Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 670 ｜ The Dinosaur Conspiracy, Airport Rules & Mom Moments

00:00:00.000 What is the proper airport attire? Also, Joe Biden says you always know which parts of the country

00:00:07.180 have the best basketball. What does he mean by that? What was I like in high school? Are aliens

00:00:14.840 real? What about dinosaurs? I'm not so sure. Today we have a special episode of Relatable

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00:00:30.000 All right, guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Today we've got a different show

00:00:45.120 for you, different than we've ever done before. There is a crew beyond yonder on the other side

00:00:51.180 of this camera that is going to come on the show and they are going to give their takes

00:00:55.860 on a whole slew of topics. Most of them don't have to do with politics. We're just going to have fun

00:01:01.460 on this episode. The reason that we're doing this, it's totally spontaneous, is because we were going

00:01:06.680 to interview a guest, Kirk Cameron, whom you know I've had him on before, but unfortunately we had

00:01:12.200 some tech issues. We weren't able to interview him about his upcoming movie on adoption. We'll

00:01:17.880 reschedule that for a later day. And I was like, oh my gosh, what are we going to talk about today?

00:01:23.160 I went live on Instagram. I got some fun topic ideas from you guys and I decided to ask for some

00:01:30.560 help from my producers and from the tech crew. And so we are going to have fun. We're going to have

00:01:36.400 fun conversation with Allie and friends. And if you like the format of this, if you like this kind of

00:01:43.080 episode, you can let me know and we'll do some more in the future. So let's start though with a

00:01:49.960 little bit of politics. I know that you guys are kind of tired of this, but I promise it's going

00:01:53.820 to be fun. We're not going to get too, too in the weeds and too serious about all of this.

00:01:58.020 But just so we can comment on some things that happened yesterday, Biden gave this big speech

00:02:03.400 at this big rally and per usual, he said some crazy things. So let me play you a very funny clip

00:02:10.620 from yesterday and then we'll give you our reaction to it.

00:02:14.420 I'm attorney general of the state of Delaware. And what he used to do is go down in the east side,

00:02:20.540 what's called the bucket, highest crime rate in the country. There's a place where I used to,

00:02:25.620 I was the only white guy that worked as a lifeguard down in that area, in the east side. And you know

00:02:30.560 where the, you can always tell where the best basketball in the state is and the best basketball

00:02:34.100 in the city is.

00:02:35.000 LOL. Have you guys ever seen, are y'all fans of Parks and Rec?

00:02:42.380 Yeah.

00:02:42.840 Any of you? Okay. Do you know that episode where Leslie is holding a town hall and there is this

00:02:49.160 like old woman and she raised her hand to say that she does not want a basketball court built in her 1.00

00:02:55.720 area because there, she kept on saying there's a certain kind of person who likes to play basketball

00:03:02.820 and she keeps on getting closer and closer to saying what she really means. And obviously

00:03:07.420 what she means and what Joe Biden means is a black person. Is that what he's saying? He's saying that

00:03:12.300 there was a high concentration of black people. And I mean, that seems to be, that seems to be what

00:03:19.220 he's saying. Uh, yeah. I mean, this kind of like, let's get you to bed on uncle Joe. That's the kind

00:03:25.520 of thing that you kind of expect that your grandpa to start saying when like a weird uncle, start going to

00:03:30.120 go. Yeah. Like a weird uncle. And he just gets away with saying stuff like this. He said a bunch

00:03:35.520 of stuff like this, like in the election, just like implying weird things about black people.

00:03:41.400 Remember that story that he told about like being in a pool and like the kids would come up to him

00:03:47.860 and like play with his leg hair. Yeah. Just something super weird to mention. Like of all the things you

00:03:52.940 could choose to say at that moment. Of all the things. That's what I think. Like of all the things that

00:03:57.380 you could choose to say, Joe Biden, in this moment, you chose this. Something about like

00:04:01.360 his leg hair shining in the sun. Blonde in the sunshine, in the sunshine. And then the kids

00:04:07.660 were fascinated by that or something. Yeah. Really freaking weird. Okay. Like honest talk. Do you

00:04:12.940 think, do y'all really think, I know people say a lot like, oh, Joe Biden has dementia, which I don't

00:04:17.640 like making light of, you know, actual dementia or Alzheimer's. But do you really think that he has

00:04:24.020 some kind of diagnosis of like cognitive decline? I feel like I can't, I can't help but say yes.

