Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - March 09, 2026


Ep 1314 | This is a War Against Radical Islam, not Just Iran | Ron Simmons


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Ron and Allie discuss the recent attack on Iran and why it is not about the country of Iran, but about overthrowing the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran and taking out their leadership. Allie's dad Ron also talks about the effectiveness of the strikes on Iran.

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00:01:09.040 Well, hello, everyone. Happy Saturday or whatever day you're listening to this for. Thank you for
00:01:14.820 being with us again on Allie's Relatable Podcast. And I am Allie's dad, Ron Simmons. Glad to be here.
00:01:21.520 And we've got a lot of stuff to talk about. I don't know if you listened to my last episode a couple
00:01:25.760 of weeks ago, but we got lots of things have happened since then, including the starting of
00:01:30.320 a war. And we're going to start off talking about that. The United States has named it Operation Epic
00:01:39.300 Fury. And epic, it means like the best of all time. And fury means it's going to be big. And it has been.
00:01:48.140 And of course, this has been done in conjunction with our friends in Israel. And it is against the
00:01:54.840 Republic of Iran. Although I want to get in just a minute, I'm going to get to something else about
00:02:00.580 why it's really not about the country of Iran and why that's a little bit of a misnomer. We're going
00:02:07.880 to talk about that in a few minutes. But anyway, let's kind of go over a little bit of the details.
00:02:12.020 This happened on February the 28th is when it began, which was about a week ago from the time
00:02:18.820 this episode is going to be coming out. And we launched the attack on the Islamic Republic of
00:02:24.480 Iran. And the first, I'd say the first thing, one of the first things we did is we were able to kill
00:02:29.640 their supreme leader, who really has been the one that has been for years shouting death to America
00:02:35.500 and also has ordered the killing of its own citizens, tens of thousands of them that protested.
00:02:41.740 And so that was one of our first goal was to wipe out the leadership.
00:02:47.260 And so far, the efforts by Israel and Iran have been very, very successful. I mean,
00:02:54.040 they essentially don't have any air force left. We've sunk a bunch of their ships as well.
00:02:58.360 I wrote down some, or I got some information that I looked up today as to how much, you know,
00:03:04.020 exactly how many specific bombs have been, you know, that we've done and whatever. There's been
00:03:11.420 2,000 targets hit, 300 missile launchers destroyed that Iran had hidden around their country.
00:03:18.760 We've taken out their leadership. The funny thing, it's so funny. I don't really know. Maybe these
00:03:23.940 guys aren't the sharpest people in the drawer, but when you're going to call for a breakfast meeting
00:03:29.280 right about the time, you're probably hearing rumors that there's going to be a bombing in your area
00:03:34.800 and you get all the leadership together and Mossad knows exactly where you are. I mean,
00:03:40.780 you just made it easier for us. And not only did they do that once, but then the next group of
00:03:44.940 leaders a couple of days later did the same thing. I mean, why in the world would they do that?
00:03:49.400 But anyway, we've taken out primarily their leadership. It's never a total void. There's
00:03:54.580 never a vacuum when it comes to leadership of terrorist organizations. Somebody's always
00:03:59.980 willing to step in. But we have really dismantled it and certainly made it more difficult.
00:04:05.600 We've focused our attacks on military targets like military bases, military operations.
00:04:11.320 Their nuclear, as you know, even though we bombed their nuclear, their big nuclear facility last June,
00:04:17.840 they've continued to try to enrich uranium, which is the key component for making a nuclear warhead.
00:04:24.220 And so we've been attacking that and we've had a lot of success on that. Of course, their ships. In fact,
00:04:29.260 it was interesting. I didn't, I didn't, I don't know that it surprised me, but I just thought, wow,
00:04:33.400 that's, that's really quite interesting that the, we fired a torpedo from one of our submarines to one
00:04:39.240 of their biggest ship, the military ships and, and sunk it. And that's the first time that a torpedo
00:04:45.300 for the United States has taken out a enemy ship since World War II. So that's really pretty
00:04:52.300 interesting. I had not, not thought of it that way. And of course, Iran's response has been to fire
00:04:57.440 rockets kind of indiscriminately, really kind of at Israel. They fired thousands of rockets at Israel.
00:05:04.080 They've also made the huge mistake of sending rockets into other Middle Eastern countries. Now they
00:05:10.840 claim they're just trying to kill U.S. citizens or U.S. military people over there. But when you send
00:05:15.980 a bomb into one of your neighboring countries, that automatically is going to have them against you.
00:05:21.940 And so they've done that. So we thank you for that, Iran, for doing that, because that just helped us
00:05:26.280 build our resolve. They also sent one against a United Kingdom base, not in the UK, but in another
00:05:33.860 country that now that drew UK back into being more supportive of what we're doing. And they've also
00:05:39.720 tried to hit some oil and gas facilities, which of course will temporarily raise the price of oil,
00:05:45.780 but that's not a long-term phenomenon. All that will get straightened out over the next few weeks is
00:05:50.840 what my opinion is. But a couple of things that you might not have known since October of 2023,
00:05:58.200 three, you remember the October 7th, 2023, October of 2023, there have been 32,948 missiles or drones
00:06:07.940 that have been sent into Israel. Now think about that. Just think about it where you live in your
00:06:14.320 area, you're part of the country. Just think about since for the last two and a half years, there's
00:06:19.820 been, if there were 32,000 missiles and drones sent into your area, do you think you would be pretty
00:06:24.780 upset about it and want to do something about it and want to try to, once and for all, try to get
00:06:29.260 something done? Because, and it's been Iran that has been supporting most of this and funding most
00:06:37.200 of this. So I don't, you know, I don't blame Israel at all, not at all. So anyway, the way,
00:06:44.900 what's happening now, according to President Trump, is that he's getting calls or they're getting calls,
00:06:49.980 probably not him personally, from people in Iran saying, hey, we want to make a deal. We want to
00:06:54.600 make a deal. Let's see what he has to say about that. All of their airplanes are gone. Their
00:07:00.380 communications are gone. Missiles are gone. Launches are gone. About 60 percent and 64 percent
00:07:08.900 respectively. Other than that, they're doing quite well. I said, what's left? But they're tough
00:07:16.700 and they want to fight. And they're calling, they're saying, how do we make a deal? I said,
00:07:22.320 you're being a little bit late. And we want to fight now more than they do.
