Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 19, 2026


Marriage Tips, AI Concerns, and Did Trump Just Bribe Us？ ｜ Ron Simmons

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I hope everybody's having a great day or evening wherever you are. And
00:00:14.900 we're now in the middle of September, headed towards the end of September. It's hard to
00:00:20.600 believe, isn't it? I know that all your kids are back in school and work is getting more
00:00:26.680 into a routine and and you're in you know the fall sports and all that college football's here
00:00:32.340 NFL football's here so it's an interesting time now I will tell you that for those of us that
00:00:37.880 still live in the south it still feels a lot like summer and we are ready for fall to get here
00:00:44.340 hopefully it'll be arriving soon but thank you again for listening I'm Ron Simmons I'm Allie's
00:00:49.660 father and for those of you that are just now turning in Allie asked me to do two episodes a
00:00:55.880 month and they come out on the weekends and you can listen to them of course or watch them anytime
00:01:00.080 and my episodes are a little different than Ali's I try to cover listeners questions is the main
00:01:06.280 thing we like to cover and thank you for sending those questions in and then also just some news
00:01:11.600 related topics that maybe someone that's been on this earth a little while like I have that coming
00:01:18.160 up on a birthday here coming soon and I'll have been here 66 years at my next birthday which is
00:01:23.760 kind of hard to believe. I still feel like I'm very young, but I'm moving along, but everything's
00:01:30.840 going good. But I want to talk to you about a few things today. And the first thing I want to talk
00:01:36.980 about that's been a subject over the last, we've talked about it, we've talked about it, heard about
00:01:42.220 it over the last, I don't know, couple of years maybe, but it got really heightened this past few
00:01:49.600 weeks. And this is artificial intelligence or AI, I think, as most of us know it. And in a lot of
00:01:57.040 ways, because you and I as just individuals, probably not high techie, some of you might be,
00:02:03.080 I'm certainly not. I mean, I can use a computer and all of those types of things, but I definitely
00:02:07.720 don't know anything about programming or the inner workings of how all of it works. I just know that
00:02:13.760 I can ask a question and it usually gives me a pretty good, pretty good answer, but it's something
00:02:20.040 that people are really concerned about because that it is growing at a rapid pace. In fact,
00:02:30.540 it's probably doubling its power. I don't know how quickly, but very, very quickly.
00:02:36.380 And anytime something happens like that, it's a little scary. And I understand that. And we have
00:02:42.580 a right to have a skeptic's view of something like this. Just remember that innovation
00:02:49.000 always precedes policy. The government regulators are always behind innovation.
00:03:00.840 So what generally happens is that a new technology will happen or whatever it happens to be,
00:03:09.680 you know, whether that back when the automobile first came out, there weren't a bunch of traffic
00:03:13.940 laws, right? Same way with airplanes, all those types of things. So the innovation happens and
00:03:21.200 then policy tries to catch up with that, but it doesn't catch up overnight. And that's kind of
00:03:26.240 where we are now. In fact, what really brought this to the forefront is that a gentleman named
00:03:32.580 Jacob Coxon, who used to work for OpenAI, which is one of the big five or six AI companies in the
00:03:38.600 U.S., resign from Anthropic, that owns OpenAI, and accuse companies from behaving irresponsibly
00:03:48.480 and being caught in a race to develop increasingly powerful and dangerous AI.
00:03:54.780 And so what's happening here is people say that AI could grow to a point or become advanced
00:04:02.720 to a point where it could really have a negative effect on the human race.
00:04:07.780 Let's think about that for a second, right?
00:04:09.920 Because there very well might be an unlimited amount of power that AI can generate.
00:04:16.340 But think about how, just relate to this.
00:04:19.420 So when an animal, okay, is looking at us and they're thinking, well, how might a human harm me?
00:04:30.740 Well, they are thinking about that only in what they understand.
00:04:34.960 For example, take a dog.
00:04:36.140 Well, a dog, when they harm another animal or what have you, they do it generally with their teeth, right?
00:04:44.600 And so they're probably thinking, well, the way that this human might harm me is with his teeth.
00:04:49.420 They don't have any idea that we may have a gun, we may have other means, we may have no telling what that could harm them.
