Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - August 08, 2026


Is This Communist Chef Wisconsin’s Next Governor? | Ron Simmons


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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. It's Ron Simmons, Allie's dad. And for those of you that have listened
00:00:14.700 before, you know, I do two of these a month that come out on the weekends. And this one
00:00:19.960 will come out this weekend. We do record them ahead of time. So sometimes the news changes
00:00:24.880 after we record but we try to talk about some things that I wouldn't say they're evergreen but
00:00:30.860 the issues are going to be around or have been around and people are still talking about them
00:00:35.460 but anyway it's great just great to have you listening or watching how whatever you're doing
00:00:39.560 and just want to remind you if you haven't gotten your tickets for Share the Arrows yet which is
00:00:44.340 coming up here in just a couple of months actually less than two months now about six weeks from now
00:00:49.860 it's going to be happening in the Dallas area. And those of you that went last year know how
00:00:55.240 wonderful it was. Actually, the last two years, this is the third one. And it's going to be great.
00:00:59.800 We've got lots of great speakers coming in and going to have great music, great share time.
00:01:06.040 And I'll be walking around the venue. Hopefully, I'll get to meet some of you at the time. Please
00:01:10.160 come up and say hello. And then also want to remind you that Allie's book is still, you know,
00:01:16.560 doing very well. Her book, Toxic Empathy, which you can see behind me, is a New York Times
00:01:21.980 bestseller. And if you have not read that, I encourage you to do because it really, really
00:01:27.640 relates to what we're going through now. When you think about the trans stuff and you think about
00:01:33.000 all of the other, what's going on with the democratic socialists, so-called socialists,
00:01:38.660 actually they're communists. We'll talk about that in a few minutes. Really, really talks about how
00:01:42.920 they use our empathy against us. And we don't want to lose our empathy, but we want to make
00:01:47.940 sure it doesn't turn toxic. And this would be a very good book for your teenagers and young
00:01:54.220 adults to read for sure so that they can prepare themselves as they head back to school within the
00:02:00.100 next couple of weeks or few weeks. It will help them prepare themselves to understand the difference
00:02:05.160 between real empathy and toxic empathy. And then also, if you want to read my book, Life Lessons
00:02:10.040 from the Little Red Wagon. You can order it through Ali's merchandise website, or you can
00:02:14.760 also get it on Amazon. If you want a signed copy, just email me, ron at ronsimmons.com,
00:02:19.620 and I'm happy to send that to you. I think the cost is 20 bucks, but it's somewhat of my story,
00:02:27.100 but also with some lessons that I learned over my lifetime of growing up in a probably I would
00:02:34.560 consider lower middle class family, mom and dad divorced. So I went on my own at age 17. Lisa and
00:02:43.140 I got married early, you know, went into business with some other people. So I became an entrepreneur
00:02:50.420 and then the different things that we were involved in, my faith journey as well, as well
00:02:55.560 as my political life. Some of you might not know that I was a elected official, a state representative
00:03:01.500 in Texas for just almost eight years, seven and a half years, and served three terms in the Texas
00:03:08.440 house and learned a lot from that. Some good, some bad, but I did learn a lot from that. So anyway,
00:03:15.280 but we're going to go over some things today I think you'll be interested in. You know, I told
00:03:18.600 you, I think a couple months ago, that I wanted to start having some good news stories as well.
00:03:24.060 It's easy to find the bad news, but we want to have some good news stories as well. And today,
00:03:28.000 we're going to start with a good news story, and it is about Paul Vaughn. Some of you may have
00:03:33.340 heard this name, but Paul Vaughn is a father of 11, bless his heart, and here's a picture of him
00:03:40.200 if you're watching this, and he's a Christian pro-life activist. He's recently reached a
00:03:45.640 seven-figure settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice after suing over how he was prosecuted
00:03:51.860 and arrested during the Biden administration.
00:03:55.340 Now, you might remember that he took part in this protest outside of a Tennessee abortion
00:04:00.720 facility in 2021, and federal prosecutors charged him under the Freedom of Access to
00:04:07.420 Clinics Entrance Act, called the FACE Act, a 1994 law that makes it a crime to use force,
00:04:15.160 threats, or physical obstruction to interfere with access to abortion clinics or other
00:04:21.780 reproductive health facilities. Now, remember those three things, force, threats, or physical
00:04:26.740 obstruction. You can be there. You can be there and witness. You can be singing songs. You can
00:04:33.700 be praying. You can be actually even handing out literature. You just can't use force or physical
00:04:39.580 obstruction or threats. All right. Prosecutors also added a felony conspiracy charge, meaning
00:04:46.160 and he faced a potential sentence of more than 10 years in prison if convicted.
00:04:51.820 And what happened is he was there at this facility, and somebody must have complained.
00:04:58.800 And two days later, I believe, yeah, two days later, the feds, the FBI, came in, guns pulled.
00:05:06.400 And you'll see in a little bit of a video here in just a second where you can see some of the guns
00:05:10.500 when his wife was talking to the FBI agents.
00:05:14.040 And they arrived with guns drawn and arrested him in front of his wife and several of his children, which is just incredible.
00:05:24.440 And here's a little bit of a video after he'd been arrested, but his wife is trying to get more information from the arresting officers.
00:05:33.160 Here's thought one.
00:05:34.640 But if you're not going to let me, then I'll just.
00:05:36.460 No, I want to know why you were banging on my door with a gun.
00:05:44.040 you're not going to tell me anything
00:05:48.920 i tried no you didn't you did not try
00:05:54.740 wow well you saw when they were walking away from the uh porch there that the guy had a i don't
00:06:06.100 know ar-15 or something like that which is pretty threatening i think that would scare anybody
00:06:12.040 And he said that three of his children were held at gunpoint outside during the arrest,
00:06:17.980 and one of his younger children still is kind of affected by that.
00:06:22.040 So that arrest was similar to that of Mark Hawk, a pro-life sidewalk counselor who had a SWAT team
00:06:29.880 of 25 to 30 FBI agents storm their home in the early morning with guns drawn, terrifying children,
00:06:38.620 and they arrest him for violation of the face.
00:06:40.480 All this was happening during the Biden time frame.
00:06:44.660 And there's a screenshot on how a report on he was a Catholic pro-life speaker author and the FBI came in with guns drawn.
00:06:56.680 Hawk says he was protecting his 12-year-old son who was being harassed by a pro-abortion protester.
00:07:02.480 That's what led to the arrest.
00:07:04.140 He pushed the man back after he invaded his son's space.
00:07:06.740 I would do that in a minute.
00:07:08.120 Now, Hawk was found not guilty.
00:07:09.680 Even back in the Biden administration, he was found not guilty.
00:07:12.680 You remember in 2025, President Trump pardoned Vaughn and 23 other pro-life activists who had been convicted under the FACE Act.
00:07:20.520 The Trump Justice Department also changed the policy on how they enforce this.
