Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 658 | Cheap Insulin Propaganda & Redeeming America | Guest: Senator Tim Scott

Episode Date: August 10, 2022

Today we’re debunking the recent stories that claim Republicans voted no on a measure aiming to lower the price of insulin. The parliamentarian of the Senate blocked this measure due to the Democrat proposal breaking budgetary rules, but the Democrats used this to say that Republicans were against lowering costs altogether. We then discuss Trump's and Biden’s recent history with insulin price caps. Then, we’re joined by Senator Tim Scott to discuss his new book, "America, a Redemption Story." We get his take on the state of the country and hear about his upbringing and what led him down the path to becoming a senator. --- Today's Sponsors: Genucel products take care of fine lines, wrinkles, dark spots, and more without any risky procedures. Go to genucel.com/ALLIE and use code "ALLIE" at checkout for a special discount. My Patriot Supply specializes in long-term emergency food storage. Go to PrepareWithAllie.com to save $50 off your four-week food kit. Birch Gold protects your future with gold. Text 'ALLIE' to 989898 for a free, zero obligation info kit on diversifying and protecting your savings with gold. Covenant Eyes: go to coveyes.com/ALLIE to try it FREE for 30 days! --- Show Links: Washington Post: "The GOP blocked an insulin price cap: What it means for diabetics" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/08/insulin-price-cap-diabetes-senate-republicans/ National Review: "Inject the Insulin Market with Competition Instead of Price Controls" https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/07/inject-the-insulin-market-with-competition-instead-of-price-controls/ The Hill: "Democrats fail to overrule parliamentarian on insulin price cap as GOP votes no" https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3591586-democrats-fail-to-overrule-parliamentarian-on-insulin-price-cap-as-gop-votes-no/ Executive Order 13937 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202000539/pdf/DCPD-202000539.pdf --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: 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 Wednesday. All right. Today we are talking about Republicans voting against a price cap on insulin. Is that really true or is there more to the story? We will also be talking to Senator Tim Scott.

You're probably seeing his name in the news right now. He's got a lot to say. As always, this episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to Good Ranchers.com slash All right. For American Meat Deliver. That's good ranchers.com slash alley. All right. I first want to talk about the thing that you guys have been messaging me about,

which is this headline that the GOP blocked an insulin price cap. So this is the same kind of deal that we talked about a couple weeks ago when you were hearing that Republicans blocked access to birth control and that they also tried to make it illegal to allow gay people to get married. We debunk those claims. Then we're going to debunk this claim now. Always, when you hear something that is too good to be true for the other side or too bad to be true about Republicans, there's always another side of the story.

And that's probably true in general, but particularly when it comes to things that Republicans do simply because the media leans so far to the left that you can almost always bet that they're not telling the full story in their headlines. And a lot of you are seeing these posts shared on Instagram, these graphics saying Republicans voted against making insulin cheaper. They hate diabetics. They're not pro-life. All of this stuff, of course. But it's missing a lot of context and it's missing a lot of explanation. So let me tell you how the hill described what went down and why people are talking about Republicans voting against this price cap. So their headline is Democrats fail to overrule parliamentarian on insulin price cap as GOP votes no.

So Senate Democrats fell short of an effort Sunday to overrule a decision by the parliamentarian that effectively struck down a proposal sponsored by Senator Raphael Warnock to cap out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35 a month for people not covered by Medicare. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, the ranking member of the Budget Committee, sought to enforce the parliamentarians ruling that Warnock's cap on insulin prices violated the bird rule because it would set prices in the commercial market and therefore couldn't pass with a simple majority vote. Senate Democrats insisted on a vote to waive the procedural objection to put Republican senators on record, including Senator Ron Johnson, Republican from Wisconsin, the most vulnerable member of the GOP conference.

