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In this episode, Allie and I discuss Epstein, the Munich Security Conference, and some listener questions. We also discuss the Republican Attorneys General Debates in Texas and Michigan, and Allie's trip to Florida with her family.

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00:01:09.300 Well, good afternoon, everyone, or good morning.
00:01:11.780 Whenever you're watching or listening to this, it's good to see you.
00:01:14.620 As you can see, I'm not in studio today for my episode that I'm recording for Allie that'll
00:01:20.540 come out on Saturday.
00:01:21.560 But I really appreciate y'all being here.
00:01:23.980 My wife and I and son, we are out of town for a few days in beautiful Florida, another
00:01:29.240 free state.
00:01:30.560 Love coming to Florida and all the freedom that they have down here, a lot like Texas
00:01:34.380 and Tennessee and some of the other states that have figured out that, you know, our country
00:01:39.840 is really, it was founded on freedom and it still should be based on freedom.
00:01:43.940 So I'm excited about it.
00:01:45.100 We got some really cool things to talk about today.
00:01:46.920 We're going to talk about some Epstein-related stuff.
00:01:50.540 We're going to also talk about what went on in Munich at the security conference.
00:01:54.840 And I'm going to have some financial information for you that I think you'll find hopefully helpful,
00:02:00.600 enjoyable.
00:02:01.340 And then also, as we always do, we're going to get to some really good listener questions
00:02:05.940 that, man, I can never, ever cease to be impressed with the questions that you all are asking.
00:02:14.780 They're just incredible questions.
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00:03:15.160 Even though you're supposed to give something up, what you're giving up is you're giving
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00:03:24.420 Maybe that's an idea to think about.
00:03:26.400 Also, I hope that a lot of you were able to watch the Republican Attorneys General Association
00:03:35.780 debate for the Texas Republican primary that Allie moderated earlier this week.
00:03:42.180 And if you haven't, I'm sure you can still go online, look for it under Blaze TV.
00:03:46.640 It was very well done, 90 minutes for pretty equal contestants.
00:03:53.380 I mean, I've got one that I'm supporting more than the others, but I'm not going to reveal
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00:03:59.920 Allie played it right down the middle, as she always does. 1.00
00:04:03.720 And I thought there was some good information, great questions that were asked by not only
00:04:07.640 Allie, but also they have some other Attorneys General from other states that ask questions 0.66
00:04:12.340 as well.
00:04:12.820 So if you haven't watched that, I think you'll enjoy that.
00:04:15.240 Very, very well done.
00:04:16.860 And Allie's team did a great job of helping put that on.
00:04:19.540 And we appreciate them being a part of that.
00:04:22.260 Now, the first thing we want to get into is related to the Epstein files.
00:04:27.680 I know that Allie's talked a lot about this already, and I'm not going to get into as
00:04:31.040 much detail as she's done.
00:04:33.020 But what I wanted to talk about is, first of all, going to go through a list of the people
00:04:39.500 that have been forced to resign their positions or either they've actually kicked out, you know,
00:04:45.480 been kicked out of their positions.
00:04:46.840 And it's a pretty interesting list.
00:04:49.220 And there's probably a lot more people that are less prominent than this that have also
00:04:53.900 had to do the same thing or were forced to do the same thing.
00:04:58.540 First of all, Tom Pritzker.
00:05:00.080 Now, you might be familiar with the last name Pritzker.
00:05:02.560 It's a billionaire family, one of which is the governor of Illinois.
00:05:06.820 His cousin, Tom, who was the executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels, he had to retire on February
00:05:15.160 the 16th.
00:05:16.140 And he didn't ask to be even reelected to the board following a scrutiny tied to a document
00:05:22.400 disclosures about his communications with Epstein.
00:05:24.840 Tom Pritzker.
00:05:27.400 Oh, good old JB's cousin, right?
00:05:30.000 So pretty close to home there, JB.
00:05:32.760 I hope there's not any dirty laundry.
00:05:34.980 I don't know that there is.
00:05:36.060 I'm not saying there is.
00:05:37.040 But JB, I hope you and Tom didn't talk about Tom's excursions, right?
00:05:41.340 That could come up.
00:05:43.040 Larry Summers.
00:05:43.840 Larry Summers, who a lot of you may have heard the name before.
00:05:46.840 He was very big in the Obama administration.
00:05:49.320 He was former U.S. secretary, treasury secretary, and Harvard, the president of Harvard at one
00:05:55.680 time.
00:05:55.980 He resigned the board of OpenAI and several other public roles in November 25.
00:06:02.140 And he went on to leave from teaching dues at Harvard after emails revealed him seeking
00:06:06.360 romantic advice from Epstein.
00:06:09.020 I mean, how gross could you get? 1.00
00:06:11.400 I mean, that's just pathetic. 0.99
00:06:13.280 Kathy Rumier, chief legal officer of Goldman Sachs and former White House counsel to Barack 0.98
00:06:18.560 Obama.
00:06:19.720 Submitted the resignation in February 26, effective four months later after scrutiny
00:06:24.780 from her interaction with Epstein.
00:06:26.560 David Gelliner, Yale University computer science professor and conservative commentator, relieved
00:06:33.100 of teaching duties at Yale in February 26 after emails showed post-conviction contact
00:06:38.620 with Epstein.
00:06:39.340 Not enough to be pre-conviction, but post-conviction.
00:06:42.780 And again, it's conservatives and liberals.
00:06:45.580 So it's not all just one, right?
00:06:47.140 Morgan McSweeney, chief of staff to British Prime Minister Kyra Starmer, resigned on February
00:06:52.940 8th of 2026 after taking responsibility for flawed vetting and advising the appointment
00:06:59.000 of Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to the U.S.
00:07:01.960 despite Mandelson's Epstein ties.
00:07:05.740 Man, this thing is really broad.
00:07:07.420 Brad Karp, chair of the law firm Paul Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton, and Garrison stepped down in early
00:07:12.160 26 after emails showed him praising Epstein and corresponding about various matters.
00:07:18.220 He resigned from the board of trustees from Union College as well.
00:07:21.300 Kimball Musk, Elon Musk's younger brother, board member of Burning Man Project, resigned in February of 26 following emails showing Epstein helped him arrange a personal
00:07:31.260 relationship for him in 2012 and 2013.
00:07:35.560 Do not want to know the details.
00:07:39.440 Thorburn, some of these names I'm probably mispronouncing.
00:07:41.980 And I apologize in advance.
00:07:43.980 Joglin, former prime minister of Norway and former secretary general of the Council of Europe, charged in February 26 with gross corruption in connection with matters tied to disclosures after previously stepping away from leadership roles.
00:07:58.260 Yes, Stolle, chief executive of Barclays, stepped down in 2021 following regulatory scrutiny over relationship with Epstein.
00:08:05.120 Yoi Ito, director of MIT Media Lab, resigned in September of 2019 after accepting funding from Epstein and working to conceal the donations.
00:08:16.780 Unbelievable.
00:08:18.680 So those are ones kind of key people, kind of, I guess, high level people or people that are in the public life that have been forced to resign or just said, hey, I'm out.
