Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 487 | No, 1/6 & 9/11 Are Not the Same

Episode Date: September 13, 2021

​Today we're covering some of the worst hot takes that came from the Left on 9/11 this year, including one from former President George W. Bush. Comparing the attacks on 9/11 to the Capitol riot in January is ignorant at best, and for some reason these people can't seem to differentiate between a group of terrorists and a group of Trump supporters. --- Today's Sponsors: Annie's Kit Clubs provides a fresh way to dive into your favorite craft or try something new. Making things with your hands is so good for you & Annie's makes it easy. Go to AnniesKitClubs.com/ALLIE & save 50% off your first kit! StartMail keeps your email private. Period. Every email can be encrypted — and when you delete an email in StartMail, it's gone. Forever. Start securing your email privacy & go to StartMail.com/ALLIE & get 50% off your first year! Good Ranchers has traveled the US, meeting with actual farmers that raise the livestock to ensure the product they're sending you is the very best American craft beef and better-than-organic chicken. Go to GoodRanchers.com/ALLIE & use code 'ALLIE' at checkout to save 20% on each box of mouth-watering meals, plus get an additional $20 off & free express shipping! --- Past Episodes Mentioned: Ep 486: EMERGENCY EPISODE: They've Pushed Too Far. Resist. https://apple.co/2YTEIML Ep 485: Can a 9/11 Survivor Forgive Al Qaeda? Guest: Sen. Brian Birdwell https://apple.co/3k4avmi --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort. We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this D-Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. So today we're going to talk about a few things. We're going to do some lighthearted things. We're also going to talk about some of the worst, some of the worst takes on the internet when it comes to 9-11. And the comparisons made between 9-11 in January 6th. It's just awful. So I'll give you my take on some of that. But we're also going to just do some random things. This is a more extemporary.

episode. We did an extra episode last week on Friday, what I called an emergency episode after Joe Biden's very ominous and strange and disturbing speech on Thursday talking about the vaccine mandate. So if you want to hear my take on that, go back and listen to Friday's episode. Also, if you want an extremely compelling, compelling, compelling, compelling story. about 9-11. If you want to hear from a survivor of the 9-11 attacks, then you should go back and listen to Thursday's episode. I talked about, I talked to a survivor of the attack on the Pentagon on 9-11. And a lot of you have given me feedback about that, that you loved that interview, that it was not just emotional in a sad way, but also in a very hopeful way, the way that he talked about what happened

that day, but also the love that he has for this nation and the hope that he has for the future of this nation. So go back and listen to those two episodes. First, I want to talk about some of the takes that we saw this weekend on social media. We'll also talk about that George W. Bush speech that a lot of people were talking about. So you probably remember what happened on January 6th. there was a riot of mostly Trump supporters. I don't think there's any evidence that there was this massive infiltration of left-wing agitators. But from what we can see, ostensibly, they were Trump supporters who decided to march on the Capitol. And unfortunately, there was a lot of chaos.

There was some violence. We have footage, of course, of protesters trying to. threaten and antagonize police officers. And so it was an awful day, an awful thing to watch, an awful thing to hear about. And so I am with everyone who believes that this was a very dark day in American history. What I cannot be on the same page with, what I cannot agree with because I still am a sane person is that it was in any way the same or comparable in any regard to 9-11. What we saw was a lot of chaos, a lot of anger fomenting, a lot of illegality, obviously, and a lot of what I think is evil. And I really detest the Christian

symbolism that I saw being waived and used on January 6th in a way that doesn't represent anything close to actual Christianity. But to say that January 6th, which a lot of people like to call an insurrection, do you know how many people have been charged with insurrection in connection to January 6th? Zero. Zero people. And a lot of people like to say that Donald Trump incited that he was the one that actually caused that. And while you can take issue with maybe some of his more aggressive language, and you can certainly take issue with a lot of his tweets and the doubts that he so leading up to January 6th, he also has not been charged with inciting violence. And so you can call it an insurrection. You can call it a coup or an attempted coup. You can try to blame Donald Trump for all

of those things. But the fact of the matter is that people haven't actually been charged with incitement or insurrection. What it actually was was a riot. I think it was a detestable riot, but it was a riot. And because I don't like rioting, and I don't like that kind of violence. I can vary evenly and I think equitably fairly say that was really bad. So were the riots that were caused perpetuated by Black Lives Matter in Antifa for months on end in some parts of our country. Some people don't like that comparison, but I think they're extremely comparable. You can't say that while on the one hand, Black Lives Matter in Antifa, we're just fighting for justice.