00:04:56.360 Well, think about that relationship between us and the supercomputer.
00:05:00.580 We can only think individually how what we can do and can't do.
00:05:07.240 Well, the supercomputer, what people are afraid of, can go beyond that.
00:05:11.060 And we won't even be able to comprehend what the danger is.
00:05:15.520 When I think about danger from computers that are thinking for themselves and acting together in concert and how that might be dangerous to us, I think about things like the electrical grid.
00:05:27.260 Think about how many things that we have that are connected to what I would consider the Internet or connected to, you know, other computers.
00:05:37.040 Well, if somehow the AI, for whatever reason, through some rogue actor or just on their own, was able to have a negative effect on our electrical grid system, how that could affect the human race.
00:05:50.420 Be very, very scary to be able to do that.
00:05:53.540 So what I think needs to happen is we need to have a pause.
00:05:58.700 We need to pause future innovation in this area to really understand where we are.
00:06:04.320 What do we really have?
00:06:05.360 What are we dealing with?
00:06:06.880 Let policy catch up with that.
00:06:08.860 Now, President Trump has come out and said that fears about the innovation in AI and
00:06:16.240 data centers is a hoax.
00:06:17.700 I would respectfully disagree with that.
00:06:20.380 Now, maybe part of that may be because I don't totally understand it, so I usually have more fear about things I don't understand than I do, but I don't think it's a hoax.
00:06:30.400 I think it's legitimate to be concerned about it, and I'll tell you another reason I think it's legitimate is because when you have someone like Bernie Sanders, who you know is on the far left,
00:06:40.060 And Steve Bannon, who is about as far right as you can get, essentially sharing a stage at a recent event saying the same thing, saying, hey, we need some guardrails around this.
00:06:52.280 We need some protections for society around this.
00:06:56.960 Think about what happened in social media.
00:06:59.220 Social media jumped way out there ahead of time.
00:07:01.920 There was no restrictions on it.
00:07:03.500 And then we got to thinking, oh, my gosh, our kids are exposed to stuff that we don't want them to be exposed to.
00:07:08.220 And now policy is catching up with that where they're putting parental guidelines in there and limiting what young people can look at on social media.
00:07:20.980 And so that's what generally happens.
00:07:24.040 And what we don't want to do in a deal where it's considered superhuman is it gets out so far in front of us that we can't stop it.
00:07:31.740 Now, not everybody is a skeptical.
00:07:34.460 There are some researchers that believe that the systems aren't as versatile as humans and they don't really act collectively, although I'm not sure that's true.
00:07:46.500 There's been some trial things where they were kind of playing a game, kind of like capture the flag.
00:07:55.380 Just think about that.
00:07:56.420 And actually, the computer started working together to figure out how to do that and actually went around the rules that were set aside for it to figure out how to capture the flag.
00:08:07.520 So that's a little bit scary.
00:08:09.420 And again, I think that we need to just take a pause and see what we have, get the policy catch up with that, and then go from there.
00:08:19.240 On a day-to-day basis, I don't think it's something you and I need to spend all of our time fretting about.
00:08:24.780 We need to stay informed and we need to be talking to our local officials.
00:08:29.020 If you live in a state, you know, you can talk to your state representatives or senators about what regulations they're put in.
00:08:35.200 As I've told you before, my friend Giovanni Capriglion here in Texas has put in some guardrails around it.
00:08:42.120 But really, the federal government needs to act on this as well.
00:08:45.440 So anyway, just if you have any questions about that and you want to email me directly, feel free to do so.
00:08:50.700 Ron at ronsimmons.com.
00:08:52.960 But let's talk a few questions that the audience has had that this is more on just kind of a day-to-day life questions, which I really love to get.
00:09:00.940 I don't always have the best answers for those.
00:09:03.600 It's usually based on my experience or things that I've researched.
00:09:08.680 But again, it's my opinion, and you take it for whatever it's worth.
00:09:14.420 The first question is, what advice do I have for first-time parents and marriage plus marriage transition into parenthood?
00:09:24.480 Well, I will tell you that, you know, that's probably the biggest transition that you'll make during your married life is to go from, you know, just a couple to having kids.
00:09:36.380 Now, Lisa and I were only married about 18 months before we had our first child.
