Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1204 | Breaking Down Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill & the 'Peaceful' LA Riots

Episode Date: June 12, 2025

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No, I'm sorry. I'm not Allie Beth. You figured that out already. She's traveling this week, and she asked me to sit in and host this show because we're going to be talking mainly about things that are going on in the country, economically. protest, all those other things. But at the end, we've got something very special that the audience you have helped us out with, which is going to be a lot of fun. But let's get started today in talking about what's going on in the economy. Well, I made a bunch of notes, so pardon me if I'm looking at them, but here's the way I look at it. The economy just keeps on winning. I mean,

you know that President Trump back in the first administration, he said, oh, you're just going to get tired of winning. Well, economically, that is true. And things are just going really good. Inflation in May, which is the most recent month they have the data for, was up 0.1 percent, 0.1 percent, and that's only 2.4 percent year over year in the last 12 months. That is the lowest inflation increase since February of 2021, right after former President Biden came into office. And you can remember that in 21, 22, and even into 23, inflation really got up to 8, 9, 10%. And in some particular products that we bought, it even got a lot more than that. So the economy is where we want it to be,

maybe not as good on interest rates. And we'll talk about that in a second. But the economy is certainly in a manner that keeps things from just getting higher and higher. You've probably noticed that in the grocery stores. As a matter of fact, we used to, we've talked about eggs several time on the podcast when I've been on with Allie. And egg prices were $4.15 a dozen in December of 2024. So just a few months ago. Now the average price is around $2.75. That's a 30% decrease in just a few months.

Lots of reasons for that. But one of the main reasons is that President Trump and his administration have done what's necessary to curb that ongoing inflation. Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, who is a friend of mine, someone I've known for probably the last decade. She's just in there working every day, helping the farmers, making sure that, you know, the bird flu challenge was taking care of and that the supply is there to be able to fill the grocery store shelves. So that's just one example. The interest rates have remained steady. I'm a little concerned about that. I think, think Fed President Powell has been a little bit too cautious on lowering interest rates.

That's the next thing that needs to happen. He has said that he wants to see a little bit more of the inflation being under control. But let me tell you something, 2.4% inflation, that's under control, Mr. Powell. And now it's time to make it easier for people to buy homes, to buy automobiles, things like that. we do not need the level of interest rates that we have today. Now, saying all that, I'll remind you that when Allie's mother and myself bought our first house, this was in the early 80s, our interest rate on our home, and we were glad to get it, was like 13%.

Can you imagine that? Those of you out there that have those 3% loans, or now you're trying to get one at 4, 5, 6%, and you're complaining about it. I get it because we got used to the 3%. But just remember, it hasn't always even been even 6%. There were times when it was a lot higher than that. And so even if it stays at this level for a while, which is kind of what the long-term mortgage interest rate has been,

I think we can still be okay with that. I would like to see at least get below 5%. I think that's kind of a threshold that people feel really good about it. If interest rates for their mortgage or in the high fours or even low fives, I think people feel good about that. If they're 6, 7%, I think that moves a lot of people out of the market to buy their first home. The other thing that's come out just yesterday is that President Trump says that we have a deal with China on the trade and the tariffs. Now, that's subject to President Xi agreeing to it and President Trump agreeing to it. So it's not signed on the dotted line yet.

But that is promising. And I believe that when we get the China deal completed, that a lot of the other countries will fall into line. The China deal is more complex, though. There's no question about that. China is somewhat of a bully. They know they can be. But also, their economy is hurting.

I was listening to a reporter the other day that had been over there that says that what's happening, in fact, I think this may have been Victor David Hansen. I'm not sure, but don't quote me on that to your neighbors and friends. But it was someone I was listening to that said that manufacturing plants are closing over there. And that's a real problem. The government might be able to give those people enough to buy little food on, but losing manufacturing jobs. And that's directly because of what's happened with Trump taking a tougher stance on

China and that's a good thing. Evidently, there's going to be a 10% across the board tariff and that will some of the items that that we import will actually be higher than that 55% and the reason for that is is that that relates to like fentanyl and some of the others and we want that to be more restrictive and we want to first of all protect our citizens from that standpoint, because China supplies most of the fentanyl that ends up even coming through Mexico and other places. Maybe they don't intend for it to be used improperly, but it is. Obviously, we know that. The other thing is that the products that we ship over there are going to have a 10% tariff,

which that's actually very reasonable. That's kind of the reciprocal we talked about. They're opening their rare earths. They have a lot of rare earth minerals that we need. They're opening that to U.S. and we're also going to continue to allow the students that come over here with proper visas and everything to be able to participate in our colleges. So I think it's a good sign.