and that anger was justified, but the people over here, that anger wasn't justified. Whatever you think about the motivations of the people who perpetrated this kind of violence and chaos, the fact of the matter is is that they both had the same means. And they both wrought destruction and they both caused pain for innocent people, for innocent communities, especially on the BLM and Antifa side. I mean, they literally punished people who did nothing wrong in the name of justice. That's literally the definition of injustice. But I, even though I hated what happened both on January 6th and what happened throughout the country when it came to arson and looting and murder and assault perpetuated by BLM and Antifa, neither one of these things was like 9-11.

Neither one of these things was like 9-11. on 9-11, almost 3,000 Americans died because of a terrorist attack. 3,000. Do you know how many people died on January 6th? One person. And she was actually, she was an unarmed person that was actually killed by a police officer. And so I don't see how this is in any way close to what happened on 9-11, where almost 3,000 Americans died.

And yet, because there is, a group of the left, and I won't say everyone on the left, but because there are people on the left who truly despise their fellow countrymen who disagree with them politically more than they despise or resent al-Qaeda, more than they despise or resent the Taliban. They truly see their fellow Americans as a bigger threat and more of a danger to their safety than these animalistic, rabid, anti-American terrorist regimes, they come up with the worst, worst takes in regards to 9-11 and January 6th. So here's Pam Keith, who I don't really know what she is.

She's just like, she's like the whoever that left-wing Twitter agitator is, the Brooklyn dad or whatever, who says ridiculous things. They just say ridiculous, the most extreme hot takes in an effort to get retweets. And they have their, you know, they've got their blue checks. They've got a bunch of followers. So I'm not just picking like random people, although they do function as trolls. I don't even know if they're real people. They kind of seem like they're not real people.

But I think, unfortunately, they are. So this is Pam Keith Esquire. on 1-6th, 2021, 9-11, 2001 ceased being, this is just terrible syntax, too, ceased being the worst thing that happened to America in my lifetime. It's really weird and painful to process and say that. Oh, boo-hoo. But it's the truth. And quite frankly, it's not even close. Really, it's not even close.

It's not even close. January 6th, where only one person died, and it was at the hands of the police, by the way. or only one person died, that is far in a way, a bigger threat and worse than what happened on 9-11. Like, I think that once we get separated from something by 20 years, that is hard for us to take ourselves back and remember what a horrible day that was. Now, I was only 9 years old on 9-11, so I'm not pretending to remember everything that happened. I didn't have all of the same emotions that other people did who could fully process and

understand what was going on. But I do remember that day. I remember the days after that day. I remember my parents talking about it and obviously have learned a lot about what happened on 9-11 since then. And the idea that anyone could say that it's anywhere close to what happened on January 6th is literally insane. That can only happen if you have brainworms that have built a nest in your mind and have caused you to only turn out insane thoughts. And here's the thing about these kinds of comparisons because Pam Keith was not the only person to make this comparison. No one actually explained why. No one explained why January 6th is worse than 9-11. Like no one gave us any numbers. No one explicated that in any way. No one even tried to demonstrate that.

