Ep 670 ｜ The Dinosaur Conspiracy, Airport Rules & Mom Moments
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In this episode of Relatable with Allie and Friends, we have a special guest on the other side of the camera, the tech crew from GoodRanchers! They give their takes on a variety of topics, including Joe Biden's comments about black people, aliens, and dinosaurs.
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What is the proper airport attire? Also, Joe Biden says you always know which parts of the country
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have the best basketball. What does he mean by that? What was I like in high school? Are aliens
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real? What about dinosaurs? I'm not so sure. Today we have a special episode of Relatable
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with Allie and Friends that is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to
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goodranchers.com slash Allie. That's goodranchers.com slash Allie.
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All right, guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Today we've got a different show
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for you, different than we've ever done before. There is a crew beyond yonder on the other side
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of this camera that is going to come on the show and they are going to give their takes
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on a whole slew of topics. Most of them don't have to do with politics. We're just going to have fun
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on this episode. The reason that we're doing this, it's totally spontaneous, is because we were going
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to interview a guest, Kirk Cameron, whom you know I've had him on before, but unfortunately we had
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some tech issues. We weren't able to interview him about his upcoming movie on adoption. We'll
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reschedule that for a later day. And I was like, oh my gosh, what are we going to talk about today?
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I went live on Instagram. I got some fun topic ideas from you guys and I decided to ask for some
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help from my producers and from the tech crew. And so we are going to have fun. We're going to have
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fun conversation with Allie and friends. And if you like the format of this, if you like this kind of
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episode, you can let me know and we'll do some more in the future. So let's start though with a
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little bit of politics. I know that you guys are kind of tired of this, but I promise it's going
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to be fun. We're not going to get too, too in the weeds and too serious about all of this.
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But just so we can comment on some things that happened yesterday, Biden gave this big speech
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at this big rally and per usual, he said some crazy things. So let me play you a very funny clip
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from yesterday and then we'll give you our reaction to it.
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I'm attorney general of the state of Delaware. And what he used to do is go down in the east side,
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what's called the bucket, highest crime rate in the country. There's a place where I used to,
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I was the only white guy that worked as a lifeguard down in that area, in the east side. And you know
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where the, you can always tell where the best basketball in the state is and the best basketball
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LOL. Have you guys ever seen, are y'all fans of Parks and Rec?
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Any of you? Okay. Do you know that episode where Leslie is holding a town hall and there is this
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like old woman and she raised her hand to say that she does not want a basketball court built in her
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area because there, she kept on saying there's a certain kind of person who likes to play basketball
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and she keeps on getting closer and closer to saying what she really means. And obviously
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what she means and what Joe Biden means is a black person. Is that what he's saying? He's saying that
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there was a high concentration of black people. And I mean, that seems to be, that seems to be what
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he's saying. Uh, yeah. I mean, this kind of like, let's get you to bed on uncle Joe. That's the kind
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of thing that you kind of expect that your grandpa to start saying when like a weird uncle, start going to
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go. Yeah. Like a weird uncle. And he just gets away with saying stuff like this. He said a bunch
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of stuff like this, like in the election, just like implying weird things about black people.
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Remember that story that he told about like being in a pool and like the kids would come up to him
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and like play with his leg hair. Yeah. Just something super weird to mention. Like of all the things you
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could choose to say at that moment. Of all the things. That's what I think. Like of all the things that
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you could choose to say, Joe Biden, in this moment, you chose this. Something about like
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his leg hair shining in the sun. Blonde in the sunshine, in the sunshine. And then the kids
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were fascinated by that or something. Yeah. Really freaking weird. Okay. Like honest talk. Do you
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think, do y'all really think, I know people say a lot like, oh, Joe Biden has dementia, which I don't
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like making light of, you know, actual dementia or Alzheimer's. But do you really think that he has
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some kind of diagnosis of like cognitive decline? I feel like I can't, I can't help but say yes.
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Right. Like I, I was telling someone the other day that it's hard for me to even watch clips of him
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because I feel, I feel bad for him. Yeah. I'm sort of like, let's, I mean, we know what he's done in
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his history politically. Doesn't make me feel bad in that way, but I am sort of like, let the man rest,
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you know, like, I feel like he just needs to go take a nap. Yeah. Let someone else do the job,
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you know? I feel like Jill manhandles him a lot. Like there was this video the other day where he
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was supposed to get on a plane and he was answering questions to reporters, which I don't think he is
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allowed to do without a chaperone. And Jill like grabbed him by the shoulders and was like,
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let's go back into the plane. Yeah. I think she's kind of the cognizant one. And so maybe the deep
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state is kind of relying on her. Okay. Y'all got to talk into the microphone. Well, you got to talk
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into the microphone. Um, okay. Anyway, yeah. I think she's kind of like the wrangler because she's
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the one who's actually mentally there. Yeah. I wonder why, why if you believe in the deep state or
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whatever, which I don't think it's even controversial to say that like one exists,
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like why would they pick Joe Biden? Is it because he was the most palatable and like the easiest for
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moderates to vote for? I wonder, I feel like, I don't know. Bernie Sanders was just a little too
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bombastic and not able to be controlled. I think there were some secret back deal, like back,
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you know, behind the scenes things going on during the election because they couldn't have picked him
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because they thought that he was going to be a strong leader. So there has to be another more
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nefarious reason I feel. Yeah. I think he probably is the only one who like basically we're like
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individually, none of these other 30 million candidates are going to be able to defeat Trump.
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We need to get them out of there. So there's no distracting people from the true purpose,
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which is defeating Trump. And so Joe Biden was just their sort of, um, I don't know,
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vanilla flavored, boring dude. Yeah. Wasn't Trump. Yeah. I think a lot of people like they
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could get women and like Christian women, especially to feel bad for him. Like you said,
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like Bree, you said you feel bad for him. I think a lot of people felt bad for him.
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And then like that one debate between Trump and Biden where Trump just kept on interrupting him.
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I think a lot of women were like, Oh, like poor uncle Joe, like poor grandpa, don't interrupt my
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grandpa. And I think a lot of people just felt like, okay, he's, he would never like hurt anyone.
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And Trump is just like, so mean. I feel like that's what went down, but he did threaten gun
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owners with, um, like fighter jets yesterday. Right. So let's play that clip.
