Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 66 ｜ Closed For Business

00:00:00.200 What's up, guys? Welcome to Relatable. I really missed you. It feels like it's been a long time.

00:00:07.560 It kind of has. This is the longest I think we've gone without this podcast since it started,

00:00:15.660 since it started in March. Well, 2019 is going to be an awesome year for Relatable. I just feel it.

00:00:21.340 I feel it in my heart because all of you are great, loyal, worthy, wonderful listeners,

00:00:30.280 and you guys make this podcast really fun. We have been staying connected over Instagram,

00:00:35.820 over my many Instagram stories over the past couple of weeks. But before I get into any of

00:00:41.700 the fun stuff, I do want to say what we are seriously going to be talking about today.

00:00:45.860 I want to kind of catch all up on what's been happening over the past couple of weeks that

00:00:51.200 we have not been together, and that is the government shutdown. I'm going to talk about

00:00:55.340 why that's happening, what the Democrats want, what President Trump wants, how that's actually

00:01:00.800 affecting people, and if we are ever going to be able to reach a compromise. I'm going to get a

00:01:05.660 little bit into the Democratic Party and just how far left they've gone, especially with the likes of

00:01:11.140 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now officially being in Congress. We will talk about that just a little

00:01:18.200 bit. I might expound upon all of that and her new proposal called the Green New Deal on Thursday.

00:01:23.740 I'm going to answer a few listener questions as well that you guys sent me via Instagram.

00:01:28.720 But I did just want to say, I did just want to say from the top that I sent, so I sent you guys

00:01:37.360 this kind of questionnaire asking what you like about Relatable, how many times a week you want

00:01:43.080 Relatable to be, what you want me to do more of. And the number one thing I got that you guys want me

00:01:49.060 to do more is Instagram stories, which is so funny. I feel like I do a lot of them, and they are so

00:01:53.820 mindless. I don't know. I just don't say anything. I don't practice them. I don't think about what I'm

00:01:59.920 going to say. But for whatever reason, you guys like them, and I like doing them because you guys

00:02:04.320 respond so well to them. I love getting your Instagram messages. I don't always, I can't

00:02:09.120 message every single person back, but I try to when I can. So if I haven't messaged you back,

00:02:15.660 it's not because I'm ignoring you. I probably just didn't see it. But I will respond to that.

00:02:21.240 Your wish is my command. So I will try to give you more Instagram stories. We've also got a lot of

00:02:27.780 other fun new stuff coming out with the podcast. I think we're going to start putting the video version

00:02:32.240 on YouTube, which is fun. Right now, only subscribers to .com, to the website, blazetv.com.

00:02:39.980 Blaze TV and CRTV merged, by the way. I don't think we ever talked about that. But now it's Blaze TV. So

00:02:44.840 if you subscribe to blazetv.com, you actually see the video version. But now I think we're going to put

00:02:51.080 it on YouTube for free so you'll be able to see it. And all my trash person-ness. Not really. I 0.70

00:02:57.120 actually dress up for you guys, kind of, like from the waist up. I kind of do. Okay, let's get into

00:03:03.620 this. I might say one other fun thing at the end of it. I just need to give you guys an update who do

00:03:08.480 follow me on Instagram. But I want to get into this because one of the pieces of feedback that some

00:03:12.860 people have is, please get into the news. Okay, fine. Fine. Fine. Fine. Fine. Pardon me. Excuse me.

00:03:20.780 Pardon me for being fun, for being relatable, dare I say. Let's get into the news. So the news is that

00:03:30.700 the government has been partially shut down for 15 days, 15, 16 days, something like that. I don't

00:03:41.320 know. Personally, it hasn't really affected my life. And probably for you, you probably haven't noticed

00:03:47.240 that the government has been shut down. The people who are furloughed right now who aren't actually

00:03:53.200 working are what they call non-essential government employees. But the fact of the matter is, although

00:03:58.240 it might not affect you and me, it's affecting real Americans who, quite frankly, I don't believe 0.99

00:04:04.800 should be paying the consequences for the incompetence of our people in Congress or our people

00:04:11.880 in Congress's unwillingness to secure the border wall. And we'll get into all of that. But for

00:04:17.140 example, my brother-in-law, sorry, I've got allergies. And so if it sounds like I have allergies,

00:04:23.160 it's because I do. I have pregnancy allergies for whatever reason. It's like the craziest thing.

00:04:28.240 Anyway, so my brother-in-law, he is a husband and a father of five, husband of one, father of five.

