Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - February 12, 2019


Ep 76 ｜ Unwilling to Work


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49 minutes

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191.53766

Word Count

9,535

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623

Misogynist Sentences

18

Hate Speech Sentences

8


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Transcript

00:00:00.000 What up, guys? Welcome to Relatable. I hope that everyone had a great and wonderful weekend.
00:00:08.060 I did. I don't really know what I did this weekend. I can't ever remember. By the time
00:00:14.540 Monday comes around, it feels like so much time has passed since Friday that I can never remember
00:00:22.180 what I did. We built a bookshelf, a new bookshelf. Well, actually, my husband built a new bookshelf
00:00:28.220 because gender roles. And I'm very thankful for that. I'm not a decorating person. I'm a trash
00:00:35.180 person, as you guys know. But my living room is kind of looking cute now. So goal reached for me.
00:00:41.820 A little bump date. I am 20 weeks pregnant, almost 20 weeks and a half pregnant. And so I'm halfway
00:00:49.260 there, which is exciting. Thank you guys so much for praying and for thinking of me and for your
00:00:55.360 kind messages. Pregnancy is great so far. Definitely in a high point where I'm not quite
00:01:01.740 huge yet, but I'm not sick. And I'm only moderately tired, like can't really fall asleep at night.
00:01:11.520 And then I'm really tired the next day and feel like I need to take a nap. But other than that,
00:01:18.500 I'm feeling good, feeling good. We're going on a baby moon next week. I will still be working and
00:01:23.320 you will still get podcasts. But we are going on a little trip and I'm really excited about that
00:01:28.960 last trip, probably as, you know, as not parents, you know, don't actually have like a little one
00:01:36.000 outside the womb. So I'm excited about that. OK, past that. For those of you who hate when I open
00:01:40.940 without actually talking about what we're going to talk about, I'm really sorry. Maybe you fast
00:01:44.780 forwarded just a little bit. Today, we're going to talk about the Green New Deal. We're going to talk
00:01:49.200 specifically about this one line in the FAQ from the Green New Deal, and that is providing economic
00:01:55.640 security for those who are unwilling to work. You heard me right, ladies and gentlemen,
00:02:00.320 unwilling, unwilling, unwilling, unwilling to work. So let me just briefly tell you what the Green New
00:02:07.180 Deal is. Now, this happened last week and you've probably watched the news and you already know what
00:02:11.720 is actually in the bill. So I won't spend too long talking about that. I will just give you kind of an
00:02:17.320 overview of the high point of what's in the bill, because just in case you don't know what's been
00:02:21.380 going on or what's in the bill, I don't want you to miss that. So Green New Deal resolution passed
00:02:26.160 by our favorite Congress from the Bronx, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And it was published, I saw it first
00:02:34.720 in NPR, the resolution itself and the FAQ. The FAQ is what has caused the most controversy over the
00:02:41.960 past few days, and we'll get into that. The goal of this resolution is to cut carbon emissions by
00:02:48.200 moving towards 100 percent clean, renewable energy, stopping fossil fuels entirely. So it is going to do
00:02:55.780 this by, quote, upgrading all existing buildings in the country for energy efficiency. Yes, you heard
00:03:01.700 that right. Upgrading all existing buildings, all buildings, every every building, not just in New York
00:03:09.160 City, but throughout the entire country, upgrading them, whatever that means for energy efficiency,
00:03:15.300 every every single building. OK, working with farmers to, quote, eliminate pollution and greenhouse
00:03:21.800 gas emissions. All right. Also, quote, overhauling transportation systems to reduce emissions,
00:03:29.140 including expanding electric car manufacturing, building charging stations everywhere and expanding
00:03:34.080 high speed rail to a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary. Sorry, Hawaii.
00:03:39.160 Won't see you anymore. A guaranteed job with, quote, a family sustaining wage, adequate family and
00:03:47.140 medical leave, paid vacations and retirement security for every American. Also, high quality care for all
00:03:54.800 Americans. Now, this is not just a deal that is targeting the the environment, trying to supposedly make
00:04:02.820 the environment better. This is also fighting what what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a lot of Democrats see
00:04:10.080 as racial, gender, socio inequality by calling for massive public investments in what this resolution
00:04:17.920 calls frontline and vulnerable communities. So people who are in poverty. There is a quote from CNN.
00:04:24.600 It is providing universal health care and affordable housing, ensuring that all jobs have union
00:04:30.180 protections and family sustaining wages and keeping the business environment free of monopolistic
00:04:35.520 competition. Basically, this is a big government dream. It is a radical progressive wish list. It is
00:04:42.280 mobilizing big government programs in trillions. They don't even know how much it's going to cost, but
00:04:47.260 estimates are just trillions and trillions of dollars. That's literally the most specific number I've seen.
00:04:51.980 Trillions and trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to, quote, fight climate change by revolutionizing
00:04:57.820 the way we work, the way we live, the way we travel over the next 10 years. I radically grow the size
00:05:03.020 of the government in order to do that using your money and limiting your freedom, because one thing
00:05:07.300 we know about the government is that it cannot help you without also limiting your freedom. The bigger the
00:05:12.000 government is, the less freedom that we have. Democrats tend to see that, especially far left
00:05:16.820 Democrats tend to see that as a good tradeoff for whatever benefits we're getting from the government
00:05:22.560 expanding environmental experts. We're talking environmental experts, even those that are on the
00:05:27.540 left that probably agree with Ocasio-Cortez on climate change. Even they are saying that this is an
00:05:32.740 unrealistic plan, that it's actually impossible to cut carbon emissions by to zero by 2030. That's only 11
00:05:41.520 years from now. Many of them are saying, OK, we might be able to do that by 2050. But 2030? No,
00:05:49.560 probably can't do that. We actually don't even know how big of an effect carbon emissions are having
00:05:55.640 on the environment. That's something that's being debated among scientists. It's not even just a right
00:06:00.880 left issue. That's a genuine thing that's being debated. We have no idea, no idea, no evidence
00:06:07.240 whatsoever to show that the resolution that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats are
00:06:13.140 signing on to, that it's going to help anything. We have no idea if it's actually going to be
00:06:19.200 effective. We have no basis on which we should place the belief that this is actually going to
00:06:26.840 work. The good thing is this is a non-binding resolution. It wouldn't actually create any new
00:06:32.040 programs. It's more of a set of goals for what far left Democrats like AOC believe will help the
00:06:38.260 environment and even the economy. That's what they're saying, which is just absolutely, absolutely
00:06:43.580 crazy to me. So this isn't talking about how it's going to happen. That's actually a very,
00:06:49.940 a very frustrating question for AOC whenever she's asked, well, how are you going to pay for this?
