Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Spencer Pratt’s Loss Is Statistically Impossible ｜ Ron Simmons

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I hope everybody has had a great week this week. I know that we are

00:00:14.880 now kind of into summer, even though it's not officially summer until June. I can tell

00:00:19.500 you in Texas, it's already summer. It's been a hot one, and I think it's going to be a

00:00:24.320 hot summer. That's the way it is. Now, maybe El Nino will bring us some rain that we always

00:00:28.920 seem to need. And I hope wherever you are that you're beginning to enjoy your summer. Your kids

00:00:34.260 are hopefully out of school by now and your graduations are over. Congratulations to all of

00:00:40.140 you that graduated or had kids that graduated or grandkids. Those are always kind of interesting

00:00:45.280 and fun times. I can remember all of those for our kids and they all have a special memory in

00:00:50.580 our heart. In fact, I'll tell you this little story that when I guess Lisa and I always knew

00:00:55.700 that Allie was going to be someone that used her voice in whatever career she decided upon.

00:01:02.440 But I think that we knew for sure that she was going to be speaking to groups of people

00:01:09.200 when she graduated from college. Her college, Furman University, did not, the valedictorian

00:01:17.640 didn't automatically speak. They actually had a speaking contest that the students participated

00:01:24.220 in and helped judge. And then the faculty, some faculty group made the final decision. And Allie

00:01:29.660 was chosen as the graduation speaker, which we were certainly proud of. And I remember her

00:01:36.060 speaking that night in the football stadium at Furman. And I could just tell there was a point

00:01:44.100 in her speech. In fact, I should have brought the picture with me, I have a really good picture of

00:01:48.000 it, that it's almost like it's going off in her head, like, yep, this is what I'm meant to do.

00:01:54.300 And so that's a special time for our family.

00:01:57.320 I know you've had a bunch of special times as well.

00:01:59.860 A lot to talk about today, and we'll try to get through it in as clear and concise as we can.

00:02:04.960 But it's a lot of really interesting information that I hope when I'm doing these,

00:02:09.440 my sessions obviously are different than Allie's.

00:02:11.560 My sessions are really to try to take things and to put them in as layman terms as possible.

00:02:17.480 Some of them are very easy to understand.

00:02:19.440 Some are more complex, and some of them I may not do that great of a job at.

00:02:22.680 And if I don't, please let me know that. But I do think that they're important.

00:02:26.980 What we're trying to do here, what I'm trying to do is to help you and all of us, you know, become better engaged citizens.

00:02:36.240 And I know that you have a lot going on within your family and your job and the other stuff that you do.

00:02:41.640 But it's also important that we participate in our citizenry.

00:02:46.740 And that has to do with paying attention to those that govern us.

00:02:50.800 has to do with paying attention to culture and having influence on as many of those areas as we

00:02:56.840 can through the means that are appropriate that we do as Christians. So that's kind of my goal

00:03:04.360 here. And also to answer your questions, you always have great questions. We'll have some

00:03:08.580 great questions on this episode, and I'll try to do my best to answer those. But you can always

00:03:13.320 also email me, ron at ronsimmons.com, and I'm happy to answer your questions. If you've emailed

00:03:18.440 me and I haven't gotten back to you, please resend it so it gets back to the top of my inbox.

00:03:23.160 Sometimes they get down at the bottom of the inbox and I forget about them. So please do that.

00:03:27.360 One of the things that's been going on in the last several days is the mayoral race in Los Angeles.

00:03:34.700 And the current mayor there, Karen Bass, and she had two main contenders, Stephen Pratt and

00:03:43.800 Neetha Raymond. And the actual election day was a week or two ago, but it takes California

00:03:53.260 seven, eight days to count votes, which is really crazy. The latest in what they are calling the

00:04:01.920 final says that Neetha Ramon has overtaken Spencer Pratt in the race for second place in the mayor

00:04:10.960 race so that she'll be in the runoff along with Karen Bass. Now, it's really interesting that

00:04:17.000 this happened because on election night, because Pratt was so far ahead of her and about eight or

00:04:24.200 nine points ahead of her, which is a lot in an election, Nathia Ramon broke down in tears 1.00

00:04:31.140 addressing her supporters because she was in third place and wouldn't be in the runoff. Here's what 1.00

00:04:36.700 She said on election night, I hope you know that everything, every person in this room is fighting for in this campaign has been about building a city that's worthy of you and every child in the city.

00:04:51.820 so she realized that uh you know overcoming a uh a deficit like that would be almost impossible

00:05:09.000 as a matter of fact i'll tell you a personal story you know the last political race that i ran

00:05:14.320 my district had kind of turned purple and it was a it was a race when beto o'rourke if you remember

00:05:21.760 Beto. He ran for Senate against Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz was the sitting senator, who still is. And

00:05:29.900 Beto generated a lot of excitement among young voters and Democrat voters and what we call

00:05:36.200 general election voters, voters that didn't vote in the primary but vote in the general election.

00:05:40.740 And on election night, we thought we were in good shape. In fact, the polling that we had done

00:05:44.780 just before when the election process started, we were up seven or eight points. On election night,

00:05:50.740 The polls close at seven o'clock. And if you got those of you that have read my book, I'll know this story already. And I go into much more detail in the book. But on election night at seven o'clock, the Republican Party chair of our county will call all of the candidates that are Republican and see where you are in the early vote count.

00:06:12.880 and that those were the ones that voted before actual election day and early voting.

00:06:19.540 And I was down 200 votes after early voting.

00:06:23.860 Well, the way math works and just statistics work,

00:06:28.400 I knew right then that I was likely to lose that race,

00:06:32.120 even though election day voting hadn't been counted

00:06:34.540 and a lot of the mail ballots had not been counted.

00:06:37.540 But I knew pretty well for sure that I would lose right then.

00:06:41.640 And sure enough, I did not overcome that deficit during that, during once they counted election day voting and mail ballots, because it's just very hard. Usually the percentages don't change very much at all between what happened in early voting and what happens on election day and in mail ballots.

00:07:00.900 So it's very uncommon. And that's why Ms. Ramon basically conceded that she wasn't going to be in the runoff.

00:07:10.480 However, when all these mail-in ballots came in and the way California does it, they allow you to send in your mail ballot.

00:07:20.000 And as long as it's postmarked on Election Day, they will count it.

