Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - February 18, 2026


Ep 1305 | Is Trump Targeting Talarico? Colbert’s Lie Exposed


Episode Stats

Length

58 minutes

Words per Minute

170.9377

Word Count

10,039

Sentence Count

670

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

26


Summary

On today's episode of Relatable: I celebrate my birthday, James Tallarico is lying about his recent interview with Stephen Colbert, and the adult doll people are back with a message for ICE. All of this and more on today s episode of RELatable.


Transcript

00:00:00.980 Progressive preacher and politician James Tallarico seems to be lying about his recent
00:00:05.860 interview with Stephen Colbert, and he makes even more claims about Jesus and Christianity
00:00:12.280 that just aren't true. Also, I got to host the Republican Attorney's General Debate last night.
00:00:19.580 We've got a fun recap for you, and the adult doll people are back. This time, they've got
00:00:24.940 a message for ICE, but I also have a message for them. All of this and more on today's
00:00:28.920 episode of Relatable. Hey, guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone
00:00:42.540 is having a wonderful week so far. We've got a lot to cover on today's episode, but first up,
00:00:48.460 I just want to say that it's my birthday, and I am turning 34 today, and I am so thankful that I get
00:00:55.440 to spend part of my birthday with you guys, but I just want to give a shout out to my team
00:00:58.940 because if I could pan the camera around, you would see many of them, not all of them, but many of them
00:01:05.300 are wearing dinosaur party hats to celebrate, to honor a key part of Relatable, which is that we
00:01:12.600 don't really believe that the modern depictions of dinosaurs are accurate, so it's become a running
00:01:18.820 joke, but they gave me an incredible present. You actually can't see it because it's up here. I don't
00:01:23.960 know if we can pan the camera up, if that's going to mess everything up. It's okay if it will, but
00:01:28.080 they gave me this beautiful picture right here that says Commissar of MAGA Morality, and it's these,
00:01:38.700 yeah, you see it right there, right next to C.S. Lewis, and right next to this beautiful picture.
00:01:44.740 We've got Commissar of MAGA Morality. You'll remember that Hillary Clinton gave me that wonderful
00:01:51.160 nickname, and then up there we have our Media Matters nickname, which is Pastel Hate Influencer,
00:01:58.080 and oh, oh, we're going up. There we go. Pastel Hate Influencer right next to our blue bonnets, and so
00:02:03.800 thank you to Hillary Clinton for giving me that wonderful moniker, and thank you to my team
00:02:09.180 for celebrating with super fun and very thoughtful gifts. They're so sweet. Best team ever. Best audience
00:02:16.040 ever. I really am so glad to be here today with you, and I've got a request for you. The reason I have
00:02:21.020 the best audience ever. One of the reasons is because I have the most generous audience ever.
00:02:25.740 Whenever I ask you guys, hey, can you support this person? Share the arrows with this person
00:02:29.740 who is getting persecuted, lambasted for standing up for what is good, right, and true, or hey,
00:02:34.040 this pregnancy center needs our help, or this organization needs our support, y'all pray.
00:02:39.280 You donate items. You donate money. You send words of encouragement. You stand up for those people,
00:02:45.060 and I have the sharing, heroist, most generous, most charitable, kindest audience out there,
00:02:51.380 and so in honor of my birthday, this is how you can help me celebrate my birthday, is by donating to
00:02:57.740 this really special organization called Scarlet Hope. So on my previous birthdays, we've donated to
00:03:03.720 these pregnancy centers, and this is not a pregnancy center, but they are doing incredible work in a
00:03:10.060 different segment of society that is really underserved. So I met the founder of Scarlet Hope
00:03:15.740 a couple weeks ago in California. Her name is Rochelle Starr, and she told me that several years
00:03:20.940 ago, she was driving to work. She passed by a strip club that she drove by many days when she was on her
00:03:28.960 commute, and she just felt this conviction that she needs to share the gospel with the women who are
00:03:35.780 working in this building, who are working at the strip club, and so she did. She started to go there
00:03:42.840 and started to deliver meals to these women, started building relationships with these women who are in
00:03:48.120 the adult entertainment industry. She started sharing the gospel with them, and that started Scarlet Hope,
00:03:55.060 and so this is an outreach organization to exploited women, to trafficked women, women who work in the
00:04:02.020 adult entertainment industry. They're in 11 major cities. They go to these places. They find these
00:04:08.200 women who are being exploited, who are sometimes by choice objectifying themselves, sometimes not by
00:04:13.800 choice of being objectified. They bring them meals. They bring them hope. They share the gospel with them.
00:04:20.440 They try to get them out of this industry and into a life of dignified work, actually being able to
00:04:26.800 provide for themselves and to provide for their kids, and this is fully empowered by the love of
00:04:33.400 Christ, and I just love Rochelle's story. Her story is one of following God into unknown places, not
00:04:39.740 knowing what the outcome is going to be, not knowing if she is equipped, not knowing anything about this
00:04:44.200 world, but Rochelle and her husband just obeyed the Lord and obeyed His voice, and now they're in 11
00:04:50.960 different cities across the country, and they are loving these women sharing the gospel and giving
00:04:55.540 the material resources that they need to survive, and so I would really encourage you to go to
00:05:01.080 scarlethope.org. Go to scarlethope.org. You can find out more information about them, what they do,
00:05:08.740 and how your money will support these women who are made in the image of God but have maybe been told
00:05:14.660 their entire lives that they're worth nothing, that they're unlovable. We want these women to know the
00:05:20.200 good news of the gospel, so if you want to help me celebrate my birthday, that's how I would love for you
00:05:24.860 to celebrate. Go to scarlethope.org to donate. Also, if you would like to come to Share the Arrows,
00:05:32.100 our Christian Women's Conference happening on October 10th in Dallas, Texas, then make sure to get your
00:05:39.080 tickets. Go to sharethearrows.com. We've got an incredible speaker lineup. This is our gospel-centered,
00:05:45.660 worship-filled, no-fluff Christian Women's Conference. You will not get this kind of lineup
00:05:51.200 anywhere else. It's such a special day, and I'm thankful to the Lord that we get to do it the third