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They're not unlimited right now. You can't go out and buy an automatic weapon. You can't go out and
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buy a cannon. And for those brave right-wing Americans who say it's all about keeping America,
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you're keeping America's independent and safe. If you want to fight against the country,
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you need an F-15. You need something a little more than a gun. No, I'm not joking. Think about
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this. Think about the rationale we use that's used to provide this and who are they shooting at?
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What? Shooting at these guys? There's just the random people that are standing behind him.
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I don't know. That kind of scares me. I mean, that's some pretty serious demagoguery right there.
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Like, Oh, what? Like, how is your gun a match for our F-15? I don't know. That's kind of freaky.
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Eric Swalwell said the same thing the other day, or I mean, the other day, you know, like a year ago.
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When I first saw this this morning, I was sort of like, I saw other people saying this as well. Like,
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how can this exist simultaneously with the, with the ideology that on January 6th,
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just a couple people walking in, we're going to overthrow democracy, you know?
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Yeah. People who were unarmed, that was an insurrection, but people who are armed apparently
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aren't a match for the government. I also saw people say, well, you know, basically barbarians
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took over Afghanistan and they didn't have the same equipment that America did. And America just
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like completely fled. Yeah, they do now. They do now. Oh man, Joe Biden. Okay. So let's get past
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politics. But first, like, what do y'all think about the midterms? Just in your own opinion,
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because I've seen some people say that Republicans are losing momentum and that Democrats have picked
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up momentum because a lot of the lies that they're spreading after Dobbs that, oh my gosh,
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we need, you know, we need Roe v. Wade so that women can get miscarriage care, total propaganda.
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We've talked about that several times, but I don't know. I also feel like a lack of energy behind
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Republicans as bad as Democrats are. I don't know if it's over exhaustion with politics and like with
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the news and I'm just not paying attention as much, but it just seems like, okay, yeah, you're voting
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for Republicans to vote against Democrats, but are Democrats really showing like the energy and the
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resolve that Republicans want them to? I don't know. They just seem kind of bleh. And I could see why
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some people just would not be motivated to go out and vote at all.
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I'm worried. I don't know if worried is the right word, but I don't think that the red wave is going to
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be as big as some people are predict or have predicted in the past. I think, I think in the past
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couple of weeks, the political message has started to ramp up. Like I was just saying like earlier
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before we were recording that like the political season has started and it's going to get faster
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and faster. And so I think like Democrats basically like they're starting now, like whereas
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Republicans have been ahead, you know, all summer or whatever. And then now Democrats are starting
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their push to say, everybody get mad, go vote. Yeah. There's going to be some kind of September
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surprise. There always is some like big thing that makes people say, oh my gosh, I have to vote
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Republican in order, you know, or I have to vote Democrat. Sorry. People will say in order to like
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not be racist or in order to not be a misogynist or in order to like save the country, save democracy.
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Of course, it's all hogwash. It's all emotional manipulation. Also, I know that you're off camera,
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but have you noticed those who can't hear or see, but something that I've noticed is that like a lot
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of my friends or a lot of the like Christian women that I follow and this, Brie, you can answer this
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too. Like they stopped talking about politics at all, like after Biden won the election. And before
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they were basically like activists, they were constantly talking about how terrible Trump was,
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how you have to vote Democrat in order to be empathetic, care about poor people, the immigrant
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and like black people. And then they haven't paid attention to politics at all or talked about it at
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all since Biden took office. I feel like those people are all of a sudden going to pretend like
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they're experts again and like they're super involved in politics. And that just really bothers
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me. I don't know. What do y'all think? Yeah. Yeah. So you can't hear that. So she was saying how
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it's just been like, Brie, have you noticed that? Oh, yeah. I mean, I will say that I like I have been in a
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ministry position before and during these during both elections, actually, the past two elections.
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And I have absolutely noticed that, that during especially the last one, just seeing people,
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Christian women talking about how hateful and evil Trump is and how important it is to get
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involved in politics. And, and, and now I'm not seeing any of that. Yeah, it'll ramp back up,
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I think, in the next couple months, which will be super annoying. I feel like they're just outrage
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and compassion is just dictated by what is trending on social media. They have like a meme level
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understanding of politics. And then they use that meme level understanding to like bash people on the
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other side of the aisle. So looking forward to that. All right, let's move out of politics. Let's
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talk about some other questions that we talked about before we started recording. Or let's talk
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about some. Let's talk about some of the things that were sent to me on Instagram. So let's talk
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because a lot of people brought this up about airport no nos and my airport rules. Are you three
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over there? Are you aware of my airport rules? My airport attire? Kayla says no. Bri, are you aware?
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Vaguely. Oh, yeah. Okay, so y'all can tell me if you agree with this, because they're kind of
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controversial. And some people get legitimately, legitimately upset about this, even though I'm
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half joking, even though this, I mean, this really is my kind of uniform for travel. I don't actually
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judge people unless you take off your shoes on the airplane. I judge you. But I don't actually judge
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people for not wearing this. It's just kind of become funny. So my airport attire that I think
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that everyone should wear, and I have very practical reasons for this. I think that you should wear
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like comfortable pants, but not sweatpants, maybe leggings if it's like a super long flight,
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but you could have nicer leggings versus non nice leggings. I prefer like I think Carly Jean Los
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Angeles, they've got like some stretchy jeans. There are some like nice pants that are they have
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like an elastic waistband, but they're still not sweatpants. So you got comfortable pants going on,
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but like tailored, not sweatpants. And then on top, I would wear like either a short sleeve or a tank top
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in a sweater. So layers is important because it can be hot. It can also be cold. Then I would say
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this is the most important, most important, and I get a lot of flack for this. No open toe shoes
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when you are traveling. Now I have a couple reasons for that. One reason is unless you have TSA pre-check,
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you have to take off your shoes when you go through security, which by the way, TSA pre-check is awesome
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and totally worth it. I know totally worth it. But if you don't have that, you're walking through
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security with your with your shoes off, your bare feet. Disgusting. You have no idea what has been
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there. And then also, I just feel like when you're in close quarters with people on the airplane,
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I don't want to see your toes and I don't want to smell your toes. And also, if it's an emergency
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or not even emergency, but you're just like, you're running somewhere because you have to get
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your connection. You need to be able to run like good luck doing that in espadrilles or whatever,
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or like you're even like your flats. And so that's, I mean, close to a shoe, socks and shoes. That is
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probably the most important part of my airport attire. Okay. Tell me your thoughts.
