Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 758 ｜ Sorry, Ohio. Biden’s Busy in Ukraine

00:00:00.000 Biden visits Ukraine and pledges the country 500 million more dollars in military support,

00:00:06.820 even as his own constituents in Ohio are reeling from disaster.

00:00:12.260 And a new survey about dating preferences tells us a lot about the younger generations

00:00:17.780 and the future of our country.

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00:00:40.760 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable.

00:00:42.760 Happy Tuesday.

00:00:44.520 Hope everyone is having a great week.

00:00:46.160 If you haven't listened to yesterday's episode with Jennifer Say,

00:00:48.640 former executive at Levi's, reacting to the recent meta-analysis and the recent study

00:00:55.540 proving that many of us have been right about COVID and masks and natural immunity for a very long time,

00:01:03.600 then you need to go listen to it.

00:01:04.760 It's a really encouraging episode.

00:01:06.580 And when there's so much bad news today, there's so much to just be discouraged about.

00:01:10.640 And quite frankly, we're going to talk about some of that stuff today.

00:01:12.940 When we get to Ohio and Ukraine and the threat of nuclear war,

00:01:17.060 it's really good to be reminded that sometimes pushing for that which is good and right and true

00:01:27.560 does have pretty quick and tangible results.

00:01:31.280 People still lost their jobs over those lies, over that propaganda, over the bullying that we saw.

00:01:35.740 Not just from individuals, but I mean, social media giants, bosses, CEOs, all kinds of employers,

00:01:44.520 firing people, taking away their livelihoods because of the vaccine and all of that.

00:01:48.980 So I'm not saying all of the consequences have just gone away because science has finally caught up to common sense.

00:01:54.740 But it is nice and sometimes reassuring to see the truth actually come to light in a relatively quick manner.

00:02:02.840 Again, I don't want it to sound like I'm diminishing the consequences that people have had to deal with

00:02:09.260 because of the COVID restrictions, but the truth is coming to light.

00:02:13.520 It will continue to come to light.

00:02:15.840 And there will be a day when people will be embarrassed to have defended all the things that they defended

00:02:22.860 during this so-called pandemic.

00:02:26.840 All right.

00:02:27.220 A couple of you, before we get into our first segment, a couple of you, few of you, several of you,

00:02:32.840 messaged me, commented on YouTube about my poor, poor sunburn that you saw yesterday.

00:02:39.620 If you go back and you listen to yesterday or you watch yesterday's episode on YouTube, rather,

00:02:44.100 you will see what looked like a pink, a pink shirt that I was wearing under my sweatshirt.

00:02:51.120 And then when I finally said during one of the ads, no, this is a sunburn.

00:02:55.480 A lot of you guys were aghast.

00:02:57.220 You were taken aback by how bad of a sunburn I got.

00:02:59.900 And I meant to talk about this at the start of yesterday's show, and I just forgot.

00:03:04.500 And the reason I wanted to mention it is because I actually kind of look different.

00:03:08.780 And you guys might not notice because I've got the lights, I've got makeup on.

00:03:13.820 But underneath this miraculous, magical makeup that I am wearing is my worst sunburn that I have

00:03:23.000 ever gotten in my life.

00:03:25.060 As I said on Instagram, as I think I mentioned yesterday, my husband and I, we went to South

00:03:31.100 Florida for my birthday.

00:03:32.400 We stayed at a really nice hotel and it was really fun.

00:03:35.020 But on Saturday, that was our only full day there.

00:03:39.660 It was mostly cloudy and windy.

00:03:42.460 And so it was kind of cold.

00:03:43.740 And so we kind of felt like we weren't really getting sun a lot of the day or a lot of the

00:03:49.140 many of the hours of the day.

00:03:50.780 We didn't actually see the sun.

00:03:52.260 So we did put sunscreen on, but we just didn't put enough sunscreen on.

00:03:56.160 We didn't think that the UV rays are as strong behind the clouds and all of that.

00:04:00.760 We made a huge mistake.

00:04:02.260 All right.

00:04:02.800 Mistakes were made when we were in Miami.

00:04:05.360 And the mistake was not to put on SPF 70 while we were in the sun for like six hours.

00:04:13.860 And so both my husband and I are suffering from the worst sunburns that we've ever gotten.

00:04:18.740 And let me tell you how bad the sunburn is for me.

00:04:21.080 I think it's worse for me than it is for him because on my face, it's so bad.

00:04:25.880 Underneath this, you would be able to see how red it is.

00:04:29.080 It's kind of blistering.

00:04:30.120 Don't worry.

00:04:30.520 I'm taking care of it.

00:04:31.380 I've got all the remedies and everything like that.

00:04:33.220 It is healing.

00:04:33.920 Thank the Lord.

00:04:35.360 But it's not only that, it has also caused my face to swell.

00:04:40.440 And it's actually a miracle.

00:04:41.760 I'm looking at myself right now on a monitor how different I look than when I walked into

00:04:47.220 this studio.

00:04:48.220 I told the makeup artist, I said, I need you to work a miracle today because it is causing

00:04:54.740 because the sunburn is so bad.

00:04:56.680 And I guess like, you know, your blood fluids rush to the place where the bad sunburn is to

00:05:02.300 try to, you know, heal it, help it, whatever it is, just like any other injury, it is causing

00:05:09.020 like the bridge of my nose and even my eyelids to swell.

00:05:13.560 So it makes my eyes look farther apart than they actually are.

00:05:18.160 And it makes them look smaller than they actually are.

00:05:21.380 And that is not a good thing when you have a job that requires you to be in front of a

00:05:26.880 camera.

00:05:27.680 I texted my producer this morning.

00:05:29.620 I was like, I can't do it.

00:05:30.800 I'm not able to come in because I look like a beady eyed monster.

00:05:35.320 I look like some kind of creature from Narnia, but I did the ice roller.

00:05:40.260 I did the ice pack and all of that.

00:05:42.380 And it did help a little bit.

00:05:43.780 But if I were to take my makeup off, you would be like, oh yes, what is wrong with your eyes?

00:05:48.880 But it's the power of contouring, baby.

00:05:51.460 It's the power of makeup.

00:05:53.360 And so then I'll have to take it off and put my aloe vera on and all that kind of stuff.

00:05:57.400 But for you guys in service to the relatable audience that is watching this on YouTube,

00:06:02.980 I did fix it up a little bit.

00:06:04.340 But pray for my sunburn.

00:06:07.060 And let me just tell you, let me give you some advice, people out there,

00:06:12.280 especially those of you who like me. 0.92

00:06:14.100 You can get arrogant.

00:06:15.120 You can get arrogant because you get tan.

00:06:17.760 You kind of have an olive skin tone.

00:06:19.660 And so in the summer, you can get really tan.

00:06:21.380 Maybe it's even difficult for you to get burned.

00:06:23.700 Yeah, that's like me.

00:06:24.740 My husband, he is more fair-skinned.

00:06:27.700 And so I was like, you need to wear sunscreen.

00:06:30.600 Not thinking about myself.

00:06:32.020 I was like, oh no, I can just soak up the sun.

00:06:34.320 I'll be fine.

00:06:35.320 I wasn't fine.

00:06:36.760 My skin hasn't really seen the hot sun in like five months.