00:07:26.340 And now it's a policy of there has to be serious injury or death or major property damage.
00:07:34.260 Right now, the interesting thing is, is will the DOJ prosecute when there's been major damage on facilities or anything like that or harassment for pro-life things?
00:07:50.420 Right. Because you remember when those people went into that church here a few months ago, they went into that church and were harassing and threatening and all that.
00:07:58.600 Those people ought to be prosecuted under the FACE Act.
00:08:03.360 And at the time that all of this happened, Senator Josh Howley pointed out the irony, and we have a screenshot of that.
00:08:12.120 And he says that President Biden prosecuted an 89-year-old concentration camp survivor for singing hymns in a clinic hallway.
00:08:23.020 And then Biden turned around and handed out pardons for criminal murders on his last day in office.
00:08:29.460 And President Trump can and should right these wrongs, and he did.
00:08:32.300 So this is a really good news story.
00:08:34.560 First of all, Vaughn was able to win against the government.
00:08:38.480 And secondly, that President Trump pardoned those people.
00:08:41.180 And that's, if you want to think about voting, as you think about going to the polls here in November,
00:08:46.680 again, you got to put out all the noise, all right?
00:08:50.960 And you got to understand the policies that the various people represent.
00:08:56.760 Now, do you think if Kamala Harris would have won the presidential election in 2024, do you think that she would have pardoned these people?
00:09:06.720 No, she would have continued arresting more and more people that were pro-life.
00:09:12.240 So you really have to think about that and you have to weigh all the different stuff.
00:09:16.400 I understand there's probably some things maybe that the Trump administration has done that, you know, that you may not be on board with.
00:09:24.060 and there may be some things that you wish they would have done better.
00:09:29.200 But when you look at the whole scope of things and compare it to what the other side seems to be promoting,
00:09:37.200 and we'll talk about that more in just a minute as well, it's not even close to me.
00:09:41.440 I don't even understand how someone who, they don't have to be a far right person,
00:09:45.820 just anybody in the center, anybody that's not far left should be happy with the overall policies
00:09:53.780 of what the Republicans are talking about.
00:09:57.320 I mean, I don't understand.
00:09:58.640 And if you're a listener and you're not a supporter of that,
00:10:00.900 please email me, ron at ronsimmons.com,
00:10:03.460 and let me know where I'm missing the boat if I am,
00:10:06.440 and I'll be happy to respond to you.
00:10:08.540 So please do that.
00:10:10.340 All right, next thing we're going to talk about
00:10:12.620 is some polling that was done by the McLaughlin Group.
00:10:15.840 If you're interested in the McLaughlin Group,
00:10:19.040 you can go online and find them.
00:10:20.400 They have been very accurate in the last few elections, predicting what was going to happen.
00:10:27.580 Now, they are considered a Republican pollster, meaning that Republican candidates and even the party probably uses them to do some polling.
00:10:37.720 But they have been very accurate.
00:10:40.780 It's one thing to maybe you might say, well, they're partisan.
00:10:44.320 Although I think if you go in and look at their questions, I don't think you'll find that to be the case.
00:10:48.280 But then you say, OK, well, then how accurate were they at the end of the day after the election?
00:10:54.740 And these people have been very accurate. That's why I'm talking about their polling.
00:10:58.120 They just did a poll here a couple of weeks ago, and they were polling initially on the Iran conflict.
00:11:06.160 And they have polled a thousand general election voters. OK.
00:11:11.340 And the first question was about the Strait of Hormuz.
00:11:15.000 Their respondents were asked whether they agreed that Iran should not be allowed to block, attack, mine, or extort ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:11:24.280 And you remember the Strait of Hormuz is where a lot of shipping goes through for commerce, whether that's oil or whether that's food or whatever it is.
00:11:33.400 Commerce goes through that Strait of Hormuz, which is down below Iran between there and Qatar on the other side and some other countries as well.
00:11:42.200 And 72% of the people that they talked to, and again, these are not just Republicans.
00:11:49.640 These are general election voters, so it's a mixture.
00:11:52.900 17.5% disagreed and 11% weren't sure.
00:11:56.520 But 72% said, no, we should not let them stop the straight-of-hore moods.
00:12:02.620 We should make sure that it's open and free.
00:12:05.820 And then the next question was on nuclear weapons.
00:12:09.500 The poll asked whether the United States should finish the job with Iran as it relates to nuclear weapons.
00:12:16.560 And it stated that Iran has long threatened the United States and Israel in pursuing a nuclear program.
00:12:21.740 It could require further military action if it is not stopped now.
00:12:25.860 They were asked whether they agreed that the broader goal of ensuring Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon or threaten American lives.
00:12:34.040 Overall, 62 percent agreed with that objective.
00:12:38.280 So, again, that's a bipartisan support. And when it shows 72 and 62, it doesn't.
00:12:46.820 I mean, again, if you're polling general election voters, that shows that there's bipartisan support for that.
00:12:52.240 So I think that's good information. I'm sure the president's looked at that or his people have looked at that.
00:12:58.540 And while some of us certainly don't want a lot of loss of lives, we don't want any loss of lives on our side.
00:13:05.620 And there's been a few of those. But they don't we don't want a massive loss of life.
00:13:10.540 And I don't think President Trump does either. But we do need to finish the job.
00:13:14.980 And again, once you start something, you need to be able to finish it.
00:13:18.040 We have to have the Strait of Hormuz open and we have to be able to verify on an ongoing basis that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon.
00:13:26.980 And so I think that's pretty encouraging information that most people, you know, if you again,
00:13:32.880 if you cut out all the noise of the mainstream media and even, you know, whether that's far
00:13:38.400 left, far right, whatever, people are generally smarter than you think they are. So that means
00:13:45.320 there are independents and Democrats, not just Trump supporters that say, yeah, we do not need
00:13:50.980 Iran to have a nuclear weapon. And it's not right for them to be able to basically, you know,
00:13:58.400 extort people for passing through international waters.
00:14:02.940 So I thought that was good information there.
00:14:07.000 Next topic we're going to talk about is Rand Paul
00:14:10.700 and Fauci. You remember Senator Paul,
00:14:14.920 he had a hearing a week or so ago and
00:14:17.480 Dr. Fauci, remember Dr. Fauci, he
00:14:22.400 was called to testify because in their investigation
00:14:26.420 Senator Paul's people had found that
00:14:31.000 Fauci kept a diary. Now, let me tell you something.
00:14:35.800 If you keep a diary, be careful what you put in it.
00:14:40.340 And if you get up in a lawsuit
00:14:44.260 and you've written stuff in your diary about something that's related to a
00:14:48.560 lawsuit or anything like that, just know that that's discoverable. So be really,
00:14:52.660 really, really careful. And there's questions that come in about this. You all were obviously
00:14:57.820 interested in this on what my opinion was on the hearings and what happened on him pleading the
00:15:05.440 fifth. So if you have not heard about it or been engaged in it, so he came before the Senate
00:15:11.860 Committee and he pled the fifth, I think, 111 times. And the Fifth Amendment is the amendment
00:15:19.080 that bars you from having to self-incriminate yourself.