00:06:54.440 She just kind of gets all frazzled. We're just we just are we just are going to pay for it.
00:07:00.140 Um, well, she also says that this is a very urgent need that we are meeting climate change,
00:07:06.060 social and racial inequality and all of this stuff that this Green New Deal apparently is going to
00:07:11.240 magically heal over the next 10 years. She says it's very urgent, but she doesn't know how to pay
00:07:15.720 for it. Like if you have to make a car payment or if you have to fix your car and it's truly urgent,
00:07:23.140 you figure out how you are going to pay for that repair on your car. If it's not really that urgent,
00:07:29.020 then you don't have to think about it right then. You can save a little bit over time and say, OK,
00:07:32.960 I'm going to get that part of my car fixed. But like if you got to get something fixed on your
00:07:36.660 car in order for it to work, if it's really that urgent, you're going to find a way to pay for that
00:07:41.220 right then. So it doesn't make that much sense to me that she's saying this is a very urgent thing
00:07:47.080 that we have to figure out right this second and we have to cut carbon emissions over the next 10
00:07:50.640 years. But I have no idea how I'm going to pay for it. So I'm just going to push forward
00:07:53.680 this resolution and hope that it works. That just doesn't make any sense. Either it's urgent
00:07:57.660 and you're going to figure out a way to pay for it. You're at least going to make some kind of plan
00:08:01.420 to pay for it or it's not that urgent. And this is just a pipe dream. And you know that and it makes
00:08:05.580 you look good to millennials who care about this kind of stuff. The presidential candidates on the
00:08:11.500 left, on the Democratic side, have all signed on to this. They know it's not going to pass. We still
00:08:17.140 have a Republican controlled Senate. So there's no way that this legislation is going to pass. But
00:08:23.480 it is popular among AOC's base, which is ignorant socialist millennials. And so in order for those
00:08:30.140 presidential candidates to get the support of the millennials that they know they have to get the
00:08:36.280 support of in the election, they are going to sign on to this, knowing that they're not actually going
00:08:42.040 to have to be held responsible for the utter failure that it would be if it was actually ever put
00:08:46.840 into place because it's not going to be probably at least not anytime soon. Nancy Pelosi, which who
00:08:53.100 is now basically a conservative Democrat, if you can even believe that from San Francisco,
00:08:58.420 she's not conservative, by the way, but just compared to someone like AOC, she is even scoffing
00:09:04.300 at this. She was asked about it in an interview and she was like, what is it called? A green new
00:09:09.260 dream? Yeah, we have no idea what's in it. But everyone, everyone is, is for it, right? Everyone
00:09:15.840 supports it. So she's kind of even patronizing this and looking down on this. She even won't
00:09:21.780 go so far as to say that they're embracing socialism. Because remember, just five years
00:09:27.240 ago, socialism was seen as a dirty word on in the Democratic Party. No one on the right
00:09:32.700 or the left would have said, yeah, I'm I'm I'm a socialist. I mean, maybe Bernie Sanders,
00:09:38.100 but he was really the only one. It wasn't until Bernie Sanders really made this mainstream
00:09:42.840 made possible by the far left progressivism of Barack Obama over the past eight years,
00:09:46.700 that this kind of became a word that all of a sudden has positive connotations in the United
00:09:52.180 States of America. So just remember that when people tell you that you are out there, you
00:09:57.400 are crazy, you are a bigot, you are extreme for believing in capitalism. You can rest assured
00:10:02.620 that you simply believe in not only the most effective system, but the system that has been
00:10:07.800 held in the highest esteem far longer and far more consistently than socialism ever has,
00:10:14.040 especially in the United States of America. And so you don't need to listen to any of that.
00:10:17.980 All of this stuff that they're saying is so common sense and that we absolutely need and that this is
00:10:22.660 just the practical solution that we need to all that ails us in the United States of America.
00:10:27.860 They are the radicals, not you. So if you are stepping back for a second and saying, whoa,
00:10:33.100 whoa, whoa, whoa, maybe I don't want the government to overhaul all of these industries and affect almost
00:10:40.340 every area of my life. Maybe I don't want to pay trillions of tax dollars towards a deal and a
00:10:47.400 resolution that we have no idea is going to be effective based on no evidence whatsoever.
00:10:53.620 It's OK. Like you're not crazy. You're totally logical, totally on par with reality when you are
00:11:00.460 asking yourselves those questions. I said and I was let me just say like I know it's a little bit
00:11:07.780 a little bit. It's arrogant the right word. Well, it's just a fact. It's not even meant to be
00:11:16.760 arrogant. It's just a fact. I was the first person to say that this is the fire festival of legislation.
00:11:24.740 I just I just want you to know that like I was sitting here in this little chair that I do my podcast
00:11:29.640 in, that I do my Instagram stories in. And I actually wrote a tweet that said something comparing
00:11:35.380 AOC to Billy McFarland, you know, the guy who ran the fire festival. And then I was like, oh, I
00:11:39.800 haven't even I have an even better tweet than that. And I said something. I'm not reading it.
00:11:45.320 I said something along the lines of the Green New Deal is the fire festival of legislation.
00:11:50.880 You pay all of this money to go to what seems like this awesome destination only to find yourself
00:11:57.920 sleeping in a tent and selling your soul for a bottle of Evian. I was the first one to say that.
00:12:04.400 And then I saw all of these people after that, after that, telling the joke and owning it as
00:12:10.000 theirs and even an article written with that title. Maybe maybe we all came up with the same idea at the
00:12:15.740 same time. I'm not really sure. My tweet was retweeted a lot because it was a fire tweet.
00:12:25.660 But yeah, people people definitely took creds for that because it's a great analogy. So it's fine.
00:12:32.700 You can take it. Just know that you heard it here first and you saw it on my Twitter feed first.