00:06:40.380 It wasn't prepared for it.

00:06:41.740 So for those of you, you're going on spring break.

00:06:44.380 You're going on some kind of snowbird vacation.

00:06:47.880 In the next few weeks, wear your sunscreen.

00:06:51.720 Wear like SPF 50.

00:06:53.260 I know, I know, and you know, I'm a part of sometimes I follow the crunchy world on Instagram

00:06:59.380 and they can be anti-sunscreen.

00:07:01.340 I do think it's important to get unmitigated vitamin D for a certain period of time every

00:07:06.260 day.

00:07:06.700 But I'm telling you, it is not good to get like second degree burns on your skin.

00:07:11.580 It's not worth it.

00:07:12.540 Just wear the sunscreen.

00:07:14.420 If you're going to Mexico, you're going to California, you're going to Florida, you're

00:07:19.100 going to wherever, put on your sunscreen.

00:07:23.180 I really wish that I had.

00:07:24.540 That's my PSA to you today.

00:07:27.140 Wear your sunscreen when you go on your vacations.

00:07:31.520 All right.

00:07:31.960 That was really, that wasn't a very important way to start the show, but it was how I wanted

00:07:36.720 to start the show.

00:07:37.940 So I hope it's helpful.

00:07:39.060 If I save one person from getting like second degree sunburn on their nose and forehead,

00:07:43.440 the way that I did, it will have been, my PSA will have been worth it.

00:07:48.320 All right.

00:07:48.680 I first want to talk before we get into like the most serious stuff, we're going to get

00:07:53.520 into Ohio and Ukraine, but we're going to wait on that a little bit because Biden, President

00:07:59.040 Biden actually right now, as I'm recording, this is giving some kind of speech about where

00:08:05.000 we are with our support of Ukraine.

00:08:07.820 And I want to make sure to get that.

00:08:09.260 I want to make sure to get some of his words and to be able to put it into this episode

00:08:12.840 so I'm going to let him talk as I am talking, as I'm recording the first couple parts of

00:08:18.680 this episode, and then we'll get into that and we'll be able to have some more context

00:08:22.180 with what President Biden told us.

00:08:24.280 So first, we're going to talk about this really fascinating dating study that I saw and what

00:08:29.820 I think it means and some things to consider, because I know there are a lot of moms, I

00:08:34.520 would say probably mostly married women who listen to this podcast, but there are a lot 0.98

00:08:38.620 of single ladies out there too. 1.00

00:08:39.900 And I think that this is probably like a very unique, a unique female podcast because most 0.97

00:08:46.980 female podcasts are about marriage and kids, or they're like from a totally secular perspective 1.00

00:08:53.000 and they're from like, they're about like secular forms of dating and sex and things like that.

00:08:58.340 Whereas this is a female podcast, we do talk a lot about motherhood and the importance of

00:09:02.200 marriage and all of that. But it is also a place where single women I know and single 1.00

00:09:09.100 people are, they feel welcome because we're talking about the issues that affect all of

00:09:14.740 us. We're talking about how any kind of person, any kind of Christian is wading through the 0.99

00:09:19.840 chaos of our culture wars in a way that is hopefully and humbly biblical and Christ centered.

00:09:27.840 And so I wanted to look at this dating study. For those of you who are single out there,

00:09:32.940 you can kind of tell me if you think that this is true, if this is true in your own life,

00:09:37.900 if this is true of your feelings. And those of you who are engaged, married, whatever,

00:09:41.220 I think it's important for us to know about this stuff too. Things have changed. I got married in 2015.

00:09:47.380 Things have changed since then. I am not envious of those trying to navigate the dating world today

00:09:53.940 because it seems ultra complicated and just really burdensome with all of the different complexities

00:10:02.080 of social media and politics and all of that. So I'm going to get into that study. I think it's

00:10:07.700 important for us all to know. Just really fascinating findings. All right. This was a study conducted by

00:10:24.440 the Survey Center on American Life that was published February 9th, 2023, titled From Swiping to Sexting,

00:10:31.740 the Enduring Gender Divide in American Dating and Relationships. This was a survey of more than

00:10:40.180 5,000 adults age 18 and older, including nearly 800 single adults. Okay. So they talked to a large

00:10:49.580 number of single adults, but also people who were dating, who were engaged, who were in relationships

00:10:54.620 and just talked about or asked them about what are deal breakers for you? What are you looking for

00:10:59.320 in a relationship? What did you look for in a relationship? And they found that people have

00:11:04.800 really strong dating preferences. They have really strong opinions when it comes to the people that

00:11:10.400 they want to date, especially when it comes to things like living at home, being unemployed and smoking.

00:11:16.440 These are especially salient considerations, this survey says, for women. And now politics is another 0.99

00:11:23.400 important consideration for many Americans, especially committed partisans. Most Republicans and Democrats

00:11:28.280 say that they would be much less interested in dating those of the opposite political persuasion.

00:11:32.880 You know, I think some people think that that's sad. Oh, we're so polarized as a country.

00:11:37.940 Yeah, it is what it is. We can talk about polarization and how we got there. We've talked about that several

00:11:43.940 times, actually, over the past, how we've gotten there over the past 10 years. But that's what it is.

00:11:50.600 I mean, at this point, if you are Republican, you are a conservative Republican, not just a moderate

00:11:55.300 Republican or even maybe a liberal Republican, but if you are a conservative Republican, it is going to

00:12:00.960 be hard to square your core values with a liberal Democrat, even a moderate Democrat. It's just going

00:12:09.300 to be really difficult. That doesn't mean that you can't be friends. It doesn't mean that you can't be

00:12:13.660 co-workers, that you can't be colleagues or peers and get along fine or that you can't respect them.

00:12:19.080 But when you're talking about sharing your life with someone, when you're talking about potentially marrying

00:12:24.760 someone, becoming one with someone, raising kids with someone, I would say that you really need to be on the

00:12:30.920 same page when it comes to those things. I know that it's possible for Republicans and Democrats to get

00:12:35.840 together and to, you know, get married and maybe have a happy life. I would say that is very rare. That's very rare,

00:12:42.520 especially if both of you are very strong in your positions, because it comes down to not just policy

00:12:48.840 differences. It comes down to theological differences. One of you probably believes that human beings are made in

00:12:54.640 the image of God and therefore life shouldn't be snuffed out in the womb. One of you might not believe that life

00:13:00.960 really has value until the mother decides that the life has value and that they should be killed. I mean, that's a 0.98

00:13:06.000 theological debate. That's a really big difference in how you view human beings and how you view morality.

