Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 500 ｜ 500th Episode! You’re In for a Treat

00:00:00.000 there will probably be some ad-lib as usual just FYI hello hello hello

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00:00:13.740 so they do every morning they love it are we doing the bump-in or no

00:00:19.620 I need a little more headroom

00:00:22.820 oh it's still attached to me I think I end up like slouching throughout let me also

00:00:37.580 oh okay I never know that y'all are waiting on me so I'm good okay I'll do an intro

00:00:43.660 hey guys hey guys hey guys hey guys hey guys hey guys hey guys hey guys welcome to Relatable

00:00:55.760 happy Monday happy Tuesday happy Wednesday happy Thursday hope everyone has had a wonderful week

00:01:02.000 you've almost made it to Friday today I'm having a wonderful fascinating interview with a wonderful

00:01:07.600 fascinating person well it's my pleasure Ali Beth thank you for the privilege thanks for having me

00:01:12.060 thanks for having me well thank you Ali it's been good to talk with you thank you so much

00:01:15.940 thanks Ali thank you very much for having me on thanks Ali it's my pleasure thank you thanks for

00:01:20.960 having me Ali thanks a lot appreciate it that's kind of an awkward ending I thought I had to say

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00:02:03.000 smile. I'm ready whenever. Hello. Welcome to Relatable. I am so excited to do this 500th

00:02:14.520 episode. If you are listening to this, you need to watch it when it comes out this evening on

00:02:22.520 YouTube. Also, if you're watching on YouTube, we've got a new camera, so it looks a little bit

00:02:27.260 different than it usually does. I would love your feedback. Tell me what you think about the

00:02:31.380 coloring, about the lighting. We thought, hey, 500th episode, it's a special episode. Let's just

00:02:35.960 change it up. Let's see how it goes. Today, we've got a lot of fun things in store because I just

00:02:42.780 wanted to celebrate. We're not talking about the news. We're not talking about theology. There's a

00:02:46.780 lot that's going on, but I just wanted to take a little bit to share my appreciation with you guys

00:02:55.320 and to talk about the podcast, how the podcast got started. Maybe you're just tuning into the podcast,

00:02:59.600 and so you don't even know who I am or what this is all about. I'm going to give you some context.

00:03:04.420 I'm going to back up a little bit, tell you how this whole shebang got started, and then we're

00:03:09.040 going to do some fun things. We've got some special guests who are going to answer some ridiculous

00:03:15.200 would-you-rathers that I sent out to them. I might introduce you to my team behind the scenes. We're

00:03:20.920 going to listen to some voicemails from you guys, and then at the end, we're also going to do a

00:03:28.220 giveaway. Like I said, you have to go watch because the beginning little extended introduction

00:03:33.620 is a really cute little montage of different parts of Relatable behind the scenes and different

00:03:40.460 things that happen. Make sure that you go watch that. All right, let's go ahead and start by talking

00:03:49.560 about Relatable and how Relatable started. It's going to take backing up not just to 2018 when

00:03:58.800 this podcast started, but really 2017, maybe even 2015. Let me think about how far I want to go back.

00:04:05.020 I'll give you a summary. Graduated from college, 2014. Went into PR because I majored in communication

00:04:11.820 studies, so I was in PR, social media strategy. In 2015, I wanted to get into kind of the world of

00:04:23.620 politics, but I didn't know how to start. I've always liked speaking in front of people. I've

00:04:27.380 always liked talking. My report cards growing up can tell you that the only thing that I've ever done

00:04:34.460 is talk while the teacher is talking, while I'm not supposed to be talking. And so that I am

00:04:39.880 hosting a podcast makes a whole lot of sense. It's all that I've ever wanted to do. And I loved

00:04:47.680 Megyn Kelly when I was in high school. I wanted to do what Megyn Kelly did, but I didn't know

00:04:52.360 what that looked like or how the heck I was going to get there. And I just remember sitting in my

00:04:56.300 apartment in like 2015 thinking, okay, I've always said that I want to somehow do something with the

00:05:02.800 news, maybe do something with politics, but I am not doing anything to get myself there.

00:05:09.880 So I just decided that I was going to start talking about the primary elections. This was

00:05:16.360 before the 2016 election. And I lived in Athens, Georgia at the time. I had moved there for my job

00:05:22.540 after college. I had met my husband. I got married in 2015. And I just said, you know what? I am going

00:05:29.940 to take the opportunity that I have right now where I have some extra time with the job that I'm doing,

00:05:36.840 and I am going to try to start something. And the thing that I started was speaking to sororities

00:05:42.400 on sorority row at UGA, at the University of Georgia in Athens. And I just said, you know what?

00:05:48.880 I think that this is an audience I can connect to. I was in a sorority. I was only a year out of

00:05:53.100 college. And so I'm going to talk to these sorority girls at their chapter meeting about 0.99

00:05:57.220 why they need to vote in the primary. I tried to make it kind of nonpartisan. I'm sure it maybe had a

00:06:01.860 conservative bent. But I would go to these chapter meetings. I would reach out to the chapter

00:06:05.760 president and say, hey, can I come speak at your chapter meeting? Not asking for money,

00:06:10.380 not asking for anything. I really just wanted an audience. It was something that I wanted to do.

00:06:14.720 I felt like I had this pent-up energy and all of these dreams that I didn't know how to accomplish

00:06:21.220 them. And I didn't know how to get this energy and these desires to speak in front of people about

00:06:25.400 things that I care about out. And so that's what speaking at these sororities did for me.

00:06:32.260 And once I started speaking, I just loved it. And I was getting emails saying, you know, my

00:06:37.440 professor said this about the election or my professor said this about political history.

00:06:41.880 What do you think about that? And I would start to answer these emails. And I was like, wow,

00:06:45.420 I absolutely love this. And so then I decided to start a blog in 2000. I think it was maybe the end of

00:06:53.760 2015, 2016, maybe, called the conservative millennial. And at the time, now millennials

00:07:00.380 were like old and chuggy now. But then millennials were like, you know, the young generation, the 0.93

00:07:06.220 generation still in college. And to be a conservative millennial was, you know, people saw that as a kind

00:07:13.860 of paradox. And so it was a clever name at the time. And I started to, you know, write blog posts.

00:07:20.360 I started to talk about the primary debates that were happening. And then I started to make videos.

00:07:25.280 My first ever video on the conservative millennial Facebook page was about Harambi and how ridiculous

00:07:30.580 it was that people were freaking out about Harambi being killed when that was necessary to save the

00:07:38.740 life of this poor child that had fallen into his little habitation. And talked about, you know,

00:07:45.340 how our priorities are out of whack when it comes to what kind of lives we prioritize and which ones

00:07:53.460 we don't. And then I just continued to make those videos. And at first, I mean, I had like no

00:07:58.920 followers because I had a full-time job. This was a side thing for me. I think it was just more seen

00:08:04.060 as a hobby. Now, my parents and my husband were fully supportive in all of that. But I don't think

00:08:08.680 any of us thought that necessarily it was going to turn into a career. I didn't have any connections.