We'll see. I'm cautiously optimistic. Hopefully something will get done in the next few weeks on that. So we'll just see how all that works out. It's interesting. When I think about the stock market, you know, I'm not giving you investment advice. I can tell you what I've done is that during all. all of this hullabaloo over tariffs and what have you.

And I think I mentioned this in a earlier episode that Allie had me on was that is when there's blood in the streets, which is panic, okay? And that's metaphorically speaking, is that's when you need to stay calm. And what we've done with our investments, we've just held on to them. We haven't tried to time the market. The challenge with timing the market is that you have to make two right decisions. decisions. You have to know when to get out and when to get back in. In fact, there are some studies that show in the last decade, I believe, that if you had gotten out of the market and gone to cash, in other words, you sold all your stocks in your 401k or wherever you have them, and you went to just money market, if you were out for only the best 10 days in 10 years, 10 days in 10 years, if you were out of that market, your return on your account dropped 50%. Now think about that.

That's why it never makes sense to trot and time the market. You need to invest in a good strategy and stay with it. That doesn't mean you can't be a little bit more, a little bit less aggressive on the margins. But over the long period of time, U.S. stocks have been the best performer. And I think they'll continue to be over the long period of time. Those of you that panicked and got out of the market at the first of the year when there was trouble, people were concerned about the tariffs, and it went down 15, 20 percent. all of that's already come back.

In fact, the market is actually up for the year. And so if you didn't get back in at the right time, you've lost all of that opportunity. And so I would just encourage you to be cautious. If you don't have a good financial advisor, try to find one. Don't use one that gets paid on commission. Use one that gets paid when if your assets grow, then he or she makes more money. If your assets decreased, then he or she makes less money. That's called a fee-based advisor.

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They're all usually pretty ugly. They can get some good things done. But I will tell you, the sausage making, what we call putting together a bill, that is an ugly process. There's a lot of negotiations that go on. on. There's a lot of back and forth. There's a lot of name calling. I have a good friend in Congress that's on the Energy and Commerce Committee, which this bill has to go through. And he sent me some of the clips from, and I wish I had him or would have told Bree about them, but the clips on the

arguments that happened in their committee is just crazy. And of course, that crazy Jasmine Crocket's right in the middle of it. That woman is just, She's total nuts. I'm sorry. She just, at least, well, I won't say she is personally, but the things that she says are crazy. The other thing is, is that, and I've said this before, is that making public policy,

which is things that affect you and me in a political environment is certainly messy. And it's very hard to do. The only good thing about it is still the best way to do it. The only other way to do to make public policy is if you're living under a dictatorship, and they just tell you where it's going to be and you don't have a voice in it. At least we have a voice through our representatives.

And I would encourage you to contact your representatives. Believe it or not, they do want to hear from you. And the closer they are to you, like your state representative or your city council person or even your U.S. congressperson, they want to hear from you. So if you have something on your mind that you think they need to hear, make sure you're getting in touch with them. Now, don't yell at them. It doesn't do any good to say, I'm going to vote you out. I'm going to do this.

I'm going to do that. That crap just doesn't work. I'm sorry. Does not work. All it does is for them to pat you on the head and be nice to you. And then go opposite of whatever you're telling them, right? That just doesn't work. You have to be respectful to them, just like you want them to be respectful to you.