00:13:16.140 And so that chasm really only grows when you have children. Unless there's some kind of about face from

00:13:22.240 one of the people in their relationship, I totally understand why this is such a strong consideration

00:13:27.120 among people who are trying to find a mate. There is also a consideration of the potential of infidelity

00:13:34.860 because the survey says infidelity is a disquietingly common experience, especially for women. So

00:13:43.440 obviously that's something that women are looking out for. You know, it's also interesting. This is 1.00

00:13:47.720 another just commentary that I have that I feel like for a long time, not just recently, for decades

00:13:53.280 at least, there has been this push against monogamy. The monogamy isn't natural. We don't see it

00:13:57.980 other places in nature. Why are we trying to put humans in a box? And then of course, recently there's been

00:14:03.240 this popularization of polyamory where you're in these relationships where you have a girlfriend

00:14:11.400 and a boyfriend who both have a girlfriend and a boyfriend. I mean, you're just talking about

00:14:15.660 basically a constellation of chlamydia. And yet we're glorifying this as it's, you know, as if it's

00:14:23.080 supposed to be something beautiful. And then these people are trying to raise children in this kind of

00:14:27.700 chaotic environment. But the reality is, is that most people are actually looking for a faithful

00:14:33.200 partner. Most people are looking for monogamy. You can say that it's not natural, but I think it goes

00:14:39.280 back to the beginning of creation and Genesis 1, when God made them one male and one female. He set that 0.93

00:14:45.600 up as the ideal and our human nature longs for it. Of course, humans try to pervert through sin

00:14:50.980 all kinds of things, including relationships and marriage by trying to redefine things that really

00:14:57.240 cannot be redefined because we didn't define them in the first place. We didn't create them.

00:15:03.700 God did. But it just leads ultimately to misery. And that is why even non-Christian people, I think, 1.00

00:15:10.460 are very often looking for that monogamous faithful relationship. Nearly half of women, the survey says,

00:15:16.600 say that a partner or spouse has been unfaithful. That is just tragic, including more than six in 10

00:15:22.420 black women. Now, that's interesting. So that's higher, apparently, according to the survey, 1.00

00:15:27.540 than other demographics of women, white women, Hispanic women, that almost 70% of black women, 1.00

00:15:36.100 wow, say that their partner or spouse, I'm guessing mostly male partner or spouse, has been unfaithful.

00:15:46.440 To them. I mean, of course, you're going to be hesitant to get into another relationship.

00:15:51.880 Even as online dating has made it easier than ever to become romantically involved with a complete

00:15:55.880 stranger, younger Americans appear increasingly interested in dating people they already know.

00:16:01.800 Isn't that an interesting development, too? You know, I think that's actually why. Now,

00:16:06.880 I was not on dating apps, and I praise the Lord for that. I know people who have met their

00:16:11.700 spouses through dating apps, and so I'm not saying that it's all bad. I just imagine it's very

00:16:17.480 exhausting, a very difficult way to meet people. So I met my husband when we were working out

00:16:24.380 at a gym. So I don't really know that much about dating apps, but friends who are single or who have

00:16:29.800 been singled over the past 10 years, they tell me, like, what's the difference in all these apps? And I

00:16:33.960 know, I think Hinge is the one where you actually have to have some mutuals. So I wonder if that kind

00:16:39.920 of thing is more popular or if people are just kind of abandoning dating apps in general because of what

00:16:45.020 I just said. It's so tiring. It's so exhausting to just be swiping and swiping. And it is necessarily

00:16:52.040 objectifying. I mean, it is. You're looking at a two-dimensional version of someone. It's not like

00:16:58.600 you're hearing their laugh, or you heard their personality, or you interacted with them, and you

00:17:03.760 were kind of attracted to that three-dimensional part of them. But you have to just kind of look at

00:17:11.800 their appearance, and maybe not even their genuine appearance, but the appearance that they want you

00:17:16.320 to see on the app and the qualities that they are listing on their profile, and you're just kind of

00:17:22.400 hoping it's sincere. I imagine that that can be a very difficult process. So I am heartened by the

00:17:28.540 news that apparently, according to the survey, young people are saying, eh, I actually would like to

00:17:33.200 know this person. So meeting them at church, meeting them in some kind of community event,

00:17:39.180 meeting them through friends, meeting them, you know, through different organizations, through work,

00:17:44.420 or whatever, I feel like that is probably a better and in some ways easier way to make a connection.

00:17:52.080 Again, I don't want it to sound like I'm knocking on all use of dating apps because I know people who

00:17:56.980 have been able to use it effectively. That doesn't invalidate your relationship at all

00:18:01.380 that you've been able to build from that. But I could definitely see why people are graduating from

00:18:06.420 that, moving on from that, and saying, you know what, that was just too much. I've been doing that

00:18:10.180 for the past seven years. It hasn't worked. I'm just going to go back to the olden days when people

00:18:14.980 actually met in person and had to put themselves out there and say hi to someone and possibly face

00:18:21.520 in-person rejection. I understand why that's harder, but I think it's also a lot more satisfying

00:18:26.620 when you really meet the person. So they also analyzed marriage, and we're going to get into

00:18:31.300 some of the polls that they have that I think are really interesting, but this is just from the

00:18:35.160 article itself that is explaining the survey. So about marriage, no social changes alter the fabric

00:18:42.200 of American life so profoundly as the decline of marriage. That is absolutely true. It is tragically

00:18:47.620 true. It is tragically true. It doesn't just go back to Obergefell. It goes all the way back to

00:18:52.980 no-fault divorce. It goes all the way back to the disintegration of the institution of marriage

00:18:58.400 that really has been going on. It has been precipitating for the last several decades.

00:19:06.680 And so this is not new, but it's definitely gotten worse. The popularity of choosing not to marry

00:19:14.520 and seeing marriage as something that is simply archaic, that is an inconvenience, that is an

00:19:19.240 impediment to happiness and satisfaction. That is certainly, I think, a more widespread feeling

00:19:26.120 and belief than it was even 10 years ago. Marriage is facing increasing competition from other types

00:19:31.800 of social arrangements, such as cohabitation. The number of Americans cohabitating with their

00:19:36.960 romantic partner has more than doubled over the past three decades. It has become a widely

00:19:41.160 acceptable practice, particularly among younger Americans. Nearly six in 10 younger Americans

00:19:46.160 report having cohabitated with a romantic partner. Statistically, you are much more likely to get a

00:19:52.640 divorce if you cohabitate before you get married. That's just true. You're more likely to have all

00:19:58.020 kinds of relationship problems if you cohabitate before you get married. Not saying that's everyone.

00:20:02.560 I didn't say it's 100%. I didn't say that no one who doesn't live together and then gets married,

00:20:10.080 gets divorced. That's not what I said. But statistically, it is simply true that you are

00:20:14.820 more likely to get a divorce. You are more likely to simply fall out of love, not end up together,

00:20:20.200 even with the person that you thought was your soulmate, if you decide to live together before

00:20:25.580 getting married. Again, it's almost like God knew what he was talking about when he instructed us

00:20:31.680 in how to order our lives, that it wasn't just for rules, it wasn't just for restrictions,

00:20:36.820 but that he actually cares about our well-being and us having an abundant life. He actually cares

00:20:42.700 about our joy and about our protection. So the regulations that he puts in place,

00:20:48.080 the parameters that we see him put in place throughout scripture, especially when it comes

00:20:52.160 to sexuality and our relationships, are actually for our physical and emotional, mental, spiritual

00:20:57.200 good, not for our harm. And it seems like science and surveys are always trying to catch up to what

00:21:03.660 God has been saying since the beginning of time. The survey says nowhere is the decline of marriage

00:21:10.120 more evident than in the lives of young adults. Overall, more than one in three Americans have

00:21:15.860 never been married. Only 25% of younger adults aged 18 to 34 are currently married. A dramatic decline

00:21:22.160 over the past few decades. In 1978, younger adults were almost twice as likely to be married.

