Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - March 20, 2023


Ep 773 | SPECIAL EPISODE: New Set, Announcement, Giveaway & Other Fun!


Episode Stats

Length

53 minutes

Words per Minute

187.81961

Word Count

9,990

Sentence Count

927

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 We are on our new set. If you're watching on YouTube, I cannot wait to show it to you. But
00:00:06.140 even if you're listening, we've got a lot of fun stuff for you today. A lot of new stuff. We've got
00:00:10.140 new merch. We've got an exciting announcement at the end of the episode. We've got some games we're
00:00:15.120 going to play. We've also got some amazing encouragement that you guys sent me that I know
00:00:19.460 wasn't just edifying for me. It will also be edifying for you as well. If we have time,
00:00:25.180 we'll get into some new stories, but we've got a lot of ground to cover on this episode of
00:00:29.100 Relatable, which is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to GoodRanchers.com.
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00:00:47.340 Okay. What'd you think? What'd you think? It's the new music. It's the new branding. If you're just
00:00:53.560 listening, you can't see the new branding. You can't see the new set that we're on. So you need to go
00:00:58.320 watch this on YouTube if you haven't already. It's always out at 6 p.m. Eastern time. So depending
00:01:04.600 on the time that you're listening to this, it may or may not be up. I know, I know it's going to take
00:01:09.960 a little bit of an adjustment for you to get used to the new music. I got so many messages from you
00:01:15.680 guys saying, don't get rid of the music. I dance with my child to this or my child recognizes this and
00:01:23.100 I get so excited about the intro, but you'll get used to this. I personally really like the new
00:01:28.860 music. So today we're just going to have a fun episode. We'll get into some new stuff too, as you
00:01:34.260 heard at the top of the show, but we are just going to talk about the new set. We're going to talk about
00:01:39.880 relatable giveaway, all that fun stuff. And then I do have an announcement, like I said, at the end,
00:01:45.860 and then we're going to play a couple games too. Also joining me today, we've got some people joining
00:01:51.160 me. We've got Brie and we've got Victoria. There they are. They're not the most excited about being
00:01:58.320 on camera today, but I told them that they must be. And so here they are. They will be celebrating
00:02:05.940 the new set and some new stuff and some new merch too. I'll be announcing all of that.
00:02:11.080 Um, okay. Let's first, before we get into anything today, let's just take a look, a little tour of the
00:02:17.600 new set. If I could get up and like walk around, I would. So you're not going to be able to see
00:02:21.980 everything. Maybe we'll do like a BTS behind the scenes thing later. So let's go to the wide shot
00:02:27.560 and let's show them. Okay. So we've got our new relatable brand and that's our new font, which I
00:02:34.200 absolutely love. I absolutely love this glow lamp. Now let me just go ahead and point out something.
00:02:41.080 That I know some of you are going to say, and we're just going to have to be okay with it.
00:02:46.920 Now that T right there in the relatable, some of you have said, because I showed this on Instagram,
00:02:53.480 some of you have said, looks like an R, but look, this is going to be one day, this, this word,
00:03:00.300 this brand is going to be as iconic as the Walt Disney brand. And we all know how confusing that D is
00:03:07.340 that some of us thought when we were younger, that it was a G and we realized, no, it is a D.
00:03:13.060 So this is going to be an iconic T. So even though some of you, can we pull it up? Even though some of
00:03:18.940 you think it looks like an R, it is indeed a T. I love it. It's vintage. It's cute. We've got our
00:03:25.460 cactus going on. We actually are not completely done yet. So we're going to have some different plants
00:03:30.440 that are, um, that are coming in. And there are some different things that we're still adding to
00:03:35.080 that corner over there that just haven't come in yet. We've also got some other like fun personal
00:03:40.200 touches that we're adding to it. If you know, you know, got dinosaurs all around me because we're
00:03:45.920 just not sure. We're just not sure. I'm sure that these dinosaurs exist, but when it comes to the
00:03:50.980 others, I don't know, the jury is still out. That's what I'll say on that. Um, and then we've
00:03:57.480 got, if you look closely, like the more that you watch it, you'll see some stuff that we've added
00:04:03.280 that just kind of speak to the things that I'm interested in. Some of the things that we've
00:04:07.300 talked about on the show, you can't see the full, the full range of things that I have behind me in
00:04:13.260 this shot. Um, I don't even know if you can see it on the wide shot. Can you see some of the
00:04:18.100 stuff on the wide shot? Okay. So we can't see everything on the wide shot, but we'll show
00:04:23.320 like a behind the scenes or maybe one day we'll like pan the camera up so you can see it. We've
00:04:27.840 got C.S. Lewis staring down at me and we actually thought about moving him down. It's a sketch of
00:04:33.020 C.S. Lewis because y'all know how much I love C.S. Lewis, but it kind of freaked me out when we put
00:04:37.900 him right behind me. Looked like he was staring over my shoulder and I didn't like that. Um, and then
00:04:43.880 I grew up in Texas, so we've got some odes to Texas also. Uh, so I love it. I love this set.
00:04:50.420 I know that you guys are going to love it too. We just wanted a little bit of contrast, something
00:04:54.520 a little bit different. I know change is tough, but I think y'all are going to get used to it.
00:04:59.100 I actually want to move like all of this stuff, um, into my, into my home because I love it that
00:05:04.840 much. I'll Victoria Brie. I know that y'all like the set cause we have been talking about it
00:05:09.620 painstakingly forever. What's your favorite part about the new set? That's a good question.
00:05:16.260 I would, off the top of my head, the dinosaur, the little dinosaur planter behind you.
00:05:21.480 Yeah. Love it. A nice little touch. Yeah. Victoria, what about you? Question everything.
00:05:26.560 Yeah. I love the blue bonnets. I think it's so cute. The blue bonnets. I think that's cute too,
00:05:33.240 but I think my favorite is probably the sign itself. Probably the relatable sign and also the black
00:05:37.960 walls. It's just so different than what we had before guys. There are so many people and so many
00:05:43.240 things that go into something like this. It's funny because a lot of y'all thought that I recorded at
00:05:48.860 home and my last one, which I love that y'all thought that I was at home, but I actually am at
00:05:56.400 a studio and there are so many people that go into this. We've been planning this, designing this,
00:06:01.420 building this since, I don't know, November probably. Um, and so, yeah, there's been a lot of effort
00:06:07.680 put into it. We just want it to look the best possible. And we're still, we might still be
00:06:11.660 adjusting the lighting a little bit. That's up until like the, honestly, like the moment this
00:06:16.680 music started playing, we were still thinking about the lighting. And so it might look a little
00:06:21.620 bit different. I don't know yet. We're still assessing, we want it to be absolutely perfect.
00:06:26.500 And so we're still assessing exactly what it's going to look like, but you can, you can let me know.