00:04:33.340 Right. Like I, I was telling someone the other day that it's hard for me to even watch clips of him

00:04:39.060 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

00:04:45.820 his history politically. Doesn't make me feel bad in that way, but I am sort of like, let the man rest,

00:04:52.280 you know, like, I feel like he just needs to go take a nap. Yeah. Let someone else do the job,

00:04:57.560 you know? I feel like Jill manhandles him a lot. Like there was this video the other day where he

00:05:04.040 was supposed to get on a plane and he was answering questions to reporters, which I don't think he is

00:05:08.820 allowed to do without a chaperone. And Jill like grabbed him by the shoulders and was like,

00:05:15.120 let's go back into the plane. Yeah. I think she's kind of the cognizant one. And so maybe the deep

00:05:22.240 state is kind of relying on her. Okay. Y'all got to talk into the microphone. Well, you got to talk

00:05:27.100 into the microphone. Um, okay. Anyway, yeah. I think she's kind of like the wrangler because she's 0.84

00:05:33.300 the one who's actually mentally there. Yeah. I wonder why, why if you believe in the deep state or

00:05:40.820 whatever, which I don't think it's even controversial to say that like one exists,

00:05:44.380 like why would they pick Joe Biden? Is it because he was the most palatable and like the easiest for

00:05:50.240 moderates to vote for? I wonder, I feel like, I don't know. Bernie Sanders was just a little too

00:05:55.600 bombastic and not able to be controlled. I think there were some secret back deal, like back,

00:06:01.780 you know, behind the scenes things going on during the election because they couldn't have picked him

00:06:06.920 because they thought that he was going to be a strong leader. So there has to be another more

00:06:11.240 nefarious reason I feel. Yeah. I think he probably is the only one who like basically we're like

00:06:19.080 individually, none of these other 30 million candidates are going to be able to defeat Trump.

00:06:23.720 We need to get them out of there. So there's no distracting people from the true purpose,

00:06:27.140 which is defeating Trump. And so Joe Biden was just their sort of, um, I don't know,

00:06:31.140 vanilla flavored, boring dude. Yeah. Wasn't Trump. Yeah. I think a lot of people like they

00:06:36.760 could get women and like Christian women, especially to feel bad for him. Like you said,

00:06:42.180 like Bree, you said you feel bad for him. I think a lot of people felt bad for him.

00:06:45.960 And then like that one debate between Trump and Biden where Trump just kept on interrupting him.

00:06:51.460 I think a lot of women were like, Oh, like poor uncle Joe, like poor grandpa, don't interrupt my 1.00

00:06:57.160 grandpa. And I think a lot of people just felt like, okay, he's, he would never like hurt anyone.

00:07:02.160 And Trump is just like, so mean. I feel like that's what went down, but he did threaten gun

00:07:08.020 owners with, um, like fighter jets yesterday. Right. So let's play that clip.

00:07:14.840 They're not unlimited right now. You can't go out and buy an automatic weapon. You can't go out and

00:07:22.260 buy a cannon. And for those brave right-wing Americans who say it's all about keeping America,

00:07:30.360 you're keeping America's independent and safe. If you want to fight against the country,

00:07:34.620 you need an F-15. You need something a little more than a gun. No, I'm not joking. Think about

00:07:41.240 this. Think about the rationale we use that's used to provide this and who are they shooting at?

00:07:47.600 Shooting at these guys behind me.

00:07:49.940 What? Shooting at these guys? There's just the random people that are standing behind him. 0.54

00:07:55.980 I don't know. That kind of scares me. I mean, that's some pretty serious demagoguery right there.

00:08:00.360 Like, Oh, what? Like, how is your gun a match for our F-15? I don't know. That's kind of freaky.

00:08:08.280 Eric Swalwell said the same thing the other day, or I mean, the other day, you know, like a year ago.

00:08:14.340 Yeah. What do y'all think?

00:08:15.780 When I first saw this this morning, I was sort of like, I saw other people saying this as well. Like,

00:08:21.340 how can this exist simultaneously with the, with the ideology that on January 6th,

00:08:28.360 just a couple people walking in, we're going to overthrow democracy, you know?