00:12:37.520 Um, it is a great analogy. It is the fire festival of the green of of of legislation of the Green New
00:12:44.920 Deal of legislation because you're promised all of these great things. You see celebrities endorsing
00:12:50.360 it. You're like, oh, wow. Socialism. Green New Deal. A big government. No airplanes. Awesome. That
00:12:57.000 sounds great. Oh, I just have to pay my life savings for it. Oh, but it's no big deal. It'll totally be
00:13:02.760 worth it. You'll get there and it'll be the best experience of your life. We'll all live in this
00:13:07.440 wonderful green, uh, zero carbon emissions utopia and we'll all hold hands and sing Kumbaya and it'll
00:13:15.120 be wonderful and the government will be taking care of us. Great. Now just, uh, hand over your entire
00:13:21.280 paycheck and we'll get you there. That's exactly what happened with fire festival. That's exactly what's
00:13:26.480 happening with the Green New Deal. And just like the fire festival, this is going to end up being a
00:13:30.140 disaster as all government overhaul is. Um, okay. So let's get into this FAQ that has caused so much
00:13:40.460 controversy. The FAQ really makes clear what the goal of the Green New Deal is, which is to swell
00:13:46.040 capitalism rather than allowing the market, AKA you and me decide what kind of transportation that we
00:13:51.580 want to use. For example, what buildings we want to build, what medical insurance we'd like to have.
00:13:55.540 The government is going to decide all of those things for us. Um, AOC is having a really, she's having
00:14:01.280 a really hard time with that part about it. And she's having a really hard time with the PR about the
00:14:06.000 FAQ that I'll get into in just a second, but she's having a really hard time, um, defending, defending
00:14:12.580 the Green New Deal against accusations that this is going to take a massive government overhaul, massive, uh,
00:14:19.860 intervention into each of our lives. She's not really sure what she wants to say about that.
00:14:25.080 So sorry, I just had to catch my breath for a second because I'm so excited. Uh, so in an interview
00:14:31.060 with NPR, AOC was asked, uh, are you prepared to put on the table that yes, actually they're right.
00:14:37.240 What this requires is a massive government intervention. Someone asked her that on the radio
00:14:42.220 on NPR, uh, AOC says, yeah, it does. It does. Yeah. I have no problem saying that. Okay. So she's
00:14:48.120 admitting what we all know to be true. This is going to take massive government intervention.
00:14:51.780 Obviously she's not advocating for market solutions to help the environment or to help the economy.
00:14:57.000 She's, uh, she's talking about legislation. Like she's talking about programs. She's obviously
00:15:01.820 talking about government intervention. Anyone with a brain sees that whether you're left or the right.
00:15:05.820 And yet later that day on MSNBC later that day, she tells Chuck Todd, I think one way that the
00:15:14.320 right does try to mischaracterize what we're doing is though it's like some kind of
00:15:17.820 massive government takeover. I'm sorry. That's because you said that that's because that's what
00:15:24.740 you said. You said that you said that you said that this morning. So what I'm very, I'm very
00:15:31.680 confused. I think baby girl is a little confused, uh, to a little AOC. Um, yes. Speaking of dishonesty
00:15:39.160 though, girlfriend, what got the most flack was not even just that utter hypocrisy and dishonesty,
00:15:45.320 but was this one line that was rolled out, um, in the FAQ that was provided by AOC's team to NPR
00:15:53.420 and other outlets, uh, that talks more specifically what the goals are. And that line is this resolution
00:15:59.860 will provide economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work. Also talks about
00:16:05.780 providing healthy food, high quality care, safe, affordable, adequate housing, economic, and, and,
00:16:10.780 and sorry. Wow. Just forgot how to talk for a second. Economic environment, free of monopolies,
00:16:15.640 high quality education. Last thing here, economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to
00:16:21.220 work in case you don't understand what unwilling means. That means unwilling. That means like,
00:16:25.760 you don't want to do something like that's like, okay, so you're making a meal for your kids and
00:16:33.180 you say, okay, I've got, I've got vegetables over here for people who are willing to eat vegetables.
00:16:41.340 And then I've got, um, I've got sour patch kids over here for people who want to eat sour patch.
00:16:47.940 Now, maybe your kids are awesome and just want to eat broccoli anyway, but you're going to have a lot
00:16:52.900 of three-year-olds, four-year-olds, five-year-olds, six-year-olds that are going to take the sour patch
00:16:57.380 kids instead, right? That's the same thing here. So if you are unwilling to eat vegetables,
00:17:02.920 AKA work, it's totally fine. You can just have sour patch kids instead. How many people do you
00:17:08.340 think that are stupid and don't understand the importance of eating vegetables are going to
00:17:11.880 take a sour patch kids, AKA are not going to work. There's going to be a lot of people. And what
00:17:16.380 happens if people just eat sour patch kids instead of broccoli for dinner every night,
00:17:20.180 you end up being really unhealthy and lazy and you can't do anything with your life. And you have to
00:17:25.000 have people take care of you, which is exactly what happens when the government takes care of
00:17:28.900 people who are unwilling to work. Unwilling means you are lazy. Bottom line. That's it. We're not
00:17:34.980 talking about unable. We're not talking about you fell on hard times. We're not talking about that
00:17:38.760 you're sick, uh, that something happened to you, uh, physically or the circumstances have just worked
00:17:44.880 out in a very unfortunate way in which you were unable to get a job, which happened. We're talking
00:17:50.240 about unwilling. You are fully able to physically, mentally, emotionally, whatever it is.
00:17:56.220 Circumstantially you are able to work, but you say, nah, I'm good. I got my sour patch kids. No,
00:18:01.660 I'm just going to watch, uh, Netflix for a little bit. You know, I got a lot of options. No, I'm good.
00:18:07.760 I got my health insurance. I got my affordable housing. I got my healthy food. I got everything
00:18:13.680 that I need. There's no need for me to work. And AOC and the green new deal is saying that is
00:18:18.660 perfectly fine. That's perfectly fine. And the reason why this is catching so much flack while
00:18:24.200 people are, why people are so, uh, just, uh, amazed by this in a very bad way, me included
00:18:30.960 is because of how utterly, how utterly un-American it is. Now, all of this is very un-American.
