Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1343 ｜ Reading Rant, Met Gala Ratings & a Game of Guess Who

00:00:00.000 A minority of students can read at or above their grade's reading level. Literacy rates are going down in this country, and that has huge implications, not just for our future politically, but also for the state of our country spiritually.

00:00:17.080 I am going to show you this viral video that shows, sadly, what this looks like in our high

00:00:22.740 schools today. But I am going to talk about my solution to the reading crisis that we have in

00:00:28.840 our country. And then we'll also have producer Bree on, y'all. We're talking about the Met Gala,

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00:01:02.500 Hey, y'all. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. We've got a full and fun show for you today. Some

00:01:07.380 much needed comedic relief with producer Brie at the end of this episode and some pop culture

00:01:13.560 stuff. First, we got to talk about reading. Maybe that seems random, but this viral video showing

00:01:18.320 high school kids that can't read pretty basic words has really disturbed me. And so I am going

00:01:23.760 to go on a bit of a rant about the importance of reading, not just practically, but also spiritually

00:01:29.760 as Christians. And then I will also be giving, you know, my tips of just young kids of what

00:01:35.520 we've done to try to cultivate a love of reading in our home, and hopefully it's helpful for you,

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00:03:58.620 All right, let's get into our first story of the day, and that is about phonics.

00:04:03.920 How many of y'all, especially like 80s, 90s kids, remember Hooked on Phonics?

00:04:10.460 It was a game that taught you about the letter sounds and basically taught you how to read.

00:04:15.360 well we need to be hooked on phonics we need to get re-hooked on phonics there was this recent

00:04:20.740 viral video on tiktok i saw it on instagram like a good millennial that shows high schoolers

00:04:25.580 attempting to read and really struggling and look i i don't want to shame these individual kids

00:04:31.240 that's not what this is about um this is really about a system as we will talk about that has

00:04:37.820 not trained kids from an early age how to read we have unfortunately abandoned the tried and

00:04:45.340 true methods to teach kids phonics. And we've relied on these newfangled strategies that really

00:04:51.340 don't build lifelong readers. Plus, there is a deficit of parents reading to their kids. And so

00:04:57.080 this is not about shame. I just want to show you the example of what I'm talking about.

00:05:01.640 it's not one in this car for me she wore a suit clothes that were 0.75

00:05:09.000 who's this for extra ordinary but somewhat 1.00

00:05:17.300 gertrude no explain what that means i don't know she were a sahalat of clothes that were 1.00

00:05:27.440 extra during me whatever bro but somewhat what does that mean like she wore a lot wait she wore

00:05:34.920 bro i don't know bro okay so it goes on and on like that it's not just those two kids

00:05:40.440 um they're trying to say the word silhouette and extraordinary silhouette and extraordinary

00:05:45.380 um and those are i guess bigger words but these kids are in high school they're

00:05:50.860 not little kids the truth is is that this is indicative of a bigger trend that reading

00:05:56.040 proficiency has been declining for years now from 2019 to 2025. Fourth and eighth graders are down

00:06:03.380 about five points when it comes to their reading level and their literacy overall. Fewer than 35%

00:06:10.460 of students are considered proficient. Fewer than 35 and record high numbers of students score

00:06:15.740 below the basic reading level. Since around 2012, scores for younger students at ages 9 and 13 have

00:06:23.480 fallen by about five to seven points from the early 2010s. Okay. So we're not talking over the

00:06:28.720 past 30 to 50 years. We're talking like in the past 10 to 15 years, these declines were already

00:06:34.440 happening before 2020 pandemic and everything, the stay at home orders, which were just absolutely

00:06:41.160 catastrophic for kids in their education, but it got worse after that. And they're showing up

00:06:45.980 across student groups. The problem is especially bad for high schoolers. Current test results show

00:06:51.780 that the lowest reading levels in decades, that we've got the lowest reading levels in decades for

00:06:57.160 12th graders about 10 points below where they were in 1992, okay? Along with the highest percentages

00:07:03.480 ever of students falling below basic reading levels, okay? Basic reading levels. The majority

00:07:10.340 of high school seniors today do not even have an eighth grade reading level. There are a large

00:07:17.380 percentage of seniors today that don't have above a fourth grade reading level. There are middle

00:07:24.020 schoolers and high schoolers, a huge number of middle schoolers and high schoolers in America

00:07:29.020 today that have a kindergarten reading level. That's actually probably what we just saw there.

00:07:34.020 That was literally probably kindergarten, first, second grade reading level that we are seeing in

00:07:40.020 high schoolers. The decline is because of a trend to teach kids to guess words. This is what I think

00:07:44.880 anyway. And if you've watched the Sold a Story podcast, I really highly recommend the Sold a

00:07:50.500 Story podcast. She talks about this strategy of teaching kids to guess words, so use deductive

00:07:57.940 reasoning, rather than sounding them out based on a very pervasive but incorrect theory. This

00:08:06.140 happened in the early 2000s where we switched from phonics to this deductive reasoning,

00:08:11.520 sight words. And sight words became not just it or this or that or the or a, but even longer words

00:08:19.720 like weird or like beautiful. Those became sight words that kids were just supposed to memorize

00:08:26.180 and never have really any understanding of why that word makes that sound. This is the whole

00:08:32.820 language approach and it ditches phonics. It emphasizes immersion, so-called, in language.

00:08:39.100 There was a researcher named Marie Clay. She popularized these ideas in the mid-20th century with her reading recovery program. And the popularity of this approach really rose in the 1970s, but it became super popular in the 1990s, in the early 2000s.

00:08:55.880 And the idea is that children are naturally going to learn to read just like they naturally learn to speak just by being immersed.

00:09:02.160 So you just show them a bunch of words.

00:09:04.240 So in this program, the kids are encouraged just to use context clues and the overall meaning of a text or pictures.

00:09:10.940 There's even this example in this podcast of like a teacher would basically cover up all of the words on a book, show the picture and make the kids guess what the book says just based on the picture.

00:09:25.880 And then they would reveal the words, and that is how they would teach them how to read.

00:09:30.320 Proponents of this view often emphasize just overall comprehension of a text, that apparently

00:09:35.100 that is more important, and they believe that this facilitates a love of reading and stories.

00:09:41.960 And all of that sounds good.