00:08:33.040 Yeah. People who were unarmed, that was an insurrection, but people who are armed apparently

00:08:38.820 aren't a match for the government. I also saw people say, well, you know, basically barbarians

00:08:46.160 took over Afghanistan and they didn't have the same equipment that America did. And America just

00:08:52.200 like completely fled. Yeah, they do now. They do now. Oh man, Joe Biden. Okay. So let's get past

00:08:59.460 politics. But first, like, what do y'all think about the midterms? Just in your own opinion,

00:09:05.360 because I've seen some people say that Republicans are losing momentum and that Democrats have picked

00:09:12.000 up momentum because a lot of the lies that they're spreading after Dobbs that, oh my gosh,

00:09:16.200 we need, you know, we need Roe v. Wade so that women can get miscarriage care, total propaganda. 0.99

00:09:22.720 We've talked about that several times, but I don't know. I also feel like a lack of energy behind

00:09:28.660 Republicans as bad as Democrats are. I don't know if it's over exhaustion with politics and like with

00:09:34.380 the news and I'm just not paying attention as much, but it just seems like, okay, yeah, you're voting

00:09:40.100 for Republicans to vote against Democrats, but are Democrats really showing like the energy and the

00:09:46.320 resolve that Republicans want them to? I don't know. They just seem kind of bleh. And I could see why

00:09:52.280 some people just would not be motivated to go out and vote at all.

00:09:59.100 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

00:10:03.820 be as big as some people are predict or have predicted in the past. I think, I think in the past

00:10:09.820 couple of weeks, the political message has started to ramp up. Like I was just saying like earlier

00:10:13.600 before we were recording that like the political season has started and it's going to get faster

00:10:17.460 and faster. And so I think like Democrats basically like they're starting now, like whereas

00:10:22.600 Republicans have been ahead, you know, all summer or whatever. And then now Democrats are starting

00:10:27.220 their push to say, everybody get mad, go vote. Yeah. There's going to be some kind of September

00:10:31.620 surprise. There always is some like big thing that makes people say, oh my gosh, I have to vote

00:10:36.800 Republican in order, you know, or I have to vote Democrat. Sorry. People will say in order to like

00:10:43.200 not be racist or in order to not be a misogynist or in order to like save the country, save democracy.

00:10:48.980 Of course, it's all hogwash. It's all emotional manipulation. Also, I know that you're off camera,

00:10:56.100 but have you noticed those who can't hear or see, but something that I've noticed is that like a lot

00:11:02.660 of my friends or a lot of the like Christian women that I follow and this, Brie, you can answer this

00:11:07.540 too. Like they stopped talking about politics at all, like after Biden won the election. And before

00:11:15.680 they were basically like activists, they were constantly talking about how terrible Trump was,

00:11:19.820 how you have to vote Democrat in order to be empathetic, care about poor people, the immigrant

00:11:23.200 and like black people. And then they haven't paid attention to politics at all or talked about it at 0.91

00:11:28.920 all since Biden took office. I feel like those people are all of a sudden going to pretend like

00:11:33.980 they're experts again and like they're super involved in politics. And that just really bothers

00:11:38.620 me. I don't know. What do y'all think? Yeah. Yeah. So you can't hear that. So she was saying how

00:11:49.040 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

00:11:57.520 ministry position before and during these during both elections, actually, the past two elections.

00:12:04.720 And I have absolutely noticed that, that during especially the last one, just seeing people,

00:12:14.500 Christian women talking about how hateful and evil Trump is and how important it is to get 1.00

00:12:20.640 involved in politics. And, and, and now I'm not seeing any of that. Yeah, it'll ramp back up, 0.85

00:12:29.680 I think, in the next couple months, which will be super annoying. I feel like they're just outrage

00:12:33.900 and compassion is just dictated by what is trending on social media. They have like a meme level

00:12:38.920 understanding of politics. And then they use that meme level understanding to like bash people on the

00:12:44.320 other side of the aisle. So looking forward to that. All right, let's move out of politics. Let's

00:13:01.720 talk about some other questions that we talked about before we started recording. Or let's talk

00:13:08.160 about some. Let's talk about some of the things that were sent to me on Instagram. So let's talk

00:13:15.960 because a lot of people brought this up about airport no nos and my airport rules. Are you three

00:13:22.800 over there? Are you aware of my airport rules? My airport attire? Kayla says no. Bri, are you aware?

00:13:30.640 Vaguely. Oh, yeah. Okay, so y'all can tell me if you agree with this, because they're kind of

00:13:34.580 controversial. And some people get legitimately, legitimately upset about this, even though I'm

00:13:40.680 half joking, even though this, I mean, this really is my kind of uniform for travel. I don't actually

00:13:46.620 judge people unless you take off your shoes on the airplane. I judge you. But I don't actually judge

00:13:52.360 people for not wearing this. It's just kind of become funny. So my airport attire that I think

00:13:57.880 that everyone should wear, and I have very practical reasons for this. I think that you should wear

00:14:03.020 like comfortable pants, but not sweatpants, maybe leggings if it's like a super long flight,

00:14:09.820 but you could have nicer leggings versus non nice leggings. I prefer like I think Carly Jean Los 0.79