00:18:37.760 The idea of the government taking care of you rather than you working hard for yourself is
00:18:42.160 something that, uh, the Democrats have been pushing for, for a long time, but they have also
00:18:47.020 tried to market it in a cunning way to say, Oh no, I believe in hard work. They've said,
00:18:51.840 no, I believe in the American dream. I believe in resolve and pulling yourself up by your,
00:18:57.000 by your bootstraps. They've kind of tried to like say that and then give this caveat,
00:19:00.860 but I just believe that we need to, um, create a level playing field. So that those who are oppressed,
00:19:09.960 those who are marginalized, those who are on, are having a hard time are able to chase that American
00:19:14.860 dream with free healthcare, free college, whatever. That's how they've kind of tried to market this
00:19:18.980 thing. But very rarely do you hear a politician, even on the left, come out and say, no, work is
00:19:26.220 not necessary. It's not part of the American character. It is not part of, uh, who we are as
00:19:32.240 people. And quite frankly, it's not necessary. And the reason for that is because socialists truly
00:19:36.860 believe that, uh, work is not inherently moral, that there's nothing actually good about work,
00:19:43.380 that it's just kind of like, okay, you have the option to work. That's fine. You also have the
00:19:47.660 option not to work. That's fine. So tell me though, in just even from a, just a totally secular
00:19:54.640 perspective, does this sound right to you? You are babysitting. Okay. You're babysitting. You're
00:20:01.920 making $20 an hour. You babysit for five hours. You get a hundred bucks. I was offered that babysitting
00:20:09.280 job, but I decided not to take it because I don't feel like it. I really would rather paint my nails
00:20:16.540 without any pants on. So I decided not to take the babysitting job. Now, when you get home, I would
00:20:23.540 like, I would like 50% of what you made. I would, I would like $50. Uh, you say, well, why you, you
00:20:32.480 didn't go, you, you could have gone, you could have had a babysitting job, but you chose not to.
00:20:37.440 So I say, I don't know. I didn't feel like it. Give me your money and you have to give it to me.
00:20:41.800 That's exactly what is happening here. I mean, that's pretty much what already happens, but, uh,
00:20:46.800 Democrats are just now coming out and saying, it's not just if you've fallen on hard times,
00:20:51.460 it's not just if you're in a bad situation and, and you can't work. It's saying, if you don't want
00:20:56.740 to work, which like I said, already exists, already happens in our current welfare system,
00:21:02.000 but Democrats up until now have said, Oh no, no, that doesn't happen. We want everyone to work.
00:21:08.380 Employment is good. Uh, we don't want people to, we don't want to want people to just be lazy,
00:21:14.160 but now they're just coming out and saying, well, actually, uh, it's totally fine. Actually,
00:21:18.400 you can be, you can be lazy and that's, and that's just as good as, as wanting to work. No,
00:21:23.920 no. And let's look at this from a biblical perspective. Uh, not only does the Bible have
00:21:28.820 a lot to say about laziness. I mean, if you look at Proverbs specifically Proverbs 19, 15,
00:21:33.560 slothfulness cast into a deep sleep and an idle person will suffer hunger. Uh, Proverbs 31, 27,
00:21:39.540 you know, the Proverbs 31 woman says she looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the
00:21:45.200 bread of idleness. Um, obviously from a biblical perspective in, in that way, laziness in idleness
00:21:53.200 is wrong. Stealing from other people, what you did not, uh, what you did not earn is wrong,
00:22:01.220 but also from the perspective that work is moral work is inherently good. How do I know that? Uh,
00:22:07.340 because in Genesis, we see that work existed before the fall work is not a result of sin. Work is not
00:22:17.040 a result of mankind falling. The results of mankind falling is that you will work, you will toil. Uh,
00:22:22.620 you might not get anything in return. You might work the field and not actually reap anything.
00:22:28.000 That is the result of sin, but work, uh, productivity, uh, being fruitful actually existed
00:22:35.820 before the fall. So human beings, man and woman were made to work. We're made to do something.
00:22:41.860 We're made to nourish and to beautify and to cultivate and to create things. Um, without that,
00:22:49.000 we know from a Christian perspective, but also just from a historical perspective,
00:22:53.160 we can look throughout history and see this. The human soul is denigrated without work,
00:22:58.140 without a purpose, without something that we're striving towards, without something that we're
00:23:01.760 building, without something that we are creating. We rot, we atrophy, we become not only really stupid,
00:23:07.380 but we come, we become immoral and corrupt. You've probably heard the phrase that an idle mind is the
00:23:13.020 devil's workshop or, uh, idle hands are devil's tools. That's absolutely true. We are made to be
00:23:19.560 in a balanced way, busy. Now that doesn't mean that you have to have a nine to five job in order to be
00:23:25.680 productive. Uh, you might be a stay at home mom. You might be a volunteer. You might run a nonprofit
00:23:30.300 organization. Uh, there are various work looks different, uh, for various people, but of course,
00:23:38.600 within the realm of work that is not sinful. Uh, what is important is that we are making better
00:23:45.180 the small plot of the universe that God has placed us in. We are beautifying. We are improving. We are
00:23:52.540 making better the lives of other people, whether that is through nonprofit efforts, whether that is
00:23:57.320 through volunteering, whether that is through being a financial consultant, whether that is through PR,
00:24:01.860 you are, uh, moving the ball forward for your clients, for the people around you, for your customers,
00:24:07.100 uh, for the lives of those who work with you, me, even delivering this podcast, you are doing
00:24:12.200 something to contribute, uh, to the world, to the economy. That is what we are supposed to do as
00:24:19.240 human beings, simply taking and not giving anything. It's not what we are called to do as
00:24:24.300 Christians. It's not what we're called to do as people, period. There is no moral, no biblical
00:24:29.740 foundation whatsoever for being taken care of, for being unwilling to work, particularly by the
00:24:36.280 government, by the way, which is just a corrupt institution in general. Uh, that's why conservatives
00:24:42.900 believe in small government, not because we believe that we shouldn't help people, uh, when they need
00:24:47.900 help, uh, but because we think that private citizens do a much better job of helping people than the
00:24:53.200 government does. Why? Because we can help people while still allowing them to be free. The government
00:24:58.620 can't do that. That's just the nature of the government. As Ronald Reagan said, uh, the most terrifying
00:25:04.380 words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help. That has always
00:25:09.380 been true. It is still true. Ronald Reagan had a lot to say about welfare and how the idea behind
00:25:15.660 welfare has changed so much, uh, from the time of FDR to the time to now, uh, it started out as relief
00:25:22.940 help from the government was just to make sure that people could survive after the great depression.