00:15:23.180 So what he probably was afraid of
00:15:27.220 is that he was going to get caught in a lie
00:15:29.520 because if you read some of the diary excerpts,
00:15:32.140 they're different than what he was saying to the public at the time.
00:15:35.740 He knew some things and he admitted some things in his diary
00:15:39.600 that he was not telling the public
00:15:42.140 as it related to what types of things were affected,
00:15:45.380 whether that was masking or social distancing,
00:15:47.420 and even where the leak to the virus could have come from.
00:15:53.340 And so this happened on the 29th, and again, more than 100 times he invoked the Fifth Amendment.
00:15:59.860 Now, it's really interesting because, as you also might remember, President Trump gave him a pardon.
00:16:07.060 I'm sorry, President Trump, President Biden gave him a pardon as he was leaving,
00:16:11.900 as President Biden was leaving office against a full and absolute pardon against anything
00:16:17.700 crime he had committed in the past.
00:16:20.500 Now, the interesting thing is, is that didn't have any effect on the future.
00:16:27.080 And so if he would have lied in that hearing, then that would not have been covered under
00:16:33.680 the pardon.
00:16:34.460 All right.
00:16:35.220 Now, it's it's really, really interesting how, you know, how that how that how that worked out and came about.
00:16:45.180 In fact, Senator Josh Howley has a nice conversation, although it's a one sided conversation with Fauci about this.
00:16:54.460 And this is sought number two. I want you to listen to this.
00:16:57.880 Let's just get one thing straight. You don't have any rights under the Fifth Amendment because you've been pardoned.
00:17:02.000 As you very well know, as the Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more,
00:17:06.400 Brown v. Walker, 1896, when he has been pardoned, he may not stand upon his privilege.
00:17:13.420 You know that. Your lawyer is sitting behind you now shifting nervously in their chairs.
00:17:16.900 They know it. This isn't about the Constitution. This isn't about the law.
00:17:20.200 This is about contempt. Contempt for this body and contempt for the American people.
00:17:25.400 But I think I know why you're doing it. It's because you don't want to answer questions.
00:17:29.640 it's because you did all kinds of terrible things it's because during the pandemic you got rich
00:17:35.620 didn't you so anyway really interesting josh alley is really good at what he does and
00:17:44.180 again doesn't mean i have to agree with him on 100 of everything but he's really good
00:17:48.140 at um you know basically grilling uh people like dr fauci and it's interesting the privilege means
00:17:58.020 The Fifth Amendment is a privilege that we all have.
00:18:00.920 And so what I had not heard this before Senator Howley talked about it,
00:18:05.020 that evidently there's some Supreme Court cases that say that once you've been given a pardon,
00:18:11.440 you can't stand on privilege.
00:18:12.860 One of the reasons for pardons is so that you are able to speak freely.
00:18:17.740 But there's tricks in that because you can't be pardoned for something in the future.
00:18:22.640 You can only be pardoned for acts you may have committed in the past.
00:18:26.520 Now, Senator Rand Paul, as I talked about a minute ago on the diary, he had excerpts of that.
00:18:36.780 We're going to have a screenshot of that, of what Senator Paul actually put out.
00:18:42.900 And it's a summary of the nine pages, his tweet is, that he released on his, that Senator Paul released on his website.
00:18:50.100 And I don't know if it's in this particular one, but if you've read any of the stuff about it,
00:18:55.820 you know, he talks about being so enthralled with Jennifer Roberts, you know, fawning all over him.
00:19:02.720 And he became a celebrity. He was the most popular.
00:19:05.700 He was doing what he called the Fauci Five.
00:19:08.440 He would do all five Sunday shows and just all about,
00:19:12.240 as well as he talked in detail, a little bit more detail about some of the things
00:19:16.680 that he wasn't telling the public about related to the virus itself.
00:19:23.020 This shows differences in Fauci's public statements and his private assessments.
00:19:28.560 Although the public was told that it was settled that the virus was not a lab leak,
00:19:32.820 according to Fauci's diary on February 2020, which is early in this process,
00:19:38.480 on a call with 12 scientists, only two believed the virus was natural.
00:19:45.020 Fauci's notes show that the other 10 felt that deliberate insertion was possible.
00:19:50.020 But remember, anybody that brought this up was immediately canceled by the media.
00:19:54.840 And, of course, the mainstream media, they're just not paying any attention to what he said in his diary now.
00:20:00.660 They're totally still fawning over him as a savior.
00:20:05.000 And I don't care.
00:20:06.140 Yeah, the guy's 84, 83 years old.
00:20:08.400 I don't care.
00:20:09.100 There needs to be a price that he pays for what he did to the American public.
00:20:12.940 Because there are going to be people, especially our children, who we know should have been able to go back to school, the young children that are going to have long term effects of this.
00:20:21.860 We also know that some of the side effects of the virus, the vaccine for the virus, were devastating and actually deadly to some young men out there and just not acceptable as to what, you know, what should have happened and what, you know, what did happen, I suppose.
00:20:41.400 But anyway, and there's there we have some more things that we want to show you on the screen that talked about the people, the people that were on the call.
00:20:51.840 And then also August the 13th, more information that he determined that the DOJ's efforts of the mandate vaccines were were under certain circumstances.
00:21:03.680 So, I mean, there's just a lot of stuff that went on. We talked about since August of 2022, the CDC and senior officials on vaccine messaging were influenced by policy or probably policy and political considerations.
00:21:19.780 The CDC wanted to state that the vaccines were not effective at all in preventing infection and transmission. Now, did you hear that?
00:21:27.640 I mean, we heard it from alternate sources, but we didn't hear it coming straight down through the government.
00:21:33.660 And I actually fault the Trump administration partially for this as well, because they were involved in this, too.
00:21:39.020 Right. Before, you know, Trump left office, he was also praising Fauci early on, gave him a medal, all those types of things.
00:21:49.260 I don't think we allowed that to ask enough questions either.
00:21:52.680 I know some of you won't agree with me on that, and that's fine.
00:21:55.120 But I think the Trump administration kind of fell into the spell also.
00:22:02.200 And, OK, believe the science, believe the science.
00:22:05.620 We wanted Fauci, Fauci, though, convinced them to soften this to a modest and waning efficacy.
00:22:14.480 So they changed it, saying that it wouldn't affect transmission to it modestly.
00:22:19.660 They soften the words because words do matter.
00:22:23.160 And so they didn't want to undermine the DOJ's effort at that DOJ at the time to mandate for vaccines in certain circumstances.
00:22:33.120 After the hearing was over, Senator Paul announced his plans to seek contempt charges,
00:22:37.840 which I think they're having a vote on that either this week or next week against Fauci.
00:22:42.060 Contempt of Congress is a crime as well.