00:08:30.840 They did it on their own because of their affiliation with the monster Epstein. 0.80
00:08:36.340 Now, there's a few more that have that are under pressure that have not yet resigned as far as we know.
00:08:43.800 And and this is actually Peter Mandelson has not yet resigned.
00:08:49.700 OK, but well, he was dismissed.
00:08:51.700 I'm sorry.
00:08:52.060 He was dismissed in September 25.
00:08:53.500 But Sarah Ferguson, who's the ex-wife of Prince Andrew, which we're going to get to in a minute, several charities cut ties to her late last year. 0.99
00:09:03.280 And there was a email she sent to Jeffrey Epstein describing him as a steadfast and generous supreme friend to her and her family.
00:09:10.800 Well, Howard Ludnick, U.S. Commerce Secretary today, facing calls to resign after Justice Department released emails surface showing he and his family plan and made a visit to Jeffrey Epstein's private island in December 2012, years after Epstein's 2008 conviction.
00:09:30.840 Steve Tesh, co-owner of the New York Giants, is under pressure because there were there were information about exchanges with Epstein discussing connections to women, whether they were a working girl or or pro or civilian.
00:09:45.740 That just makes your blood curl, doesn't it?
00:09:48.800 So it's it's a mess.
00:09:50.600 Now, Prince Andrew, I think we've got a photo of him that we're going to put up on the screen.
00:09:56.120 I mean, he I mean, just just look at this.
00:10:00.440 I mean, it's there's evidently what appears to be a woman, probably a young woman, and he's hovering over her is, you know, the guy, whether it's a sickness or whatever it is, he is someone that deserves to be taken away from everything that he's been granted by the British people for sure.
00:10:22.440 And he I think at least indirectly, if not directly led to the suicide of the Guthrie lady who had been the 17 year old that has accused him of, you know, having sex with her when she was under age.
00:10:39.280 And so just a bad thing.
00:10:41.200 But I tell you what I tell you what the whole the reason I went over all of that, the reason I went over all of that is really just to remind us all of us.
00:10:48.380 And it doesn't matter how old we are.
00:10:50.880 Satan is always right over here.
00:10:54.280 Right.
00:10:54.940 He's right over here.
00:10:56.120 If you read C.S. Lewis's screw tape letters, he's always talking into our ear about, hey, it doesn't really apply to you.
00:11:01.780 It's OK.
00:11:03.000 You know, that type of thing.
00:11:04.120 But if you remember, maybe your parents told you what my parents would tell me, and that is who you hang around with really has an impact on what you become.
00:11:16.120 And I'm sure you've heard that many other ways before as well.
00:11:20.920 But that is so true.
00:11:23.960 And this is evidence of that.
00:11:25.740 Who people hang around with has an impact on what they do, what they become.
00:11:31.680 You know, any time that we think that we're so strong that we can avoid any temptation, then Satan's got us right where we want to.
00:11:39.660 The only way that we avoid temptations like that is to flee from it, to be a part of it.
00:11:45.280 That's why Billy Graham never met with a lady on his own, you know, by himself in a closed scenario.
00:11:52.620 Never did that.
00:11:53.520 And I know a lot of other people that have done that as well.
00:11:56.720 But the company we keep matters.
00:11:58.260 The Bible even talks about that.
00:12:00.040 In 1 Corinthians 15, 33, it says, do not be deceived.
00:12:04.340 Bad company ruins good morals.
00:12:07.720 Is there a better example than what we just talked about earlier?
00:12:10.880 Bad company ruins good morals.
00:12:13.300 Proverbs 13, 20. 0.97
00:12:14.720 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
00:12:19.820 And in Proverbs 22, 24 and 26, make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
00:12:32.380 Well, that's the truth, isn't it?
00:12:33.900 And it's just a sad scenario and we'll see what else comes out.
00:12:39.940 I'm sure there's more stuff that will come out.
00:12:42.100 I guess there were forget how many pages, but tens of thousands of pages, I think.
00:12:46.260 And it is a mess and people are affiliated with the company they choose in a negative way.
00:13:00.640 Also can be in a positive way.
00:13:02.520 I hope that you're making sure that your kids and other people that you love and care for, that they are surrounding themselves with good people.
00:13:11.160 Right. And just because now this is something that I know it's a little difficult, but just because that your kid goes to a Christian school, maybe, or goes to a good church, you still need to be looking at who his or her friends are, because it doesn't mean that all of those people, even in those environments, are great influences.
00:13:33.360 Now, the chances are much better, but it doesn't mean they're all great influences.
00:13:37.320 We had experience with that as our kids were growing up, some of the people that they hung around that went to school with them at their Christian school did not, you know, didn't follow our value system.
00:13:47.320 And we had to take some action on that.
00:13:49.700 And so I hope that you'll do that.
00:13:51.340 Don't don't get lazy because you think your kids are in a good environment.
00:13:56.900 All right.
00:13:57.960 And I said, this is kind of a little funny story.
00:14:00.400 I'll never forget we were I was at Allie's eighth grade graduation and I was standing by a good friend of mine, Jeff Russell, Dr. Russell.
00:14:12.860 And he they were going across stage, you know, the boys were in their little suits or, you know, sport coats and what have you.
00:14:20.360 And the girls were in nice dresses.
00:14:21.720 And I said, you know, it's we're just lucky that there's some, you know, he had girls, too.
00:14:27.020 In fact, he had had four.
00:14:28.020 This was the youngest in the eighth grade with Allie said.
00:14:30.760 I said, you know, there's a bunch of good boys there.
00:14:33.300 He looked at me and he said, Ron, there are no good boys.
00:14:36.340 Now, that's not true.
00:14:37.860 But when you have daughters, you know, it's OK to have that antenna up.
00:14:41.940 And I'll talk some more about, you know, Allie and how we managed her dating life when she was in high school on another episode.
00:14:50.440 But I thought that was pretty funny as I look back on it.
00:14:53.840 But anyway, just be careful who you hang around with and make sure that this is a warning to all of us and certainly to those of us that have children that we pay attention to that.
00:15:04.060 And we'll follow this.
00:15:05.980 I'm sure Allie will continue to follow the story and talk more about it as time goes on.
00:15:10.420 Now, the next thing we want to talk about is what happened in the Munich Security Conference.
00:15:17.340 And the Munich Security Conference has been something that's been going on since 1963.
00:15:22.560 So really during the Cold War, you know, the Cold War essentially started not long after the Korean War.
00:15:29.700 And this was around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and those types of things that were going on at the time that we were really having some challenges with Russia.
00:15:40.660 And they, as you know, had East Germany was Russian. 0.57
00:15:47.280 That's before the unification came back around after 1989.
00:15:51.300 And there were some, you know, just real tensions.
00:15:54.880 And so they started this security conference that at the time was mainly attended by us and our allies in Western Europe.
00:16:02.840 But that's been going on since 1963.
00:16:05.320 And Marco Rubio, who is our Secretary of State, has a speech that has been very, very much talked about.
00:16:16.660 And for those of us that are on the conservative side and pro-American, it has been applauded.
00:16:25.800 For those that are on the progressive side, so to speak, the more liberal side and people that we think really don't like America based on the things that they've said, they've deadpaned it.
