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.
00:07:07.420Brad Karp, chair of the law firm Paul Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton, and Garrison stepped down in early
00:07:12.16026 after emails showed him praising Epstein and corresponding about various matters.
00:07:18.220He resigned from the board of trustees from Union College as well.
00:07:21.300Kimball 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
00:07:31.260relationship for him in 2012 and 2013.
00:07:43.980Joglin, 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.
00:07:58.260Yes, Stolle, chief executive of Barclays, stepped down in 2021 following regulatory scrutiny over relationship with Epstein.
00:08:05.120Yoi Ito, director of MIT Media Lab, resigned in September of 2019 after accepting funding from Epstein and working to conceal the donations.
00:08:18.680So 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.
00:08:30.840They did it on their own because of their affiliation with the monster Epstein.
00:08:36.340Now, there's a few more that have that are under pressure that have not yet resigned as far as we know.
00:08:43.800And and this is actually Peter Mandelson has not yet resigned.
00:08:53.500But 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.
00:09:03.280And there was a email she sent to Jeffrey Epstein describing him as a steadfast and generous supreme friend to her and her family.
00:09:10.800Well, 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.
00:09:30.840Steve 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.
00:09:45.740That just makes your blood curl, doesn't it?
00:09:50.600Now, Prince Andrew, I think we've got a photo of him that we're going to put up on the screen.
00:09:56.120I mean, he I mean, just just look at this.
00:10:00.440I 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.
00:10:22.440And 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.
00:10:41.200But 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.
00:11:04.120But 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.
00:11:16.120And I'm sure you've heard that many other ways before as well.
00:12:14.720Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
00:12:19.820And 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.
00:13:02.520I 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.
00:13:11.160Right. 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.
00:13:33.360Now, the chances are much better, but it doesn't mean they're all great influences.
00:13:37.320We 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.
00:13:47.320And we had to take some action on that.
00:14:37.860But when you have daughters, you know, it's OK to have that antenna up.
00:14:41.940And 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.
00:14:50.440But I thought that was pretty funny as I look back on it.
00:14:53.840But 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.
00:15:05.980I'm sure Allie will continue to follow the story and talk more about it as time goes on.
00:15:10.420Now, the next thing we want to talk about is what happened in the Munich Security Conference.
00:15:17.340And the Munich Security Conference has been something that's been going on since 1963.
00:15:22.560So really during the Cold War, you know, the Cold War essentially started not long after the Korean War.
00:15:29.700And 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.
00:15:40.660And they, as you know, had East Germany was Russian.
00:15:47.280That's before the unification came back around after 1989.
00:15:51.300And there were some, you know, just real tensions.
00:15:54.880And so they started this security conference that at the time was mainly attended by us and our allies in Western Europe.
00:16:05.320And Marco Rubio, who is our Secretary of State, has a speech that has been very, very much talked about.
00:16:16.660And for those of us that are on the conservative side and pro-American, it has been applauded.
00:16:25.800For 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.
00:16:40.660Right. But it is really interesting. And we're going to have a couple of video clips in a minute.
00:16:44.920But I just want to go over some points that were made in Mr. Rubio in the speech that he made.
00:16:52.340Again, 1963. And he said that the critiques of post-Cold War delusions like the end of history and over-reliance on global trade,
00:17:06.080outsourcing sovereignty to institutions, borderless policies, which all led to deindustrialization, job losses and mass migration threats.
00:17:16.360That's one of the things that has happened in the post-Cold War.
00:17:21.140OK, you've seen that happen in some places.
00:17:24.840And that's something that the Trump administration is trying to change.
00:17:29.720He also called for renewal under President Trump for reindustrialization, reclaiming supply chains.
00:17:35.260Remember what happened in COVID when all of our medicines were made in China and other things that we use every day?
00:17:41.640There 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.
00:17:53.660Critical minerals, space, automation, national sovereignty, border control.
00:18:00.640These are all things that Rubio said in his speech that the Trump administration is trying to bring back, so to speak.