On the record is opposing a popular proposal to rein in insulin prices. So they broke the rules. They broke the budgetary rules. They broke the procedural rules. And the parliamentarian of the Senate tried to enforce that rule and Democrats tried to overrule it to make sure that they could get Republicans on the record voting against the price caps on insulin. Why? Because it is politically advantageous to them. Of course, this goes both ways. Republicans do this to Democrats. But you never see the widespread vitriol win an amendment. or any kind of bill is pushed by Republicans that the Democrats vote no on. You just don't see the mainstream media reporting on it the way that they report negatively on Republicans. You don't see those flashy Instagram graphics going around saying, wow, how terrible it is, that Democrats voted against this. There are a lot of amendments that Republicans tried to add to this latest so-called inflation reduction act that were turned down, that were blocked by Democrats.

Amendments to secure our border, amendments to try to protect American manufacturing, to try to limit new audits by the IRS to people who make a significant amount of money rather than the IRS going after working class people. And Democrats voted against all of those things. And you probably didn't even know that unless you are paying attention to conservative media. Because again, you just don't see the widespread. mainstream reaction to the Democrats' votes that you see to Republicans' votes. Now, some Republicans, many Republicans, do actually oppose price caps as a rule, as a principle, because they believe

that it is actually just going to push the cost somewhere else. So it's not actually going to lower the cost. If you artificially say, which is what a price cap is, it's an artificial limit of how much something can cost. So if the government says you can only charge this month, well, the companies, including insurance companies, they're going to find another way to make up for that money. And the Washington Post, to their credit, actually does report this, even if their headline leans left. So the Washington Post says this. Many Republicans have opposed a $35 cap, saying the measure did not address the root problem of skyrocketing insulin prices. Instead, they said it would force insurance companies to pass on the,

cost through premiums, which is absolutely true. And so it might seem like you are paying last when it comes to insulin, but you are actually going to end up paying the same because the insurance companies are just going to shift that cost around. National Review has an article that discusses price caps on insulin and why competition in this market, not price caps, are actually the answer. And therefore, why Republicans are actually right to vote against. the price cap, even including consideration of the fact that Democrats broke the rules and all of that, even without that, Republicans would be correct to vote against something like this because ultimately it doesn't make a positive difference in the lives of people who have diabetes and

need insulin. Hey, this is Steve Daste. 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 Steve Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. So here's what National Review says. The Insulin Act aims to tackle this problem by capping the price of insulin at $35 a month.

Insulin Affordability is a worthy goal. But the Insulin Act puts a band-aid over a bullet hole. Any legislation aimed at reducing insulin prices will be ineffective until legislators enact a structural overhaul to remove the administrative bloat surrounding insulin production. The Big Three insulin producers have been protected from biosimilar competition. allowing them to halt innovation while raising prices. So again, big government is actually the problem here, not the solution. Like generics, biosimilers are created to mimic another drug called the reference drug. The primary difference between the generics and biosimilers is that generics can be exact

copies of the reference drug because they are mimicking chemical compounds, while biosimilers can only be highly similar since the reference drug is made of a living organism. And so this is being restricted when it comes to insulin producing. National Review's argument, which I happen to agree with, is that we must allow competition in the market. Anyone who has taken a basic course on economics or if you've read anything by Thomas Soul, you know that an increase of options and increase of competition is going to lower the prices. Of course, that's how you compete. But if you don't have any competition and so people with diabetes have to rely on these three products,

these three companies to get the insulin that they depend on. to survive, then of course they are going to pay anything. And these companies know that they can charge anything because you rely on them for your life. So you increase competition. You allow for these competitors to come in and to offer similar or replicas of the product and you will lower the prices. So that is why in principle, many Republicans vote against price controls, not just when it comes to insulin, but in this case, when it comes to insulin. Now, when Trump was in office, he tried to lower the cost of insulin. This is according to the Washington Post. In 2020, President Donald Trump claimed that he had drastically lowered the price of insulin. Insulin,

it's going to, it was destroying families, destroying people, the cause, Trump said in a debate, I'm getting it for so cheap. It's like water, very Trumpian statement. Trump signed an executive order to lower the price of insulin as one of his final health care acts in office. And we'll link that executive order, you can read it for yourself. The ruling was narrow, experts said, and would have lowered the cost of insulin for certain patients who go to certain federally qualified health centers. Okay, but maybe you say something is better than nothing if you agree with the logic of his executive order. Well, that was rescinded by the Biden administration as soon as he got into office. So that was apparently lowering the cost for some patients.