I see so much hate on social media. It's just absolutely crazy. Let me go through a little bit on this big, beautiful bill, though, to understand how the process works. the way our constitution and our laws work at a federal level is that all spending bills, what we call appropriation bills, those have to start in the House of Representatives. And so there's no different this time. It started in the House. The House has an appropriations committee that lays out the bill and they're usually huge

because there's a lot of different things that go in there. Once it gets out of the committee and is voted out of committee, he goes to the House, floor and this has already occurred it happened in late May early June I can't remember the exact dates is when it happened but the House voted on if you remember they only passed it by one vote and so that means all the Democrats and two Republicans voted against that bill and what the people that voted against the bill I'm gonna tell you in just a couple of minutes what they actually by voting against the bill what they voted for which is very

disturbing and I'm disappointed in the two Republicans that voted against the bill. I get it. We the federal government spends a lot of money. I'd like for it to spend less, but sometimes you have to take the best deal on the table and that was the best deal on the table. So once the House voted on it, they sent it over to the Senate. And then the Senate, because we have, you know, we have a bicameral legislature of the House, which is represented by population. That's like why Texas has so many seats in California and New York have so many congressmen. And then to the Senate where each state has equal say, because they each have two senators. It doesn't matter how big your state is.

Delaware has two senators, just like California has two senators. Texas has two senators. So the Senate then, they get the bill, they discuss it, which is what they're doing now. And they almost always make changes, which they're going to do. and then they'll vote out their version of the bill. And then once they have the House version and the Senate version, which are generally not identical, they will come together in what's called a conference committee. And that'll be a subset of members from the House and members from the Senate.

And they'll iron out the differences. And once they iron out the differences, a bill, the same bill. but it'll be a bill will simultaneously go to the House and the Senate to be voted on. And assuming that those pass, that will then go up to President Trump to sign the bill. And the goal is to get that done before July 4th. What they don't want to do is go home to their 4th of July parades and picnics and fairs and things like that, the congressman and senators, and have to tell people, no, you know what, we don't have a budget. yet we don't have the bill done yet they want to be able to go home and talk about the great things

that they just passed so I think there's a good chance it'll pass before july 4th it might be july 3rd at at 12509 I mean 1159 but i think there's a good chance that it's going to pass before then and it'll be different than what it is one of the things that's in the bill I'm going to go through some of the provisions but one of the things that's in the bill uh actually that i am concerned about is my good friend Giovanni Capriglione who's a state representative here in Texas, one of the smartest guys in the legislature. Certainly since I've left, he's definitely the smartest guy. No question about that. That's a joke for all of you out there. Okay. But anyway, Gio's a good friend of mine. Gio had a bill on artificial intelligence, which is a framework for regulation. And none of us

like over-regulation, but there are some things that there needs to be what we call belts and suspenders on. And Geo put together a really good bill that could be a model for all the states in Texas to, yeah, we want to advance AI because it'll help us in a lot of ways, but it can also get out of hand. And his bill kind of protects that. And it was a bill that was agreed upon by industry and consumer protection groups and what have you. In the federal bill, though, they're wanting to, because federal law, Trump's state law, always remember that, and I'm not talking about President Trump, I'm talking about it supersedes state law. They're wanting to make it so there's no regulations on AI for the next 10 years. That is a mistake in my opinion. I get it. They want to

do that so that it will advance unencumbered, but I think it will get out of control. And so I would encourage them, and I would encourage you to encourage your senators to strip that provision out of the bill. I think what GEO's done and probably some other states have done is the right way to go. And then we can see if their federal legislation needs to be done. The states, remember, are a laboratory for experiments. And AI is certainly a, is not a totally known technology yet. And so it's good to start out in the states for regulation and then determine which state had the best. Or do we need to tweak them all and make a federal law? That's what my opinion is.

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22%. If it fails, your taxes will increase by average of 22%. And that's about $1,700 for the average American family. That's a lot of money. And the Republicans that voted against the bill and all the Democrats, what they basically did is they voted to increase your taxes. And we don't want that to happen. The other provisions on taxes is there's not going to be any tax on tips or overtime

for service industry employees through the end of 2028. That's pretty good. And then they could extend it after that, right? So those of you that work at a restaurant, a waitress, or any place where you get a tip, hotels, things like that, or do overtime, that's not going to be tax for you. Man, that's a huge deal. The other, another thing is, is that the interest deduction, you're going to get, right now when you buy a car and you finance it, the interest that you pay is not deductible on your taxes. But one of the provisions in the bill allows that to be deductible up to $10,000 worth of interest.

