Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 749

00:00:00.000 Sam Smith leads a worship service for Satan at the Grammys, but I've got a maybe not so expected

00:00:07.680 take on that. The U.S. military shot down a Chinese spy balloon, or did it? And Miss Rachel,

00:00:16.140 a YouTube channel for kids, introduces her little audience to they, them pronouns. We've got all of

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00:00:33.820 Allie. Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. We are back. It's been a few days. Last week,

00:00:50.200 I was out sick. Those of you who follow me on Instagram know that I've been sick quite a few

00:00:56.260 times over the past couple of months after having not been sick, it seems like, for like two years,

00:01:02.320 but starting in the fall until now, I've just, my immune system is just kind of taken a hit. The

00:01:09.200 flu, I think I had COVID at one point, but I'm not totally sure. Cold, sinus infection, all that good

00:01:15.780 stuff. But I'm hoping maybe as the weather warms that I'll start feeling better, but I'm feeling

00:01:21.720 good today. So praise God. This is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad

00:01:26.940 in it. And a Monday reminder that I only give on some Mondays. Remember what Elizabeth Elliot always

00:01:33.220 said that the only thing that you have to do today is the will of God. Isn't that so freeing? It's so

00:01:39.400 freeing. And maybe it can seem overwhelming to think, oh my gosh, well, the will of God,

00:01:43.620 how in the world do I know that? That's this big, mysterious thing. Except it is simply doing the

00:01:49.140 next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God. Whether that's changing a diaper

00:01:53.780 or whether that's sending an email or whether that's having a conversation or whether that's

00:01:59.200 washing dishes, it is simply doing the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory

00:02:03.320 of God. And that is always enough. Or whether it's going on a walk and listening to this podcast.

00:02:10.300 We got a lot to talk about today, y'all. We got a lot to talk about. I wanted to start on that

00:02:14.080 lighter note because we're about to delve deep into the darkness of the Grammys.

00:02:17.520 Guys, the Grammys you probably saw if you are following on social media at all,

00:02:23.260 they were satanic. There was a lot of satanic imagery as there often is in Hollywood. This

00:02:29.680 isn't really a new thing. There have quite often been upside down crosses in different performances

00:02:36.960 or on celebrities' clothing. They've kind of been sacrilegious towards Christians for a very long

00:02:45.840 time. It's been something that celebrities think is very edgy and very cool. But now it's becoming a

00:02:51.280 lot more blatant. You'll remember, and if we have pictures, we'll pull it up. Lil Nas X, remember him?

00:02:59.000 A couple years ago, he put out a music video that was satanic. He was basically giving the devil a lap

00:03:05.120 dance. There was a lot of satanic imagery there in his performance. You see that, but there are other

00:03:14.160 pictures too of not just him dressed as a demon, but also Satan sitting on his throne. There is a

00:03:24.360 glorification of the demonic and the satanic that is a lot more blatant, a lot more outright

00:03:29.760 in recent years, it seems like, than it was previously. And so Sam Smith, he is an artist

00:03:37.340 who now goes by the pronouns they, them. But because we do not believe that biology is bigotry and

00:03:43.300 because we cannot before God lie, I am not going to call him a plural pronoun. He is a man. And so I

00:03:50.740 will be referring to him as he, him. And he performed his song last night called Unholy.

00:04:01.900 And he says Unholy was made in Jamaica. And it was one of the most glorious creative moments I've ever

00:04:09.400 had as an artist. I'm guessing he's talking about, I don't know if he's talking about the song or if

00:04:15.140 he's talking about the music video. I don't know if someone can in my ear tell me what he's talking

00:04:20.460 about there. He says this song is about liberating oneself. Okay, he's talking about the song itself.

00:04:26.760 I don't know, written, recorded, whatever. The song is about liberating oneself from the clutches

00:04:31.860 of others' secrets. The song is about a guy, it sounds like, cheating on his wife. And I'm not

00:04:39.540 really sure why they decided that the performance needed to be like out of the gates of hell. But they

00:04:47.320 did. And so here is just a little snippet of that from last night.

00:04:54.120 Okay. Okay, so we played a little bit of that just so you can see what I'm talking about. You've probably heard the song

00:05:19.560 before. Like, I don't really listen to this kind of music at all. But somehow I've heard it. I don't know

00:05:24.340 if it's been on social media or like at the gym or something like that. But I've heard this song. And so

00:05:29.380 obviously, the satanic imagery here is strong. And Kim Petras, who is transgender, so this is a boy who

00:05:37.700 acts like, looks like, and pretends to be a girl or a woman, says that he performed this song because

00:05:48.480 he always felt excluded. So he's also performing on the song with Sam Smith as the female voice,

00:05:56.840 and says that he performed in this song, in this kind of satanic rendering of the song,

00:06:02.540 because he always felt excluded from religion. He felt excluded from Christianity. So I guess he

00:06:07.940 just decided that he was going to go full on Satan worship. And so this is a theme, as I said, that

00:06:14.440 we've been seeing for a while. Sam Smith commented on this. And he said, it's time for my villain era,

00:06:22.340 I think, time to get sexy. So obviously, he's owning this. And we'll pull out the picture of him and some

00:06:28.880 of the performers. They're on the red carpet. And they're wearing their red, satanic, demonic garb,

00:06:38.700 looking very scary. And so they're being very obvious about kind of their theme, what they're

00:06:44.380 trying to do. Understandably, there's backlash on social media from Christians, from conservatives,

00:06:50.280 saying, where's our culture gone? How are we glorifying the demonic and demonizing

00:06:57.220 the glorifying? How are we so obviously and so shamelessly, so unabashedly elevating that which

00:07:07.220 is wicked and evil and perverse and wrong and dark and depraved, even as we are ridiculing and

00:07:15.740 belittling and condemning everything that builds strong individuals and strong communities, strong

00:07:23.200 societies, strong countries, which of course is faith in a transcendent power, namely God himself,

00:07:29.660 who created us all in his image for his glory and for good purposes. And this faith is the bedrock

00:07:40.880 of strong families. It is the bedrock of cohesive communities. And without it, things start to crumble