00:18:09.400Also emphasize that we shared our Western roots.
00:18:12.600And we're going to talk about that in just a minute as well.
00:18:15.980Christian faith, culture, heritage, pride in achievements, rule of law and unapologetic defense of it.
00:18:25.000That's that's kind of more of the Trump doctrine right there.
00:18:28.300We'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.
00:18:35.340And 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.
00:18:45.820Ukraine talks, at least they're still talking.
00:18:48.900Iran strikes when we if you remember, we, you know, bombed their nuclear facilities.
00:18:54.020And 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.
00:19:06.840That's really more of a theocracy than it is a democracy.
00:19:10.840And and we also want to guard against hopelessness.
00:19:15.920You know, go back to Ronald Reagan's The Shining City on a Hill.
00:19:20.100We want to we want to prioritize prosperity and, as I talked about earlier, freedom.
00:19:26.300And 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.
00:19:34.420But we have to continue to stand firm in what we believe.
00:19:38.920And we have to, you know, try to communicate with them.
00:19:41.940We have to manage our conflicts peaceably, if it's all possible.
00:19:45.640And we need cooperation where our interests align.
00:19:48.340And there's always some align. You know, when I was in the legislature, there were plenty of things that we disagreed with with Democrats.
00:19:54.940In fact, there were some things I disagreed with with some of my Republican colleagues, especially the libertarian faction of that.
00:20:01.040But there were many things, though, that we did agree on.
00:20:03.820Like we could agree on the types of roads we need to have in Texas.
00:20:07.000We could agree on the mostly on the type of public security, safety we should have in Texas, those types of things.
00:20:13.700And where we have those interests with other countries, even if it's China or Russia, we need to cooperate with that.
00:20:20.140That's the best thing, in my opinion, to do when we have when we have that.
00:20:24.420But I wanted you to we've got a couple of different videos of Mr.
00:20:29.020Rubio, and I want you to listen to those on some of the key points that he made.
00:20:33.340And this is Sat One for the United States and Europe.
00:24:45.200In fact, I think we took all of our entire body out of the Paris Accords because they were ridiculous.
00:24:50.160All 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.
00:25:06.120Right. Climate change happens throughout history.
00:25:08.920Yes, we should do our best not to aggressively or intentionally pollute the land that the Lord has given us.
00:25:19.540But 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.
00:26:20.420But 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.
00:26:32.480The 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.
00:26:39.920And so that is a red flag when you see that and make sure you understand what they're talking about.
00:26:45.160She wants to emphasize humanitarian aid.
00:26:48.440Well, 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.
00:27:00.960And 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.
00:27:12.280But actually, most of that should come back to you and me, not the government.
00:27:16.300It should come back to the communities, the churches, the individuals, and not the government.
00:27:21.900But again, she wants, Ms. Cortez wants, AOC wants everything done by the government, and she wants to be in the government.
00:27:30.220See, she doesn't want it done by the government unless she's, if she's not in the government.
00:27:33.620She only wants it done when she's in the government because then she controls it.
00:27:36.720And then, of course, her just, I mean, unbelievable knowledge about foreign affairs.
00:27:43.600Listen to what she says about foreign affairs.
00:27:45.440I mean, she should be Secretary of State herself.
00:27:49.240Would and should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?
00:27:56.260You 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.
00:28:17.280And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.
00:28:24.420And 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.
00:28:51.260And, of course, she's been, she's been panned by even many liberal commentators as well.
00:28:57.180Now, 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.
00:29:04.420Of 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.
00:29:20.560So her knowledge on foreign affairs is pretty weak.
00:29:27.060And I think she showed that and that will be hard for her to overcome.
00:29:31.280But I do think that if you haven't listened to the Rubio speech, please go back and listen to that.
00:29:37.480That's a, that's a really good civics lesson too, for those of us that have children.
00:29:42.840If 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.
00:29:57.920And I think that would be a good thing to do.
