, but that's what they
00:59:53.920
have averaged over the last 30 years, okay? What was the anomaly was the three percent and the two
00:59:59.180
percent rates. That's not happening again, okay? Just forget about that. You need to buy a home that you
01:00:04.740
can afford with a six percent mortgage. And I'm sorry if it's not the home that you had in your
01:00:10.540
mind when the interest rates were three percent, but that's what it's going to be. I don't see them
01:00:15.240
changing a lot. I think it could go down in the high fives, but it's not going back to two or three
01:00:19.820
percent unless there's a huge recession. That's the reason it happened last time. We had the Great
01:00:24.140
Recession. That's what caused it. And then COVID exacerbated that even more. So I think they have to
01:00:29.780
focus on the economy and all the good things, the tax cuts that they allowed to stay in place and
01:00:34.340
things like that. That's where I think we could rally around. When we look at our policies versus
01:00:38.760
the Democrat policies on that, you know, more giveaways, more, you know, open borders, all those
01:00:44.760
types of things that affect mine and your pocketbooks. I think that's what we have to focus on. And we
01:00:49.140
could rally around that. I don't know why we got in such of a split over Israel because I don't feel
01:00:56.920
like America's, from a government standpoint, our position on Israel has been the same. We have,
01:01:03.220
it's for president after president, after president, after, I just don't know why it got to be such a
01:01:09.760
split. I'm not sure why that is, but it is. You're right about that. Yeah. People would say, oh, well,
01:01:15.600
people are waking up to AIPAC and how much influence Israel has. And if we want to say, look, we shouldn't
01:01:22.440
have any influence from any foreign entities or any foreign PACs. Okay. But there's a lot of non-Israel
01:01:29.080
related PACs and a lot of non-Israel related money from Muslim majority countries. And Muslim
01:01:35.500
majority countries also have influence over politicians in the United States, over our media,
01:01:40.800
over our culture wars, and all of that. And you could say all of that is bad. I think that's fine,
01:01:46.000
but it is, it is weird how we've got this splintering of now the right, you've got some
01:01:51.200
people on the right saying, no, Israel is the real threat. And other people saying, well,
01:01:54.980
actually, I think it's Islam. Like, I think it's all of these terrorist organizations.
01:01:59.160
Anybody that says October 7th was okay, whatever position they're on, they're absolutely wrong.
01:02:08.380
So whatever position they take, they're wrong. Yeah. All right. That was nothing but murder,
01:02:13.900
murder, murder. A surprise terrorist attack. Yeah. You know, and, you know, Trump's administration
01:02:20.580
has got every hostage returned. Now, some of them have passed away, but they got, who else has done
01:02:27.040
that? I mean, we literally had Israeli babies that were taken hostage and murdered by Hamas. Like,
01:02:32.940
I just, I don't understand. I'm sorry, you can be for a two-state solution and all that,
01:02:37.420
but you can't be for that. And the fact that we have not universally denounced that
01:02:43.720
is what's crazy. And you could also say, because people are saying, well, what about the Christians
01:02:48.940
and the babies in Gaza? 1,000%, those people are just as much made in the image of God as anyone
01:02:54.380
else. When I see them, I see my kids. I don't want them to suffer, but they are suffering primarily
01:03:00.520
because of Hamas. Absolutely. Primarily because of Hamas. Hamas is hot behind them. When you bury
01:03:04.620
your weapons below a hospital or a school. Or a church. Or a church. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't have,
01:03:11.960
I've never been to Israel. I've never talked to anyone who is tied to Israel. People want to say,
01:03:16.980
oh, you're just, I never, I have zero associations at all. Just to me, when I look at it,
01:03:24.540
I'm like, I don't understand again, how it became this thing that if you denounce Hamas,
01:03:30.860
then you must be paid or whatever. And why don't we have the same uproar over what's
01:03:34.640
happening to the Christians in Nigeria? Why do we not have that same thing?
01:03:38.840
I mean, we don't, we don't have that. I don't hear, I don't see a lot of Instagram posts on that
01:03:43.760
and all that. What are we, what are we doing? Well, we do like over here on this side,
01:03:47.900
but when you have the people that just want to focus on what Israel does wrong and not the fact
01:03:53.620
that it's Muslims predominantly persecuting Christians and all kinds of people. Yeah,
01:03:59.500
that's a good question. Just asking questions about that. Okay. What do you do, dad, when all of
01:04:06.540
this is going on, all this craziness, all this chaos in the world to keep your eyes on Christ and to not
01:04:12.580
let yourself spiral into a panic? Well, I think I have to, honestly, one of the things that I
01:04:19.200
remember is something that you say all the time about God's perfect plan going off without a hitch.