00:07:28.420 So, I mean, and I can see how that would be happening. People are saying, hey, let's see if
00:07:35.420 we can figure out a deal. Now, the funny thing is, is that President Trump, just like, honestly,
00:07:40.100 just like President Biden and President Obama, they all wanted to negotiate a deal with Iran.
00:07:45.260 All right. And I don't blame President Obama or President Biden for wanting to negotiate a peaceful
00:07:50.360 solution to the problem. We cannot afford, in the Middle East, cannot afford for Iran to have a
00:07:56.700 nuclear weapon. Because what happens when they have a nuclear weapon, it puts everybody over there at
00:08:03.240 risk. And yeah, it puts us at risk too. But all of our friends over there are at risk. Remember the,
00:08:09.920 whatever you want to call it, Islam, 85 to 90 percent of Muslims are Sunni and only about 15 percent are
00:08:18.680 Shiite. And Shiite is what the majority is that are Muslims in Iran. Now, there are a lot of people
00:08:23.880 in Iran that are not Muslims at all. There are other religions or totally secular. In fact, the majority
00:08:31.180 of people in Iran, from my understanding, would not be considered radical Islams at all, Muslims at all.
00:08:41.100 So pretty interesting. President Trump tried to negotiate with them. He tried to do that for 15,
00:08:50.400 20 days, gave them some red lines. Now, the deal with President Trump is when he says there's a red
00:08:55.160 line, that means there's a red line. We've had some past presidents who have said there's a red line
00:09:00.420 and then nothing ever happens. And then we see the disaster after that, which was what happened in
00:09:05.760 Syria. But President Trump has called on them, before all this happened, to lay down their arms.
00:09:11.420 Listen to what he had to say in Satu. And I'm once again calling on all members of the Iranian
00:09:16.540 Revolutionary Guard, the military, and the police to lay down their arms. They're only going to be
00:09:21.800 killed. And now is the time to stand up for the Iranian people and help take back your country. You're
00:09:28.560 going to have a chance after all these years to take back your country. Accept immunity. We'll give you
00:09:34.660 immunity. And we'll be giving you really the right side of history because that's what it is. So you'll
00:09:42.300 be perfectly safe with total immunity or you'll face absolutely guaranteed death. And I don't want to
00:09:50.460 see that. Yeah, those are pretty strong words. But it's the truth. He's given them a fair warning
00:09:58.120 to lay down their arms and let's come to a peaceful solution. There's, and we don't have any video on
00:10:06.620 this right now, but if you have the chance to go watch or listen to what the crown prince, which was
00:10:14.580 the son of the Shah of Iran, which was exiled back in the late seventies, he lives in the DC area and he is
00:10:24.100 calling obviously for, for peace and supporting what we've done and also supporting the uprising
00:10:34.160 of what we hope would be a demo, a democratic solution that there would end up being Iran would
00:10:40.580 be a democracy, which is what it, which is, is kind of the way it has run in the past. Even when the
00:10:46.120 Shah was there, there was more, uh, there was, there was more freedoms for the people. Uh, so this is how it
00:10:53.120 all started. A lot of you weren't born during this time. Uh, but back in the seventies, the Shah of
00:10:58.500 Iran, which is kind of like a monarch, uh, was deposed and taken away by an uprising through radical
00:11:07.680 Islam. And it was done by someone that we, the Ayatollah Khomeini who was originally, actually his
00:11:14.580 ancestors came out of India. He was living in Turkey, but a lot of his radical, uh, messaging and
00:11:22.700 words and things like that were getting filtered into Iran. And so there was an uprising. They,
00:11:28.640 they kicked the Shah out. We took him back in exile. He died shortly there later from some type of
00:11:34.700 medical problem. And, but since then, Iran has been the leading sponsor of terrorism. As a matter of
00:11:42.420 fact, if you really want to know what this war is about, and the reason I said earlier, it's not about
00:11:49.220 Iran really as the country. It's really about the leadership of Iran, which turned out to be a
00:11:56.440 theocracy, not any other type of government. And it was a radical Islamic theocracy. And so it wasn't
00:12:05.180 about the borders because it was really about people around the world, not just in Iran, but people around
00:12:12.260 the world that supported radical Islamic theology. And that meant death to America, death to any Western
00:12:20.380 civilization, that we're all infidels and all that. And that's why you saw some, uh, protest after we took out
00:12:27.940 the Ayatollah, uh, here a few weeks ago. That's why you saw some protest. I'm sorry, not a few weeks ago, a few days
00:12:33.680 ago that were all upset that we had done that from other countries. And that's because there are radical
00:12:42.440 Muslims in other countries as well. In fact, there are some radical Muslims in this country. The one
00:12:48.280 that in the, you guys probably read about the shooting down in Austin, Texas, that in my opinion,
00:12:53.280 was a radicalized, probably lone wolf, uh, terrorist and radicalized through the stuff that people like
00:13:00.260 the Ayatollah were putting out. So it's really not about the country of Iran and those specific
00:13:05.540 borders. It's about what the leadership of Iran supported. As a matter of fact, uh, I pulled up a
00:13:11.800 list today of all the major terrorist organizations that they supported here. Hezbollah, which is in
00:13:18.300 Lebanon, which if you remember, uh, back in the eighties, they're the ones that blew up the Marine
00:13:24.420 barracks that we had and killed 200 and something of our, uh, uh, soldiers. Hamas, which was
00:13:30.140 responsible for what went on in Gaza. When they attacked on October 7th, uh, the, uh, uh, Israel
00:13:36.480 and killed 1200 people, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad called the PLJ longtime Iranian beneficiary,
00:13:43.340 the popular front for the liberation of Palestine supported financially by Iran. These are all
00:13:49.420 organizations that are not in the country, but are outside organizations supported by that theocracy.