00:08:13.740 Like no one was funding me. No one was paying me to do this stuff. This was just extra time that I

00:08:19.820 was spending on something that I really liked and kind of it just satisfied that itch that I had to

00:08:25.920 communicate about things that I cared about. And so I continued making these videos. And then

00:08:30.800 my audience started to kind of slowly grow on Facebook. And I continued to write. I would seek

00:08:37.500 out places to speak, whether it was like a local Republican club or something like that. Again,

00:08:43.500 not for any money. I'm basically paying with my time and my energy to do this. And then I think

00:08:50.920 it was, no, I remember it was right before the 2016 election. I think it was like in October of 2016,

00:09:00.600 I did this video just saying, yeah, I'm a Christian, I'm a woman, and I'm voting for Donald Trump.

00:09:07.320 And that got hundreds of thousands of views. And that was the first time I had gotten anything close

00:09:11.640 to that. And then at the beginning of 2017, I did some kind of like funny video about how ridiculous

00:09:17.280 I thought the women's march was. And that ended up getting over a million views. And so I just started

00:09:23.980 doing videos and they started getting hundreds of thousands and millions of views. And then in 2017,

00:09:28.720 I started working for what was called the blaze. Now it's blaze TV, but what was called the blaze and

00:09:37.380 how, and if you've read my book and maybe if you've been listening since the very beginning,

00:09:42.360 you probably know this story, but how I got connected to blaze TV or the blaze was not

00:09:47.720 anyone noticing me or seeing my videos or, you know, picking up, picking up the phone and be like,

00:09:53.660 we got to get this Allie Stuckey girl or any kind of important connections. It wasn't that at all.

00:09:58.900 I was still just trying to figure out how can I get into media? What does that even look like? I,

00:10:05.440 I don't, I don't even know where to start. The only connection that I had, my friend whose name

00:10:11.040 is Mary Ashley, still one of my very good friends to this day. And she had, um, she had done like

00:10:19.020 the traffic and maybe the weather. Sorry, Mary Ashley, if I got that wrong, but she had worked

00:10:23.120 with me at this PR firm and she had also done like the traffic for the radio station. And that was

00:10:30.020 literally the only connection to media that I had this little like local, uh, radio station.

00:10:37.000 I, I just asked her, Hey, like your, uh, your boss at the radio station. Could I, could I meet with

00:10:43.300 him? His name was Pete. And she was like, sure. Here's this number. I mean, where is this possibly

00:10:48.760 going to lead? So I call this guy, Pete over and over again, just asking if he would meet with me,

00:10:53.460 not even knowing like what I want to get out of this meeting. Is he going to put me on the radio?

00:10:57.560 Oh, I have no idea. Uh, and he ignores me. He ignores me because why would he, you know,

00:11:04.220 talk to this 23 year old who has no idea what she's talking about and can give him no value.

00:11:08.820 Uh, but finally, you know, I call, I said, you know what? Okay. I'm going to call him one more time.

00:11:15.480 And so, and I, we were actually moving out of Athens the next day. And I said, okay, maybe if he

00:11:20.720 knows that I'm not trying to get anything from him, I just want to talk to him. Then he'll call me

00:11:25.520 back. So I call him and I left the voicemail and I said, Hey Steve, or Hey Pete, Steve comes later.

00:11:30.540 Uh, uh, Hey Pete, like we're moving tomorrow. And I just, I just want to talk to you. That's all I

00:11:35.600 want. I just want to meet with you. So I go in. So he calls me back and he says, okay, fine. I'll

00:11:39.660 meet with you. And so I go into his office, which is like very 1990s. There's like, you know, uh,

00:11:46.080 like framed, uh, framed like Britney Spears record, like in the corner of his very scattered

00:11:53.240 office. And, um, I just tell him, I said, you know, I'm a conservative. I like talking about

00:11:58.720 conservative politics. I don't know what I want to do. I don't know if I want to, you know, do

00:12:02.500 something in the radio or anything like that. I don't know what that looks like. I just am asking

00:12:06.840 like, if you have any advice or you have any connections. And he said, you know, I really

00:12:11.940 don't, I don't really have any connections to conservative radio. I don't even know what

00:12:16.160 his politics were, but, um, he said, I know one person who might have connections to people

00:12:22.280 in radio and his name is Steve and he lives in Nashville and I'll give you his number and

00:12:27.120 maybe he has some connections for you. So talk to Steve and I talked to Steve on the phone.

00:12:32.880 I remember I was standing in our empty apartment in Athens because we were about to move and he was

00:12:38.700 so nice. And I could tell that he was a Christian, just how he talked and how he talked to me and how

00:12:43.360 he took the time to talk to me, even though I was no one, there was no reason except for he had a

00:12:47.640 relationship with this guy named Pete in Athens, Georgia. And so we talked and he said, you know,

00:12:52.980 I do have a connection. There is the producer of Dana Lash's radio, uh, radio show. Um, he, they,

00:13:00.460 you know, they record out of the blaze. I bet that he would talk to you if I introduce y'all.

00:13:06.360 So Steve, random Steve in Nashville, I've never talked to him since. Um, he connected me with

00:13:13.120 someone named Kane who worked for Dana Lash and Kane was super nice. And we talked back and forth on

00:13:18.680 email and he said, you know what, I'll just give you a tour of the blaze. Um, and so, uh, when we were

00:13:26.240 in town, I just took a tour of the blaze that this is like the closest I had ever gotten to actual

00:13:31.940 media, just thinking it would literally just be a tour. I would get to see the studio. And so, uh,

00:13:37.580 I was walking around and then a producer came up to me and said, Hey, I have seen your videos on

00:13:44.160 Instagram. Let me introduce you to some people. And so he introduced me to some people. And then

00:13:49.780 he said, you know what, why don't you come in for like a Facebook live? We do like Facebook lives

00:13:54.460 every day. Um, why don't you come in for a Facebook live? We can like interview you during the

00:13:59.440 Facebook live. And so I did, and it ended up going really well. And they ended up saying, you know,

00:14:06.280 we don't have any, like they weren't even thinking about offering me like an on camera talent role or

00:14:12.320 anything like that. But they said, you know what, if you wanted to be here and do like Facebook lives

00:14:15.960 and just get your foot in the door, we are looking for a social media manager. And I had done that in

00:14:20.560 the past. And so I took the job as a social media manager. I wasn't doing like on camera things,

00:14:27.500 but as I had access to all of these resources, I said, well, is it possible, even if you guys don't

00:14:34.820 pay me to do this, that I start making videos and we post them on like the blazes Facebook. Like if I

00:14:40.920 write it, if I produce it, if I come up with it, like, do you guys care if I just, you know, use a

00:14:46.840 camera and we start uploading these to social media to see how they do. And I was still posting

00:14:53.420 stuff on the conservative millennial and trying to speak anywhere that would have me speak. And they

00:14:58.800 said, sure, why not? If you know, you're not really looking for any extra money or titles or anything

00:15:04.780 like that. Sure. So we did. And those ended up getting like hundreds of thousands of views. And then

00:15:11.420 after a few weeks, I guess, of doing that and posting videos on my own blog, I got a call from

00:15:17.460 Fox News and they asked me to come on Fox and Friends. And I thought that I had like peaked in

00:15:22.600 my career. I could not, I couldn't even, I couldn't even comprehend that I was going to ask to just be

00:15:29.520 a guest for like three minutes on Fox and Friends. And oh my gosh, I don't think I slept at all the night