00:04:35.080 Let me just clarify. And they're in the process of moving. So they're trying to get a house. It's

00:04:39.360 really hard to secure a loan for a mortgage when you don't have a steady salary. So he is a real

00:04:44.080 person just trying to provide for his family. He is a hard worker. He would love to go to work and

00:04:49.500 to earn his normal paycheck, but he's unable to do that. And so their family is in this very unstable

00:04:54.200 place right now, not knowing when President Trump and Nancy Pelosi are going to get their bleep

00:05:00.200 together and be able to come to a compromise to be able to open the government so he can just get

00:05:05.900 paid. Now, all government employees that are furloughed right now that are not able to go to work

00:05:10.860 or are either working and not getting paid will get back pay. So it's not like they are going to go

00:05:16.860 without pay forever and ever. However, you're still going these weeks without being able to count on

00:05:24.120 that paycheck coming in that you're used to. And so if an emergency happens, if you have to pay bills

00:05:31.180 and you don't have enough stowed away, that's a problem for a lot of people. And so even though it

00:05:37.340 might not affect your and my daily lives, let's just remember the hundreds of thousands of people,

00:05:44.940 hundreds of thousands of families that are affected by this, who are probably stressed out

00:05:50.020 of their minds just thinking about how they need to provide for, for example, their five kids. So this

00:05:55.960 is a real thing that's happening. It's affecting real working Americans. And the reason that it is

00:06:01.420 happening is because President Trump says, look, I need to fund this border wall. I promised the

00:06:07.540 American people this border wall, people who voted for me, many of them voted for me because they

00:06:13.620 wanted this border wall. I need $5.6 billion to build this thing. Now it's going to take more than

00:06:20.440 $5.6 billion to build it. It's going to take somewhere close to $11 billion. So this is already a

00:06:26.740 compromise. Republicans compromise. It seems, it feels like Republicans kind of compromise a lot.

00:06:31.980 This is yet another compromise. And even another compromise, which you could say, maybe it's not

00:06:37.360 a compromise. It's just kind of like a different option. Another compromise is that President Trump

00:06:41.180 said, okay, it's not going to be a wall. It's going to be a fence. It's going to be steel slats.

00:06:47.820 Okay. So not a wall, but it's still some kind of security. It's some kind of border. So I guess you

00:06:53.220 could maybe consider that a compromise. He considers it a compromise. And yet Nancy Pelosi

00:06:57.740 and the Democrats refuse. They say, absolutely not. Uh, we're, we're not, we're, we're not going

00:07:04.640 to do that. And what is the reason? What's it? What's the reason? Well, Nancy Pelosi, oh, by the

00:07:09.960 way, she is Speaker of the House yet again. Has she been Speaker of the House before? Yes, she has.

00:07:14.240 Is she Speaker of the House again? Yes, she is. That's because Democrats took over the House. And so 0.99

00:07:18.260 she is back in power at the ripe old age of 78. Um, so she is saying, no, we are not going to fund

00:07:24.840 the border wall. And the reason is her, her reasons that this is Nancy Pelosi, the lady who

00:07:33.160 is giddy about supporting the number one abortion mill in the nation who is perfectly fine as a 0.99

00:07:40.340 practicing Catholic slaughtering, or she is fine with the slaughtering of unborn children inside the 0.94

00:07:46.100 womb. That's who we're talking about. Nancy Pelosi, representative from California, part of the 0.99

00:07:51.660 party who is okay with slaughtering babies. She says that the reason why she won't okay with funding 1.00

00:07:57.600 the wall, she won't, uh, make sure that there are votes in the House to fund the wall is, uh, because

00:08:02.860 it's, in her words, an immorality. You heard that right, ladies and gentlemen, an immorality. It is

00:08:09.900 an immorality. She said, it's not who we are. Okay. I just wish someone would ask, can someone

00:08:18.520 just ask, like, is this impossible in the minds of so-called journalists to be like, oh, what do you

00:08:25.780 mean, Nancy? Or maybe they didn't hear her through her dentures. What do you mean it's not who we are?

00:08:32.680 What do you mean it's an immorality? Why is it an immorality to try to prevent illegal immigration? 0.88

00:08:39.460 Why is it immoral to protect our borders? Why is that wrong? Why is that not who we are? Are we not

00:08:47.620 a sovereign nation? Do we not have laws? Do we not believe that we should enforce our laws? Do we

00:08:52.680 believe that certain people should be able to break our laws, um, under certain conditions and not,

00:08:58.780 and not be punished for them? Is that, is that who we are? I wasn't aware that that was who we are.

00:09:03.560 So, but no, no one bothers to ask Nancy Pelosi what in the actual heck she means by that. Instead,

00:09:11.760 we just, we just all nod our heads. We say, yes, Nancy. Yes. Yes. You're right, girl.