And as soon as Biden got into office, the Washington Post said he rescinded the executive order. So there we are. That's the truth of it. That's the context of it. There are a lot of different reasons why Republicans may oppose it. Of course, this is a political gimmick, as Democrats often do, as both parties often do, but more successfully and effectively and loudly, Democrats do, is try to hold Republicans to a vote that they know that they can't support because it's not a good piece of legislation. And then they get shellacked in the media for not supporting something. and the easy headline and the easy kind of piece of emotional manipulation is simply, well, Republicans don't want diabetics to be able to get their insulin.

And so always, again, when something seems too good or too bad to be true, you dig into it and you ask questions, is this really true? What really happened here? And that's not always easy to find. I was trying to figure this out last night because I have been around long enough to know that there was like more to the story. And I was trying to figure out, okay, what really happened? I had to ask people on Twitter, what's the truth about this?

And thankfully, I got a lot of responses and people pointing me in the right direction. But, you know, if I'm doing this as a job and I find it difficult to find the truth behind these kind of scandalous headlines, then I understand that it's hard for you too. But of course, that is part of why I exist to kind of help you break that down. All right, news, there's so much news, news that we are not going to be able to get into. to today is that a sitting congressperson was, his phone was taken by the FBI as Scott Perry, Congressman Scott Perry, he is apparently under investigation for a possible connection to January 6th and what they're saying was an attempt to overturn the results of the election.

I mean, on the heels of what happened to Donald Trump and his Mar-a-Lago home, which we talked about yesterday, I mean, this is kind of scary stuff. This, again, seems like a weaponized DOJ. And I'm interested to know what Republicans are actually going to do about it. We're not just talking about grandstanding. Like, what are you actually going to do about it? Now, Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina, he is on the show today. However, this interview was filmed last week and it was focused on his book. Now, Senator Scott is in some hot water for comments that he made on CBS about the investigation and about the raid on Trump's home and about the DOJ.

So here he is saying that. This is probably going to. This is going to raise more questions in my opinion. And we need to let this play out and see exactly what happens, but we should all have been stunned and surprised and shocked at what happened yesterday. The real question is, A, what is the Federal Records Act? And B, what are we talking about? It has to be something of incredible magnitude for, at least my side of the owl,

to say that was warranted. Without that, I think we're going to find ourselves in a very big mess as it relates to the credibility of the effectiveness. So you don't have any concern that they're going to find anything at the Mar-a-Lago? Well, I think we should really, as opposed to rushing the judgment, the most important thing that we can do is let it play out. So as you can imagine, a lot of conservatives are giving a negative reaction to that. It might seem like it's an innocuous statement, but I think a lot of people are looking

for Republicans to say, this is too far. This is too much. There is politicization of this, and we need to investigate the investigators. We need to rein in the power of the DOJ, the power. of Merritt Garland, the power of the FBI, and ensure that it's not used as a political weapon. At the very least, I think that is what people are looking for when it comes to Republicans. Because when you're looking at a red wave in November, there's not much point of a red wave. If you feel like the Republicans who are in charge, you're not fighting on your behalf and fighting

against the corruption that you see as a threat, not just to the potential Republican nominee in 24, but also against you. That's what we talked about yesterday, that what happened to Trump is a reflection of what I think the federal government that has been weaponized by progressives wants to do to you, especially with all of their new IRS agents. And so I think that's what people were looking for Senator Tim Scott to say. Now, I'm very thankful that Senator Scott came on my show and that he is promoting his book. I wish that I had him on. actually live today because I would have asked him about this. I would be really interested to hear kind of his further explanation and what was meant by the comments that he made on CBS. Unfortunately,

I don't have that opportunity, but it's still a great interview. It's still really, his book that we're talking about is still really fascinating. I think you're going to like what he has to say. Senator Scott, thanks so much for joining us. I'm so excited to talk to you today. Thank you. It's good to be with you, Allie. Yeah. So before we get into your book, I just kind of want to get your analysis on the state of the country. 85% of Americans, according to a poll published at the end of June, say that the country is headed in the wrong direction. 92% of our party, Republicans, 78% of Democrats. So we might disagree on why the country is headed in the wrong direction, but we do agree that it is not going the right way. Why do you think that is and do you think we can turn it around?

