Ep 773 | SPECIAL EPISODE: New Set, Announcement, Giveaway & Other Fun!
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In this episode of Relatable, we talk about our new brand, new merch, and an exciting announcement. We also play some games and talk about some new additions to our new set. Relatable is brought to you by GoodRanchers.
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We are on our new set. If you're watching on YouTube, I cannot wait to show it to you. But
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even if you're listening, we've got a lot of fun stuff for you today. A lot of new stuff. We've got
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new merch. We've got an exciting announcement at the end of the episode. We've got some games we're
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going to play. We've also got some amazing encouragement that you guys sent me that I know
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wasn't just edifying for me. It will also be edifying for you as well. If we have time,
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we'll get into some new stories, but we've got a lot of ground to cover on this episode of
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Relatable, which is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to GoodRanchers.com.
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Okay. What'd you think? What'd you think? It's the new music. It's the new branding. If you're just
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listening, you can't see the new branding. You can't see the new set that we're on. So you need to go
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watch this on YouTube if you haven't already. It's always out at 6 p.m. Eastern time. So depending
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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
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a little bit of an adjustment for you to get used to the new music. I got so many messages from you
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guys saying, don't get rid of the music. I dance with my child to this or my child recognizes this and
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I get so excited about the intro, but you'll get used to this. I personally really like the new
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music. So today we're just going to have a fun episode. We'll get into some new stuff too, as you
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heard at the top of the show, but we are just going to talk about the new set. We're going to talk about
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relatable giveaway, all that fun stuff. And then I do have an announcement, like I said, at the end,
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and then we're going to play a couple games too. Also joining me today, we've got some people joining
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me. We've got Brie and we've got Victoria. There they are. They're not the most excited about being
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on camera today, but I told them that they must be. And so here they are. They will be celebrating
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the new set and some new stuff and some new merch too. I'll be announcing all of that.
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Um, okay. Let's first, before we get into anything today, let's just take a look, a little tour of the
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new set. If I could get up and like walk around, I would. So you're not going to be able to see
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everything. Maybe we'll do like a BTS behind the scenes thing later. So let's go to the wide shot
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and let's show them. Okay. So we've got our new relatable brand and that's our new font, which I
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absolutely love. I absolutely love this glow lamp. Now let me just go ahead and point out something.
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That I know some of you are going to say, and we're just going to have to be okay with it.
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Now that T right there in the relatable, some of you have said, because I showed this on Instagram,
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some of you have said, looks like an R, but look, this is going to be one day, this, this word,
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this brand is going to be as iconic as the Walt Disney brand. And we all know how confusing that D is
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that some of us thought when we were younger, that it was a G and we realized, no, it is a D.
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So this is going to be an iconic T. So even though some of you, can we pull it up? Even though some of
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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
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cactus going on. We actually are not completely done yet. So we're going to have some different plants
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that are, um, that are coming in. And there are some different things that we're still adding to
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that corner over there that just haven't come in yet. We've also got some other like fun personal
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touches that we're adding to it. If you know, you know, got dinosaurs all around me because we're
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just not sure. We're just not sure. I'm sure that these dinosaurs exist, but when it comes to the
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others, I don't know, the jury is still out. That's what I'll say on that. Um, and then we've
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got, if you look closely, like the more that you watch it, you'll see some stuff that we've added
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that just kind of speak to the things that I'm interested in. Some of the things that we've
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talked about on the show, you can't see the full, the full range of things that I have behind me in
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this shot. Um, I don't even know if you can see it on the wide shot. Can you see some of the
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stuff on the wide shot? Okay. So we can't see everything on the wide shot, but we'll show
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like a behind the scenes or maybe one day we'll like pan the camera up so you can see it. We've
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got C.S. Lewis staring down at me and we actually thought about moving him down. It's a sketch of
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C.S. Lewis because y'all know how much I love C.S. Lewis, but it kind of freaked me out when we put
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him right behind me. Looked like he was staring over my shoulder and I didn't like that. Um, and then
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I grew up in Texas, so we've got some odes to Texas also. Uh, so I love it. I love this set.
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I know that you guys are going to love it too. We just wanted a little bit of contrast, something
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a little bit different. I know change is tough, but I think y'all are going to get used to it.
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I actually want to move like all of this stuff, um, into my, into my home because I love it that
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much. I'll Victoria Brie. I know that y'all like the set cause we have been talking about it
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painstakingly forever. What's your favorite part about the new set? That's a good question.
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I would, off the top of my head, the dinosaur, the little dinosaur planter behind you.
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Yeah. Love it. A nice little touch. Yeah. Victoria, what about you? Question everything.
