Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1348 | No Pay for Politicians During Shutdowns, Republicans to Gain Seats After Redistricting, and Advice to Go Debt-Free | Ron Simmons

Starting point is 00:00:00 Well, good afternoon, everybody, or morning whenever you're listening or watching this. It's Ron Simmons, Allie's dad, and a little bit different background. We're not in the studio today. I am traveling, but I'm excited to talk to you about the information that we're going to go over today. There's a lot of good questions, as you always come up with. And there's also a lot of things going on in the world. So we're going to get right at it. Before I do that, I want to remind you to get to get it.

Starting point is 00:00:37 your tickets to share the arrows. They do have some left, although there's not a lot left. So if you want to get them, go ahead and get them now. If you guys kind of messed up on Mother's Day and you need to, you know, you need to pick up your game because you didn't do as well as you thought you did, then go ahead and get your bride or your girlfriend a ticket to share the arrows. That's coming up in October. It's going to be a great event, as Allie's been talking about. We're going to go through several news items today. The first one I want to talk about. about is all of the talk on redistricting. We've talked about this many times before, but there's been some more news that came about. In fact, kind of surprising a little bit is that yesterday,

Starting point is 00:01:19 South Carolina voted, the Senate, voted against opening up redistricting, which would have given at least one more Republican seat. Five Republican senators went along with Democrats to again, these are state senators, went along with Democrats to kill the bill. And they said that it was, they already had ballots that went out to mail-in ballots and ballots that went out to the military overseas and what have you. So they thought that would mess it up. Now, Trump had said, and there's a post of what he had put out Monday ahead of the vote, but essentially what he was saying is that, look, we need to.

Starting point is 00:02:06 to get this done, and you can actually move the primary for the U.S. House of Representatives to August, and that gives you plenty of time to rescind out those ballots and everything. So make sure that they had it done, but they voted against it. Now, evidently, there's still some more ways they might be able to put this back together and pass another bill to redistrict, but we'll just have to keep up with that. The other big news, though, that's come up is information, what happened in Virginia. If you remember, we talked about this last time that Virginia passed a bill, actually they went to the voters for a proposition to redistrict outside of the way they normally address it. Normally, they have a bipartisan commission that does it.

Starting point is 00:02:55 But they slammed through a proposal that barely won voter approval, and it was going to allow them to redistrict. with their legislature doing it, and their legislature is controlled by Democrats and the governors of Democrat, as you know, and that would have gone from six Democrat seats and five Republican seats to potentially 10 Democrat seats and one Republican seat. Well, the Republicans filed a lawsuit against that, and it went straight to the Virginia State Supreme Court. And much to the Democrats surprised, the Supreme Court in Virginia said this is unconstitutional based on the state of Virginia's constitution. They missed some of the procedural ways that they needed to do this.

Starting point is 00:03:50 There were some very specific provisions in the Constitution on how they would go out for redistricting, and they violated some of those provisions. Now, the Democrats there have, or the state has appealed that to the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, when they appealed it, they've actually, they filed the wrong paperwork to start with. They tried to appeal it back to the same Virginia State Supreme Court, which is crazy. And then also I saw where somebody had pointed out that in one of their filings, they even misspelled the state of Virginia. So I don't know what type of lawyers they have working on their team, but it doesn't sound too good. And again, the Supreme Court may or not take up this case. We'll see usually they leave state things to states, but we'll see what they do.

Starting point is 00:04:35 So that's a big blow to Democrats, and then they're talking about kicking out the state Supreme Court and packing it in, which I don't even know if they could do that. But they were very, very upset about that. What we have found in doing our research that there is a lot, there's a pretty good chance that there's going to be more new Republican seats than Democrat seats, all right? But the overall numbers, you know, they, the Republican redistricting efforts before departing to Beijing, Trump had something to say about it. Here's Sot 1. Well, I think it's been a wonderful process. They've been the Democrats, or as I quote, the Democrats, because they are dumb in so many ways. They've redistricted for years.

Starting point is 00:05:23 And now we took our shot, and it looks like we're going to pick up a lot of seats. And that's a good thing. We want voters to have their choice. We want fair voting. We want fair elections. The Democrats have been cheating on elections for many years, and all we're doing is winning. All right. Well, you see what President Trump said.