00:07:23.880 And it takes up to seven, eight days to get all the votes counted.

00:07:26.960 Now, why most other states can count them the same day? I have no idea. It just doesn't make any sense.

00:07:33.220 In fact, you know, people are pushing back on this as to what really happened, because Spencer Pratt was the only Republican or was the leading Republican in the race.

00:07:42.680 In fact, Stephen Krakauer, and I think we have a screen of this, wrote on X, it's not just Pratt fading in these drops.

00:07:50.220 It's Ramon beating Karen Bass by eight points that really makes it look, makes it feel very election integrity-ish, meaning not much integrity at all.

00:08:02.440 And President Trump responded on his true social, said there's there's big cheating by the Democrats in the California votes are all tied up, may not be for weeks under investigation by the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.

00:08:18.220 Why the vote counting delay? Which is a very good question.

00:08:22.720 And then finally, which is the one I want to spend a little time on, Elon Musk retweeted a post from NotTheBee, meaning NotBabylonBee, noting the statistical impossibilities.

00:08:35.060 When statistical impossible things happen, we should not be expected as a society to accept them.

00:08:40.760 Evidence of fraud isn't limited to video surveillance.

00:08:44.400 Statistical impossibilities are hard evidence of fraud.

00:08:47.800 Now, let me explain this to you. It may just may take a couple of minutes to get it. You may have to re-listen to this part of it a couple of times. So at the end, on election night, when the polls closed, when they closed, which essentially they counted all the early votes and maybe some election day votes as well.

00:09:05.680 So Karen Bass had 35 percent. Spencer Pratt had 30 percent. Ramon had 23 percent.

00:09:15.800 And all of the other candidates, there were seven or eight other candidates, totaled 12 percent.

00:09:19.920 So 35, 30, 23 and 12. Now, once they finish the counting.

00:09:26.440 OK, now, remember, the people that are counting the votes and the people that are watching the vote count,

00:09:32.700 they know these numbers 35 30 23 12 that's why uh ramon conceded that first night the final vote

00:09:42.460 count this is really interesting uh 34 for karen bass 26 for spencer pratt 29 for ramon and 11

00:09:54.280 percent for all the others. So Karen Bass's vote count went down by one percent. Spencer Pratt's

00:10:02.220 went down by four percentage points, and Ramones went up by six percentage points. Now, what would

00:10:11.780 have to happen in order for that to be true, all right, that means that Karen Bass, while she did

00:10:19.540 Even though her percentage came down, she did get some of the mail-in ballot votes, but not at the same percentage she got them before, which is unlikely, honestly.

00:10:29.700 Spencer Pratt, not only did he not go up, he went down, and again, he got some votes from mail-in.

00:10:39.920 However, they he got very, very few votes from mail in ballots, which, again, based on the performance and early voting would say that even if he didn't get that continued 30 percent, he got in early voting, he probably would have gotten 20 percent or maybe 25 percent.

00:10:57.100 OK, so it doesn't make sense. Here's the kicker. In order for Ms. Ramon to go from 23 percent to 29 percent, she would have had to have gotten 47 percent of all the votes that came in after early voting.

00:11:16.520 That is statistically impossible. Someone, in my opinion, and someone that gets 23% of the votes in early voting is not going to get 47% of the rest of the votes. I am telling you, from what my grandmother would say, there is a fly in the buttermilk. Something is not right there. I hope they can get to the bottom of it.

00:11:36.660 It seems like that they saw what votes they needed to get and that's where they got.

00:11:43.720 And I hope that's not the case. If she got 47 percent of the votes in mail in ballot, then we all need to go figure out how she did it, assuming she did it in the correct way and use that in the future in any campaigns that we're interested in.

00:11:58.100 One of the challenges in California is something called ballot harvesting. What ballot harvesting means, and in most states it's illegal, but what ballot harvesting means is that I can go as an individual, I can go pick up a vote. I can go pick up people's ballots.

00:12:16.920 I can go around the neighborhood and pick them up and then turn them in myself.

00:12:21.140 Most ones, most places say you can't go around and harvest, get ballots and pick them up and then turn them in.

00:12:28.380 Now, in theory, the person's already filled out the ballot, sealed the envelope and everything, and you're just the transporter.

00:12:35.860 But that just opens things up for potential fraud. All right.

00:12:40.060 It just makes the opportunity so great. And that's why most states don't allow that.

00:12:45.640 We do not allow that in Texas. So it's not just family members, but anyone can pick up ballots and there's no limit on how many they can pick up.

00:12:55.160 So who knows? And in California, everybody's mailed a mail-in ballot.

00:13:01.440 Even if you're going to go vote in person, you get a mail-in ballot by the mail.

00:13:04.980 So what if somebody gets that ballot and fills it out, forges somebody else's name on it or however they do that?

00:13:10.780 I mean, it's just, it's just a problem. And then when you're voting in person, no photo ID is required for most voters. In fact, Gavin Newsom in 2024 signed a law that prohibit checking ID when voting. Now, is that the craziest thing you've heard? You got to check ID. I guarantee you to get into some of his events, they have to check your ID.

00:13:31.100 To get to the airport, to go through the airport security line, you have to have ID, but not in voting, our most basic fundamental responsibility, the thing that really keeps our democracy and our republic going.

00:13:43.800 You don't have to show voter ID. Just absolutely, absolutely crazy. And so we hope that the U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. will be looking into this.

00:13:55.760 It just seems like something is not right in that scenario.

00:14:00.880 It just doesn't seem right.

00:14:02.860 But that is what happens.

00:14:04.260 I mean, I'm telling you, there is election fraud in this country, all right?

00:14:08.340 It is happening, and in my opinion, it's done mostly on the Democrat side, and I'm sure

00:14:15.600 there's some on both sides, but in my opinion, that's where you see most of the problem.

00:14:19.340 Most of the problem that we've had in Texas is in the valley, Rio Grande Valley, and that

00:14:24.920 has been a strong Democrat stronghold for many years,

00:14:27.980 although President Trump did do very well down there,

00:14:30.660 and we did flip some seats down there,

00:14:33.020 House seats and congressional seats.

00:14:34.620 But that's something that you have to be very, very careful of.

00:14:38.040 There's no question about it.

00:14:40.220 A couple of questions on this.

00:14:43.200 Does the GOJ have legal rights to investigate the most recent elections?