00:09:18.820 In immorality. Yes. Yes. Tell us more, please. No, I'm not buying it. Well, first of all,

00:09:26.980 I'm not going to take morality lessons from Nancy Pelosi or any Democrat. I mean,

00:09:31.360 quite frankly, I wouldn't take one from Donald Trump either, but I'm not going to take it certainly

00:09:35.780 from her. I'm not going to take it from the abortion party. I'm not going to take it from 0.95

00:09:39.360 the socialist party. So don't lecture me on, on morality. And please, if you're going to provide

00:09:47.140 some kind of explanation. So that is why that is precisely why the government is shut down. That is

00:09:53.720 why hardworking people like my brother-in-law and his family are suffering. That is why hundreds of

00:09:59.240 thousands of people are not getting paid because the Democrats and Nancy Pelosi refused to fund the

00:10:05.260 border wall. Now, could Donald Trump have done this more effectively when Republicans had both

00:10:11.420 chambers of Congress? Yeah, he could have. And so that's, that's on him too. Okay. So we can blame

00:10:17.680 him retrospectively for not doing this earlier. Why he waited for the Democrats to take over Congress

00:10:24.140 or to take over the House after midterms? No one really knows, but he is. And so now we're in this

00:10:31.100 position where we have to get Nancy Pelosi to, okay, funding the government or Donald Trump has to say, 1.00

00:10:37.420 okay, nevermind, whatever. I don't really care about securing the border. I see personally, in my

00:10:43.840 opinion, I see the latter happening before the former. So I see Donald Trump giving in before I see

00:10:49.480 Nancy Pelosi give it in because Nancy Pelosi has already staked her claim in the morality camp. 1.00

00:10:55.960 She has already said, well, it's immoral to fund the wall. So now she's not going to turn around

00:11:00.600 and say, okay, fine, because that would make her immoral. Now we already know that she is, 1.00

00:11:06.480 but she's probably not going to show her hypocrisy that quickly. So there's just no way that she's

00:11:12.400 going to compromise. Donald Trump, on the other hand, Donald Trump, yes, I know that he really cares

00:11:19.220 about the wall. I know that his constituents really care about the wall, but he also really

00:11:24.120 cares what people think of him. That is something that is simply true of Donald Trump. And one thing

00:11:30.020 that I think is bad about the character of Donald Trump, lots of good things. That's a really bad

00:11:35.080 thing is that in my opinion, he really cares what people think. And I think that he even cares what

00:11:40.740 Nancy Pelosi thinks. Like, I think he would love to get along with Nancy Pelosi and come to some kind

00:11:46.360 of compromise with her. I really think that he would love nothing more than that. And they probably,

00:11:52.020 when you think about it, like Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump, two rich people born around the same time,

00:11:59.860 probably have very similar worldviews. Like if they were just in a vacuum, if they weren't

00:12:05.280 representing the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, Donald Trump is not an ideologue. Nancy Pelosi

00:12:11.040 might be a little bit more, but they probably see the world in a very similar way. Donald Trump

00:12:16.860 probably wants to get along with her. He wants to be the dealmaker. He is, you know, the master of the

00:12:22.540 art of the deal, as he has said. And so he would be okay with compromising. Nancy Pelosi, however,

00:12:28.540 she's not going to. She laid it all in the line by saying this is an immorality. So I think that

00:12:36.120 Donald Trump will give in before Nancy Pelosi does. However, if he doesn't, I also think the longer

00:12:42.340 that Donald Trump holds out, the better it looks for him. And the reason is because it is very simple

00:12:48.200 and he needs to play this up as much as possible. Oh, the reason you furloughed worker, the reason

00:12:53.660 you families of the non-essential government workers are suffering right now, the reason you're

00:12:58.860 stressed out of your mind, the reason why you're worried about paying that emergency room bill or

00:13:04.340 whatever it is that you have, the reason why you're worried about not being able to make your

00:13:10.440 payments right now is because Nancy Pelosi refuses to put the American people first and secure the 1.00

00:13:15.140 border. That's the bottom line. Democrats don't care about you. That's what he needs to say. They

00:13:18.940 don't care about you. If they cared about the American people, this would be easy. Okay, secure the

00:13:22.560 border, pay the workers. Easy. But apparently this is very complicated. And you know why? The reason

00:13:29.220 why Nancy Pelosi says that this is immoral. She's taking cues from the far left of the Democratic 1.00

00:13:36.600 Party, which has completely taken over the Democratic Party. There's only a few of them,

00:13:40.080 but they're loud, they're bullying, and they're very popular among millennials who are soon going 1.00

00:13:44.640 to take over the country because we are very large and very stupid. The reason behind this immorality 1.00

00:13:50.880 is the fact that apparently the wall is racist. It is racist. That is why it is wrong.