00:09:43.120 It might even sound like it makes sense, but the results speak for themselves.

00:09:47.380 It does not actually result in children being able to read well.

00:09:51.660 And then there's another method that has also led to a lot of problems that we are seeing today.

00:09:57.200 And it's really important for us to know this as parents, especially if your kids are in public

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00:11:11.480 so there's another approach which i alluded to just a couple minutes ago

00:11:19.740 and that is reading the sight word that's the sight word method so the sight word method teaches

00:11:26.280 children just to recognize words instantly as whole units rather than sounding them out and so

00:11:34.640 this approach relies on repetition exposure visual memorization for children to learn new words

00:11:39.920 they again kind of like the other method we were talking about they're taught to guess words based

00:11:44.480 on context pictures and cues and this is called three uh it's a technique called three cueing

00:11:50.660 okay so they're looking at context clues and um there is some truth to this method because if you

00:11:57.540 are a reader whether you're just a good reader as a child or you're reading as an adult it is true

00:12:02.880 that we do not sound out every word and you shouldn't you actually do want to move beyond

00:12:08.020 being able to just or having to sound out every word that you're reading like you want to be able

00:12:13.740 to deduce what a word says based on the context based on the words around it based on some of

00:12:20.020 the letters that you see that makes you a quicker reader but that is not how we teach reading to

00:12:25.380 kids exclusively at a young age because if this is all that you're teaching kids then they don't

00:12:31.520 actually know how to approach unfamiliar words guessing based on context is not sufficient when

00:12:37.300 there is no context. Students need a really firm grounding on phonics and phonics specifically so

00:12:43.340 they can tackle unfamiliar words. That is actually, in my opinion, and I think a lot of teachers out

00:12:48.760 there would agree with me, the phonics are the foundation and then you kind of graduate to the

00:12:54.880 being able to deduce words. And honestly, I could see those happening at the same time, but any

00:13:01.720 reading method that forgoes phonics altogether is setting kids up for failure. So I've got a

00:13:07.540 spiel, okay? I've got a spiel on reading and just why reading is so important. Why did these

00:13:13.620 statistics matter? I could go on and on just about how important it is for our intellect and for our

00:13:22.340 formation as human beings to be able to read. I could go through all the statistics that show you

00:13:28.400 the dismal reading levels for high school graduates and all the data that shows that

00:13:33.540 this deductive reasoning is not good versus the phonics method. But I want to give you a bigger

00:13:39.720 picture of why, because maybe you're a parent and you're like, look, my sixth grader doesn't like

00:13:44.100 to read. It's too late. They're super into sports or they're super into science. It doesn't really

00:13:49.620 matter. Or maybe you're an adult and you're like, I don't even like to read and I'm not going to

00:13:54.360 push myself to read. And I just find it boring. There was a trend not too long ago that I saw

00:14:00.500 on Instagram of parents saying, confession, I don't like reading to my kids. I don't read to

00:14:05.860 my kids. They don't want to listen to me read. And it's boring. And I don't like it. I'm tired

00:14:11.400 at the end of the day. We're talking little kids. And I saw this statistic that says only 41% of

00:14:17.160 children. 41% of children age zero to four are read to daily as of 2025. That is a nine point

00:14:24.120 drop only since 2019. Only 55%, a little over half of children age zero to five are read to at least

00:14:34.520 five days a week. Okay. So about half of kids are probably never being read to, or maybe they're

00:14:42.320 just being read to randomly. There are a lot of parents who are overstimulated. They're tired.

00:14:47.980 They're distracted. It's really not about these kids having their own lack of discipline. It

00:14:53.900 starts with a lack of discipline and bad priorities for parents, honestly. And that's not to dismiss

00:15:00.860 the difficulty or the busyness of life, but it is to say our priorities are out of whack and we are

00:15:07.480 exchanging, I believe, difficulty for ourselves in reading to our kids for difficulty for them

00:15:17.540 for the rest of their lives because we're just too tired or too busy. So let me give you my spiel,

00:15:22.820 the why of reading to your kids and emphasizing the importance of reading to them. So here's my

00:15:31.220 first reason. The comprehension of words is necessary for understanding the world. It is

00:15:36.600 very difficult to be a diligent student, an informed voter, a productive citizen, a helpful

00:15:42.020 neighbor if you do not understand words, how they are formed, what they mean. Understanding words

00:15:48.640 is the basis for knowledge. It is the crux of communication. Words are necessary to convey

00:15:53.900 ideas, to tell a story, to inspire courage, to form movements, to lead nations. None of these

00:15:59.300 have ever been done purely through action. In fact, many acts of valor throughout history have

00:16:04.660 been accompanied by a speech, or we know about these heroic acts through stories without words

00:16:10.200 and the conveying of words throughout generations. We have no way to orient ourselves in human

00:16:14.460 history, no way to understand how we got here or where the path leads. Now, a person could have an

00:16:20.500 understanding of the spoken word without reading. That has been the case in many eras throughout

00:16:25.020 history and certain parts of the world, but not being able to read well severely limits your

00:16:30.860 vocabulary and that totally inhibits your access to the discovery of new words and thus new ideas

00:16:36.800 plus it is the written word by which we have reliable consistent renderings of ideas and

00:16:42.820 events which contain instruction inspiration warnings etc there is a reason why different

00:16:47.960 groups throughout history have been barred specifically from reading like slaves why the

00:16:52.440 protestant reformation boomed at the exact same time as the printing press and literacy rates

00:16:56.800 because reading liberates. It frees us of our own naivete. It unlocks potential in our brains

00:17:02.900 that has proven to be very threatening to tyranny, spiritual tyranny, intellectual tyranny,

00:17:07.880 and political tyranny. It is so easy to think of the small picture when it comes to reading

00:17:13.020 that, oh, it's boring. It's hard. It takes a long time. The minutiae. Who cares? It's just

00:17:18.500 putting words together. It's just a bunch of sounds that someone made meaningful through a

00:17:22.780 linguistic construct. Maybe that's the more sophisticated way to say that reading doesn't

00:17:27.780 really matter. Or just like the simple, it's boring. Or it's okay if my kid doesn't like

00:17:32.640 reading or I don't like reading. My kid will be good at other things. They won't need it anyway.