00:16:40.660 Right. But it is really interesting. And we're going to have a couple of video clips in a minute.
00:16:44.920 But I just want to go over some points that were made in Mr. Rubio in the speech that he made.
00:16:52.340 Again, 1963. And he said that the critiques of post-Cold War delusions like the end of history and over-reliance on global trade,
00:17:06.080 outsourcing sovereignty to institutions, borderless policies, which all led to deindustrialization, job losses and mass migration threats.
00:17:16.360 That's one of the things that has happened in the post-Cold War.
00:17:21.140 OK, you've seen that happen in some places.
00:17:24.840 And that's something that the Trump administration is trying to change.
00:17:29.720 He also called for renewal under President Trump for reindustrialization, reclaiming supply chains.
00:17:35.260 Remember what happened in COVID when all of our medicines were made in China and other things that we use every day?
00:17:41.640 There was supply chain delays and snafus that we were to make costs go up and also allow for half the cost things not to even be available to us.
00:17:53.660 Critical minerals, space, automation, national sovereignty, border control.
00:18:00.640 These are all things that Rubio said in his speech that the Trump administration is trying to bring back, so to speak.
00:18:09.400 Also emphasize that we shared our Western roots.
00:18:12.600 And we're going to talk about that in just a minute as well.
00:18:15.980 Christian faith, culture, heritage, pride in achievements, rule of law and unapologetic defense of it.
00:18:25.000 That's that's kind of more of the Trump doctrine right there.
00:18:28.300 We're not going to we're not going to back up from defending about what we think is the greatness of the American and American system.
00:18:35.340 And it also addresses the issues in what's happened with Gaza, where the U.S. led the leadership and that truce, maybe not exactly like we want it.
00:18:45.820 Ukraine talks, at least they're still talking.
00:18:48.900 Iran strikes when we if you remember, we, you know, bombed their nuclear facilities.
00:18:54.020 And now it looks like that we are trying to work out a solution to help the people overcome their dictatorial, you know, government that they have.
00:19:06.840 That's really more of a theocracy than it is a democracy.
00:19:10.840 And and we also want to guard against hopelessness.
00:19:15.920 You know, go back to Ronald Reagan's The Shining City on a Hill.
00:19:20.100 We want to we want to prioritize prosperity and, as I talked about earlier, freedom.
00:19:26.300 And with people like Russia and China, I think we have to be, you know, and Mubio said this, we have to be, you know, continue to talk.
00:19:34.420 But we have to continue to stand firm in what we believe.
00:19:38.920 And we have to, you know, try to communicate with them.
00:19:41.940 We have to manage our conflicts peaceably, if it's all possible.
00:19:45.640 And we need cooperation where our interests align.
00:19:48.340 And there's always some align. You know, when I was in the legislature, there were plenty of things that we disagreed with with Democrats.
00:19:54.940 In fact, there were some things I disagreed with with some of my Republican colleagues, especially the libertarian faction of that.
00:20:01.040 But there were many things, though, that we did agree on.
00:20:03.820 Like we could agree on the types of roads we need to have in Texas.
00:20:07.000 We could agree on the mostly on the type of public security, safety we should have in Texas, those types of things.
00:20:13.700 And where we have those interests with other countries, even if it's China or Russia, we need to cooperate with that.
00:20:20.140 That's the best thing, in my opinion, to do when we have when we have that.
00:20:24.420 But I wanted you to we've got a couple of different videos of Mr.
00:20:29.020 Rubio, and I want you to listen to those on some of the key points that he made.
00:20:33.340 And this is Sat One for the United States and Europe.
00:20:38.240 We belong together.
00:20:40.880 America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before.
00:20:47.760 The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores,
00:20:52.200 carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance,
00:20:58.120 an unbreakable link between the old world and the new.
00:21:03.320 We are part of one civilization, Western civilization.
00:21:08.260 We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share,
00:21:12.680 forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry,
00:21:19.540 and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.
00:21:30.200 Wow.
00:21:30.960 I mean, that that's and we're going to talk a little bit more in the question and answer session about the writers of that speech.
00:21:36.740 I had a question on that, but that's pretty powerful.
00:21:39.640 And then he also goes on to talk about that we want allies, as I said, that are proud of what they're doing.
00:21:47.240 We don't want allies that back up from who they are and what they stand for.
00:21:51.540 And that has happened so much in the last 50 years or so where we've just tried to, you know, please everybody.
00:21:59.380 And, you know, kind of like when Obama went on his apology tour.
00:22:03.460 And I don't I mean, yes, America's made mistakes, right?
00:22:07.420 Anytime, anytime any organization, whether that be a country or a family or a company is made up of human beings,
00:22:14.900 there are going to be mistakes made.
00:22:16.960 Every one of us, you know, we've all made mistakes today.
00:22:20.240 Whatever day you're listening to this, you've made mistakes today.
00:22:22.840 I've made mistakes today.
00:22:24.680 But that doesn't mean that we should not be proud of the values that we try to have and and what we stand for.
00:22:31.720 And that's what we want out of our allies as well.
00:22:34.460 And Mr. Rubio talks about this in Sop 2.
00:22:37.120 We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength.
00:22:44.360 This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame.
00:22:48.440 We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage,
00:22:51.860 who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization and who together with us are willing and able to defend it.
00:23:01.720 And this is why we do not want allies to rationalize the broken status quo rather than reckon with what is what is necessary to fix it.
00:23:11.180 Well, that's the truth.
00:23:12.260 I hope I hope our friends were listening to that, you know, and the speech has gotten a lot of positive response around the world.
00:23:20.700 And, of course, negative as well.
00:23:22.560 And in fact, most of the negatives come right from here in our own country and from one of our favorite people.
00:23:30.260 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and AOC did a speech of her own, actually, in a kind of a panel type of thing. 0.99
00:23:38.820 And she said some pretty outlandish things.
00:23:41.540 And we're going to go over that video of that in just a minute.
00:23:44.560 It's pretty funny.
00:23:45.940 One of the things that she said is that she agrees that the U.S. is weaker globally than five years ago.
00:23:52.280 Now, that is an interesting comment because what she's five years ago. 0.67
00:23:57.400 The president was Joe Biden.
00:23:59.820 So if we were strong, I'm sorry, five years ago, the president was President Trump.
00:24:07.620 OK, so if we were stronger five years ago than we are today, that means we got weaker during the last four or five years.
00:24:17.760 And who was the president during that time?
00:24:20.420 Joe Biden.
00:24:21.520 I don't I mean, I don't know what the woman's saying.
00:24:23.640 I hope I wonder if Joe called her and said, hey, I think you messed that up a little bit.
00:24:28.200 But she also uses some very colloquial language, which just is not very professional.
00:24:34.280 She said the U.S. policy is doing hokey pokey with agreements like the Paris Accords.
00:24:40.380 Well, I don't you know, however you want to do it.
00:24:42.340 You know, you put your left foot in, you put your right foot.
00:24:44.020 I don't think we did that at all. 0.76
00:24:45.200 In fact, I think we took all of our entire body out of the Paris Accords because they were ridiculous.
00:24:50.160 All that all that all the Paris Accords did was going to raise costs for the average consumer over something that is a phenomenon that is not greatly affected by humans.