00:13:58.420 Now again, if you are a journalist, CNN or MSNBC, you're not going to ask, well, why is it racist

00:14:07.720 to want to secure your borders? Are you honestly saying that if we had a mass infiltration of

00:14:13.740 illegal immigrants coming from Canada, that we wouldn't build a wall on the Canadian border? 0.99

00:14:20.800 We wouldn't have a problem with that? You're saying that it's only Hispanic people, it's only 1.00

00:14:24.180 Latino people that we have a problem with. Do you really believe that? Like, do you really believe 1.00

00:14:30.000 that? And they would say, well, yes, I do. Yes, yes, I do. Okay, why? Well, what makes you think that

00:14:37.280 every single person who wants to secure the border is a racist? Well, what about the African Americans 1.00

00:14:41.840 that want to secure the border? What about the immigrants who want to secure the border? What 0.91

00:14:45.500 about the Hispanic community that wants to secure the border? They exist, you know, you can't just

00:14:49.300 pretend that they don't. Oh, yes, I can't pretend that they don't exist. Okay, I guess you can. And

00:14:55.860 that would be the end of the conversation because there's no logic whatsoever in their little minds

00:15:00.360 about this. It's racist. It's wrong. It's immoral. It's wrong. It's racist. And CNN and MSNBC just say,

00:15:07.860 mm-hmm, mm-hmm, you are right. You are just, you are right. That is powerful. Speak truth to power,

00:15:16.440 girl. But that's where we are. One side says, look, this is just logical. Let's just secure the

00:15:23.000 border. The other side says, no, it's racist. With no facts whatsoever, at least the side who says,

00:15:28.460 hey, we want to secure the border has a little, has some, has some logic, a little, a lot,

00:15:32.620 some logic on their side. The logic is, okay, we are a nation, right? Like, can we at least agree

00:15:39.180 on that? I'm not even sure if I sat down across from a far-left Democrat if they would agree with

00:15:43.640 me. Are we a nation? Someone say, well, not really because we stole it from the indigenous people. Okay,

00:15:50.120 go away. Next. Are we a nation? Yes, we're a nation. Okay, if we are a nation, do we have a right?

00:15:58.540 Do we have a right to enforce our laws? Do we have laws? Well, yeah, of course we have laws.

00:16:04.420 Okay, what is a law if you can't enforce it? Well, it's not really a law. It's just a suggestion.

00:16:08.400 Okay, do we have a law that you should not be able to enter the country illegally and make a 0.53

00:16:13.440 mockery of that law? Well, yeah, I guess. Well, then why should we disobey that law but not be able

00:16:18.860 to disobey other laws? Why do we punish our own citizens for breaking laws inside our country but not

00:16:23.420 punish non-citizens for breaking the law coming into our country? Why? They don't really have that

00:16:31.760 much of a reason for that because, because it's just, it's just wrong. Look, I share with them

00:16:40.760 compassion for the people that are fleeing violence in these corrupt countries in South America and

00:16:48.120 corrupt parts of Mexico. I do. The two young kids that we've heard in the past couple of weeks who 1.00

00:16:54.040 have died from flu-like symptoms and from other things, when they got to the border and they died

00:17:00.340 in custody but they had the symptoms before they got there so let's not even get on that tangent.

00:17:05.140 I am sad for them. It breaks my heart. Those are people made in God's image. They're not any less

00:17:09.600 than me. They're not any less than you. They're not any less worthy of life and care and protection

00:17:16.280 than we are. Of course, I feel badly for them. But we have to ask ourselves, as logically thinking

00:17:23.100 people, is the most compassionate thing I can do for those people say, fine, our laws don't matter.

00:17:29.240 Our country doesn't matter. We have no right to sovereignty whatsoever and everyone, no matter 1.00

00:17:33.500 what, can come in unconditionally. Is that the right thing to do? Is that compassionate for them?

00:17:38.920 Well, the journey seems pretty darn dangerous and there's nothing we can do about the danger of the

00:17:43.000 journey. So is the right and compassionate thing to do to incentivize these people, to make a journey

00:17:48.320 on which vulnerable people will die, will be trafficked, will be violated, is that the most

00:17:56.060 compassionate thing to do? Or is it to do what we can as individuals and even as the government,

00:18:01.060 we already give billions of dollars in aid to these corrupt countries. Is the right thing to do to help

00:18:07.800 them where they are? And to make sure that they are not incentivized to come into this country illegally,

00:18:12.780 to secure the border as much as we can, to make sure that we have a merit-based system.