01:04:23.840
I reminded some people of that the other day at a men's Bible study that I go to that a lot of the
01:04:29.880
guys listen to you. And, and then what I also try to do is make sure that the information that I'm
01:04:38.440
getting is as factual as it can be. Um, but I also will take periods where I back away from it a little
01:04:45.940
bit. Right. Cause I don't want that. I don't want you to be able to see that on my face when I'm around
01:04:51.220
my kids, grandkids and what have you. I think you have to look for a balance of finding things that
01:04:57.360
give you joy during that time, you know, fun things, you know, if it's, whether it's a, uh,
01:05:03.020
video of one of your kids saying something silly or one of just, you know, Justin's kids saying
01:05:07.640
something silly. Those are the types of things that I try to do a balancing act with that. I don't,
01:05:13.140
cause I, you can't be a 24 hour news. If you do not sit there and watch Fox news or MSNBC or
01:05:19.160
anything or scroll on your phone all day, you have to bring some humor into your life. That's what I
01:05:25.560
try to do. Yeah. I really, you know, I've been convicted as I've seen these like Charlie videos going
01:05:31.940
around, you know, they're promoting his book right now that he finished before he died,
01:05:35.780
which I just have to think is also God's providence. Cause I've been in the middle of
01:05:39.880
book projects and I just know that if I had something had happened in the middle of toxic
01:05:44.040
empathy, I don't know who could have finished it. So amazing that he finished that and that
01:05:47.980
they're able to promote it. But hearing him talk about completely shutting off his phone
01:05:52.640
from Friday evening to Saturday evening, totally putting it in a drawer. It's really convicted me
01:05:58.080
because I'll tell myself I'm doing a Sabbath, but I'm
01:06:01.940
it's not really, it's not fully unplugged. See, I think your phone's cut off a lot. Cause I
01:06:07.240
don't, you don't, you don't reply to my texts very quickly. I do forget where my phone is a lot.
01:06:12.720
So that's a mini Sabbath throughout the day. My mind is on a mini Sabbath because I'm forgetting
01:06:17.920
where my phone is, but one concentrated and intentional Sabbath from your phone.
01:06:24.740
I think that's a good idea. I think it's a good idea. I also think just being plugged into your
01:06:28.940
family. People ask me all the time, how do you talk about all this stuff and like stay happy?
01:06:32.920
And I truly do. Sometimes I get down. I'll admit the past few months have been hard. They've been
01:06:37.660
really hard. The past few weeks have been really hard. And I feel it actually like in my body,
01:06:43.780
I feel stress. I don't usually feel like that. Timothy will tell you that actually one of the
01:06:49.360
like frustrating, he would say one of the favorite things, but also the most frustrating things about
01:06:54.800
me is that when everything is really stressful and tensions are really high, I get really quiet
01:07:00.500
and I slow down and my voice gets quieter. And he's like, sure. Her literal pace gets slower. I'm
01:07:08.120
like trying to get somewhere fast. And I'm like, I really, I do the same thing. I really do. I have
01:07:13.500
to tell myself to do it though. Yeah. I have to tell myself, I don't know that it's natural to me as
01:07:18.000
it is to you, but I try to tell myself the same thing because the reason that's important is because
01:07:23.220
you don't think as clearly when you're, you know, everything's hyped up. You don't,
01:07:29.560
you can think, you can think quickly, but not clearly. Yeah. And folks, remember what I just
01:07:34.500
said, make sure you're thinking clearly, not quickly. Yeah. Now it's great if you can do both,
01:07:40.120
but most of us can't when emotions are high. In a high school situation, it's hard to do. You'll
01:07:43.840
see great athletes, the really great athletes. I always think about quarterbacks in football,
01:07:49.720
the really great ones, the game slows down for them when it gets tighter and tighter.
01:07:54.220
And for the other ones that are still really good athletes, it gets faster and faster and you make
01:07:58.760
mistakes. That's a really good analogy, actually. Okay. Let's quickly end on, well, some sad, but
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Okay. So when you would be out of town growing up and mom would let me sleep in her bed, when you
01:09:28.200
were out of town, we would watch TV land and TV land was a bunch of retro shows and we loved the
01:09:35.640
Dick Van Dyke show. Oh man. Cause it was so funny. I loved Mary Poppins. Of course, mom made me watch
01:09:41.380
every old show out there and every old movie. I think that's where like Justin and I in particular
01:09:49.420
got our sense of humor. We watched a lot of old sitcoms, maybe some inappropriate ones like Three's
01:09:55.840
Company and Taxi. You probably should not have watched that. Probably when I was seven, maybe
01:09:59.160
shouldn't have watched that. Benefit of being the youngest, but loved Dick Van Dyke. Yes. Oh,
01:10:05.180
Dick Van Dyke. Just so funny. Well, I don't know if you ever have a chance to go online and look at
01:10:10.200
the clip of the entrance to the start of the Dick Van Dyke show on how he stumbles over a slapstick.