Well, I'll start with the latter first. We can absolutely turn it around. I think we'll start turning it around in November of this year when we take majority in the House and the majority in the Senate. Without any question, elections have consequences. And one of the things that people are feeling, especially on the left, is buyer's remorse. The bottom line is a simple one that when you look at the state of our economy, when you understand and appreciate the negative impact of inflation, and when you go to the gas pump and you realize, Oh, my gosh, under President Trump and the Republicans, it was $1.99 in South Carolina.

Now it's almost $4 a gallon. Something is really wrong. You look at the global stage and you come to the conclusion, especially on the right, and I believe on the left as well. My goodness gracious, can President Biden not get it right somewhere around the world? And the answer is, no, he can't, nor has he. And so whether you're suffering buyer's remorse on the left or if you are on the right and you're saying, yeah, this is exactly what you should expect from this administration. When you add $4 trillion of spending and yet the average person in our country has less money for their own priorities, this is a terrible consequence of bad leadership, bad policies, and the combination, makes bad politics in November for the Democrats.

Good news, the cavalry is coming. November is going to be the start of something brand new in this country, and I'm excited to play a role in that. Yeah, tell us what that looks like, if and when Republicans take the majority in the House and the Senate. What are the priorities for turning the ship around? You know, think about one of the most important issues that we face today, the issue of education.

A good education is the closest thing to magic in America. One of the things that we learned in the Commonwealth of Virginia just last year, last election cycle, is that parents are a necessity in education. We should be the party of parents. We should literally stand up and shout from the mountaintops that we are here on behalf of parents because we want parents back in charge of their child's education. We should do what we did from 2016 and 2020. We passed the most inclusive economic packages the country's ever seen. One of those was, of course, the 2017 tax cuts. Another example were the opportunity zones that I helped to pass through.

Another one was the work that we did on education on HBCUs, historically black colleges and universities. What we proved to Americans is that the Great Opportunity Party, we lead from the front. We take all of America into consideration, and we pass policy. that help our rural voters and our rural constituents, as well as those suffering and marginalized communities in big blue cities. We are the engine that makes America great. And a lot of people are hungry for that. They're hungry to see that come to fruition, and they're hoping that everything that you are talking about will be manifested. But as we just talked about a couple minutes ago, a lot of Americans are feeling pessimistic. Maybe they're even feeling hopeless.

And that's a lot of what you talk about in your book, why Americans should not feel hopeless, that America has been a story of redemption. And from your perspective, it still is and can be, that we still have a long way to go and the road ahead can be really good and unified. I got to say, it's hard for me to see that way forward sometimes. So tell us about this book and the picture that you paint for us. Well, one of the things that you just said is so important is that we should see America as the solution, not the problem. One of the things you'll learn in the book, my book, America, Redemption Story, you'll

learn about the keys to overcoming the greatest obstacles and turning those obstacles into opportunities. You'll learn about how failure can actually lead to your greatest success. And you'll learn about the fact that problems sometimes are, does that. disguise for real promise that is in your future. What we've seen as a country is we've seen America struggle with our greatest challenges and our greatest sins. And as a result of our challenges and our sins, we have actually rose to be an even better nation. We are the city on the hill. We are that bright, shining light, the beacon that hope is eternal on earth

if we do the things that are necessary. individuals to make for a better nation. And it's one of the reasons why you and I as conservatives, we know that the bedrock of this nation is a Judeo-Christian foundation. The story of redemption is the story of faith, but it's not just my faith in the good Lord. It's also my faith in America. It's my faith in my fellow Americans. The truth is that we as a people can do all the things expected and even more. We are in exceptional people, but we need to know how that happens. Yeah. Tell us a little bit, as you write in your book, and as I've heard you talk about before, I have the story of redemption in your own personal life.