00:09:39.500 And some people have actually had children before they got married.
00:09:42.580 And so they live their whole time being married with kids.
00:09:47.080 And that could be a little more difficult because you're not getting to know your spouse as well before you have kids and before you add another element to that.
00:09:56.980 What I would tell you is that, first of all, they're not breakable.
00:10:03.360 All right.
00:10:03.720 That kids are generally not breakable.
00:10:05.800 They actually have very resilient to be able to bounce back and do.
00:10:09.420 you're not generally going to cause any major damage when they're young. Obviously,
00:10:14.660 you want to take care of them, protect them physically and what have you. But, you know,
00:10:18.820 if they don't get to bed at the same time every night or maybe they didn't eat the right thing
00:10:24.120 they should have eaten, you know, you just didn't have the time for that. I wouldn't worry too much
00:10:29.160 about that. What I really want you to do is make sure that while you're certainly loving on these
00:10:35.020 kids is that you don't forget about each other, that you make sure that you're carving out time
00:10:41.200 for your marriage. Because you know what the number one thing your kids want?
00:10:46.520 They want their mom and dad to love each other. That's really what they want. Because if a mom
00:10:51.360 and dad loves each other, they're going to show that continued love to their children.
00:10:57.160 So the focus that we have that I encourage you to make sure you're spending time on is
00:11:01.960 how, what is your relationship with your spouse? Um, and that's, you know, leads into the next
00:11:08.940 question where the, where somebody says how to make marriage a priority when babies and life
00:11:13.120 seem to get in the way. Well, the way to do that is make sure you have to schedule time together, 0.98
00:11:18.800 whether that's okay. Once the kids go to bed, listen, I know you probably need to wash clothes.
00:11:24.600 I know you need to, you know, maybe check your email, but you really got to set some time away
00:11:30.180 for your spouse, right? Or maybe you're just so tired of taking care of the kids all day,
00:11:34.100 you're just ready to go to bed. And most of the time that's okay, but you can't do that every
00:11:38.320 night. You do need to set aside some time for your spouse. Both of you do. And the husband
00:11:43.280 needs to understand that if the wife, especially if she's a stay-at-home mom, has been with those
00:11:48.620 kids all day, you got to step in there and help, right? I wasn't as good as that as I should have 0.93
00:11:53.000 been. And I've apologized to Lisa for that, but I certainly see the value of being able to do that.
00:12:00.180 then what are the best ways to help and thank my husband, uh, for allowing her to be a stay-at-home
00:12:06.220 mom while he works as in law school? Well, I wanted to tell you something on that. You know,
00:12:10.740 your husband sounds like a really, you know, uh, good guy and he has taken charge of things.
00:12:16.840 He's trying to better his life for him and his family, but strong people like your husband
00:12:22.700 probably is, they need encouragement and they need encouragement with the people that they
00:12:26.500 care about the most. So the most thing you can do is you can encourage him. Also, he needs to focus
00:12:32.720 on those things that only he can do. Like only he can be the one at law school. Only he can be the
00:12:37.680 one that does his job. Only he can be the one that is a dad to the kids. So if there are things that
00:12:44.360 you can do around the house, like for example, if he's a guy that if something breaks, he usually
00:12:49.360 calls the repairman or, you know, if your car needs to have the tires changed, he usually takes
00:12:55.320 care of all that. If those are some things that you can do, do those for him, right? Now, it may
00:13:01.180 be a little bit outside your comfort zone, but if you read my book, Life Lessons from the Little
00:13:04.760 Red Wagon, which is behind me, I'll tell you that in some things, we have to take the next
00:13:08.980 uncomfortable step. And you may be called upon during this season of y'all's life to do some
00:13:14.940 things that you wouldn't normally do, that he could normally have time to take care of.