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Yeah. I love the blue bonnets. I think it's so cute. The blue bonnets. I think that's cute too,
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but I think my favorite is probably the sign itself. Probably the relatable sign and also the black
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walls. It's just so different than what we had before guys. There are so many people and so many
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things that go into something like this. It's funny because a lot of y'all thought that I recorded at
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home and my last one, which I love that y'all thought that I was at home, but I actually am at
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a studio and there are so many people that go into this. We've been planning this, designing this,
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building this since, I don't know, November probably. Um, and so, yeah, there's been a lot of effort
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put into it. We just want it to look the best possible. And we're still, we might still be
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adjusting the lighting a little bit. That's up until like the, honestly, like the moment this
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music started playing, we were still thinking about the lighting. And so it might look a little
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bit different. I don't know yet. We're still assessing, we want it to be absolutely perfect.
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And so we're still assessing exactly what it's going to look like, but you can, you can let me know.
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I'll take it under advisement. As you guys know, y'all are my official executive producers,
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but I can't take all of your feedback because y'all have really conflicting opinions. And sometimes
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let's just be real, not good opinions. So I have to make an assessment and use my best discernment
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and professional opinion when weighing y'all's opinions about what the set and everything looks
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like. But I do value your feedback. Okay. Speaking of valuing feedback, one thing that I thought would
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be fun, I ask you guys on Instagram, if you would please send me just some ways that either Relatable
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has changed your mind on something. And if you didn't, if you weren't able to do this when I asked
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on Instagram before I'm now recording the show, feel free to leave a YouTube comment, or you can still
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message me if you want to. How Relatable has changed your mind or just what the show has meant to you,
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because that's not just for me. It's not just to boost my ego because that's not how I see it at
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all. This really is a team effort every day, such a team effort. And it's really meaningful to the
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people who work behind the scenes too, because it just reminds us about why we do what we do.
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And I, of course, don't, I'm going to read you some of these messages. And I think it's important
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to do because I think it edifies you guys out there too. But this is not something that I take credit
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for, or I think, wow, I'm just so great that I can change people's minds. I really do see it as
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wow. God can use absolutely anyone and anything to change people's hearts and minds on subjects that
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are consequential. And also, Brie told me that she has something that she changed her mind on,
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which I'm really interested to hear. So we'll hear it in the next segment. I don't even know what
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she's going to say. And then we'll get into some fun games and do some more fun stuff.
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All right. So this is our new set. That was the introduction. We got new branding. We got all
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new stuff. And I know that you guys really like it. I love it. And I'm so, so thankful to all the
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people who have been working really hard behind the scenes to get all this to happen by today.
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All right. So I was totally overwhelmed by the beautiful messages that you all sent me. I didn't
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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
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or I didn't even open it. Don't think that it doesn't matter or that it's not meaningful. I may
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see it one day later if I get to your message or I may not, but just know that I appreciate it. I
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understand that you're all busy. And so you taking the time to send me a well thought out message
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saying what relatable means to you, I really, really value the energy and the effort that it
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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
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just going to kind of talk a little bit about the subjects that were most popular that you said that
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you changed your mind on. So I will go ahead and say, and like I said, I'll read some of the messages
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specifically, but I'll go ahead and say the most popular subjects that I got on which people said
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you changed my mind on that, or not even me, but a guest, the show changed my mind on this.
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IVF and surrogacy, the whole reproductive technology industry. I think for most of you,
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and this is like me too, you just hadn't thought about it. You just hadn't thought about the ethical
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questions, the gray areas of things like IVF. We're pro-life. We love babies. We love creating life.
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We didn't think about all those souls on ice and all of the potential risks to the mother and child
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when it comes to IVF. We didn't think about the father-mother separation when it comes to sperm
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donation and egg donation. We didn't think about what is going on in the physical and psychological
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development of a child when it comes to surrogacy and purposely taking away a child from his mother or
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father. It's not that you were necessarily pro those things. You just didn't think about it. You just
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didn't know. I've had several guests or a couple guests, Jennifer Law and Katie Foust, who have both
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come on the show and we've talked about these things, the importance of children's rights,
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the importance of thinking through these issues. I'm so thankful to them because they taught me so
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much. One of my favorite things to do is to introduce you guys to people who have taught me
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things and who have changed my mind on things and enlightened me. These are not always,
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actually, I would say very often, they are not the most well-known people, the people with the
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biggest audiences. Some of my most popular interviews, my most popular episodes are with
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people that some of you, most of you, have never heard of. That just gives me so much joy
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in helping to amplify voices that God is using and that are doing really, really good work.