01:10:16.820
Oh, he is so. And Mary Tyler Moore was great as well, you know, but think about in his hundred years,
01:10:22.860
what he has witnessed. Yes. Born in 1925. And so he went through the, he went through the market crash
01:10:32.380
because he was just four years old, but his parents, he lived in a house, went through the
01:10:34.980
29 crash, which was the, one of the biggest crashes in history in the, in the financial markets,
01:10:39.700
went through World War II. He was in World War II. Okay. He served in World War II. Wow.
01:10:45.760
Saw the Korean War, Vietnam War, all of that type of stuff. Saw the jet age, the television age,
01:10:51.300
the internet. Saw Al Gore invent the internet, which is amazing that you could do that.
01:10:55.660
And, and now we see an A, I mean, just what an incredible life he has lived.
01:11:00.580
Yes. Okay. This fact blew my mind. This is, and obviously this is true as we don't even have to
01:11:07.920
fact check it, but if you will pull up this post from history calendar. So at age 100, Dick Van Dyke
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was born closer to the death of Thomas Jefferson than he is to the present day, like than his birth
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was to the present day. Obviously 99 years apart from the death of Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson
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died in 1826. Dick Van Dyke born in 1925. So think about how crazy that is.
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I know. I mean, it just shows you what, how young the country is.
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That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Um, that's true. Yeah. I mean, that's just so crazy to think about
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everything that he has lived through and he's pretty spry. He still is very spry. I know it's
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interesting. It's a, but no, he, he, you know, Mary Poppins, one of my favorite movies, uh, when, uh,
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when your, uh, middle brother and I went to, uh, London when he was coming out of high school,
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we went, he and I went to London cause some, somebody just had a baby. But anyway, we went
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over there and the, um, we went to see this show called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Yeah.
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And it was a play at the time. And when it first came out years and years before that,
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it was a Dick Van Dyke thing and it was really good. So that's something, that's another movie
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that you could have your kids watch. It's a, it's very, it's fun. If you've got things going on over
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the holidays, just to get your kids, look up Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I'm sure it's out there
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on one of the streaming shows, but. And Julie Andrews, who played Mary Poppins, she's still
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alive as well. She's still alive. And I think they're friends. Um, so he was asking in an
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interview, like, what is the secret to living this long and not only living this long, but
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being this with it for this long? Here's what he said. Sat 12. I feel really good for a hundred,
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you know, but I really don't, I have no pain, no discomfort. People say, what did you do
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right? And I say, don't ask. I don't know. Uh, I'm rather lazy. And, uh, I think I've always
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thought that anger is one thing that eats up a person's insides and hate. And I never really
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was able to work up a feeling of hate. You know, the things I don't like people, I don't
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like and disapprove of, but I never really was able to do a white heat kind of hate. And
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my father was a person who was constantly upset by the state of things and his life and everything.
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And I did take him at 74 years old. I think that is one of the chief things that kept me
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I think that's right. No, I think it's kind of what you were talking about earlier is that
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if you get kind of get eaten up inside. Now, one of the things that allows that to not be eaten up,
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I think if, if I had to guess people like his dad, that, that the situation of life or the state of
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the country at the time, whatever ate him up is mainly because he didn't take any action. When we
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just let things, you know, just eat up inside us and we're not taking any action about it. Like if we're
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mad at politics, then get out there and do something about it. Right. But you have to,
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you have to, you can, you can be disappointed in something. You cannot like something, but if you
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let it eat you up inside and consume you, that's what he's talking about. He never let it consume
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him. And I think that's a very, very good lesson for, for all of us. Cause I can tend to get that
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way. I can tend to, you know, and you know, no need in doing that.
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Yeah. That's a good point about action. It doesn't mean being apathetic and just doing nothing and
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pretending that politics doesn't exist. You focus on doing the next right thing in faith with
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excellence and for the glory of God. You focus on that. You're not going to change the world.
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You can't change everyone's mind. That's hard for me. It really bothers me when people don't see what
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is true. It really bothers me. And there's a good thing about that bothering me. That's why I do what
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I do, but I have to release that to the Lord and say, okay, it does. You know what? That's not why
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I'm doing that. If that person never changes their mind, I'm doing this because God called me to do it.
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And you stay in that lane and that releases a lot of pressure. So it was a good lesson. Okay,
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dad, thanks so much. Enjoyed it. Merry Christmas to everyone. We will be back here. Just me.