That's pretty cool if you ask me. That means if you're paying, let's say that your interest rate on your car, I don't know what they are. Now let's say it's 6%. Okay. Well, if you pay an average of 20% of your income and taxes, so you take 20% of 6% as 1.2, that means that you've financed your car after the deduction for really an interest rate of 4.8%, 20% less, because you got to get 20% deduction for that, right, which reduced your taxes, which is pretty cool. The other thing is a child tax credit is increasing from 2000.

to $2,500. If you have three kids and you have a $6,000 credit, that's now going to be a $7,500 credit. Now, let me explain the difference between a tax deduction and a tax credit. And I get it. Some of this stuff is detailed information, maybe more detail than you want, but I do think if you go back and listen to this or read the transcript of it, I think it'll be helpful for you. deduction means that we are able to let's say that we're at a we're able to reduce our income so if I let's say that you make a hundred thousand dollars okay and you have 50,000 dollars in deductions right for your mortgage for this new car thing for your whatever it is that are deductible medical expenses things like that. You take the 100,000 minus 20,000 and you only pay tax on 80,000. So therefore,

you've been able to deduct those expenses from your income, and that means you pay tax on a lower amount. So if you're at a 20% tax bracket, instead of paying $20,000 in taxes, which would be 20% of $100,000, you pay 20% of $80,000, which is $16,000. So you've saved $4,000 in taxes, doing that. Now, that's a deduction. A tax credit is totally different than that. What a tax credit says, okay, so let's say that we take that example. So you had 100,000, you've had 20,000 of deductions, and now you're down to 80,000 of income, okay, which you've got to pay, let's say it's 20% on that, that's $16,000. So now you owe $16,000 in taxes. However, if you have a tax credit, like this child tax credit, let's say you have three kids, well now,

remember I just said they're $2,500 per kid. That's $7,500. So that's a tax credit, meaning it's a direct reduction in your taxes. So you take $16,000 minus $7,500, and that means you're only going to pay $8,500 in taxes. That is huge. So now you've gone from potentially, if you didn't have any deductions, paying $20,000 on $100,000, down to $16,000 after your deductions we talked about for the mortgage and your car interest and that type of stuff, all the way down to $8,500. So now on $100,000, you've only paid 8.5% tax. That's pretty darn good.

It can be that. That can be a little complicated. Okay. And I'm going to address one of the answers to that later in the show. But it's really important. The other thing is, and this is a good thing for me, I'm so glad they finally did something for a lease in me, is that they've instituted a new senior tax deduction of $4,000. So just because I'm going to be 65 later this year, they're going to give me a little

land yap. And in Louisiana, where I was born, land yap is called a little something extra. So an extra $4,000 deduction off of my income. That's going to be pretty cool. I'm glad to do that. So that's the tax provisions, immigration provisions in this. This is really interesting. And I think really good.

They're going to, their provisions to hire 10,000 new ICE agents, 5,000 new customs officers, and 3,000 new border agents, border patrol agents. That's a big, because one of the things that we know across party lines that everybody agrees on is that we need to have a closed border, secure border. We don't need to allow illegal immigration. We do need to revise our immigration system to make it more fair to get here legally, but we don't want to have illegal immigration. That's something that the vast majority of Americans agree on.

The next thing is entitlements. Entitlements are benefits, basically, that you can receive if you're eligible for them that come from the government. The first one is, and this is the one the Democrats are talking about all the time, and that's Medicaid. They're saying that President Trump's going to cut Medicare and Medicaid. That is just this bill supposedly is doing that. That is just not true.

What we are going to do is if you're an able-bodied person that doesn't have any children, you're going to have to work. You can't just sign up for Medicaid. You're going to have to work. There are work requirements, which used to be in there, which Obama removed. And then also they removed more of them when the pandemic came along, and they've never replaced them. That's going to save us $700 million over 10 years. Listen, if you're poor and you've got children, that doesn't affect you.

But if you're just not working and you're able-bodied to be able to work, believe me, there are plenty of jobs out there, then you're not going to be able to just get free health care. You're going to have to work. And if you still don't make enough money to afford health care and you fall in the qualifications that would qualify you for Medicaid, you're going to get that. But able-bodied, those people are moving off the system and that's going to save a 700-me. million dollars. That's not a kicking grandma out in the street like the Democrats want to say. Also, there's, they're not going to be any coverage for gender mutilation services. Now, they call them gender transition. The mutilation is my word, because that's what's happening.