00:14:14.440 Angeles, they've got like some stretchy jeans. There are some like nice pants that are they have

00:14:19.240 like an elastic waistband, but they're still not sweatpants. So you got comfortable pants going on,

00:14:25.060 but like tailored, not sweatpants. And then on top, I would wear like either a short sleeve or a tank top

00:14:32.340 in a sweater. So layers is important because it can be hot. It can also be cold. Then I would say

00:14:38.620 this is the most important, most important, and I get a lot of flack for this. No open toe shoes

00:14:44.720 when you are traveling. Now I have a couple reasons for that. One reason is unless you have TSA pre-check,

00:14:50.980 you have to take off your shoes when you go through security, which by the way, TSA pre-check is awesome

00:14:55.160 and totally worth it. I know totally worth it. But if you don't have that, you're walking through

00:15:01.840 security with your with your shoes off, your bare feet. Disgusting. You have no idea what has been 0.99

00:15:09.080 there. And then also, I just feel like when you're in close quarters with people on the airplane,

00:15:14.240 I don't want to see your toes and I don't want to smell your toes. And also, if it's an emergency

00:15:21.380 or not even emergency, but you're just like, you're running somewhere because you have to get

00:15:26.140 your connection. You need to be able to run like good luck doing that in espadrilles or whatever,

00:15:32.780 or like you're even like your flats. And so that's, I mean, close to a shoe, socks and shoes. That is

00:15:38.720 probably the most important part of my airport attire. Okay. Tell me your thoughts.

00:15:44.600 Yeah. Socks and shoes for sure. I was, I will say the past couple of years I've flown

00:15:50.720 internationally a lot. And I agree with all of these rules, except I think sweatpants are

00:15:58.520 absolutely acceptable attire. But really? Yeah, I do. But I have only on international or any flight?

00:16:07.600 I'll be generous. I'll say any flight. Wow. But on international flights, I've seen people

00:16:14.220 get on the plane in like a normal outfit change for the flight and then change it again to get off

00:16:21.720 the flight. To me, that's too much work. But yeah. Sounds like too much work, but people do it.

00:16:28.420 But no, I'm not against. That's not like too much work. And I don't want to change clothes in an

00:16:31.060 airport bathroom. I'm not enough space. Yeah. Yeah. Look, I'm, I have no issue with sweatpants.

00:16:37.620 Yeah. Closed-toe shoes, probably my most controversial. Kayla, what's your thought?

00:16:42.480 They're absolutely necessary. I think it depends on the flight. Like sometimes I'll wear jeans,

00:16:46.320 always comfy jeans, never tight, you know, like firm, like, like Levi's that are just like nice

00:16:52.140 jeans to wear out. You don't wear on the plane. But joggers, sneakers, tank top, hoodie, always.

00:16:59.820 Yeah. Joggers, that's a good example. Yeah. Joggers are great. Yeah. And that's different than a sweat

00:17:04.640 pant. It's different. Very different. It's, it's like a classy sweat pant, but I also don't want

00:17:08.500 to see anyone's feet. Yeah. I agree. People get like really upset with me sometimes. I mean,

00:17:14.740 most people agree with me or they like it. I've gotten a few messages being like, oh my gosh,

00:17:18.520 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

00:17:23.380 do? Report you to someone. But I, I fly a lot and I have flown many times and I have just realized

00:17:29.820 that this is like the most, this is the most comfortable and the most practical way to fly.

00:17:36.500 Like when people get on the airplane and they've got like skirts on or they've got shorts on. I mean,

00:17:43.920 I kind of have like a hot take about like guys in shorts anyway. I feel like if you were over the

00:17:50.640 age of like 15, there are only like a few places where you should be like wearing shorts. I don't

00:17:57.400 know. Dylan, is that a controversial opinion? I don't think so. Maybe among like dads,

00:18:03.600 they're like, Hey, I love my cargo shorts. Um, I don't like shorts. I get cold. I guess. I don't

00:18:09.540 know. That's one of my traits. So I'm always in pants. Yeah. I just feel like shorts are very

00:18:14.260 casual. Anyway, that's maybe another topic for another day. Um, okay. Here's one for you pet

00:18:21.660 owners over there. Kayla, do you own a cat? A dog. You own a dog. Okay. Feelings on people

00:18:28.720 who call their pets, their kids. I'm going to let y'all go first. Do y'all call your cats slash dog

00:18:35.880 your like babies? I mean, he is my baby, right? But he's a dog. He's just a sweet boy. Do you call