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And so, wow, that changed a lot of your minds. Actually, one of you said that you were signed up
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to be a surrogate until you listened to those episodes and it changed your mind. So if you're
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listening to this and you're like, well, what's wrong with that? You should go back and listen to
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some of the episodes that we've done on it. It might change your mind too, or it might take a
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little while. Okay, before I get into the specifics of this, I also want to say that one comment that I
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kept receiving that I saw in these messages was that I was really shook the first few times that
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I listened to you, or I was really offended, or I was really thrown off when my friend shared your
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episodes with me, whether they're on abortion or whatever. And at first, I really did not want to
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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
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definitely true when it comes to the IVF slash surrogacy issue. I got a lot of messages when I
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first started talking about this, being like, this is wrong. You're unloving. You're unempathetic.
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You don't understand because you haven't been through this. And then messages later on. And I
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always really admire this about the character of a person who were like, wow, I didn't think about it
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like that, or I changed my mind, or I see kind of what you or your guests were saying. So I always loved
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those. I always loved the people who started off like not liking me or not liking something that
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I said. And then over time, they kind of, they changed their mind. That's cool. Okay. So some
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of the specific messages that I got about the IVF surrogacy, someone said, Taylor said, IVF and
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surrogacy are the biggest ones. I went from thinking how amazing it is for people who aren't able to have
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kids now thinking from the perspective of the child. So eye-opening. Jessica said the same thing.
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She just thought that the technological advancements in this realm were a good thing
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because they're medical progress. But she said that she realized that just because something
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is deemed medical process doesn't mean that it's actually good and certainly doesn't mean
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that we should participate in it. Like we always say, when technology takes us from what is natural
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to what is possible, there are always at the very least questions that we should ask ourselves
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about that. The other big one that we, that we saw messages about, it was abortion. There were a lot
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of people who came to my podcast before they started listening, they were either pro-choice or they just
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didn't know, or they were personally pro-life, but politically pro-choice. And so I got a lot of
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messages from people saying, saying that they changed their mind on this. So here's a message from
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someone named Allison about this. Abortion. She said, I used to be pro-choice. I'm now passionately
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pro-life. In fact, a client of mine got pregnant unexpectedly. She didn't want the baby. For
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whatever reason, she was confiding in me. One morning, she texted me from the parking lot of
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an abortion clinic on the verge of ending her baby's life. Had I not been pro-life at this point, had the
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situation happened to me five, 10 years ago, I'd have told her to do what she felt was right. Instead,
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I prayed before stepping into the conversation with her, and then I called her. I had no idea what to say,
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but I knew God would guide my words. She ended up not having the abortion. And then she talks about
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the baby's name and she says, praise God. Thank you, Allie, for helping to shift my mind. I know
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God worked through you to sanctify me out of being pro-choice. And that's just amazing. It's just
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amazing. And I just want that to encourage you too, that you never know what conversation you have
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or what you post on social media or what act of courage or boldness you do that may plant a seed
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in someone's mind that could change their mind on abortion. And then they could save someone's life,
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or maybe you saved someone's life by convincing someone. I know sometimes it seems fruitless,
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like you're just speaking into a void, like no one cares what you have to say, or everyone's angry at
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what you have to say. It's not about you. It's not about people liking you. It's not about the
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instant gratification. It's not about the immediate positive feedback. It is about obedience. And God
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promises to use obedience. And you may never know how God is going to use your words and use those
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seemingly small acts of courage, but I promise he will. Like we're talking about physical lives here.
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We're talking about souls. Your boldness absolutely matters, and it can plant seeds that save lives. So
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just remember that. Someone named Alexandria said, she said that she realized that abortion is not the
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answer in horrible cases of so-called exceptions, like rape or incest. The case you made for why
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that is still an innocent life changed my mind and love the clarity and simplicity of your argument of
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what is it about the circumstances, size or location that gives someone the right to kill a baby inside
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the womb, but not the baby next to you. Well, thank you so much for saying that, Alexandria. And I had a lot
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of messages, a lot of messages about that. And that is next to someone believing the gospel. That is
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the most consequential thing that someone could change their mind on. Okay. This goes along with
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that. This is also one of my favorite messages to get, and that is parenting. One person, Tara said
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that she didn't want kids before listening to my show. And you have no idea how common this is.
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And this just makes me sad. Like how many young women are convinced that the world, Christian young
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women, that the world is so bad, that times are so scary, that the season is so challenging in American
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or world history or whatever, that you shouldn't be fruitful in multiplying. As if God today is not
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as powerful and not as sovereign and not as faithful and not as loving and not as good as he was a thousand
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or two thousand years ago, as if Christians haven't gone through much more difficult times than they
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have today. I mean, we are just kind of inundated with this antinatalist rhetoric today that I think
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we don't realize has affected us, but it really has, just like feminism and every other kind of
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secular ideology. And I think it's also just fear. And I think Satan loves for us to operate out of
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terror, out of paranoia, out of not trusting the Lord, not realizing that God actually cares about
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our kids' future more than we do. He cares about our kids' souls more than we do. And if the world
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needs absolutely anything, it is godly, wise, courageous kids that must be raised by godly,
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wise, courageous parents. So that's something that we talk about a lot. And there was a message by
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someone named Geneva. And she said this, and I just love how, I just love this story. She said,
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I just wanted to share the impact you and Relatable have had on my life. I grew up Amish.