00:07:46.600 very quickly. You very quickly start to embrace all kinds of moral relativism and relativism in

00:07:52.980 general. You start to not only lose touch with morality, what is the difference between right

00:07:58.060 and wrong, light and darkness, but you also start to lose touch with reality. You start exchanging the

00:08:04.520 truth of God for a lie. So you start to believe objectively untrue, absolutely absurd things like a man

00:08:10.640 can become a woman. It all goes together. It all trickles down. And so now I think we see,

00:08:17.500 I don't want to say that this is Hollywood's final form of its kind of demonic worship, but it is

00:08:25.580 certainly, it is certainly a final form. I mean, how much more overt can you get? Are they going to just

00:08:34.160 start sacrificing children openly on the stage of the Grammys? Is that going to be the next step that

00:08:40.560 it takes? But honestly, here's my hot take as a Christian conservative, who I know is expected

00:08:46.020 to freak out about this. Well, number one, I will say that Sam Smith's song is catchy. Okay, it's

00:08:52.480 catchy. The tune is catchy. The lyrics are awful. It is about awful things. It is completely degenerate,

00:08:59.080 not anything that should be glorified or listened to or anything like that. But the tune is catchy.

00:09:06.580 As I mean, as things often are that we shouldn't be listening to, they kind of get stuck in our head.

00:09:12.820 But I will say that. And the second thing that I will say is that this bothers me less. This worries me

00:09:21.600 less than the very insidious and pervasive anti-God philosophies that are invading our culture.

00:09:36.580 And invading our churches. Like Christians can look at this. People who go to church, professing

00:09:43.080 Christians can look at this and say, yeah, that's demonic. Yeah, that's bad. Yeah, we know that's dark.

00:09:49.400 I am much more concerned with the kinds of philosophies and the kinds of ideas that creep

00:09:57.760 creep into people's theology and creep into people's churches that destroy their worldview,

00:10:06.540 destroy their faith, destroy their churches, destroy their families. Like I'm much more concerned

00:10:12.980 when Satan is disguising himself as an angel of light and he gets people who profess to be believers

00:10:19.520 to buy into his lies than I am when he's just out front about it. It's all really under the same

00:10:28.540 category though of self-worship. Like this is the end game of self-idolatry. When you worship the God

00:10:37.200 of self, you're not really worshiping yourself. You think you are. You think you're doing everything

00:10:42.360 that you want. You think that you are pursuing your own happiness and what feels good to you.

00:10:49.100 You think that you're the one that's in charge, but you're not. You're not actually the God that

00:10:54.180 you're worshiping. Who you are worshiping is Satan. You can't really worship yourself. Satan would like

00:11:00.920 to delude you into thinking that you are the transcendent being in your life, that you are the center of your

00:11:08.800 universe. But when you try to make anything other than God himself, the center of your universe,

00:11:14.260 the only other entity that you can be logically serving is Satan. I mean, Ephesians 2 makes this

00:11:21.120 binary very clear that either we are following Satan, the prince of the power of the air, the spirit

00:11:26.820 that is now at work and the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once walked in the passions of

00:11:32.220 our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and we're by nature children of wrath,

00:11:37.460 the rest of mankind. Either we are in that category or we are in the category of, but God being rich in

00:11:44.800 mercy because of the great love with which he loved us made us alive together with Christ by grace you

00:11:49.540 have been saved. So there really is no true self-idolatry or idolatry of money or idolatry of

00:11:57.640 things or idolatry of power. Yes, of course we can idolize all of those things, but at the end of the

00:12:01.800 day that is all Satan worship. So what I am saying is that I am actually less concerned

00:12:07.540 with this blatant Satan worship where they're just out there saying, they're saying, I worship

00:12:13.400 Satan. I glorify the demonic. I like the dark and depraved. This is what I am choosing. I am on the

00:12:20.060 side of darkness. Then I am the people. Then I am about the people and the teachings who say,

00:12:25.640 oh no, you can be a Christian and still put yourself first. No, you can still be a Christian

00:12:33.420 and follow your feelings. You can still be a Christian and do what feels good to you.

00:12:38.140 You can still be a Christian and compromise on all of these things. You can still be a Christian and

00:12:42.960 look and talk exactly like the world. I'm actually much more concerned with people like Glennon Doyle

00:12:49.880 and Jen Hatmaker than I am Sam Smith. Much more concerned. I would rather, Christians,

00:12:56.460 if I had to choose, if I had to put two things, choose to put one thing in front of a room of

00:13:04.520 people, Sam Smith's demonic music video or Lil Nas X or the teachings of someone like Jen Hatmaker

00:13:11.720 or Glennon Doyle, I would choose Sam Smith's demonic music video every day. Because you know that

00:13:19.740 stark, you can see it. It's there. It's right in your face. But when these kinds of manipulative

00:13:26.240 teachings that say, you know, to love God really means to love yourself above all else. To love God

00:13:33.460 means doing what feels good to you. To love God means just making yourself happy and to cutting out

00:13:40.820 everyone in your life who doesn't serve you. And loving God means tolerating all kinds of sin in the

00:13:49.360 name of empathy. Like that is much more, I think, much more of an effective demonic message than Sam

00:14:00.860 Smith says. Not very many people are attracted to the blatantly demonic. A lot of people are attracted

00:14:08.220 to Satan when he is disguised as an angel of light, when he disguises himself as love, when he disguises

00:14:14.360 himself as truth, when he disguises himself as empathy, when he disguises himself as tolerance,

00:14:19.620 when he disguises himself as inclusion, when he disguises himself as self-love. That's much more

00:14:25.180 destructive than anything that happened at the Emmys last night. So I don't think it's wrong for us to

00:14:30.840 like be concerned about where our culture is going, certainly. Again, when you glorify the demonic and

00:14:36.600 demonize the glorifying, like you know that we've gone to a really bad place. This is where godlessness

00:14:41.860 leads us. And there is literally no limit to the perversion and the depravity and the death and

00:14:47.720 destruction that we will see from blatant Satan worship. I mean, we've seen that throughout history.