00:14:47.560 Yes, that's true.

00:14:48.400 They absolutely have the right to do that,

00:14:50.720 even though these were state or city elections.

00:14:53.900 When you are violating the Constitution or you're violating federal election laws, even if you do it within a state election or a local election, then absolutely.

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00:16:32.720 Plattner scandals. I don't know if most of you have heard of Graham Plattner or not, but he is

00:16:38.780 a U.S. Senate candidate in Maine. That Senate seat is currently held by Susan Collins, who

00:16:46.380 She's a Republican, but a relatively moderate Republican.

00:16:50.800 And maybe in Maine, that's what you have to be to be elected.

00:16:54.580 She's been around a long time.

00:16:56.800 But this Graham Plattner scandals that he is having are incredible.

00:17:01.040 He is a Marine Corps veteran, and we believe he'll be the nominee.

00:17:05.660 I think the voting's going on this week.

00:17:07.880 He's running against Susan Collins, as we said.

00:17:10.420 But the allegations about his past conduct have ranged from his Nazi tattoo, which we'll show you in a minute, to his affairs with women and abusive behavior.

00:17:21.460 And Plattner Plattner showed as a tattoo of the Nazi Totenkopf emblem on his chest, which is a skull and crossbone design used by Nazi SS units.

00:17:33.920 See that right there? I mean, that's those of you that are watching on video.

00:17:37.320 really

00:17:38.720 incredible. In fact, he initially claimed he got

00:17:41.740 the tattoo and didn't know what it was

00:17:43.380 but recent text messages have shown

00:17:45.920 that his ex-girlfriend knew

00:17:47.660 the meaning of the tattoo and that

00:17:49.840 he called it, Graham called it

00:17:52.040 my Totenkopf.

00:17:53.980 Now he's denying that he ever

00:17:55.840 knew it, that maybe his

00:17:57.420 maybe his

00:17:59.140 girlfriend knew it. In fact, when he was asked

00:18:01.700 by Chris Hayes, Plattner claimed

00:18:03.900 that maybe his girlfriend knew what it meant

00:18:05.880 but she didn't tell him.

00:18:07.320 sought to the times basically reported that they they saw texts of hers um including a text in

00:18:14.240 august i believe august 3rd of last year this would be before october of last year in which

00:18:18.800 she basically said that you had a quote nazi tattoo and she joked about how she's going to

00:18:22.940 go volunteer for collins now again this is a text that got sent so like we can place the time right

00:18:27.960 this is in august how does she know it's a nazi tattoo in august of last year and you don't know

00:18:32.980 it's not Nazi task to in August of last year. Well, she certainly didn't send that text to me.

00:18:39.380 So whoever she sent it to and was talking to, that's I can't say why, but I will say that

00:18:46.500 I certainly didn't know. And and the text messages she's sending to friends who

00:18:52.140 may have recognized that that's they didn't tell me that. So.

00:18:56.340 this guy is just not a truth teller i mean that's that's all there is to it he's not a truth teller

00:19:03.460 now the democrats have rallied behind him a lot of the ones in uh in senate have rallied behind

00:19:09.160 him and just you know don't care about this type of stuff although any mistake that a republican

00:19:14.660 makes they want to shout to high heaven and they have the media helping them do it i appreciate

00:19:18.720 chris hayes asking that question he's part of msnbc which i'm definitely not a fan of but i

00:19:24.180 appreciate him asking that question. And it's not only the Nazi tattoo, he also has some sexting

00:19:31.260 scandals. In fact, his wife, Amy Gertner, discovered sexually explicit text messages

00:19:38.020 that he sent to as many as a dozen women on his phone. In fact, she flagged the issue for

00:19:43.440 a Senate campaign last year as a potential liability. So his, okay, now stay with me on

00:19:49.440 his wife found him on his phone and told the Senate campaign, hey, you need to be aware of

00:19:54.400 this. This is probably going to come out. But his wife also issued a statement saying they had a

00:19:58.940 great marriage. Now, I believe in reconciliation and I believe they, you know, people can be

00:20:04.500 reconciled. People make mistakes. But how can you say you had a great marriage if you found these

00:20:11.300 on his phone? He obviously wasn't going to say anything about it. And then you had to flag them.

00:20:16.280 His ex-girlfriends, though, actually talk a little bit more about his attitude and how he has treated women.

00:20:24.520 In fact, a New York Times piece, again, usually not our friend, but glad they printed this, documented the testimony of several ex-girlfriends who described him as demeaning, emotionally volatile, heavy drinking, unfaithful, in at least one case, physically rough or intimidating during arguments in his 20s and 30s.

00:20:46.900 Lindsay Fiefeld, who Plattner dated from 2013 to 2015, said Plattner was cavalierly contemptuous of women's emotions.

00:20:56.040 He regularly grabbed her by the shoulders while drinking and in one incident twisted her arm and shoved her into a bedroom and told her to stay in there until she calmed down.

00:21:06.340 After the piece was published, however, Fiefeld posted on Exit the New York Times actually was trying to do damage control for Plattner.

00:21:15.320 And I don't know if that's true or not.

00:21:16.780 Maybe they were.

00:21:17.440 But here's what she said on, and this is, I think we have a screen of this.

00:21:21.380 But on X, she wrote, after the story went up, I began to ask them, wait, where, wait,

00:21:27.680 where are the stories from the other women?

00:21:30.060 Where are the accusation of sexual assault?

00:21:32.200 Why am I the focus?

00:21:34.340 Why does it say nobody could corroborate when I offered them sources that could corroborate?

00:21:40.280 This really was a setup all along.

00:21:42.200 The journalist I trusted who convinced me to share the story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Plattner campaign.

00:21:52.900 Wow, that's a pretty strong accusation, but it wouldn't put it past the New York Times to do that.

00:21:57.780 We know they're a far left organization.

00:21:59.880 We know that they don't like anything any Republican or conservative does.

00:22:04.520 But that's not all.

00:22:05.860 That's not all.