00:13:55.560 Iran-backed militia groups, okay, were, uh, Harakata, that was a foreign terrorist organization.
00:14:02.880 Uh, Khatib Saeed, that's another Iran-aligned militia designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
00:14:10.560 Harakata Ansar Allah, another one. Khatib Ali, the Houthis, you've heard about the Houthis and
00:14:17.820 several Syrian militias as well. And then there's a Baharani Shia militias. Iran has,
00:14:23.680 they provided support to that militia group attempting to destabilize Batran. Well, come on.
00:14:29.940 I mean, I don't understand how there could be one person in the United States of America
00:14:35.740 that wouldn't say that this was something that we should have done, that it actually protected
00:14:41.840 America. In fact, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was the Secretary of State under
00:14:47.660 George W. Bush, she was interviewed on Fox News recently, and she talked about this,
00:14:53.320 about Operation Epic Fury. Let's see what, uh, Secretary Rice had to say.
00:14:57.480 I think if the goal of the administration, uh, is to render Iran incapable of using its military
00:15:05.680 forces, uh, outside of its borders, of threatening our neighbors, our, our allies, of threatening our
00:15:11.640 bases abroad, which we're seeing, uh, they are capable of doing. If it is, uh, trying to deny them
00:15:17.700 a conventional umbrella for their nuclear ambitions, uh, I, that is, uh, a worthy, uh, goal.
00:15:25.460 So I really appreciate her coming out and saying that, uh, I think that helps, uh, uh, get support
00:15:32.280 from a broader range of people in the United States. Condoleezza Rice is very well respected.
00:15:38.820 She doesn't have an axe to grind, but she understands being former Secretary of State.
00:15:43.520 She understands the backdrop of what's been going on in Iran for the last 40, 47 years. She also said
00:15:50.360 that, that rendering Iran, uh, incapable of military action would make the region more stable and protect
00:15:58.020 U.S. allies. She also noted that up to 75 to 80% of American casualties in Iraq. Think about that.
00:16:05.300 75 to 80% of the casualties in Iraq of our own soldiers were caused by Iranian made roadside bombs.
00:16:14.980 So when you see these young men and women that have been paralyzed, or you read about them being
00:16:20.840 killed from the roadside bombs in Iraq, uh, just, just point that right back at Iran and what they,
00:16:27.160 uh, provided those, uh, the, the Iraqi military over there. Uh, in October 23rd of 1983,
00:16:35.300 this is what I talked about a minute ago, the Hezbollah suicide bomber, uh, directed a truck
00:16:40.680 drove into the, uh, the building in Beirut and killed 241 American service members, 241 fully
00:16:50.240 funded by Iran. So those of you that think, okay, we shouldn't be in a war. I get all of that,
00:16:55.460 but it's just a matter of time. If we didn't don't do this and didn't do this before they were going to
00:17:03.940 do more damage to us directly and to our allies. And we have a, not only a, uh, treaty based
00:17:13.380 responsibility to protect our allies. We have a moral base reason for doing that. If we're going to be,
00:17:20.360 you know, like the Bible says, there's no, you know, you can, there's no greater person than a
00:17:26.640 friend that you're loyal to. And so we're loyal to our allies and we're going to support them.
00:17:31.540 And that's what we do as a country. And I support that a hundred percent. Uh, obviously a lot of the,
00:17:38.940 what we would call regular Iranians that are not involved in the theocracy are very happy that this
00:17:43.600 is going on. There's been, uh, uh, there, there, uh, there's been a lot of joy. I, in fact, there's,
00:17:49.800 we'll show you a video in just a minute of some of the stuff that they're doing, but it's kind of
00:17:54.520 got started at the end of last year, their economy went down because of some sanctions and what have
00:17:59.820 you. And then there were protests that really kind of started in the colleges and kind of built from
00:18:05.540 their universities, 31 different provinces had, all of them had protested that, uh, that came around.