00:14:52.640 Paganism isn't new. Satan worship isn't new. It's existed almost since the beginning of time. And it

00:14:57.860 has always led to child sacrifice, the sacrifice of the most vulnerable, exchanging the truth of God for a

00:15:03.580 lie. It has always led to widespread death and destruction and corruption and evil. And it will

00:15:11.140 continue to. I mean, that's why we care about the culture wars. That's why we care about politics.

00:15:15.360 That's why we as Christians infuse light into every sphere that we occupy. We don't just keep our faith

00:15:20.940 to ourselves. One, because we want to share the gospel and we believe in the Great Commission, but

00:15:25.480 also because we care about the country and the culture in which God has providentially placed us.

00:15:30.040 And we want it to be better because a culture that is run by Satan ends in the exploitation of the

00:15:36.920 most vulnerable. And so, yeah, we care about the culture wars. We care about the direction the

00:15:41.960 culture is going. But I think that we need to make sure that we are focusing our energy on the much

00:15:50.660 more hidden and the much more dangerous and the much more effective strategies of Satan that we see

00:16:00.560 in the different kinds of ideologies that slowly and steadily creep into our churches, creep into our

00:16:08.720 friend groups, creep into our social media feeds. That really is no better than what Sam Smith said,

00:16:15.480 because it all falls under the category of you do you. You worship yourself. You do what feels good,

00:16:22.900 which, as we already said at the end of the day, is just worshiping Satan, just as you cannot

00:16:29.540 worship God in money. You can't worship God in sex. You can't worship God in yourself. You can't

00:16:35.680 worship God in your feelings. Those two things cannot coincide. God graciously is a very jealous

00:16:41.180 God, and he wants our whole heart, not part of us, not some of us, not certain compartments,

00:16:47.140 but all of us. There is nothing in us, if we are believers, that God will not eventually claim

00:16:53.580 as his own. And this is also just a reminder that the idea of cultural neutrality is a myth.

00:17:02.200 Okay? And so I just hope as the demonic gets more and more blatant that Christians wake themselves up

00:17:06.900 to that, that nothing is neutral. There is no neutral ground in all of the universe. Every square

00:17:15.840 inch, C.S. Lewis said, is either claimed by God or counterclaimed by Satan. Again, as Ephesians 2 says,

00:17:22.120 the prince of the power of the air, as Ephesians 6 talks about, we are in a spiritual battle as we

00:17:27.920 speak. Our kids are in a spiritual battle as we speak. Our pastors, our ministers, everyone in our

00:17:33.620 church, we are in a spiritual battle. And so I hope that if there's one thing that we get from just the

00:17:41.460 obviousness now of the demonic is the reminder that nothing is neutral. I think we used to think

00:17:48.080 that things could be neutral. They're not. It's either Satan's or God's. That is the war that we

00:17:54.600 are waging. And I'm not saying that comes down into a clean left-right battle, a Republican-Democrat

00:18:00.460 battle. I'm not saying that. There are plenty of unsaved Republicans out there. That's not what I'm

00:18:06.920 arguing. But sometimes they do fall along generally those lines. If you're looking at which side believes

00:18:14.520 in reality and which side does not and which side glorifies the demonic and which side does not.

00:18:20.440 Again, that's not necessarily saying any side is perfectly saved and the other one is not.

00:18:26.320 But I'm saying if you engage in the spiritual battle, you will eventually have to draw lines

00:18:33.580 if we're talking about how we affect the culture and how we affect our world with not just how we act

00:18:39.320 and how we speak, but also in how we vote. Okay, one more thing I want to say, then we're going to

00:18:45.520 look at some Grammys outfits, because why not?

00:18:49.200 Okay, so just one thing that I want to say, because I posted about this on Twitter and Instagram,

00:19:04.400 and on Instagram, it got like a little bit of pushback, which is fine, but I adamantly disagree.

00:19:11.660 I adamantly disagree with the pushback. And what I said was, when someone calls you a phobe,

00:19:16.380 or when someone calls you a bigot, because you believe in biblical marriage, or because you

00:19:20.240 believe a man is a man and a woman is a woman, or you believe that Jesus is the way, the truth,

00:19:26.340 and the life, and that no one comes to the Father except through him, you will be called all kinds

00:19:31.460 of things for that. Or if you question the narratives about social and racial justice that are promulgated

00:19:37.500 by the left, and you're called a racist or a white supremacist, or you believe that Ron DeSantis

00:19:43.260 saying, yeah, you're not going to show pornography in schools. People call you a Nazi or a fascist

00:19:48.840 because of that, or they call you that because you don't believe the babies inside the womb should

00:19:52.820 be killed. You get called all of those things, which are just, you are standing on the side of truth,

00:19:58.300 all of those issues. Those are not nuanced policy issues to where Christians can kind of see both

00:20:05.060 sides of it. Like, those are very blatantly, explicitly biblical issues that we can see as

00:20:13.560 Christians, like which side we should be standing on. And you will get called all kinds of names for

00:20:19.620 that. All kinds of names. And the response should be not, well, no, I'm not. No, no, no, no. I'm not a

00:20:29.920 transphobe, or I'm not a homophobe, or I'm not a bigotter. I'm not a Nazi. I just, I just don't

00:20:35.140 believe babies should be killed inside the womb, or I just don't believe that we should have open

00:20:38.320 borders, or I just believe that, you know, a man shouldn't go into girls' restrooms. Your response

00:20:44.400 should be, I don't care. It shouldn't be, no, I'm not that. It's, I don't care. And, you know, I got a

00:20:52.220 comment from someone saying, oh, no, you know, that's not loving. That's rude. No, we should say,

00:20:58.200 I'm not that, but, you know, X, Y, Z. And then someone else said that, no, we should say, oh,

00:21:04.300 how so? No, that is, by engaging in that way, you are accepting their premise, that their accusation

00:21:11.800 actually matters, that it actually holds weight, that you actually care about being called those

00:21:17.320 things, when really, as a Christian, those accusations do not matter. They don't. You should

00:21:22.940 not care. I actually believe that that is a very gentle and a very loving, and yes, I,

00:21:28.200 I believe, in my opinion, a very godly response to ridiculous, absurd accusations that you are a

00:21:34.820 phobe or an ist or whatever it is, when you know that's not true. So I think it is a waste of breath,

00:21:41.920 I think, is casting pearls before swine to try to prove your character to people who are going to

00:21:49.180 call you those names until you completely comply and agree with them. That is not unloving.

