Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1341 ｜ 'Trust Your Instincts'： Our Journey Parenting A Child With Autism ｜ Ron Simmons

00:00:00.000 Hello, hello. This is our weekend edition of Relatable, which as you remember, I'm doing

00:00:14.960 a couple of times a month. Thank you, Allie, for allowing me to do this. It's always a

00:00:19.400 good time and we have interesting subjects. We've got a great show today. I'll tell you,

00:00:23.980 in fact, we've got a special guest later in the show you're not going to want to miss.

00:00:27.920 I promise you it's going to be awesome. So hang with us through all of this. It's going to be

00:00:32.340 really, really good. Now, first of all, when this comes out, we'll have had a few more days after

00:00:39.640 the biggest, what really is the biggest news event of the last week, and that is the White

00:00:46.260 House Correspondents Dinner shooting. You all remember that this past Saturday night, there was

00:00:54.240 a shooting at the Washington, D.C., Hilton, which is kind of spooky because that's also

00:01:01.020 where President Reagan was shot, actually just outside of that while he was exiting

00:01:05.000 the building in 1981. And they had the White House Correspondents Dinner, which is a dinner

00:01:11.960 they have every year, I think, just kind of celebrating. They call it celebrating the First

00:01:17.440 Amendment, but all the White House correspondents from all the media outlets are there, and a lot

00:01:21.660 of political figures are there as well. Obviously, the president was there this time. I don't think

00:01:26.320 he went last time, but he was there this time. And his wife and a lot of the cabinet secretaries

00:01:32.160 and a lot of members of Congress were there. So it was like 2,500 people in this essentially

00:01:37.420 basement ballroom. And as was reported, there was a gentleman, or actually gentleman's not

00:01:44.620 the right way to even say that. There was a scumbag who charged the security area. Now, 0.99

00:01:52.240 it was in a different level above where the ballroom was, so he hadn't gotten to the ballroom,

00:01:57.720 but charged that area and then started shooting and actually shot a Secret Service agent. Luckily,

00:02:03.800 it hit their bulletproof vest, and they're okay. And then he was tackled by Secret Service,

00:02:12.480 and now he's in custody he actually was arraigned this past week in a hearing and is going to be

00:02:19.780 charged with attempted assassination of the president which carries a life sentence and

00:02:25.560 you can see on this video that's coming up about the chaos that was going on you can imagine in

00:02:32.400 fact I was listening to Bill O'Reilly yesterday and he was talking about he was standing towards

00:02:37.340 the back of the room he and his son were there and he could hear the shots and but you can see

00:02:41.420 the chaos that's going on and the Secret Service as they come in to protect the president and the

00:02:46.340 other people that what they call protectees that they're protecting. The Speaker of the House was

00:02:50.760 there as well. So it was mayhem. And if you don't know what's going on, chaos is what happens when

00:02:56.740 things like that occur. And, you know, the president got back to the White House safely

00:03:02.760 about 10 o'clock Eastern time. And of course, they canceled the event, although we'll see in

00:03:09.140 just a couple of minutes that President Trump has called for that being rescheduled. It was

00:03:14.260 the third attempt on President Trump's life. I don't know how many attempts on lives that there

00:03:19.480 have been for presidents in the past. I know that President Ford had a couple attempts on his life,

00:03:24.940 and I'm sure there's a whole lot more that we don't even know about. But to have three attempts

00:03:29.500 on this president's life is pretty amazing, and it's amazing how he responds to it as well. I'm

00:03:36.860 always impressed on his response to that. So there's a couple of other things that went on

00:03:43.820 is that as you saw some of this, we have a full screen that shows a picture of one of the

00:03:51.160 president's closest aides, Stephen Miller. And you can see he's protecting his wife along. He's

00:03:57.140 probably got to protect the people there. And then behind him to the left, if you're watching this,

00:04:01.340 is Hexith and he's standing over his wife as well. And you can see they're facing the stage

00:04:08.240 and the back of where the shooter would come in if he could have gotten through would have been

00:04:13.180 behind them. So they're definitely putting themselves in harm's way. And that's the type

00:04:17.720 of people they are. I hope every husband would do that. I hope that you wouldn't pull a Doug

00:04:24.040 and Carrie on the show of King and Queens, which if you're not a King and Queens follower,

00:04:29.500 you won't get that joke, but it's a pretty funny episode if you find it. Here's a little bit more

00:04:35.260 information about the suspect. He was a teacher from Torrance, California, and so he wasn't just

00:04:41.920 some drifter or some unemployed homeless person or anything like that. Now, he had been radicalized.

00:04:49.560 There's no question about that, but he planned this out very well. If you've read any of his

00:04:55.940 manifesto and some of the other things he's written on social media. This was not something

00:04:59.860 that just he thought about doing overnight. In fact, he took a train from LA to Chicago and

00:05:07.040 onto New York in order to be able to not go through this levels of security that he would

00:05:12.960 have had to go through had he taken a plane. He checked into the hotel the night on Friday night

00:05:18.440 before, and that hotel has about three, you can put about 3000 people in that hotel. So I'm not

00:05:25.060 sure having an event like that at a hotel that's so public is the right thing to do. I'm sure

00:05:30.940 they'll reassess this. Of course, one of the things to do is get the ballroom finished so

00:05:35.760 that they can have that totally secure and be able to protect all of the people that are in

00:05:41.860 attendance at these types of events. He had a manifesto. Here's a few things that were on the

00:05:47.260 manifesto. His intent was to take down administrative officials, for some reason,

00:05:53.580 not the FBI director, Mr. Patel. I'm not exactly sure why that is. And he wanted to prioritize it

00:06:00.500 from the highest to the lowest. So the highest ranking administrator official is who? The

00:06:05.320 president of the United States. Obviously, he would have liked to have killed the president. 1.00

00:06:09.460 And then all the way down to whatever the lowest official was that was there as far as the hierarchy 0.96

00:06:14.520 is concerned. He also was anti-Christian. He had a whole bunch of anti-Christian posts

00:06:23.840 in his past. And, you know, he talks about turning the other cheek and what have you.

00:06:28.640 Well, you don't turn the other. If somebody is trying to commit violence on your friend or your

00:06:33.880 family, you're not supposed to turn the other cheek and let them do that. You're supposed to

00:06:37.700 be a protector and that's what we're called upon to do so again it's just it's it's always these

00:06:44.740 people always take little pieces of biblical information and turn it around because they're

00:06:51.960 being controlled by satan that's what satan does if you've read any of c.s lewis's stuff especially

00:06:57.440 screw tape letters you'll see how satan turns around or you see how satan even did that

00:07:02.060 in the Bible, when Jesus went 40 days into the wilderness and how Satan used little tidbits of

00:07:10.200 what was, you know, what was biblical truth of the past to tempt the present, I mean, to tempt

00:07:16.500 Jesus. And of course, it was just half truth, not all truth. And that's what happens in these

00:07:22.240 situations as well. The hotel security, we have discovered the perimeter was probably not as

00:07:30.960 broad as it should have been. I remember I used to do, I did some ministry work for an organization

00:07:39.520 and I traveled to Romania a couple of times. And one of the times I went, I got stopped about a

00:07:47.020 mile or two from my hotel, which was in the city center, kind of like this hotel. And I was not

00:07:53.820 driving. I had, there's a driver, obviously like a taxi cab or Uber driver type person in front of

00:07:59.080 and we had to get out and they took all our bags out, searched all our bags, searched the car,

00:08:07.580 everything, wanted to know who I was, you know, and where I was going. And I was staying at the

00:08:13.060 JW Marriott in downtown Bucharest. And the reason that they had done this, not just for me, but for

00:08:19.400 everybody coming within a mile or two of this hotel was because that's where they were having

00:08:24.760 either the G8 or the G20 summit. And it just so happened that all of the American delegation,

00:08:32.140 including the president, President George W. Bush at the time, was staying in that hotel.