Starting point is 00:05:45 And again, it looks like that, based on the information, this is according to the Cook political report, it looks like that the Democrats might gain four to six seats, but Republicans could gain eight to six. Seats. That would be a net gain of eight seats or more. Now, according to national polls, that Democrats are still ahead in a, when it says, you know, in general, who you're going to vote for a Democrat or a Republican in the upcoming elections? Democrats have a slight edge in this, but it makes it much, much tighter. I'll remind you, though, that U.S. Congress elections are individual elections. There's 435 individual elections because they all have to run every two years. And so it's really, it's not really a national election as such as it is, an individual election. So depending on the strength of the candidate in a particular district somewhere in the United States, that's what's going to win, all right? It's not necessarily a national election like the presidential election, like the presidential election is. Now, there's a couple of questions that came in from listeners and viewers on the election process, and there's lots of things going on all over the country. So

Starting point is 00:06:56 these are more specific to different states. But Spencer Pratt, somebody asks about my opinion on Spencer Pratt. There is a mayorial election going on in Los Angeles that the current mayor, Karen Bass, is on the ticket, of course. And then there's the actor Spencer Pratt. Spencer Pratt is a Republican. He's an actor that was on one of the reality shows, I think called The Hills or what have you. And, you know, I think he's a solid Republican. and I don't follow that race super closely,

Starting point is 00:07:28 but I do believe that he would definitely be a better choice than carrying bass. In fact, you know, my Labrador retriever would be a better choice than Karen Bass. So I think I think that's who I would go for. I think that's the best choice. He has the best chance of beating her. Remember, in these elections, when you're voting in a primary election, let's say, you need to look at who in that primary has the best chance of winning the general election against the Democrat. That's really what we have to look at. The other question is, who would you

Starting point is 00:07:59 pick to take Mitch McConnell's seat in the Kentucky Republican primary? Mitch McConnell's retiring, and there's several people running for that. I think Congressman Barr is probably the one that's most likely to win, and also most likely to be able to win in November. Now, Kentucky is a pretty Republican state, although they do have a Democrat governor, or at least have had, I think he's still there. But I do believe that the Republicans will win that, but Congressman Barr is probably the most likely to be able to win in November. So that's who I would support. Again, I try to look at which Republican can win in November. And then the last question on this particular issue is, would I take Steve Hilton or Chad Bianco for California governor? I'm leaning for Chad. Well, you know, California

Starting point is 00:08:50 has one of those weird primaries where Republicans and Democrats are all on the same ballot, even in the primary. And I think the top two go to the general election. Again, I think we'll have a Republican as far as one as the top two. Okay, the former HHS secretary. I forget the guy's name, Xavier or something, looks like going to be the top Democrat. And so I want to know who has the best chance of winning in November. Now, the one that wouldn't put in there is Steyer.

Starting point is 00:09:24 He is also running, and he has made some headway. But I would, I think either Steve or Steve Hilton or Chad, probably Steve Hilton, it looks like he's got the most support, although it's leveled out some. And so I would, we got to make sure that we get a Republican in the top two spots, okay? That's what's really important. Right now, Hilton is running second. And we need to at least have one Republican. looking in the top two spots. So that's probably who I would vote for because I do think he

Starting point is 00:09:53 would have a chance of winning, although it's unlikely that any Republican is going to win California, but you know what? We live in a crazy world, so who knows? But that's what's going on in redistricting. You know, there's already been, this was all, part of this was a result of the Supreme Court case that Louisiana brought to them to get rid of racial gerrymandering. And the Article 2 of the Voters Act talks about this. And so you can gerrymander for political purposes. The Supreme Court said that time and time again. What you can't do is gerrymander for racial purposes.