00:17:37.120 Wrong. Wrong. Reading is more important than soccer. It is more important than any extracurricular.

00:17:43.280 Your child will need their brain to think far longer than they will use their legs to score

00:17:47.400 goals. Cultivate in your child a love of reading and a discipline of reading. A second reason is

00:17:54.240 theological, specifically for the Christian. Unlike Buddhism, Christianity does not place 0.95

00:17:59.540 a premium on silence or the emptying of the mind. Christianity is a word-based faith. You go all the

00:18:05.600 way back to the beginning, God spoke the universe into existence. He didn't have to. He could have

00:18:10.680 used any mechanism or no mechanism at all to create the world, but he used words. He used

00:18:15.560 language. He dictated all of creation, including the creation of man and woman who are made in his

00:18:20.720 image. He spoke to Noah. He spoke to and through Moses. As if appearing in a burning bush wasn't 0.58

00:18:26.900 enough, God spoke to Moses as a burning bush, through the burning bush. Then God not only gave

00:18:32.900 Moses the law, he also said, I have written these things to you for your instruction. He wanted to

00:18:40.900 pass them down through the reading and the telling and the memorization of the law. God spoke to and

00:18:46.360 through all the prophets whose prophecies were written and read. He sent an angel to speak to

00:18:51.400 Mary. And then what does the Bible, the entire biblical narrative lead up to? What is the

00:18:56.920 fulfillment of God's eternal plan of redemption that's been unfolding every millisecond since

00:19:01.280 before time began? His name is Word. Jesus, the light of the world, God made flesh, the Savior of

00:19:07.300 his people is described in John 1 as the word, the logos. He had a ministry of deeds, yes, but

00:19:14.300 also of preaching and teaching and correction and reproof. To the priests and the leaders who

00:19:18.860 accused him, he said very little. He was like a sheep being led to the slaughter. But on the

00:19:23.440 cross, he echoed Psalm 22, which his Jewish audience knew because it had been written and

00:19:28.960 because it had been read, because it had been passed down. My God, my God, why have you forsaken

00:19:32.760 me. He rises again on the third day and speaks to the witnesses. And his last charge is this,

00:19:38.660 go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,

00:19:42.320 the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I've commanded you.

00:19:47.160 The acts of the apostles were written down to be read and heard. Paul wrote letters to the church

00:19:51.260 to be read and to be heard. Revelation 21, 5 says, and he who was seated on the throne said,

00:19:56.860 behold i am making all things new and he said write this down for these words are trustworthy

00:20:03.760 and true god ordained christianity to be passed down through words spoken and heard written and

00:20:10.880 read god is a god of order and from the beginning we see that words the ability to convey and

00:20:15.880 comprehend them are used to bring order in fact the dysregulation of words and the confusion of

00:20:21.620 language is a curse for the men who built the tower of babel that tells us something that there 0.80

00:20:26.260 is something peace-inducing about a shared understanding of words and the ability of a 0.62

00:20:31.040 rational populace to be able to communicate with them, to debate with them, to build good things

00:20:35.260 with them, to be able to read them fundamentally. And there's a lot that we could get into there

00:20:39.340 about the pitfalls of multiculturalism, by the way. But for now, I want to focus on what I feel

00:20:44.560 is an obligation of Christians to be the best thinkers, to be the best readers, the best

00:20:49.380 communicators in the world. We have a history of that. Christians dominated academia in this

00:20:54.580 country before giving it over to the liberals and the secularists over time. And now I think 0.94

00:20:59.040 we have the opportunity to take the lead again. We have to. I mean, look at where we are. We have

00:21:03.420 schools that are not teaching kids to read. We have people going to college and becoming lawyers

00:21:07.700 and doctors with barely a high school reading level. We're scared of objective standards here

00:21:13.580 in the U.S., standards of excellence because of whom they might exclude. And all of us are going

00:21:20.220 to suffer for that in so many ways. And that includes spiritually. Just like the Reformation,

00:21:25.420 just like the Great Awakenings, we need great writing and communicating to effectively

00:21:29.220 convey the Word of God. Not because God needs us, but because throughout history,

00:21:34.460 He has chosen to use those means specifically to spread His good news. And so I truly believe it is

00:21:40.840 not just a human responsibility and good for the flourishing of humankind, but that it is a

00:21:47.900 christian responsibility to be good readers y'all the bar is so low you want your kids to excel you

00:21:53.500 want your kids to stand out like i can tell you that now that i'm in the generation the position

00:21:57.720 of hiring people the thing that i am looking for are you a good communicator can you write well

00:22:04.040 can you speak well can you convey ideas respectively and impressively articulately

00:22:10.160 and if you can't like i'm just not interested in working with people who can't that all starts with

00:22:14.760 reading. And if you're like, okay, well, I don't know how to do that. I don't know where to start.

00:22:19.500 I'll just tell you a little bit of like what my mom and grandmother did and then what we have

00:22:24.200 tried our best to do with our kids and the successes that we've seen, the struggles that

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00:23:29.740 Okay. So my mom and my grandmother were both teachers. My grandmother lived with us until I

00:23:34.840 was about 13 years old. And so I had a privilege of being raised by educators. Also, I was just

00:23:42.500 born liking words. And I understand not everyone is built that way, but I enjoyed from an early

00:23:48.680 age learning about letters and reading and words and how they go together in communication. But

00:23:53.520 I don't think it's just innate. I also think it's because of how my family taught me from an early

00:24:00.000 age. And the emphasis was always on phonics, how the letters sound. And so even before probably I

00:24:09.040 just knew my ABCs, I knew the letter sounds. And I don't show videos of my kids. And so I thought

00:24:17.060 that you would enjoy this video from, gosh, probably 1993. My mom says I was probably about

00:24:24.120 18 months here, maybe 19 months here, doing my, uh, doing my letter sounds. So here's that.

00:24:31.180 Apple.

00:24:32.820 Apple.

00:24:34.280 Ah, ah, ah.

00:24:36.500 Baby. 0.84

00:24:37.720 Baby.

00:24:39.340 Puh, puh, puh. 0.78

00:24:41.120 Cookie.

00:24:42.920 Kuh, kuh, kuh.

00:24:45.280 Darling.

00:24:46.440 Darling.

00:24:47.200 Darling.