00:08:38.260 And so I had to be searched way outside before we ever get into the hotel. And then when I got

00:08:45.220 into the hotel, there was a secret service or some type of security person that was on the elevator.

00:08:53.340 every time you got on the elevator.

00:08:55.260 And they wanted to know where you were going

00:08:56.940 and who you were with, that type of thing.

00:08:58.680 Now, I will tell you, there's a funny aside,

00:09:00.960 I did get off the elevator one morning

00:09:03.100 and snuck in and ate the breakfast buffet

00:09:06.440 with all of the delegation there.

00:09:08.120 Not the president, but all the State Department people

00:09:10.500 and all that that were there.

00:09:11.400 I just snuck in like I was one of them.

00:09:12.980 So anyway, this was several years ago,

00:09:15.000 but that was kind of funny.

00:09:17.280 The guy also had, and we have some posts

00:09:21.380 that he talked about on Blue Sky, Blue Sky, which is a liberal kind of Twitter thing.

00:09:27.020 He just, he said, you know, this is, and this is some of the stuff that you hear.

00:09:31.260 We put a known traitor in the office who ran on revenge, who screwed up the COVID response

00:09:37.280 and has known connections to the murderous guy in the Kremlin, although he used different

00:09:42.940 language than that.

00:09:44.340 I mean, but it's the same thing that you hear in some of these protests, right?

00:09:49.240 And this leads me to, I just got to tell you guys that when I was in the state legislature,

00:09:56.600 I had dinner one night with a friend that I had made there, a guy named Rusty Kelly.

00:10:03.840 And he brought a couple of guys with him to the dinner and they were former Secret Service

00:10:09.780 people.

00:10:10.620 And this would have been in probably 2015.

00:10:13.680 And even then, what they were telling me is they said, Ron, people that are on the more extreme sides of both parties, whether it's the right or the left, going from talking to shooting is not a big step for them.

00:10:32.960 Different than maybe how you and I would.

00:10:34.840 We may argue vehemently and talk and talk and talk and disagree and all that type of stuff.

00:10:39.860 But the idea of taking that argument to the next level of bombing or shooting or harming someone is just not in our psyche.

00:10:47.800 It's not our vocabulary. But these people that become radicalized, that that hear all of this talk that's being promoted in most cases today by the left on saying things.

00:11:02.180 And we'll look at some of those in just a few minutes. Things like Hakeem Jeffrey said the other day about, you know, we're in a total warfare. Right.

00:11:09.320 and things like that they take that and they say well if i go which i think this guy if you read 0.52

00:11:17.120 his manifesto if i go and uh act out on this you know you know kill the president then i'm going

00:11:24.540 to be a hero now i don't think that's what uh congressman jeffries intended but i will tell

00:11:31.380 you it does add to it it does add to it and if you look at all of the attempted assassinations

00:11:37.620 and shootings that have happened in the last several years, they have almost all been done by

00:11:42.880 the left, people on the left that have been radicalized in one way or another,

00:11:48.720 all right, through the stuff that they're reading on social media, the stuff that they're hearing

00:11:53.240 their leaders talk about. And do I think that the right could calm down the rhetoric as well?

00:11:59.160 Absolutely. I think we say some wrong things also. I know Allie's very careful not to do that.

00:12:04.160 and she does a great job at disagreeing without being disagreeable but most people don't do that

00:12:10.460 but this guy was obviously radicalized made out a plan to do it sent a thing to his parents and

00:12:18.040 family right before he did it you know the brother called it in to his local police department but at

00:12:24.560 that time it was too late just luckily that no one was hurt I mean we're very very very fortunate

00:12:32.560 But, you know, the other thing is, though, some of the other leaders just didn't didn't look at it the same way we did.

00:12:40.780 And here's what former President Obama put on on a post from X.

00:12:45.320 It says, although we don't yet have the details about the motives behind last night shooting.

00:12:50.000 Now, this is this is already after the manifesto had been out.

00:12:55.000 So President Obama, either himself or through the people that he has around him, would have already known what the guy was saying.

00:13:02.800 So to say that we don't know what his motive was, it is just that's derelict, in my opinion.

00:13:09.240 That is just not responsible and disappointed that he did that.

00:13:13.160 I am glad that he made a comment about the courage and sacrifice that Secret Service does every day.

00:13:18.900 Of course, he still he still has Secret Service protection, so he probably ought to treat them pretty well.

00:13:23.520 but some other people in our media didn't even were worse than that and here's sought one from

00:13:30.180 the views anna navarro so that room was full of some of the most important political leaders in

00:13:37.880 the country right now right now they know they've lived it in their own flesh the fear that our

00:13:43.940 school children go through now they know what it's like to have to jump under a table the way

00:13:49.380 that school children jump under a desk.

00:13:52.360 Maybe now that they have felt the fear themselves,

00:13:56.080 they will do something on gun reform.

00:14:00.240 Now, I don't know who they are that Anna's talking about.

00:14:03.880 I think she's talking about a different they 0.86

00:14:05.740 than I'm talking about.

00:14:07.360 The they should be all of those correspondents in there

00:14:10.720 and the rhetoric that they use day in and day out

00:14:14.300 in attacking President Trump.

00:14:15.780 Even before he was elected this last time,

00:14:17.860 They spent basically all of Biden's term attacking President Trump as well.

00:14:22.260 And so, yeah, I'm with you, Anna, if you're talking about the correspondents, you know, dialing down their rhetoric.

00:14:28.900 Absolutely. And you know what? It should start with you and your friends on the show.

00:14:32.600 Now, Anna, if you ever want to come on here and talk about that, you and I can have a nice conversation.

00:14:37.160 You're welcome anytime. We'd love to have you come on and have a discussion with Allie or myself about your policy beliefs

00:14:45.100 and how you think that the rhetoric should be taken care of.

00:14:50.140 Now, President Trump did an interview with 60 Minutes,

00:14:53.200 which I'm surprised that he went and done it,

00:14:54.880 but you know him, he'll just do it.

00:14:56.920 So he did an interview with 60 Minutes,

00:14:59.100 and here's a little bit of what he talks about

00:15:02.840 related to threats that happened.

00:15:05.340 I mean, this is what happened in the White House

00:15:06.840 Correspondents' Dinner and threats of the past.

00:15:09.180 Also at the dinner last night

00:15:10.660 was your secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

00:15:13.620 His sister, Kerry Kennedy, was there.

00:15:17.040 They've both witnessed their father and their uncle be assassinated.

00:15:21.040 That's right.

00:15:21.740 Erica Kirk was there.

00:15:23.840 The House Majority Leader, Steve Scalise, was there.

00:15:26.980 Yeah.