00:25:06.120 Right. Climate change happens throughout history.
00:25:08.920 Yes, we should do our best not to aggressively or intentionally pollute the land that the Lord has given us.
00:25:19.540 But I will tell you that what we're doing with the industry and the oil and gas industry and in all the other industries, we are making great efforts to reduce our so-called carbon footprint.
00:25:32.960 And here's what we know.
00:25:34.100 They used to call that global warming.
00:25:36.080 Well, then when they figured out we weren't getting warmer every year, they need to change it.
00:25:40.440 And so they changed it to climate change.
00:25:42.220 Nobody really pushed back on them because the media is all in the tank for them.
00:25:46.700 But it's just it's just kind of weird.
00:25:49.380 But we don't we didn't do hokey pokey with the Paris Accords, Miss Cortez.
00:25:52.960 We actually jumped all the way out.
00:25:56.940 He doesn't you know, then she talks about more about worker force trade.
00:26:02.800 Now, what that is, a socialist statement and a Marxist statement.
00:26:07.260 If you ever have heard one, when you think when you see wording worker focused trade, you and I may.
00:26:14.260 Yeah, we need to take care of the workers. 0.96
00:26:15.500 And absolutely, people need to be treated fairly.
00:26:18.440 And we have laws that require that.
00:26:20.420 But when you say worker focused trade, all that means is the government controls everything in order for there to be what she would think is worker focused trade.
00:26:32.480 The government would have to own all the different industries like they do in a lot of these and all the communist countries, as a matter of fact.
00:26:39.920 And so that is a red flag when you see that and make sure you understand what they're talking about.
00:26:45.160 She wants to emphasize humanitarian aid.
00:26:48.440 Well, we saw what happened with the U.S. aid organization that was sending money out for things that really didn't support America and what we believe in.
00:27:00.960 And when we focus on, yes, we should take care of the people that can't take care of themselves through no fault of their own.
00:27:09.940 We should help with that.
00:27:10.900 And we have a system set up for that.
00:27:12.280 But actually, most of that should come back to you and me, not the government.
00:27:16.300 It should come back to the communities, the churches, the individuals, and not the government.
00:27:21.900 But again, she wants, Ms. Cortez wants, AOC wants everything done by the government, and she wants to be in the government. 1.00
00:27:30.220 See, she doesn't want it done by the government unless she's, if she's not in the government. 1.00
00:27:33.620 She only wants it done when she's in the government because then she controls it. 1.00
00:27:36.720 And then, of course, her just, I mean, unbelievable knowledge about foreign affairs.
00:27:43.600 Listen to what she says about foreign affairs.
00:27:45.440 I mean, she should be Secretary of State herself. 1.00
00:27:49.240 Would and should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?
00:27:56.260 You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, this is, of course, a very longstanding policy of the United States.
00:28:17.280 And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.
00:28:24.420 And we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise.
00:28:36.100 Can you tell me what she said?
00:28:40.540 I mean, that was hard to listen to.
00:28:42.300 That was like watching Joe Biden in a debate or Kamala Harris trying to answer a question with her word salad. 0.96
00:28:50.020 Goodness gracious.
00:28:51.260 And, of course, she's been, she's been panned by even many liberal commentators as well.
00:28:57.180 Now, there are people that are trying to take up for, of course, but she's been panned for what she, she obviously is way out of her league on this. 0.94
00:29:04.420 Of course, she still calls, calls what happened in Israel, their genocide that they, you know, she forgets that it was Israel that was attacked and 1200 were killed and many more captured and probably many more injured.
00:29:17.940 She still blames Israel for that.
00:29:20.560 So her knowledge on foreign affairs is pretty weak.
00:29:27.060 And I think she showed that and that will be hard for her to overcome.
00:29:31.280 But I do think that if you haven't listened to the Rubio speech, please go back and listen to that.
00:29:37.480 That's a, that's a really good civics lesson too, for those of us that have children.
00:29:42.840 If you've got, you know, I wouldn't say young, young children, but if you've got kids that are, you know, 10 and above, I think that would be fun to listen to and maybe do it in such that you can pause it and ask questions and answer questions and have a family discussion about it.
00:29:57.920 And I think that would be a good thing to do.
00:29:59.420 It's a very, very good speech, very easy to understand, not, you know, doesn't overuse large, complicated words or sentences.
00:30:10.280 It's pretty straightforward.
00:30:12.100 And I appreciate him doing that.
00:30:14.020 You know, a lot of people say that's a, a audition for the 2028 presidential campaign.
00:30:21.240 I doubt he's thinking about that right now.
00:30:24.500 He's so busy and what have you.
00:30:25.840 Now he wants to do well, and I'm sure he'll make whatever decision he makes related to that at, you know, sometime in 2027 or early 2028.
00:30:36.500 And I'm sure he and J.D. Vance and some of the other people will have a conversation about, you know, who's the best, who's the best candidate, who's the most likely has the chance to win the election in 2028.
00:30:48.800 So it'd be interesting to follow.
00:30:50.440 But I thought that would, I thought that was something y'all need to know.
00:30:52.720 If you have any questions on that, then just please just shoot me an email, ron at ronsimmons.com.
00:30:58.260 Happy to answer as many of those as I can.
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00:32:17.980 Next thing, let's talk a little bit of financial.
00:32:25.440 I've got some, I get great questions about finances all the time from you all.
00:32:29.400 And I was on a podcast the other day for somebody else that was interviewing me about some things.
00:32:35.320 And I was talking to Lisa about it.
00:32:37.940 And she said, hey, you ought to do that on, you know, your episodes that you do for Allie to talk about some stuff.
00:32:43.280 Because one of the questions that she was talking about, the lady that was interviewing me was, you know, what are some of the things, where do young families not use their money wisely?
00:32:57.780 And it therefore puts them in the position of not being able to afford some of the things that their family really needs.
00:33:04.800 And I thought, okay, I need to talk about some financial aspects.
00:33:07.820 Some of these I've probably already talked about.
00:33:09.780 So I apologize if they're repetitive.
00:33:12.080 But sometimes we need to hear things more than once in order to understand them.
00:33:15.760 I know that was my case, still my case today in a lot of ways.
00:33:19.080 You could ask my family that.
00:33:21.580 But Mr. Trump this week was in Rome, Georgia, and gave a talk about affordability.
00:33:28.200 So if you have the chance to listen to that, I'd encourage you to listen to that, just to kind of talk about some of the things that have happened and that are not getting reported in the mainstream media.
00:33:39.180 Now, the prices are still higher than we want them to be.
00:33:42.300 But what happens with prices, and it's not something that we all enjoy, but when prices went up so much during COVID, and then with Biden just flooding the economy with more debt and more money, and inflation went up, you know, it was up over a couple years, like 20%.
00:34:04.300 Those prices, even though inflation, you know, they just announced last month that it was lower than what everybody thought it would be.
00:34:13.820 But inflation, it's a smaller percentage, but it's still a smaller percentage on the higher amount that happened under the Biden administration.
00:34:23.940 Some prices have actually come down, like eggs and things like that, but prices like beef have not come down.