00:18:12.880 And then what the leadership tried to do was to shut those protests down. And when they couldn't
00:18:18.560 just shut them down by telling them to go home, they began indiscriminately shooting people and
00:18:23.540 killing people. Tens of thousands of Iranian citizens. Now think about that. Tens of thousands
00:18:30.260 of Iranian citizens have been killed by their own government because they were, they were protesting
00:18:36.780 and another 42,000 were arrested. And if we didn't get involved in this, you would never
00:18:42.860 going to see those 42,000 again. Uh, so it's really, it's, it's really interesting. And then
00:18:49.240 you say, well, why in the world do we worry about Islam? Well, in addition to the, to the military
00:18:54.700 threat to they, that they pose to us and to the threat to our citizens, think about this. They,
00:19:00.760 you know, it's really a theocracy under Sharia law. We talk about Sharia law sometimes here in Texas
00:19:06.580 about being worried about whether Sharia law is going to, you know, uh, come into play in the
00:19:11.760 United States, uh, which there, there, I do not believe it will be, but there'll be some attempts
00:19:17.020 in some sections for that. But here's some of the things that here's kind of just one of the things
00:19:22.480 that happens in Sharia law. After the theocracy in Iran took over, the legal age of marriage for
00:19:28.380 women was lowered from age 15 to age nine. Now think about that. I mean, that is nothing but child
00:19:36.240 abuse. Yet there were 53 Democrats in a vote on the house floor yesterday that would not say that
00:19:44.740 Iran was a terrorist nation. So basically they're supporting this by saying that, I mean, it's just
00:19:50.940 unbelievable what some of our friends on the other side of the aisle will do. Uh, so, I mean,
00:19:57.880 it's, it's, it's been a mess. And, uh, there's one, uh, U S a lot of U S senators, but one
00:20:02.500 senators, Senator, Senator Tuberville from Alabama said it the best when he talks about what, how the
00:20:08.480 treatment of women in Iran, you know, in America, women are allowed to dress, go to school, work and
00:20:15.040 marry whoever they like. Iran used to be like this too, before they were taken over by radical Islamists
00:20:22.540 in 1979. This is them post 1979. Sadly, under the sick leadership of these terrorists, women are
00:20:32.620 treated like dogs. You hear that women are treated like dogs. They are forced to cover every part of
00:20:38.520 their body of their skin, except for their eyes. They aren't allowed to leave home unless they're
00:20:42.440 with a sink, a male escort. They aren't allowed to get an education or work job. And there aren't
00:20:48.080 forced, and they are forced sometimes to marry young to six years old, pedophilia and inbreeding
00:20:54.480 are rampant. And women are lucky if they are allowed to drive. It's just a shame that we've
00:21:00.720 allowed this to go on as long as we have, honestly. I mean, it is absolutely sick. Uh, and where are all
00:21:06.980 the feminists? Why aren't the feminist organizations praising president Trump for helping, helping to
00:21:12.120 liberate these women? They're trying to do what we can. Obviously it's going to be up to them to make
00:21:16.360 it totally happen, but where are all the feminist organizations? I don't hear, where are you Jane
00:21:20.620 Fonda? Jane, Jane, wake up. Where are you? You should be praising president Trump and what they're
00:21:27.680 doing here, but no, you're so, you have such derangement syndrome. And you know what? It would
00:21:34.840 be the same way if this was president Bush and he had done this, they wouldn't praise him either. I mean,
00:21:39.160 but it's just unbelievable how, uh, hypocritical that they are. Now, some of the Iranians, they kind of
00:21:46.040 like president Trump and let's see what they're doing to show that. Oh, they're doing the Trump
00:21:51.260 dance. Look at that. Now you got to admit, I mean, there's not much funny in a war, but that's
00:21:59.220 pretty funny. And I'm not sure exactly where this is, but, uh, that's some Iranians and maybe that's,
00:22:04.640 maybe it's in downtown New York or someplace, but it's really pretty funny. That really appreciate
00:22:10.100 that. Oh me. And we have to have a little, uh, laughter in all of this. Oddly enough, though,
00:22:17.380 60% of Americans disapproved of the attacks. Now you tell me why you disapproved of those. Please
00:22:25.220 write to me, Ron at ronsimmons.com. Tell me how in the world that we're on the wrong side of history
00:22:31.280 by doing this. Cause I just would not understand that. Uh, we'll see how it ends up. Some of these
00:22:36.720 things that go on this early in, uh, a conflict like this, they tend to level out a little bit
00:22:43.280 more, but I'm sure there'll be continued to have polling done. But our, you know, we talked about
00:22:48.280 our friends on the other side of the aisle, uh, and, uh, the leadership in the house is, uh, is
00:22:53.920 representative, uh, uh, Hakeem Jeffries. And they talked about that. Uh, you know, he was pressed by Fox
00:23:03.140 News reporter, Bill Lugan, uh, on, on the democratic hypocrisy because Nancy Pelosi, our friend, friend
00:23:11.640 Nancy Pelosi in 2011, she supported president Obama's unauthorized Libya airstrikes versus
00:23:17.620 Democrats current insistence on congressional approval for president Trump strikes. Now, when he was
00:23:23.820 pressed on that, here's what representative Jeffries had to say in SOT 6. Thank you, leader Jeffries.
00:23:29.260 Back in 2011, Nancy Pelosi said that then president Obama didn't need congressional approval to bomb
00:23:34.720 Libya. Now house Democrats say president Trump needs that approval to bomb Iran. What's the
00:23:39.480 difference? Well, obviously Libya and the circumstances connected to that were very different than the
00:23:44.920 circumstance that we face in Iran right now. Hello. What were those differences? We had people
00:23:53.340 that were, that were, that were, you remember the Benghazi scenario that were, that were killing,
00:23:58.620 uh, American diplomats and citizens. And, and they were attacking what we were trying to do in Libya,
00:24:06.700 the terrorist organizations we were trying to overthrow over there. So I don't understand what
00:24:10.960 representative Jeffries is talking about. Question always comes up. Will this be a forever war?
00:24:17.220 Well, I don't think it will be. Obviously there can always be conflict and what have you,
00:24:22.020 but let's take a look at what happened in Venezuela. In fact, recently in Venezuela, you know,
00:24:28.040 we went down there, took Maduro out and a different, it was a different type of operation.
00:24:33.120 Venezuela didn't pose the same broad threat. They weren't trying to get a nuclear weapon. They
00:24:38.500 didn't have a whole bunch of missiles stationed all over their country. Their main problem was that
00:24:43.480 their leader was cutting deals with a lot of our enemies. And we asked him to quit doing that.
00:24:49.380 And, uh, we even offered them the opportunity to get out of the country and get into exile,
00:24:53.180 but he didn't want to do it. So we went down and got, uh, Maduro on January the 3rd. And,
00:24:59.800 uh, they, what's happened since then though, and there'll be a, uh, you'll see, I think it was
00:25:06.500 yesterday or today where we did a, we cut a deal with them that will be a historic agreement to
00:25:13.000 reestablish diplomatic ties. We haven't had diplomatic ties there for years. And they came to a deal
00:25:18.800 as well as a deal on gold, those golden, uh, in, uh, Venezuela as well. So we hope that's the type
00:25:25.020 of thing that lasts. And also it's the type of thing that happens in Iran that we can reopen
00:25:29.220 diplomatic ties to them. We'd love that nothing more than to have a embassy in Tehran and work
00:25:34.600 with those people over there. That's they've got, there's something like 90 million people in the
00:25:38.580 country of Iran. They have a lot of resources. They have a lot of very obviously wonderful people
00:25:44.120 as president Trump talks about all the time. And, uh, we just hope that we'll be able to
00:25:49.080 develop a relationship with them. And if we can provide them some guidance and ideas on setting up
00:25:56.140 a, uh, working, a democratic or Republican government, or a republic government, then we're
00:26:02.080 happy to do that. I do not see any opportunity, no matter what crazy Democrat senators say that there
00:26:08.340 will be boots on the ground in Iran. That, that is, that is, Trump has said no on that. And it's
00:26:12.860 really not needed. We don't need to do that. We can, we can take out almost everything we need
00:26:18.060 to do from the air and from the ocean. And we're doing a good job of that as well. So
00:26:22.600 anyway, that's the information on Iran. If you've got any more questions on that, you want to
00:26:26.380 write to me, feels free to do that. Ron at ronsimmons.com. I'm certainly not a, you know,
00:26:31.520 the top expert in the country. Uh, I do try to talk to a lot of people that are involved in this and
00:26:36.980 know more than I do. And so I try to give you the information that I know and that I can discover.