Really, the only reason they think that is because they actually hate Republicans more than they hate terrorists. And I think they see them as one and the same. Honestly. Brain worms. Brain worms. Okay, here's another. Jen M. Jackson, Ph.D. On Twitter, she did this long Twitter thread. We have to be more honest about what 9-11 was and what. what it wasn't. It was an attack on the heteropatriarchal capitalistic system that America relies upon to wrangle other countries into passivity. It was an attack on the system's many white Americans fight to protect. And so it almost sounds like she's pro 9-11. Does it not kind of sound like she is saying, you know what, we got what was coming for us. And we deserved it.

and basically al-Qaeda attacked the very system that she says that she stands against as well. You know, I saw some other takes like this, basically saying that America deserved this, that we had been interfering in other countries for so long and we had been so prideful and so arrogant that this is just exactly what we deserved. You can take issue with America's foreign policy over the years. there are certainly things that I take issue with. You can be anti-interventionist. You can say, you know, America did some bad things abroad and has done some things we've

destabilized certain regions. Okay, that can be your perspective. That can be your take. Without saying that 3,000 Americans deserve to die and that maybe even it sounds like what she's implying that this was actually a good thing that she is on the side of al-Qaeda. I mean, these people, this is a professor, by the way, these people, these people, are who are who are teaching your children at universities. And I guarantee you there are probably some teachers in grade school who agree with this,

with this take. So it was an attack on the heteropatriarchal capitalistic systems. That's what 9-11 was, she says, that America relies upon to wrangle other countries into passivity. does she think that Islam is anything other than heteropatriarchal? Like, are there a bunch of queer feminists running around in Afghanistan telling people what to do? Is that the system in the Middle East? Like, you think that the issue that Al-Qaeda and the Taliban have with the United States is heterosexuality and the patriarchy?

Like, you understand that in majority Muslim countries that gay people are actually getting pushed off the roof, that they are being murdered, that they're being executed because of their professed sexual orientation. Like, you understand that that's what's happening, that there's not, like, queer liberation feminist going on in the Middle East that probably Al-Qaeda, when they were hijacking the planes, weren't thinking, you know, this is for feminism, this is for the matriarchy, this is for LGBTQ plus movement. Like, that's not what went on.

But this is unfortunately what intersectionality does to your brain. It forces you to be unable to see things as they actually are. And this also ties into this whole critical race theory idea that America, white people, bad, the rest of the non-Western, non-white world is good. And so you have to fit it into that framework somehow. And this is one of the weirdest, one of the strangest parts of the left. to me. The tolerant left, the progressive left, professing progressive intolerant left, the pro-equality, pro-equity, pro-women left. That's all the things that they claim to be. Their relentless

defense of radical Islam. It's so strange to me. It is one of the most, one of the most, maybe not the most, but one of the most contradictory, confusing parts of of leftist ideology. Now, it makes sense, again, when you think about things like critical race theory, that in its crudest form, its simplest form, basically says white America, West, bad, everything else good. White America West oppressors, everyone else is the oppressed. And again, when that is your lens, when that is your framework, then every story that involves those two groups somehow has to fit into that narrative. And so somehow that allows you to say that al-Qaeda,

that radical Islamist terrorists were against the heteropatriarchy. Like, that's what it causes you to do. That's why it's so damaging for people who have this kind of worldview, because it truly is a worldview. It's almost like a religion. They just kind of repeat dogma without actually having to explain. it. That's why it's so dangerous for these people to be forming impressionable minds. Now, I am all for this Jen M. Jackson PhD, it's always the people with the letters in their Twitter handles. It's

always the people that have to put their title in their Twitter handles who also always have their pronouns in their bio. It's always these people coming up with the worst takes. But I am all for the pronoun police and the alphabet gang having their free speech. I am. Like, I am for her being able to live in the United States to be able to say this without fear of punishment. I am for bad, terrible, dangerous ideas like this being allowed in the public square. And then I am also for people coming along with better ideas and better speech and just absolutely ratioing this person into oblivion. That's what I'm for. Unfortunately, something like this, this radical, absolutely anti-intellectual, ahistorical take, people on the left are totally fine with this. I would say

in general, not to say that she has no left-wing critics at all. But the same people that are for a take like this being in the public square and being able to gain legitimacy in any way are against people on the other side having their own opinions good and bad or being able to publicly articulate those terrible opinions. That's why you have those people saying, you know, it's fine that the Taliban is on Twitter and Trump is not on Twitter because they are just not for. They can't advocate for. They can't give permission to. They can't be okay with right-wing positions and right-wing opinions having any air or being publicized in any way. That's the difference, I would say.