00:29:59.420It's a very, very good speech, very easy to understand, not, you know, doesn't overuse large, complicated words or sentences.
00:30:25.840Now 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.
00:30:36.500And 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.
00:30:50.440But I thought that would, I thought that was something y'all need to know.
00:30:52.720If you have any questions on that, then just please just shoot me an email, ron at ronsimmons.com.
00:30:58.260Happy to answer as many of those as I can.
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00:32:43.280Because 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?
00:32:57.780And it therefore puts them in the position of not being able to afford some of the things that their family really needs.
00:33:04.800And I thought, okay, I need to talk about some financial aspects.
00:33:07.820Some of these I've probably already talked about.
00:33:21.580But Mr. Trump this week was in Rome, Georgia, and gave a talk about affordability.
00:33:28.200So 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.
00:33:39.180Now, the prices are still higher than we want them to be.
00:33:42.300But 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%.
00:34:04.300Those prices, even though inflation, you know, they just announced last month that it was lower than what everybody thought it would be.
00:34:13.820But inflation, it's a smaller percentage, but it's still a smaller percentage on the higher amount that happened under the Biden administration.
00:34:23.940Some prices have actually come down, like eggs and things like that, but prices like beef have not come down.
00:34:29.700Now, 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.
00:34:51.360But what I tell families is, you have to control what we can.
00:34:54.900There are some things that you can't control, right?
00:34:59.140They are what they are, and you and I can't control them.
00:35:03.040Like, for example, we have to have electricity.
00:35:06.600And 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.
00:35:17.040So, and we don't totally control what the cost of electricity is, no matter what you do.
00:35:21.040And so, that's something that you can't spend as much time worrying about.
00:35:29.060I 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.
00:35:37.240And I'm not sure it ever saved that much money, but it was something that maybe my parents did that to me.
00:35:42.220So, it's something that I did as well.
00:35:44.640But there are things that we can control.
00:35:46.760For example, name brand versus generic.
00:35:51.120If 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.
00:36:05.240Because, 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.
00:36:22.700And 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.
00:36:32.720And these generic ones really don't hardly ever advertise.
00:36:36.860That's something that you can control.
00:36:38.400And you can save a lot of money, in my opinion, every month just by doing that.
00:36:44.820I 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.
00:37:03.500And I think it was, it may still be this way today, I think the big thing back then was certain types of jeans.
00:37:08.820Allie 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.
00:37:16.960And I think Lisa did it one time, and she just swore she's not doing it again.
00:37:22.020Lisa was never driven by that, and I appreciate that about her.
00:37:25.300She wanted to buy quality, but she wasn't going to pay just to have a particular logo on the shirt or something like that.
00:37:34.860And so, you know, I think you have to look for quality.
00:37:37.860Now, 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.
00:37:45.020I'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.
00:37:56.380And so that costs more money, but it was worth it, right, because I've had it for 20 years.
00:38:02.180So when I amortize that cost, it's probably less than any backpack that I could have owned.
00:38:06.620But make sure that you're controlling what you can control.
00:38:09.840And another thing is eating out, eating out.
00:38:13.880When 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?
00:38:30.420People, you know, people like to eat out, and so that's what they prioritize.
00:38:34.080But 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.
00:38:51.760Eating 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.
00:39:00.060Expensive 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.
00:39:13.980But 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?
00:39:21.120That's what, that's the kind of the thing you have to guard against.
00:39:25.120Now, the other, a couple of other things is new cars.
00:39:28.240If 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.
00:39:36.320But 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.
00:39:49.040Buy a quality used car, and I would even prefer if you did it without taking on debt to do that.
00:40:00.120But if you have to take on short-term debt, okay, that happens sometimes.
00:41:13.100Not over tithing and what have you, but that needs to be a priority.
00:41:17.060It certainly is a priority over lattes, expensive ones anyway.
00:41:21.260And 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?
00:41:33.340And my answer was, like a lot of things, it depends.
00:41:37.460If 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,
00:41:48.740then you should be putting that into a retirement fund.