00:34:29.700 Now, they're not going up very much, okay, and that's really all that Trump and his administration can be responsible for, is keeping them, you know, it's hard for them to push, for them to go backwards, but they can do their best to keep them from rising at a clip like they did in the Biden administration, and they've done that.
00:34:51.360 But what I tell families is, you have to control what we can.
00:34:54.900 There are some things that you can't control, right?
00:34:59.140 They are what they are, and you and I can't control them.
00:35:03.040 Like, for example, we have to have electricity.
00:35:06.600 And yes, you can turn off lights and, you know, maybe increase your thermostat and those types of things, and you can save some money by doing that, but we have to have electricity.
00:35:17.040 So, and we don't totally control what the cost of electricity is, no matter what you do.
00:35:21.040 And so, that's something that you can't spend as much time worrying about.
00:35:26.580 Now, we shouldn't waste things.
00:35:29.060 I used to be the one that would always go around the house turning out the lights because it seemed like my family left lights on, never thought about turning them off when they left a room.
00:35:37.240 And I'm not sure it ever saved that much money, but it was something that maybe my parents did that to me.
00:35:42.220 So, it's something that I did as well.
00:35:44.640 But there are things that we can control.
00:35:46.760 For example, name brand versus generic.
00:35:51.120 If you're buying a product and it's a product that has the same type of processing, whatever that processing is, buying the name brand versus the generic, that is really just a waste of money.
00:36:05.240 Because, you know, the ibuprofen that's under the name of Walgreens or CVS or Walmart is probably just the same quality than it is if it's under the actual brand name that the brand names that are out there.
00:36:22.700 And it's not that they're bad or either one of them bad or what have you, but, you know, branding costs money because they have to advertise to get their brands move.
00:36:32.720 And these generic ones really don't hardly ever advertise.
00:36:35.500 So, think about that.
00:36:36.860 That's something that you can control.
00:36:38.400 And you can save a lot of money, in my opinion, every month just by doing that.
00:36:44.820 I remember a story that Lisa tells sometimes about when, and again, this is typical, a lot of teenagers are like this, is that when Allie was a young teenager, you know, she wanted to have, and all our kids did, they wanted to have the name brand clothes, whatever that name brand was.
00:37:03.500 And I think it was, it may still be this way today, I think the big thing back then was certain types of jeans.
00:37:08.820 Allie went to private Christian school, so most of the time she was wearing a uniform, but, you know, outside of school, church, things like that, she was wearing other clothes.
00:37:16.960 And I think Lisa did it one time, and she just swore she's not doing it again. 0.96
00:37:22.020 Lisa was never driven by that, and I appreciate that about her.
00:37:25.300 She wanted to buy quality, but she wasn't going to pay just to have a particular logo on the shirt or something like that.
00:37:34.860 And so, you know, I think you have to look for quality.
00:37:37.860 Now, some things you need to buy a better quality, because if you're going to keep them a long, long time, it lasts a long time.
00:37:45.020 I've got, I was talking to, when we were on this trip, I was talking to Lisa and Daniel, and I've got a Tumi backpack that I think I've probably had for, I bet I've had it 20 years.
00:37:56.380 And so that costs more money, but it was worth it, right, because I've had it for 20 years.
00:38:02.180 So when I amortize that cost, it's probably less than any backpack that I could have owned.
00:38:06.620 But make sure that you're controlling what you can control.
00:38:09.840 And another thing is eating out, eating out.
00:38:13.880 When I go, when I drive by restaurants today and just kind of casually looking, and people, then people complain about affordability, I'm thinking, well, how are these restaurants so full all the time, even during the middle of the week, if people can't afford things?
00:38:28.880 Well, I think it's priorities.
00:38:30.420 People, you know, people like to eat out, and so that's what they prioritize.
00:38:34.080 But if you're, if you want to build a better future for your family, have a better home, or be able to send them to a better school, or whatever that is, or you want to be a stay-at-home parent, and one of you, and you can't because you can't afford it, think about the things you can control.
00:38:51.760 Eating out is one of them, you know, and that's including ordering food to be, you know, sent to your home, which a lot of people are doing now.
00:38:58.360 We do that occasionally, all right?
00:39:00.060 Expensive coffees, that's another type of thing that people spend a lot of money on, and, you know, everybody seems to love a really good, you know, cup of coffee that they buy from Starbucks or wherever they buy it from.
00:39:13.980 But those are expensive, and there's nothing wrong with having them unless it's taken away from what we should be doing for our families, right?
00:39:21.120 That's what, that's the kind of the thing you have to guard against.
00:39:25.120 Now, the other, a couple of other things is new cars.
00:39:28.240 If you can afford, and you want to buy a new car, and it doesn't have any negative effect on your finances, then, okay, that's fine, whatever.
00:39:36.320 But if you are wanting to build your assets, okay, and you're wanting to keep as much money as you can of what you earn, then buying a new car doesn't make any sense.
00:39:49.040 Buy a quality used car, and I would even prefer if you did it without taking on debt to do that.
00:40:00.120 But if you have to take on short-term debt, okay, that happens sometimes.
00:40:03.940 You have to do that.
00:40:04.820 But I would, you can save 20% just right off the top.
00:40:09.920 I just bought a new, new to me, new truck that had 13,000 miles on it.
00:40:14.780 And I know I saved, well, I know it did because I looked at it.
00:40:17.120 I saved 20% off of what I could have bought, what I would have bought if I had bought a brand new one.
00:40:22.120 And this was less than a year old.
00:40:23.940 And, you know, it took me a while to find it.
00:40:25.700 It did.
00:40:26.540 And, you know, if you're one that has to go out and do it tomorrow, then that doesn't work very well.
00:40:30.760 But those decisions aren't usually good decisions either.
00:40:34.980 And then if you work for a company that has a 401k plan or any type of retirement plan where you put money in and they match it,
00:40:44.740 you always want to maximize the amount you're contributing to get 100% of what they're matching.
00:40:52.160 That means you've got 100% return on that particular investment.
00:40:56.300 You can't find that anywhere else.
00:40:57.780 I don't care what type of stock guru or Bitcoin guru or real estate guru you think you are.
00:41:03.940 If somebody else, if your company will put in a dollar for every dollar you put in, you need to take advantage of that.
00:41:09.720 That needs to be a priority for sure.
00:41:12.880 All right.
00:41:13.100 Not over tithing and what have you, but that needs to be a priority.
00:41:17.060 It certainly is a priority over lattes, expensive ones anyway.
00:41:21.260 And then the final thing that I got that we talked about on this other podcast I was on was if I have extra money, should I pay down my mortgage or not?
00:41:33.340 And my answer was, like a lot of things, it depends.
00:41:37.460 If you have a 2% to 3% interest rate, then in my opinion, and again, not everybody agrees with this, in my opinion, and you haven't saved enough for retirement yet,
00:41:48.740 then you should be putting that into a retirement fund.
00:41:52.060 And if you're at least 10 years away from retirement, that should be in a long term, in my opinion, domestic diversified stock fund, equity fund, that will earn you over the long term more than what you're paying in the interest on that.
00:42:08.020 Plus, remember, when you're paying mortgage interest, that's also deductible.
