Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1305 ｜ Is Trump Targeting Talarico？ Colbert’s Lie Exposed

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

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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 0.65

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 1.00

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 0.81

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 0.99

00:18:57.820 said anything about abortion or homosexuality, so why do these darn conservatives care about it so much? 0.99

00:19:03.320 It's not 16. They convinced a lot of our fellow Christians that the most important issues were 0.99

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. 0.69

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. 0.52

00:21:28.440 It's not even manslaughter. The intentional killing of a legally innocent person. Abortion fits that bill 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.99

00:22:04.620 listed, but the behavior itself is condemned as ungodly, as immoral, as depraved. We read in 1 Corinthians 0.75

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. 1.00

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 1.00

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, 0.99

00:24:53.820 if you are for the brutalizing of the bodies of kids outside of the womb, because they believe 0.99

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

00:25:31.160 things like the separation of church and state. And actually, he calls Stephen Colbert the ideal

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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. 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.78

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 0.91

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 0.91

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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00:40:59.120 rangeleather.com slash Allie. Okay. So one fun thing about this is that because I am unapologetically

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, 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.98

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. 0.58

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 1.00

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 0.98

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 1.00

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. 0.93

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 1.00

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 0.99

00:47:24.660 mentality. You can do this day one. She says you can't. He says you can. Well, Huffman responded to 0.61

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 1.00

00:51:30.480 the show. And I would always be so, so disturbed by these women who are trying to fill this void, 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 1.00

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. 0.94

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. 1.00

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.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - February 18, 2026

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