00:18:18.200 So if you are immigrating here illegally, we say, okay, can you contribute to society? Or can you 1.00

00:18:23.660 at least take care of your family? Maybe you have a family member who can't contribute to society. Okay,

00:18:28.980 can you take care of them? Do you have a high likelihood of being able to contribute rather than just to

00:18:34.640 take? I think that's perfectly moral. That's perfectly compassionate. We should disincentivize

00:18:40.400 as much as we can. We should disincentivize people from taking this dangerous journey and

00:18:48.380 risking their lives simply to break the law. Of course. And some people say, well, it's not really

00:18:56.840 people entering illegally. That is the problem. That's why the wall is a waste of money. It's half of 0.84

00:19:02.240 the illegal immigrant population in America, which is about 11 million people. 32% of those apparently

00:19:08.120 are visa overstays. And so they are here illegally. They're working. They've got a visa, but they 0.98

00:19:13.240 overstay their visa. And so then they're here illegally. That is almost half. And so people say, 0.66

00:19:18.880 well, we need to deal with those people just as much as we need to deal with the people crossing the 1.00

00:19:23.580 border illegally. And I say, absolutely. But they're not mutually exclusive. We can deal with both.

00:19:27.400 We need to have an e-verify system to where you have a system to where you can look up the status

00:19:34.540 of the person that you're about to hire to make sure that they are a legal immigrant before you 0.76

00:19:39.080 hire them. That disincentivizes people from overstaying their visa. There are all of these ways

00:19:44.120 that we can actually incentivize legality in this country and following our laws and expressing our

00:19:49.520 sovereignty. At the very least, that's what the government is supposed to do as a government for the

00:19:53.820 people by the people. And so the elected officials chosen by the people should be providing protection

00:20:03.460 for the people. And yes, that includes border security. That is compassion. That is compassion

00:20:10.080 for our citizens and for the people who would otherwise be encouraged to make this dangerous

00:20:15.700 trek and possibly die or be harmed along the way. So I'm just not getting the argument that it is

00:20:22.920 immoral to secure our borders. If there is anything immoral in this whole thing, it is making sure

00:20:28.160 that American workers don't get paid because you are prioritizing illegal immigrants being able to 0.83

00:20:35.320 cross the border whenever they want to. So Democrats are really showing their hand. They're really showing

00:20:41.380 their hand because for a long time, conservatives have been saying, gosh, it feels like the Democrats

00:20:45.040 don't really care about the American people. God, it feels like they care about everyone else a little

00:20:49.140 bit more. And it seems like that must be the case because this isn't that hard of a decision.

00:20:55.420 But what it comes down to really, like I probably, I actually think to give her the benefit of the

00:21:01.460 doubt, Nancy Pelosi is probably okay with securing the border. Democrats were okay with securing the 1.00

00:21:06.840 border. I think it was as recently as maybe 2009. We had people talking about Chuck Schumer in 2013,

00:21:12.420 the importance of cracking down on illegal immigration. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama have

00:21:18.300 all said statements about the importance of cracking down on illegal immigration. This really

00:21:22.220 has to do with Trump, which that might be even sadder that they are allowing Trump derangement syndrome

00:21:28.140 to get in the way of protecting the American people and making sure that American workers get paid.

00:21:35.040 That's what it comes down to. And Republicans need to be singing the song till the cows come home 0.86

00:21:39.120 because, you know, Democrats are calling this the Trump shutdown. You know, they're going to blame

00:21:42.200 it on Trump. It's all political posturing. It's a political power play. This is the Democrats fault.

00:21:46.340 There's no doubt about it. There's no doubt about it. President Trump wants to secure the border.

00:21:51.440 Okay, that's good. That's what a president should want to do. That's what Congress should want to do.

00:21:55.880 Congress hates President Trump so much that they're not willing to serve the American people.

00:22:01.000 They're willing to let the American people suffer. But Nancy Pelosi doesn't care. She just got back 0.99

00:22:05.240 from her Hawaii trip where it was apparently $5,000 a night to stay where she stayed. She doesn't care.

00:22:10.280 She's a millionaire. She's fine. She's going to die probably in the next 10, 15 years. She doesn't 0.98

00:22:16.780 have to deal with all of this socialist mess that's about to happen. She doesn't have to deal with open

00:22:21.280 borders. But that's true of all liberal elites. They want all of these things that are good for me and

00:22:26.700 you, but not for them. Representative Swalwell, I think that's how you say his last name.

00:22:33.820 He tweeted. He tweeted something that I've seen a lot of stupid people tweet lately, something like 1.00

00:22:42.120 it. Now, let me just refresh you. He's the representative who, well, he hates the Second 1.00

00:22:48.080 Amendment. He is Democrat, obviously. He's pretty far left. He's just not smart. I know President

00:22:55.140 Trump talks about low IQ individuals. Maybe he's not. Maybe he's smarter than he appears.

00:23:02.860 And the last few statements. But he just comes across like a low IQ individual. So he is the 0.52

00:23:08.800 same person that said not too long ago, oh, you know, it's a stupid argument for Second 1.00

00:23:14.300 Amendment supporters to say that it protects them against the tyranny of the government. 0.99

00:23:17.940 We have nukes. So you had a lot of conservatives and gun owners being like, are you saying that

00:23:26.720 you're going to nuke us? Like, oh, oh, yeah. Great. We're not scared of Democrats. Well, oh, yeah.