00:05:56.040 year in a row. Go to sharethearrows.com. Get your tickets today, and then last little announcement
00:06:01.820 before we get into the topics for today, and that is, if you love this show, please like this video
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00:06:15.480 that's what you listen on. It helps our show a lot. Also, if you leave us a five-star review
00:06:19.780 on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever you listen. All right, let's get into the craziness of what's
00:06:26.800 going on in the world and try to do what we always do, bring as much clarity as possible and meet this
00:06:32.780 crazy, chaotic culture with as much courage as we can. So let's talk about none other than State
00:06:38.980 Representative James Tallarico. Now, if you have been listening to the show for any amount of time,
00:06:43.980 you probably know who James Tallarico is, and I would love one day to have an in-person discussion
00:06:49.640 with him, but until that comes to fruition, I am left with responding to the things that he says
00:06:55.180 about Christianity and politics on this show. That is an intersection I'm so interested in,
00:06:59.740 and I think State Representative Tallarico represents the exact wrong version and deadly and actually
00:07:06.840 demonic version of what a Christian in politics should look like. He is a progressive seminarian
00:07:12.940 who is running for U.S. Senate. He's actually running for the primary seat right now against
00:07:18.300 Jasmine Crockett, and that if he wins the primary in a few weeks, he will be going up against
00:07:23.460 John Cornyn. And he suggested recently that during an interview that the FCC, prompted by President
00:07:31.980 Trump, was actually trying to silence him, that he didn't want, that President Trump didn't want the
00:07:38.020 world to see James Tallarico on Colbert. So he personally intervened using the FCC and shut his
00:07:45.100 interview down. The problem is that's not actually true. We'll get into that in just a second. Let
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00:09:14.160 One quick correction that I want to say is that Tallarico, if he wins this primary,
00:09:19.100 won't necessarily be going against Cornyn because the senator in Texas, one of the senators in Texas,
00:09:24.900 John Cornyn does have primary opponents. He's got Wesley Hunt. He's got Ken Paxton. So it will only
00:09:33.060 be John Cornyn if John Cornyn wins the primary. We'll see. Whoever it is, James Tallarico, if he
00:09:38.440 wins, will be going against the Republican candidate for that Senate position. So we'll see what happens
00:09:46.200 there. But he is getting a lot of good press. And this moment, this quote unquote forbidden interview
00:09:52.420 that he had with Stephen Colbert is working really well for him. So here's what happened
00:09:56.980 on Monday night, February 16th, during a segment of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert told his audience
00:10:02.860 that the show's parent company, CBS, was stopping him from airing this prerecorded interview that he
00:10:08.660 had done with Tallarico due to pressure from the FCC. Then he told his audience to watch the interview
00:10:15.100 on YouTube. So say, this is a big forbidden interview. Trump doesn't want you to see this.
00:10:19.180 It's brilliant marketing. Both in the actual interview and in the promotion afterward, Colbert
00:10:24.180 and Tallarico reinforce that narrative saying that, hey, Trump really, really doesn't want you to hear
00:10:31.840 what this guy has to say. Saw one. This is the party that ran against cancel culture. And now they're
00:10:39.240 trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read. And this is the most dangerous kind of
00:10:46.300 cancel culture. The kind that comes from the top. They they went after The View because I went on
00:10:53.740 there. They went after Jimmy Kimmel for telling a joke they didn't like. They went after you for
00:10:58.360 telling the truth about Paramount's bribe to Donald Trump. OK, like I just want to clarify something
00:11:04.220 really fast and everything that he says. You know, he talks quickly like a politician in these kind of
00:11:08.580 like vague terms. And you might hear it and say, wow, yeah, that's really bad. When any Democrat
00:11:14.040 references, oh, Republicans want you to stop from stop you from reading certain things. We're not
00:11:20.020 talking about, oh, yeah, we don't want an adult to read To Kill a Mockingbird. We're talking about we
00:11:25.140 don't want kids to be forced to read pornographic material in schools. We don't want school libraries
00:11:31.400 to have basically pornographic books that are encouraging them to think about different forms
00:11:38.100 of sexuality or convincing them that they might be born in the wrong body. So that's the kind of so
00:11:45.360 called censorship that they are calling cancel culture. And also when they're talking about
00:11:51.980 Jimmy Kimmel making a joke. Yeah, he made an absolutely disgusting joke that made light of Charlie
00:11:59.900 Kirk getting slaughtered in front of thousands of people. And so I just want to be clear about exactly
00:12:06.680 what he's referencing on X. He said, this is the interview Donald Trump didn't want you to see
00:12:12.780 his FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we're about to flip Texas,
00:12:20.400 which is also something that he said to very loud applause to Stephen Colbert's audience. So that
00:12:27.760 YouTube video has more than five million views. And a lot of the commenters were saying the only reason
00:12:34.760 they're watching it is because they heard that Trump doesn't want them to watch that.
00:12:41.980 Tallarico's campaign also announced that it raised $2.5 million in the 24 hours after the interview
00:12:48.540 aired on YouTube. So this is the single largest fundraising period of the campaign. But the problem
00:12:56.480 is it's fiction. It's not true. The FCC, what they're doing, this has nothing to do with Trump.
00:13:02.160 They're enforcing a rule that has existed for a long time that's been around for almost a century
00:13:07.920 that says that you have to give equal airtime to a politician who is running to their opponent.
00:13:17.140 Colbert and Tallarico made it sound like the Trump administration is controlling free speech.
00:13:21.640 But what the FCC is actually doing is just encouraging the networks, requiring that the networks
00:13:27.060 actually give equal opportunity to all candidates. So specifically via Axios, this is what the equal
00:13:33.560 time rule is that the FCC is enforcing. It requires U.S. radio and television broadcasters
00:13:39.360 to provide equivalent airtime in terms to all legally qualified political candidates for the same
00:13:45.040 office if one candidate uses the station's facilities. So in this case, it's not that the FCC is actually