00:42:11.980 So if you're paying 3% mortgage interest and you're in a 20% tax bracket, it's really only costing you 2.4%, 80% of 3%.
00:42:24.000 But if you have, say, a 6-5%, 6-7% mortgage, then you probably want to use any extra money you have to begin paying that down faster.
00:42:33.440 Because making that much outside of that, yes, you can do it, but it's not as a sure thing as it is if your mortgage is, say, 2% or 3%.
00:42:44.800 So hope those things help you.
00:42:47.480 Again, I'm here to answer questions that you have on that.
00:42:50.500 And I've made a lot of mistakes in my life.
00:42:52.520 We've done a lot of things right, but we've also made mistakes, too.
00:42:55.420 So I can help you through what we've done right and also try to help you avoid what we've done wrong.
00:43:00.860 And I appreciate the questions that come in on that, and we want to help young families.
00:43:06.540 You know, it's not easy out there.
00:43:08.060 I do get that.
00:43:08.920 It's not easy.
00:43:09.980 And maybe you have to rent for a little bit longer than you want to.
00:43:13.280 That's okay.
00:43:14.040 Remember, if you're renting, then the ownership is already paying the taxes and what have you on that.
00:43:20.640 You're not having to pay those real estate taxes.
00:43:22.400 Because when you own a home, it's not just your mortgage.
00:43:25.160 It's your insurance, your real estate taxes, all the upkeep, all those types of things.
00:43:29.500 You have to be ready to be able to make that happen.
00:43:32.640 So now let's get into some viewer questions.
00:43:37.400 And we get a lot of them.
00:43:39.160 I've got them on my little machine that I can write on.
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00:43:58.420 Okay.
00:43:58.680 First question.
00:43:59.300 I'll go through these as quick as I can.
00:44:01.700 One, what does the SAVE Act really mean?
00:44:04.580 And the SAVE Act, if you remember, we talked about it a little bit a couple weeks ago.
00:44:08.740 So that is a law that is now passed the House of Representatives that will require someone to prove their citizenship before registering to vote or when they register to vote.
00:44:22.860 And therefore, we know that they are citizens when they come to vote.
00:44:28.700 And that is, you know, it's an 85% to 90% approval rate by people throughout the country, whether they be Democrats or Republicans.
00:44:39.220 The Democrat Senate is trying to stop that from happening.
00:44:42.800 If you live in a blue state, if you live in a blue state, you should be contacting your senator's office every day about supporting the SAVE Act.
00:44:52.860 But not having verification of citizenship is a disenfranchisement to every one of us who are registered voters that are U.S. citizens.
00:45:06.480 And you have to ask your senators, why would they not support that?
00:45:10.960 It doesn't disenfranchise.
00:45:12.380 Believe me, states, Texas went through this for their elections that you had to have a voter ID in order to vote when you went to the polls.
00:45:23.060 But this is even before that at the registration level.
00:45:25.880 But we give out we give out IDs for free.
00:45:29.800 People do not have to pay for them.
00:45:31.400 If you if you're if you've gotten married and you haven't gotten your driver's license changed yet, then there are ways to overcome that as well.
00:45:39.600 You can you can you can still prove your citizenship.
00:45:42.840 There are multiple ways to prove your citizenship.
00:45:45.680 One of those, you know, is a birth certificate.
00:45:48.940 All right. That helps as well.
00:45:50.220 So that's the main thing it's supposed to do.
00:45:54.460 And it doesn't disenfranchise anybody, no matter what you're hearing, because there are simple ways to overcome any difficulties that people might perceive that they're having as to to be a registered voter.
00:46:08.140 Even if you're like Daniel, you know, doesn't drive, but he can have a personal identification card that's provided by the state.
00:46:15.820 And so people can get that in any state.
00:46:18.020 It's again, it's a red herring.
00:46:20.220 Because many Democrats and I'm not going to say all of them, but many of them would really like for people that are not U.S.
00:46:29.220 citizens to vote because they believe they'll vote Democrat because they want to give them more free stuff.
00:46:35.420 Secondly, stay at home mom raising boys to be godly men.
00:46:39.820 And how do I do that?
00:46:40.840 Well, I think the main thing that you do that is you obviously, and I believe that you are, you know, you show an example that you and your husband, their father, show an example of what godly adults look like and what they act like.
00:46:54.740 And I'll tell you what godly adults look like is they look the same way in the home is when they're outside of the home.
00:47:01.560 Now, also, of course, having them involved in a church, having them involved in a Bible believing Bible teaching church is important.
00:47:10.220 We talked earlier about their friends that we talked earlier about their friends that they hang around with.
00:47:14.440 And I believe that having them exposed at a very young age, a very young age, if you wait till they're teenagers, you can still do it.
00:47:23.240 But it's hard, OK, at a very young age of exposing them to Bible teachings, right?
00:47:32.220 However, whether that it should be in the home, school also, if they're in a Christian school, at church.
00:47:37.760 So that just becomes part of their normal routine, part of what they, you know, what they've grown up with.
00:47:43.280 That that's just part of who they are.
00:47:45.620 And that faith will take a hold in them, in my opinion.
00:47:49.380 But as they get older, while you have you if you haven't set the values when they're young,
00:47:56.640 it's going to be hard to keep them inside the scenario that you agree with for how they conduct themselves.
00:48:06.780 You can do it, but it takes much, much more work.
00:48:09.660 And you can't get lazy in that either just because maybe you did do the right things when they were little.
00:48:15.200 Number three, is the government government about to reveal existence of aliens?
00:48:20.820 Well, I don't know the answer to that.
00:48:23.340 And you don't either.
00:48:24.460 Of course, President Obama seemed to hint the other day for President Obama that maybe there's something to that.
00:48:31.860 I don't know.
00:48:32.940 I mean, I think there are things that are unexplained all the time.
00:48:36.900 And, you know, maybe that's one of them.
00:48:39.520 Who knows? I can't find any real biblical reference that there are other places like Earth out there.
00:48:47.300 It doesn't mean they are not that they're that they're not there.
00:48:50.480 But I don't find any biblical reference to that, that I believe specifically says that.
00:48:56.600 So who knows?
00:48:57.460 Maybe it's the case.
00:48:58.320 Maybe it's not.
00:48:59.040 I don't know that the government's getting ready to say that.
00:49:01.860 They'll probably always hedge their bet.
00:49:03.560 Well, what are my thoughts on the Maduro capture?
00:49:08.020 Well, I think it was the right thing to do.
00:49:11.180 I don't think there's any question about it.
00:49:12.460 We gave the man an out.
00:49:13.640 Evidently, I heard today that he was going to be allowed to.
00:49:18.080 He had, you know, obviously a bunch of money that he had stolen from his own people, probably.
00:49:22.400 But they were going to let him just if he would just go away, you know, to another country, I think he's going to be able to take a two hundred million dollar assets with him.
00:49:32.120 So but he said, heck with you, I'm not going to do it.
00:49:35.260 So we took him out because we believe that he's hurting American interest as well and certainly hurting the people in his country.
00:49:43.340 So I was fine with that.
00:49:44.460 I didn't I didn't have an issue.
00:49:46.020 I didn't have an issue with that.