00:26:42.060 So please, if you have more questions, just give me a, give me a shout on that. Now
00:26:46.040 our friends in the immigration and the department of Homeland security, and they are our friends.
00:26:53.200 They've done those men and women there have done a really hard job, a good job in a very tough
00:26:58.500 situation. And if you remember currently that whole department has not been budgeted for,
00:27:04.940 it's not been funded for the last two or three weeks, because in order to get, keep the rest of
00:27:10.200 the government open, they had to cut a deal to say, we're going to leave the department of
00:27:14.420 Homeland security that we're not going to fund them. Although the people are still working at
00:27:18.840 the airports and our immigration officers are still working and what have you, and they'll get
00:27:22.560 back pay when it all gets settled. But they had to cut a deal because the Democrats wanted to make
00:27:28.220 a statement and possibly put some additional rules and regulations on immigration, uh, ICE.
00:27:35.560 And in order for it to get out of the Senate, remember you have to have 60 votes. You have
00:27:40.660 to have 60 votes in order for there to be what they call cloture, which is stopping debate and
00:27:46.420 then taking a vote. Once you take a vote, it's only requires 51 to pass the bill. But in order for us
00:27:54.400 to get the rest of the government continue to stay open, we had to agree that the department of
00:28:00.080 Homeland security would remain closed until they could reach an agreement. And that's how they end up
00:28:04.940 getting, that's how they ended up getting it done. But the head of department of Homeland security was,
00:28:11.000 uh, former governor, Christy Noem. She's the secretary of that. And, uh, just this week,
00:28:17.720 she has been reassigned. Well, reassigned in the government world means you've been fired,
00:28:24.580 but we just haven't kicked you out because we don't want to be embarrassed by it either.
00:28:28.180 But she was reassigned because of primarily, I think there was some belief that she was not as
00:28:39.360 good of a leader as we hope would be. If you remember in Minnesota, when things got really,
00:28:45.060 really kind of out of hand there, the president sent in Tom Holman, who was head of the ICE and
00:28:52.960 kind of calm that situation down as much as you could with those lunatics that are in government
00:28:57.940 over there. But he, and he able to draw down some of the ICE officers and what have you got more
00:29:03.380 cooperation out of the local sheriff's departments, uh, so that there wouldn't need to be as many
00:29:09.500 arrests in a sense on the street of illegals. They would be able to get them out of the jails that
00:29:15.260 they were being detained in. And so that was kind of a signal that maybe the president didn't have as
00:29:22.020 much faith in secretary Noem as thought. And then she had a hearing this week, uh, which, you know,
00:29:28.940 and it's a Republican led hearing because Republicans control all the committees. So the Republican, um,
00:29:35.280 chairman had to call it in as a Senate committee. And she was grilled over a lot of different things.
00:29:40.120 And of course the Democrat senators get to ask questions, but one of the things that appeared to
00:29:44.960 be the straw that broke the camel's back was an advertising campaign for the department of Homeland
00:29:50.840 Security, whereby these contracts were given in a no bid basis. These contracts were supposed to be
00:29:57.860 competitively bid, but she, she stated some type of emergency border security clause that allowed her
00:30:05.500 to give these contracts out that were no bid. And it appears that some of them went to firms that were
00:30:12.200 closely affiliated to her or her organization without, uh, again, a competitive bidding process.
00:30:19.660 And it wasn't a small number. It was a $220 million ad campaign, which a lot of people say
00:30:26.680 appeared to be really more promoting secretary Noem than it did promoting the efforts of the men and
00:30:32.840 women of her, uh, department. The ad campaign did come back to haunt miss Noem, but she wasn't very
00:30:40.880 happy about it. And here's what she says. The president approved ahead of time. You spending
00:30:48.380 $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently.
00:30:55.900 Yes, sir. We went through the legal processes. Did it correct?
00:30:58.900 Did the president know you were going to do this?
00:31:00.900 Yes. He did. Yes. Okay. Um, and one thing Senator, I think would be helpful to know is how effective
00:31:09.180 that communications has been that overwhelmingly in your name recognition. I mean, to me, it puts
00:31:15.780 the president in a terribly awkward spot and it, it, it, and I just, I'm not saying you're not telling
00:31:23.380 the truth. It's just hard for me to believe. Now, chances are I've been in hearings when I was in
00:31:30.060 the legislature sitting in similar to position where Senator Kennedy would be obviously not at that
00:31:35.880 level, but usually we know the answers to the questions before we ask them. So chances are Senator
00:31:44.060 Kennedy had already checked with the white house on whether or not the president knew or not. And so he
00:31:48.560 kind of knew what the answer was, not always, but a lot of times that's the case. You don't,
00:31:53.300 the last thing you want to do is one asking the questions to be, put yourself in a position of
00:31:59.760 looking foolish or not having the correct information. But president Trump has said he
00:32:05.240 did not know about it, or at least he doesn't recall ever doing that. And I think something that
00:32:11.500 big, uh, there probably would have, there's probably a record of that somewhere. And then what happened
00:32:17.360 after that is president Trump got wind of that was not very happy about it. He did name her to a new
00:32:24.880 role as special envoy for the shield of America, which I'm have no idea exactly what that means,
00:32:30.960 but he did do that. And, um, he, uh, then has named a new person to be, uh, take the secretary of DHS.