00:23:34.860 That's not why we voted for President Trump at all. Sure. Yeah. We'll definitely give up our guns now.

00:23:40.100 Sounds good. Buyback program. Confiscation. Awesome. Like crazy person. So he tweeted something else.

00:23:47.460 Pretty crazy. Stupid. Stupid. There's no other word for it. He says, this is his tweet. Mr. Gorbachev 1.00

00:23:56.300 put up a wall, said no president. Guys, I'm sad. Like, I'm sad. I'm sad. I am sad about

00:24:10.400 the utter stupidity of people who run our country. And I haven't even gotten to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 1.00

00:24:18.000 yet. Like, okay. Okay. So in case you didn't know, he's referencing the Berlin Wall. Okay. So

00:24:25.420 the Berlin Wall between East Berlin, West Berlin, communist, free. As you know, Ronald Reagan ordered

00:24:34.460 Mr. Gorbachev to tear down the wall. The Berlin Wall did fall in 1989. Amazing feat for freedom.

00:24:42.920 Amazing feat for liberty and the devastation of tyranny, of totalitarianism. Awesome. What the

00:24:51.560 Berlin Wall did was split citizens apart, split Berliners apart, and kept those who were under the 0.70

00:24:59.200 communist regime in the communist regime and it prevented them from tasting freedom and enjoying

00:25:03.880 uh, the fruits of capitalism and liberty that the other side of the Berlin Wall, uh, got to taste

00:25:10.160 and enjoy. Uh, so it kept its citizens in. It didn't keep illegal immigrants out, which is basically

00:25:18.320 what I said on Twitter. I, I said this to him and he replied like, I get the argument, but a wall is a

00:25:24.280 wall. It's medieval. No, but a wall, but a wall is not a wall. Oh, a wall is not a wall. That's like

00:25:30.960 saying my backyard fence is, is the same thing as a prison cell. That, wow, I am keeping my dog,

00:25:39.040 who is also named Reagan, ironically, after Ronald Reagan, except her name is Nancy Reagan. We just

00:25:44.200 call her Reagan. That's like saying that when I put my dog in the backyard, I'm incarcerating my dog.

00:25:49.520 She's actually in a pound because a fence is a fence. Well, no, or a cage is a cage. Well, no, 1.00

00:25:55.440 it's not like, yeah, sure. It's a barrier, but it's a fence. Like she's in my backyard. It's not the

00:25:59.980 same thing as putting her like in a barbed wire kennel. That's basically what he's saying. No,

00:26:05.400 different things can serve different purposes. Like I didn't, I don't know if you knew that or

00:26:10.340 not. So like a backyard isn't the same thing as like a prison cell or a barbed wire kennel where

00:26:15.540 people put fighting dogs in. It's not the same thing. It's not the Berlin wall, which kept its

00:26:21.540 citizens in and under tyranny is not the same thing as a wall that would keep illegal immigrants out.

00:26:26.820 We're not talking about keeping asylum seekers out. We're not talking about keeping people who

00:26:31.800 want to immigrate legally out. We're not talking about keeping our, our, our people in. We are

00:26:37.440 talking about protecting our borders. A wall is not a wall. There are different walls for different

00:26:42.260 things. And yet this inane argument has been repeated over and over again, not just by people

00:26:48.660 on the left, but also by people who say they're on the right, like Bill Kristol, who are just anti-Trump,

00:26:54.280 who try to compare these things when there is no historical comparison whatsoever.

00:26:59.160 If you want to compare something, that's fine. Just come up with like a good example and we can

00:27:03.960 talk about it. If you want to talk about, if Democrats want to talk about, here's the thing,

00:27:08.580 guys, I'm going to bring it home. I'm going to bring it home. If Democrats want to talk about

00:27:12.660 the most effective way to secure the border, or even, even this, if you really want to debate

00:27:20.500 the morality of securing the border, like that would just be a very, like, I think my mind just

00:27:26.060 wants to fall out of my ears imagining having that conversation, but Hey, at least we're having

00:27:30.560 one. Like if you want to debate the morality of securing borders versus open borders, let's do that.

00:27:37.240 If you want to debate the effectiveness of certain border security versus other border security,

00:27:42.900 the efficiency of it, the cost of it, then I'm perfectly fine with that. I'm perfectly fine with

00:27:48.300 that. But that is not what this is about. Not only is it Trump derangement syndrome that is, um,

00:27:54.300 that is stopping the Democrats from serving the American people. It, it, it is also, it is also

00:28:01.440 a collision of worldviews. It's not policy versus policy because you haven't heard someone like

00:28:07.620 Nancy Pelosi saying, well, what about the cost of it? Or what about the effectiveness of it? You

00:28:12.360 haven't heard anything like that. You've just heard, it's not who we are. It's an immorality.