00:15:27.940 Political violence has touched so many people in that room.

00:15:32.980 Is there something that you as president can do?

00:15:36.120 What can be done to change the trajectory?

00:15:38.080 Well, you know, you go back 20 years, 40 years, 100 years, 200 years, 500 years.

00:15:47.520 It's always been there.

00:15:49.700 People are assassinated.

00:15:52.280 People are injured.

00:15:53.880 People are hurt.

00:15:55.080 And I'm not sure that there's any more now than there was.

00:15:58.260 I do think that the hate speech of the Democrats, much more so, is very dangerous.

00:16:03.520 I really think it's very dangerous for the country.

00:16:05.360 Yeah, I would disagree with the president on the fact that I do think it's more prevalent now.

00:16:10.960 And some of that could be that we're more aware of it because of the way 24 hour news cycle works.

00:16:17.440 But if you think about the one she mentioned on the people that were have been killed or assassinated,

00:16:23.660 it's all been by people that were at least aligned with the Democrat Party, which is really pretty disappointing.

00:16:31.460 And, you know, they talk about gun violence and all that, yet it's the people that align themselves with the Democrat Party that uses guns to cause harm to conservatives, which is kind of crazy.

00:16:45.020 Another thought from President Trump about the actually rescheduling the correspondence dinner.

00:16:53.380 I thought this was pretty good.

00:16:54.400 I know the White House Correspondents Association very much appreciates you going last night and honoring a commitment to do it again.

00:17:02.680 I hope we're going to do it again.

00:17:04.360 Nora, tell him to get it going and we should do it within 30 days and they'll have even more security and they'll have bigger perimeter security.

00:17:14.820 It'll be fine.

00:17:15.820 But tell him to do it again.

00:17:17.880 We can't let something be.

00:17:19.620 It's not that I want to go.

00:17:21.580 I'm very busy.

00:17:23.580 I don't need that.

00:17:24.400 I think it's very important that they do it again.

00:17:27.500 I think that's right.

00:17:28.700 And, you know, President Trump, he doesn't he does not govern out of fear.

00:17:33.720 And it would be the easiest thing for him to do is just, OK, let's just blow this off this year.

00:17:38.320 But that's not who he is.

00:17:40.140 And I think that was great.

00:17:42.080 I wish we had the new ballroom done.

00:17:43.620 We could do it there.

00:17:44.580 But wherever they have it, they're going to end up having it.

00:17:48.060 Security will be better.

00:17:49.340 And I am interested to see, as they analyze this security scenario, I'm sure they did this security like they've done it at that hotel in the past.

00:17:58.220 But as they analyze this, I think they'll come up with some different protocols for perimeter security.

00:18:05.140 It's really kind of crazy that this guy was able to get even down to that level.

00:18:11.380 The other thing that we have to remember in all of this, remember, we still don't have full funding of the Department of Homeland Security,

00:18:18.320 which oversees all of this secret service oversees border security uh tsa all of those

00:18:25.300 we still have the democrats unwilling to fund those offices now we found some temporary funding

00:18:31.680 which is getting ready to run out but the democrats absolutely want to basically get rid of

00:18:38.860 the uh ice and the republicans are never going to agree to that they're never going to agree to that

00:18:44.760 nor they should. Now, are there some protocols that maybe we need to change to make it safer

00:18:50.480 for everybody? Yes. But we can't make it such that trying to make it safe for everybody puts

00:18:56.940 the people that work for ICE at more risk. You cannot do that. All right. People that go in

00:19:03.000 there like those unfortunate people that passed away as a result of the shootings from ICE, but

00:19:09.520 as, but what started with their own activities, uh, people have to know that when you're involved

00:19:15.460 in a law enforcement activity, if you're interrupting that, that there are risks to

00:19:19.460 you. All right. And we don't want anybody to get killed, but there are risks to you and you need

00:19:24.840 to be a law abiding. It's one thing to protest peacefully, verbally, but when you cross that

00:19:31.920 line, you're putting yourself and others at risk. So they need to fund and, uh, press secretary

00:19:37.360 Levitt talks about that. These men and women are heroes. They perform their duties daily and they

00:19:44.360 have children and families too. And they do it despite the political turmoil surrounding their

00:19:49.360 agency. Make no mistake, this defunding of DHS should be a national scandal. If Republicans

00:19:56.540 defunded DHS and we saw in another attempted assassination on a Democrat president,

00:20:01.460 I would hope that the media coverage would be relentless and unforgiving. And I hope that it

00:20:06.640 continues to be now. With the World Cup, America 250, the 2028 Olympics, and a presidential election

00:20:13.540 all ahead, the Democrats' obstruction is placing an enormous and totally pointless burden

00:20:18.820 on the Secret Service that can get more people killed. Enough is enough.

00:20:25.060 Amen to that. Amen. One last thing on this, and this is mainly for people that live in Texas,

00:20:31.900 But as you know, we have a U.S. Senate race that's going on, and James Tallarico is the Democrat.

00:20:41.280 And again, he's been invited on this show as well.

00:20:44.440 Allie wants to talk to him, but they keep avoiding us.

00:20:46.960 So hopefully if you're listening out there, anybody that knows him, some of my former colleagues in the legislature know him, we need to get him on the show and talk about his quote-unquote biblical worldview and what he really means.

00:21:02.600 But Senator Cornyn, who is his opponent, and Cornyn is still in a runoff, but if he wins

00:21:09.360 the runoff, he'll be against Tallarico in the general election, talked about what Tallarico's

00:21:15.700 mentor and pastor said, because his pastor in the service on Sunday basically was, although

00:21:23.520 he didn't promote violence, he didn't denounce it either.

00:21:26.960 And that was pretty disappointing.

00:21:28.640 And I'm glad that Senator Corning came out and called him out and called Representative Tallarico out on that as well.

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00:22:56.920 Next subject we're going to talk about is Jimmy Kimmel.

00:23:01.880 And this is a little bit related to the White House Correspondents' Dinner,

00:23:04.940 but it's about a joke that he told a couple nights before.

00:23:10.380 It's in Sot 5.

00:23:11.800 Our First Lady Melania is here. 0.99

00:23:14.060 Look at Melania, so beautiful.

00:23:15.400 Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.

00:23:20.360 Wow.

00:23:21.540 Wow.

00:23:21.980 Now, first of all, Melania wasn't where this guy was.

00:23:25.760 Obviously they, they, they put in a picture there of her at another event, but for him to say that you look, you have the glow of an expectant widow seems to me that he, well, I don't think Jimmy is telling somebody to go out there and kill somebody.

00:23:44.640 I do think that he is making light of what has been, as we already know from the two previous assassination attempts, attempts on President Trump's life and the fact that, you know, that we should be happy if he's dead.

00:23:58.900 In fact, even his wife would be happy if he's dead is what he's implying there.

00:24:03.080 And, of course, Kimmel did not walk it back.

00:24:06.320 He continues to stand by it as satire and First Amendment and all this type of stuff.

00:24:12.600 But I'm like President Trump.

00:24:14.380 I think President Trump said this, too.

00:24:15.720 He ought to be fired immediately.

00:24:17.040 In fact, Melania Trump responded on X, calling for ABC to take a stand.

00:24:23.060 And this is what she said.

00:24:24.740 She said, Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.

00:24:28.920 His monologue about my family isn't comedy.