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Yeah. Socks and shoes for sure. I was, I will say the past couple of years I've flown
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internationally a lot. And I agree with all of these rules, except I think sweatpants are
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absolutely acceptable attire. But really? Yeah, I do. But I have only on international or any flight?
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I'll be generous. I'll say any flight. Wow. But on international flights, I've seen people
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get on the plane in like a normal outfit change for the flight and then change it again to get off
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the flight. To me, that's too much work. But yeah. Sounds like too much work, but people do it.
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But no, I'm not against. That's not like too much work. And I don't want to change clothes in an
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airport bathroom. I'm not enough space. Yeah. Yeah. Look, I'm, I have no issue with sweatpants.
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Yeah. Closed-toe shoes, probably my most controversial. Kayla, what's your thought?
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They're absolutely necessary. I think it depends on the flight. Like sometimes I'll wear jeans,
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always comfy jeans, never tight, you know, like firm, like, like Levi's that are just like nice
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jeans to wear out. You don't wear on the plane. But joggers, sneakers, tank top, hoodie, always.
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Yeah. Joggers, that's a good example. Yeah. Joggers are great. Yeah. And that's different than a sweat
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pant. It's different. Very different. It's, it's like a classy sweat pant, but I also don't want
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to see anyone's feet. Yeah. I agree. People get like really upset with me sometimes. I mean,
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most people agree with me or they like it. I've gotten a few messages being like, oh my gosh,
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I'm so afraid I'm going to run into you at the airport. I'm like, what do you think I'm going to
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do? Report you to someone. But I, I fly a lot and I have flown many times and I have just realized
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that this is like the most, this is the most comfortable and the most practical way to fly.
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Like when people get on the airplane and they've got like skirts on or they've got shorts on. I mean,
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I kind of have like a hot take about like guys in shorts anyway. I feel like if you were over the
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age of like 15, there are only like a few places where you should be like wearing shorts. I don't
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know. Dylan, is that a controversial opinion? I don't think so. Maybe among like dads,
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they're like, Hey, I love my cargo shorts. Um, I don't like shorts. I get cold. I guess. I don't
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know. That's one of my traits. So I'm always in pants. Yeah. I just feel like shorts are very
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casual. Anyway, that's maybe another topic for another day. Um, okay. Here's one for you pet
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owners over there. Kayla, do you own a cat? A dog. You own a dog. Okay. Feelings on people
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who call their pets, their kids. I'm going to let y'all go first. Do y'all call your cats slash dog
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your like babies? I mean, he is my baby, right? But he's a dog. He's just a sweet boy. Do you call
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yourself mom? No, never. You don't? Oh, wow. Okay. What about you, Bree, Dylan? No, I've always,
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I've always had a thing against that. It really bothers me when people call their pets, uh,
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their kids. Cause they're not. What are your cats names, Bree? Um, they, I was living in France when
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I got them. So one is named Lumi, Lumiere, and the other is named Lafayette. Oh my gosh. Do you say,
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you say Lafayette, you say Lafayette, come here and get your meow mix? I call her Lafie,
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Lumiere and Lafie. Oh my gosh. That's really cute. So you traveled with your cats from? I did. And let
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me tell you, I do not recommend. You did not what? I do not recommend. It was tough. Okay. So you had to
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have two separate, cause I have also traveled with the cat, but it was like two hour flight. Yeah. And I
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remember like, I had to take her out in like security and hold her. And she was like crazy
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cat. But, and then like, she was, she was meowing through the whole fight and that was only two
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hours. How in the world did you do that? They, so I was flying from Paris and in Paris, they stick your
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pet in the little x-ray machine. They just like, they just like roll them through. Okay. Well,
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that's kind of easier for you. Yeah. Not so good for them probably longterm, but, um, yeah,
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that was fine. It was a 10 hour flight. I feel like at a certain point they just sort of like fall
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asleep. So do you just let them go to the bathroom and their carrier? They don't cats, cats normally
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just kind of hold it. They can hold it. My cat pooped. Oh, well, I'm sorry for that. On the two hour
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flight. I think she's mad at you. Yeah. She's mad at you. Yeah. She had problems. So yeah. Mental
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problems. But no, not my, not my children. Dylan, you have a cat and I know that you love your cat.
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Rightfully so. It's true. Um, so I do, I would say it's more jokingly. Like I'll be like, that's my
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baby. Yeah. I'll be like, can we do baby? Yeah. Um, but you know, I don't think that's weird. Yeah. I
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don't think I wouldn't say I don't call him like my son because that's just, that doesn't make
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logical sense. This is my son. Yeah, I do. I think that's different saying that something is your
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baby versus like, this is my daughter Lafayette or something. Um, yeah, I, I think that my only like
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issue is when people think like, I love animals and I think pets are great. And I understand people
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like highly valuing their pets, loving their pets, taking care of their pets, making sacrifices
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for their pets. I don't have anything wrong with that. But when people like equate having
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pets to having kids, like there's that office episode, are y'all friends or friends of, are
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y'all fans of the office? Do y'all remember that episode where I think it's like Angela and
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Pam and they're talking to Oscar about like, oh my gosh, like waking up in the middle of the
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night and stuff like that. And he's like, oh my gosh, I know our dog wakes up in the middle of
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the night to go to the bathroom. That kind of stuff is annoying. But, and I also like,
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I do have a theory. This is a little probably offensive, but I do think that the people who
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are just like obsessed with their pets to the point of them become like becoming like their
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kids and like putting them on the same level. I think that they are trying to satisfy a biological
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drive to have kids like in their pets. And I think that is probably not the healthiest thing
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Um, okay. Do y'all believe in aliens? You do? Yes. Okay. Tell me why. I don't, I mean,
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I don't know. I just, I don't, there's just so much out there in space. Like too many weird
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things occur. There's too many. Okay. Name me one weird thing that has occurred. I'm not the right.