00:22:44.780 And I think their position will be that he didn't have the right to take the Fifth Amendment.
00:22:50.080 And he showed, as Senator Howley talked about, and he showed contempt for Congress by doing that.
00:22:56.940 And actually, it is going to be this week.
00:23:00.420 Today, we're recording this on August the 5th, and they are going to vote on the contempt resolution against Fauci.
00:23:07.980 And if it's approved, it'll be sent to the DOJ with a recommendation to prosecute.
00:23:13.660 But, you know, some of this you have to laugh at.
00:23:17.620 You agree with that?
00:23:18.320 Sometimes we have to laugh at what's going on out there,
00:23:21.400 and a lot of you might know Aaron Rodgers.
00:23:24.120 You probably either love him or hate him.
00:23:25.760 If you are a Packer fan, you probably like Aaron Rodgers and a Steeler fan.
00:23:30.220 If you're on the other side of some of his victories and defeats for your team,
00:23:35.520 like they have defeated the Cowboys more than once,
00:23:38.300 then you may not like him as much,
00:23:39.520 but he does have an interesting take in SOT 5.
00:23:42.960 Take a listen.
00:23:44.280 I'm going to plead the fifth.
00:23:45.900 Okay.
00:23:46.340 okay like that absolute coward tony foucher absolute coward are you kidding me yeah 111
00:23:58.720 you got a pardon and you're in front and you pleaded over 100 times yeah at the white house
00:24:03.280 what are you scared of tony i thought you were the science yeah yeah i thought you were i am
00:24:07.740 science and you get up there and you can't answer a question oh that's funny oh i i give uh i give
00:24:14.840 him some credit for doing that. I thought that was pretty funny. It's the truth. Of course,
00:24:19.860 Rogers was never a vaccine guy anyway. If you remember, he opposed the vaccine, didn't take
00:24:25.160 the vaccine. He looked into a lot of things like we did. I had to give my wife and Allie Beth both
00:24:32.900 credit. They were never in favor of the vaccine and stood strong on that. And yep, I think Lisa
00:24:39.960 they got COVID a couple of times. It was never bad. A couple of days of feeling bad. I mean,
00:24:44.360 again, if you didn't know it was COVID, you would have thought it was, you know, a cold or the flu.
00:24:50.040 And so we just did not focus on the right people. A lot of people did die generally because they
00:24:58.320 had comorbidities, meaning they were either way overweight or they already had heart problems.
00:25:05.500 And when combined that with COVID and not treating it properly through some of the methods that they could have used, a lot of people died unnecessarily, especially people in our nursing homes and what have you.
00:25:18.800 And that is a I mean, that's just to me is a crime that we allowed that to happen.
00:25:23.940 All right. So we'll see what happens with Dr. Fauci.
00:25:27.920 And I think that I don't know if his contempt of Congress, I'm sure it will pass the committee and I don't know what the DOJ will do with it.
00:25:38.600 But it will be interesting to keep monitoring that because he is an important figure in our lifetime, someone that probably none of us knew before all of this started.
00:25:49.480 And it just tells you that when you concentrate power in an individual or a small group of individuals, bad things can happen when they're not held accountable.
00:26:02.020 And that's what happened during COVID with Fauci, is that any of us that wanted to disagree, we were immediately called crazy or shut down or didn't even have a voice to be able to do that.
00:26:15.180 And I'll stand up for Senator Paul because he was one of the ones that from day one was questioning Anthony Fauci.
00:26:21.320 He believed, and I think there's some evidence to that, that this gain of function where it can go from an animal to a human being is something that they were actively working on in that lab.
00:26:36.320 And that we, through our tax dollars, helped pay for that.
00:26:40.620 And Fauci has denied that from day one.
00:26:43.420 And that's I think it's been proven that that's not true. All right. Next item that we're going to talk about is it kind of talks about socialism and communism.
00:26:55.940 And one of the poster children for that is a lady who is running for governor in Wisconsin as a, quote unquote, Democratic socialist.
00:27:07.500 And we've got some questions on that. Alyssa asked, the governor race in Wisconsin, it's scary up here.
00:27:14.260 If communist Francesca Hong has a legitimate chance to governor in Wisconsin, I pray no.
00:27:21.620 Well, I'm not sure if it's a legitimate chance.
00:27:24.840 She has a chance, as we have seen in some other places around the country.
00:27:31.720 Now, it's mostly heavily liberal places, although the guy just in Michigan last night, the El Saeed guy, or Abdul El Saeed, just won the Democrat primary up there for the Senate.
00:27:49.420 And we'll see what happens as the election comes around in November.
00:27:53.180 We don't know what's going to happen, but we're going to find out as we go through the next few months.
00:27:57.720 But who is Francesca Hong?
00:27:59.100 You may not know her. And again, if you don't live in Wisconsin, you may not be interested, but you should be interested because this is something that's spreading across the nation.
00:28:07.500 We have same types of people running for office in Texas, and you probably have them in your state.
00:28:12.560 So you've got to pay attention. She is a former chef and small business owner who has always been a far left progressive.
00:28:22.460 She served as a state representative in 2021 or since 2021.
00:28:27.300 So for the last five years, she's a candidate for the Democrat primary for governor.
00:28:32.260 She's been endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America as a member of the Wisconsin Socialist Caucus, which that tells you something.
00:28:43.080 If there's enough people in there to have a caucus, meaning there's enough of our other fellow state reps that they form their own caucus.
00:28:50.020 That's a little scary. I'll tell you that. According to a poll done by Marquette University, she leaves the primary with 38% support among Democrat voters. Her closest competitor is former Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, and she's only got 16%.
00:29:07.080 So I would say the chances of this lady winning the Democrat primary are pretty good.
00:29:16.260 She has expressed some pretty radical views, including the criticism of traditional holidays, such as Thanksgiving and support for anti-racism policies that most of us would argue are actually racial themselves.
00:29:33.500 And they're based on what we believe that she thinks should be racial privilege and identity politics.
00:29:42.900 In fact, here's what she has to say on why Thanksgiving should be canceled.
00:29:48.100 Do you still believe that Thanksgiving should be canceled?
00:29:51.680 Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities.
00:29:56.580 And so I think there I wanted to make sure that people understood that there are multiple views.
00:30:01.940 But views can evolve.
00:30:04.580 And the position that I'm running for right now, and I think my background as a chef,
00:30:09.440 will actually help me become a better governor that's able to bring more people to the table.
00:30:15.360 So I've never known anybody that's traumatized by Thanksgiving,
00:30:21.140 unless it's a personal issue because, you know, you've got family gathering
00:30:26.780 and there may be some conflict there.
00:30:28.220 but just in general, the holiday, the Thanksgiving holiday.
00:30:32.900 And this lady is Korean.
00:30:35.360 Why would she, and maybe she's not, but maybe she must be,
00:30:40.040 why would she be traumatized by Thanksgiving?