00:24:32.360 His words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.

00:24:36.940 People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.

00:24:42.920 A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows a network will keep running cover to protect him, and they have.

00:24:50.500 But enough is enough. 0.91

00:24:51.460 It's time for ABC to take a stand.

00:24:53.100 How many times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior at the expense of our community?

00:25:00.780 I tell you what, you get a mama bear riled up.

00:25:04.460 they will tell it like it is. And I appreciate her. Uh, I appreciate her doing that. Uh, also

00:25:11.940 the, uh, president Trump on true social talks about it as well. And as you can see here,

00:25:20.160 I won't read the whole thing, but essentially what he says at the bottom, I appreciate so many

00:25:24.340 people are incensed by Kimmel's despicable call to violence and normally would not be responsive

00:25:29.120 to anything he said, but this is something far beyond the pale. Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately

00:25:35.120 fired by Disney and ABC and always like what the president does. Thank you for your attention to

00:25:40.480 this matter. President Donald J. Trump always appreciate his sign off on that. Um, so anyway,

00:25:46.780 I agree with that a hundred percent. Jimmy Kimmel is a leech on society. There's no question about 0.97

00:25:53.620 that. And he has been a he's got Trump derangement syndrome as bad as anybody out there. And he's

00:25:59.880 been anti-Trump since day one. And he continued. Remember, he also made fun of Charlie Kirk's

00:26:05.680 assassination as well. And totally not allowed. There is free speech is one thing. Hate speech

00:26:12.560 is another thing. And that's what he is doing. Now, speaking of hate speech, if you think that's

00:26:18.460 something, I also wanted to bring this up. And the reason that we talk about these things, of

00:26:21.840 course, this is what just happened in the news this past week. So that's important for you to

00:26:25.800 have a view of that and an understanding of that. I so much appreciate President Trump's bravery,

00:26:33.660 and he's not, you know, scared away by things like this. It's so good that that's the type

00:26:40.180 of leader that we have. But also, there are other people out here that are inciting things that we

00:26:46.700 need to pay attention to and need to make sure you're listening to, because maybe your kids are

00:26:50.140 listen to it, even if you're not. So you need to be aware of it. And this Hassan Piker, all right,

00:26:55.760 Hassan, and I wasn't totally familiar with him, but then I saw that the New York Times basically

00:27:01.780 platformed him, allowed him to participate in some of their communications. And this guy is,

00:27:08.960 he's even worse than Jimmy Kimmel. A few days before the correspondence dinner, Piker was

00:27:14.780 interviewed by the New York Times, where he suggested the killing of United Healthcare

00:27:19.020 CEO Brian Thompson was justified, claiming Thompson had participated in social murder.

00:27:24.720 So he thinks, here's the challenge, folks. People like Hassan Piker and these other people,

00:27:31.660 they believe that the ends justifies the means no matter what. And as you can see on SOT 6 here,

00:27:38.860 what Piker says about the actual cold-blooded murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

00:27:46.240 Engels wrote about the concept of social murder. And Brian Thompson, as the UnitedHealthcare CEO, was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder, the systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for-profit paywalled system of healthcare in this country.

00:28:14.600 and the consequences of that are tremendous amounts of pain,

00:28:20.100 tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts of deaths.

00:28:23.700 I mean, that's incredible.

00:28:25.520 And of course, he didn't show it on this one,

00:28:26.920 but two ladies sitting there with him were just sitting there agreeing with him. 0.99

00:28:29.680 And then also he thinks it's okay if he comes and steals your automobile

00:28:32.820 or basically anything that you have.

00:28:34.740 Listen to SOT7.

00:28:36.000 I'm pro-piracy all the way.

00:28:37.300 Like across the board, would you pirate a car?

00:28:41.120 Yes, you know, if you could.

00:28:42.940 What would it mean to pirate a car?

00:28:45.100 If it was just a classic thing back in the day, the government-funded anti-piracy initiatives would be like, would you steal a car?

00:28:53.480 I'm like, yeah, sure.

00:28:55.180 If I could get away with it, if it was as easy as pirating IP, I would do it. 0.59

00:29:02.860 I mean, that's just ridiculous. 0.73

00:29:04.700 I mean, that's just crazy. 0.98

00:29:05.780 But unfortunately, that's not even the worst stuff he said.

00:29:08.180 He has called for the direct murder of people, and here are two SOTs, SOT 8 and SOT 9.

00:29:15.380 We're going to play them back-to-back, and then I'll talk about them.

00:29:18.300 If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott, okay?

00:29:24.880 You wouldn't make Rick Scott, former governor of Florida Rick Scott, you wouldn't make him the current, what is his current office?

00:29:32.940 what is he he's the richard lynn scott is an american attorney business and politician navy

00:29:37.680 veteran serving is the senior united states senator from florida uh seat he has held since 0.93

00:29:41.880 2019 and also i believe this past election cycle he was literally the the f***ing head of the what

00:29:49.440 was it like the senate committee or something poor people that they can they they can afford

00:29:54.540 housing in berkeley i don't know how well my understanding is that the property owners who

00:29:59.620 have properties there choose just not to rent it at all yeah those in the street let the streets

00:30:06.600 let the streets soak in their red capitalist bloods okay now people can say he can go online

00:30:15.840 and say that if he wants to uh although that probably is borderline threats and part of a

00:30:23.360 could be linked to a conspiracy to do some harm. But the New York Times, if they're a

00:30:30.280 legitimate journalistic output, they shouldn't be platforming a guy like this. I mean, that's just

00:30:37.960 way, way, way over the line. In fact, he also has said in the past that the U.S. deserved 9-11

00:30:45.340 on a Twitch stream. He's a big Twitcher. So anyway, this guy's a nut. In New York Times,

00:30:51.820 you just continue to show when you say that it's all the news that's fit to print are you kidding

00:30:56.160 me or is it really nothing that's fit to print because when you give a guy like this a platform

00:31:01.260 that's not worth it but we need to be aware of that because your kids grandkids might be on

00:31:06.920 twits they might see some of his stuff we can't just assume that they're not seeing that that's

00:31:11.840 why you have to be informed of it um so anyway it's uh you know we got a lot of stuff going on

00:31:17.980 out there. But as, as Allie says, and as my little water cup, coffee cup here says, it says

00:31:23.900 redemption of God's plan is going off without a hitch. Never, ever, ever forget that God is in

00:31:32.860 control and he knows all he sees all. But if you go through the Bible, there's always times of ups

00:31:39.560 and downs and turmoil and what have you. And part of that is that he continues to be calling us.

00:31:46.520 How do we purify ourselves?

00:31:48.500 How do we become more Christ-like?

00:31:51.000 How do we strive to do what's commanded for us to do?

00:31:55.300 And those are the types of lessons that we need to learn and we need to share with others

00:32:00.320 as things are going on around us that maybe are not very comfortable at all.

