Best of Program ｜ Guest： Allie Stuckey & Lance Robinson ｜ 12⧸18⧸19
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Summary
A 4-year-old boy named Davis has stage 4 cancer and is in the doctor's office. His family is praying for him to make a full recovery. Glenn Beck tells the story of how the world is becoming a much better place because of the work of people like Lance Robinson.
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And you'll be able to get her show as part of the package.
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And she joined us today with a great appearance and talking about principles and how to live your life and how to look at issues.
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And we also spent some time today talking about, you know, stopping the noise just a bit and noticing how good things really are.
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And if we didn't have the leadership that we have globally, would we be at each other's throats?
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I'm going to tell you a story today of the silence of Christmas morning in history and what we can learn.
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Also, how the world is becoming a much better place and somebody that maybe you can help out.
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Lance Robinson, a guy who found out his four-year-old has stage four cancer and isn't asking for anything except prayers.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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A friend wrote to me and said, I have a friend who started this for a friend.
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I went online and I saw this cute little four-year-old.
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Okay, this is a kid, in case you're not watching on Blaze TV,
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this is a kid who is singing jingle bells and he is in the doctor's office.
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And so many of you reached out to PrayForDavis.com, PrayForDavis.com.
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And we actually have his dad on the phone with us now.
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He is the father of the four-year-old cancer patient named Davis.
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You know, all things considered, he's doing pretty well.
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He's still the, most days, he's still the happy, you know,
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So we've been very blessed and thankful that, you know, he's responding well to chemo treatments
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We have somebody in our office that is going through chemo now, and it's just brutal on
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You know, it's actually really hard to explain because he doesn't understand.
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And other than the fact that when we originally went in, he was having pain in his abdomen.
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Now that pain's gone, so when we have to explain, like, hey, Davis, we're going to the doctor
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I mean, he really just, he gets so fearful and anxious about it, and all we can say is,
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like, buddy, it's to help you, and he keeps saying, but, Daddy, I'm better.
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I feel better, you know, but we just know that we have to go through this treatment plan.
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So he has stage four, and it was in a tumor that they found because he had pain.
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They thought it was appendicitis, but a good lab tech spotted this tumor, but it spread
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What are the, I don't mean to, but what is his prognosis?
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You know, it's hard because they don't really talk about prognosis with the children.
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And generally in children, because of how resilient they are, there's definitely a higher percentage
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rate that survive cancer at every measure, by a year, by two years, by five years, or
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So the best that I can say is that, you know, with rhabdomyosarcoma, which is what he has,
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they're kind of thinking it's like a 70, 60 to 70% chance, I think, right now that he could
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Um, it's harder because, and this is crazy, but of these cases, they call it RMS, rhabdomyosarcoma.
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But of these cases, he's only the ninth kid ever on record that had his origin tumor start
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But, um, yeah, it's just, it's, you know, for us, for my wife and I, Amanda and I, it's,
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it's, uh, you know, we're right now, we're just trying to take it a day at a time.
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And, and honestly, just, you know, continue to pray that God would heal him and that,
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um, he wouldn't have symptoms from the chemo and everything.
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But right now it's, that's the best I can say, 60 to 70% chance that he could, you know,
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at least survive this from this original stent of cancer.
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How is she, how is she and how's mom holding up?
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You know, Lily is, she's, I just love her so much.
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She's an amazing little girl and, um, she's doing good, but she does, she does what I do,
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And she tries to take care of her mom, which is just unbelievable to see.
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You'll see Amanda get upset about something or, you know, in the hospital or whatever.
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And you'll watch, I'll watch Lily go over and take care of her, try to cheer her up.
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Um, so for her, you know, it's going to be really hard for a long time because even though
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we are very trying to be as intentional as we can with her, you know, all the attention
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And I think that's a hard thing because she cares for him and she knows what's going on and
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But at the same time, she's missing out on a lot of things because we can't go places.
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We can't, you know, we're missing out on church sometimes because we can't take Davis
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So I think it's just a hard road for her, especially like from a psychological standpoint.
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Well, I know that you've only asked for, uh, prayers, um, but your friend on your website
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has, uh, put up a place to donate because you guys are taking a massive, uh, financial,
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uh, hit, uh, mom can no longer work and you run your own business.
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If anybody wants to donate, you can go to pray for Davis, uh, dot com.
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But I would, uh, I would ask the audience, uh, to please keep Lily in your prayers to
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I mean, here's this, this little girl who is just, um, you know, weathering a storm of
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her life as well, and it will, uh, change her forever and hopefully it will change her
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Um, Lance, thank you so much for talking to us.
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Pray for Davis.com now that is the good use of technology.
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When I first got into this, I couldn't have found out about this family.
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I couldn't have, I couldn't have had a picture or a video or audio of this cute four little
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Then I would have had to find the family, put them on the phone.
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But how could people just give money, stuff it into an envelope?