00:22:06.500 this guy. And again, if you know anybody in Maine, make sure that as it comes around, we'll see what

00:22:14.280 happens in the Democrat primary. Hopefully they won't vote for him, but they probably will when

00:22:19.300 it comes around to the general election that you vote for Ms. Collins, even though Ms. Collins 0.73

00:22:23.540 doesn't do everything we want her to do. And again, she's kind of a moderate Republican. She's much 0.99

00:22:28.520 better than what this guy would be. In fact, he had a Reddit account that he has since admitted

00:22:33.460 was his. It looked to be anonymous, but he's admitted it was his. And this is one of the

00:22:37.100 things that he said. This is to me, all of them are very disturbing. This is very disturbing as

00:22:42.600 well. This is he responded to a video of a U.S. soldier being shot four times by the Taliban

00:22:51.020 saying, this video never gets old. That dumb MF didn't deserve to live. At least his stupidity 0.99

00:22:58.600 and Fat A wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt. 1.00

00:23:05.920 Poor marksmanship on the Taliban's part is the only reason this MF made it home. 0.90

00:23:12.820 He managed to make every possible bad decision when it comes to a small unit combat. 0.96

00:23:19.080 Wow, man.

00:23:21.040 So he's basically saying this never gets old to see one of our soldiers being shot four times.

00:23:26.960 That's very disappointing. That in itself would disqualify him for any vote that I would ever take where he was on the ballot.

00:23:36.340 Also, Plattner evidently asked why black people don't tip. 1.00

00:23:40.200 And he said there are times in this world when for the good tolerance of humanity, you need to kill an MF and smeared rural white Americans as dumb and racist. 1.00

00:23:47.780 So this guy is basically a offended everybody. And we'll see what happens in Maine. But man, what a mess this is in Maine. And hopefully this will mean that when it comes out, a lot of Maine voters are independent voters. They're not really aligned with one party. 1.00

00:24:06.820 Hopefully they would see Susan Collins as a better pick than Graham Plattner.

00:24:10.480 And again, if you know anybody in Maine, I've got a few friends up there.

00:24:13.440 We need to be in touch with them and make sure that they vote correctly in November.

00:24:18.060 One of the questions that comes up about all this is what about the midterms?

00:24:22.960 What happens? What do you think is going to happen in the midterms?

00:24:25.100 Well, it's interesting that you say it's kind of an unusual scenario.

00:24:31.460 I, I, the redistricting so far has helped the Republicans, no question about it.

00:24:37.860 So the, the, the hill to climb for Democrats is a little harder in the house.

00:24:42.780 Okay.

00:24:43.520 It's going to be hard in the Senate for the Democrats, no matter what.

00:24:46.180 I do think that we'll keep the Senate.

00:24:48.840 But the house is a little bit easier for the Democrats to flip.

00:24:53.880 I am hoping that here in the next month or so that gas prices will have gone back down.

00:25:01.040 Maybe interest rates will go down a little bit between now and then, and that people

00:25:05.780 will feel much better about the economy.

00:25:07.880 People tend to vote their pocketbooks, although there are some issues that I know for me,

00:25:16.100 you know, and for our family, pro-life is a big, big issue and biblical values are a

00:25:21.080 big, big issue.

00:25:21.800 So we want to vote for the party or the candidate that shares that in most with us.

00:25:27.220 None of them are perfect.

00:25:28.740 And that's what I tell people.

00:25:29.720 You know, general elections are about policy as opposed to people. Primaries are more about people. Which candidate do you prefer? Right. And but general elections, because for the most part, and we're going to talk in just a second about when it doesn't happen.

00:25:46.180 But for the most part, Republicans are going to vote.

00:25:49.720 All Republicans are going to vote the same way.

00:25:51.900 All Democrats are going to vote the same way.

00:25:54.240 So no matter how towards the middle a Democrat might campaign, they're going to vote pretty far left.

00:26:03.260 OK. And so the policies of the Republican Party fit my values and my family's values more than the Democrat Party does at this time in our history.

00:26:12.840 Probably hasn't always been that way, but that's the way it is today.

00:26:16.180 So you want to think about policy in the general election, and you want to think about person in the primary, all right?

00:26:25.620 It's very, very important.

00:26:26.860 And those of us that have a general election coming up where maybe the candidate of our party has some personal flaws,

00:26:36.800 I want to think more about what the policies are that his party supports, and therefore I know he'll support,

00:26:44.000 as opposed to the person, and I hope that you'll remember that.

00:26:49.360 Now, since we're on the election thing, let's talk just for a minute about the Save America Act.

00:26:55.260 The Save America Act has again stalled in Congress, and there were four Senate Republicans,

00:27:02.740 and we're going to put their pictures up, that joined with Democrats to block a voter ID integrity bill

00:27:08.900 We were trying to get in with the $70 billion immigration enforcement funding package that went through reconciliation, therefore only took 50 votes if we got it in the bill.

00:27:20.120 It was Susan Collins, who we just talked about.

00:27:23.180 She voted against it.

00:27:24.300 I don't know why she voted against it, but she did.

00:27:27.580 Lisa Murkowski from Alaska.

00:27:30.900 She seems to vote a lot against Republican ideas, effectively conservative Republican ideas.

00:27:38.900 And then Mitch McConnell, he voted against it probably because of his feud with President Trump. I don't know any other reason. I can't imagine that Kentucky voters would be against this, but he voted against it. You know, he's going out. He's not running again, so he doesn't have anything to lose, I guess.

00:27:56.400 And then finally, Tom Tillis of North Carolina, which again, he's going out and I can't imagine North Carolina voters.

00:28:03.980 I know they have voter ID in North Carolina, so I can't imagine why he would be against it.

00:28:07.940 But he was. So four Republicans joined that.

00:28:11.340 Lindsey Graham's amendment needed 60 votes in the Senate to be approved.

00:28:16.060 And he basically was putting the SAVE Act inside this reconciliation bill.

00:28:21.720 But it failed to get the required number only receiving 50 votes.

00:28:25.620 Now, even if those four senators would have joined, not likely that, you know, we would have gotten anybody else on our side, but it's very disappointing.

00:28:34.680 Very disappointing. I think one Democrat senator did vote with us, and I believe that was Fetterman, but I'm not sure about that.

00:28:41.980 You can double check that yourself. But again, it just shows the challenges that we have.

00:28:49.360 I mean, but, you know, the funny thing is what it simply does is it requires people registering to vote in federal election to provide that they have proof of citizenship, that they're eligible to vote and that only legally allowed citizens are eligible to vote in federal elections.

00:29:05.240 That's all that we are asking for and that there be a voter ID.

00:29:09.380 Voter ID laws are popular.