00:49:47.080 But there are some questions about who wrote the Rubio speech and that we there's no specific person that lists us who wrote the Rubio speech.
00:49:56.240 But here here are three people that were likely involved in it.
00:50:00.560 Now, Mr. Rubio does a lot of his own editing based on the research that I did.
00:50:05.120 But Salman Amid is a director of policy planning at the Department of the Secretary of State's Department of State.
00:50:12.520 So he was probably involved in it.
00:50:14.480 Policy plans are very policy rich speech.
00:50:17.600 Mike Benz was is a key advisor and is a former speech writer.
00:50:21.600 So he probably had something to say about it.
00:50:24.460 Darren Beattie was is the undersecretary of public diplomacy.
00:50:28.920 And I'm sure that he had something to say about it as well and had some input on it.
00:50:33.300 So those are three of the people that I think were probably involved in it, probably were more than that as well.
00:50:39.200 Former agnostic.
00:50:40.000 How do I know Christianity is the truth? 1.00
00:50:42.100 Well, here's a glass of water.
00:50:47.560 OK, now, the reason I know this is a glass of water is it's a temporal belief, meaning that I know it's a glass of water because I feel it.
00:50:57.680 I see it.
00:50:58.280 I touch it.
00:50:58.960 All right.
00:50:59.320 That's a glass of water.
00:51:00.920 So that's easy for me to say.
00:51:03.000 I have faith that that's a glass of water.
00:51:04.920 But what I don't have is.
00:51:10.960 Any real proof that I can touch, see and feel that George Washington ever existed.
00:51:17.460 But I believe he existed from all I know, from all I've read, from the from the research, from the people that write about it.
00:51:25.220 George Washington was a real person.
00:51:27.640 And I don't have any problem believing that.
00:51:29.500 An agnostic person doesn't have any problem believing that.
00:51:32.840 But for some reason.
00:51:34.920 People want to have more proof that Jesus existed and that the Bible is true.
00:51:40.080 Well, here's the deal is that there's probably nothing that's been proven more that you and I can't see, feel and touch.
00:51:48.740 It was the existence of Jesus Christ.
00:51:50.500 As a matter of fact, there are there's probably as many writings about him outside the Bible than there are inside the Bible.
00:51:58.240 If you want to go look at a secular view of it or actually a view by a Jewish scholar, just go to the writings of Josephus.
00:52:07.320 He talks about what was going on during Jesus's time all the time.
00:52:11.560 And he mentions he mentions Jesus.
00:52:14.460 And now he doesn't believe he's the son of God.
00:52:16.980 I get that.
00:52:17.900 All right.
00:52:18.540 But his existence is there.
00:52:20.460 It's proven there.
00:52:21.900 A couple of other things that I would recommend if you run into people like this is there's two books that I would just ask them to read before we have a further discussion.
00:52:29.620 One is called The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel, who was, I believe, not just agnostic, but actually atheist.
00:52:35.380 And he was his whole goal was to write a book about why it isn't true.
00:52:41.180 And when he did all the research, his came to conclusion, well, it is true.
00:52:45.880 And then also the body of proof with our friend Jeremiah Johnson, who's been on Ali's show in the past.
00:52:52.120 He goes through all of the physical things and the writings and artifacts and things like that that also prove that the Bible was true and that the resurrection occurred.
00:53:03.200 So that's the way I would handle that.
00:53:06.560 It does take some faith and God does have to work on their heart.
00:53:11.060 But it's our job to present the information and God does the inside.
00:53:15.180 We're the outside.
00:53:16.080 He's the inside.
00:53:17.780 Ten things to recommend to every parent.
00:53:22.120 Well, I'll tell you what.
00:53:23.220 I don't have ten things to recommend to every parent, but I do.
00:53:26.580 Well, I will tell you this.
00:53:28.240 And that is, is that if you you're you and your husband or you and your wife, the number one thing is you staying together in a loving, committed relationship.
00:53:39.780 That is the number one thing that I think any of us as humans can do.
00:53:45.100 Obviously, sharing your faith with them, exposing them to that they will accept Jesus as well.
00:53:53.780 But from a day to day standpoint, seeing their mom and dad in a committed, loving relationship is the most important thing.
00:54:02.020 Why do we say we are a Christian nation when we allow things like pornography, LGBTQ and other woke ideology? 0.94
00:54:11.000 Well, what we say is, is that we're a nation that was built on Christian principles.
00:54:17.240 And that's absolutely the truth.
00:54:19.280 But we're also not a theocracy.
00:54:21.260 We are a secular republic or democracy, however you want to look at it.
00:54:25.880 We're a republic because we elect officials to represent us.
00:54:29.440 But there is free will.
00:54:33.000 And even within the body of Christ, there's free will.
00:54:36.560 So we are not technically a Christian nation.
00:54:41.080 We are a nation that was founded on Christian principles that allows all faiths to participate.
00:54:47.260 It's our job to try to make sure that we are the ones witnessing and convincing others that Christianity is the way to go.
00:54:57.300 All right.
00:54:58.340 Advice for parents of daughter about to be engaged.
00:55:02.720 Well.
00:55:04.300 Just be thankful that I think I think these people told me they had four daughters.
00:55:10.440 Well, you know, you got to allocate your funds over four daughters marriages. 1.00
00:55:13.440 So be careful with that one.
00:55:14.640 Don't if you overdo it on the first one, the next ones are only going to want it to be better.
00:55:19.400 All right.
00:55:19.680 So be careful on the wedding.
00:55:21.160 Be frugal on that, although you make it nice, but be frugal on that.
00:55:24.640 But what I would say, especially to the to the husband or to the father and talking to what will be the new husband is that that you have a conversation with that young man to make sure he knows what he's getting into.
00:55:39.080 I remember talking to Timothy, I mean, to Ali's future husband, Timothy.
00:55:43.460 And we sat down in my home office before, probably at the time he asked me for her hand in marriage.
00:55:50.560 And I wanted to make sure that he knew what he was getting into.
00:55:54.760 Ali, as you all know, as you know, as she's a sweet girl, but she has strong opinions.
00:56:01.140 She has strong personality and he needed to know.
00:56:05.320 I wanted to make sure he understood what he was getting into.
00:56:08.280 And to the best of his knowledge at the time, he did.
00:56:12.360 Like for all of us, it's probably always things that maybe we don't totally grasp or understand.
00:56:17.400 But I think it's our job as the parents to make sure that you're comfortable with the person that's going to take and now be the shepherd for your daughter.
00:56:28.460 I think it's very important.
00:56:29.940 And that you can't overemphasize getting and needing to know that person.
00:56:36.520 Then I think for moms, and again, I'm not the greatest person to give advice to moms, but just been watching what Lisa did and everything is that the number one thing that you continue to have need to do with her, especially during this time that she's going to have some fears and all that is make sure you have an open line of communication and focus on the things that matters.
00:56:55.700 If you and her can't agree on something related to the wedding, all right, unless it's something that's going to blow the budget, then just don't worry about it.
00:57:04.560 OK, it's not your wedding and it's not your idea of your wedding for her.
00:57:09.460 It's her wedding.
00:57:10.100 And we have to remember that.
00:57:12.200 Sometimes that's hard to remember.