00:06:31.940 I'll take it under advisement. As you guys know, y'all are my official executive producers,
00:06:38.400 but I can't take all of your feedback because y'all have really conflicting opinions. And sometimes
00:06:45.620 let's just be real, not good opinions. So I have to make an assessment and use my best discernment
00:06:52.880 and professional opinion when weighing y'all's opinions about what the set and everything looks
00:06:57.440 like. But I do value your feedback. Okay. Speaking of valuing feedback, one thing that I thought would
00:07:03.380 be fun, I ask you guys on Instagram, if you would please send me just some ways that either Relatable
00:07:12.420 has changed your mind on something. And if you didn't, if you weren't able to do this when I asked
00:07:17.620 on Instagram before I'm now recording the show, feel free to leave a YouTube comment, or you can still
00:07:22.200 message me if you want to. How Relatable has changed your mind or just what the show has meant to you,
00:07:27.280 because that's not just for me. It's not just to boost my ego because that's not how I see it at
00:07:32.020 all. This really is a team effort every day, such a team effort. And it's really meaningful to the
00:07:38.800 people who work behind the scenes too, because it just reminds us about why we do what we do.
00:07:44.260 And I, of course, don't, I'm going to read you some of these messages. And I think it's important
00:07:48.400 to do because I think it edifies you guys out there too. But this is not something that I take credit
00:07:54.560 for, or I think, wow, I'm just so great that I can change people's minds. I really do see it as
00:07:59.620 wow. God can use absolutely anyone and anything to change people's hearts and minds on subjects that
00:08:05.720 are consequential. And also, Brie told me that she has something that she changed her mind on,
00:08:10.580 which I'm really interested to hear. So we'll hear it in the next segment. I don't even know what
00:08:14.600 she's going to say. And then we'll get into some fun games and do some more fun stuff.
00:08:18.600 All right. So this is our new set. That was the introduction. We got new branding. We got all
00:08:24.280 new stuff. And I know that you guys really like it. I love it. And I'm so, so thankful to all the
00:08:29.900 people who have been working really hard behind the scenes to get all this to happen by today.
00:08:48.600 All right. So I was totally overwhelmed by the beautiful messages that you all sent me. I didn't
00:08:56.480 even get to open close to all of them. So I'm so sorry if you sent me a message and I didn't respond
00:09:02.560 or I didn't even open it. Don't think that it doesn't matter or that it's not meaningful. I may
00:09:08.280 see it one day later if I get to your message or I may not, but just know that I appreciate it. I
00:09:14.000 understand that you're all busy. And so you taking the time to send me a well thought out message
00:09:19.160 saying what relatable means to you, I really, really value the energy and the effort that it
00:09:24.200 took to do that. So thank you so much. I'm going to read some of them that I did open. And then we're
00:09:30.120 just going to kind of talk a little bit about the subjects that were most popular that you said that
00:09:35.420 you changed your mind on. So I will go ahead and say, and like I said, I'll read some of the messages
00:09:39.460 specifically, but I'll go ahead and say the most popular subjects that I got on which people said
00:09:46.600 you changed my mind on that, or not even me, but a guest, the show changed my mind on this.
00:09:52.200 IVF and surrogacy, the whole reproductive technology industry. I think for most of you,
00:09:57.560 and this is like me too, you just hadn't thought about it. You just hadn't thought about the ethical
00:10:02.140 questions, the gray areas of things like IVF. We're pro-life. We love babies. We love creating life.
00:10:09.060 We didn't think about all those souls on ice and all of the potential risks to the mother and child
00:10:14.720 when it comes to IVF. We didn't think about the father-mother separation when it comes to sperm
00:10:19.360 donation and egg donation. We didn't think about what is going on in the physical and psychological
00:10:25.700 development of a child when it comes to surrogacy and purposely taking away a child from his mother or
00:10:31.680 father. It's not that you were necessarily pro those things. You just didn't think about it. You just
00:10:37.000 didn't know. I've had several guests or a couple guests, Jennifer Law and Katie Foust, who have both
00:10:42.240 come on the show and we've talked about these things, the importance of children's rights,
00:10:46.560 the importance of thinking through these issues. I'm so thankful to them because they taught me so
00:10:51.720 much. One of my favorite things to do is to introduce you guys to people who have taught me
00:10:57.180 things and who have changed my mind on things and enlightened me. These are not always,
00:11:02.880 actually, I would say very often, they are not the most well-known people, the people with the
00:11:08.420 biggest audiences. Some of my most popular interviews, my most popular episodes are with
00:11:13.860 people that some of you, most of you, have never heard of. That just gives me so much joy
00:11:20.120 in helping to amplify voices that God is using and that are doing really, really good work.
00:11:28.120 And so, wow, that changed a lot of your minds. Actually, one of you said that you were signed up
00:11:34.920 to be a surrogate until you listened to those episodes and it changed your mind. So if you're
00:11:41.500 listening to this and you're like, well, what's wrong with that? You should go back and listen to
00:11:44.920 some of the episodes that we've done on it. It might change your mind too, or it might take a
00:11:49.080 little while. Okay, before I get into the specifics of this, I also want to say that one comment that I
00:11:53.920 kept receiving that I saw in these messages was that I was really shook the first few times that
00:12:02.100 I listened to you, or I was really offended, or I was really thrown off when my friend shared your
00:12:07.800 episodes with me, whether they're on abortion or whatever. And at first, I really did not want to
00:12:14.160 agree with you. I didn't want to like you. I didn't want to like the show. It just took me time. And that's
00:12:19.060 definitely true when it comes to the IVF slash surrogacy issue. I got a lot of messages when I
00:12:24.480 first started talking about this, being like, this is wrong. You're unloving. You're unempathetic.
00:12:30.940 You don't understand because you haven't been through this. And then messages later on. And I
00:12:35.280 always really admire this about the character of a person who were like, wow, I didn't think about it
00:12:40.180 like that, or I changed my mind, or I see kind of what you or your guests were saying. So I always loved
00:12:45.140 those. I always loved the people who started off like not liking me or not liking something that
00:12:49.500 I said. And then over time, they kind of, they changed their mind. That's cool. Okay. So some
00:12:54.820 of the specific messages that I got about the IVF surrogacy, someone said, Taylor said, IVF and
00:13:01.020 surrogacy are the biggest ones. I went from thinking how amazing it is for people who aren't able to have
00:13:04.860 kids now thinking from the perspective of the child. So eye-opening. Jessica said the same thing.