00:18:42.000 yourself mom? No, never. You don't? Oh, wow. Okay. What about you, Bree, Dylan? No, I've always,

00:18:50.920 I've always had a thing against that. It really bothers me when people call their pets, uh,

00:18:55.800 their kids. Cause they're not. What are your cats names, Bree? Um, they, I was living in France when

00:19:01.740 I got them. So one is named Lumi, Lumiere, and the other is named Lafayette. Oh my gosh. Do you say,

00:19:08.500 you say Lafayette, you say Lafayette, come here and get your meow mix? I call her Lafie, 1.00

00:19:15.640 Lumiere and Lafie. Oh my gosh. That's really cute. So you traveled with your cats from? I did. And let

00:19:22.620 me tell you, I do not recommend. You did not what? I do not recommend. It was tough. Okay. So you had to

00:19:30.060 have two separate, cause I have also traveled with the cat, but it was like two hour flight. Yeah. And I

00:19:36.440 remember like, I had to take her out in like security and hold her. And she was like crazy 1.00

00:19:42.040 cat. But, and then like, she was, she was meowing through the whole fight and that was only two

00:19:47.600 hours. How in the world did you do that? They, so I was flying from Paris and in Paris, they stick your

00:19:53.860 pet in the little x-ray machine. They just like, they just like roll them through. Okay. Well,

00:19:59.520 that's kind of easier for you. Yeah. Not so good for them probably longterm, but, um, yeah,

00:20:05.520 that was fine. It was a 10 hour flight. I feel like at a certain point they just sort of like fall

00:20:11.020 asleep. So do you just let them go to the bathroom and their carrier? They don't cats, cats normally

00:20:17.020 just kind of hold it. They can hold it. My cat pooped. Oh, well, I'm sorry for that. On the two hour

00:20:22.860 flight. I think she's mad at you. Yeah. She's mad at you. Yeah. She had problems. So yeah. Mental

00:20:31.040 problems. But no, not my, not my children. Dylan, you have a cat and I know that you love your cat.

00:20:38.440 Rightfully so. It's true. Um, so I do, I would say it's more jokingly. Like I'll be like, that's my

00:20:44.880 baby. Yeah. I'll be like, can we do baby? Yeah. Um, but you know, I don't think that's weird. Yeah. I

00:20:50.540 don't think I wouldn't say I don't call him like my son because that's just, that doesn't make

00:20:54.800 logical sense. This is my son. Yeah, I do. I think that's different saying that something is your

00:21:01.120 baby versus like, this is my daughter Lafayette or something. Um, yeah, I, I think that my only like

00:21:09.560 issue is when people think like, I love animals and I think pets are great. And I understand people

00:21:18.860 like highly valuing their pets, loving their pets, taking care of their pets, making sacrifices

00:21:23.360 for their pets. I don't have anything wrong with that. But when people like equate having

00:21:28.800 pets to having kids, like there's that office episode, are y'all friends or friends of, are

00:21:33.960 y'all fans of the office? Do y'all remember that episode where I think it's like Angela and

00:21:40.660 Pam and they're talking to Oscar about like, oh my gosh, like waking up in the middle of the

00:21:48.520 night and stuff like that. And he's like, oh my gosh, I know our dog wakes up in the middle of

00:21:52.840 the night to go to the bathroom. That kind of stuff is annoying. But, and I also like,

00:21:57.540 I do have a theory. This is a little probably offensive, but I do think that the people who

00:22:02.880 are just like obsessed with their pets to the point of them become like becoming like their

00:22:07.080 kids and like putting them on the same level. I think that they are trying to satisfy a biological

00:22:12.460 drive to have kids like in their pets. And I think that is probably not the healthiest thing

00:22:18.780 in the world.

00:22:19.280 Um, okay. Do y'all believe in aliens? You do? Yes. Okay. Tell me why. I don't, I mean,

00:22:37.000 I don't know. I just, I don't, there's just so much out there in space. Like too many weird

00:22:42.200 things occur. There's too many. Okay. Name me one weird thing that has occurred. I'm not the right.

00:22:47.300 Okay. I'm, this was a yes or no question. I answered yes. I'm, I'm not the backer. If

00:22:51.420 you really, if you want to know more, you should talk to Alex Stein because he's got the real

00:22:54.940 info on the aliens. Okay. Okay. So you believe in aliens and have no reason to believe in

00:23:00.580 aliens. All right. Brie and Dylan, do you believe in aliens? I don't have like a hard yes, but

00:23:06.880 I don't rule it out either is what I would say. Yeah. It's like, yeah, that's what I'd say.