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I left and was pretty lost trying to figure out church and everything else in the outside world.
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I started listening to your show. I've gained a lot of awareness. I didn't grow up knowing
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anything about politics. Now I'm shocked when people don't pay attention to what's going on.
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I got married to an amazing man, but I was very hesitant to bring children into this crazy world.
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However, hearing you say over and over how the Bible commands us to do so, which it does,
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except for in rare exceptions, which we've talked about before, to raise godly children
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and having on guests that have shared stories that changed my mind. I'm now pregnant with our first,
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a girl due in July. And there's not a doubt in my mind that we were called and equipped to raise
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strong little warriors. Thank you so much for your strong stance on biblical values. That's so sweet.
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Thank you so much for sharing that with me. And then Brooke says something similar. She says,
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I forgot to mention the biggest one of all. I subconsciously bought into all of the world's
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lies about having children and was terrified to have them. Even though my husband had made it clear
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that he was ready whenever I was, it literally consumed all my thoughts. Your podcast was how
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God slowly revealed to me how wrong I was about children. The Lord is still working on my heart
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into 2019. We weren't quite ready, quite to the point of officially trying for children yet.
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When I found out I was pregnant with our daughter. Oh, when I found out I was pregnant with my daughter,
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but instead of fear, I immediately felt an immense peace because I had been so encouraged in truth
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for over a year by then for this podcast. So thank you so much. And congratulations.
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Congratulations. And I can relate to all of those fears, by the way. My mind was also changed and
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developed over time when it comes to that, because it's really easy to give into the fear and even
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selfishness. Another one, self-love. Of course, I wrote my book about that. You're not enough.
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And that's okay. Jenna said that you and your podcast are one of the contributors to turning my life
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around. I was totally sucked into the, you are enough. You're perfect just the way that you are.
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She said that she had an unhappy life, unhappy marriage, and that she was just turning to these
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motivational slogans, which we all have at some point, trying to make her feel better,
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trying to make her feel worthy and sufficient. And she still was just coming up empty. None of
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these self-help books were actually helping her. And then when she actually realized that she needed to
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turn to the Lord, that's when her path towards repentance and satisfaction in a healthy marriage
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really changed. So I'm just so thankful to the Lord for that. I've also been in a place where I
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have tried to look to superficial self-help and self-love mantras to make myself feel better about
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myself. Someone else sent me a message saying that a couple of years ago, she was all in on Rachel
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Hollis' Girl, Wash Your Face. That was the entire culture that she was consumed by. And then she realized
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how empty and how fleeting that all was. And then there's one, there's one who, or I mean,
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not just one message, several messages, but one subject that I know is still controversial. Again,
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go back and listen to my messages on this or my episodes on this if you haven't already. And that
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is the death penalty. The death penalty. A lot of you came to my podcast thinking that the death penalty
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is unjust, that it's unbiblical. And as we've talked about, as Genesis 9-6 talks about very clearly,
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the death penalty for murder is not just suggested for, is not just suggested in the Bible, but is
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actually demanded. And it's not because of cruelty, but it's actually because murder is so egregious
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because we are so valuable because we're made in the image of God that the only just punishment for
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it is capital punishment. That's what the God who is love, 1 John 4-8 says, is justice in that case.
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Also, this is within this message about the death penalty that I got from Eva that I won't read in
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its entirety, but some of you changed your minds on pit bulls too, which I feel like that probably
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saved some lives. Oh gosh, I probably turned this into the most controversial episode. Go back and
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listen to my episode on pit bulls if you're not so sure about that. And then several on theology too.
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Um, a lot of you, I know, and I know people listening to this and watching this will still
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be like, oh my gosh, I can't believe people are changing their mind on Calvinism and on reformed
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theology. But a lot of you who came to my podcast, maybe you were in the prosperity gospel or you
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just didn't know about reformed theology. And now you and your husband have started attending a
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different church or, um, reading different books and following different teachers and your interest
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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.
00:30:09.780
And before, I didn't even, well, and the other thing is, um, is pit bulls. And now I am an anti-pit bull
00:30:17.880
Okay. I thought that you were walked into this being an anti-pit bull.
00:30:24.560
That converted me. Yeah. I didn't really care about them before.
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.
00:35:49.940
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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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.