00:13:10.740 She just thought that the technological advancements in this realm were a good thing
00:13:14.460 because they're medical progress. But she said that she realized that just because something
00:13:20.280 is deemed medical process doesn't mean that it's actually good and certainly doesn't mean
00:13:25.000 that we should participate in it. Like we always say, when technology takes us from what is natural
00:13:30.580 to what is possible, there are always at the very least questions that we should ask ourselves
00:13:34.960 about that. The other big one that we, that we saw messages about, it was abortion. There were a lot
00:13:42.440 of people who came to my podcast before they started listening, they were either pro-choice or they just
00:13:46.940 didn't know, or they were personally pro-life, but politically pro-choice. And so I got a lot of
00:13:53.140 messages from people saying, saying that they changed their mind on this. So here's a message from
00:14:01.300 someone named Allison about this. Abortion. She said, I used to be pro-choice. I'm now passionately
00:14:06.700 pro-life. In fact, a client of mine got pregnant unexpectedly. She didn't want the baby. For
00:14:12.240 whatever reason, she was confiding in me. One morning, she texted me from the parking lot of
00:14:16.540 an abortion clinic on the verge of ending her baby's life. Had I not been pro-life at this point, had the
00:14:21.600 situation happened to me five, 10 years ago, I'd have told her to do what she felt was right. Instead,
00:14:26.660 I prayed before stepping into the conversation with her, and then I called her. I had no idea what to say,
00:14:31.220 but I knew God would guide my words. She ended up not having the abortion. And then she talks about
00:14:36.160 the baby's name and she says, praise God. Thank you, Allie, for helping to shift my mind. I know
00:14:43.180 God worked through you to sanctify me out of being pro-choice. And that's just amazing. It's just
00:14:48.120 amazing. And I just want that to encourage you too, that you never know what conversation you have
00:14:57.380 or what you post on social media or what act of courage or boldness you do that may plant a seed
00:15:05.800 in someone's mind that could change their mind on abortion. And then they could save someone's life,
00:15:10.340 or maybe you saved someone's life by convincing someone. I know sometimes it seems fruitless,
00:15:14.900 like you're just speaking into a void, like no one cares what you have to say, or everyone's angry at
00:15:19.640 what you have to say. It's not about you. It's not about people liking you. It's not about the
00:15:24.460 instant gratification. It's not about the immediate positive feedback. It is about obedience. And God
00:15:30.100 promises to use obedience. And you may never know how God is going to use your words and use those
00:15:36.120 seemingly small acts of courage, but I promise he will. Like we're talking about physical lives here.
00:15:41.140 We're talking about souls. Your boldness absolutely matters, and it can plant seeds that save lives. So
00:15:46.220 just remember that. Someone named Alexandria said, she said that she realized that abortion is not the
00:15:53.960 answer in horrible cases of so-called exceptions, like rape or incest. The case you made for why
00:16:01.900 that is still an innocent life changed my mind and love the clarity and simplicity of your argument of
00:16:07.040 what is it about the circumstances, size or location that gives someone the right to kill a baby inside
00:16:11.460 the womb, but not the baby next to you. Well, thank you so much for saying that, Alexandria. And I had a lot
00:16:17.180 of messages, a lot of messages about that. And that is next to someone believing the gospel. That is
00:16:25.160 the most consequential thing that someone could change their mind on. Okay. This goes along with
00:16:31.160 that. This is also one of my favorite messages to get, and that is parenting. One person, Tara said
00:16:37.320 that she didn't want kids before listening to my show. And you have no idea how common this is.
00:16:42.600 And this just makes me sad. Like how many young women are convinced that the world, Christian young
00:16:49.520 women, that the world is so bad, that times are so scary, that the season is so challenging in American
00:16:55.740 or world history or whatever, that you shouldn't be fruitful in multiplying. As if God today is not
00:17:03.980 as powerful and not as sovereign and not as faithful and not as loving and not as good as he was a thousand
00:17:09.920 or two thousand years ago, as if Christians haven't gone through much more difficult times than they
00:17:15.520 have today. I mean, we are just kind of inundated with this antinatalist rhetoric today that I think
00:17:22.460 we don't realize has affected us, but it really has, just like feminism and every other kind of
00:17:28.920 secular ideology. And I think it's also just fear. And I think Satan loves for us to operate out of
00:17:35.000 terror, out of paranoia, out of not trusting the Lord, not realizing that God actually cares about
00:17:40.200 our kids' future more than we do. He cares about our kids' souls more than we do. And if the world
00:17:45.440 needs absolutely anything, it is godly, wise, courageous kids that must be raised by godly,
00:17:50.980 wise, courageous parents. So that's something that we talk about a lot. And there was a message by
00:17:57.640 someone named Geneva. And she said this, and I just love how, I just love this story. She said,
00:18:02.840 I just wanted to share the impact you and Relatable have had on my life. I grew up Amish.
00:18:06.620 I left and was pretty lost trying to figure out church and everything else in the outside world.
00:18:11.420 I started listening to your show. I've gained a lot of awareness. I didn't grow up knowing
00:18:15.180 anything about politics. Now I'm shocked when people don't pay attention to what's going on.
00:18:18.760 I got married to an amazing man, but I was very hesitant to bring children into this crazy world.
00:18:22.820 However, hearing you say over and over how the Bible commands us to do so, which it does,
00:18:28.820 except for in rare exceptions, which we've talked about before, to raise godly children
00:18:33.020 and having on guests that have shared stories that changed my mind. I'm now pregnant with our first,
00:18:38.460 a girl due in July. And there's not a doubt in my mind that we were called and equipped to raise
00:18:43.100 strong little warriors. Thank you so much for your strong stance on biblical values. That's so sweet.
00:18:47.780 Thank you so much for sharing that with me. And then Brooke says something similar. She says,
00:18:52.840 I forgot to mention the biggest one of all. I subconsciously bought into all of the world's
00:18:56.280 lies about having children and was terrified to have them. Even though my husband had made it clear
00:19:00.280 that he was ready whenever I was, it literally consumed all my thoughts. Your podcast was how
00:19:05.180 God slowly revealed to me how wrong I was about children. The Lord is still working on my heart
00:19:09.240 into 2019. We weren't quite ready, quite to the point of officially trying for children yet.
00:19:13.900 When I found out I was pregnant with our daughter. Oh, when I found out I was pregnant with my daughter,
00:19:18.680 but instead of fear, I immediately felt an immense peace because I had been so encouraged in truth
00:19:23.400 for over a year by then for this podcast. So thank you so much. And congratulations.
00:19:28.680 Congratulations. And I can relate to all of those fears, by the way. My mind was also changed and
00:19:33.640 developed over time when it comes to that, because it's really easy to give into the fear and even
00:19:38.680 selfishness. Another one, self-love. Of course, I wrote my book about that. You're not enough.
00:19:44.300 And that's okay. Jenna said that you and your podcast are one of the contributors to turning my life
00:19:50.580 around. I was totally sucked into the, you are enough. You're perfect just the way that you are.