00:23:12.420 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

00:23:21.600 have a whole like theological conversation about it. Yeah. I'm not sure that there's like theological

00:23:27.520 reasoning for there to be at the same time. I guess there is not theological reasoning. There

00:23:33.880 can't be, but I don't know. I was, well, I don't know. There might be, okay. So like human beings

00:23:42.480 are made in God's image. And what are aliens? Like, are they, because I think the creation story

00:23:49.100 does tell us, okay, he made human beings. He made the beast of the field. He made the bridge of the

00:23:52.880 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

00:24:17.680 deal.

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

00:24:40.300 stuff. Dylan, do you have something to add?

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

00:24:53.340 talking about it.

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?

00:25:16.080 If they'd even want to.

00:25:17.380 If they, yeah. Why would you want to?

00:25:19.120 There's nothing really here besides us.

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?

00:25:31.180 Oh yeah.

00:25:31.820 Freaked me out.

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 1.00

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.

00:26:20.500 Oh, okay. Okay. Wow.

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?

00:29:36.680 No.

00:29:37.720 Me neither.

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.

00:30:02.400 Yeah.

00:30:02.820 Because I don't necessarily know either way. I kind of think we did, though. But I don't

00:30:05.840 know. You never know.

00:30:06.760 You never, that's the thing, is that you never know. Okay, what about that one conspiracy

00:30:11.120 theory? It's called the Mandela Effect.

00:30:14.360 Oh, yeah.

00:30:15.260 And I just learned about this like a year ago.

00:30:18.060 That stuff's crazy.

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 0.92

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

00:31:59.180 like say that as a universal truth.

00:32:01.940 Did you go to college, Dylan?

00:32:03.480 Yeah.

00:32:04.280 You did?

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

00:32:10.600 do this job without having gone to college?

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.

00:32:31.840 Yeah.

00:32:32.320 Yeah.

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?

00:32:45.260 Yeah.

00:32:45.600 Yeah. And what was, first of all, like, what was that like? Obviously, you're a Christian. I can't 1.00

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.

00:33:10.140 That's good.

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

00:38:41.260 growth, it absolutely was for me.

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. 0.98

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?

00:39:39.540 Anyone?

00:39:40.780 I would say I'm pretty much the same. I just have a cat now.

00:39:43.980 Okay.

00:39:45.200 What kind of music do you like, Dylan?

00:39:47.040 I like classic rock and...

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,

00:39:56.480 almost nothing that was like modern.

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.

00:40:05.700 Oh my gosh. Did you see my tweet?

00:40:08.160 Oh, I slacked y'all.

00:40:09.680 Yeah, I reacted to it. Don't worry.

00:40:11.400 Oh, you did?

00:40:12.260 Well, for people who don't know, who didn't see, Tommy Lee, that's the drummer for Motley Crue?

00:40:17.480 Yeah.

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

00:40:34.880 that was sitting in their seats.

00:40:35.880 Was the dog's name Motley Crue?

00:40:37.500 No, that's a good idea.

00:40:39.460 Wow. I love that.

00:40:41.240 But I don't think so. I have no idea. I didn't ask.

00:40:43.600 I did pet the dog though.

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 1.00

00:41:16.780 reading on Wikipedia about him as a person. Very interesting. Very interesting. I don't

00:41:21.440 think I know a single song by Motley Crue.

00:41:25.020 Kickstart My Heart is the big one.

00:41:27.060 Can you sing it?

00:41:28.140 Yes.

00:41:29.080 Go for it.

00:41:30.500 Oh, will I sing it? No.

00:41:32.600 Okay. Okay. I thought that you would for us. Okay. So basically the same, like the same

00:41:39.520 music, you just have the cat now.

00:41:41.880 I did classic rock until like only just a few years ago.

00:41:45.260 Speaking to the microphone.

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

00:41:57.360 musics, but they're more modern.

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.

00:42:06.140 Oh, because you're a Swifty. 1.00

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.

00:42:24.680 Oh, you were.

00:42:25.860 I was deep into the, I was deep in the trenches in the drama department.

00:42:30.300 So what does deep in the trenches mean?

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

00:42:42.880 plays, all the musicals.

00:42:44.060 So like you were in, you were in the cast.

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

00:43:02.200 loved like doing big characters.

00:43:04.900 Yeah.

00:43:05.240 And I did improv. I don't do any of that now, really.

00:43:09.680 You know, I used to do theater too.

00:43:12.100 I didn't know that.

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.

00:43:22.040 I was too.

00:43:23.200 You were? What were you? What was your character?