00:25:27.080 They could feed their families. They had fallen on a hard time. So you need relief from the government
00:25:31.320 to supplement what you're already doing on that move to welfare. And now it moves to entitlements
00:25:36.040 and our mentality has shifted with it. We have this idea that people are entitled to what the
00:25:42.300 government gives them, which is exactly why it is so hard to shrink the government once you've grown
00:25:48.380 it. And Democrats know that you probably saw that when Republicans tried to repeal Obamacare for being
00:25:54.100 unconstitutional. And it really did shift so much of how American politics works and, uh, what Americans
00:26:00.440 really expected from the government when the government said, yeah, we're going to start
00:26:03.940 taking care of your healthcare coverage. Republicans tried to repeal that. And what was the pushback?
00:26:08.980 The pushback was, well, you were evil and heartless and mean. And what are all of these people going to
00:26:13.620 do? Uh, 24 million people are going to be kicked off of healthcare coverage and they're going to die.
00:26:18.160 Well, Obamacare is new and it didn't really solve anything. Um, so, and we could get into all of
00:26:25.040 that, but that's just an example of what happens when Democrats try to grow the government. They
00:26:30.020 implement a program that gives people something without them having to work for it. And then when
00:26:34.600 you try to shrink the government by overturning those programs that aren't actually helping and
00:26:38.580 aren't actually good in the long run for the American people, you are told you are cold and
00:26:42.660 heartless because all of these people are going to be left without. Um, I personally think that it's
00:26:46.880 very patronizing because it's basically telling people you can't go it alone. Uh, the odds are so
00:26:52.120 stacked against you that you can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps and work hard. And so
00:26:56.140 you really need us to take care of you. Uh, AOC is, is having, is having the darndest time
00:27:03.440 trying to figure all of this out, uh, and defend her position on her green new deal. And so she's
00:27:10.700 getting extremely, uh, defensive of all of this. Now she has a formula. So the formula is this,
00:27:17.200 she says, or does something not very smart. Uh, people criticize her for that. That's the second
00:27:23.240 thing. She, uh, claps back as she likes to say, she likes to think, Oh, I'm tough girl from the
00:27:29.580 Bronx. She claps back. And she says that, Oh, these people are just bullying me because I'm a woman and,
00:27:39.220 um, I'm a woman of color. And because my ideas are so awesome because they're scared of me. She
00:27:44.400 dismisses any legitimate criticism, which there always is. There's always thoughtful criticism
00:27:48.340 of AOC that exists on the right and the left. She dismisses all of that. And she calls out a
00:27:53.120 couple of trolls that said something, uh, untrue about her untrue about something that she said
00:27:58.400 gives her an unfair criticism. She uses those obscure trolls to characterize the entirety of
00:28:05.440 the right and say, Oh, no one has any legitimate criticism of me. Look how awesome I am. They're just
00:28:10.780 attacking me because I'm, I'm so great. I mean, it's a brilliant strategy, uh, but it's morally
00:28:15.560 corrupt and completely dishonest. So here are some of the things that she has said over the past few
00:28:20.560 days in light of all of the criticism that she's gotten. And like I said, even skepticism from the
00:28:26.240 left with the basic question of how are you going to pay for this? How are we going to implement this?
00:28:31.200 Um, okay. So she said, when your hashtag green new deal legislation is so strong that the GOP has to
00:28:38.180 resort to circulating false versions, but the real one that's 70 house co-sponsors on day one,
00:28:43.620 all damn presidential candidates sign on. Anyway, this was in response to a parody by the way. Now
00:28:48.900 I could actually see how this parody was confusing a little bit because her green new deal is so
00:28:54.960 ridiculous that it's kind of hard to tell the difference between the actual green new deal and
00:28:58.660 a parody, but it was a joke and people were circulating it and talking about like making guys
00:29:03.660 urinate in buckets and things like that. Like it was obviously ridiculous, but she points out these
00:29:09.600 two examples of people using this parody as saying, well, this is the entire GOP. They're circulating
00:29:14.860 false versions because they know that my green new deal is so strong. Okay. Next week, the right has
00:29:21.480 gotten increasingly desperate with spreading targeted rumors about me lately. Someone made up a
00:29:25.620 meme that led to Snopes disproving this. Then she shows a link. And then in parentheses, she says,
00:29:29.840 also, I had to live alone in my family's apartment after my dad died. The eviction lie is especially
00:29:34.220 bad. And look, that's totally sad. And no one should be making fun of that. But the tweet talks
00:29:39.820 about her having like a bad credit score and being evicted. I'm not sure that this, again, a random
00:29:46.580 person, I'm not sure that this random person that she decided to cite knows anything about that part of
00:29:54.060 her life. And that is really sad. And it definitely shouldn't be made fun of. But again, this is just
00:29:59.780 a random person that she's picking out. Like, I didn't see one mainstream person, not one person
00:30:05.100 that I follow, not one person that I know, run with this. I mean, this was a random guy without
00:30:09.340 even a verified badge that had like a few thousand followers. And she decided to point this out and
00:30:15.100 say, this is the GOP. Okay. What about all the members of the GOP and even conservative media and
00:30:22.040 conservative influencers, commentators, whatever you want to call them, that have had very thoughtful and
00:30:26.760 legitimate and fair criticism of your legislation and actually have been very generous and gracious
00:30:32.480 towards you as a person. What about them? They just don't exist. No, of course, they don't exist
00:30:36.900 because she knows her strength lies in her sass, not her smarts. She knows that if she actually went up
00:30:42.620 against a Ben Shapiro or gosh, I would love for her to go up against Neil Cavuto on Fox News and Fox
00:30:47.940 business. I think that would be perfect if she knows that if she goes up against a Republican
00:30:52.260 congressperson that actually knows anything, she would totally crumble. I mean, she's really not
00:30:57.140 like if you watch her on TV or in interviews that are unedited, she hardly ever does unedited
00:31:01.840 videos or she hardly ever does live. But when she does do live and even in the edited ones,
00:31:08.080 she's not articulate. She really stumbles over her words. She has a hard time matching like
00:31:12.560 the verb with the noun. She just gets really nervous. And so there's just she wouldn't be able
00:31:18.140 to do it. She knows that, too. She knows that her strength is being sassy, not in being smart.