Starting point is 00:10:31 And now the funny thing is, or funny, I want to say funny, ironic thing is that Democrats have used that for many years to actually get racially gerrymandered districts. because they've said, well, if you don't let us have our racially gerrymandered district, that means you're discriminated against us. So what's happened is, it's so funny, if you and I didn't vote for Kamala Harris, and a lot of people called us a racist, right, in the last election, however, they absolutely want to elect people based on skin color. A lot of black Democrat Americans are wanting to make sure that they have people that,

Starting point is 00:11:12 based on their skin color are going to be elected. And that just shouldn't be the way it is. That's, you know, one of their great leaders, Martin Luther King talked about many, many times, you know, we want to be elected on the content of our character, not the color of our skin. So it's just totally hypocritical, totally hypocritical. And, but the problem that they're running up against the Republicans aren't playing nice anymore. The Republicans used to let all this stuff slide. But when President Trump came along, they decided we're not going to play nice anymore. We're going to fight fire with fire. And I commend them for doing that. And we'll see how, we'll see what happens over the next few months. But I believe it's going to be a very close

Starting point is 00:11:54 November between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House. Then we've got certainly a better chance of holding the Senate. But it's going to be close. I mean, and even though President Trump isn't on the ballot, in some ways, he is on the ballot, because Democrats, they're not. number one strategy is demonizing President Trump and attacking any Republican to associate them with everything about President Trump. So we'll see in a few months how all that turns out. The next thing I want to talk about, though, is President Trump is headed to China as we're recording this, where he's headed to China. By the time this comes out, he'll have already had the meeting and I want you to follow that so you can see what happened. It's an interesting,

Starting point is 00:12:38 And I don't remember President Biden or previous to him if President Trump in his first session had gone back, had gone to China or not. But President Trump's going to China and they're going to discuss trade policy. They're obviously going to discuss the Iran war. And, you know, really looking forward to seeing how this turns out. Sot 2 is about meeting. What is your message to President Xi as it relates to the Iran War? Well, I think number one, we're going to have a long talk about it. I think he's been relatively good, to be honest with you.

Starting point is 00:13:15 You look at the blockade, no problem. They get a lot of their oil from that area. We've had no problem. And he's been a friend of mine. He's been somebody that we get along with. And I think you're going to see that good things are going to happen. This is going to be a very exciting trip. A lot of good things are going to happen.

Starting point is 00:13:33 You know, I always like when President Trump, he's an option. He really is an optimist at heart. And he's also, he has a lot of confidence. He believes in himself and believes what he can get done. And we'll see. I thought it was interesting when you look at some of the people that were on the list going to China with President Trump. Of course, Senator, you know, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, which there was this thing going around on X about the jogging suit that he was wearing. There were some pictures about that, which if you're on that longer trip, you're not going to sit there in a coat and tie. Even on Air Force One, I wouldn't think. And I'm sure. the president was okay with that, but I thought it's fun. But he's on the trip. Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth is on the trip, obviously, for the Iran war discussions. Treasury Secretary Scott Bissette is on the trip as well. Trade, be a big deal for him. And some business leaders, including Elon Musk.

Starting point is 00:14:23 Now, see, that's what you have to understand about President Trump. I think President Trump is one of these people that, in a lot of ways, is transaction-oriented. So whatever issue he and Elon Musk had before, that's passed. He doesn't, I don't think he holds grudges on scenarios like that, okay? Obviously, if he thinks you've wronged him, as we know, he, he generally doesn't let that go until he's satisfied. But he's on the trip. Also, soon-to-retire Apple CEO, Tim Cook, is on the trip.

Starting point is 00:14:53 And also Jensen Hong, who is the CEO of the Vidia, is on the trip. And that is the most valuable company in the world worth $5 trillion. That's hard to believe. But anyway, should be a good trip. you know, the trade war kind of went on where we put, you know, they've always had tariffs on us. So we reciprocated with tariffs and then, and then, you know, everybody bumped them up back and forth. And then we suspended it in October, had a truce in 2025. So we're going to be talking about that.

Starting point is 00:15:23 Semiconductors is big. They're going to want to talk about Taiwan. Obviously, that's been a goal for them for a long time. And we are legally, under agreements that we have, we are legally required. to help Taiwan maintain its ability to defend itself. And so the U.S. military is, if China makes a first offensive move, then we're required to help them. I'm sure there'll be some discussion on Taiwan because that's been a very big issue for China over the year since 1949, actually. So that's, you know, and also, of course, they're going to talk about Iran.