00:13:20.620 acts of service is a great expression of love. So thank you very much, uh, you know, for that
00:13:28.060 question. Uh, a couple of other things. Uh, this is an interesting question. Something we've dealt
00:13:33.720 within our family is how to decide which in-laws to live next to that. One set of in-laws lives 1.00
00:13:40.420 in one state, one state, one lives in the other. But what I would say to that is, um, is that you
00:13:48.720 have to, first of all, do what's best for your family. All right. You got to think about your
00:13:55.500 husband or your wife and kids first. And if it makes more sense to live close to one of your
00:14:03.800 sets of parents than it does the other for a variety of reasons, then do that. But just make
00:14:10.640 sure that you're always including and making sure that you're spending time with the other ones as
00:14:15.440 well. I do think it's really great if you can get your grandkids close to their grandparents. I mean,
00:14:20.680 your kids close to their grandparents. That would be important. It's, you know, when Allie was
00:14:26.620 little, my mom lived with us because my mom and dad had divorced and she lived with us for almost
00:14:31.260 all of Allie's time that she was home. And that was a big benefit. Of course, Justin and Daniel
00:14:36.900 were there as well, but that was a really big benefit. We didn't get the same opportunity with
00:14:43.400 Lisa's parents, her mom had died young and her dad was 300 miles away. And my dad was 300 miles
00:14:50.620 away. So they don't have the same relationship that my mom had with them. So I would just
00:14:54.640 encourage you, if you can live close to your, to your parents or your in-laws, please do that.
00:14:59.400 But make that, if you have to decide between the two, make the one that makes the most sense for
00:15:03.400 your personal family. All right. And then this one, we get this one, you know, I've get this
00:15:10.020 multiple times and I appreciate it. It's how do I be supportive? This is a wife talking. How do I
00:15:15.960 be supportive when my husband is struggling to lead the household well? And again, as long as
00:15:22.500 there's not abuse, okay, physical or verbal abuse, then I think what you have to do is you have to
00:15:29.900 try to encourage him or maybe without even saying it, to encourage him to be around people
00:15:38.580 that you know are quality people, uh, that have similar value systems that you have,
00:15:45.280 maybe even kind of in a mentor relationship. And then I just think you have to, you love him. You
00:15:52.140 can't, you know, I think there was a time in our marriage and Lisa would tell this story if she was
00:15:56.460 here, where she was focused really a lot on trying to change me, which as you can imagine from
00:16:02.160 listening to me, if you've listened to me very much at all, I'm could be a little bit stubborn.
00:16:05.900 Okay. And so, but one day she finally decided that she was going to focus on her. And what she found
00:16:14.420 is that when she focused on her, I changed as well. Cause I, maybe I felt it. I don't know.
00:16:20.200 Maybe that was just the Lord working on me. Of course, we read the book five love languages,
00:16:24.240 which is, I would strongly encourage every couple to read that also a book called, uh, uh, love and
00:16:30.300 respect. Those are very important and they will teach you some of the lessons that you're trying
00:16:36.200 to find out here. What do you do when you're 32 and have zero career path? Well, first of all,
00:16:41.880 ask yourself, I would like to know why you don't have a career path. What caused that to happen?
00:16:47.480 Because in order to understand where to go, you got to understand how you got there. So first of all,
00:16:52.620 be honest with yourself to understand that. Secondly, what do you want? What are your
00:16:57.920 priorities, because I think that will help you determine where you go from there. And then once
00:17:04.420 you know what you want, then take the first step to do it. You need to start today, whether,
00:17:09.780 you know, if you want to be, you know, to be able to have a job in tech, then you need to make sure
00:17:14.580 you're learning tech. If you want to have a job where you're in healthcare, then you need to
00:17:19.080 take the next step, maybe to start taking a night class or an online class or something like that.
00:17:23.940 But start today, because at 32, you still have a pretty much open book, all right?
00:17:29.440 Remember Colonel Sanders with Kentucky Fried Chicken?
00:17:31.720 I've used this example before.
00:17:33.180 He didn't start Kentucky Fried Chicken until he was 65 years old.
00:17:37.020 So you are early in the game, and I appreciate you realizing that you might need to make some change.
00:17:43.220 But if you have any personal questions on that, again, email me, ron at ronsimmons.com.
00:17:48.680 Should we buy from China, or is it hurting America?
00:17:51.360 Well, first of all, I think anytime you can, you should buy local, right?
00:17:55.980 I really believe you should buy local when you can, assuming there's not a huge disparity in price and what have you.
00:18:02.540 But we also live in a global economy.