00:13:51.500 saying, hey, you've got to get Kim Paxton or another Republican on here. They're saying in this case that he
00:13:57.500 needs to have Jasmine Crockett on and Jasmine Crockett needs to have an equivalent time to also promote
00:14:03.180 her campaign. So this doesn't even really have to do with Republican versus Democrat. The rule originated in
00:14:09.700 Section 18 of the Radio Act of 1927. So 99 years ago, it was later incorporated into Section 315 of the
00:14:17.500 Communications Act of 1934. And it was driven by concerns that broadcasters could manipulate an
00:14:23.200 election and election outcome by favoring certain candidates or viewpoints. And then later in 1959,
00:14:31.280 Congress added four exemptions to the rule, bona fide newscasts, news interviews, news documentaries,
00:14:39.020 on the spot coverage. But of course, Colbert doesn't fall into any of those. And so that's what the FCC is
00:14:47.000 doing here. It's not a Trump versus Tallarico thing. I highly doubt that Trump knew anything about this or that
00:14:55.380 the FCC even cares about this. Here's what Brian Stelter posted on X. He's quoting the CBS statement in
00:15:04.860 response to all of this. The late show was not prohibited by CBS. So the late show is on CBS. This is the network
00:15:11.860 saying what Colbert is saying is not true, was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview
00:15:18.020 with Representative James Tallarico. The show has provided legal guidance that the broadcast could
00:15:22.900 trigger the FCC equal time rule for two other candidates, including Representative Jasmine Crockett,
00:15:29.380 and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled. And so actually,
00:15:35.120 what it sounds like CBS is saying, they're saying that the FCC didn't actually do anything. The FCC
00:15:42.320 didn't say anything. This is CBS's guidance saying, hey, just so you know, we have this 99-year rule
00:15:48.780 that could be enforced by the FCC if you air this interview and don't air the other interview. CBS is
00:15:55.760 saying this is the guidance they gave to Stephen Colbert's show, which means that Stephen Colbert knows this.
00:16:01.020 He's been in television for a long time, and he still ran with this false narrative, which is
00:16:05.580 brilliant marketing, but it's a lie. CBS goes on to say, the late show decided to present the interview
00:16:11.940 through its YouTube channel with on-air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing
00:16:17.520 the equal time options. Of course, Colbert wants Tallarico to win, and we'll get into why their
00:16:24.840 brand of so-called Christianity matches. Now, University of Houston poll released February 9th,
00:16:30.880 showed that Crockett is actually leading Tallarico with 47% of the Democratic primary support compared
00:16:37.280 to his 39% Texas Tribune. Just a side note, that is good, good news for Republicans, okay?
00:16:43.720 We do want Jasmine Crockett to win. Like, we do. I think that she is more defeatable than Tallarico is.
00:16:50.080 Plus, I just believe that his brand of Christianity actually sends people to hell, if you believe it.
00:16:55.540 And, you know, I don't think she claims to be a beacon of Christian morality. And yeah, I just think
00:17:01.800 that she would be more entertaining to watch in a debate between any of the Republican candidates.
00:17:07.480 And I think that the Republican is more likely to win if she wins the primary. So it looks to me like
00:17:15.560 Colbert is trying to boost his ratings as much as possible. But let's talk a little bit about the
00:17:20.980 content of what the conversation was. And Tallarico loves these same talking points about Christianity
00:17:27.040 that we've debunked before, but it never gets old. And you never know who is watching, who needs to
00:17:32.120 hear what the Bible actually says about these issues versus what Tallarico has to say. We'll get into
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00:18:50.700 Now, this is my favorite line from Tallarico when he tells you that, oh, you know, God never really
00:18:57.820 said anything about abortion or homosexuality, so why do these darn conservatives care about it so much?
00:19:03.320 It's not 16. They convinced a lot of our fellow Christians that the most important issues were
00:19:11.220 abortion and gay marriage. Two issues that aren't mentioned in the Bible, two issues that Jesus
00:19:17.140 never talked about. Jesus in Matthew 25 tells us exactly how you and I and every one of our fellow
00:19:24.360 believers, how we're going to be judged and how we're going to be saved. By feeding the hungry,
00:19:28.960 by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger, nothing about going to church, nothing about
00:19:36.140 voting Republican. It was all about how you treat other people.
00:19:41.140 Ephesians 2, 8 through 10 says,
00:19:43.060 By grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing. It is a gift of God,
00:19:50.380 not a result of work so that no one may boast. I don't know how many times God through Paul has to
00:19:56.440 tell us, hey, you don't contribute to your salvation. Works cannot save you. You can never
00:20:01.760 be good enough. We read that over and over again in the book of Romans, in the book of Galatians,
00:20:06.580 that actually, if you are going to try to earn your salvation through good works, you better be ready
00:20:11.820 to keep the entirety of the law. If you are saying that your own righteousness is what contributes to
00:20:17.380 your salvation, you better be perfectly righteous because it is only perfection that God will and can
00:20:22.340 accept. And because none of us can be perfect, he sent his own son to die for us, to be perfect,
00:20:28.920 to be our perfect sacrifice, to sacrifice himself on our behalf so that by grace, which is a free gift
00:20:34.500 through faith, we might be saved. So I just wanted to address that gospel level false teaching first,
00:20:41.660 because that's the most important thing. Your soul hangs on you understanding that correctly.
00:20:47.240 But then I want to get to the other part that he says that, oh, the right cares so much about
00:20:51.820 homosexuality and abortion. And the Bible never talks about these things, which is actually insane.
00:20:58.940 You know, like the big 10 rules that God sets out that are reiterated, reemphasized in the New
00:21:05.320 Testament. Jesus actually doubles down on the 10 commandments in every way. One of those commandments
00:21:10.960 is found in Exodus 2013. You shall not murder. What is murder? It's not all form of killing.
00:21:17.240 It is defined as the purposeful killing of an innocent person, a legally innocent person. So
00:21:22.720 it's not self-defense. It's not war. It's not even the death penalty. It is the intentional killing.