00:57:15.060 Let's see here.
00:57:15.760 What about a retirement fund for self-employed?
00:57:17.520 I've talked about this before.
00:57:18.520 You can do you can do a single person 401k plan, which allows you to contribute money on a pre-tax basis.
00:57:24.800 You can also do what they call a self-employment plan.
00:57:28.460 And those allow you to put money in the money you put in.
00:57:31.920 You don't pay tax on that money.
00:57:33.440 Initially, you do down the road.
00:57:35.480 You can also do a Roth IRA where you actually do pay money, pay the tax on the money you're putting in.
00:57:41.180 But then the earnings aren't taxed down the road.
00:57:43.120 So that's what I would do with that.
00:57:46.260 Tarrant County, Texas, voter guide.
00:57:49.840 Just email me on that.
00:57:51.040 I'm not going to put that out here.
00:57:52.320 You can email me.
00:57:52.980 I'll give you my thoughts on that.
00:57:56.120 Let's see.
00:57:56.940 Is Texas in trouble politically?
00:57:58.980 No, we're going to be OK, but we have to get our people out to vote.
00:58:02.460 I mean, the Democrats every time are always, you know, trying to get their people out to vote.
00:58:06.820 And they've made some inroads, especially in our big cities.
00:58:09.420 But overall, I think we're going to be in good shape if our people will get out to vote.
00:58:15.480 With all the divide in the world, what's the one piece of advice I would give?
00:58:19.840 I think the one piece of advice that I would give is what Allie says all the time, is that God's perfect plan is going off without a hitch.
00:58:28.560 Now, we are participants in that plan, and he allows us to have free will to do the right thing or to do the wrong thing.
00:58:34.360 So we need to make sure that we're taking care of who we are and making the right day-to-day decisions.
00:58:41.120 But outside of that, then we have to have the faith and the understanding and the peace that God's in control.
00:58:50.880 Right.
00:58:51.220 And even he's in control of even things we don't like.
00:58:54.060 And that's hard for me to say sometimes, but it's true. 1.00
00:58:58.780 Got a question about the James Tallarico interview on Stephen Colbert.
00:59:03.200 Allie talked about that already.
00:59:05.460 Again, it's a total sham.
00:59:07.600 Was it anything that the FCC did?
00:59:11.180 And it was something that the CBS, his bosses said, hey, just know that if you put the Tallarico on there, you probably need to put Jasmine Crockett on as well.
00:59:20.120 He wasn't willing to do it.
00:59:21.160 So they made a big deal out of it like it was Trump keeping from it.
00:59:24.440 And that had nothing to do with it whatsoever.
00:59:27.280 Favorite novels.
00:59:28.040 I've been talking to my son about this because I've got teenage grandsons now.
00:59:33.860 There's a novelist out there by the name of Joel Rosenberg, a Christian novelist, and he has got a kind of a spy series.
00:59:43.980 And the main character is a guy named Marcus Riker.
00:59:46.500 I would definitely recommend those because in that, not only is it a great story, but he weaves in Marcus's and other people's Christian faith in how he makes his day-to-day decisions in his job and other places.
01:00:00.120 And so it's very, very good.
01:00:01.780 I would absolutely recommend that.
01:00:07.080 How do you support a stressed-out husband that may be stressed out over his job or something like that?
01:00:12.420 You do that by just loving him.
01:00:14.200 Don't add stress to him.
01:00:15.520 It's already hard enough.
01:00:17.600 Hopefully, he'll want to sit down and talk to you about it.
01:00:19.480 If he's not willing to talk to you about it, make sure that he's got other good Christian friends that he can talk about it.
01:00:25.520 But just love on him.
01:00:27.780 But you just have to understand that you're going to go through periods where you're more stressed over something, and he's going to go through periods where he's more stressed over things.
01:00:35.420 And just make sure that during those times that he's like that, that you are not adding to that, that you are encouraging him, you're believing in him.
01:00:45.200 And to the extent that he wants to talk about it and ask your opinion on it, give it to him.
01:00:50.580 If he doesn't ask your opinion on it, then he's not ready to talk about it yet.
01:00:56.120 And so your job is just an encouragement.
01:01:00.740 Let's see here.
01:01:02.100 My thoughts on – this will be the last one.
01:01:03.880 My thoughts on government assistance.
01:01:06.100 Well, there are people in this country who, through no fault of their own, just can't make it on where it is they're making.
01:01:18.700 A lot of them are single moms, and maybe they did make some bad choices. 1.00
01:01:23.580 I get that.
01:01:25.700 Or they had the wrong guy or whatever it is.
01:01:28.960 So they need to have safety net. 0.86
01:01:31.560 Now, again, I wish it didn't have anything to do with the government.
01:01:34.260 I wish our churches would all step up and do the right thing, and we as individual Christians would do the right thing to help out our fellow person.
01:01:43.100 But our system, you know, got basically taken away when they started the so-called war on poverty by LBJ in the 60s.
01:01:53.700 And they took all of that off of the private citizen and the church community and what have you and said, no, we're going to take care of it as a government.
01:02:01.640 And we went along with it, by the way.
01:02:03.020 We went along with it.
01:02:04.020 So I don't totally blame the government other than they left the platform, and then we ate it up.
01:02:11.200 And we could say it's not us anymore.
01:02:13.120 So what we have is – but the challenge is, is our system is broken because our government assistance system, even for those people who really do need it,
01:02:21.500 is such that it doesn't help them move from government assistance to self-sustaining.
01:02:28.100 The way the rules and the laws work is it basically keeps them as a prisoner to government assistance because the way government assistance works is if you're making up to X amount of dollars, then you can get all this government assistance.
01:02:45.580 But once you make a dollar more than that, you lose it all.
01:02:49.260 So you actually go backwards.
01:02:51.040 It's called welfare cliffs.
01:02:52.380 And what's being worked on, and I'm actually part of a group that's helping work on this, is try to devise a system to where the welfare cliffs are in existence,
01:03:03.040 so that anytime someone does better for themselves through their own effort, then their overall, what the government provides plus what they're making, puts them in a better position.
01:03:14.940 And then eventually, what the government has to provide goes down, and their sustainability for themselves goes up.
01:03:23.120 But if we take them backwards, just because they've done a little better, then they're just going to stay where they are.
01:03:29.660 And so I don't think it's totally evil.
01:03:32.700 I wish it wasn't the government that had to do it or is doing it, but that's the way it is.
01:03:37.340 So what we need to do now is we need to fix what we currently have so that it moves more people off the system than keeps them on the system.
01:03:46.700 So anyway, those are one of the things I wanted to say today.
01:03:50.520 You know, those are kind of wisdom from the wagon or words from the wagon, so to speak.
01:03:55.860 And I hope that you've enjoyed the session today.
01:03:58.740 I hope you'll continue listening to Allie.
01:04:00.580 Thank you for supporting her.
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01:04:11.940 And You're Not Enough, and that's okay.
01:04:14.300 That's a great book.
01:04:15.240 Her first book was great.
01:04:16.300 If your young teenage daughters haven't read that, then you need to get that for them today because that is an incredible book.
01:04:23.980 Thank you very much, and we'll look forward to seeing you in a couple weeks.
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