Starting point is 00:16:02 Iran is an ally of China. China buys a lot of Iran's oil. Some people have said they buys up to 80% of the oil that Iran sells is bought by China. So we'll see about that. Now, we can also supply oil to China, and that'll probably be some of the stuff they talk about. You know, we already export 8 million barrels of oil a day sold on the world market. And some people claim that that's the reason U.S. gas prices, are high, we should keep all that and just have a closed market. You know, that's a good discussion. I need to do more research on that. I'm not sure that's true, that whether or not that would be good for us long term or not. Another, and we talked about this before, another reason that we have trouble here in the U.S. is because that it's so hard to build a new refinery here in the U.S. because of environmental regulations that have gone or right.

Starting point is 00:16:58 I know they're trying to fix a lot of those, that we have to ship some of our, oil out to get it refined and then we have to buy the refined product back like gasoline. So it's a complicated scenario and hopefully President Trump will do something about it. And some of the governors are talking about. We'll talk about that in just a minute. All right. Quick pause for my dad's episode to tell you about today's sponsor. And that is Javity. Javity is an incredible company that makes it so easy to see what's going on in your body by sending you a mobile phlebotomist. That'll take your blood. It takes like five seconds. It was so easy. They sent a sweet, kindful botomist to my studio and I got my blood

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Starting point is 00:19:09 I would recommend that. It's a little bit eerie because it really is very similar to what is going on right now with Iran. But again, this was written several, several years ago, but it's very entertaining. It's a novel, but it's really good. Joel Rosenberg is a messianic Jew, and so there's always a Christian element to it as well, but the intrigue from just the geopolitical battles that are going on within this book are so similar to what is going on now. It was kind of eerie when I was listening to it. And so what's happened since then, you know, what we're trying to do is negotiate with them.

Starting point is 00:19:56 I mean, the Secretary of State Rubio has been talking to the people in Qatar about it. You know, we've had the Pakistan's be involved in trying to get to a resolution. but every proposal so far that Iran has sent to us, they do not allow inspectors to come in to make sure that they don't have any enriched uranium. Now, they're saying it's at the very deep, deep bottom of where we bombed several months ago. And that may be true, but we need to have inspectors in there to make sure, and they just will not allow that as part of their proposal. So that's going to have to be, we're not going to relinquish on that.

Starting point is 00:20:34 We're going to have to be able to put inspectors in there to make sure there's no enriched uranium. The other thing is the straight of Hormuz. They want to basically use that as blackmail against other countries and businesses so that they can raise money to get revenue out of that, to charge a toll through there, so to speak, even though they don't own the waters, okay? So it's really interesting. And we're going to have to get that open as well. I mean, there's no question about that. And I believe that the Trump will commit our Navy to making sure that happens.

Starting point is 00:21:07 We've kind of put things on hold while we're still trying to negotiate. And I don't think anything will happen while President Trump is in China. But I do think that within the next couple of weeks, you're going to see some type of breakthrough. Either we're going to be more aggressive militarily in the Strait of Hormuz or there's going to be a negotiated agreement. I do believe that will happen. because it does have an effect on U.S. You mean, the gas prices are up 40 to 50 percent, depending on where you live. And that has an effect on our pocketbook.

Starting point is 00:21:37 Although I will say that that is a pretty reasonable price, in my opinion, to pay for making sure that a country that has said death to America for almost 50 years don't have a nuclear weapon. And, you know, I don't like it anymore than anybody else does. I just was on a long trip. and to fill up my truck was $80. And it probably used to be somewhere around, you know, $50 or $60. But it's a big difference. And I don't like that. But I'm willing to sacrifice for that for now for a better long-term game for my kids and grandkids.

Starting point is 00:22:13 And I hope that you'll look at it that way as well. So that's kind of what's going on in Iran. Well, again, I encourage you to pay attention to that. It is important long-term for what we're doing as a country. There's a couple of questions on that that that I wanted. to answer, though. It says, if Iran has no Navy left, how do they control the straight? Well, they, the way the straight works, and maybe sometime we can put a map up there at some point in time, we've done that in the past, and maybe they can put that in here. But it's very narrow,

Starting point is 00:22:45 and they're sent, they still have a bunch of drones, okay? So they do some attack drones. And they may not have any big naval ships, but they got some smaller ones that can kind of be like a gnat and shoot. And so that does create an increased element of risk for these ships that are going through there because all these ships need to be insured. They want to insure their cargo and ensure the ship itself. And as we talked about in the past, insurance companies were unwilling to write that insurance given the risk that was taking place. And therefore, we'll need to make sure that it's safe in order for the insurance

Starting point is 00:23:25 companies to be willing to write those policies. And if that requires the U.S. Navy being kind of the, you know, guiding people through there, then I think that we'll end up doing that. Hopefully we won't have to, but I think that we will. And then the next question, will gas prices go down anytime soon? Well, gas prices usually are a little higher in the summer anyway. And so I don't know how much they're going to go down soon, but I do think this is a, in the big picture, it's a short.