00:21:56.100 And I just, like, I'm concerned, actually. Again, this is my opinion, but I am concerned

00:22:03.480 for Christians who waste their time and waste their breath and waste their energy and waste their

00:22:10.100 care on trying to justify themselves to non-believers, especially those who have exchanged good for evil.

00:22:21.680 I engage with those people. I've changed people's minds in conversation and thank the Lord by His

00:22:29.000 grace through this podcast. And I promise you that mind changing has not come from me apologizing

00:22:35.200 or me acquiescing or me compromising at all. Like, I think Christians underestimate how effective the

00:22:43.280 plain truth can be. That does not mean that you have to be antagonistic. You don't name call.

00:22:48.400 You don't call names. But please stop caring when you are called a name. You do not have to justify

00:22:54.280 yourself. You do not have to say, well, it's not transphobic or it's not against trans rights to

00:22:59.900 believe that a man shouldn't go, you know, compete against women in soccer or surfing or whatever.

00:23:06.220 It's just stop even giving the caveat. Do not justify yourself to people who will not take your

00:23:12.860 justification. They don't care. Isn't that freeing? Isn't that liberating? Isn't that part of what

00:23:18.300 comes with the gospel? That we know who we are in Christ, that we have become a new creation.

00:23:25.100 It is no longer we who live, but Him who lives in us. And so all of our worth, all of our identity,

00:23:31.700 our name actually comes from Him. So it does not matter what the world calls you when you stand for

00:23:37.720 that which is good and right and true. Like, isn't that part of that freedom? And so when I see

00:23:43.340 Christians say, oh, no, that's mean to say I don't care. Okay, you waste your energy on that.

00:23:50.120 Like, okay, if that's how you want to spend your time, you want to continue wasting time answering

00:23:55.740 fools according to their folly? You want to continue to give in to the premises of or the premise of

00:24:02.540 their argument continually? Like, I sometimes wonder if those Christians have ever actually effectively

00:24:08.960 engaged with someone with whom they disagree. I'm just not sure. I mean, there are so many cases

00:24:16.640 within the church where Christians and professing Christians believe that they are going to be able

00:24:25.620 to win over a non-believer by having the right tone or by saying just the right thing or compromising

00:24:37.200 just a little bit. And it doesn't work. Again, we can be very kind and very gentle and very loving,

00:24:47.660 but that does not mean that we have to caveat or nuance one bit what God's Word says. Like,

00:24:53.520 when people do that, when people are like, start to defend themselves against like all this name

00:24:57.700 calling, again, I think it is basically saying, like, you think that you are more loving than what

00:25:04.080 God's Word says? That you have to kind of soften the blow. You kind of have to, like, nuance it a

00:25:11.260 little bit because Genesis 127 is like a little too harsh. Romans 1 is a little too harsh. Matthew 19,

00:25:18.560 4 through 5 is a little bit too harsh. Psalm 139 is a little bit too harsh. So you have to say,

00:25:24.520 well, I'm not an XYZ. I just believe what the Bible says. No, just say, I just believe what the Bible

00:25:30.420 says. Look, this is what I believe. I just believe in science. I just believe in, you know, whatever it

00:25:38.000 is that your stance is. That should be very freeing to you. And Christian, like, if you are someone who

00:25:44.120 believes that that is rude, come on. I think that, like, our hypersensitivity as Christians to,

00:25:54.200 to, like, tone and perceived rudeness just because someone said something plainly, I think that is

00:26:01.920 part of why we are where we are. Like, we have been deluded into thinking that it is nicer to not say

00:26:10.520 that which is true unapologetically and plainly. There are times when I read the Gospels and I read

00:26:17.820 what Jesus says or I read what Paul says in any of the epistles and I'm like, that was harsh.

00:26:24.200 Like, I think, I'm like, couldn't he have, like, said that a little bit nicer? Like,

00:26:28.220 that was kind of sarcastic. That, that, that tone seems rude to me. And then I have to check myself

00:26:34.640 and say, who the heck am I that I would be tone policing the Alpha and Omega, like the God of the

00:26:42.040 universe, the God who, as 1 John 4, 8 says, is love. So if something seems too harsh to me and Jesus

00:26:49.360 says it or God's Word says it, then it is my fault. It is my feelings that are the problem.

00:26:58.000 Like, I think we as Christians today are far too concerned with, oh, maybe we shouldn't say things

00:27:04.780 that are true or that person said something that is true. That person says they don't care about

00:27:08.420 being called a transphode. That's mean. Okay, well, you just waste your time and your energy doing that.

00:27:13.440 So the rest of us are busy doing other things that matter and hopefully by the grace of God are

00:27:20.800 effective. Okay. Now let's look at some of this Grammy's fashion. Um, yeah, let's pull out this

00:27:27.400 Grammy's fashion and then we'll talk about a couple other things in a second. Let's look at, um, let's

00:27:32.260 look at the first one, the first one that we got, and I'm going to get some commentary for my team too.