00:29:11.260 In fact, 83 percent of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, require requiring proof of citizen to register to vote.

00:29:20.500 And 84 percent require people to show voter ID when they vote.

00:29:25.280 So I just don't know how we cannot get that passed.

00:29:30.740 And I don't even know how some Democrats can vote against that.

00:29:33.220 I really don't know how they can do that, but they certainly can.

00:29:36.380 Josh Howley, who's a Republican senator from Missouri, like a lot of senators, I think he says it pretty well on SOT3.

00:29:44.620 Listen, we've been doing this in Missouri for years.

00:29:46.800 I mean, voters in my state put it in our Constitution.

00:29:50.160 Voter ID is the most popular thing out there.

00:29:52.660 There's a reason for that.

00:29:53.420 People want their elections to be safe.

00:29:55.020 They want them to be fair.

00:29:56.860 And to me, you can't explain it to me why you wouldn't vote for voter ID.

00:30:01.540 I just don't understand it. 0.97

00:30:03.220 I agree, Josh. I mean, I just can't imagine that. I was on the election committee one of the sessions when I was in the House, and we had voter ID laws.

00:30:14.500 They had gone through the court. The court upheld them, and we put in strict ballot harvesting laws, things like that.

00:30:20.900 So I have no idea. In fact, Texas U.S. Congressman Chip Roy posted on X, and I think we have a screenshot of this, is that Senate Republicans prefer to hide behind a fake 60 vote threshold rather than maintain a true filibuster rule and yet still consider the bill.

00:30:38.260 So here we are. So what he's saying, if you're going to have a filibuster, make them stand up there and talk.

00:30:43.100 Don't just say, I plan to filibuster this.

00:30:45.740 Make them stand up there.

00:30:46.720 Make them go through the pain of doing that.

00:30:49.200 And I think that would be a smart thing to do.

00:30:52.400 Now, I will tell you, I've changed my mind on the filibuster, and I know this could hurt 0.78

00:30:56.460 us if the Senate changes to Democrat hands in the future, but I think we ought to get

00:31:01.640 rid of the filibuster.

00:31:03.260 You know, it's a majority gets you elected.

00:31:06.180 You ought to be able to get things passed with a majority as well.

00:31:09.400 I just don't understand that.

00:31:12.860 So we'll see how it works. But at minimum, they ought to do the talking filibuster. It's just senseless that we're not doing that. But I would encourage you to continue to get in touch with your senators. Get in touch with your U.S. senators, especially if you live in a blue state.

00:31:29.380 Get in touch with them about voting in favor of voter ID and make them explain to you why they're against voter ID.

00:31:38.040 Most every state allows you to, even if you don't have a driver's license, you can get an ID that the state will provide and generally will pay for it for free of cost.

00:31:46.880 You can get an ID that proves who you are and proves that you're a citizen eligible to vote.

00:31:51.660 If you are, if you're not, then you don't you don't deserve to vote.

00:31:55.280 So I just can't imagine why that we can't get that done.

00:31:59.640 Now, one of the things that we've gotten a lot of questions about and a lot of concern about and it's legitimate concern are data centers and data centers are these huge.

00:32:10.560 I'm sure you've heard of these huge warehouses. I mean, they are multiple football fields long.

00:32:15.600 And inside of them are all these computer servers that are collecting and storing and computing all the data that you and I put up.

00:32:26.560 Like, for example, if you order anything off of Amazon, for example, which most people do in the country now, and you can go in there and you look at your order history.

00:32:36.680 Well, that order history that's in there is stored somewhere in a data center.

00:32:41.500 All right. And that data center, which is kind of sort of like the cloud when you hear about the cloud.

00:32:46.780 OK, that data center stores the data and then it retrieves it for you so that you can know what you've ordered and or in the past and maybe what you want to reorder, something like that.

00:32:57.280 So it's something that we all use every day, but but it is just something that has created a lot of concern.

00:33:04.460 In fact, one of the questions we got from Julie is what are data centers and why are some people up in arms?

00:33:09.640 Well, we just explained to you about what they are, but the reason they're up in arms is because that they, in order for data centers to run, just like your own computer, you have to plug it in.

00:33:22.680 It requires a lot of electrical power, and it also requires these huge computers, as you know, can run.

00:33:30.860 They have a motor inside of them, so they can get hot, and that's why your computer, your laptop, like I'm using right now,

00:33:37.720 has a little fan inside the computer that keeps it cooled down. Well, they have to have that type

00:33:42.760 of scenario in these big warehouses, and they'll use water as chillers, okay? They use chillers,

00:33:49.860 which are these huge air-conditioning units, to keep it cool inside those data centers,

00:33:54.840 and that requires a use of water. And that's why people are concerned is the amount of electricity

00:33:59.760 that they're using, that it's going to have a negative effect on the electrical grid and the

00:34:04.580 water. In fact, there have been some claims of water contamination. But that's controversial a

00:34:13.500 bit, but we'll see. Then the reason that, another question by Maggie is what's up with data centers

00:34:20.240 being built and why the rush? Well, they're being built because we're using computers more and more

00:34:26.600 every day. And a lot of that is what's happening with artificial intelligence, or as you and I

00:34:32.100 know it, AI. What happens is, and this is a generalized, some of you that are computer

00:34:37.920 people will probably laugh at me and feel free to email me and correct me or post it on YouTube or

00:34:45.140 some other place where you can comment on it and help me understand better. But the way I understand

00:34:49.500 it is that what AI does and how it learns to think, all right? In fact, today, when I gave

00:34:58.000 you the percentage numbers that Rahman had to have in order to get to the percentage she got to

00:35:04.880 of the mail ballot voting. I actually just put that question in AI and it calculated for me and

00:35:10.960 it gave me the formula. So what happens is, is that there's all this data. Every time we're on

00:35:17.300 the computer, this data is being collected. All right. And about our own preferences,

00:35:22.220 things like that. And they use that data to then analyze to come up with answers or to answer your

00:35:30.960 Google inquiry or your AI inquiry, or again, your shopping, whatever it is you want to buy and what

00:35:36.600 have you. So that is all this data, and it's more and more and more. And then they're using it.