00:19:54.400 She said that she had an unhappy life, unhappy marriage, and that she was just turning to these
00:19:58.580 motivational slogans, which we all have at some point, trying to make her feel better,
00:20:03.420 trying to make her feel worthy and sufficient. And she still was just coming up empty. None of
00:20:08.080 these self-help books were actually helping her. And then when she actually realized that she needed to
00:20:16.000 turn to the Lord, that's when her path towards repentance and satisfaction in a healthy marriage
00:20:20.800 really changed. So I'm just so thankful to the Lord for that. I've also been in a place where I
00:20:26.160 have tried to look to superficial self-help and self-love mantras to make myself feel better about
00:20:31.300 myself. Someone else sent me a message saying that a couple of years ago, she was all in on Rachel
00:20:36.960 Hollis' Girl, Wash Your Face. That was the entire culture that she was consumed by. And then she realized
00:20:42.520 how empty and how fleeting that all was. And then there's one, there's one who, or I mean,
00:20:50.200 not just one message, several messages, but one subject that I know is still controversial. Again,
00:20:54.540 go back and listen to my messages on this or my episodes on this if you haven't already. And that
00:20:58.520 is the death penalty. The death penalty. A lot of you came to my podcast thinking that the death penalty
00:21:04.540 is unjust, that it's unbiblical. And as we've talked about, as Genesis 9-6 talks about very clearly,
00:21:11.500 the death penalty for murder is not just suggested for, is not just suggested in the Bible, but is
00:21:19.780 actually demanded. And it's not because of cruelty, but it's actually because murder is so egregious
00:21:24.120 because we are so valuable because we're made in the image of God that the only just punishment for
00:21:28.460 it is capital punishment. That's what the God who is love, 1 John 4-8 says, is justice in that case.
00:21:35.200 Also, this is within this message about the death penalty that I got from Eva that I won't read in
00:21:42.040 its entirety, but some of you changed your minds on pit bulls too, which I feel like that probably
00:21:48.680 saved some lives. Oh gosh, I probably turned this into the most controversial episode. Go back and
00:21:54.400 listen to my episode on pit bulls if you're not so sure about that. And then several on theology too.
00:22:00.380 Um, a lot of you, I know, and I know people listening to this and watching this will still
00:22:05.600 be like, oh my gosh, I can't believe people are changing their mind on Calvinism and on reformed
00:22:10.620 theology. But a lot of you who came to my podcast, maybe you were in the prosperity gospel or you
00:22:15.500 just didn't know about reformed theology. And now you and your husband have started attending a
00:22:19.260 different church or, um, reading different books and following different teachers and your interest
00:22:24.820 was piqued in reformed theology. And yes, even Calvinism, I got a message saying that your mind
00:22:30.100 changed about predestination and that has actually allowed you to have confidence and clarity in your
00:22:34.820 salvation rather than always wondering if you're doing the right thing. Praise God. Praise God.
00:22:39.400 That is like one of the best things, um, that I can hear. And honestly, we haven't talked about
00:22:44.300 reformed theology that much, like explicitly in a while. And so I need to go back to doing some
00:22:50.300 episodes on that. We did a lot of like reformed theology 101, I think back in 2019. So you can go back
00:22:56.220 and listen to those episodes, but I love hearing that. And again, like, I feel like I'm just kind
00:23:00.600 of a springboard for y'all to go listen to the actual theologians and the pastors and read the
00:23:06.040 books that really go in depth on all of that. Um, okay. Last category. And this is one that I,
00:23:13.380 gosh, is so, I hear this all the time. I hear this all the time when I go speak somewhere or when I get a
00:23:19.900 message from you that you started following me in the summer of 2020. Now, why did you start
00:23:25.360 following me in the summer of 2020? Because you looked around and you realized that all of your
00:23:31.460 white Christian girlfriends were crazy. And you realize that they really, that a lot of them,
00:23:41.660 okay, I'm exaggerating, that a lot of them were just going along with what the world was saying
00:23:48.240 about what justice is, what racism is, what systemic racism and what the history of the
00:23:53.800 country looks like with white supremacy and oppression and all of these things. And you
00:23:57.600 just saw them start regurgitating the secular nonsense about, about justice and about how
00:24:05.200 we should regard each other. And you were like, okay, am I wrong here? Am I the one lacking
00:24:10.860 compassion? Am I the one lacking truth? Am I the one lacking love and empathy? And this is all
00:24:15.640 also when all of COVID was like blowing up. And so you're simultaneously being told if you
00:24:20.180 don't post a black square and you're not on the same page as people saying America is systemically
00:24:26.680 racist and you need to be reading Robin DiAngelo and doing all of these things in order to be truly
00:24:31.360 anti-racist. You're also getting told that you lack empathy and that you lack love and that you're not
00:24:35.780 a good Christian. You don't love your neighbor if you're not wearing a mask. And then later, if you don't
00:24:39.880 get the vaccine, if you don't want mask mandates, if you don't want vaccine mandates, then maybe you're
00:24:44.180 not really Christian enough. Like maybe you don't really understand Jesus. And I think a lot of
00:24:49.100 you kind of had like an identity crisis, which I totally understand. I had moments like this too
00:24:53.500 in 2020, looking around and being like, this doesn't sound right. None of this sounds biblical at all,
00:24:59.960 but these people that I really respect are saying these things. And so maybe, I don't know, maybe
00:25:06.060 they're right. And I, I'm not saying that I got everything right, obviously. Like there's so many
00:25:13.200 things that I learned over time that I'm like, oh, I said that, that wasn't right or that whatever,
00:25:17.180 and that I've changed. But I did refuse to post a black square. And I did refuse to go along with a
00:25:24.020 lot of the riots are the voice of the unheard. America is systemically racist. And the white race
00:25:31.080 needs to carry some kind of guilt or responsibility for reparations for what people who remotely looked
00:25:36.880 like them in the same relative geographical location 200 years ago might have done. It just
00:25:42.580 doesn't, it never made any sense to me. And I had a lot of conversations with a lot of Christian
00:25:47.040 leaders in that time who I know that my words were a thorn in their side because they were getting
00:25:53.120 people, Christians who followed me, who would go to them and say, okay, you're saying this, but here's
00:25:58.860 what Allie Stuckey said, or here's what this podcast said. And I, there was a lot of conflict
00:26:02.880 during that time between me and other Christian leaders behind the scenes, probably between you
00:26:07.500 and your friends, between churches and their congregants. And that was tough. And it certainly
00:26:12.240 wasn't only me saying these things. There were a lot of Christians on this side, pushing back against
00:26:16.560 the rhetoric and all of the policy changes that we were seeing in 2020. But a ton of you started
00:26:21.880 listening to Relatable during that time. And it really like it lived up to the name because we were
00:26:27.740 like, we had to come together and be like, yeah, we're not crazy. We're not crazy. We might not be
00:26:32.780 right on everything. I'm not claiming that at all, but we ain't crazy. Like, let's just remember
00:26:38.480 that the word of God is just as sufficient today as it was 2000 years ago. I'm sorry. I don't need
00:26:44.840 to borrow wisdom from Ibram X. Kendi, who is actually anti-biblical as much as he is, quote unquote,
00:26:50.800 anti-racist to understand what's going on in the world or what my role is as a Christian. And actually
00:26:57.600 what is being purported to be justice by these social justice, racial justice experts
00:27:02.200 is actually according to God, not just at all. And that's when we did our whole series on what
00:27:06.800 God's justice actually looks like, impartial, truthful, direct, proportional, which is not
00:27:11.860 at all what social racial justice is. So that's also what got me blocked by a lot of Christian
00:27:16.460 leaders too, even though I didn't come at them or anything, but I just had like a disagreement or I
00:27:22.020 had a differing opinion. And a lot of them decided then that, you know, they didn't want to talk to me.