That's one big difference between the left and the right, is that I am for bad ideas being out there and us being able to take them down. The left in general is not for bad ideas or things that they perceive as bad ideas and bad speech, being out in public and being able to take them down with their own better ideas and their own better speech. They are for silencing, they are for censoring, they are for shutting down and bullying, and they are going to elevate someone like Jen Jackson and Pam Keith who have terrible, dangerous, awful, offensive speech being given some kind of position of influence. Now, I want to get to another bad take, and this time

by the former president, President George W. Bush, in a 20th anniversary speech. Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles,

faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort. We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this D-Day Show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. All right. Let me play you a little clip from George Bush's

speech that he gave on 9-11. And we have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within. There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But in there's disdainful pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit. And it is our continuing duty to confront them. All right. So I agree with him, obviously, in some ways. I mean, I agree that all violent extremists are born of the same spirit in general. I agree that the conclusion of all kinds of violent extremism is the same. And therefore, no matter the

reason for violent extremism, it has to be condemned, it has to be combated, whether it's on our soil or whether it's abroad. That's true. But what people, how people read into this, I mean, I made a joke that, of course, a lot of people on the left got mad at when I said, oh, I'm so glad that he's, you know, he's calling out Be a Halem and Atifa. And they were like, no, he's calling out January 6th, which I think is true. I think they're right that he is trying to call out January 6th. But again, it's not the same. This is such a terrible comparison. It is not the same at all. And, you know, actually this mentality is what got us into the mess that we are in. That administration after administration in the United States has gotten it wrong when it comes to why there are terrorist attacks coming from the Islamic world into the United States or even there.

not just because people are violent. It's not just because they're angry. It's not because they resent the United States, although all of those things might be true. It is because of theology. It is because they are religiously, ideologically, ideologically motivated to do what they do. That is why the Middle East has been characterized by terror, by violence, by unrest, by oppression, pretty much its whole existence. Those things weren't started by the United States or the West that has been the characterization that has been true of that part of the world for a very long time. Does that mean all people who identify as Muslims perpetuate that kind of violence or believe in that kind of violence? No, I don't think so at all. But the organizations,

the sects of Islam that are running the show there absolutely do. And they are not just motivated by their own selfish desire for power. They are not just motivated by misogyny or any other kind of secular explanation for why they do the things that they do. They're theologically, religiously, doctrinally motivated by all of it. And we have been naive. There's been, you know, two different kind of secularist schools of thought, I would say, on the right and the left when it comes to terrorism in the Middle East.

and one, that is kind of the more right-wing mentality, that if we just introduce them to democracy, if we just introduce them to freedom, if we introduce them to equity and equality and gender studies, then they will finally realize that our way of life is better and they will abandon their fundamentalist Islamic beliefs. And they will, you know, they'll just build democracy there. Now, that was true when it came to somewhere like Imperial Japan. But that's because Japan doesn't have and did not have the same ideology and the same religion, the same theological motivations as the Middle East does when it comes to radical Islam. And so this more neo-conservative belief that if we just export democracy to the world is the same thing that Ronald Reagan, one of my favorite president, but he erroneously believed that if we exported democracy and capitalism to somewhere like China, they'll embrace freedom and they'll become more like the United States. That didn't happen.