00:27:35.480 So we got Cardi B, right? Is this Cardi B? Yep. It's Cardi B. Is this what she was wearing

00:27:41.620 the whole night last night? No, I believe she had a couple different outfits. Okay. I think I saw her

00:27:48.040 other outfit. I didn't see this. I don't mind this. Like, I think that she looks good. I mean,

00:27:51.840 obviously it's not like the most modest thing in the world, but I kind of like it. I think the royal

00:27:56.480 blue is really pretty on her. What do y'all think? I love it. You do? Yeah. I mean, like you'd never wear

00:28:03.440 this like out to dinner, but for an award show, I think it's really cool. Is it a hat or is it a

00:28:09.900 veil? I think it's just part of the dress kind of a veil. Okay. I gotcha. I think the royal blue is

00:28:16.380 like stunning on her. I think she's giving like violet from Willy Wonka vibes to me. Okay. You don't

00:28:24.860 like it. Got it. I think the shape is really good on her. Does she have like a satchel over there? I

00:28:32.860 can't ever see because of the lights. What's on like her hip? I think that's the gram or the CBS

00:28:37.060 logo. Oh, oh, on the other side. Like on her hip. Oh. Yeah. I think it's just fabric. It's just

00:28:44.820 fabric. Yeah. Okay. So I, I obviously wouldn't wear this, but I think that she, I think that she

00:28:50.780 looks good. Way better than the other outfit that I saw that I thought was like leathery something.

00:28:55.580 Um, okay. Next one. Um, okay. I only know who this is because it says it on my document. Otherwise I

00:29:05.480 wouldn't. Um, this is Shania Twain, right? Yeah. I didn't know who it was either until Victoria told

00:29:14.280 me. Okay. What a waste of beauty. She is like one of, I think one of the most beautiful people and

00:29:19.360 she looks like an advertisement for Chick-fil-A. Dylan said she looks like a Disney villain.

00:29:25.060 That's true too. Like some kind of modern Cruella de Vil. So for people who are not watching this,

00:29:30.360 uh, or yeah, who are just listening to this, she's got like a suit on with massive bell bottoms,

00:29:36.280 which I like a bell bottom, but it's a white suit with like big black polka dots and a top pat.

00:29:43.960 She also kind of looks like she could be a villain in like Alice in Wonderland.

00:29:47.140 And then she's got bright red hair, which I'm guessing is a wig and bright red lipstick.

00:29:51.940 It's just, it is nothing for her at all. What do y'all think?

00:29:56.200 I think it looks like she got the wig off of party city. Yeah. I'm just, I'm not here for,

00:30:01.780 she's a 57 year old woman and it's just, the outfit is very confusing to me.

00:30:06.440 Yeah. It's a whole lot. I agree. I agree. I think it's weird. I mean, she does,

00:30:11.680 she is kind of complimenting like the red carpet and the white and black background. So I'll give

00:30:18.420 her that. I don't know. Maybe when you're that successful, like Shania Twain, you just don't,

00:30:23.040 just don't care anymore. And maybe when you're 57, you just don't care. Maybe, maybe. Um, okay.

00:30:30.400 Taylor Swift. Let's look at her. I already saw this. Okay. I already know that y'all are probably

00:30:36.360 going to love it. Yeah. Victoria and Brie. Um, I mean, she looks amazing, obviously. Like she looks,

00:30:45.660 she like, this is a great shape for her. I don't, it's not my favorite. I also don't like the earrings

00:30:54.340 at all, but I'm not like a big earring person. Um, I, I don't like the earrings, but I think,

00:31:00.060 yeah, I think the dress is pretty. I think that she looks great. What do y'all think?

00:31:04.160 I think, look, I mean, you know, I'm a Swifty, but I rarely does she miss quite honestly. True.

00:31:13.000 I agree. And I feel like this is one of my favorites ever. Okay. Okay. I think it's like

00:31:19.400 the right amount of like, it's like relatively modest compared to what people normally wear.

00:31:26.040 Yeah. It's just the midriff. Yeah. Just the midriff. Um, I don't know. I love it. I just think

00:31:32.280 it's unique and I love the color. It's great. Color looks good on her. Victoria. I think she

00:31:37.040 looks like her album. And I just think that is, I don't know. It's the coolest. I think she looks

00:31:41.840 fabulous. Yeah. No, I think that, I think she does look good and you're right. Brie,

00:31:47.740 she doesn't really have like a lot of weird statement dresses. That's, that's what I always

00:31:54.380 think is weird. Like, why would you want to miss an opportunity as a celebrity to just look beautiful?

00:31:59.300 Like you have access to so much, like all the makeup artists and the hair and like the tanning

00:32:06.480 and the contouring and like beautiful dresses and jewelry. Why would you want to miss an opportunity

00:32:11.200 to just look gorgeous? And I think that she takes the opportunity to actually look like as beautiful

00:32:17.000 as possible and not look like a freak like some of these people. Yeah, that's a good point.

00:32:20.940 Speaking of freaks, I saw this on Instagram. Let's, let's show him Harry Styles. Okay. So if y'all

00:32:31.040 can't see, Harry Styles is wearing what I guess could be considered a jumpsuit, a very low cut jumpsuit

00:32:39.760 with sequins. And it's got a bunch of diamonds, not like that, not like jewel diamonds, but diamond

00:32:46.960 shapes on there. Um, we've got a lot of vibes going. We've got little girl vibe, which freaks

00:32:53.620 me out. We've got clown vibe. We've got, um, gay disco vibe. We've got, um, ill fitting women's

00:33:05.400 clothes vibe. Like the episode of the office when, um, when Michael doesn't realize that he's

00:33:12.480 actually wearing a women's suit, it's kind of in the shoes, the white shoes. Like I think that

00:33:19.480 Harry Styles is very handsome. I think he's very handsome. And I think he's actually like manly

00:33:25.560 looking apart from what he wears. But I mean, I know this is his shtick now. He just like tries

00:33:30.940 to be feminine, but I mean, yeah, it's fugly. Agreed. I think he was going for, um, sexy,

00:33:38.440 gay clown, sexy, gay clown. That's a little disturbing. And, and isn't it? It is. Yeah.