00:15:33.640 before. I was so excited. And then it just kind of kept growing from there. Like I was eventually not

00:15:41.320 the social media strategist at the blaze anymore. I eventually became like a contributor. And so I

00:15:47.520 would go on the different shows and things like that. There was one point where they were thinking

00:15:52.260 about, you know, giving me my own show, but that didn't work out because I ended up working for,

00:15:57.440 I, at the end of 2017, that's where we are now. I ended up signing a contract with CRTV,

00:16:02.960 conservative review TV, and then started there at the beginning of 2018. And then in March of 2018 is

00:16:09.420 when I started Relatable and it started two times a week and then it moved eventually by demand three

00:16:16.200 times a week. And now, of course, at the beginning of this year, we started four times a week. So it

00:16:21.080 literally, I can't say it started from nothing because I did have somewhat of a platform. I was

00:16:25.060 doing all the things that I just described, but it did start from zero downloads. I mean, it wasn't even

00:16:31.020 on YouTube or anything like that until recently, honestly, until like a year ago or a little over a year

00:16:37.060 ago, maybe a year and a half ago now, we started putting it on YouTube. But I mean, I was just,

00:16:41.660 and I was recording when I first started. I was recording by myself in my house. I like had my

00:16:50.500 own microphone, my own setup that I did. And I would, you know, put the audio into my computer

00:16:56.280 and I would have to edit the audio to make sure that like, you know, my mistakes were edited out or

00:17:01.740 whatever. And then I would send the audio to someone else and they would like optimize it.

00:17:06.200 And I guess someone else would upload it. I don't even remember how it worked, but that's how it

00:17:10.720 started. And then it just continued to grow, thankfully, because of y'all. And so now we have

00:17:20.040 500 episodes of Relatable under our belts. And I mean, we've talked about everything. We've talked

00:17:31.180 about so many of the major theological, political, social issues of our day. We've talked about

00:17:37.240 predestination, biblical interpretation, eschatology, Calvinism, modesty, purity culture,

00:17:43.080 what the Bible says about gender, sex, sexuality, marriage, the family, womanhood, motherhood, race,

00:17:49.960 prejudice, partiality, justice, oppression, feminism, critical theory, critical race theory,

00:17:56.740 queer theory. We've talked about standpoint epistemology. We've talked about free speech,

00:18:00.600 religious liberty, school choice, teachers, unions, homeschooling, vaccines, abortion,

00:18:06.280 trafficking, pornography, cancel culture, cultural revolutions, climate change, China. 0.84

00:18:11.280 We've talked about we've talked about it all. And I really do feel like we are just getting started.

00:18:15.300 And I'm not tired of talking about these things. I mean, sometimes they're just days when I'm like,

00:18:20.000 oh, my gosh, I can't talk about this again, because it's also crazy. It's also crazy. But I get energy

00:18:26.720 from this. I get just as much energy from this as I did when I first started speaking

00:18:30.680 to sororities in 2015. And I could tear up thinking about that. Like, I'm just so thankful to the Lord

00:18:37.240 that I am able to do the thing that I have wanted to do, but haven't been able to put a name on since

00:18:43.440 I could talk, which as my parents can tell you, was basically the day that I got home from the

00:18:48.120 hospital. I love what I do. I love you guys. Not only does the grace of God allow me to do what I do,

00:18:53.500 but you guys enable me to do what I do, because I wouldn't still have this show

00:18:57.200 almost four years later, if our audience hadn't kept growing as much as it has over the past few

00:19:05.360 years. When I think back to some of like the big things that we have covered, we were here through

00:19:11.360 the whole Kavanaugh debacle. And that might not be significant in y'all's mind. I think it's

00:19:17.400 significant in American history, but it's significant in my personal political history,

00:19:21.980 because that was the thing that woke me up and made me realize, oh, okay, so we're not in like

00:19:28.620 politics as usual anymore. Obviously, I was already a conservative before that, but seeing

00:19:34.280 just how rabidly one side is truly out for blood, that they're not interested in compromise or unity,

00:19:41.640 no matter what they say, no matter what their campaign slogan is, that changed my perspective.

00:19:46.360 And it really solidified where I stand and how I view a lot of the political debate today. It made

00:19:55.460 me, I don't know if cynical is the right word, because I think cynical makes it seem like I'm

00:20:00.060 just, you know, I'm no longer passionate about talking about the things that I'm talking about,

00:20:06.080 or that I no longer think that things can change for the better. And that's not true. But it did show

00:20:11.120 me just the really dark underbelly of everything that we talk about. We navigated all of the

00:20:17.100 conspiracy theories, both on the left and the right, surrounding Trump for the past few years.

00:20:22.320 We said a lot of what I think were very necessary things last summer amidst the riots and the violence,

00:20:29.080 and they were needed. Like, I think the moment absolutely demanded the things that we talk about.

00:20:36.340 And yet, it caused a lot, not even in yet, I guess it's expected when you go against the mainstream

00:20:44.260 when it comes to really controversial topics like race. But we got a lot of blowback for

00:20:49.980 challenging those popular narratives and the status quo. And yet, I also know, thankfully,

00:20:56.000 all of that helped a lot of you. We also covered the 2020 election in depth. We spent 12 weeks leading

00:21:03.380 up to the election covering all of the major issues. So anyone who says people, you know,

00:21:09.860 criticize me for not being pro-Trump enough, which, you know, is true. I have my criticisms. But I

00:21:15.440 really, really tried to warn you that the presidency that we have now would be radical and would be

00:21:21.960 bad. I'm not trying to say I told you so, but I literally did. We literally did for like 12 weeks.

00:21:29.880 We told you all this stuff was going to happen. That's okay. That's okay. Some of you are here

00:21:34.560 who've changed your mind since then. Some of you still haven't changed your mind and you're still

00:21:37.460 here. And I appreciate that. So on Relatable, we try to balance keeping you in the know from a

00:21:43.920 conservative perspective while reminding you that God is totally sovereign. If I had to pick one aspect

00:21:50.080 of God that is my favorite, I don't even know if you can say that, but the thing that gives me the

00:21:55.460 most comfort is God's absolute sovereignty. And we try to keep that in mind, call that to mind while

00:22:04.620 also working out what it looks like to seek truth and to do the next right thing in faith.

00:22:14.000 And since 2018, we've gone through two presidencies or two presidents, two pregnancies,

00:22:20.220 at least three sets, lighting changes, producer changes, so many unseen modifications and improvements,

00:22:28.580 some big, some small, some all at once, some incremental to make this show the best that it

00:22:33.860 can be. And we're still, we're still doing that. We're always going to be doing this until this show

00:22:39.060 has run its course. We are always going to be working to make it the best that we can be,

00:22:44.660 or that it can be, and we can be. And like I said, I truly feel like we've just gotten started.