00:18:05.220 If we can buy American and it's good quality and at a reasonable price, we should do that.
00:18:10.820 But you're never going to probably be able to do that 100% just because of the way the world works.
00:18:17.260 Obviously, we want our economy to be stronger than China's economy.
00:18:20.840 but it's virtually impossible to do that 100%, but we should be aware of it and do the very best we
00:18:27.780 can. How do we help aging parents who think they can never retire? Well, first of all, it's not
00:18:33.740 your responsibility. Obviously, if you can honor your parents, all right, and you should honor
00:18:40.120 them and how you treat them and respect them. And if you're in a situation where you have an
00:18:44.720 abundance financially and you can help them, that's good to do that. We've done that in our
00:18:48.800 families more than once, but we did it out of our abundance. I didn't take away from my own
00:18:54.100 family's core needs, and you should never do that. Your family, your immediate family, in my opinion,
00:19:01.080 comes first. Your mom and dad, for whatever reason, if they're in that situation, they've
00:19:06.540 made choices along the way that have put them in that situation, and maybe they're just
00:19:12.120 inappropriately fearful. Maybe they could retire. I don't know, but if they truly can't, then I
00:19:17.640 think that you honor them, you love them, you help them think through things. And again, if you have
00:19:21.540 abundance and you want to help them, that's fine, but that's not your number one priority.
00:19:26.540 This kind of also leads into affordability, which is something that has been on the
00:19:31.380 forefront of most people's minds. But I wanted to kind of give you a little background
00:19:35.040 on how we got where we are right now. All right. First of all, just remember, and I'm going to look
00:19:42.560 at some notes here because I've got some stats here, is that during the Biden administration,
00:19:47.640 From 21 to 25, prices rose about 21%, okay?
00:19:53.280 That's over 5% a year.
00:19:56.060 And since that time, since the second administration of President Trump, they've grown a little over 2% a year, about 2.5% a year, all right?
00:20:05.660 And so what happens is because when prices grew to 21%, so if something costs a dollar and then when Biden left, it costs $1.20.
00:20:17.640 it didn't go back down to a dollar when President Trump got elected.
00:20:22.580 What he has done and his administration have done
00:20:25.000 is they've just reduced how fast it's increasing, all right?
00:20:28.800 The only way you're going to get prices to go down is, first of all,
00:20:33.640 if demand goes down.
00:20:35.040 In other words, if there's 100 widgets out there
00:20:37.500 and there are 200 people wanting to buy those widgets,
00:20:40.000 prices are going to go up.
00:20:40.980 If there's 50 people wanting to buy those widgets,
00:20:43.560 then it's going to go down.
00:20:44.860 But what generally causes that is a major recession, all right, where things have gotten really bad.
00:20:52.460 If you remember back to 2008, 2009, when they had this huge housing crisis.
00:20:57.480 Well, in 2007, do you know what interest rates were for mortgages at that time?
00:21:02.480 Guess what they were?
00:21:03.960 They're right what they are right now, a little over 6%.
00:21:07.060 But we had this huge recession, all right, and people lost their jobs and things.
00:21:13.860 There was more supply than there was demand, so they dropped interest rates, and they brought interest rates down probably too low, honestly, artificially low, and so you could buy a house at a 3% mortgage.
00:21:26.860 Well, then when the economy got better and the fact that we pumped a lot of unnecessary money into the economy, interest rates went up because there was more, ended up being more demand than there was supply.
00:21:40.280 And so, therefore, people could charge more for things, even like interest rates.
00:21:44.480 They've tried to keep the interest rates higher to reduce the demand.
00:21:48.240 It hasn't really worked because there's been so much money flooded into the system.
00:21:53.640 Now, what we don't want to happen is another huge recession, obviously.
00:21:59.660 But just remember how this happened.
00:22:02.320 When you're coming up for the election, which, as you know, is coming up in the next six weeks or so,
00:22:06.960 and you're thinking, well, I'm not happy with the way affordability is.
00:22:09.960 Maybe I should vote for the other side.
00:22:12.000 Maybe I should vote for a Democrat.
00:22:13.440 Well, make sure you understand this, is that housing has become dramatically more expensive
00:22:21.280 during the Biden years, according to the Heritage Foundation.