00:32:05.380 All right, the Iran, just real quickly on Iran, they have a new proposal in, which is

00:32:10.420 not even that great of a proposal. 1.00

00:32:12.340 It's kind of stupid. 1.00

00:32:13.220 They said, okay, here's what we'll do. 0.99

00:32:14.600 if you will open up the Strait of Hormuz, then we'll talk to you about getting rid of our nuclear

00:32:23.540 stuff. Are you kidding me? I mean, do you really think we're going to do that where we're going to

00:32:28.500 let you get all the money that you need, kind of like President Obama sending you all that money

00:32:33.120 in that airplane that time, and then you want to agree to talk to us about your nuclear stuff? Do

00:32:38.500 you not realize that that's not going to happen, that we're not going to stop short of you

00:32:45.360 agreeing to get rid of your nuclear materials, allow inspections in there on a regular basis,

00:32:50.860 and then not treat the Strait of Hormuz like your private river, because it is not. And if that

00:32:58.720 takes our Navy being over there for a long period of time, then we'll do it. As I told you last time

00:33:03.940 we had an episode. We've done that in the past and we'll do it again. So I don't think this is

00:33:09.820 going to have any headway. I do think they'll keep talking. I think, again, that we still have

00:33:14.760 the leverage on this and that it'll eventually work out to our advantage, but we're not going

00:33:20.720 to go backwards and allow them to control their ability to have a nuclear warhead. So we'll keep

00:33:27.900 you informed on that. Um, and we're going to keep that blockade in place. All right. Now coming up

00:33:35.000 next is going to be your surprise guest. And we're also going to talk about a really cool subject

00:33:41.760 that I talked about a little bit last time. And then we're going to take some, uh, some listener

00:33:46.200 questions. So we'll be right back. Welcome back. And as I promised earlier in the show, we have a

00:33:58.360 special, special guest who's been on the show before with Allie, but it's been a long time.

00:34:05.020 We have Allie's mom and my wife, Lisa, with us today. Hello. Glad to be here. Yeah. Thank you

00:34:12.700 for being here, Lisa. I know this is not necessarily your favorite thing to do.

00:34:17.160 No, it is not. Although you do communicate a lot.

00:34:20.900 Well, I like to communicate in different ways. I like to write

00:34:24.540 and I like to sing and write music, so

00:34:28.220 that's my preferred. And Lisa is, you don't know this, Lisa is a great songwriter

00:34:32.580 and maybe somewhere in the show notes we can put how to

00:34:36.520 find some of Lisa's songs that have been recorded by some people. We don't have

00:34:40.740 a number one hit yet, but we're moving in that direction, right? Oh, hopefully. Yeah, that'll be

00:34:46.060 good. That'll be awesome. So anyway, but I wanted Lisa to come on here with me. First of all, we are

00:34:50.040 going to, at the end, we're going to answer some of your questions that you've always sent in for

00:34:54.540 us. And actually, when I answer these questions, a lot of times I've already talked to Lisa about

00:34:59.680 some of them. So a lot of the answers you get from me, really, Lisa had input on and she'll be here

00:35:04.900 directly for that day. But what I first wanted to do, you know, last time that I was on, we talked

00:35:09.880 about autism this is autism awareness or autism acceptance month here in the month of april this

00:35:15.920 actually will probably come out on may 1st and we have had a journey with autism in our family as

00:35:21.000 you know we've uh we have our son ali's brother daniel's 41 years old and uh he uh is on the

00:35:27.420 autism spectrum and in fact i told you about a book last time uh that lisa wrote called i would

00:35:34.000 have said yes and offered free copies if you wanted one we had a limited number at home and

00:35:38.640 in 24 hours, I got 50 requests. So all of those were sent out. We did find that you could actually

00:35:44.820 still buy it on Amazon, even though it's been over a decade, you could still be able to get that.

00:35:50.520 And so what I just thought with this type of response, we need to have a conversation. So I

00:35:54.820 asked Lisa to come in with me today, and we're just going to talk about our experience. We are

00:35:59.700 by no means experts, okay? Lisa is much more an expert than me, but no means expert. So we're

00:36:05.580 going to have a conversation for the next few minutes and talk about our journey with autism,

00:36:09.680 maybe give you some ideas, some thoughts on what we've learned, and maybe what we would even have

00:36:15.200 done different if we could do it all over again. So, Lisa, let's start out just by talking about,

00:36:25.380 you know, you were educated as a teacher, all right? And of course, I believe that God made you

00:36:31.860 primarily be a mom because you have great mom instincts and oh let me just tell y'all up front

00:36:37.860 i'm a leaker so i could start crying during this i just want you to know that up front uh that's

00:36:43.180 just that's just the way it is uh but tell us about you know the pregnancy with daniel and

00:36:49.840 kind of when he was first born just kind of what what you saw what you thought yeah our uh the

00:36:55.360 pregnancy was normal i had no issues this is our second pregnancy we had a three-year-old

00:37:01.560 when daniel was born and um so there's there was nothing to alert me that something could be wrong

00:37:10.080 but as i think all mothers have sort of this instinct when as soon as you put that baby

00:37:19.560 in the mother's arms at least for me i just had a sense that something's wrong something's not

00:37:28.140 quite right and i don't know if it was the furrowed brow that he came into the world with

00:37:35.300 um just like what in the world just happened and you know um i was perfectly happy where i was

00:37:42.060 happy and so i don't know if it was that or just some kind of sense that um something was not right

00:37:50.060 And as he progressed through the stages that babies go through, he was always on the tail end of the scale.

00:38:04.660 And, you know, the doctors kept telling me, I'm just comparing him to Justin.

00:38:11.000 Don't compare your kids.

00:38:12.400 Don't compare your kids to other kids.

00:38:13.960 But you kind of have to.

00:38:15.620 You know, if you're a mom and you see that your child is still just laying there on the ground and everybody else is sitting up and they're playing with things and they're interacting, that's okay to compare that.

00:38:32.340 You know that something's wrong.

00:38:34.480 So, you know, we went through all of those things until he was almost three.

00:38:40.560 and then finally a doctor because he wasn't talking he was saying words here and there

00:38:48.580 um but he wasn't talking as a almost three-year-old you would expect definitely unusual

00:38:55.080 based on the fact that we have a two-year-old granddaughter now that's very verbal and and

00:39:01.720 justin was very verbal and i you know again i tried not to compare but you kind of have to

00:39:07.220 this doctor finally said well let's get his hearing tested and that is what set us on the road

00:39:15.800 to finding out okay what kind of exactly what we're dealing with although really

00:39:22.880 the word autism was not spoken there was no genetic testing to be done at that time the

00:39:30.300 only thing we knew about autism was rain man the movie i think and that out or yeah this is we're

00:39:35.360 talking Daniel was three in 1988 yeah so we're you know early uh on in this in this journey and

00:39:44.200 knowing anything and um anyway it turned out I knew he had perfect hearing because

00:39:53.800 he understood what I said what anything I told him to do he did it so he understood language

00:40:00.440 just wasn't coming out. And I think providentially, you had just started a job where your boss's

00:40:10.800 daughter was a speech therapist. And we started going to her three days a week. Goodness gracious.