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Okay. I'm, this was a yes or no question. I answered yes. I'm, I'm not the backer. If
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you really, if you want to know more, you should talk to Alex Stein because he's got the real
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info on the aliens. Okay. Okay. So you believe in aliens and have no reason to believe in
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aliens. All right. Brie and Dylan, do you believe in aliens? I don't have like a hard yes, but
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I don't rule it out either is what I would say. Yeah. It's like, yeah, that's what I'd say.
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Uh, I'm an, I say no. I mean, I just don't know if there's like, I don't know. I'm sure you can
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have a whole like theological conversation about it. Yeah. I'm not sure that there's like theological
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reasoning for there to be at the same time. I guess there is not theological reasoning. There
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can't be, but I don't know. I was, well, I don't know. There might be, okay. So like human beings
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are made in God's image. And what are aliens? Like, are they, because I think the creation story
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does tell us, okay, he made human beings. He made the beast of the field. He made the bridge of the
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air. He made the fish of the sea, everything that creeps and crawls. And so I'm just like,
00:23:59.540
where would aliens fall into that? I don't think I do. I don't think I do. Although I
00:24:06.480
do think that like the things that we see, the seemingly extraterrestrial things that we
00:24:13.140
see that seems to be like kind of covered up by the government, that should be like a bigger
00:24:18.600
It should be. I feel like they've like been letting, they've been like slowly releasing
00:24:23.880
little things like that lately to try to distract us from other things. Otherwise, like, cause
00:24:28.300
they've had this information for such a long time. And now they're just like, little like,
00:24:32.380
Ooh, yeah, look, Ooh, look at this weird thing. Oh, look at that weird thing. And we're all
00:24:35.840
like, wow, look at that. And really they're over here doing, doing something else, other
00:24:41.920
I think they're slow walking it to normalize it. So every, you know, every few years they
00:24:45.640
put out like, wow, like what's this video? Like she was saying. And so when they finally
00:24:49.660
do say, yeah, aliens are real, we'll be like, well, we already knew that. Cause we've been
00:24:54.480
Yeah. My, I think my thing is like, okay, what if they are, I have a lot of things to
00:25:00.300
worry about on a day to day basis. Like, I don't really care. I mean, I don't think that
00:25:05.500
they are, I'm with Bree, but okay. If I can't do anything about them invading, there's, there's
00:25:12.880
nothing that I could do about a flying saucer. What?
00:25:20.920
Have you checked this place out? Um, I remember I saw, I watched, I wasn't allowed to, but
00:25:26.560
I went to a friend's house and I watched signs in like sixth grade. Did y'all watch that?
00:25:32.800
Yeah, of course it was freaky. So I guess if that's what an alien invasion is, then I
00:25:37.680
don't want that to happen, but there's nothing I can do about it. I mean, if Biden says our
00:25:43.040
government has F-15s and we can't go against them, I mean, who knows what the alien
00:25:47.960
lords have? I just don't know. Um, okay. Speaking of that, is there a conspiracy theory
00:25:55.420
that you guys that like just one conspiracy theory that you guys secretly are kind of
00:26:01.000
like, Oh, maybe that's true. I have one, but I'll let y'all go first.
00:26:04.800
I don't think so. I don't, let me, I need to think about it a little bit more. I think
00:26:10.340
I just believe all of them. I just assume they're all true because you just get, you
00:26:13.800
know, it's like comedy is tragedy plus time. Uh, truth is conspiracy plus time.
00:26:23.080
Brie? Um, yeah. I don't know that there, that there are any, the thing is what's a conspiracy
00:26:31.220
theory. Cause I feel like I'll hear something like, okay. Different, different people will
00:26:36.720
say things are different or conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories used to be like Elvis is
00:26:42.040
alive and he's living in Palm beach. Okay. That's what it used to be. Yeah. Like, I don't
00:26:46.100
think I believe that. Or, or like MJ, Michael Jackson is still alive. Yeah. Or like Kennedy
00:26:51.060
was killed by the FBI. Yeah. Like nowadays conspiracy theories are like, you know, um, Biden colluded
00:27:00.160
with Ukraine or whatever. Well, yeah. And then like, that's not a conspiracy theory. That's
00:27:04.520
just like news. Right. Right. But I'm thinking of like, oh, we didn't really land on the moon.
00:27:10.720
No, I think we probably, I'm pretty sure we did. I'm like 99% sure. I don't know. Why
00:27:15.200
haven't we been back? It's too hard. Is it? They're going to Mars. Why do we need to go
00:27:21.100
back? I don't, there's other places in space to go to. I don't know why we need to go back
00:27:26.840
to the moon. I mean, why do we need to go to space? My husband and I don't understand
00:27:30.540
the fascination with space anyway. Like there's a great big world out there. Why do you need
00:27:35.520
to go into space? Here's my conspiracy theory and I'll just drop this and let y'all discuss
00:27:41.100
what you think. This is, this is a theory. Okay. I'm just going to say this. Dinosaurs never
00:27:50.100
existed. Thoughts. Discuss. Whoa. Well, I saw a picture, I think Elijah Schaefer tweeted
00:27:57.040
this out. Of a dinosaur? No, it was, it was a picture of like a dinosaur skeleton and
00:28:02.120
it was a meme and it was like the skeleton, you know, like how scientists would draw it,
00:28:07.060
what it actually looked like. And it was like, if you, you can superimpose like a dinosaur
00:28:11.280
skeleton on like a chicken. And so he was pointing out, I think he was pointing out like, you know,
00:28:16.480
like, you know, the scientists are pretty sure that's what they looked like, but we don't have
00:28:21.360
like a photo of one, you know? Yeah. Okay. See, that's a perfect example of like what I'm talking
00:28:27.120
about that. Okay. So you've got these bones, you've got these fossils supposedly, and they
00:28:32.500
supposedly date back millions of years. And then I think it's a bunch of nerds constructing this
00:28:38.780
fantasy world that they think is awesome. Like, how do you know what the like skin of a pterodactyl
00:28:46.060
look like? How do you know what it sounded like? Like, how do you know those things really? And
00:28:52.420
like the different color patterns and all of that, how are you picking that up from bones?