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Our life has been so greatly enhanced and our ability to help one another so greatly enhanced
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by the same technology that can be used to destroy.
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And we are either great creators or we are great destroyers.
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We're the two most powerful words in any language.
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So Allie Stuckey worked for us for I don't know how long.
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And then when this deal was going through for our merger, the one face that kept coming
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to me was Allie going, oh, dear God, no, please.
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So I just wanted an honest, I mean, that's really what went through your head, wasn't
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I've heard so many good things about the potential of this merger and all of them have come true
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And I think it's only going to get better and better.
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It's time that we all kind of come together and stand together and leave each other alone
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And yesterday, how did you who are you tweeting this to and what has it turned into?
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Because I read it and I thought, oh, my gosh, this is great.
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So my tweet yesterday was exactly what you said.
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If we are saying that young children or even teenagers are that they have the capacity to
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consent to a sex change, to hormone blockers, to all of these things that we say are necessary
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Why don't they also have the capacity to consent to a relationship with an older person or like you
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And of course, the leftist blue checkmarks came out and drove saying that this is a ridiculous
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connection, that this is the slippery slope fallacy.
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But of course, they couldn't actually answer the question.
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They couldn't say why logically that is different.
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I knew that my mentions were going to go up in flames, but I think it's I think it's a
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Because you're just saying one is a really important decision.
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So if you have the capacity to make one really important decision, why wouldn't you have the
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capacity to make another very important decision?
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Because there is no other reason we say consenting adults.
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So if it's consent and you don't have to be an adult to make game changing decisions,
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And that's that's a really good point is really when it comes to sexual morality for most progressives
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or most people on the left, the only lines of morality that are drawn are autonomy and
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So I'm just saying if those are the only lines of morality that are drawn when it comes to
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sexuality, what's stopping a child who apparently has autonomy and consent from have from exercising
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that autonomy and consent when it comes to having an older relationship?
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So the argument really is that maybe there are other lines of morality that we should draw
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Maybe there are other things that we should consider.
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Just well, I knew when Ben Shapiro tweeted me, retweeted me that they were going to come
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It kind of flew under the radar for a little bit until the power of Ben Shapiro came.
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So it's a blessing and a curse on that one because every once in a while he'll retweet
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And then it's just like my entire mentions for the next two days is just nonstop.
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And he is what's great about Ben is he can take you apart logically and you don't even
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You're all of a sudden your skeleton standing with no meat on your frame and you're like,
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Um, so, um, you are, uh, really focused and I love this.
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You are really focused on spiritual things, uh, and, uh, things of deep meaning, which people
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Well, I think that millennials are like any other group of human beings and that we are
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I think that we just look in the wrong places typically.
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So millennials are the least religious and the most politically progressive generation
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And I don't think, and I know that, uh, correlation doesn't prove causation, but I don't think it's
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a coincidence that we're also the least satisfied or the least happy.
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Um, there's something that religion or the lack of religion has left within us.
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We're still searching for some kind of purpose, just like any other generation.
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So I am, uh, I'm obviously not in your generation and I feel the same way though.
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And, uh, and while ritual is important for many reasons, it's much more subtle and you can
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go to church and you're not hearing anything that is actually relating to anything that
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Is it that they were looking, I mean, I think they're rejecting religion because there's not
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Yeah, maybe so, but I'm not shy about what religion and what faith I think will ultimately
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fulfill you and that's the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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And I'm not going to shy away from that and just say, you know, religion in general, faith
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I don't believe that if I did, then I wouldn't be a Christian.
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It would be a lot easier for me not to have to take up my cross, deny myself and follow
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That doesn't mean that we're going to find, um, temporal happiness every single day simply
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because we are Christians, but that Jesus satisfies that void that's in your soul.
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And there are a lot of non-Christians that, that follow me and listen to my audience, but
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the niche that I've kind of carved out are a people that are seeking truth and they haven't
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And be, uh, young Christians that, that want to hear their faith, uh, logically discussed,
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logically debated, logically talked about within the realm of culture and politics.
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Um, and so I'm not, I'm not shy about which faith I think satisfies.
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I, when I, I, I would say that, um, religion in general, it has been one of the problems.
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When you keep saying that, do you mean like, uh, like the people who are doing it or people
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And yet we are the first to point to someone else and say, look at their flaws.
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And those people are going to hell because they don't do X, Y, or Z.
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And we're not, we are, we are right now in the last few years, I have been blown away
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by the number of people who are devout Christians who to me deny their faith.
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Every time they say, yeah, yeah, Glenn, you know, peace and all of that stuff that will,
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you know, that's fine, but that's not going to work really.
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Cause that's what Jesus said to do and they deny the power of the actual gospel.
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If we are actually living it and not so busy going, oh, you got to get baptized in the name
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of Jesus, but just living it, just actually loving people.