00:40:22.020 Yeah, we started going to her three days a week to try to get his speech going so he could

00:40:27.400 communicate yeah we did that for a year and and then it was like a you know a light bulb moment

00:40:34.160 he he started talking and and he never has not stopped and you know so there's been all the

00:40:43.520 ins and outs of that i mean what should moms look for right i mean because we know that early

00:40:49.420 intervention is critical to how far they can progress. And a lot of moms, we don't want 0.99

00:40:58.380 anything to be wrong with our kids. Dads too, okay? And we don't even talk about moms because

00:41:02.080 they're generally the primary caregiver. But what should they be looking? Because we know that it

00:41:07.620 looks like, at least nowadays, you can actually have, and again, testing for autism is non-invasive

00:41:13.840 or anything like that. And you can actually have some pretty accurate testing done by age three or

00:41:20.200 four. What do you think they should be looking for? Well, as it said, if you've met one autistic

00:41:27.400 person, you've met one autistic person. So everybody's journey is going to be different,

00:41:33.360 just as everybody's child, whether they're autistic or not, is different. But, you know,

00:41:39.620 there are some things usually kids on the spectrum tend to be more what we call floppy they don't

00:41:47.280 have a lot of muscle tone they tend to just be a little later some is more exaggerated they you

00:41:55.800 know their fine motor skills their fine motor skills are just delayed and so just looking at

00:42:05.720 those things, it doesn't always mean it's autism. You could just have, you know, a learning

00:42:12.260 difference and that's not autism. So autism has been, you know, sort of broadly defined these

00:42:21.480 days. But, you know, I think, again, trust your instincts. That's what I would, I always tell

00:42:29.220 moms, if you think something's wrong, there probably is something wrong.

00:42:34.160 And just because your doctor says it's not doesn't mean that that's true.

00:42:38.300 And it's nothing against doctors, but you have to push, right?

00:42:41.400 Because you've got to remember, when you leave the doctor's office, when you leave the therapist's office, they're not thinking about your child.

00:42:49.240 As wonderful as they might be, you're the one that's thinking about your child, and you're the one that has to be the greatest advocate.

00:42:55.880 And on the other hand, when a doctor tells you something, oh, your child is never going to be able to do X, Y, or Z.

00:43:05.600 Talk about that with Daniel a little bit.

00:43:07.660 When we left our first real testing, Daniel was about five.

00:43:14.140 Yeah.

00:43:14.940 And the doctor said, you know, according to his test, he has PDD-NOS.

00:43:23.440 Which means they don't know what the heck it is.

00:43:25.320 pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified which means we don't know what the

00:43:33.020 heck yes and um but whatever it is it's affecting his whole body so we um he gave me sort of a list

00:43:42.500 i remember him sitting right beside me and he had daniel run for you know now you see how he's

00:43:49.280 running and how his gait is you know that means he's he's never going to ride a bike

00:43:54.260 He's never going to just do all the kid things.

00:44:02.020 And so I shook my head like, okay, I hear you.

00:44:08.340 And he got a bike for Christmas.

00:44:12.080 and because i wasn't going to let my five-year-old who um i just wasn't going to take that as an

00:44:23.880 answer and we weren't willing to say no at the time we were going to treat him as

00:44:30.580 like a typical five-year-old as much as we could without putting him in danger that's right right

00:44:37.600 And so you just, I think, again, that's an instinct.

00:44:42.820 And if you allow the doctors who, yes, they've had maybe more education than you've had.

00:44:50.280 They've had maybe more experience, you know, working with these kids than you have.

00:44:54.600 But you know your child.

00:44:57.120 And you know your ability to work with your own child.

00:45:01.840 And so we got that bicycle, put the training wheels on it,

00:45:05.560 prop the training wheels up on bricks so so it was a like a stationary bike and i held his feet

00:45:13.200 on the pedals and just and we did that until he got muscle memory in his legs and then he rode

00:45:21.360 and he rode he rode a two without training wheels he was actually on a rollerblading hockey team at

00:45:29.480 one point so you know don't just take um the first answer yeah that no i think that's exactly right

00:45:37.880 and you know one thing you said earlier was about that they understand more than they can communicate

00:45:43.280 daniel's always been that way still that way today he understands more than he can sometimes

00:45:48.180 enunciate uh talk about how parents maybe lisa should think about sharing christ

00:45:55.840 with their kids right how should that i mean obviously we shouldn't back off from that right

00:46:04.380 i mean we know christ loves them your special needs child whatever if it's autism or whatever

00:46:11.000 special needs they have they they need to know jesus in whatever capacity that they can

00:46:17.540 and for Daniel at about age six um we used to listen to the Dallas radio station Christian

00:46:28.600 radio station KCBI 90.9 and we would listen to that going to school and one day he heard somebody

00:46:37.920 I didn't even know he was listening and and I certainly didn't know if he could comprehend or

00:46:43.680 understand something as deep as a spiritual need for a savior and he was sitting in the back seat

00:46:53.000 and I'm just driving listening and he said mom am I going to go to heaven and everything in me

00:47:02.360 wanted to say yes because I wanted to and I did believe that that God was going to protect him and

00:47:11.760 because he couldn't understand, probably. I wanted to say yes, but I didn't. I said,

00:47:20.720 Daniel, would you like to ask Jesus into your heart? And he said, yes. And he wanted me to

00:47:28.980 stop right then. And I said, well, we need to get to a parking place. So we pulled into his little

00:47:36.280 school and uh in the parking lot he got done on his knees in the back seat of that suburban

00:47:42.920 and gave it up and and asked jesus into his heart and i believe that that was real and i i know that

00:47:56.940 god saw that little you know child who we thought maybe couldn't understand

00:48:03.700 and big concepts, but when Jesus says, let the children come to me, he meant every child,

00:48:13.040 no matter what the disability or the...

00:48:19.500 So don't ever give up on them. And if you have to fight at your church to get

00:48:22.880 proper teaching and those types of things, then make sure that you're doing that, okay? It's okay

00:48:28.020 to do that. We've struggled with churches, okay? And we go to some really... We've been to some

00:48:32.640 really good God-fearing Bible-preaching churches. 0.91

00:48:35.760 And they're much better now than they used to be.

00:48:38.260 But man, they struggle with really knowing how to minister to them.

00:48:41.280 But don't give up on that because a lot of families with kids with disabilities,

00:48:44.580 they end up not going to church.

00:48:47.200 And again, I hate to say this, but that's part of the spiritual warfare that's out there,

00:48:51.960 that's fighting us every single day.

00:48:54.960 And Satan uses all the tricks, all the arrows in his quiver,

00:48:59.020 and we can't allow that to happen.

00:49:01.080 Now, talk a little bit about what would we do different?

00:49:04.960 If we had to do it all over again, we already know we said yes, but what would we do different?

00:49:10.260 I mean, we went down a lot of rabbit trails and, you know, I'm not sure we should or shouldn't have.

00:49:17.020 I just don't know.

00:49:18.040 Well, we didn't really have a choice because we had no Internet.

00:49:23.760 This is, again, late 80s through the 90s.

00:49:28.840 And so there was nothing, there was no way other than just word of mouth of how to find therapists.

00:49:37.660 Were there even therapists?

00:49:38.660 I didn't know any of that.

00:49:41.020 And there wasn't such thing as ABA therapy at the time that we knew about.

00:49:44.600 Not that we knew about.

00:49:45.700 And so just whatever you heard from somebody, you're like, okay, we'll try that.

00:49:51.260 And so we tried a lot of things that were probably had great intentions, but didn't help us anyway.

00:50:03.540 You know, we were kind of the guinea pigs on the biofeedback.

00:50:10.940 That had just started when Daniel was about 12 or 13 years old.

00:50:17.180 And yeah, and it was very expensive.