00:24:48.160 I won't play you the whole thing. She's got the video out there somewhere.

00:24:53.240 but the I learned the words associated with the letters and the sounds associated with the letters

00:25:00.620 as you can see I wasn't even too there and that was easy to memorize the tune was easy to memorize

00:25:05.700 and that is something that we have also adopted and tried with our kids now every kid is different

00:25:11.980 this worked really well for my oldest my second has needed something a little bit different to

00:25:17.120 help her memorize her letters and the sounds like that but I can tell you what really worked with

00:25:21.040 my oldest because we think very similarly. Before I ever taught her her ABCs, before she could say

00:25:27.520 the ABC sound, we were teaching the letter sound. So this is what I would do. We had these little

00:25:32.240 letter cards that we bought on Amazon and they had a little picture next to it. It really doesn't

00:25:38.120 matter as long as it's got the capital letter and the lowercase letter. I never taught her until

00:25:43.340 much later that this is A, this is B, this is C. I said this is A, this is B, this is K. And a little

00:25:50.780 bit different. You're not supposed to put the uh at the end of it, but you know what I mean.

00:25:53.840 And then eventually, again, before she was two years old, way before she was two, I was able to

00:25:58.960 lay out the letter cards and then out of order, I would be able to say, go get mm-mm-mm or go get

00:26:04.000 pu-pu-pu. And then she would be able to retrieve them and bring them to me. And she now, if I can

00:26:10.420 just say this about her, she is an excellent reader. And yes, she has words memorized for sure,

00:26:16.520 But her ability to sound out really big words, the other day she was reading something, she was reading the instructions on the back of a box and one of the words was proficient and she didn't get it exactly right.

00:26:29.700 I think she said like proficient or I don't remember exactly how she pronounced it, but it was really close.

00:26:35.500 And I really believe it is because of this building block, this foundation of learning phonics before she was one.

00:26:43.360 But then there's also or before she was two, rather. But then there is also the memorization that I think comes from reading your kids and allowing them to look at the words as you are reading. I am a big fan, a big fan of Dr. Seuss. There's also been Dr. Seuss hate. There was like some politically correct criticism of Dr. Seuss a few years ago. And then again, you got the toxic mommy culture on Axe being like, I don't like Dr. Seuss. I just don't enjoy them.

00:27:11.320 and I'm like, you're not the target audience, Jessica. Okay. The book isn't for you. It's for

00:27:17.000 your three-year-old. Okay. And it's fun. Fox and Socks. If you just tell yourself that you're

00:27:22.500 having a competition with all the moms in the world and you're trying to be the very best and

00:27:26.520 never stumble over anything in Fox and Socks, you can make it fun. And you don't have to read

00:27:31.720 every single page when they're that little until they can figure out that you're skipping.

00:27:34.600 but that was huge I mean we read Dr. Seuss and rhyming books like every day of her little life

00:27:41.860 she's also my COVID baby and so we had like a ton of time at home and I know it's a little bit

00:27:46.240 a little bit different now but that also helps and I think the rhyming really helped with

00:27:51.320 memorization because my opinion is that it's a combination of both it's a combination of the

00:27:56.060 memorization the sight reading the deductive reasoning using the context and the phonics

00:28:01.540 I'm not saying this as an educational professional.

00:28:04.880 I'm not saying this as a mom of 50 years.

00:28:07.580 I'm saying this as a mom of littles who also just learned a lot from my own parents who

00:28:12.940 were really good educators to me.

00:28:14.800 Okay, here is a video of me.

00:28:17.200 I was probably, I think my mom says three and a half here.

00:28:21.500 And this is an example of me having memorized it.

00:28:26.120 But because I had kind of done both, I was able to deduce.

00:28:30.200 She says it's a combination of my, of memory and her teaching me phonics.

00:28:48.920 Okay. So I thought that she would, I thought that you would enjoy that because all credit

00:28:56.840 It really does go to them for that.

00:28:59.180 But I can say that that is what set me up to do what I do now.

00:29:03.360 Like, that's why I love to write.

00:29:05.080 And I love to write all throughout school, all throughout college.

00:29:08.340 I still do.

00:29:09.140 I don't read as much as I want to.

00:29:11.920 I wish I could say I'm one of those people that like reads a new book every two weeks.

00:29:15.440 I just don't feel like I have time for that.

00:29:17.280 I do read several books, fiction books a year, because I think fiction is also really

00:29:22.100 important.

00:29:22.740 another tip that I would say that I have found works for us especially with my oldest we don't

00:29:28.180 do this as much with my middle and youngest yet but read books that are above their reading level

00:29:32.780 we read through Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe multiple times she's not reading those I mean I

00:29:37.480 could sit there and let her try to figure out how to read them we're just not doing that right now

00:29:42.340 and we are almost done with the second book in Little House on the Prairie and it takes us a

00:29:49.280 while. Like we read a chapter, half of a chapter every night. It's definitely above her reading

00:29:53.980 level, but, and she's not always paying attention. Like I don't make her sit still and ask questions.

00:29:59.180 Like sometimes she's flipping through another book. She's laying there. She's playing with

00:30:03.280 something as I'm reading, but I, I just believe I don't even have the statistics to back this up.

00:30:08.600 I just believe there is something about that, that stretches their minds and stretches their

00:30:13.780 imaginations that's good for them. My second learns totally differently. We have had to have

00:30:19.360 totally different methods in helping her memorize her letters. It's a ton of repetition, a ton of

00:30:24.800 visuals, a ton of even kinetic learning with her body. So I'm not saying that every child is the

00:30:30.540 same. Obviously, some children have dyslexia, special needs, things like that. But you as a

00:30:35.440 parent are more equipped than you think. It is more important than you think. Just because your

00:30:40.340 child has dyslexia or dysgraphia or something, do not let people convince you that they're just

00:30:45.500 never going to be able to read or that it's not important. You figure out, mom, what works for you

00:30:51.020 and what works for your child, and that will pay off for the rest of their lives. Don't let your

00:30:56.440 child be limited by the label that has been put on them. And educators who are doing this correctly,

00:31:03.260 thank you so much. Thank you so much to the teachers who are teaching phonics and who aren't

00:31:10.120 letting these children who maybe aren't read to at home, letting them just fall behind. Thank you