00:21:28.860 Right. Society is worse off for it. We're worse off for it. I promise. And I know a lot of young

00:21:34.060 people, they want to be married. Okay. So there's a lot of girls, women who are listening to this

00:21:39.800 podcast, you're in that age bracket and you're not the kind of person who's like, yeah, I just don't

00:21:44.280 want commitment. I don't want to be tied down to a husband. I just want to travel and work and have

00:21:50.740 fun. So I don't want it to sound like I'm talking to you when I say this, but there are a lot of young

00:21:56.000 people, probably a lot of young men in that demographic who just don't want to commit yet.

00:22:01.600 They just don't want to settle down. They think that they need to pursue their career. They need

00:22:05.360 to make a certain amount of money. They need to check all of these boxes before they look

00:22:09.840 for someone to share their life with. That has long-term consequences, not just on an individual's

00:22:15.980 life, but also on society as a whole. The later you get married, the later you have kids, the more

00:22:20.900 difficult it is to then replace the older generations. The less influence parents and grandparents

00:22:25.540 have on those kids because you simply have less time with them the later that you have those kids.

00:22:30.900 Again, I'm not talking to the people who are involuntarily not married yet. I am talking to

00:22:37.620 the people who are personally putting that off for the sake of convenience and for the sake of just

00:22:42.560 irresponsibility and selfish gain. If you are able to find a husband or wife, a man or woman to spend the

00:22:52.360 rest of your life with and commit to and have children with, I'll just say that's the better

00:22:59.640 option. That's the better option than just doing what you want to do, doing what feels good at any

00:23:05.840 given moment, chasing your own temporary definition of happiness. All of the things that you think that

00:23:14.360 you can't do in a married relationship, you absolutely can. And hey, I will also just say,

00:23:20.160 I know this is controversial, but if you are married, if you are a Christian, and I'm just kind

00:23:25.880 of implying that I'm talking to Christians here, but if you are in a marriage, I think that you should

00:23:33.780 have children. I think that the Bible is very clear on that, that children are a blessing, that they're not

00:23:38.220 an impediment to our happiness. They're not an impediment to our satisfaction. They're not a

00:23:43.040 burden. I think if you can have children, not everyone can have children. That's not God's plan

00:23:48.260 for everyone. I think if you can have children, unless God is calling you to a very intense and

00:23:54.520 very specific form of ministry that precludes having children, I do think every married couple who can have

00:24:03.320 children should have children. I don't think you have to have 25 children. I think that there is

00:24:09.440 wisdom and discernment and counsel and seeking and all of that. But my husband and I even made the

00:24:17.160 mistake of thinking there has to be a perfect time to have kids before we even try having kids. So I

00:24:22.580 can empathize with that feeling, but really there is no biblical support for that idea. There's no

00:24:29.200 biblical support for putting off kids until you, you know, have traveled the world or until you've

00:24:34.800 checked off, you know, boxes on your checklist. And the same is true. The same is true in a sense

00:24:42.020 for marriage. Obviously there are some like more stipulations there. You want to make sure that

00:24:46.120 you're finding a solid person and you don't want to add, you know, instability to your life by

00:24:53.800 wedding yourself to an already unstable person. So of course there's wisdom there,

00:24:57.560 but in general commitment, responsibility, the exclusivity, the fidelity, the support

00:25:06.220 that comes from marriage and children is not just good for the individual. It is good for society

00:25:12.540 as a whole. This hyper individualism that comes from the fragmentation of the family

00:25:17.460 and basically all of us just living in our own little personalized world. It's not good. It's not good

00:25:24.780 for the individual. And again, it's not good for society as a whole. Now, maybe some of the reason

00:25:32.040 why so many people are single today is because they have so many peculiarities and liabilities when it 0.99

00:25:40.900 comes to dating. And I'm not saying you shouldn't have standards. I think that you should have high

00:25:44.880 standards when it comes to dating. But I think sometimes, especially social media, I just wonder if

00:25:51.320 it's added to this, we have too many, like too many qualifications that someone has to reach before

00:25:59.060 we consider giving them the time of day. I mean, I know people, like I know people like that, that

00:26:05.740 their qualifications for their future husband are not about their godliness or not about their

00:26:12.200 character, but they're about like random attributes that have nothing to do with how good of a husband

00:26:18.580 or wife that person will be. And I think that could possibly be a problem here. I am sure the like

00:26:25.700 rise of Tinder and dating apps has exacerbated that. Okay, so here are a few things that I thought was

00:26:42.380 interesting. Just a few things that I that I wanted to point out to you that they kind of put in graph

00:26:48.160 form. So college educated Americans report more dating liability. So basically more reasons why

00:26:53.960 they wouldn't date someone than non college educated Americans. So interesting. So smoke cigarettes, 0.68

00:27:00.460 90% of college graduates say, nope, I wouldn't date you because of that. Honestly, I understand like

00:27:06.760 that would be would have been a dating liability for me if my husband would have smoked cigarettes.

00:27:12.740 You know, as much I look back, though, I was so, you know, was am but I'm just thinking back to

00:27:18.720 seven, eight years. Like I loved him so much. And I enjoyed him so much. And I was so attracted to him

00:27:24.960 that I honestly, I don't know if he had smoked cigarettes, if that would have been. I don't know

00:27:32.040 that that would have been a deal breaker. I would have really not liked it. And I would have really,

00:27:35.840 really, really, really wanted him to stop. And I think he would have because he's a very disciplined

00:27:40.340 person. But as much as I loved him, and wanted to marry him, I don't know that cigarettes would

00:27:47.200 have been like, no, I absolutely cannot marry you. It would have had to stop. But you know what I'm

00:27:52.440 saying? So I don't even know if I could 100% say that as much as I hate cigarettes. But that's

00:27:58.160 something that you kind of know in hindsight, once you realize like how much you just love, love,

00:28:03.880 love the person that you end up marrying. 77% of college graduates say being unemployed. That's

00:28:10.600 a deal breaker. 62% of high school or less say that's a deal breaker. That's interesting. Again,

00:28:16.900 what do you mean by unemployed? Are you in between jobs? Are you like an entrepreneur? Are you chronically

00:28:22.400 unemployed? That would be a deal breaker for me. Lives in another state. 74% of college grads,

00:28:29.940 64% of high school grads or less say that that is a liability. Again, I don't know if that would

00:28:36.040 have been a liability for me. That would have made it a lot more difficult. But if you meet the right

00:28:41.120 person, the long distance thing is doable. It's workable. Oh, this is funny. College graduates,

00:28:48.300 67% said that they would not date someone who does not trust vaccines. 67% of college grads said that

00:28:56.820 they would not date someone who does not trust vaccines. Okay, so they just want the people who

00:29:02.060 nod along to everything that big pharma says that don't question the COVID vaccine at all. That's

00:29:07.980 pretty incredible, especially considering yesterday's episode. So these are people who just want someone

00:29:13.920 who regurgitates mainstream talking points. Interesting. That is true. Okay, so 67% of college

00:29:20.000 grads say that only 33% of high school or less says that. Like I see all these polls all the time,

00:29:26.360 like the difference in the politics and the cultural views of PhDs, college grads, high school