They just took advantage of world trade and they became capitalistic in some ways, but they continued to repress and oppress their people and they do to this day. So that didn't happen. We actually allowed China to then import some of their, you know, auto. ideas, communistic ideas to the United States. We thought the same thing when it came to the Middle East. We thought that we were going to be able to export freedom. We were going to be able to export liberty and democracy and capitalism. They would embrace it. And everything would be hunky dory. That obviously hasn't happened. And that all came crashing down when we saw the disaster in Afghanistan

a couple weeks ago. And that's actually still ongoing, even though Biden would like us to believe that it's not. And then you have the more kind of left-wing secular belief that I think is also secular and erroneous that if America just leaves them alone, they'll be peaceful and they'll be happy and they will end up, you know, embracing equity and equality and human rights in these things because they believe that America has actually been the instigator of violence. And if we just allow them to, you know, live how they want to live, then they will embrace peace. And it's actually American imperialism that has made that region unstable, that America in the West has actually caused that unrest. Well, that is also not true. That's also not true. The fact of the matter is,

is that that region, as long as it is Islamic, is never going to have the same kind of order that we have in the West. It's never going to have the same kind of rule of law that we have in the West. And you can think that that's fine, that we should just, you know, allow them to do what they want to do and realize that it's not going to change just because we have, you know, capitalist evangelists go over there and try to tell them how great the free market and women's rights are. You can just try to embrace that. Or you can try to do what, we failed to do over the past 20 plus years, which is basically make it into some kind of imitation of the West and the Middle East. I just don't think that is ever going to be

accomplished. And how this, how this goes back to George W. Bush's speech is that he actually thinks that all violent extremists have the same kind of worldview, the same kind of mentality. and so he and a bunch of people on the left here think it's totally fine to compare people on January 6th to the Islamic terrorists in the Middle East. They're not the same because they don't have the same motivations. And because one is theologically motivated and I would argue that the other, well, I mean, maybe you could argue that the people on January 6th were somewhat theological motivated in some strange and convoluted way, but not in the same uniform way that I would say Islamic terrorists are. but because I think George W. Bush is secular, and I think he's got that secular, neoconservative mentality that rejects the fact that Islamic terrorists are motivated by fundamentalist Islam. And therefore, they're not the same as people here, even the ones who actually do pose a threat of extremism. So it's his kind of secular, faulty mentality that led to a lot of the disastrous foreign policy that we've seen over the past few decades in the United States.

And that's why, I mean, that's part of why theology matters, understanding not just what we believe as Christians and why we believe what we believe, understanding also the principles that America was founded on, what ideas and ideals we were founded on, why the, the West is the way it is, why the East is the way that it is, what kind of theological presuppositions founded each region and what kind of fruit that has borne. All of that is very important if you are going to try to understand why things happened. And I think it's important for us to understand why things happen because our understanding the why actually dictates both our domestic and our foreign policy. But in a more superficial way, I think that George W. Bush is just kind of playing into the left hand with all of this. I do think that Democrats in the United States are using this narrative that the biggest threats to our safety, the biggest threat to public health and the biggest threats to our well-being and unity as a country are the people that voted for Donald Trump.

I think that they are using that to try to get as much control as possible, trying to stoke as much fear as possible so they can present themselves as the solution to all of our problems by, you know, going after the people that those on the left don't like and view as a threat. I think that was really what was behind the whole, the unvaccinated speech that Biden gave on Thursday. I think that's why they're constantly talking about January 6th to try to pretend that really are the biggest thing that you should fear are the people who live next door who happen to vote for Donald Trump. At the same time, they're trying to say that they want to unify. They don't want to unify. Like, can we not just simultaneously say, hey, what happened on January 6th was bad?

Here's what I didn't like about it. What happened on 9-11 was worse because, we had this many people die and they're totally different situations with different threats and different motivations. Can we not just have a rational conversation about those things without conflating things that actually make us sound really dumb and very morally stupid as well, not just intellectually dull? Unfortunately, I think social media plays into this very sad and what I think is a very damaging conflation. All right. So this happened at Washington University in St. Louis.

So, Yaff every year, wherever there is a YAF chapter at a college, the YAF chapter there puts the same number of the small American flags as Americans who died on 9-11, 2,977. That's the flag display they do. Obviously, it's a reminder of what happened, the sacrifices that were made on that day. and there was a student by the name of Fidel Alkalani, who decided that he was going to take almost 3,000 of these American flags and put them in trash bags. He was actually filmed doing this. And he said that he wasn't sorry for this, that it wasn't a violation of school rules.

and that he, you know, he made this announcement on Instagram that basically he was fighting against Islamophobia and he was fighting against American imperialism. So here you go again with that left-wing worldview that basically says America has been the cause of all suffering in the world. And then we can't even recognize the lives that were lost on 9-11 because somehow that is celebrating American imperialism. it's really disgusting. It's really disgusting. Just the lack of empathy that this kind of progressive worldview causes you to have towards lives that were lost because you think that you're fighting some valiant battle against American imperialism. You're not. You're not.