00:28:58.660
Now, some people, I don't think I would go so far as to say this, but some people say it's a
00:29:03.200
grand conspiracy against like young earth creationism, which says that the earth is like
00:29:07.940
6,000 years old. And, you know, obviously God created it, that they tried to like use that as,
00:29:13.440
no, the earth is like billions of years old. And like, we've evolved over time, yada, yada.
00:29:17.760
I don't know about all that. But if I were to pick like a theory, I'm like, I could see
00:29:23.680
dinosaurs not being real. I don't know. And I don't know about the moon. I mean, I used
00:29:28.380
to say, oh yeah, for sure. But then I started thinking about it. I was like, I don't know.
00:29:32.520
I don't know. Maybe there's some credence to that. What about flat earth? Anyone?
00:29:39.180
The thing with the moon, where my dial has moved, I used to be like, oh, we totally went
00:29:43.640
science, scientists, they totally did it. And so now it's not so much that I've seen evidence
00:29:48.960
that we didn't go. I'm just like, now I don't trust the government to tell me the truth.
00:29:54.120
And I wouldn't put them past it to fake it. But I don't necessarily believe, you know,
00:29:59.340
that doesn't mean that I believe that they did. I just wouldn't put it past them.
00:30:02.820
Because I don't necessarily know either way. I kind of think we did, though. But I don't
00:30:06.760
You never, that's the thing, is that you never know. Okay, what about that one conspiracy
00:30:19.580
Yeah, how some people, if you don't know, you probably do. But like some people claim there's
00:30:23.500
like an alternate universe. Like one example is Nelson Mandela. Like some people say that
00:30:29.160
they remember him dying like in the 80s or 90s and they like remember his funeral. But
00:30:34.780
he didn't die until, I don't know when it was, like a few years ago or something like
00:30:38.700
that. But there is like a group of people who swear that they remember that. And then
00:30:43.420
also the Berenstain Bears versus the Berenstain Bears. It is Berenstain.
00:30:49.840
Also, like a lot of people remember it being Jiffy when it's always been Jiff, right? Like
00:30:55.880
the peanut butter. Jiffy. I feel like most of them have been, you know, at least mostly
00:31:02.780
proven. But then there's some situations where I've seen people, and anyone can doctor a
00:31:08.280
photo on a video. It's very easy. But where even the Berenstain Bears or the Berenstain
00:31:12.960
Bears, that they have a book, like a physical book that is the opposite spelling of what it
00:31:17.640
should be. And it's just interesting that these things do exist. It's like, is it real?
00:31:23.020
Is it Photoshop? We'll never know. We'll never know. Okay, a little more serious question.
00:31:30.700
Curious what y'all think about this. Nowadays, do you think that going to college is worth
00:31:37.220
it, even if you have to go into $100,000 worth of debt?
00:31:43.100
Only if you're going to be like an engineer or a doctor, you know, something in the sciences
00:31:49.980
of that sort. And I think that's pretty much it. I think almost everything else, you can
00:31:54.800
probably self-teach or find a mentor. But I'm not that old. So I don't want to necessarily
00:32:04.640
Oh, yeah. I loved it so much. I spent an extra year.
00:32:06.900
Oh, yeah. Do you feel like it benefits you in this job? Or do you think that you could
00:32:12.840
I could do this job without having gone to college. Having the degree helped me get the interview.
00:32:17.220
Like it helped me stand out among applications. So like there's that. But at the same time,
00:32:21.780
I feel like having someone say, you know, four years of experience with XYZ is just about as
00:32:28.800
valuable as, you know, four years of my degree.
00:32:32.600
So I work with, I work like, like audio and editing or audio and video editing stuff. And
00:32:37.660
you can learn that on YouTube if you're dedicated enough for free.
00:32:40.920
Yeah. And Bree, you went to University of Southern California, right?
00:32:45.600
Yeah. And what was, first of all, like, what was that like? Obviously, you're a Christian. I can't
00:32:52.280
imagine that that's like a super friendly world to your beliefs.
00:32:56.860
You know, it actually, what I guess in general, no, but there's, it's a huge school. So it's easy
00:33:04.160
to find community within that. That was never an issue for me at all.
00:33:10.780
I did projects related to my faith. That was not an issue. The issue was always political,
00:33:16.420
always. And now it's even worse. So I'm, I'm like, after going to one of the most expensive
00:33:23.860
schools in the country, I'm a firm believer that most of those people did not need to go to college
00:33:31.080
at all. Yeah. Seeing people in, in degrees that they really don't need spending, you know,
00:33:38.800
what, $200,000 on that degree. It's just such a waste of money, such a waste of loans. And
00:33:46.340
yeah, I'm like, I studied it in a creative field. The connections are great because you go to
00:33:53.220
college, but. What was your major? I was cinematic arts and public relations. Okay. So you're still
00:34:00.320
kind of using that. Yeah. I'm thankful for my degree. I loved, I loved going to USC and I love USC,
00:34:06.720
but, um, but my views have changed on, on college a lot. And yeah, we actually had a class that was
00:34:15.860
in production and some, they brought someone in who was working on a film and she, I think she was
00:34:21.380
a production designer and she said, I didn't go to college. I literally graduated high school and
00:34:27.120
moved to LA and started working. And now she was like head production designer on a major film that
00:34:32.840
had just come out. And all of us were sitting there like, Oh, why are we here? Okay.
00:34:36.720
Yeah. Yeah. She's like our age. So for the people that don't know,
00:34:42.040
Brie is a new addition to our team as the producer. And like, when I looked at her resume,
00:34:49.660
I mean, I noted that she went to college, but I didn't, that I wouldn't have mattered. We were
00:34:55.460
really looking for experience. And so the degree didn't really matter. I do. I agree with Dylan.