Starting point is 00:23:55 term problem, not a long-term problem. And they really do need to go down as far as Republicans are concerned politically before the midterm elections. And we'll see what happens that. President Trump's been talking about maybe getting rid of the federal gas tax. That'll take the act of Congress. I expect somebody's going to file a bill for that to happen. We'll see if that occurs or not. And I think that we get bipartisan support. But, you know, the Democrats may want to use that against us in the election, so they may not agree to doing that. So we'll see. The next thing I want to talk about today is this just came up in the last couple of days. And it's been out there a little bit. As you know, the U.S., the Constitution actually requires that Congress and the

Starting point is 00:24:43 president get paid during any government shutdown, which is really kind of interesting. I'm not sure why what the reason is behind that. I need to do a little research or somebody out there that's listening knows. Tell us why that was in the Constitution. It's very interesting. However, you know, we still have this shutdown where we've moved some money around to help pay some of the Department of Homeland Security people,

Starting point is 00:25:08 but we don't have full funding approval for the entire DHS, including ICE and Border Patrol and TSA. and we need to get that solved, but Democrats are the ones that have stopped that every single time. They're unwilling to pass it because they want to basically defund ICE. And one of the great successes of this administration has been to essentially shut down illegal immigration, to shut down the open border that President Biden had before. And that's been a tremendous accomplishment. And we've also been removing a lot of the criminal elements.

Starting point is 00:25:47 of the illegals that came over during the Biden administration years. We've done it. It's not as much in the headlines now, but that's still happening every single day out there. Now, the Senator Rick Scott actually has filed a bill called the No Budget, No Pay Act. We have that on SOT 3. I'm a business guy, always past budgets. And by the way, if you didn't do your job in business, you didn't get paid. You don't show up and do your job. You don't get paid. Why are we getting paid? We shouldn't get paid if we don't do our job. We need to figure out how to work together to get our budgets done. It's as simple as that. So you're going to offer legislation to not get paid during lockdowns? Absolutely. I already have a bill. We've got a bill that we don't get paid during the shutdown.

Starting point is 00:26:35 Ron Johnson's got a bill that will never have shutdowns. That should pass also. But on top of that, what are the Democrats doing? Hey, that's a very good question. are they doing to help open the government? Rick Scott also wrote on exit, and it's coming up on your screen. I'm sick and tired of D.C. politicians holding hardworking American paychecks hostage while they take home a paycheck because they have bills to pay. It's time for accountability. Fully fund DHS and pass my no budget no pay act. Amen to that. I agree 100%. And there are other members of, this would prevent members of Congress from receiving their salaries until all government funding bills are passed for the fiscal year, it would also block lawmakers from receiving back pay once a shutdown

Starting point is 00:27:20 ends. Now, that's a big issue right there because right now, you know, when the shutdown ends, all federal workers get back paid. But this says that if you do do a federal shutdown, that Congress will not get the back pay. Very interesting. Other Republican lawmakers have supported the proposal, including Kat Kamak, Katie Britt, and they argue that Congress should not be paid while federal employees go unpaid. Bernie Marino, all. also promote a similar idea and shared the poll that 92% of respondents on the poll agreed that lawmakers should lose their pay during shutdowns. And also lawmakers from both parties have already voluntarily asked for their salaries.

Starting point is 00:28:00 And I've got a few friends that have done that. It says, hey, don't pay me while government workers aren't being paid. But also Ted Cruz is one of the ones that have done that. And also a Democrat representative, Louis Carrera. So I applaud them for making sure that they don't get paid while federal employees, hardworking federal employers getting paid. Some of these people are sleeping in their cars. They've had to take second jobs. They've had to quit in order to be able to do this.

Starting point is 00:28:28 So come on. Let's get to an answer of all of this stuff. All right. Let's get to an answer. All right. A few questions coming up from our members or from our listeners. I always really appreciate those. You guys are so good.