00:41:52.060And 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.
00:42:08.020Plus, remember, when you're paying mortgage interest, that's also deductible.
00:42:11.980So 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%.
00:42:24.000But 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.
00:42:33.440Because 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%.
00:43:59.300I'll go through these as quick as I can.
00:44:01.700One, what does the SAVE Act really mean?
00:44:04.580And the SAVE Act, if you remember, we talked about it a little bit a couple weeks ago.
00:44:08.740So 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.
00:44:22.860And therefore, we know that they are citizens when they come to vote.
00:44:28.700And that is, you know, it's an 85% to 90% approval rate by people throughout the country, whether they be Democrats or Republicans.
00:44:39.220The Democrat Senate is trying to stop that from happening.
00:44:42.800If 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.
00:44:52.860But not having verification of citizenship is a disenfranchisement to every one of us who are registered voters that are U.S. citizens.
00:45:06.480And you have to ask your senators, why would they not support that?
00:45:12.380Believe 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.
00:45:23.060But this is even before that at the registration level.
00:45:25.880But we give out we give out IDs for free.
00:45:31.400If 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.
00:45:39.600You can you can you can still prove your citizenship.
00:45:42.840There are multiple ways to prove your citizenship.
00:45:45.680One of those, you know, is a birth certificate.
00:45:50.220So that's the main thing it's supposed to do.
00:45:54.460And 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.
00:46:08.140Even if you're like Daniel, you know, doesn't drive, but he can have a personal identification card that's provided by the state.
00:46:15.820And so people can get that in any state.
00:46:40.840Well, 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.
00:46:54.740And 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.
00:47:01.560Now, also, of course, having them involved in a church, having them involved in a Bible believing Bible teaching church is important.
00:47:10.220We talked earlier about their friends that we talked earlier about their friends that they hang around with.
00:47:14.440And 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.
00:47:23.240But it's hard, OK, at a very young age of exposing them to Bible teachings, right?
00:47:32.220However, whether that it should be in the home, school also, if they're in a Christian school, at church.
00:47:37.760So that just becomes part of their normal routine, part of what they, you know, what they've grown up with.
00:47:43.280That that's just part of who they are.
00:47:45.620And that faith will take a hold in them, in my opinion.
00:47:49.380But as they get older, while you have you if you haven't set the values when they're young,
00:47:56.640it's going to be hard to keep them inside the scenario that you agree with for how they conduct themselves.
00:48:06.780You can do it, but it takes much, much more work.
00:48:09.660And you can't get lazy in that either just because maybe you did do the right things when they were little.
00:48:15.200Number three, is the government government about to reveal existence of aliens?
00:48:20.820Well, I don't know the answer to that.
00:49:13.640Evidently, I heard today that he was going to be allowed to.
00:49:18.080He had, you know, obviously a bunch of money that he had stolen from his own people, probably.
00:49:22.400But 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.
00:49:32.120So but he said, heck with you, I'm not going to do it.
00:49:35.260So we took him out because we believe that he's hurting American interest as well and certainly hurting the people in his country.
00:49:47.080But 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.
00:49:56.240But here here are three people that were likely involved in it.
00:50:00.560Now, Mr. Rubio does a lot of his own editing based on the research that I did.
00:50:05.120But Salman Amid is a director of policy planning at the Department of the Secretary of State's Department of State.
00:50:47.560OK, 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.
00:52:21.900A 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.
00:52:29.620One is called The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel, who was, I believe, not just agnostic, but actually atheist.
00:52:35.380And he was his whole goal was to write a book about why it isn't true.
00:52:41.180And when he did all the research, his came to conclusion, well, it is true.
00:52:45.880And then also the body of proof with our friend Jeremiah Johnson, who's been on Ali's show in the past.
00:52:52.120He 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.
00:53:03.200So that's the way I would handle that.
00:53:06.560It does take some faith and God does have to work on their heart.
00:53:11.060But it's our job to present the information and God does the inside.