00:35:02.460
Like, I think it depends on what you're doing. Obviously I would like you to have some
00:35:05.740
training and some schooling if you're like a doctor or something like that. But I do think
00:35:13.540
like credentialism is causing people to go into debt that they don't need to. But that also starts
00:35:21.920
with like employers. If you're kind of like arbitrarily requiring a four year degree for
00:35:27.900
something, for a job that could be done, you know, by someone with just like a few years of
00:35:33.120
experience rather than just like ran randomly, you know, majoring in something that is like,
00:35:38.880
yeah, like not correlated. Then I think that it kind of starts with the economy being like
00:35:45.520
accommodating to people who went to trade school, went to community college, went to junior college,
00:35:50.460
didn't go to school, started working after school. Like what I care about is experience,
00:35:55.080
expertise, good attitude, being like a hard worker, quick learner, things like that. I also,
00:36:05.000
I mean, I'm thankful for my degree. Like I'm thankful that I went to college just because of
00:36:10.500
like my own personal experience at college. There were good things about it. There were bad things
00:36:14.560
about it. But when I'm thinking about my kids and especially how college could be in however many
00:36:20.200
years, I just, I'm like, I don't know. I don't know that I necessarily want them to. It depends
00:36:26.640
on what they're going to do. It depends on what their life looks like. It depends on what their
00:36:29.460
skills and interests are. But especially right now, like, do I want somewhere that is not going
00:36:36.540
to teach them anything that is going to be hostile and not all colleges are created equal? So I think it
00:36:41.300
just really depends. And also if you do go to college or even if you don't, people ask me all the
00:36:47.040
time. How do I stay true to my faith or how do I stay true to my values in college if I go to a
00:36:53.300
campus that is hostile? I always say, and Bree touched on this too, to find community as soon
00:36:59.920
as possible. Find a Bible study. Find a campus ministry. Find a conservative organization if
00:37:06.560
that's what you're looking for. Find other people that are going to keep you sane, that are going to
00:37:11.960
hold you accountable. Because when you have that crazy professor, when you have friends that are
00:37:15.620
pushing back on you because of your beliefs or classmates, you need to be able to go to people
00:37:19.660
and say, okay, I'm not the crazy one, right? Like I'm sane. We're in this together. That can make a
00:37:25.200
world of difference. So make sure that you are rooted in community. Find a local church. One of the best
00:37:31.400
things, one of the things I'm so thankful for when I went to college is I went to a couple different
00:37:36.680
churches. I wish I would have just stayed at one, but I did find a church that I ended up going to
00:37:42.140
consistently. And also I was friends with a lot of local families. I grew up in Texas. I went to
00:37:46.820
school in South Carolina. I didn't know anyone at school. The people that I first became friends
00:37:52.380
with there were not Christians. That was tough. But I became friends through my church with Christian
00:37:58.820
families in the community that helped mentor me, that helped counsel me, that really kind of took me
00:38:04.660
in and befriended me. That made a huge difference. And so ask the Lord to help you make those kinds of
00:38:09.720
connections because that's a total game changer and difference maker if you're going off to college.
00:38:17.320
I do think around that time of your life, like independence from your parents, at least like
00:38:23.060
physical independence from your parents, even if you're still like calling them every day for emotional
00:38:27.100
and relationship guidance, like physical and even financial independence from your parents at some
00:38:33.740
point in that time period of your life can be really beneficial. I think for spiritual and emotional
00:38:44.060
All right. In keeping with that, we don't have that much time left. But one thing that I posted
00:39:00.120
about on Instagram was who I was in high school and the kind of music that I liked in high school.
00:39:06.460
I dyed my hair black at some point in high school. A lot of people did. A very blonde girl thing to do.
00:39:13.600
And I also I was like a little emo, a little emo, definitely like alternative. I loved Third Eye
00:39:19.840
Blind. I love Death Cab for Cutie, a big fan of the killers, all that kind of like really moody music.
00:39:27.440
That's what I was into and like a part of. And so I'm just curious, what were you guys like in high
00:39:33.100
school? Were you like exactly similar to who you are now? Like what kind of things were you into?
00:39:40.780
I would say I'm pretty much the same. I just have a cat now.
00:39:50.380
I thought you were going to say classical and I was like, whoa.
00:39:53.000
No. So when I was in high school, I was pretty much only listening to classic rock,
00:39:58.400
Like give me some examples. Like what are some bands?
00:40:00.380
Like Steely Dan, B-52s, ACDC, Motley Crue. I should have said Motley Crue first.
00:40:12.260
Well, for people who don't know, who didn't see, Tommy Lee, that's the drummer for Motley Crue?
00:40:18.360
He and his wife, who I think is a good couple lifetimes younger than him.
00:40:25.540
Um, they sat and they sat in front of me and I didn't know who it was and they like had their dog
00:40:30.320
and I was like, oh, they look famous because everyone was stopping and they asked the guy
00:40:41.240
But I don't think so. I have no idea. I didn't ask.
00:40:45.160
But this guy, they asked this guy to like get up from his seat nicely so that they could sit
00:40:50.500
together. And the guy was pissed. He was so mad. He did not want to get up from his seat,
00:40:55.680
even though they were, he was like moved over to an aisle seat. He was annoyed. He was like
00:41:00.740
annoyed at the flight attendant. And then he saw that it was Tommy Lee and he totally changed his
00:41:06.860
tune. I was like, oh, oh, oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Definitely. I was like, oh my gosh,
00:41:10.940
how we react to like celebrity is so stupid. So dumb. But anyway, and then I started like
00:41:16.780
reading on Wikipedia about him as a person. Very interesting. Very interesting. I don't
00:41:32.600
Okay. Okay. I thought that you would for us. Okay. So basically the same, like the same
00:41:41.880
I did classic rock until like only just a few years ago.
00:41:45.780
Until only just a few years ago. I started listening to more modern music, like Outrun
00:41:51.840
and Lo-Fi Hip Hop, which are like electronic. Some people, they're like electronic type of
00:41:59.180
I gotcha. Okay, Brie. Who was Brie in high school?
00:42:02.740
I don't think this will surprise you, but I was pretty basic in high school.
00:42:08.300
Yeah, because I'm a Swifty. And I was about to say, I listened to Taylor Swift then and
00:42:13.600
I listen to Taylor Swift now. She just said that she was releasing a new album in a couple
00:42:17.800
months and I got really excited. So not much has changed there, but I was a drama kid.
00:42:25.860
I was deep into the, I was deep in the trenches in the drama department.
00:42:31.940
I was like all in. All my friends were in drama. I went to really big high school. So
00:42:37.040
it wasn't really like, there weren't a lot of cliques, but yeah. Yeah. I did all the
00:42:46.860
Yeah, I was in the cast of things. I did acting festivals. I did it all. That was my thing.