So that's not going to be in there either, which is great. And then on SNAP, which we might call food stamps, that's supplemental nutritional program, also going to be work requirements for that. for all adults with either no kids or all their children or seven or older, you're going to have to, you're going to have some work requirements to be able to even qualify to get SNAP. And hopefully you'll make enough money where you don't even need it. But if you don't make enough money and you still qualify for it, you're going to get it. But if you're just, if you're not, if you're able-bodied and you're just not working,

you're not going to be able to get SNAP benefits, which is going to save money as well. A couple other last things on the big, beautiful bill. there is going to be this is really cool and I meant to look up the states that did this I know Florida is one of them but there are a couple of other states that have it now and that is scholarship grant organizations in Florida the way that they do school choice is though there are scholarships that are given out that people apply for and the way they fund that part of the way they fund that are donations made to this program and And then they use that money to be able to provide these tuition assistance to these kids that want an education alternative.

Well, now there's going to be a federal tax credit of $5,000, up to $5,000 if you give to one of those grant programs, those grant scholarship programs. That is a big deal. For those states that have that, that was very smart for you to do that. I hope other states will institute a program like that to help fund the school choice programs. And then finally, one of the things that the bill does is it opens up more of our federal lands for energy exploration, which is that's going to be great as well. We're looking forward to that. So anyway, that's what the big beautiful bill is. We've got people up in Congress that are working really hard on that.

Believe it or not, these things aren't easy to do. It's not like snap your finger. The minority has a say as well. And there are procedural things that they can do to slow down the process. We did that when we were in the minority. I'm sure the Democrats are going to do the same thing. It doesn't mean they're not patriotic, although some of them certainly aren't. But it's just the way the process works.

And there's some protection. It's meant to make it hard to pass legislation. That's what it's supposed to be because a lot of legislation shouldn't be done. I know I read in the other day in Texas in the state house, the state legislature this past session, there were 2,000 bills that were, let me say what it was, no, there's 7,000 bills filed and less than 20% of those passed, which was actually a good thing, because a lot of times we don't need more legislation. We just need to enforce the laws that we have, get rid of some of those, and we just need to live as reasonable citizens, right, and treat each other with fairness and with grace.

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It's just, it's sad to see, really, when you think about it. Very sad to see. Now, some people have been complaining about President Trump, you know, putting in the National Guard and possibly putting in the Marines. Well, you know what? The authority to do that happened a long time ago. One of my favorite presidents, in fact, I just went to his homestead, his house here a few months ago, Thomas Jefferson in 1807 asked Congress to pass what they call the

Insurrection Act. And the Insurrection Act at that particular time, the Spanish government was down through New Orleans. They were trying to take over New Orleans. And so they were causing a lot of concern and a lot of unrest down there. And some of them were, some of them, you know, were legal residents in the in the united states and so uh the other thing that was happening during that time was actually thomas jefferson's own vice president aaron burr if you haven't read the story of aaron burr you should read it uh he had conspired with foreign governments and entities to try to overtake the government uh and that's that's an insurrection obviously you know back then they didn't run on the same ticket.

The person that got the most votes was president. The person that got the second most votes was vice president. Can you imagine what it would be like of President Trump? What do you think, Brie? President Trump was president and Kamala Harris was vice president. I mean, can you imagine? It would actually be kind of fun for the media, but it would be. I think I would have fun watching that.

It would be good entertainment, wouldn't it? It would even be better than Elon and Trump's. It would be. But that's the way it used to be. So it was crazy. And actually Jefferson got elected that time by the House of Representatives because it was a tie in electoral votes to start with. So it was a very interesting time. But anyway, they passed this act and that allows the president to be able to call in federal troops if necessary to calm an insurrection or a riot, something like that. And so if we could go, you know, we talk about it as being a peaceful riot, but what I want to do is show you something that kind of contradicts what the Democrats have been saying.

Let's do the SOT 3, please. Large group of people. It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching Cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators. Okay. I want to run that one more time because I think you need to hear what the announcer said about mid to halfway, two-thirds of the way through. Let's run that one more time because I think it's just hilarious.

Large group of people, it could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching Carsburn and having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation. So a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn. I'm sorry, I don't think I've ever experienced the joy of watching a car burn. I have seen a couple cars burn, but it's been a result of like an accident. I mean, what is going on with this? Bree, what are you thinking?