Tell us about your upbringing and really what started to shape you as a young person into the person, the senator, that you are today. Yeah, one of the most important parts of my upbringing was when my parents got divorced, we moved in with my grandparents, we small house 700 square feet, North Charleston, South Carolina, mired in poverty and hopelessness, but my grandparents were resilient. The most important lesson I learned in my young, formative years was the power of freedom and the power of choice. My grandfather chose to set for me and my brother an example of a man reading the newspaper every single day because he understood the power of being informed. I saw that one day,

I saw it a thousand days while I was in that house. Unfortunately, what I learned 15 years later was that my grandfather could actually not read. But he was willing to set the example that all things are possible to those who actually invest themselves. And he was denied that opportunity as a young person, but he wanted to never be a victim.

He wanted us to never be victims. He wanted us to Carpe Diem to seize the opportunities of the day and a major part of those opportunities was the opportunity of education. And so I'm a passionate believer in quality education in every zip code in this country.

Another thing that you will find in the book, America Redemption Story, is how my mother shepherded me through some really hard times that as a woman who works 16 hours a day, three days a week, eight hours a day, two days a week, she felt like it was her responsibility

to prove to her two times, sons, that there is dignity in all work. It is a lesson that we need today, perhaps more than we have in any other time in my lifetime. The muscle of work is atrophied in this country, and we need to restore our faith and confidence that you can earn it. You talk about in your book that two things helped define you and help shape you. Buckteeth and football. Can you talk a little bit more about that? Yes, yes, ma'am. Well, football was the fun part of the story and buck teeth was the tougher part of the story, but let's talk about the buck teeth first. As a high school student, I had two front teeth that did not like each other. One was going to the left, Alibethon,

the other one was going to the right. And I will tell you that it is very uncomfortable having two front teeth that don't like each other. Hence, my nickname in high school was teat. My friends weren't very smart, they couldn't say teeth. They just called me teat, T-E-E-T. And a part of the challenge of being teased on a consistent basis is it does lower yourself esteem. It does have an impact on how you see yourself. But once again, the pain of my past became the promise of my future. And I ran into a guy, Dr. Monti S. Harrington, who was an orthodontist. I walked into his office and he said, oh my, I think we can help you. Thank God, he was right.

Yeah. And because of Dr. Harrington, I sit here with a smile that I'm proud of. I look in the mirror and I'm so thankful that people who didn't even know me that well were willing to offer me a hand up and not a handout. He said, how much can you afford? And I gave him an amount. And he says, you owe that every single month. But with that small amount, I will do the work up front.

Had it not been for good Americans like Dr. Monti S. Harrington, I would not be sitting here as a United States Senator. The football was my dream of buying my mom a house, of getting out of poverty and making something of myself. My senior year, I had a major car accident that took away six or seven weeks of my senior football season. The good news, once again, failure leading to success. the good news is it was my freshman year in college at an FCA meeting that I found that football

should only be my game and Jesus should be my life. And it was that experience that was born out of pain and misery that made me understand the value of giving before receiving, of sewing before reaping and believing that all things are possible. There's a lot that you're talking about, that you write about in your book, a variety of different trials and adversity that you endured that seems to parallel the fight that you have had as a senator. Of course, all Republicans face hostile media to some extent. You get a lot of different kinds of opposition. I remember there was an article a couple years ago that came out about you basically saying that you don't have a genuine black experience or that maybe you don't really sincerely know

what it's like to be a black person in America. I'm sure that you've gotten a lot of criticism like that that we haven't even seen publicly because it hasn't been published. So tell me what that's like. I mean, how do you face and respond to that kind of such personal and wrong criticism? You know, Alie, it is painful to be ostracized by parts of your own natural community. But the truth is that it's the. the love of the Lord really has been able to heal my wounds and help me understand that people

who don't know you, their opinion doesn't matter nearly as much as we sometimes give it credit for. And so my job as a believer, as a Christian, is to Matthew 544 of them, which is love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you, and move on. I believe in the extra mile, so I have to give them an extra heaping of grace. I believe in forgiveness. So I have to actually forgive according to Matthew 6. So for me, what I've learned is to literally live out what I say I believe because so often it is frustrating to hear the comments and the negativity that comes from the left who want to make me a caricature of a person so that they can have a heel in the story, someone who is responsible for the things that go wrong.