00:22:51.780 Like I feel like just now in this past year, we have started to hit our stride and I feel like

00:22:56.300 we're about to even more in the coming months. I really love what I do. I know I've said that

00:23:01.640 several times, but it's true. I love what I do. I thank God that I get to do this and it would not

00:23:06.460 happen without you guys. There are hundreds of thousands of you who listen to this podcast every

00:23:11.120 month, thousands of you who watch on YouTube and it's grown basically organically because you all

00:23:17.620 share it with your friends because those friends shared it with another friend. By the grace of God,

00:23:21.980 this show has gone from zero downloads per episode to what it is today. And I'm very grateful for all

00:23:28.160 of you. We truly have a community. We are friends. We are learning together. You guys are keeping me

00:23:32.580 in check. You guys are pushing back when you need to nicely. And you guys are, you know, asking me

00:23:39.600 questions and challenging me to make me better. And I hope to do the same for you. We are helping

00:23:44.780 each other stay sane, to stay grounded, to make sure that we are living not by lies and remembering

00:23:50.880 where our hope lies in Christ and his promise to make all things right and new one day. But until

00:23:56.460 then we have work to do and we have understanding to gain. And that's what we are working on together

00:24:03.200 here at Relatable. So thank you guys. Thank you guys so much. All right. We're going to do some

00:24:08.960 some fun segments coming up. We're going to listen to some voicemails and then we're going to get

00:24:13.540 into some behind the scenes and would you rathers. Okay. Now we're listening to some voicemails from

00:24:22.300 you guys. And I haven't listened to these yet. My team picked them out and they are either voicemails

00:24:30.840 of some of you saying like maybe your mind has changed on a couple of things or people who are just

00:24:36.360 saying you know why you love Relatable. And so I am super excited to listen to some of these. And

00:24:42.220 also if you left a voicemail and we weren't able to play it that does not mean that it wasn't super

00:24:49.640 meaningful and that I you know don't care. I will end up listening to all of the voicemails just so

00:24:55.880 you guys know that I really appreciate all of your kind words. It's just that if we played all the

00:25:01.260 voicemails out that would be the entire show. And I didn't think that you guys wanted to listen to

00:25:05.940 all of that. So I will listen to them. Thank you everyone who left the voicemail. But we're just

00:25:10.700 going to play a few of them right now. So we'll go ahead and roll the first one. Hi Allie. My name

00:25:14.760 is Becky and I'm from Pennsylvania. I wanted to say congratulations on reaching your 500th episode.

00:25:20.560 I'm a teacher and your show has helped me to change my mind on a couple of things that

00:25:25.200 even as a lifelong conservative I had held on to for a while. The first thing is that I left the

00:25:31.820 teachers union after your episode with Rebecca Frederick. I also had a change of heart about

00:25:37.540 school choice. As teachers in public school we're often made to believe that school choice is so

00:25:43.460 horrible and so dangerous for our careers. But your position and episodes on this completely changed my

00:25:50.220 mind. So thank you so much for your show, for your heart for the Lord, and for reminding your listeners

00:25:56.160 that we are not alone or truly crazy in our thoughts and beliefs. Congratulations again.

00:26:03.480 So sweet. I love it. Thank you so much. All right. Next one.

00:26:07.720 Hey Allie. Just wanted to say thank you so much for your service and everything that you do and how

00:26:13.180 you are getting the message of Christ out there and including politics in it and not closing your

00:26:19.980 eyes. It's amazing for Christians. Thank you for teaching me about homeschooling.

00:26:25.120 I chose to keep my pre-k little boy out of school and it has been the most joyful experience

00:26:32.920 of my life to get to watch him grow and learn and to be the one teaching him. And I just want to say

00:26:39.900 thank you for encouraging me to do that. It has meant the world to our family. We're praying for you.

00:26:45.820 Thanks. Thank you so much. That's so meaningful. All right. Next one.

00:26:50.560 Hi Allie. This is Shin. I'm from San Marcos, California. And I first started listening to

00:26:56.320 you actually through the Porch app. But I listen to you pretty regularly. And it has just opened

00:27:05.560 up my eyes to the political atmosphere, especially being in Southern California. And, you know,

00:27:12.180 being a conservative Christian. And that's actually really difficult being in California. And I also

00:27:19.340 work at a very civil university. So I just want to say thank you for just opening my eyes to the

00:27:27.700 atmosphere, seeking truth, knowing facts, knowing where to get them, and also speaking out of love as well.

00:27:35.900 Um, I think a lot of times people think that seeking love is just kind of letting people say

00:27:42.320 whatever they want and having no repercussions. But that's not it at all. Um, I think you love it

00:27:48.320 sometimes, you know, you have to speak the hard truth and back it up with facts, which you often do.

00:27:55.200 And you've actually, um, helped me see a bunch of other guests on the show that I regularly follow

00:28:04.940 as well. So I can't wait to listen to 500 more and then some. Um, and I am praying for you. And I

00:28:16.180 hope you all have a great 500th episode.

00:28:18.940 Aw, thank you so much. I love introducing y'all to my guests. I truly do. Even if that means the

00:28:25.180 you're like, Oh, I have a new favorite person that I'm going to follow by relatable. Obviously,

00:28:30.340 I hope that you stay, but I truly love introducing you guys to new guests that inspire you and

00:28:35.380 encourage you and maybe even connect with you even better, uh, than I do. Truly. I love that. Um,

00:28:42.180 and thank you. And thank you all to who say that you're praying for me. That truly does mean a lot

00:28:47.120 to me. All right. Next voicemail. Hi, this is a message for Allie. This is Lauren. Um, I wanted to

00:28:54.720 call and let you know that I have enjoyed your, your show just for a variety of reasons. But one

00:29:00.820 thing that I can, um, state as a clear takeaway is that my, my view on people and the way I interact

00:29:10.840 with people that do don't have the same beliefs as me has completely changed. You, um, have a,

00:29:19.880 have a tendency, like just a great, great strength to, to spread truth through the love, um, speak it

00:29:26.900 to people, um, without, without letting that affect how you feel about the person. And, um,

00:29:34.880 I'm learning, I guess how to do that myself. It's been hard. I found myself like truly hating the

00:29:41.280 person instead of, you know, the lies that they've, they've been told and said. Um, so yeah,

00:29:47.780 I take each day a step at a step at a time. Um, but, um, I'm learning. Thank you for all you do.

00:29:56.400 Oh, well, thank you. It is really hard. It's a, you know, it's hard to separate the person from maybe

00:30:01.100 the idea that you really vehemently disagree with, especially when it's a moral idea, like, uh,

00:30:07.000 abortion or something like that. It can be really hard not to allow that callousness to,

00:30:11.400 you know, characterize your heart. I'm certainly still learning that as well. And thankfully,

00:30:16.800 we can credit the Holy Spirit with all of that work. So thank you so much. All right. Another

00:30:24.240 voicemail. Hi, my name is Jennifer. I'm from Wisconsin. I started listening to your podcast

00:30:30.680 several years ago. The one thing that I really appreciate is just how biblically sound your

00:30:35.200 program is. Um, and then your question about something that's changed my mind. I'm actually

00:30:41.660 going to kind of throw this back on you, Allie Beth, something that you changed your mind about

00:30:46.280 it. Don't remember what episode it was. It was maybe a year, two years ago. You had said something

00:30:53.020 kind of in favor of yoga and I had messaged you on Instagram. This is probably before you got a

00:30:59.900 little bit bigger, before your book was released. And we engaged in a really nice conversation

00:31:05.120 about yoga and how we shouldn't have it in the church. And I just kind of left the conversation

00:31:11.520 with, you know what, we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this. And then maybe a year

00:31:16.280 later, again, I have no concept of time. I have too many children, wonderful children. Um, but

00:31:22.260 they're teenagers. So yeah. Um, but it was not long after that, Ben, you had brought on, um,

00:31:28.820 Dorian, I forgot her last name. And it was so incredible to watch you change your mind, um,

00:31:38.780 and admit it. And I just, my appreciation and respect for you just really grew during that time.