What are you hearing? What are you seeing on social media about this? Or people just kind of saying, this is crazy? Yeah, this clip specifically has gone pretty viral on X because of what the guy said on ABC. But yeah, no, you're telling me you don't every weekend. Go out and watch cars for it. I must be missing something. I've got my grandson up here with us this week.

So maybe we'll go look for some car burning fun. Maybe that'll be the fun thing. I don't know what to do. Oh, my. Well, ABC already had to fire one reporter this week, right? the guy that interviewed Trump and now maybe there's another one that's going to have to be fired. But 30 businesses were vandalized. Over $50 million of damages they're saying so far.

At least five cars were demolished. And you know which ones they demolished? Which really bothered me is these whammo self-driving cars. I love those things. I did one in Austin a few months ago. That is the coolest thing. And they're Jaguars, by the way. At least the one in Austin for the Uber uses them some.

Yeah, they're Jaguars. It's really a cool experience. I enjoyed it. I just saw that they decommissioned all of them in L.A. Well, that may be smart to do in L.A. And they probably might want to think about that in Austin. Who knows what's going to go on down there. All right.

So I do think that moving in the National Guard has actually helped for sure. I mean, when your police chief says the very first night that we're overwhelmed and Governor Newsome didn't do anything about it and Mayor Bass didn't do anything about it President Trump remembers like we all do what happened in the George Floyd riots and how many cities burnt and how many people were hurt

and how many businesses were ruined and he was not going to let that happen absolutely not and he's not going to let it happen anywhere now let's talk a little bit more about the peacefulness and you remember most of these people that are causing the trouble

are really, they don't care about the issue of immigration. They're anarchist, all right? They hate the United States of America. And they were bringing backpacks with hammers in them and cinder blocks, breaking up the cinder blocks and passing them out for people to throw. Let's see some of the results of that in SOT 1. So peaceful, are you kidding me? I mean, Governor Newsom, were you drinking?

I mean, what was going on? Have you been up to your little wine bar? Or what were you doing? Because peaceful protest, are you kidding me? You put our men and women in uniform at risk because you're not willing to do your job? Mayor Bass, why did you wait several days to put in a curfew? What is wrong with you? Man, I feel bad for the good citizens of Los Angeles.

I mean, listen, if I'm you, I'm out of there because it's not going to change. It is not going to change. The only reason this is going to stop is because what President Trump and his folks have done, and they're going to put in the National Guard. Now, I want to also commend our governor. He preemptively called up the National Guard into San Antonio and other places because there's been threats of, you know, protests down there. And so far nothing's happened.

And, you know, we pray that it won't happen. And we, again, we don't mind peaceful protest. If you want to protest against your government, that's fine. But you have to do it within the law. there's nothing wrong with doing that. In fact, I encourage people to do that, right? However, once you cross that line, it should be over immediately. And not only should we arrest them, we should prosecute them.

Don't just detain them. Don't just arrest them. We want them prosecuted because that's what sends the strongest message. It's just very, very disappointing. I'll tell you, it just really makes me angry that we have, so many haters out there that want to cause harm to not, I mean, listen, they're, you know, President Trump's not going to be hurt by this. You're hazing harm to your fellow citizens and also the officers that are there to protect

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This week is coming up on Father's Day, which is Sunday. And it's kind of cool to celebrate fathers. I hope we do it more than just one time a year, just like we should celebrate mothers more than one time a year. But I ask Bree and her team to get out on social media and Allie as well. And let's see what some of the best advice that your dad or granddad, has given you over the years that you remember. So we got some really good, good information here from people.

So, you know, I will tell you, it's interesting. You know, my mom and dad divorced when I was in high school. So that was a difficult time. And my dad and I, while we do stay in contact, we're not as close as probably I wanted us to be or he wanted us to be not blaming anybody. It's just the way it was. but one of the things that my mom and dad did for me when I was just a freshman in high school and I'm not sure the reason why they did it they could have thought I was heading in the

wrong direction I'm not really sure I didn't really ask them that at the time or since then because maybe I don't want to know the answer but they sent me to live with my grandparents for one summer and my grandfather was a home builder and a small farmer but interesting enough I think I've told you this before. My mom has 12 brothers and sisters. And so she was the next to the oldest. And I have an uncle that's younger than me by just a few months. So my mom and my grandmother were pregnant together twice, which is really kind of interesting.