00:30:42.440 And the fact that she's a chef makes her qualify to be a governor.
00:30:47.820 And I don't care who runs for elected office, whatever your background is,
00:30:51.840 you have the right to do that.
00:30:53.280 But I don't think that that gives you unique qualifications.
00:30:57.580 She's just, she is out there.
00:31:00.480 In fact, she talks about her son who is half white.
00:31:04.740 Listen to this word salad.
00:31:06.440 Kamala Harris would be proud of this.
00:31:08.940 This is on SOT4.
00:31:10.420 I wasn't always aware of the struggles of other communities of color
00:31:14.000 because for me, assimilation always kind of took over.
00:31:17.500 And so I did marry.
00:31:21.900 My proximity to whiteness continues, right?
00:31:23.920 My son is biracial. He's half white and half Korean.
00:31:28.860 And I think navigating, you know, what his identity is and how people perceive him is always at the back of my mind as well.
00:31:37.980 I can tell you, Miss Hong, what your son is, is he is an American male.
00:31:45.100 That's what he is. He's an American male.
00:31:47.440 and the fact that he's half Korean or whatever, half non-Korean, what she calls half white.
00:31:55.780 He's an American male. That's what he is. And that's what we should think about him as being.
00:31:59.700 And you just said in that answer that you assimilated. All right. Now, you just brushed
00:32:07.800 over that. But that's the whole key. When you go into a new country, it is important,
00:32:13.480 and we've talked about this before, that you assimilate, that you get, it doesn't mean you
00:32:18.560 give up your heritage, but you assimilate into the new culture that you've chosen or you were
00:32:24.740 born into, right? I mean, I just don't understand why people that are in this country, that come
00:32:33.480 to this country, that were either born here, certainly if you're born here, this is your
00:32:36.720 country. If you came here, you chose for this to be your country and why that you aren't willing
00:32:45.260 to or don't want to assimilate into what is American and how our country was founded and
00:32:52.100 the beliefs we were founded on and those types of things. So to try to tear it down, which is what
00:32:58.580 this people, this lady and the people around her and the people that believe what she believes
00:33:03.860 are trying to do. You know, they use the term socialism
00:33:07.660 because I'm sure they've poll tested it or focus group tested it
00:33:11.820 and they think it sounds better than communism. Well, actually
00:33:15.560 what they're talking about, their type of socialism and communism
00:33:19.740 are almost identical. Communism
00:33:23.640 and then again, those of you that are Gen Zers
00:33:27.760 and Gen Yers and whatever the new Gens are, you probably
00:33:31.840 don't know that much about communism because it hasn't been a big issue
00:33:36.040 during your lifetime. But for baby boomers,
00:33:39.760 which a lot of people think that baby boomers
00:33:43.140 don't understand things on how the world works and all that type of stuff
00:33:47.840 these days, which is not true, by the way. But
00:33:50.860 baby boomers remember communism because during our
00:33:55.760 formative years and the years of which we were becoming adults
00:33:59.660 and what have you, we talked about communism all the time.
00:34:05.380 Russia, at the time it was USSR, which was a large group of countries in the East, all
00:34:16.720 right, that started out of just being Russia, and then they added all this territory in
00:34:22.760 these different countries that became communist.
00:34:24.960 And essentially, communist is a system, a political and economic system that puts basically ownership of everything to the state or to the government.
00:34:39.040 And all the big industries like the oil industry, electricity, all the major industries are owned by the government.
00:34:47.640 And the government then controls, essentially controls economic output.
00:34:53.540 Some people argue that this gives greater equality, but countries that have adopted communism,
00:34:59.280 just go back and look at the history of them, have experienced widespread famine.
00:35:03.620 People couldn't buy bread.
00:35:04.820 They couldn't.
00:35:05.200 There wouldn't eat bread to buy.
00:35:07.280 And the deaths of millions of people.
00:35:09.300 I mean, the Mao Zedong guy, or Mao, I think he killed tens of millions of his own people.
00:35:16.360 Stalin did the same thing in Russia.
00:35:18.500 They're doing some of that over in Iran.
00:35:20.240 You know, they've killed like 50,000 people who disagreed with the government here in the last year.
00:35:25.400 And so and it's all all thought. It's almost like a dictator.
00:35:30.680 OK, it's authoritarian and tyrannical, tyrannical. It never is anything other than that.
00:35:36.260 And that's really see the people that are run as democratic socialists.
00:35:40.360 They want to be the ones in the government that are controlling your lives in my life.
00:35:44.560 They want to be the ones that have all the power and have all the will.
00:35:48.680 But Vladimir Putin is supposedly the richest man in the world.
00:35:52.500 Now, he can't spend his money anywhere because he can't go anywhere.
00:35:55.620 But it's all and he is he's basically like the president of the country.
00:35:59.240 How does somebody get that rich?
00:36:00.580 Because in a communist scenario, they control everything.
00:36:05.080 And so he just takes it.
00:36:06.960 He just takes it.
00:36:08.020 And his people have nothing to do about it short of having a revolution.
00:36:11.840 they communism review removes worker autonomy by placing the government and control of economic
00:36:18.340 activity it claims that people are more motivated to do that that's just not true it reduces it it
00:36:25.040 also reduces innovation because there's no marketing incentives how do you think all the
00:36:29.560 things that things that have been invented in the united states and the advancement that we've been
00:36:34.920 made there's they've done that because there's incentive to do that you know either their
00:36:39.980 incentive is, hey, we're going to help people, or it's going to give my family a better life,
00:36:44.220 or can make money from doing that. So the Democratic Socialist Party of America seeks
00:36:50.580 to do the same thing that communism does. Now, what they're trying to do is get elected to do it.
00:36:57.760 And I'll just tell you, my Democrats that are out there and independents, don't be fooled by them.
00:37:03.140 All right. You and I may disagree on some things, but don't let your party be taken over by these socialists.
00:37:11.520 All right. Don't let your party do that because the majority of American people and it may take us a while to figure it out.
00:37:19.140 Sometimes we're slow. The majority of American people are not going to support that and they will rebel.
00:37:25.140 And actually, you know, as a Republican, you know, that's OK with me as far as a Democrat socialist winning the Democrat primaries because it'll be easier for us to beat.
00:37:36.760 But I really don't want that to happen.
00:37:38.300 I want it to be rejected by Democrats, clear thinking Democrats and independents, as well as Republicans, of course.
00:37:47.360 And then let's just go head to head and see who has the better, you know, the better free liberty type ideas that will work best for everybody. Right now, maybe, you know, and we can argue those. Right.
00:38:03.360 The Democrats may think we ought to have more government assistance on this, and Republicans think less, or taxes, all those.
00:38:10.260 Those are okay debates to have.
00:38:12.380 It doesn't mean that, you know, one is trying to take total control of the country.
00:38:18.440 But the Democrat Socialists and Bernie Sanders is their king of all kings of doing this.