00:50:19.320 It was super expensive.

00:50:20.400 We were we we were blessed to be able to afford things. But even then, you know, we weren't super wealthy and we sacrificed to do it.

00:50:29.540 And that's why I want to tell you, dads, you know, if it takes you going out there and getting a second, third job, then you got to do it.

00:50:35.880 You got to do it. I don't care. I don't really don't care what you think about it.

00:50:39.360 That's something that we need to do. That's the responsibility we have to get the give your kid the best opportunity to reach his maximum or her maximum potential.

00:50:50.400 And you were really good at fighting insurance companies.

00:50:55.260 We got things paid for that probably they wouldn't have done.

00:51:01.220 And most insurance companies will say no the first time.

00:51:02.940 Remember that.

00:51:03.580 And then you just have to keep fighting and fighting and fighting.

00:51:06.620 Because most people will not fight.

00:51:08.640 They just will not.

00:51:09.340 Just like your local school district.

00:51:10.720 When you go in for your individual education program and your outside people are telling you,

00:51:18.520 your therapist and everything is, Hey, he needs, you know, 30 minutes of speech therapy a day.

00:51:22.520 And your IEP says, Oh, you need 30 minutes a month. Don't accept that. You have to fight.

00:51:27.900 Okay. And you have the right to fight for that. The school, the government says that every student

00:51:35.760 should be given the education opportunity on which they can best learn. And if that means

00:51:42.140 that your school system has to pay for your child to go to a private school because they can't do it,

00:51:47.920 then that's what they have to do. Now, in Texas, we just put this new school choice program in

00:51:53.000 $500 million a year set aside. And the first people that are eligible, it's tiered because

00:51:58.960 you're going to run out of money in a state biggest, Texas, are people with disabilities

00:52:03.300 that can get up to $30,000 a year for private education for so that the ones that specialize

00:52:11.480 that. Now, you may have a public school that's really good at it. And if so, I encourage you

00:52:15.320 to stay with them, but stay on top of it. You can't assume because everybody says they're good

00:52:20.020 at it, that your teacher is going to be good. How many stories do we have to hear about school

00:52:25.020 teachers abusing special needs children before that we can convince parents that you can never,

00:52:30.960 ever, ever not be paying attention to that? I know in Texas, you can even request that there

00:52:36.500 be cameras in the room and what have you. So what are some of the resources or anything else that

00:52:41.300 you want to say about this lisa yeah just to reiterate what you just said about staying on top

00:52:47.300 of it um in the public schools while they are required to you know have that iep and and um

00:52:56.820 do what's best for the child it doesn't always play out that way and so it's exhausting

00:53:03.840 to have to call up there, but you have to be a pest. Now, I will say, also be an encourager.

00:53:12.500 If you're only calling to complain, that's going to get old. So if you can call sometime and say,

00:53:19.660 you know, my son came home. He was so happy today. Could you, you know, call the teacher

00:53:27.260 and tell them that and be an encourager, but also stay on top of that. And that is year to year.

00:53:33.660 You can be in a great school this year, and that same school next year totally fails for your child.

00:53:42.760 What type of resources do you have that maybe they could do anything?

00:53:46.600 We'll try to put some of these in the show notes.

00:53:49.940 Getting through childhood is hard.

00:53:52.840 And you think, and I thought this, let's just get to adulthood.

00:53:58.980 It's so hard.

00:54:00.020 It's hard making friends.

00:54:01.260 It's hard, you know, all the social, you know, hurdles that you have to go through.

00:54:06.460 It's harder being an adult because all those programs are gone.

00:54:13.600 Yeah, that's right.

00:54:14.720 And so now you've got to figure it out really on your own.

00:54:20.620 And it's gotten a little better.

00:54:23.140 And there are, like, I think about the school for teaching technology, how to do, you know, create games and all the things at Nonpareil Institute, which is in Plano.

00:54:39.720 And I think they have some other campuses as well.

00:54:43.940 And we'll put their link.

00:54:46.200 But it's just for adults on the spectrum.

00:54:50.020 They have to be post-high school to be able to go there.

00:54:54.900 There are places where they can get a job, and you can talk about the Texas workforce, how they help with that.

00:55:02.640 But there's places like Biddy and Bowe's, which is a coffee shop.

00:55:08.120 And there's Huggs Cafe in McKinney.

00:55:11.780 You know, those are just little local places.

00:55:14.620 And there are probably the same types of things in your communities, those of you who are listening to this.

00:55:17.140 Yes, and you have to go look for those.

00:55:18.680 But you've got to look for them.

00:55:19.680 Yeah. And then there are other adult, just social programs. And my friend, Brooke Henson,

00:55:28.000 let me look up what hers is called. All My Friends. All My Friends. And she does a great job

00:55:35.880 of helping adults on the spectrum connect. And there are these types of programs probably

00:55:42.500 in your city and then um if you can find christian education for your child and if maybe you can get

00:55:55.380 some parents together and start one yeah that would that would be awesome those are very hard

00:56:00.880 to say i wish somebody would do this that somebody has to be us yeah and that's not fun either that's

00:56:05.220 not fun you know that's really not but uh anyway those are just a few we'll put we'll put those

00:56:10.680 links uh in the show notes so good anyway i just want y'all to you know thought you'd enjoy a

00:56:16.200 little bit about our journey as you can tell it's still emotional for us uh daniel's 41 years old

00:56:22.160 now he's really into painting poor painting is what he does and uh you know a lot of cool things

00:56:29.180 we could talk about in the future too of what he's done when he's been an adult that are touch

00:56:33.520 points as well that i think you all appreciate but let's get to a few questions from the audience

00:56:37.840 Lisa. All right. Number one, what's the best advice on red flags to be aware of when dating

00:56:44.780 men? And this is for a girl whose dad left, so no relationship with their dad. So what do they

00:56:50.820 need to look for, Lisa, when they're dating someone or getting ready to date someone?

00:56:55.840 Well, it depends on kind of their age. I mean, if we're talking about a teenager,

00:57:00.320 you know obviously you're going to want to look at their school conduct and and how they perform

00:57:08.340 in school and and that kind of thing their friends who they hang around if we're talking about a

00:57:13.940 grown man then you're also going to want to look at who their friends are how they treat other

00:57:21.240 people how they treat their parents and that's that goes for the teenagers as well does he have

00:57:29.660 a job if it's a man um you know if he doesn't why yeah that's that's a big one he's on a career path

00:57:39.080 to just keep getting educated yeah no that's a red thing i think is if you got to know the

00:57:45.140 difference between someone who wants to lead versus control okay you don't want someone a

00:57:51.040 control should be a red flag and i've struggled with this my whole time because my deal is okay

00:57:55.300 if we do it my way it'll all work out fine right but there's a difference in controlling and leading

00:57:59.500 Leading is really through influence.

00:58:01.400 Control is through force.

00:58:03.380 And so you want to watch how he operates in that scenario.

00:58:06.940 Okay, this one's for me.

00:58:08.420 If interest rates fell to the 5% or so, the price of homes are still unattainable for many.

00:58:14.260 What's my opinion?

00:58:15.260 I agree with you on that.

00:58:16.960 Again, as I talked about, I think, last time, it's going to get better.

00:58:20.060 We still have a housing shortage, and a lot of that was caused by the illegal immigration influx over the last four years.