00:31:24.380 She's got a lot of people behind her that are saying, look, this is the legislation that we
00:31:27.900 need to push. These are the proposals that we have. But she knows that if she went up against
00:31:32.200 someone that actually knows their stuff, like she just wouldn't be able to do it. So it's actually
00:31:36.460 pretty smart of her. It's smart of her to not to not take those opportunities. But for her to pretend
00:31:42.900 like no one has offered no one has offered to have a legitimate conversation with her or an
00:31:47.980 honest debate with her is it's just morally bankrupt and extremely hypocritical since she's
00:31:53.580 always pointing fingers at the right for being morally bankrupt. But here's her next tweet basically
00:31:57.400 saying that this stuff is really sad. The GOP is so intellectually bankrupt that they no longer
00:32:03.420 engage to debate issues in good faith, but instead seeks a lie, distort, name called target and destroy
00:32:08.160 people such communities with any means possible. It's a virus and a race to the bottom. I mean,
00:32:11.660 if that is not if that is not the craziest case of a lack of self-awareness that you have ever heard
00:32:22.940 of in your entire life, no longer engage to debate issues in good faith, but instead seek to lie,
00:32:30.240 distort, name called target and destroy people's lives. Like, have you met the American left? Like,
00:32:36.100 welcome, welcome to America in which liberals number one goal, it seems like, is to destroy
00:32:41.640 people's lives. Please tell me. Tell me the last time that a liberal got harassed at their home
00:32:47.440 or in a restaurant. Like, please tell me the last time a liberal got fired for saying something too
00:32:52.740 extreme. You and all your anti-Semitic friends seem to be doing fine in Congress. Tell me the last time
00:32:58.960 a liberal's life was ruined by a conservative by false allegations. Can you tell me that? I don't
00:33:07.640 think you can. And plus, plus you have had so many requests, as I said, for honest debates. You've had
00:33:14.960 people offer to pay thousands of dollars towards whatever charity you wanted to, you wanted them to
00:33:20.940 pay towards to just have an honest conversation with you and you refuse to do it. You called it a
00:33:25.880 cat call when Ben Shapiro asks you to have a debate. But now you say we are so intellectually bankrupt
00:33:31.940 that we no longer engage to debate issues in good faith. We are the only ones engaging issues in
00:33:39.160 good faith. We are the and I'm not saying everyone on the right. I'm not saying that I'm not saying
00:33:44.080 everyone on the right is good and everyone on the left is bad. I'm not saying that. But the number of
00:33:48.820 conservatives who are willing to have an intellectual policy driven conversation versus
00:33:53.920 those on the left that are willing to, I guarantee the number is thousands and thousands higher on the
00:33:59.900 right than it is on the left. Why? Because in order for us to even stay afloat, in order for us to even
00:34:05.100 push back against the mainstream narrative, which is coming from the mainstream media, which is coming
00:34:10.200 from Hollywood, which is coming from academia, which is coming from people like you who have taken off
00:34:14.800 with the help of Hollywood and all of those other megaphones, in order for us to push back against any of
00:34:19.760 those narratives, we have to know our stuff like we have to read books like we have to actually know the
00:34:25.080 facts. And so, yes, we are willing to engage you in debate. Now, I am totally fine having a conversation
00:34:32.520 with her. I don't want it to be me. I don't think I'm the best person for that job. Like the only the
00:34:37.660 one thing that I have over Ocasio-Cortez is not political experience. It's not degrees. It's probably
00:34:46.640 not a lot. I probably don't have that much over her besides just understanding how terrible socialism is.
00:34:52.460 But one thing I do have for her is self-awareness. Like I do understand the things I know about and
00:34:59.880 the things that I don't know about. And I don't purport to know the things that I don't, unlike
00:35:03.840 her. So I don't think that I'm the best person to debate her. I think someone who is smarter than me,
00:35:09.020 who knows more than me, who has more experience than me and than her would be in a better position
00:35:15.140 to have a conversation with her than me. Now, I'm not really sure that it would be a great thing for
00:35:20.100 bench PR to debate her. I think it would be really, really painful to watch. Like I think it
00:35:27.040 would almost just be like you just want to like you just couldn't watch, you know, like we'd all
00:35:31.880 like our blankets would be over our head and I would be sweating because and then and then you
00:35:36.500 would just she would actually win because you'd feel bad for her because she just got destroyed on
00:35:41.360 national television. Like I just I'm not really I'm not really sure if I could just if I could watch
00:35:46.940 that happen. So but for her to say that she's never been asked or for a we don't want to debate
00:35:53.720 things in good faith. What she means by in good faith is that people agree with her that that's
00:35:59.240 what she that's what she is saying. She thinks that in good faith means that we're just going to be
00:36:03.940 like, yeah, you know what? I'm totally fine with the government taking over my life. I'm totally fine
00:36:10.200 with people who are working, taking all my money to live comfortably. That sounds good. That's what
00:36:16.260 she sees is in good faith. If we have other ideas, then that's not in good faith, which means that
00:36:20.760 she's the one that's not in good faith. I mean, this is the biggest lie. And so, guys, I know like
00:36:26.980 it is tempting for me. It's tempting. It might even be tempting for you, especially if you're a girl.
00:36:32.480 It's tempting for your liberal friends, for your moderate friends, for your friends who just don't
00:36:35.880 know anything about politics. I know for her to be attractive, for you to just latch on to be like,
00:36:41.860 okay, well, she does just at least seem like a nice person. I'm not so sure about that. I just
00:36:46.440 don't know. Like how, how either she's just so ignorant and so lacking self-awareness that she
00:36:53.140 could say something like this, or she's purposely manipulating you in line by saying that the GOP is
00:36:58.660 so intellectually bankrupt that we no longer engage to debate issues in good faith. But we lie to store
00:37:03.280 a name called Target and destroy people in communities by any means possible when she has had
00:37:07.040 multiple invitations to have honest conversations, respectful dialogue. I have you seen her? Have you
00:37:14.560 seen her have a respectful dialogue with someone on the right one time? You're saying there's no one
00:37:20.100 in Congress that you that that would talk to you in a respectful way about your positions. There's no
00:37:25.960 one. There's not a single person in Congress that would like to talk to you. I would I would love I
00:37:31.180 would love for you to talk to a Republican Congress person. I think that that would be great. I think
00:37:35.580 that you could have a very understanding dialogue and that would be really good for the American
00:37:39.260 people. I don't want to see her get destroyed. I just want to see her to be able to defend these
00:37:43.700 things. And I just don't think she's able to. And I think she knows that. OK, last tweet. It's pretty
00:37:49.160 wild that the GOP can't decide whether they're going to run with the conspiracy theory that I'm
00:37:52.920 secretly rich or the exaggeration and mockery of my family struggle after my dad died during the
00:37:58.620 financial crisis. Instead, they decide to defy logic and run with both. Sorry, it sounded like I
00:38:03.740 laughed. I didn't laugh. I was like breathing. I just don't know who she's talking about.