00:32:41.320 And the guy's name is Mark Wayne Mullen, who is a Republican from Oklahoma and Oklahoma, a native
00:32:47.000 American. He's a current U S Senator and he'll take over as a new DHS secretary. Of course, he will
00:32:53.000 initially be acting and then he'll have to be approved by the Senate, which shouldn't be a
00:32:57.740 problem. And we have a statement on a, I think it's probably from true social at president Trump
00:33:02.860 talked about. So he's pleased to announce it, uh, under the current secretary who he obviously
00:33:09.640 doesn't throw under the bus served. Well, she's going to be a special envoy. He thanks her first
00:33:14.760 service. And then he goes on to talk a little bit about, uh, what, uh, Mark Wayne Mullen, Senator
00:33:21.320 Mullen had done in the past. He was in the United States house of representatives. And then he went on,
00:33:26.920 uh, to be, uh, a represented Oklahoma. And he's, he obviously is a native American. He understands,
00:33:35.080 uh, community, different types of incredible tribal communities. He's going to do it. He's
00:33:40.300 going to do a good job. According to him, he's going to make America safe again. And I think it's
00:33:44.580 a great pick. Uh, I think when you can pick a minority for a role that deals with a lot of
00:33:49.480 minorities, which illegals, uh, a lot, mostly are minorities that are coming across. Then I think
00:33:54.800 that's a really, really good pick for him. And I think that'll be a good, a good spot. Anyway,
00:34:00.000 we'll see what happens with that. But again, he appointed Senator Mullen and, uh, and sought
00:34:05.160 eight. This is how they honored Senator Mullen. What was your first reaction to just the news
00:34:10.120 that you were nominated for this position, just to miss everything. And that's humbling
00:34:13.800 because I had to call my dad and, uh, I mean, cause it happened quick, right? I had to call
00:34:20.040 my wife and call my dad both. And it's just, you know, pretty humbling when you start thinking
00:34:24.520 about it. A little kid from Westville, Oklahoma, uh, gets to serve in the president's cabinet.
00:34:27.900 That's pretty neat. So obviously he's humbled and honored. You know, the other thing is he's
00:34:32.900 an MMA fighter. So I really wouldn't want to mess with him. Yikes. Uh, we're glad to have
00:34:38.320 him there. Thank him for serving. And, uh, uh, the press secretary, uh, also, uh, put out
00:34:45.460 a post on, uh, on Senator Mullen and, uh, also thanking Christy Noem for her work as well.
00:34:52.220 All right. Uh, why don't we go to some questions from our great audience? You guys are always so
00:35:00.220 good about that. I mean, I, I'm never, again, never cease to be amazed at the questions that
00:35:05.160 you have and there's always more than I can answer. So if I can't get to your particular
00:35:09.020 question, uh, but it's something that I haven't covered otherwise specific to you, please feel
00:35:15.180 free to email me. I try to get to those as much as I can. If, if you've sent me something and I haven't
00:35:20.220 responded, please email me again. Cause somehow it got past the first or second page of my emails
00:35:25.400 and I'll be happy to do it. I'm not, I don't ever avoid any questions. So if you send them to me,
00:35:30.120 please just, uh, and I haven't done it, please send them to me again. All right. All right. Who
00:35:36.100 replaces Senator Mullins in the Senate? That's a really good question. This is how things work.
00:35:42.340 I think in every state, if a Senator leaves their position during the middle of their term or any time
00:35:50.140 during their term, then the governor of the state, in this case, that's governor, I think it's S-T-I-T-T
00:35:57.320 or Stilt. Not sure exactly how you say his last name, but, uh, he will appoint someone to take over
00:36:05.580 for the remainder of the term. Now in some States, the appointment may be more temporary than that,
00:36:12.480 where they have to have a special election. I'm not sure what happens in Oklahoma, but he'll appoint
00:36:16.620 someone. Sometimes they like to appoint themselves. I don't know that the governor will do that in this
00:36:21.900 particular case, but there'll be a mad rush. You can, you can believe me, his cell phone is getting
00:36:27.760 blown up right now. And he may ask also Senator Mullin, what his thoughts are on that, but they'll
00:36:33.740 do that. And the reason Senator Mullin is a good pick from a political standpoint is because, uh, Oklahoma
00:36:40.280 is a solid Republican state. So you don't have a chance where even if there is a special election,
00:36:46.520 or in the next election, uh, the Republicans should not lose that seat. So that's how that'll
00:36:52.360 work. Uh, and then how concerned am I about Texas flipping blue, especially with sleazy Tallarico?