00:31:15.860 so much for the good teachers out there that are challenging us. This is a huge issue. This has to

00:31:21.560 do with not just literacy, but biblical illiteracy, which has huge moral existential implications for

00:31:28.940 our country. So read, make your children read, make it be fun. And I'm sure my mom would love

00:31:34.660 to come on here and give some more tips for how she did that for us. All right. Okay. That's the

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00:33:00.040 so producer brie welcome back hello thanks for having me again yes okay you are our fashion

00:33:06.780 connoisseur you are our hollywood liaison you are our expert on everything hollyweird thank you for

00:33:13.960 being here and we've got the capital of hollyweird at the met gala yep and so tell us a little bit

00:33:22.040 about what the met gala is and what the theme was this year just to give people some context

00:33:27.740 Yeah. So the Met Gala is a I'm probably going to use the wrong words. So sorry if anyone really knows about the Met Gala, but it's a fundraising benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Art. And the theme this year was fashion is art.

00:33:45.680 okay and then the dress code or the theme sorry that they mixed them up the theme was costume

00:33:52.000 art and then the dress code was fashion is art i remember being confused because those weren't the

00:33:59.000 same thing um but people took that to mean like taking inspiration from painting and like other

00:34:05.100 forms of art and dressing that way it's kind of up for interpretation a little bit some people

00:34:11.840 take it more literally some people will just dress in a pretty dress right yes and i think

00:34:17.320 that a lot of people who work with fashion houses pick their outfits like a year in advance so they

00:34:22.540 don't even they just kind of like make a story for it later and make it fit so and some people

00:34:27.300 go all in some people so we can't necessarily just judge the outfits that we're about to see

00:34:32.800 by whether or not well we could whether or not they're pretty or whether or not they fit the

00:34:37.440 theme or whether or not they're cool we could do that yes the whole concept i've explained this to

00:34:42.680 people last night even the whole concept is not like the oscars where you're just trying to look

00:34:47.800 really nice the concept is you're supposed to look like really out there and like campy and

00:34:52.760 um it's supposed to be costumey so the i like to think of it like if you look like you're going to

00:34:59.760 the oscars you've kind of failed the met gala because that's not the point of it yeah you know

00:35:04.060 And I think the theme one year was camp.

00:35:07.600 And those were pretty crazy, too.

00:35:10.180 Also, one thing to know is it is invite only.

00:35:13.080 You can't buy a ticket to it.

00:35:14.640 And once you're invited, you have to pay $100,000 to go.

00:35:18.220 So that's the ticket to get in.

00:35:20.140 Okay, I didn't know that. 0.95

00:35:21.380 That is interesting because didn't AOC go to the Met and she wore a gown that said, 1.00

00:35:27.560 Eat the Rich? 1.00

00:35:28.320 Yes.

00:35:28.840 And so that means did she also have to pay $100,000?

00:35:33.200 She very well could have.

00:35:34.560 I will say, I think there are some people who, like, if a fashion brand wants them to wear something, they'll pay for their ticket.

00:35:41.840 But I don't remember what she was wearing.

00:35:43.700 So it's very possible.

00:35:45.340 She did. 0.86

00:35:45.820 She paid $100,000 to wear an ugly dress. 1.00

00:35:47.940 Yes. 1.00

00:35:48.560 To a very elitist event.

00:35:50.100 I know.

00:35:50.480 Okay, so costume art, they say, will examine the centrality of the dressed body.

00:35:55.400 Of course.

00:35:56.000 Okay, the centrality of the dressed body.

00:35:57.940 I wonder if we could come up with a phrase like that.

00:36:00.140 um we are going to examine the uh the periphery of the dawned face and that has to do with glasses

00:36:13.340 I don't know if you know that or not and how people who wear glasses are continually

00:36:17.980 marginalized and pushed to the outskirts of society did you like that I love that that's

00:36:22.560 next year's Met Gala that's next year's Met Gala how did you know yeah I don't know I just know

00:36:26.980 So by interspersing garments and artwork to create pairings that not only illuminate the indivisible connection between clothing and the body, it's indivisible, but also the complex interplay between artistic representations of the body and fashion as an embodied art form.

00:36:44.100 Okay, so they have to express their own relationship to fashion.

00:36:48.500 The evening raised a record-breaking $42 million for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

00:36:56.980 What's what's that? What's that Kardashian quote? It's like people are starving, Kim.

00:37:02.620 That's how I feel about this.

00:37:04.840 People are starving. Yeah.

00:37:05.740 People are starving, Kim.

00:37:07.340 Yeah.

00:37:07.440 OK. Last year was 31 million. This year was 42 million. Wow.

00:37:12.320 Well, they upped the price. Last year was 75,000 a ticket.

00:37:15.260 OK.

00:37:15.760 So they were like, we didn't make enough money.

00:37:18.280 You know, by inflation. We're still dealing with it.

00:37:21.800 I know.

00:37:22.640 OK, let's get into our outfits.

00:37:25.760 okay I'm gonna change it up on us okay one is the best I knew I knew you would go there okay

00:37:33.960 I know because last time oh and I think we didn't say this this all happened on Monday

00:37:37.580 by the way yes okay so we've got some voiceovers and we've got some pictures so first we're gonna

00:37:42.460 play Emma Chamberlain and this is just a silent video where we're gonna be watching her okay it's 0.94

00:37:49.100 not a silent video it's just a picture yep um okay so she has that's scary but her dress is

00:37:59.680 like a painting yes so she obviously went with a theme yes she did go with a theme she was one of

00:38:05.220 the first to arrive okay and she's an influencer coffee mogul yeah i think she's like a youtuber

00:38:11.360 yeah first yes but yeah she's a coffee company um yeah so the top is like it's hard to see without

00:38:18.160 being close up but it's like acrylic paint and then it goes down and at the bottom it's like

00:38:22.380 watercolor effect her sleeves are like dripping down like they're paint yeah okay i feel like i

00:38:30.620 kind of like that it fits the theme and it's pretty in a way so i don't like her makeup and

00:38:36.420 stuff always looks like that she's a little odd she's trying to be odd yep okay i feel like it's

00:38:42.080 pretty good like i'm probably gonna go with like a three one's the best one's the best i loved this