00:38:23.960 Oddly enough, he's also gotten rich while he's been in the Senate, which is kind of crazy.
00:38:30.240 But that definitely has happened.
00:38:32.040 So anyway, if you just want to go back and look at Venezuela and Nicaragua, I told you I was just in Argentina a few weeks ago and they're coming out of a communist scenario.
00:38:41.060 But you can tell the effects of communism. I've been to Romania, went there in the 90s and early 2000.
00:38:47.620 They had just come out of communism and everything was just so drab and very utilitarian.
00:38:54.520 And you could tell there's just no innovation there that's changing, but it takes a long time to change that.
00:39:00.960 But just take a look at Venezuela and Nicaragua and how some of these so-called socialist governments that came to power through election, then they concentrated power.
00:39:10.300 Chavez, you know, they what happens is, is they get elected, but then they start concentrating power so that they'll and then they decide, well, we're just not going to have elections anymore, which is what Putin did.
00:39:20.280 Right. We're just not going to have elections. We're going to cancel elections or we're going to set them up to where there's no way that that that dictator is going to lose.
00:39:29.240 So I just want to make sure that you understand, don't be fooled by socialists.
00:39:35.420 Socialism and communism is the same thing.
00:39:37.980 And I would encourage you to do some of your own research.
00:39:41.500 Talk to your kids about it.
00:39:42.920 Because what happens is, is the socialists want, and the communists want government to
00:39:48.440 take over everything, including child care.
00:39:50.640 You hear them talking about free child care.
00:39:52.200 Well, you know, child care is expensive.
00:39:54.080 If you're having to pay for your children to go through child care, you know, that's
00:39:57.700 expensive.
00:39:58.060 So the idea of universal free child care sounds great, but it's really not about the child care.
00:40:03.880 It's about getting those kids under government control so that they can teach them what they want to teach them.
00:40:12.500 If you think about what's happened in our colleges around the United States, how the the liberal ideology,
00:40:20.720 in fact, the far left ideology has come into play and how they've taken over many of our colleges.
00:40:25.960 That's what they want to do at the early ages.
00:40:28.820 These people know that getting the kids indoctrinated will eventually change how the adult world looks at it, too, because these kids are going to grow up, obviously, to be adults.
00:40:39.340 So don't think it's about free child care.
00:40:42.040 It's about government control of what your children are taught about this country.
00:40:49.080 And we should be resisting that at every angle that we can and every way that we can, every time that we can.
00:40:57.720 So just remember that if you would.
00:40:59.420 If you have any questions on communism or socialism, please email me if you would like to.
00:41:04.360 The next thing we're going to talk about is the Kids Act.
00:41:06.900 And if you remember the Kids Act, we had it in a prior episode, and it really talks about how we can help our kids be safer online.
00:41:15.480 And it came from a question that we just recently got that says this. This is from Asia.
00:41:21.540 Kids Act now broken down into Screen Act. What are our thoughts on that?
00:41:26.680 And we'll talk about why it's been broken down.
00:41:30.580 And we're going to also here now talk about what the two elements are.
00:41:35.140 The House passed the Kids Act abroad package a few months ago, but it's stalling right now in the Senate.
00:41:43.740 But the Senate Commerce Chairman, Senator Ted Cruz, who's a Texas senator, is moving individual bills separately.
00:41:52.600 So what happens is the House passed a conglomerate bill.
00:41:56.520 Remember, the House can pass bills on a simple majority.
00:42:00.400 The Senate has to get 60 votes to even consider a bill.
00:42:04.820 Then once it's being considered on the floor, it can pass at a simple majority.
00:42:08.500 But it gets stopped from even getting to the floor because of this 60 vote, which I am now opposed to, as we've talked about in the past.
00:42:18.020 So what what Senator Cruz is doing, which is smart, is he's breaking the bill down into smaller pieces because there's probably a little bit of it that if it was in a big bill, it's going to kill the whole big bill.
00:42:29.220 So he's breaking it down into three or four different types of smaller bills, and they advance what they call COSA, K-O-S-A, and we'll put the link to some of this in the show notes.
00:42:42.260 It was originally the duty of care provision, which the Senate is the committee is advancing it, but they didn't advance the portion of the Screen Act after failing to reach quorum needed for approval.
00:42:59.480 So we're not we don't know what's going to happen with the Screen Act and the Screen Act, which would require pornography websites to use age verification technology that stalled the committee.
00:43:09.100 Why in the world that is even something that is a hard vote, even for Democrats?
00:43:16.180 I have no idea.
00:43:17.360 I mean, I'm sure some of these pornography companies, you know, spend a lot of money on campaign contributions and stuff.
00:43:23.020 But, man, that should be an easy vote.
00:43:24.900 All we're asking them to do is to verify.
00:43:26.800 These companies say they're not really going after children.
00:43:29.480 So if they're not going after children, then what's the problem with doing the age identity verification?
00:43:35.140 It does seem like that the Kids Safety Act is going to get a full Senate vote, the smaller version of it.
00:43:42.620 But we don't know what's going to happen with the Screen Act, which is, again, the one for making age verification requirement.
00:43:50.580 If either bill ultimately does pass, though, in different forms, it has to go to a conference committee and they'll have to go back through the House and the Senate to vote again before the president could sign it.
00:44:03.320 So we'll see what happens.
00:44:06.360 We'll follow this.
00:44:07.440 I don't know what's going to happen.
00:44:08.860 I feel good that they'll be able to get something done,
00:44:11.320 whether they'll get it done before they leave for their August recess.
00:44:15.120 I don't know.
00:44:15.680 There's a lot of controversy on them even taking a recess in August
00:44:18.540 because we need to pass the election bill as well.
00:44:23.060 So we'll just have to monitor it
00:44:26.000 because I don't know what they're going to do right now.
00:44:27.760 I don't have any inside information on that.
00:44:29.380 If I have any, I'll let you know as soon as I know.
00:44:31.560 So let's go to some questions now.
00:44:33.900 We've got a few minutes to do that, take questions from some of our listeners.
00:44:36.840 We've got a lot of questions.
00:44:38.260 I can't answer all these today.
00:44:39.800 So if you sent in a question and I didn't answer it for you today,
00:44:43.740 please email me, ron at ronsimmons.com, and I'll do my best.
00:44:46.880 There's no question that's off limits.
00:44:48.460 If I don't know, I'll tell you that.
00:44:50.160 I'll try to do some research and find out the answer.
00:44:52.180 But if I can't, then I'll just tell you I don't know.
00:44:56.080 All right.
00:44:56.640 Number one, the opinions on tithing when you have thousands in medical debt.
00:45:00.200 and neither parent can work more.
00:45:03.840 Oh, that's a problem.
00:45:06.260 Well, as you know, on medical debt,
00:45:08.380 and at least I think it's this way in Texas,
00:45:10.280 I think it's this way across the country,
00:45:11.440 you can work out a deal to pay medical debt off
00:45:15.160 at only the amount that you can afford
00:45:19.100 to pay that particular month.