00:43:25.300 I was Jack's mother.

00:43:27.320 Oh, that's, I feel like that's kind of a big role.

00:43:30.480 Yeah.

00:43:31.220 So you can sing.

00:43:33.760 I wouldn't say it's my greatest gift, but I can't.

00:43:37.080 But you can.

00:43:37.640 I can carry a tune.

00:43:38.400 Yes. I was one of the stepsisters.

00:43:42.120 Oh, yeah.

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.

00:43:57.860 Yeah.

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?

00:44:06.520 I never got super into Hamilton.

00:44:08.780 Wow.

00:44:09.320 I know a lot of my friends got mad at me for that, but.

00:44:11.880 Yeah.

00:44:13.100 I'm not a two.

00:44:13.980 I'm sure I'd like it if I, I don't know.

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

00:45:01.020 you're talking about.

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.

00:48:12.300 Popeyes. I love Popeyes. Bri, that is interesting. I've never been to a nice Popeyes like where the

00:48:17.740 staff there are nice or timely or like good at their jobs, but. It's part of the charm. Yeah,

00:48:22.940 that's part of the charm. It's part of the American charm. When I lived in South Carolina,

00:48:26.200 I loved, we would get, we would go to Bojangles and get Bowberry biscuits. I can't even imagine

00:48:33.580 all the seed oils that are in Bowberry biscuits there. I mean, they're like these blueberry biscuits

00:48:39.940 and they just drizzle tons of icing on the top of them. And so it's as good as it sounds.

00:48:46.340 I think, yeah, I would say Chick-fil-A probably the best. In-N-Out also pretty good. Like I could go,

00:48:52.740 I might go to In-N-Out right now. That sounds really good. All right. That's all we have time

00:48:57.700 for. And then we've got one more segment after this ad. Now, as promised, finally, I am going to

00:49:16.560 listen to some of your voicemails, some of your mom moments, different pieces of advice that you might

00:49:22.260 have some tips, some funny, heartwarming stories. So we're going to play a few of those now. Let's

00:49:27.420 go ahead and roll the first one. Hi, Allie. My name is Sam and I'm just going to share a mom moment.

00:49:35.180 We were staying at a cabin with some family a couple of weeks ago and my four-year-old daughter

00:49:39.860 was watching a daddy long legs crawl across the deck. And she just stopped and said,

00:49:45.260 mom, there has to be more long legs because if there's only daddy, there won't be any more long 1.00

00:49:52.960 legs. And it just made me smile because it just was just evidence that God's order is just written

00:49:59.120 on her heart. And also that it only takes the logic of a four-year-old to realize that there's not much

00:50:05.060 future hope for a species if there's only daddy. So thank you so much for all you do. I really

00:50:11.220 appreciate your show. Bye. Brilliant. She is a brilliant child. Not only does she understand

00:50:17.460 basic biology and reproduction as a four-year-old, she also has deductive reasoning, very good logical

00:50:24.760 reasoning skills. You should be very proud of that. Every time my toddler distinguishes between a woman 1.00

00:50:30.160 or a man without ever having to see that pointed out or even really learn that, I'm like, wow, you are

00:50:36.820 smarter than our newest Supreme Court justice. And we have a lot of toddler geniuses around here, 0.50

00:50:43.060 apparently. So that's awesome. All right. Next, next voicemail.

00:50:48.560 Hi, Allie. I was a single mom 10 years ago with an unplanned pregnancy. I'm still a single mom.

00:50:54.700 And I just want to encourage any single moms right now, women who are scared, who have an unplanned

00:51:00.060 pregnancy, to go to the church and ask for help. The church was really supportive of me,

00:51:06.200 pregnancy resource centers, and people in the church who told me things like, you're going to

00:51:11.080 be a great mom. So if you are afraid right now, and you have an unplanned pregnancy, and you're

00:51:16.200 looking at the world post-Rowe, and you're thinking like, does anyone care about the suffering that I'm

00:51:21.160 enjoying? Jesus cares, and his church cares. And there are people who will help you and support you

00:51:26.960 and love on you. And I'm praying for you. God bless.