00:53:28.240And 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.
00:53:39.780That is the number one thing that I think any of us as humans can do.
00:53:45.100Obviously, sharing your faith with them, exposing them to that they will accept Jesus as well.
00:53:53.780But from a day to day standpoint, seeing their mom and dad in a committed, loving relationship is the most important thing.
00:54:02.020Why do we say we are a Christian nation when we allow things like pornography, LGBTQ and other woke ideology?
00:54:11.000Well, what we say is, is that we're a nation that was built on Christian principles.
00:55:21.160Be frugal on that, although you make it nice, but be frugal on that.
00:55:24.640But 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.
00:55:39.080I remember talking to Timothy, I mean, to Ali's future husband, Timothy.
00:55:43.460And we sat down in my home office before, probably at the time he asked me for her hand in marriage.
00:55:50.560And I wanted to make sure that he knew what he was getting into.
00:55:54.760Ali, as you all know, as you know, as she's a sweet girl, but she has strong opinions.
00:56:01.140She has strong personality and he needed to know.
00:56:05.320I wanted to make sure he understood what he was getting into.
00:56:08.280And to the best of his knowledge at the time, he did.
00:56:12.360Like for all of us, it's probably always things that maybe we don't totally grasp or understand.
00:56:17.400But 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.
00:56:29.940And that you can't overemphasize getting and needing to know that person.
00:56:36.520Then 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.
00:56:55.700If 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.
00:57:04.560OK, it's not your wedding and it's not your idea of your wedding for her.
00:57:58.980No, we're going to be OK, but we have to get our people out to vote.
00:58:02.460I mean, the Democrats every time are always, you know, trying to get their people out to vote.
00:58:06.820And they've made some inroads, especially in our big cities.
00:58:09.420But overall, I think we're going to be in good shape if our people will get out to vote.
00:58:15.480With all the divide in the world, what's the one piece of advice I would give?
00:58:19.840I 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.
00:58:28.560Now, 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.
00:58:34.360So we need to make sure that we're taking care of who we are and making the right day-to-day decisions.
00:58:41.120But outside of that, then we have to have the faith and the understanding and the peace that God's in control.
00:59:11.180And 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.
00:59:28.040I've been talking to my son about this because I've got teenage grandsons now.
00:59:33.860There's a novelist out there by the name of Joel Rosenberg, a Christian novelist, and he has got a kind of a spy series.
00:59:43.980And the main character is a guy named Marcus Riker.
00:59:46.500I 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.
01:00:27.780But 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.
01:00:35.420And 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.
01:00:45.200And to the extent that he wants to talk about it and ask your opinion on it, give it to him.
01:00:50.580If he doesn't ask your opinion on it, then he's not ready to talk about it yet.
01:00:56.120And so your job is just an encouragement.
01:01:31.560Now, again, I wish it didn't have anything to do with the government.
01:01:34.260I 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.
01:01:43.100But our system, you know, got basically taken away when they started the so-called war on poverty by LBJ in the 60s.
01:01:53.700And 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.
01:02:01.640And we went along with it, by the way.
01:02:13.120So 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,
01:02:21.500is such that it doesn't help them move from government assistance to self-sustaining.
01:02:28.100The 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.
01:02:45.580But once you make a dollar more than that, you lose it all.
01:02:52.380And 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,
01:03:03.040so 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.
01:03:14.940And then eventually, what the government has to provide goes down, and their sustainability for themselves goes up.
01:03:23.120But if we take them backwards, just because they've done a little better, then they're just going to stay where they are.
01:03:29.660And so I don't think it's totally evil.
01:03:32.700I wish it wasn't the government that had to do it or is doing it, but that's the way it is.
01:03:37.340So 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.
01:03:46.700So anyway, those are one of the things I wanted to say today.
01:03:50.520You know, those are kind of wisdom from the wagon or words from the wagon, so to speak.
01:03:55.860And I hope that you've enjoyed the session today.
01:03:58.740I hope you'll continue listening to Allie.