00:27:27.180 But it's funny because now that Trump is out of office, a lot of those same people who were so
00:27:31.160 ardently, you know, whatever they were in the summer of George Floyd have really softened their
00:27:37.020 rhetoric on a lot of that stuff. It's interesting. It's interesting. So here is a message from one of
00:27:42.440 you. When the race riots and BLM stuff was happening, I knew it was off. I posted a black
00:27:46.140 square because a usually solid pastor did. I can probably imagine which one. I kept trying to
00:27:53.020 respond to people but couldn't yet nail down the biblical thoughts and words that I knew but
00:27:58.000 couldn't put into words. You really helped me process and sort through the weeds at that time,
00:28:02.060 clinging to truth through so much deception. I mean, this is probably the subject that I think
00:28:07.400 confuses Christian women the most and Christian women are most scared to go against the progressive
00:28:14.940 talking points on this. Lauren said, I was all in on the racial justice train in 2020 until I finally
00:28:21.440 caved and listened to one of your podcasts. I had been avoiding your show for months because I thought I
00:28:26.700 didn't want to be like my friends who were posting about your podcast. Got them. Well, I appreciate
00:28:34.660 that. And again, I'm not saying you shouldn't listen to other teachers or podcasters that don't agree with
00:28:40.220 me or have differing perspectives on this. I'm not saying that. I'm certainly not the infallible,
00:28:45.360 like perfect source on all of this stuff at all. I'm just saying that let's be discerning. A lot of
00:28:52.460 people just repeat progressive talking points, especially when it comes to that because it's easier to do.
00:28:56.700 No one wants to be called a racist. And you're just going to have to bear that risk if you want
00:29:03.100 to talk about what the Bible actually says about justice and reparations and evil and sin and all
00:29:09.460 of that. Okay. So we've gone through a lot. Some of you said that I changed your mind on Santa Claus
00:29:15.040 and the Easter Bunny. Yay. That is exciting. So thanks for sharing all those things. Okay. Now I want to
00:29:21.040 hear from you, Bri, Brianna. Um, I don't, full name treatment. Wow. Um, I don't want to be redundant,
00:29:31.040 but I have two. And one of them is IVF and surrogacy. And I remember before I started working
00:29:36.280 with you, I was talking to my friend about this and I was telling her, yes, I don't think it's,
00:29:42.940 I think it's selfish was my stance. I think it's selfish to spend so much money on that.
00:29:47.200 I'm really passionate about adoption. And so I've always thought, why would you spend money on IVF
00:29:52.240 when you, when there's a kid who already needs a home? But yeah, I had never, ever thought about
00:29:58.340 the ethical implications of souls on ice, of ripping a child away from their mother intentionally.
00:30:04.320 And I'm just like, I feel like I'm radical about it now.
00:30:09.360 I'm radical.
00:30:09.780 And before, I didn't even, well, and the other thing is, um, is pit bulls. And now I am an anti-pit bull
00:30:17.340 radicalist.
00:30:17.880 Okay. I thought that you were walked into this being an anti-pit bull.
00:30:21.520 No, it was doing research for that episode.
00:30:23.840 No way.
00:30:24.560 That converted me. Yeah. I didn't really care about them before.
00:30:26.740 I didn't know that, Bri.
00:30:27.220 Yeah.
00:30:27.820 Oh my gosh.
00:30:29.020 Wow.
00:30:29.280 I'm a changed woman.
00:30:29.940 Wow. And so she was obviously, she was talking about IVF, but then she was talking about surrogacy
00:30:34.880 to ripping a child of like away from, um, his mother. Yeah. You know, I hadn't really thought
00:30:40.820 about that that much either. I don't know if you have anything to add Victoria. It's okay. If you
00:30:43.920 don't, you changed my mind on a lot, Allie B, but I was such a hardcore Enneagram girl.
00:30:51.180 My entire personality was the Enneagram. So yeah, see, I know, but I guess I could guess
00:30:57.120 their Enneagram numbers. Cause I used to be, I used to be too. I used to be too, but now I do
00:31:02.900 feel like more and more people at step. I was not the first person to say something like bad
00:31:07.140 about the Enneagram, but now I do feel like there's more and more people who are willing to
00:31:11.840 be like, ah, maybe we put too much stock into this. I feel like people are finally getting out
00:31:16.680 of that fad. Yeah. It was a little bit of a fad. Um, people, again, you can go back. Uh, some
00:31:22.180 people are listening to this and they're like offended by every single category that we're
00:31:25.660 listening. Uh, go back and listen to some of those episodes before you leave your comment
00:31:30.940 saying how wrong we are. You might not change your mind. There's plenty of things, by the
00:31:34.480 way, that people didn't message me about that. I was like that I was unpersuasive on or like
00:31:39.540 they didn't change their mind on or anything. Um, okay. So thank you guys so much. That means
00:31:44.640 so much to me. We've been doing this podcast since 2018 started out once a week. Now it's four
00:31:48.600 times a week and, um, I just love doing it. It's my like professional baby. So it means
00:31:54.760 so much to me, but you guys mean so much to me and getting these messages is overwhelming
00:31:58.820 in a great way. It reminds me also how much work I have to do in trying to meet more of
00:32:04.260 you. Whenever I have, whenever I have, um, events across the country speaking, I have
00:32:09.540 the privilege of meeting and talking to a lot of you. Or sometimes I, I was at, I was at,
00:32:14.100 uh, lunch this weekend with some friends and one of you came up to me and you showed me my
00:32:20.040 Instagram page and you said, is this you? And I said, yes, it is. And so sometimes I get to meet
00:32:25.360 you out in the wild too. And, um, I appreciate that so much. Um, but just stay tuned. There may
00:32:32.700 be more opportunities, maybe more opportunities for us to meet in person.