00:38:11.500 I don't know who she's talking about. I don't know. Like, again, there could be a couple there
00:38:16.660 could be a few trolls that are saying something like this and they're wrong for saying that.
00:38:21.220 Like, you should definitely not say that someone's secretly rich if they're not. You should also not
00:38:25.820 make fun of someone's family struggle. You totally shouldn't do that. But I'm just not
00:38:30.180 sure that that's like a mainstream narrative. So here is AOC's formula. She picks out some
00:38:35.860 random people on Twitter who made stuff up about her. She uses their trolling to characterize the
00:38:40.080 entire Republican Party to claim that she's a victim of unfair bullying because of how great
00:38:44.600 she and her ideas are. She uses dishonesty and emotional manipulation to make herself look like
00:38:50.820 a hero. It really shows a lack of character and maturity that should be expected from a 29 year
00:38:55.980 old that doesn't have any political or professional experience whatsoever. But you would hope that it
00:39:00.280 doesn't apply to someone that has the power to create legislation that would affect the entire
00:39:03.860 country. And yet we are, as millennials in general, a generation of idiots. So here we are.
00:39:11.600 This is something I was thinking about, speaking of generation of idiots. And because I look at
00:39:16.300 someone like AOC and she is so popular and I don't think and I could be alone on the right and
00:39:23.040 say this, I don't think that she is this terrible person. I think she's dishonest. I think she's
00:39:27.660 manipulative. I think she's so wrong and I think she's so ignorant. I think she's really bad for the
00:39:32.000 country. But I don't like condemn her soul. I'm sure that she probably has a good heart. And if it
00:39:39.980 wasn't for her terrible values, we probably could be friends. Like we probably have stuff in common.
00:39:46.840 But the reason why she is so popular, simply because she's attractive and she's young and she's got
00:39:52.380 like I'm from the Bronx story and she does clap backs on Twitter. That's really the only reasons
00:39:57.880 why she's popular. It's not because she has good ideas or she's articulate or smart. The reason why
00:40:02.120 that is working for her is because we as a generation about to be the largest voting block ever.
00:40:09.040 We're really dumb. And I don't mean that in a mean way. And I don't mean every single millennial,
00:40:13.620 but just in general, like we're dumb. Like if you look at historical knowledge, if you look at even
00:40:17.760 things like our knowledge about the Holocaust, our knowledge about American history and our
00:40:22.580 founding, we are the most ignorant generation, even though we have the most degrees of any of any
00:40:27.540 generation. And I do have a theory. And this is a total theory just based on my own subjective
00:40:33.020 experience. But just walk with me for a second. So I was reading one of my blog posts from 2012.
00:40:40.120 And so seven years ago, and I just had like this little blog where I talked about like Jesus stuff
00:40:47.480 and life stuff. And I was reading it. And you know, when you read something from almost a decade
00:40:53.280 ago, you're typically like, wow, I was so dumb. I was so dumb. And I hate the things I said. I'm so
00:40:59.140 embarrassed. And I thought that was a good idea. And it's really not. Well, I didn't have that feeling.
00:41:03.820 I read it and I was like, wow, I was a lot smarter than I feel like I had more profound thoughts.
00:41:09.440 I think I had more poignant analogies. And I was a really good writer. And wow, I feel like things
00:41:15.000 came so much more easily to me than they do now. But when I think back to college and to high school,
00:41:20.460 what did I do at night? What did I do in my free time? I read, even if it wasn't a nonfiction book,
00:41:26.560 like something that actually taught me something, it was a fiction book. Sometimes it was trash fiction
00:41:30.700 books, like teen fiction books. I always I read those my friends and I always read those in high
00:41:35.160 school. I was always reading. I've always loved to read. I started to read really early. I've always
00:41:41.060 loved words. Reading, writing has always come super easily to me. And I just did that really
00:41:46.260 naturally and enjoyed doing that in high school and college. But since college and really my last
00:41:51.260 couple of years of college, my the number of books that I read every year has dramatically dipped.
00:41:57.500 And part of that is because of busyness. But a lot of it is because of social media,
00:42:01.460 because at night when I get in bed, the last thing I want to do is exercise my brain. And so I want to
00:42:05.920 do something mindless. And I also noticed that I am not able to concentrate for as long as I used to
00:42:12.280 be able to when I'm writing or when I'm reading. I pause and I look at Instagram. How awful is that?
00:42:18.400 It's like my brain is addicted to instant gratification, to convenience, to the personalized
00:42:26.440 world that has been created on all of my social media platforms. And I said something about this
00:42:31.580 on Instagram. On my Instagram story the other day, I said, I feel like my brain has atrophied and I'm
00:42:37.340 not able to say all of the things that I used to say seven years ago because of social media. And I
00:42:42.540 got a ton of messages from you guys, a ton being like, oh, my gosh, I thought this was only me. I feel
00:42:47.680 the same way. So it does just make you wonder about our generation. If all of us have kind of latched on
00:42:53.540 to the habit of scrolling mindlessly for hours a day, I mean, I think sometimes it's hours a day
00:43:00.440 for me, which is so sad. It's such a waste of mental energy if we've all done that. And just
00:43:07.520 like when you stop exercising for a long period of time and you're just not as strong and you're
00:43:12.120 kind of out of shape and your body's not able to do the things that it used to be able to,
00:43:15.760 the same thing happens to your mind. And I just wonder if over the past decade of us being addicted
00:43:20.640 to looking at pictures and reading, you know, three worded captions and not exercising our
00:43:26.060 minds in our spare time, but rather killing brain cells by looking at the Kardashians on
00:43:31.060 our Instagram discover page. If our minds have atrophied and if we have a lower tolerance for
00:43:37.660 actually researching things and for actually learning things. And so we take whatever the
00:43:41.880 headlines tell us and we take whatever we see on social media, we take whatever is emotionally
00:43:47.480 compelling, the most emotionally compelling. And we latch onto that. The Democrats and the left have
00:43:53.040 done a really good job on capitalizing on that. They have made it all about emotions. They have made it
00:43:58.220 all easy, all about attention grabbing headlines. I mean, they've got the megaphones, like I said,
00:44:04.520 of Hollywood, of the mainstream media, of academia. And so all of these things in social media,
00:44:13.580 all of the things that are surrounding us have this liberal bent. And if we're not thinking,
00:44:17.880 if we're not willing to make the effort to actually dig in to the facts, then yeah,
00:44:24.640 we are automatically going to lean liberal. That's why I say it's, I always say it's much
00:44:28.300 harder to be a conservative than it is to be a liberal because you don't have to think to be a
00:44:31.940 liberal. You're automatically, you drift towards liberalism. Laziness drifts towards liberalism.