00:33:48.020 I like how he has like his chest strategically covered up in certain spots. I don't know if

00:33:54.660 that's purposeful. How do you think someone like Harry Styles picks this? Do you think

00:33:58.780 a designer comes in and it's like, has five different options and it's like, which one do

00:34:02.680 you want? I don't, I don't know. Probably. I feel like someone like him though has more

00:34:10.440 like ideas already in his mind of what he wants to look like. Cause it's very, I mean, I don't

00:34:15.920 know. He's manufactured though. So who knows? Yeah. I don't know if people pick things for

00:34:21.880 him. I feel like he has enough of his own. Maybe he has a Pinterest board. He has a mood

00:34:26.180 board for every album. And he sends it. Yeah. What a strange, strange person. Okay. Next

00:34:32.940 person, Black China. Okay. Is this the person that has a child with Rob Kardashian? Yes. This

00:34:41.820 is that person. Okay. Well, this is obviously hideous. Um, I mean, she's, she looks like she

00:34:48.980 is trying to be a, like a, some kind of animal. There's a lot of plumage, right? Like are those

00:34:55.080 feathers or is that a wig? It's feathers. I think she's just a bird, a crow, a crow, the

00:35:03.600 worst kind of animal. Um, yeah, she's wearing all like feathers and it's all around her head.

00:35:11.020 It's like a feathered unitard. And then she's got like black Tyson. Again, I'm sure a very

00:35:17.120 pretty person, but this is not doing it for anyone. It's so strange how there's like such

00:35:25.080 a wide range of things, you know, like at the Met, I feel like everyone looks bizarre,

00:35:31.620 but in places like this, it's like, okay, you've got glam like Taylor Swift. And then you've

00:35:37.080 got just the absurd. I don't get it. Okay. Let's see. Our girl, our, I think this is the

00:35:44.480 last one. Yep. Last one. Oh, okay. This is not the picture that I saw. This is a lot

00:35:50.220 better. Um, so this is Lizzo and she's got, um, an orange dress on the top is like a corset

00:35:59.040 kind of thing. Um, but not like too, too revealing. It's got straps and then the rest of it is just

00:36:06.420 like plain orange. The top has some like vertical stripes and then she's got like a big shawl

00:36:11.880 over her. The picture that I saw, I think, I don't know if we have that, but she had like

00:36:15.980 a big shawl. The, the thing was like all over her head. Right. Yeah. She was like cocooned

00:36:21.400 in it at first. And then this was the reveal. Okay. Well, I like this actually, like, especially

00:36:26.500 compared to some things that I've seen her wear, I think she looks really pretty. Um,

00:36:30.620 I think her hair and makeup, as far as I can see, I think she's like a very beautiful person.

00:36:36.060 Um, and I think orange looks good on her. Orange does not look good on very many people. So

00:36:41.500 I think that this looks fine. I could probably do without the shawl thing. What do y'all think?

00:36:48.680 I love it. I think she looks great. I think it's flattering. Yeah. I mean, it's not like most of

00:36:54.040 her looks where it's like super revealing. Yeah. It's classy. I like it. Yeah. And I love the color.

00:37:00.060 It's great. Yeah. I like classy too. Okay. So I just wanted to briefly talk about this Chinese

00:37:16.340 spy balloon. And I say briefly, because I feel like there's still information coming out about this.

00:37:21.520 And I will be able to maybe better talk about this in a couple of days. Now there's like a really big

00:37:26.900 debate about what this spy balloon even was. So if you didn't hear about this at all,

00:37:31.520 there was this balloon. There are a couple of balloons that we knew of that were above the

00:37:37.740 United States floating around. And what we were hearing from the media is that they were Chinese

00:37:42.460 spy balloons. They were balloons sent by the Chinese communist party to hover over our airspace

00:37:47.620 and to basically check out what's going on. You can see the picture if you're watching on YouTube.

00:37:51.160 I don't know to look at our different, you know, like, I don't know, whatever it is to look at our

00:37:58.720 military bases to gather information and intelligence. I mean, it's all a little bit

00:38:03.960 hard to believe that they wouldn't have like more sophisticated means to do this. Apparently,

00:38:10.000 there was one hovering over South America too. And everyone was like, what the heck? Why don't you

00:38:15.700 shoot this thing down? Like, why are we allowing this to hover over our airspace?

00:38:19.740 And we were hearing from the Biden administration, well, this thing is really big. We can't do that

00:38:24.240 safely or we're just not going to shoot it down. Like, Secretary Blinken didn't really say what he

00:38:29.380 was going to do. He apparently canceled his trip to China to, like, speak with them diplomatically

00:38:35.400 because he believed that they launched this to spy on Americans and to spy on whatever we're up to.

00:38:42.180 But it was all like a very strange story. And everyone was like, Biden, why don't you just shoot

00:38:46.460 this thing down? Surely, because people are saying, oh, he had to wait until it was over

00:38:50.140 the ocean. But people have also pointed out, which I think this is a good point.

00:38:55.540 Well, surely we have the intelligence to take this out without it causing a lot of destruction

00:39:02.980 for America and for the American people. Obviously, I would agree with that. Like,

00:39:08.100 I don't think that we should shoot this thing down at the expense of the lives of innocent civilians.

00:39:13.100 I'm not saying that. But I do have a hard time believing that with all of the technology and

00:39:17.980 the innovation that we have in our military, that we would not be able to take this thing out

00:39:23.700 or to somehow render this thing completely ineffective without hurting Americans and do

00:39:29.580 it in a very quick way. However, they did after several days of one of the balloons circulating

00:39:35.580 in the United States, hung out over Missouri for a little bit, headed over to the East Coast.

00:39:40.860 The U.S. military did shoot it down. I think it was outside Myrtle Beach. And so here's a video

00:39:47.200 of cadets watching the military shoot it down and they're cheering. And it's kind of cool.

00:39:53.300 Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! He got it! He got it! He got it! He got it! Let's go! Yeah! He got it!