00:45:22.580 I've seen people, I had a friend that had a huge debt
00:45:26.160 and all that they could pay was $25 a month.
00:45:30.200 And so that's what the hospital facility worked out with them to pay.
00:45:35.260 And they may be paying it for a long, long time, but it did relieve some pressure.
00:45:38.980 So first of all, I would encourage you to see if you can negotiate something with the medical providers
00:45:44.380 that you can pay an amount that you can afford every month
00:45:47.380 and that you can also at the same time afford to give something to your local church.
00:45:52.060 I think that your first place of tithe goes to your local church.
00:45:54.940 If you watched Allie's recent episode with the gentleman from Dave Ramsey,
00:45:59.620 they talk about tithing.
00:46:00.900 And I encourage you to go back to listen to that if you haven't.
00:46:03.460 I think that you find a way to give something, all right?
00:46:08.360 That's just good discipline.
00:46:10.080 And I believe God will honor that.
00:46:11.680 It's happened to Lisa and I in our lives more than once
00:46:13.860 when we were starting out and struggling financially.
00:46:17.700 We weren't always perfect with it,
00:46:19.840 but we tried to be true to our tithe.
00:46:21.860 And it seems like that there would always be something
00:46:24.680 in a positive manner that came up that we weren't expecting.
00:46:28.160 And that kind of leads into the second question.
00:46:29.980 How did you approach finances and planning when you had a young family?
00:46:33.320 Well, I've always believed that you've got to live within your means.
00:46:37.520 And so the first thing to do was, okay, what is our revenue?
00:46:41.920 And our revenue had to exceed what our expenses were.
00:46:46.920 And sometimes it wasn't an issue that we were spending too much money.
00:46:50.180 I needed to find ways to make more money.
00:46:53.480 And again, as I've talked about in my book, and I think I've told you before,
00:46:58.200 what I did as an occupation was not that important to me.
00:47:02.060 I mean, I enjoyed being in the investment business and having a wealth management company,
00:47:05.900 but I didn't grow up thinking that's what I was going to do.
00:47:08.200 That was my passion.
00:47:09.140 My passion was making sure that my family was financially secure
00:47:13.140 so that we didn't have to make every single decision in our family based on money.
00:47:18.920 And so if that field would not have provided me the ability to make enough money
00:47:25.660 to do what I just talked about, then I would have looked at another field.
00:47:29.560 And so I think you have to, first of all, are you maximizing your revenue?
00:47:33.960 All right?
00:47:34.320 Are you maximizing that?
00:47:35.660 And again, if God's called you to do something specific as far as your career is concerned,
00:47:41.300 I'm not telling you you should get out of that.
00:47:43.840 What he might be telling you then is, hey, you've got to reduce your expenses, right?
00:47:47.200 because they you have to even as a young family i kept a budget we didn't always stay within it but
00:47:53.380 it kept me within a guideline and uh and so i'd encourage you to do that you have to you have to
00:47:59.720 live below your means your kids don't need everything they say they need or everything
00:48:03.000 they say they want or anything like that so um next question is and again if you happen to hear
00:48:10.140 any background noise today my wife has got 14 fellow songwriters up here today and they're having
00:48:16.920 a songwriting gathering where they're writing songs, mostly worship songs, and they come up
00:48:24.780 with some good stuff. And so if you happen to hear a little bit of that in the background,
00:48:27.800 that's what's going on. So I apologize for that. But creative people are creative. I mean,
00:48:32.260 that's what they do. So anyway, okay. How to find financial advisor you can trust.
00:48:37.580 First of all, never use a financial advisor that gets paid based on the commissions or based on
00:48:44.160 you buying or selling anything. You should only have a financial advisor that either gets paid
00:48:49.640 by the hour, which is fine, or they get paid a percentage of what you invest with them, meaning,
00:48:55.600 and most of them are around 1%, because they have an incentive then. If you put $100 with them
00:49:00.940 and that grows to $1,000, then 1% of $100 is less than 1% of $1,000. So they have the incentive to
00:49:09.940 help your account grow. Also, I'd be very careful about having family members, unless it's you and
00:49:18.600 your husband, or maybe your son, or dad, or mom, investing with them. Hiring a financial planner
00:49:28.120 that is a member of your family can be difficult. First of all, they may not be willing to tell you
00:49:36.560 the truths that you need to know, like, hey, you're spending too much money. And you may be
00:49:41.880 willing to forgive them for poor investment performance when you wouldn't do that if you
00:49:46.720 had an arm's length transaction with it. And so I would be careful about that. There are Christian
00:49:52.640 financial planners out there. That doesn't mean they're the best ones. Okay, I want you to make
00:49:56.720 sure you know that. Ron Blue has a company called Blue, I think it's called Blue Trust Company.
00:50:02.220 and they were the ones that started Crown Financial and about biblical living.
00:50:09.300 Dave Ramsey may have some recommendations on this as well.
00:50:12.780 But I would look at if there's a, I think it's called Blue, you can look it up, Ron Blue Investments.
00:50:19.300 If there is a local person in your area that is involved with them, I would certainly give them a call as well.
00:50:27.200 How to trust God more, how to wait regarding jobs, marriage, kids, and their salvation.
00:50:32.400 Well, first of all, I think God honors righteous actions.
00:50:36.500 So if there's anything you can be doing other than just waiting, then I think it's okay to be doing that if it's the right thing.
00:50:43.880 But we have to understand that when it's all said and done, it's God's plan for how your kids become saved.
00:50:57.700 And all the thing that you can do is live a life that shows what it's like to be a person of faith,
00:51:04.860 the believer in Christ, and expose them to the word, the plan of salvation, the message,
00:51:13.660 and what have you. And I think you do have to be patient with that, but patient is not necessarily
00:51:21.220 doing nothing. Patience might also mean, especially as a job-related, I'm looking for another. I'm
00:51:28.140 looking for a better job scenario. And then when those opportunities come up, you know, just
00:51:34.480 seek God's peace for what the decision should be. That's how I would, that's how we've always done
00:51:40.100 it. That's how, that's how that I have seen it be the most successful. All right. What if we can't
00:51:51.180 afford private school? I'm not sure I'm cut out to homeschool three kids. I agree with that.
00:51:56.900 It's not, private school is not for everybody. If you can't afford it and you're not a homeschool
00:52:00.560 person, then here's what I would tell you is that you need to get very, very involved with your
00:52:07.320 local public school. And maybe that starting out is just making sure you're meeting with your kids
00:52:12.800 teachers more regularly than most people, making sure you're going to some of the school board
00:52:17.480 meetings so that you can get a general philosophy on what that particular school district thinks
00:52:21.760 about things. Consider, you know, being the room mom and eventually consider running for local
00:52:29.080 school board office. That's how you can be engaged, all right? And I would very much,
00:52:35.340 if you can't go private school, private Christian school, and you don't want to homeschool,
00:52:40.340 then just make sure you're very engaged with your local public school.