00:31:47.120 So love your show. I'm so excited to see what the next 500 episodes are going to bring.

00:31:52.140 Have a great night. Bye-bye.

00:31:53.220 Oh, thank you. She's talking about how I, at one point really didn't think that, um,

00:32:01.300 doing yoga as a Christian was really that big of a deal. I thought that it was, you know,

00:32:06.760 similar to meat sacrifice to idols, but I honestly hadn't really thought about it. I just didn't want

00:32:11.740 to be legalistic. And then I realized when looking at the origins of yoga and what it is and what it is

00:32:18.740 meant to be, that there's really no, there's no productivity. There's no edification that comes

00:32:25.400 from a Christian doing yoga. And I won't get into all of that right now. We can link to that past

00:32:31.140 episode and you can see what you think about it. But I do appreciate that when I do change my mind,

00:32:35.600 I try to tell you guys about it and try to walk you through my reasoning behind changing my mind. So

00:32:40.580 thank you very much for that encouragement. All right. Do we have another one?

00:32:44.680 Hi, Allie. My name's Matt. Um, I just wanted to thank you for your show. It has meant so much

00:32:50.660 to me. I've been listening to it for about a year now. Um, I currently attended Divinity School,

00:32:56.760 Campbell Divinity School in North Carolina, and, um, it has gone so, so progressive. And your show has

00:33:04.800 given me the, the confidence to stand up for my faith. Uh, one day in class, I gave a, um, pro-life

00:33:11.060 presentation and I was immediately, uh, blasted by my classmates who were not happy with what I had

00:33:18.340 to say. Um, but your show, you, you, you just breathe life and truth to all of us who are around

00:33:27.160 people, uh, who don't really want to hear the Christian message. Even, even myself at a school

00:33:34.680 that's supposed to be preparing me for Christian ministry, uh, it seems like it's gone really far

00:33:39.420 from that. Um, but thank you, Allie, for all you do. And I look forward to continuing, uh, to listen to

00:33:46.020 the show. Oh, thank you, Matt. Um, you know, that is the best thing that you could hear that God can

00:33:54.220 use something that I say to empower you to speak what is true. Um, I'm very thankful for that. And I

00:34:04.720 think that there's a lot of power in feeling like, okay, I'm not crazy. There is a reason for the

00:34:12.460 things that I believe other people believe the same way that I do. It makes you realize that you're not

00:34:17.080 alone. And that gives you courage begets courage as we have said before. Um, and that gives you the

00:34:24.080 power to stand up in front of people that, you know, we're going to criticize you. You're going to

00:34:28.600 lambast you who are going to unfairly mischaracterize you. So I hope, I hope and pray that the Holy

00:34:37.060 Spirit graciously uses this podcast to embolden and empower and strengthen and encourage more people

00:34:45.000 to stand for everything that is good and right and true as Ephesians 5, 9 says. All right. Another

00:34:50.660 voicemail. Hi, Allie. This is Stephanie. I'm 55. I live in Virginia. I just want to tell you that

00:34:58.340 I love your program. I just finished listening to your abortion program today. And I'm very pro-life.

00:35:05.460 I always have been, but I really felt your, um, love and your concern. And I totally agree with you.

00:35:14.620 I have to say that I tend to agree with you. So not that you've, uh, changed my mind on anything.

00:35:21.280 I just am so thankful how strong you stand on the word of God, how you always bring that into your

00:35:27.600 program. No matter who you're talking to or what subject you're talking about. I just want to say,

00:35:32.860 I just, I love your passion. Um, I love how you put God first. We disagree on eschatology. I'm hoping

00:35:40.000 maybe down the road, you might change your mind on that. Um, I'm definitely pre-trib, but I won't hold

00:35:46.240 that against you. And, uh, but I love you and hope one day I can meet you. If not, I'll meet you in

00:35:53.220 heaven. Thank you so much for what you do. Well, that is so sweet. Well, I hear the passion in your

00:35:58.280 voice too. And, um, yeah, you know, I might, you never know. I could change my mind on eschatology.

00:36:05.460 I was actually talking to my mom about what I believe about the end times on the way in this

00:36:11.160 morning. We were talking about, um, the different things we believe. I think that my parents are also

00:36:16.280 pre-trib. So I'm always open. I'm always open to discussion based on facts and based on scripture.

00:36:22.760 And so you never know, my mind could change on that. Thank you so much for listening and for

00:36:27.180 your kind words. That means a lot to me. Okay. Next one. Hi, Allie. My name is Jessica. I am just

00:36:35.320 calling to leave a voicemail about, um, things that I have learned from you. I just want you to know

00:36:41.720 that I have come to appreciate and adore you so much. And I very much value, value your, um,

00:36:50.160 your opinion and your stance on many, many things. Um, I appreciate all of your political episodes

00:36:58.500 a lot. I've learned so much, but I just want you to know that I have been, um, I've learned to be

00:37:06.060 much more discerning on theology and, uh, who I'm listening to. And, uh, just wanted you to know

00:37:15.620 that I was ultimately ended up being baptized this past Sunday and your, um, your episodes have

00:37:27.980 been a major influence in that decision. And I cannot tell you how thankful I am for you and

00:37:35.560 everything that I have learned from you. Thank you. Y'all are making me cry. Y'all are supposed

00:37:41.960 to make me cry, y'all. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for taking the

00:37:46.620 time to tell me that. Praise God. Praise God. Um, how many, how many more do we have? Two more? Okay.

00:37:54.260 We got two more. Hi, Allie. My name is Angelica Vega from New York. I have been listening to your

00:38:00.660 podcast for about eight months now and you are such an inspiration. My 11 year old son loves it

00:38:06.560 when my husband and I listen to relatable in the car or watch it on TV. Sometimes he listens in

00:38:12.320 because he believes he needs to learn about so much that's going on now. And when, you know,

00:38:17.580 with politics and even, uh, learning about the Bible, he reads the Bible and, you know, everything

00:38:24.280 that's going on with the culture that, you know, he, he learns on your, on your podcast as well.

00:38:30.400 Uh, I have, I have your book and it was, it was a great read. It taught me a whole lot that, um,

00:38:37.600 I'm even, I recommended it today to my, um, women's Bible study. And so they were really interested.

00:38:44.220 Um, also, uh, we truly appreciated your episode with costing him. That episode pulled my husband

00:38:54.480 out of the new age and brought him closer to God. Praise God. So, you know, we are so grateful.

00:39:00.780 Thank you so much. God bless you. Wow. That is awesome. Again, I love when you guys tell me that

00:39:08.120 a particular guest or God used a particular guest to change your mind on something or to draw you

00:39:14.100 closer to him or to make you realize something. I mean, that is just such a blessing. The more I

00:39:19.300 can platform interesting people, compelling people, but more than anything, Christ-like

00:39:23.720 people, like I'm just going to do that. I'm so committed to that. So

00:39:27.960 Kosti Hinn, definitely follow him. He's awesome. Um, thank you for letting me know that story.