00:21:28.440 It's not even manslaughter. The intentional killing of a legally innocent person. Abortion fits that bill
00:21:34.040 because a baby inside the womb is a human being. If he or she is not a human being, you're going to
00:21:39.200 have to tell me what she is. Is she a summer squash? Is she a bullfrog? She's not a potential human
00:21:45.220 being. She is living. She's a human being and abortion intentionally kills her. So you shall
00:21:50.640 not murder. Really, really easy. Of course, homosexuality is forbidden in the Old Testament,
00:21:57.040 but we also see in the New Testament very explicitly in Romans 1, 26 through 28. Not only is homosexuality
00:22:04.620 listed, but the behavior itself is condemned as ungodly, as immoral, as depraved. We read in 1 Corinthians
00:22:12.780 6, 9 through 10 that the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice
00:22:19.820 homosexuality will be able to inherit the kingdom of God. It goes on to say, such were some of you.
00:22:25.420 But of course, all of us can be saved by God's grace. And we use this alliteration so much.
00:22:31.200 And it's a reminder that as Christians, we don't just look at the Bible and say, ooh, what can we get
00:22:36.500 away with? Because God doesn't really mention it the way that we think he should mention it.
00:22:40.300 We ask, how can I be holy? How can I glorify God the most? So not just what does God tell me not to
00:22:45.920 do, but what does God tell me to do? And the Bible only positively defines sexuality and marriage in
00:22:52.100 one way, between one man and one woman. It's rooted in creation, Genesis 1, reiterated throughout
00:22:58.900 Scripture, honor your father and mother, repeated by Jesus himself, Matthew 19, 4 through 5. It is
00:23:06.820 representative of Christ and the church, Ephesians 5, and it is reflective of the gospel. The Bible
00:23:11.760 starts with the marriage and ends with the marriage. That is how important it is. And that's
00:23:16.380 why when you have someone like James Tallarico, who doesn't believe that, he doesn't believe in
00:23:20.940 Genesis 1, 27. He doesn't believe in Ephesians 5. He doesn't believe in the earthly representation of
00:23:27.280 the spiritual marriage between Christ and his bride, the church. He doesn't believe in Matthew 19,
00:23:32.660 4 through 5. So he actually rejects so many of the red letters of Jesus. When you have people like
00:23:38.840 that who deny this fundamental tenet of Christianity that has an eternal reflection in heaven, they also
00:23:45.960 end up denying the central tenet of Christianity, which is John 14, 6, that Jesus is the way, the truth,
00:23:52.880 the life, that no one comes to the Father except through him. He has said on other podcasts that
00:23:58.000 there are multiple ways to get to heaven. There are multiple ways to be a good person. And he
00:24:03.640 learns more about his faith through Islam and Buddhism and secularism and all of these other
00:24:09.840 worldviews. The man is not a Christian by any definition of what a Christian is. It's not enough
00:24:15.300 to just believe that Jesus said some good things. It's not enough to just feed the poor. It's not
00:24:21.420 enough to just have this list of good works. It's certainly not enough to be a progressive.
00:24:26.320 Do you believe the gospel? Do you believe that Jesus is God? Do you believe that he sacrificed
00:24:32.780 himself for your sins? Do you, by grace through faith, believe in his death, burial, and resurrection?
00:24:38.960 Do you believe that all of your righteousness only comes from him and not from yourself? If you don't
00:24:44.500 believe those things, which I think James Tallarico has been extremely clear that he does not,
00:24:49.500 then you're not a Christian. And quite frankly, if you are for the slaughter of children inside the womb,
00:24:53.820 if you are for the brutalizing of the bodies of kids outside of the womb, because they believe
00:24:57.460 they're born in the wrong body, if you believe in outsourcing all of the compassion that we see
00:25:02.060 modeled for us in Matthew 25 to the government, I don't care at all what your theology is. I'm not
00:25:09.880 interested in your moral preeming at all. So when you hear James Tallarico, he sounds persuasive.
00:25:17.280 He sounds smooth, and he is. He's a smooth operator because he's a politician, but he's not a
00:25:23.140 Christian. So just keep that in mind as you're listening to him. Now, he's got more to say about
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00:27:00.000 Okay. Satu, Tallarico loves the separation of church and state, apparently.
00:27:11.640 Because we are called to love all of our neighbors, including our Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu,
00:27:19.180 Sikh, agnostic, atheist neighbors. And forcing our religion down their throats is not love.
00:27:25.580 And it's why I have fought. It's why I fought so hard for that sacred separation in our First
00:27:36.500 Amendment. Because my granddad, he raised me to believe that that boundary between church and
00:27:40.980 state doesn't just benefit the state or our democracy, although it certainly does. But it
00:27:45.540 also benefits the church. Oh, so many things. First of all, God is love, 1 John 4, 8. So we cannot
00:27:53.000 love other people without loving them through his truth and through his gospel. And evangelizing
00:27:59.880 to people and sharing the gospel with people and showing people the love of Christ and telling them
00:28:05.260 what can save their souls from condemnation is a form of love. That's not forcing anyone to do
00:28:12.180 anything. I don't believe that. I don't believe in living in some kind of tyrannical theocracy where
00:28:17.100 people are forced to go to a Baptist church. I don't know anyone who believes that actually. But
00:28:22.600 of course, we believe that a great way, the best way to love someone is to share the gospel with them
00:28:28.060 and, yes, meet their material needs. We are called to do that as Christians. And again, that's not the
00:28:33.360 government's primary job. That's the church's primary job. And Tallarico seems to confuse that there.
00:28:39.560 But I also just want to note about the separation of church and state. Remember, this is a letter to
00:28:45.220 the Danbury Baptist from Thomas Jefferson, where he is comforting them by saying, look, the state is
00:28:50.200 not going to interfere in your affairs. This is not really as much about the protection of the state,
00:28:56.180 although he is right in the First Amendment. We don't want an establishment of a state religion,
00:29:01.180 and that separation does exist there. But remember, the separation of church and state
00:29:05.500 is not the separation of God in law. That is impossible. You can't separate morality from
00:29:10.580 law. Law is morality. You can't separate your worldview from your vote. You shouldn't. And by