I mean, this guy thinks that he is courageous, that he's on the front lines of this battle while literally taking honor away or trying to take honor away from people who were actually courageous, who were actually on the front line. saving people from smoldering towers and the rubble. And unfortunately, this is the sorry excuse for courageous men that our university system seems to be churning out. Now, thankfully, there were many displays, many demonstrations of respect throughout the country. Thanks to Yaf, they put a lot of effort into, you know, publicizing their displays every year and there are a lot of students who are involved in it, which is amazing because a lot of these students weren't even alive on 9-11. And it's important that we have this reminder,

especially on college campuses every year of what happened, as I talked about on Instagram, as we've talked about last week. And it's so important to pass this down, no matter what you think about the foreign policy that follow 9-11. It's an important reminder that freedom isn't free. It's an important reminder of what courage looks like. It's also an important reminder that freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. There are people in the world who really hate liberty and they really hate that freedom and they'll do anything to destroy that freedom. It's also a good reminder that there is real good and there's real evil. Objective evil exists in the world.

It's not all just some scheme about the white heterosexual. imperialistic patriarchy versus everyone else. That kind of worldview just doesn't check out. It's not factual. So it's an important reminder that moral relativism is a terrible, a terrible worldview. All right. That's all I have to say about all of that. There are some good things I think that happened over the weekend that I've seen happen over the past couple weekends. And that is that stadiums across the country are full of cheering and maskless fans. I love to see it. I love to see that with all the fearmongering that is going on in the news, as it has for the past year and a half, with Biden's very, you know, intimidating speech or an attempt to be an intimidating speech,

with Dr. Fauci saying that even if you are double vaccinated, even if you are planning on getting the booster shot, even if you are wearing two masks, you still basically need to stay at home. social distance even when you're outside and all this ridiculous stuff that has no basis in science whatsoever, even with people saying that we should mask kids and force 12 year olds to get the vaccine, even though the data on that is iffy at best, if not just very, very bad. You have people who aren't paying attention to them and certainly are not heeding their advice. Now, I think this is a wonderful thing. It's not because I, you know, want people to get sick and die.

I certainly don't, but I do want people to make their own decisions. based on their own medical needs and maybe the medical needs of the people that are closest to them who are vulnerable. I mean, maybe all of the people in those stadiums are vaccinated. Probably not everyone. There's certainly most people were not wearing masks and people have just decided, look, I've got to move on. I've got to live my life and you absolutely do. And you know, my husband and I were kind of debating about this or we were talking about whether or not he wants to watch these NFL games because, you know, he's a conservative like me and we hate the politicization of all of these sports. We hate the stands that the NFL and the MLB have taken just,

you know, anti-American woke stances that are just totally out of line with their fans. And on the one hand, you want to say, okay, look, we just need to boycott those companies and we need to not give them our viewership because we need to show them that, you know, you're going to lose customers if you make those kinds of stance. And that is a compelling argument. On the other hand, you can see that the communistic goal is to try to ruin and corrupt and take away everything that brings people joy, everything that brings people together. And so you are also at the same time, kind of letting them win if you say, okay, I'm going to give up all my forms of pleasure, all my forms of leisure, like watching sports, because I don't want to support the left wing

agenda. Well, then you're sad. And then you're kind of miserable. And so what is the better pushback? Is it enjoying these things that bring people together and make people happy? and flouting the rules that have been set by Biden and Fauci to just stay inside and stay sad until, you know, some unforeseen date when we have zero cases of COVID? Or is it to boycott all of these things?