00:52:47.500 Schooling experience with disabled child, how to make best of it in a strong Christian family. Well,
00:52:53.280 that's difficult and you know Lisa and I have a child with disabilities and it's it can be very
00:53:00.880 frustrating I do believe that you still have to you're the advocate for your child and you can't
00:53:10.760 be passive about that you have to demand things that that your child is able to receive or should
00:53:18.420 receive and if there's a way that that that there can be the child can receive a Christian education
00:53:25.740 that you should do that over a public education but again if not you have to be the strongest
00:53:31.680 advocate for your child and there are a lot of rights that a disabled child has that most people
00:53:37.360 don't know about so make sure that you research those things and that you are you're in there
00:53:44.660 fighting for them. And you know what? There may be some people that don't like that, and they may
00:53:49.460 think that's unchristian, but it's not. It's not. We are supposed to take care of these children.
00:53:56.900 And certainly, if they're our own child, that's one of our greatest responsibilities.
00:54:03.800 I'm curious about the Arkansas Educational Freedom Accounts. I think they're awesome.
00:54:09.340 We just did that in Texas, as you know, something similar to that.
00:54:13.000 Anything that gets more control into the parents' hands on where their kids go to school and what their kids learn is better.
00:54:22.340 And it doesn't take money from public schools, okay?
00:54:25.800 Whoever preaches that is just not telling the truth.
00:54:28.720 If public school enrollment goes down because that private schools are better than public schools, then, yeah, they're going to lose some per-student funding.
00:54:37.560 but it doesn't affect the overall general commitment.
00:54:42.080 If they are losing students, then their expenses aren't as much, right?
00:54:46.960 And so they're not losing their funding they get for buildings and things like that.
00:54:51.240 They're losing money from the cost of the per student.
00:54:55.780 And so therefore, anybody says that, hey, they're taking all the money out of public schools is just not true.
00:55:00.860 I think the educational freedom accounts in Arkansas are a very good thing and a very strong step in the right direction.
00:55:12.360 I know encouragement for single women waiting on God.
00:55:18.980 Well, you know, I'm certainly not an expert on that.
00:55:22.740 Allie probably can help you a little bit more on that.
00:55:24.780 But what I will say, and now I'm the father of a daughter and a grandfather now of three granddaughters,
00:55:30.860 and we'll see as they grow up in all of this, waiting on God.
00:55:36.080 I think that for all of us, as I said a minute ago, waiting on God is important,
00:55:42.700 but it's also we need to be doing things while we're waiting.
00:55:46.000 Are we doing everything that we can, what He's already given us the brain and mind and heart to do?
00:55:51.640 Are we doing all of those things?
00:55:53.080 Are we presenting ourself in a way that, you know, that would get us to the answer that God wants us to get to?
00:56:01.820 Because remember, his plan is not for us to be miserable.
00:56:07.060 His plan is for us is to be happy and it's to be live an abundant life and all that.
00:56:11.440 But we have to take some control of that ourselves by things that he's already given us.
00:56:16.180 And so I think if you are taking all the right steps, that the waiting will result in the right answer and what you're looking for.
00:56:27.700 The timing of it, you know, I'm still waiting.
00:56:30.720 We're still waiting on God to take Daniel's seizures away because we know he can do it and we want him to do it, but it hasn't happened yet.
00:56:37.640 And so we have to make sure we're doing all the things here.
00:56:40.800 Are we at the right doctors?
00:56:42.600 Are we looking at all the right types of treatment that he might be able to have?
00:56:46.380 We have to be doing all of those things while we know that it is ultimately in God's hands.
00:56:52.740 All right.
00:56:53.780 Is it better to commute with a good interest rate or move closer to work to have more family time?
00:56:59.820 Well, I think if you're willing to have more family, if you're willing to move closer to work and maybe live in less of a house, then I think that is a smart thing to do or less expensive or maybe don't have quite as good of an interest rate.
00:57:19.940 I think that's a smart thing to do.
00:57:21.800 We shouldn't make those decisions just based on an interest rate.
00:57:27.400 We should not make those decisions.
00:57:29.820 Now, if the quality of life for your family in general is better living further out,
00:57:36.460 and I know that means that you're not home with them as much,
00:57:39.140 but if there are all the other things in consideration or is a better environment,
00:57:44.340 whether that's your church, your neighborhood, your schools,
00:57:46.780 then I think I would stay with the commute.
00:57:50.460 And I've done that in the past.
00:57:51.760 I've put my family in the right situation so that, and I have, you know,
00:57:57.080 do a little bit more on my part, you know, being in the car a little bit more every day,
00:58:01.520 than putting them to make it what's easier on me. Oh, this is a good question. I should have
00:58:07.680 answered this earlier. Can you discuss the contradictory alliance between communists
00:58:12.080 and Islamists? Well, it's all about control, okay? They both want control and they're willing
00:58:18.460 to partner together in order to get that control. And some of it is because communism
00:58:24.300 is anti-Semitic in its face
00:58:27.420 because the Jewish belief
00:58:30.360 certainly believes in individualism
00:58:32.120 and the Islams are obviously anti-Semitic.
00:58:36.540 But it's all about control.
00:58:38.140 And I think what my opinion is,
00:58:39.820 what they're willing to do,
00:58:41.060 is they're willing to,
00:58:41.860 okay, let's partner together
00:58:42.880 and we'll figure it out in the end.
00:58:45.360 And Islamists are betting
00:58:46.840 they'll still be able to take over
00:58:48.440 with their religion.
00:58:49.580 And the communism says,
00:58:51.420 well, once the government has power,
00:58:52.720 we can get rid of the Islamists, right?
00:58:55.180 Because you don't hear much about Islam uprising in Russia, do you?
00:58:58.840 Or China.
00:59:01.200 Just think about that.
00:59:02.740 Snake handling in church.
00:59:04.620 Well, I'm laughing at that because I do think it's funny.
00:59:07.880 I don't think snake handling is biblical or religious at all.
00:59:12.160 Somebody wants to do it, I guess that's fine.
00:59:14.560 They used to do it in the Capitol.
00:59:15.980 They bring in a bunch of snakes in the Capitol,
00:59:18.080 but it wasn't for religious purposes.
00:59:19.300 It was just for us to show, you know, they had this group of people that they did these rattlesnake roundups because they had so many rattlesnakes in West Texas.
00:59:28.460 But that was, you know, that was just to show us how they handled them.
00:59:31.600 It wasn't anything related to religion.
00:59:34.560 So anyway, I'll end on that one.
00:59:36.500 But thank you for listening to me today and watching this.
00:59:39.620 And again, I encourage you to watch Allie's episode, listen to hers and mine come out every other week.
00:59:45.720 If I didn't get to your question again, please email me ron at ronsimmons.com.
00:59:50.180 I'd be happy to answer them.
00:59:51.360 Have a good day.