00:51:30.160 Well, God bless you. Thank you so much for sharing that story. So often we hear only negative stories

00:51:36.520 about the church. And of course, there are true negative stories that come out of the church and

00:51:42.000 people who profess to be Christians not living or acting in a way that is Christ-like. But the church

00:51:47.440 for thousands of years has been at its best a refuge for the most vulnerable. So just praise God that

00:51:53.680 the Holy Spirit worked through the body of Christ in your life to help you and your child. And you're

00:51:58.960 absolutely right. The church, there are so many Christians who are ready and waiting to help mothers 1.00

00:52:05.040 who are pregnant, to help the mothers and fathers who are in need of resources, in need of encouragement,

00:52:11.000 in need of spiritual edification. So absolutely go to your church. I loved that mom moment. Thank you

00:52:18.540 so much for sharing that. All right, next one. Hi, this is Holly. Just wanted to share a mom hack

00:52:25.100 I've recently discovered. If you are out in public with your little kids and have to use a public

00:52:31.420 restroom that has automatic flushing toilets, keep a little pack of sticky notes in your diaper bag

00:52:36.880 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,

00:52:49.480 you know how stressful it can be to try to take them to like a public bathroom, stay,

00:52:53.800 I don't know, on a road trip. And then if they have those automatic flushers,

00:52:57.640 it can just disrupt everything. That's a great tip. Thank you. All right. Do we have another one?

00:53:02.980 Hi, my name is Anna, and I have a three year old little boy and a six month old baby girl.

00:53:07.800 Something I've really tried to do, although not perfectly, is share the gospel and read the word

00:53:12.960 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,

00:53:24.120 I was listening to worship music and singing along when a line came on that said, I won't bow to idols.

00:53:30.360 My little three year old boy looked at me with the most stern, serious face and said,

00:53:35.000 No, mommy, we only worship God. It was so cute. But also, that was a moment that made me realize

00:53:42.240 that they really can hear and absorb truth, even from a super young age. So I just want to encourage

00:53:48.960 any moms in the midst of the chaos of toddlerhood and babyhood to keep preaching the gospel to your 1.00

00:53:54.380 babies. God is faithful to use his word to grow them in truth, even when they're little.

00:53:59.980 Thank you, Allie Beth, for always encouraging me and speaking truth. I love your podcast.

00:54:03.900 Oh, thank you so much. Absolutely. The word of God does not return void. So even if it seems like

00:54:11.880 your children, your babies, maybe your babies can't even talk yet. Maybe it seems like it doesn't

00:54:16.360 matter when you pray over them, or when you listen to worship music around them, or when you play that

00:54:21.060 Bible podcast around them, or you read them the word of God, or you're trying to catechize them,

00:54:28.100 you might think that it's not sticking because they can't verbalize or they can't repeat what you

00:54:36.280 have taught them. But one, you're being obedient to God by stewarding your children in that way and

00:54:42.160 trying to glorify him by teaching your children. But also, you don't know what seeds are being

00:54:48.840 planted. What you are sowing might not be reaped or might not show up, might not blossom until

00:54:56.540 years later. But I promise you, it is having an impact. Greatest gift that you can give your kids,

00:55:03.260 greatest gift that my parents gave me, was teaching me about the Bible and ensuring I had a Christian

00:55:08.620 education, not just in school, but also in church. I mean, it's just completely unquantifiable,

00:55:15.120 the impact and the positive role that has played in my life, in my career, in my ability to parent.

00:55:23.300 And so I'm just so thankful for that. And good for you. Good for you for continuing to teach

00:55:28.340 your kids the truth of Christianity. All right. I think that we have one more.

00:55:34.920 So I have three children, two boys and a girl. Oh, I recognize this voice.

00:55:40.440 Ten and seven years older than their sister. One day, I heard my three-year-old daughter and her

00:55:46.940 10-year-old brother playing in the game room. And my son was very into Robinhood at the time

00:55:54.020 and loved using a British accent. I heard him challenge his sister with, 0.70

00:56:01.500 ungod, to which she replied, I'm Jesus. It took me a minute to figure out why she responded

00:56:10.080 that way until I realized she thought he said, I'm God. So I just thought that was really funny.

00:56:17.560 It's one of my favorite stories. That was about 27 years ago.

00:56:22.100 Yes. And you may not know, but that was my mom. That was my mom who called in and left a voicemail.

00:56:28.420 My brother said, on guard. I thought he said, I'm God. So I wanted to be Jesus. It seemed like a good

00:56:34.240 role to play. So thank you, mom, for calling in and telling that story. And thank you all so much for

00:56:39.420 sharing your mom moments. I'm sorry that we couldn't play all of them on the show. We only had time

00:56:44.340 for a few of them, but I really do appreciate every single one of your voicemails in the community

00:56:48.840 that we've built here. I hope that you got some encouragement from all of that. Thank you guys so

00:56:53.600 much for listening. We will be back here tomorrow.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - August 31, 2022

Ep 670 ｜ The Dinosaur Conspiracy, Airport Rules & Mom Moments

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