00:38:48.040 actually i would say two two i loved it i agree with the hair and makeup that's her thing and i 0.97

00:38:53.340 wish it wasn't but yeah she's very pretty yeah she just likes to she likes the odd looks and

00:38:58.880 the washed out eyebrows i will never understand kylie jenner had that too we can't play kylie

00:39:03.660 jenner's because i don't think we have hers it was inappropriate yeah there were a few but i don't

00:39:09.400 understand the bleached eyebrows that's been around for a while i know it doesn't look good

00:39:14.120 on anyone it looks good on no one but I guess that's not the point yeah okay Hudson Williams

00:39:19.000 um he is in that uh it's heated rivalry I have never seen it or read it and I never will but

00:39:28.260 I feel like I see it on the gay hockey player show yeah yeah okay what do we think Brie I'll 0.98

00:39:35.360 let you have the first word here I mean he looks like a gay matador he does which I think is what 0.93

00:39:43.860 he was going for yeah so i don't know if we have a close-up of his face but his like eye makeup 1.00

00:39:50.740 is insane it's just color everywhere oh so he does worse up close if you zoom into his face

00:39:58.760 it looks worse it actually looks better from far away yes i saw someone say he looks like

00:40:03.640 a crow that was converted into a human oh my gosh what i think that i think he does look like that

00:40:12.700 okay i was gonna say there's something about him i think it's the eye makeup

00:40:16.420 that looks like uh rufio from hook rufio you know i don't know what i don't know that has

00:40:25.840 everyone in here seen hook with okay no one i'm not gonna know like the wow okay well anyway he 0.89

00:40:33.480 just kind of looks like that with the eye makeup that's the only thing that i thought of but gay

00:40:38.580 matador embodied crow i like that better i like that better than my take okay um let's look at

00:40:45.780 heidi klum uh yes okay heidi yep i'm impressed yes i'm impressed for those of you who are

00:40:56.160 listening it's a like she's a statue yeah which is i have no idea what material she's wearing or

00:41:03.960 how do you know about her halloween costumes oh yeah because she's like queen of halloween she 0.99

00:41:10.040 always has the weirdest yeah craziest halloween costumes and so i think she just leaned into that 1.00

00:41:15.480 here and her face is scary i respect it i respect it i kind of respect it too i mean it's not

00:41:23.180 like pretty but i see what she's going for so yeah i'm gonna give it a two and a half or maybe

00:41:30.680 even a two just for being so like on theme literal i'm gonna give it a three i also respect

00:41:38.480 that she didn't feel the necessity to make everyone know it was her yeah i respect that

00:41:43.500 about her but everyone did everyone did everyone did we didn't rate hudson also we didn't rate 0.84

00:41:49.240 hudson oh oh i give him a seven okay i give him an eight one being the best yeah okay yeah gay

00:41:58.160 matador okay let's go to um sabrina carpenter um she looks really pretty i don't understand 0.98

00:42:08.300 i don't know if it's art necessarily but she looks really pretty she looks like a flapper

00:42:13.340 kind of i don't know if we have another angle of it this was my favorite one

00:42:16.940 okay because her whole dress is made out of film strips oh and when you look up close it's all

00:42:24.180 film strips from the movie sabrina and which i haven't seen but um but i just thought it was so

00:42:30.380 cool it was such a cool play on like art and i guess i'm like a little just like narcissistic

00:42:36.960 but what i mean what am i expecting but i know but it's the name um it's not like i thought any

00:42:45.400 different i think she looks really pretty i like the people that can accomplish going with the

00:42:50.140 theme and looking really pretty yeah and i think she nailed it okay i love this please please please

00:42:57.700 give me a rating one okay it's your favorite favorite okay i just have to i feel like i can't

00:43:07.900 i want to reserve one for my very favorite so i'm gonna give it a tentative two okay just because i

00:43:13.880 haven't seen the rest of them yet but she looks really good so good job sabrina good job sabrina

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00:44:15.140 okay connor's story i think this is the other person the other hockey player there's no

00:44:27.540 heterosexual way for a man to wear a halter so we know what he's going for yeah we didn't need

00:44:34.360 to be doing the halter top also he's got like pearl earrings in so it looks we have gay matador 0.69

00:44:40.640 a gay grandma they did love it into the the theme of their show i guess um it looks like he just

00:44:48.320 went to h&m before this though it's it's like not anything yeah and i don't see the art no behind

00:44:55.660 it he kind of looks like patrick swayze a little bit um yeah i don't like it at all i'm gonna go

00:45:03.000 with like nine yeah nine and a half yeah wow yeah yeah okay yeah bad don't like it okay travis

00:45:14.640 kelsey i'm just kidding it's sam smith they're confused back there they're like um okay there

00:45:23.080 was a tweet going around that said this was travis kelsey and honestly i almost fell for it

00:45:28.240 Because I was like, it kind of looks like him.

00:45:30.680 It does. 0.56

00:45:31.500 But I was like, wait, why does Travis Kelsey look so gay? 0.90

00:45:36.340 But it's not. 0.57

00:45:37.320 It's Sam Smith.

00:45:37.880 And that makes a lot more sense.

00:45:39.140 Makes complete sense.

00:45:40.860 He looks like in the Emperor's New Groove.

00:45:45.720 You know, the pull the lever cronk?

00:45:49.540 Yeah.

00:45:50.400 Yes.

00:45:51.300 That's what he looks like.

00:45:52.300 Okay, the big feather.

00:45:53.980 Yeah.

00:45:54.980 You know, I appreciate that he's completely covered up.