00:29:32.360 or less. Like, it seems like you have like your common sense wanes the more degrees you have. And I

00:29:40.080 say that as someone who has a college degree. And I hope that's not true. Like I hope I've retained my

00:29:45.780 common sense to the point to where I'm still conservative. And I wouldn't say stupid stuff 0.98

00:29:50.140 like this. But man, you just get so brainwashed. It seems like at so many of these institutions, 1.00

00:29:54.760 you start just saying and believing really stupid stuff. 65% of college grads say that being a Trump 1.00

00:30:01.040 supporter is a liability. They wouldn't date someone who is a Trump supporter. Only 41% of high school or

00:30:07.380 less say that. Really? 65%? The large, I mean, a pretty large majority of college grads are saying

00:30:15.520 that? Wow, that's pretty incredible. 60% of college grads say that they would not date someone who lives

00:30:24.360 with their parents. 54% say that they would not date someone who has children. 52% of college grads say

00:30:30.880 that they would not date someone who is very religious. 52%. 49% say that they wouldn't date

00:30:39.260 someone who did not go to college. Half of college grads wouldn't date someone who didn't go to

00:30:45.000 college. At least like half would, but that's crazy. This is interesting. 49. Okay. So 45% of college

00:30:56.960 grads say that not believing in God would be a liability. 49% of high school or less say that

00:31:07.200 it would be a liability. So basically the majority of college grads think it's fine for their person,

00:31:13.760 the person that they want to date to be an atheist. A slight majority of high school or less people

00:31:20.560 think that. Also very troubling, very troubling. Like people don't understand where morality comes from

00:31:26.760 people not understand where right and wrong comes from. You just think that you're going to marry

00:31:30.320 some moral relativist and that things are going to turn out fine. It might, it might, but only because

00:31:36.820 that person probably has a very strong moral compass who doesn't, they don't even realize that they are

00:31:42.580 actually getting their morality from the creator of the universe. But like marrying a moral relativist,

00:31:48.140 I promise you will always end in heartbreak. Wow. People are so silly.

00:31:52.560 Um, uh, let's see, 43%, 43% of college grads say wouldn't date a Republican, uh, 38%. This is 1.00

00:32:03.780 interesting. Like 38% of college grads say that, um, dating someone who is much shorter than you is a

00:32:10.700 liability. So most college grads would say that's not a liability. Um, 30. So the majority,

00:32:17.640 the majority of college grads would say that being a feminist is not a liability. Only 34% of college 1.00

00:32:24.880 grads say that being a feminist is a reason not to date someone. Again, huge mistake, huge mistake. 1.00

00:32:33.120 Only 23% say that being a Democrat is a liability. Wow. Again, mistake, mistake. Um, so that's interesting.

00:32:46.140 Roughly two thirds of Democrats who were pulled in this say that they would be less likely to date a

00:32:52.320 Republican. More than six in 10 self-identified Republicans report that they'd be less likely

00:32:57.480 to date a Democrat. And so that's pretty, that's pretty even there. 84% of Democrats say that they

00:33:04.520 would be less likely to date a Trump supporter, including nearly three quarters who say they,

00:33:10.200 they would make them, they would make them, this would make them a lot less likely to consider

00:33:15.720 dating someone. 39% of women compared to 55% of men would be less likely to date a feminist.

00:33:24.040 While 21% say they'd be more likely to date someone who identifies this way. So 55% of men

00:33:31.760 say that they would be less likely to date a feminist. Honestly, I don't, I don't blame them.

00:33:39.740 Um, so I thought that that was so interesting that we're seeing the decline of marriage and

00:33:44.600 we're seeing a lot of, I would say, dissatisfaction with being single at the same time. And a lot

00:33:50.960 of loneliness, a lot of feelings of purposelessness. We talked about a couple of weeks ago that,

00:33:55.880 um, that new CDC study that shows the precipitous rise of depression and thoughts of suicide among

00:34:04.540 teenage girls. And so like, I think that among women, like there's a lot of loneliness,

00:34:10.040 there's a lot of discontentment, there's a lot of insecurity, even as they are constantly telling

00:34:14.340 themselves and each other how awesome and enough and beautiful and perfect they are. And I think

00:34:20.400 that that combination is manifesting itself in some of these ridiculous standards that apparently 0.69

00:34:26.760 people have for their potential dating partner. Not all of them are bad standards, but some of them

00:34:31.120 are very arbitrary and some of them are just bad. Like you don't care if the person that you're

00:34:37.420 going to date doesn't believe in God. The majority of college grads don't believe that. Like some of

00:34:42.000 it is just a total lack of wisdom is total foolishness. And we wonder why so many young people 1.00

00:34:47.820 aren't getting married, aren't committed and just don't really understand how the world works.

00:34:53.460 And it's also like, I think marriage and having kids, it's not absolutely necessary to caring for future

00:35:02.280 generations. It's not necessary to having an investment in your community and what happens to

00:35:07.960 your country. I know that there are plenty of single people and plenty of people without kids who really

00:35:13.240 care about the future and what's going to happen to the country. They really care about freedom and our

00:35:17.800 rights and all of that, but it absolutely helps. It absolutely helps for you to be able to see in the

00:35:26.260 faces of the people that you love more than life itself, that you love more than anything in the

00:35:32.920 world, the future of the country. And to consider how your policy decisions today, how your politics,

00:35:39.460 the things that you choose to stand up for today, how they will affect your children and

00:35:44.300 grandchildren. Yeah, that gives you a bigger and better perspective of what really matters and why.

00:35:52.740 Again, not everyone has to have that in order to be able to really care about the future, but it really

00:35:59.460 helps. Most people can't. Like, I mean, I think about when I was single and when I didn't have kids, the

00:36:07.240 things that I thought that I understood about children, about marriage, about the world, how things work, the

00:36:13.320 things that I thought that I cared about, the things that I straight up didn't care about, because they

00:36:17.440 simply did not affect me. And they didn't really puncture my bubble that I had been able to create

00:36:23.380 for myself as just like a single working woman. And now that bubble is so punctured by marriage and by

00:36:31.420 family and just community and all of the commitments that are going by the wayside today, that I care a lot

00:36:37.820 more. Like, I have a lot more compassion. I have a lot more understanding. I have a much bigger

00:36:43.780 investment, a much bigger stake in the future than I would have as a just a single person. That's just

00:36:49.700 a fact. OK, that's just a fact, because now I am looking at people who represent that future. And so

00:36:56.380 I say that to say, like, what is the future of the country when you have a lot of people, not all single

00:37:03.020 people, but when you have a lot of people who seem to be as represented in this survey, chiefly

00:37:08.500 concerned with themselves and their happiness and how they feel and having their needs being met and

00:37:14.460 believing that the most important thing in life is to simply love themselves and to pursue their own

00:37:18.840 happiness. Like, what do you think that kind of country will look like? It's very different than the

00:37:25.020 country that we've had in years past that has been marked by generosity and sacrifice and commitment,

00:37:31.560 even when it's hard. I mean, I don't think you really have a country after that. I mean, you have

00:37:37.180 no will probably to survive or to even preserve what your country was founded upon and pair that

00:37:45.240 with the propaganda that people have been getting in schools and certainly in universities for so long

00:37:51.560 to say that the founding of America of America is evil and not worth preserving. I do worry. I worry

00:37:58.100 about the future of the country. I worry about the future of the country policy wise when it's

00:38:01.540 run by people who don't have kids putting policies in place that greatly affect kids telling us

00:38:07.620 that they know better. I mean, I think about some people right now, like AOC, people who think that

00:38:15.080 they can make policy when it comes to education, when it comes to poverty, when it comes to the

00:38:19.400 genital mutilation of children in the name of gender affirmation. And I'm like, you don't even know

00:38:25.040 what it's like to love a child more than you love yourself. Like you, you have, you have no investment.