00:28:16.900 So, okay. It's not about policy. It's about worldview. That's what we see colliding right

00:28:22.180 now. And we're going to see it increasingly as you have people like Ocasio-Cortez and people

00:28:26.340 on the far left speaking more and more loudly. Um, and that, and I know we've talked about this

00:28:34.120 before, but it's, it's, it's not that our arguments between the right and the left are

00:28:39.180 more complex than they used to be. It's that they're more fundamental is that I don't know if

00:28:43.720 I could sit down across from a Democrat and say, like, I don't know if a Republican and a Democrat,

00:28:50.660 at least a pretty far left Democrat could sit down from a Republican and the Republican would sit

00:28:55.820 down and say, okay, look, we both, we both agree that we're going to put America first,

00:29:01.260 right? Like we both agree that we want to prioritize the American citizens above, above 0.77

00:29:06.080 everyone else, right? I'm not confident that the Democrat would say yes. There was a time not so

00:29:12.400 long ago in American history when that would be a given. It was just obvious. Yes, we have

00:29:17.400 differences in policy. We have differences in what, in what that looks like. But of course we care about

00:29:21.900 American citizens before we care about the citizens of other countries. Of course we do. 0.89

00:29:27.240 That's why recently you had the democratic party also believe in a border security,

00:29:31.540 but that is not so anymore. Next week, if, if, if, well, just if a lot of things,

00:29:39.940 if there's not something else that comes up before Thursday, we'll probably dive into Ocasio-Cortez

00:29:46.660 recent interview. Yes, I'm going to keep talking about her. When her ideas stop being popular,

00:29:51.960 I'll stop talking about her. There's a lot of Republicans that say, stop paying attention to her. 0.96

00:29:55.940 I'll stop paying attention to her when millennials stop paying attention to her, 1.00

00:30:00.280 when thoughtless people stop paying attention to her. I, that's when I'll stop paying attention to

00:30:05.100 her. She has dangerous ideas and they are popular and they're also stupid and we need to expose their 1.00

00:30:10.060 stupidity. So I'll hopefully get into that next time. Um, okay. I am going to, now I am going to 1.00

00:30:21.600 read some of the questions that you guys sent me. Okay. Number one, how do you handle rejection? What is

00:30:27.880 your go-to passage in scripture with something like that? So I handle rejection. Well, rejection

00:30:33.960 is hard for me. So I get a lot of people saying you, I love that you don't care what anyone thinks.

00:30:39.660 Well, I really appreciate that. I try not to, I try to only care about the opinions of

00:30:45.000 people that matter, but I do. I'm just like anyone else. And it's probably worse for women. 1.00

00:30:50.640 I do take rejection and criticism pretty hard, especially on, on certain things. Like when

00:30:56.620 someone maligns your character or your faith, that's the stuff that hurts stuff about your

00:31:00.880 appearance and your voice. I'm like, whatever, you know, I can't change that. I don't really care

00:31:06.100 about that. Um, but when it's deeper, when it's heart stuff like that hurts. And of course,

00:31:10.980 rejection hurts. I've been rejected many times in this industry and in other, in other stages of my

00:31:17.360 life. I'm sure. Um, something that really helps me is a Psalm 37, one through seven. I happen to

00:31:23.760 have that one off the top of my head because it really is good. Most of you probably know,

00:31:27.500 I think it's verse four. That's delight yourself in the Lord. And he will give you the desires of

00:31:30.580 your heart of very often misinterpreted verse, but we won't get into that now. Um, but one through

00:31:35.300 seven really talks about how God is faithful to, um, the ones that he has chosen his followers,

00:31:41.800 his children, and then one day evil and hate and, uh, the people who plot against you will

00:31:49.280 fade like the grass and wither like the green herb is what it says. Now that's not to say everyone who

00:31:54.020 rejects you is evil and hateful. And that's not to say everyone who doesn't like you is evil and

00:31:58.080 hateful. Sometimes they just don't like you. And sometimes you're just not the right fit for

00:32:03.440 something. That's perfectly fine. I'm really talking about situations in which you are unfairly

00:32:07.800 treated. That's a really good go-to for me. And even if it's not a situation of being unfairly

00:32:12.480 treated, I think it is a great reminder of, um, God's faithfulness to his people and his allegiance

00:32:19.900 to righteousness and fairness. Okay. Next one. My question is what can we do to save these unborn

00:32:27.780 children? I want to do more, but I don't know the best organizations to donate to or volunteer for,

00:32:31.960 or if there's something more we can be doing. Um, so check out local pregnancy centers that you