00:32:48.380 Okay, ladies. Um, we decided that we would just do a fun little segment and this doesn't really,
00:32:55.100 now that I'm realized, it doesn't really have anything to do with the rest of the show at all.
00:32:58.040 Nothing. But we're just going to do it because it's fun. So the, we're going to do Taylor Swift
00:33:04.480 or Shakespeare and Michael Scott or Joe Biden. And I suggested Kamala Harris versus Michael Scott,
00:33:11.180 but they said Joe Biden's actually like his quotes are actually tougher. So we'll see. Okay. Taylor
00:33:17.720 Swift or Shakespeare. Apparently this is a trend on Tik TOK. I have a really hard time believing
00:33:22.880 that I will not be able to tell the difference, not because I know a lot of Shakespeare,
00:33:27.620 but because it's Taylor Swift. Like, I think I know is, um, like who said karma is a cat in my lap
00:33:37.760 who loves me. I don't think it was, I don't think it was a Hamlet. She just went through them and she
00:33:42.720 was like, wow, what a poet. And these are Swifties. Okay. I've got two resident Swifties on my show and
00:33:50.120 they said that this is difficult. So, okay, I'm, I'm ready. And then if I can think of a,
00:33:55.620 would you rather for y'all after this, I'm going to give you one and then we'll get into the rest
00:33:58.980 of the fun stuff. Okay. Okay. Taylor Swift or Shakespeare. Let's see. All right. I'm going
00:34:03.980 to take it away. So the first is I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones in a faith forgotten
00:34:09.820 land. In a faith forgotten land. I, I meet you. Oh, wow. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I think
00:34:17.620 it's Taylor Swift. You're right. Yeah. Okay. That's from Ivy. Okay. Um, though the chameleon
00:34:25.000 love can feed on the air. What's this word, Victoria? It's not camo melon. Yeah. She's used
00:34:35.240 to seeing cocoa melon. So earlier she was like, what is that? Okay. What is it? Sorry. Though
00:34:41.120 the chameleon love can feed on the air. Though the chameleon love can feed on the air. Yeah.
00:34:48.960 Is that also Taylor Swift? No, no, that's that's Shakespeare. Okay. Cause I don't know what that
00:34:55.520 means at all. Okay. Do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?
00:35:02.700 But that's definitely Taylor Swift for sure. Um, yeah. Right. Yeah. I don't know what song that's
00:35:07.580 from, but I can just totally see her saying that. That's from Coney Island. Um, okay. And
00:35:11.800 I'll stay forgetting any other home, but this. I would say that's Taylor Swift, but I'm second
00:35:19.620 guessing myself. Is it? It's not. It's Shakespeare. It's Shakespeare. Wow. This is actually
00:35:25.060 time. Okay. You're right. You're right. Wow. Okay. Okay. A couple more past the curses and
00:35:31.100 cries beyond the terror in the nightfall. Taylor Swift. Yeah. Okay. Are you just guessing one or
00:35:39.460 the other now? No, I'm guessing Taylor Swift like every time I feel like. Okay. Okay. Last one.
00:35:45.660 Sad hours seem long.
00:35:49.940 Shakespeare. Yeah, that is Shakespeare. Okay. I'm actually impressed by how difficult that is.
00:35:56.440 Yeah. Maybe if I knew more Shakespeare or knew more Taylor Swift, it wouldn't be as hard.
00:36:01.260 Well, I was telling you, I am a fan of both and I didn't even know all of these. What's your
00:36:07.800 favorite Shakespeare play? I like the two gentlemen of Verona. Oh, it's my favorite. I don't know.
00:36:13.660 Wow. Interesting. Um, okay. Are y'all going to the Taylor Swift concert? Of course. Happy
00:36:19.440 era's tour kickoff. Oh, that's exciting. Are you going Victoria? I'm not. Yeah. It wasn't a priority.
00:36:26.080 I saw that. Sorry. Sorry. I saw Alex Clark that she went and she said it was amazing. I heard it
00:36:32.480 was so good. She performs for three hours and 15 minutes. I heard so in the world. Her outfit
00:36:38.620 changes. Yeah. I saw her in like 2015 and it was really good. And that was like, I wasn't really,
00:36:45.940 I was like very skeptical of her. And it was a really good show. Okay. You'll have to tell us
00:36:50.800 how it is, Bri. Okay. Um, Michael J. Scott or Joseph R. Biden. Okay. Let's see. Victoria's
00:37:03.040 gonna. Okay. I love babies. I think they're beautiful in all sorts of different ways. I
00:37:08.100 try to pick up and hold a baby every day if possible because it nourishes me. That's Michael
00:37:13.940 Scott. Isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I think I remember that. This is actually going to be easier for
00:37:18.740 me because I know so much of the office. That's what I figured. Yeah. Okay. You cannot
00:37:22.620 go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. Oh, that's
00:37:28.060 Joe Biden. I remember him saying that. But man, that is so Michael Scott. You could see
00:37:33.620 them. You could see him saying that in the diversity training. It's in our cookie cookie
00:37:37.740 cookie episode. Okay. You know what else is facing five Goliaths? America, Al-Qaeda, global
00:37:45.060 warming, sex predators, mercury poisoning. Oh, my gosh. I think that's Michael Scott.
00:37:54.380 But I could see Joe Biden having said that like yesterday. It is Michael Scott. It is
00:37:59.800 Michael Scott. Mercury poisoning. Rabies. Okay. Okay. Now you may look around and see two
00:38:06.140 groups here. White collar, blue collar. But I don't see it that way. And you know why not?
00:38:10.360 Because I am collar blind. Collar blind. Oh, that's Michael Scott. That's got to be way
00:38:16.060 too clever for Biden. He would never come up with that. Okay. Pizza. Great equalizer. Rich
00:38:24.380 people love pizza. Poor people love pizza. White people love pizza. Black people love pizza.
00:38:29.380 I think Michael Scott. Right? Okay. Again, too funny and clever for Joe Biden. I'm good at this. Okay.
00:38:42.020 Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. Now, that would have been hilarious
00:38:47.340 if Michael Scott had said that. It would have been really funny on the episode where he – Scott's
00:38:54.340 Tots. Remember Scott's Tots? That would have been perfect in Scott's Tots.
00:38:59.060 But it's definitely Joe Biden. I also remember him saying this. Sadly is. Okay. Last one.
00:39:05.300 You all look dull as hell, I might add. The dullest audience I have ever spoken to. Just sitting
00:39:10.780 here staring at me. Pretend you like me. Again, tough. Tough. Because you can see in like maybe
00:39:20.240 like a dementia flare up, Joe Biden saying something like that. Because you know what makes you really
00:39:26.820 ornery. But I think it's Michael Scott. Joe Biden. It actually is Joe Biden. Oh, my gosh.