Starting point is 00:28:42 and the private ones that you sent me. And remember, you can email me anytime Ron at Ron Simmons.com. I certainly don't have all the answers. And if I don't know, I'll tell you, or if it's just an opinion, I'll tell you that as well. But feel free to email them. We've gotten a lot of sweet questions about our episode that my wife and I did a couple Saturdays ago on autism. And a lot of people out there have real challenges in their families with that.

Starting point is 00:29:08 And we recognize that. And feel free to reach out to us any. We're happy to walk you through our experience and, you know, let you know what we know, what we don't know, which is probably a lot more than we know. But feel free to email me anytime on any subject. Here's a few questions here. Number one, what can a family do to create more income and to pay off debt? Well, the first thing you would do is there are some debt consolidators out there that do a really good job. I really like Crown Financial.

Starting point is 00:29:38 they're a ministry that really teaches financial intelligence and what have you. So I would, because the first thing, it's kind of like when you're digging a hole. The first thing you've got to do is stop digging, all right, if you don't want the hole to get deeper. So make sure that you stop digging. But get in touch with Crown Financial, my friend Chuck Bentley, who runs that organization. He's got people that can help with that scenario. But I think also the other thing that you have to do is you have to look at, you know, can I, you know, can one of us take a second job? Is there something that we can do to take a second

Starting point is 00:30:11 job or is there a business, you know, we drive for Uber? Can we, you know, work part-time? I know that my mom, after my mom and dad divorced, and she used to, I had two kids at home, my sister and little brother, she taught school, and then she worked at, you know, a hospital sometimes at night, as an administrator type person. So we have to do, and again, it should be for a short-term period, because what you should be able to do is once you quit digging the hole, you've got this debt still out there. You take an extra job or whatever to pay off that debt, but you don't dig the hole anymore. So once you have that done, you've learned now to live within your means. And hopefully you'll be able to do that.

Starting point is 00:30:54 But good question. And Lisa and I've been on that road in the past when we were young married, so I can empathize with you for that for sure. it says, what did you prioritize as a dad to raise godly children? Well, I've talked about in the past. Lisa was a very, very big part of that and still is today. Her faith walk has been incredible. I've watched her ever since we've known each other for almost 50 years now, and it's been very, very consistent over the years.

Starting point is 00:31:26 But I think that's the key is what I think that we did is, consistency. I was the same person at home as I was outside the house, all right? And I wasn't different on Sunday than I was on Saturday. I was the same person. Now, I wasn't perfect by any means, okay, and lots and lots of mistakes. But I think people and your kids, they appreciate consistency. What they don't want is hypocrisy. So being consistent is key. The other thing is coming up with a list of family values. I actually meant to pull it out, but I don't have it. I wrote something, oh, I don't know, probably 10, 15 years ago. And it was called What We Live By as a Family.

Starting point is 00:32:10 And it just kind of lists our values. And again, there's not a lot of them. When it comes to values, they're only going to have four or five key values. But making sure that your kids know what they are, that they see you acting out those values, and that you're reminding them and encouraging them and congratulating them when you see them acting out those values. I would, that'd be something I think would be really important. How to navigate parent that cuts you off with no contact and will not respond to calls text. Well, I don't know why this has happened.

Starting point is 00:32:43 I need to know a little bit more detail. I hear that now over political things, which is crazy to me. Because if you've got a political difference, and we have those in our, not in our immediate family, but in our extended family, is you just have to figure out how to not discuss. political things. I mean, if the relationship is really important to you, then and politics is where it sticks or even religion, if that's where it sticks, you have to maintain the relationship and let them see your values and why you believe in, say it's your faith or why you believe in a particular type of government. Let them see in your values and how you act as to why that's a good

Starting point is 00:33:29 idea as opposed to lecturing. Now, as far as your parents concerned, if there's no way to get to them, I would actually go see them face to face. I'd just drive over or fly over or whatever, and I would have to confront the issue and say, mom, dad, you know, whatever the issue is, if we can't solve it, let's agree not to talk about it so we can have a good relationship on the rest of the things. That's what I would do. Next, how to honor your parents? This is kind of similar. how to honor your parents who consistently try to undermine your marriage and parental role. Well, that's a little bit different. Well, I think you have to have a talk with them.