00:32:37.780 know for sure don't offer abortion. There are a lot of local pregnancy centers, uh, throughout

00:32:42.600 America that offer sonograms and other, uh, medical advice and counseling, especially if it's a

00:32:47.820 Christian pregnancy center, they offer so many resources for moms that are in crisis that go

00:32:52.660 beyond just the sonogram and prenatal care and things like that. So much more than Planned

00:32:56.940 Parenthood ever could or would. And they're not funded, but they're not funded by the government, 0.60

00:33:01.660 but a lot of them aren't. Um, anyway, so you can look that up and you can see if you can volunteer

00:33:09.600 there. A lot of them have mobile sonogram units that go out into communities. And so women who are 0.81

00:33:15.260 unable to, uh, afford a doctor, they can go get a free sonogram. And usually that, um, that,

00:33:23.420 that lessens the chances of them getting an abortion. If they are abortion minded, you can donate to any of

00:33:28.480 those centers as well. Save the storks is a resource organization. And so they provide local

00:33:34.440 pregnancy centers with resources like mobile sonogram units. So they'd be a great organization

00:33:39.680 to donate to. My sister-in-law has an organization called hope one 39 house that is in the process of

00:33:45.300 being built right now in Georgia. And it's going to be a home for a young pregnant women who are in 1.00

00:33:50.640 crisis. And so definitely look up hope one 39 house. That would be a great place to donate as well.

00:33:55.700 Uh, we personally donate there and we also donate to a local pregnancy center that does a lot of good

00:34:00.620 Christian work. Um, how do you know where to start reading the Bible? Is there a certain way to read 1.00

00:34:06.260 look at it to fully get all the information on what God's message is? So it can be really intimidating

00:34:12.020 to read the Bible for the first time. I would start in the gospels. I personally am, I might be kind

00:34:18.380 of sacrilegious to say this. I'm like a little biased towards the old Testament. I mean, I love both.

00:34:23.200 Obviously you need both. One is not better than the other. I am not saying that, especially

00:34:28.080 theologically you need both a hundred percent. Absolutely. I just love a good story and I love

00:34:35.360 the story of the narrative style of the old Testament, but it can be a little, I would say

00:34:41.420 to start in the new Testament, start in Matthew or start in John. Those are my recommendations.

00:34:46.680 Take it slow. It's okay that you don't know everything. None of us do not a single one of us do.

00:34:51.480 I recommend a good study Bible. Take all commentary with a grain of salt. Um, you just

00:34:57.060 have to pray for discernment, pray for wisdom, pray for the Holy spirit. I would say you're

00:35:00.860 starting in John or say you're starting in Matthew. Take it verse by verse, write down all your

00:35:05.200 questions, write down the things you don't understand. Uh, you might think that you don't

00:35:08.900 understand something, but then you really work through it and think through it. And you're like,

00:35:12.400 Oh, okay. I think that makes more sense to me. And like I said, really pray for wisdom.

00:35:16.360 Um, I also have a theology book that's helped me a lot with the basics called systematic

00:35:21.680 theology by Wayne Grudem. Um, it's a really good resource. Uh, commentaries are not inerrant

00:35:27.500 like the word of God is. So again, you have to use discernment in that. And whenever you

00:35:31.580 listen to a sermon, whenever you read commentary, whenever you read a devotional, always weigh it

00:35:35.960 against the truth of scripture. If a pastor or an author says something that does not align

00:35:40.420 with the Bible, it's, uh, just not theologically true. Um, have you ever changed a liberal's mind?

00:35:45.880 There have been a few times where I've gotten emails from someone saying you changed my perspective

00:35:50.440 on this. It's always been about abortion. Um, Oh, and that's the last one. Okay. Well,

00:35:56.820 thank you guys so much. This was fine. And like I said, I missed you and we will be back on Thursday.

00:36:03.020 Oh, wait, was I going to say something? Oh, I was just going to say one thing. I was going to say

00:36:06.700 one thing. And my thing, my thing was that. So if you saw my Instagram stories, I said that

00:36:15.220 Chili's changed their chicken fingers. Well, I slandered Chili's wrongly. It turns out I just

00:36:23.280 got the wrong chicken fingers. They were crispy and not original. I don't like the crispy. They're

00:36:27.020 awful. So I just wanted to say that we're back on track, back to giving Chili's free advertising.

00:36:33.560 And I'm sorry for ever speaking badly of them. I hope you guys can forgive me Chili's. If you're

00:36:38.520 out there, I hope you can forgive me too. Um, I will be starting some kind of trash segment or trash 0.66

00:36:44.420 episode because that sounds really fun. And I told you guys I would, uh, anyway, love y'all.

00:36:51.740 Thanks for listening. Share this podcast with everyone you can please. Thanks. Bye.

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