00:35:43.060 Computing power is also required to help them to quickly, in a few seconds, go through essentially

00:35:50.520 the entire internet to come up with the answer to the question. And that is just a huge amount

00:35:56.440 of computing that has to happen. Was it dots and zeros or dashes and zeros is really what's

00:36:04.080 behind all the code. And they convert all those into what is logical things that you and I would

00:36:10.240 understand. And we're going to continue to need these data centers unless there is a breakthrough

00:36:15.900 in computing that allows them not to be needed anymore.

00:36:20.000 Most communities are raising concerns, again, as I said, about energy, water, environmental,

00:36:25.740 and they are really huge facilities, but they were also used before AI, but AI has just

00:36:32.900 expanded the need for them.

00:36:34.820 It's a much, much heavier demand, and you and I use it every week.

00:36:39.180 We use AI, whether you use AI, whether you know it or not.

00:36:41.980 When you ask a question of your computer or when you're looking for something, it's using AI to help find that answer as quickly as possible for you.

00:36:50.720 Right now, there are 3000 data centers and there's 1500 that are already in development across the country.

00:36:59.140 That's a lot. If you think about that, that's, you know, you know, 50 states.

00:37:04.680 that's, what is that, 60 per state, something like that, and now another 45, so it's up to like 70

00:37:12.460 per state, even more than probably 80 per state. So that's a lot, you know, that's a lot, and some

00:37:18.800 big states like Texas probably have more than others. In fact, I think Texas and Virginia have

00:37:23.000 the most of the data centers. However, they do have a huge electrical need, and you know, there's

00:37:28.600 been strains on our electrical grid. In fact, there's even protests going on about these. I

00:37:35.580 think we have a screenshot of one of the protests. And these are just everyday people. I mean,

00:37:40.420 these could be paid protesters, but probably not. They want to know what's going on here,

00:37:46.500 what is happening. And it's a legitimate concern. By 2027, one single rack, this was according to

00:37:56.780 Goldman Sachs, one single rack of the most advanced AI computers or servers could require

00:38:05.020 enough electricity to run about 500 typical American homes. So you think about that. There's

00:38:10.700 a lot of small towns in the United States that don't have 500 homes in them. And one big AI 0.80

00:38:18.940 server could require the same amount of electricity for computing power in order for it to be able to

00:38:25.980 operate properly. Now, interestingly enough, even though you and I use AI every day, and we actually

00:38:32.700 depend on it and need it, and we, you know, we depend on our computers, is that seven out of

00:38:38.500 10 Americans, so 70% of Americans are against the construction of AI data centers in their local

00:38:45.220 area. This is something when I was in the legislature that came up all the time, it's called

00:38:49.280 the NIMBY concept. And what NIMBY means is not in my backyard. In other words, I know we need

00:38:55.780 prisons, but I don't want you to build one in my backyard. Or I know we need dog parks,

00:39:03.040 but don't build it where all the dogs are barking in my window. In this case, hey,

00:39:07.340 I know we probably need data centers, but just don't build it in my backyard. And

00:39:12.000 ladies and gentlemen, I get what you're saying. And again, I wouldn't want one right next to me

00:39:19.060 either. But we do have to understand that in order to have the benefits of what these data

00:39:27.060 centers bring to us, then we have to be able to maybe sacrifice some things. We don't need to

00:39:35.140 sacrifice our environment or not being able to have enough electricity, but we need to be able

00:39:39.760 to understand they're going to have to be somewhere. Now, ideally, they can be in places

00:39:45.180 that aren't as densely populated.

00:39:47.480 And in the most part, that's the case.

00:39:50.560 Some parts, it's probably not the case.

00:39:52.900 Now, what's happening here is states and local municipalities,

00:39:57.660 they are encouraging these data centers to be built in their area.

00:40:03.180 And why do they do that?

00:40:04.560 Well, they do it because it brings extra tax revenue, generally,

00:40:08.640 and maybe more jobs.

00:40:10.420 Although it doesn't take a lot of people to run a data center,

00:40:13.040 that is more jobs.

00:40:13.940 Certainly, it takes them to build the data centers.

00:40:16.040 There's a lot of construction jobs that go on, and those are all good.

00:40:21.360 However, what is happening in some of these states, and my state's been a part of it too,

00:40:26.300 is that they give them incentives, huge incentives to come and build the data center here.

00:40:33.600 Because if my state doesn't give them an incentive, the next state over will.

00:40:37.880 And when incentives, they're meaning that's like tax abatements,

00:40:41.280 I mean, they don't have to pay tax for a certain period of time, or they may even give them some type of grant, or maybe they give them a lower electricity cost, something like that.

00:40:50.740 So it's a real problem, and it's a controversy.

00:40:54.520 This is where you can contact your local city council and let them know your concerns about it.

00:41:01.740 Make sure that you do that.

00:41:02.820 that, hey, I want to know. Ideally, I wouldn't like a data center next to me, but I also want

00:41:09.480 to know what's going on with how are they getting their electricity? What type of incentives are

00:41:15.160 they being done? What are they doing to our water? I'd want to know all those types of things. And

00:41:20.300 I'd also do that to the state. Hey, we know that these are important, but we also know they have

00:41:25.520 to build them anyway, right? They have to build them anyway. So we don't need to overdo the

00:41:30.700 incentives for them to come to our particular state. And I think you have to hold their feet 0.84

00:41:36.900 to the fire. One of the things that is happening in some states, and I think this is a legitimate

00:41:42.240 question and a legitimate requirement, is we need to have data centers pay for their own power,

00:41:49.080 right? States and other companies usually build the infrastructure and they just

00:41:52.960 plug into that. There are some tests going on out there to maybe have the small power plants

00:41:59.740 at these data centers. So they generate their own power. Maybe some of them can use the solar power.

00:42:05.300 Maybe that's the best place to use solar power rather than, you know, pulling power off of our

00:42:10.280 grid. Or maybe even there's these, some people are trying to develop these small nuclear power

00:42:15.440 plants, very small ones, and maybe that would work. But I think we have to be looking at all

00:42:20.780 sorts of different opportunities to be able to coexist in a reasonable way with the data centers,

00:42:28.040 but not to let them overwhelm us or to put our infrastructure, I guess,

00:42:34.200 and that's electricity, water, environment, put those at risk.

00:42:37.940 So stay in touch with that.

00:42:39.520 Please get in touch with your local authorities on this.

00:42:42.620 Voice your opinion on it.