00:37:00.300 Well, Tallarico is a wolf in sheep's closing. No question about that. He is as far left as Jasmine
00:37:07.980 Crockett would have ever been. I was rooting for Jasmine. I want you to know that Jasmine,
00:37:12.000 um, I was rooting for you. All right. But you didn't quite get it over the line. And of course,
00:37:17.780 then you claimed that, you know, it was your election denier in your own election already,
00:37:22.740 but I don't see any of your friends saying you shouldn't be an election denier, but that's all
00:37:26.260 I read in the paper yesterday. And then it was a Republican's fault. Even though you were in a
00:37:30.140 Democrat primary, you blame the Republicans for your election being rigged. Uh, you have to explain that
00:37:37.660 one to me again, email me Ron at ronsimmons.com. We'll talk about that, but I don't have a concern
00:37:42.920 about Texas turning blue. I do think that we can't ever sit, you know, sit on our hands. We have to
00:37:47.940 get the vote out. Um, and Tallarico is going to be a formidable opponent. There's no question about
00:37:53.940 that. Uh, cause he will have all the money behind him. He kind of, you know, he kind of looks the part
00:37:59.800 and says, says the right things and whatever, but he is dangerous. Let me tell you something. He is
00:38:05.600 very, very dangerous. All right. How do we convince people no to Tallarico and list his
00:38:12.980 political failings, his crazy beliefs? We're going to talk more about that. I know Allie
00:38:16.640 will be talking more about that over the next couple of months. So we'll put some stuff together
00:38:20.860 that'll help you with that. Um, and get to some facts so you can get some facts out, uh, to all of
00:38:26.780 the friends and the people that you're talking to rising gas prices. Where will it stop? I don't know
00:38:31.740 exactly the amount, but I do think it'll be, uh, neutralized over the next few weeks. It could
00:38:37.400 spike up a little more before where it is here. I'm sure, uh, there'll, there's all, there's going
00:38:42.460 to be some continued disruptions a little bit. They're going to have to get the Strait of Hormuz
00:38:47.680 figured out. It doesn't really have much of effect on the oil supply here in the U S but, but remember
00:38:53.980 oil, oil prices and oil commodities are worldwide. So it affects the flow of oil in some
00:39:01.620 parts of the world that has an effect on us as well. And, but I do think that'll get straightened
00:39:07.680 out over the next few weeks. I was reading something the other day that, uh, you know,
00:39:11.600 China gets quite a bit of their oil 20% or something like that from Iran. And I think that
00:39:16.900 we are trying to work out, uh, to help them as far as that to kind of replace that. I don't
00:39:22.420 know if it would come from us directly or come from Saudi Arabia or someplace like that, but
00:39:25.900 trying to, trying to get that worked out so that it doesn't have a major disruption on the
00:39:30.360 world economy, which is a smart thing to do. You know, it's interesting. You, you may be
00:39:34.920 arguing with somebody or something or some country over here on this issue, but then you've got to
00:39:40.460 work together on another issue. And that's what a lot of our, uh, a lot of the people here in the
00:39:45.760 U S and maybe around the world don't understand that a lot of people think, well, you only can be
00:39:50.700 this way. It's got to be this way on everything a hundred percent of the time. That's not the way it
00:39:54.640 works. That's not the way the sausage is made. And you just have to understand that it's okay.
00:39:59.220 If, you know, Mr. Democrat and I agree on this and disagree on that, that that's the way things
00:40:05.860 work and that's the way they should work. How, let's see here. How did I maintain a strong religious
00:40:12.820 household through, through the different phases of life? You know, you hope that it's happening
00:40:18.800 like that. I will tell you that in our house, uh, and I've said this before, a lot of it was my
00:40:24.840 wife, Lisa and the kid's mom, you know, she was on her knees, um, every morning she still does it.
00:40:30.480 Uh, I heard her in there yesterday morning, uh, having a conversation with God on an issue that
00:40:36.940 we're working on in our family right now. Um, and she was just claiming it. I mean, she was just
00:40:43.100 claiming these truths that are in the Bible and continuing to do that and put in the, trying to
00:40:48.560 put those on the hearts of our kids. It's obviously best if you start that when they're
00:40:53.420 young so that you're, so that that is deep into their heart. Cause when they're young,
00:40:57.620 it's so much like a sponge as they get older, they get maybe some more resistance and things
00:41:03.020 bounce off. But when they're kids, it just, it just, they just absorb that. And so the younger
00:41:09.000 you can do that, the better as they, as you go through life, one of the things that we had to
00:41:13.880 learn in our household. And really when I say we, that's kind of the Royal we, it's really me.
00:41:17.900 I was the one that didn't know it is that there are preferences, there are rules and there are values.
00:41:26.980 And when your kids are little, you have mostly rules. All right. And that's the way it has to be
00:41:34.660 so that they know what to operate under as they get older into their teenage years. You got to really
00:41:40.180 separate those. There are a lot of things that were my preference. I wanted Allie Beth and my other
00:41:45.720 kids to get up and make their bed every morning, keep a clean room, really a preference, honestly.
00:41:51.160 All right. I wanted to make it a rule. In fact, I would have said it's one of my values, but that
00:41:56.500 would be wrong too. And so we had to learn that you have to make sure that you're, you're, you're
00:42:03.420 definitely flexible with your preferences. You might, you might say, Hey, I wish you would do that
00:42:07.380 sweetheart. And your rule would say, Hey, you know what? The rule is we have a curfew at 11
00:42:13.000 o'clock and that's not going to change. We can talk about it, but unless you have a really good
00:42:17.440 argument, which honestly, Allie was a really good arguer. So that was kind of hard to argue with
00:42:20.980 her that, uh, but that's not going to change. She didn't ever push that envelope hard. Uh, but then
00:42:26.380 the values, which hopefully you instilled early on that those never change that value of being
00:42:31.620 truthful, the value of being honoring each other, the value of worshiping our Lord, those types of things,
00:42:36.880 those types of things are values that you never change, no matter what phase of life that your
00:42:42.980 household is in. All right. Newly married couple. How can we protect our future children from worldly
00:42:48.660 views? Just kind of like what I said a minute ago, just get them, get them in implanted in them early
00:42:56.700 of what your views and your values are and allow that to be the sounding board that they test everything
00:43:03.860 against. If you put somebody's values in them, what they believe in, then as other things are
00:43:09.800 presented to them, they will measure them against those values and they may question those values.
00:43:16.220 And when they do, hopefully you have a relationship where y'all are open enough where you can have that
00:43:20.640 discussion. They may not be mature enough to, uh, to be able to defend them as well as you want to.