00:38:32.360 You have no stake. You don't know. And so like the country run by all kinds of people like that

00:38:39.420 puts us in a bad place. That's what I think. And not to mention these people who have these

00:38:46.400 arbitrary standards, like you will end up unhappy. I think you can be single and happy for your whole

00:38:53.100 life. I think that singleness can be an absolute gift. I think that's biblical. But it depends on

00:39:00.700 what the motivation is, right? Single for the sake of the Lord. Single for the sake of obedience. Single

00:39:05.420 for the sake of purity. Single for the sake of mission. Single for the sake of just simply being in

00:39:10.660 the place where God has you. Yeah, that's all one thing. Single for the sake of narcissism. Single for

00:39:15.200 the sake of just doing you. Yeah, that's going to lead you into a sad place, no matter what Chelsea

00:39:20.140 Handler says. All right. Let's get into the more serious stuff. We'll spend a little bit on that. And we

00:39:27.760 will talk about what's happening in Ohio and what is happening in Ukraine.

00:39:40.660 Okay, so let's get an update on Ohio. We talked about this last week in the same episode that we

00:39:49.840 talked about the craziness that's happening in our skies with the Biden administration shooting down

00:39:54.920 Chinese spy balloons and what that actually means. We also talked about nuclear war in that episode,

00:40:00.940 which we will get to in a second. But first, let's talk about what's going on on our own soil

00:40:07.700 within our own shores. Let's talk about what's going on in Ohio, because this is still a disaster

00:40:13.840 area. You'll remember from last week's episode that on February 3rd in East Palestine, we didn't

00:40:19.980 hear about the story until several days later, but there was a catastrophic train derailment in East

00:40:25.740 Palestine, Ohio that caused a very dangerous explosion. And then there was actually a controlled

00:40:33.960 explosion to release some of these dangerous gases and chemicals that were in some of these railway

00:40:42.340 cars to try to prevent some kind of crazy spontaneous combustion that would have caused even more havoc

00:40:51.980 in the area. We talked about that there are residents there that have said that their animals are dying

00:40:57.900 or sick. A woman reported that all of her chickens had died. Foxes are dying. Dogs are sick. Some people

00:41:06.180 are reporting different kinds of skin conditions that they're having a hard time catching their breath,

00:41:11.700 that they're having a hard time even getting health care because the doctors don't know what to

00:41:15.140 task for. Governor DeWine is saying that, you know, the municipal water, the water that you're getting

00:41:21.160 should be fine. And the EPA there is saying that the air is fine, that they're testing it,

00:41:27.420 that it's okay. And yet the residents there are saying, well, I am still dealing with the side

00:41:33.820 effects of this. And it doesn't seem like the people who are supposed to be doing their job,

00:41:38.280 who are supposed to clean up this mess, who are supposed to make sure the catastrophe like this does

00:41:43.600 not happen. It doesn't seem like they actually care. I've gotten several messages from you guys who live

00:41:48.320 in Ohio saying that your local governments and you feel even your state governments are actually very

00:41:52.940 corrupt. Now, I don't live in Ohio. I've never lived in Ohio. I can't give a firsthand account to say

00:42:00.400 that that is true. But a lot of you are really disappointed in how your local and state governments

00:42:06.680 are handling this and have handled several things in the past, including things like COVID and all of

00:42:14.920 that. So Governor DeWine, Republican governor of Ohio, he has asked for help from FEMA. Now, FEMA

00:42:21.680 government agency that typically helps with natural disasters like hurricanes or like earthquakes.

00:42:29.520 President Biden apparently said, no, we are not going to send FEMA to help you. This is just not

00:42:35.760 something that they are equipped to help with. Some people are criticizing Biden for that, basically

00:42:39.760 saying, you know, that shows he doesn't care. We're giving all this money to all these different

00:42:44.000 causes around the world. And we're not even going to send FEMA to help people in Ohio.

00:42:48.800 I think that there's plenty of criticism to be had of President Biden, especially that he has not

00:42:53.980 been there. He hasn't even visited the area of disaster. But not sending FEMA there, I'm not

00:43:01.060 totally sure is a legitimate thing to criticize, because apparently FEMA is working with the EPA, 0.67

00:43:06.700 is even working with the CDC. Not that we necessarily trust those entities. But according to a White

00:43:13.700 House spokesperson, if you want to trust the spokespeople for the White House, they say that

00:43:17.700 FEMA is coordinating with these agencies that are apparently better equipped to deal with the

00:43:22.120 disaster and to deal with the health consequences of of the disaster. Nevertheless, people are

00:43:29.440 criticizing President Biden because he is not not only is he not sending FEMA there, OK, we can debate

00:43:35.460 about whether or not that is the correct move or a move that shows a lack of compassion, but that he

00:43:40.980 hasn't been present, that he's barely talked about it. And where is he instead? He is visiting

00:43:46.560 Ukraine. So that's really kind of the big gripe and always has been the big gripe, by the way, 0.90

00:43:52.860 about President Biden and his administration, not just when it comes to Ohio, but when it comes to

00:43:57.360 the interests of the American people in general. He can talk a big talk when it comes to the State of

00:44:03.160 the Union address, saying that he understands that fentanyl overdoses are a really big deal,

00:44:08.000 that is killing hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. He can talk about the fact that we

00:44:12.580 have an immigration crisis or that we need a better economy and all of these things. And he can say

00:44:17.720 that he is putting America first and that he cares about the well-being of Americans, but it's not seen

00:44:22.260 in his actions. What's seen in his actions, what has been seen in his actions since the very beginning

00:44:27.120 is that he actually prioritizes the needs and the well-being of other countries before he prioritizes the

00:44:33.920 needs and the security of his own constituents, even the people who voted for him. And as I've said

00:44:39.820 many times, that makes a wicked leader. You can call me a nationalist. You can say that I'm bigoted 0.72

00:44:45.560 for caring about America first or that's MAGA or whatever. I really don't care. You're wrong if you

00:44:51.920 believe that a country's leader should care more about the people in another country or even equally

00:44:58.220 that they should care about the people of another country as they care about the people in this

00:45:05.780 country. That is immoral. That is wicked. That is wrong. Countries are like families. You care about

00:45:13.120 your family the most. That doesn't mean you hate your neighbors. That doesn't mean that you don't

00:45:16.600 want them to do well. That doesn't mean that you don't help them when you can help them, but you

00:45:20.940 don't do so at the expense of your own children. You don't allow your children to starve and your

00:45:27.660 children to suffer and your children to be vulnerable in order to supply the needs of people