00:29:15.720 the way, Tallarico doesn't. He is sitting here saying, I don't want to shove my faith down anyone's
00:29:21.100 throat. But by the way, you're a bad Christian if you don't believe the same things I do. Oh,
00:29:24.940 separation of church and state. But Matthew 25 says how we are supposed to treat the poor through our
00:29:30.140 taxpayer dollars. So this is just their form of Christian nationalism. They are
00:29:35.340 constantly using their bastardized interpretation of scripture to tell you, to morally extort you
00:29:41.860 into voting for progressive policies. To love your neighbor, you have to affirm transgenderism. To
00:29:47.680 love your neighbor, you have to affirm your neighbor's right to choose to have a doctor slaughter
00:29:53.140 her child. And you'll remember on the Joe Rogan podcast, he used the example of Mary consenting
00:30:00.480 to her pregnancy as his justification for why he is pro the poisoning, starving, and dismemberment of
00:30:09.260 babies inside the womb. And like, by the way, I just want you to read that passage in Luke. That's
00:30:15.740 not actually what goes on. The angel doesn't ask her a question. The angel just says, this is going to
00:30:20.740 happen to you. And she says, okay, that's Allie's standard version. There's no question and consent
00:30:29.960 there. Yes, she does accept the will of God, but that is not any kind of basis for murdering a child
00:30:38.260 inside the womb. Like, how disgusting do you have to be to try to use a passage from the Gospels to try
00:30:46.660 to say that that's the Christian perspective? Okay, then he also says, and we'll end on this one for
00:30:53.000 this segment, that Stephen Colbert is actually the model of Christianity. Sop three. I just want to
00:31:00.380 thank you, Stephen, because I know you're not a politician, but you have really shown people in
00:31:05.400 this country what Christianity should be and what it means to actually live out the teachings of Jesus,
00:31:12.380 even in a talk show. Well, I, I, uh, I'm going to push back a little bit on that. Uh, that's very
00:31:18.480 nice of you to say. Okay. Well, at least he pushed back on that. Um, you know, I don't know Stephen
00:31:25.060 Colbert personally, he might be a nice guy. Um, but you know, he's promoted some of the most dangerous
00:31:32.760 lies of this culture with the, with the rest of the secular progressives. And if James Tallarico is
00:31:39.520 someone who is like the, did God, did God really say of our generation, if he is the one telling you
00:31:48.520 that you're a good Christian, that should cause some major self-evaluation. Like, and I just want
00:31:54.940 to give that as an aside and encouragement to you. It can be really hard to get criticism. It can be
00:32:00.380 really hard to be called names. You know, even though we laugh about Hillary Clinton writing a hit
00:32:06.040 piece about me and the Atlantic, it doesn't feel good for someone to accuse you of things that you
00:32:11.320 know, aren't true to try to malign your character when you know that that's not an accurate description
00:32:16.360 of who you are. But before you mourn, before you get sad about that, assess the character and the faith
00:32:24.480 of the person who is lodging that complaint against you. Before you have any kind of feeling
00:32:31.300 really about a compliment or a criticism, consider the source. And if it's someone who rejects the
00:32:39.080 gospel who is criticizing you, then that's probably a good assessment, probably a good assessment
00:32:45.940 that what you're saying and what you're representing is simply true. Now, speaking of races and speaking
00:32:53.360 of candidates, last night, I had the honor of moderating a debate between the Republican
00:32:59.580 attorneys general candidates in Texas. And so I'm going to give you just a few highlights of that.
00:33:06.420 It's really important for us to know what the top law enforcement officer in a state like Texas is
00:33:12.940 thinking and is going to do, whether you live in Texas or whether you live in any other state.
00:33:18.220 What you might not realize is that the attorneys general in all of the states, especially all the
00:33:23.220 Republican states, all work together to advance the cause of conservatism. They're really kind of
00:33:29.500 on the front lines of the legal fight when it comes to enforcing laws against abortion, laws against
00:33:36.420 violating women's private spaces, laws against the genital mutilation of children. And Texas has
00:33:44.240 huge population, huge resources that smaller or less populous states like, say, Montana or Louisiana,
00:33:52.240 they really rely on the Texas AG to kind of lead the way in the fight on so many of these important
00:33:59.020 legal battles, defending the constitutional rights of Americans and especially championing the
00:34:04.900 conservative cause. So this was a big deal. I was super honored to be a part of it. And let me just
00:34:11.740 give you some behind the scenes and what happened going into it before we even play you some of the
00:34:16.900 highlights. So this all started because last year I just had this thought of wanting to have the
00:34:22.780 Republican attorney general's attorneys general candidates on the show. I was like, it'd be cool
00:34:27.920 to have them on individually, or maybe we could moderate some sort of debate. Maybe we could put it for
00:34:33.460 Blaze TV subscribers or on YouTube. Somehow it evolved into something else. And the Republican
00:34:40.940 Attorney's General Association, known as RAGA, they connected with us and they said, you know,
00:34:46.800 actually we want to host kind of an official debate between the candidates and we would love
00:34:51.040 Ali to moderate it. Now, I was a little nervous about this. I've done a lot of things in front of
00:34:56.700 a lot of people. I've given a lot of speeches. I debated 20 liberals on camera. I have done a lot of
00:35:04.420 different news hits and obviously I do this podcast. But I was nervous about this because it's
00:35:09.600 different. One, I'm not always in the explicitly political sphere and I've never moderated a debate.
00:35:16.400 The closest thing that I've done to moderating a debate is like breaking up an argument between my
00:35:21.660 kids. And so I just didn't know exactly how it was going to be. And we put like, not just me,
00:35:28.680 but my team and I put so much thought and so much work and so much research and so much attention to
00:35:35.820 detail into every single question that we asked. And how we were kind of thinking about it is,
00:35:41.560 we know that we'll have a national audience that's watching this, but we don't want it to just be
00:35:46.020 national. It's got to be, they've got to be subjects that are particular to Texas, but also relevant
00:35:51.760 enough to people outside of Texas so that they will care and understand Texas is kind of leading the