00:42:43.980 And if you're in favor of them, voice that opinion.

00:42:46.580 If you're against them, voice that opinion.

00:42:47.740 But just make sure you're educated on it, okay?

00:42:49.580 Take some of the stuff I've told you today on how they work

00:42:52.340 and do some more research and make sure that you voice your opinion on that.

00:42:56.240 Because if we don't voice our opinion on it, then we don't have much of an opportunity to complain about it.

00:43:03.120 Now, let's finish up by getting into some listener questions.

00:43:07.440 Here's the first one.

00:43:08.340 Housing market for the, this is from Grace, 30-year-old married with one child.

00:43:13.420 Do we keep renting or buy?

00:43:15.040 We are in Dallas.

00:43:16.240 I think right now if I'm renting, I'll just hold off a little bit more.

00:43:19.300 I think the market, the real estate market could get a little softer.

00:43:23.000 I notice even in our own neighborhood, there's more houses for sale this summer than there were last summer.

00:43:29.420 So that tells me that they're staying on the market a little bit longer is what it tells me.

00:43:36.060 So I think you can just watch it.

00:43:37.480 And also, I'm hopeful that interest rates will go down just a little bit below 6% in the next several months.

00:43:45.500 I'm hoping that.

00:43:46.060 So I would watch it for right now.

00:43:47.420 Now, this is another related question by Sarah, who says, should we sell home and rent to pay off all debt, 3% interest on current mortgage?

00:43:57.800 I would say no, that I wouldn't do that. Now, obviously, I don't know your specific financial situation.

00:44:03.580 If you're in a situation where you can't pay your debt, your other debt, and it's just piling up and piling up,

00:44:09.560 then that might be another, you know, another opportunity or another option to sell the home.

00:44:16.960 But if you can avoid that at 3% interest and you don't plan on moving anyway, you're going to stay in that home, then I don't think I would do that.

00:44:24.900 I look for other ways to do that, if at all you possibly could.

00:44:28.920 If you needed to take a second mortgage out on the home at a little bit higher rate, then that might be an option as well and pay off all that debt.

00:44:37.700 And then you could take a second mortgage and might still even be able to deduct that interest as well.

00:44:42.120 So I just don't know that I would do that right now.

00:44:44.580 But I need to know a little bit more about your situation.

00:44:47.440 If you want to email me on that, feel free to do that.

00:44:51.340 Next to the Bible, what's the best finance book?

00:44:54.500 Well, I like Dave Ramsey's Money Makeover, I think, as a basic finance book,

00:44:59.560 and especially for a lot of young couples, even older couples.

00:45:02.280 No matter how old you are, some people, no matter how old they are,

00:45:05.740 haven't figured out how to manage their money yet

00:45:07.560 or really haven't been taught the principles, I would do that.

00:45:10.460 Another way that I help people think about finance, another book is called Rich Dad, Poor Dad, done by Robert Kiyosaki.

00:45:17.600 Now, I don't necessarily agree with everything he says out there in all of his books, but this is a good fundamental book on the way you think about creating assets and how you think about finances and what have you.

00:45:32.120 How do I how do I encourage this generation of parents to help their kids?

00:45:36.580 You know, I got some good advice, and I'm thinking more about adult children right now financially.

00:45:44.240 I got some good advice one time, and one of my mentors, I was talking about, my kids were entering the phase where they were getting ready to be married and buying homes and things like that, their kids starting to school.

00:45:57.640 And, you know, our oldest son, we were only 21 years old when Justin was born, so we were very young.

00:46:04.480 So he, you know, he he's only 21 years younger than I am. So I'm 65. And so he's 44. OK. And so he's, you know, if if if if we wait till Lisa and I pass away and, you know, who knows when that will be, then he's going to be pretty far up there before he would get any inheritance at all.

00:46:29.360 And his kids may already be out of college, who knows?

00:46:32.340 And so what this gentleman told me, he says, look, you need to help your kids when they

00:46:36.440 need it the most, if you can afford to do it, and that they're good stewards.

00:46:40.520 And so that's what we've done.

00:46:41.860 We've tried to help our kids along the way as they need it, help them buy their first

00:46:47.120 house.

00:46:47.540 I don't think anything wrong with that.

00:46:48.920 We've helped, you know, help where we can with the private school tuition to go to a

00:46:54.520 Christian school.

00:46:55.500 We help with that where they need it.

00:46:57.920 And that's what we try to do to help them during the times that they need it.

00:47:01.840 Now, they need to be good stewards of their money before that you would be willing to do that.

00:47:06.380 Because if they're going to take the money and just use it to go on a vacation or do something frivolous with it, then I wouldn't do that.

00:47:13.180 If you want to help the grandkids, but you don't really trust the kids, then, you know, you could give directly to the school if they're in a private school or put a 529 plan in place for their college tuition and what have you.

00:47:27.100 So that's what I would do.

00:47:29.420 Let's see.

00:47:30.040 What's your advice on newlyweds to do in their first year of marriage?

00:47:33.020 Well, I think in your first year of marriage is that you just need to.

00:47:39.780 And again, it's been a long time for us, right?

00:47:41.600 45 we've been married 46 years but i think if i had to go do it over again is i will sure that

00:47:49.240 i wasn't trying to spend all my time trying to change my spouse and i would spend more time

00:47:56.260 trying to get to learn my spouse and learn more about me than i would be trying to change them

00:48:02.760 all right handling parents living in sin dead living with a man mom rotating with new men 0.54

00:48:09.420 not honest. Man, that's a tough one. I'm sorry, Allison, that that's the case. I really am. I

00:48:16.660 know that that's heartbreaking for you. But I do think that while you shouldn't cut them off,

00:48:22.020 I do think, especially if you have children, you need to limit your exposure.

00:48:27.020 I certainly don't want to expose your children to your parents when they are physically with

00:48:35.120 people that you don't agree with. Okay. And so I would just, you know, say, Hey, I love you. I

00:48:41.980 disagree with, you know, your lifestyle. And I want my grandkids to know you and know who you

00:48:46.940 are, but I'm not going to expose them to things I disagree with. And, you know, they, they may or

00:48:52.540 may not like that, but that's, that's not your responsibility. Your main responsibility is to

00:48:58.140 your own family. And that, that would, that's probably the way I would handle that.