00:39:33.820 That means so much to me. All right. Last voicemail, then we'll get into some other things.

00:39:38.080 Hey, Allie, this is Megan. And I just wanted to call and let you know that

00:39:43.760 your podcast. I found it about a year ago. I have just been moved and transformed in my

00:39:52.220 entire Christianity belief system ever since I started listening, mainly on the topic of

00:40:00.420 abortion. I was always on the side of allowing people to make their own decisions. And you

00:40:08.480 have just completely transformed my thought process coming from a Christian perspective

00:40:14.440 of why life matters even before that baby breathes its first breath of fresh air. So

00:40:22.840 I just wanted to let you know that you are changing lives and you are, you know, doing the Lord's true

00:40:30.880 work through your ministry and your podcast and your Instagram, because I actually found you on

00:40:36.560 Instagram. So love the podcast. Keep it up. Thanks so much. Bye.

00:40:42.020 Oh my goodness, guys. I'm trying to hold it together. Thank you so much. Thank you for all

00:40:47.980 of the voicemails played, unplayed. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for your kind words. Thank

00:40:53.960 you for following even maybe when you disagree. Thank you guys so much. It is so incredible. You have no

00:41:02.160 idea how much it means to hear directly from you guys. And I hope that it encourages the rest of

00:41:09.000 you too. I know not only sometimes do we feel isolated in what we believe in, that we're against

00:41:15.520 so many different institutions and entities and people. And it feels like no one believes the same

00:41:22.100 way you do. Well, just take comfort in the fact that not only are there hundreds of thousands of people

00:41:27.800 who listen to this podcast and probably share most of your views, but also we just heard from people

00:41:34.380 whose mind changed. And so God used this itty bitty podcast, me, a totally insignificant, unspecial

00:41:41.560 person to change people's minds. And that's not something I can credit myself with. That's not

00:41:47.440 something that I boast about. That is me recognizing that God takes really small things and can do something

00:41:55.400 really big with them. So if you don't know if you are usable by God, or you just have this desire to

00:42:04.260 do something, fix something, change something, make some kind of impact, but you don't think you're

00:42:07.700 good enough, or you don't think you're capable enough, or you just don't think that God can do

00:42:11.940 it. I hope that this podcast and even just the few voicemails that we just listened to is a lesson

00:42:17.100 for you that God can and will do anything that he wants to do. Now he is going to do his will. So maybe

00:42:23.880 the dream that you have for yourself, the vision that you have for your life might not be his, and he

00:42:29.080 might ask you to surrender those things in lieu of what he wants you to do. But being in God's will

00:42:35.680 and doing whatever you do for the glory of God is always the safest and the most fulfilling place

00:42:41.580 to be. God is going to use you for his glory if you are a Christian. That's non-negotiable. All things

00:42:48.280 work together for his glory and are good. And so you will be used to advance his kingdom, whether

00:42:54.620 it's publicly, whether it's privately, whether it's through motherhood, whether it's through motherhood

00:42:59.320 and something else, whether it's through ministry, there are a million different ways that God will

00:43:04.700 use you. Don't ever think that you're too small or too insignificant to be used. We're all small and

00:43:12.360 insignificant. God doesn't need us, but he chooses to use us, and he chooses to change people's hearts and

00:43:17.340 minds. There are minds out there that are ripe for the changing. There are hearts out there that are

00:43:23.840 fertile soil. So even when it seems like there's just no way that people will change their minds when

00:43:28.740 they're believing things that aren't true, that's not the case. That's not the case. When God seems to

00:43:33.800 be doing one thing, he is doing a million things, and those millions of things very often don't make

00:43:38.280 headlines. So be encouraged by all that goes on around the world, seemingly behind the scenes.

00:43:44.980 All right, I'm going to introduce you to some of my team backstage in just a second.

00:43:55.820 Okay, I thought it would be fun to introduce you guys to three people who work on Relatable,

00:44:02.460 who help make this show run. It literally wouldn't even be in your radio or in your ears every day

00:44:10.460 or on your TV or computer screen if these people do not exist and work as hard as they do. So

00:44:15.800 if you're watching, you'll be able to see them. If not, then you'll just hear me. Hello, Beth. That's

00:44:21.860 Beth. She's waving. She's in charge of everything and everyone. She tells us what to do, and she is

00:44:28.460 extremely organized. She is such a good advocate for the show, and she makes sure that everything is

00:44:37.360 running smoothly. She takes care of so many details that I don't even see that I probably don't even

00:44:43.340 know about, and she is a wonderfully happy, joyful, infectiously joyful person, an extremely hard

00:44:52.260 worker. There's one thing that I love about people. It's people with good attitudes. I just love when

00:44:58.600 people have a good attitude. It can make or break anything, and Beth has an amazing attitude. 1.00

00:45:03.180 She's such a hard worker. She's Canadian, so she says A a lot, and, you know, that's really important

00:45:10.400 for me. I said, hey, looking for a producer. Canadians are really nice, and so let's rescue

00:45:16.200 someone from the police state of Canada, bring them down here, and let's have her produce the show, and so 0.69

00:45:23.280 she does a really good job, and I'm very thankful for Beth, and then we have in the middle there, we've got

00:45:29.220 Dylan, and Dylan has been working for the show for several months now, I believe, since January,

00:45:37.300 and... No, earlier than that. It's been since October of last year. Oh, I'm so sorry. Since

00:45:42.280 October of last year, I'm sorry. I just, I'm like that caller who's like, I have too many kids.

00:45:48.440 I don't have too many kids, but I've had a lot of kids in the past few years, and so my time is warped.

00:45:53.760 So October? Yeah, I think this is episode 185 for me. Wow, that's amazing. So Dylan has,

00:46:02.240 and I don't mean this, I know this might sound motherly, but he has like grown in this job

00:46:09.000 so much over the past few months. He is extremely skilled at editing something that he, I don't know

00:46:17.700 if you've been doing it for a long time, Dylan, but I feel like you've just kind of picked up on it

00:46:21.800 very naturally. He has a very good sense of what Relatable is and what Relatable is trying to be,

00:46:29.560 and I feel like he has just grown with the show so much over the past year, year anniversary of Dylan

00:46:34.940 and Relatable. So I'm very thankful for Dylan. I've just like seen his skills sharpen so much over the

00:46:42.840 past few months. Very thankful for that. And last, but certainly not least, we have Mark.

00:46:48.480 Mark. And Mark is an extremely, he is just like, you know, those people that you meet that you're

00:46:55.280 like, wow, that person is so nice and they make me feel so good when I'm around them. That is Mark.

00:47:00.500 I have asked, I asked for a very long time, can we please, I mean, I love everyone who works at

00:47:06.440 The Blaze, but I was like, I just really want Mark to be in the room when we are filming Relatable

00:47:11.380 because the happiness and the joy and the dedication that he brings to his job really makes

00:47:20.000 a whole lot of a difference. He pays attention to all the details during production and he changes

00:47:25.520 things that need to be changed. He's a great communicator. And so I love, I love working with

00:47:31.760 Mark and him and his new wife are just super cute. And so we've got Beth, we've got Mark,

00:47:37.800 we've got Dylan, they all work together to make this show what it is. I definitely could not do

00:47:43.400 it on my own. And I'm very thankful for how hard all three of them work. And then there's other

00:47:47.440 people who also contribute to the show being what it is that I can't even name because there's a lot

00:47:53.440 of them. And so thank you all for that. You can, you know, thank them as you're listening to this.