00:40:12.460 Oh my god! That's awesome. I think that's funny. I think it's at the, at the Citadel where they

00:40:23.540 are cheering this on. It's in an Army college and I think that they're watching this and they were

00:40:31.240 cheering it on as it got shot down. And so obviously we wish it had happened earlier or, you know,

00:40:36.040 maybe in a different way, because I'm sure that the balloon gathered all of the intelligence that

00:40:41.520 it needed. If it really is a spy balloon, like I'm not totally sure about this story that we're

00:40:46.020 being sold by the US media. But if it really is a, you know, Chinese spy balloon, then it got all

00:40:53.380 the intelligence that it needs. And so us shooting it down a few days later, does it even really

00:40:59.960 matter? I'm not sure. But I thought that that video was kind of fun. Here's what the New York

00:41:05.060 Times says, the balloon, which spent five days traveling in a diagonal southeast route from

00:41:10.280 Idaho to the Carolinas, had moved off the coast by midday Saturday and was shot down within moments

00:41:14.660 of its arrival over the Atlantic Ocean. I told them to shoot it down, President Biden told

00:41:19.060 reporters in Hagerstown, Maryland, on his way to Camp David on Saturday afternoon. They said to me,

00:41:23.320 let's wait until the safest place to do it. The Federal Aviation Administration had paused

00:41:28.580 departures and arrivals at airports in Wilmington, North Carolina, and Myrtle Beach and Charleston

00:41:34.260 in South Carolina. One of the two F-22 fighter jets from Langley Air Force Base fired a sidewinder

00:41:41.040 air-to-air missile downing the balloon, which was flying at an altitude of 60,000 to 65,000 feet.

00:41:48.020 Now, here's what the Chinese are saying. The Chinese foreign ministry declared its strong

00:41:52.740 discontent in protest about the United States downing of the balloon. In a statement, the ministry

00:41:57.240 said that China had told Washington repeatedly that the balloon was a civilian aircraft that had

00:42:01.940 inadvertently flown over the United States and its presence was totally accidental.

00:42:07.900 In these circumstances, for the United States to insist on using armed forces is clearly an

00:42:12.460 excessive reaction that seriously violates international convention. China will resolutely

00:42:17.480 defend the legitimate rights and interests of the enterprise involved and retains the right to

00:42:22.160 respond further. Respond further. Well, what does that mean? I'm not sure we know what that means.

00:42:28.220 I do think it was the right thing to shoot it down. As I said, I think hopefully we have the

00:42:33.440 capability to do something about that more quickly. If we don't, then I would say that that's a

00:42:38.840 problem. I mean, the Chinese Communist Party, they're very likely lying. That's what communists do.

00:42:46.260 And we have no reason to believe a dictatorial regime and what they're saying, that it's some

00:42:50.900 civilian balloon. But even if it were, you think if an American was flying something over China,

00:42:56.120 that China even suspected just a little bit was gathering intelligence, you think that they

00:43:01.980 wouldn't do anything about it? Of course they would. Of course they would. And so apparently

00:43:06.740 there were some back and forth between the administration and the Pentagon about it, but

00:43:11.840 they ultimately, they ultimately did shoot it down. So this is according to News Nation,

00:43:18.220 the Chinese spy balloon hovered over these states that have different military bases in Montana,

00:43:25.000 in Idaho, in Wyoming, in South Dakota, in North Dakota, Nebraska, and Missouri, all of these Air

00:43:31.800 Force bases. So again, it's just hard to believe that this is an accident, that this is just a

00:43:41.280 civilian weather balloon. So there's a lot of contention about this, a lot of argumentation about

00:43:48.540 whether this is a new thing, whether this happened under Donald Trump. The Department of Defense is

00:43:54.700 saying that this did happen under Donald Trump, that this also happened a few months ago that

00:43:58.560 crashed outside of Hawaii and no one even knew about it. And some people, the Department of Defense

00:44:04.760 is saying that it happened several times under Trump and that he didn't shoot it down. Trump is

00:44:09.400 denying that. John Bolton, who doesn't even like Trump, who worked in the Trump administration,

00:44:13.900 is denying that, said that that actually never happened. And so there is some he said, she said,

00:44:19.320 or he said, he said going on there about what really happened, because Trump has been critical

00:44:24.080 of Biden over the past few days, saying that he should absolutely shoot it down, that he should

00:44:27.900 have shot it down earlier. And so there's a lot of back and forth about what really happened,

00:44:35.120 what administration did what. And then there's also some questions about whether or not this is

00:44:39.660 just a distraction. Is this a distraction from something bigger that the Biden administration

00:44:44.060 is doing, especially if this is something that has happened in the past? Is it something that we

00:44:48.180 really need to care about all that much? So there is this interesting thread that was kind of going

00:44:54.100 viral that kind of questioned the whole narrative about the spy balloon and what's really going on.

00:44:59.500 And I'll talk about that in just a second. Okay, so let me read you this thread. And this thread is

00:45:14.780 from someone named Arnod Bertrand. He is an entrepreneur, owner of the website called me

00:45:19.540 and nqi.com, which explains Chinese medicine. So he says, I took a bit of time to dissect the spy

00:45:27.860 balloon story, both how it is portrayed in the US and China's response. As you'll see,

00:45:31.600 the more you think about it, the more stunned you get at the sheer absurdity of the whole thing.

00:45:35.340 First, the US story that China sent a spy balloon over highly strategic US sites. It chose to spy on

00:45:40.400 these sites with a big visible balloon that anyone can see with the naked eye from the ground to

00:45:45.760 demonstrate it had the capability, despite having a plethora of more discreet ways to spy like

00:45:51.100 satellites or stealth drones. Unclear that anyone doubted China had mastered the technology of hot air

00:45:55.960 balloons and why it therefore needed to demonstrate this capability. China chose to do so on the eve of

00:46:01.300 Secretary of State Blinken's visit to China, where he was invited. And hours after signaling, Blinken

00:46:07.900 would also be meeting with Xi Jinping during his visit. He says, the story therefore being that China

00:46:17.840 chose to disrupt the meeting with its own president and to sabotage its own efforts

00:46:22.420 in the US-China conflict. The Pentagon said it had been tracking the balloon for quite some time and that

00:46:30.020 it wasn't the first time such an incident occurred. But this time, for unclear reasons, it chose to do a

00:46:35.100 public announcement. As a result, Blinken announced he was postponing his China trip. Now a story from the

00:46:40.700 Chinese side. They said that this is a fluke accident. This is a civilian balloon with limited self-steering

00:46:47.140 capability. And then a piece in the Washington Post seems to confirm this, quoting experts in national

00:46:53.260 security and aerospace, said the craft appears to share characteristics with high altitude balloons