00:42:52.160
What was your favorite character that you played?
00:42:54.160
I forgot what the play was called, but I played a stage mom one time. I really loved, I really
00:43:05.240
And I did improv. I don't do any of that now, really.
00:43:13.100
In like middle school, I did it like, it was not, it was not in school. I did like a
00:43:18.300
whole like theater thing. I was in Into the Woods.
00:43:23.200
You were? What were you? What was your character?
00:43:27.320
Oh, that's, I feel like that's kind of a big role.
00:43:33.760
I wouldn't say it's my greatest gift, but I can't.
00:43:43.140
No, we were terrible. We were, I mean, like I, it was not, we, the people who were cast
00:43:49.240
as those roles were not good at singing. So that was unfortunate.
00:43:52.040
But I do, I also love acting and I love like the, the character characters.
00:43:58.580
Like the big characters. So that's fun. Didn't know that about you. So are you still
00:44:02.940
a fan of like musicals? Do you like to listen to like Hamilton and things like that?
00:44:09.320
I know a lot of my friends got mad at me for that, but.
00:44:16.940
No, it's good. My husband and I loved it. We don't really listen to it anymore. We were
00:44:20.560
super into it for a little bit and we like went to the show, but yeah. Okay. Theater
00:44:27.840
kid. I see it. I see it. Kayla, what were you like in high school?
00:44:32.420
I was very, I would say pretty similar, just a lot quieter. I've always been very shy and
00:44:39.020
I went to a pretty small high school that I did not go to the middle school of my high
00:44:43.680
school and it was an art school. So, um, very quiet. Uh, did my film, enjoyed staying in
00:44:50.440
my little pod. We were a bunch of weirdos. They all watched anime. I never got into anime.
00:44:55.120
Um, but even earlier Dylan was talking to me about anime. I'm like, I have no idea what
00:45:01.640
Uh, very much hardcore kid, or at least what I thought hardcore men. What kind of music
00:45:06.800
did you listen to? Like taking back Sunday, Hawthorne Heights, like similar to you, like
00:45:11.040
good Charlotte. That was a little too hardcore for me. I feel like I was like a little hardcore.
00:45:15.960
It was a little, I was a little like lighter than that. I think I wanted to like, like Hawthorne
00:45:20.320
Heights, but it was just a little too hard. I was still like dashboard confessional. You're
00:45:23.640
right. You're just like sadness, hardcore. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not angry. Okay. Have y'all
00:45:29.060
seen that documentary? It's on Netflix of the like 1999 Woodstock. No. Okay. So it had
00:45:39.140
a lot of those like hardcore kind of things, but also had like kid rock and stuff. Really
00:45:44.560
interesting documentary that shows just how like human beings can devolve into like evil
00:45:50.440
and selfishness and chaos and like disgustingness. It's really interesting. I think it's called
00:45:57.400
Woodstock. They like tried to redo the Woodstock of the sixties and it ended up being like a
00:46:02.080
total disaster. It's almost like fire festival kind of deal. Yeah. So anyway, if anyone is
00:46:07.880
looking for something to watch, all right, I think that's all we have time for. Do you
00:46:12.220
guys have any other comments, random thoughts, things that you're thinking of to share with
00:46:17.360
the audience? Why are you putting us on the spot like that? Yeah. I don't know. No, I guess
00:46:23.620
not. Rate us five stars. Do you have a question for Alex? Me? Yeah. No. Okay. I have a quick
00:46:31.600
question. Okay. We, we said we didn't have time for this, but I'm curious what you, what
00:46:36.520
is the worst and best fast food? Oh, the worst and best fast food? Worst has got to be like
00:46:44.220
Burger King probably. Oh my gosh. Sorry. There was a gasp over there. If you didn't hear that
00:46:49.620
really, I didn't know people still ate at Burger King. I would say best fast food is Chick-fil-A
00:46:54.300
but also Zaxby's and Kane's tops. I'm not like a Burger King fanatic, but I will, I will have a
00:47:01.880
Whopper junior. I mean, as far as like burgers, at least it's fake fire grilled. There's fire
00:47:07.020
involved. So you think that Burger King is better than Wendy's or Whataburger? Well, I'm not from
00:47:14.040
Texas, so I'm not like a Whataburger. Oh yeah. It's good. It's good. But
00:47:19.400
Okay. I, I, I'm talking about it like I eat a lot of fast food. I, I don't, I do eat a lot of
00:47:23.960
You eat Burger King every day. Every day. And then Chick-fil-A for breakfast. Yeah. Hey, Chick-fil-A
00:47:28.960
is good. Okay. Dylan, did you have anything to say? I feel like you probably eat fast food.
00:47:33.900
Oh, no. Thanks. You eat a lot of Subway. I do eat a lot of Subway. No, Sonic is probably my favorite
00:47:39.180
in the sense that like it's where I go the most often, but they also have a really good app like that.
00:47:44.260
Oh, I used to, I used to like Sonic too. I haven't been there in a long time.
00:47:47.120
What's weird though is I don't like their ice cream that much. I don't like their, I like their
00:47:51.700
like burgers and chicken. Not so much of a fan of their milkshakes and ice cream, which I feel is
00:47:55.640
like ironic, but whatever. Yeah. Bri? Yeah. I thought about this a lot because I was living in France
00:48:03.940
and we didn't, they don't have like any American fast food places. And what I miss most was Popeyes.
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Popeyes. I love Popeyes. Bri, that is interesting. I've never been to a nice Popeyes like where the
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staff there are nice or timely or like good at their jobs, but. It's part of the charm. Yeah,
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that's part of the charm. It's part of the American charm. When I lived in South Carolina,
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I loved, we would get, we would go to Bojangles and get Bowberry biscuits. I can't even imagine
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all the seed oils that are in Bowberry biscuits there. I mean, they're like these blueberry biscuits
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and they just drizzle tons of icing on the top of them. And so it's as good as it sounds.