00:35:57.140 charge. We want questions that are going to highlight the differences between the candidates.
00:36:01.780 We want questions that could possibly put tension between the candidates and the Trump administration.
00:36:08.420 We'll get to those, one of those questions that I asked in a little bit. Also, if there is any
00:36:14.520 tension there, any disagreement between any of the candidates and the current attorney general of
00:36:19.700 Texas, which is Ken Paxton. And so we wanted to create those like juicy moments and maybe let the
00:36:26.940 sparks fly a little bit. And my challenge was being able to control the debate to try to keep us on time
00:36:35.400 as much as possible without being a school marm. I got some good advice from Megyn Kelly before this
00:36:42.300 debate. Of course, she has moderated presidential debates in the past and I knew that she would be a
00:36:47.440 great person to go to. And she had some great tips for me. You don't want to come across like a school
00:36:52.740 marm. Like you don't want to be the person that is constantly like nagging them and constantly
00:36:57.960 chastising the audience for applauding at the wrong time, constantly stopping someone if they're even a
00:37:03.440 second over 60 seconds. But at the same time, you don't want to be a pushover and you want to be fair
00:37:08.000 and you want to try to keep things moving along and you want to try to abide by the rules as much as
00:37:13.460 possible. Thankfully, for the most part, the candidates made it really easy. There wasn't a whole lot of
00:37:18.740 trying to talk over the other person or try to go outside the bounds of the rules. And also another
00:37:27.620 thing I did for preparation, which was just like fun. I hadn't done this. I hadn't watched these in
00:37:33.500 10 years. I was like, I'm going to watch some of the Republican primary debates from 2016. Wow,
00:37:40.840 what a different time. I just also have different eyes now for who all of these people are and what
00:37:46.440 they're capable of. But I watched one debate. I think it was a CNN debate and it was John Kasich and
00:37:51.980 then you had Ben Carson and then you had Cruz and you had Rubio and you had Trump and you watch them
00:37:57.280 walk out. This is just kind of an aside. It doesn't have anything to do with this attorney general
00:38:01.380 debate, but it was just funny. It was just funny to remember all of this and all the candidates walk
00:38:06.860 out and you see Trump. And now, of course, hindsight is 2020. And I'm like, it's obviously Trump of
00:38:12.360 these candidates. It's obviously Trump, just how he carries himself and how the room responds to him.
00:38:18.660 But then also all of the candidates give their opening statement. We've got eight years of Barack
00:38:23.200 Obama behind us. Most people are not happy with how the country is going. And yet all of these
00:38:27.840 candidates are giving these flowery opening statements about how amazing America is and how
00:38:33.980 much they love this country. And their grandmother was, I don't know, an immigrant from Czechoslovakia.
00:38:40.260 And America is great. And we just need the conservatism of Reagan. And we're going into
00:38:44.880 this bright future. And now I can say, I'm like, oh, my gosh, that is totally disjointed from how
00:38:49.940 America felt. And then Trump comes in and he's just like, our borders are Swiss cheese. We're losing
00:38:55.520 ISIS. Obamacare is failing. And I'm like, oh, 100 percent. That is what people wanted to hear. So
00:39:03.060 anyway, I had kind of it was totally different than the debate that I did last night. But it kind of
00:39:09.680 just it made me think of worst case scenarios, how I would handle a back and forth if there were any
00:39:15.640 personal jabs, which there were a few personal jabs last night and how I would kind of navigate that
00:39:20.720 the moderators did a good job. But it was just good to kind of get in the headspace of like, oh,
00:39:25.920 yeah, this is how candidates talk to each other, how they how they feel about each other.
00:39:30.000 And so I try to ask some tough questions, put their feet to the fire. And so I'm going to give
00:39:34.640 you some highlights of what some of these candidates said about, for example, the Islamification of
00:39:39.540 Texas, about the abortion pill continuing to spill into Texas, much or largely because the Trump
00:39:47.260 administration has refused, at least for now, to do something about that illegal immigration,
00:39:53.360 crime. All the candidates had something interesting to say about these things. So we'll get into that in
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00:41:10.720 and openly conservative, because all the candidates are conservative, because Raga is conservative,
00:41:16.160 I didn't have to pretend to be unbiased when it comes to the issues and how I phrase the questions.
00:41:23.400 Like we all agree on, for example, that the growing influence of Islam is something that's
00:41:29.080 troubling. Like I didn't have to like tiptoe around it. I didn't have to be politically correct.
00:41:33.220 I could just say, okay, this is what we all agree on. What are you going to do about it? And so my first
00:41:38.580 question was that basically, I'm kind of paraphrasing what my question was, but what are you going to do
00:41:43.080 about to address Texans concerns about the growing influence of organizations like the Muslim
00:41:48.840 Brotherhood and planned communities like Epic City? And here is what Mr. Reitz, Aaron Reitz,
00:41:55.160 by the way, just before I play that clip, Aaron Reitz used to work for Attorney General Paxton. He
00:42:00.720 worked in the DOJ. So he is an attorney. He's actually the only one on the stage who is not yet
00:42:06.240 politician. Here is his answer on the Islam question that I gave them.
00:42:12.000 Islam is incompatible with Western civilization. And in spite of that, they've developed a dark,
00:42:18.840 dark network of 501c3s, nonprofits, corporate entities, shell entities, PACs, political candidates,
00:42:25.820 grant-making entities that have formed a network to rise the crescent moon over the Lone Star State.
00:42:32.300 As Attorney General, I'm going to treat the Sharia pushers like the feds treated the mafia
00:42:38.380 in the latter half of the 20th century. How many mob bosses did we get for committing murder? The
00:42:44.240 answer is not many, but we smoked them out like I'm going to smoke out the Sharia pushers by an
00:42:49.860 overwhelming force of investigations on process crimes, financial crimes, investigations, lawsuits.
00:42:56.280 And then on the abortion question, I asked them basically about the problem with the abortion
00:43:02.940 pill. Like we have, Texas has an enforcement framework in place after the Dobbs decision,
00:43:09.200 after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. We have pro-life laws on the books, but thousands of