00:22:24.700 The cost of financing a median-priced home has risen 114% since 2021.
00:22:32.060 At the same time, consumer prices have risen about 20%, which we talked about.
00:22:36.720 and it cost about $13,300 more per year to purchase the same house interest rate-wise
00:22:44.440 than it did in 2021.
00:22:46.740 Also, as we've talked about, immigration was a part of this.
00:22:49.540 When they opened the floodgates, more people coming into the country means there's more
00:22:53.320 demand for goods and services, and that increased the cost of living and of housing.
00:22:59.220 Now, also, just take a look at where it's the most expensive to live right now, where
00:23:04.900 it's the least affordable.
00:23:05.860 And guess what? All of the most unaffordable places, the places that are the least affordable are all Democrat run states.
00:23:14.240 New York, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, Oregon are are well above what the normal amount you should have to spend on a house of your monthly income is.
00:23:26.840 That should be somewhere around 30 percent. In California, for example, it's 50 percent.
00:23:31.480 50% of your income goes to paying your mortgage.
00:23:34.800 But comparison, like states like Iowa, Indiana, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Louisiana,
00:23:40.380 all those are below the 30% threshold.
00:23:43.960 So it's much cheaper.
00:23:45.200 I get the question, hey, should we move states?
00:23:47.320 Well, if you can move your job to where you can be in a less expensive state,
00:23:53.640 then absolutely I would encourage you to consider doing that, right?
00:23:58.080 Even if you have to take a little bit of a pay cut,
00:24:00.240 Let's say you take a 2% pay cut, but your housing cost goes down 30%.
00:24:04.420 You're probably still better off looking at another location.
00:24:07.400 The only way that things are going to change in those states is that either it's going to get so bad that people change policies there, politicians generally,
00:24:19.400 or there's going to have to be some type of major recession all over the country.
00:24:27.000 Same thing going on in Connecticut and other places.
00:24:30.240 The most expensive cities, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, New York, Boston, all those are run by Democrats.
00:24:37.360 So just remember when you're voting this time as to, well, I don't like what's going on now, so I'll change.
00:24:43.340 Well, you're going to change to something worse, in my opinion, as far as affordability is concerned.
00:24:48.860 Some of it comes down to our own responsibility.
00:24:51.400 And some of this stuff you might not really be thrilled about hearing, but I'm just going to tell you.
00:24:55.940 I'm just going to be like your dad or your uncle, just trying to give you the best advice
00:24:59.580 that I can.
00:25:00.740 First of all, you want to stay out of debt, especially short-term debt.
00:25:04.360 Do not go borrow money to buy a car.
00:25:06.580 Do not go put money on a credit card that you can't pay off at the end of the month.
00:25:12.180 And if you're going to do a car, if you have to do any type of car thing, make sure you
00:25:15.760 finance it for less than two years.
00:25:17.560 Obviously, homes are generally financed, but don't do that.
00:25:20.640 But there are some other things as well.
00:25:23.120 You know, we live in a world of traveling sports teams now for a lot of young kids.
00:25:28.160 I was just on a flight this weekend, and there was three or four young girls were getting on there,
00:25:36.780 probably in their 10, 11, 12, somewhere in that area, looked like at least one of their moms.
00:25:43.000 And they were on a plane, and they had these T-shirts that said something about gymnastics on them.