00:45:58.240 you know he's not always when i see videos of his concerts and stuff and he really does

00:46:03.700 he like is an individual that makes me sad in a lot of ways because i feel like he's just changed

00:46:08.540 a lot i just i'm not gonna i'm not gonna rate him very high i'm also gonna go with like a nine i

00:46:14.660 also don't see the relationship to the theme no i'm sure there's something that they made up but

00:46:19.380 uh i'm gonna say seven and he's basically wearing a dress so yes yeah okay jordan roth i don't know

00:46:25.920 who jordan roth is okay this is also a man wearing a dress and he has a fake human but on his back

00:46:33.740 yeah yeah i don't know he looks like a demon i don't i don't know what it's supposed to mean

00:46:44.400 i'm sure there's some meaning they came up with but yeah it's horrifying

00:46:50.080 wearing high heels okay we're gonna go with a 10 on that one 10 be the worst 10 i'm gonna say eight

00:46:55.960 just because it's memorable okay uh hugh jackman please be normal please be normal please be

00:47:01.020 normal oh this is this is the hand poking him in the eye okay well hugh jackman just looks like he

00:47:07.840 is wearing a tux and so i like that for him well that is the met gala oh i don't know you don't

00:47:17.280 think he gets a neutral five for that i think okay fine that's fine but i don't i don't like

00:47:23.660 men wearing girls clothes i'm not as okay with that as you are um i just think weird okay here's

00:47:30.800 one that i think is masculine but also maybe on theme okay uh patrick schwarzenegger please

00:47:36.040 oh patrick now i don't understand the cane can you explain that i can't explain that i really can't

00:47:42.520 i've struggled with this one a little bit because there were multiple canes

00:47:47.560 so i must be missing something yeah i don't know some some piece of art some piece of art

00:47:54.560 yeah i don't really know what it has to do with the theme and maybe it doesn't i feel like this

00:47:58.920 is one that he maybe would have picked out a while ago i think it looks nice i think it looks

00:48:03.580 nice like i'm probably gonna give it a four i don't love that it looks like he's just wearing

00:48:09.920 high-waisted pants in a crop crop motorcycle jacket but it is unique yeah so i'll give him

00:48:18.160 that okay i guess sarah paulson an actress i don't know who she is yes she's got an ugly gray dress 1.00

00:48:25.320 on so much tool never seen more tool in my life yeah and then she's got like a dollar bill over 0.99

00:48:30.640 her eyes yes i don't know if she's trying to make a statement she is it's uh she's making a statement

00:48:36.500 about the one percent it's a one dollar bill um of which she is a part of which she is a part

00:48:44.260 yeah and so is everyone there um so a lot of people are saying it's ironic some people are

00:48:50.820 saying oh she she knows that she's playing into it i don't know how she would not know that but

00:48:56.540 still it's pretty i don't like it at all the the dress also is just awful it's really bad and it

00:49:02.400 doesn't it's not like it fits the theme so i'm gonna give this a 10 being the worst yeah it's

00:49:10.780 bad um yeah i give it a nine okay um okay i don't know if we can do all of these let's do olivia

00:49:18.800 wild unless you really want to do this person named lisa i don't know who lisa is lisa's i

00:49:24.180 haven't seen this one actually wild has like um one of those what's what's that thing called that

00:49:30.860 they used to wear like back in the 1700s like a no a what no none of y'all are correct um it's

00:49:40.300 the thing that they used to wear like on the back of their dresses to like make it stick out and

00:49:45.140 stick up i forget what i don't know what it's called um but anyway it's like a basket on her

00:49:49.940 behind and she's wearing a super loose ponytail don't like no no i don't like anything about this 0.75

00:49:57.480 like i'm also probably gonna rate it a nine she's pretty the dress itself i guess is fine but doesn't

00:50:02.900 fit the theme what do you think i think it's boring in all the wrong ways yeah and interesting

00:50:08.800 in all the wrong ways so yeah i also i'm gonna say 10 okay yeah let's do eileen goo

00:50:16.520 v04 she's the snowboarder oh i was thinking the other girl that you posted alissa alissa yeah

00:50:27.660 yeah this is the snowboarder who competed for china yes i don't like her at all and now she's

00:50:32.440 here at our met gala she looks really pretty and she's pretty she's pretty she's pretty 1.00

00:50:37.180 and her bubble address is really cool so yeah but she should be competing for america she should

00:50:43.640 be a citizen of china how about that pick pick one okay ccp pick me here at the mad gala don't

00:50:53.180 like you but you are really pretty okay um katie perry let's look at her is justin trudeau with 0.95

00:50:59.180 her i didn't see him interesting she's got a mask on i saw her open the mask at one point 0.85

00:51:08.200 what do you think about this she also has one glove that has six fingers on it okay so it's

00:51:15.680 a statement i guess on ai because you know ai used to distort fingers so that was uh why the 0.59

00:51:24.980 mask you think i don't know it's faceless robots like she almost looks like a fencer she also kind

00:51:31.300 looks like a nun with like the black hair oh yeah so i don't know the dress and the dress is like 0.76

00:51:38.740 torn in the back see that i was like supposed to be torn back there i don't know don't like it

00:51:44.860 i'm getting grumpy i'm gonna give it a nine all of them have been nine or ten um i'll give it a

00:51:52.200 seven i guess she tried to do something yeah okay whatever um okay this might be my personal

00:51:58.940 favorite even though i don't like this person as an artist bad bunny i don't know why i just think

00:52:06.480 the like commitment to the costume you can't tell that that's him at all no you're right it is a big

00:52:14.500 commitment to the costume and i do respect that again yeah he wasn't asking anyone again oh yeah

00:52:20.840 well this fits the bit so it does i don't know what it's for look he even i think if you zoom

00:52:27.860 in they even made his hands look really old like that nobody is commitment if he would have worn

00:52:34.320 this to the super bowl i might have felt differently really i don't know it might

00:52:39.780 have just been interesting performed in this yeah okay yeah bad bunny and how do people know who

00:52:47.920 these people are are they like announced um i've seen a clip where reporters are calling the wrong

00:52:54.260 name for people so i don't know i think it's up to the publicist that they're with if you want to

00:52:58.600 tell people who they are but okay overall did you enjoy your mat gala experience i did i thought

00:53:04.640 there were more i think maybe i just like the theme because i appreciated more of the outfits

00:53:10.440 than i normally do okay normally i feel like they're awful all of them so i was entertained

00:53:16.280 okay yeah there we go well thanks so much for your mat gala insight of course

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00:54:22.320 segment well for our show uh segment on this show to close out Wednesday's episode okay

00:54:29.880 okay so we have to ask and we have to figure out who is on our own forehead and we only have time

00:54:35.640 for a couple rounds maybe we'll try to do some bonus and put it on social media okay Brie would

00:54:40.640 I um want to hang out with this person no okay um do I entertain people

00:54:52.200 yeah living yes you do okay okay um do i do i ali share this person's values no okay not one bit