00:49:02.940 raising kids who still want to be around you when they're grown up yeah you know you always worry

00:49:09.160 about that uh when your kids are little i know i worried about that as well well my kids still

00:49:13.920 want to be around me when they're grown now fortunately they have they are i mean that

00:49:18.540 we're blessed with that and a lot of that is due to the lisa my wife and how her parenting skills

00:49:25.240 and how she was just you know just incredible mom and i probably messed up more than i needed to

00:49:32.220 have. I know I did, but they still want to be around us. And I think the way to do that is to

00:49:38.080 make sure that, again, I've talked about this before, but to make sure that they see you as

00:49:42.640 not hypocritical. That doesn't mean you don't make mistakes and you're certainly not perfect,

00:49:48.480 but make sure that you're the same person at home that you are when you leave the home.

00:49:54.000 That's what they will look at the most. And make sure, again, just had an email on related to this

00:50:00.340 the other day from one of the listeners is that you understand the difference between values,

00:50:05.400 rules, and preferences. If you understand that, okay, there are some things that are preferences,

00:50:11.000 there are some things that are rules, like, okay, when you're going to come home from your date,

00:50:14.940 preferences are, you know, are you wearing blue pants or green pants, okay? And values are,

00:50:20.980 are you honest, right? And I think if they see that right balance with you, they're going to want

00:50:26.480 to have that in the future. The other thing is, if you'll focus on experiences as opposed to things,

00:50:35.020 they're going to want to continue those experiences when they're adults as well.

00:50:40.660 How did your mom get her start in songwriting? Congrats to you. God's blessings on your phone.

00:50:45.300 Well, thank you very much, Joni. I appreciate that. Lisa's always been creative. She's always

00:50:51.120 been a writer. She wrote things when she was young and in high school, wrote a really cool

00:50:57.300 poem that was published about her grandmother. And then when our kids were little, she would take

00:51:03.660 regular songs and write mom parody songs about them. And some of those are just hilarious. And

00:51:09.540 we'll have to figure out maybe how to get a link to some of those because they are super, super

00:51:13.580 funny. And then as Allie left high school and went to college, and so we were somewhat empty

00:51:20.620 Nesters, because Daniel was off at a program at that time, she began to get more serious about

00:51:25.860 songwriting. And so she began to write more serious songs, primarily in the Christian world,

00:51:33.000 also, though, some in the country. She's got some really good, funny and good country songs. In fact,

00:51:38.220 her favorite, my favorite song that she has, and you can probably look this up somewhere,

00:51:42.260 called Homecoming Dance. It's my favorite song of all time that she did. And so if you like the

00:51:48.600 song that Stephen Curtis Chapman did called Butterfly Kisses. It's kind of along that line.

00:51:53.100 Did you sing that one? Whoever did that? I like that one very much. So anyway, thank you very

00:51:58.560 much for that. Okay, just a few more here. What's my perspective on Maha, Make America Healthy Again,

00:52:04.780 and is it good for conservatism? Well, you know, there are some guys, I think Maha as a guidance

00:52:13.140 is absolutely good. No question about it. I think any government thing that overly imposes

00:52:20.400 restrictions or regulations are some that I'd be concerned about. And I don't see them doing that

00:52:26.400 yet. I think they're doing a lot of good things or having to undo a lot of bad things that have

00:52:30.560 been done in the past. But I think they're doing a lot of good things. So I'm okay with that right

00:52:34.540 now. Israel being and having control of our military. I don't think that's the case. Israel 0.99

00:52:40.400 does not control our military. I know that for sure. But sometimes when you're in a particular

00:52:46.080 conflict, like this happened in World War II. In World War II, Dwight Eisenhower was the

00:52:54.660 supreme commander. That meant that the British troops, our allies, the British troops were under

00:53:03.720 his ultimate command. Now, they had British generals involved in that. And of course,

00:53:08.400 the leaders, Churchill and Roosevelt, were even over Eisenhower. But sometimes for tactical

00:53:15.440 reasons in the battlefield, there needs to be one leader. And so if you've got, you know,

00:53:20.540 if you've got British troops and American troops in a particular battlefield, there's somebody that

00:53:24.980 needs to have the ultimate responsibility. I don't know if that's going on with some of our people

00:53:29.440 and the Israelis on coordinating strikes and things like that. And maybe because Israel has 0.69

00:53:37.040 some more knowledge of particular locations, that they're the ones that makes the final call on that.

00:53:44.580 But I guarantee you, they don't make any final call that President Trump and his Joint Chiefs

00:53:49.040 of Staff hasn't already been made aware of. And if they've given them that responsibility,

00:53:53.640 then that's because we've allowed that to happen, not because they've taken it.

00:53:58.000 So anyway, I hope that helps very much. Don't forget, if you haven't gotten your share of the

00:54:02.340 Air Rose tickets, you still have time to do that. There's a few seats left,

00:54:05.800 But it's going to be another awesome time. I was just texting with Shane and Shane the other day.

00:54:12.880 They're great people. They're looking forward to it.

00:54:15.340 You know, if you don't, they have a daily devotional that comes out every morning.

00:54:19.720 And if you're interested in here, they sing the devotional, which is really, really good.

00:54:24.020 And if you're interested in something like that, kind of get you going the morning, I would recommend that.

00:54:28.040 And all the great speakers that Allie's going to have, you know by now that Allie's expecting her fourth child, our seventh grandchild.

00:54:34.420 We're so excited about it.

00:54:36.380 It's going to be awesome. 1.00

00:54:37.580 We just can't wait for the next little Bambino or Bambines to come along, 0.99

00:54:42.700 but it's going to be a great time. 0.96

00:54:44.340 So thank you for supporting Allie's podcast.

00:54:46.520 Again, if you are interested in getting in touch with me,

00:54:49.120 ron at ronsimmons.com.

00:54:50.520 Also a great gift for Father's Day still,

00:54:53.960 you've got plenty of time for that, is my book,

00:54:56.100 Life Lessons from the Little Red Wagon.

00:54:57.900 You can get that off of Allie's merch site.

00:54:59.760 If you want a signed copy, just email me, ron at ronsimmons.com,

00:55:02.980 and we'll make arrangements to make that happen.

00:55:04.940 Thank you very much.

00:55:05.680 Have a good day.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - June 13, 2026

Spencer Pratt’s Loss Is Statistically Impossible ｜ Ron Simmons

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