00:44:37.520 You never drift towards conservatism because it's too hard. And your life is going to be a lot harder
00:44:41.400 because you're going to be basically persecuted for it. You have to think and you have to try and
00:44:45.940 you have to research and you have to do the things that our millennial atrophied minds no longer want
00:44:50.760 to do. So I know that sounds just like really sad, especially if you're a mom that's listening to
00:44:55.760 this or not just a mom, but if you're like an older mom, if you're not a millennial, you're
00:45:00.160 generation X, you're a baby boomer, and you're like looking at this huge generation of millennials and
00:45:04.740 you're like, what the heck, what are we going to do? How are we going to fix any of this?
00:45:09.740 Um, I get it. I know that it sounds really dark and it sounds really hopeless, but the light in
00:45:16.560 this, if you are a millennial, if you are generation Z, if you're a young person listening to this
00:45:20.680 is the bar is set really low for you. Okay. And that's a good thing. The bar is set really,
00:45:26.980 really low for you to impress your boss, for you to impress the generation ahead of us that is still
00:45:32.720 in charge of the country, the, uh, baby boomers and soon to be Gen X. There's a lot of Gen Xers in
00:45:37.540 the white house, for example. Um, they still care about good communication. They still care about
00:45:42.780 you working hard. They still care about, um, you being able to prove how much, you know.
00:45:48.860 And so all you have to do, all you have to do to be a impressive millennial, to get further than,
00:45:56.760 uh, your peers and your coworkers is to read and to be able to write and communicate well,
00:46:03.600 read, write, and communicate well. And you will be light years, light years ahead of where most
00:46:10.040 millennials are. Most millennials can't even write a sentence without a comma splice.
00:46:15.660 They don't even know good grammar. They can't, they can hardly read. They can't, they can't write
00:46:20.000 a good argument. If you can write well, if you can read, like if you are exercising your mind every
00:46:26.620 day and I'm preaching to the choir, by the way, preaching to the choir, preaching to myself.
00:46:29.880 If you are reading and exercising your mind, even just for an hour a day, if you are writing,
00:46:36.940 if you are practicing the art of argumentation, well, one, you're going to become a conservative.
00:46:42.460 Like you just are. The path from logic to conservatism is like the snap of finger blink of
00:46:48.740 an eye. It's just right there. Whereas the, the path from logic to progressivism winds a bunch of
00:46:54.200 different directions and it goes all around and it has a bunch of dead ends. And actually you just
00:46:58.360 end up turning around and going to conservatism. Anyway, um, if you just do those things,
00:47:03.820 if you just do those things, you will be so far ahead of your friends. You will be so far ahead
00:47:08.760 of them. If you just think, if you just think that's all you have to do. It used to be that
00:47:13.180 everyone was, everyone had a base level of intellect. Like everyone had to read the,
00:47:18.140 had to read the classics. Everyone read in their spare time. Everyone could write a decent letter.
00:47:23.140 Uh, that's just what you did in your spare time. But now none of us have to do that.
00:47:27.380 We don't know how to do that. And yet that's always going to be valuable. I truly believe
00:47:32.160 maybe I'm, maybe it's unrealistic. I, I truly believe that that's always going to be valuable.
00:47:36.800 That's always going to set you ahead. I'm so thankful that I had a grandmother and a mother
00:47:40.740 who, uh, taught me how to read and taught me how to write at a very early age. I've literally,
00:47:49.840 since I have been two and a half or probably two years old, no less than that. I think the video
00:47:55.900 that I'm thinking of myself is like 18 months, my grandmother and mother just like, just taught me
00:48:02.460 things. I was just always learning things when I was little. And I think that I have gotten dumber
00:48:07.580 in the past 10 years because instead of exercising my brain, I've just been intellectually lazy in a
00:48:13.180 lot of ways. Um, so get ahead by reading, by knowing things, by researching, by taking that extra
00:48:18.380 effort to actually know the facts of something and to read in your spare time. I don't care if it's a
00:48:23.820 theology book, which I think is great. I think fiction is awesome. Like I think read fiction
00:48:29.140 books. I think it really helps with your creativity. It really helps with your ability to write my
00:48:33.880 friends in high school and college who didn't write well. It's because they never read my friends
00:48:39.480 now who can't write very well. It's because you don't read. That's why you want to become a good
00:48:44.560 writer, read and writing is really important. You want, you want to be a conservative commentator.
00:48:50.260 You want to do a podcast. You want to be able to get ahead and conservative media, right? Right.
00:48:56.220 That is how you are going to prove that you actually have intellect, that you actually have
00:49:00.240 substance, that you're not just a talking head. You're not just repeating, uh, you're not just
00:49:04.340 repeating talking points of someone else, but they're actually thinking for yourself. So that's
00:49:08.880 my advice to you guys. It'll also save you from the clutches of socialism, which is predicated on the
00:49:14.960 ignorance of the masses. Okay. Love you guys. I'll see you on Tuesday, uh, Tuesday. Um, I don't know
00:49:21.320 what I'm gonna talk about yet. I think that we're going to talk or Tuesday. Did I say Tuesday?
00:49:25.000 Thursday. Um, thought about if gathering thought about the scandal and the SBC with the sexual
00:49:30.740 harassment, sexual, every sexual misconduct, everything that's going on there. Um, also though,
00:49:36.280 it's Valentine's day. So maybe I'll do something loving love. Um, maybe I'll talk about how
00:49:42.840 Timothy and I met my husband. I don't know. Okay. Love y'all. Bye.