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The balance between, um, fighting for what is right in a way that is effective in also
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Truth is inherently divisive and also be a peacemaker.
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And I think it's difficult for people to fall, um, to follow that, that example.
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Well, everything that you just described, which I think can probably be encapsulated by the
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That's not necessarily, uh, the fault of Christianity or the fault of religion.
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It's the fault of imperfect people who are hypocrites.
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And I do think people have misused religion to make themselves feel self-righteous, to stand
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on our pedestal and say, you're wrong, but I'm good.
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And I do think that's wrong, but that's not a problem of religion.
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Uh, except I think our, our religion, our houses of worship, our systems are developed
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The system, when I say religion, I mean, the system of administering that, uh, gets
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so, it's so warped and we're yelling at each other because you don't go to my church and
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I don't go to your church and I'm better than you because of that.
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It's like, I don't remember Jesus saying any of that stuff.
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Where we might disagree in something that I talk about on my podcast a lot is the importance
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Um, the importance of understanding your Bible, understanding the context of scripture and
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Uh, it's just about your personal relationship with Christ.
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But I would posit that, uh, you can't have a personal relationship with God until you
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So we are going through this, uh, I'm going through this with my teenagers right now.
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Um, you have to find God on your own, has to be a personal relationship.
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But once you find God, you have to ask yourself, is any of this stuff true?
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Because if he didn't, uh, okay, how are you going to find the sense of peace and forgiveness?
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If he didn't, why are you doing this, this, and this?
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It's just a good book with some really good safety tips in it.
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So I think we're kind of on the same, same page.
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I wanted to ask you, Ali, um, I was fascinated by something that happened to you over the past
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year, which was a controversy with one of our favorite people, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Where you did an interview, a quote unquote interview with her.
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What was weird is the questions were different from, did you see the interview on NPR?
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Because it was totally, she answered the same way.
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And you obviously edited yourself in and made a really funny piece with you interviewing
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And I was fascinated by the way that people reacted in which they tried to make it seem
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as if you were trying to mislead people, that the interview was real.
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Well, first of all, what was that like going through?
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And secondly, does that, because the indication I got is they were scared of you.
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The fact that they would do that and try to, it was such a ridiculous angle of attack
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and try to, you know, to squash you in that moment and say something that was obviously
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That indicates that they were intimidated by that whole thing.
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Well, first of all, I was not anticipating this kind of blowback.
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People will like it, but it's not going to cause controversy.
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When I woke up the next day and had emails from BuzzFeed and the Washington Post asking
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We all know that there are biased journalists out there.
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But what I realized in the questions that they were asking me, so targeted towards the
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conclusion that they had already drawn, is that, oh, so this is how it works.
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They start with a foregone conclusion and they back up from there and they'll fill in the facts
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What really just struck me, which I guess, again, we already knew, was the stunning arrogance
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of these leftist journalists who say, no, no, no, no, readers, you probably didn't know
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But because we are so cunning, because we journalists are so smart, let us break this
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There's a subtle undertow, I think, of the whole Russia situation that is very connected
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to that, in that they keep bringing up the Russia situation with the memes and the bots
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and everything promoting Trump as it approached the election.
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But the undercurrent of that is everyone knows that you're an absolute moron if you voted because
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And in their view of America, everyone is just dumb enough to be fooled to vote for
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Now, I don't know anyone who's dumb enough to vote because of a meme.
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It's like, did you get the sense that they were trying to, A, talk down to people, but
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B, do you get the sense that they actually believed it?
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Do you think that they had a question as to whether you were trying to pull this off as
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I think it's possible that they really are just so hypersensitive to being made fun of
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or anything that they find important, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being trivialized,
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that maybe they convinced themselves that it was real.
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I thought that everyone knew it was a joke, but they were trying to get it taken down because
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Conservatives are the only ones that are allowed to be made fun of.
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And so this is the tactic that we are going to employ to try to destroy you.
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And it was in that time that I learned that you do not apologize when you're not wrong.
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Anybody can tell you how dishonest and people always say, oh, I know, I know.
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But when you're actually sitting in the chair and they're talking to you and it's different
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off the air or different prior to the interview and then they start doing it and you're like,
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And I know you've experienced that so many times, but reading some things in the Washington
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Post that, well, Ali Stuckey has never, she's never made a parody video before.
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What do you think is the fascination with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
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My kind of theory, I landed on, I think the Republicans in general like to elevate her
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because they, the fact that, you know, here's an admitted socialist who doesn't seem to know
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a lot about the things that she's talking about.
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If that's going to be the face of the opposition, good for us.
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I think the left has glorified her because she is somewhat of a renegade.
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She says things that I'm like, I totally get what you're saying.
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And a student asked me, are you afraid that this is going to now encourage more socialists
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I said, no, I am afraid that it's going to encourage more ignorant people to run for office
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I think that's the precedent that she's setting.
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And that's why many people like me are so worried about it.
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