But if you come from Louisiana, Arkansas, you understand that. It's not that big a deal. Some of you're saying, what's the big deal, right? But it was really more like a cousin. So I went to live with my grandparents when I was 14 or 15. 15 for the summer. And my cousin, Tim was there. Actually, my uncle, he's my uncle, but he'd treat him like a cousin. And I had another uncle that was just a couple years old to me and an aunt that was a couple years old to me. So they were still living at home. And we worked there that, I worked there that

summer helping my grandfather build homes and, you know, worked in his garden and a little farm and what have you. And I'll just tell you the, just the day-to-day wisdom that I got that summer, my grandfather was at a point in his life where things were pretty good, you know, that most of the kids were out of the house, they were stable financially. They weren't rich by any means, but they were stable financially. And I'll tell you, being able to spend time around someone, whether it's your grandfather, your uncle, your dad, whatever, that has kind of gotten to a point in life where they have the stability, they can reflect on things. There are things that he taught me, you know, in the building world that I still utilize today around the house and

some handyman stuff that I can do that I don't have to hire somebody to do. And seeing he and my grandmother be married for well over 60 years before they passed away, you know, those types were just strengths and how their kids honored them. Their children honored them in a way that was very rewarding and influential to me. So anyway, I just encourage you to spend some time around. And to make sure you thank them. Thank your dad. Thank your granddad for what he's meant in your life.

But here's some advice things. Okay, we're going to run through these pretty quick. Maybe you'll know this with you. This one says, my dad always tells me to live in grace for myself and others because of Jesus's grace for us. That's true. How can we accept grace if we're not willing to give grace? Now, remember we talked about taxes earlier and I told you it was a complicated subject. Here's probably some of the best advice you're going to get.

Hire a good CPA. Someone to help you with your taxes because the tax code is complicated. You try to do it yourself. You're probably going to miss some deductions and some credits that you would normally get. The other thing is, and if you've ever, if you've had this opportunity to read my book, which there's one behind us, you'll know this in there. always ask the worst they can say is no one of the advice i give you in my book is ask the next uncomfortable question you need to be able to ask the next uncomfortable question in any situation

learn to write good thank you notes that's a lost art quit texting people after you've met with them that was an important meeting for you and say thanks for the meeting sit down write a note out it'll take you two minutes to do it okay and that's really handwritten notes people still appreciate those. The best thing you can give your kids is a strong marriage. That is so true. Kids watch everything we do. They know, you know, when we're not happy with each other, a strong marriage is really important. And that's something that was a negative, obviously, in my, my siblings' life. But and somehow, you know, God can take negatives and turn to positive. There's four of us kids. and we all saw my parents go through divorce,

but we've all been married now for, gosh, well, probably the least is 20-something years, and two of us have been married for over 40 years. So I appreciate my brothers and sister for being able to overcome what they saw in our parents as far as staying married is concerned, and that's really important. Let's see, nothing will get you farther

than a good work addict. ethic that's good advice another one very important don't use your credit card unless you can pay it off in full when the statement comes in ouch oh some of you didn't like to hear that i know it already you didn't like it all right we're going to end on a couple funny ones this is great don't marry mail order brides from eusebecistan now i really don't know why the father would give that advice unless he had the experience before so i don't know that brie what do you think i mean that's I don't know if I'd go with that. That's a hard lesson to learn, I guess.

I guess it is. And the last one is, my dad said you don't dare buy a Louis Vuitton purse while you still don't own a car or a home. That's a good one. You would agree with that, wouldn't you, Bree? I would. Absolutely. Do not buy a designer purse when you can't even afford to own a car or a house.

So anyway, thank you for being a part of this today. I hope it was helpful. if you are looking for a great Father's Day gift and maybe arrive a couple days late, but you can take a picture of it and say it's coming, is my book, Life Lessons from the Little Red Wagon, and of course always make sure that if you haven't bought Alley's newest book, Toxic Empathy, that you get that, that is very good for everyone to have and read.

Thanks very much.