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I think, yeah, I would say Chick-fil-A probably the best. In-N-Out also pretty good. Like I could go,
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I might go to In-N-Out right now. That sounds really good. All right. That's all we have time
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for. And then we've got one more segment after this ad. Now, as promised, finally, I am going to
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listen to some of your voicemails, some of your mom moments, different pieces of advice that you might
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have some tips, some funny, heartwarming stories. So we're going to play a few of those now. Let's
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go ahead and roll the first one. Hi, Allie. My name is Sam and I'm just going to share a mom moment.
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We were staying at a cabin with some family a couple of weeks ago and my four-year-old daughter
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was watching a daddy long legs crawl across the deck. And she just stopped and said,
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mom, there has to be more long legs because if there's only daddy, there won't be any more long
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legs. And it just made me smile because it just was just evidence that God's order is just written
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on her heart. And also that it only takes the logic of a four-year-old to realize that there's not much
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future hope for a species if there's only daddy. So thank you so much for all you do. I really
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appreciate your show. Bye. Brilliant. She is a brilliant child. Not only does she understand
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basic biology and reproduction as a four-year-old, she also has deductive reasoning, very good logical
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reasoning skills. You should be very proud of that. Every time my toddler distinguishes between a woman
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or a man without ever having to see that pointed out or even really learn that, I'm like, wow, you are
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smarter than our newest Supreme Court justice. And we have a lot of toddler geniuses around here,
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apparently. So that's awesome. All right. Next, next voicemail.
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Hi, Allie. I was a single mom 10 years ago with an unplanned pregnancy. I'm still a single mom.
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And I just want to encourage any single moms right now, women who are scared, who have an unplanned
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pregnancy, to go to the church and ask for help. The church was really supportive of me,
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pregnancy resource centers, and people in the church who told me things like, you're going to
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be a great mom. So if you are afraid right now, and you have an unplanned pregnancy, and you're
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looking at the world post-Rowe, and you're thinking like, does anyone care about the suffering that I'm
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enjoying? Jesus cares, and his church cares. And there are people who will help you and support you
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and love on you. And I'm praying for you. God bless.
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Well, God bless you. Thank you so much for sharing that story. So often we hear only negative stories
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about the church. And of course, there are true negative stories that come out of the church and
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people who profess to be Christians not living or acting in a way that is Christ-like. But the church
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for thousands of years has been at its best a refuge for the most vulnerable. So just praise God that
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the Holy Spirit worked through the body of Christ in your life to help you and your child. And you're
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absolutely right. The church, there are so many Christians who are ready and waiting to help mothers
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who are pregnant, to help the mothers and fathers who are in need of resources, in need of encouragement,
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in need of spiritual edification. So absolutely go to your church. I loved that mom moment. Thank you
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so much for sharing that. All right, next one. Hi, this is Holly. Just wanted to share a mom hack
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I've recently discovered. If you are out in public with your little kids and have to use a public
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restroom that has automatic flushing toilets, keep a little pack of sticky notes in your diaper bag
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to cover the motion sensor on the automatic flusher so it doesn't terrify your children.
00:52:42.840
Oh, that is such a handy little tip. And so if you have young kids, like, first of all,
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you know how stressful it can be to try to take them to like a public bathroom, stay,
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I don't know, on a road trip. And then if they have those automatic flushers,
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it can just disrupt everything. That's a great tip. Thank you. All right. Do we have another one?
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Hi, my name is Anna, and I have a three year old little boy and a six month old baby girl.
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Something I've really tried to do, although not perfectly, is share the gospel and read the word
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of God to my babies over and over again. And honestly, sometimes, especially now with a toddler
00:53:18.260
running around, I think, are they even hearing me? And is this making a difference? Recently,
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I was listening to worship music and singing along when a line came on that said, I won't bow to idols.
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My little three year old boy looked at me with the most stern, serious face and said,
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No, mommy, we only worship God. It was so cute. But also, that was a moment that made me realize
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that they really can hear and absorb truth, even from a super young age. So I just want to encourage
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any moms in the midst of the chaos of toddlerhood and babyhood to keep preaching the gospel to your
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babies. God is faithful to use his word to grow them in truth, even when they're little.
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Thank you, Allie Beth, for always encouraging me and speaking truth. I love your podcast.
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Oh, thank you so much. Absolutely. The word of God does not return void. So even if it seems like
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your children, your babies, maybe your babies can't even talk yet. Maybe it seems like it doesn't
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matter when you pray over them, or when you listen to worship music around them, or when you play that
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Bible podcast around them, or you read them the word of God, or you're trying to catechize them,
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you might think that it's not sticking because they can't verbalize or they can't repeat what you
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have taught them. But one, you're being obedient to God by stewarding your children in that way and
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trying to glorify him by teaching your children. But also, you don't know what seeds are being
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planted. What you are sowing might not be reaped or might not show up, might not blossom until
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years later. But I promise you, it is having an impact. Greatest gift that you can give your kids,
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greatest gift that my parents gave me, was teaching me about the Bible and ensuring I had a Christian
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education, not just in school, but also in church. I mean, it's just completely unquantifiable,
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the impact and the positive role that has played in my life, in my career, in my ability to parent.
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And so I'm just so thankful for that. And good for you. Good for you for continuing to teach
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your kids the truth of Christianity. All right. I think that we have one more.
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So I have three children, two boys and a girl. Oh, I recognize this voice.
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Ten and seven years older than their sister. One day, I heard my three-year-old daughter and her
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10-year-old brother playing in the game room. And my son was very into Robinhood at the time
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and loved using a British accent. I heard him challenge his sister with,
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ungod, to which she replied, I'm Jesus. It took me a minute to figure out why she responded
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that way until I realized she thought he said, I'm God. So I just thought that was really funny.
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It's one of my favorite stories. That was about 27 years ago.
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Yes. And you may not know, but that was my mom. That was my mom who called in and left a voicemail.
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My brother said, on guard. I thought he said, I'm God. So I wanted to be Jesus. It seemed like a good
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role to play. So thank you, mom, for calling in and telling that story. And thank you all so much for
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sharing your mom moments. I'm sorry that we couldn't play all of them on the show. We only had time
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for a few of them, but I really do appreciate every single one of your voicemails in the community
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that we've built here. I hope that you got some encouragement from all of that. Thank you guys so
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much for listening. We will be back here tomorrow.