Starting point is 00:34:09 You have to sit down and have a hard-to-hard talk with them. And that might mean you have to limit the exposure of your family to your mom and dad if they're going to be that way, because that's not their role. Now, if they have an issue that they think is important, they want to talk to you about, sure, you need to be able to listen to that. Maybe they have some good advice. but it's not fair for them to continue to try to undermine the role that you have as a parent or as a spouse. And you're going to have to just have the hard discussion with them face to face.

Starting point is 00:34:41 And if they can't live by that, then I would certainly, well, I wouldn't cut them off, but I would limit my family's exposure to them because that's just not right. And this one says my dad was quit talking to me since Trump. He's not a believer. How do I handle this? I answered that. just a second ago. Just you're going to have to, you know, you all have to sit down and agree to disagree and then not

Starting point is 00:35:05 talk about that subject and talk about the other subjects that are important to you, whether it's, you know, anything else outside of that. What book are you reading? Well, I just told you about the Tehran Initiative book. I would recommend that you get that if you like novels like that. But one of the things I'm doing this year is the Bible in a year. And I'm doing it a little bit different this time. And that is I am each day, and I'm doing the one-year Bible.

Starting point is 00:35:32 And each day what I'm doing after I read the section that's assigned is I try to think of one precept or one thing that it has spoken to me about. And I write it down in a journal because hopefully one day my grandkids can get that. And so I write down, it's usually just one sentence. And then I reference the verses, the book and the verses in the Bible that I got it from. So like I think, let's see, what was it? What was it today? Yeah, that, well, I forget what it was. But anyway, if you will think about that because that leaves something and it leaves a memory and it also, as I go back and look at it, reminds me of what that particular part of the Bible is about and how it spoke to me.

Starting point is 00:36:17 So I think that would be a good idea to do that. The last question for today is, how do we still? stand out in an interview to get the job. And this is for her husband. Okay. This is called asking for a friend, right? But, well, I think the first thing you do, it depends on what type of job they're going for, but let's assume right now that he's going for a job in an office setting, all right?

Starting point is 00:36:43 Or white collar setting. Blue collar could be a little bit different than this, but white collar setting. And first of all, make sure that you're not, there's nothing about your physical appearance that's distracting. right? Like if for whatever reason that he happens to have tattoos make sure those aren't visible, then they may not be offensive to anyone, but here's what's not offensive is not having tattoos, okay? And at least not any visible ones. So if he happens to have tattoos on his arm, I would make sure I wore a long sleeve shirt, all right? The other thing is, is to make sure that I had

Starting point is 00:37:22 a friend do this one time when they say, well, what's your goal? Well, and the person said, well, my goal is to have your job in five years. Well, you don't ever want to do that. I think what you want to do is you want to be positive about the skills that you have. What are the skills and what is your dedication? Are you loyal, all right? Or are there someone that you can depend on? All right. And so, that's what I would focus on. And that's what would make people send up people this day and time. And it's hard to find good people. If people this time are looking for people that aren't extreme, either way, one way or the other, certainly wouldn't talk about politics during an interview, and they're looking for people that they can depend on, that they're Lord. So if there are things

Starting point is 00:38:05 in your background that show you being a loyal person and someone who they can depend on and dependable, those are the things that I would bring up. And that will definitely set you apart, right? Also, make sure, obviously, you show up early. Don't be late. Show up early. Dress nicely. again, conservatively. And, you know, good luck. I hope it works out for you. So anyway, thanks, everyone. It's a good day. And this will come out this weekend. If you have any questions, please let me know. Also, if you're looking for a good bookstery, there's a couple behind me, obviously Alley's New York Times bestseller list, toxic empathy, which is very important right now. And then my book on Life Lessons from the Little Red Wagon, I think that, especially coming up on

Starting point is 00:38:47 Father's Day, be a great gift to get your sons and fathers. It's a lot of good story. It's my story in a lot of different ways, but it's not just about telling my story. It's about taking my life experiences and using those as teaching moments. And I think that you'll find it enjoyable. And, you know, you'll laugh. You might cry a little bit. But I think it's a good book.

Starting point is 00:39:11 And I've got a lot of good comments back. So anyway, thank you for supporting Allie's podcast. And we'll look forward to seeing you next time. Take care.

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