00:47:59.820 You can say, wow, I'm so thankful for Beth, Mark and Dylan. They are awesome people and they make

00:48:04.600 relatable, awesome as well. All right. We are going to, oh wait, no, I had something that I

00:48:10.140 wanted to do. So we're about to get into good, uh, would you rathers? And I asked some guests that

00:48:15.880 we've had on this podcast. Um, I asked Megan Kelly and Matt Walsh and a bunch of other people

00:48:21.740 to answer some random would you rathers that I have. Um, but I just wanted to ask Dylan and Beth

00:48:29.000 and Mark, uh, would you rather, and I'm just going to come up with it. I'm just going to come up with

00:48:33.700 it. And like, you really have to think about, you really have to think about both alternatives

00:48:37.700 and think about like, what would make your life more difficult. So would you rather, um, let's see,

00:48:49.520 would you, would you rather have to, um, oh gosh, I'm having a hard time even thinking of,

00:49:01.440 of, uh, what it is. Okay. Would you rather have carrots for your fingers? Okay. So you just have

00:49:11.120 like, I don't know if they're baby carrots or like full length carrots. It doesn't really matter

00:49:15.380 either way. Would you rather have carrots for, for fingers or would you rather, um, have to talk in

00:49:27.880 baby talk for the rest of your life? Okay. Now I want to hear all of your answers.

00:49:35.020 Okay. I think, I think I'd have to do, I think I'd have to do carrot fingers because at least

00:49:40.500 I can, are they able to hear you? Oh, can we, can we pull the camera back? Yeah. I got a,

00:49:46.520 I got a mic over here. Okay. Um, okay. Dylan, I would probably do the carrots. Cause at least

00:49:51.500 then I could like ask people to hand me things that I couldn't pick up myself with my carrot

00:49:55.500 fingers. Yes. So that's what I'm going to go with. Okay. So no baby voice, no care what

00:49:59.380 fingers. Okay. Got it. Yeah. I think I'd have to go with carrots too. Um, a baby voice would

00:50:04.540 just be, that's like the most annoying sound in the world from an adult. So I think, oh

00:50:08.980 my gosh, that reminds me if you've seen the office of Andy, Andy uses like the baby voice.

00:50:15.640 Okay. Dylan over here, little known fact about Dylan, y'all are going to just like freak out

00:50:21.400 when you hear this. One time I was talking to Dylan about the office and he said like,

00:50:26.280 and I quote, the office doesn't have any jokes. They forgot to write them. I, I almost, I,

00:50:33.640 we almost fired them. I had to talk to HR. I was like, I don't know if this person is stable

00:50:38.700 enough. It's crazy. So he doesn't know that there is a scene where Michael is talking like Elvis

00:50:46.320 and Andy is talking like a baby and they both bond over that. And Michael says to Andy something

00:50:54.320 like for the record, I think you have, I think your baby voice is tops and it's great. It's a

00:50:58.480 great scene, but Dylan will never know the joy of that. All right, Mark, before you go, uh,

00:51:03.960 carrot fingers or baby voice. I think I would do carrots, especially during the winter. Cause I

00:51:08.780 could wear gloves and then no one would know and baby voice, it would always be there. So I think

00:51:13.840 I would do the carrots. Yeah, I think that's probably right. I like you couldn't, I definitely,

00:51:18.800 I mean, I couldn't do this job if I had baby voice. I'd be super weird, but I could probably

00:51:24.040 just keep my hands down here and y'all would never know. I have carrot fingers. I couldn't type or

00:51:28.920 probably couldn't post on Instagram either. So I'd have to hire someone for that, but I think it's a

00:51:33.120 small price to pay. I wouldn't, you know, you can't say your R's or your L's for the rest of your

00:51:37.260 life. That would be really hard. All right. So we've got some would you rather's and I wanted

00:51:47.740 to ask some previous guests, um, some would you rather's and I wanted to change it up for the

00:51:51.800 different kinds of people that would answer it. So the first, would you rather question I asked

00:51:56.020 to Megan Kelly, Glenn Beck and Steve days. And that would you rather question was, would you rather

00:52:00.900 have to talk to Chris Cuomo on the phone for two hours every night, listening to him tell you about

00:52:06.860 his day, or would you rather have Anthony Fauci as president for eight years? So let's see what

00:52:12.200 their answers were. Well, I guess I'm going to have to go with Cuomo calling me every night because

00:52:17.720 if he calls me every night, then only I suffer. Whereas if his Fauci's president, then the whole

00:52:21.840 nation suffers, including me. So I think I'll just have him call. I'll put him on mute and I won't

00:52:26.220 really listen to him the same way people consume his nightly news show right now. Uh, in the meantime,

00:52:30.600 congrats on your 500th episode, Allie Beth. Lots of love rooting for you as always. I love Frank.

00:52:36.320 Because there's a loophole in your question. I have to listen to him two hours every night.

00:52:41.960 You don't say how long. So maybe it could just be one night because that's what I would have my

00:52:46.880 attorneys argue. Uh, Oh, Chris Cuomo. I think I couldn't do Fauci for another eight years.

00:52:56.160 I think he thinks he's president now. Without question, I'd prefer Anthony Fauci president for

00:53:02.740 three years. Wow. Really? Because it would actually be a demotion. Um, he'd actually have

00:53:08.340 far more accountability than he's had for the last 18 months. We could maybe impeach. We could

00:53:14.220 maybe subpoena. We could maybe do a lot more things, uh, to get some truth out of him than

00:53:20.160 we've been able to do while he has been able to tiptoe between the raindrops as America's

00:53:24.880 potentate. So as president, he would actually take a demotion and face far more accountability.

00:53:30.380 So I'll choose the Fauci option. Okay. All of those answers were so on brand for how all

00:53:37.800 of them, how all of them are. I love it. They were so, it was like very thoughtful, all of

00:53:43.280 them and their, and their answers. And it speaks to all of their personalities. And I just loved

00:53:47.360 it so much. All right. I asked, um, uh, Elisa Childers and John Cooper, if they would rather

00:53:57.060 only be able to speak in parables for the rest, the rest of their lives, I mean, like really think

00:54:02.900 that, think about that. If someone asks you a question and you were only able to say, well, there

00:54:08.880 were three, uh, heads of grain in a field and there were two mice running through the field. Um,

00:54:17.020 that's probably not a good example of a parable, but you were never able to like give a straight

00:54:20.700 answer. You could only speak in parables for the rest of your life, or would you rather write out

00:54:26.920 the book of numbers by memory every year for the rest of your life? So let's see what John Cooper

00:54:32.280 and Elisa Childers have to say. Hey everyone, Elisa Childers here. Congratulations, Allie on 500

00:54:40.940 episodes. That is such an accomplishment. Congratulations. So my question is, would I rather

00:54:47.180 talk only in parables for the rest of my life or copy down the whole book of numbers from memory

00:54:54.760 every year? So I'd like to answer this question with a story. The kingdom of heaven is like a little

00:55:04.360 girl who tried to read numbers when she was 12 years old and it was a lot of numbers, a lot of names

00:55:10.180 and clans and begats and a lot of stuff that her 12 year old brain just couldn't, couldn't

00:55:17.160 even with. So now that she's older, she gets what all that's about a little better, but that does

00:55:23.440 sort of deter the whole numbers idea. So I'm kind of an artsy person. So my first instinct was to say

00:55:30.280 talking only in parables for the rest of my life, but you know, I wouldn't mind memorizing the book

00:55:35.180 of numbers. And if I only had to copy it out once a year and then be able to speak freely, I think that

00:55:40.020 would be my choice. So I choose numbers. Perfect. Hey, it's John Cooper with skillet. The question is,

00:55:46.140 would I rather memorize the book of numbers and write it out once a year by hand or only be able

00:55:52.960 to speak in parables for the rest of my life? I'm going to go with memorizing the book of numbers,

00:55:58.960 even though that would be hard because number one, it's the word of God, which means it's awesome,

00:56:02.880 but mostly because there are already enough woke people who speak in nothing but riddles and rhymes.