00:43:15.000 mail-in abortion pills are arriving in Texas every day, are killing unborn Texans. And states like
00:43:22.280 Louisiana have sued the FDA because under the Biden administration, the FDA removed the rule that
00:43:27.500 these abortion pills like Mifepristone have to be dispensed in person at a medical facility.
00:43:33.280 And so Republican states are trying to get the FDA to change that guidance to say, no,
00:43:37.640 you got to get the abortion pill in person. You can't mail it in from these online providers who are
00:43:42.880 out-of-state providers. And the Trump administration has said that they're reviewing it,
00:43:46.940 but they have not done anything on it yet. And so I wanted to see what the candidates would say
00:43:52.520 about a Republican presidential administration, about the Trump administration, and what they
00:43:58.780 would do to protect unborn Texans, even if doing so actually puts them at odds with Trump's FDA.
00:44:07.240 Here's thought seven.
00:44:08.160 The sad truth is too many conservatives want to pat themselves on the back for defunding
00:44:13.720 Planned Parenthood. When we have more babies being killed today with a pill than through
00:44:21.820 Planned Parenthood. So we need to act and the states need to pressure the FDA to get it right.
00:44:29.320 Okay. So what he says is correct there. Unfortunately, that's true. We love pro-life law. We want to
00:44:35.400 defund Planned Parenthood. We should be doing all of those things. But if unborn children are continuing
00:44:40.840 to die by the thousands, then obviously something is not right. And so we want an attorney general
00:44:47.180 who is going to do everything they can to fight on behalf of the rights of those unborn children not
00:44:54.280 to be murdered by the abortion pill. Obviously, huge issue in Texas and everywhere, but especially
00:44:59.820 Texas, because Texas has the largest border, is illegal immigration. And so there is this law called
00:45:06.560 SB4 that is in the courts right now, and it's basically been stopped. It can't be enforced.
00:45:12.540 And it was passed in the Texas legislature under the Biden administration because the Biden
00:45:17.620 administration was failing to secure Texas's border, which is also Americans' border.
00:45:22.900 And so the Texas legislature said, okay, well, we want to enforce our own immigration law. We want
00:45:28.740 to protect our own border. We want to be able to deport illegal immigrants if the federal agencies
00:45:33.800 aren't going to do so. And the courts are saying, oh, you can't do that. And right now, it's not
00:45:38.900 really a huge problem because the Trump administration is doing a good job of protecting
00:45:43.100 Texas's border. And so my question was, okay, if you are attorney general under a future presidential
00:45:50.120 administration, which happens to be Democrat, how are you going to make sure that Texas can
00:45:54.240 protect its borders? Thought six.
00:45:56.140 Anyone that is in the way of President Trump's deportation agenda, blocking ICE, things like you're
00:46:01.120 seeing in Minnesota. Guess what? The AG can sue them for three things, and I will. Number one,
00:46:06.080 civil penalties. Number two, criminal penalties. Number three, removal from office. And that also
00:46:11.020 includes when they're not cooperating with the 287G program, the ICE detainer program, which we require
00:46:17.160 every county in Texas to participate in.
00:46:21.300 Okay. So we want someone, an attorney general who is going to be super, super strong on that.
00:46:27.560 The attorney general could be, as I said, continue to be attorney general after Trump leaves office.
00:46:34.160 That means hopefully we don't have a Democrat president in a few years, but that's possible.
00:46:38.920 So that means those Republican attorneys general matter even more. Another candidate,
00:46:44.920 State Senator Joan Huffman. Maze Middleton is also, by the way, a state senator in the Texas
00:46:50.140 legislature. Erin Reitz criticized her because Reitz said that district attorneys, he listed the
00:47:01.000 district attorneys that he would go after day one due to their soft on crime policies and possible
00:47:06.900 Soros ties. But Senator Huffman responded saying that she wrote the bill to remove those rogue DAs,
00:47:13.920 but it's more complicated than just taking them out of office on day one. And then Reitz claimed
00:47:19.400 that the attorney general has the tools to do that, that that's a bad mentality. That's a loser
00:47:24.660 mentality. You can do this day one. She says you can't. He says you can. Well, Huffman responded to
00:47:31.820 Reitz saying this.
00:47:33.520 I just was going to comment on his loser comment saying if it was something that could be done,
00:47:39.720 I would ask the question. It begs the question that why hasn't Paxton already done it?
00:47:44.760 Okay. There were a lot of fiery moments and back and forth, a lot of people going after Congressman
00:47:50.400 Chip Roy, probably because he is at least perceived as the front runner right now. And so you've got
00:47:57.860 Senator Maze Middleton and Mr. Aaron Wright, especially trying to go after Congressman Roy.
00:48:02.980 And so they made some fiery claims. We had a little bit of a back and forth there a few times. So I
00:48:08.380 really encourage you to go on YouTube or go on BlazeTV's X and watch this for yourself,
00:48:13.660 especially if you live in the state of Texas. By the way, early voting is open and voting day is
00:48:20.000 on March 3rd in Texas. And here's my advice that I always give you during election time. And I'm
00:48:25.020 giving this advice to myself too, because I have not voted yet, but I wanted to wait until after the
00:48:29.040 debate. Do early voting. Go in there. Get your vote in because you just never know what's going to
00:48:33.840 happen on election day. You forget that you had like a kid's school party. You get sick. You forgot
00:48:39.180 about that. You had a dentist appointment, bad weather. You don't want to drive in a storm,
00:48:42.900 whatever it is. You don't want to be prevented from voting. And remember, politics matter because
00:48:48.600 policy matters because people matter. Politics affects policy. Policy affects people. People
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00:50:24.480 Okay. As usual, there were four other topics that we were going to get to today that we didn't end up
00:50:33.620 getting to, but we are going to cover those on Monday. We've unfortunately got multiple
00:50:38.820 shootings committed by people who identify as transgender, but there's like something
00:50:43.880 deeper in all of these stories that I want to explore. I will be talking about the Frida baby story
00:50:49.040 and just what we're seeing about the depth of depravity when it comes to the sexualization