But here's, Ali, what they don't want the public to know, what they don't want the public to know, What they don't want the public to know is how the great opportunity party, the GOP, delivered the highest level of funding in the history of historically black colleges and universities. What they don't want the public to know is that it was our party, the conservative party, that produced opportunity zones that led to the highest level of investment in the private sector, perhaps in the history of our country, almost $75 billion committed, what they don't want you to know is it's our party that led to more research, more development around sick of cell anemia, a blood disorder that impacts African Americans nearly exclusively. They don't want you to know that our party literally led to the most inclusive economy in the history of the country. They're afraid of who we are when we are just being ourselves. Right. Well, final question that I have for you.

I saw this published online. He says, a publisher, this is posting career. Publisher admits error says Tim Scott did not okay a line in book about the presidential bed. So what exactly happened there? You know, I don't know, honestly, the publisher made the decision not only to announce something that I'm completely unaware of and announce it in the wrong year in 2022, as if there's something to run for in 2022, except for, of course, my reelection. And so I think they may have just been dreaming of a future that I have not been made aware of,

and they conflated that with my re-election in 2022. Well, there may be a lot of people that are dreaming up that future, looking forward to see what's ahead for you. So thank you so much, America, a redemption story. I'm guessing you can get it wherever books are sold. Highly, highly recommend people go out and get that right now. Thank you so much, Senator Scott, for taking the time to talk to us today. Absolutely. Thank you for your investment of time. And thank you for standing for truth and the gospel way. Yes, sir. Thank you. All right. I hope you enjoyed that little conversation. Again, I wish I could have

asked him about everything that is circulating in the news with his name right now and some of the pushback that he has gotten next time. Maybe he'll come back on and we'll be able to discuss that. But I wanted to end on a lighter note. I saw this video on Twitter. I thought that it was so sweet. If you're just listening to this, this is like a little league or maybe a high school, middle school baseball game. And the pitcher accidentally hits the batter in the head with a ball. He's all shaking up from it. And then the backer. comes in comforts the pitcher to try to kind of calm his nerve so he can keep playing the game. I thought that this was a really sweet moment. Here it is.

Oh, look out. Wow, that is a tough kid right there. This is really cool because as a pitcher, Bubbs looks shaking up right now because of what he did. And look at Zay Jarvis. This is such great sportsmanship. He wants him to know that it's okay, that he'll be fine. Hey, Bob. Look at me. Look at me. You're all.

Amazing. You're right? Look at me. Look at me. Look. Look. Oh, my gosh. What's wrong with me?

I just thought that was so sweet. I thought that was so sweet. And I know some people were giving these boys a hard time. It was the Little League World Series, by the way. And I think I saw like Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports saying like this is stupid. You know what? I don't care. I think, of course, it is so important to have tough masculinity for boys.

for boys and men to have a good fight to fight, to have a family and community to protect, for them to be courageous and strong. But that doesn't mean being emotionless. That doesn't mean being callous. That doesn't mean being void of compassion. Actually, we need men, yes, with the tough exterior, but also with a soft heart. And you know when to display and demonstrate that soft heart. And so I loved that. Hey, good job to the mama of the boy that comforted the pitcher. If I were hurt, I would be super proud. I just thought that that was so sweet. Guys, there is still goodness in the world.

There is still reason to rejoice in the good things that God allows us to partake in. There is still always the opportunity to be kind and to show gentleness and to show compassion. And so let us take every opportunity to do that and to simply do the next right thing in faith. Because when all of these scary things are happening in the world, when it feels like everything has come crashing down, God is still sovereign and he still calls us to the next right thing. So good on those boys for demonstrating compassion and good sportsmanship. We'll be back here tomorrow. We'll be with Jennifer Law, who is one of your favorite guests. She is an expert on surrogacy and the reproductive industry.

There have been lots of stories going on that involve that subject. And so we're going to dig into it tomorrow. You're going to love it. I will see you then. 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 T-Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us.