00:58:27.120 But that's now kind of gone down to a trickle, so I do think it'll get better.

00:58:31.420 The other option, though, is can you move to a place that's less expensive as far as maybe a different town or a different state and still be able to be gainfully employed?

00:58:44.200 You should look into that because, you know, if you live in California and you make $100,000 a year but you've got to buy a million-dollar house,

00:58:50.820 then would you be better off living in South Carolina making $60,000 a year on a $200,000

00:58:58.920 house, which is the same type of house? You have to think about those types of things.

00:59:04.320 Is it wrong to file a lawsuit as a Christian? I would say the answer to that is no, but it 0.99

00:59:10.160 shouldn't be your first option. Back in biblical times, God set up judges, and people would take

00:59:17.440 their grievances to judges and the judges would determine what the answer was. And sometimes the

00:59:22.380 answer was, Hey, you need to give that person some of your crops or some of your livestock or

00:59:25.780 something like that. So it was the end result was the same. And I've had to be involved in lawsuits.

00:59:30.760 It was not anything that I enjoyed or was pleasant, but sometimes that is the only answer at the end,

00:59:36.900 but you should always, especially against a fellow brother or sister in Christ, you should

00:59:40.900 always try to resolve that outside the courtroom. Okay. What kind of things do I and Lisa invest in

00:59:53.300 for Daniel as autism as an adult? And I can talk about the investment. What else though would you

00:59:59.320 say as far as what should people invest in their time when their child is now an adult that's on

01:00:05.080 the spectrum well you definitely have to invest in things they're interested in right now Daniel's

01:00:13.660 very interested and since really since COVID before that it was photography for him but

01:00:19.640 all of a sudden during COVID he came and asked me if I had any paint which I've always liked

01:00:26.300 craft so I had a ton of craft paint and I gave it to him he had never expressed any interest in

01:00:32.420 painting before but he suddenly comes out with these like really good abstract art and I was

01:00:40.820 like wow okay and he's never stopped and so um we've invested a lot in canvases and paint and

01:00:49.520 um art classes and all of the things so this is mostly kind of abstract in fact I don't know if

01:00:56.120 we can get this on camera or not but this is a picture of a flag that he has painted for his

01:01:03.120 older brother because his brother asked him to do it and you can see it's not it's not going to be

01:01:07.540 detailed but it's abstract and his brother who is a u.s attorney is going to put that in his office

01:01:12.560 at the federal building which is kind of kind of cool and that's uh that's an oil paint he said

01:01:17.540 dad now it takes a week to dry so he had to tell me that tell me that last night so but as far as

01:01:22.500 investing, if it's talking financially, again, you want to look at what their needs are long-term

01:01:26.900 and invest accordingly. If it's a long-term need, we have a trust set up for Daniel. So right now,

01:01:32.600 while he doesn't have to have the money in that trust to live on, that's invested more in the

01:01:36.880 equities market, kind of like an S&P 500 index fund. If he has to live on it, you got to make

01:01:41.780 sure it's more conservative than that. All right, just a couple more. What have been the ramifications,

01:01:46.820 good or bad for cutting USAID. Remember that USAID? That's where we send all this money to

01:01:52.580 foreign countries and what have you. Well, one of the biggest things is we've got 14,000 less

01:01:57.800 federal employees, right? So 14,000 less federal employees, that means it saved tax dollars.

01:02:04.200 It also, what we did is we didn't get rid of all those programs. We realigned them so that they're

01:02:09.600 more in align with our interests. We were funding some crazy things. We were funding DEI. We were

01:02:14.320 funding abortion related services overseas and all that. And so those are being revamped. And we

01:02:20.820 were doing that at the tune of 60 to 70 billion dollars a year that wasn't doing anything for

01:02:26.460 America. And so those are being revamped and making sure that if we do do these aid programs,

01:02:32.660 that they follow what we believe in our basically our Judeo-Christian values that our country was

01:02:39.860 established on. So that's a good question. And I think it's going well. The other thing it says,

01:02:45.300 I would love positives about capitalism over socialism, trying to teach a high school

01:02:51.840 freshman. Well, there's just a couple of things. So most people would, a purely socialist country

01:02:58.400 is like China and Korea and what have you. But what we call democratic socialist, which is what

01:03:04.700 most of the people that own that line in our country are about. It's a country like Sweden.

01:03:10.240 And I think your high school freshman would relate to this, Sweden or Germany. Here's really all you

01:03:15.140 need to know. The average family income in the United States is $80,000 a year. In Sweden,

01:03:21.920 it's $45,000 a year because the government still takes most of it. Also, the average

01:03:29.160 cost of a home in Sweden is $360,000 a year. All right. In the U S it's a little higher,

01:03:36.460 $380,000 a year, but you make almost double the money in the U S. That's the difference between

01:03:44.120 capitalism and socialism. All right. Is that you're going to be much better off financially

01:03:50.120 because you're going to be able to achieve as much as you can achieve as opposed to kind of,

01:03:55.900 okay, I'm going to lower my achievement level down to the median, and we're all going to kind of

01:04:00.980 achieve the same. It doesn't work like that. You know, we're a sports culture. A lot of wives,

01:04:05.680 we're a sports culture, and we don't really like ties, right? We like winning or losing. We like 1.00

01:04:10.900 the winner. Sometimes we are the underdog. We want to build up the person that doesn't have a chance,

01:04:16.620 and maybe they'll overcome it sometimes. But in socialist countries, it's not like that. You have

01:04:22.420 to give up your excellence in order to help to move yourself down to the average. And that's

01:04:28.860 not something that you're going to want to do. All right. Last one I'm going to read is for a

01:04:36.640 young man who wants to be a great dad, but has no father figure. Where do I start? I can relate to

01:04:43.880 this in a way. As you know, my mom and dad divorced when I was 17 and my dad, our relationship while

01:04:49.620 it's okay, has not been close. So what I would recommend that you do is buy the book by John

01:04:57.340 Etheridge called Fathered by God. That's a really, really good book. Really good book. And then also,

01:05:02.980 I think you have to look for other mentors. I made a point to look for other mentors

01:05:06.920 in different areas of my life and learned. I didn't look at one mentor to mentor me in everything. I

01:05:13.740 wanted a different spiritual mentor than a financial mentor. And they changed over time,

01:05:18.800 too you know i have different mentors throughout different stages of my life so that's what i would

01:05:23.000 do with that uh on the next show the person that had the question about the census on wall street

01:05:28.800 journal article i will talk about that or either you can email me any question ron at ronsimmons.com

01:05:34.500 and uh if you want to get my book you just order it off of ali's website or you can email me

01:05:42.060 and i think 20 bucks i'll send you a book signed and everything don't forget to get ali's book this

01:05:47.860 is a great book. It's so important right now. What she's talking about right now is so, so important

01:05:54.180 as far as toxic empathy in this book. And it's not about being empathetically toxic. It's about

01:06:00.820 how the left uses our empathy against us. Make sure you do that right after you buy your tickets

01:06:07.280 to Share the Arrows, which is coming up in October. Thanks again. I know we went a little

01:06:10.720 long today, but hope you enjoyed the conversation. Lisa, thank you for being here. I hope you enjoyed

01:06:15.660 it. We almost kept it together. That's hard for us to do these days. Take care.

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