00:55:07.140 okay um do i am i a polarizing person politically yes you are you are um am i a politician no

00:55:21.320 okay nope okay can't say more than that okay um okay do i have um have i been in the news

00:55:34.000 recently yeah oh um am i on television

00:55:40.040 um not like as your job okay been on television i've been on television maybe not regularly

00:55:49.060 uh yes okay okay okay I don't know if we're thinking about it in the same way

00:55:57.860 I've seen you on television before okay um okay do I would I be a guest on relatable

00:56:07.380 yes i would invite you ah i would invite you um

00:56:15.580 would do

00:56:19.960 am i a singer yes i don't know why i had to think about that yes you are okay you are

00:56:31.740 okay if I were running for president would I vote for me wait what if I were if I were running for

00:56:43.540 president would Brie vote for me it really depends on who the other person was honestly at this point

00:56:50.500 probably yes problem probably honestly I have more to say but I'm not I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say

00:57:00.660 okay um am I a woman yeah um okay do I act

00:57:15.020 no you don't but I'm an entertainer yes um am I young like am I millennial gen z

00:57:26.720 you're gen z

00:57:29.380 i think yeah okay yeah um am i sabrina carpenter no okay you're not okay

00:57:41.260 close though okay um close oh gosh the other person thinking about i can't think about

00:57:47.520 oh i better know who it is okay go you can ask me a question okay um okay i'm a singer yes

00:57:55.000 oh that i would vote for because i have to

00:57:59.080 i have to vote for this person am i billy eilish no dang it i really thought it was

00:58:07.060 that's a good guess you're not okay do i have like a distinct look about me you do have a

00:58:13.100 distinct look okay um am i that olivia girl that is a skinny singer skinny singer gen z no okay

00:58:24.580 olivia rodrigo yeah yeah yeah okay i'm a woman gen z singer who i i don't share any of these

00:58:31.780 values i am not billy eilish i'm not sabrina carpenter i'm not olivia rodrigo no well that

00:58:37.140 covers it for me it doesn't you know this person um okay i don't know if i could even give i can't

00:58:44.640 give you any hints um okay am i a man no no um have i talked about this person on relatable yes

00:58:55.960 yes um have you talked about me unrelatable yes okay okay okay it can't be cynthia erivo because

00:59:09.140 she's not gen z unless you're just wrong i'm not wrong ariana grande is also not gen z

00:59:17.240 you've got it you your first guess was so close my first guess being sabrina carpenter was so

00:59:25.700 close yeah yeah yeah it was um am i have no idea okay i'm gonna have to ask more questions go ahead

00:59:37.180 am i um am i married to a woman no no no definitely not i don't know if you're married

00:59:51.300 i don't think you're married but you're definitely not married to a woman as far as i know you are

00:59:56.500 very straight wait oh okay i see yeah yeah okay um okay i'm afraid to say what i want to say

01:00:10.380 because i'm afraid of how it's going to be clipped i'm i'll say am i am i an lgbtq ally

01:00:20.000 you sure are you sure am i lgbtq myself yes very

01:00:27.420 you're very honestly if you don't have it at this point i don't know i'm a woman i don't know

01:00:36.180 an actual woman i was born a woman yes and i'm like sabrina carpenter yes

01:00:42.320 are you sure i know who this person is i've talked about them you do am i jojo siwa

01:00:50.000 am i jojo siwa you would not vote for jojo siwa i can't think of one singer that i is it taylor

01:01:01.500 swift my taylor swift no i don't think you would vote for taylor swift am i taylor swift

01:01:06.800 but again close she's a millennial though yeah she's a millennial yeah okay ask me another

01:01:14.520 question um okay do i

01:01:20.000 oh gosh i don't know you've really got me all i both of us are so okay you ask more questions

01:01:29.280 though there are more questions that you can ask about this person you 100 know who this person is

01:01:35.240 we can maybe start giving clues like recently has been very prominent

01:01:42.400 okay that does not help me okay what okay this kind of pop singer yes pop yes i don't know why

01:01:51.780 i asked that that narrows it down zero for me yeah you already knew you already i feel like

01:01:57.040 you already have all the clues so i'm not it's it's just okay i will say i don't know how you

01:02:04.380 haven't gotten yours yet well same i will say your purse this isn't going to help you your

01:02:09.220 person was not at the Met Gala last night your person wasn't at the Met Gala either but kind of

01:02:14.920 dresses like she would always be am I Madonna no you wouldn't vote for Madonna no I keep forgetting

01:02:25.300 that part okay like what are the few singers who have am I Carrie Underwood no good guess

01:02:32.040 very good guess very good guess but she doesn't have I wouldn't say she has like a distinct Met

01:02:37.620 gala look oh true this person is a little bit bizarre and i would vote for them because i had

01:02:44.880 to yeah i know i wouldn't vote for this person this person also dresses like they are at the

01:02:51.280 gala sometimes they've got almost all the time not lady gaga no close to lady gaga the peanut

01:03:00.320 gallery says yeah you've got you've Miley Cyrus no I am these are all really good guesses though

01:03:11.840 Miley Cyrus is also millennial yeah Lady Gaga is might be Gen X that's yeah okay I really I have

01:03:19.780 no idea we're only gonna be able to do one round you gotta keep going you got to okay you haven't

01:03:24.820 even ask what kind of music oh am well am I a pop singer no you're not I don't even know what

01:03:36.360 kind of singer if I tell you you're gonna know I am oh okay am I in a band she has a song about

01:03:44.360 snakes she has a song about one snake

01:03:52.580 what is am i am i nikki minaj

01:04:02.900 oh it all makes sense now that being the clue that

01:04:09.620 okay give me another clue that was good um

01:04:14.740 okay like a song can you give me a hint about a song oh okay alter ego she says she has a song

01:04:25.420 about a horse

01:04:26.420 oh my gosh i didn't know who this person is you didn't get it after lgbtq icon

01:04:38.220 no i did not oh my gosh wow okay oh i have to vote for nikki minaj if you had to

01:04:47.000 you're right that was her versus gavin yeah yeah

01:04:50.660 okay y'all that concludes today's full episode of relatable we'll be back here on friday

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - May 06, 2026

Ep 1343 ｜ Reading Rant, Met Gala Ratings & a Game of Guess Who

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