00:39:36.320 When did he say that? Pretend you like me. I don't know. I don't have it written down here.
00:39:40.620 That is a very Jeb Bush please clap moment. Do you all remember that?
00:39:44.600 Please clap. Please clap. Yeah. Good job. Oh, my gosh. Okay. I feel pretty good about
00:39:50.880 that. Okay. Let me see. I did not think of a would you rather before. So let me really
00:39:57.780 think about this for a second. Okay. Would you rather have to only drink liquid? You can never
00:40:13.120 drink any liquid unless it's out of a paper straw. And you have to use that same paper straw until it
00:40:19.580 completely disintegrates. And when it's done, you have to just get another paper straw. Or only ever
00:40:26.780 be able to eat anything with a spoon, including hamburgers, pizza. Like things you eat with your
00:40:34.900 hand, you still have to eat with a spoon. Anything. Something that you would eat with a fork, a salad.
00:40:39.440 That's so annoying. Yeah. I think better than me saying eat anything with a fork, though, because
00:40:45.480 you could definitely never eat soup or ice cream or anything like that. So everything with a spoon
00:40:50.620 or every liquid with a paper straw until it disintegrates. I mean, I have to go with the
00:40:57.520 straw just for like ease of. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I hate paper straws so much. Honestly, I'm weird. I
00:41:06.660 eat a lot of foods with spoons when I should eat them with forks. Hamburger? Well, I use my hand for
00:41:11.720 that. No, no. You have to use a spoon. I would do spoon. That's how much I hate. What do you eat
00:41:17.440 with a spoon that we would consider weird? I don't know. Like if I cook pasta, I feel like most
00:41:23.860 people would eat it with a fork. I eat it with a spoon. What? I know it sounds really weird. Just
00:41:29.360 a spoon? Spaghetti? You eat it with a spoon? I still do. I still do. I just kind of, my husband
00:41:34.660 thinks it's so weird. I just like spoons. I like eating with spoons. Agree, Mr. Victoria. It's my toxic
00:41:40.040 trait. Oh my goodness. I don't, I'm going to try this tonight because I was thinking
00:41:46.500 of making pasta. Now I could see it with like pinne or something. For sure pinne. For
00:41:51.960 sure pinne. Duh. Okay. I want you to try something. You just get the sauce. It's going to change
00:41:57.560 your life and you're going to be able to get way more noodles. Okay. A fork? A fork.
00:42:03.420 Have you, do you know? Do you know about, have you heard about forks? I just, I like my spaghetti
00:42:09.700 tinier. Okay. I also, I don't know what that means. Like shorter? I also don't eat spaghetti
00:42:20.600 that often, I guess, but I really just, I don't always eat spaghetti, but when I do, it's with
00:42:25.160 a spoon. Okay. Okay. I, okay. Wow. This led to a revelation that I wasn't really prepared
00:42:32.880 for. Um, okay. Last segment. Let's see. Should I do my final ad now or should I do it after
00:42:42.420 one of the next two segments? Should I do it after the giveaway? No, I just do it now.
00:42:48.100 So there's a break. No. Okay. Okay. Okay. Brie says no. She's in charge.
00:42:55.160 All right. Now for our giveaway. So we've been planning this for a really long time. I'm so
00:43:11.420 excited. My very generous sponsors, my amazing sponsors for Relatable who allow you to watch
00:43:18.740 this show for free. They also donated a bunch of stuff for a giveaway. So we are going to have
00:43:25.140 three prize packages, three prize packages, and they're mostly the same. However, some
00:43:31.120 of our sponsors sent like a variety of products. And so you might not get the same thing is what
00:43:37.240 I'm about to show you. So let me show you some of the things that you'll probably get or that
00:43:41.000 you might get in your prize package. It's really good no matter what. And a lot of these things,
00:43:46.120 like I said, you will get, but some of them like the leather goods, they might be different,
00:43:49.700 just depending. Um, and then I'll tell you how to enter in all that good stuff. So let me show
00:43:53.820 you a sampling of what you'll get. Okay. So Range Leather, one of my sponsors, all their stuff
00:43:59.760 is American made. It's made in Wyoming. These are awesome Christian people. They're fans of
00:44:04.540 Relatable. I've been advertising for their company for a little bit now. I also have this bag,
00:44:10.580 love this bag. I think mine's actually a little bit bigger. I use it all the time.
00:44:13.800 Super high quality. Love it. So inside this bag are, are, um, are some of the things that you
00:44:20.520 make it. So one, you'll get my book and I'll sign it. And one of you will get the book that has been
00:44:27.420 on my set for a very long time. So it's there. Brie has it. It's well loved. We'll say that,
00:44:33.320 but I thought that it might be special to some of you. So it's a little, it's been through
00:44:37.340 some wear and tear. It's seen some better days, but I will sign it. And so one of you will get one
00:44:41.940 of those books. And then also you will get a gift card, Carly Jean Los Angeles. Let's see.
00:44:47.600 Do I know how much it is? $250 gift card. That's good. Love Carly Jean Los Angeles. Also Cozy Earth.
00:44:54.460 You will get, um, a pillowcase set. I love Cozy Earth. I love our, their sheets and I love their
00:44:59.900 lounge wear. It's like super, super soft and temperature regulating. Also one of my other
00:45:04.960 favorite sponsors, the Dell natural cosmetics. You'll get their essential hydrating spray. I believe
00:45:10.600 this is a spray and then also, um, or possibly an essential cleanse. I use this every day and
00:45:19.300 also some naturally it's clean products. For example, you might get a multi-surface cleaner,
00:45:23.880 which I also use every day. And then some stain removers. Another example of what you may get,
00:45:31.940 which I also wear these all the time. These range leather earrings, which are super, super cute.
00:45:37.240 So cute. They've got brown, they've got black, they've got all different kinds. And so an example
00:45:42.600 of some of the things that you will get. So, okay, now you got to listen closely. You got to listen
00:45:47.040 closely. Oh, and ranchers gift card. Oh, good ranchers gift card. And did I forget that in here?