00:43:27.760 So you may have to help them do that and you should encourage them. Hey, if, if you ever come across
00:43:33.280 something that goes against what you know, that the, our values are, and you don't know why, um, our
00:43:40.100 values are that in that particular situation, let's sit down and talk about it. Right. That that's what I
00:43:44.420 would do. All right. Um, Cornyn versus Paxton would Trump endorse Cornyn and replace Bondi with
00:43:52.100 Paxton. So Bondi is our U S attorney general. Paxton is the state of Texas attorney general and
00:43:58.080 Senator Cornyn is the sitting U S center. Cornyn and Paxton are going against each other. And what
00:44:02.600 will now be a runoff, uh, my preferences is Senator Cornyn on that. Uh, I think he'll be, has been a
00:44:09.480 really good Senator and will continue to be a good Senator. He votes with president on president Trump's
00:44:14.760 agenda, 90 something percent of the time. Uh, I don't think that A.G. Paxton will do a better job
00:44:21.540 than him. And, uh, there is some, uh, what would you say? There are some issues with, uh, attorney
00:44:30.660 general Paxton's past that I think would have a big negative effect on us in a general election.
00:44:37.640 It'd be much harder for him to beat Tallarico than it will for Senator Cornyn. I don't know if
00:44:43.440 president Trump obviously is going to endorse Cornyn. I keep hearing that's going to happen from
00:44:48.200 some sources that I have, but I do not know that haven't certainly haven't talked to the president
00:44:52.820 on that. One of the, one of the things that president Trump has said though, is that whoever
00:44:59.220 it is that I endorse, the other person really should drop out of the race. And Paxton has come
00:45:04.160 out and said, well, I'm not doing that. That makes me think that Trump is leaning to Cornyn.
00:45:09.740 And so they may be trying to cut a deal behind the scenes. Like you're talking about here. I doubt
00:45:14.380 that Pam Bondi would, uh, unless she wants to leave, I don't think she would be pushed out.
00:45:19.580 Uh, it's not unusual for some of the cabinet secretaries to leave in the second year or so,
00:45:24.820 uh, after they've been in these, these jobs are incredibly 24 seven. Um, so I doubt he would be
00:45:31.400 the attorney general. Cause I don't know that he could get through the Senate, uh, confirmation
00:45:36.720 election scenario. But there may be something he's working out to appoint, uh, Paxton to something
00:45:42.800 that would, that would, uh, allow, allow there not to be a hugely contested runoff election. That
00:45:49.160 would be best for the Republican party for sure. Uh, what do you do when your 21 year old is heading
00:45:55.120 down the wrong path? Well, you know, and I know you're doing this, but we got to have to have
00:45:59.860 unconditional love. We have to realize that they've come to a point in their life where they
00:46:05.760 absolutely have free will and that hopefully you've instilled in them a foundation of what's
00:46:13.740 right and what's wrong and a, uh, a belief in God and a belief in Jesus. And that you keep the
00:46:22.440 communication channels open enough to, uh, that they will come back to you. All right. You cannot
00:46:29.140 just continue to beat on them and beat on and beat on that doesn't work. I wish it did. If it, if,
00:46:34.280 if it did, I'd be really, really good at that, but I just know it doesn't work. Um, and you also
00:46:40.640 have to go on about your life. You can't let their scenario totally stop you from whatever else you're
00:46:47.380 supposed to be doing. And then finally, if they're putting your rest of your family in a dangerous
00:46:52.560 situation, you have to separate yourself from that. You cannot put, let them put the rest of your
00:46:57.440 family at risk if it's a dangerous situation. So hopefully it's not that just maybe kind of veering
00:47:02.680 off the path. I veered off the path for a little bit when I was in my late teens, early twenties,
00:47:07.160 got back corrected mainly because of the foundation that, that I had been brought up with.
00:47:14.180 Tucker Carlson's narrative on Israel, man, I don't know. I don't know if you listened to the
00:47:19.000 Huckabee interview with him or his interview of Huckabee. I thought it was really good. I thought,
00:47:23.300 uh, Ambassador Huckabee did a great job on that. If you haven't go back and watch that,
00:47:27.660 uh, I'm not sure what's going on with Tucker. I really don't know. I mean, I think it's internal
00:47:34.020 for him. It's maybe it's a spiritual battle. Uh, he's talked about that a little bit that he's,
00:47:38.760 that he's had some challenges with that in the past. Uh, but I'm, you know, I'm, I'm worried about
00:47:44.700 him personally and don't know why he's doing the things that he's doing. So anyway, um, really
00:47:52.740 appreciate y'all being here today. It's been another good day. I hope that you'll remember
00:47:57.080 to do a couple of things to get your tickets to share the arrows and guys, if you haven't bought
00:48:02.580 those for your, uh, special loved one yet, then do that. Go on there and get those tickets.
00:48:08.700 I've already been thousands sold and it'll eventually be sold out. So make sure that you
00:48:13.420 do that. It's going to be in October of this year. You can go to share the arrows.com and get that.
00:48:18.120 It's going to be another great event. Allie does a great job with that. As you know,
00:48:21.460 I'll be walking around, hopefully you'll see and get to meet a bunch of you, but make sure you do
00:48:25.640 that. The other thing is if you're interested in, uh, anything else related to what I think about
00:48:31.340 things, not emailing me, also get a copy of my book, life lessons from the little red wagon.
00:48:36.000 You can order that on Allie's merchandise website. You can also order it from amazon.com.
00:48:41.680 Um, if you want to get one, I keep some of them at my house. Want to get one directly from me,
00:48:46.160 you can just send me your email. I'll tell you, I'll be happy to sign a copy and send it to
00:48:51.420 you. And you can just mail me a check or something like that. So, uh, make sure you do that. And also
00:48:56.160 toxic empathy. There's no better time to read that book, toxic empathy, to understand how the
00:49:02.200 Democrats use our good nature that we have against us. So make sure you read that it's a New York
00:49:08.480 times bestseller that Allie's written. And, uh, she's working on another book that she'll be talking
00:49:13.280 about soon. So thanks. And, uh, we'll look forward to seeing you again soon. Take care.
00:49:16.980 Bye-bye.
00:49:17.980 Bye-bye.