00:45:34.740 whose own parents should be taking care of them. If you can do both, great. The point is, is that

00:45:39.920 President Biden is not doing both. So he decided that he was going to go to Ukraine during the surprise

00:45:48.440 visit. This was reported by the Hill yesterday, and he announces $500 million in new military aid

00:45:56.400 to Ukraine. President Biden on Monday announced the U.S. would be providing $500 million in additional

00:46:01.900 military aid to Ukraine during a surprise visit to Kiev, and he teased new sanctions to crack down

00:46:09.160 on entities aiding Russia's war efforts in the country. Together, we've committed nearly 700 takes

00:46:13.520 and thousands of armored vehicles, 1,000 artillery systems, more than 2 million rounds of artillery

00:46:18.420 ammunition, more than 50 advanced launch rocket systems, anti-ship and air defense systems, all to

00:46:25.680 defend Ukraine. The forthcoming announcement, Biden said, includes artillery ammunition for long-range

00:46:31.560 weapons and all kinds of different weaponry. And he just wanted to make sure he tweeted that

00:46:37.940 America is behind Ukraine 100%. Mitch McConnell recently said something that he has said several times

00:46:45.820 that the most important thing going on in the world right now is the battle between Russia and Ukraine,

00:46:50.840 which is quickly growing into a battle between Ukraine and the United States and Russia and China.

00:46:58.340 Now, tell me why a country that most people, including most politicians, could not point to on a map

00:47:05.340 a little over a year ago is worth us possibly being wiped off off the face of the earth through nuclear war

00:47:14.460 against China and Russia. It's not. It's not. That's not to say those people aren't made in the image of

00:47:20.660 God. That's not to say that they don't have the same innate worth and value that we do. That's not to

00:47:26.200 say that we shouldn't hope, you know, them success in Ukraine, whatever. But the way that we have

00:47:31.560 upheld Ukraine is some beacon of democracy when it is not that the way that we have said we will stop

00:47:42.940 at nothing to defend this country. When you're making calculations, as you have to do as a

00:47:48.460 politician, by the way, as you have to do as the leader of a country, that calculation does not make

00:47:53.100 sense unless there is something going on here that personally benefits Biden and those who are making

00:48:00.680 these decisions to send all of this money to Ukraine. It just doesn't make any logical or moral sense.

00:48:07.680 And people who are saying, oh, that lacks compassion. You don't care about what happens to Ukraine.

00:48:11.740 OK, show me how much you care. List every world conflict going on right now.

00:48:17.500 List every need that every single person in Africa has, that every single person in Asia has. 0.75

00:48:22.420 And tell me why you aren't doing more to take care of them. Tell me why you are choosing not to send

00:48:29.900 all of your money to the poor people in Zimbabwe. And instead, you're choosing to feed yourself and

00:48:34.740 your family. Wow. What a selfish bigot you are. You see how that logic works? We got our problems here

00:48:40.800 in the United States. We got our problems here. All right. We have people who really need help.

00:48:46.460 We have students that cannot read because our education system in general is so poor.

00:48:53.160 We've got really big problems with employment, with people not being able to put food on the

00:48:57.960 table because of the policy decisions that the people in charge have made. We've got people in

00:49:02.240 Ohio that don't even know if they can drink their water right now. And by the way, that's a problem

00:49:07.220 in several cities across the country, not just because of the many plane or train derailments

00:49:12.280 that have happened, but just because our local governments are so incompetent. And this is basically a

00:49:18.140 cacistocracy, which means that we are run by idiots wedded with a kleptocracy where they're basically 1.00

00:49:25.200 stealing from the rest of us to line their own pockets. And they're using war as a vessel to do 1.00

00:49:31.520 that in my opinion. And we might all die because of it. Like that's, that's the deal. That's what's,

00:49:40.120 I mean, that's, what's on the table. That's my amateur assessment of what is really going on here.

00:49:45.220 No, I do not think what's going on between Russia and Ukraine is the most important priority for

00:49:52.240 Americans. Maybe it is something to care about. Like maybe you should pay attention. Maybe we should pray

00:49:57.720 for the innocent people who are involved in all of this, who did not ask for war, who have been forced

00:50:03.260 to be refugees in a million different ways and have had to run in the face of danger. I mean, yes, we should

00:50:08.620 pray for them. We should care about them. You can send your own aid, but the people that we elected

00:50:13.940 to care about our security and our wellbeing and our stability should be focusing on that, like clean up

00:50:21.800 our water. Stop allowing career criminals to kill people because in the name of criminal and social

00:50:28.180 justice, they're let out of jail. Like, have we considered focusing on those kinds of things?

00:50:34.480 The kinds of things that are facing Americans on a daily basis? Like, have we considered just trying

00:50:40.340 to make America a better place? I don't know. I know that's some crazy idea. That's some crazy

00:50:47.060 nationalistic Nazi idea that the people that we elected should actually put their people first, but

00:50:54.840 there it is. It's radical. I know. By the way, I believe that every leader of every country should

00:51:03.640 put their people first. Every leader of every country should put their people first because

00:51:09.220 country is like family. I believe that Zambia should put their people first. I think that they should care

00:51:14.120 more about Zambians than they do about Americans or about Spaniards. I believe that Germans should 0.99

00:51:18.540 care more about Germany and Germans than they do about the French. I believe that the French should 0.96

00:51:22.720 care more about the interest of the French than they should the interest of people from Albania.

00:51:29.040 Canadians should care more about their interests, their wellbeing, their security than they do about

00:51:33.980 Americans. That should be how it goes. That doesn't mean we're hostile to each other. It doesn't mean we

00:51:38.700 don't help each other. I'm not saying that I'm an isolationist, but I do believe in putting the

00:51:43.920 interests of your country first and stop ignoring the dire needs that your people have in favor of

00:51:50.120 freaking Ukraine. Come on. But I didn't give a speech today. I don't even want to get to it. 1.00

00:52:00.340 But I didn't give a speech today in Poland saying, you know, we are with Ukraine until the end and we're

00:52:06.980 just going to keep on hemorrhaging money that we don't have to support this effort. And he says,

00:52:15.680 he says, he says this to defend his decisions.

00:52:20.400 One year ago, the world was bracing for the fall of Keeve. Well, I just come from a visit to Keeve and I

00:52:29.180 can report Keeve stands strong. Keeve stands proud. It stands tall. And most important, it stands free.

00:52:43.180 When Russia invaded, it wasn't just Ukraine being tested. The whole world faced the test for the 0.71

00:52:50.380 ages. Okay, the whole world faced a test for the ages. I mean, they really do see this as their like

00:53:02.560 Berlin Wall moment. And I just don't see it that way. And I don't think most Americans do. You know,

00:53:12.600 I saw this Pew Research poll that showed what Americans feel about support of Ukraine and how

00:53:22.740 it has declined. This came out on January 31st, Pew Research. And so in March of 22, when this started

00:53:36.400 happening, when Russia invaded Ukraine, most people, let's see, 74% of Americans said, we're sending not

00:53:44.620 enough aid to Ukraine, or it's just about right. 74% of Americans. So they were very for it. 0.87

00:53:52.300 That has gone down pretty significantly. By January 23, only 51% believe that we're sending not enough

00:54:02.540 or about right. And the amount of aid, 26% actually believe that we are sending too much

00:54:09.720 versus only 7% in March of 22. This is very divided among Republicans, Democrats. Isn't that so

00:54:17.320 interesting? I mean, it's actually interesting. In March of 22, it was Republicans who were more

00:54:24.400 likely to say that we're not sending enough. Democrats believed that it was about right for the

00:54:31.440 most part. That's probably some like pro Biden, anti Biden thing going on there. But by January of 23,

00:54:38.500 40% of Republicans think it's too much versus only 15% of Democrats, 23% of Democrats think that we need

00:54:46.060 to do more to help Ukraine. It's wild just how divided we are on that. But I mean, it is changing.