And to say, you know, I'm not going to be a part of this at all because they're taking stands that I disagree with. I don't know. I honestly don't know the answer to it. But I don't know. like when NFL games are giving you, you know, a form of community and a source of happiness. And when it's been a year that has been characterized by misery and isolation, it's kind of nice to have that, it's kind of nice to, I don't know, have that relief from all of the, I don't know,

depression that we've been hearing from the news and all the fear that we've been hearing by the unelected bureaucrats at the NIH and the CDC for the past year and a half. And so I don't know. I like to see the stadiums full, even the NFL games. I like to see people enjoying their lives and making their own decisions and just not listening to the people in charge, especially Joe Biden, because he thinks that he has all of the power in the world. And no matter who the president is, whether it's Republican or Democrat, I think that they need to have a much, much, much smaller, less significant place in our lives,

a much smaller place of authority in all of our lives. So good on you. If you are going to football games and you are doing the things that you want to do to live life and to get back to some kind of sense of normalcy, I feel like that's what we really need to be doing. All right, going to close this out with a fun segment. So on the way here, I talk to my mom, who only lives like 10 minutes for me. And yet I talk to her on the phone or in person.

But when I don't see her in person, I talk to her on the phone like every day, just about random stuff this morning. I was like, hey, what do you think my dreams mean? Kind of kidding. She doesn't fancy herself like a professional dream interpreter or anything like that. But, you know, sometimes dreams mean things I think. And sometimes they don't. Like, and when I say they mean things, I mean, it maybe says that you're like stressed out

about something. So I've been having these different kinds of perpetual dreams, repetitive dreams. One of them is that I'm flying. And I've had this dream, I think, for a long time. And I never really took note of it that I had been having this dream. But so we used to have in the house that I grew up in, we had this big backyard that went up like a hill. And I keep having a dream that I am like running up the hill.

hill and taking off and exerting a lot of energy to get up in the air, I guess with my arms. I don't know, like flapping my arms, like wings. And then once I'm in the air, it's kind of like I'm hang gliding. And I'm just having this thought, like I'm looking down at the earth. I'm just having this thought, like, why don't other people do this? Is this like, is this magic? Like, what's going on? This is really not that hard. But I don't feel like it's that remarkable that I'm doing it. And I'm just kind of like looking down over the earth. I don't even know what I'm really thinking. But I've, had this dream multiple times. There doesn't really seem to be a purpose in any of it. And then this other dream that I'm having and I don't know that they're connected, but I've been

having this dream a lot recently that I'm like 36 weeks pregnant and I just like totally have it prepared or planned at all. Like I'm about to have this baby. Last night I had a dream 36 weeks pregnant. And I was like, oh, you know, I need to find an OB. I haven't even found a doctor to deliver this baby. Why haven't I done that? Will a doctor take me at 36 weeks? I've been having this dream perpetually. And I'm like texting. Who knows who I'm texting in my dream, but I'm like texting to try to figure out what doctor I should be getting at 36 weeks pregnant. So if you want to tell me what you think those dreams mean would love to hear. But really, I want to hear, I want to hear some of your strange repetitive dreams that you have had or have been having.

Now, not super weird guys, not super weird dreams, but just some, you know, like flying dreams, things like that. And I will tell you what I think they mean, but you have to call me. So this is not a message. This is a voicemail that I want you guys to leave. Now, if you don't want other people to hear this voicemail, do not leave me a voicemail. You are telling me that you want this voicemail to be public if you send me this voicemail. You don't have to necessarily, you know, leave your first and last name or anything. But here's the number 682-503-13. That's 682-503-1369. Call me. Tell me the strange dream that you're having. Or you can tell me what you think my flying dream means or my dream that I'm about to give birth and I don't even have a doctor to deliver

my baby yet. So you can give me your interpretation of those dreams. You can also tell me the repetitive dreams that you have been having. I love dreams. They're super interesting to me. So that'll be a segment either that we do on this show at some point or I'll do like a separate video. I'll post it on Instagram and we'll talk about that. All right. That's all I've got for today. We will be back here tomorrow. I'll see you guys in.

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