00:56:10.420 Sometimes you have no idea what they're talking about, which incidentally is why I love Allie Beth.

00:56:15.060 You never have to wonder what Allie is thinking. Woo! I love you.

00:56:19.620 Oh, those were so perfect. I just love how people have taken the time to answer these

00:56:23.940 in their own unique way. I love those so much. Okay. So this I asked to Matt Walsh and Michael

00:56:30.200 Knowles. I asked Ben Shapiro to answer, I think the Chris Cuomo question. And unfortunately we didn't

00:56:36.980 get a response from Ben. And so if you want to email him about that, if you want to message him

00:56:43.480 about that and be like, hey, we were looking for your would you rather and we didn't get it,

00:56:46.540 you're free. You're free to do that. Just kidding. All right. To Matt Walsh and to Michael Knowles,

00:56:53.600 we said, would you rather drive behind a group of slow cyclists on the way to work every day? And if 0.70

00:56:58.920 you know anything about Matt Walsh, like he really, he truly like hates personally cyclists. And so

00:57:05.080 that's just part of who he is. Or would you rather go by she, her as your pronouns? Nothing else about

00:57:12.980 your identity or your look or your appearance would change, but you just have to go by she,

00:57:17.260 her pronouns or, you know, drive behind those slow group of cyclists. So I'm interested to see

00:57:21.760 what Matt and Michael have to say. Let's see. Would I rather be stuck behind slow cyclists for the rest

00:57:27.300 of my life or be called she, her for the rest of my life? Can I choose death? Is that an acceptable

00:57:33.660 option? I guess I would choose the cyclists of those two. And the thing is, you know, when you're

00:57:41.080 stuck behind the slow cyclists in the street who shouldn't be there in the first place, there have

00:57:45.220 been times when your brakes go out and, you know, it's a tragedy, but it does happen. And, you know,

00:57:50.260 that might end up happening to me if, if I choose that option, but I think that's the one I'd probably

00:57:54.040 choose. Yeah. Would I rather drive behind a pack of slow cyclists on the way to work every day,

00:58:00.020 or would I rather go by she, her? That's not even a tricky one. I would much rather go by she, her.

00:58:09.420 On the downside, I would only make 75 cents on the dollar. So that, that would be to my bottom line,

00:58:15.420 but I would be able to claim so much victimhood. I would gain so much social currency, not even just

00:58:22.480 by claiming to be a woman, that would be fine enough, but claiming to be a transgender woman.

00:58:27.740 Oh my, I would, I would have so much social capital that I'm, I'm pretty sure I would never have to

00:58:33.240 work a day again in my life. So it's not even hard. Happy 500th episode, my dear.

00:58:38.660 Oh my gosh. Uh, those are two of the funniest people in the world, by the way, Michael Knowles,

00:58:44.080 Matt Walsh can always make me laugh. Anytime I listened to them or watch a video with them in it,

00:58:49.060 they are just both hilarious with great personalities. All right. So this last one,

00:58:54.300 I posed to Alex Clark of Poplitics, who I also love. I also posed it to James Lindsay. Unfortunately,

00:59:01.000 we didn't get our response, but I asked Alex Clark, would you rather move you and your family to

00:59:08.020 downtown Portland, which to me like sounds terrifying. Um, and I think to a lot of

00:59:14.100 conservatives, it does too. So would you rather move you and your family to downtown Portland,

00:59:18.560 or would you rather have a job working as Nicole Hannah Jones's research assistant? 0.85

00:59:24.500 Allie, congratulations on 500 episodes. I'm so proud of you. I have been a fan from the beginning

00:59:30.280 of Relatable, and I just cannot tell you how excited I am for all the work that you're doing in the

00:59:34.780 kingdom. Now the question is, would I rather move my whole family to downtown Portland or

00:59:39.420 be Nicole Hannah Jones's research assistant? I'm going to go with moving my whole family to Portland,

00:59:45.200 and I'm going to keep us safe by blending right in with Antifa. We're all going to dress just like

00:59:49.820 Kim Kardashian at the Met Gala. Oh my gosh. No, she would, she would never do. She would never

00:59:55.160 dress in a way that is ugly. If you've ever seen Alex Clark, she never looks bad. I think it would

01:00:01.220 actually be very difficult for her to dress as an Antifa person every day because I just think that

01:00:07.060 she wouldn't be able to stand it. Like her personality is just too bright. She's too,

01:00:12.620 what is that like quote from Legally Blonde that exercise gives you endorphins and endorphins make 1.00

01:00:19.060 you happy and happy people don't kill people? That was Elle Woods' line of thinking, brilliant line

01:00:25.440 of thinking in Legally Blonde. That's like Alex Clark. Like she's too happy to be Antifa. It just,

01:00:30.340 it just wouldn't happen. But I do appreciate that she would rather move into like the heart of Antifa

01:00:35.380 than be Nicole Hannah Jones's research assistant. Okay. That's, that's all we got. So we're not going

01:00:42.860 to announce our giveaway winner. I'm going to either announce it tomorrow or I'm going to announce it on

01:00:47.520 Instagram because we don't quite have the winner yet. We are picking through all the people who sent us

01:00:53.280 voicemails and trying to figure out like how exactly it's just going to kind of be random. We're going to

01:00:58.020 pick someone who sent us a voicemail, either played or unplayed. Um, and then I will announce

01:01:03.800 that tomorrow. Like I said, that's, it's a skincare set. It's a good ranchers gift card and it's a gift

01:01:09.660 card from Carly Jean Los Angeles. And so a really good set of gifts. And it's just a thank you. I wish

01:01:14.900 I could send that to all of you, but I'm truly so thankful for you guys for listening to 500 of these

01:01:21.920 episodes or for however long you have been here. This has been like a super fun episode and a walk down

01:01:27.060 memory lane. I'm very thankful for everyone who has made relatable possible. And that includes the

01:01:33.000 many thousands of you guys. And so thank you so much. We're going to get back to business tomorrow.

01:01:39.040 There's too much going on in the world to not talk about the things that we need to talk about. So

01:01:43.320 we'll be back here tomorrow. Have a great rest of your day.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - October 05, 2021

Ep 500 ｜ 500th Episode! You’re In for a Treat

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