00:54:53.920 People are realizing, wow, we got our own problems that we need to fix. We got our own problems that we

00:55:00.140 need to fix here. And it would be just amazing. It'd be amazing to have an administration who

00:55:07.380 really cared about that and prioritize that. Again, doesn't mean isolationist. It means priorities,

00:55:13.500 right? Like he'd be in Ohio right now, maybe, and not Ukraine, if he really cared about his 0.90

00:55:19.640 constituents more, don't you think? But like to them, big picture excludes the well-being of America.

00:55:25.700 Isn't that crazy? Go back and listen to some of my Great Reset episodes with Justin Haskins if you

00:55:31.500 want to learn more about that. So Putin decided, according to USA Today, that he will suspend the

00:55:40.260 nuclear arms treaty as US-Russia tensions build amid Ukraine war anniversary. Russian President Vladimir

00:55:46.620 Putin announced Tuesday that Russia will pull back from a key nuclear treaty, ratcheting up tensions

00:55:52.780 with the United States as President Joe Biden visited the region with a fresh pledge of support

00:55:57.940 for Ukraine. He said that he was suspending Moscow's participation in New START, a strategic nuclear

00:56:03.080 arms reduction treaty between the US and Russia. He said that this action was being taken because of

00:56:08.600 the US and NATO without specifying more. New START is the last remaining nuclear arms reduction deal

00:56:14.500 between the US and Russia. It was signed in 2010 and extended for five years. In 2021,

00:56:19.380 it limits each side to 1,500 long-range nuclear warheads. I mean, I don't really know what that

00:56:24.420 was doing, but this is definitely Putin's way of saying, yeah, it's on. It's on. And China apparently

00:56:31.140 is deciding whether or not they are going to send military aid to Russia. This is not looking good.

00:56:36.560 Not looking good. And look, I'm not saying that we should just be kowtowing to people like Putin.

00:56:42.440 I don't think America should be kowtowing to dictators. And also, again, not saying that we

00:56:50.420 shouldn't care about what happens in Ukraine, but this is disproportionate. What America has committed

00:56:57.460 to instead of focusing on the well-being and the security and the safety of its own people.

00:57:07.400 Now, I'm just going to end with this. I'm going to end with a bit of encouragement because my husband

00:57:11.760 and I were talking about this this morning. We saw reported in the Wall Street Journal that Putin

00:57:15.980 decided that he was going to pull out of this agreement, this, you know, reduction in nuclear

00:57:22.440 weapons. And, you know, people are talking more and more of nuclear war. Again, go back and listen

00:57:26.860 to the episode that we did last week on this. It was like oddly comforting, actually, what my guest had

00:57:31.160 to say, but also very informative and shows us what the risk is. But let me read you this quote

00:57:36.900 that I've read time to time over the past few years from C.S. Lewis as he was living in an atomic age

00:57:42.460 when people were talking about the threat of an atomic bomb. And he gave this encouragement,

00:57:49.580 which I am just, I always read. I sent it to my husband this morning. I was like, read this,

00:57:54.240 remember this. It's so profound and so simple and so brutally honest and true that whenever we face yet

00:58:00.540 another existential crisis, which seems to be, I don't know, we're on the clock for about every year,

00:58:05.480 every two years at this point. Let us remember what C.S. Lewis said. It's a long quote. Bear with

00:58:10.400 me. Maybe I'll bounce around a little bit and not read the whole thing, but I think it's really

00:58:14.280 important and it will comfort you. So he says this, in one way, we think a great deal too much of the

00:58:20.240 atomic bomb. How are we to live in an atomic age? I'm tempted to reply, why, as you would have lived in

00:58:25.700 the 16th century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a

00:58:30.420 Viking age, when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night, or indeed,

00:58:35.160 as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of

00:58:40.020 air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents. In other words, do not let us begin

00:58:45.660 by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, you and all whom you love were already

00:58:50.960 sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented. And quite a high percentage of us were

00:58:55.860 going to die in unpleasant ways. We had indeed one very great advantage over our ancestors,

00:59:02.880 anesthetics, but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and

00:59:07.400 drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a

00:59:12.640 world which already bristled with such chances, and in which death itself was not a chance at all,

00:59:17.840 but a certainty. This is the first point to be made, and the first action to be taken is to pull

00:59:23.180 ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, 0.96

00:59:27.380 when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things, praying, working, teaching, reading,

00:59:31.720 listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a

00:59:36.600 game of darts, not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our

00:59:40.900 bodies. A microbe can do that, but they need not dominate our minds. Man, I love C.S. Lewis. I've

00:59:47.920 loved C.S. Lewis since first reading him in, gosh, I don't know, middle school, Lion, the Witch, and the

00:59:53.520 wardrobe, and then a renewed love in high school, junior, senior year, reading Mere Christianity and

00:59:57.520 Screwtape Letters, and gosh, I never tire of reading his words. How simple and how true is that? The best

01:00:03.700 writers, I think, the best teachers tell you things that you already know but didn't realize that you

01:00:08.900 knew, and I think C.S. Lewis does that so well. Whenever death comes, whether it be by nuclear war,

01:00:16.140 whether it be by another pandemic, whether it be by the cakeistocracy and the incompetence therein 1.00

01:00:23.640 that runs this place, whether it's contamination of our food and water supplies is happening

01:00:29.300 in some places or whatever it may be, let that death, let that catastrophe find us doing the next

01:00:37.500 right thing in faith, with joy, and excellence and for the glory of God. Because guess what? Psalm 139 says

01:00:43.520 that all of our days were already written for us before any of them came to be, any and all of us.

01:00:48.780 So whether we are looking at the threat of nuclear war, or whether you were just looking at maybe a

01:00:54.020 really bad date, the point is that God is sovereign, that your life has been planned, and that worrying,

01:01:02.560 as Jesus said so poignantly, worrying adds not a single hour, not a single second to your life.

01:01:10.900 And so it's important for us to be informed about all of these things. It's important for us to look

01:01:14.320 at the bad news, the worrying news, but it's even more important than that for us to be informed

01:01:19.120 and equipped and empowered, yes, but move forward in hope and in strength, knowing that God is totally

01:01:25.420 in control, that he who sits in the heavens laughs. He holds them in derision, who would mock him and

01:01:31.680 mock his power and mock his people. That we can trust. We know who wins in the end. All right, 1.00

01:01:37.000 that's all we've got time for today. We'll see you back here tomorrow.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - February 21, 2023

Ep 758 ｜ Sorry, Ohio. Biden’s Busy in Ukraine

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