00:46:58.720 used by developed countries around the world for weather forecasting. Okay, so that's different than

00:47:04.200 that would be different than what I said. I said that China is telling a lie. Apparently, it could be

00:47:08.700 possibly true, according to this person. The Pentagon itself said that the payload wouldn't offer much in

00:47:14.120 the way of surveillance that China couldn't collect through spy satellites and that the balloon posed

00:47:17.880 no serious physical or intelligence threat. The Pentagon themselves say it would make zero sense for

00:47:22.900 China to use a balloon like this for intelligence purposes when it has satellites. Kind of begs the

00:47:27.840 question why they decided to make a big deal of it in the first place. I'll let you decide which

00:47:32.520 story makes more sense. The sheer ridiculousness of this Red Scare episode is absolutely obvious to

00:47:38.920 anyone with an iota of common sense, except sadly common sense to be critically in short supply.

00:47:44.120 As often, the real story is probably why this story became a story in the first place. And the

00:47:49.880 important context here is, of course, Blinken's visit to China, which could have been a step towards

00:47:54.980 some form of de-escalation in China-U.S. rapport. It was quite easily foreseeable that a story like

00:48:02.760 this one on the eve of the trip would have made it politically very difficult for Blinken to go.

00:48:07.660 A plausible hypothesis is that this whole episode is an attempt by internal U.S. forces to prevent

00:48:15.440 any U.S.-China further conflict. And then he also says an alternative hypothesis is that it's

00:48:24.580 internal Chinese forces trying to do the same thing by sending this big balloon. But he said that

00:48:29.480 that's probably not likely. So he's basically saying he doesn't think that the story is true. He actually

00:48:34.840 thinks that perhaps the Chinese could be telling the truth about this being a weather balloon and

00:48:42.800 that this is a distraction by the U.S. government for reasons that we don't really know. So I'm not

00:48:48.340 really sure what the story is. I think that there is a big mystery here. Now, would it surprise me if

00:48:53.520 this is some kind of spy balloon and the Biden administration just didn't do anything about it

00:48:57.980 for a period of time? No, I made this, you know, satirical video about Biden, like asking Xi Jinping

00:49:03.820 for permission to please shoot down the spy balloon, which is, I think, probably how he handles a lot of

00:49:08.520 his diplomacy. But we don't really know what went on. So I think we'll have more information as time

00:49:14.840 comes on. Okay, we didn't get to so much of what I wanted to talk about today. Actually, you know

00:49:30.860 what, I think I have time for this like very small thing. And maybe I'll talk about it in more detail

00:49:35.320 in the future. But just to like close this out. All right, I hate to disappoint all you moms out there

00:49:39.940 who watch Miss Rachel or your kids watch Miss Rachel. She's got a ton of subscribers on YouTube.

00:49:46.380 She does like fun learning songs with kids, but she is especially geared towards kids who are

00:49:52.600 learning to talk or who have special needs or who need some kind of speech therapy because she also

00:49:57.400 teaches them how to do that. Super cute and like super sweet and seemingly innocent. I went on her

00:50:02.660 website, however, and we have the pictures of this that we'll pull up. And I saw that when she lists

00:50:07.640 herself and the bios of all of her team members, she puts the pronouns. She puts the pronouns

00:50:13.820 in all of them, which is obviously an affirmation of this idea that gender is something to be announced,

00:50:22.880 that gender is something to be chosen, that gender is something to be identified as something that needs

00:50:28.640 to be declared to people rather than something that is innate and observed. And that ideology is

00:50:34.660 leading to the butchering of children is leading to the erasure of women is leading to the taking away

00:50:40.240 of women's rights and privacy and safety. So it's no small thing to announce your pronouns. And she

00:50:45.340 is doing that. Do I think she's thinking through all of that? Probably not. But she did make the choice

00:50:52.680 to put the pronouns there. And then there is someone who plays in her plays in her videos that goes by

00:51:00.840 they, they, them. And they're not, um, they, meaning the team is not hiding this. And this is actually

00:51:09.660 something that was introduced by this person by using the stuffed animal in one of Ms. Rachel's

00:51:15.800 videos. So here that is. Hey, do you see who I have with me? Yeah, it's my stuffy. Their name is Patches.

00:51:26.620 Hi. We're going to be doing a song with our stuffies.

00:51:34.340 So I thought about this and I was like, well, maybe we just call stuffed animals they because

00:51:38.820 do they really have a gender? We don't know what gender they are. But considering the context and

00:51:44.280 considering the person that is delivering this message, I think it's obvious that they,

00:51:47.840 that she is trying to make the point, um, that an individual can be called they, that you can

00:51:56.820 identify in that way. And so they are trying to introduce this concept to vulnerable and malleable

00:52:03.960 children, which is really sad. And just to close this out and to make this full circle,

00:52:08.420 I'm much more concerned about things like this than I am Sam Smith. Like this kind of stuff,

00:52:13.480 you've got Christian parents who are showing their kid this video and just not even noticing

00:52:18.400 and not really caring and thinking that it's not that big of a deal. Now, I'm not saying that you

00:52:22.480 can't watch any video by Ms. Rachel, that there are no videos that are helpful. I'm not because look,

00:52:28.080 I know it's difficult and maybe that's the only kind of like speech therapy that you can like give

00:52:33.960 to your toddler at the time. So I don't want it to sound like I'm saying, oh, every time,

00:52:37.900 you know, Ms. Rachel sings and she's singing about like ice cream starts with I, that that is demonic

00:52:42.620 and you shouldn't watch that at all. But I just, I'm more concerned about this kind of

00:52:48.900 message weaving its way into seemingly innocuous videos and content that we are showing our kids

00:52:57.420 and the blatantly satanic stuff that we are seeing from people like Sam Smith. It's a lot more effective

00:53:03.340 when it is again packaged as light and goodness and innocence, right? All right. That's all we've got

00:53:10.100 time for today. We will be back here tomorrow. See you guys then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - February 06, 2023

Ep 749 ｜ Grammys Go Satanic

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