00:50:54.000 of children. And sometimes it's portrayed in this lighthearted way. And then sometimes with the
00:50:59.040 Epstein files, it is like as obviously dark and demonic as you can get. And so we're going to
00:51:04.720 explore all of that in Monday's episode. But since we only have a few minutes left, I wanted to talk about
00:51:09.900 the shorter story that is somewhat lighthearted. But as you know, I also find the subject extremely
00:51:16.860 disturbing. So you'll probably remember, Brie used to always bring me these stories of adults
00:51:23.940 treating their dolls as children. And it was just a form of sick torture that she liked to bring to
00:51:30.480 the show. And I would always be so, so disturbed by these women who are trying to fill this void,
00:51:39.100 which is a real void and a good desire of wanting to mother, wanting to nurture with this inanimate
00:51:45.580 object. As much as I am against trying to replace a child with pets, I am even more so against trying
00:51:53.440 to replace a child with a doll. Now, it's one thing to just have appreciation for dolls. I think in some
00:52:01.260 ways, like men and women never really grow out of that, but it's just different because men get to
00:52:07.520 actually go and fly planes and drive trains. And women don't really have like a version, like an
00:52:13.840 adult version of like the things that we like to do as kids. But this is a very dark manifestation of
00:52:19.680 that. It means that our priorities and how we are treating adulthood has really gone wrong. There are
00:52:26.000 these conferences where these women who treat their dolls as toddlers, feed them, change their diaper,
00:52:32.980 take them out. You're laughing out there in this room. It's true. And put them in baby carriers and
00:52:40.060 put them in strollers. And like they take videos of them going on vacation with them. There is this
00:52:45.320 whole influencer who like shows her day in the life where she's turning on the lights and she's like
00:52:50.720 waking up her children and their dolls. It's very, very, very sad, very sad. Like we need better
00:52:57.120 hobbies. We need better ways to spend our time. But now we also have adults using dolls to
00:53:05.000 be progressive activists. And there's something, there's like a lot of crossover here between
00:53:11.060 Disney adults, adult doll people, and these left-wing activists. And I think that the through line is
00:53:17.560 actually what we call misplaced mothering, is that when your motherhood instinct is not channeled in
00:53:22.980 the right healthy direction toward a, toward a child, whether it's your child or a child that
00:53:27.560 you're volunteering to take care of, it manifests itself in like really ugly and bitter and weird
00:53:31.600 ways. So now we've got American doll, girl doll influencers. That's a thing that they're using their
00:53:36.540 platforms. This is according to the Rolling Stone to advance left-wing politics, including their
00:53:41.580 disdain for ice. So we've got this one person on Instagram back in time, AG. Okay. And this person,
00:53:49.720 Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the F out of Minnesota. You know what? Kirsten is churning
00:53:55.960 butter. Okay. She doesn't care about ICE. I guarantee you Kirsten and her parents would have supported
00:54:03.400 deporting illegal immigrants. And then you've got Josephine. I had a Josephine doll. ICE needs to get
00:54:09.720 the F out of my country. Josephine, you live in Mexico. Okay. ICE is not in your country.
00:54:14.900 Um, there are other types of, um, other types of influencers that are also using their American
00:54:23.220 girl dolls to, uh, to protest what's going on with Trump and ICE. Uh, there's this collector,
00:54:31.980 AGTV for life. She runs an Etsy shop selling doll clothes. Okay. So she, if you're not watching this,
00:54:39.060 she has all of these dolls, she's got one in a wheelchair that says resist fascism. She says,
00:54:45.560 resist. You've got, okay. So she's creating these little protest signs. They're at a no Kings protest.
00:54:53.640 You've got way too much time on your hands. Okay. We need a job, girly. We need a hobby.
00:55:03.400 We need to go to church. Oh my gosh. These, they have mouths like a sailor, these dolls.
00:55:12.840 I just can't imagine finding your purpose in this. Um, oh, and we also have doll ICE agents.
00:55:21.160 Oh my goodness. It's too much. It's too much. We're laughing, but think about what has to be going
00:55:28.000 on spiritually for a person to spend their time doing this. We also have this other creator who
00:55:33.540 is using their doll. Looks like with a fake AR 15 saying F ICE. Very disturbing. Very disturbing.
00:55:44.160 I think that at the very least, like you need, you need to be visited. You need to be visited by the
00:55:51.600 FBI. Maybe just to chit chat, but just like to check you out. If I found out that that is my neighbor,
00:55:56.660 like we've got, we've got issues going on. So there's something simultaneously happening here.
00:56:03.860 On the one hand, you've got the infantilizing of adults who use dolls and do a bunch of kids stuff.
00:56:12.040 Like, you know, I'm not saying going to Disney as an adult is always bad, but the obsession is weird.
00:56:17.600 Also like adults watching bluey by themselves. Like there's this infantilization of adults going on,
00:56:23.720 this extended adolescence that I think arrest the development that you need to actually be a
00:56:29.340 productive and like well-developed, healthy mentally person. But at the same time, there's an
00:56:34.220 adultification of children's stuff. We see that here. We've seen that with that whole, um,
00:56:41.040 scandal a few years ago, Balenciaga when Balenciaga, when they were putting like BDSM gear
00:56:47.700 on kids toys. And so it's the conflation and the confusion of adolescence and childhood and adulthood
00:56:56.120 that is making this very disturbing combination. Okay. And I'm not really sure exactly what the
00:57:04.280 answer is, except, I mean, definitely find God, like definitely do that. Um, definitely change
00:57:10.760 everything fundamentally about what you're doing, but there is something deeper spiritually going on
00:57:15.740 here that has to do with disorder, the confusion between man and woman, the confusion between right
00:57:21.600 and wrong, and obviously the confusion between adults and child that I'll have to take some more
00:57:25.900 time to analyze. But I just wanted to bring you with me on this very disturbing journey of adults
00:57:31.080 using dolls as left-wing activists. All right. Unfortunately, that's all we have time for today,
00:57:35.400 but we've got a great show for you on Friday and then another great show for you on Monday,
00:57:40.060 where we will be focusing on some of the theological aspects of these things.
00:57:43.760 And we will see you back here in a couple of days.
00:58:13.760 Thank you.