00:25:47.280 and I am sure they were at some gymnastics event at the city that I, where the city I was
00:25:52.760 and they were flying home. Well, that's expensive to do. Okay. You, you know, your kids don't
00:25:59.040 necessarily need to be on super traveling teams or be participating in four or five sports at one
00:26:03.840 time or four or five activities at one time. That can be very expensive as you know, and you're not
00:26:09.420 harming your kids if you don't do that. Okay. Don't think that you are just because the Joneses down
00:26:15.100 the street might be living on the edge doesn't mean that you need to do that. Also, in this day
00:26:20.980 and time, this kind of goes along with the sports thing, but when we're out with our kids and all
00:26:26.100 these different sporting events, we're running through Burger King or McDonald's or Chick-fil-A
00:26:30.440 or wherever we're going, and we're spending a lot more money eating out. So I would encourage you
00:26:35.240 to make sure that you're eating more at home. Plan your meals. Get together on a Sunday. Make it a
00:26:39.740 family event if you need to cook meals for the week then go ahead and do that just be make make
00:26:45.360 eating out a treat as opposed to a routine and then also of course you've seen the commercials
00:26:51.500 but cut back on some of the streaming services and some of the things that you do you really need
00:26:55.820 hulu and netflix do you really need amazon prime and netflix you know do you need one of the
00:27:02.440 just look at that all right just look at that and make sure that you set your what you should do is
00:27:08.540 you say, okay, well, the first thing I got to do is I want to make sure that I'm being honored in
00:27:13.240 God. So I want to make sure that I'm tithing. As you know, I support that. I want to make sure that
00:27:18.940 I'm paying my house payment. I want to make sure that I'm feeding my family. All right. Oh, I got
00:27:24.900 to make sure I pay my utilities. After those types of things, everything else becomes a pretty
00:27:30.480 flexible choice. And you need to make the right amount of choices. If your choices are keeping
00:27:37.580 you from doing what you should be doing as far as your house and your tithe and feeding your family
00:27:43.120 and your utilities, then you got to change that. You got to change that. Uh, just the first thing
00:27:49.300 to do, of course, as far as debt concerns, quit digging, stop digging the hole. Absolutely. 100%.
00:27:54.700 Um, and again, look for a cheaper area, rural America. There's a lot of places that you can
00:28:00.920 live in rural America that won't cost you near as much as living the suburban life or living
00:28:04.760 the downtown life um all right let's finish up just the last minute or so people have asked me
00:28:10.260 about the trump's five thousand dollar dividend and of course the media has come out and said
00:28:14.940 he's bribing well let me explain to you what a bribe is a bribe says that if i if you go and do
00:28:22.940 x just you individually okay if you go and do x and uh bring me you know whatever it is then i'm
00:28:31.860 going to give you something probably bribing you to do that, okay, or paying you to do that,
00:28:36.000 whatever you want to say that is. This is not a bribe. This is a campaign promise. What he's
00:28:40.320 promising is, is that if the Republicans win, control the Senate and the House, which means
00:28:46.400 that they'll have the presidency, the House and the Senate, then there's going to be a benefit
00:28:53.000 to that. And he said it's going to be $5,000 per adult. Now, it doesn't matter where you voted for
00:28:58.720 Democrat or not, right? So he's not saying only Republicans are going to get that. It's going to
00:29:03.200 be if we win, that's what we're going to do. It's kind of like I'm saying if we win, we're going to
00:29:05.960 do a tax cut. Or if, you know, the Democrat said if we win, we're going to put more money into
00:29:10.660 social programs. Or it's the same thing. It's a campaign promise. It's certainly not a bribe.
00:29:16.700 He's not going to check and see who you voted for. So don't pay any attention to that. Now,
00:29:21.560 as far as doing this, I'm not in favor of it personally. All right. I get it. You might need
00:29:26.660 to $5,000. And so don't be mad at me for that. But putting that much more money back into the
00:29:33.260 economy from the government is just going to make this high inflation and high interest rates last
00:29:39.240 longer. And we do not need to do that, in my opinion. So anyway, thanks for your time today.
00:29:44.360 You guys are great. Please email me, ron at ronsimmons.com, if you have any questions. If
00:29:49.540 you haven't gotten your tickets, there's only a couple of weeks left for Share the Arrows. And
00:29:53.760 And man, oh, man, it's going to be an awesome event.
00:29:56.320 I was on a flight just a couple days ago, and a lady came up to me that I guess had recognized me from watching some of the shows.
00:30:04.240 And she was so excited about coming out to the Share the Arrows in a few weeks.
00:30:09.720 And I was excited that she wanted to be there.
00:30:13.180 I think she's bringing some friends, so we're really looking forward to that.
00:30:15.900 And I hope I'll see you around there.
00:30:16.960 I'll be walking around, checking everything out, and helping Allie where I can.
00:30:21.760 But please make sure to get your tickets, guys.
00:30:24.300 If you haven't gotten your wife a ticket, that'd be a great gift to honor her.
00:30:28.360 Have a good day, and we'll see you next time.