00:45:52.980 I think I did. Yeah, it's right here. Good ranchers gift card, a hundred dollar gift card
00:45:58.340 plus a t-shirt. Okay. Yes. Now I've covered everything. Wow. Such a good deal. This is going to
00:46:04.500 be amazing. I can't wait to see who is blessed by all this stuff. And again, just thank you to my
00:46:09.040 amazing sponsors for doing all this. Okay. Now let me tell you how to enter. Okay. And I will be
00:46:15.680 putting this up on the screen. If you're watching on YouTube, we may, if we can fit it, we'll put it
00:46:20.580 in the description of this episode. So you can see, we won't leave you hanging. We'll also post this on
00:46:25.320 my Instagram. Okay. So you'll be able to see these directions, but you can also write this down right
00:46:30.220 now. If you want to follow Allie's shorts and Allie B Stuckey on Instagram, tag three friends
00:46:35.980 on the giveaway post, tag three friends on the giveaway post on, um, on my page on Allie B Stuckey,
00:46:44.680 uh, follow our sponsors on Instagram. Okay. So I know this is a lot of steps, but that's because
00:46:51.020 there's got to be a really high bar. These are really good prices. Carly Jean Los Angeles,
00:46:55.200 Adele natural cosmetics, good ranchers, naturally it's clean range, leather, cozy earth. You got to follow
00:46:58.980 them all on Instagram. You have until midnight, Thursday, March 23rd. Wow. You have a long time
00:47:06.780 midnight, March 23rd to enter. We will select three winners at random on Friday, March 24th note,
00:47:14.920 make sure your Instagram can receive messages so we can tell you that you've won. So we will sift
00:47:21.320 through all of that. We will make an announcement. We'll pick the winners. We might not announce until
00:47:26.480 Monday, or maybe we'll announce social media on Friday and then we'll announce on here on Monday,
00:47:31.000 but just FYI, that's what's going on. So I won't repeat all of that because you can go look at the
00:47:36.820 description, go look at the Instagram post and all of that. Um, okay. So that is our fun giveaway.
00:47:43.540 Oh my gosh. Now I almost forgot about this. We also have new merch. We have new merch and Victoria and
00:47:50.080 Bree can tell you we've been working on this merch for a really long time. And then the guy who does the
00:47:55.700 merch at Belize TV has been working on it for a really long time. Also him and his wife just had
00:48:00.200 a new baby while they're developing all this. So he's got a lot going on. I'm very thankful for all
00:48:05.420 the hard work that everyone has put into this. So we'll put up some pictures on YouTube so that you
00:48:10.000 can see what it looks like. This link is now live. Gosh, I've got a lot to post on social media today.
00:48:15.160 Um, we've got some hats, some corduroy hats. Love it. We've got some crew neck sweatshirts. Love it.
00:48:22.620 They're embroidered by the way. It's not just painted on there. Embroidered on there. We've
00:48:27.700 got some t-shirts. You guys love the be a salmon sticker. And so we've got a lot of be a salmon
00:48:34.440 gear. Um, that means, you know, swimming upstream against the craziness and the chaos of the current.
00:48:41.120 And, um, let's see, we've got other sweatshirts. We've got some tote bags that we really love. Is there
00:48:47.900 anything else that I'm missing? Um, y'all love, okay, this cracks me up. Speaking of the dinosaurs,
00:48:54.420 the question, everything sticker that we have right there. Um, we're putting it on a t-shirt
00:49:00.620 and we're putting the question, everything on a, uh, on a hat, because what did you say,
00:49:05.800 Brie? It is the, the sticker is the best selling item on blaze tv.com. Besides like
00:49:12.040 the gift subscription to blaze, gift subscription to blaze tv, this little sticker, my question,
00:49:18.700 everything land of dinosaur landing on the moon sticker is the best selling. And we also have
00:49:24.940 another fun. I can't tell you what it is. Another fun product that has not yet been developed with
00:49:30.360 someone's face on it. It's not my face. It's unexpected. I think that one's going to sell
00:49:35.500 really well too. But okay guys, go, go, go, go, go, go to Alliemerch.com. It's Alliemerch.com.
00:49:43.960 Use code Allie10 for 10% off. Get this for a present. Get this for yourself. I can't wait until
00:49:51.900 my merch comes in. I'm so excited for my crew neck sweatshirt. I'm so excited. And there's going to be
00:49:57.200 more stuff too. This is actually just like the beginning of the new merch line. So if you guys like
00:50:02.400 have requests, feel free to send them my way and we'll do what we can to accommodate that. We've
00:50:08.220 got lots of fun ideas coming up. So anyway, I know you guys are going to love those. Alliemerch.com.
00:50:13.140 Allie10 for 10% off your order. All right. Well, we definitely don't have time for a news segment.
00:50:20.000 Okay. But I do have some news myself and I feel so awkward always announcing this, but I am pregnant.
00:50:26.880 Yay. Yep. I'm pregnant with number three and I am 17 weeks and I wasn't really like that eager to
00:50:39.140 announce yet. I feel like by number three, you're just kind of, I don't know. You're like, yeah,
00:50:44.540 I'll announce when I announce, but it's getting harder and harder to disguise it. And so I just
00:50:51.180 thought rather than people asking whether it's a baby or whether I'm just randomly gaining weight
00:50:56.540 around my middle, I just thought that I would just go ahead and reveal it that yes, I am indeed
00:51:02.200 pregnant and my husband and I are super excited. And so do sometime in August. So yeah, yeah, we're
00:51:11.080 excited about that. And pregnancy has been pretty good. First trimester was rough. Actually, if you go
00:51:18.600 back and you look at some of my episodes during first trimester, like during January and February,
00:51:24.200 and if there was ever a day where you're like, Hmm, Allie, Hmm, she could have brushed her hair. She
00:51:29.720 maybe looks sick. I probably because it's because I was actually in my most popular interview with
00:51:37.160 Ginger Volo. I'm looking real rough because I was nine weeks pregnant at that point. And I was
00:51:44.620 very sick. I actually had to text Ginger after and say, I am so sorry if it seemed like I was tired
00:51:50.780 or something. It's because I am in the throes of morning sickness and all of that stuff. But I'm now
00:51:57.220 in the second trimester and I feel really good. Praise God that the pregnancy so far has been really
00:52:02.400 smooth. No complications. It's been a boring pregnancy for all intents and purposes, which is good.
00:52:07.740 Um, so yeah, I appreciate your prayers and your thoughts and your celebrations and all of that good
00:52:14.320 stuff. And yeah, that's it. I'm pregnant. That's all I wanted to say. That's my announcement. I remember
00:52:22.040 when I announced my very first pregnancy right at 12 weeks in 2018. Yeah, 2018. And here I am, guys. You've seen
00:52:32.580 me through three pregnancies. Thanks for that. Um, okay. I guess that's all I got to say. Thank you
00:52:38.580 guys so much for joining this fun episode of Relatable. We'll be back to regularly scheduled
00:52:43.800 programming for the rest of the week. Tomorrow I've got a fun interview. Um, but we'll also be
00:52:49.960 talking about the news. We will be talking about President Trump possibly getting arrested. I've
00:52:54.120 gotten tweets about that, about why haven't you talked about that yet? Well, I'm still gathering a lot
00:52:59.560 of information and we had a lot to talk about today, but I promise we will be talking about that and
00:53:03.700 covering all of that insanity, but just wanted to have a nice, fun, lighthearted episode today. So
00:53:08.460 thank you guys so much for joining and we will see you back here tomorrow.